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Speaker 1: you're defending AFC South champion. Houston Texans are back for

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Speaker 1: training camp. Fifteen yard touchdown run for Dashaun Watson. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Texans Training Camp Live, your sideline pass to everything

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Speaker 1: that's going on with your Houston Texans. Texans Training Camp

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Speaker 1: Live is presented by Academy Sports and Outdoors and by

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Speaker 1: Geico and Papa John's Houston. Now, let's go down to

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Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. Here are your hosts, Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandermere and John Harris. Football is back. We are at

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Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. It's Texans Training Camp Live.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vadamer, John Harris with you, and it is a

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Speaker 1: beautiful site. The fields ready for action as the Texans

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Speaker 1: embark on training camp number eighteen. Number eighteen for me personally, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: you were doing the team harm. And if it was

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Speaker 1: a certain color, then you were a good teammate. Really,

428
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 1: because you weren't staying. That affects the team, because you

429
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 1: were staying tie it all together, you weren't staying. There

430
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Speaker 1: were not deaths really death Yeah, because they didn't give

431
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Speaker 1: them water. Think about Junction boys. They could not drink water.

432
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Speaker 1: And there there they made him and the bear was great. Right,

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00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: all right, So, John, you brought up a few things,

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Speaker 1: lack of stars participating, at least in the early going

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Speaker 1: of camp. I think one note about that none of

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Speaker 1: these things expected to be bad enough to keep people

437
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Speaker 1: out of the opener, right, which is which is significant here,

438
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: even the clowney situation. We don't know when he's gonna

439
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: come back, but he's gonna come back before the first game.

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Speaker 1: It'd be great to see him. It'd be great if

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Speaker 1: you showed up early. If I were a guy playing

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00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: for a new contract, yeah I would. Instead of withholding

443
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Speaker 1: my services and knowing I'm gonna have to get in

444
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Speaker 1: football shape, I'm banging on people. Romeo care Now talked

445
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Speaker 1: about that. I wrote a column about it where Romeo said,

446
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: we know he'll be in great shape, we know he'll

447
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: know the defense inside now, but we have to determine

448
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Speaker 1: how long it will take him to be in football shape.

449
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: And sometimes you can't just turn it off like a

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Speaker 1: water faucet. So I think if it were me, I

451
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Speaker 1: wouldn't wait till the last minute. I might show up

452
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Speaker 1: a week or two early to make sure I did

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Speaker 1: get in football shape to have my best season, to

454
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Speaker 1: force people to pay me more money. John, I think

455
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Speaker 1: the best thing about this is that you have Number

456
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Speaker 1: four coming back. He's been participating and OTA's full go

457
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Speaker 1: all offseason, and despite who's not here, you have him,

458
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Speaker 1: and that's how you're gonna build the culture going forward.

459
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: You gotta have And I wrote think two weeks ago

460
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Speaker 1: about I thought he had a great season last year

461
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Speaker 1: when you looked at all the limitations around him, the

462
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Speaker 1: offensive line, Fuller and QT missing nineteen games, Lamar Miller

463
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Speaker 1: missing two and a half down day Foreman not doing

464
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Speaker 1: anything to rookie tight ends, collapsed long broken rib, and

465
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Speaker 1: yet he's still lookouting for thirty one touchdowns and he

466
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Speaker 1: was the first one in history. They have what four

467
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Speaker 1: thousand yard rushing, twenty five touches, I'm sorry, four thousand passing,

468
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Speaker 1: twenty five touchdowns, five hundred rushing and five rushing touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: first quarterback in history. Imagine how great he in this

470
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Speaker 1: offense could be. Of say, QT and Fuller only missed

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Speaker 1: five games, and we think the offensive line is going

472
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: to be better, The tight ends are in their second

473
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Speaker 1: year and Miller last year of his contract, informant coming

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Speaker 1: back with a vengeance. He can be. I tell everybody

475
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: on these fantasy shows, I do take to Shaun Watson. Yeah,

476
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Speaker 1: I think he's get a lot of love for the

477
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Speaker 1: fantasy the fantasy world. John Where will your eyes be? Today?

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Speaker 1: First thing you're gonna want to watch? I mean we

479
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 1: all want to see de Shaun Watson, But where your

480
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: eyes is gonna be the first day of training. Kilsons

481
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: they don't hit, and they can't cover and knock each

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Speaker 1: other down. That's why I'm more fired up about being

483
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Speaker 1: in Green Bay where they have the practices. They actually

484
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: hit each other. So Watson, the receivers, and I believe

485
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: a bigger issue than the offensive line is cornerback. They

486
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Speaker 1: need Lonnie Johnson to get out here and be healthy.

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Speaker 1: Roby what he's supposed to do, Bradley Roby, yep, the

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Speaker 1: healthy duties. Well, we're gonna break that down. We're gonna

489
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Speaker 1: break that down tomorrow, I believe. Yeah. Secondaries tomorrow nine

490
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: o'clock deep dive into that, including audio from a guy

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Speaker 1: who's been around the block, who really wants to make

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Speaker 1: this team. And that's like John, thanks so much. We

493
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Speaker 1: look forward to read guys. Thank you very much. Tampy

494
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: to be the setup man for Jamie Rouse John McLean

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Speaker 1: warm up band for Jamie Roots, Texans president. He is

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Speaker 1: next on Texans Trading Cap Live. Since Trading Cap Live

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Speaker 1: keep up with the Houston Texans everywhere you go downloads

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Speaker 1: the Texans. We're at the Houston Methodist Trading Center Texans

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Speaker 1: Trading Camp Live and players are making their way out

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Speaker 1: of the field right now, and it looks like they're

501
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: going to start out activation wise in the practice bubble here. Okay,

502
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: this is a big thing, right that offense white defense blue.

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Speaker 1: Oh she's and you know, I'm so confused. I had

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00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: to tell you that I had to break the news

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Speaker 1: to you. I knew that. I can't even remember it

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Speaker 1: anymore because they went back and forth last year and everything,

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Speaker 1: and it really messes with my mind. Okay, the president

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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans is here, Jamie Roots. Good morning, Jamie.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, good to be back here. We are all right,

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Speaker 1: So back in Houston for the first time in three

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Speaker 1: years to start, and boy, when you say it like that,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it's been a long time. Huh, I

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00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: tell you it was really it was great to be

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00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: at the Greenbriers, such a beautiful environment, but it does

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Speaker 1: not have our fans. It is so special to be

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Speaker 1: here and to have extended opportunities for our fans to

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00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: get close to our players. Our players feed off their energy,

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00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: Our coaches are lifted by their energy. Heck, I'm lifted

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Speaker 1: by their energy. So I'm looking forward to you know,

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Speaker 1: we've got this acclamation period and then we'll get the

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00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: fans out here, we'll get away to Green Bay, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll come back and have a couple of other opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Those will be live practices with the Lions. So it's

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00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: a very special preseason. Jimmy. We've got so so many

525
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: things happening this year. I know one thing we're gonna

526
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: talk about a lot of different things. One thing I'm

527
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: really curious about has really nothing to do with training camp,

528
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: but our London trip. We're making a London trip for

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Speaker 1: the first time. And I know we first talked about

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00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: it was kinding. Yeah, you know, we're gonna go over there,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win the game, and that's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like there have been some people taking

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Speaker 1: a sight visit. I know you went over there. It

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00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: looks like there's more excitement about that trip to go

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00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: to London in November, is there not? What what's been

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00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: your excitement level about going over there to play a

537
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: game where we never have really excited. I think it's

538
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: a wonderful opportunity for us to build our brand, but

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00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: more importantly, the brand of the city of Houston, what

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00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: Houston is, who we are. When I went over, I

541
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: had to sit down with the media in London, and

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00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: it was clear to me that they didn't quite get

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00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 1: the mojo that exists here in Houston. Some of them

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00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: will be coming over to Houston for a familiarity trip

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00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: at the beginning of our regular season so that they

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00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: can see what happens here. When I was talking about tailgating,

547
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: when I was talking about the traditions, rituals, talking about

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00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: the sides of our fan base that we have a

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00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: wait list of thirty two thousand, their eyes crossed, like,

550
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? We don't We don't know

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00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: any of this right. So this is a great chance

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00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: for us to introduce how special Houston is and how

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00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: special the relationship is between our organization and our fans.

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00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: It's funny you I mentioned that because it's kind of

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00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: like when we're not familiar with rabid fan base of

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00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: one of their soccer clubs, right, and so you learn

557
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: about it, they're learning about us. Yeah, that's right. It's

558
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: it's exactly the same. And it's interesting the affinity that

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00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: sports fans have here in the States. Around English Premier League,

560
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: it's usually around the players. It's not necessarily about the clubs, right,

561
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: but you get into the in the Premiership in London

562
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: or in England, they they're all about the club. Yeah.

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00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: It's the same thing for American football that here you're

564
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: all about the team, your team, but when you get

565
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: across the pond, I found they just cared about the players.

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00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: Wherever the players go, they're going to be a fan

567
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: of that team. So it's just interesting how that dynamic

568
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: happens in reverse. Jamie Roots with us president of the

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00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Okay, now, a lot of people aren't familiar

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00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: with the way an NFL team works, and we're not

571
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: going to get into all the schematics here, but there's

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00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: business operations, there's football operations. A lot of talk about

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00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: organizational structure. What can you share with us about the

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00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: way the Texans are set up on o'cal McNair had

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00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: some things to say on Texans Radio earlier this week. Yeah,

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00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: I'm we're excited. I tell you what. There's such a

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00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of chemistry in our building and it really

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00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: it all starts with Cal. I mean, he's been it's

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00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: been such a smooth transition. Bob McNair, who was a

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00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: hero is a hero of mine, a tremendous mentor, did

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00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: such a great job setting things up so that the

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00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: transition would be smooth. And so Cal has really demanded

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00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: that everybody work as a team. It's that's the operative

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00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: where it's about team. It's team first, collaboration across the building.

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00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: And I think we're going to have a I think

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00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: we're going to have a really special year because of it.

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00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: When you think about your first training camp, because Mark

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00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: and I were talking about earlier, this is my thirteenth,

589
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: this is Mark's eighteenth. When you think back the training

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00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: camp one, well, this thing is really being built, and

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00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: you think about and you then think to today, what's

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00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: the one thing that you think back that first training

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00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: camp and go, man, we changed that and we've made

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00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: that better for the long run that is exhibited in

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00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: our training camps today. Well, I could highlight a lot

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00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: of things, but I heard in your earlier segment you

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00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: talked about the shade for the fans. If that's what

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00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: you're talking about in terms of the experience, because let

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00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: me tell you, to sit out on those bleachers in

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Speaker 1: the sunshine is really tough. So I'm glad we are

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00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: able to figure that out. So that makes for a

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00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: much better experience. But the training camp operation, I mean,

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00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: it's been pretty consistent because it works, but every year

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00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: we're looking at how do we make it better, how

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00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: do we make the experience better? And when you guys

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00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: are watching here on the field and then you see

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00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: the fans, but back behind there, there's a big old

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00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: party going on, right, folks are having a blast. I

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00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: mean there it's you know, it is a practice, right,

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00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: but it's a free opportunity for the fans to come

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00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: in and get close to the team. It's just a

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00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: chance to feel football again before we start playing games.

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Speaker 1: All right. So coming up at NRG Stadium, we have

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Speaker 1: a lot of events and opening weekend and the regular

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00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: season for the Texans. It's the Jacksonville Jaguars after opening

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00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: on the road against the Saints on Monday night. But

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00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: that weekend and is maybe the biggest weeknd of the

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00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: history of Houston football all the way through. When you

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Speaker 1: have back to back to back games at NRG Stadium. Well,

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00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: and how cool is it. You've got back to back

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Speaker 1: to back the two college teams that the premier college

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00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: teams here in the Houston area and then the Houston Texans.

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: So you open on Friday night with the Avocare Texas kickoff.

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00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: You've got the University of Houston and Washington State. All

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00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: the tremendous buzz around h Dana and Dana Holgerson and

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00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: what he's going to do for the for the Houston Cougars,

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00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: and the great season that Washington State had last year

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00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: and the Leech rivalry. I mean, it's just so many

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Speaker 1: great storylines around that Friday game and its Saturday. Uh.

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00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: You know, University of Texas. You guys were talking earlier

631
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: about about Tom Herman, and you know players, players are

632
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: penalized by the by the coaching staff if they don't

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00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: have their water bottle with them. You were talking about hydration,

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00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: and that's our serious state ticket. Yeah, and the EU

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00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: we should have that business ops. But you know I'm saying, Jamie,

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00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean there's something to learn from herman. Coffee is

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00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: more important to us than water. So uh, then you

638
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: got Saturday Night, you got Rice and UH and ut

639
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: old Southwestern Conference rivalry, and then we open up we

640
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: have a Liberty wide out game with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

641
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a really important game for us.

642
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: That game is from a theme perspective, We're celebrating all

643
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: of our first responders, and you talk about things you're

644
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: proud of and things I'm really proud that this organization,

645
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: whether we're recognized for it or not, have been a

646
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: change agent in the National Football League. This idea of

647
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: themes around your games creating tremendous meaning to the game

648
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: beyond just the athletic competition. That's some of the league

649
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: wasn't even thinking about back in two thousand and two

650
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: we started it. They've taken most of our themes and

651
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: they've replicated them across across the country, whether that's Pink

652
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: Ribbon Day or it's uh it's the Salute to Service

653
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: game with the military. So anyway, we uh that that

654
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: weekend is going to be a great start this year

655
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's the one hundredth year anniversary the NFL,

656
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: and there is a lot going on. I remember when

657
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: you came back from it, I think as owners mean

658
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: as you talked about what that means to the NFL. Right,

659
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: how are we as an organization sort of celebrating even

660
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: though we haven't been around one hundred years. Obviously we're

661
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: not the bears are there? The Packers, and we are

662
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: the youngest, were the we're the baby kid in the NFL.

663
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: We are the youngest, but we still have put in

664
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: our time here. What's kind of the celebration for us

665
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: in this one hundredth year of the NFL. What do

666
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: we have plan? Right? Well, there there are a couple

667
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: of things that we're doing. One one is the Huddle

668
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: for one hundred where we're you know, asking all fans

669
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: to go out and do uh one hundred, one hundred

670
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: minutes of volunteer service and uh I log that at

671
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: least that amount and log it um. You can find

672
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: out more about that program through Houston Texans dot com.

673
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: But it was part of our Texans Care Volunteer Day.

674
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: So really trying hard as a as a team in

675
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: a league to encourage volunteerism around this theme of one

676
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: hundred and then there is going to be a signature

677
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: weekend where from Friday through Sunday, with ending with a

678
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: home game, we have activities all throughout the community where

679
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: we're recognizing the hundredth season of the National Football League.

680
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: But to your point, their markets where this is going

681
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: to be, I mean, so central to what they do

682
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: because they could be celebrating their hundredth season as well.

683
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: You know. For US, I mean we're a newer franchise,

684
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: but throughout the season, you know, at Houston Texans dot Com,

685
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: you're seeing the hundred greatest moments in Texans history and

686
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: you guys have done a great job celebrating it. So

687
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: I would just say that, you know, throughout all of

688
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: our digital assets, particularly, you're going to see an opportunity

689
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: to celebrate the hundredth of this and that and the

690
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: other team, the hundred greatest players in NFL history, etc.

691
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: Jamie Ruth's President of the Texans, joining US Texans Training

692
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: cap Live. We're on the field here, players making their

693
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: way into the practice bubble to get ready for today's

694
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: opening practice now, Jamie, in a few weeks, we're gonna

695
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: vite people in media, people to talk about what's new

696
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: at the stadium. Right, And I know over the years

697
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: there have been so many innovations and addition and the

698
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: game presentation crew just won another award four out of

699
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: seven years, right for best Presentation in the National Football League. Yeah,

700
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: that's right, the Idea Conference. They recognize annually the best

701
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: game presentation in the National Football League. And we've wanted

702
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: a number of years and we wanted again this past year.

703
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all the rituals and the traditions and

704
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: the videoboard production, all the things that we do to

705
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: make game days so entertaining but more importantly so engaging.

706
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: You know, you think about social media, and that media

707
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: thing is miss Nober because it's it's not about broadcasting information,

708
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: it's people broadcasting themselves. Everyone wants to participate. And that's

709
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: when I'm so proud of our team that they focus

710
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 1: on these opportunities to bring the fans into the game,

711
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: to create an experience like, let's like no other and

712
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: for sure not even close to what you will experience

713
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: on your couch. And that's why you have thirty two

714
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: thousand people on a wait list because they know how

715
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: special from tailgating to the in game experience, how special

716
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: that is here in Houston. Jerry, I know you're going

717
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: to miss the Greenbrier because I almost killed you on

718
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: a golf course. So you're definitely you're definitely gonna miss that.

719
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: But I know when you're out here, there's so many

720
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: different people, as the president of the organization that you

721
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: have to meet, and sponsors are here and you have

722
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: to meet those people in shake hands. But when you

723
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: get a chance to actually watch the team, what is

724
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: it that you're watching for in training camp? Well, at

725
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: first and foremost, I mean we have you talked about

726
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: the turnover of the roster over from even from year

727
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: to year. Ye, first thing is I want to get

728
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: familiar with everybody, right, get to know everybody's names. And

729
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: there are all these players that I don't spend a

730
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of time studying the guys before the draft, etc.

731
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: So it's my chance to see, you know, you hear

732
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: some things, see what they're all about, you know, see

733
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: if the eye test matches what you've heard. And so

734
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: that's really where I'm spending my time. But back on

735
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: the Greenbrier. I'll tell you the Greenbrier doesn't want me back,

736
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: particularly their golf course, right because I can make a

737
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: mess of a golf course in a hurry. Well, I

738
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: try to make a mess of your golf course. But

739
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: everybody lived, and that's good, Jamie. Thank you so much

740
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: for joining us, and best of luck this season. Hey,

741
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,919
Speaker 1: and thank you guys. You do such a great job.

742
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 1: I talked about, you know, getting familiar with the guys,

743
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: with the players. You do such a great job for

744
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: if it's such a such a great benefit for fans

745
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: be able to understand exactly what's going on through your

746
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: eyes and your experience, both of you. Well, thank you

747
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: very much and we love doing it. And offensive line,

748
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: that's our first position breakdown of the season at nine am.

749
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,479
Speaker 1: We will do that, all right. We have a little

750
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: breaking news, if you will, as a certain player is

751
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: practicing well. I mean we saw him walking across and

752
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: taped up. Yeah, I mean he's he's good to go.

753
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: He doesn't rest like that on the weekends when he's

754
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: hanging out by the pool. I don't think, no, I

755
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: never know. I mean I used to I used to

756
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: go up by the pool and does why I wear

757
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: the arm brace when he's like watching TV at night,

758
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna wear my arm brace. That's a that's

759
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: a good point. I'm watching if he watches Wisconsin play again,

760
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm armbrace. I don't know. My players

761
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: used to. I used to drop my players nuts because

762
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: I used to sit in my office and be in

763
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: full gear, especially like right after I I just love

764
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: I love the feeling of gear. I loved it. That's

765
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: almost creepy borderline. But JJ watt in uniform walking into

766
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: the bubble good to go for today. I don't know

767
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: if he'll be limited or whatever, but he's doing something

768
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: and that's really encouraging. H We talked about DeAndre Hopkins

769
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: and JJ being on pup Kahale wearing being in the

770
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: NFI category, justin Reid being in the NFI category. We'll

771
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: update you as to how they're looking and what they're

772
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: doing today, if they're watching, participating, doing whatever, because obviously

773
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: everybody wants to know about that. But I think that

774
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: what we highlighted with John McClain is the most important thing.

775
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: That Number four has been out here all offseason long.

776
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: First franchise quarterback for this team to take all the

777
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: reps in the offseason since twenty thirteen. I mean we

778
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: talk about the since thing, you know, the first since

779
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: that and since this, since twenty thirteen, match Shop was

780
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: out here in OTA's all right, Watson out here in

781
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: OTAs entering his second full season as a starter for

782
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: this squad. I think that is highly significant. I think

783
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: not enough can be said about that because he's still

784
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: developing rhythm, he's still learning this game. I mean, it's

785
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: not that long ago, and I think it has to

786
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: be pointed out that quarterbacks he thought now three four

787
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: or five years before they really start to get it.

788
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: Look at the success he's had in such a limited

789
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: amount of time. He's gonna have his twenty third start

790
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: and he'll be twenty three years old on Monday Night

791
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: football against the Saints. That's it. Well, I think now,

792
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 1: when when you look at quarterbacks around the league, if

793
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: you think about it, you've got your established old guard

794
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: if you will, the Brady, the Breeze, Rivers, Roethlisberger, you

795
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: got that, and then you've got kind of put Manning

796
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: Eli in that category. He's that class of O four.

797
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: He is. He's not as highly regarded as those guys.

798
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna end up being the

799
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: guy the way Pat Sherman was talking yesterday, he's got

800
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 1: a he's gotta you've gotta love Jones for Daniel Jones,

801
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: I mean he really does. I mean he was, he was.

802
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 1: He might be at the same time, drafted guy number six.

803
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna play him pretty I would think relatively early

804
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: if you're having struggles. But but yeah, puttylion that group.

805
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: But then he'd have a locker in the corner, you know,

806
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: you know, he'd have a blue locker in the middle.

807
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: But uh, and then you've got kind of the middle,

808
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: and there's really not many in the middle. I mean

809
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 1: you probably put Rogers in that top group. In the middle,

810
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: you got Russell Wilson Andrew Luck. Yeah, which when the

811
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: old guard has done in the next three to four years,

812
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: I hope, then you've got these next two of Wilson

813
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: and Luck. And then you've got this gaggle of young quarterbacks. Yeah,

814
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: you've got wins, You've got Baker, you got de Shaun,

815
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: you got Jared Goff. You got a bunch of these

816
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks that are coming that you and obviously Patrick Mahomes,

817
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: who was league MVP last year, kind of jockeying for

818
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: for a spot. You're gonna, I think, the game in

819
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: due time when the when the older guard leaves finally

820
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: in retires, you're gonna have this group of about a

821
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: dozen young quarterbacks coming and that are going to dominate

822
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: the game. And hopefully Number four ends up being one

823
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: of those. We're lucky to be able to watch him

824
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: each and every day. Not everybody's gonna make it, and

825
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: some of the guys just started out hot will not

826
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: maintain that. Derek Carr Okay entering RG three, Derek Carr

827
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: entering year six. I saw a Raider tweet yesterday year

828
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: six and I'm taking keez, it's already year six for him.

829
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: That's right. And he started out pretty hot, and in fact,

830
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen that Monday night game in Mexico City, boy,

831
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: you thought this guy's gonna take over the league. And

832
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: then look what happens. Now. That doesn't mean his career

833
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: is over, though, because he still has a chance to

834
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: make up for some of those things. New coaching staff

835
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: and I know last year didn't go well, but they've

836
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: added to the mix there and we're gonna see them

837
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: at n RG Stadium this year. So and Andrew Luck

838
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: is in the middle of that whole thing, right, the

839
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: old guys, the young guys right in the middle, Luck

840
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: and Wilson and those are really good players. So yeah,

841
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: there are more if I feel like there are more

842
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks in the league now than anytime since I've

843
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: been a part of the league since O two and

844
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: h and maybe since I've been watching football for a

845
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: long time. You know, I think in the eighties you

846
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: had a lot of great quarterbacks with that class of

847
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: eighty three and some of the old guys who were

848
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: still around then. Well to that end, how many quarterbacks

849
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: were drafted last year? In twenty eighteen, you had what

850
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: five in the first round and they're all starting in

851
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: Every team drafted a quarterback, feeling the Browns with Baker,

852
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: the Jets with Darnold, the Ravens with Lamar, Josh Allen

853
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: went Buffalo, was just saw with them yesterday with John

854
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker and talking about quarterbacks, and they

855
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: got a guy they believe in now that that will

856
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: probably level itself out. One or two those guys probably

857
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: not gonna work out but you still got young quarterbacks

858
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: come from college. You got two. You got Justin Herbert

859
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: at Oregon, you at Jake Frum, You've got some young dudes.

860
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: They're coming. Kyler Murray, what's he gonna do in his

861
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: first year with Arizona with lace offense. You've got some

862
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: young aside and quarterbacks that people want to see. No,

863
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: you're right, they're not all going to pan out. But

864
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: I think teams are more apt to take a shot

865
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: on a young guy, especially with the CBA being it is,

866
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: take a shot on a young guy as opposed to

867
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: before the CBA, when you had to pay god knows

868
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: how much to get a quarterback. You drafted a quarterback

869
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: number one. I mean, think what Sam Bradford made. Now, yeah,

870
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: you draft a guy number one. It's still expensive, but

871
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: it's not like it was. I mean, and if you

872
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: if you flame out, you flame out. So with Daniel

873
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: Jones with the Giants, you draft in number six. You

874
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: don't have to play right away. The success of a

875
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: Watson early on Mahomes, I know he didn't play the

876
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: first year, but he played that last game then obviously

877
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: did what he did last year. The success of some

878
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: of these guys. Makes everyone want to jump in the

879
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: pool with these young quarterbacks with a rookie stardom. Let's

880
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: go Baker Mayfield's flash last year and obviously they're hoping

881
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: it's much more than a flash, and he looks pretty good.

882
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: But you're right, not everybody's gonna make it. We'll see

883
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: how that goes next up every day at nine, we

884
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: will try to do it at the same time every day.

885
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get great guests and we move things around.

886
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down a position crew and today we're

887
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: gonna start where we've been talking all off season long.

888
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: This is the offensive line. You are entering training camp.

889
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: What does it look like? And who are these guys

890
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: some of the other guys who are trying to make

891
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: the squad make a difference for your twenty nineteen Houston Texans.

892
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: It's Texans Training Camp Live. It's Texans Training Camp Live.

893
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: It's Texans Training Camp Live. Texans Training Camp is underway.

894
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: Get all the breaking news, updates, interviews, and more right

895
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 1: now at Houston Texans dot com. Now back to Texans

896
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: Training Camp Live, presented by Academy Sports and Outdoors Geico

897
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 1: and by Papa John's Houston so dpcity does our bump music, clearly,

898
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: I don't. She's done a great job. He's done a

899
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: great jobep be heck of a job with the music. Yeah,

900
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: heck of a job. Mark might I love it? I

901
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: love the ac DC. Okay, I need you know what

902
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: you need to do. Here's what you need to do.

903
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: We need to find a musician out there that can

904
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 1: mash up that with ACD s. We can have done stuff.

905
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: We can have a TV show called Texans Late Night

906
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: where we took the clay Walker Texans song and we

907
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: made it all techno and everything was really cool. Yeah,

908
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: I forget how we did that that. I think she

909
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: got that done as well. All right, it's Texas Training

910
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: Camp live. We're on the field and the team activating

911
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: in the practice bubble. JJ Watt in uniform. That's good.

912
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: I noticed Nick Martin is not dressed today. So we'll

913
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: try to keep your posted on any developments there. But

914
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's not going to discuss injuries. Yeah, you know,

915
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: he had a smile on his face, So hopefully this

916
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: doesn't take too long. I try to read things. Yeah,

917
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: what I see, I'm just telling you what I see.

918
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: A right Martin. Oh, no, Bill Obride did not have

919
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: a smile on his Summer Bill is done. Yes, okay,

920
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: Summer Bill has left the building. In season Bill was

921
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: was back probably while he was still no I think vacation.

922
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: Well it maybe, but I talked to him last week

923
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: and he was still Summer Bill, and no, it's it's gone.

924
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: Because earlier this week I was like, no back. But

925
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny you say that, though, because yesterday,

926
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: yesterday I was walking on the building and most of

927
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: the time I'll see people a day kind of maybe

928
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: chit chat with him a little bit. Yeah, I just

929
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: saw people like, hey, like I was. I just totally

930
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: was in focus. Yeah, today, Yeah, I was. We had

931
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: in season, Johnny. That's what it was. It's in season,

932
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: Johnny and uh and we're bringing it to you every

933
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: night at six every day, first couple of weeks of

934
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: camp eight to ten AM and Sports Radio six ten.

935
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: Guys are out here as well. Landry and Lopez coming

936
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: up next at ten o'clock from this very broadcast position.

937
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: You heard Seth and Sean earlier. They'll be doing it

938
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: every day of camp. To start it off. All right,

939
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: let's go here, position Group breakdown, and you might be wondering,

940
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of players at each position group,

941
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: who are these guys who? Yeah, that's right, and that's

942
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: Paul Newman from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. The

943
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: posse's chasing them all right, Okay, so you'll hear that

944
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: every day as well. But who are these guys offensive line?

945
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: And we talk about the tackle position, Johnny, and that

946
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: has been the focus of the offseason for the me

947
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: and I think the organization as well, when you look

948
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: at who they drafted in the first couple of rounds

949
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: here with Titus Howard and Max Sharpen. Last season, Julian

950
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: Davenport was your starter at left tackle, and Julian had

951
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 1: his first full season as a starter at that spot,

952
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 1: So clearly you're looking for We always talk about rookies

953
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: to the second year, that year one a year to jump. Well,

954
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: I think it's the same thing if you're playing your

955
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: first full season and you're about to play your second

956
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: full season and we don't know if he's gonna start

957
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: or not, but whether or not that's gonna happen, he's

958
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: focused on a jump and you and I interviewed him

959
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 1: early on in the offseason. You could see a difference

960
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: there physically, and I think, you know, I don't. I

961
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: can't get into his brain, but he sounded different. And

962
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 1: let's hope that he's able to take that leap that

963
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: he's looking for. Whether he plays starts or not, you

964
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: absolutely need as much depth as possible. And maybe you're

965
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: gonna need him to start against the Saints on Monday

966
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: Night football, no question. And I I brought this up

967
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and I've talked about this. We've

968
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: all think, think about your your job, your occupation. I

969
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: was on I was actually on with U with Sean

970
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: one day and Sean obviously was my first co host.

971
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: We did our show together, Seawan and John Show many

972
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: years ago. We have a very funny training camp story,

973
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: first day of training camp story, and that's Sean Sharett today.

974
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: But I was talking to Sean and I said, they

975
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: asked me about Julian and I said, look, I think

976
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: everybody gets in their mind, and everybody I mean media

977
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: and fans, people that not are in the building. They

978
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: get in their mind that what they last saw that

979
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: guy is the guy they're going to see in nineteen

980
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: And I said, think back to your first job, the

981
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:39,959
Speaker 1: first time you did anything, and I said to Sean,

982
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 1: I said, you stunk. I was like, you know why,

983
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: I know that because I sat next to you and

984
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: I stunk. But eventually, in time, you start, you get,

985
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: you get better at these things. You get better. Now

986
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: if you don't get better fast enough in this league,

987
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: they say the NFL stands for not for long, and

988
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: then obviously changes are got to be made. But I

989
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: would imagine that as Julian sits there on draft night

990
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: and he sees Titus Howard drafted and he sees Max Sharping,

991
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I gotta, I gotta now. I think

992
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: it was even before that, but absolutely by the light

993
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: was going and now there's just more gas hit to it.

994
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: So I think for Juliane, he's going to be better

995
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: than he was because he's gone through that. I remember,

996
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: I remember sitting here, you and I did these shows

997
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, and throughout the off season of twenty

998
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: fourteen we heard about Derek k Newton. Oh man, they're

999
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: gonna go with Derek nu. I remember when when Bill

1000
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: Obrian was asked about Derek k Newton, He's like, man,

1001
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what y'all are looking at, because the

1002
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: Derek Newton that I see can play tackle for us.

1003
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: He can play right tackle opposite Dwayne Brown. That guy

1004
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: can play. And everybody's like, come on really, And then

1005
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: Derek Newton went in and played very very well for

1006
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: this organization until his injury on Monday Night against Denver

1007
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: Broncos in sixteen. He that I think he was a

1008
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: perfect case for what can happen when a few years

1009
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: you start stacking a few years and you're healthy. Now,

1010
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if last year was any healthy. She's

1011
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: been over Derek twenty thirteen is not completely healthful. And

1012
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: that's a seventh round draft choice. You didn't exactly go

1013
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: to Alabama, right, so you have the same thing fourth

1014
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: round or buck now, I mean, yeah, all right, So

1015
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: there it is, and we gotta we gotta move it

1016
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: quicker here, I know, because we're breaking down the entire

1017
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: offensive line. But you look, you look at davidport Howard,

1018
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: who's listed as a tackle, but we did see him

1019
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 1: line up at guard, and then you're looking at whoever

1020
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: else you could put in there. Matt Khalil now dressed today.

1021
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: I want to see what he can do he didn't

1022
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,959
Speaker 1: practice in the OTA's coming back from injury, and he's

1023
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: got a lot of experience. So I always thought, if

1024
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: he's healthy, Johnny, he's gonna be a factor in the

1025
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: mix somehow. He's gonna be competing for a spot. We'll

1026
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: see how that goes well. It's it's a proven deal

1027
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,919
Speaker 1: for Matt Kalil. He didn't play last year. He only played,

1028
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: I believe one year in Carolina after signing a big deal.

1029
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: They released him and let him go. This is a

1030
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: big proven deal for Matt Khalil. Can he get back

1031
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: to where he was earlier in his career? Goes a

1032
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: fourth pick in the draft in twenty twelve, and the

1033
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: guy can play when he's healthy. In Minnesota, he end

1034
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: a couple of really good years and then he started

1035
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: having you know, when we played up there in sixteen,

1036
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: he didn't play that year. He didn't play in eighteen,

1037
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: so he struggled. He has struggled with staying healthy, right

1038
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things he said to us,

1039
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: What do you say to us, Hey, Hey, I came

1040
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: here in large part because I like what they're doing

1041
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: with sports performance, the training staff. I like that. So

1042
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: if he can stay healthy, he's gonna be a factor

1043
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: in this and the fact that he's ready to go

1044
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: today was awesome. So watching him walk across in a

1045
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: white seventy five jersey, I was like, Oh, okay, because

1046
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: that's one we've been asking about. What's gonna happen when

1047
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,439
Speaker 1: Matt Khalil, So I'm really excited. Well, even if you'll

1048
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: only get a few starts and he's paving the way

1049
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: for Howard to take that spot, I don't know if

1050
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: that happens. Maybe Howard's a guard, maybe he's a tackle. Look,

1051
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you know his camp and folds, how

1052
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: they're you know, well, yeah, we're not gonna get into

1053
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: every little you know detail where he puts his left

1054
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: pinky toe, but but we want to let you know

1055
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: who's playing guard, who's playing tackle. And they're gonna do

1056
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: a lot of switching up anyway, because he only get

1057
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: seven offensive linemen on game day for the most part,

1058
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: and they want to have that versatility so guys can

1059
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: fill in a different spot. Max Sharping on the right side,

1060
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: Sean Trelle Henderson on the right side, and whoever else.

1061
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: Maybe Julian's a swing guy. I think Henderson is exciting

1062
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: because he looked good in camp last year. You want

1063
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: to get him healthy, get him out there and sharping. Look,

1064
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: we'll see he's a rookie. He'll go wherever the coaches

1065
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: tell him. Yeah, exactly. And beyond that, he's an intelligent,

1066
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: brilliant rookie. He had a I think he's a three

1067
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: point nine, nine or four point er student at NIU.

1068
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: Incredibly smart guy. And that's one of the things that

1069
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: we've heard about him in the building is that he

1070
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: picked things up pretty quickly. And as a rookie, if

1071
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: you can pick those things up, you know that you

1072
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: George's talked about Collie Wearing about how much how quickly

1073
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: he was picking things up, and as a rookie, that

1074
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: to me, if you can stay healthy and you're picking

1075
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: things up pretty quickly, you'll find a way on the field. Yeah,

1076
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: you'll find a way on the field. So you're gonna

1077
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: see those guys. But to me, Sean trelle is a

1078
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: very intriguing guy because when he walks in a room,

1079
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my gosh, that's the biggest guy I've

1080
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: ever seen. We've talked about this in the offseason a

1081
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 1: little bit they are all huge, and I was walking

1082
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: next to them because they just got out of an

1083
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: old line meeting yesterday, and I thought, I've never seen

1084
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: our line looked like this from across the board, right.

1085
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had big dudes in here, don't get

1086
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: me wrong, and they're all big, but this is probably

1087
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: the biggest line. And maybe I'm wrong about that statistically,

1088
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: but it's probably the biggest line that's ever been here

1089
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: as far as across the board at this stage of

1090
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: the season. We'll see who ends up playing starting when

1091
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: the regular season arrives. And I mean it makes sense

1092
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: because for a long time, with Gary Kubeck running his

1093
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: own system, you didn't have to have a three twenty

1094
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: pound guy. But you can go from left to right.

1095
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: I mean, Julian I don't know what they list in Matt,

1096
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: because sometimes the weights on here are not going to

1097
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: be exactly what they are. But Julione they have him

1098
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: at three twenty five. Titus is three twenty two, Matt

1099
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: Sharping is like three, Henderson is probably three thirty. I mean,

1100
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: you can average maybe three twenty three twenty five across

1101
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: the front. That's bigger than they've ever been. And that's

1102
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: gonna look. You move guys off the ball, you get

1103
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: the running game going. I mean, think about that. If

1104
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: you're exacting a punishment with an offensive lot of averages

1105
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: three twenty five plus, right, and then here comes Lamar

1106
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: Miller and then all of a sudden, here comes two

1107
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds of Deontay, forming a healthy Deontay

1108
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: forming your run Game's gotta get better, all right, it

1109
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: has to get better. Interior. The rookies might be involved there,

1110
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: Martinis ranking now listed as a guard. Last year, you

1111
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: put about there against the Patriots a tackle for a

1112
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: moment because you had to because Henderson got hurt. But

1113
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: when you look at Fulton Killamette ranking, these are the

1114
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: guys trying to make a difference on the inside. And

1115
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: let's not forget about always reliable Greg Manns and there

1116
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: as well Nick Martin as your starting center. We mentioned

1117
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: he's not dressed today, But I'm not going to panic

1118
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: about that right now. Six weeks to go till the

1119
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: open are actually six and a half almost, so there

1120
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, you're right, that's the one thing. Don't panic,

1121
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: and but don't panic yet. You do have a preseason

1122
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: game in two weeks, So you've got to hope that

1123
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 1: what you did in the OTAs in the off season

1124
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 1: is gonna end up getting you ready for that preseason contest.

1125
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: In group MA, I mean, think about all the things

1126
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: that go into a football game. I mean some people

1127
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: think you just roll the balls out there and play.

1128
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: There's so many different little nuances. You have to be

1129
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: aware of, sudden change situations, making tackles, full tackles for

1130
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: really the first time in a long time. You have

1131
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: to do all those different things in two weeks. So

1132
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: you better have gotten it done in the OTAs in

1133
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: the off season. So to me, you can have some

1134
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: some movements, if you will, with the offensive line, some

1135
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: versatile pieces moving different places, but for the most part,

1136
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: you got to you gotta settle on your guys pretty

1137
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: quickly and hope that line starts to gel because when

1138
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: you go to New Orleans, you're hoping in that group

1139
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: that five. Keep this in mind the Patriots last year,

1140
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: remember we played faced the Patriots from left right, it

1141
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: was tramp around Joe Duney, David Andrews, Check Mason, and

1142
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,439
Speaker 1: Marcus Cannon. Guess what the five in the Super Bowl

1143
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: for the Patriots was the very same five. Wow, if

1144
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: you can keep the same five guys in the offensive

1145
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: line and let them show for sixteen games plus, you're

1146
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: gonna end up having you might have the best offensive

1147
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: line the league, but you're sure gonna have a pretty competent,

1148
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: average consistency offensive line. All Right, you have a lot

1149
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: of guys. Who are these guys trying to make the team.

1150
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: One of them is Rick Leonard, who's bounced around a

1151
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: little bit. You and I visited with him. Here's just

1152
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: a tiny snippet of that conversation to let you know

1153
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: what he's going through, which is sort of a snapshot

1154
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: of what a lot of these guys are going through.

1155
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: Let's hear it. After being with the Saints and the

1156
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: Rams and the Cardinals, when you got the news that

1157
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: you were coming here, what was your reaction, man? I

1158
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: I was I was excited. I was pumped. You know,

1159
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: I said, like I said, a great opportunity, a great organization,

1160
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: and so I'm very excited to be here. What do

1161
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 1: you feel like you need to work on to hold

1162
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: on and get that long term employment going here? May

1163
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 1: I think I need to work on a lot of things.

1164
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: You know, I got to increase my overall strength. You know,

1165
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,280
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta really learn a lot more positions.

1166
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: You know, I was just a right tackle in college,

1167
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: and uh like, I just switched in college from defense

1168
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: and too, so I gotta just keep developing, keep learning

1169
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,720
Speaker 1: how to be an offensive lineman and play offense. Johnny,

1170
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: you have a lot of guys like Rick Leonard on

1171
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL rosters, but on this team trying

1172
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: to make it. I mean, I'm looking at some of

1173
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: the names here, David Steinmetz, you know these are not

1174
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: exactly household names. You mentioned last night on the show,

1175
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: the rookie DJ Coker from Rhodes College, which, by the way,

1176
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: is that in Georgia, Tennessee. It's in Tennessee. Okay, all right,

1177
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: did anybody get that trivia question right? I don't think so.

1178
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: Marquis secure. I mean, there are a lot of guys

1179
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: here who you know, are not exactly gonna get Malcolm

1180
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: pridgeton there. And those are rookies. By the way, Rick

1181
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: Leonard's actually had some opportunities in this league, and they're

1182
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: just trying to find a way to stay on the field,

1183
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: catch the eye of the coaches, and maybe through some

1184
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: sort of injury, matriculation, or their own ability get playing time,

1185
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,439
Speaker 1: get employment. Well, think about it. You've been around NFL

1186
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: teach for a long time. What happens the first week

1187
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: of training camp? Guy goes down. Yep, you know you're

1188
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: number three, number four in a depth chart. Guy goes down, Well,

1189
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 1: Nick Martin's not practicing today, so somebody else is gonna

1190
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 1: get lifted up to play center with the two in

1191
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 1: the three. Yeah. Absolutely, And that's all it takes. And

1192
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: then you look good for those days and guy can't

1193
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: make it back. But it's like, hey, wait a second.

1194
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: You know, Shakier looks pretty good with this group. Let's

1195
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: let's let him go another day. Let's see what he does.

1196
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: And then the next day looks even better, like, hey,

1197
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: he's kind of getting this. Let's let's roll with this.

1198
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: Let's see and then it's one thing after the next.

1199
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: I always go back to Terrell Davis. Terrell Davis was

1200
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: a six round pick out of Georgia for Denver Broncos.

1201
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: Nobody knew about him. He was thinking about leaving the game.

1202
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: They were in Japan. He goes down on one kickoff

1203
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: in a preseason game. One kickoff and he just drilled

1204
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: the returner, and all of a sudden, everybody's like whoa

1205
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: who's yeah. And from that point on it was like

1206
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like Shani is like, hey, give

1207
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: him some RETSI running back because we're gonna keep him

1208
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: as a third running back. We'd like him on specialty.

1209
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: Are you saying, Buddy Holl's going to the Pro Football

1210
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame? Just kidding, just kidding, I know what

1211
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying. All right, that's our offensive line breakdown and

1212
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: a lot is going on here. Players coming out of

1213
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: the practice bubble, practicing outside today, gorgeous day at the

1214
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center Dpcit is gonna join us. We're

1215
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: gonna go over three to watch three things you're watching today,

1216
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: Three things I'm watched. Landry Locker has his camp questions,

1217
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: including stuff about the quarterback position here, the depth of it.

1218
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: It's all happening. Got Texans training Camp, lot being, Got

1219
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: Texans Training Camp lot betting, Got Texas. This is the

1220
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson you listen to and TAS Radio. My goodness.

1221
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: We're at the field Houston Methodist Training Center. Mark Vandermer,

1222
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: John Harris with you. Texans Training Camp Live we'll be

1223
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: out at six tonight recapping what happens today. We'll be

1224
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: on tomorrow morning eight to ten am as well. Joining

1225
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: us right now lead writer for Houston Texans dot com

1226
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: are of Texans TV, Texans Radio DP city. About that

1227
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: resume that we can say, So, MBA, you have your MBA,

1228
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: your your electrical engineering. They're super helpful right now when

1229
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with Houston's super educated. I know, well we

1230
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: lost an hour earlier. You gonna helped us out with that.

1231
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: I your political engineer. I'm an engineer too. Oh you're

1232
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: an engineer if the breaks down and then, John, I

1233
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you one thing. I don't remember. I don't remember.

1234
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: I tell you, I don't you went to crowd and

1235
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: study this stuff. Listen. I was. I was immediate player,

1236
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: so I'm the only want to study this business sort

1237
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: of because I was basically an advertising major communications so there,

1238
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: so I'm sort of in the biz that way, all right, DP.

1239
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: So three things we're watching today at training camp. You

1240
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: go first, you get the first watch. Okay, well I

1241
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: just saw JJ Watt and Will Fuller out in pads,

1242
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: so I'm curious to see this will be one pads,

1243
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: shells pads, Yes, shells. I should we should call them

1244
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: shells because they are will will Fuller. Good, good argument,

1245
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: j J JJ was JJ was in was on the

1246
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: pup to start off, there's there's Will Fuller right now.

1247
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: It's coming over there with the receiver's nice and k

1248
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: Q Andre Johnson's there too, sort of watching the receivers

1249
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: do their position drills. But uh, let's start with JJ.

1250
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: He he started off camp on PUP yea, and he

1251
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: could come off of it if he practices today. So

1252
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: just the fact that he's in shells is a good sign.

1253
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: But I would wait to see if he practices and

1254
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: then we'll have our answer. Well, it's a good point.

1255
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: You're not off POP just because you're here in practice. Yes,

1256
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: So if we see him practicing, then we know practices,

1257
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 1: then he's off PUP. But they'll probably have to make

1258
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: that transaction or JJ will probably announce it himself for

1259
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 1: his press cover. Yeah, he'll announce it. I predict that

1260
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: he's off because he's got the arm race are and

1261
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: that means away, isn't it, Johnny. Yeah, that's because he's

1262
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: been in uniform before. That's been my formula for you

1263
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: know people trying to figure out training camp. Who's gonna

1264
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: play or I'm sorry, who's gonna play in certain games?

1265
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: I figured out, I got a formula. Well, we have

1266
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: open locker room on Fridays. I figured out who's active

1267
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: and who's not. Are you gonna reveal this? No, this

1268
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: is a Johnny Johnny and Johnny and I have tested

1269
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: this week after week and it's dead on. Really, we

1270
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: know the inactives before anybody. Absolutely Friday. I ain't telling anybody. Really,

1271
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: that's my own life. Some ice cream like on Sunday.

1272
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: So your first one to watch JJ watt Okay, my

1273
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: first and sort of mentioned a little while ago, and

1274
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: he's working some routes here with the sean As. There's

1275
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: a special teams going on and that's Will Fuller. He's

1276
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: working the back of the end zone. I can't tell

1277
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: you just in going back and watching games throughout the

1278
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: twenty eighteenth season and in the off season, I'll go

1279
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: back and watch the games and I can't tell you

1280
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 1: how many times I've watched him go cow, we missed him,

1281
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: I mean just and not just okay, he's a nine route.

1282
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: Everybody knows he can run the nine route, but Tennessee

1283
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: found out we two last year he ran a hitch

1284
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: route against Tennessee five yard hitch rout press coverage final

1285
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: five yard hitch right at the sticks. He got three

1286
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: yards of separation because of the route he ran, Like,

1287
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 1: how do you do that? He's become a complete receiver.

1288
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see how much you're able to

1289
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: do with Will coming off the ACL. I'm glad you

1290
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: brought that up because route running is probably not discussed

1291
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: enough the precision of route running. Andrey Johnson, who we

1292
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: just saw here at our broadcast position. I just wanted

1293
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: to put him on for the rest of the show,

1294
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: but he's got work to do here as a as

1295
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: an assistant. He was one of the great route runners.

1296
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: You know, people talk about that to talk about the

1297
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 1: physical strength and the speed and everything. He was precise

1298
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: at route running, and that's how you get three yards

1299
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: open running a five yard route. I heard Cecil Shorts

1300
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: he was actually on six ten a few weeks so

1301
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: he made a great point about how it's not just

1302
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: about running the routes, but disguising the routes and making

1303
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: it look like you're running full speed when you're not,

1304
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: because then you're about to break out and make a

1305
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: fast break. There's so many nuances to route running, and

1306
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: I think as Fuller develops every single year, he's going

1307
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: to develop those nuances as well. I'm excited to see

1308
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson out here watching him in camp because while

1309
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: he was at the Greenbrier last year, he wasn't officially

1310
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: part of the coaching staff, but now he is. See

1311
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: I have the opposite. When I run full speed, it

1312
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: looks like I'm running slow. So are you running half speed?

1313
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. Can you disguise things well?

1314
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: Then in the opposite direction. My first of three things

1315
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 1: to watch, I'm gonna watch the offensive line starters in

1316
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:55,919
Speaker 1: the first eleven on eleven period. Not that that's gonna

1317
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: be who starts Monday Night football against the Saints, but

1318
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: it's definitely going to show you what the coaches are

1319
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: thinking about. Now. Nick Martin's not dressed today, so I'm

1320
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: not sure who's going to fill in at center. I

1321
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: would assume either Manse or Fulton, and maybe that in

1322
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: itself is going to tell us a little something here,

1323
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: because if it's Fulton, then maybe they're thinking about other

1324
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: people at guard to give them a shot first, because

1325
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: you know what he can do. They have a lot

1326
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: of things to think about here. You think about those rookies.

1327
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: You know they experimented with them at guard during OTA's

1328
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: Maybe they want to continue that experiment again. They know

1329
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 1: what they have in Fulton. Let me see what these

1330
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: guys can do with the ones against Watt and company.

1331
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: Whoever else is going to rush the passer in training camp.

1332
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 1: So I think that's going to be an interesting sort

1333
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: of chess game they play in a practice context. Eager

1334
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: to see it. DP. All right, am I going number two? Now?

1335
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: All right? Number two is actually the number three running

1336
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: back position, which is something that we've talked about all

1337
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 1: off season. Lamar Miller, Deontaey Foreman. But who's that number three?

1338
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: We saw number of guys getting reps and OTA's in

1339
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: the off season. But Cron Higden, who we didn't really

1340
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: see much of this offseason. Hopefully he's here healthing, he's

1341
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: doing some things. It'd be nice to see him and

1342
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:04,959
Speaker 1: see who really locks up that number three position, because

1343
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: you know, the Texans are gonna need some depth behind

1344
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: behind Miller and Foreman. Yeah. So, in fact, Josh Ferguson

1345
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: was the name that Bill O'Brien referenced, right, I'm gonna

1346
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: build right off of that with my number two deep,

1347
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 1: so we can sort of talk about that. I actually

1348
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: have the Maria Crockett as my number three. But since

1349
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: you brought up running backs and people are like Ahea

1350
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: Damara Crockett, I haven't even heard of that guy. He's

1351
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: a rookie, undrafted rookie out of Missouri. The Texas have

1352
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: had some success with undrafted rookies before some guy named

1353
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: Arian Foster came out of the SEC. Will Crockett is

1354
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: maybe not at the Arian Fostered level. At least we didn't.

1355
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 1: Nobody even thought Aaron fosters at the Arian Foster level

1356
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: when he came here. I'm curious to see what he

1357
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: brings because he's a bigger back. He's two hundred and

1358
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: twenty pounds, and he just dealt with injuries at MISSOO.

1359
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: But his first year in MISSOO he was a stud,

1360
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: and then he got injured in twenty seventeen and he

1361
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 1: never really got back to that form I think at

1362
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. But I think and he declared for the draft,

1363
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: and I think he's running backs. If you had some

1364
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: injuries and you dress some NFL ability to get to

1365
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: the league, get your clock started, and move on. But

1366
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: I want to see him get into mix and I

1367
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: think he's a physical runner who when pads go on,

1368
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: I think that's when we'll see a little bit more

1369
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: of Demarria Crockett. But that's a guy that I'm really

1370
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: anxious to see as DeMaria Crockett. You go along with

1371
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: your discussion running backs, you know, I had a question

1372
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Speaker 1: because there was so much talk about Higden, you know,

1373
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 1: and coming from Michigan, and you know, a lot of

1374
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: teams wanted him as a He's not on pup, he

1375
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 1: wasn't really doing much this offseason. How different is he

1376
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: from the other guys you you obviously seen a lot

1377
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: of his college film. Yeah, absolutely, I watched. I watched

1378
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of games at Michigan, and I saw him

1379
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl. When you would see him amongst

1380
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: the players the Senior Bowl, You're like, who's the little guy?

1381
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 1: But then you would watch him all with the football

1382
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: and there's no chill. There is I you know, you

1383
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: think you see a guy like that and you're like, oh,

1384
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna you know, scat back on people like, no,

1385
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna deliver punishment on you. He's a compact,

1386
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 1: strong guy with some quickness. He doesn't have blazing speed,

1387
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: and he's he's shorter. But I always always felt as

1388
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: as a defensive player, I hated short running backs because

1389
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: they were always hard to bring down. But but you

1390
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: lose them, you lose you can't find him. You're pursuing

1391
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 1: and you're like, where are they? An awesome boom they

1392
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 1: pop on you, and they're so strong that when an

1393
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: army gonna bring him down, and that was always a problem.

1394
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited. In fact, my ultimate eleven last

1395
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: night thinks I'm excited about cron Higden was one of them.

1396
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 1: I want to see what he looks like. Cool he

1397
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: made the eleven. I'm excited to see him. Here's my

1398
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 1: second one, Avin Bellamy. I want to see how he

1399
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: does because there is no Clowney here so and no

1400
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: Duke edge of four this season, so you have a

1401
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: need there for that player to rise up. He's wearing

1402
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: number forty eight. If you're a forty eight wearing pass rusher,

1403
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: you know you want to get a fifty number, right,

1404
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: I don't know I you think you think he wants

1405
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: to hang on to forty eight. You think if he

1406
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: makes the fifty three as a regular player, he's our

1407
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 1: fifties better than forties a little bit. I don't know

1408
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: if you're when you're wearing a forties number, that means

1409
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: you're you're an athlete. Man means you're I don't know,

1410
01:07:53,640 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: but that's what the linebackers. The side linebackers allowed linebackers

1411
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 1: to wear forties numbers in the last probably four to

1412
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: five years. YEA, if von Miller went to the league

1413
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: right out A and M, he would have warned forty

1414
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: I guaranteeing. All right, we gotta do like one word.

1415
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: Third thing to watch because we had a break. So

1416
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 1: what's yours cornerbacks? Is Johnson going to practice? What's the

1417
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:21,400
Speaker 1: second you're gonna collect? All? Well, that's fine, and I'm

1418
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna watch how that wide receiver depth is

1419
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:25,680
Speaker 1: shaping up. Look, we've got a lot of shows here,

1420
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 1: so we're gonna be able to talk about all this stuff.

1421
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: Landry Locker with his questions on the team, including quarterback

1422
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: depth and a former Texan player, how he's gonna be

1423
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: figuring into the mix, with this current team. It's Texans

1424
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: Training Camp Live. It's back to football and you're back

1425
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: on the sideline at training camp with Texans Radio Mark

1426
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 1: Vandamaron John Harris with you. Team is practicing, We're watching

1427
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: some special teams work right now. In a coaching intern

1428
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 1: Josh crib is out here like he looks familiar. Man,

1429
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 1: he looks familiar. And then I saw a report on

1430
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 1: Twitter saying that Josh Cribs and Jonas as a coaching Ye,

1431
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember Joe Cribs. Okay, yeah, Buffalo

1432
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: Bills not that old, but I remember Joe Cribs. But

1433
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,799
Speaker 1: I remember you're you're old enough to remember Joe Cribs.

1434
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: I know I remember Joe. A couple of things about

1435
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 1: practice so far, and again, some people are not participating today,

1436
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: like Justin Reid, Nick Martin. But what is Yeah participating?

1437
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: He is, he's practicipant what I've been able to see now,

1438
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 1: I know during the season there's certain levels of limited

1439
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: versus full versus not participating at all. So I don't

1440
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works in Monty camp. They

1441
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: don't have to give that information out. No, they don't

1442
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: have to give that information they won't. But for for

1443
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: JJ to be practicing, he has to come off the

1444
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: pup list, right, So maybe that's coming out later today.

1445
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: I would imagine that might be coming out later today

1446
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: if he is in deep practicing. And I mean I watched.

1447
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: I walked over there for just two minutes to watch,

1448
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: and they were working on some two spots stuff and

1449
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,879
Speaker 1: I saw him out there. Also noteworthy a certain offensive

1450
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: lineman getting reps. Yeah, Matt CLIL's back. I mean we

1451
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,759
Speaker 1: saw him walking across, walking over here, and we're like, oh, okay,

1452
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: and look when you I remember Wade Smith talking about this,

1453
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: and I love talking way about the offensive line because

1454
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 1: there aren't too many people that could talk offensive line.

1455
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 1: And obviously Wade played it. But Wade made a great

1456
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: point when we were going through the offseason. He's like, look,

1457
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: you can bring in as many rookies as you want,

1458
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: but who's the veteran presence in the room to kind

1459
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:41,719
Speaker 1: of keep a thumb on everybody? You know, basically who's

1460
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: the rooms? Darren Fells like, what guy is that? So

1461
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: you have a guy in Matt Khalil that's you know,

1462
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: been around the league. This is what is a I

1463
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 1: think it is his eighth year. He's been you know,

1464
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 1: he's been in he's been in locker rooms. Yeah, he's

1465
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: been with the Panthers, he's been with the Vikings. He's

1466
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: a vet that's seen a lot of different things. So

1467
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: that's gonna be helpful. So look, whether MACLo makes the

1468
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: team or not, nobody knows at this point. We got

1469
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: to see how he rebounds during training camp. But the

1470
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: fact that he's ready to go day one at training camp,

1471
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 1: I think is a really good song. I gotta tell

1472
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 1: you though, even though he's not a starter, I think

1473
01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 1: Greg Mans is a leader. I think there's a type

1474
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 1: of guy who's a leader and might be able to

1475
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: say something to the rest of the guys if something

1476
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,679
Speaker 1: needs to be said, and he has It's interesting because

1477
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: he said he did start in twenty sixteen, but he

1478
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: has been a key backup. But he has he has

1479
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:33,680
Speaker 1: respect throughout that entire offensive line room. Yeah, you're absolutely

1480
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: dead on, because Greg will do anything that you ask

1481
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: him to do. What do you need Greg to do?

1482
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: Play center? Got it, play left guard, got it? But

1483
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: blay right guard, got it right. He has respect of

1484
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,640
Speaker 1: anybody in that everybody in that room. Very cool. All right,

1485
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: Landry Locker is gonna join us now, and this has

1486
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: become a Texans training camp live tradition, as Landry asks

1487
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 1: us questions, good morning, Good morning, fellas. You're gonna like

1488
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: this first one. I don't want to oversell this, but

1489
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna like this one. We might only

1490
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:01,839
Speaker 1: get to the first one. Knowing you guys. No, I'm serious,

1491
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm serious. All right, AJ McCarron the new backup quarterback

1492
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans. We all know about the Shaun Watson. Yes,

1493
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: whose college career would you rather have? Would you rather

1494
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: have a J. McCarron's, who was a two time second

1495
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:19,519
Speaker 1: team SEC guy, one time All American, and a Heisman

1496
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 1: runner up with two national championships? Or would you rather

1497
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 1: have Deshaun Watson's who was a two time Heisman finalist,

1498
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 1: Davey Obrian winner two times one an SP but only

1499
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 1: had one national championship. I got this one. This is

1500
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 1: this won't take long at all. I take de Shaun

1501
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: Watson's career. And here's why. AJ McCarron at Alabama was

1502
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: a cog in a machine. He was a cog in

1503
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: a machine. DeShawn Watson was the machine at Clemson now transcend.

1504
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: He helped kickstart what Clemson has done, what Trevor Lawrence

1505
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 1: has done. Deshaun Watson was the guy who put all

1506
01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 1: that in motion. Look, DABBYL. Sweeney recruited and did a

1507
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,560
Speaker 1: great job recruiting and get seized the fruits to that

1508
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:03,759
Speaker 1: with guys like DJ Reader and Albert Huggins and DeAndre

1509
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 1: Hopkins before him, Deshaun Watson kickstarted Clemson into a whole

1510
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: different gear. AJ McCarron a great career, mind you, a

1511
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: tremendous career, but he was a cog in a machine.

1512
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson was the dude and is the dude at Clemson.

1513
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: I would take that career. When Watson visited here, so

1514
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: many guys gathered around the table and no one thought

1515
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: that the Texans were gonna be able to draft him

1516
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 1: because he was gonna go too high or whatever and

1517
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to do it. But he is

1518
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:33,200
Speaker 1: such an electric star, and I think McCarron, look, you

1519
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:35,759
Speaker 1: can't take anything away from what he did. But Watson

1520
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,920
Speaker 1: is the kind of people, the kind of person people

1521
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 1: want to meet, other athletes, other stars want to meet,

1522
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: and not even because of anything he's done in the

1523
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: NFL so far, which is really good, but becomes of

1524
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: what happened at Clemson. Now, I will say AJ McCarron

1525
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: had two of my favorite college football moments. One was

1526
01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 1: the drive against LSU in twenty twelve. I think it was, yeah,

1527
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: twenty twelve at the end of the game and he's

1528
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,600
Speaker 1: crying the sidelines. I mean he was getting the you

1529
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 1: know what beat out him all game and led him

1530
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: on a drive through a screen pass at T. J.

1531
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: Yeldon And I was in Atlanta, that was at the

1532
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: game with the SEC championship game. I was covering the

1533
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 1: game twenty twelve. More NFL talent on the field, and

1534
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life with George against Alabama

1535
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: and he makes a throw to a Mark Cooper, a

1536
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: deep throw down the sideline and I screamed in the

1537
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: press box because Cooper stopped on the route. Cooper stops

1538
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 1: his route and I'm like, keep running, I literally, yo,

1539
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,280
Speaker 1: keep running, and McCarron laid one right on him. And

1540
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:30,080
Speaker 1: I've never I mean the building it was, it was

1541
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: electric and McCarron made that throw that said I'd still

1542
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 1: want de Shan's career Okay, so that wasn't That wasn't

1543
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 1: as hard as I thought. I thought you guys were

1544
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 1: about winning rings, but apparently not. Apparently Brian Cushing. Brian

1545
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: Cushing is going to be on the text and staff.

1546
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 1: We know he's going to be helping with strength and

1547
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: conditioning and whatever else they ask him to do. He's

1548
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: always been a fiery guy. We saw him headbut someone

1549
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 1: without a helmet with the blood rushing down his face.

1550
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:58,560
Speaker 1: Always very emotional on the sidelines as a player. What

1551
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: are Brian Cushing's ma anerism is gonna be like now

1552
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: that he's a coach. On game days when we look

1553
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and we see Brian Cushing, is he

1554
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:07,840
Speaker 1: going to be fiery or is he gonna take on

1555
01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:10,800
Speaker 1: more of a calm approach. I think he's gonna be calm.

1556
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: I think that that calm. Yeah, I really do. I

1557
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a calm Bryant Cushing for the

1558
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: most parts. Maybe something happens. Why you're expecting, like street

1559
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 1: clothes against Tennessee last year, picking up a fifteen yard

1560
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: penalty on the sideline, times to take a guy out,

1561
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: pulls at Woody Hayes. I mean wait till Alfred Blue

1562
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:33,639
Speaker 1: gets tackled on our sideline. Brian Cushing is there because

1563
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:36,760
Speaker 1: of the love love relationship those two had. I mean,

1564
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: I think you're right to a degree, Mark, I think

1565
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna be moments of calm. Like today, I was

1566
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: walking out here and I saw him coming out of

1567
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: the weight room and I was like, hey, Brian, what's up,

1568
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 1: and usually like maybe just a little bit of chitch,

1569
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: like nothing. I think he is gonna be so laser

1570
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: focused on what he's doing. The difference is when he

1571
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: was on the field, he could take out some of

1572
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,600
Speaker 1: that like make a tackle and shoot the arrow or

1573
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: do you know, flex or whatever. He's not gonna be

1574
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:03,559
Speaker 1: able to do that on the sideline. So he's got

1575
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,760
Speaker 1: to be able to find that, you know, release of

1576
01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: his energy. But I do think I think there will

1577
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: be there in pregame. He'll be hyped. He'll be hyped

1578
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: in pregame, no question in my mind. He will be

1579
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: hyped in pregame. But during the game, I think he'll

1580
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: he'll focus in and I think he'll end up be

1581
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: I think you're right about pre you know, when they're

1582
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: all warming up, I could see him almost getting in

1583
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: the warm ups. Oh yeah, participate up inside linebacker if

1584
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:33,680
Speaker 1: they're odd numbers in the tackling drill. Yeah, from linebackers,

1585
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: Like if they only have five guys active and you

1586
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 1: have you know, Bmac with Zach and then Dylan Cold

1587
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: one of their linebackers, you got a fifth linebacker that

1588
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: needs somebody to be tackled. That'll be Cushing will step in.

1589
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we don't know. Obviously, we don't

1590
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: know what this season's gonna bring. But Bill O'Brien will

1591
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: get more good information about what the players are going

1592
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:54,759
Speaker 1: through and thinking this year than any other season because

1593
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: you have Yates, Dent, Andre Johnson, you know, you have

1594
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: Brian Cushing, You have guys. Cushing have guys who are

1595
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: truth tellers about hey, coach, this is not working or

1596
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you want to think about this because

1597
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: that or whatever the player reaction to what is being coached,

1598
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,880
Speaker 1: what is being done schedule wise, it's not just coaching.

1599
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: It's not xs at oos, it's how they travel, how

1600
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: they eat, when they practice whatever. They'll get more good

1601
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 1: feedback the coaches will than any other season in the

1602
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 1: O'Brien era, And I think that's bound to help. It's

1603
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:29,719
Speaker 1: got to be some kind of plus. You guys mentioned

1604
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: Josh Crabs, and when you mentioned Josh Crabs, you automatically

1605
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,679
Speaker 1: think about special teams, specifically the return game. DeAndre Carter,

1606
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: we saw him do a good job last year as

1607
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 1: a return man. Who are some other guys that we

1608
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,759
Speaker 1: could see trying to compete to maybe win a spot

1609
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 1: on this team as a return man. Well, I'm curious

1610
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:46,639
Speaker 1: to see what Johnny Dixon does. I would think they're

1611
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: gonna have him back for a little bit. Tyran Johnson

1612
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 1: rookie oto Okahoma State, who had previously been an LSU.

1613
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:53,800
Speaker 1: I think they want to see what he does in

1614
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,920
Speaker 1: the return game. And look, Taiwan Jones came here from

1615
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He has experienced in the return game

1616
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: as well. I'm here's the one I'm kind of stuck on.

1617
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: And that's what you do with Keki. And I said

1618
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: this when when Will was younger in his career. Now,

1619
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: I don't think you put Will back there at all.

1620
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: I think you got enough guys to do it. But

1621
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,560
Speaker 1: with Kiki, if you if you haven't been able to

1622
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: get him the ball. I used to say this with Will,

1623
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: if you're having trouble getting will Fuller the ball, Maybe

1624
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: put him back on a part of return because that

1625
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: gives him some space to do some stuff and he

1626
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:23,559
Speaker 1: gets the ball in his hands and maybe that kind

1627
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 1: of drives a competence. But if he's not getting the

1628
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: ball early, I might put Keki back there and give

1629
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:29,560
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get the ball, get tackled, kind of

1630
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: get in the game a little bit. So I might

1631
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:34,519
Speaker 1: think about that, but I would I'm struggling with that

1632
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: to a degree, Like if Carter doesn't come back. I

1633
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: loved what he did in the return game. The key

1634
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: is with forty six man roster, game day roster, fifty

1635
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: three man roster, can you take a guy that really

1636
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:50,639
Speaker 1: is just gonna be your punt returner and and he's

1637
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: just our return guy. Now, some teams do it. Some

1638
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 1: teams do it. I mean the Patriots we have for

1639
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 1: years have had guys that are just special teams guys.

1640
01:18:58,320 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you can do that, because

1641
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: a slap position this year is gonna be tough. With Kiki,

1642
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: Johnny Dixon's here, you got Stevie Mitchell, uh and you've

1643
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: got DeAndre and obviously the deond are unfortunately gonna start

1644
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:09,640
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball because he's on pup right now.

1645
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: So those guys are gonna get reps as they did

1646
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: throughout all the OTA. So I think it's gonna be

1647
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: tough decision. But I think when when a big play

1648
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 1: needs to be made, I think I put one six

1649
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 1: back there. Could you do Higden as a kickoff returner?

1650
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 1: A kickoff returner? Yeah? The thing about kickoff returns now,

1651
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know, like what's the value in it?

1652
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:30,560
Speaker 1: The value to me is not what it used to be.

1653
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: A ton of you though, every once in a while

1654
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:35,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to pop one. And I'm not

1655
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 1: saying for big yardage even but if you can get

1656
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: to the thirty thirty five, that's a plus. And I

1657
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: know that's a that's a decision that's gonna be tough.

1658
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: You know, are you a yard a two yards deep?

1659
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: Three year? When do you start to figure that? All Right,

1660
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring it out here. We'll think about the

1661
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: Jets last year with Darryl Roberts. The guy had a

1662
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: ton of really good returns and that gave Sam Donald

1663
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 1: some great fuel position. But in our game, we shut

1664
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: him down. Yeah, he did not get opportunity to talking

1665
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: point going into that case. It was and we shut

1666
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: him down and that was that was huge for our

1667
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: special team. So I just don't think it has the

1668
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 1: value that it once did. Now upon return, guy, that's

1669
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: that's a different story. So if I got to keep

1670
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: on return, I want qt back this. And I'm not

1671
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: Brad Seeley or Bill O'Brien, but I'm kicking off to

1672
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: the goal line every single time. I'll take my chances

1673
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: on my return team because I bet the analytics say

1674
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:23,800
Speaker 1: that more often than not, you're gonna hold him inside

1675
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: the twenty five yard line, and I want that advantage.

1676
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: Although listen, this is a top two team in average drive,

1677
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 1: star defense, and offense, so they knew what they were

1678
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: doing last year. All right. I'm intrigued by this because

1679
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 1: I've I've been accused of being harsh at times, and

1680
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 1: I just I just want to know if you guys

1681
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 1: think I'm being too harsh when I make this statement,

1682
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:44,600
Speaker 1: you harsh Leonard four Nets drafted number four overall in

1683
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, You're gonna give me five on This is

1684
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: the worst draft pick in the history of the AFC. South,

1685
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: and we'll be one of the worst draft picks as

1686
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: we look back on it in the recent NFL history, well,

1687
01:20:56,120 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 1: considering what was available. Absolutely, that's the thing now, though,

1688
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 1: when they drafted Bortles in twenty fourteen, you know who

1689
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:07,439
Speaker 1: did they pass on? You know, you have to look

1690
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: at it like that. They needed a quarterback then, and

1691
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: you're thinking, I mean, obviously that turned out to be

1692
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,639
Speaker 1: a bad pick. Most teams had portals as a high

1693
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: second round pick. So yeah, it was way too early

1694
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 1: to reach out a quarterback, especially when you just did

1695
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: it with Blaine Gabbert and that didn't work. So Fournette.

1696
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: Let's see who they could have had, Johnny what tell

1697
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: them what they missed it? So let's make a football deal, Monty,

1698
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 1: what did they miss number? Yeah? They ah the MVP

1699
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: last year? They missed him too. How about this? They

1700
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:40,080
Speaker 1: could have trained it out of it and still but

1701
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,760
Speaker 1: you know, maybe gotten Fournette later, or Fournette might have

1702
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:46,320
Speaker 1: been gone anyway. But clearly not a good selection when

1703
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: you draft a running back that high. I know, it's

1704
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:49,800
Speaker 1: working out so far with the Giants in Barkley, and

1705
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Elliott is terrific back. For the Dallas Cowboys,

1706
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: so you can't take anything away from them. But you know,

1707
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,760
Speaker 1: when you miss on a running back, when you take

1708
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 1: them high, it just feels so awful. Oh when you

1709
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: miss out a quarterback, yeah, granted, it's devastating, but you know,

1710
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 1: everybody gets it, all right, it's a quarterback. You had

1711
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,680
Speaker 1: to do it, you know, in Chicago with Turbiski, you know,

1712
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 1: all right, maybe you'd rather have Mahomes or Watson, but

1713
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: he's doing pretty well so far, so at least that's

1714
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: working out. I just I agree with you, Mark. I

1715
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: think what you passed on is the key. Now, what

1716
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: Jacksonville wanted to do and how Jacksonville wanted to play

1717
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:28,559
Speaker 1: Fournette was probably the right guy for them. They wanted

1718
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 1: to bludge in people. That was Jacksonville twenty seventeen. Think

1719
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: about it. They just wanted to bludge in people. They

1720
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 1: knew what they had in Blake. But that's the whole thing. Yeah,

1721
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:39,759
Speaker 1: you better have that guy at quarterback because eventually, if Fournette,

1722
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: who had a history of being injured, is injured, then

1723
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, your whole philosophy's out the window.

1724
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:45,920
Speaker 1: Now you got to rely on Bortles and you're back

1725
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 1: to square one, and that ain't gonna work when you

1726
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: had Fournette with Bortles, Bortles didn't have to carry the load.

1727
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: It's like hand off the Fournette and bludge and people.

1728
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: I just didn't think Fournette and I said it Draft night,

1729
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: I've said it, sense, I just don't think Fournette's a

1730
01:22:57,439 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: really good all round running back. He's a hell of

1731
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: an athlete. Yeah, he's not a great running back. Well,

1732
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,920
Speaker 1: I just think that it's between the years really that

1733
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 1: if that was a little bit different, maybe you're looking

1734
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: at you know, or maybe the heart, you know, however

1735
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: you want to describe that. He's got plenty of ability,

1736
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:16,640
Speaker 1: like you said, good enough athlete to really make some

1737
01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: great things happen, and was able to have that one

1738
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: really good year. Uh Yeah, it's funny because it was

1739
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:23,479
Speaker 1: it was looking like it was gonna work out for them,

1740
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 1: and it's not working out so well. And I mean

1741
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:26,800
Speaker 1: if you look at the running backs to add too,

1742
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 1: at the running backs that went after him, I mean,

1743
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: my goodness, Joe Mix and Dalvin Cook. There's a there's

1744
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: a lot of good backs that went after him. So

1745
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the worst, But I guess what

1746
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:40,679
Speaker 1: the worst? Could you imagine if Jacksonville goes to Sean

1747
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 1: in the first round and top of the second they

1748
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 1: go Dalvin. Now they wouldn't have Cam Robinson. I think

1749
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:47,640
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson is gonna be very key for them. But

1750
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: you imagine them with Watson and Dalvin Cook. And the

1751
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: thing is is they have such a jones for Florida

1752
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: State guys. I was, I just think they're paying for

1753
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:58,679
Speaker 1: They're paying for that decision. They're they're paying for that decision.

1754
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,960
Speaker 1: And then here's here's the domino effect of that. You

1755
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: don't draft a quarterback there, So now you then have

1756
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: to pay all that money for full So what do

1757
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: you do? We benefit because we take the Sean Gibson

1758
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: as a cap casualty, Mollie Jackson's got to go as

1759
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 1: a cap casualty. Barry Church gets cut. You know, many

1760
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be missing off that Jacksonville defense. I

1761
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: mean we're talking about great Jackson's defense. Is you're missing Gibson, Church, Jackson,

1762
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,639
Speaker 1: Kelvin Smith, those four starters off love got you? I mean, Johnny,

1763
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 1: how many games do they win last year? If if

1764
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 1: they get Lamar Jackson where we were afraid they were

1765
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: at least two or three at least two or three

1766
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: more Steelers. Yeah, they had the Steelers on the ropes

1767
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: would have been the Steels. They could have been the

1768
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 1: Eagles in London with a couple of plays made by

1769
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,639
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I mean, they're just a much more dangerous

1770
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: team to have to deal with. So, Landry, your show's

1771
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:48,920
Speaker 1: coming up here from the field. It is you and

1772
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:52,640
Speaker 1: Lopez who I'm familiar with, So we should have a

1773
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: support group meeting sometime. Okay, working with John No, it's

1774
01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:58,640
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to work with Lopez, no question. But

1775
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna be here now during your show. They're gonna

1776
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: be press conferences going on next door. We're a giant

1777
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,600
Speaker 1: tent here at the Houston Methodist Training Center, and you

1778
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 1: guys are gonna move inside at some point during practice

1779
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 1: as well, Yes we are. It's gonna be a dart

1780
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to sprint there during the break. It

1781
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 1: looks like, how far is that? John? I know, I

1782
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: know you run in the morning. How far is that?

1783
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 1: That's a lot farther than you think. That's two fifty

1784
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: three hundred yards it's it's maybe a little bit more nat. Really,

1785
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: that's a good polo field and a half. That's a

1786
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: good part five. Mark, that's a good part five if

1787
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: you put it that way. Yeah, so we're gonna have

1788
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:34,280
Speaker 1: to sprint a part five. You're gonna have to hit

1789
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 1: the driver. I would say seven iron and then you're

1790
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 1: pitching with shut down the fairway. Yeah, no, No, Nodrey

1791
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 1: would be like driver three when I'm there, Okay, are

1792
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 1: you kidding? I've seen him park it. I mean, oh

1793
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:49,600
Speaker 1: two forty okay, let me get the I'll get my

1794
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 1: rescue club. Yeah. It's ridiculous, you know. And it's it's

1795
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: got spin on it. It's like he stops it, like

1796
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:58,439
Speaker 1: here's the best, here's the best thing. You're gonna be

1797
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:00,720
Speaker 1: running over there. Then you got to get inside and

1798
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 1: you're put the headphones on you. But this is Landry

1799
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,640
Speaker 1: and Lopez. That's the worst feeling to be on the

1800
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 1: air and you're out of breath. Oh yeah, especially if

1801
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,560
Speaker 1: you're alone because you can't. Yeah, that's that's happened to

1802
01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:13,719
Speaker 1: be during game broadcast. All right, lad we're looking forward

1803
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: to the program very much, So stick around right here

1804
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 1: as we are at the Houston Methodist Training Center. Johnny

1805
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 1: and I back at six tonight and tomorrow morning eight

1806
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:24,759
Speaker 1: to ten a m. Thank you George for engineering, Jonesy

1807
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:28,759
Speaker 1: for producing. Have a great day everyone. Camp is open.

1808
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: It's football time in Houston. Go Texans, Texans, Texans,