WEBVTT - Friday Fiesta w/current & former players | Texans All Access 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:00.840 What's up everybody. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.600 Welcome into a Friday edition of Texans All Access a tgiff. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:08.840 Thank god it's football Friday edition of Texans All Access. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.760 I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:11.200 Sideline reporter. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.000 Of course, glad to be with you as we go 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.480 into a June weekend. Next weekend, wow, think about that 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:23.440 next weekend. June thirtieth turns into July first on Sunday, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.840 and that's the month of training camp. We're getting closer, people, 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.440 We're getting closer. We're a little over a month out, 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.760 I think, somewhere on that timeframe. So getting excited about 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.000 training camp. And so tonight we will hear from another 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:41.240 couple of players, actually three to be exact, two current, 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.800 one you know, one well maybe you don't know. And 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.360 then we'll have another where are they now? With my 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.800 May and Drew Doherty. So we will hear from those 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.520 gentlemen a little later in the show. But we're gonna 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.680 kick off today's show with a little bit of news 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:03.120 and I love seeing this news. Will Anderson Junior is 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.680 a Texan. I know you probably think, wait a second, well, yeah, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.240 you got drafted, and of course he's a Texan. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.440 Both he signed and made it official today. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:17.240 He is a tech Sin four years, fully guaranteed deal, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.120 thirty five million, signing most twenty two million. So good 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.199 afternoon for Will Anderson Junior. And he's a Texan. That's great, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.600 that's great news. Now CJ's got to get into Fold 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.280 from a signing perspective, and I think that's it. I 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.080 think there's the only two that haven't signed. If I've 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.360 been following it correctly, I think everybody else. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.160 Is in in the Fold. But we'll keep an eye 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:38.319 on that. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:43.319 But Will Anderson signed today, and that is great news. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.600 Now I got it. Well, he didn't sign with the Texans. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.160 Actually he was waived by the Packers and the Texans 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.840 claimed his contract. And that's a Mari Rodgers. And last 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.880 year against the Cowboys, he made one of the plays 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.120 of the year with a touchdown off a rollout from 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.000 Jeff Triscoll. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.240 That was one of those what's driscoll too? Oh he 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.120 threw a touchdown? Oh my god, Rogers, I. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.760 Mean it was a crazy play at a big time 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.480 And of course you knew we had to talk about 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.880 that with a Mario Rodgers and then some so let's 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.920 kick it off with our guy and Mari Rodgers with 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.160 Martyanamir myself. Let's go kicking off a TGI for ride day. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.919 Addition of Texas auxis. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.040 Amari Rodgers joining us in studio. Great to see, Amari, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:23.600 we see out there. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:24.520 What is it like? 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.880 You're catching passes from Mills Stroud Keenum new offense? 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.840 You've been through a few. How do you like it? 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:31.519 I love it? 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:31.799 Man. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.240 The offense that we have here is amazing. You can 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.079 attack defense in so many different ways. You know, we're 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.400 running first. Obviously we're gonna pound the ball. You know, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.919 officeer line is doing a great job getting off the ball. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.080 You know, of course we got DP back there toting it, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.280 so that's going to be a plus. And then we 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.840 just throw it so many different ways, you know, play action, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.600 you know, quick game. We can bomb it downfield and 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.840 Coach Slow's doing a great job, you know, just putting 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.280 the offense in of course and getting us to understand 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.960 in the easy way. But then you know, just putting 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.880 us in a great position is in practice, you know, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:01.360 make play. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.239 So I'm excited for sure, Mari. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.880 How how difficult is it to a slant route might be? 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.240 You know, with different steps and things in one place 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.240 and it might be different here, So how does it 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.079 kind of learning the nuances of what but Bobby's luck 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.160 wants to do with this offense? You know, maybe it's 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.359 maybe it's three steps, you're cutting your outside foot here, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.440 but you know, if it's this, well that's different than 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.560 the way we used to do it. How does it 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.480 kind of adapt into some of those things or has 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.720 it been pretty pretty similar to what you've done before. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.560 It's just learning new verbiage for sure. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.960 So the system it's kind of like Green Bay where 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.320 I was previously, so as far as concepts and stuff, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:37.440 it's kind of like like that. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:38.800 So I'm kind of familiar with that. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:40.920 But the only thing that I've kind of had to 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.840 adjust to is you know, the outside foot up inside 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.200 the numbers, right, and that's kind of different. But you know, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 it's it's definitely it's definitely easy to adjust to. You know, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.480 being a receiver, you got to be able to adjust 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.960 their little things like that and taking on a fly. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.000 So it's not really been a lot of adjustments. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:55.240 You know. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.320 I'm thankful to be able to have been in the 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.320 system like this in Green Bay. It's helped me learn 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.880 the offense. But you know he's doing a great job, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.320 you know, helping us understand it and go out there 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:05.920 and play fast. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.200 So you know, I harkened back to the touchdown reception 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.760 against Dallas last year, which was just such a thrilling moment. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.320 I mean, do you look back on that as the 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.120 highlight of the year. I know it wasn't a good year, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.719 but that was a great play for you, non for sure. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.920 Definitely for me, it was definitely a confidence booster, you know, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:22.960 coming from where I came from and just being able 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.360 to do that against the Dallas Cowboys, who had a 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.960 great defense last year. It was definitely a confidence booster 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.280 and it definitely helped me finish the seating strong for sure. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.120 As you go into this OTAs, I mean, obviously you 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.599 weren't here last year for OTAs, but you kind of 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.800 know where everything is. You kind of feel comfortable. I mean, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.440 obviously the coaching stat has changed, but there are a 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.599 lot of familiar faces. How much does that help you 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.160 going into your two with the Texans, The fact that 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.520 you've you do know those things. You're not just walking in, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.560 you know, almost like a rookie in some sense, going man, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:50.160 where's everything? 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:50.760 Where do I go? 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.159 How do I kind of figure this out? I mean, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.440 you had to do that during the season, which is 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.120 hard enough. Right now you kind of got that under 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.720 your belt as you go through OTAs. That's that kind 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.320 of been for you. That's been good, you know. That's 0:04:58.360 --> 0:04:59.920 kind of why I wanted to stay here and train 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.000 here in the off season. So I've kind of been 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.279 here the whole off season, just training with our training 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.760 staff and and our and our weight room staff and 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.160 just building that camarderie with our staff and just building 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.160 those relationships so that when you know, the season came 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.599 and training camps camp, training camp came, I was I 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.039 was just here and I was comfortable. So that's really 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.760 why I did that, and it's it's really been great 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.360 for me, uh just now in Ota, just being able 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.159 to be comfortable with my shoes and where I'm at 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.000 just go out there and play ball without having to 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.440 think about those external things. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:27.760 So it definitely helped for sure. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.280 What are you seeing from Stroud so far? It's early on, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.400 but early returns. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:34.000 What do you think? 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.760 Very confident man, He's very confident. He knows what he 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.280 can do U and he knows where he can put 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.159 the ball. He knows that he's a great player, and 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.400 you know that's something that you want to see. You 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.039 want to see a confident quarterback out there that that 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.039 that talks to the guys that you know, when we're 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:49.920 having a bad day, you know, he's he's bringing this 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.039 up and he's already being that that kind of leader 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.200 for the offense. And you know, it's good seeing that 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.560 as such a young you know, as a rookie. Uh 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.880 So that's amazing to see. Uh he's and he's grown 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.080 every single week. He's getting better and better. You know, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.600 I'm just de sorried to see, you know, where he's 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.800 going to become. You know, season starting, well. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.279 You've seen some good ones, you see some great ones. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.520 You played with a great one who unfortunately now lives 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.480 in Jacksonville. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.760 Did you did you foresee. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.120 This happening with Trevor Lawrence being the guy that he 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.719 has become, Because somebody in this room wasn't quite sure 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.160 about Trevor when he was coming out of Clemson. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.800 Were you sure that he was going to become this 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:26.760 guy at some point? 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:27.040 Oh? 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.840 For sure, no doubt. I knew the way he came 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.560 into Clemson. U Literally, he from day one. You know, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.080 you also in the Texas A and M game his 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.719 first game, how you threw that touchdown the tee like 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.560 it was nothing on his first drive. And that's just 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.760 how he came into Clemson. You know, he came in confident. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.440 He knew he was that guy, and you know from 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.400 day one he played like that. And I knew he 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.320 was going to battle some adversity, you know, being in Jacksonville. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.600 You know, I had to rebuild a little bit a 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.440 couple of years, but I knew he was gonna get 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.320 through it, and if they put the right pieces around him, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.839 he was gonna be successful. So you know, it's great 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.880 seeing him do what he's doing him in Travis two. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.560 Yeah, about Aaron in New York with the Jets, how's 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.440 that gonna work out? He was at the Tony Awards 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:05.039 this week too. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.040 Yeah, I think I think it's gonna be a good 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.440 fit for him, especially him having the guys around him 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:10.960 that you know, he wanted from Green Bay. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.080 I think that's gonna be good. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.320 And they have a lot of young guys too that 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.520 that's bawling, you know, especially on the defensive side. So 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.120 they they have a team. Man, they have a good team. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.520 So I'm excited to see what they can do this year. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.080 You watched Ted Lasso, Ted Lao. Do you watch it? 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.360 It's on Apple Tea on Apple TV. Soccer the Soccer Show. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.840 Oh no, okay, well there's a character on that show 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.160 that we have taken to Colin. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.520 Aaron Rodgers you would know. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.840 Okay, got some either ords for you, all right, These 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.440 are pretty simple. It's pick a new professional sports soccer. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:48.160 Or baseball baseball? Okay, sting, Wait, you want. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:48.480 To repink that. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.560 Somebody just got a four year, six hundred and fifty 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:51.320 million contract. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.200 Yeah yeah, yeah, ben Zima yeah, and Messi turned down 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:56.400 one billion. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:04.960 Yeah, could cree soccer man. That's it's it's a long season, long. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:05.800 Seas you take it. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.840 You can start in a remake of a great movie, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.080 either good for you're the star, Goodfellas or Scarface Scarface. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.480 Okay, so you've seen have you seen Goodfellas? 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:21.560 I'm not familiar. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.200 You might have seen it, but you've seen scarf Yeah 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:25.880 for sure, Yeah, for sure, good. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:26.480 Fellas is a good one. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:26.800 All right. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.080 You guys did a team activity the other day. You 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:29.720 went bowling. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.319 So the one team activity now Scott Quasberry added one 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.280 in there. Either bowling or go karts or paintball. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.280 Paintball. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.719 All right, here's the one that's kind of stopped a 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.640 few people. But I'll ask anyways, in May, we had 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.959 two concerts in this building. If you had free tickets 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.560 to go to either one, would it be Taylor Swift 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:53.320 or Ed Sheeran. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.680 I'll probably do Taylor Swift just because of how popular 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.679 she is and just that environ man that she has 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:01.440 at her concerts. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.360 It's nuts. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.959 Yeah, but I listened to her Sharon more, but I 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.440 would probably want to see lit. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.640 Hear she's a creating concert, right. I mean I heard 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:09.400 she's great, but. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.840 For sure I made the mistake of watching one Instagram 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:12.959 video and now it's. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:13.800 Like my phone. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.520 A fourteen year old girl or something. I don't know. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.160 Thanks a lot for being with us. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:20.880 Good, thanks for having me, Thanks for having me. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:22.800 That man's inviting the studio anytime. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.800 He is smooth and fun to talk to, big smile, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.160 loves being a text and loves being here. And I 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.480 think training camp for him is gonna be a big 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.719 one of He's gonna have an opportunity. He's gonna have opportunities. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.840 And if you think about guys that are fighting for spots, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.240 fighting for playing time, fighting for a number two role, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.559 fighting for a backup role, fighting for a starting role, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.040 whatever it might be. You got all these training camp practices, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.120 you got three preseason games, you've got four joint practices 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.720 where you're gonna get a ton of reps against different 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.719 color jersey. And that's gonna be very, very cool, and 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.560 Mario Rogers, hopefully's gonna take advantage of that. All right, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.840 coming up, we got a guy joining us next that 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.800 he's never been on Texans Radio, never really had an 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.360 opportunity to talk to him, got into a building, I 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.199 think in January. When he left the studio, Mark I 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.319 looked at each other, like, we like this guy. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:12.199 Who is it? 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.600 Then you'll find out next right here on Texans All Access. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.040 Love being a Friday right here in Texas All Acts, 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.719 says Simon You our host John Harris, football analyst, sideline 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.040 reporter for your Houston Texans Drew Dordy and I talked 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.360 about this a little bit, and I don't know why 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:29.880 I think it's on my TV screen in front of me, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.480 but watching a few of the highlights of last night's 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.600 College World Series. Baseball, Yeah, baseball, He's almost played baseball 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.800 in college Air Force Academy, but decided and actually would 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.120 have played for Paul Mine Are you ended up being 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.439 the LSU baseball coach. He was Air Force coach way 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.760 back in the day, but decided to go football because 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.880 I love football and love more than that. But was 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.679 watching the LSU game last night. Man, it was one. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.800 That's the best zero zero game I think I've ever 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.360 seen until Tommy the Tank, Tommy Tank's white hit two 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.520 run bomb for LSU. That was a fun baseball game. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.920 And now LISU and Florida will play for the national 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.400 championship this weekend. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.480 But that was fun to watch. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.800 Now, guy that was fun to watch in training camp 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.680 as a guy that we really didn't have eyes on 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:10.320 for a while. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.920 He played at Toledo. He's from New Jersey. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.600 Kadar Holman walked in studio and I remember when they 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.480 gave us the well, Mark gave us the list, gave 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:20.720 me the list of who we were interviewing. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.679 I'm like, oh, cud Our Holman, Okay, i'mut to work 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:23.079 on that one. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.840 I don't really know a lot about him, but man, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.400 we had a blast talking to him, learning his story. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.400 Just let him talk ball, talking ball with each other. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:32.600 I mean it was really really fun. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.240 Could our Holman good size, big chip on his shoulder, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.160 and you know, for a good reason. The guy's kind 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.000 of kind of been around, He's seen some things, had 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.880 a great start this career at Green Bay, and he's 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.480 kind of bounced around a little bit. Have an opportunity 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.720 at training camp, has no doubt about that. And with 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.120 Steven Nelson, as John McClain pointed out last night, and 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.000 not participating in OTAs, it opened the door for guys 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.360 like Kadar Holman to step up, Kobe Francis to step 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.520 up and get some reps against the ones and twos. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.959 So Kadar Holman really fun interview that we had with him. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.480 And it's right now Kadar Holman joining us on Texans Radio. Kadar, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.320 how's it going? Welcome back to the Texans. Good to 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:09.440 be bad, good to be bag? 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:09.920 All right? 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.120 So you were with us in twenty twenty one and 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.600 since then have been with a lot of different teams. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.240 I mean you've made a lot of stops. Do you 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.480 not unpack the bag? How do you handle this? Because 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.840 here you are carving out your career in the NFL 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.240 and it's a process, right, going to different teams and 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.800 finding out what the perfect fit is. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.480 I just feel like, you know, in the beginning of 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.760 my career, I was set, and then when I got traded, 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.280 that was kind of like of like a course where 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.640 it's still going, you know, where I've just been moving 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.400 around and you know, learning, learning, learning a lot of 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.800 new things about the business, you know, just being a 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.080 sponge in this in this field, in this football career. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.400 But like, I just feel like it's altogether made me 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.440 a better player. And I feel like I was meant 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:04.120 to come back here. So hopefully my my career traveling 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.079 it ends right here. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.760 Hopefully you're right, and I hope you're right. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.920 But now that you're back here, I want to say 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.600 differences between twenty twenty one twenty twenty three, because we've 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.520 only got a few minutes with you, not a whole day, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.480 but being back here in twenty twenty three, how different 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.120 defensive scheme? How different is it when you go from 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.880 a different team, come of learning new verbiage, new language. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:24.960 I know, a lot of things are the same. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.520 Hey, you know, it's cover three cover, you know, but 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.079 teams have little tweaks and things that they do differently 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.200 within those different coverages. Can So how different is it 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.240 being back here a couple of years after the fact. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.720 Uh, this is it's like a total difference just from 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.760 the type, like like the scheme that when I first 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:47.760 got here under a Levey to where I'm at now 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:53.000 here is like one was like a real all one 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.320 hundred percent zone, right and then now it's like a mixture. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.319 But it's like a zone, but like a way more 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:00.000 aggressive zone. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:00.480 Right. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.880 So I just feel like maybe when I first got 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:09.360 here that defense was more so like you had to 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.400 know more and more verbiage because stuff could change. But 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.400 now it's just more so they just want to, like, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.360 you know, pin your ears back and let you play. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:22.040 Right, Kadar Holman joining us. You're a bigger corner, So 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.359 how does that help you against some of these receivers 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.800 and how hard is it to cover some of the 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.880 smaller really fast guys like a tank Dell who's out 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:30.640 there right now. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.200 I feel like just being a bigger corner it gives 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.360 you an advantage. Well, I want to say, being a 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.720 bigger corner that's able to have agility, speed and do 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.840 all the things that a smaller wide receiver might do. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.520 Because now you got a little bit of both, not 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.560 being an overly sized big corner, but just big enough 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.560 to the point where you if to the point where 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.200 if you go against a regular size receiver or a 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.120 little smaller receiver, it's gone. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.480 You're gonna have an effect on them. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.320 So I feel like going against somebody like Tank you, No, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.000 you gotta be patient. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.880 You gotta be patient, and you gotta be real good 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:07.360 with your feet. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.000 That's just not somebody who you could just try to 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.880 out physical at the line because he's small. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.840 You know, he like a lightning bowl in a bottle. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.600 Yeah, so he can slip by you. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.200 Yeah, he can slip by you. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.920 So you you want to know when to be physical 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.600 and when the layoff because somebody like that could use 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.840 it against you. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.640 Now, obviously, when you play the position, you've got to 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.160 be very technique sound in what you do. Yeah, But 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 there's also an art to play in the position, too, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.280 is there not? Kind of I don't say putting your 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.200 style on it, but you also have to put your 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.360 style on it in some way, shape or form. So 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.080 playing corner, do you think it's more scientific technique or 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.800 do you think it's more the art of playing the position, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.440 kind of learning how you play the position. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.880 I think technique bring you a far away, Like if 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.240 you got technique, you don't gotta be the fastest. And 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.000 you know, I mean it's some in some areas that 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.880 you don't got to be the best in because your 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.720 technique is gona it's gonna make you it's gonna it's 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.280 gonna bring your game to another level, and it's gonna 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.200 make you win a lot of battles that if you 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.400 didn't have technique, that wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't be 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.360 able to make that to make that one movement that 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.840 you did so so so good if you didn't have 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.560 your technique to get out that break. So I feel 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.960 like technique is definitely and but then also you know, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.960 just also like learning the art of being the dB. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.480 Yeah, Kajar Holman joining us. You're a Texan right now. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.640 You're also a rocket, a Toledo Rocket. So what brought 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.680 you out there to Toledo. I've been to the Glass Bowl 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:39.720 by the way, nice place. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.560 I mean, you know, coming out of high school, I 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.200 wasn't really heavily recruited, you know, just coming from like 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.000 East Coast Jersey. Like you ask somebody word Ohio, is 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:49.840 that they're not even gonna be. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:50.920