Speaker 1: Welcome and everybody to a Friday edition of Texans All
Speaker 1: Acts as an eventful day here on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: Who and No, we will not on this show look
Speaker 1: back at the horror of football at Energy Stadium on
Speaker 1: Friday thirteenth. We will not do that. That's not going
Speaker 1: to happen tonight. We're talking about good things tonight. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football and a Side one reporter,
Speaker 1: joined by the man who wanted to do the horror
Speaker 1: on Friday the thirteenth, Mark vander me the Voice of
Speaker 1: the Texans. But we think it was going to be
Speaker 1: a long show. Listen, I said, you know, we could
Speaker 1: do like the most horrifying moments. Oh no, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. I'm in a good mood.
Speaker 1: I'm fired up. The schedule came out last night, Rookie camp. Right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do the most horrifying moments. We
Speaker 1: talk about that sometimes. Actually we talk about that a
Speaker 1: lot anyway, because they come up in conversation when we're
Speaker 1: talking about some of these opponents. Right, But we're not
Speaker 1: going to do that tonight. Good We are going to
Speaker 1: talk about schedule because we got off the air at
Speaker 1: sixty five ish and the schedule went live at seven,
Speaker 1: so we have yet to opine on that, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna done the next segment. And then Drew Doherty had
Speaker 1: a chance catchup love you Smith to talk specifically about
Speaker 1: the schedule that we will have in the final segment.
Speaker 1: But Mark and I had an opportunity today after the
Speaker 1: first day of rookie mini camp or orientation if that's
Speaker 1: what you want to call it, with the headball coach himself,
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith. We had a good time talking to coach
Speaker 1: and we wanted to know the vibe of today with
Speaker 1: the rookies. Coach, thanks a lot for joining us fresh
Speaker 1: off rookie camp Day one. What is the most important
Speaker 1: thing or some of the more important things to accomplish
Speaker 1: during rookie Camp Number one is just to get it
Speaker 1: started and before we can start evaluating guys and see
Speaker 1: who's going to play for us and all that, just
Speaker 1: teaching them, you know, the Houston, Texan way of how
Speaker 1: we do things. I really did have to, you know,
Speaker 1: point guys in the direction of the practice field starting
Speaker 1: off with that and things like, you know, as you're
Speaker 1: coming in here, being on time. You know, our team
Speaker 1: goals and how they're going to integrate in with the
Speaker 1: rest of our veterans. But today it was about us
Speaker 1: getting on the football field, getting a look at them
Speaker 1: physically a little bit. And the first step is for us,
Speaker 1: it's just to see get a baseline of where they are,
Speaker 1: so we have testing to see exactly where they are.
Speaker 1: So from there we start teaching them, you know, drills,
Speaker 1: you know, and in meetings like right now they're getting
Speaker 1: ready to go back into meetings the rest of the night,
Speaker 1: just trying to cast them up with what we do offensively, defensively.
Speaker 1: Specialty coach. One of the hardest things when you have
Speaker 1: a group of young players or people that are new
Speaker 1: to a situation is understanding when they don't know, and
Speaker 1: they'll give you that look like you know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: Yeah I know, but you know they don't know. As
Speaker 1: you go through this process with them, how do you
Speaker 1: kind of overcome that where you look at a kid
Speaker 1: you could tell, Okay, he's not gay, he's telling me
Speaker 1: he is, but he really isn't getting how do you
Speaker 1: kind of reinforce those lessons of what that player you
Speaker 1: want to see that player end up with this weekend, well,
Speaker 1: starting off, it's exactly what you said. We know that
Speaker 1: he doesn't, though, so we're gonna initially start teaching them
Speaker 1: that way, starting back from the basics and day one,
Speaker 1: first day, you know, the genesis of everything that we do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start that way and just assume that they
Speaker 1: don't and because none do. The smartest guys when you
Speaker 1: come in a totally different you know, totally different systems
Speaker 1: from what you've done, terminology, just so many things going on.
Speaker 1: That's why you know, for me, I keep making reference
Speaker 1: to this being a rookie orientation because because camp wise
Speaker 1: is saying that you're just out there competing hard and
Speaker 1: doing all that, that is not the case. We got
Speaker 1: to get them up to the starting line first before
Speaker 1: we can go from there. Well, I notice on the
Speaker 1: roster no quarterback in camp, So how do you do
Speaker 1: some of these drills? I know you have a lot
Speaker 1: of former quarterbacks on the staff all over the place, really, coach,
Speaker 1: so take us through some of that when you have
Speaker 1: to throw the ball during this time. Well, us, I
Speaker 1: mean you kind of answered the question a little bit there.
Speaker 1: First off, as we look at our roster, we have
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks are in our program right now, right, so
Speaker 1: to bring another one in just to make a whole
Speaker 1: lot of sense and to be able to go through
Speaker 1: drills and the limited amount of stuff that we're doing
Speaker 1: this camp. We do have some old quarterbacks, probably about four.
Speaker 1: We have four former quarterbacks. And if you know any
Speaker 1: anything about coaches, they never think that they can't throw
Speaker 1: the football. They think that they played their last game yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's how we handled it and it works pretty good.
Speaker 1: Could you have gone through Rooky mini camps over the years.
Speaker 1: Has there been any significant change from when you started
Speaker 1: doing it to where it is now? Is it just
Speaker 1: the same sort of thing as you talked about. It's
Speaker 1: more about just getting oriented, oriented to the building, to
Speaker 1: the people, to the coaches, etc. That's the part that
Speaker 1: I think has changed a little bit. There was a
Speaker 1: time when many camp was that we would bring in
Speaker 1: you know whatever enough to have two teams and that's
Speaker 1: all you did out there, and by the time those
Speaker 1: guys made it to the veterans Monday, they were all
Speaker 1: beat up in all of that pull muscles and all
Speaker 1: those things. So I think we try to handle it
Speaker 1: a little bit a little bit wiser with what we
Speaker 1: do now, and there is time, and what allows them
Speaker 1: to catch up the quickest is not that out there.
Speaker 1: It's more in the classroom and those things like that.
Speaker 1: You have an idea with most of the guys on
Speaker 1: how they're going to fit in in our program this year,
Speaker 1: So that's what we try to get a COMPLI how
Speaker 1: hard is it for a tryout player to make it
Speaker 1: in this particular kind of situation? Coach, you mentioned that
Speaker 1: you've had trialut players before who have flourished, But it's
Speaker 1: got to be difficult out there right now because you
Speaker 1: are somewhat limited in what you can do. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: we had there's different segments to practice though. We had
Speaker 1: some you know, test going on here and then we
Speaker 1: had more of a mini camp practice of here with
Speaker 1: some of our tried players, video and all of it.
Speaker 1: So we we got a chance to see what you
Speaker 1: would normally see in a workout you go out on
Speaker 1: a college workout, just think about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: We put some of the guys through something similar to that,
Speaker 1: and we feel like we'll get a good enough look
Speaker 1: to be able to tell coach, how wasn't going out
Speaker 1: on the road. I know you and I had talked
Speaker 1: when we were at A and M together, how was
Speaker 1: it going on the road And I talked about it
Speaker 1: afterwards that I just got the sense that no matter
Speaker 1: what was going on and football was involved, it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: You were just excited to be there and to take
Speaker 1: it all in. Was that kind of the feeling you
Speaker 1: had as you went to different schools and checked out
Speaker 1: and talk to these different prospects. Absolutely, And if you
Speaker 1: just go on campus you find out so much. And
Speaker 1: I have been doing it a while and just but
Speaker 1: every place I go there's someone I know for a
Speaker 1: little will that can give me the real scoop. And
Speaker 1: of course that was you know, former guys at A
Speaker 1: and M that I recruited back when I was in college. Course,
Speaker 1: just to have a relationship with so that as much
Speaker 1: as that's a part of the process as much as anything,
Speaker 1: just trying to get as much information as you possibly can.
Speaker 1: You know, what they do on the football field. You
Speaker 1: kind of see that you have video and awful lot.
Speaker 1: It's the other things that were that we're kind of
Speaker 1: looking for a little bit and we're able to do
Speaker 1: that every time you step on a campus. Coach. Here
Speaker 1: we are in rookie camp But what can you tell
Speaker 1: us about what you're seeing from your veterans right now
Speaker 1: this time of year, I know you're spending some time
Speaker 1: on the field getting to see them, and what can
Speaker 1: you do with the new CBA because things are a
Speaker 1: little bit different. We had COVID two years ago. Last
Speaker 1: year we're coming out of it. What can you do
Speaker 1: out there? How is it different? Well, a lot more,
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of basing it on last year. Last year,
Speaker 1: you know, we had COVID, there were so many restrictions
Speaker 1: on what we could do and we really didn't get
Speaker 1: that much work done in the off season. This year
Speaker 1: has been a complete opposite since I think about April eleventh.
Speaker 1: Was at April of March, it seemed like ever all
Speaker 1: right when we started, we've been able to do so
Speaker 1: much more. So we're farther along for sure this year.
Speaker 1: And for the most part this week, I think we
Speaker 1: had every one in the building sometime this week, and
Speaker 1: for voluntary workouts that in itself voluntary workouts, and everyone
Speaker 1: is showing up, and we haven't had everybody there every
Speaker 1: day throughout, but for the most part, we've had everybody there.
Speaker 1: And every day you come into building just letting our
Speaker 1: coaches coach you up. So we're a lot further ahead
Speaker 1: this veteran group that we have, and that should be
Speaker 1: the case. Coach, you talked about having rookie meetings last night,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure I am a thousand percent positive you
Speaker 1: were waiting with bated breath to see what the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two schedule was going to be. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: I know, you know I'm job joking in that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you had other things to do, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: you took a look at at some point just to
Speaker 1: get a gauge of it. But I know we've been
Speaker 1: breaking it down. What do you think when the schedule
Speaker 1: came out, you look at it, go Okay, good done,
Speaker 1: let's go back to work. No, now exactly how you
Speaker 1: presented it to start off, as exactly how it'd happened.
Speaker 1: We had rookies in. It was a welcome meeting last
Speaker 1: night for the rookies. But yeah, I was excited about
Speaker 1: the schedule. Yeah, we wanted to see and to me,
Speaker 1: as a coach, you always talk about all right, it's
Speaker 1: just that next game, all right, And I know what
Speaker 1: kind of fans we have here, you know, I know
Speaker 1: about the traveling Texans, and when looking at the first
Speaker 1: road game going to Denver and of course just getting
Speaker 1: out here to NRG Stadium. So I was anxious to
Speaker 1: see and for us to have an opportunity to have
Speaker 1: to start at home with a division opponent. Think it
Speaker 1: any better than that? And what's the team? All right?
Speaker 1: If you need some more motivation, you know, getting ready
Speaker 1: and for the fall and the first game, I mean
Speaker 1: we have it. They dominated us last year, dominated us,
Speaker 1: you know, talked about us on the on the Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks Show and everything else, So that should motivate us
Speaker 1: a little bit along those lines. Would you ever want
Speaker 1: to do Hard Knocks? Uh? Not necessary. I think you
Speaker 1: probably know me well enough. Thank war. You keep things inside,
Speaker 1: but it's good TV. In your press conference, you talked about, Hey,
Speaker 1: if this was two thousand and four, I might something.
Speaker 1: I might say something different about the rookies than I'm
Speaker 1: saying right now. The evolution of being a coach and
Speaker 1: what you learn along the way. I know that's a
Speaker 1: wide open conversation, but you must be seeing so many
Speaker 1: things throughout the course of this spring even that you
Speaker 1: might have adjusted as time goes on. I think the
Speaker 1: safe to say that things have changed and you have
Speaker 1: to change too, and I feel like I have. But
Speaker 1: everything is just kind of out there. We're talking about
Speaker 1: hard knocks, but everything there's very seldom is there anything
Speaker 1: seemed like things stay within as much as they do.
Speaker 1: Social media has just changed everything also, so you have
Speaker 1: to just a little bit. So those things have changed,
Speaker 1: but the core of what football has always been has
Speaker 1: not changed hardly in at all. And just dealing with players,
Speaker 1: I don't think has changed. And what they want. They
Speaker 1: want you to teach him and show them and they'll
Speaker 1: do whatever you ask them to do if they feel
Speaker 1: like you can help them that way, and that's what
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. I keep talking about our staff.
Speaker 1: We have an excellent football staff here and for you
Speaker 1: to continue this life of being an NFL player, and
Speaker 1: we have people in this building that can help you
Speaker 1: do it. Guys, buy into that. That was It was
Speaker 1: that way when I first got into the league, and
Speaker 1: it's nothing has changed. Last time Coach you and I
Speaker 1: were together, I forgot to offer you congratulations. Miles had
Speaker 1: had a baby, you became a grandpa one and which
Speaker 1: way we were going, well, congratulations on a looted for levels.
Speaker 1: But you became a grandfather. You mentioned it in your
Speaker 1: press conference that that that changed you at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: how does that? How's that? How's that been so far?
Speaker 1: Being uh grandpa love you? Well, it's been great. And
Speaker 1: uh this is this was number nine? Oh wow, this
Speaker 1: was number nine and uh but number nine is just
Speaker 1: as a special as number one. But that is great
Speaker 1: and of course in Miles and carras Uh's sake, their
Speaker 1: first child, it's pretty special. And the only grandchild that
Speaker 1: we have here in Houston with us, so is Neat
Speaker 1: a part of my routine every Saturday morning as I
Speaker 1: drive out just to kind of watch her a little bit.
Speaker 1: Good grandpather Man, you're a good grandpa. All right, Every
Speaker 1: grandfather has got I know you don't have to share this.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, every grandfather is not called grandpa
Speaker 1: or grandma. I like, sha, I'll share it too. Of
Speaker 1: what am I called you? What are you called? I'm
Speaker 1: a papa And I never thought, you know, papa seems
Speaker 1: older too, you know you have grandpa Granddad is kind
Speaker 1: of younger. Yeah, I think when that's what I think, Papa,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a guy with nine and number ten
Speaker 1: is also on the way. So but I papa to them,
Speaker 1: you know, my father in laws papa though my life,
Speaker 1: my wife's dad, Papa. I like it. I was gonna
Speaker 1: think pop that Pop was the one. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: that's one more for you. And this is very important.
Speaker 1: Based on the music that was playing on the practice field, coach, uh,
Speaker 1: four Tops or the Temptations? Which way are you going? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean most people would say the Temptations, and that's easy,
Speaker 1: I mean more but the four Tops, it's pretty hard
Speaker 1: to be the four Times. But I would throw in
Speaker 1: the spinners, Luke Van. I could go on and on
Speaker 1: with so many different I almost think you're different errors though.
Speaker 1: It's like the quarterbacks different eras the spinners are a
Speaker 1: little bit later. The rules are different. They were. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing though, And I say that about rap music.
Speaker 1: I like rap music also, but most of our players
Speaker 1: when music starts, if you see one of us, they
Speaker 1: know the song they've heard. Yeah, maybe it's a parent
Speaker 1: you know, or maybe a grandparent that's listened to an
Speaker 1: awful lot. But it makes you feel good. It's kind
Speaker 1: of simple as that. And and on the practice on
Speaker 1: the football field, I mean, we're feeling good. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're blessed to be in this position. And it just
Speaker 1: kind of kicks starts at the line I always said,
Speaker 1: if you're in a bad mood, earth wind and fire
Speaker 1: will always put you in a good mood. It never fails. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: My neighbors would probably say something, I get up early
Speaker 1: in the morning and music in the house. You know
Speaker 1: it's turned on early. Nice, Okay, we're gonna sit outside
Speaker 1: listen in. Yes, all right, coach likes let Mark. We
Speaker 1: could have talked to him for I don't know how
Speaker 1: long on music, on anything that wasn't football. We gotta
Speaker 1: talk to him about any number of things. And I
Speaker 1: know you wanted to go another fifteen minutes on music,
Speaker 1: you know I did. And look, you know he went
Speaker 1: the Spinners and the Stylistics and all these great seventies
Speaker 1: soul bands, which I think are different. I know, the
Speaker 1: Motown label lived into the seventies successfully, maybe beyond that
Speaker 1: into the eighties, of course, but you know Motown. You
Speaker 1: think of the sixties stuff, right, that is the heyday
Speaker 1: of it. And I really believe that. And I know
Speaker 1: Jackson five and everything came later, but I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to compare the eras in music. I just
Speaker 1: do classic rock to the nineties rock to whatever you
Speaker 1: have out there today, to soul, to R and B
Speaker 1: to disco. Did I say that disco? Yeah? Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some disco that's Borderline's soul. Yeah, portal, Yeah, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: no doubt. I'm all right with that. Yeah, and that's cool.
Speaker 1: We could talk to him for a while. Maybe we will. Well,
Speaker 1: that was a great catching up with Lovey, and we'll
Speaker 1: hear him with Drew talking specifically about the schedule later.
Speaker 1: But speaking of talking about the schedule, Mark and I
Speaker 1: have not had a chance to share our thoughts about
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two schedule. We will do that next
Speaker 1: right here in Texans All Access Ero, Texans All Access Ero,
Speaker 1: Texans lock tg if Yes, thank god it's Friday. We're
Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access celebrating, I guess, is the
Speaker 1: right way. The rookie Minicamp kicking off today. I didn't
Speaker 1: see a lot. Got got a chance to see them
Speaker 1: warm up and run around a little bit, but didn't
Speaker 1: see a whole lot of it. But guys look good
Speaker 1: on the hoof. It's okay, it's cool. We saw it,
Speaker 1: but we'll be able to see them hopefully when they
Speaker 1: start OTAs with the Vets, I got a new segment,
Speaker 1: Harris hits on the hoof. Oh all right, okay, give
Speaker 1: me a guy. All right, let's go with Petrie. He's
Speaker 1: I re interviewed him at the at the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, police harder I thought, because I
Speaker 1: thought watching him on film, he's five nine, five ten,
Speaker 1: but he's a legit five eleven almost six feet. He
Speaker 1: was almost staring me right in the eye. He's put
Speaker 1: together a lot better than I the next but he
Speaker 1: was standing next distingly and they looked about the same height.
Speaker 1: I know, Derek is six and a half sixty one.
Speaker 1: You feel like he's got a bigger presence than Tyrn Matthew. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Matthews. I should use a different word, Matthew.
Speaker 1: Different present is one of like six to five his
Speaker 1: presence it was. Yeah, we were talking about that yesterday,
Speaker 1: about how our buddy Tyler Suttarth was pulling down pregame speeches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that man all five eight, five nine, got no fear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just every single play, it didn't matter who it was,
Speaker 1: was hanging on every word. I should use a different
Speaker 1: word than presence. That's a really bad mistake up mine again.
Speaker 1: I get your point. Yeah, just a frame, just bigger
Speaker 1: overall in the hoof. Yes, Okay, so the two drafted
Speaker 1: offensive linemen because there are others here. But when you
Speaker 1: look at Green and Deculous, my impression was, these are
Speaker 1: large individuals, the size of vending machines that can move.
Speaker 1: I've seen Kenyan Green many times. I mean I've seen
Speaker 1: him many times. I mean somethi is pro day and
Speaker 1: maybe it was just seeing him a little bit in
Speaker 1: in the distance, like dang, he looks well put together.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him put the pads on
Speaker 1: and see him bang on the inside. But Austin Deculous
Speaker 1: two wearing seventy six, which of course takes a second
Speaker 1: to kind of readjust the eyes, the yea of a
Speaker 1: guy that we knew that for a long time of um.
Speaker 1: But Deculus has got the long locks and he is big.
Speaker 1: I hope they give him shot of tackle and I
Speaker 1: think it's where a start. But I think he may
Speaker 1: transition in the guard. But you know, I mean Nick
Speaker 1: talked about it at the golf tournament. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't want you don't want to get away with the expectations.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are rookies. They haven't even been
Speaker 1: on campus yet, so I don't want to. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: that perspective, that's kind of what we do. I mean,
Speaker 1: we talk about that stuff. So, um, he's well put together.
Speaker 1: He he moves better probably than I give him credit for.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's gonna be well enough to
Speaker 1: play tackle. But that's okay. If he can move in
Speaker 1: the guard, I'd be okay with that. He's a big dude.
Speaker 1: I mean on the hoof, he is impressed. He is
Speaker 1: and is impressive. Sometimes we make too big a deal
Speaker 1: out of what they did in college. But four year
Speaker 1: starter for that program. That says something, you played a
Speaker 1: lot of football, you hung in there in a tough league.
Speaker 1: They had success. So that is impressive to me. Okay, Metchi,
Speaker 1: what I noticed right away is no knee brace. Yes, now,
Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't doing the full workout that other players were doing,
Speaker 1: and we don't know. I when Love he was doing
Speaker 1: his press conference and the question of Metchi came up,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I gotta do the math on this.
Speaker 1: So that was December. If they're sixth that he got
Speaker 1: hurt in that game against Georgia. So that's January, February, March,
Speaker 1: April May. We're just beyond five months. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: a torn ACL, and I know, I know players are
Speaker 1: getting back, but we're still talking probably, you know, another
Speaker 1: couple of months to be really sure that he can
Speaker 1: go out and run and do all those kind of things.
Speaker 1: But we saw him kind of striding them out a
Speaker 1: little bit, and you're right, he didn't have a brace on.
Speaker 1: He was moving along. We've gone gotten so far with
Speaker 1: technology that once the surgery has taken place, there was
Speaker 1: no other damage, which from Metchi, I don't think there was.
Speaker 1: I think it was just a it was a torn ACL.
Speaker 1: There was not a PCL or MCL like Burrow. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow had torn ACL, but then he had the MCL
Speaker 1: and the PCL. I think that we're also hurt. So
Speaker 1: I think from METSI was just just it was the
Speaker 1: ACL and only the ACL, and so I think the
Speaker 1: return from that, I would say it's easier, but it's
Speaker 1: different and I think it can be expediated a little bit,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. But right not having the knee brace
Speaker 1: on now, once they get into full contact stuff, and
Speaker 1: they got pads on. Maybe he'll put one on. Maybe
Speaker 1: not might be a good idea. I think so too.
Speaker 1: You play in four months, that's when the season opens,
Speaker 1: and look, he's a rookie. So it's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just put him in Brandon Cooks, you put him
Speaker 1: right in there. This is a little different. I just
Speaker 1: don't want it to be a lost season for Metchi.
Speaker 1: I want Metchi to be able to play. And if
Speaker 1: it takes a little longer to get him in there, fine,
Speaker 1: if it's a half season, great, I'll take it right now.
Speaker 1: I just don't want it to be a lost season,
Speaker 1: a redshirt year for him. Now. I'm only bringing this
Speaker 1: name up because I remember what happened as a rookie.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing. And really as receivers, there's no
Speaker 1: comparison between the two. But you remember in twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: ob J he missed the first seven weeks of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he makes that catch against Dallas and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he turns into this. And I guarantee,
Speaker 1: if you ask people about that rookie year, they would say, oh,
Speaker 1: you had one hundred catches, you had this is that like, no,
Speaker 1: he missed almost half the year, but that big but
Speaker 1: they yeah, but you remember that catch and you remember
Speaker 1: what he did that year and he set it off,
Speaker 1: and so you know, look last year, Brevin Jordan on
Speaker 1: a different on a different level, Brevin Jordan got what
Speaker 1: active in week nine when we played the Rams. Whenever
Speaker 1: we played the Rams, Brevin got active. He missed the
Speaker 1: first six or seven games being inactive. He's finally active,
Speaker 1: I think in week eight or nine it was against
Speaker 1: the Rams and started and he started to do some things.
Speaker 1: And then after the year you're really excited. So you're
Speaker 1: right in that you don't want it to be a
Speaker 1: lost season. But let's say it happens that he's not
Speaker 1: ready for week one, even week eight, week nine, you're
Speaker 1: still talking about half the season still left to play.
Speaker 1: And week eight or nine on the schedule is gonna
Speaker 1: be what on into late October early November. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you still have half the season. If you get to
Speaker 1: you get to late November, mid to late November, you
Speaker 1: still have a lot of season to play. The way,
Speaker 1: so I don't think you're gonna have a lost season
Speaker 1: with him, as long as obviously the rehab continues along
Speaker 1: and you don't want to rush it. There's no sense
Speaker 1: to rush it. There's no sense. There's no sense for
Speaker 1: the team to rush it, and there's no sense for
Speaker 1: him to rush it. Other years, other players, you're like,
Speaker 1: like Clowney coming back in twenty fifteen, that wasn't so
Speaker 1: much rushing him back. But he wanted Clowney to get
Speaker 1: back on the field, you know, you wanted if it
Speaker 1: was an immediate see to getting him back on the field,
Speaker 1: and he worked his tail off to get back on
Speaker 1: the field in twenty fifteen. This is not that situation,
Speaker 1: not at all. I don't think so. Metchi's just gotta
Speaker 1: just get because he again another guy that looks good
Speaker 1: in a hoof. Not a tall guy, but he's thick.
Speaker 1: I mean he's thick for I mean, he's the good
Speaker 1: solid six foot one ninety five. I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna be exactly what I think they want him to be.
Speaker 1: And whether he plays in the slot, moves outside, he
Speaker 1: starts in the backfield, there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: things he can do. Harris hits on the hoof Triple
Speaker 1: H News segment, all right, because that's basically all we
Speaker 1: saw of these guys today Stingley, well, I like it.
Speaker 1: I like his look. I like his look. It's just
Speaker 1: you look at him and go, man, we haven't had
Speaker 1: corners that look like that, bro. Like that was my
Speaker 1: first thought when I saw him. First of all, I
Speaker 1: loved the number because I wore twenty four in college.
Speaker 1: That's my number. Jjoe wore it, so you know, must
Speaker 1: respect to j Joe. And now you're seeing it stingly
Speaker 1: where and you're like, man, look he's impressive looking. I
Speaker 1: mean really is. And I mean if he if he
Speaker 1: lives up to the to the building. And I remember
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, we were struggling. We couldn't. I mean, Robie
Speaker 1: was doing okayn one side, but Conley was all right
Speaker 1: any other. But we really didn't have guys that could cover.
Speaker 1: And I remember watching you and I were talking about this.
Speaker 1: Came in with like, man, I wish I kid from
Speaker 1: else you could play for us tonight. You know, I
Speaker 1: wish we could have that guy. What is he being?
Speaker 1: What is getting drafted this year? No? No No, no, he's
Speaker 1: a refreshman. But he's he's talking play he can play,
Speaker 1: and well now he's here, he's impressive. He's an impressive
Speaker 1: looking guy. We actually were walking out last night and
Speaker 1: we just happened to be walking behind him and you
Speaker 1: see him and you're like, that's not a frail, thin individual.
Speaker 1: He's just everything you really want a corner to look like.
Speaker 1: I mean, you and I've been down on a field.
Speaker 1: We stood next to you know, Jalen Ramsey, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna tell you Stingley's Ramsey. I hope he turns
Speaker 1: into Ramsey, but just body wise, body type, that's how
Speaker 1: Ramsey's built. Man, Between Petree Ramsey, I mean Ramsey, Petrie Stingley.
Speaker 1: You look at Harrison linebacker. I don't know about Booker
Speaker 1: on the D line, but the additions on the D line.
Speaker 1: Can we go to Booker? Yeah, Booker physically basically you see.
Speaker 1: And I thought that when I watched him at Stanford two.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's put together. When you see a
Speaker 1: guy about pads On, you're like, man, he's he's built.
Speaker 1: And I say this a lot of times when people
Speaker 1: talk about defensive lineman or offensive lineman. There's some guys
Speaker 1: that will do the bod Pod tests. There's like this
Speaker 1: test that they can do, the test body fat and
Speaker 1: body comp and all that kind of stuff, And so
Speaker 1: there are a lot of There are a lot of
Speaker 1: gems around the league. Who's one in particularly? I know
Speaker 1: for sure that you fail that bod pod tests, like
Speaker 1: they're not even gonna look at you. And by fail it,
Speaker 1: I mean they just don't you don't have the the
Speaker 1: elite bodpod numbers. If you don't have it, you're out.
Speaker 1: I think Thomas Booker would have elite botpod numbers. Like
Speaker 1: he's thick legs but not you would look at him
Speaker 1: and think you're three hundred pounds, Like you think he's thick,
Speaker 1: but you're like, he's three hunder pounds. He's three hundred
Speaker 1: pounds because it's it's proportional all throw's body. So he's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. I'm really curious how they plan on using
Speaker 1: him this year and again as a rookie. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot we talked about defensive line. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of death, a lot of different directions you can go. Yes.
Speaker 1: I mean with the three guys they've added with Rashieme Green,
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, and Jerry Hughes coach three added to Jenkins
Speaker 1: and Grenard. I keep forgetting about Green, Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: Green can go outside outside. Then you got Roy Ross
Speaker 1: and Malik on the inside. For right now, you got
Speaker 1: Michael dwump four on the inside. Um, I've heard Derek
Speaker 1: Rivers on the I mean you've got a lot of
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of bodies on the D line.
Speaker 1: So where does Booker fit in? And obviously it's a
Speaker 1: draft pick, so he's gonna get a long look, and
Speaker 1: they were impressive. He's impressive, dude. I'm just curious how
Speaker 1: they plan on using him in this particular season. And
Speaker 1: so he can get his feet wet so they could
Speaker 1: see what they have with him, and that's a position.
Speaker 1: I feel like they've definitely stocked the They've stocked the
Speaker 1: cupboard with some with a lot of D line bodies
Speaker 1: and so hopefully they can find a good six to
Speaker 1: seven that you can rely on. I mean, they'd like
Speaker 1: to get up to eight, but don't want to get greedy.
Speaker 1: But you can get six to seven guys that you
Speaker 1: can rely on in a rotation throughout the year. Because
Speaker 1: that's and I want to say, that's the way we
Speaker 1: do Obviously, it's the way the Texas do it. It's
Speaker 1: the way a lot of teams are doing the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills do that. You know, a lot of teams playing
Speaker 1: for three they're doing that. I mean, there's no team
Speaker 1: that lets their defensive alignment out there for eighty to
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the plays in the game. They
Speaker 1: just don't. It's just not what they're doing. That's not
Speaker 1: what they're doing anymore. Things I'm rooting for or to
Speaker 1: not happen. With the tryout guys, boy, I can't say
Speaker 1: this about him because you know he's a guy trying
Speaker 1: to make the team. But Eric Dickerson is a long
Speaker 1: snapper from Arizona State. If we have a long snapper,
Speaker 1: and it would break my heart if somebody replaced weeks
Speaker 1: and if his name was Eric Dickerson, that just sounds weird.
Speaker 1: If I have to say Eric Dickerson with the long snap,
Speaker 1: it just sounds weird. Johnny, He's reinvented his career pushing
Speaker 1: sixty as a long snapper. It does sound weird in
Speaker 1: some sense. But of the try out of the try
Speaker 1: out guys, if I remember correctly, they're two long snappers
Speaker 1: and two kickers. Yes, so there are four guys in
Speaker 1: that group of the eight or nine that they ended
Speaker 1: up bringing for tryouts, and I know people who are
Speaker 1: trying like, what's that try what's that all about? You're
Speaker 1: essentially trying out. You're doing in some cases a full
Speaker 1: practice workout, in some cases you're doing a different modified workout,
Speaker 1: so the scouts can take good evaluation on you. And
Speaker 1: then there's also well, how many of these tryout guys
Speaker 1: were gonna sign? Do you sign any? I remember Corey
Speaker 1: Moore was a tryout player. Chris Thompson that very next year,
Speaker 1: Oh it was a tryout player who ended up making
Speaker 1: making special teams and then got a lot of reps
Speaker 1: of receiver against Tennessee in twenty seventeen. So there have
Speaker 1: been there have been players over the years that have
Speaker 1: come through that tryout process and ended up getting an
Speaker 1: opportunity going to camp, fighting their way on the special
Speaker 1: teams and then finding the way in defense. But Corey
Speaker 1: Moore started either because the year he got a with
Speaker 1: fifteen it so like sixteen seventeen, he was starting at
Speaker 1: certain points. So I love he mentioned a player today
Speaker 1: that he didn't say the name, the tryout guy that
Speaker 1: ended up starting for him. Nick as Sarrio told us
Speaker 1: about Malcolm Butler. Yeah, it happens. Trial players sometimes make
Speaker 1: it so we'll see. All right, so we'll see that's
Speaker 1: Ricky Camp. We'll talk more about it next week when
Speaker 1: it's in the books. What about the schedule, Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the schedule a little bit. I know you
Speaker 1: and I had a chance to look at this. We
Speaker 1: in fact stayed in here afterwards to take a look
Speaker 1: and go through. Yeah. First thing that stud I mean,
Speaker 1: the first thing we always look for on a schedule.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the first thing alec for is prime
Speaker 1: time games. Yeah, and I knew there was a possibility
Speaker 1: that we weren't getting many, but I saw a Thursday
Speaker 1: Night and I kept thinking in my mind, if we
Speaker 1: have a primetime game, it's gonna be Thursday night. A.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's at home. Be hopefully it's not a Vision game.
Speaker 1: Every the Thursday night games, we've played a lot of
Speaker 1: them in the division, most of them the Colts I
Speaker 1: can think of. Um, I think it's been all the
Speaker 1: Colts I can think of. But we had the one
Speaker 1: sits next Thursday Night in twenty thirteen. I want to
Speaker 1: forget about that. Yeah, that's boy, that's ads. Colts fourteen,
Speaker 1: Colts fifteen Colts nineteen, Colts nineteen, so yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of times when the Colts. So when I saw
Speaker 1: it was the Eagles, I was like, oh cool, all right,
Speaker 1: a little different. I mean, you're playing NFC, so you
Speaker 1: only see them a four years, but then you're seeing
Speaker 1: them on Thursday night, so seeing the prime time game.
Speaker 1: And then the second one is the bye week, and
Speaker 1: I went, dang it, it's week six. I would have
Speaker 1: liked it a little bit early. It's a little early,
Speaker 1: but you know what, we've had a lot of luck
Speaker 1: with the bye week saw of course in the last
Speaker 1: many years, unfortunately not able to capitalize the way you'd
Speaker 1: want to. But you'll take it and you just have
Speaker 1: to deal with this. Yeah, and that's why I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get greedy with that. It's week six.
Speaker 1: You'll get the bye week before the or after preseason.
Speaker 1: Then you'll play five weeks, you see kind of where
Speaker 1: you are, and then you get to the bye week,
Speaker 1: and then you'll have at that point twelve straight and
Speaker 1: you just gotta go. Now. You'll have the mini buy
Speaker 1: a few weeks after that, but then you're playing every
Speaker 1: single Sunday. Oh you do play Saturday Christmas Eve against
Speaker 1: the Titans at Tennessee. But those are the first two
Speaker 1: things that stood out from that standpoint. Mark after that,
Speaker 1: what stood out to you? Well, the opener because you
Speaker 1: and I guessed it right. That was very cool to
Speaker 1: pick Indie that the team would open against at home,
Speaker 1: and I picked Chicago week three. I got that right.
Speaker 1: That's amazing that you've got the week three tret So
Speaker 1: we each picked the first five, and we each picked
Speaker 1: the same second game too, but we're both wrong at
Speaker 1: the Giants, which will actually happen in November. How about
Speaker 1: the New York Post leaking the Giants schedule yesterday. That's
Speaker 1: so funny. But all right, so the opener I noticed
Speaker 1: right away primetime. Yes, I go to the holidays always.
Speaker 1: The Christmas Eve date at Tennessee. Okay, great, fine cold
Speaker 1: weather games. You really don't have it other than that
Speaker 1: Tennessee tilt possibly, and you have Chicago and November, which
Speaker 1: could be if you But it's not going to be
Speaker 1: a problem. I'm sorry. What was I think? Oh, the
Speaker 1: Giants I was tak in New York in November could
Speaker 1: be an issue, but it shouldn't be too much of
Speaker 1: a problem. So weather will not be an issue for
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans this year in all likelihood. Now as
Speaker 1: I say that, watch its snow in Denver and September
Speaker 1: or Chicago whatever. But I thought, look, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Being on the road in weeks two and
Speaker 1: three feels like a lot, but you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have back to back road at some point the schedule.
Speaker 1: I like ripping off the band aid of the colds.
Speaker 1: I've always liked that. I'd kind of rather open with
Speaker 1: them up there, but I'll take this. And I like
Speaker 1: hitting the Bears pretty early in Denver, pretty early because
Speaker 1: they might not have their act together yet. You know,
Speaker 1: they have new head coaches, just like the Texans do.
Speaker 1: I know, But I think the Texans have a little
Speaker 1: bit of an edge because the staff has been here
Speaker 1: a lot of the staff. Pap, even though he wasn't OC,
Speaker 1: he was here with Davis Lovey defensive coordinator. He was here.
Speaker 1: They're used to love. There's enough of a system and
Speaker 1: a program, as different call it in place. Frank was
Speaker 1: here where yeah, you do have a new coach, but
Speaker 1: he was here, so you feel like there's some continuity
Speaker 1: from last year, not that last year was a smashing success.
Speaker 1: But I think continuity helps, and the new players you
Speaker 1: can assimilate them in a little bit easier. So I
Speaker 1: like going on the road to play those teams. I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure how the Russell Wilson thing is gonna
Speaker 1: work out in Denver. We'll see, obviously, but I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna sit here. I like our chances at Denver, but
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have just underestimated the potential.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say the total performance eventually of this team,
Speaker 1: but the potential that this team has in twenty twenty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. After the bye week, you talk about weather.
Speaker 1: October not to Jacksonville could be steamy, but I can
Speaker 1: live with steamy. That I can live with hot. Just
Speaker 1: the ring gets to be the problem. But after the
Speaker 1: bye week, the road games at Las Vegas inside Giants
Speaker 1: November could be dicey. At Miami in November, I'll take it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: At Dallas inside, at Tennessee and Christmas Eve can go
Speaker 1: either way. We've been there late in the year, we
Speaker 1: can go either way. And then at Indianapolis and don't inside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there going all right, I I kind
Speaker 1: of like it. After four games and torrential downpours last year,
Speaker 1: the fingers across that maybe we won't have four of
Speaker 1: the six games that are outside. But getting Ver in
Speaker 1: week two again. To your point, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's you know, you know, something to completely cheer about.
Speaker 1: But the Broncos will be a different team in Week
Speaker 1: fourteen than they will be in Week two. Yeah, everybody'll be.
Speaker 1: And you know we had to run the second game
Speaker 1: as a head coach. Oh yeah, that's the thing about
Speaker 1: Denver with Russell Wilson. You have a first time head coach.
Speaker 1: Whatever you think Chicago's gonna do, you have a first
Speaker 1: time head coach. I'm not saying it can't go well,
Speaker 1: but we've seen what happens, and I've said it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I was on this show or we
Speaker 1: were on Live on TV or whatever when I pointed
Speaker 1: out man. Obviously Doug Peterson. We've talked about him when
Speaker 1: he was hired. This is an experienced guy with a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring. He knows what he's doing. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure that Jags it's gonna work out for them.
Speaker 1: Just great, but I don't like that higher from a
Speaker 1: Texans perspective one bit, and let's look down the line here, Johnny,
Speaker 1: when I when I appear at this schedule old division
Speaker 1: games and the season, three consecutive games in the division
Speaker 1: on the way out for the first time since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, they beat the Colts, the Titans, and
Speaker 1: the Jags on the way out to win the AFC
Speaker 1: Souts for the first time in three years. If they
Speaker 1: do that again this year, they will have won the
Speaker 1: AFC South for the first time in three years. Chills.
Speaker 1: Look this, I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but it
Speaker 1: could happen. Weirder things have happened, and it's great that
Speaker 1: you have those divisional games on the docket where you
Speaker 1: can directly affect your opponent's fate as they don't have
Speaker 1: too big elite, no doubt. Well, a guy who we
Speaker 1: talked to you earlier, talked to Drew Doherty about the
Speaker 1: schedule specifically. That's Lovey Smith. That's coming up next the
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. We got one final segment of this
Speaker 1: edition of Texas All Access, the TGIF edition of Texans
Speaker 1: All Access. My baby girl Ellie right next to me,
Speaker 1: loves her some lovey Smith. As I tweeted out earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, I love me some Lovey Smith, and
Speaker 1: so does Drew Dorty. Drew Dorty had a chance to
Speaker 1: catch you up. We love you to talk specifically about
Speaker 1: the schedule last night. Take a listen, well, coach, you
Speaker 1: were excited coming in about the schedule. You get to
Speaker 1: see it. What was your initial reaction when it all
Speaker 1: was in front of you, I could say, just a
Speaker 1: lot of excitement been waiting, you know, an anticipation for
Speaker 1: this day. One of the most exciting days to me,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of in sports a little bit, and
Speaker 1: for us on this season. You know, we knew the Ponas,
Speaker 1: but now to know exactly why when we play them,
Speaker 1: I'm pumped. Of course, the guys will be pumped. Two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right off the bat, you get the Colts Week one here.
Speaker 1: That's happened a lot of times in this franchise's history.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a fun one to see. That's a
Speaker 1: good challenge right off the bat, isn't it. Yes? You
Speaker 1: know right now, Drew. Of course we have all season
Speaker 1: workouts going on and you're prepping for the season. But
Speaker 1: once you know who the first opponent is everything we're
Speaker 1: going to do is about starting fast. And it's one
Speaker 1: thing to get your opponent, but for it to be
Speaker 1: a division team, to a division rival that dominated us
Speaker 1: last year. So that should keep us motivated of course
Speaker 1: throughout and that's what it's about. It really for us
Speaker 1: as we start building our program, about eventually taking back
Speaker 1: control of the AFC South. So what a better way
Speaker 1: to start the off the season. Yeah, it's interesting you
Speaker 1: say that about taking control of the AFC South because
Speaker 1: you finish with a trio of each of the three
Speaker 1: opponents at the end of the season. How much do
Speaker 1: you like that aspect of the schedule this year if
Speaker 1: you draw it up, if I had control of drawing
Speaker 1: it up, you want to start off, I mean with
Speaker 1: a division opponent and then the end once the season
Speaker 1: plays out, when you're playing for it all, you want
Speaker 1: to play against the teams in your division. So it
Speaker 1: plays out well, you know I us, you know two
Speaker 1: of them of course will be on the road, but
Speaker 1: we like that part two. Then there's just so much
Speaker 1: more in So I talked about, you know, the opening
Speaker 1: game and you know for our fans too, you know, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams, they're pumped up. But our four phase the fans,
Speaker 1: you know, for them to get a taste of their team,
Speaker 1: to see exactly what we are. In order for us
Speaker 1: to complete this overhaul of our program to get back
Speaker 1: and take control of the division, we can't do it
Speaker 1: with our fans at four phase. So I know they're
Speaker 1: going to be excited and pumped up for that opening
Speaker 1: game and we're gonna show up to no doubt. And
Speaker 1: then in December you bring up the fans. You're wearing
Speaker 1: a battle red shirt. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: battle read up when you play the Cowboys. As a
Speaker 1: Texan coaching the Texans, how big is that game for you?
Speaker 1: And it's big. There are rival games that you have,
Speaker 1: you know in our division of course, but when you
Speaker 1: when you have the two games, you know, the two
Speaker 1: professional teams in the state and in the state that
Speaker 1: prides itself one knowing about football, great high school football here,
Speaker 1: great college football. It's for the professional teams to meet
Speaker 1: up that way. You know, I grew up in East Texas.
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of Cowboys games, So that'll be
Speaker 1: a special game for us. And you look at our history.
Speaker 1: I mean starting off right now. I haven't been down
Speaker 1: here for a while, Drew, but we opened up. We
Speaker 1: started off against them right, our first game, first big
Speaker 1: win against them. No, that's a big game for us,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to get to it. You played
Speaker 1: five games and then you have a buy kind of early.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? To me? Any whenever
Speaker 1: it comes, it comes, you know you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: buy sometimes throughout we knew, of course there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game throughout, so whenever you know, we
Speaker 1: played three preseason games five, so about eight games in
Speaker 1: two you kind of want to reprieve a little bit,
Speaker 1: so we'll take it that way. You had some great
Speaker 1: years in Chicago. You're gonna see them early on in
Speaker 1: the season. What do you think that might be like.
Speaker 1: I know it's different asking you may versus what it'll
Speaker 1: actually be like when you arrive there in October, But
Speaker 1: what do you think that's going to be like? Especial?
Speaker 1: You know, when you spend that much time in a place,
Speaker 1: I mean, Chicago gave me, in my first opportunity to
Speaker 1: be a head football coach in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: a lot of great memories, great friends. I mean, we
Speaker 1: still have a place, you know there in Chicago s
Speaker 1: it'd always be a part of our home, so there'll
Speaker 1: be a special game force. And I also like Drew
Speaker 1: playing it in September, you know, as opposed to November.
Speaker 1: I can do it out that cold a little bit.
Speaker 1: But and then just talking about road games before we
Speaker 1: go on the road there in the first game going
Speaker 1: to Denver, I know our traveling Texans are pretty excited,
Speaker 1: led by Pamela Irby. I know they're going to show
Speaker 1: up in numbers and we're gonna need them starting with
Speaker 1: that Denver game. Going out there the schedule, will you
Speaker 1: get a chance to go to so many traditional stadiums
Speaker 1: and professional teams that we play in rder for us
Speaker 1: to complete this overhaul of our program, we need to
Speaker 1: be able to travel well on the road. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: you know it doesn't hurt this season that you're going
Speaker 1: to so many cities that are just fun destinations for
Speaker 1: not just traveling Texans before anybody now true, and that's
Speaker 1: the beauty about a you know, a seventeen games season,
Speaker 1: and of course we have nine on the road this
Speaker 1: year and some of the places I think I've played
Speaker 1: in just about every stadium around except for the new
Speaker 1: ones Las Vegas of course being won. So but you
Speaker 1: can make a case there's some type of special backstory
Speaker 1: for everybody we play this coming season, no doubt. How
Speaker 1: important is it to play really, really well on primetime
Speaker 1: here in the home stadium. It's the one primetime game
Speaker 1: the Texans happen. Yeah, and I understand that eventually we
Speaker 1: want a lot of primetime games and arder for that
Speaker 1: to happen, we need to show up. So we need
Speaker 1: to start off fasts. You know, as I said earlier,
Speaker 1: we need to travel on the road. But when we know,
Speaker 1: we know what, we're gonna have a national audience then
Speaker 1: and by then we hope we're playing our best football also,
Speaker 1: and so that game would be important. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna play at thirties a game, of course you
Speaker 1: want to play at home purst and then where you
Speaker 1: don't have to travel at least, so we'll be ready
Speaker 1: for that too. Well, coach, best of luck in between
Speaker 1: now and the start of the season. Take care, Thank you, Drew.
Speaker 1: There is lovey Smith, A little bit with us, a
Speaker 1: little bit with Drew, and a lot for all of you.
Speaker 1: Are Texas fans really appreciate it. Hey, looking forward to
Speaker 1: Texans Care Volunteer Day tomorrow. That's gonna be very cool.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see Texans and Texas players, Texas cheerleaders all
Speaker 1: over the city helping out the city, doing great things
Speaker 1: for the city. So great thing going on tomorrow, Texas
Speaker 1: Care Volunteer Day right here in Houston. The big thanks
Speaker 1: to Lovey Smith, to Mark van Emir, Drew Doherty, to
Speaker 1: my man j P back in studio. It's all you
Speaker 1: listen and appreciate you guys. Thank you so much. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time and as always, go Texans.