WEBVTT - Rookie Minicamp + 2022 Schedule | Texans All Access 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.400 Welcome and everybody to a Friday edition of Texans All 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:07.640 Acts as an eventful day here on Friday the thirteenth. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.559 Who and No, we will not on this show look 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.919 back at the horror of football at Energy Stadium on 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.640 Friday thirteenth. We will not do that. That's not going 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.880 to happen tonight. We're talking about good things tonight. I'm 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.960 your host, John Harris Football and a Side one reporter, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:28.360 joined by the man who wanted to do the horror 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.000 on Friday the thirteenth, Mark vander me the Voice of 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:32.640 the Texans. But we think it was going to be 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.200 a long show. Listen, I said, you know, we could 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.000 do like the most horrifying moments. Oh no, but I 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.960 don't want to do that. I'm in a good mood. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.159 I'm fired up. The schedule came out last night, Rookie camp. Right, 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.360 I don't want to do the most horrifying moments. We 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.120 talk about that sometimes. Actually we talk about that a 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.400 lot anyway, because they come up in conversation when we're 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.880 talking about some of these opponents. Right, But we're not 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.279 going to do that tonight. Good We are going to 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.880 talk about schedule because we got off the air at 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.160 sixty five ish and the schedule went live at seven, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.960 so we have yet to opine on that, so we're 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.760 gonna done the next segment. And then Drew Doherty had 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.960 a chance catchup love you Smith to talk specifically about 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.520 the schedule that we will have in the final segment. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.640 But Mark and I had an opportunity today after the 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:22.280 first day of rookie mini camp or orientation if that's 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.240 what you want to call it, with the headball coach himself, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.880 Lovey Smith. We had a good time talking to coach 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.040 and we wanted to know the vibe of today with 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.080 the rookies. Coach, thanks a lot for joining us fresh 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.120 off rookie camp Day one. What is the most important 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.240 thing or some of the more important things to accomplish 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.520 during rookie Camp Number one is just to get it 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.640 started and before we can start evaluating guys and see 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.840 who's going to play for us and all that, just 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.880 teaching them, you know, the Houston, Texan way of how 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.440 we do things. I really did have to, you know, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.000 point guys in the direction of the practice field starting 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.600 off with that and things like, you know, as you're 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.960 coming in here, being on time. You know, our team 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.800 goals and how they're going to integrate in with the 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.600 rest of our veterans. But today it was about us 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.919 getting on the football field, getting a look at them 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.040 physically a little bit. And the first step is for us, 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.400 it's just to see get a baseline of where they are, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.560 so we have testing to see exactly where they are. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.480 So from there we start teaching them, you know, drills, 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.400 you know, and in meetings like right now they're getting 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.040 ready to go back into meetings the rest of the night, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.720 just trying to cast them up with what we do offensively, defensively. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.680 Specialty coach. One of the hardest things when you have 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.120 a group of young players or people that are new 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.920 to a situation is understanding when they don't know, and 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.040 they'll give you that look like you know what you're doing, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.600 Yeah I know, but you know they don't know. As 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.639 you go through this process with them, how do you 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.400 kind of overcome that where you look at a kid 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.320 you could tell, Okay, he's not gay, he's telling me 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.880 he is, but he really isn't getting how do you 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.200 kind of reinforce those lessons of what that player you 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.600 want to see that player end up with this weekend, well, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.760 starting off, it's exactly what you said. We know that 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.760 he doesn't, though, so we're gonna initially start teaching them 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.440 that way, starting back from the basics and day one, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.240 first day, you know, the genesis of everything that we do. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.040 We're gonna start that way and just assume that they 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.000 don't and because none do. The smartest guys when you 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.200 come in a totally different you know, totally different systems 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.400 from what you've done, terminology, just so many things going on. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.240 That's why you know, for me, I keep making reference 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:40.120 to this being a rookie orientation because because camp wise 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.280 is saying that you're just out there competing hard and 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.640 doing all that, that is not the case. We got 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.680 to get them up to the starting line first before 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.760 we can go from there. Well, I notice on the 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.400 roster no quarterback in camp, So how do you do 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.280 some of these drills? I know you have a lot 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.640 of former quarterbacks on the staff all over the place, really, coach, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.760 so take us through some of that when you have 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.840 to throw the ball during this time. Well, us, I 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.520 mean you kind of answered the question a little bit there. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.080 First off, as we look at our roster, we have 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.640 four quarterbacks are in our program right now, right, so 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.920 to bring another one in just to make a whole 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.920 lot of sense and to be able to go through 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.080 drills and the limited amount of stuff that we're doing 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.760 this camp. We do have some old quarterbacks, probably about four. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.000 We have four former quarterbacks. And if you know any 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.000 anything about coaches, they never think that they can't throw 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.479 the football. They think that they played their last game yesterday. Yeah, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.240 but that's how we handled it and it works pretty good. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.839 Could you have gone through Rooky mini camps over the years. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.640 Has there been any significant change from when you started 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.160 doing it to where it is now? Is it just 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.240 the same sort of thing as you talked about. It's 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.440 more about just getting oriented, oriented to the building, to 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.839 the people, to the coaches, etc. That's the part that 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.720 I think has changed a little bit. There was a 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.480 time when many camp was that we would bring in 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.920 you know whatever enough to have two teams and that's 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.480 all you did out there, and by the time those 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.040 guys made it to the veterans Monday, they were all 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.640 beat up in all of that pull muscles and all 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.440 those things. So I think we try to handle it 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.120 a little bit a little bit wiser with what we 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.920 do now, and there is time, and what allows them 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.080 to catch up the quickest is not that out there. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.000 It's more in the classroom and those things like that. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.800 You have an idea with most of the guys on 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.960 how they're going to fit in in our program this year, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.440 So that's what we try to get a COMPLI how 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.760 hard is it for a tryout player to make it 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.719 in this particular kind of situation? Coach, you mentioned that 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.600 you've had trialut players before who have flourished, But it's 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.760 got to be difficult out there right now because you 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.360 are somewhat limited in what you can do. Yeah, but 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.920 we had there's different segments to practice though. We had 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.000 some you know, test going on here and then we 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.320 had more of a mini camp practice of here with 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.800 some of our tried players, video and all of it. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.240 So we we got a chance to see what you 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.039 would normally see in a workout you go out on 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.120 a college workout, just think about that a little bit. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.840 We put some of the guys through something similar to that, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.800 and we feel like we'll get a good enough look 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.040 to be able to tell coach, how wasn't going out 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.400 on the road. I know you and I had talked 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.880 when we were at A and M together, how was 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.039 it going on the road And I talked about it 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.680 afterwards that I just got the sense that no matter 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.360 what was going on and football was involved, it didn't matter. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.520 You were just excited to be there and to take 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.000 it all in. Was that kind of the feeling you 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.120 had as you went to different schools and checked out 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.000 and talk to these different prospects. Absolutely, And if you 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.840 just go on campus you find out so much. And 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.320 I have been doing it a while and just but 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.320 every place I go there's someone I know for a 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.880 little will that can give me the real scoop. And 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.839 of course that was you know, former guys at A 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.919 and M that I recruited back when I was in college. Course, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.080 just to have a relationship with so that as much 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.880 as that's a part of the process as much as anything, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.200 just trying to get as much information as you possibly can. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.040 You know, what they do on the football field. You 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.680 kind of see that you have video and awful lot. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.360 It's the other things that were that we're kind of 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.200 looking for a little bit and we're able to do 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.520 that every time you step on a campus. Coach. Here 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.200 we are in rookie camp But what can you tell 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.400 us about what you're seeing from your veterans right now 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.000 this time of year, I know you're spending some time 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.760 on the field getting to see them, and what can 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.720 you do with the new CBA because things are a 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.960 little bit different. We had COVID two years ago. Last 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.880 year we're coming out of it. What can you do 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.520 out there? How is it different? Well, a lot more, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.880 And I'm kind of basing it on last year. Last year, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.160 you know, we had COVID, there were so many restrictions 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.320 on what we could do and we really didn't get 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.680 that much work done in the off season. This year 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:46.480 has been a complete opposite since I think about April eleventh. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.560 Was at April of March, it seemed like ever all 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.480 right when we started, we've been able to do so 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.840 much more. So we're farther along for sure this year. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.160 And for the most part this week, I think we 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.760 had every one in the building sometime this week, and 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.200 for voluntary workouts that in itself voluntary workouts, and everyone 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.840 is showing up, and we haven't had everybody there every 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.680 day throughout, but for the most part, we've had everybody there. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.120 And every day you come into building just letting our 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.040 coaches coach you up. So we're a lot further ahead 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.080 this veteran group that we have, and that should be 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.200 the case. Coach, you talked about having rookie meetings last night, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.760 but I'm sure I am a thousand percent positive you 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.440 were waiting with bated breath to see what the twenty 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.400 twenty two schedule was going to be. Is that correct? 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.000 I know, you know I'm job joking in that. I'm 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.240 sure you had other things to do, but I'm sure 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:39.600 you took a look at at some point just to 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.120 get a gauge of it. But I know we've been 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.320 breaking it down. What do you think when the schedule 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:44.800 came out, you look at it, go Okay, good done, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.240 let's go back to work. No, now exactly how you 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.880 presented it to start off, as exactly how it'd happened. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.480 We had rookies in. It was a welcome meeting last 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.679 night for the rookies. But yeah, I was excited about 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.120 the schedule. Yeah, we wanted to see and to me, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.959 as a coach, you always talk about all right, it's 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.480 just that next game, all right, And I know what 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.160 kind of fans we have here, you know, I know 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.800 about the traveling Texans, and when looking at the first 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.480 road game going to Denver and of course just getting 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.080 out here to NRG Stadium. So I was anxious to 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.120 see and for us to have an opportunity to have 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.400 to start at home with a division opponent. Think it 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.480 any better than that? And what's the team? All right? 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.760 If you need some more motivation, you know, getting ready 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.400 and for the fall and the first game, I mean 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:43.040 we have it. They dominated us last year, dominated us, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.520 you know, talked about us on the on the Hard 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.200 Knocks Show and everything else, So that should motivate us 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.160 a little bit along those lines. Would you ever want 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.920 to do Hard Knocks? Uh? Not necessary. I think you 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.280 probably know me well enough. Thank war. You keep things inside, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.600 but it's good TV. In your press conference, you talked about, Hey, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.320 if this was two thousand and four, I might something. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.760 I might say something different about the rookies than I'm 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.480 saying right now. The evolution of being a coach and 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.640 what you learn along the way. I know that's a 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.079 wide open conversation, but you must be seeing so many 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.480 things throughout the course of this spring even that you 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.319 might have adjusted as time goes on. I think the 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.480 safe to say that things have changed and you have 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.040 to change too, and I feel like I have. But 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.760 everything is just kind of out there. We're talking about 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.360 hard knocks, but everything there's very seldom is there anything 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.480 seemed like things stay within as much as they do. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.400 Social media has just changed everything also, so you have 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.959 to just a little bit. So those things have changed, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.840 but the core of what football has always been has 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.320 not changed hardly in at all. And just dealing with players, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.280 I don't think has changed. And what they want. They 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.800 want you to teach him and show them and they'll 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.720 do whatever you ask them to do if they feel 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.280 like you can help them that way, and that's what 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.520 we're trying to do. I keep talking about our staff. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.440 We have an excellent football staff here and for you 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.600 to continue this life of being an NFL player, and 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.600 we have people in this building that can help you 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.640 do it. Guys, buy into that. That was It was 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.680 that way when I first got into the league, and 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.560 it's nothing has changed. Last time Coach you and I 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:30.400 were together, I forgot to offer you congratulations. Miles had 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.800 had a baby, you became a grandpa one and which 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.560 way we were going, well, congratulations on a looted for levels. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.520 But you became a grandfather. You mentioned it in your 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.079 press conference that that that changed you at all. I mean, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.080 how does that? How's that? How's that been so far? 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.000 Being uh grandpa love you? Well, it's been great. And 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.280 uh this is this was number nine? Oh wow, this 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.240 was number nine and uh but number nine is just 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.080 as a special as number one. But that is great 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.080 and of course in Miles and carras Uh's sake, their 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.480 first child, it's pretty special. And the only grandchild that 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.040 we have here in Houston with us, so is Neat 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.679 a part of my routine every Saturday morning as I 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.800 drive out just to kind of watch her a little bit. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.800 Good grandpather Man, you're a good grandpa. All right, Every 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.960 grandfather has got I know you don't have to share this. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.720 I was gonna say, every grandfather is not called grandpa 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.439 or grandma. I like, sha, I'll share it too. Of 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.320 what am I called you? What are you called? I'm 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.120 a papa And I never thought, you know, papa seems 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.520 older too, you know you have grandpa Granddad is kind 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.560 of younger. Yeah, I think when that's what I think, Papa, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.000 that sounds like a guy with nine and number ten 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.840 is also on the way. So but I papa to them, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.000 you know, my father in laws papa though my life, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:48.959 my wife's dad, Papa. I like it. I was gonna 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.079 think pop that Pop was the one. I was thinking, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.480 that's one more for you. And this is very important. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.959 Based on the music that was playing on the practice field, coach, uh, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.559 four Tops or the Temptations? Which way are you going? Well? 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.000 I mean most people would say the Temptations, and that's easy, 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.800 I mean more but the four Tops, it's pretty hard 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.440 to be the four Times. But I would throw in 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.360 the spinners, Luke Van. I could go on and on 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.720 with so many different I almost think you're different errors though. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.480 It's like the quarterbacks different eras the spinners are a 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.400 little bit later. The rules are different. They were. And 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.600 it's amazing though, And I say that about rap music. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.080 I like rap music also, but most of our players 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.480 when music starts, if you see one of us, they 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.840 know the song they've heard. Yeah, maybe it's a parent 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.880 you know, or maybe a grandparent that's listened to an 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.640 awful lot. But it makes you feel good. It's kind 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.839 of simple as that. And and on the practice on 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.160 the football field, I mean, we're feeling good. I mean, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.040 we're blessed to be in this position. And it just 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.800 kind of kicks starts at the line I always said, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.920 if you're in a bad mood, earth wind and fire 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.840 will always put you in a good mood. It never fails. Absolutely. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.520 My neighbors would probably say something, I get up early 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.120 in the morning and music in the house. You know 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.880 it's turned on early. Nice, Okay, we're gonna sit outside 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.440 listen in. Yes, all right, coach likes let Mark. We 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.840 could have talked to him for I don't know how 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.680 long on music, on anything that wasn't football. We gotta 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.760 talk to him about any number of things. And I 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.720 know you wanted to go another fifteen minutes on music, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.080 you know I did. And look, you know he went 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.960 the Spinners and the Stylistics and all these great seventies 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.080 soul bands, which I think are different. I know, the 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.400 Motown label lived into the seventies successfully, maybe beyond that 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.600 into the eighties, of course, but you know Motown. You 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.760 think of the sixties stuff, right, that is the heyday 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.680 of it. And I really believe that. And I know 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.400 Jackson five and everything came later, but I think, you know, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.720 it's hard to compare the eras in music. I just 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.960 do classic rock to the nineties rock to whatever you 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.400 have out there today, to soul, to R and B 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:04.000 to disco. Did I say that disco? Yeah? Yeah, there's 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.720 some disco that's Borderline's soul. Yeah, portal, Yeah, absolutely, and 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.920 no doubt. I'm all right with that. Yeah, and that's cool. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.000 We could talk to him for a while. Maybe we will. Well, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.640 that was a great catching up with Lovey, and we'll 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:18.560 hear him with Drew talking specifically about the schedule later. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.440 But speaking of talking about the schedule, Mark and I 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.880 have not had a chance to share our thoughts about 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.120 the twenty twenty two schedule. We will do that next 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.440 right here in Texans All Access Ero, Texans All Access Ero, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.360 Texans lock tg if Yes, thank god it's Friday. We're 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.560 here on Texans All Access celebrating, I guess, is the 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.480 right way. The rookie Minicamp kicking off today. I didn't 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.360 see a lot. Got got a chance to see them 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.360 warm up and run around a little bit, but didn't 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.800 see a whole lot of it. But guys look good 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.760 on the hoof. It's okay, it's cool. We saw it, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.760 but we'll be able to see them hopefully when they 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.400 start OTAs with the Vets, I got a new segment, 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.160 Harris hits on the hoof. Oh all right, okay, give 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.600 me a guy. All right, let's go with Petrie. He's 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.400 I re interviewed him at the at the Senior Bowl, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.120 and I remember thinking, police harder I thought, because I 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.280 thought watching him on film, he's five nine, five ten, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.160 but he's a legit five eleven almost six feet. He 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.120 was almost staring me right in the eye. He's put 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.800 together a lot better than I the next but he 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.600 was standing next distingly and they looked about the same height. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.120 I know, Derek is six and a half sixty one. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.200 You feel like he's got a bigger presence than Tyrn Matthew. Oh, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.000 you know, Matthews. I should use a different word, Matthew. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.280 Different present is one of like six to five his 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.320 presence it was. Yeah, we were talking about that yesterday, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:44.280 about how our buddy Tyler Suttarth was pulling down pregame speeches. Yeah, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.560 and that man all five eight, five nine, got no fear. Yeah, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.760 and just every single play, it didn't matter who it was, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.200 was hanging on every word. I should use a different 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.920 word than presence. That's a really bad mistake up mine again. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.720 I get your point. Yeah, just a frame, just bigger 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.520 overall in the hoof. Yes, Okay, so the two drafted 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.960 offensive linemen because there are others here. But when you 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.800 look at Green and Deculous, my impression was, these are 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.040 large individuals, the size of vending machines that can move. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.480 I've seen Kenyan Green many times. I mean I've seen 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.520 him many times. I mean somethi is pro day and 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.879 maybe it was just seeing him a little bit in 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.600 in the distance, like dang, he looks well put together. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.959 I can't wait to see him put the pads on 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.720 and see him bang on the inside. But Austin Deculous 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.440 two wearing seventy six, which of course takes a second 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.159 to kind of readjust the eyes, the yea of a 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.200 guy that we knew that for a long time of um. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.959 But Deculus has got the long locks and he is big. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:50.080 I hope they give him shot of tackle and I 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.560 think it's where a start. But I think he may 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.160 transition in the guard. But you know, I mean Nick 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:55.760 talked about it at the golf tournament. You know, you 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.600 don't want you don't want to get away with the expectations. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.600 I mean, these guys are rookies. They haven't even been 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.639 on campus yet, so I don't want to. Yeah, in 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.480 that perspective, that's kind of what we do. I mean, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.560 we talk about that stuff. So, um, he's well put together. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.359 He he moves better probably than I give him credit for. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:13.679 But I don't think it's gonna be well enough to 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.359 play tackle. But that's okay. If he can move in 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.840 the guard, I'd be okay with that. He's a big dude. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.800 I mean on the hoof, he is impressed. He is 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.280 and is impressive. Sometimes we make too big a deal 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.760 out of what they did in college. But four year 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.879 starter for that program. That says something, you played a 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.960 lot of football, you hung in there in a tough league. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:40.639 They had success. So that is impressive to me. Okay, Metchi, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.600 what I noticed right away is no knee brace. Yes, now, 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:49.120 wasn't wasn't doing the full workout that other players were doing, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.680 and we don't know. I when Love he was doing 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.159 his press conference and the question of Metchi came up, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.440 I was like, man, I gotta do the math on this. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:02.520 So that was December. If they're sixth that he got 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.880 hurt in that game against Georgia. So that's January, February, March, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.320 April May. We're just beyond five months. Yeah, and it's 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.000 a torn ACL, and I know, I know players are 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.320 getting back, but we're still talking probably, you know, another 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.120 couple of months to be really sure that he can 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.080 go out and run and do all those kind of things. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.199 But we saw him kind of striding them out a 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.399 little bit, and you're right, he didn't have a brace on. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.600 He was moving along. We've gone gotten so far with 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.000 technology that once the surgery has taken place, there was 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.280 no other damage, which from Metchi, I don't think there was. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.080 I think it was just a it was a torn ACL. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.840 There was not a PCL or MCL like Burrow. Joe 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.240 Burrow had torn ACL, but then he had the MCL 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.960 and the PCL. I think that we're also hurt. So 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.600 I think from METSI was just just it was the 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.040 ACL and only the ACL, and so I think the 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.640 return from that, I would say it's easier, but it's 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.520 different and I think it can be expediated a little bit, 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.160