WEBVTT - GM Nick Caserio checks in from Training Camp | Texans All Access 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.480 Hello, Texans Friday night. Just got paid. Like Johnny Kemp 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.280 once said, does anybody still get a pay check? By 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.799 the way, I don't know. Yeah, that was Johnny Kemp 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:11.880 who did that song. I actually had to check, but 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:13.880 it is. What's the last time you remember getting a 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.640 paper check? Well, for certain things you still get them. Yeah, 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.040 for certain things, we fund checks coming to mail. Thanks 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.360 for the five dollars and seventy five cents for whatever 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.200 it was. But everything else right now, direct deposit, Yes, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:27.920 that's the way to go. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.120 Yes, it was so the way to go. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.400 I don't feel good about checks and then you know, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.320 you scan them and then you still have the check, right, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:37.840 which is bizarro world. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.080 And I never know what to do with it. I 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.720 never know what to do. I just showing in my bank, 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:42.680 like what do I do with this? 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:42.879 Now? 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.360 It doesn't feel right, And I get the desire to 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.720 have to hold a check. The players, I'm sure get 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.200 all direct deposit. I mean, come on, they were born 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.320 in a digital world. These young lings, these young players 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.840 are we're going to talk about them, some of the 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.280 young players, some of the older players. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:00.560 What they're doing. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.560 A couple of days into camp and we've got a 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.560 bunch of stuff on the program today. Mister Harris hitches 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:10.800 with us himself, John Harris, who observes practice and people 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.160 read his stuff. Man, the media reads your stuff. The 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.839 media reads your stuff to find out what happened at practice, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.400 even when they're there. That's a high compliment to you, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:20.760 my friend. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.240 I appreciate that. Thank you. So what do you observe today? 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.399 Give me your biggest takeaway from day two and then 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:27.880 we'll get. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.840 Into some stuff. Okay, Blake Fisher fits. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.560 Blake Fisher is not out of place, and I know 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.360 people like, well, wait a second, they didn't have pads on? 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.600 Did they know? They didn't? 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:41.199 But there there was a couple of moments where because 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.959 we were on the I was on the offensive sideline, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.080 so I was on the on the right sideline, and 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.840 so he's at left tackle for Laramie. Early in practice, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.360 defense threw a blitz at him and it was a 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.560 good blitz. I mean, Petrie timed it perfectly. So he 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.760 almost just got lost and I was like, oh, they're 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.000 not going to see him, and all of a sudden, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.120 before you know what, Blake Fisher slides out, takes Petree 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.200 locks him up. Cej can throw the football like, well, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:10.080 that's pretty good. Just knowing who to block, it's massive. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.079 Well if people lay later. I kept my eyes on him, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.040 just watching Fisher and he was going against the new Hunter. Okay, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.760 he's gonna get a little come up as I know 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:18.480 the pads on. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:18.880 I get that. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.239 But stayed right in front of him, slid his feet, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.280 stayed strong, anchored, made the block, and I thought, he 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:25.280 doesn't look out of place. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.520 These rookies do not look out of place. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.960 Again, we've talked a lot about Kamari last year in 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.480 OTA's in Mini camp. I thought day one, Kaylen Bullock showed, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.560 he showed some of that speed why he was so 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.519 intriguing to this particular organization. His speed is closing ability. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.160 He does not look out of place. And then seeing 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.320 Blake Fisher today, watching him kind of taking a few 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.639 reps to watch him and realize, okay, look, it's not 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.119 a it's not a perfect finished picture, but you can 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.240 see exactly why the Texans were high on him, and 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.760 you watch him and go, okay, pick the rookie. There's 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.520 five guys up there, Pick the guy that's the rookie. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.799 You'd be hard pressed to pick Blake Fisher. He looks 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.200 like he is is where he needs to be now again, 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.799 but the pads on becomes a whole different ballgame. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.960 But the fact that. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.560 He looks like he A knows you to block b 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.200 looks pretty proficient and being able to stay and stay 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.080 strong on those blocks as well, I think it's a 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.400 big feather in the cap for the rookie. So that 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.400 was that's the first one that stood up. Give me 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:36.120 my second one. Okay, this actually happened during it was 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.800 a It was a run by British Brooks. So British 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.360 rookie North Carolina undrafted free agent caught a toss play. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.840 Now we've seen the Texas right at toss play. Yeah, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:52.280 and I heard the words get vertical. Basically, go get 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.640 up field, do not mess around or not dance, get vertical. Now, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.800 I don't know who said it, but I just heard 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.120 it and I was like that those two words have 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.720 just stood out to me as I've watched both Joe 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.880 Mixon and Damian Pierce. They get vertical, they get vertical 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.520 in a hurry. Damien, I think, is learning to do it. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.720 He's really starting to learn to do it. You can 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.680 see it becoming more part of his running DNA. It 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.240 is baked into Joe Mixon. Joe is getting vertical within 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.039 two steps. It is get the ball boom boomko. A 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.040 lot of guys and I think this is someone what 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.679 Damien was doing last year. They take those three steps 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.640 and then it was like not really sure, pit a 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.320 pat of the feet kind of where do I go? 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.719 And then no, Joe is like I'm going I'll figure 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.640 out where the hole is when I get there. And 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.479 the crazy as it sounds, that's really what you have 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:44.320 to be able to do. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.040 And he got vertical. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.159 Those guys have been working on getting vertical on a hurry, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.000 and I think that's gonna make this run game if 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.760 they can do that. Obviously, Joe's done it. Now got 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.719 to have Damien do it consistently. But you can tell 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.600 that's a pretty big thing. Third one, I'll give you 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:58.599 this one. This is a weird one. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:04:59.000 Okay. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.320 Juar Jordan caught up a checkdown. Tim Boyle went through 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.800 his progression is nothing. Saw Juir Jordan out in the 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.039 fly saw that one flips it out to Jordan. Yeah, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.520 Jordan gets up the field. Good job catch football. Look 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.119 look very smooth doing that. That wasn't what stood out. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.960 Jordan continues up the field about twenty five thirty yards 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.000 and all of a sudden, I look and out of nowhere, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.240 McTelvin agen out of nowhere, Sosa comes out of nowhere 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.560 thirty five yards down the field. He was defensive tackle. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.520 He's three hundred and five pounds. He is flying down 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.400 the field to tag off on Jair Jordan nice, and 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.560 I'm like, that's cool. I love seeing things like that. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.840 Great rep. I just I was like, wow, the first 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.839 of all the effort, second of all the athleticism to 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.760 be able to turn and sprint and get down there. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.160 And McTelvin, you know, Sosa's only real issue is just 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.320 he's kind of a tweeter size wise. Yeah, I always 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.400 thought he's good player, but he's always kind of got 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.600 caught in between that kind of two seventy the two 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.440 ninety kind of frame. He looks like he's a little 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.000 bit more than two ninety, like he's up near to 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.520 three hundred pound mark. But between he and Marcus Harris, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.239 the guys are really a defensive time team without pads, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:16.119 just because their athleticism, speed, quickness, twitch, they become really 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.919 interesting and guys definitely want to keep my eyes on 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:18.680 it in a couple of days. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.520 I mean, these are guys in the offseason. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.040 We barely even talk right exactly exactly, and if they're 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.440 doing this and by this, you're right. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.600 We're not in pads yet. We're not seeing that yet. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.840 But if you see some promise there, that's really nice 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.640 to two days, that's all we have to evaluate right now. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.680 Two days of training camp, shorter. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.440 Practices than you'd probably have it a regular six week 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.120 ramp up. That's right, because there are seven weeks. I 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.840 think they're handling it a certain way, and it's gonna 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.720 be interesting as we get closer to that Hall of 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.040 Fame game, because I don't expect the starters to play 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.880 in that game. How they handle the reps for the 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.400 reserves to get them ready to go, because whatever playing 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.760 time or practice time they got prior to that, they're 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.360 gonna have to play a big chunk of the Hall 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.960 of Fame game. Yep, all right, quarterbacks, CJ. Stroud, this 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.359 justin looks pretty good. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:07.440 Mills. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.560 Give me your assessment on Mills so far. Let's just 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.120 go there to the backup quarterback, because Mills to me, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:14.480 looks pretty good. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.280 Looks like he's really comfortable in this system. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.040 Now this is year two in this system, and I 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.000 saw him make a hell of a throw today in 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.280 a great catch by John Metchip. That was great traffic 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.160 in traffic, very nice execution there. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:28.920 What do you think, Yeah, that was an excellent throw. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.280 I thought that was the best throw of the day. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.480 Quarterbacks to me, I've thrown it pretty well, case Tim Boyle, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:35.680 what's the number seven's name? 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:36.920 So that would be when CJ. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.000 Stroud he's throwing it pretty well when he's had opportunities. Look, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:47.400 here's they ran eighteen minutes of special teams today with 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.760 all the individual drills, with all their activation, with their 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.760 group installed the old ideal line walkthrough, and he went 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:54.520 for ninety minutes. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.840 So they only had two team sessions. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.720 So basically CJ got about six to seven snaps and 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.120 Davis did as well. You know, as well as you 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.800 watch Davis now this is our fourth year. The thing 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.520 that has always slowed down Davis always is just there 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.240 will be three really good throws and then there'll be 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.000 that one like what was that? And he had one 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.280 of those during practice, that great throw to Mechi. The 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.640 next time they came back the next series they came back, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.880 or the next period they came back, he threwn across 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.760 the middle and never saw Jacob Phillips. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.520 Oh yeah, and Jacob couldn't hang on to it. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.800 And so with Davis, it's always that man, if he 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.080 can just avoid that one throw where he doesn't see 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.120 a linebacker, he just gets over anxious because we would 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.160 see him make some really good throws in games, and 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.880 then you'd see him make one and go, oh whoa. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.480 Like in the Colts game in twenty two, the one 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.839 everybody talks about k ten. He's throwing dimes. I remember 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.240 him throwing a couple of really nice balls quit Toreano, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.760 and then he threw one right to a Colt's. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.000 Linebacker, be in a pick six. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.920 And it's just that one throw and it's not that singular, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.400 but it's just the one throw that he has that 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.880 you just want to have back. But I think from 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.559 OTA's mini camp he's looked even better than he was 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:09.040 last year. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.920 I felt like last year he'd improved the year before that. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.480 He just improves each year. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.520 But there's just always that one throw and Phillips is 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.400 unable to hang on to it. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:17.200 So you get lucky. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.520 But the throw to Mechi, I mean, that's the Davis 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.600 we know, But to throw the throw that Phillips nearly 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.320 picked off, like, he's got to get that out of 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.760 his system. If you can get that out of his system, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.920 I mean, yeah, I feel very very confident what Davis 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:30.320 is bringing. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.640 I think he's gonna play a ton after this preseason. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.120 They have to get him ready. We know what this 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.040 team went through last year, and what they went through 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.320 was CJ. Stroud missing a couple of games, and they 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.120 don't want to see that again. But if they do 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.559 have to go with somebody else, Look, they went to 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.880 case Keenum, who was third team all year, and they 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.559 went to Case and it was the right thing to do. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.959 But this year, if they had that situation. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.200 Pop up again, and I'm not talking about taking on 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.040 the Titans in Nashville, they're wearing the older uniforms. We'll 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.000 get to that point, but I would think they would 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.040 go to Mills now. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.440 But they want to really feel great about it. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.440 So Mills is going to get a great opportunity in 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.680 this preseason to get reps, get snaps in preseason games, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:15.640 and perform in this system with whatever personnel's around him 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:16.760 and prove he belongs. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.040 It's it's going to be interesting. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.800 Let me ask you this about the OTA Mini camp 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.720 being cut short that period because they knew they were 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.520 coming to camp early. What I feel like I'm watching 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.040 right now, it's kind of a hybrid. Yeah, you're ramping 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.240 up for the season, but it feels like the last 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.440 week of OTAs in some ways, not in intensity, but 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.439 in the way they handle the practice load. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.520 Yeah, I think you're I think you're right. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:48.200 I mean, we think about just having seven weeks of preseason. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.360 I mean, that's that's tough. And I mentioned it this 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.600 morning on Texas Training Camp Live. I mean they're only 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.440 hit for five or six days before they play the 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.000 first game against the Bears. But they'll come back and 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.920 hit before preseason game joint practices where they'll hit. They're 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.880 gonna hit enough. They just don't do it a lot 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.440 before they get to the Patriots. So that all said 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.640 was seven weeks, I mean, you really do have to 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.440 kind of stretch this out a little bit. Let's cut 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.880 practice from two hours to ninety minutes. We've got some 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.000 great weather the first couple of days, so that's helped. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.439 So I'm with you. One hundred percent. I do think 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.880 it is kind of that last week of mini camp 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.800 or OTAs that they've brought forward. There's not been any 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.720 one on one competition. It is been group or unit 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.120 or unit or team that they've done. And they've also spent, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.600 like I said today, they spent a lot of time 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.320 on special teams. And here's the other thing mark about 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.079 special teams. So in the second special teams period they went, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.080 they went ten minutes and they worked on punt and 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:46.720 as they were working on it, I went down and 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.640 I watched they had split the split the kind of 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.800 the the groups up in like four different groups, and 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.720 so they had one that was kind of gunners, they 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.720 had the returners, they had one that were kind of 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.160 out you know, guys that would be rushing maybe from 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.560 the outside on a pond, you know, like linebacker type, linebacker, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.199 tight end types. And then they had the defensive line 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:07.760 and that was the one that was closest to me, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.079 and they were working on just different block techniques with 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:16.120 the defensive linemen, every single defensive lineman. Not like you 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.840 have one of the best defensive lines I would say 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.040 best in the NFL, but you have one of the 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.240 best ones you've ever had. Will Anderson's Neil Hunter. I 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:23.920 mean you got names. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.400 You know. They're all doing this punt drill, all of them. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.240 It wasn't like the. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.400 Neil Hunter, will Anderson or other standing around like no, no, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.280 we don't do supposed to. No, they were leading the drill. Wow, 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.320 every one of them was in the drill. I just 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.439 that impressed me so much that in a ten minute 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.200 period and they only went for five minutes. And then 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.719 they walked over with Roger Wright with Rod Wright and 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.400 they you know, talked through some things that they were 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.240 doing with the d line, but they. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.320 Just to see every single one of them go in 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:54.440 that drill. I thought it was really cool. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.560 Frank Ross like that, Yes, absolutely question There weren't guys 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.120 beagging out. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.839 They were in it and engage. That was really cool. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:01.240 All right. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.480 Coming up on the show, Johnny and I had a 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.200 great visit with Nick Cassio at training camp. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.719 So many people didn't hear that. We're gonna have that 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:09.160 for you. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.720 Also, Johnny breaks down the wide receiver position group, the 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.079 deepest one on the team that's coming up here on 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.400 Texans Radio. Right back to it here on Texans Radio, 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.320 as promised, Johnny and I had a chance to catch 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.959 up with executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassio 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.440 as training camp got started here. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.680 It is a number of people have been involved in 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.839 this effort, especially kind of on the heels of what 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.040 happened there last week. I mean, we had some issues 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.560 with the bubble. We're dealing with some things here with 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.760 the stadium, But I mean it's a collective effort, effort 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:43.760 from coaching staff, players, operational staff to put training camp 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.480 together and to give the fans a great experience when 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.920 they show up here next week. So a lot of effort, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.760 a lot of work from a lot of people, and 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.040 it's just kind of reflective. The whole team mindset kind 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.360 of takes everybody. We rely on everybody here organizationally, and 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.520 it's not about one individual. It's about us trying to 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:02.520 put our collective best foot forward as a group, and 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.120 hopefully we're able to do that here as we get started. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:05.360 Nick. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.520 Last night, I was watching Hard Knocks and I can't 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.520 wait for the Texas. Yes, but they one of the 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.480 things that live. Schreiber said, free agency is over, and 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.280 I was like, no, it's not. It never ends like 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.600 the player acquisition transaction process never ends, and we get 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.640 the email that you've added three different players to the 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.760 roster for training camp and what their futures might be. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.760 Milk Fisher, Chris Reid, and then Quintest Cephis. What can 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.200 you tell us about those three guys being added to 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.640 the roster right now? Yeah, kind of varying levels of experience. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.280 Chris is a player inside player primarily wasn't drafted, has 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.800 experience in a cult system with coach Strausser. So it's 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.760 kind of bounced around there a little bit, but really 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.840 more depth inside more than anything else. Really on the 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.440 heels of kind of Ladarius Henderson kind of waving them 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.080 injured essentially going to ir. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.200 So just trying to continue to build a depth, you know. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.000 Cephas was a player wasn't highly drafted but had an 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.240 impact for the Lions there over the course of two 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.200 three years. Was out of football last year because of 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.720 his individual situation, but a player that we actually worked 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.320 out the end of the spring there in May. So 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.280 younger player has some level of experience. We kind of 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.600 shuffle the deck there a little bit at receiver. And 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.240 then Fisher was a player who had the opportunity to 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.120 play in the UFL, and I think that's one of 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.800 the benefits of the spring league where you get a 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.720 player that has a chance maybe to get some reps 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.080 that the otherwise what kind of a similar to Khalil 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.920 Davis there last year. So I's here really more depth 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.520 competition with those players. To your point, though, John, the 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.800 roster building process is very fluids. It's ongoing, so it's 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.280 not kind of finite, well just in March if free 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.720 agency is over. It's kind of continuous and there will 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.920 likely be things that take place here between now and 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.440 the start of the season as well. So but that's 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:48.840 just part of the process that we have to go 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.000 through in a regular basis. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.720 So you're in the Hall of Fame game, and that's 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.440 why we have the early start to training camp. How 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.760 does it affect things having one extra week of camp 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.400 and never mind four preseason games, but just having extra 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:01.480 week of practice, Nick. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.320 Yeah, No, it moves everything up and it just gives 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.520 you a few more opportunities to kind of get on 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.400 the field. And what it essentially does is extend your 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.240 ramp up period to some degrees. So the league has 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.600 rules in place or the first three four days are 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.880 sort of controlled anyway certain number of minutes that you 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.960 can be on the field, but you're able to start 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.880 that clock a little bit sooner. So kind of once 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.760 we get through Thursday, Friday, Saturday, players are off Sunday. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.400 Then next week we'll kind of be able to go 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.400 more of a regular practice tempo and timing. So we've 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.160 embraced it. We're honestly looking forward to it. So it's 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.200 good to get back, good to get started. We kind 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.080 of had a truncated spring where we just kind of 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.000 flipped it where we kind of cut a week off 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.200 understanding we were going to probably pick it up here 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.800 in the back end of training camp. So we're excited 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.120 to be backed. Got a good energy, good mindset of 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.000 good attitude. So yeah, we're glad to be here along 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:48.480 those lines. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.720 Nick, because of the Hall of Fame game and because 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:51.960 of our first preseason game. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.720 We're staying up in Ohio. You know that place pretty well. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.720 It's really not about that, but what are the advantages 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 of having a situation like that where you play a 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.280 game but you stay up there. It's not joint practices, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.679 but you're on the road altogether for a week. What 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.680 are some of the advantages you get from doing something 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:08.080 like that. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.520 Yeah, no, it's there's a number of them. I think 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.760 first and foremost it was based on kind of logistics. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.280 So instead of playing a Hall of Fame game, flying 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.560 back to Houston and flying back to Pittsburgh, the way 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.399 it worked, we're playing in Canton, then we're playing a 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.960 falling week in Pittsburgh. So it was can we maybe 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.760 find somewhere where we can kind of stay, have our 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.879 normal football operation, have a normal I would say three 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.840 four days of practice and then shorten to travel. So 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.239 and then when you're kind of removed, it's kind of 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.439 as if when you go away for a camp. So 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.680 you know, the Texans in the past have gone to 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:42.800 the Greenbriers. Are other teams that have used a Green Brier. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.840