WEBVTT - New League Year Begins | Texans All Access 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.760 Quick Prolepsie has the first Annimo or up the side 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:09.959 by forty thirty forty ten to five touchdown Johnston, there 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.520 is no off season for your Houston Texans. Game day 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:22.360 is every day. No, it's Texans, all Exans. What's up? Everybody? 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.480 Welcome in Thursday Night edition, A beautiful Thursday night. Hopefully 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.720 you guys are out about driving somewhere, drive to get 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.360 into park. Maybe you're listening to us at the radio 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.479 dot Com app or through Texans App. But either way, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.800 glad you are with me. I'm your host, John Harris, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.919 football analyst and sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. Can 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.600 be joined by Mark Vannimir later in the show. But 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.000 joining me right off the top is the General, the 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.040 Hall of Famer John McClain from the Houston Chronicle. General, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.720 how are you doing this evening, John? I'm doing well. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.800 I hope you are a tision Well, yeah, I gotta 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.840 I gotta say pretty well, and I'm gonna say right 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.120 out the shoot, We've got a lot a lot to 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.520 get to right out of the shoot. I said this 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.480 last night. With the legal situation that's going on with 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.679 Sean Watson, that's not something that that any of us. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.200 The Texas have put out statements. That's kind of the 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.199 philosophy we're following as well, actually required to follow, So 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.399 we're not really going to be discussing that situation. You 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.200 can listen to our guys on Sports Radia sixteen. I 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.120 think they've done a nice job kind of encapsulating all 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.840 that goes on. But we are going to talk football 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.280 in general. We talked to you last Thursday. We're heading 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.360 into free agency where I don't know we were four 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:41.000 or five days away. Just in general. Did you see 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.319 any of what the Texans we're doing with the two 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.039 big moves over the weekend and then about twenty five 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.520 different signings that they've had. I didn't expect to see 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.960 such a flurry of activity. Did you think this was 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:58.960 gonna happen? No? I don't know anybody could expected Nikelsario 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.800 to make many deals. He's the contract negotiator as he 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.880 was in New England. He is wisely signing guys for 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.760 one or two year deals. He is now. One thing 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.639 surprised me. I thought he would work hard to get 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.200 as many compensatory picks in two thousand and twenty two 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.000 as possible, But he's signed a lot of players who 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.720 will fit into the compensatory formula, depending on if they 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.880 make the team out they play what the contract is. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.120 And I like the way he's gone about it. John. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.560 He's not blowing money on a player that might be 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.520 used up by the time they're good again. I at 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:44.360 a station in Carolina called me and seeing man they'll 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.239 trade Christian McCaffrey. I's so, wait a minute, why would 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.040 it Texans one McCaffrey. He catches as he runs. He's 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.560 gonna get beaten up for a couple of years. And 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.440 this is a rebuild. It is. Nobody likes to use 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.359 the R word, but that's what it is. Be honest 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.919 about it. You can tell by the moves that Nick 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.639 Assario is making that he considers this a rebuild. He's 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.920 at it, He's added depth, He's at a competition some 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.760 of these guys may start. He's really helped special teams 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.760 that are already good, and not just with Andre Roberts, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.640 a premium returning guy, but with guys who can cover kicks, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.960 and that was a strength anyway. I was really surprised 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.840 when he cut Brian Anger, because I think Anger has 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:34.720 been tremendous in his two seasons here, but he signed 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.920 so many players. I can't keep up with all of them. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.160 And I thought at one point, John, I think I 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.720 said the sixteen I expected by the time the fifty 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.119 three man roster was set the first week of September, 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:55.000 more than fifty percent of the roster would be transformed. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.640 And ordinarily it's about forty percent, and now I'm thinking 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.000 it could be sixty to sixty five percent of it 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.240 because there's more a free agency. There's the second wave 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.960 and the third wave when here's the minimum taking or 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.120 don't play. So be Causario is going to sign more 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.760 right now. He has eight draft choices. You know, based 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.520 on the way they operated in New England, he's operating 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.160 on that the same way here. Give guys you think 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.119 you get for good value, and that's what they've done. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.359 So man, you talk about not telling the players without 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.960 a program, Texans ought to be able to sell a 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.000 lot of programs next season to keep up with all 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.839 these new players on the roster. Yeah, no doubt. And 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.240 the two that obviously in general we have not the 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.760 Texans have not announced this, but it's out there. It's 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.480 been you know, we give it the According to sources 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.120 notification if you will, because it hasn't you know, physicals 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.800 have to be passed, etc. But the two moves to 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.320 that actually happened. I think it happened on the same 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.599 day and it started before the legal tampering period, and 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.080 that those are the two trades. General wa go there, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:15.000 Shack Lawson, I think being traded for Bernardrick McKinney. I 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:16.640 don't want to say, you know, stroke a genius or 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.920 anything like that, but I didn't think that Bernardrick was 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.120 coming back for this team in twenty twenty one. I 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.080 was surprised not only that they got something for Bernardrick McKinney, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.279 but they actually got a player, a young player with 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.680 still some upside at a key position like four three 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.839 defensive and that sets the edge against the running can 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.599 rush the quarterback. What'd you think and what'd you make 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.760 of the deal for Bernardrick McKinney to get shock lost 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.719 and in return Bernardrick did not fit love He's just 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.840 four three defense mental linebackers, got a drop and cup 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.400 you can do that. Looks like they're not going to 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.839 resign to Roll Adams right now. I think Christen Kirks 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.880 and maybe Whitney merciless. If he had the pencil and 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.760 starters right now with Cunningham, that would be it. With 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:12.320 I'm guest seeing Lawson many who hall in Blacklock as 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.440 a starting alignment assuming Blacklock steps up in the four 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.520 to three. I remember late last season when we were 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.000 talking to Romeo Cornell about Blacklock, who had a very 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:29.080 disappointing roots season. He mentioned some one time about the system. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.599 Kind of well, I think what he meant doesn't fit 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.520 what he does best. It's what they played, it's what 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.880 fit the others. So now in a system where you 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.000 get off the ball and get up the field, and 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.919 the fact he's going into a second season when a 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.800 lot of rookies make big, big improvement, I think it 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.000 could be ideal for him. And Lawson was more suited 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.080 for a four three defensive end on the week side 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.520 than he was playing outside linebacker at Miami and dropping 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.080 sometimes he's almost two hundred and seventy pounds, it's hard 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.080 to run and cover. And when you're two hundred and 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.800 seventy pounds, So getting bernardric and I thought, I didn't 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.280 know if they would cut him or if they'd redo 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.040 his contract, but it would have been a tough fit. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.400 The only way they could have kept him is it 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.360 say they want to move Cunning him to the weekside 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.920 outside linebacker where you got to run and cover and 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.240 leave Benardrick in the middle. And we all know his 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.320 strength was against the run. And one thing I've heard 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.280 about Shack Lawson, he plays a run hard and we 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.400 all know that run defense needs to improve after being 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.720 the worst Enfranchise history and the worst in the NFL, 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.680 which is one reason they're changing as much as they are, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.680 because on defense, the only got one way to go. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.560 So I like that trade a lot, and only time 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.480 will tell if it's a good one. After the season, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.560 Shack Lawson added at defensive end Vincent Taylor, MALIEK Collins 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.640 added at defensive tackle. John. I still don't think that's 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.600 enough on the defensive line. I think in the draft 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.520 they'll definitely look to potentially add even more size in 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.600 the middle to help against that run. I still think 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.800 losing DJ Reader is a killer. From two years ago 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.000 or from twenty nineteen, the other trade that was made John, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.120 this one becomes really really interesting to me. First of all, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.160 I was a huge Marcus Cannon fan when he was 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.000 coming out of TCU. I love the guy. He has 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.800 traded four The deal is I think a swap of 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 fourth and fifth round picks and then a six round pick. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.920 I don't know. The key thing is Marcus Cannon's coming 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.760 to Houston to be part of this offensive line. He 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.720 opted out of twenty twenty. He's a cancer survivor. He's 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.480 thirty three years old, but he had a full year 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.720 of not taking eight hundred to nine hundred car crashes 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:57.680 throughout an entire calendar year. Now there's Larry Tunsil, there's 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.679 Titus Howard. Cannon played right tackle where Howard is right now. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.160 The Texans do have a need inside at guard. After 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:10.680 signing Justin Britton, then releasing Zach Fulton, all that goes together, John, 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.120 how would you say the Texans are going to configure 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:20.480 that line for twenty twenty one? Ncessario was there. He 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.400 was a personel director when he was drafted, and he 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.000 beat cancer early in his career. He's a lucky had 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.840 to teach you in two thousand eleven, but he's been 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.040 a right tackle. I looked it up. He played guard once, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.840 did not play well. They moved into right tackle. Now, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.160 at this stage of his career. Maybe he could slide 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.400 back inside and it would be an easier transition. But 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.760 as you mentioned, John having that season off and they 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.840 say he's worked like crazy and he's a big guy. Yeah, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.640 he's six six and I don't know what Nobody has 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.920 any idea what he weighs right now, and except to 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.760 Texans will when he passes the physical. But just adding 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.360 the competition the offensive line is good. They've got some 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:08.560 big guys. You know, there's I think if you look 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.200 at some of the guys on this team, they do 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.880 have some talent. Offensive tackles are one. Zach Cunningham's another one. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.800 I'm not sure what they think about Max Sharping, who 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.720 was impressive, is rookie and not play well last season. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.040 They're banking on Justin Britt coming back from a knee injury. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.400 But they've got to have more depth in the line. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.920 You're to my defensive line. They're not through. I mean 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.040 there's a lot of free agents still out there. Nicko 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.640 Sarrio is going to sign more and then he's going 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.560 to draft him. It's almost like, you know, get the 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.640 free agents, get more free agents. You don't have to 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.360 pay much for these guys. Agents are smart. You're most 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.439 guys are not going to break the bank with a 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.439 salary cap has fallen as much as it has. Best 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.320 to try to do it next year when it goes 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.600 back up really over the next two years. So I 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.280 think Cannon was a really good Addison didn't cause him 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.199 a player, and I'm eager to see what can Sario's doing. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.839 I'm really confident that he can be the architect of 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.640 this rebuild. It's not gonna happen one off season. It's 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.480 not gonna happen in two off seasons. But it's sure interesting. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.160 There's a revolving door over there, and it is spending 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.440 so fast you better not get in the butt when 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.000 you go through it. I remember when the Seahawks John 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.120 won the Super Bowl, and every year NFL Network does 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.640 America's Game recapping, basically an hour documentary talking about that team, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.600 and for some teams they go back a little bit 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.160 in history to kind of tell the story of that team, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.320 they need to go back a few years. And when 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.880 Pete Carroll got there in twenty ten to Seattle with 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.080 John Schneider at that point as Jim, they set the 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.360 record for the most transactions in a particular year, and 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.760 essentially what they were doing was churning the bottom of 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.800 the roster, essentially trying to find the right mix of 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.240 guys that we're gonna end up making that roster. And 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.320 then that churn sort of stopped once they found the 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.600 right mix, added Russell Wilson to it, then win super bowls. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.040 And I always think about that team in particular out 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.120 in Seattle that had all those transactions. Look, well, all 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.400 these transactions lead to a super Bowl in twenty twenty 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.960 one for the Texans. Boll. I love it, but I 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.920 don't think that's it is the goal. But I don't 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.199 know that that's where this is going to lead at 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.240 least this year. Down the road, could it? Sure? But 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.160 you need a few drafts, you need a few other pieces, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.280 and obviously, when the salary cap does go up, hopefully 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.679 you'll be in good salary cap position to be able 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.360 to make some moves when that does come to fruition. John, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.920 you mentioned Andre Roberts. He's one of the signings you have. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.720 Malie Collins, he was another defensive tackle that was added 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.600 to the mix. Is there a signing or two, John, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.360 to you in your opinion that sort of stood out 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.480 to you like, WHOA. I kind of like what they're 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.320 doing with these decisions right here, with those signings other 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:02.360 free agents that they've signed through today. Um, who is 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:08.400 the guy that started for Washington last year? Oh, linebacker? 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:14.160 And yeah he started. I could see him competing for 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:20.800 a starting job. Terrence Brooks the safety if Malie Collins 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.800 played the way he did in his best chears with 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:27.040 the Cowboys. Yes, they're taking chances on guys. And because 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.320 Sario knows they're not all gonna make it, he and 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.720 the personnel people know. I'm guessing if half of them 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.960 made the team, that would be good because it hasn't 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.200 cost them too much money, and it's worth the risk 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.120 of signing so many guys because you need so many help, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.480 so much help, especially on defense. And so something I'm 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:54.280 curious about, you know, if they thought, now I'm not 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.400 talking about the legal issues with Watson, but if they 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.199 thought there was a chance Watson would be back here 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.920 as a player and they weren't going to trade him. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.600 They get rid of Will Fuller, Darren Fells his joe 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.920 to receiver in the red zone, and Nick Martin is 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.760 good fred who is his center. So that's three guys 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:18.240 Watson was close to and so all of them have 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.320 to be replaced in one way or another. So the 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.200 tight ends and I know they made that trade, you know, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.640 And this is the way it was with Gary Kesbiak, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.320 and people complained he's bringing in too many guys from Denver. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.000 Natie going to complain because Sario's bringing in too many 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.040 guys from New England. But we got to give him 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:41.320 a chance. But the player that we've been fascinated about 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.720 for two years flashed just a little last year. Well 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.040 this could help Holly Wearing get more opportunities because they 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.400 brought back Farrell Brown, who I thought in the role 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.760 he played doing different things. He was a terriftic addition, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.480 and everybody thinks Bill and made nothing but bad moves, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.040 And he did make some bad moves, but he made 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.200 some good ones as well. And I like Farrell Brown, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.320 and everybody loves Jordan Nakeds. Last year, when the trading 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.920 deadline came, they had more people calling about Jordan Nakeds 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.600 than any player on the team. Wisely Jack easter Be, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.960 who was interimgm he didn't make that deal. He kept 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.360 Jordan Nakeds and I think that's gonna pay off and 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.440 he's gonna get more opportunities, but right now they have 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.080 for maybe they'll cut Wearing. We don't know what Casario 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.560 thought about him when he was available in the draft, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.480 and Casario scattered him thoroughly. Maybe he liked him a lot. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.040 But that's one of the of the tight ends. That's 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.840 the one I'm most intrigued by. And I say that 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.720 he might get cut tomorrow. But there have been so 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.920 many free agents that he's signed. I can't keep I 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.280 can't keep track of him. In fact, one was just signed. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.240 And John, if you asked me that same question to 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.280 ask you, hey, what's the signs would you be would 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.840 you be happiest with? I think it's the one. Yeah, 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.920 the Desimond King signing. I mean from a standpoint of 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.840 when you look around the league now and you just 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.280 look around football, I mean, colleges just come out and 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.680 say it. They're running a stack three three five, they're 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.520 playing five dbs. NFL teams won't really say it, but 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.760 they're playing a nickel seventy to seventy five percent at 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.720 a time. You better have a nickel that can cover 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.240 on the inside. And Desmond King strikes me as somebody 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.800 that has done it before. Oh and by the way, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.640 he's one heck of a return guy too, if you 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.120 need him to be. And they've got I think two 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.400 or three guys that they've brought in, Andre Roberts being 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.920 one that could be a return guy. John I kind 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.400 of like the Desimond King signing a lot actually to 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:49.640 come in and help this secondary. He is still just 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.800 twenty six, I think. And when he was with the Chargers, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.200 people are really excited about it. He looked good. And 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.480 then last Jerry ended up I think Tennessee tennant. He 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.800 was in in a seat. But any corner they get 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.000 is good. Terrence Mitchell, I don't care who else it is. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.280 They got to get some talent there. They got Bradley Roby, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.640 and they got Kean Crossing and Cornbell Armstrong and Ronon 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:18.000 Hargraves and now Dasmond King and about three or four 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.640 other guys they've signed. So there's gonna be a lot 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.919 of competition. And when they make their first peak in 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:30.119 the third round, and it's gonna be a position that 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.800 they need, they're gonna say they both take the best athlete. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.600 They're gonna take the best athlete and a need position 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.480 and I've thought now for a while it would be 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.600 a pass rusher, whether it was an outside guy or 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.200 somebody who could penetrate up the middle or cornerback, because 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.119 they have such a need at both those positions. And 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.600 think about the competition right now with all these new 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:59.400 guys and safety just as safety, Justin Reid, Lonnie Johnson, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.280 Rig Murray, A. J. Moore, Terence Brooks, and I'm sure 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:09.159 there's more. And so I can't wait for the offseason program. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.159 Hopefully there will be an off season program, but it 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.720 looks like we will have preseason games. I have hated 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:20.200 preseason games forever, especially when I started there were six 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:24.240 of them. But now without preseason games last year and 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:29.760 such a roster turnover engineered by Nick Serio that David 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.320 Culley and his coaches have to make sure they know 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.760 how to utilize these guys. I'm pumped about camp. I'm 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:41.200 pumped about preseason to see how they are. And they'll 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.199 still have two fourth round picks. They won't have the 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.960 one they got from Arizona that went to New England 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.400 and to Marcus Cannondale, but they'll have New England's if 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.680 somebody they got a four from somebody new England didn't 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:58.040 give them theirs because it's hiring Arizonas. But so I'm 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.120 guessing it'll be on defense. I don't think. I still 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.040 think they're gonna sign another direct. You know they're gonna 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.000 add receivers. You can get receivers cheap. This is there's 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.680 so much depth and receiver and free agency in a 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.600 draft you don't need to be spending money on them. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.679 And that's why Will Fuller had to take a one 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.639 year dale and why guys like Kenny Galla Day and 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.960 jesusmand Schuster thought they were going to clean up and 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:27.240 they're not that receiver market. That first day when no receiver, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.879 no big name receiver, after Godwin and Robinson were franchised 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.720 by the respective teams, I felt like, man, okay, we'll 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.880 see what man, this opens things up. Teams are really 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:39.280 going to come out to these receivers, and there was 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.439 nobody signed. I think for the first two days. John, 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.679 I thought, oh boy, these receivers are about to get 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.200 a root awakening for the market they think is out there, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.439 but really is it? And also, like you said, adding 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.360 on to that, this group of rookie wide receivers that's 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.760 common is as good as it was last year. So 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.000 you know what, as they say, bring on the cheap 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.679 labor as a post too. I gotta pay ten million 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.320 dollars for a guy that I'm not totally sure. I mean, 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.520 Miami just went with a one year deal with a 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.920 guy we watched for five years, not even play sixteen 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.600 games in a year. So you know, Miami's given up 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.280 eight figures a year to be able to do that. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.760 But that ninety billion dollars contract must have been a 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.440 site to see for those those guys. All those guys 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.280 that signed one year deals are going, oh yeah, I'm 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:25.480 gonna get paid. I'm gonna get paid next offseason. General, 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.000 what did you think was the most I don't know 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:29.119 if you've got a chance to look at all that 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.080 that TV deal stuff, but was there anything that stood 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.119 out to you most about the TV deal that was like, WHOA, 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.639 I didn't see that happening. Uh No, we knew about Amazon, 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.840 we knew about the Thursday Night package, what was being considered. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:48.920 And I think that that's why everybody wants to know 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:53.239 in an NFL franchise, because even though they lost, they 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.359 didn't lose money last year, but they took a bath 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.960 in home games for as for reasons about the pandemic. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:05.000 But they make a fortune in TV money. Now. It's 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.080 not all of a sudden that they're going to go 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.920 from two hundred ninety five million a year to five 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.520 hundred ninety five million. It will be stair steps the 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:16.080 way it always is. But man, to have that, to 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.680 know as an NFL owner that you have that kind 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:24.240 of network security for another eleven years, that's great. And 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.240 if you're going to buy an NFL team, say can 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.359 say the McNair family all of a sudden wanted to 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.720 sell people line up because they know from that contract, man, 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.320 we're going to get this money over the next eleven years. 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.480 So I can give you three billion dollars. That just 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.880 made the value of the franchises go up even more. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.280 And the next owner, whoever it is, that sells. My goodness, 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.800 we thought that, Dave Tepper and Caroline. I think whether 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.760 you pay two point three something like that, sex wouldn't 0:21:55.800 --> 0:22:00.200 be three billion, It would be amazing, unbelievable. General, thank 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.600 you so very much. I know you got fighting Baylor 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.720 Bears basketball on your mind coming up very very soon. 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:08.320 What you got going on in the Chronicle this week. 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.879 We've got columns, we've got podcasts, we've got stories, a 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:17.840 lot of Texans of cores, rockets, astros in sea and 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.880 since you brought it up, I'll tell you this sick them. 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.119 There you go, John, Thank you very much. There is 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.120 John McClain, the Hall of Famer coming up next. It's 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.119 our Hall of Famer, my boss, the Voice of the Texans, 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.760 Mark Vanomer joins us. We'll talk about that TV deal 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.080 as well. 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