Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.
Speaker 2: Welcome into a Monday edition of Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: Yeah boy, going solo all week.
Speaker 2: John Harrison Football Analysts sideline reporter as Mark gets some
Speaker 2: R and R this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got plenty for you throughout the week.
Speaker 2: We've got all these players interviews that we had media days,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna hear a few of those today and
Speaker 2: we're gonna add in and where are they now? With
Speaker 2: Anthony Hill, I thought when the Hill was coming out
Speaker 2: of an Cy State, I was before you I even
Speaker 2: knew he's coming to Texans.
Speaker 1: I was like, that dude can play.
Speaker 2: And then the injuries as they have at the tight
Speaker 2: end position have left their mark for a lot of
Speaker 2: tight ends. But Anthony Hill, as aware are they now,
Speaker 2: was exceptional and we'll have him with Drew Dory a
Speaker 2: little later in the show. Plus we've got Davis Mills tonight.
Speaker 2: It's fun to catch up with Davis. I actually was
Speaker 2: out for dinner the other night with my wife and
Speaker 2: kids and just sitting there and look over, I'm like, Hey,
Speaker 2: that's Davis, same place I was, So I guess I
Speaker 2: must be hanging out with some pretty good places to
Speaker 2: have the same place as Davis Mills.
Speaker 1: That was kind of fun.
Speaker 2: But Davis will be by in a little bit with
Speaker 2: a good time talking to him about how the quarterback
Speaker 2: room has changed, what he's looking forward to do in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Thinks he's learned in the two years
Speaker 2: he's been in this city and what has he been
Speaker 2: learning from Bobby Slowck and this Texans offense. I don't
Speaker 2: even want to refer to it as the forty nine
Speaker 2: ers offense anymore. It's a Texans offense. It's a Bobby
Speaker 2: Slowic run offense with elements, of course from the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers, but hopefully coach Slowank's gonna make it his
Speaker 2: own and Davis mill speaks to that as well. But
Speaker 2: we're gonna kick off the show with the guy that
Speaker 2: when he signed with the Texans, I was thrilled with
Speaker 2: the caveat that's come with a lot of these free agents,
Speaker 2: and that is if he's healthy. If he's healthy, Denzel
Speaker 2: Perriman can be an absolute baller. He can run sideline
Speaker 2: to sideline, make plays. His speed is it's wow. I
Speaker 2: did a Tellstrader of it's only one play, but it's
Speaker 2: just it's showing you that speed I can't.
Speaker 1: I think it was the Broncos.
Speaker 2: It was a zone play he ran, he ran through
Speaker 2: on a backside and tackled it for a loss before
Speaker 2: the play.
Speaker 1: Even had any chance of developing. I mean, it was incredible.
Speaker 2: And that's what you're gonna get with Denzel Perryman if
Speaker 2: he's healthy. And when he is healthy, I think this
Speaker 2: linebacking corps can be deep. I think can be very talented.
Speaker 2: You bring in Denzel perim You adam to Christian Kirks,
Speaker 2: he was already here. You adam to Christian Harris, who
Speaker 2: I think has got an opportunity to be one of
Speaker 2: the most important Texans on this team. You adam to
Speaker 2: Jake Hansen, who he had on I think a couple
Speaker 2: of nights ago.
Speaker 1: Jake I thought had a great end of the season.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: You bring back Neville Hewitt, You signed Corey Littleton, but
Speaker 2: then you signed Denzel Perriman and he could be the
Speaker 2: game changer on this run defensive run defense that has
Speaker 2: been Let's be honest, it's been off for the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, and that's got a change and Denzel
Speaker 2: Perramid's gonna do everything possible to make that better. And
Speaker 2: he started by coming in studio with Mark and I
Speaker 2: and discussing well, coming to Houston, his background, staying healthy.
Speaker 2: He was a really fun guy to talk to you,
Speaker 2: and of course, you know, we had to talk about
Speaker 2: the you from the fact that Mark's well, he's a
Speaker 2: hurricane and Denzel's arct kind of fell left out a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: But well you'll hear what happens here with Denzel Paraman.
Speaker 3: Denzel Peramid joining us in the hun Day Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Houston.
Speaker 4: How's it going, man?
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me, and it's going. It's going
Speaker 5: great man.
Speaker 3: Than all right, So, how's the adjustment been to being
Speaker 3: part of this organization? You're here and we're really happy
Speaker 3: to have you here, being around Tomko, being around Matt Burke,
Speaker 3: the entire staff.
Speaker 4: What's it been like for you?
Speaker 6: I'm an adjustment has been been quite an adjustment. I
Speaker 6: would say the weather to start with, It's been a
Speaker 6: minute since I've been you know, in this humidity. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I can't say that, but you know, just the energy,
Speaker 6: you know, being around the guys. Coach Demco I tell
Speaker 6: him all the time, you know, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 6: he still wants to play.
Speaker 5: You know, that's how much the.
Speaker 6: Energy you know, he cares, you know, around and you
Speaker 6: know everybody just feeds off of it.
Speaker 2: Denzil, I'm sure there are a lot of reasons for everything,
Speaker 2: but what was kind of the main couple of reasons
Speaker 2: for you to pick Houston to come here to play
Speaker 2: for the Texans?
Speaker 6: Well, honestly, it is because you know, they were one
Speaker 6: of the teams that, you know, really to give me
Speaker 6: an opportunity, you know, me coming off my shoulder surgery.
Speaker 6: They were, you know, one of the teams that was,
Speaker 6: you know, real adamant about you know, getting me on
Speaker 6: and you know, uh, you know, actually give me a deal.
Speaker 5: So so did it?
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people sometimes well they love me,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna love them. Maybe it wasn't quite like that,
Speaker 2: But just the fact that they looked at you and said,
Speaker 2: we know you can still play.
Speaker 1: We believe in you. How much did that matter to
Speaker 1: you and the whole decision making process.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think for any human I would say,
Speaker 6: you know, this is bigger than football, you know, just
Speaker 6: somebody believing in you in general. H You know that
Speaker 6: that that was a big step and you know I
Speaker 6: took it as you know, bigger than football. You know,
Speaker 6: you know what I've been through. You know, he just
Speaker 6: turned on the film. You know, they see what I
Speaker 6: can do, and you know that's my approach to it.
Speaker 3: Do you feel back to the weather here for a moment,
Speaker 3: Not that this is the most important topic in the world,
Speaker 3: but being down in Miami and you played high school
Speaker 3: ball in Miami as well.
Speaker 4: What's the difference so far?
Speaker 3: Now we haven't hit the really big stuff yet, although
Speaker 3: it's getting there. What do you think the difference is
Speaker 3: so far between South Florida humidity and this.
Speaker 6: I would say probably just a mindset. Is probably just
Speaker 6: a mindset. I mean, I'm pretty sure you know, Houston
Speaker 6: have a lot of different attractions, but you know South Florida,
Speaker 6: you know you can just stop whatever you're doing is
Speaker 6: just go to the beach or you know, you can
Speaker 6: get distracted real quick down there. But I say, it's
Speaker 6: just the mindset with when it comes.
Speaker 3: To but I'm at the heat specifically, I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: they're kind of the same to me, they're kind of
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 5: Like I said, it's been from Florida, been for Miami.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, hell is hell wherever you are. Man,
Speaker 1: when it's hot like this, that's what it feels like.
Speaker 3: A breeze in Miami over here every now and there
Speaker 3: and then every now and again.
Speaker 2: Then Zel, For for people that haven't seen you play, market,
Speaker 2: I've seen you play a lot over the years we've
Speaker 2: been there seeing.
Speaker 1: You live play.
Speaker 2: What are the Texans getting a dense hel peram and
Speaker 2: what can a fan look forward to in watching you play?
Speaker 5: Well, the fans are going to get a very physical player.
Speaker 5: I can't say that.
Speaker 6: I mean just that's just the nature I've been then
Speaker 6: and uh, you know, I know I have a history
Speaker 6: of injury, is just because of you know, the way
Speaker 6: I play.
Speaker 5: But they're going to get a leader, you know.
Speaker 6: I try to lead, you know, vocally, but more you know,
Speaker 6: by an example than anything. They're going to get a
Speaker 6: guy that's going to give it their all, you know,
Speaker 6: every Sunday. And you know I'm really going to be
Speaker 6: available every Sunday.
Speaker 3: You've been in the league for a while, Denzel, How
Speaker 3: have you changed the way you take care of yourself?
Speaker 3: Your body, nutrition and all of that has that evolved
Speaker 3: over time?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was a blessed year. Nine for me, so I
Speaker 6: was Yeah. I would say over the years, I had
Speaker 6: to change up my diet. You know what I put
Speaker 6: in my body, you know, the rest, the massages, stretching,
Speaker 6: all that good stuff like that literally plays a role.
Speaker 6: I went from two fifty to now down like two
Speaker 6: twenty five to twenty whoa wow, you were playing at
Speaker 6: two fifty.
Speaker 1: Yeahah.
Speaker 6: When I first got in the league, I was two fifty.
Speaker 6: Now I'm like good to twenty five?
Speaker 4: Did you have to change that?
Speaker 3: Not only because of injury, but because of the way
Speaker 3: linebackers are playing these days?
Speaker 6: Both of those play the role, I would say more so,
Speaker 6: like with myself, I felt like a lot of injuries
Speaker 6: that I did have, you know, like soft tissue injuries,
Speaker 6: a little small things, and I know my weight.
Speaker 1: Did play you know, roll in that Denzil.
Speaker 2: I know when we've talked to players that have been seasoned,
Speaker 2: they've been around a little bit. Sometimes when I ask
Speaker 2: me this question, they kind of look at me and like,
Speaker 2: you know, I got to do my thing. But do
Speaker 2: you have any kind of poll or feel for being
Speaker 2: kind of a mentor to guys?
Speaker 1: I mean, you got a lot of young dudes in
Speaker 1: that linebacker room. I mean some guys. I mean obviously
Speaker 1: got rookies in there. You've got dudes that have been
Speaker 1: there for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's not a lot of experience in that
Speaker 2: linebacker room outside of you, Christian Kirksey, et cetera. I
Speaker 2: don't want to say that you feel compelled to help
Speaker 2: those guys, but do you feel there's some responsibility in
Speaker 2: some sense to share your knowledge of the game with
Speaker 2: those young guys so they can then pass it on
Speaker 2: to the next guy after that You kind of look
Speaker 2: at that and look at leadership that way.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 6: Of course, I can say with this style of defense,
Speaker 6: the game that we're playing. Out of the nine years
Speaker 6: I played seven in this game, Okay, So I think
Speaker 6: it's just in my nature, you know, to want to
Speaker 6: help out the younger guys like I know when I
Speaker 6: was younger guys, you know, looking towards the older guys
Speaker 6: know to help me out, and they did. So I
Speaker 6: don't feel like, you know, I don't have that. I
Speaker 6: got to do my thing, you not help the next
Speaker 6: guy out.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day.
Speaker 6: You know, we're all here on the same team. We're
Speaker 6: all you know, compete for the same thing with all
Speaker 6: the families. So I feel like when I'm helping out
Speaker 6: the next guy, I'm you know, kind of you know,
Speaker 6: I'm reteaching myself also and you know, just refreshing my brain.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's all just a learning curve. Like
Speaker 6: I said, I've been in the system for a while
Speaker 6: and I'm still you know, learning new things.
Speaker 3: Also, Denzel, you went to Coral Gables High School? Yes,
Speaker 3: Frank or he went there a long time ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but do you how well do you know him?
Speaker 4: He's from the U two. I mean, I know it's
Speaker 4: big fraternity.
Speaker 3: So he played forever in this league, which was so
Speaker 3: impressive to me. How he was the last one from
Speaker 3: that one team to make it as long as he.
Speaker 5: Did, got just so funny story.
Speaker 6: Frank Gore played with my older brother in the high school,
Speaker 6: and I played with Frank girl's younger cousin growing up
Speaker 6: football wise, so kind of grew up in the same neighborhood.
Speaker 6: And I remember when I was coming out, you know,
Speaker 6: for you know the pros, uh, you know, to come
Speaker 6: by and train all that good stuff. Frank would also
Speaker 6: train at University of Miami. And we will also compete,
Speaker 6: you know in that uh you know, in that little
Speaker 6: phase and you know, just playing against him was I
Speaker 6: would say it was a star gaze of the moment
Speaker 6: for me because I remember watching him in high school,
Speaker 6: you know, playing with my older brother, you know, just
Speaker 6: like now I'm playing against you, you know in the you know,
Speaker 6: in the big time, in the big league. So man, yeah,
Speaker 6: like you said, man, he played, he played a while
Speaker 6: and uh just like his worth ethic and you know,
Speaker 6: his his mindset, you know, attacking the game.
Speaker 5: It's one to follow the bands.
Speaker 2: With you, all right, Benjiel I've been around Mark for
Speaker 2: almost ten years now and he's not been able to
Speaker 2: explain this to me. So maybe you can. I hear
Speaker 2: this all the time, and we've heard this all the time.
Speaker 2: It's a Canes thing. You wouldn't understand. Help me understand.
Speaker 2: What is it about the you? What is it about
Speaker 2: the University of Miami.
Speaker 6: It's it's really it's really a Cane's thing, man, I know,
Speaker 6: like I know it sounds so cliche, but it's really
Speaker 6: like a cane thing. Like you have to you know,
Speaker 6: be you know in those meeting rooms, you have to
Speaker 6: be in the locker room.
Speaker 5: You have to.
Speaker 6: You know, he's not there anymore, but you had to
Speaker 6: deal with coach sways. You had to go on Green
Speaker 6: Tree like you know, it's really like a cane's thing.
Speaker 6: And I would say, you know, for me when I
Speaker 6: was there, you know, it was just you know, continue
Speaker 6: that legacy. You know that those guys you know, building
Speaker 6: laid the platform down for great explanation.
Speaker 4: Denzelt ex a love for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you, man. I gotta say I got that. I
Speaker 1: got the handshake thing down. Man. It's good emphasis at
Speaker 1: the end to let you know.
Speaker 2: The interviews over so I give those guys a good
Speaker 2: handshaking bro hug before they leave. It was good catching
Speaker 2: up with Denzel Perriman didn't go through OTA's you know,
Speaker 2: still rehabbing and getting himself ready. Knows he's gonna be
Speaker 2: ready for spring training. But man, you talk about a
Speaker 2: guy in shape and ready to roll, Denzel Perriman is
Speaker 2: that guy. And as he walked into studio, I was like,
Speaker 2: do you go to Northwestern? And he was like no, No,
Speaker 2: and Miami Northwestern High school.
Speaker 1: Man. Those Miami guys very provincial about their high schools.
Speaker 1: I should have known him better than to have screwed
Speaker 1: that one up.
Speaker 2: I should know he didn't go to Northwestern, But either way,
Speaker 2: it was great to have Denzel Perryman in with us
Speaker 2: to kick off this show. Next the aforementioned Davis Mills. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had a great time talking with Davis and Mark
Speaker 2: and I will meet with him next right here when
Speaker 2: Texans All Access. Welcome back to this Monday initiative Texans
Speaker 2: All Access from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 1: I am John Harris.
Speaker 2: Football On All a sideline reporter, and I'm kind of
Speaker 2: flying solo this week, but because we had so many
Speaker 2: interviews with his players during media days at the beginning
Speaker 2: of last week, actually a week ago, on this day,
Speaker 2: we just they were in and out.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm Kendall Sheffield. Hi, I'm Davis Mills. Hi, I'm Denzel Perrman.
Speaker 2: I mean, they were just just going back and forth.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: It was great because, well, you know, you get to
Speaker 2: the desert and you got to have good things to
Speaker 2: talk about, and it's good to talk about these players
Speaker 2: with these players, and one of those is Davis Mills.
Speaker 1: We met with him.
Speaker 2: Obviously for the last three years, the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: in particular last year a tough one. He ended twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, we know very well twenty twenty two didn't
Speaker 2: go the way that Davis probably wanted. There were some
Speaker 2: throws I'm sure he probably wanted to have back and
Speaker 2: you know, just got his feet wet all year long.
Speaker 2: But the drafting of c J. Stroud, I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people look at c J. Strott to think, Wow,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be the starter. So what's the role of
Speaker 2: Davis Mills. I mean, John McClain has talked about I'm
Speaker 2: being traded.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I still think there's some good football and Davis Mills,
Speaker 2: and I think this offense will.
Speaker 1: Help him going forward. I still think there's something there
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: And we talked about a lot of those things with
Speaker 2: the man himself, Davis Mills.
Speaker 1: Who's Mark, Me and Davis right now.
Speaker 3: Davis Mills joining us in a hunday Texans radio studio.
Speaker 4: Davis, thanks to lot for being with us. How's it going,
Speaker 4: It's going great.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me all.
Speaker 3: Right, good to have you. So, how's the off season
Speaker 3: going for you so far? It's a new system, you know,
Speaker 3: here you are again, it's your third one, right as
Speaker 3: a pro third one.
Speaker 8: Now I feel like the off season that was flown
Speaker 8: by faster and faster every year i've been in it.
Speaker 8: Like you said, completely new system, new staff, new guys
Speaker 8: in the room. It's been exciting getting to know everybody
Speaker 8: picking up the new system. A lot of proven success
Speaker 8: across the league running this scheme, so I'm excited. I've
Speaker 8: already learned a lot and I'm looking forward to continue
Speaker 8: making those next steps.
Speaker 1: Dave's one of the things that Mark and I have
Speaker 1: talked about. People think voluntary OTAs, you know, conditioning all
Speaker 1: that stuff. It's voluntary two days and mini camp, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But because there's so little time before the first preseason game,
Speaker 2: we've started thinking that, Man, the's OT's are hugely important. Man,
Speaker 2: getting all this stuff down, all the verbiage, all the
Speaker 2: things that are different. There might be some elements that
Speaker 2: are the same from previous offense you've been in. But
Speaker 2: how important has that part been to try and get
Speaker 2: all that language and verbiage down before you come back
Speaker 2: for training camp Because you got hit it running ether
Speaker 2: ten twelve days before we play New England? How important
Speaker 2: have these weeks been in the otaste to get all
Speaker 2: that down.
Speaker 8: Oh, I mean extremely important. I think we've already installed
Speaker 8: pretty much the whole offense. Obviously there's a couple of
Speaker 8: situational situational things that haven't gone in yet, but we'll
Speaker 8: go in towards training camp. But I mean if you
Speaker 8: don't come and take full advantage of these voluntary camp
Speaker 8: days and the whole offseason program, then I mean you're
Speaker 8: pretty far behind going into training camp in those preseason games.
Speaker 8: So we've been getting after it, putting in a lot
Speaker 8: of time. Obviously there's the hour rule, but yeah, you
Speaker 8: got to do a lot on your own to make
Speaker 8: sure you're prepared and come in every day and put
Speaker 8: your best foot forward.
Speaker 3: And how important is it to help out the other
Speaker 3: players too, because you've got to know a cold but
Speaker 3: also delivering it to all the receivers and everything. We
Speaker 3: talked to a couple of guys who said, sometimes you
Speaker 3: give them a little extra help leaving the huddle what
Speaker 3: they might ask for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that's kind of the onus of the
Speaker 8: quarterback with your job. Make sure you know everybody's position
Speaker 8: and what everybody's doing out on the field because one
Speaker 8: little slip up, I mean, the blame always comes back
Speaker 8: to the quarterbacks and to make sure everybody's on top
Speaker 8: of it and doing their job. But I think kind
Speaker 8: of having that perspective and taking on that responsibility makes
Speaker 8: you learn it better yourself when you can kind of
Speaker 8: get to the point where you can start teaching it
Speaker 8: to the other guys around you. I wouldn't say I'm
Speaker 8: fully there. I'm still obviously only say, ten weeks into
Speaker 8: the system, but I'm getting there, and I'm really picking
Speaker 8: it up, and I'm excited. It's nice having different guys
Speaker 8: in the quarterback room who are learning the system for
Speaker 8: the new the first time too, so we're all bouncing
Speaker 8: ideas off each other and making sure we're all on
Speaker 8: the same page moving forward.
Speaker 1: And Davis, you got guys option into the spectrum.
Speaker 2: You gotta guys were playing the NFL before, and you
Speaker 2: got a guy that's played a lot in the NFL before.
Speaker 1: What is each one of them? CJ. Stroud in case
Speaker 1: Keenum meant to you? What have you meant to them?
Speaker 1: The fact that you've been here they haven't, but they're
Speaker 1: coming in fresh looking at different things. How's it kind
Speaker 1: of been to have those two in the room with you?
Speaker 7: It's been great.
Speaker 8: Starting with Case, I think, I mean, he has a
Speaker 8: different perspective than I do. I've started twenty something games now,
Speaker 8: and I mean he's probably doubled that, if not more,
Speaker 8: played in a ton of games, been in the league
Speaker 8: for a long time, and he has a ton of
Speaker 8: built up experience that I mean, he's seen a lot,
Speaker 8: and it's nice being able to have somebody where you
Speaker 8: can ask questions too. And I mean he's been in
Speaker 8: the shoes, done what you're trying to do at a
Speaker 8: really high level, So he has a good perspective on
Speaker 8: a lot of things. He's been in a similar scheme
Speaker 8: back with Koubiak and just different offenses around the league,
Speaker 8: so he knows kind of what the teach the coaches
Speaker 8: are trying to teach and how to interpret that in
Speaker 8: our perspective. And then hej stepped in completely new offense
Speaker 8: for him. I don't even think he's really called huddle
Speaker 8: calls in college and in high school. So really seeing
Speaker 8: him step in and take that responsibility, and I mean
Speaker 8: he's sitting at full stride, very impressive. Seems like he's
Speaker 8: been doing it for years now, but I mean he's
Speaker 8: new to it, just like we are, and it's excited
Speaker 8: seeing his growth and just seeing him getting better and
Speaker 8: better each practice.
Speaker 3: What about some of the weapons you have Singletary now
Speaker 3: to work with Robert Woods, some of the other guys
Speaker 3: who are new to the arsenal.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean there's a lot. We have a lot
Speaker 8: of new guys, and I'm excited to kind of see
Speaker 8: how those guys come, come in the building and work
Speaker 8: every day. I think the vibe and the feeling around
Speaker 8: the locker room that we have a lot of great
Speaker 8: new players ready to kind of add add their own
Speaker 8: flavor to the offense, guys like Motor, Robert Noah Dalton.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's a ton of guys who bring a
Speaker 8: lot of different traits and to attack defenses, and we're
Speaker 8: excited to see what we can do once we get
Speaker 8: out on the field.
Speaker 2: Davis dimiko as hey coach who tucked a few of
Speaker 2: the guys, brought up the fact that he played before.
Speaker 2: He's been sitting literally in those shoes, wearing a Texans logo,
Speaker 2: being in his building. But what have you seen from
Speaker 2: Demico and what do you think he has meant to
Speaker 2: this organization thus far since joining in January?
Speaker 7: It's been great.
Speaker 8: I mean, have somebody who's walking in and has as
Speaker 8: much juice as him, and team meetings and out on
Speaker 8: the field, you just get a ton of respect for it.
Speaker 8: And knowing that he's been in your shoes, he's experienced
Speaker 8: some of the heat during training camp practices that we're
Speaker 8: going to have to go through. Boy, gives you a
Speaker 8: lot of respect. But also, I mean it makes it exciting.
Speaker 8: It's kind of a new wave of energy in the
Speaker 8: building around here, and I mean we're all excited to
Speaker 8: get get rolling once we get to the season.
Speaker 3: Davis Mills with us, what about this defense? What are
Speaker 3: you seeing from them? What could you tell the listeners
Speaker 3: about what we might expect from this Demiko Ryans, Matt Burke.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think it all starts up front with
Speaker 8: the defensive line. They're firing off the football. Can only
Speaker 8: have so much contact in these uh offseason practices, but
Speaker 8: I mean, I think they're taking it right up to
Speaker 8: that edge, and you can feel the energy they have
Speaker 8: on that side of the ball, flying flying around and
Speaker 8: having fun making plays.
Speaker 7: It's exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been fun to watch you guys compete against
Speaker 2: one other in practice as you're going into your third year, Dause.
Speaker 2: I know it's not to training camp or not your
Speaker 2: third season, but do you feel and I would imagine
Speaker 2: probably tougher because you are learning something new, But do
Speaker 2: you feel the game slowing down for you at all?
Speaker 2: Like you're seeing things you know, they say that you know,
Speaker 2: oh quarterbacks, of the game slows down for them. Do
Speaker 2: you kind of sense that as you're going through OTA's
Speaker 2: in these practices.
Speaker 8: Definitely, I think kind of just even having the feeling
Speaker 8: of you've been there before. You it's not your first
Speaker 8: time walking in the building your rookie year, where it's
Speaker 8: you feel like you're being watched the whole entire time. Obviously,
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm keeping a chip on my shoulder playing
Speaker 8: with that same mindset where I mean every snap, every
Speaker 8: single tiny drill I'm doing, and individuals throughout practice, I
Speaker 8: feel like I have all eyes on me. There's any
Speaker 8: type of slip up at all, you never know when
Speaker 8: it could be your last snap. So I'm trying to
Speaker 8: take a full full advantage of every opportunity I have
Speaker 8: and continue kind of with that pressure in the mindset
Speaker 8: of taking advantage of everything and getting better at every
Speaker 8: every rep.
Speaker 4: All Right, so you got engaged.
Speaker 3: How involved are you in the planning process here for
Speaker 3: the wedding, Davis?
Speaker 4: Have you stepped aside? Are you being recruited to join in?
Speaker 4: How's that?
Speaker 8: I would like to say, I'm in control of most
Speaker 8: things in my life, but the wedding planning is something
Speaker 8: I've kind of passed off to my fiance.
Speaker 9: I trust entirely.
Speaker 8: That she's gonna make the right decisions.
Speaker 1: And that's a first down throw. That's exactly first connection
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: I mean that that would it would have if you
Speaker 2: would have said, yeah, you know, I'm in charge of this,
Speaker 2: we would have thought that, you know what.
Speaker 8: Maybe we haven't done the tastings yet, so maybe I'll
Speaker 8: have a little more call whatever she's what the menu
Speaker 8: items are going to be. But yeah, ultimately it's it's all, Uh,
Speaker 8: she's in control.
Speaker 4: Yep, whatever she wants, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Just don't shave your head before the wedding. It's almost
Speaker 2: if you don't do that, then you're okay. There's somebody
Speaker 2: that's room that did that and got in trouble.
Speaker 3: That would have been you because I didn't do it.
Speaker 3: There we go how much golf this offseason? Getting a
Speaker 3: little bit in. I know you have OTAs interfering with that,
Speaker 3: but what else?
Speaker 8: Played a lot immediately after the season February and March,
Speaker 8: and then flew back to Houston. Kind of My main
Speaker 8: focus has been learning, learning this offense, picking up the playbook.
Speaker 8: So I haven't had a ton of time to play.
Speaker 3: So if you and Fairbarn go out, is he giving
Speaker 3: you strokes? Or are you just saying we're going straight
Speaker 3: up here?
Speaker 8: My confidence tells me that I would like to play
Speaker 8: him straight up, but he'll end up beat me nine
Speaker 8: times out of ten.
Speaker 4: Who else is good on the team that we don't
Speaker 4: know about?
Speaker 8: It's been fun getting out there with k Case is
Speaker 8: good and you always hear that quarterbacks in the NFL
Speaker 8: are really good golfers, and he's one of those guys
Speaker 8: who has a pretty good golf game.
Speaker 3: Punters can be good too. But I don't think Cam plays,
Speaker 3: does he Cam?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 8: I don't think Cam plays weeks weeks plays a lot.
Speaker 8: Got out with him this past weekend. He's a good player,
Speaker 8: fairly inconsistent, but he's going to put together a string
Speaker 8: of good holes and take some money.
Speaker 4: Probably hits it a mile.
Speaker 2: What offensive lineman would be the best golfer. That's the
Speaker 2: biggest question. Which offensive lineman would be the best golfer.
Speaker 8: I think if you went and asked them, Titus would
Speaker 8: tell you he's the best, without probably going out there
Speaker 8: and proving it.
Speaker 4: But he's a quarterback.
Speaker 8: You if you gave him, I know, quarterback.
Speaker 7: In the past.
Speaker 8: But I think it's probably a toss up between Jimmy
Speaker 8: and Scott.
Speaker 4: Okay, makes sense. I think if Laramie put his mind
Speaker 4: to it. Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 3: Golf Davids, thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck
Speaker 3: to you, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was very sweet, David.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you stopping by hanging out with Mark and myself.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go in the way back machine.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go a little where are they now with
Speaker 2: former Texans tight end, former Ency State star Anthony Hill.
Speaker 1: That's next with Drew Doerty.
Speaker 2: Right here on Texans All Access, we go one final
Speaker 2: segment this Monday edition of Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, Football and all the sideline reporter.
Speaker 2: And fortunately I wasn't here back when Antony Hill was
Speaker 2: drafted to be a Houston Texan and he didn't have
Speaker 2: the greatest careerest. Injuries really set him back, but he
Speaker 2: made a name for himself after his NFL career ended.
Speaker 1: Here's a little where are they Now.
Speaker 2: With Drew Doherty given the background on Anthony Hill in
Speaker 2: case you forgot, he.
Speaker 11: Was a two thousand and nine draft pick out of
Speaker 11: NC State, but he's a Houstonian well by way of
Speaker 11: Clearbrook High School, so he grew up in the area,
Speaker 11: went away to college in North Carolina, and then was
Speaker 11: drafted back in two thousand and nine by Gary Kubiak
Speaker 11: and Rick Smith, the general manager of the Texans. He
Speaker 11: joined a tight ends group that included really the two
Speaker 11: best in franchise history. You know when Daniels and Joel
Speaker 11: Dreesen and he immediately was on a winner. Nine to
Speaker 11: seven were those Texans his rookie year, and he has
Speaker 11: turned his post football career into a big time success.
Speaker 11: Like many of the guys that we've talked to on
Speaker 11: this podcast, he's doing well in his retirement and really
Speaker 11: he's not retired. He just retired from the game of football.
Speaker 11: He's not retired at all from the work world. But
Speaker 11: without further ado, please enjoy this brief conversation with Anthony Hill.
Speaker 9: Where are any of these days with Bronny? What's wrong?
Speaker 7: Man? Hey? First off, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 10: Definitely has been a been an awesome time right now.
Speaker 10: I'm currently I actually own a construction company here today.
Speaker 10: Got into construction soon as I finished playing back in
Speaker 10: twenty twelve is twenty thirteen. Got into construction, buying homes,
Speaker 10: flipping homes, buying apartment complexes, got into concrete with my
Speaker 10: dad and that kind of took off, and have been
Speaker 10: a part of some pretty decent sized projects throughout the city.
Speaker 11: Mister modesty here, I've been around you a time or
Speaker 11: two because we go out and we do events and
Speaker 11: we speak at various groups and whatnot. You have been
Speaker 11: involved in some pretty major projects.
Speaker 9: You're not just.
Speaker 11: Flipping houses, which is a big deal in and of itself.
Speaker 11: You're doing a lot more than that, Anthony.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 10: You know I was giving a few chances by the
Speaker 10: the you know, definitely, the connections through the Texans has
Speaker 10: definitely helped me out throughout the city. And I see
Speaker 10: the Tellipson family had a friend, Trent Tellips, and he
Speaker 10: gave me a chance on the project over at Memorial
Speaker 10: Park where they put the two tunnels in those really
Speaker 10: large tunnels, and so that was one of our larger
Speaker 10: projects Port of Houston.
Speaker 7: We were at United Airlines.
Speaker 10: For about about five six years, and so yeah, that
Speaker 10: those are kind of our staples. That kind of was
Speaker 10: able to help us grow significantly in the concrete slash
Speaker 10: construction world.
Speaker 1: This is where are they now? With your dority and
Speaker 1: former Texan Anthony Hill.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I knew about the United Airlines one because I
Speaker 11: think the last time you and I were at a
Speaker 11: specific event, you know, speaking and doing a Q and A,
Speaker 11: that's what you were kind of immersed in. But I
Speaker 11: did not know about the Memorial Park one. I'm a
Speaker 11: former runner. I don't run as much anymore, but I
Speaker 11: used to run around that loop a lot in the
Speaker 11: late nine mid nineties, late nineties. Every time I come back,
Speaker 11: that's just an entirely transformed area. You guys are a
Speaker 11: big part of that. How exciting was that to see
Speaker 11: that just go from start to finish And it's not
Speaker 11: really finished ever, is it.
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 10: I don't think it'll be finished for some time. I
Speaker 10: mean technically it's finished, but I think it'll continue to grow. Yeah,
Speaker 10: over the years, that was awesome. That was a project
Speaker 10: that I got with me and my dad and then
Speaker 10: actually about just about as we were completing, my dad
Speaker 10: he actually end up passing away. So me finishing that
Speaker 10: project was a It was a huge accomplishment for me
Speaker 10: just to say, Okay, hey, look I finised a project.
Speaker 7: I know, I really made him proud.
Speaker 10: And just to just to see the project start as
Speaker 10: trees and woods and and you know, those guys are like,
Speaker 10: you know, hey, look we are We're tired of people
Speaker 10: getting smacked by cars from crossing the streets and different
Speaker 10: things like that. So we're going to have this huge
Speaker 10: tunnel and land bridges. And I didn't know that it
Speaker 10: would turn out so nice, but it's definitely a piece
Speaker 10: of work over there. So it was it was a
Speaker 10: huge blessing to be able to be a part of
Speaker 10: that one.
Speaker 11: It's where they now with Anthony Hill, and I mainly
Speaker 11: stayed on the trail so I didn't I didn't run
Speaker 11: the risk too often getting smacked by car. Way back
Speaker 11: in high school, every once in a while we'd veer
Speaker 11: off and go to basically Sabine Bridge from Amoral Park
Speaker 11: and turn around. Okay, so you're from this area, Clearbrook,
Speaker 11: you know, down sort of south in between Houston and Galveston.
Speaker 11: You grew up, You go to the NC State, you
Speaker 11: play there for a rounder in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 11: What was it like when you find out you get
Speaker 11: the call from the hometown team.
Speaker 7: Oh? Man, it was crazy. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 10: I actually, quote unquote I got sick during the draft,
Speaker 10: and so you know, I had this huge fishing trip
Speaker 10: plan before the draft because I was like, you know,
Speaker 10: I don't want to be around people.
Speaker 7: I'm going to go fishing, I'm gonna do all these
Speaker 7: other things.
Speaker 10: I'm going to go out to Galveston Bay and just
Speaker 10: kind of go catch some red fish and get away
Speaker 10: and I'll just have my phone handy.
Speaker 7: You know. Whatever. That didn't happen, that didn't go as planned.
Speaker 10: I think it was it could have been anxiety, but
Speaker 10: I don't but I don't want to say it. But yeah,
Speaker 10: I was in a hotel room sick, and then I
Speaker 10: got the phone call from a Houston and I'm like,
Speaker 10: who you know? You know, who is this call? And
Speaker 10: it was coach Kobiak. He was giving me a call.
Speaker 10: He said, Hey, man, I want you to come and
Speaker 10: play here. Family went nuts. You know, you know, we
Speaker 10: have a family divided. So I have half Cowboy fans.
Speaker 10: Yeah boo, yeah, we have Texans fans. And so my
Speaker 10: aunt and my dad actually they were they were hidden,
Speaker 10: hidden hands and they were in church actually, and so
Speaker 10: and so they were in church and they came back
Speaker 10: and they were like, you know, they've made a huge
Speaker 10: announcement over church, and you know, they all celebrated as
Speaker 10: the Cowboy fans were like, God, dank it, you know,
Speaker 10: you know, they were all pissed off. So but it
Speaker 10: was it was amazing, man, it was. It was amazing
Speaker 10: to come back home. I had been gone for six
Speaker 10: years going to to n C State and.
Speaker 9: So it was just hard grave before that the military counter.
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely definitely went to the military and so just
Speaker 10: just a lot of structure and so was really away
Speaker 10: from home for yeah, five six years, and then to
Speaker 10: just be able to come back and be with my
Speaker 10: mother and sisters and really my whole family.
Speaker 7: So it was just it was great.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you come to a team with Owen Daniels at
Speaker 11: tight End old Reason, really good tight end as well.
Speaker 11: You come in the mix there too. What was that
Speaker 11: like you get to rookie minicamp. It's not like rookie
Speaker 11: minute camp O ta is kind of geting your feet wet.
Speaker 10: As a professional, it was you know, honestly, it was
Speaker 10: intimidating to start. I mean, od I I definitely had
Speaker 10: already known about him. Joel Drewson was a super solid player.
Speaker 7: Came in. Me and James Casey we get we get
Speaker 7: drafted in the same draft.
Speaker 10: So some really good guys, and so, you know, I mean,
Speaker 10: I was just kind of like very much so humbled
Speaker 10: to go from being the man at n C State
Speaker 10: to kind of being the last man on the totem pole,
Speaker 10: really trying to fight for a spot to actually play
Speaker 10: on Sundays. So it was just a very humbling experience.
Speaker 10: And I want to say, to start, I want to say,
Speaker 10: we had like seven or eight guys, you know, like
Speaker 10: seven or eight tight ends, and so.
Speaker 7: It was like it was just like tank, you know.
Speaker 10: I mean, we went from having two and three to
Speaker 10: having you know, five and six, then we had seven
Speaker 10: and eight, and it was it was a ton of
Speaker 10: guys in the room.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you would you joined the team that had
Speaker 11: been gone eight to eight the previous two seasons. You
Speaker 11: get there, and you're in that that class with Cushing,
Speaker 11: the first rounder, Barwin had a nice rookie season, Glover
Speaker 11: Quinn would go on to do fantastic things. You're in there,
Speaker 11: Bryce McKain. I mean, everybody kind of contributed. And then
Speaker 11: he had two rookie free agents in Arian and Tim Jamison.
Speaker 11: I mean everybody on that not roster, but on that
Speaker 11: rookie roster really wound up doing something at some point
Speaker 11: or another, didn't they.
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely, And you know, I actually still communicate with
Speaker 10: a lot of those guys. Actually text Cushion like a
Speaker 10: couple of weeks ago, ask him about.
Speaker 7: His kids and little league football. Shoot.
Speaker 10: I did an event with Tim Jamison last week, a
Speaker 10: taste testing where we ate way.
Speaker 7: Too much dessert.
Speaker 9: There you go.
Speaker 10: So James Casey is coaching now, so he's always busy.
Speaker 10: So like we'll shoot each other text messages here and there.
Speaker 10: But a lot of those guys, we definitely still keep
Speaker 10: in contact. I see Cushing all the time. I think
Speaker 10: it was a close knit group. I think those those
Speaker 10: are bonds that will have from probably from here on.
Speaker 9: What was that rookie season? Like it was a weird year.
Speaker 11: You start out at home and you get Mark Sanchez
Speaker 11: in his first start against the Jets, and then everyone's thinking, oh,
Speaker 11: you got this, Texans will win this, and they blow
Speaker 11: the Texans doors off. But then you go to Tennessee
Speaker 11: and you literally all get in a fist fight with
Speaker 11: the Titans on the bench. But it's a fist fight
Speaker 11: of a game, just going back and forth. But Houston
Speaker 11: comes out victoria. It was a great game, one of
Speaker 11: the best games I've ever seen. And yeah, it was
Speaker 11: that whole year.
Speaker 7: Like for you, it was a roller coaster. I remember it.
Speaker 10: I definitely remember it, just you know, just trying to
Speaker 10: fight just to get on the field and just kind
Speaker 10: of seeing, you know, the ups and downs of you know, preseason,
Speaker 10: we're like, oh man, we're going to be pretty good.
Speaker 10: And then, like you say, we came in, we took
Speaker 10: a we took a hard l burst the Jets, and
Speaker 10: then we kind of had our ups and downs where
Speaker 10: we showed like just hey look we're really really good,
Speaker 10: and then we kind of we slunk it up a
Speaker 10: few times. I was able to learn that the NFL
Speaker 10: wasn't promised that hey, look anybody can win it, you know,
Speaker 10: any given Sunday just kind of learning. I think Ode
Speaker 10: ended up getting injured or something like that that season,
Speaker 10: and I ended up getting some more playing time than
Speaker 10: I got injured, and so it was, you know, it
Speaker 10: was just a just a roller coaster. So I was
Speaker 10: able to kind of learn, like, Okay, this is what
Speaker 10: the NFL is with you know what all these guys
Speaker 10: I've been talking.
Speaker 11: About five and three at the buy and then you
Speaker 11: come out of the buy, you lose four straight.
Speaker 9: You're you guys are five and seven?
Speaker 11: Yeah, and then you end with four straight wins and
Speaker 11: in the process, Arian Foster kind of comes out of
Speaker 11: the woodwork. Now it wasn't he didn't just get the job,
Speaker 11: and he wasn't the anointed the guy for the next season,
Speaker 11: but you saw some things down the stretcher. You also
Speaker 11: beat the Patriots to end the season, and for a
Speaker 11: few hours there was like Texans might be getting in
Speaker 11: the playoffs depending on what happens.
Speaker 9: It didn't. Yeah, that was finished, wasn't it?
Speaker 7: That really was.
Speaker 10: It was awesome to see Foster kind of come out
Speaker 10: of nowhere. He was always a really humble guy and
Speaker 10: I actually played with him in the All Star Game
Speaker 10: and he tore his hamstring on the first play, I
Speaker 10: think it was Pat maybe Pat White fumbled the ball
Speaker 10: and he went to pick it up and just kind
Speaker 10: of a freaky he just he just snapped his hamstring
Speaker 10: or something like that. So I was, you know, I
Speaker 10: didn't you know, I didn't think to see him again
Speaker 10: or anything like that. And then next thing you know,
Speaker 10: we were on the team again together. It's like, okay,
Speaker 10: well that was the guy that snapped his hamspring and
Speaker 10: then he for him to bounce back and just come
Speaker 10: out of nowhere.
Speaker 7: I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 2: It's where they now with former Texan and Clearbrook High
Speaker 2: School lom Anthony.
Speaker 1: Hill with Drew Dody.
Speaker 11: So you come to that team, Andre Johnson is on
Speaker 11: the offense with you, and I know you think Andre
Speaker 11: Johnson belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9: I do too.
Speaker 11: Most people listening to this also do. But explain to
Speaker 11: the morons out there that don't think Andre Johnson belongs
Speaker 11: to why does he belong in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 7: Oh? Man, I think he. I definitely think he does.
Speaker 10: I mean he kind of carried a team whenever, you know,
Speaker 10: I mean, we were we were struggling, he'd always come
Speaker 10: through with that great catch with that Turkus catch that
Speaker 10: you never thought that anybody would be able to come
Speaker 10: through with. You have three guys on him, still still
Speaker 10: come catch the ball. I think I think he did
Speaker 10: a great job. He definitely deserves to be there. I
Speaker 10: do think that he'll end up there, just don't know
Speaker 10: when or what the heck is taking so long for
Speaker 10: him to get in there.
Speaker 7: So everybody's rooting for him. At least all the players
Speaker 7: are rooting for him. I know that much.
Speaker 9: You're you're so diplomatic, and you didn't call.
Speaker 7: Hey, look I might I might need those guys.
Speaker 11: So he was one leader on that team, another guy
Speaker 11: leadership wise who was massive.
Speaker 9: Damiko Ryans.
Speaker 11: Yeah, how excited were you to see when he got
Speaker 11: hired here?
Speaker 7: As the head was definitely excited to see. It's so excited.
Speaker 10: He was actually a guy that I really looked up
Speaker 10: to when I played. I would almost say he was
Speaker 10: the leader of the team when he was there, you know,
Speaker 10: the leader of the offense and the defense almost to
Speaker 10: see just the way he would work and the way
Speaker 10: he put it together, the way he was consistent. From
Speaker 10: the first day I met him till we were to
Speaker 10: practice what was that Tuesday.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 7: He was the same guy.
Speaker 10: So to see that even just going to church and look,
Speaker 10: I'm going to church early on Sunday and then going
Speaker 10: to the game, or I'm doing this, I'm doing that,
Speaker 10: you know, just he was so strategic and just so
Speaker 10: consistent that I really did appreciate the friendship that we
Speaker 10: actually had. And so to see him come back and
Speaker 10: to see him still be the same guy, still that
Speaker 10: big old smile, but still you can tell that he's
Speaker 10: about to get after someone's ass. And so yeah, definitely
Speaker 10: definitely want to just try and you know, I mean
Speaker 10: us as former players, we just want to support him
Speaker 10: as much as possible. It seems like he supports the
Speaker 10: guys that are played, and he's i mean, he's still
Speaker 10: the same guy. So definitely, I think everyone's excited about that,
Speaker 10: ready for the season to actually get here, you know,
Speaker 10: I mean, now we basketball is almost over with all
Speaker 10: sort stuff. You know, we're we're really eager, you know, like, hell, man,
Speaker 10: come on, let's get the same.
Speaker 11: Well, I know he said publicly right after that that
Speaker 11: day that you all were out there. It was you
Speaker 11: and probably twenty five thirty other guys used to play here,
Speaker 11: some with most with him, some before, some after it.
Speaker 9: He really appreciated it.
Speaker 11: He said that publicly, and then I was at an
Speaker 11: event with him yesterday and he reiterated that meant a
Speaker 11: lot to him. What did you see, not just with Demiko,
Speaker 11: but looking at practice, What did you see that kind
Speaker 11: of stood out to you earlier this week about these
Speaker 11: twenty twenty three texts here in June. I know you
Speaker 11: got to put that asterisk by things because there's no paths,
Speaker 11: there's no hitting.
Speaker 9: But what stood out to you so far?
Speaker 10: It just seems like there's a chip. There's a chip
Speaker 10: on the guy's shoulder. It looks like they have something
Speaker 10: to prove. I know, everyone's coming off of a season
Speaker 10: where we're kind of saying I could just win a
Speaker 10: couple more games. We just kind of there's not huge expectations,
Speaker 10: and he that's not this, that's not that. But I
Speaker 10: don't think that's what Demiko is going for. I don't
Speaker 10: think he's going for, Well, if we win two or
Speaker 10: three more games and we won.
Speaker 7: Last year, then that's a successful season. I think he's
Speaker 7: in hell. No, I want to win. I want to win.
Speaker 10: Now, you guys are going to have to play with
Speaker 10: the same focus that he played with. And you know,
Speaker 10: I mean he's coming from the forty nine ers. They
Speaker 10: had a winning season. They were actually very successful while
Speaker 10: he was there. So I think he has seen what
Speaker 10: needs to be done and you know, you know the
Speaker 10: type of guys that you need to be on that team.
Speaker 7: And so it seems like everyone is clicking.
Speaker 10: Everyone's trying their damns to make the team be you know,
Speaker 10: be on the field on Sundays. And so even the
Speaker 10: alumni guys are eager about this season, where let's just
Speaker 10: say last season they weren't as eager. Guys are like, man,
Speaker 10: I'm ready for the season to actually really get going.
Speaker 10: So I think that looking at the players, I think,
Speaker 10: you know, I really do think that those guys are
Speaker 10: they're really playing aggressively.
Speaker 7: And I mean just kind of got a chip on
Speaker 7: the shoulders.
Speaker 2: That's Anthony Hill, former Texan and Clearbrook High School alum,
Speaker 2: with Drew Doherty unaware of they now.
Speaker 11: Can you tell much at this point early June about
Speaker 11: the tight ends. Were you watching much of Dalton Schultz
Speaker 11: and teak In Cotriano and Brevin Jordan some of those guys.
Speaker 11: Can you tell a whole heck of a lotters is
Speaker 11: still a little too early to get a gauge.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's earlier to see those guys here, I guess,
Speaker 10: And I mean we know that that guy was.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's a he's a damn good player. You know.
Speaker 7: I believe he was at the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: Right yep, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's I mean,
Speaker 10: we already know that he's a damn good player. So
Speaker 10: it looks like a really solid group. I know, he
Speaker 10: looks really good. When I heard he was here on
Speaker 10: like a one year deal, I was like, I was
Speaker 10: like okay. I was like, well, hopefully he comes and
Speaker 10: proves itself and he's here for a lot longer, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: we'll see.
Speaker 11: I had a fun conversation with him too. He's he's
Speaker 11: a little different. He was pretty fun. I don't know
Speaker 11: if you've got a chance to catch up with him
Speaker 11: at all.
Speaker 7: But yeah I did. I didn't get to catch up
Speaker 7: with him today.
Speaker 9: I got you. I got you.
Speaker 11: Besides those guys from the two thousand and nine class,
Speaker 11: who are some other Texans that you've either either befriended
Speaker 11: or you're still keep in touch with from your playing days?
Speaker 10: So one of the main guys is probably Moran Norris. Yeah,
Speaker 10: me and him, we damn there talked too much throughout
Speaker 10: the day's time.
Speaker 7: We talked all day long.
Speaker 10: I mean, heck, heck, we've we've already probably talked an
Speaker 10: hour for today.
Speaker 9: So I got to get him in one of these
Speaker 9: suit he hasn't been right.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, he will, he'll, he'll, he'll definitely do it.
Speaker 10: He'll for me if he's yeah, I promise you he'll
Speaker 10: do it all right.
Speaker 7: Fred Rury really good guy. Me and him hang out
Speaker 7: talk often.
Speaker 10: Those are kind of two of the main guys that
Speaker 10: I really hang out with that. I mean, there's a
Speaker 10: few other guys, but those are kind of the main guys.
Speaker 10: And I mean we stay pretty close. E Brown just
Speaker 10: some really good guys overall. And so they love being
Speaker 10: around the team, love being here, so me personally, I
Speaker 10: love being here also.
Speaker 7: So we're all a pretty tight group.
Speaker 11: That's really cool because you didn't play with those guys.
Speaker 11: They were before you, but you've you've become friends with
Speaker 11: them afterwards. That's awesome. That's really if you share something
Speaker 11: even though you didn't play together, right.
Speaker 10: And I can call them all old and all that stuff.
Speaker 10: You know, I kind of it kind of makes me
Speaker 10: feel younger, so a little bit.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, right, we Hey, what's next for you currently?
Speaker 10: I'm in the process of just trying to start some
Speaker 10: new businesses. I kind of want my concrete business to
Speaker 10: continue to grow. My son actually lives with me currently.
Speaker 10: He'll be here twenty four to seven now, so I'm
Speaker 10: trying to room him up and you know, make sure
Speaker 10: that if he wants to play football, that he is
Speaker 10: able to play it at the you know, you know
Speaker 10: that he's ever to play it.
Speaker 7: How old is He's eight?
Speaker 10: He thinks he's about eighteen, so yeah, so I'm yeah,
Speaker 10: so he's he's trying to learn and everything else. And
Speaker 10: I mean he looks like a tight end already, so
Speaker 10: I'm trying to just you know, just trying to bring
Speaker 10: him up the right way and.
Speaker 7: Keep on going.
Speaker 9: Awesome.
Speaker 11: Well, Anthony Hill, it's always good to catch up with you.
Speaker 11: Good to see it here on the zoom screen. I
Speaker 11: can't wait to see out and about it in another
Speaker 11: Texans Legends event where we're you know, talking about financial
Speaker 11: literacy or you know, fighting bully or something. You know,
Speaker 11: there's always something interesting when you and I are together
Speaker 11: at one of these events.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, yeah, because you.
Speaker 9: Are active with it. It's it's a good thing. It's
Speaker 9: good for us, good for all the people that helps me.
Speaker 11: Anthony, thanks so much for the time, my friend. Have
Speaker 11: a great summer and we'll see you again soon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sir, thank you all. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: True. This music, it's awesome. I'm so mad that we
Speaker 1: didn't use that for all access. It's awesome. For where
Speaker 1: are they now?
Speaker 2: Drew's awesome, Anthony Hill's awesome, Davis Mills and Denzel Perriman,
Speaker 2: you are awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. Well see tomorrowybody, and
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.