Speaker 1: What's up everybody.
Speaker 2: Welcome into a Friday edition of Texans All Access a tgiff.
Speaker 2: Thank god it's football Friday edition of Texans All Access.
Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst.
Speaker 1: Sideline reporter.
Speaker 2: Of course, glad to be with you as we go
Speaker 2: into a June weekend. Next weekend, wow, think about that
Speaker 2: next weekend. June thirtieth turns into July first on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and that's the month of training camp. We're getting closer, people,
Speaker 2: We're getting closer. We're a little over a month out,
Speaker 2: I think, somewhere on that timeframe. So getting excited about
Speaker 2: training camp. And so tonight we will hear from another
Speaker 2: couple of players, actually three to be exact, two current,
Speaker 2: one you know, one well maybe you don't know. And
Speaker 2: then we'll have another where are they now? With my
Speaker 2: May and Drew Doherty. So we will hear from those
Speaker 2: gentlemen a little later in the show. But we're gonna
Speaker 2: kick off today's show with a little bit of news
Speaker 2: and I love seeing this news. Will Anderson Junior is
Speaker 2: a Texan. I know you probably think, wait a second, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got drafted, and of course he's a Texan.
Speaker 1: Both he signed and made it official today.
Speaker 2: He is a tech Sin four years, fully guaranteed deal,
Speaker 2: thirty five million, signing most twenty two million. So good
Speaker 2: afternoon for Will Anderson Junior. And he's a Texan. That's great,
Speaker 2: that's great news. Now CJ's got to get into Fold
Speaker 2: from a signing perspective, and I think that's it. I
Speaker 2: think there's the only two that haven't signed. If I've
Speaker 2: been following it correctly, I think everybody else.
Speaker 3: Is in in the Fold. But we'll keep an eye
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: But Will Anderson signed today, and that is great news.
Speaker 2: Now I got it. Well, he didn't sign with the Texans.
Speaker 2: Actually he was waived by the Packers and the Texans
Speaker 2: claimed his contract. And that's a Mari Rodgers. And last
Speaker 2: year against the Cowboys, he made one of the plays
Speaker 2: of the year with a touchdown off a rollout from
Speaker 2: Jeff Triscoll.
Speaker 1: That was one of those what's driscoll too? Oh he
Speaker 1: threw a touchdown? Oh my god, Rogers, I.
Speaker 2: Mean it was a crazy play at a big time
Speaker 2: And of course you knew we had to talk about
Speaker 2: that with a Mario Rodgers and then some so let's
Speaker 2: kick it off with our guy and Mari Rodgers with
Speaker 2: Martyanamir myself. Let's go kicking off a TGI for ride day.
Speaker 2: Addition of Texas auxis.
Speaker 4: Amari Rodgers joining us in studio. Great to see, Amari,
Speaker 4: we see out there.
Speaker 1: What is it like?
Speaker 4: You're catching passes from Mills Stroud Keenum new offense?
Speaker 1: You've been through a few. How do you like it?
Speaker 5: I love it?
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: The offense that we have here is amazing. You can
Speaker 7: attack defense in so many different ways. You know, we're
Speaker 7: running first. Obviously we're gonna pound the ball. You know,
Speaker 7: officeer line is doing a great job getting off the ball.
Speaker 7: You know, of course we got DP back there toting it,
Speaker 7: so that's going to be a plus. And then we
Speaker 7: just throw it so many different ways, you know, play action,
Speaker 7: you know, quick game. We can bomb it downfield and
Speaker 7: Coach Slow's doing a great job, you know, just putting
Speaker 7: the offense in of course and getting us to understand
Speaker 7: in the easy way. But then you know, just putting
Speaker 7: us in a great position is in practice, you know,
Speaker 7: make play.
Speaker 8: So I'm excited for sure, Mari.
Speaker 2: How how difficult is it to a slant route might be?
Speaker 2: You know, with different steps and things in one place
Speaker 2: and it might be different here, So how does it
Speaker 2: kind of learning the nuances of what but Bobby's luck
Speaker 2: wants to do with this offense? You know, maybe it's
Speaker 2: maybe it's three steps, you're cutting your outside foot here,
Speaker 2: but you know, if it's this, well that's different than
Speaker 2: the way we used to do it. How does it
Speaker 2: kind of adapt into some of those things or has
Speaker 2: it been pretty pretty similar to what you've done before.
Speaker 1: It's just learning new verbiage for sure.
Speaker 7: So the system it's kind of like Green Bay where
Speaker 7: I was previously, so as far as concepts and stuff,
Speaker 7: it's kind of like like that.
Speaker 8: So I'm kind of familiar with that.
Speaker 7: But the only thing that I've kind of had to
Speaker 7: adjust to is you know, the outside foot up inside
Speaker 7: the numbers, right, and that's kind of different. But you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's definitely it's definitely easy to adjust to. You know,
Speaker 7: being a receiver, you got to be able to adjust
Speaker 7: their little things like that and taking on a fly.
Speaker 7: So it's not really been a lot of adjustments.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: I'm thankful to be able to have been in the
Speaker 7: system like this in Green Bay. It's helped me learn
Speaker 7: the offense. But you know he's doing a great job,
Speaker 7: you know, helping us understand it and go out there
Speaker 7: and play fast.
Speaker 4: So you know, I harkened back to the touchdown reception
Speaker 4: against Dallas last year, which was just such a thrilling moment.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you look back on that as the
Speaker 4: highlight of the year. I know it wasn't a good year,
Speaker 4: but that was a great play for you, non for sure.
Speaker 7: Definitely for me, it was definitely a confidence booster, you know,
Speaker 7: coming from where I came from and just being able
Speaker 7: to do that against the Dallas Cowboys, who had a
Speaker 7: great defense last year. It was definitely a confidence booster
Speaker 7: and it definitely helped me finish the seating strong for sure.
Speaker 2: As you go into this OTAs, I mean, obviously you
Speaker 2: weren't here last year for OTAs, but you kind of
Speaker 2: know where everything is. You kind of feel comfortable. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously the coaching stat has changed, but there are a
Speaker 2: lot of familiar faces. How much does that help you
Speaker 2: going into your two with the Texans, The fact that
Speaker 2: you've you do know those things. You're not just walking in,
Speaker 2: you know, almost like a rookie in some sense, going man,
Speaker 2: where's everything?
Speaker 9: Where do I go?
Speaker 2: How do I kind of figure this out? I mean,
Speaker 2: you had to do that during the season, which is
Speaker 2: hard enough. Right now you kind of got that under
Speaker 2: your belt as you go through OTAs. That's that kind
Speaker 2: of been for you. That's been good, you know. That's
Speaker 2: kind of why I wanted to stay here and train
Speaker 2: here in the off season. So I've kind of been
Speaker 2: here the whole off season, just training with our training
Speaker 2: staff and and our and our weight room staff and
Speaker 2: just building that camarderie with our staff and just building
Speaker 2: those relationships so that when you know, the season came
Speaker 2: and training camps camp, training camp came, I was I
Speaker 2: was just here and I was comfortable. So that's really
Speaker 2: why I did that, and it's it's really been great
Speaker 2: for me, uh just now in Ota, just being able
Speaker 2: to be comfortable with my shoes and where I'm at
Speaker 2: just go out there and play ball without having to
Speaker 2: think about those external things.
Speaker 8: So it definitely helped for sure.
Speaker 4: What are you seeing from Stroud so far? It's early on,
Speaker 4: but early returns.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 7: Very confident man, He's very confident. He knows what he
Speaker 7: can do U and he knows where he can put
Speaker 7: the ball. He knows that he's a great player, and
Speaker 7: you know that's something that you want to see. You
Speaker 7: want to see a confident quarterback out there that that
Speaker 7: that talks to the guys that you know, when we're
Speaker 7: having a bad day, you know, he's he's bringing this
Speaker 7: up and he's already being that that kind of leader
Speaker 7: for the offense. And you know, it's good seeing that
Speaker 7: as such a young you know, as a rookie. Uh
Speaker 7: So that's amazing to see. Uh he's and he's grown
Speaker 7: every single week. He's getting better and better. You know,
Speaker 7: I'm just de sorried to see, you know, where he's
Speaker 7: going to become. You know, season starting, well.
Speaker 1: You've seen some good ones, you see some great ones.
Speaker 2: You played with a great one who unfortunately now lives
Speaker 2: in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Did you did you foresee.
Speaker 2: This happening with Trevor Lawrence being the guy that he
Speaker 2: has become, Because somebody in this room wasn't quite sure
Speaker 2: about Trevor when he was coming out of Clemson.
Speaker 1: Were you sure that he was going to become this
Speaker 1: guy at some point?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: For sure, no doubt. I knew the way he came
Speaker 7: into Clemson. U Literally, he from day one. You know,
Speaker 7: you also in the Texas A and M game his
Speaker 7: first game, how you threw that touchdown the tee like
Speaker 7: it was nothing on his first drive. And that's just
Speaker 7: how he came into Clemson. You know, he came in confident.
Speaker 7: He knew he was that guy, and you know from
Speaker 7: day one he played like that. And I knew he
Speaker 7: was going to battle some adversity, you know, being in Jacksonville.
Speaker 7: You know, I had to rebuild a little bit a
Speaker 7: couple of years, but I knew he was gonna get
Speaker 7: through it, and if they put the right pieces around him,
Speaker 7: he was gonna be successful. So you know, it's great
Speaker 7: seeing him do what he's doing him in Travis two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, about Aaron in New York with the Jets, how's
Speaker 4: that gonna work out? He was at the Tony Awards
Speaker 4: this week too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think it's gonna be a good
Speaker 7: fit for him, especially him having the guys around him
Speaker 7: that you know, he wanted from Green Bay.
Speaker 8: I think that's gonna be good.
Speaker 7: And they have a lot of young guys too that
Speaker 7: that's bawling, you know, especially on the defensive side. So
Speaker 7: they they have a team. Man, they have a good team.
Speaker 7: So I'm excited to see what they can do this year.
Speaker 7: You watched Ted Lasso, Ted Lao. Do you watch it?
Speaker 1: It's on Apple Tea on Apple TV. Soccer the Soccer Show.
Speaker 2: Oh no, okay, well there's a character on that show
Speaker 2: that we have taken to Colin.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers you would know.
Speaker 2: Okay, got some either ords for you, all right, These
Speaker 2: are pretty simple. It's pick a new professional sports soccer.
Speaker 8: Or baseball baseball? Okay, sting, Wait, you want.
Speaker 1: To repink that.
Speaker 8: Somebody just got a four year, six hundred and fifty
Speaker 8: million contract.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, ben Zima yeah, and Messi turned down
Speaker 2: one billion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, could cree soccer man. That's it's it's a long season, long.
Speaker 8: Seas you take it.
Speaker 2: You can start in a remake of a great movie,
Speaker 2: either good for you're the star, Goodfellas or Scarface Scarface.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've seen have you seen Goodfellas?
Speaker 8: I'm not familiar.
Speaker 4: You might have seen it, but you've seen scarf Yeah
Speaker 4: for sure, Yeah, for sure, good.
Speaker 1: Fellas is a good one.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: You guys did a team activity the other day. You
Speaker 1: went bowling.
Speaker 2: So the one team activity now Scott Quasberry added one
Speaker 2: in there. Either bowling or go karts or paintball.
Speaker 8: Paintball.
Speaker 2: All right, here's the one that's kind of stopped a
Speaker 2: few people. But I'll ask anyways, in May, we had
Speaker 2: two concerts in this building. If you had free tickets
Speaker 2: to go to either one, would it be Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: or Ed Sheeran.
Speaker 7: I'll probably do Taylor Swift just because of how popular
Speaker 7: she is and just that environ man that she has
Speaker 7: at her concerts.
Speaker 1: It's nuts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I listened to her Sharon more, but I
Speaker 7: would probably want to see lit.
Speaker 1: Hear she's a creating concert, right. I mean I heard
Speaker 1: she's great, but.
Speaker 4: For sure I made the mistake of watching one Instagram
Speaker 4: video and now it's.
Speaker 9: Like my phone.
Speaker 1: A fourteen year old girl or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for being with us.
Speaker 8: Good, thanks for having me, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: That man's inviting the studio anytime.
Speaker 2: He is smooth and fun to talk to, big smile,
Speaker 2: loves being a text and loves being here. And I
Speaker 2: think training camp for him is gonna be a big
Speaker 2: one of He's gonna have an opportunity. He's gonna have opportunities.
Speaker 2: And if you think about guys that are fighting for spots,
Speaker 2: fighting for playing time, fighting for a number two role,
Speaker 2: fighting for a backup role, fighting for a starting role,
Speaker 2: whatever it might be. You got all these training camp practices,
Speaker 2: you got three preseason games, you've got four joint practices
Speaker 2: where you're gonna get a ton of reps against different
Speaker 2: color jersey. And that's gonna be very, very cool, and
Speaker 2: Mario Rogers, hopefully's gonna take advantage of that. All right,
Speaker 2: coming up, we got a guy joining us next that
Speaker 2: he's never been on Texans Radio, never really had an
Speaker 2: opportunity to talk to him, got into a building, I
Speaker 2: think in January. When he left the studio, Mark I
Speaker 2: looked at each other, like, we like this guy.
Speaker 1: Who is it?
Speaker 3: Then you'll find out next right here on Texans All Access.
Speaker 2: Love being a Friday right here in Texas All Acts,
Speaker 2: says Simon You our host John Harris, football analyst, sideline
Speaker 2: reporter for your Houston Texans Drew Dordy and I talked
Speaker 2: about this a little bit, and I don't know why
Speaker 2: I think it's on my TV screen in front of me,
Speaker 2: but watching a few of the highlights of last night's
Speaker 2: College World Series. Baseball, Yeah, baseball, He's almost played baseball
Speaker 2: in college Air Force Academy, but decided and actually would
Speaker 2: have played for Paul Mine Are you ended up being
Speaker 2: the LSU baseball coach. He was Air Force coach way
Speaker 2: back in the day, but decided to go football because
Speaker 2: I love football and love more than that. But was
Speaker 2: watching the LSU game last night. Man, it was one.
Speaker 2: That's the best zero zero game I think I've ever
Speaker 2: seen until Tommy the Tank, Tommy Tank's white hit two
Speaker 2: run bomb for LSU. That was a fun baseball game.
Speaker 2: And now LISU and Florida will play for the national
Speaker 2: championship this weekend.
Speaker 1: But that was fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Now, guy that was fun to watch in training camp
Speaker 2: as a guy that we really didn't have eyes on
Speaker 2: for a while.
Speaker 1: He played at Toledo. He's from New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Kadar Holman walked in studio and I remember when they
Speaker 2: gave us the well, Mark gave us the list, gave
Speaker 2: me the list of who we were interviewing.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, cud Our Holman, Okay, i'mut to work
Speaker 3: on that one.
Speaker 2: I don't really know a lot about him, but man,
Speaker 2: we had a blast talking to him, learning his story.
Speaker 3: Just let him talk ball, talking ball with each other.
Speaker 3: I mean it was really really fun.
Speaker 2: Could our Holman good size, big chip on his shoulder,
Speaker 2: and you know, for a good reason. The guy's kind
Speaker 2: of kind of been around, He's seen some things, had
Speaker 2: a great start this career at Green Bay, and he's
Speaker 2: kind of bounced around a little bit. Have an opportunity
Speaker 2: at training camp, has no doubt about that. And with
Speaker 2: Steven Nelson, as John McClain pointed out last night, and
Speaker 2: not participating in OTAs, it opened the door for guys
Speaker 2: like Kadar Holman to step up, Kobe Francis to step
Speaker 2: up and get some reps against the ones and twos.
Speaker 3: So Kadar Holman really fun interview that we had with him.
Speaker 4: And it's right now Kadar Holman joining us on Texans Radio. Kadar,
Speaker 4: how's it going? Welcome back to the Texans. Good to
Speaker 4: be bad, good to be bag?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: So you were with us in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 4: since then have been with a lot of different teams.
Speaker 4: I mean you've made a lot of stops. Do you
Speaker 4: not unpack the bag? How do you handle this? Because
Speaker 4: here you are carving out your career in the NFL
Speaker 4: and it's a process, right, going to different teams and
Speaker 4: finding out what the perfect fit is.
Speaker 10: I just feel like, you know, in the beginning of
Speaker 10: my career, I was set, and then when I got traded,
Speaker 10: that was kind of like of like a course where
Speaker 10: it's still going, you know, where I've just been moving
Speaker 10: around and you know, learning, learning, learning a lot of
Speaker 10: new things about the business, you know, just being a
Speaker 10: sponge in this in this field, in this football career.
Speaker 10: But like, I just feel like it's altogether made me
Speaker 10: a better player. And I feel like I was meant
Speaker 10: to come back here. So hopefully my my career traveling
Speaker 10: it ends right here.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're right, and I hope you're right.
Speaker 2: But now that you're back here, I want to say
Speaker 2: differences between twenty twenty one twenty twenty three, because we've
Speaker 2: only got a few minutes with you, not a whole day,
Speaker 2: but being back here in twenty twenty three, how different
Speaker 2: defensive scheme? How different is it when you go from
Speaker 2: a different team, come of learning new verbiage, new language.
Speaker 1: I know, a lot of things are the same.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, it's cover three cover, you know, but
Speaker 2: teams have little tweaks and things that they do differently
Speaker 2: within those different coverages. Can So how different is it
Speaker 2: being back here a couple of years after the fact.
Speaker 10: Uh, this is it's like a total difference just from
Speaker 10: the type, like like the scheme that when I first
Speaker 10: got here under a Levey to where I'm at now
Speaker 10: here is like one was like a real all one
Speaker 10: hundred percent zone, right and then now it's like a mixture.
Speaker 10: But it's like a zone, but like a way more
Speaker 10: aggressive zone.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 10: So I just feel like maybe when I first got
Speaker 10: here that defense was more so like you had to
Speaker 10: know more and more verbiage because stuff could change. But
Speaker 10: now it's just more so they just want to, like,
Speaker 10: you know, pin your ears back and let you play.
Speaker 4: Right, Kadar Holman joining us. You're a bigger corner, So
Speaker 4: how does that help you against some of these receivers
Speaker 4: and how hard is it to cover some of the
Speaker 4: smaller really fast guys like a tank Dell who's out
Speaker 4: there right now.
Speaker 10: I feel like just being a bigger corner it gives
Speaker 10: you an advantage. Well, I want to say, being a
Speaker 10: bigger corner that's able to have agility, speed and do
Speaker 10: all the things that a smaller wide receiver might do.
Speaker 10: Because now you got a little bit of both, not
Speaker 10: being an overly sized big corner, but just big enough
Speaker 10: to the point where you if to the point where
Speaker 10: if you go against a regular size receiver or a
Speaker 10: little smaller receiver, it's gone.
Speaker 9: You're gonna have an effect on them.
Speaker 10: So I feel like going against somebody like Tank you, No,
Speaker 10: you gotta be patient.
Speaker 9: You gotta be patient, and you gotta be real good
Speaker 9: with your feet.
Speaker 10: That's just not somebody who you could just try to
Speaker 10: out physical at the line because he's small.
Speaker 9: You know, he like a lightning bowl in a bottle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he can slip by you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he can slip by you.
Speaker 10: So you you want to know when to be physical
Speaker 10: and when the layoff because somebody like that could use
Speaker 10: it against you.
Speaker 2: Now, obviously, when you play the position, you've got to
Speaker 2: be very technique sound in what you do. Yeah, But
Speaker 2: there's also an art to play in the position, too,
Speaker 2: is there not? Kind of I don't say putting your
Speaker 2: style on it, but you also have to put your
Speaker 2: style on it in some way, shape or form. So
Speaker 2: playing corner, do you think it's more scientific technique or
Speaker 2: do you think it's more the art of playing the position,
Speaker 2: kind of learning how you play the position.
Speaker 10: I think technique bring you a far away, Like if
Speaker 10: you got technique, you don't gotta be the fastest. And
Speaker 10: you know, I mean it's some in some areas that
Speaker 10: you don't got to be the best in because your
Speaker 10: technique is gona it's gonna make you it's gonna it's
Speaker 10: gonna bring your game to another level, and it's gonna
Speaker 10: make you win a lot of battles that if you
Speaker 10: didn't have technique, that wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't be
Speaker 10: able to make that to make that one movement that
Speaker 10: you did so so so good if you didn't have
Speaker 10: your technique to get out that break. So I feel
Speaker 10: like technique is definitely and but then also you know,
Speaker 10: just also like learning the art of being the dB.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kajar Holman joining us. You're a Texan right now.
Speaker 4: You're also a rocket, a Toledo Rocket. So what brought
Speaker 4: you out there to Toledo. I've been to the Glass Bowl
Speaker 4: by the way, nice place.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, coming out of high school, I
Speaker 10: wasn't really heavily recruited, you know, just coming from like
Speaker 10: East Coast Jersey. Like you ask somebody word Ohio, is
Speaker 10: that they're not even gonna be.
Speaker 9: Able to tell you which way.
Speaker 10: Nothing abouttle I thought that was a totally different I
Speaker 10: thought that was like going on Chicago time, but then
Speaker 10: it wasn't. I just felt like coming out, I wasn't
Speaker 10: heavily recruited, so I didn't have a lot of choices
Speaker 10: some you know, one of the coaches that was there
Speaker 10: at the time hit me up to like walk on
Speaker 10: and earn a scholarship. So you know, I was with
Speaker 10: it because at the end of the day, all you
Speaker 10: can ask for is the opportunity.
Speaker 2: I feel like greatness comes out of adversity that you
Speaker 2: talk about that, like, hey, we want to invite you
Speaker 2: to be a walk on. And I know you're thinking,
Speaker 2: I'm a scholar, I'm a scholar player how And this
Speaker 2: sounds cliche in some sense, but I.
Speaker 1: Think it's true.
Speaker 2: How much of a chip on your shoulder did you
Speaker 2: have kind of going through that process to say, hey,
Speaker 2: I can do this. You will give me a scholarship,
Speaker 2: I will get myself to the NFL. Those are all
Speaker 2: lofty goals because you know the numbers don't always work.
Speaker 2: But is that the way you approached it, Like watch this,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, every day, every day, Like sometimes I'll leave practice
Speaker 10: just mad, just like but like not specifically mad as somebody,
Speaker 10: but just you know, mad about my situation. But of course,
Speaker 10: like it's like the type of mad where not the
Speaker 10: negative man that comes off and like as like a
Speaker 10: bad teammate type of like oh, like you know, like
Speaker 10: it's like a statement like I'm pissed for greatness like
Speaker 10: something like that, where I really just wanted to keep
Speaker 10: getting better and show that I shouldn't have been to
Speaker 10: walk on Kadar.
Speaker 4: Give me one thing about Jersey that you like, the
Speaker 4: the brand of New Jersey. That's the chip on the
Speaker 4: shoulder kind of thing, right with the New Jersey guys.
Speaker 1: Am I right about that?
Speaker 10: Nah, You're definitely right, Like you know, coming out of Jersey,
Speaker 10: like we just always I feel like I feel like
Speaker 10: the just you got that competitive sent that that competitive
Speaker 10: in you, that competitive grit in you that you're not
Speaker 10: gonna get everywhere, like like our mentalities is way different,
Speaker 10: Like we're gonna be in your face and we're not
Speaker 10: gonna be scared, and and like I just feel like,
Speaker 10: I mean like a lot of places, they're not gonna
Speaker 10: be ready for that. So you know our personalities, we
Speaker 10: aggressive and we're gonna bring it.
Speaker 2: You've done, You've done a really good job with these interviews.
Speaker 2: But now I'm gonna put you on the gonna look
Speaker 2: little bit. How about a few either ors?
Speaker 9: Ready? All right?
Speaker 1: Do it ready? It's pretty simple. It's airb.
Speaker 2: Back in May, we had two concerts at Energy Stadium.
Speaker 2: If you had free tickets to go to either one,
Speaker 2: would you go to either Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran.
Speaker 9: Dang, I don't even know who is.
Speaker 2: So that must be as Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: I don't know about her even Wait wait, all right,
Speaker 4: so what's your favorite musical artist?
Speaker 1: Who do you want to go see?
Speaker 4: I've got free tickets to see anybody anywhere in the world.
Speaker 10: I mean, just going off by who be having good performances.
Speaker 9: You can take me to a future concert.
Speaker 2: All right, one's gotta go either Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 10: I never I've never been a TikTok person, Like, yeah,
Speaker 10: I got TikTok's gotta go.
Speaker 9: It's gonna go anyway soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, the best team activity now I know y'all
Speaker 2: went bowling. I'm gonna give you option either bowling or
Speaker 2: go karts gold carts for sure.
Speaker 1: Really, yea, go carts are bowling? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: You could star in a remake of a movie, a
Speaker 2: famous movie, and you're the star either Good Fellas or Scarface.
Speaker 1: You're going way back, I know.
Speaker 9: Way back, but I've seen both. I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Movie person.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with scarfleeves.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you're a movie guy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm a movie guy.
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Speaker 2: where are They Now? Antwuan called well Alabama, Crimson Todd
Speaker 2: got to Texas, played on the interior, offits line. What's
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Speaker 6: Welcome into where are They Now? This one features Antwin
Speaker 6: called Well slim, slender and smelt offensive lineman for the Texans.
Speaker 6: You're looking good man, How are you man?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great, Drew.
Speaker 11: I really appreciate you having me on and I appreciate
Speaker 11: that con introduction.
Speaker 6: Well, you grew up in Bama, grew up wanting to
Speaker 6: be a running back or a quarterback for the Tide.
Speaker 6: You've got to Tuscaloosa, but you're one of the best
Speaker 6: offensive linemen that school's ever had. You play four years there.
Speaker 6: And what are you doing these days? And what's going on?
Speaker 12: Where are you?
Speaker 11: Well, I'm here in Houston, specifically in Missouri City, right
Speaker 11: outside of Houston. And I've been in the energy business
Speaker 11: now for about six years, so specifically more natural gas.
Speaker 5: Sales here in town. And man, it's been great.
Speaker 11: It's been great, no complaints, got married, got two little girls,
Speaker 11: so my hands are full of most days.
Speaker 5: But man, life is good.
Speaker 12: That's great to hear.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 6: What have you thought recently about the hiring of your
Speaker 6: former teammate both in college and with the Texans, Demico Ryans.
Speaker 6: I imagine you were not surprised by it that he
Speaker 6: could be a head coach, But what did you think
Speaker 6: of it?
Speaker 11: And it's incredible, Honestly, all the all the cliche buzzwords
Speaker 11: you can throw out, they all they all hit home.
Speaker 11: You know, everybody knows Tomko obviously as a great player,
Speaker 11: but you know, just been knowing Tomko just as a man.
Speaker 11: I don't know if I can recall a more consistent
Speaker 11: man and person than Demiko. I mean, unbelievable leader, unbelievable presence,
Speaker 11: and I think everybody that knows the Mikos, everybody says
Speaker 11: the same thing. So, you know, it's an incredible hard
Speaker 11: to get him back here in Houston, and I'm very
Speaker 11: proud for him and his family.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I interviewed him before that Cotton Bowl
Speaker 6: game back in Alato five earlier six and then I
Speaker 6: worked here for the Texans his last three years here
Speaker 6: as a player and saw him up close a little
Speaker 6: bit more. It's it's kind of like I mentioned a
Speaker 6: moment ago, it's not surprising that he is the head coach,
Speaker 6: yet it's stunning that he's the head coach here. I
Speaker 6: thought it was too good to be true, really, right?
Speaker 6: You kind of along those same lines.
Speaker 11: I guess I'll say yes and no. I just I
Speaker 11: think that it was clear that he was going to
Speaker 11: be a head coach. I think, like you said, everybody
Speaker 11: that kind I knew him, you know, it was kind
Speaker 11: of one of those things if he wanted to be
Speaker 11: a head coach, he would be at some point, But
Speaker 11: do I do think it's kind of surreal. You know,
Speaker 11: it's kind of storybook to come back to your team
Speaker 11: that drafted you and where you kind of were homegrown,
Speaker 11: and that part of it is just again, it's just
Speaker 11: amazing to kind of see. So I know he is
Speaker 11: fired up about it, though he was fired up about it,
Speaker 11: and you know, it's just it's great to see it
Speaker 11: kind of go the right way.
Speaker 6: Tell me about your career at Alabama. You started so
Speaker 6: many games there, you were an All American your final
Speaker 6: year there. Yet you played for two coaches. You played
Speaker 6: for Shula and you played for Saban. That's quite a
Speaker 6: change from who whoever was before next day, it doesn't
Speaker 6: matter who it is. That's a big change when he
Speaker 6: comes in and takes over, isn't it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, it sure is. But you know, I think
Speaker 11: I was incredibly close with coach Shula. You know, still
Speaker 11: still keep in touch with him from time to time,
Speaker 11: and you know, he was the one of the coach
Speaker 11: that brought me in, so I always had a great
Speaker 11: relationship with him, and you know, it was quite the shift,
Speaker 11: honestly from him to Nick, not not so much from
Speaker 11: you know, some of the things that we were doing,
Speaker 11: you know, on the field, but just more off the field.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a lot of different, you.
Speaker 11: Know things that Nick came in and he implemented, you know,
Speaker 11: different programs and systems. And again, obviously you couldn't deny
Speaker 11: his his his uh, you know, his reputation and some
Speaker 11: of the stuff that he had done in the past.
Speaker 11: So I think it was just amazing to kind of
Speaker 11: see that shift. And we were a little bit resistant,
Speaker 11: you know, early on, kind of like who's this guy?
Speaker 11: But then he gets in there, you know, and literally
Speaker 11: after the first team being he just knew like, okay,
Speaker 11: this is kind of a new sheriff in town, and
Speaker 11: you know, it's kind off to the races.
Speaker 3: From there, you listen to Antoine Caldwell and where are
Speaker 3: they now?
Speaker 6: Were man Drew Doherty And in their own ways, each
Speaker 6: of those two men had very deep knowledge and very
Speaker 6: deep insight about the NFL, and I'm sure that kind
Speaker 6: of melded a little bit into helping get you ready
Speaker 6: for the league.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think that is huge, I really do.
Speaker 11: I think having coaches that had that insight and you know,
Speaker 11: expertise to the next level is huge. You know, you
Speaker 11: can literally go to those guys and have those conversations
Speaker 11: where they literally close the door and say, hey, this
Speaker 11: is what these teams are looking for, or this is
Speaker 11: what this scout is looking at.
Speaker 5: Those type of things I think is.
Speaker 11: Incredibly beneficial for players when they're getting ready to go
Speaker 11: to the next level.
Speaker 5: So I think it definitely helped me out a lot.
Speaker 6: You see some of that, like coming to fruition with
Speaker 6: guys like Will Anderson and Henry Tots. They're the latest
Speaker 6: that played for SABAN, and then you know, before that
Speaker 6: last year Christian Harris, and we'll see about John Matchew
Speaker 6: because of all the stuff that he's having to go through.
Speaker 6: But certainly playing for SABAN is going to get you
Speaker 6: a little bit extra prepared for the NFL, probably more
Speaker 6: so than playing for some other coaches, right.
Speaker 5: No doubt. And I think again a lot of people
Speaker 5: know that about Nick.
Speaker 11: I mean, he's done it all right, but it's it's
Speaker 11: like I said, it's his reputation, it's his credibility when
Speaker 11: he says, hey, I've been at the next level, I
Speaker 11: know what to look for. These are the things specifically
Speaker 11: I'd like for you to prove on, you know, and
Speaker 11: That's what Nick's always been about. It say, steady small
Speaker 11: improvements daily, and you know, to be able to have
Speaker 11: like a you know, a real goal to kind of
Speaker 11: scratch off every day or every month or every off
Speaker 11: season is huge. And that's what he kind of implemented
Speaker 11: when he came to Alabama for us.
Speaker 6: Take me back to draft weekend two thousand and nine.
Speaker 6: You're hoping to get your name called. What was it like?
Speaker 6: Set the story for us, and then tell us what
Speaker 6: happened once the call came in.
Speaker 11: Well, you know, I didn't really have a lot of
Speaker 11: like meetings with a lot of teams. So I heard
Speaker 11: a lot of different players that I was close with,
Speaker 11: and like, hey, I met with so and so. Hey
Speaker 11: I met with so and so.
Speaker 5: So I was kind of I was kind of more like, uh,
Speaker 5: does that mean something wrong that I hadn't met with
Speaker 5: a lot of teams?
Speaker 12: But I kind of nervous.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So I'm kind of going into it. I really
Speaker 11: didn't know what to really expect. And I kind of
Speaker 11: had kind of a range where I thought I kind
Speaker 11: of would be drafted all the way from like you know,
Speaker 11: second to the fourth grand So I kind of didn't
Speaker 11: know where things were going, and so kind of draft day,
Speaker 11: I thought I was going to kind of go. The
Speaker 11: day before had had a call or two and that
Speaker 11: that didn't work out. And then the next day I
Speaker 11: kind of was actually helped. I was more relaxed going
Speaker 11: into day two, and I was kind of like, you
Speaker 11: know what, I don't really know what's going to happen today.
Speaker 5: And when the draft started, I just.
Speaker 11: Remember being hadving all my family around, and you know,
Speaker 11: I was actually my phone was on the table, kind
Speaker 11: of like a movie scene, and I was getting ready
Speaker 11: to go outside and kind of just shoot some hoops,
Speaker 11: relax a little bit. Then I hear the phone ring,
Speaker 11: so immediately I whipped my head around. I run over
Speaker 11: and I look at the phone and I see an
Speaker 11: eight three two area code. I'm like, being a three
Speaker 11: three four Alabama, but I'm like, I have seen this.
Speaker 11: So I look up at the screen. I'm like, Houston.
Speaker 11: Then I looked down on that I said, Houston said,
Speaker 11: oh man, this is the Texans. So so I picked
Speaker 11: it up. Rick was on the line, and kind of,
Speaker 11: you know, the rest is history. From there was a
Speaker 11: great conversation. I was super excited to be a Texan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you joined an offensive line that was pretty
Speaker 6: darn good, you know, and Gary Kubiak and that offense
Speaker 6: had really started to get going and do some things.
Speaker 6: And we would see that offensive line really paved the
Speaker 6: way for those eleven and twelve football teams that went
Speaker 6: to the playoffs. What was it like when you get
Speaker 6: to town and you are in the room with a
Speaker 6: lot of those guys because you had Dwayne Brown and
Speaker 6: Chris Meyers and Wade's well, Wade Smith came later, but
Speaker 6: Eric Winston, a lot of really good players on that
Speaker 6: offensive line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 11: It was a great It's probably the best experience I
Speaker 11: could ever have being a rookie. And I don't know
Speaker 11: a lot of people know the late great Alex Gibs,
Speaker 11: but he was here. Then it was the coach with
Speaker 11: Coach Ben, and I don't think as a rookie I
Speaker 11: could have had any better leadership and better guidance for
Speaker 11: kind of developing as a rookie. Having gives it all
Speaker 11: of his years of experience, and then, like you said,
Speaker 11: having guys like Dwayne and Chris and Eric and all
Speaker 11: those guys ended up being Pro bowlers, you know. And
Speaker 11: then Wade came in later, and you know, it was
Speaker 11: just a great It was a great group. You know,
Speaker 11: it was a little bit I guess you could say
Speaker 11: a little bit of daunting when I first got here
Speaker 11: and knowing that you know, their their accolades and achievements,
Speaker 11: But once I kind of got in the room with them,
Speaker 11: they made me feel like family from day one.
Speaker 5: So it was a great group.
Speaker 2: You listen, Antwine called well and aware they now with
Speaker 2: Drew Jerty, you.
Speaker 6: Brught up Gibbs and he was there I think that
Speaker 6: one year at the end of nine. He's there before,
Speaker 6: but O nine I think was around about his last year.
Speaker 12: Maybe another.
Speaker 6: But back then, when you'd go to a road game,
Speaker 6: you go through security here at Energy Stadium and then
Speaker 6: you get on the bus and there were three buses
Speaker 6: for the team and then one bus for everybody else.
Speaker 12: And I was on the everybody else bus.
Speaker 6: Like every time I got on that everybody else bus,
Speaker 6: and I was usually one of the first on it.
Speaker 6: Alex Gibbs was always on that everybody else bus, in
Speaker 6: the very front row ahead of everyone else. Yeah, his
Speaker 6: watch waiting to go, and that thing wasn't leaving for
Speaker 6: another twenty thirty minutes, but he was there wearing his
Speaker 6: loafers and his sportcoat ready to rock man man.
Speaker 8: He was.
Speaker 11: Seriously, I mean, I wish, I wish everybody could experience
Speaker 11: Gibbs for the.
Speaker 5: Good and the bad, because he was he was. He
Speaker 5: was quite a man, quite a character.
Speaker 11: But honestly, from a pure football perspective, his knowledge and
Speaker 11: experience and insight on the game, I mean, it's unmatched
Speaker 11: from offensive line playing for a lot of people that
Speaker 11: watch offensive line play nowadays. I mean, I would think
Speaker 11: half of the league runs his system that he kind
Speaker 11: of helped create back in the day. So you know,
Speaker 11: it was a great man. I couldn't answer any better
Speaker 11: when I first came in.
Speaker 12: Yeah, what was your rookie year?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 6: Take us through it, because it's a big one for
Speaker 6: the franchise, the first time the Texans had ever been
Speaker 6: over five hundred. They went nine and seven that year
Speaker 6: and win that final game against the Patriots, and for
Speaker 6: a few hours there was a chance of getting the playoffs,
Speaker 6: but things didn't work out with some other teams. What
Speaker 6: was that you're like for you because it was big
Speaker 6: for the organization, but you were going through your own
Speaker 6: things as a professional for the very first time in
Speaker 6: the NFL.
Speaker 5: That's right, man, Drew. Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 11: I don't think there's ever been a longer year in
Speaker 11: my life just from preparing to you know, get drafted.
Speaker 11: Then you just go straight into Ben having that type
Speaker 11: of season where it just kind of pouring everything you
Speaker 11: can into it. But it was so rewarded and honestly,
Speaker 11: like you would hear the stories of man, we haven't
Speaker 11: had a winning season and haven't done this, and haven't
Speaker 11: done that, and to really be right on the cusp
Speaker 11: at the end of the season, like you said in
Speaker 11: great memory by the way, bringing all that up, it
Speaker 11: was great to see, honestly, and you can kind of
Speaker 11: tell that we were starting to kind of turn the
Speaker 11: corner a little bit. Guys are starting to believe, and
Speaker 11: you know, I think a lot of people were buying
Speaker 11: in to what Kubak was doing, and I feel like
Speaker 11: we had kind of started to turn the corner.
Speaker 5: So it was great to be a part of.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the reasons you guys were so good
Speaker 6: that year was that rookie class and they would really
Speaker 6: help out in the years to come as well. But
Speaker 6: think about the production from that class. You at the top,
Speaker 6: you had Brian Cushing in the first round. You had
Speaker 6: Connor Barwin who would have a double digit sack season
Speaker 6: with the Texans and then going to Pro Bowls elsewhere.
Speaker 6: You all said Glover Quinn, he's one of the best
Speaker 6: lions in history, and he was really really good here.
Speaker 6: Arian Foster didn't even get drafted, but he wound up
Speaker 6: being who he was. Tim Jamison another undrafted rookie who
Speaker 6: actually got called up before Arian did that season. But
Speaker 6: a lot of guys that I'm leaving a few out,
Speaker 6: I'm sure did you feel a special kinship with those guys?
Speaker 6: You still feel and have a special kinship with those guys.
Speaker 6: I didn't mention James Casey, Anthony Hill. They need to
Speaker 6: be mentioned too.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, I really do, Drew, that's a great question, and
Speaker 11: I do think that that was a special group, you know,
Speaker 11: and you asked the question before we kind of got
Speaker 11: started kind of keeping in touch with guys kind of
Speaker 11: all of them periodically. You know, we'll even if it's
Speaker 11: on group chat or you know, run into somebody at
Speaker 11: dinner or wherever it is.
Speaker 5: You know, it's always like you kind of pick up
Speaker 5: where you left off.
Speaker 11: And I do think that was kind of a sign
Speaker 11: of how close our group was, you know, let alone
Speaker 11: the impact that some of us maybe had on the
Speaker 11: player side, but just you know, great people, great me
Speaker 11: and everybody's family man now and kind of seeing how
Speaker 11: everybody's kind of spread out in different places.
Speaker 5: It's just awesome to see.
Speaker 1: It's little where are they now?
Speaker 3: If Antoine called, well, what's.
Speaker 12: Your favorite memory as of Houston, Texan, and that's you.
Speaker 11: Know, it's a lot of them, you know, I think,
Speaker 11: you know, I always think about the games that we had,
Speaker 11: you know, I think when we won we clinched the
Speaker 11: playoff Birthday Cincinnati. I think that was in twenty eleven
Speaker 11: was a big one. I think there was a game
Speaker 11: maybe in twenty ten. I think we played the Commanders
Speaker 11: at Washington. I remember being down like twenty in the
Speaker 11: four to start the fourth quarter and kind of remembering
Speaker 11: how ye yep, and kind of remembering how Andre kind
Speaker 11: of took over that fourth quarter and how we ended
Speaker 11: up coming back to win that one, And you know,
Speaker 11: just man, it's a lot of different memories, and I
Speaker 11: think personally, for me, probably where I had the most
Speaker 11: like kind of starstruck moment. I think we were playing
Speaker 11: Baltimore at Baltimore in the second round.
Speaker 5: Being there and kind of getting in that game.
Speaker 11: And seeing like ray Lewis and some of those guys
Speaker 11: for the first time being right across from was kind
Speaker 11: of like one of those moments like man, this is
Speaker 11: this is insane, but then having it kind of snap
Speaker 11: back to it, like, hey, I got a job to do,
Speaker 11: like I got to get you know, get going. So
Speaker 11: you know, just having those type of memories and stuff
Speaker 11: that I'll never forget and it's just a great experience.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you brought that game up because that's one
Speaker 6: of the all time dog fights in franchise history. And
Speaker 6: it was just one of those games you leave and
Speaker 6: you know, like you were that close, but you everything
Speaker 6: was left out there. Not that it's not on other days,
Speaker 6: but goodness pacious, that was a slobber knocker. JJ Watt
Speaker 6: he has said that's the greatest game he's ever been
Speaker 6: a part of. Wow, even though the Texans didn't come
Speaker 6: out on top of it. Yeah, take me back to
Speaker 6: that Chili day in Baltimore in mid January twenty ten.
Speaker 5: That's it. Honestly, I could probably could summon up better.
Speaker 11: I mean, I just remember everything from the bus ride
Speaker 11: to the stadium, how crazy it was kind of going there,
Speaker 11: and then.
Speaker 5: You know, when we came out for foremost kind of
Speaker 5: saying it is, yeah, it is Chris out here.
Speaker 11: But it was beautiful, like a beautiful there's a perfect
Speaker 11: playoff game sitting, you know. And I kind of went
Speaker 11: into that game, you know, knowing that knowing that Baltimore
Speaker 11: had a great team. Obviously you see it on film,
Speaker 11: you knew the background and the pedigree. But I felt
Speaker 11: going into that game, I felt that we matched up
Speaker 11: pretty well with and I thought that, you.
Speaker 5: Know, we had a great week of work.
Speaker 11: I was like, you know what we really need coming here,
Speaker 11: and I feel like we're just as good as those
Speaker 11: guys are, you know, as you said as one of
Speaker 11: the day, they said, one of the best games he's
Speaker 11: you know, he's been a part of. I kind of
Speaker 11: felt like that back and forth the whole game. I
Speaker 11: felt like at no point that I felt like we
Speaker 11: were a lesser team, and that's what you want in
Speaker 11: playoff games. And you know, I remember that being there.
Speaker 11: You know, we came up short, but you know, it's
Speaker 11: amazing to be in that in that environment.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One of the many things I remember from that game
Speaker 6: was pre pre game on the field, just looking around
Speaker 6: once once the fans were let in, because that doesn't happen,
Speaker 6: I think until about two hours prior to kick off
Speaker 6: and the team gets there four hours ahead or three
Speaker 6: and a half. But I remember, you know, it's kind
Speaker 6: of empty and there's just stadium workers doing their thing
Speaker 6: before the game. But then the fans are let in
Speaker 6: and it seemed like I blinked and just all along
Speaker 6: the first row, the entire field, I mean, the whole circle,
Speaker 6: it was all battle red. It was all Texans fans
Speaker 6: ye travel or come in from wherever to cheer on
Speaker 6: the Texans on the road. It was really an eye
Speaker 6: opening experience. I don't ever remember that, or I hadn't
Speaker 6: remembered that prior right to that playoff game, and it
Speaker 6: was it was really freaking cool.
Speaker 12: Do you remember that too? Is that that spark anything?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: And that's kind of when I.
Speaker 11: Was saying the environment I had never seen us, I guess,
Speaker 11: kind of take over like a stadium and that energy
Speaker 11: in that buzz, you know, like I said, even from
Speaker 11: you know, right before we went out for warm ups.
Speaker 11: You could just slowly start to kind of feel it
Speaker 11: and see it build, and it's kind of like, man,
Speaker 11: this is this is amazing to be a part of.
Speaker 11: And yeah, I remember like you do, Drew. It was
Speaker 11: crazy to see, you know, all the fans and all
Speaker 11: the support that we had. And I think that probably
Speaker 11: played in a little bit to how well we played
Speaker 11: even though it came short.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 6: So who do you still keep in touch with and
Speaker 6: talking up with from those days?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 11: You know a lot of guys just mainly through text,
Speaker 11: but you know obtually the Domico, Dwayne and a lot
Speaker 11: of guys.
Speaker 5: Oh this is interesting.
Speaker 11: I actually I'm a huge fantasy football fan and I
Speaker 11: started a fantasy football league with all of us former guys.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you.
Speaker 5: Know you got you know, Eric Winston, Arian Wade.
Speaker 12: Wait wait did you what did you just say? What name?
Speaker 12: Did you just slide in there?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Eric Winston, Arian Arian Foster.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, about cracking on fantasy football when he was
Speaker 6: a player.
Speaker 12: I love that still.
Speaker 6: I've heard it from I think Wade let me in
Speaker 6: and told me about this a few years back, and
Speaker 6: I was like, what we are right?
Speaker 5: Right exactly? Yeah, I mean it's times. Times have changed.
Speaker 11: And I actually didn't even have the strong on He's like,
Speaker 11: actually wanted to do it, so but yeah, you know,
Speaker 11: so we got a couple, you know, we got about
Speaker 11: ten twelve guys in the league, and honestly we just
Speaker 11: kind of, you know, stay in touch on that and
Speaker 11: kind of you know, go back and forth.
Speaker 5: So it's just it's great. It's great to kind of
Speaker 5: see where everybody is.
Speaker 6: That's fun. It's cool, you'll keep in touch. It was
Speaker 6: a special time in team history if you think about it,
Speaker 6: franchise history.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 11: It was and I and again, I think you know,
Speaker 11: every time you pick up where you left off of
Speaker 11: those guys, you know, you like say you see them
Speaker 11: out or you're talking over text or whatever.
Speaker 5: Man, it's just always been the same thing.
Speaker 6: So it's just great, Hey, now you're an offensive lineman,
Speaker 6: but you were on the offense with Andre Johnson. And
Speaker 6: one thing that I do when I talk to all
Speaker 6: of you guys, because I do this, I try to
Speaker 6: do this on a weekly basis is.
Speaker 12: Where are they now? Podcasts?
Speaker 6: I know it, you know it. Most of the people
Speaker 6: that are listening or watching this know it. But there's
Speaker 6: some dummies out there that don't. Why does Andre Johnson
Speaker 6: belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? What's your
Speaker 6: reasoning for it?
Speaker 11: Well, I'll go back to when I first came to
Speaker 11: the Texans.
Speaker 5: I remember during.
Speaker 11: Like conditioning and like training camp, just little stuff like
Speaker 11: I'm like.
Speaker 9: Oh about, I'm like this you.
Speaker 11: Hear about, but watching him work even I think at
Speaker 11: that point it was like year like nine or ten,
Speaker 11: which you know, he was solidified, right, he didn't have
Speaker 11: to do all that, but he'd go run and go
Speaker 11: route and he'd sprint back, you know, right afterwards and
Speaker 11: get right back up and go. I had never seen
Speaker 11: a player of his stature still work as hard as
Speaker 11: he did. So from a peer like work perspective, I
Speaker 11: would say that, But then you look at the production
Speaker 11: and the performance and everything he put on the field.
Speaker 11: I mean it's like it's almost a no brain. I
Speaker 11: don't know how it hadn't happened yet, but you know,
Speaker 11: I think, you know, we keep the faith and I
Speaker 11: think he'll I think he'll end up getting.
Speaker 5: Over the hump.
Speaker 12: Yeah for sure. Yeah, it's uh, that's one of the things.
Speaker 6: When I started what that it was a common refrain
Speaker 6: from young players experienced players. Is how hard he worked
Speaker 6: in the offseason, how hard he worked in the weight room,
Speaker 6: how hard he worked. Just basically what you didn't see
Speaker 6: on game day, you know, all that stuff that he
Speaker 6: was doing beforehand is one of the reasons he was
Speaker 6: so excellent on game day.
Speaker 11: It was and you know, it would literally I'd be
Speaker 11: times in the weight room, I'm just like, I'm supposed
Speaker 11: to be doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: I'm just watching him.
Speaker 11: We might not even be doing the same lifts or exercise,
Speaker 11: but everything he did was so intentional, like he he
Speaker 11: had a purpose, like he knew he was in there
Speaker 11: and to handle his business. And he showed me kind
Speaker 11: of early on what kind of work ethic is needed
Speaker 11: to be successful in the in the league. And you know,
Speaker 11: and I still, you know, I'll tell anybody, you know,
Speaker 11: I was like, you know, it's a couple of guys
Speaker 11: I can think of when I was playing that those
Speaker 11: had that type of effect on people.
Speaker 5: Andre is definitely one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Oh There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: And a big thanks Chancewayan Caldwell and Drew Dorry that
Speaker 2: way they now was absolutely awesome. Big thanks to Kadar
Speaker 2: Holman and to Amari Rodgers and of course mar Vandamir
Speaker 2: who'll be back on Monday, so the gang will be
Speaker 2: back together. Then, enjoy your week and everybody, we'll see
Speaker 2: you on Monday, and as always is go Texans.