WEBVTT - Way Too Early Tuesday: Texans Division Projections + E.J. Speed 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.519 Hello Texans, and welcome to the show. As we bring 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.200 you inside the Hyunday Texans Radio studio. Mark Vandermer, John 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.120 Harris with you, and we talk Texans every night, among 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:15.480 other things, but Texans mostly NFL mostly. Sometimes some other 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.040 things come into the fray, like college football because we 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.960 also host a bowl here, the Texas Bowl every year, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.319 the Kinders Texas Bowl, and other things going out at 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.040 NRG Stadium and beyond. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.200 Johnny, how's it going tonight? Going? Well? It was fun. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.879 I jumped on with Reggie and John this morning or 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.199 this afternoon and the first question they asked me was 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.720 about tight ends. And it's so interesting because this is 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.919 a position mark in this draft that is loaded. It 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.440 doesn't have like I mean, the two guys top are 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.239 really good athletes, but it doesn't have a brock Bauers. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.480 It doesn't have a time to think who's going early, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.240 you know, like a Vernon Davis. Yeap, it doesn't. I mean, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.400 I guess Kenyan City has been compared to Vernon Davis. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.360 But yes, from that standpoint, I don't know if there's 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.120 gonna be a tough five. I've got a top ten guy, 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.440 but man, you can get a tight end, they're at 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.679 least at least two dozen tight ends I think get 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.880 drafted and it's a really good class. So I did 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.880 my breakdown updated rankings at her Football Taker for dot com, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.040 so you can check that out. But it was fun 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.800 talking about the tight ends and getting their thoughts on 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.240 it today on End the Loop. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:18.760 That was fun. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.160 So that was it. It was a whole segment on 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.080 tight ends. Really, my gosh, well. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:24.840 It wasn't just tight It wasn't just tight ends. You 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.559 know how that goes. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.200 I mean, they asked me about a few other things 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.920 and right, you know, kind of some of the It's 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:33.000 always funny because I I can figure out even if 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.679 I'm not listening to the shows, I can figure out 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.959 what guys have been talking about because they'll text me like. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.960 Hey, what do you think about this? 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.679 It's so they want to get my thoughts and then 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.200 you can kind of see, yeah, see I was right. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.080 John thinks this. I was right. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.840 So I get a lot of that, especially Reggie and John. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.640 When they asked me a question, I can tell all right, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.640 they've been debating this. I don't know which side they'll 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.520 be on, but they want to get my confirmation to 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:02.640 feel one way or the other. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:03.560 So it's always kind of fun. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.560 Because he asked me about Caleb Banks, who's the defensive 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:12.079 tackle out of Florida, who is an unbelievable player when 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.120 he's fully healthy and when he's dialed in, and this 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.320 year was not that year. He had been hurt all 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.640 year and he got hurt the combine and at the 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:21.600 Senior Bowl I saw him. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:22.560 He kind of went up and down. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.160 But he's the kind of guy that he looks like 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.880 Jalen Carter, and I mean when you see him. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.519 You're like, holy cow, like you're a real human being. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.520 You're like not AI generated, Like you're a real human being, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:36.760 Like you got to reach out and touch him to me, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.760 like you're real. But if he's fully healthy, he's a 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.680 top five player, but he just hasn't been and so 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.200 that kind of puts him down. So they asked me 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.240 if I thought the Texas would take a look at 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.040 him at number twenty eight, and I said, yeah, I 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.440 think they'll take a look at him for sure. And 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.480 so I it was funny though I could tell that 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.040 they were they had been debating whether they would do 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.320 that or not for Caleb Banks at twenty eight. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.440 Okay, This is like a pen or instapol, except you 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.440 and I are the posters or the police or whatever. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.040 The top five most AI generated athletes in Texans history. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.480 All right, ai ish oh athletes in Texans history. I'm 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.560 going to give you a few names. We'll rank him 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.320 in a moment here. But dan Neil Hunter's on this 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.520 list for sure, right, yeah, Yeah. I think Mario Williams 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:22.400 is on this list too. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.320 Johnny, Yep. Absolutely. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.480 I think Jadeveon Clowney's on this list. You're sensing a 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.519 theme here of the positions they play. I would think 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.440 Andre Johnson could be on this list too, There's no 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.680 doubt because when you're looking at two twenty five, two 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.000 thirty six, two sixty three can run a four to four, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.960 that's sick. The hands, the speed, the turning ability, all 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:48.680 of that stuff. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.360 What is that four guys? 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.560 And probably what especially what as he progressed in his career? 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.360 Is anybody left out of that five? 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.680 Well? That's the five? 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:01.880 You know. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.080 It's funny. I was actually watching earlier today. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.280 I was actually looking at a couple of guys on 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.320 Michigan's defense and you can't help and I was watching 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.720 a high State Michigan game, and you can't help but 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.200 as you're watching it, go, oh good god. Number four 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.800 for Ohio State Jeremiah Smith. And you look at it 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.480 and go, that's Andre Johnson. Like, that's Andre Johnson. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:23.159 Wow. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.880 Six three, two thirty moves the way that Andre did 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.320 from Miami, just does everything on a football field the 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.360 guy should be able to do. I mean, I see 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.880 all these different comparisons, all these different receivers. I'm like, no, no, no, no, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.599 that's Andre Johnson. So it's interesting seeing Jeremiah Smith go, well, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.839 it's gonna be another year because he's only a sophomore, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.320 so he's gonna have another year in college football where 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.159 he can dominate. But I would say those guys, I 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.080 would say, you know, from the standpoint of AI generated, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:54.720 you also. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:55.360 Think of speed. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.520 Yeah, I think Will Fuller would have to go in 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.279 that category. He's the fast this football player I've ever 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.039 seen in my life. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.040 Yeah, bar none. He was the kind of guy that. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:13.080 Fast football players couldn't catch that he ran away from. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.000 It was fascinating to watch him hit a different gear 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.760 and then just pull away from really fast football guys 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.560 like that's that was otherworldly. I mean, it was I 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.480 remember the second second year, you know, twenty sixteen. He 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.200 went through kind of ups and downs as a rookie. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.360 But I remember going to Seattle and he had that 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.719 first deep ball and he pulled away from every Seattle 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.279 defender and I just thought, this is different. Yep, this 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.880 guy's on a different level than everybody else. So from 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.920 a speed standpoint, I would absolutely put will Fuller in there. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.360 That's good. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.520 Now you're talking characteristics as opposed to just the body, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.080 but you're right as far as speed, because as far 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.440 as it looks like a glitch in the matrix, it's 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.960 a Madden Life situation. DeAndre Hopkins was also like that 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.680 in his ability to catch the football in almost impossible situations. Wait, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.720 what the one against Pittsburgh on Christmas Day in twenty seventeen. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.240 What how did that happen? 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:14.120 Or any sideline catch just pick one of dozens where nah, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.880 he didn't get oh wait a minute, he did get 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.440 both feet down. How did that happen? And Nico comes 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.360 up with a lot of those as well. And there's 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.480 a theme here. Great wide receivers without standing ability, that's 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.279 you know, bar none. Basically you look at guys like that. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.920 But Hopkins comes to mind, where oh, he's double coverage covered, 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.640 he's not gonna come down. Yes he did. He came 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.960 down with it. He came down with it anyway, he 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:36.880 had that ability. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.520 We didn't see it. We wouldn't believe it. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.000 Ah. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.680 I will never forget my first year on the sidelines. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:44.360 We were two and zho. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.440 We went to New York to take on the Giants 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.320 and we just couldn't do anything right that day. And 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.360 I remember we were down seven to oh or ten 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.640 nothing in that game, and so Hop was out by 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.600 me and Fitz. He just hauls off and throws it 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.919 and just chucks it up there. It's, you know, one 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.840 of those things where eh, Hop's down there, he'll come 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.760 down with it. And Hop has actually run past the 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.800 ball and the balls behind him, and he reaches back 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.800 and catches it with one hand. And it was weeks 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.640 before Obj did it. Yep, it didn't count. It didn't 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.680 count because Hop had to be off the line because 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.920 we were six. We had a six offensive linemen on 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.760 the field, and so he thought he should be on 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.000 the line because he saw a tackle, and so it 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.840 was negated. But that catch in the one against Miami 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.240 on their sideline that he caught between his legs that 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.520 was also taken away from him because it was interference. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.360 Yep, those are the two. Those were two I'll never forget. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.520 When they showed the replay on the video board at 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:50.679 Energy Stadium, I remember this like oo, like overcoming the crowd, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:51.560 like everybody just. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.440 Like oh, it was really weird. It wasn't like a cheer. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.160 It wasn't like this uproar. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.240 It was just kind of this when you see something cool, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.800 You're like, oh, it was like that across the board 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.080 and it was like he caught that between his legs. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.120 And I'll never forget Troy Aikman and Joe Bucker calling 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.800 that game. And I remember Troy Aikman being incredulous on 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:13.960 TV afterwards. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.360 We were sitting there going, well, yeah, we seen him 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.440 do this before. Yep, he caught it. He's freaky. He 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.520 still is ridiculous. Well, if he gets into the Hall of. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.440 Fame, and I know there's debate is he borderline, is 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:27.560 he in, is he at whatever? 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:28.800 But let's just say he gets in. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.800 On his highlight reel, they've got to show the catch 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.760 against the Giants, and they have to show the one 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.920 against Miami even though they didn't count, which is weird 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.240 that two of the greatest catches you've ever had, maybe 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.280 the greatest catches you've ever had, as far as degree 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.280 of difficulty, will not count. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:45.520 They do not count. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.920 They're not really in the history books. It's in the 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.400 official play by play. It's a penalty, Hopkins. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:52.880 Off the whatever. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:58.000 Crazy And I'm still bitter about Beckham's catch because that 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.439 was a sensational catch, but because his logo where Hopkins 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.760 did that, and had Hopkins been able to hang on 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.560 or had that been legal, had he been off the 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.400 line like he was supposed to be, well, we might 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.760 have had a different situation. As far as his career 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.280 goes and the way he's looked at now, he's looked 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.440 at as an all time great receiver, there's no doubt. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.600 But Beckham still gets so much praise for that catch, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.000 and he should get it for that catch. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.640 Yep. And he was great for a while. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.679 But he's playing in his flag football game on Saturday 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.000 with Tom Brady and those guys. He's still out there. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.720 He's trying to get another job. And I don't know, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.800 I never looked at him as an all time great 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.000 because he couldn't stay on the field long enough to. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.880 Be one, so maybe great Hop flash. Yeah, Hop has 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.640 been on the field. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.760 I mean, he's been productive for a lot of teams 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:46.800 since he left Houston. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.360 And you know it's funny with Hop. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.079 He did things in games and hear this all the time, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.079 well you should have seen the catches that guy made 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.000 in practice. Well, yeah, you should have seen the things 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.920 Hop did in practice. But then also in a game 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.880 against the best there ever was. I mean, he was 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.480 that guy, and yeah, the things he. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:08.760 Did in practice. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.920 I mean there were times where we would sit there 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.760 during OTA's and he would just be screwing around. And 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.640 I remember there was one there was one practice, I 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.679 know it was probably seventeen maybe, and he's just running 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.800 routes on the sidelines and he was going out of 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.160 bounds and the balls throwing behind him, and he caught 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.360 the back half of the ball, and it was like, 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.160 wait a second, did he just do what I thought 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.320 he did? Just caught the back half of the ball, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.640 never tucked it in, and then just flipped it to 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.120 a manager and went back in line. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:38.440 Yep. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.599 And I remember thinking that's you know, like when I 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.480 think of Ai and I think of guys you know, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.800 with great hands. That was him, like Fuller was speed, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.720 Hop was hands. The guys you mentioned, those guys were 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.320 just built from a lab. It's like you went in 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.959 and you typed in six six two ninety uh Enter, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.280 you got one, you know, Mario Williams. I mean when 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.240 you go back and you look at the combine numbers 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.520 of those guys, it's ridiculous. I mean JD was two 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.480 seventy five and ran up four to six. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:11.559 Geez. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.200 He was so wist john he was faster than Kamari 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:16.720 Lassner's forty times. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.080 I just remember him, and I've talked about this before, 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.959 on field three doing one of those I'm coming back 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.839 from an injury workouts. Yeah, and he sprints the length 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.599 of the field and just him running by himself sprinting 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.240 was a sight. Was a sight because he's so huge, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.600 he's blocking out the sun and he's flying, and you 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.720 just thought, well, that's an athlete. That's a hell of 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.480 an athlete right there. As far as the receivers go 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.520 real quick here, we know what Andre Johnson's greatest catches are. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.480 We've talked about this many times. He's a Pro Football 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.520 Hall of Famer Hopkins. We talked about degree of difficulty, 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.120 but catches that count or meant something. Now, the Pittsburgh 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.719 game Christmas didn't really mean anything because it was such 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.040 a bad season and it was the brightest spot for 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.560 the Texans in a terrible game. Otherwise, on Christmas Day 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.679 against the Steelers. Boy, these Christmas Day games, Johnny the 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.480 Ravens in twenty twenty four, the Steelers in twenty seventeen. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.960 We gotta stop doing this. Gotta play better on Christmas 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.040 Day at home. Anyway, that catch was incredible. But I 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.440 think Monday Night Football twenty fifteen for Hop that was 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.040 a hell of a catch. And maybe hopspins against the 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.439 Cowboys twenty eighteen Sunda Night Football to set up the 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.560 game winning field goal by fair Beard. I think those 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.640 two are the ones. Am I missing anything else? 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.959 No, Definitely one of my favorite moments of all time. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.200 I'll take this one with me forever because I just 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.000 happened to be in a great spot to see that 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.320 catch against the Bengals. It was right in front of me, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.200 and I just remember I can see Hop running and 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.040 he's going against pac Man Jones, and I see the 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.679 ball in the air, and I just yelled, go get it, Hop, 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.679 And one of the great things about that catch was 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.719 Hop was so good on the sidelines that he actually 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.960 had he just come down naturally. I don't think he 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.960 gets both feet in the air or in the in bounds, 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.680 but he clicked the first foot and he actually clicked 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.640 the second foot behind his first foot, and that kind 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.120 of slowed it down to where he could then tap 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.360 and he got the two feet in and I just 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.240 remember that was like. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.160 Man, I get to watch this up close and see 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.800 him do the things he did. I mean, it was 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.040 it was unbelievable. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.000 But Hopspins popped up on my I can't remember what 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.520 I was on Instagram or Twitter and videos and whatever, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.640 and Hopspins popped up and what a play that was. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.640 I mean that it kind of gets forgotten in a 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.920 sense because you know, Hop got traded and then quarterback 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:44.560 of this year. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.640 Yeah, but that play at that time against that. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.559 Team, Oh massive, incredible, massive, And last season that was 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.000 the zero to three coming back, nine game winning streak. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.120 We referenced that a lot because they just had that 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:01.440 again in twenty twenty five. So that play, yes, massive 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.240 play primetime audience, one of the great Sunday night football 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.280 games we've ever seen the Texans play, and there have 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.920 been others. Patriots, that was a good Sunda night football game, right, and. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.120 Of course the Chiefs this year. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.120 That was my favorite, I think because of everything it 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.880 meant at the time to knock them off at Arrowhead Stadium. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.200 All right, Johnny, it's way too early Tuesday, way too 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.400 early Tuesday, and we're gonna do way too early. Not 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:32.120 win predictions, but projections of some of these teams that 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.600 the Texans are facing or that they're rubbing shoulders with 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.680 of the AFC. And we'll go to NFC as well, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.360 because the Texans are playing the NFC East. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.800 You ready for this one, Let's go, all right? 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.240 So in the AFC South, let's just start home here 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.360 because this is what matters to people. Just to refresh 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.240 everyone's memory, the Jacksonville Jaguars won the division with a 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.520 thirteen to four record while the Texans were twelve and 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.800 five Indianapolis. It was so satisfying watching them go eight 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.000 and nine this campaign, and the Titans won three games, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.040 so likelihood. Let me just give you this. Never mind 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.120 who's going to win the division, just look at the Jags. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.560 I want you to zero in on the Jags without 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.560 talking about the Texans just for a moment here. Thirteen wins, yes, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.360 or no Jaguars in twenty twenty, so there'll be less 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.320 than thirteen wins. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:17.520 Now. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.960 I do think that Jacksonville is gonna end up being 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.440 maybe a more difficult team to beat this year than 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:30.240 maybe before. But they've got a deal with Yes, they'll 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.560 get Travis Hunter back and that that will help them 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.640 if he's healthy, and they've talked about, you know how 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.520 they're gonna use him going forward, and. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.000 I think that's smart. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.760 But Mark, they've lost I think some really key pieces 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.320 in Jacksonville. No more Devin Lloyd. Devin Lloyd's now with 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:52.440 the Panthers. Yep, they they lost Travis a Chan. Let's 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:53.640 make sure we say that right. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.200 So wait a minute, that's how we have to say 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.640 ETN now ah chan just like the dolphin running back. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.440 Yeah yeah, yeah, it's the exact same and written completely differently, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.400 spelled completely differently than a chan. So yeah, formerly it 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.840 was at and then it went to ETN and now 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.360 it's chack right god. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:15.880 Yeah, all because he didn't want to He didn't want 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.160 to chase. So it's eight Chan now, but we don't 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.520 have to worry about it because he's with the Saints, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:20.800 so we won't even face him this year. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.960 Nice, but I I don't think. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.960 I didn't think the Jacksonville offensive line was great last year, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.640 and I think that A Chan did a good job 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.640 with them running behind them. I think the trade for 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:40.240 Jacoby Myers was brilliant, brilliant. I mean, they needed somebody 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.600 that could catch the ball. But what is Brian Thomas junior? 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.240 Is he the number one? Parker Washington stepped up, But 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.280 I still I think they're gonna have a hard time 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.240 replacing Devin Lloyd's production. I think Vitro Miller's a really 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.240 good player, but he's not Devin Lloyd. And I feel 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:01.920 like in the secondary they'll get Travis Hunter. Act. We'll see, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.440 but I mean, I still think they've got some holes 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.200 back there, and they don't have a first round pick. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.480 But I do think they're in the second year of 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.760 Liam Cohen. They're gonna take some strides. But if they 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.119 if they get a guy hurt on defense, if they 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.280 get one of their key guys hurt, be it Josh Haines, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:23.360 Allen or foy Alukan. I think they could really really 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.720 struggle defensively. I feel like the depth isn't quite there 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.359 for them, and I think that's where they could have 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:35.520 an issue. But we're all playing the AFC North, We're 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.560 all playing the NFC East. So that being said, I mean, 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.359 I think they're gonna be really tough out for both 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.400 those divisions. So I think they're gonna, like the Texans, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.760 pick up some ground against those two divisions. But they 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.040 got to play a first place schedule, yep, so that 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.360 means they got to take on the Patriots. That means 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.560 they got to take on the Broncos. We got to 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.080 take a play schedule. We get the Chargers we beat 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.360 last year. It does mean we get the Buffalo Bills 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.280 when we get the Bills at home. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.760 Yeah, I don't think there's any advantage here in being 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.760 the second place team as far as schedule goes AFC. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.879 I mean, you mentioned it Chargers and Bills, Nikes a lot, right, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.280 it's not I mean third place. Now we're talking it's 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.639 Dolphins and well Chiefs. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:20.160 And that's not good. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.159 That's not good because they're going to be better than 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.520 six and eleven, you would think, all right, so you 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.680 did the Jacks will the Colts. I just see them 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.320 as an eight and nineteen again kind of maybe not 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.320 even who knows if Jones is not healthy? And wait, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.040 who was the player who said he was going to 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:38.880 come back on an achilles? 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.240 Real quick? Here? 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.359 It was a running back. I'm sorry, I don't have 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.679 this top of my brain, but I was surprised. But anyway, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.359 not Jones but another player. But yeah, Jones gets back. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.520 Can Jones be as good as he was early in 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.040 the season. The schedule's going to be tougher, I would think. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.600 And now you don't know what Riley l can do? 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.600 You think maybe something? I'm not sure if they're better 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.480 than eight wins your thoughts. I think they are a 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.600 complicated mess. If I'm being honest, I feel like they 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.639 have an identity offensively, and that is Jonathan Taylor is 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.240