Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program. And it's a
Speaker 1: unique show because here we are in the midst of
Speaker 1: training camp. We had Texans Training Camp live this morning,
Speaker 1: but with no practice. We were inside in the hun
Speaker 1: Day Texans Radio studio where we are right now, and
Speaker 1: it was a great show. We had the general on.
Speaker 1: We'll have some of the best of that conversation coming
Speaker 1: up soon enough. And also Shelby Coppage, our preseason TV
Speaker 1: sideline reporter, catch us up with Marlon kleinb. We played
Speaker 1: that late in the show, so I think we're going
Speaker 1: to do that again very soon here in this program.
Speaker 1: And also among other audio items you probably missed if
Speaker 1: you're just listening this time of day and you don't
Speaker 1: get to listen during the day much. In the Loop
Speaker 1: gets great guests every day on the practice field. One
Speaker 1: of them recently Kamari Lasseter cornerback extraordinaire. We'll hear that
Speaker 1: conversation as John and Reggie caught up with Kamari now
Speaker 1: wearing number three in your program, Man, a lot of
Speaker 1: number juggling, and it was going on early in camp
Speaker 1: and often and Monday, remember jadeveon Clowney signs Sunday he
Speaker 1: agreed to terms, and then we noticed number changes as
Speaker 1: players were filing out Monday morning. Logan Hall going to
Speaker 1: ninety six, did that voluntarily so Clowney could get ninety.
Speaker 1: Mario Edwards reinked, he went to ninety seven. Don't ask
Speaker 1: me who moved out of every number that was given
Speaker 1: up or moved, because I'm trying to memorize who has
Speaker 1: the numbers now. So Camari is number three. He had
Speaker 1: number four last year, but he wore three in college.
Speaker 1: Got it good? We'll have him on and I think
Speaker 1: the Clowny conversation which picked up a lot of steam
Speaker 1: this week. A lot of people heard that eight am
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. We're going to rerun that later on in
Speaker 1: the program. Why not, because it's so good. You know
Speaker 1: what else is so good? Breaking news earlier today, reports
Speaker 1: got out that Henry toa toa oh Henry Sides of
Speaker 1: contract extension heading into year four of his rookie deal.
Speaker 1: They inked him to an extension reportedly, and this is
Speaker 1: great news. In fact, Dimiko Ryans was asked about Henry's
Speaker 1: contribution to the defense yesterday and had this to say
Speaker 1: about the linebacker from Alabama.
Speaker 2: Well, Henry brings to our defense. He brings his smart
Speaker 2: calmness to our defense.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: He's always in position, always exactly where he should be,
Speaker 2: So he's you can.
Speaker 3: Count on him. You can put a lot on his play.
Speaker 2: He can handle thing. He can play the mic and
Speaker 2: the wheel position. Very versatile guy. And Henry plays with
Speaker 2: passion and fire man that rubs off on the other
Speaker 2: guys like to see him play. It's fun to watch
Speaker 2: him play. And you mix him in with a Zas
Speaker 2: and Lasseter. Got some wild and crazy guys running around
Speaker 2: who love to hit, love to play physical. But Henry
Speaker 2: is a guy that I feel I can always count on,
Speaker 2: like asking guys to probably change up techniques and put
Speaker 2: him in those situations where I may want to change
Speaker 2: some things.
Speaker 4: Henry is a guy.
Speaker 2: Who can take the coaching well and go apply it
Speaker 2: on the field and put himself in position to make
Speaker 2: plays for man.
Speaker 1: I love hearing the news about Henry to Atta and
Speaker 1: the contract extension.
Speaker 3: Great stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll be back at practice in the morning. Guy's been
Speaker 1: that practice. As the Hall of Famer John McClain half
Speaker 1: century of professional football coverage and this the twenty fifth
Speaker 1: Texans training camp and Johnny and I visited with the
Speaker 1: general and talked about a number of things, and let's
Speaker 1: start it off here with the general thoughts on CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud and the offense, and the fact that I said,
Speaker 1: I think it's going a lot better than last year's camp.
Speaker 5: Well, every year everybody says it's the best camp. You
Speaker 5: go back and you listen to your shows.
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 5: The chronicle this camp was better than the camp before,
Speaker 5: and this one, you know, you didn't have questions about
Speaker 5: Straud like they do now, and I don't think they're
Speaker 5: fair questions unless you're just basing it on the New
Speaker 5: England game. And he's been a good quarterback. He's won
Speaker 5: playoff games three years in a row. He's so much
Speaker 5: more comfortable in Kaylee's system. Kaylee's more comfortable with him
Speaker 5: than the other players because Nick knows what they are
Speaker 5: capable of and what they're not and the efficiency of
Speaker 5: getting to the line of scrimmage with plenty of time
Speaker 5: to change things that they had to it will be
Speaker 5: a smoother operation. Stroud has made some great rows. He's
Speaker 5: made some bad throws, but it's hard to make consistently
Speaker 5: good throws when you got guys like Will Anderson Junior
Speaker 5: and Danil Hunter in your face all the time. And
Speaker 5: that's a good thing for the Texans, and I guess
Speaker 5: it's a good thing for the offense because they're going
Speaker 5: to run into that during the season. But there's been
Speaker 5: a couple of rows that Stroud made yesterday when they
Speaker 5: were just pinpoint perfect, and he's got good young receivers.
Speaker 5: Of course, everybody loves seeing Tankdell out there in full pads,
Speaker 5: even though he couldn't participate in everything, but just the
Speaker 5: fact that he's out there and when he's standing next
Speaker 5: to Nico College and Jade and Higgins, he looks like
Speaker 5: one of them brought their kid to practice. But everybody
Speaker 5: loves Tank. He'll get to do more as they get
Speaker 5: closer to the season. But everywhere I go, I'm I
Speaker 5: know it's like this with you guys, and people are
Speaker 5: so pumped about the Texans. And if you think about it,
Speaker 5: you got the Texans. A lot of people think their
Speaker 5: Super Bowl contenders. Certainly got a great Super Bowl winning defense,
Speaker 5: and then Hashtros are in first place. The Rockets are
Speaker 5: really good. University of Houston's coming off the ten wins season.
Speaker 5: This is a great time for sports in Houston, and
Speaker 5: we have other winning teams too, But if you're a
Speaker 5: fan here, it's a tremendous time to be here because
Speaker 5: we know when there were times that it was just
Speaker 5: the opposite.
Speaker 4: General. You mentioned Tank and the impact he can have,
Speaker 4: and I know it's probably hard for everybody to really
Speaker 4: figure out, but they've really ramped him up slow. He
Speaker 4: didn't do much in the first week. Yesterday he did individual.
Speaker 4: Where do you kind of stand on where Tank might
Speaker 4: be and if he is healthy enough, how much do
Speaker 4: you think at this point, because we talked about it
Speaker 4: for almost two years now, you can't really know. I
Speaker 4: guess what Tank can bring to the team in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six, but boy, it's really exciting to think about
Speaker 4: what kind of your thoughts on Tank Dell as it
Speaker 4: sits right now in twenty twenty six, John, What.
Speaker 5: We do know If Tank has worked his butt off
Speaker 5: to come back from one of the worst injuries you
Speaker 5: can have, especially for a receiver whose strength is running
Speaker 5: and cutting and that's what he does best. And you
Speaker 5: know you saw his workout videos that he would put online.
Speaker 5: But you're thinking, okay, that's when you're out there by yourself.
Speaker 5: Now you see him out there running around with other people,
Speaker 5: not in on every play, and opponents are just as
Speaker 5: interested as we are. You know, they're like, okay when
Speaker 5: we play them. Is he going to be the kid
Speaker 5: before the injury? Is it going to be this season?
Speaker 5: Next season? I'm assuming when they have three receivers, it'll
Speaker 5: be the two big guys Collins and Higgins and Jalen Knowell,
Speaker 5: because Higgins and Knowell going into their second year, should
Speaker 5: be able to make their biggest improvement when Tank comes in.
Speaker 5: And I would think if he could catch thirty passes
Speaker 5: this year for four or five hundred yards and three
Speaker 5: or four touchdowns, that would be pretty darn good for
Speaker 5: a kid in which just about everybody taught his career
Speaker 5: to be over after that terrible injury in Kansas City.
Speaker 5: And I'm guessing he'll be more comfortable as the season
Speaker 5: goes on, and especially over the second half of the
Speaker 5: season when they're playing for home field advantage and trying
Speaker 5: to have the best breakerd in AFC and when in
Speaker 5: the AFC South, we'll see Tank get even better. But
Speaker 5: just having him out there that just uplifts everybody and
Speaker 5: not just the team that uplifts the fans something else.
Speaker 5: We know that Texans have great doctors, they have great
Speaker 5: read people. The McNair's give them whatever they need financially
Speaker 5: to get the best possible equipment to help them get
Speaker 5: in STAPs, stay in shape and then rehead from injury.
Speaker 5: So there's kinda is up to Tank and God and
Speaker 5: I think when he comes out on the field for
Speaker 5: the first time, so I got home Demiko in the
Speaker 5: first game against Buffalo introduces the offense and has Tank
Speaker 5: running out on the field with the offense to hear
Speaker 5: the emotion that'll come from the crowd because he is
Speaker 5: a favorite, not just because of what he did at
Speaker 5: you of age, but you know, people love the little guy.
Speaker 5: And he's five eight and one sixty five and it's
Speaker 5: going to be a tremendous success story and just maybe
Speaker 5: he'll be in the running for comeback Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: In the NFL General Week three, the Texans go play
Speaker 1: the Horseshoe and Shane Steichen has a worst record against
Speaker 1: the Texans than Jeff's Saturday Saturday O and oh because
Speaker 1: he never faced the Texans, right too, Wait did we see.
Speaker 4: Saturday that year? Yeah, he's owned one because he was
Speaker 4: the coach at the end of twenty oh he was
Speaker 4: the coach at the end of the year. Saturday is
Speaker 4: own one.
Speaker 1: He's only one, but Stike it is one in five. Yes,
Speaker 1: so there, it's worse than Jeff's Saturday. So here are
Speaker 1: the Colts with Jonathan Taylor making well, earning a forty
Speaker 1: four million dollars two year extension, and Daniel Jones getting paid.
Speaker 1: And this is what the Colts have to invest just
Speaker 1: to keep their heads above water and stay competitive in
Speaker 1: the world of professional football. But what do you think
Speaker 1: of Taylor's deal and Indy's camp so far? With Jones
Speaker 1: seemingly in good health, they say he can do everything
Speaker 1: he normally could, which is just bizarre considering he had
Speaker 1: an achilles injury fairly late.
Speaker 5: Taylor is a great running back. Nobody knows that more
Speaker 5: than the Texans and people who watch the Texans, and
Speaker 5: anything he gets is good for him. He's earned it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: They were eight and two. I believe when Jones got
Speaker 5: hurt eight and one, they started. Will they be able
Speaker 5: to do that again? You know, if you taught earlier
Speaker 5: in the year man the Texans, they're going to battle
Speaker 5: the Titans for last place. They're zero and three. The
Speaker 5: wheels have come off of Demico Ryans's team and then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden they made that dramatic turnaround and
Speaker 5: became one of the best teams in the NFL, and
Speaker 5: the Colts faded at the end. I think the ASC
Speaker 5: South is going to be terrific. He got thirteen and
Speaker 5: twelve win teams coming back. You got the Colts with
Speaker 5: a quarterback who helped them start six games about five
Speaker 5: hundred and I'm guessing the Titans will be better, but
Speaker 5: they'll still be a distant last. But it's going to
Speaker 5: be fun. It's going to be competitive, and it's never
Speaker 5: fun going up against the Colts. But you know, Texans
Speaker 5: don't have any problem playing there. They have problems playing
Speaker 5: some places, but not in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you, did the Jats get screwed
Speaker 1: in the prime time scheduling this year in that they've
Speaker 1: got a Thursday nighter, They've got a Monday night or
Speaker 1: December fourteenth, and it's with Pittsburgh at home, and they've
Speaker 1: got Dallas late December on the road, so they have
Speaker 1: two really legit ones. So basically this is three prime
Speaker 1: time games. I know they have the London games, and
Speaker 1: maybe that puts a fly in the ointment as far
Speaker 1: as scheduling for them because those are national games. But
Speaker 1: they're out of the morning. Come on, So what do
Speaker 1: you think of the Jags scheduling?
Speaker 4: It feels like.
Speaker 1: The league is not high on the Jags. But maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong because the two primetime games they have are
Speaker 1: in December.
Speaker 5: Maybe the league remembers the last time they won the
Speaker 5: division and they won a playoff game with the greatest
Speaker 5: comeback in Jaguars' playoff history, and then they fell on
Speaker 5: their face and didn't do squat the next year.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm also that.
Speaker 5: Can you totally? You know Travis Hunter. They're making a
Speaker 5: big deal about him and all the weight and strength
Speaker 5: he's gained, and they had a tremendous season under Lam Cohen.
Speaker 5: And if Liam Cohen is like Ben Johnson and there
Speaker 5: were two of those offensive coordinator gurus just waiting to
Speaker 5: pick their jobs, if he's the real deal as a
Speaker 5: head coach, then they're going to be battling the Texans
Speaker 5: and the Nico Ryans every step of the way. But
Speaker 5: did they get screwed? I don't think so. It's they
Speaker 5: did it one year, you know, the Texans have now
Speaker 5: done it three years in a row. The Texans have
Speaker 5: a defense. It's better than anything the Jaguars can put
Speaker 5: out there offensively or defensse defensively, Everybody loves watching the
Speaker 5: Texans defense. I loved all the national media comments when
Speaker 5: they signed Clowney and they're like, oh o MG, just
Speaker 5: what the Texans need to bolster their pass rush. That's
Speaker 5: already the best defense in the NFL. And so I
Speaker 5: think the Texans will win the division. I think the
Speaker 5: Jaguars will be good, but I don't think the Jaguars
Speaker 5: gonna win thirteen games again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Who in the first place schedule?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, there are points, So that means Patriots, Steelers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, Bronco Roncos. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: They hammered the Broncos last year in Denver.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So who's their NFC North opponent the Bears Staggle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we have Green Bay that's hardly a breath of
Speaker 1: fresh air. And you get Buffalo instead of New England
Speaker 1: in the East. That's not exactly a break.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So finishing second kind of stinks this year as far
Speaker 1: as the.
Speaker 4: Scheduling part of it. Yeah, yeah, Hey, general, have you
Speaker 4: watched Hard Knocks yet?
Speaker 5: I watched about thirty minutes of it last night before
Speaker 5: I started to fall asleep, so I haven't watched the
Speaker 5: whole thing. I love their rings ceremony. You know, there's
Speaker 5: no way those players can wear their rings. They could
Speaker 5: fit on two fingers. And I wish the NFL would
Speaker 5: put a cap on some of some of the rings.
Speaker 5: And I told I've told my wife Carol, I said before.
Speaker 5: I'm on the other side of the grass. I would
Speaker 5: sure love to see Hard Knocks. With the Texans getting
Speaker 5: their Super Bowl ran.
Speaker 4: Oooh, that would be nice.
Speaker 1: There's our visit with John McClain, the general, the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Famer now at training camp. A lot
Speaker 1: of ours and a lot of things, and the rookies
Speaker 1: are always a subject of conversation. Second round draft choice.
Speaker 1: We have two of them, Caden McDonald. Johnny Harris visited
Speaker 1: with him. We heard that conversation earlier the week. Marlon Kleine.
Speaker 1: We've played this late this morning, but I think a
Speaker 1: lot of you missed it. This is Shelby Cobpage, our
Speaker 1: preseason TV sideline reporter, visiting with the German tight end
Speaker 1: who played at Michigan after practice here, Shelby and Marlon Klein.
Speaker 7: Marlin, your first time in Houston was when you played
Speaker 7: in the National Championship right across the street. How is
Speaker 7: that first memory of Houston?
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a beautiful memory. You know, getting to
Speaker 8: come to work here every day, and you know that
Speaker 8: being a little reminder is awesome, but being a part
Speaker 8: of the Texas now it's a lot more home.
Speaker 7: You said that you left your family and home from
Speaker 7: Germany at fifteen years old. Who originally put that dream
Speaker 7: in your mind that you could come to the United
Speaker 7: States and getting football.
Speaker 4: I think it was myself. I think, you know, I
Speaker 4: fell in love with the sport.
Speaker 8: I grew up playing soccer and realized that that wasn't
Speaker 8: going to be my profession. So I fell in love
Speaker 8: with football, tried it out and told my parents I'm out.
Speaker 7: I heard that you and your cousins, actually your cousins
Speaker 7: came from Germany and went to a couple of World Cup
Speaker 7: games and I watched Germany is all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: How is that?
Speaker 6: I mean it was awesome.
Speaker 8: So we went to the first game here and they
Speaker 8: didn't even know that we're going to surprise him, and
Speaker 8: it was awesome. Yeah, we've never been so I mean
Speaker 8: they started crying. For a grown man to cry, you know,
Speaker 8: it meant a lot.
Speaker 7: So you're already like making so many dreams come true
Speaker 7: for the family.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So Nick Cayley has eight years experience as a tight
Speaker 7: end coach. How would you describe him as a coach
Speaker 7: with you.
Speaker 8: I mean, he's hands on, high energetic. I think he's awesome.
Speaker 8: I think he's exactly what I need as a coach,
Speaker 8: brings it every single day. I think, you know, he
Speaker 8: has a lot of love for the for the position,
Speaker 8: and just just having him around all the time is
Speaker 8: awesome for all of us, him being your offensive coordinator.
Speaker 7: How appreciative are you that he has so much experience
Speaker 7: with your physician.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's that's a huge part, a huge
Speaker 8: part for me in my development, but not just for me,
Speaker 8: for all the Titans that are in the room. If
Speaker 8: it's you know, if you've played eight years, if you've
Speaker 8: played one year, if you haven't played at all, I
Speaker 8: think we're all always going to learn and having him,
Speaker 8: you know, at the top is awesome for.
Speaker 3: All of us.
Speaker 7: Your first official NFL meeting was with the Texans. A
Speaker 7: couple of coaches defined you as electric. How did those
Speaker 7: original conversations go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, when I first walked into
Speaker 8: the meeting, I was a little nervous, a little up tight,
Speaker 8: you know, I couldn't really let my personality out. But
Speaker 8: then I think, you know, throughout the meetia.
Speaker 4: I kind of let it go.
Speaker 8: And I mean I just fell in love with the
Speaker 8: coaching staff, and I knew that that was going to
Speaker 8: be a spot where I wanted to go.
Speaker 7: How would you describe a personality in the locker room?
Speaker 4: I think a guy that gets along with everybody.
Speaker 8: I think you know that that.
Speaker 6: I think that just comes.
Speaker 8: From where I'm from moving over here, kind of getting
Speaker 8: to know everybody, you know, being around everybody. I think
Speaker 8: I can hang out with anybody and be a good
Speaker 8: guy for everybody in the locker room.
Speaker 7: The Texans hadn't drafted the title in the second round
Speaker 7: since two thousand and three. Did you know that fact?
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 6: Hew.
Speaker 7: Does that feel so good just knowing that they're putting
Speaker 7: their bets on you second round?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's it's a blessing.
Speaker 8: It's a blessing being here and being selected by the Texans,
Speaker 8: whether it's in.
Speaker 6: The second round wherever.
Speaker 8: I think, you know, I would have been super happy
Speaker 8: to be here and if I was undrafted.
Speaker 4: So uh.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it's just just a blessing for me, my
Speaker 8: family and being a.
Speaker 1: Part of it here.
Speaker 8: Now, I just got to make account.
Speaker 7: How is it so far? Playing with CJ.
Speaker 8: Shroud?
Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 8: I think you know, he's a leader. He's a guy
Speaker 8: that wants perfection, especially at that at that position that
Speaker 8: he plays. He wants perfection and he wants all of
Speaker 8: us to win at the end of the day. So
Speaker 8: he's gonna bring it every single day, put his best
Speaker 8: foot forward and make us better.
Speaker 7: Any Michigan Ohio State Shraft talk yet?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first day.
Speaker 6: But first day you don't have to talk about it.
Speaker 8: I want some Michigan shots.
Speaker 6: He told me to not wear him anymore.
Speaker 9: You know, So if you can't wear them, Jimmy one says, don't.
Speaker 8: Wear everyone says, so I'm still gonna rock.
Speaker 7: How is it talking to Dalton Schultzhe are you learning
Speaker 7: from him?
Speaker 3: So far?
Speaker 8: I think I learned from that guy every single day.
Speaker 8: I think he one of the smartest football players I've
Speaker 8: ever been around. You know, it might be a little
Speaker 8: Stanford you know background that he has, but I mean
Speaker 8: even Foster, Brevin, Kate Siliver, like all those guys in
Speaker 8: the room, they helped me out every single day and
Speaker 8: make me a better person, make me a better football
Speaker 8: player at.
Speaker 4: The end of the day.
Speaker 8: And that's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 7: You and hear fiance now here Houston. What are some
Speaker 7: things you'd like to do so far?
Speaker 6: And you're aware off time.
Speaker 8: To be honest with you, I don't really know much
Speaker 8: about history have you know, just moved here, so I
Speaker 8: haven't really seen much football time now, so I guess
Speaker 8: we'll see an off season.
Speaker 7: All right, Thanks so much.
Speaker 4: Goods of the season, Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Shelby Coppage, our preseason TV broadcast sideline
Speaker 1: reporter and Marlon Klein. He's gonna play a ton in
Speaker 1: these upcoming preseason games, which start a week from tonight
Speaker 1: at Reliance Stadium against the Chargers. Let's go all right,
Speaker 1: coming up, Kamari Lastitter, We've got more from gadebian Clowney,
Speaker 1: more and more and more. It's all happening here on
Speaker 1: Texans Radio. Here we are on the Hyundai Texans Radio
Speaker 1: studio during an off day for the player, although I've
Speaker 1: seen plenty of them today in the building at Reliance
Speaker 1: Stadium in advance of a Friday practice. So day off today,
Speaker 1: back to back practices Tomorrow morning and Saturday night, and
Speaker 1: then Sunday off, then practice Monday, Tuesday day before the
Speaker 1: game day.
Speaker 3: Whatever they do.
Speaker 1: Then we'll have a TV production meeting because we are
Speaker 1: producing preseason broadcast number one one week from tonight on
Speaker 1: ABC thirteen in the state wide and also in Louisiana
Speaker 1: Texans TV Network, and also the Texans Radio Network also
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. I have to say this better. I have
Speaker 1: to economize the way I put that. Anyway, looking forward
Speaker 1: to it so much. And one week from tonight, ninety
Speaker 1: five to seven, the fan debut day of Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: As that signal pumps out of Texans game August thirteenth,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. You know what else is awesome
Speaker 1: The guys from in the loop visiting with players after practice.
Speaker 1: They get some great visits. Man, they've had Nico Collins on,
Speaker 1: I can't recite everybody, Keelan Rutledge. We've played somebody's on
Speaker 1: the air because it's worth repeating a lot of you
Speaker 1: missed this during the day, but don't miss this one.
Speaker 1: Kamari Lassiter with John and Reggie.
Speaker 9: We're sitting down with a Pro Bowl cornerback, one of
Speaker 9: the ones that you loved Number three in your program,
Speaker 9: number one of your hearts famous kamarasamor Ha Man. Man, Well, honestly,
Speaker 9: I was doing great on Saturday when I'm sitting over
Speaker 9: there and I see there's you going up with Nico
Speaker 9: Collins and you're just perfectly hand fighting with the Nico
Speaker 9: doesn't even have an opportunity to look up at the ball,
Speaker 9: and it made me think. And after that you also
Speaker 9: like you showed it. Man, you showed that you were
Speaker 9: having a good time. Are you a talker on the field?
Speaker 6: It depends. It depends.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 10: I don't talk a lot on the field unless somebody
Speaker 10: starts something with me. But like I go out there,
Speaker 10: I play with confidence. I make a lot of noise.
Speaker 10: I turn my guys up. They turned me up, So yeah,
Speaker 10: I'll probably say I talk.
Speaker 4: It shows up. Who's the biggest talk that you play.
Speaker 10: Against that I played against? I don't know, a lot
Speaker 10: of people really don't talk out there, like not receivers,
Speaker 10: regis really don't talk.
Speaker 6: For it really.
Speaker 9: See, this is one of those things you think about
Speaker 9: that as like a diva position necessarily at least history,
Speaker 9: and everybody's just out there doing their work.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I would think most of the time, the only time
Speaker 10: I really hear receiver talk is like whenever they're not
Speaker 10: getting the ball, like best.
Speaker 6: On the time, Yeah, yeah, I went the ball.
Speaker 11: So let's talk about what you guys are doing out here,
Speaker 11: because everybody's talked so much about this defense, and we
Speaker 11: know what you did last year and you're starting all
Speaker 11: over and it's hard to just dial it right back up.
Speaker 11: I know you've talked about it a little bit in
Speaker 11: the off season, but today you guys just seem to,
Speaker 11: you know, full pads, seem to dial it back up.
Speaker 11: How how has that been in terms of you know,
Speaker 11: implementing you guys blanken Ship and other cornerbacks and being
Speaker 11: able to just pick up where you left off.
Speaker 10: It feels really good. You know, anytime we get on
Speaker 10: the football field, it's a blessing we take. We don't
Speaker 10: take that lightly. So I mean anytime that we're on
Speaker 10: that field, you could tell like we played with a
Speaker 10: lot of intent, a lot of aggression, a lot of detail.
Speaker 10: And the new guys they come in, they've came in
Speaker 10: and they've just missed really well. You know, we get
Speaker 10: along really great, and we was out there trying to
Speaker 10: you know, get to to come and go.
Speaker 9: One of the things that I'm always real interested in
Speaker 9: is you sliding in. Saw you doing that a little
Speaker 9: bit today, Like what challenges come with sliding inside? I
Speaker 9: like that as opposed to being outside and you know,
Speaker 9: being able to have that outside sideline as an additional defender.
Speaker 10: I feel like the biggest challenge was sliding on the
Speaker 10: inside and the slot. It's just like there's a lot
Speaker 10: more moving parts. You know, you're closer to the line,
Speaker 10: you're closer, there's more space, you know, both ways, and
Speaker 10: there's just more communication. So I feel like other than that,
Speaker 10: it's just going out there and playing ball.
Speaker 9: And I think that ties in because it feels like
Speaker 9: this off season you said that one of the things
Speaker 9: you wanted to get better at was being a leader,
Speaker 9: and I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I heard that.
Speaker 9: I was like, damn, how many more leaders can y'all
Speaker 9: have on this team, And honestly, it makes me curious
Speaker 9: because you do have a particular brand of leadership and
Speaker 9: will and disease. How do you take like, have you
Speaker 9: been able to find how to take whatever leadership that
Speaker 9: you're building into and fitted into whatever everybody else is
Speaker 9: bringing and read blanket ship and disease and will?
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, I feel like, you know, I just lead,
Speaker 10: you know, my own way. I just do things, you know,
Speaker 10: the way that you know I'm wired. I go out there,
Speaker 10: I play ball, I play really hard. You know, I
Speaker 10: train hard. You know, I focus in and you know,
Speaker 10: if people see me, they understand that I'm working hard,
Speaker 10: so you know, they probably work just as hard themselves.
Speaker 10: And you know, guys have different ways of leadership, whether
Speaker 10: that's vocal, whether that's you know, by example. And I
Speaker 10: feel like I'm a little bit of both. You know,
Speaker 10: I don't talk a whole bunch, but like what I
Speaker 10: do is it's important. I feel like I talk about
Speaker 10: important things. So that's just kind of my style.
Speaker 11: How much of it is you just blossoming as a person.
Speaker 11: I remember talking to you over there your first year
Speaker 11: and everything's coming at you, you know, and you were
Speaker 11: you were a little more low key than you are now.
Speaker 4: You were pretty much straightforward.
Speaker 11: Do you feel like you're just sort of becoming more
Speaker 11: of yourself as the years past and you're being able
Speaker 11: to fit that role more?
Speaker 6: I definitely think so.
Speaker 10: You know, with time, you know going by and your
Speaker 10: own you know the same people, and they are all
Speaker 10: really good people with you know, the same principles, the
Speaker 10: same morals. You know, you're able to, you know, kind
Speaker 10: of open up a little bit and be more of yourself.
Speaker 10: You know, when I first came in, I didn't know anybody,
Speaker 10: so I was just like, all right, you know, let
Speaker 10: me just do my thing, and uh, you know that's
Speaker 10: my team. But you know, these are my teammates. But
Speaker 10: you know, I still got to get to learn them.
Speaker 10: You know, now I know everybody, everyone knows me, so
Speaker 10: they kind of we all just kind of know each other.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 6: It's a really good feeling.
Speaker 11: How about how about when you know, Derek Stanley comes in,
Speaker 11: he's got his hoodie on, he's kind of quiet, just
Speaker 11: comes to himself. Do you kind of feel like like,
Speaker 11: as the other cornerback, you kind of need to to
Speaker 11: maybe get him up, to get the secondary up a
Speaker 11: little bit more because he's gonna be a stud no
Speaker 11: matter what. But he is kind of just his own.
Speaker 11: He hasn't gotten a lot louder or so to speak.
Speaker 10: No, I mean, from the moment I've missed things, thing
Speaker 10: has been you know, a really good friend of me,
Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. So I know Sting that's
Speaker 10: Sting is not a talkative person, but we talk all
Speaker 10: the time. He talks all the time, like to us,
Speaker 10: to the guy. So it's just like, you know, I
Speaker 10: don't think that I have to do too much anything.
Speaker 10: You know, we all in the corner room especially like
Speaker 10: we're all super close knit. You know, we all know
Speaker 10: each other, we all get along with each other really great.
Speaker 10: We're all good friends, you know, inside and outside of
Speaker 10: the building. So I feel like I don't have to
Speaker 10: do too much.
Speaker 4: Is it the corner group chat?
Speaker 9: Because we saw Caleb Bullock step to the podium and
Speaker 9: he was telling us that in the off season, y'all
Speaker 9: are like trading, you know, trading film and stuff and
Speaker 9: talking about some stuff. Is that the corner group chatter?
Speaker 9: Is that just you two that is firing back and
Speaker 9: forth trying to get.
Speaker 10: Better that way, Me and Ceb shoot film with each
Speaker 10: other all the time. Like sometimes he might text me
Speaker 10: at like in the middle of the night, or I
Speaker 10: might text him at the middle of night. He'll be like,
Speaker 10: how do you see this? And I'm like other way around.
Speaker 10: And then you know, in a corner group chat, we
Speaker 10: talk about all kind of stuff. It's not just football.
Speaker 10: I mean, we make jokes, we crack on each other.
Speaker 10: It's all you know, it is. It's just about, you know,
Speaker 10: getting to know each other.
Speaker 9: It's sting, the guy who's just hitting the little the
Speaker 9: little button repliers.
Speaker 10: Actual sting is a sting is sometimes an instigator in
Speaker 10: the group.
Speaker 6: Sting is funny, man, He's really funny, all.
Speaker 4: Right, So so help me out on this.
Speaker 11: I've been telling some people for these young players, like, hey,
Speaker 11: I'm from Georgia. I'm from Alabama. It gets hot down there.
Speaker 11: And I tell him, no, no, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 4: Houston is different. Is that true?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I'm from I'm from the South. I
Speaker 6: come from heat.
Speaker 10: But like it's hot in Georgia's hot, you know, but
Speaker 10: Houston is hot and it's humid at the same time,
Speaker 10: so it's like it's added on heat. And if you're
Speaker 10: not used to that, like it it could creep up on.
Speaker 6: You for sure.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about your position.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 9: Dino Vasso is a dude that I mean, people might
Speaker 9: know a name, but I don't think that we know
Speaker 9: a little bit about enough about as an actual coach,
Speaker 9: Like what is he meant to helping you become the
Speaker 9: player that you've been to this point.
Speaker 6: Dino is.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 10: I feel like Dino is a huge part of my game,
Speaker 10: you know, especially when I came and he He's taught
Speaker 10: me so many different things about the game, and like
Speaker 10: every day I just learned something new from you know,
Speaker 10: Like I feel like that's one of the greatest coaches
Speaker 10: I've ever had, you know, in football.
Speaker 6: You know, I just I'm super grateful for him. You know.
Speaker 6: Every day it's like it's easy for me to.
Speaker 10: Go into the position room because I know that he
Speaker 10: would never tell me or coach me to do anything
Speaker 10: that he didn't believe was right, you know, whether that's
Speaker 10: inside of football, outside of football. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 10: there whether it's football later or not. I mean, he's
Speaker 10: a really good coach and he's been really instrumental in
Speaker 10: like my growth.
Speaker 6: As as a football player also as a man too,
Speaker 6: So I'm grateful for them.
Speaker 11: How is it that, you know, Well, let me put
Speaker 11: it this way. We talk about I'm not putting words
Speaker 11: in your mouth. We talk about this could be an
Speaker 11: all time great defense. It really could. That's our opinion,
Speaker 11: not yours. But that's got to be back there somewhere
Speaker 11: like we are good, we know we're good. How much
Speaker 11: better can we get?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's really the whole mentality is like how
Speaker 10: can will was just saying today, is like, how.
Speaker 6: Can we keep leveling up?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 10: And I feel like the all time great defenses they
Speaker 10: focus on that. They don't focus on how good they
Speaker 10: are or how good they can be. They just focus
Speaker 10: on just getting better individually.
Speaker 6: Whatever. Look that that's stacking days. Well, that's stacking plays.
Speaker 10: Like if you can get better every play, then eventually
Speaker 10: by the time you get to the end of the game,
Speaker 10: you're gonna be playing at your best, like, you know,
Speaker 10: And I just feel like, whenever you have eleven guys
Speaker 10: or twenty two guys or twenty guys on the defense
Speaker 10: that are all focusing on that, that's how you become great.
Speaker 3: How about this?
Speaker 11: Not only are you guys a good defense. We know
Speaker 11: that you look up and you got the Davian Clowney
Speaker 11: coming in. You look up and you got Mario Edwards
Speaker 11: coming back. What does that do for you?
Speaker 10: You just ask more? He ask fuel to the fire
Speaker 10: as more dogs in the pack.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. You can never have too
Speaker 6: many good players. You can never have too many dogs.
Speaker 10: I feel like just adding those two guys and we
Speaker 10: already know what they bring to the table, it's just
Speaker 10: gonna help us level up more.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you are you very familiar with Clowney?
Speaker 6: I mean other than watching him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we all fitted that came out bad.
Speaker 3: But I mean, have you ever had any interaction?
Speaker 6: You know, I've never met him before.
Speaker 10: Well, I saw him in the building today, but I
Speaker 10: have never had the chance to meet him before.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Can I ask you this because it feels like from
Speaker 9: our side, looking in your week one opponent, the Bills,
Speaker 9: y'all seen them a lot recently, and it feels like
Speaker 9: the secondary, I mean the defensive line.
Speaker 4: As well, have their number.
Speaker 9: Can you explained, like, what contributes to a particular dominance
Speaker 9: against a team like the Bills.
Speaker 10: Uh, it's not even worrying about dominating it's just really
Speaker 10: going out there and refusing to lose. Like we go
Speaker 10: out there, we don't want to lose a rep. So
Speaker 10: if you don't want to lose a rep, you're trying.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's gonna correlate in the entire game. Like
Speaker 10: you're not losing the rep, then you're not going to
Speaker 10: lose the game, because if they don't score, they don't win.
Speaker 10: I just feel like you go out there with that
Speaker 10: mentality and focus on the details, you make the players
Speaker 10: that come to you, you play for your brothers.
Speaker 6: Everything just flows and it comes to a circle.
Speaker 11: You guys had a good day today. From where I
Speaker 11: was sitting, the defense had a really good day. And
Speaker 11: yet you you want and need that offense, you know,
Speaker 11: And and Demiico was talking not long ago about hey,
Speaker 11: maybe we're gonna have to kind of call off the
Speaker 11: dogs a little bit, you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker 11: But you don't want that, I'm guessing just make them
Speaker 11: better with what you do.
Speaker 6: They're making us better too. I feel like it was
Speaker 6: really back and forth day.
Speaker 10: We had to meet as a defense today because we're like,
Speaker 10: that wasn't it, you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 10: feel like it's always gonna be back and forth. That
Speaker 10: we got a really good offense. You know, they got
Speaker 10: a lot of really good players over there, so they're
Speaker 10: gonna we just gonna continue to battle them t to
Speaker 10: get each other better.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's gonna be it's gonna be really nice.
Speaker 9: I'm curious. I mean, you sound like a seven year vest.
Speaker 9: Somebody said it on the text line here. What do
Speaker 9: you see from yourself, from your perspective that's different for
Speaker 9: you right now versus when you came.
Speaker 6: Into the game.
Speaker 10: I just feel like, you know, time's past, Like I
Speaker 10: understand the game more. The game is starting to come
Speaker 10: at a slower pace. You know, players are starting to
Speaker 10: move slower. I just feel like, uh, things are just
Speaker 10: flowing in the right direction, and I'm just you know,
Speaker 10: just trying to focus on it right now. Like whenever
Speaker 10: you focus on where you're at right now, then you
Speaker 10: don't have to worry about the later, Like you know,
Speaker 10: it's just it's gonna come naturally.
Speaker 11: How big was it last year finally getting your accolades?
Speaker 11: Because the first couple of years, it's like, hey, Derek Thingley,
Speaker 11: Drek thing Like, we're over here going.
Speaker 3: Hey, look at numbers.
Speaker 11: You know, look at look at look at Kamari finally
Speaker 11: getting that Like it is two cornerbacks they.
Speaker 10: Talk about now, I mean yeah, but I don't. I
Speaker 10: don't even look at that like I think of it.
Speaker 10: Like I go out there and not ball because I
Speaker 10: love the game. I like, I like playing with my teammates,
Speaker 10: Like you know, I like the organization that I'm in.
Speaker 10: I love the organizations. So I just feel like when
Speaker 10: if you focus on that, like all the other stuff,
Speaker 10: it's gonna come. And if it doesn't, like you know,
Speaker 10: so I just keep balling and I just I just
Speaker 10: try and you know, play the game.
Speaker 9: Do you I mean, you're playing opposite Stingland, knowing that
Speaker 9: he has that people looked over and like, all right,
Speaker 9: the other cornerback's gonna get picked on.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like that's shifted at all?
Speaker 9: Or do you feel like people still don't recognize that
Speaker 9: you're over here balling on this side of the field.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't care. It can't be good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it can be good.
Speaker 10: I mean I rather than trying to pick on me,
Speaker 10: I mean that's more beneficial to me. I mean, that's
Speaker 10: more plays that I get to make. There's more opportunities
Speaker 10: that come my way, and U I mean I don't
Speaker 10: look at it any kind of way, Like I mean,
Speaker 10: you you want to throw it my way, bring it on.
Speaker 6: You want to throw it his way, bring it on.
Speaker 6: We we just don't see about it ahead.
Speaker 4: To that point.
Speaker 9: I'm always curious for again, inside versus outside. We can
Speaker 9: talk about it from the outside, but there's things that
Speaker 9: you understand. What do you I mean and I know
Speaker 9: you locked in, but what do you think that people
Speaker 9: outside of the football fraternity get most wrong about it?
Speaker 9: About me, about you, or just about the football itself?
Speaker 6: What you can tell uh?
Speaker 10: I feel like people on the outside of football don't
Speaker 10: understand this, like this part training camp, Like people just
Speaker 10: see the games, Like unless you come to training camp,
Speaker 10: you don't really understand football. You just think that it
Speaker 10: happens overnight. Like you just think that whatever they showcase
Speaker 10: on the field, that's that's just whatever. Like, Nah, it
Speaker 10: takes a lot. It's day in, day out. It's a
Speaker 10: super hard ground, like making players on the field. That
Speaker 10: it doesn't happen overnight, It doesn't happen over a week.
Speaker 10: It takes a long time. It takes a lot of
Speaker 10: you know, a lot of stress, takes a lot of
Speaker 10: you know, outside to do it, and it takes a
Speaker 10: lot of pain.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's a lot.
Speaker 11: So in the locker rooms, and we've both been in
Speaker 11: enough locker rooms a lot of times, players like talk mess.
Speaker 3: With each other just in fun.
Speaker 4: You know, do you do you give those that defensive.
Speaker 11: Line any trouble in terms of like, hey man, that
Speaker 11: was a coverage sat that was a cover sack. We
Speaker 11: we we should get half of that sack.
Speaker 6: I joke around with Will all the time.
Speaker 10: I'd just like to pick that on me because we
Speaker 10: all know Will is great, and uh, I just like
Speaker 10: to pick at him.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I get on his nerves. He gets on
Speaker 6: my nerves all the time.
Speaker 10: He'll I randomly, will be in practice and I randomly
Speaker 10: yell his name and he'll yell my name and be like,
Speaker 10: you ain't making no noise. I'm like, check the film
Speaker 10: and I catch them whenever you're sitting down in the
Speaker 10: break and I'd be like, you ain't making no noise.
Speaker 10: You'd be like, all right, check the film. So we
Speaker 10: just a little back and forth, but you know that's good.
Speaker 11: One more ad. You got it all right, So on
Speaker 11: this defense, when we talk about the best players on
Speaker 11: this defense, you can go with the whole roster, what
Speaker 11: is the what is the goal? Forget the team goal,
Speaker 11: the super Bowl and all that stuff. When you have
Speaker 11: individuals this good, you want everybody to eat and you're
Speaker 11: talking about giving them a hard time for sure? Where
Speaker 11: do you think this defense is best? Because it's so
Speaker 11: good everywhere? What do you think makes it the best?
Speaker 6: I feel like what makes our defense the best?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 11: Because you can talk about defensive line, kind of a
Speaker 11: secondary linebackers, disease, leadership, sacks, pressure, you know, forcing field goals.
Speaker 11: What do you think makes this the best?
Speaker 10: The reason that it makes us like the best or
Speaker 10: that we can be the best is that there's no
Speaker 10: drop offs. But there's no drop off from the front
Speaker 10: seven to the back can or the backcand to the
Speaker 10: front seven. Like, there's no drop off anywhere. Like I
Speaker 10: don't think that there's any week leak on our defense.
Speaker 10: And there's not one specific place that you can just
Speaker 10: really try and pick on an attack because at after
Speaker 10: a while, even if even if a couple of plays
Speaker 10: happened as football, there's we're playing against professionals, World professionals.
Speaker 10: Even after a while, players are going to start being
Speaker 10: made by So I just feel like there's no drop
Speaker 10: off anywhere.
Speaker 3: There's no week link.
Speaker 1: There's Kamari last at on in the Loop with John
Speaker 1: and Reggie. Coming up more from Jadevion Clowney. We had
Speaker 1: him in studio. You might have missed that. You're not
Speaker 1: going to miss it this time. It's coming up here
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. It's our final segment and we've
Speaker 1: got more segments in the morning eight to ten am.
Speaker 1: We'll be on right after Sean and Seth live from
Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. Texans Training Camp Live and
Speaker 1: In the Loop will be live on the field as
Speaker 1: well with another great guest now earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: As you know, Jeddeveon Clowney signed with the Texans drafted
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, left after the twenty eighteen season, right
Speaker 1: before the twenty nineteen season, got started in a trade,
Speaker 1: and now he's back. This is his eighth stop. He's
Speaker 1: played for seven teams. And here's the best of our
Speaker 1: conversation with Jeddeveon Clowney, starting with what's different about him
Speaker 1: this time? How has he grown since he left Houston.
Speaker 1: And I say left Houston. His family's been here, but
Speaker 1: he left the Texans prior to the twenty nineteen season.
Speaker 12: Just growing up as far as we're coming to May,
Speaker 12: learning more about myself and being patient, my patients have grown,
Speaker 12: and just you know, just becoming a man, like being
Speaker 12: having kids to teach you patients and teach you everything
Speaker 12: about life and it just can't rushing to stuff and
Speaker 12: how to do things slow and take your time and
Speaker 12: making decisions. And I think that's been the biggest chance
Speaker 12: for me, getting married and you know, having kids and
Speaker 12: being in the family being great for me.
Speaker 1: Seven teams and you look at each situation, it's all different, right,
Speaker 1: So every time you go somewhere you've been able to contribute,
Speaker 1: but each situation is different. What was that process like
Speaker 1: getting acclimated to each team and then being a success?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, it was.
Speaker 12: It was difficult sometimes because sometimes going after training camp
Speaker 12: and you know, try to jump into this team and
Speaker 12: a scheme in the middle of the season. But I
Speaker 12: always just say, at the end of the day, one
Speaker 12: thing you can do is play football, you know, and
Speaker 12: you a football player, you very instinctive and I knew
Speaker 12: that about myself, so every time I walked out there.
Speaker 12: So I might not know the playbook like that off
Speaker 12: the back, but I'm a very distinctive player of playing football.
Speaker 12: So I just let my instincts take it over. And
Speaker 12: I just kept succeeding throughout my career playing no matter
Speaker 12: where I went, I just kept succeeding, playing at a
Speaker 12: high level.
Speaker 4: JD. How much did you did you know Demiko Ryans
Speaker 4: before this process that you guys met before? Because I
Speaker 4: know you. I don't think you guys crossed over in
Speaker 4: the building that I can remember here. Did you have,
Speaker 4: you know, just knowledge of Demiko? What was kind of
Speaker 4: your thought about Hey, I like what the Miko's doing,
Speaker 4: I like what the defense is doing. And it's obviously
Speaker 4: your home here in Houston. How much did all that
Speaker 4: play a factor? Demiko Ryans very much a lot past
Speaker 4: seven eight years. Like I said, since he signed, I
Speaker 4: been watching from a distance like that, he got that
Speaker 4: team ready to play. Them guys follow him, They bond
Speaker 4: in and you want to be a part of an
Speaker 4: organization like that and the guy that everybody's believing like
Speaker 4: can lead. And for me watching that on TV and
Speaker 4: you I'm at home watching it on TV. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I can be a part of I know I can
Speaker 4: help that team. And when it was time and then
Speaker 4: I had the opportunity to come back that it was
Speaker 4: a no runer for me and it matter about the
Speaker 4: money and other teams that was called, I was like,
Speaker 4: oh man, I got a chance to go back to
Speaker 4: where it all started and try to finish it how
Speaker 4: I want to finish my career and my legacy and
Speaker 4: the place where it started. So that's what I was
Speaker 4: thinking about when I made my decision this offseason.
Speaker 1: How do you see yourself fitting in? Did they talk
Speaker 1: to you about that your role? Because some pretty good
Speaker 1: pass rushers here is.
Speaker 12: No question, Like I said, I told them guys, I
Speaker 12: know they got great pass rushers. I'm just a great
Speaker 12: player myself. I just told them, ain't gonna be no
Speaker 12: fall off out of them three. You won't be able
Speaker 12: to tell the difference. So just we'll see, you know,
Speaker 12: I don't want to just keep speaking on I want
Speaker 12: to I'm gonna show me. Yeah, So I'm just gonna
Speaker 12: show up every day and show them guys what I
Speaker 12: can do and contribute to help the team anyway.
Speaker 1: I can Johnny's already talking about moving you inside, sometimes inside, outside,
Speaker 1: you everywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you like that too, right, Yeah.
Speaker 12: I played it all a lot here when I was.
Speaker 12: When I was, I played inside a lot, like rushing
Speaker 12: up the middle, over the guards, over the center. I
Speaker 12: feel like I can very much help any any way
Speaker 12: they can see me fit. And I still dominate the
Speaker 12: run game, still dominate, you know, geting to the quarterback,
Speaker 12: paying pressure. So you know, I just, like I said,
Speaker 12: having fun with it and continue to try to continue
Speaker 12: my career and know what other place to do it
Speaker 12: in Back in Houston where I started.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite moments, JD. We were in the
Speaker 4: locker room. I don't know if you remember this. We're in
Speaker 4: the locker room and I was interviewing somebody after the
Speaker 4: game is player of the game. And I remember you
Speaker 4: looked at me and you're like, hey, you'll be talking
Speaker 4: to me next week.
Speaker 3: You feel me? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And you, I mean you called your shot. And then
Speaker 4: it was Indianapolis twenty sixteen and you had to sack
Speaker 4: on Andrew forced to fumble, kept him out of the
Speaker 4: end zone. So we were talking about that this morning.
Speaker 4: Do you have a player or moment that you remember
Speaker 4: most from your first stint with the Texans that you got,
Speaker 4: you have you have like you know what that one?
Speaker 4: Because I said to Mark, I have a couple of
Speaker 4: moments that didn't show up on the stat sheet. We
Speaker 4: had your interception against the Raiders and playoff game, which
Speaker 4: is cool. You had to touchdown against New England. Those
Speaker 4: are great stats on the stat sheet. I have some
Speaker 4: you chasing now, Brandon fell against the Bengals.
Speaker 3: You almost caught it almost.
Speaker 4: That was pretty damn impressive. Uh. And then in the
Speaker 4: playoff game against the Patriots, up there you hit Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: I thought you broke him.
Speaker 3: Me too, I thought I got him, but I.
Speaker 4: Thought you had it. I thought I didn't think he
Speaker 4: was getting up from that. But do you have one,
Speaker 4: like a favorite memory?
Speaker 12: It was so many when it comes to ask you,
Speaker 12: I remember we was playing I want to say, the
Speaker 12: Minnesota Vikers one year. Yeah, yeah, I got some big
Speaker 12: hits on one of their running backs and I was
Speaker 12: just like it was them. Some of the best hits
Speaker 12: it went on helmet knockoffs, but yes, slide inside, boom
Speaker 12: jumped the boom on guys on the goal line trying
Speaker 12: to squeeze in and all of that just was played
Speaker 12: memories and especially against the coachs. Yeah, all them years
Speaker 12: playing against Andrew Luck and you know, making plays against
Speaker 12: the Vision was crazy for me, and you know that
Speaker 12: was how we always see it as being playing in
Speaker 12: text got to beat up on the Division. So all
Speaker 12: of them Division games, and me was so big that
Speaker 12: I always wanted to make plays and try to contribute.
Speaker 12: So that's all I kept thinking about, like what and
Speaker 12: I do to help the team and make plays. So
Speaker 12: it was so much that I could talk about on teams,
Speaker 12: Like you said, the playoff game, we try to make
Speaker 12: the run against the Raiders to pick six talking for
Speaker 12: lost and I pulled the guy's hair down.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 3: That's one of great plays for me.
Speaker 12: And you know I was like I got a boy
Speaker 12: one dread so you know leg Yeah, well, so it
Speaker 12: was so much here, so much history for me and
Speaker 12: so much part of my legacy that I had picked
Speaker 12: down in the first five years of my career making
Speaker 12: all pro was here. You know my feel like I said,
Speaker 12: I raise my family here. So it's been great for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty sixteen is notable because you were the number
Speaker 1: one defense in the league. In this past year, Texans
Speaker 1: number one defense in the league. We're talking yards per game,
Speaker 1: and that was you and Whitney just reaking have it
Speaker 1: up the front along with everybody else. DJ Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: DJ Reader. Are you in touch with a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys still?
Speaker 3: I do? I do.
Speaker 12: I work out with DJ Read all the time, Kareem Jackson,
Speaker 12: Jonathan Joseph, all them guys. I still stay stresh with him,
Speaker 12: you know, just hang out together. It's just been great
Speaker 12: just developing the relationships over the years and catedo on
Speaker 12: throughout my life. It's been great, even though I haven't
Speaker 12: been playing with them, you know, every all season I
Speaker 12: get up with him. I stay here a Jonathan Joe's
Speaker 12: I see his kids. DJ Rider we got two boys now.
Speaker 12: It's like, hey, we were just blessed to continue to
Speaker 12: play the game we love and you know, and our
Speaker 12: kids get to watch us now my kids, and it's
Speaker 12: just been fun for.
Speaker 4: Me from that standpoint, them getting a chance to watch
Speaker 4: you on television. How cool is that for you? Because
Speaker 4: we've talked to people, you know when they have kids,
Speaker 4: Like we saw DJ last year up in Detroit. We
Speaker 4: had long chat with him, It was good to see him.
Speaker 4: But when your kids get a chance to watch you,
Speaker 4: what's that like?
Speaker 12: Man, You just you just don't want to let them down.
Speaker 12: My son know the game and he likes so funny.
Speaker 12: I signed at Dallas late last year and my first
Speaker 12: game was Rusty against Green Bay Packags.
Speaker 3: And after game he was like, Dad, I know they
Speaker 3: wouldn't you out there.
Speaker 12: And I was like, son, I promise you if I
Speaker 12: don't do nothing, I'm gonna get better from here. You
Speaker 12: know they ain't gonna give back with them getting them better.
Speaker 12: I just got knocked to rust out. He's like my
Speaker 12: dad was. He fell down a few times. I promise
Speaker 12: you sound him getting better. But he noticed that type
Speaker 12: of stuff at ten years old. He watched the game
Speaker 12: tight now and I just be wanting to prove him
Speaker 12: that I can still go. So half of the stuff
Speaker 12: I do because of my kids. You know, I'd be consistent,
Speaker 12: more consistent now in my career and work it out
Speaker 12: is because my son work out with and I do
Speaker 12: a lot of stuff to try to lead him, to
Speaker 12: show him how you're supposed to go about it.
Speaker 1: Thirteenth year in the league, and that's incredibly difficult to
Speaker 1: accomplish no matter who you are. So how have you
Speaker 1: changed over the years in terms of the way you
Speaker 1: take care of yourself if at all? Because you came
Speaker 1: in in twenty fourteen, I mean that's a while ago.
Speaker 1: So how's that evolved for you?
Speaker 12: Man? It started crazy because, like I said, I got
Speaker 12: to hurt my first game of my career. I probably
Speaker 12: played like seven eight snaps and had that microfraction. And
Speaker 12: I came in at two seventy, you know, and I
Speaker 12: had to slim up because I couldn't. I had no
Speaker 12: more calliage on my knee for these years. But all
Speaker 12: these years, it's just been really developing a different way
Speaker 12: to attack my body as far as like getting inflammation
Speaker 12: out or you know, trying to get my knee flexion back.
Speaker 12: And over the year, I just been increasing myself for
Speaker 12: getting better and better and better. And I know I'm
Speaker 12: getting older in the age, but my body started feeling
Speaker 12: better the late in my career and it kind of
Speaker 12: helped me, you know, just getting healthier and taking care
Speaker 12: of I spent a lot of money on it. I
Speaker 12: spent a lot of money in my body, but it
Speaker 12: also worked out for being paid off for me and
Speaker 12: I still get to play thirteen years in the lead.
Speaker 12: Like I said, it's been a blessing. I'm just blessed
Speaker 12: to be here, continue to be playing, because it could
Speaker 12: have been over with a long time ago. I started,
Speaker 12: you know, I had injury, injury, injury, back to back
Speaker 12: to back to both of my girls too, my knee
Speaker 12: up here, all here, and then it started getting better.
Speaker 12: I just thank God for that because I didn't know.
Speaker 12: At one point a time in my career, I didn't
Speaker 12: know what was going to happen. I was like, I
Speaker 12: don't know, ma, I just couldn't get over the injury
Speaker 12: part of my first two years. And then I started
Speaker 12: getting better, you know, and it started coming together and
Speaker 12: then started kept making plays.
Speaker 4: Well, there are a lot of offensive linemen that would
Speaker 4: like where you have stepped away at that point, but
Speaker 4: you didn't. I remember, I think I can tell this
Speaker 4: story now. It was twenty eighteen. We went to Denver
Speaker 4: and Jjo was hurt and j J wasn't playing, and
Speaker 4: we went we went back on the field. That was
Speaker 4: the Demerit that was the Demarrius game. Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: when we had gotten to Marius and Namarus was playing
Speaker 4: back in Denver. With us and we ended up winning
Speaker 4: a game and missed the field.
Speaker 3: And all that.
Speaker 4: But I remember Jjo walked by me by halftime and
Speaker 4: he goes, you know, clown ain't supposed to be playing.
Speaker 4: And I was like, what do you mean? He goes,
Speaker 4: you had like a I don't know what's the worst?
Speaker 4: What's the worst? You got?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Grade is grade one the worst? Or grade three? Grade two?
Speaker 4: He's like, he's got a grade three growing issue. And
Speaker 4: I was like, he's playing and you were playing that game,
Speaker 4: and I just remember he's like, clowne shouldn't be out there,
Speaker 4: and I was like, and yeah, And at the NFL level,
Speaker 4: you do have to do make sacrifices. You do play
Speaker 4: when you're when you're hurt. You know, there's difference between
Speaker 4: being hurt and injured. But at what point did you
Speaker 4: kind of have that epiphany of you know what, how
Speaker 4: do I take care of my body a little bit better?
Speaker 4: When did you have When did that hit you?
Speaker 3: Probably when I left here.
Speaker 12: Okay, I was young and naives and anybody could have
Speaker 12: got been to do anything at twenty and twenty one,
Speaker 12: especially when you drafted me here.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't know no better.
Speaker 12: If I knew what I knew now, I probably would
Speaker 12: have told them, hey, just let me get healthy, fully healthy,
Speaker 12: and try to come back.
Speaker 3: Well, I would have to keep getting hurt.
Speaker 12: Sure, I just kept going out there listen to other
Speaker 12: people tell me, oh, you can do it, and I
Speaker 12: went listened to myself and I kept hit myself in
Speaker 12: the situations. So it was like young, just being young. Yeah,
Speaker 12: And as I got old, I started just take care
Speaker 12: of your body, you know, listen to your body or
Speaker 12: let nobody else tell you how it go or where
Speaker 12: you should be at in six weeks. You know, they
Speaker 12: put a timetable on me to get back healthy here.
Speaker 12: When it came to their point and I went there,
Speaker 12: I started saying in my head, I gotta go because
Speaker 12: it's past. It's six weeks, you know, that's what they
Speaker 12: told me. I should be feeling better. So I started
Speaker 12: trying to do stuff because other people are not myself
Speaker 12: at that point of time of my career, when I
Speaker 12: was younger. As I got old, I started saying, just
Speaker 12: take care of me and everything would take care of itself.
Speaker 12: So that's what I changed that when I left.
Speaker 1: It's wild to me that we have a player here
Speaker 1: who is teammates with Andre Johnson, and you're still with
Speaker 1: the Texans while you're back you're originally with the Texans.
Speaker 1: But what do you make of the building, the facilities
Speaker 1: people around here, Because it's different than when you were here.
Speaker 12: It's time saying it's so much. It's so different, it's
Speaker 12: so much better to Uh, locker rooms amazing, the weight
Speaker 12: rooms amazing, upstairs, put the upstairs and there. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 12: I said, I couldn't even come up with it. How
Speaker 12: could they evolve that much and add that much in
Speaker 12: this building? But they figured it out. It's nice doing.
Speaker 12: The training room is huge now they scripted it. It
Speaker 12: looked so much bigger than when I was when I
Speaker 12: was here. The food great, Yeah, so I just ate
Speaker 12: that twice they had lamb chopped chicken. It was it
Speaker 12: was great. But uh, it's just been great man. Like
Speaker 12: I said, just I'm just happy to be back here,
Speaker 12: back playing and continue my career here.
Speaker 4: So this morning we were doing our show kind of
Speaker 4: the corner as you you know, walk on the practice
Speaker 4: field at that first corner when everybody walks by, so
Speaker 4: we expect you to say hi, that's tomorrow, yes sir,
Speaker 4: But I saw the fans, fans going by and now
Speaker 4: wearing jerseys, and you know, I saw a Nico go bye.
Speaker 4: I saw a CJ. Strad go by, and then I
Speaker 4: saw one woman that was walking by and she had
Speaker 4: a ninety Clowny jerseys on. People have not forgotten you
Speaker 4: around here, man, like they have not forgotten about you.
Speaker 4: There was an excitement yesterday when it was announced that
Speaker 4: you were coming back to the Texans, not just by
Speaker 4: by Mark and I, it was it was everybody like
Speaker 4: Clowny's coming back. There was like this big excitement. What
Speaker 4: do you have to say to the fans that still
Speaker 4: have that love for you and now it's Texans fans
Speaker 4: and get a chance to see you getting played.
Speaker 12: Hey, man, I appreciate it. I'm so excited, so blessed
Speaker 12: to have you guys. It's wonderful. And I hope I
Speaker 12: can go out head and make you guys proud again
Speaker 12: this year and give you out everything I got. You know,
Speaker 12: I'm looking forward to that hopefully lead this team to
Speaker 12: a super Bowl. That's the that's what I planned. My
Speaker 12: plan was is Yeah, I'm sure that's everybody on this
Speaker 12: team playing and I just want to be a part
Speaker 12: of that.
Speaker 1: Well, we noticed that through number shuffling today that ninety
Speaker 1: might be avail.
Speaker 4: It might be. Is that what it's gonna be?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, ninety, that is I like it my number ninety.
Speaker 4: I like it. I have it back, Jad, thanks a
Speaker 4: lot for joining us.
Speaker 3: Good luck, sir, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All Right, there's some of the best of our conversation
Speaker 1: with Jidevion Clowney wearing number ninety in your program. Back
Speaker 1: to it tomorrow morning, live from the field at the
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center. Gonna be another big day of practice.
Speaker 1: We'll set it all up for you Saturday night practice
Speaker 1: as well. Thanks so much for listening tonight. Area forty
Speaker 1: five is coming up. Go Texans.