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Learn more at Apatche 10 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: Corp dot com. That's Apatche Corp dot com. Now here's 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: the show and here's the snap looking trust them all, 12 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: timing for the pylon that he's got it. Razl touchdown, 13 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: two stands and the Texans go in front. Game day 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: is every day. We had a lot of energy and 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: we brought a lot of spart for this organization to 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: five nights a week. They hits keep on coming. Texas 17 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: say they have it, they go No, it's Texans All Excess. 18 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? Welcome into a Wednesday edition 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harry's football 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: Ailson Sithine reporter, and yes, I had to think about 21 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: what day it was because they seemingly are all running 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: together for about the last I don't know, eight months. 23 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 1: Maybe it feels like it's all the same day. My buddy, 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: Tyler suttar Through is a Emmy winning videographer. He an 25 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: hour down in the digital studio today. We're talking about 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: like what day is it today? When the Monday's Monday, Tuesday, 27 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: it's Wednesday. Oh yeah, it's right, Okay, So I means 28 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: I got radio tonight. But I'm really excited to be 29 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: with you because we have got a great show for you. 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: DPC is gonna stop by. We're gonna go behind enemy's sidelines, 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: and just a little bit, she caught up with Nate 32 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: into a Girl from Brown's Radio, just as I did. 33 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: I didn't go on Browns Radio, but I was on 34 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: a Cleveland TV station yesterday, so kind of swapping notes, 35 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: if you will. So we love Nathan's a girl on 36 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: to go behind enemy sidelines, Drew Dory's gonna stop by 37 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: because we've got twelve questions, Drew's dozen with Terrell Adams. 38 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: We've also got Drew ni in the lab today and 39 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, my man Mark Vanimer is going to make 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: an appearance and give us his thoughts about going to 41 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 1: Cleveland for the first time in six years now. We 42 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: played him in seventeen and eighteen, and we rotate every 43 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: three years in the AFC, but we played in eighteen 44 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: because that twenty seventeen season was such a dud for us. 45 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,679 Speaker 1: We were fourth in the AFC South and so we 46 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: matched up with the fourth place team in the AFC North. 47 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: That happened to be the Browns. So typically we played 48 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: them every three years, but we haven't been back to 49 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: Cleveland in six And in that game at Cleveland, a 50 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: certain defensive vand lined up at why receiver and had 51 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: his second offensive touchdown. I think it's that right, Yeah, 52 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: I think it was the second, because his first was 53 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: at Oakland playing the Artist formerly known as the Oakland Raiders. 54 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: Caught it just a little easy, just out in the 55 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: flat in the corner. Nobody there, threw it to him, 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: fifty through it to him touchdown. At Cleveland, he lined 57 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: up outside and threw a fade route to him. That 58 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: jungle cat went up and got it, got a knee 59 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: or a two feet or something in the end zone 60 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: and made the catch, It was amazing. But that was 61 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: a really good win for the Texans. And what a 62 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: lot of people forget because the Browns have been so 63 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: bad for a long time. Twenty fourteen, that team, I 64 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: believe was six and three. They just come up a 65 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: big win in Atlanta and the started quarterback was Brian 66 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: Hoyer playing four offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. They were six 67 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: and three. That went up there in twenty fourteen and 68 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: put it on him a little bit, and that really 69 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: kind of got us going in twenty fourteen with Ryan mout. 70 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: Of course, the next week didn't play so well. Ryan 71 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: got injured, he was out for the year, went back 72 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: to Fitzi. He had a record setting day against the 73 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, then got hurt against the Colts. So twenty 74 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: fourteen is a kind of an interesting year on so 75 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: many different levels. But that was the day JJ Watt 76 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,119 Speaker 1: caught his very first wide receiver touchdown in a regular 77 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: season game. I think he laned up at wide receiver 78 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: in a Pro Bowl at one point, I think, which 79 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,679 Speaker 1: is kind of scary, but yeah, they stuck a linebacker 80 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: ground who actually didn't have bad coverage. Mount made a 81 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: great throw. JJ made a great catch, and that is history. 82 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: And I remember that so well because every day I 83 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: walked into the media work room, I would see that 84 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: picture of JJ making that catch. It was just absolutely 85 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: incredible to think that guy could do that out at 86 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: wide receiver. So that all being said, let's dive into 87 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: the show and start with hot ur reds presented to 88 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: you by Geico. 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That was my first year 97 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: down on the sidelines and that was such a great win. 98 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: I remember getting on a plane on the way home 99 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: and it was just it was nuts. It was just 100 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: crazy on the way home, and I thought, this is 101 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: the way it should be a lot of the time. 102 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Now, JJ was asked about 103 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: that TD catch. So let's start our Texans audio jukebox 104 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: a little J. J. Watt talking about that touchdown catch. 105 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: It was a good throw. I mean, Mallett put the 106 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: ball in the only place that I could catch it. 107 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: It is either going to be I caught it or 108 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: it went out of bounce. I remember catching them ball 109 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: and dropping a knee down to try and get an 110 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: in bounds, and obviously looking up at the reff and 111 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: waiting for him to signal touchdown. It was great. But 112 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: the thing I remember most about that game was my 113 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: two roughing the punter penalties, And I knew that I 114 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: had to do something big in that game to help 115 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: sway the game in our favorite because I took two 116 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: fourth down stops away from our team. I thought for 117 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: sure I was going to block each of those punts. 118 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: I had to be like an inch away. But so 119 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: the strip sack and the touchdown were kind of my 120 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: way to pay back the team for two rough roughing 121 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: the punter penalties. One of the funniest things I've ever 122 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: seen on our football field was after JJ had that 123 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: second fifteen yeard penalty. He's standing on the sidelines, He's 124 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: got his hand hands on his hips, and he can't 125 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: bring himself to look at Bill O'Brien, and Bill O'Brien's 126 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: down the way, like ten yards away, and he really 127 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: can't bring himself to get mad at JJ because JJ's 128 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 1: done so much, and so they both kind of stood 129 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: apart from one of the other. Finally, I coach O'Brien 130 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: looked at him like I kind of waved him back 131 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: in the game. JJ went in the game, got that strip, 132 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: sack phonem gonna go along with that tochdown. But I'll 133 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: never forget that scene, just watching both of them, like 134 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: knowing JJ knowing he messed up, and like I know, 135 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: I know, and Bill O'Brien going good Dan and I 136 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: can't believe it twice in a row. But he knew 137 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: he couldn't get mad at him because all that JJ 138 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: meant to him in twenty fourteen. So it was just 139 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: kind of a funny scene I remember also in that game, 140 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: and I'm glad JJ talked about that because that was 141 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Now JJ's opposite number in this game is 142 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. Many of you around the area are aggies. 143 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: You love yourselves some Miles Garrett, and well that's to 144 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: be expected and warranted with the year that he's having. 145 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: He's got nine sacks through eight games. He's done a 146 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: whaleable job. I think he's got like thirteen or fourteen 147 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: tackles for a loss. JJ was asked about what he 148 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: sees in his opposite number. Miles Garrett's obviously having a 149 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: great year so far. Hopefully he doesn't have a good 150 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: game on Saturday on Sunday, that's the goal for us, obviously, 151 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: But guys, the hell of a player. He's got speed, 152 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: he's got quickness, he can power, so he's got all 153 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: the tools you need, and he's obviously playing an extremely 154 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: high levels. So I think he's doing a great job. Now. 155 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: Miles Garrett and JJ Watt are not gonna meet up. 156 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: So sometimes when you ask a defensive player about another 157 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: defensive player, it's like, I guess he's been good, but 158 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: you're not really focused on him. You're focused on facing 159 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: the other side. And the other side of the ball 160 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: features former first rounder, former overall number one pick, Baker Mayfield, 161 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: and he's done a pretty good job this year. He's 162 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: had a good season, and JJ was able to talk 163 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: about that. In the kind of season that Mayfield's having, 164 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: I think He's a guy who can make the throws. 165 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: He can also move around. He's effective in scramble situations. 166 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: He can improvise very well. He can run for first 167 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: downs if he has to, but he also can stand 168 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: in the pocket, find the open man, deliver the ball. 169 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: He's got the arm to make all the throws. So 170 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: I think he's doing a good job. He's settling in 171 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: and I think he's playing well. One thing about Baker 172 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: Mayfield this year, though, is very similar to what he 173 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: showed in twenty eighteen when we played him in that game. 174 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: In the game, in the first half, he threw three 175 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 1: interceptions in like forty six yards of passing. In the 176 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: second half, he had no interceptions and like three hundred 177 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: and fifty one yards passing. That was in one game. 178 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: It was, I mean, and he was a rookie, So 179 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: I understand he's still a young quarterback only in his 180 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: third year. But that inconsistency really kind of shows itself. 181 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: Against the Bengals, Mayfield loot them up for five touchdowns 182 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: and somewhere well over three hundred yards against the Raiders 183 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two yards passing. Now, he did 184 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: lose obj in that Bengals game, but it was early 185 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: in that game, so they've been without OBJ for a 186 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: little bit and Bakers still kind of up and down. 187 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: I'm hoping we don't get the up Baker after a 188 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: bye week, but I'm afraid that's what we will see. 189 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: The thing is, if you add an up Baker with 190 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: the ground game the Browns have, that could be very, 191 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: very lethal. And JJ about the Browns running game, which 192 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: is one of the best in the league. They have 193 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: a lot of success running the ball. Those guys are 194 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: very good backs. The offensive line does a good job 195 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: blocking for him. They have Baker who obviously can throw 196 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: the ball and play action off of what they do 197 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: in the running games, so they're very effective. And that's 198 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: up to us up front first and foremost as the 199 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: front line of defense to do our job to set 200 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: the edges, to build a wall in the middle. The 201 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: backers obviously just come up and make tackles, and everybody 202 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: doing their job to try and do whatever we can 203 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: to be successful on Sunday. I'm just gonna go ahead 204 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: and tell you it's I don't say it's easy, but 205 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 1: being gap discipline and tackling with shoulders, arms, hands to 206 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: wrap up is going to be as key this week 207 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: as it's ever been. These backs Kareem Hunt and potentially 208 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: Nick Chubb. We don't know yet whether he's gonna whether 209 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: he's gonna play. Kimi Stefanski said on Friday they would 210 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: make the declaration whether Nick Chubb would play. He's coming off. 211 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: Ir so they've done just like a few of our guys, 212 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: Kylie Waring and Aja More, they're back at practice, would 213 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: have been activated back to the fifty three man roster. 214 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: That same thing is kind of going on with Nick 215 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: Chubb and the Browns are evaluating. Either way, Cream Hunt 216 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: holds his own, but if it's Cream Hunt and Nick Chubb, 217 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: that is, oh, that's a boatload. All right, Let's hear 218 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: from Romeo Crenell who went to the mic this morning. 219 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: Now you know as well as I do, Romeo Crenell 220 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: was formerly the head coach for the Cleveland Browns, So 221 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: that's going to be a storyline. He's going to be 222 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: asked about it, and of course he was. He was 223 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: asked today about his time in Cleveland, and here's what 224 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: Rack had to say about that time when he was 225 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Well, I was 226 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: there two different occasions that they're in what its two 227 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: thousand as defensive coordinator and then came back as head coach, 228 00:11:54,480 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: and I enjoyed Cleveland. I I mean, we won ten games, 229 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: and that's probably the one that stands out the most. 230 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: We won ten games and really should have made the 231 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: playoffs a year, but we lost to Cincinnati in Cincinnati 232 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: in a bad weather game that kept us out and 233 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: we were still in it and the tiebreaker, but you 234 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 1: had to depend on other people to do things and 235 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: you had no control over it, so then we lost 236 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: out on the tiebreaker. But winning ten games and the 237 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 1: Cleveland crowd and the fans there that year was pretty 238 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: pretty special. I told you a little while ago that 239 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: I was on a Cleveland television station and of course 240 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: they wanted to ask me about Romeo Cornell. That was 241 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: what they wanted to know about. And of course, you know, 242 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: how's DeShawn Watson doing? You could have been a Brown? Yeah, 243 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: that's definitely been a storyline this week about Deshaun Watson 244 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: potentially being a Brown. But they also had their opportunities 245 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: to get other quarterbacks. But I think with Baker, we'll 246 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: see how it plays out. He's had some good moments, 247 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: and I think he'll continue to have some very good 248 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: moments as a Brown It's quarterback. But this will be 249 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: a big storyline for the rest of the week. Romeo 250 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: Cornell going back to Cleveland where he was head coach. 251 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: He also was position coach, as he stated, but whenever 252 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: you go back, it's obviously you're gonna have some memories 253 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: of some time that you were there, etc. But Romeo 254 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: was also asked this morning about the Browns making progress 255 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: now in seventeen eighteen. In seventeen, I don't think they 256 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: won a game if I remember correctly, or they were 257 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: one of fifteen one or the other year and sixteen 258 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: one of fifteen I can't remember on top of my head. 259 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: And then they got better with Baker. In twenty eighteen, 260 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: this team is probably that much better. And Rack talked 261 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 1: about what he has seen from the Browns and the 262 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: fact that he thinks they have made a lot of progress. Well, 263 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 1: it looks like they've made a lot of progress, you know, 264 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: to be five and three, because they started out pretty 265 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: good and everybody this league is a tough league for everybody, 266 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: but they in the hunt. They put themselves in the hunt, 267 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: so you know, we got the last half of the 268 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 1: season to play, and we'll see how they come out 269 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: at the last half. You know, everybody wants to finish strong, 270 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: start strong, but a lot of times in the NFL 271 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: is how you finish. And I've seen it occur both ways. 272 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: I've seen guys win the first half of the season 273 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the bottom drops out. 274 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: I've seen guys lose the first half of the season 275 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: and then get on a roll on the second half. 276 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: So you know that old adage about playing them one 277 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: game at a time and see what happens, and so 278 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: I think that that's what they're doing. But they got 279 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: a quarterback, they've got a good supporting cast around the quarterback, 280 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: They've got some defense, so I think that they're headed 281 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: in the right direction. You know, Andrew Barry as general manager, 282 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: I think the youngest still in the league, and then 283 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski is head coach. I think the Browns have 284 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: got a nice little formula. They've added on top of 285 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: the talent that was already there, and I think they've 286 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: got to get some more defensive pieces. But with Miles 287 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: Garretton's at war, they've got two of the better pieces 288 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: in the league at edge, rusher and corner. Offensive line. 289 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: They've built up by going and getting Jack Conklin, drafting 290 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: Jedrick Wills already had Joe Bettonio, they got the quarterback, 291 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: They've got some weapons. So the Browns are definitely moving 292 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: in the right direction. There is no question about that. Now. 293 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: What makes Cleveland really tough to stop, as I just mentioned, 294 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: is the fact that they can run it and then 295 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: Baker can put it in the belly. You think it's 296 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: run because they've been so good running it, pull it out, 297 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: and now it's play action. One of the better play 298 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: action teams in the league. And Rack talked about what 299 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: makes it so successful the running backs because if they 300 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: can run the ball, and you know they when when 301 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: Chebb was up, they had a good combination of Hunt 302 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: and Chebb. Then when Chubb went down, Hunt took the 303 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: old okay, and he runs very hard, he's very determined. 304 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: He gains yards that are not there. Okay. So when 305 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: you have a running game, linebackers have to honor the 306 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: run on any run fake so that sucks them toward 307 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, which then creates space behind them 308 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: in that middle area. And so when you can sup 309 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: those linebackers up and then get a crossing route in 310 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: behind them or somebody to hook up in behind them, 311 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: then you can deliver the ball. There, you can make yards, 312 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: get first downs, and keep the sticks moving. And so 313 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: I think the running game makes the play action. All right, 314 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: it's pretty good Texas Audio jukebox with JJ Watt and 315 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: Romeo Cornell. Let's get to our last hot read, and 316 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: that is going to be the Wednesday injury report. Now, 317 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: this one, to me is always I think a lot 318 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: more important than maybe it seems, because you get an 319 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: idea of how guys came out of the game on Sunday, 320 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: and so I was worried about a few guys, but 321 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: luckily I don't see them on here, so that's a 322 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: good thing. But the Texans did have a quartet of 323 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: guys not practice. David Johnson, Snail Klea Mete coming back 324 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: from those concussions, dealing Cole dealing with a back, and 325 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: Charles Amenter, who got hurt during a game, still dealing 326 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 1: with that hamstring. Those four did not participate, but everybody 327 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: else was in practice, no limited, no fulls. That was 328 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: great news. Now on the Brown side. They're coming off 329 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: a bye week, so they did not have any DMPs, 330 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: but some of the limited offensive lineman Joe Batonio elbow, 331 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: Jack Conklin Knee, Wyatt Teller calf, jac Cheddar Knee. That's 332 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: four or five offensive line starters. Only one not in 333 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: that group is Jedrick Wills. Full participants Austin Hooper, Jarvis Landry, 334 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: and Sioni Takitaki. I love that name, Sioni Takitaki. I 335 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: wish he started and played a little bit more. So 336 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: Mark would have to say that on Sunday because he 337 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: would have a bunch of tackles tackling Duke Johnson and 338 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: David Johnson. Hopefully David's gonna play bull see, but David 339 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: right now did not participate deal with that concussion, as 340 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 1: was the case for Saniel Callamette. 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Now I may have 368 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: said this before, but someone I think would make a 369 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: tremendous teacher is Dpcity. Well, she's great at her job too, 370 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: so I don't want her to be a teacher. I 371 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: love what she does when she especially when she goes 372 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: behind enemy sidelines. And this week she goes behind enemy 373 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: Sidelines with Nathan Zigura of Browns Radio. This week on 374 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: Enemy Sidelines, presented by Microsoft Teams, our guest is Nathan Zigura. 375 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: He does it all for the Cleveland Browns. He hosts 376 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: the Browns daily Monday through Friday, fifty two weeks a year. 377 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 1: It's so impressive, Nathan. Welcome and it's been a few 378 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 1: years since we spoke, but here the Browns are five 379 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: and three heading into week ten. I imagine the mood 380 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: in Cleveland's got to be quite good these days. Yeah, absolutely, 381 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: we're off to a good start. Result. It's great to 382 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: talk with you again. And in recent history, since the 383 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson has come down to the Texans, the Browns 384 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: have not had much success against your team, So hopefully 385 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: that will change. We need it this week. But yeah, 386 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: five and three going into the bye week and certainly 387 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: feeling good, you would have liked to get that game 388 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: against the Raiders, obviously direct competition for that final wildcard 389 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: spot of the final two wildcard spots in the AFC. 390 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 1: But you know, five and three getting healthy at the 391 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: right time. Nick Chubb, Wyattell, Austin Hooper all returning to 392 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: practice on Monday, so they should be back and good 393 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 1: to go against the Texans. But yeah, it's just nice. 394 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: Kevin si Fancie. I think he's just brought in a 395 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: kind of what I would call he's a smooth operator. 396 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: He's brought in a sense of calm, a brand of football, 397 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: a style of offense, a style of Cleveland Browns football. 398 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: We got went back to our traditional uniforms, which I 399 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: think look very sharp. So it's been an excellent start 400 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: to things here at five and three. Well, the last 401 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: time the Texans and the Browns played each other, Baker 402 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: Mayfield was just a mere rookie, and here he is 403 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: in year three. He's undergone all those coaching changes. Like 404 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: you said, where have you seen the most growth from him? 405 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: This year, well, so far, it's just taking care of 406 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: the football. You know, fifteen touchdowns, seven interceptions, so better 407 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: than a two to one touchdown to interception ratio. That 408 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 1: was a big problem last year as he threw more 409 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: than twenty interceptions. So that has been I would say 410 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: the biggest part of his growth. And he's in an 411 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: offense that's going to stress. You know what he does well, 412 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: play action, the play action bootlegs, getting him out of 413 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: the pocket. He has been very effective on those those 414 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: types of plays. And you know, while some people would 415 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: say the Browns have been certainly a run first team, 416 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: and that would be true. In the one game where 417 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: he had to do it through the air, he turned 418 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: in his best performance against Cincinnati in a duel a 419 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: shootout with Joe Burrow. At one point he completed twenty 420 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: one straight passes, which was a Browns franchise record. In fact, 421 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: the streak was only snapped when they had to clock 422 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: the ball on that final drive with no timeouts. Throws 423 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: five touchdowns in that game, so you had to do it, 424 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: you had to throw it, and he did that. So 425 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: I thought that was a big game just for his 426 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: development and the confidence that the team has in him, 427 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: But really it's been taking care of the football and 428 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: he's been phenomenal in the red zone. Really, we've been 429 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: an excellent red zone offense this season, one of the 430 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: most efficient teams in the red zone in terms of 431 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: converting you know, threes into sevens, and Baker has been 432 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 1: a big part of that. Well just a few weeks 433 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: so it seems like he got banged up in that 434 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: game against Pittsburgh and we saw a familiar face in 435 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: case Keenum come in and relief, and then and then 436 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: Baker bounced back the next week and had one of 437 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: his best performances of a year. What do you be 438 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 1: it the fact that he's able to just bounce back 439 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: just so differently than he did maybe as a rookie 440 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 1: or even last year. Well, I think part of it 441 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 1: is just his comfort in the system is growing. And 442 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: that's a thing. Remember the brown said put in a 443 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: new coach, head coach, new offensive coordinat or new offensive 444 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: system in twenty twenties offseason, and as you know, for 445 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: the Texans, you just didn't have a lot of time 446 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: to go through and learn something new. And so for 447 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: the Browns, I think they were behind a little bit 448 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: but now it's an offense that suits him very well, 449 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: suits his skill set. It's an offense that lends itself 450 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: to efficiency at the quarterback position. And so I think 451 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: he trusts in the system. He knows that his head coach, 452 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: Kim Sefanski, the play caller as well, is going to 453 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: put him in good positions to succeed. He likes the 454 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: guys that we have on the team. Obviously we still 455 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: wish we had Odell Beckham junior, just like I'm sure 456 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: you guys still wish he had DeAndre Hopkins there in Houston, 457 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: albeit for different reasons they are not available to our 458 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: respective teams. But I just think it's kind of, you know, 459 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: he's settling in here. He is with some stability. I think, 460 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: as I said, a clearly to find kind of brand 461 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: of football that the Browns are playing, and a head 462 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: coach who is never going to get too high or 463 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: too low. And I think that's good for a guy, 464 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: because Baker's so emotional and fiery, and to have a 465 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: head coach that's, you know, as we said, smooth operator, 466 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: steady Eddie, I think has been very very good for 467 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: his development and just his demeanor and his success in 468 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: this team. It's not just Baker bouncing back. The Browns 469 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: haven't lost consecutive games all year. They followed up each 470 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: of their first two losses to Baltimore and to Pittsburgh 471 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: with wins the following week, and they're going to try 472 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: to do that again this Sunday against the Texans. Well, 473 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: you mentioned Odell Beckham Junior. Obviously that was the big 474 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: storyline winning towards ACL. He's out for the year. Unfortunately, 475 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: top target for Baker Mayfield and the Browns is out now. 476 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: So who steps up in his place? He's not easily replaceable. 477 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: You got Jarvis Landry? Is it? Is it him? Is 478 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: it a mix of more run game? How do you 479 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: make up the loss of obj? I think it's a 480 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: little bit of all of the above. There isn't one 481 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: guy on this roster. And I think you looked at 482 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: the trade deadline, were they going to bring in a 483 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: vertical threat? And this offense it needs vertical aspect to it. 484 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: So if you're looking at the guys that maybe can 485 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: step in and fill that role, Jarvis is still going 486 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: to be Jarvis. He's leading your team. He's got the 487 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: thirty three catches, four hundred and nineteen yards so far 488 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: this season. You know you're gonna get more involved with 489 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: your tight ends. Austin Hooper, who's back after missing two 490 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: games after the emergency appendeck to me, you've got Harrison 491 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: Brian or rookie who's played well at tight end. You've 492 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: got David Joku. But in that receiver room, you know 493 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: Hollywood Higgins more of a possession guy. Donovan Peoples Jones 494 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: is more of a big body, contested catch guy in 495 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: terms of taking the top off of defense. There are 496 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: two guys could Daryl Hodge, who's kind of a long strider, 497 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: a former special teams ace. Last year four catches average 498 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 1: nineteen yards catch. This year, he hasn't been too involved. 499 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: He missed some time with a hamstring, but he's still 500 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: three catches fifty one seventeen yards and kept so he 501 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: can get down the field. But then there's a guy 502 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: that the Texans are probably familiar with from his time 503 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: with the Titans, Taywan Taylor, who was a former third 504 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: round pick of the Titans a few years ago. I 505 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: had nearly five hundred yards two seasons ago, and he's 506 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: a vertical type of guy. I think the Browns will 507 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: incorporate Taywan Taylor more and more as this season goes on, 508 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: and try to have him kind of stretch the field 509 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: or at least run some of the routes because he 510 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: will command the respect due to his speed that you 511 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: had Odell run in certain situations. Well, I remember a 512 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: few years ago when the brown signed Cream Hunt. There 513 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: was so much controversy surrounding him. But he's quietly put 514 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: together a really good campaign in twenty twenty three rushing touchdowns, 515 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: four receiving touchdowns. It seems like the Browns have incorporated 516 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: him in a lot of different ways. How has he 517 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: really helped elevate that offense. He's a stun and he 518 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: runs so hard and so physically and now that we 519 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: get Nick chubbacket, we'll talk about that tannem in a second. 520 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: He has been so good, especially in the red zone, 521 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: and that's where you can create some mismatches with him. 522 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: He's such a good pass catcher and that's where a 523 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: touchdowns come in the red zone. So he has just 524 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: been kind of He's great in pass protection. He runs 525 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 1: it very well in between the tackles or getting outside, 526 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: and as I said, he's a mismatch waiting to happen 527 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: in the passing game. So you think about the efficients 528 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: that he's shown there. As I said, those four touchdowns, 529 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: it's just another weapon for Baker down there. And then 530 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: now we get Nick chubbeck and it's almost like he's 531 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: a forgotten guy. But Nick Chubb second leading rusher in 532 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: the NFL two years or last season, I'm sorry. And 533 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: then this year he only played four games, he was 534 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: averaging five point nine yards per carry, four rushing touchdowns 535 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: in those four games, three hundred and thirty nine yards rushing, 536 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 1: and really it was really three games in a quarter. 537 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: He went out early against the Dallas Cowboys. So getting 538 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: him back, he asked, what this team is, what's its identity? 539 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: It's running the football. When Nick Chubb went out after 540 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: Week four, Browns with a number one rushing offense in 541 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: the NFL, they have not been since he has been out. 542 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: And getting that one two punch is huge because if 543 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: the Browns get a lead, what they were doing is 544 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: they would wear you down with Nick Chubb and then 545 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter Kareem Hunt would come in fresh and 546 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: it was almost unfair. You know, there are a couple 547 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: of games where he average eight yards to carry in 548 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter because he came in fresh and was 549 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: just running all over defenses that were worn out. So 550 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: the Browns are gonna be able to get back to 551 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: that and that's something that's been missing. And really Wyatt 552 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: Tellier was, you know, I think pro football focuses number 553 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: one graded offensive lineman who was the number three overall 554 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: graded player in the league when he went down with 555 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: his injury. So getting him back, getting Chubb Beck and 556 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: and then Austin Hooper, who I think is really an 557 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: unsung guy for what his contributions are in the run game. 558 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: It's gonna be massive, and the Browns are going to 559 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: try to get back to their identity, which is running 560 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: the ball, because frankly, when you take on this Texans 561 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: seem in de Shaun's playing so well, Will Fuller six 562 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: straight games with the touchdown, Cooks has a touchdown in 563 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: three the last four and has averaging almost, you know, 564 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: ninety yards a game during that stretch. I think our 565 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: best defense, and that our defense has struggled, is going 566 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: to be ball control on offense, running it and wearing 567 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: down this Texans team. Yeah, and you know, let's switch 568 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: gears and talk about defense for a minute for the Browns. 569 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: Our next Gen stat presented by AWUS, has Myles Garrett 570 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: tied for a sack leader in the NFL. He's got nine, 571 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: along with Aaron Donald. So what about that Brown's front. 572 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: It seems like between him and Sheldon Richardson, that Brown's 573 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: front is pretty hard to stop. It's a very good front. 574 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: They had been a very good run defense all year. 575 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: And I know the Texans really are not doing much 576 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: running the ball so far this season, but they've been 577 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: an excellent run defense this year, other than the Raiders game, 578 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: which was in very very strange weather conditions. But Miles 579 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: is all world. I mean, Miles is making a case 580 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: I think for MVP, not just Defensive Player of the Year. 581 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: Nine sacks that you mentioned, four sack fumbles. He's already 582 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: at four turnovers on sack strip fumbles and the Browns 583 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: are four no in those games, he has seven according 584 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: to next Gen Stats. I love that you quoted them 585 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: because he has seven turnovers as a direct result of 586 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: his pressures already this season. And to put that in perspective, 587 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: the leader in that category a year ago for the 588 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: full season had six. So he's done seven in eight games. 589 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: He's playing, He's unbelievable. He gets a lot of attention. 590 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: We've been banged up, though Olivier Vernon has been banged up. 591 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: He finally got healthy had two sacks last week, so 592 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: hopefully that's the sign of things to come betteran Adrian 593 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: Clayborne at two sex in the first two games, but 594 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: he got hurt and hasn't really been healthy either, so 595 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: they should be healthy coming off the buy and yeah, 596 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: when you have to double and triple miles, it sets 597 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: up a lot of one on ones for Sheldon Richardson, 598 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: Larry Ogan, Joeby and Clayborne and Vernon. The Browns need 599 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: those guys to win them because when teams have had 600 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: time to throw. Our corners have been very good, Denzel 601 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: Ward and Terrence Mitchell and Kevin Johnson and the slot 602 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: who started his career with the Texans. That trio has 603 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: been good. Our strong safety Ronnie Harrison came over from 604 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: the Jags, a young player. He's been good. Free safety 605 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: linebackers have been a real problem, and the Browns have 606 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: not been able to get off of the field on 607 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: third down. They've allowed sixty one conversions on third and 608 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: fourth down. Command In fact, They've had thirteen fourth down 609 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: conversions on fourteen tries this year, and so that's been 610 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: a problem. And I can tell you in the bye 611 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: week that was the number one focus of the self 612 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: scouting that they did was how do we get better 613 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,239 Speaker 1: at getting off the field. And you mentioned it can 614 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: start up front with those guys. But the Browns rage 615 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: in some ways has been Miles is going to do 616 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: something awesome. Let's make you run as many plays as possible. 617 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: They don't really let the ball go over their head. 618 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: They haven't given up many big plays vertically, only two 619 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: pass plays over forty yards, which I know has been 620 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: a staple of what the Texans have done with Fuller 621 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: and Cooks and that big touchdowns. Just last week, the 622 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: pair of them, they're going to try to make it 623 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: really work to get the ball down the field and 624 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: hope Miles makes a play or they take the ball away. 625 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: The Browns had fourteen takeaways in their first eight games, 626 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: which at the time was the leader in the NFL 627 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: in that category. Well, I was going to ask you 628 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: about the bye week what the top storylines are, but 629 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: it sounds like the Browns are really focused on getting healthy. 630 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: They get a lot of playmakers back this week. What 631 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: are some of the other big storylines you're working on. 632 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: Is as these two teams base off on Sunday. Yeah, 633 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: you know, you're right, it's getting your guys back on offense. 634 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: It was kind of taking a look at Myles Garrett. 635 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: He got banged up against the Raiders and certainly did 636 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: not look like himself finishing, but he was good to go. 637 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: And then, as I mentioned, it's the defense right this team. 638 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: And what's funny is the Browns offense. Five games they've 639 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: scored thirty or more points, games they've scored less than ten, 640 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: So they have been feast or famine offensively. No games 641 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: in the teams no games in the twenties, which is 642 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: kind of crazy when you think about it. So it's 643 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: smoothing that out on offense. But I think really the 644 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: focus is defensively. We have got to get off the 645 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: field on those money downs. Well, looking forward to a 646 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: fun matchup watching Deshaun Watson Baker Mayfield sling it out. 647 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: I really personally enjoy all the Baker Mayfield commercials. We 648 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: sometimes joke that there's maybe there's just not enough. I'm 649 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: totally joking. There's playing bakermercials, there are plenty. We just 650 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: want more wins as many wins as there are commercials, 651 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: and I think that's the way it is trending. And 652 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: it's great there and he has by the way, he 653 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: has fun with those. They let him kind of add 654 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: live and it's been fun seeing Generic Wills get involved 655 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: in those. And so yeah, I think this year's version 656 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: have been They really have been good commercials. And I 657 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: think they're always even better when you're watching knowing that 658 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: the Browns have won, so you've had your good run. 659 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: Browns need to get this one on Sunday. I disagree, Nathan. 660 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: The Texans need to get this one on Sunday. I 661 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: understand the Browns really would like to have this one, 662 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: get to six and three and really put themselves in 663 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: position to be one of the top seven or even 664 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,239 Speaker 1: eight teams in the AFC. But Texans need to win 665 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: this one on the road against a team with a 666 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: winning record, something they've not done. Actually, they haven't beaten 667 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: a team not named the Jacksonville Jaguars. So the Texans 668 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: need to have this one as well on Sunday against 669 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. But great stuff, Nathan's is a girl. 670 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: I really like when Deepe gets him on the show. 671 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: He is fantastic. There's a great job for Browns Radio, 672 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: for Browns Daily. He is an excellent, excellent host and 673 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: definitely knows his stuff. And look, there's one. There's something 674 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: to be said for somebody who knows this stuff but 675 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: then also can bring it to the masses. And I 676 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: try and master that as much as I possibly can, 677 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: and I struggle out at Nathan's a girl. It is 678 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: not man. He is really really good and a fun 679 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: Listener's no question about that. All right, when we get back, 680 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: it's time to bring on my brows. If Drew Doherty 681 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: and Drew's dozen, yeah, twelve questions with linebacker Terrell Adams. 682 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: That's next right here on Texans Access. Touchdown Texans Radio 683 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 1: continues in a moment. October's Houston Texans Star of Courage Award, 684 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 1: presented by Apache, will be presented to EMS himI Larrea. 685 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: Larrea has been an EMS for approximately six years throughout 686 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: the Houston area. Recently, Laria enlisted in the Texas Army 687 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: National Guard, is a sixty eight w Army medic. He's 688 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: now working full time as an Army medic and is 689 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: deploying overseas this month. The Houston Texans and Apache would 690 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,800 Speaker 1: like to congratulate him for being our October Star of 691 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: Courage Award winner. Welcome to Texans All Access. We are 692 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: brought to you in part by AWS. 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Now 702 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: here's the show. What are the experts predicting about this 703 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: week's Big Game? Extra Points? Saturday night? It's at ten 704 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: thirty or after the late local news on ABC thirteen. 705 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 1: Welcome back to this wonderful Wednesday edition of Jaxon's All Access, 706 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 1: and by wonderful, oh my goodness, if you were not 707 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: outside at some point today, if you're not outside right now, 708 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: maybe getting a walk in, maybe hanging out with the family, 709 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,760 Speaker 1: and you just have mell and your ears. That's perfect. 710 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: That's what you need. You need me in your ears 711 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,800 Speaker 1: while you're out enjoying this weather because it's absolutely perfect. 712 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 1: I am John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter, and 713 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: it's time for our next gen stat powered by a 714 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,839 Speaker 1: W s now. I have said this often, I think 715 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: watching Will Fuller run of the football is as exciting 716 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: as anything that happens in a football game. So in 717 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,239 Speaker 1: Week nine, because I know he was motoring, but here's 718 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: the thing. I actually think Will hit top speed earlier 719 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 1: in the game, and it's something I'll bring up with 720 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 1: Mark Vandermere a little while later. I thought he was 721 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: actually running faster on that play, but he didn't get 722 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: the ball in that play. He got the ball in 723 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: the seventy seven yard reception. He was third fastest in 724 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 1: all of Week nine, and he was just a shade 725 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: behind Dalvin Cook for number two. Will Fuller ran twenty 726 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: point eight eight miles per hour on that seventy seven 727 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,719 Speaker 1: yard reception. That was thirty NFL Curtis Samuel was number 728 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,839 Speaker 1: one on a fourteen yard reception TD. He was at 729 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: twenty one point five miles an hour. Dalvin Cook on 730 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 1: the seven yard touchdown round he had against the Lions, 731 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,839 Speaker 1: he went twenty point nine miles an hour, and Will 732 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: was just a shade behind that at twenty point eight 733 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: eight miles per hour. So if you're using significant figures, 734 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 1: which you should, then Will is actually tied with Dalvin Cook. 735 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: But either way, twenty point eight eight miles per hour. 736 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 1: I want you to get in your card at some 737 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 1: point and try and put it on twenty one miles 738 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: an hour and realize that's how fast Will ran to 739 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: get away from the Jaguars on the field. It's pretty 740 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: amazing when you think about it, when you're going twenty 741 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,359 Speaker 1: something miles an hour and you're like, oh my god, 742 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,719 Speaker 1: he went this fast. Yeah he went that. He went 743 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 1: that fast. That's pretty amazing. That's our next gen stat 744 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:56,240 Speaker 1: powered by a W s now A. It's raight. Ws 745 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: A is also for Adams as in Terrell Adams, d 746 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,839 Speaker 1: Is Drew as in Doherty as in dozen. It's time 747 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,960 Speaker 1: for Drew's dozen right up here on Texans All Access. 748 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 1: With Terrell Adams one of the more interesting guys on 749 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 1: this team. We've had the chance to interview him over 750 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,239 Speaker 1: the years. He's been one of the more fun interviews 751 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: that I've done since I've been with the Texans. And 752 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: I know that drews doesn't is going to be fantastic 753 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 1: with Terrell Adams. So I'm gonna stop flapping my gums 754 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,399 Speaker 1: and let Drew take the floor. Oh, this is gonna 755 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: be a fun one because I've been looking forward to 756 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,359 Speaker 1: having Tyrell Adams inside linebacker. On Drew's dozen, We're gonna 757 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 1: ask him twelve questions and we start with this, how 758 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,760 Speaker 1: come many of your teammates say you're the funniest Texan 759 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 1: on the squad? It's party because I'm very goofy. So 760 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: I do some very goofy things at times, and honestley, 761 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: it's because of my social media. On social media, i'd 762 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: say some pretty funny stuff. I'm always acting out being myself, 763 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: like making goofy comments. To just meet here. I should 764 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: like to enjoy life and be goofy. Everybody prodful on 765 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 1: keeping your youth, so a part of that is being 766 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,840 Speaker 1: goofy at all times. So you're goofy at all times. 767 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 1: How about on the rest of the squad? Who makes 768 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:17,480 Speaker 1: you laugh? Oh? That's an easy one. Dylan Cole. Dylan 769 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,200 Speaker 1: Cole is hilarious if you follow him on Twitter. He 770 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,400 Speaker 1: is the funniest person ever because it's comments be hilarious 771 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: of other people stuff. You're always coming on, teammates, stuff 772 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,480 Speaker 1: coming on, just like anything, and it's so funny at random. 773 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,400 Speaker 1: But it'd be hilarious. All right. Which planet would you 774 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: visit and watch playing with our visit? Oh that's a 775 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: good one. And you're gonna be safe, you know, no 776 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: matter which way you know, like you'll be protected from heat, 777 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,719 Speaker 1: from cold, from pressure, et cetera, et cetera, all things 778 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,399 Speaker 1: being equal, Which one would you like to see most? 779 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 1: Probably Saturn? Okay, I'm going to Saturn. You're the I've 780 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: asked this question of three of you now and you're 781 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: the second guy who have said sa Saturn. You also 782 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 1: had a teammate, Eric Murray, he said Mercury. So Saturn's 783 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 1: a good one. Is because of the rings basically, yeah, yeah, yeah, 784 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 1: I just want to see the rings. I don't want 785 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 1: to see the rings. All right. So I understand you 786 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,680 Speaker 1: have children or a daughter or I got a daughter? 787 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,319 Speaker 1: All right? How old is your daughter? Five? Five? All right? 788 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: What's the most challenging part of being a dad probably 789 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: the patience. I know for sure she tested my patience 790 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,399 Speaker 1: a lot now and what they're growing again so smart. 791 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,480 Speaker 1: Now we were literally just on the phone and she's 792 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 1: kind of like learning how to like send me messages 793 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 1: from an iPad, not complete sentences, which is the emojis, 794 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 1: so she'll see me emojis and pictures and then he's hilarious, 795 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 1: like how she'll ramomy see me someone. She'll just call 796 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,759 Speaker 1: me like in the middle of a meeting, like until 797 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,480 Speaker 1: I can call you back. I'm in a meeting right now. 798 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: It's just it's just being patient with her, just watching 799 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,719 Speaker 1: her grow. That's probably the most challenging part. I like it. 800 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,719 Speaker 1: What's what's the emoji you use most often with her? 801 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: I said, a kissy face? And she always like, why 802 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,719 Speaker 1: are you kissing me all the time. I's like, kissing you? 803 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,719 Speaker 1: Is it the regular little kissy face or is it 804 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,399 Speaker 1: the unicorn kissy face? Because there's options? All right, cool? 805 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: I used that too with my wife. So we've got 806 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 1: four kids. If they used emojis, I'd probably use that 807 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 1: with them. Okay, what movie or show of hers that 808 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 1: she watches? Do you enjoy the most Ooh, Hotel Transylvania. 809 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 1: We both enjoyed the movie pretty good. Yeah, she watches 810 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 1: all three of them. I love them too. I love 811 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,000 Speaker 1: hotels Transylvania. I'm gonna have to check that out, all right. 812 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,640 Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be put into the rotation. Um, what's 813 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,880 Speaker 1: the last thing that you cooked? The last thing I cooked? 814 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: You really wanted them? I do? I cook some ramen noodles. 815 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,720 Speaker 1: Not so that was your post victory meal, huh, post 816 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 1: victory meal? I posted it on Instagram. That was my 817 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 1: post victory meal. Some ramen news. I don't know why 818 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,080 Speaker 1: I was craving ramen noodles, but I was, all right. 819 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,440 Speaker 1: It brings up just opens up a can of worms. 820 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: It's multi faceted. When I hear this, do you do 821 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,960 Speaker 1: them with like the hot water that you put and 822 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,719 Speaker 1: you just cover for three minutes? Or do you do 823 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,320 Speaker 1: it in the the sauce pan and stove? Or do 824 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:11,839 Speaker 1: you Michael, how do you? How do you make yours? 825 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 1: I'll do them on a saucepan on the stove, border water, 826 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,600 Speaker 1: and then throw them in there a couple of minutes 827 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,080 Speaker 1: and then it's chilling time. Okay. And what's the flavor 828 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,400 Speaker 1: you go with. I go a chicken every time. I 829 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,520 Speaker 1: can't go anywhere else but chicken. You don't like the 830 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,319 Speaker 1: spicy lime shrimp. Oh uh huh, I gotta stick the chicken. 831 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,479 Speaker 1: I don't know why I can't. And I had this debate. Also, 832 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,520 Speaker 1: it's literally one peck is not enough, but two packs 833 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 1: it's too much. So I don't. I can't never it's weird. Yeah, 834 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,000 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's like a pack and a third. I 835 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,279 Speaker 1: think with packing the third pack and a half, it 836 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,360 Speaker 1: is like the happy medium. Yeah exactly. But see growing up, 837 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,439 Speaker 1: how I grew up. My mom, You ain't You ain't 838 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:57,080 Speaker 1: taking a third of a pack? No, no, you better 839 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: not waste any that's right. One not Okay. If you 840 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: had a magical power, which magical power would you want 841 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:10,120 Speaker 1: to have? What magical power? Probably the ability to disappear, 842 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,560 Speaker 1: to disappear, or just be invisible, be invisible, being invisible? Okay, 843 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:21,320 Speaker 1: all right? Uh right? The favorite thing? What's the favorite 844 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,360 Speaker 1: thing for you to get complimented on, whether it's football 845 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 1: or whether it's just you know, something in your personal life. 846 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,000 Speaker 1: Probably dance moves. When I'm dancing, I'm gonna dancer. So 847 00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,719 Speaker 1: what sort of stuff do you dance to? It doesn't matter. Like, 848 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,080 Speaker 1: as long as the song has a good beat and 849 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,880 Speaker 1: it's a real viby, I'm gonna get jiggie to it. 850 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:41,759 Speaker 1: So were you dancing when you were just like a 851 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,640 Speaker 1: little kid in the living room? I mean even through 852 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,800 Speaker 1: high school, I was a big dance I was always 853 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,000 Speaker 1: somewhat dancing like a song played and I liked it. 854 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be moving and grooving for sure. So I 855 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,320 Speaker 1: know you have so that that must mean you know 856 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,560 Speaker 1: what your touchdown celebration dance will be when you know 857 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,400 Speaker 1: what is it you do? This is this is this 858 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: is funny dance off. I can't think of the show. 859 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,560 Speaker 1: But it's like when you've been down and you pop 860 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,600 Speaker 1: your knees. It's hilarious. Trust me, when I do it, 861 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,640 Speaker 1: you'll know. All right, Well, do me a favorite, score 862 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,440 Speaker 1: a few touchdowns for so we can see the stands 863 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,279 Speaker 1: that cool year. All right? Sorry, I holly holly back 864 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:25,360 Speaker 1: that okay? Uh? What is the perfect Thanksgiving plate? So 865 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,959 Speaker 1: when you go through the line, what's on it? What's 866 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 1: on it? All right? So first we gotta have some turkey. 867 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:36,480 Speaker 1: What type I like my turkey? Fried? Fried? Good? Choice 868 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,279 Speaker 1: deep fried turkey. I hadn't had it till last year 869 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,800 Speaker 1: and literally changed my life. Yep. So some turkey. You 870 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 1: gotta have a like a slice or two of hay, 871 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,600 Speaker 1: I'm on there, huh um, some mac and cheese, some 872 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:54,160 Speaker 1: collar greens, some yams. I'm not a really big stuffing guys, 873 00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: so no stuff too much, that's see. What else I like? 874 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: I like? I like lima beans, Okay, that's different. And 875 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,200 Speaker 1: some cornbread? Corn bread? What about for dessert? Dessert? We 876 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:10,440 Speaker 1: haven't sweepen t five sweepen tenda byy nothing else fair enough? 877 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,160 Speaker 1: I like it? Okay. Last one? Would you rather be 878 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:18,760 Speaker 1: a dragon or own a dragon? I on a dragon 879 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,400 Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, you're not about to you find me 880 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,359 Speaker 1: in a hum U want to dragon? Joe Adams has 881 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,040 Speaker 1: played some excellent football for this team since stepping in 882 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,200 Speaker 1: for a Benardrick McKinney, and he has great interviews with 883 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,239 Speaker 1: Drew Doughty too. I wish I could be that good 884 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,239 Speaker 1: with interviews with Drew Dorty. Our podcast will be a 885 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,120 Speaker 1: little bit later in the show, but coming up next, 886 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,960 Speaker 1: Mark Vandomer stops by. We talk about going to Cleveland 887 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:46,720 Speaker 1: the first time in six years. That's next on Texas Access. 888 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,880 Speaker 1: This is Texans Radio on Sports Radio six ten. Today 889 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:57,240 Speaker 1: tastes like game day at home, like a signed couch. 890 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,320 Speaker 1: Seating tastes like coffee, table dining, and an ice cold 891 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,040 Speaker 1: coke to cool down the heat. It tastes like the 892 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,120 Speaker 1: game you've waited for all week with friends you've known 893 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:14,520 Speaker 1: your whole life. 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Five 910 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,160 Speaker 1: nights a week, they hits keep on coming and the 911 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,520 Speaker 1: Texas say they have it and they do no. It's 912 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:36,680 Speaker 1: Texans All Exans. Welcome back to a Wednesday edition of 913 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,080 Speaker 1: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, and I 914 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,320 Speaker 1: am joining now. It's only time outside of Monday that 915 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 1: Mark Vanimir and I get to sit down and wax 916 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,040 Speaker 1: poetic about the future, as in Sunday at Cleveland, and 917 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,879 Speaker 1: he joins me. Now, Mark, good evening, How are you, sir. 918 00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,120 Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Johnny. You know I wrote a piece 919 00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,560 Speaker 1: for Houston Texans dot Com on the Daily Brew about 920 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,560 Speaker 1: the last time we were in Cleveland, the first time 921 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,000 Speaker 1: we were in Cleveland and OTWO and David Carr and 922 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,040 Speaker 1: Tim Couch went at it. Butch Davis coaching the Browns 923 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,040 Speaker 1: and the Browns won big, and you know, all these 924 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,239 Speaker 1: memories were coming back to me. I went into the 925 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,080 Speaker 1: Cleveland locker room after the game and Butch was really 926 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,439 Speaker 1: praising the McNair's big time because you know he flew 927 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,520 Speaker 1: to Houston, was really interested in the Texans job when 928 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,239 Speaker 1: he was still at the University of Miami. And how 929 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,680 Speaker 1: you and I had to say in the article because 930 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,560 Speaker 1: you know, kids, kids, young people today who don't understand 931 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,600 Speaker 1: that these are the new Browns, like they came back 932 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,440 Speaker 1: in the league in nineteen ninety nine, and can you 933 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,400 Speaker 1: imagine the pain of a Cleveland fan seeing the Browns 934 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,959 Speaker 1: moved to Baltimore become the Ravens and went two Super 935 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,719 Speaker 1: Bowls and have an outstanding organization with Ozzie Knewsom, Oh 936 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,719 Speaker 1: my gosh, Like it could not have gone worse for 937 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,400 Speaker 1: them that they haven't been to the playoffs since the 938 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,920 Speaker 1: Texans first season, and their best season win total wives 939 00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,440 Speaker 1: was Romeo in two thousand and seven, but they actually 940 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,120 Speaker 1: missed the playoffs that year. It's been a tough road 941 00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,920 Speaker 1: in Cleveland. You know, the last time we were in 942 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,399 Speaker 1: Cleveland that was my first year twenty fourteen, which you know, well, 943 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,439 Speaker 1: there was there were a lot of storylines in that game. 944 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:12,440 Speaker 1: And I mentioned this one earlier if you remember this, 945 00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:17,719 Speaker 1: but we all know about JJ Watts's fade route touchdown. Yeah, 946 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,880 Speaker 1: but he said it today at his press conference and 947 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,799 Speaker 1: reminded me he had not one but two fifteen yard 948 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,080 Speaker 1: roughing the part of files in that game. And it's 949 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,839 Speaker 1: one of the funniest things Mark I've ever seen, being 950 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 1: down on the sidelines, because here he is the greatest 951 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,560 Speaker 1: defensive player in the NFL, and he's just created these 952 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,759 Speaker 1: two penalties and he's standing on the sideline, his hands 953 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,600 Speaker 1: are on his hips and he's not really looking over 954 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,600 Speaker 1: at Bill O'Brien, and Bill O'Brien is just miffed. You 955 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,120 Speaker 1: could just see it, not once but twice. But he 956 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,200 Speaker 1: also I can tell he realizes he can't really get 957 00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:54,960 Speaker 1: mad at the guy. The guy has just been carrying 958 00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,319 Speaker 1: us this year. And so it's like these these two 959 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,800 Speaker 1: just kind of standing like ten yards of heart, and 960 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,800 Speaker 1: finally at some point you see kind of the dayton 961 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,359 Speaker 1: if you will, just kind of breaks and Obie looks out. 962 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,000 Speaker 1: It's like go back in, and he goes back in. 963 00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,800 Speaker 1: He gets the strip sack later on. But watching the 964 00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 1: two of them and just if they would have thought 965 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,520 Speaker 1: bubbles over their heads, it would have been asked to 966 00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,040 Speaker 1: listen to. But that was also the game that Ryan 967 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,960 Speaker 1: mount started, and I know we've had some some great 968 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:27,320 Speaker 1: flights home after great wins. Joe twenty fifteen, Indianapolis, you know, 969 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,160 Speaker 1: beating Cincinnati on Monday Night. I remember that Cleveland flight 970 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,759 Speaker 1: because not only did we get the win, JJ makes 971 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:39,160 Speaker 1: the catch. The Browns are six and three at the time. Yeah, 972 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,279 Speaker 1: that's a lot of people forget and is this the 973 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,200 Speaker 1: best they've been since then? I think it is. It 974 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,200 Speaker 1: is the best they've been since the Texans were last there. 975 00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,440 Speaker 1: And you know, it's a great point because at the 976 00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,560 Speaker 1: time it was a big win because the Browns are 977 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,520 Speaker 1: having a really good season and Hoyer looked good that year, 978 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,960 Speaker 1: and it all unraveled after the Texans beat them with 979 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,360 Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett. Yeah, and that I think was the final 980 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,520 Speaker 1: thing was we've got a quarterback, We've got the guy. 981 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,600 Speaker 1: We've got Ryan Mallet, he's our guy. So all of 982 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,560 Speaker 1: that was in all of our heads as we got 983 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:18,240 Speaker 1: on a plane. I just remember our former assistant straight 984 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,520 Speaker 1: coach oh No, got on the got on the mic 985 00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,920 Speaker 1: and he started doing he started doing Randy Macho man 986 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:31,200 Speaker 1: Savage in the plane is just going crazy and it 987 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,520 Speaker 1: was such joy. And then the next week we bought 988 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,160 Speaker 1: them out against the Bengals. Mallets hurt and it was 989 00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,480 Speaker 1: like just the complete total one eighty from where we 990 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:45,239 Speaker 1: were coming back from that Cleveland game. But then Fits 991 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:46,560 Speaker 1: he went back in, and Fits he did a good 992 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,799 Speaker 1: job after he got back in. But that Cleveland win, 993 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,040 Speaker 1: it's it's it's interesting because that's one of the ones 994 00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,440 Speaker 1: that I remember a lot because of that. Because the 995 00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,600 Speaker 1: Browns are six and three, Mallet started, JJ has the 996 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,279 Speaker 1: catch as a receiver. You know, we have a great win, 997 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,759 Speaker 1: and then you know that the plane flight back was 998 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,000 Speaker 1: just the excitement that people had on the plane. It 999 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,279 Speaker 1: was just really really cool to see that that last 1000 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,920 Speaker 1: one was It was pretty cool, no doubt. Well, and 1001 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:13,640 Speaker 1: I remember going to the Rock and Roll Hall of 1002 00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,200 Speaker 1: Fame the night before the game. I mean really, I mean, 1003 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,360 Speaker 1: I know it's COVID now, but by the way, I 1004 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,000 Speaker 1: did check if anyone listening is going to Cleveland, maybe 1005 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,520 Speaker 1: three people are. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1006 00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,000 Speaker 1: is open, socially distanced, wear a mask, that kind of thing. 1007 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,319 Speaker 1: And it makes sense because the museum you can walk 1008 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,359 Speaker 1: around and stay away from people, right as long as 1009 00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,479 Speaker 1: it's not totally packed. But did you know this side 1010 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,120 Speaker 1: note here, Johnny. Among the Rock and Roll Hall of 1011 00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,680 Speaker 1: Fame snubs, Pat Benatar is not in the rock and 1012 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,520 Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Fame. Can you believe that? I don't know. 1013 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,359 Speaker 1: I mean, she was fantastic, and you know, not only 1014 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,520 Speaker 1: you look. I hate to say, well, you know, being 1015 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,719 Speaker 1: a female, but it's true. You know, it's a it's 1016 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 1: a man's it's a man's sport in many ways. But man, 1017 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,680 Speaker 1: she rocked it. She's maybe the greatest female rock vocalist 1018 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,600 Speaker 1: ever her and and Wilson of Heart. So she's got 1019 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,279 Speaker 1: to be in. So that's my rock and Roll Hall 1020 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:05,719 Speaker 1: of Fame complaint of the day, and I could have 1021 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:12,080 Speaker 1: one every day maybe, Okay. Pat Bennettsar as a NFL 1022 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:17,239 Speaker 1: football comparison, Yeah, it took Art Monk a lot of 1023 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,360 Speaker 1: years to get in the NFL. And every time somebody 1024 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:20,880 Speaker 1: brought up Art Monk, you thought, well, he's in the 1025 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,000 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, right, Nope. Every other year you would 1026 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,440 Speaker 1: think he's going on, he's in the Hall of Fame already. 1027 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,719 Speaker 1: Oh no, he's not. And then he finally gets in. 1028 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,040 Speaker 1: At some point you're gonna appreciate the greatness of Pat Bennettar. 1029 00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,960 Speaker 1: You have to, Yeah, yeah, it. Look, it took Rush 1030 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,239 Speaker 1: the Doobie Brothers a lot. You know, there are a 1031 00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,680 Speaker 1: lot of bands that have taken forever to get in. 1032 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,399 Speaker 1: So I think that eventually she gets in. And it's 1033 00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,080 Speaker 1: just like, you know, I hope we're not talking about 1034 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,360 Speaker 1: Andrey Johnson this way. Someday like Andre's gotta get in, 1035 00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,880 Speaker 1: please Lord, I think that, you know, and look, we 1036 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,480 Speaker 1: don't have that time to do that right now. It's 1037 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,160 Speaker 1: an offseason show. But I think Andrea will get in 1038 00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:01,040 Speaker 1: within two to three years of being eligible. And it's 1039 00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,520 Speaker 1: possible that he's first time first ballot, but I think 1040 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,080 Speaker 1: within two to three years he gets And I believe 1041 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,640 Speaker 1: ant Quan Bolden, who has a similar number of catches, 1042 00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,799 Speaker 1: comes up when Andre does. But you know, and look, 1043 00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,839 Speaker 1: ant Quon, you can make a case for him too. 1044 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,800 Speaker 1: And I'm not going to talk down about him, but 1045 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,240 Speaker 1: Andre certainly deserves to be in. It's funny we've paired 1046 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,560 Speaker 1: up a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame discussion with 1047 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,759 Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is only about 1048 00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,400 Speaker 1: an hour's drive in Canton, Ohio, not far from Cleveland. 1049 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,640 Speaker 1: And I'd love to go take vanderkidt on a trip 1050 00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,920 Speaker 1: to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But you know, 1051 00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:35,920 Speaker 1: you'd almost have to pair it up with a Texans 1052 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,360 Speaker 1: game at the Browns or something, or maybe even Pittsburgh 1053 00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,960 Speaker 1: because that's probably not too far away, because you know, 1054 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,240 Speaker 1: you're not going up there for anything else. There's nothing 1055 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: else up there. The soapbox derby, what's up there in 1056 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,920 Speaker 1: Canton Akron, Well, you've got the department store that was 1057 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,000 Speaker 1: right next to our hotel where they where they filmed 1058 00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,480 Speaker 1: a Christmas story. They have that there's oh yeah, that's right. 1059 00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,719 Speaker 1: They build a Christmas story in Cleveland. And the big 1060 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,000 Speaker 1: trivia item on that is that it wasn't snowing, so 1061 00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,640 Speaker 1: they had to bring in all this fake snow for 1062 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:10,280 Speaker 1: the shoot. And you know, the kid's tongue was definitely 1063 00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,680 Speaker 1: not really stuck to the pole. They had to fake that. 1064 00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:17,400 Speaker 1: Fake fake fake that don't ruin it because oh sorry, sorry, 1065 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,839 Speaker 1: I love that Christmas movie. Yeah, talking about Andre Johnson 1066 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,080 Speaker 1: little while the goo mark will Fuller six games in 1067 00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:29,920 Speaker 1: a row with a touchdown, Yeah, incredible games in a row, 1068 00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,840 Speaker 1: and you think about you know, DeAndre Hopkins, Andre Johnson. 1069 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,520 Speaker 1: Six games in a row, will Fuller has had a 1070 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,399 Speaker 1: receiving touchdown and it would have been wouldn't have been 1071 00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,080 Speaker 1: seven had he caught one against Minnesota. I'm trying to 1072 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:43,719 Speaker 1: remember if you'd hung on to that one at the end. 1073 00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:44,920 Speaker 1: I can't remember if you had one before that. But 1074 00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,279 Speaker 1: either way, the way that Will Fuller has played has 1075 00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,000 Speaker 1: lately has just been I mean, it's been phenomenal. I 1076 00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,440 Speaker 1: mean what he has been able to do and come 1077 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,680 Speaker 1: into his own and I know, you know, the whole 1078 00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,360 Speaker 1: thing about the trade rumors and all that kind of 1079 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,960 Speaker 1: stuff like, I mean, it's tough to deal with, don't 1080 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,400 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, But the way that he dealt 1081 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,560 Speaker 1: with it was like going on the field and showing everybody, look, 1082 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,239 Speaker 1: I can be this guy. I really can. And Mark, 1083 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, and maybe it's just because you know, 1084 00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,000 Speaker 1: we know Will and we've seen him, you know, grow 1085 00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:16,960 Speaker 1: up in this franchise. I don't really want to see 1086 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,439 Speaker 1: him go. Look, I understand the business of football, like, yeah, 1087 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,040 Speaker 1: you know as much as anybody else you do as well. 1088 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,799 Speaker 1: I really think the way that he has grown when 1089 00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,800 Speaker 1: he is healthy and on the field, this offense is 1090 00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:31,120 Speaker 1: just completely different. Johnny. I you know, this is contract 1091 00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,480 Speaker 1: stuff here. It's a contract year for him. I'm not 1092 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,400 Speaker 1: sure how they're gonna handle it. I think Sean and 1093 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,919 Speaker 1: Seth we're talking about a Robbie Anderson type deal. Maybe 1094 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,160 Speaker 1: that would work. But Will's putting up better numbers than 1095 00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,080 Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, you know what I mean, Like, and he's 1096 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,560 Speaker 1: showing you potential that I have so many different feelings 1097 00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:48,839 Speaker 1: about it. One of them is, oh, my gosh, all 1098 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,560 Speaker 1: the time he lost really stunted his pro football growth. 1099 00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,040 Speaker 1: If you will imagine how much better he would be 1100 00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,480 Speaker 1: right now if he were healthy all this time, because 1101 00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,040 Speaker 1: that many more reps and practice and everything. Because it 1102 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,640 Speaker 1: is clearly, you know, not only we always said, if 1103 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,920 Speaker 1: Will's healthy, he's really good. If Will's healthy consistently, he 1104 00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,319 Speaker 1: gets better as he goes, you know what I mean. 1105 00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,960 Speaker 1: So yeah, and this offseason he took a quantum leap 1106 00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,440 Speaker 1: in the way he handles himself physically, because that was 1107 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,200 Speaker 1: very apparent from the first time we saw him on 1108 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,240 Speaker 1: a zoom calls like, hey, is something wrong with my 1109 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,360 Speaker 1: zoom because Will Fuller looks really big, you know, something 1110 00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,640 Speaker 1: wrong on my screen? Is this? Like is this putting 1111 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,200 Speaker 1: on like five ten pounds a muscle on somebody? But 1112 00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:31,080 Speaker 1: Will looks stronger, bigger. We talked to Tim Kelly about it. Johnny, 1113 00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,440 Speaker 1: He's one of the best receivers in the league. There's 1114 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:38,439 Speaker 1: no question about it. And I'm wondering continued continued health, 1115 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,080 Speaker 1: what does that produce? And Will are we going to 1116 00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,480 Speaker 1: see numbers that are really gonna make your eyes pop 1117 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:46,040 Speaker 1: out as the year goes on. I think it's funny 1118 00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,720 Speaker 1: because hurting him and I'll put that in air quotes, 1119 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,240 Speaker 1: hurting him, hurting him individually, is also the fact that 1120 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,480 Speaker 1: you do have Cooks and Cobb, you know, some good 1121 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,480 Speaker 1: pass catchers on this team, right There are other places 1122 00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,520 Speaker 1: to go with the football and the tight ends too. 1123 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,200 Speaker 1: But Willy, let's say he stays healthy for eight games 1124 00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,720 Speaker 1: or seven of the eight, the numbers are gonna look 1125 00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,080 Speaker 1: really good at the end of the year. The number 1126 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,160 Speaker 1: of touchdowns? What does he have by the year? Six? 1127 00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,800 Speaker 1: Right now? Yes? All right? So are Johnson's high water 1128 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,920 Speaker 1: market a season is nine? If Will stays healthy, he's 1129 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:20,040 Speaker 1: gonna smash that and be behind Hopkins. And who knows, 1130 00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,120 Speaker 1: you know, if he goes really nuts, maybe he passes 1131 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,320 Speaker 1: Hopkins all time. Mark. This is fun to watch. I'm 1132 00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,440 Speaker 1: enjoying it, and I hope like you somehow you can 1133 00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:30,880 Speaker 1: keep Will fuller mark. There was a third and three 1134 00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,840 Speaker 1: and I remember this because Will was actually standing on 1135 00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,360 Speaker 1: the broad at the broadcast, you know, are they They 1136 00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,920 Speaker 1: imposed the numbers on the field and the little third 1137 00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,040 Speaker 1: and three graphic, and he was standing right on That's 1138 00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:45,680 Speaker 1: why I remember third and three and Sean ended up 1139 00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,800 Speaker 1: throwing the ball to Jordan Nakins, and Naikins got the 1140 00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,600 Speaker 1: first down. But Will was line up on the left 1141 00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:53,920 Speaker 1: hand side, and he's going as Sidney Jones, and he 1142 00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,520 Speaker 1: Sidney wasn't physically pressing him, but he was gonna. He 1143 00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:02,000 Speaker 1: was gonna bail with him. And within three steps, Will 1144 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,600 Speaker 1: is even with him. Within two more steps, Will is 1145 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:10,200 Speaker 1: pulling away and pulling away and pulling away. And Sidney 1146 00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,520 Speaker 1: Jones is a fast guy. I think he ran four 1147 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:16,200 Speaker 1: fourth combine and Will was pulling away. But Deshaun had 1148 00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,240 Speaker 1: already seen Aikins and threw the ball to Aikins. If 1149 00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,040 Speaker 1: he throws it out, you know, out wide the Will, 1150 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,479 Speaker 1: he probably gets another one there. But what that play 1151 00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:29,920 Speaker 1: told me was Will is so fast that these defensive 1152 00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,920 Speaker 1: backs don't get it. They don't understand like they come 1153 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,680 Speaker 1: up to press him or and not physically press him, 1154 00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,360 Speaker 1: and they figure I'll just run with him, and then 1155 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,360 Speaker 1: he runs right by him and they're like, oh my god. 1156 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,480 Speaker 1: C J. Henderson had the same thing on the interference. 1157 00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,960 Speaker 1: He's out on Will and he had maybe been on 1158 00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,160 Speaker 1: him a little bit before that, but it was the 1159 00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,280 Speaker 1: first time that Will just took off on him, and 1160 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,360 Speaker 1: Henderson was like, yo, I gotta catch up this guy. 1161 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,240 Speaker 1: And that got him off balance, and that ended up 1162 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,160 Speaker 1: being the past fears. He gets on guys so fast 1163 00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,440 Speaker 1: that if they've never seen him before, they don't get it, 1164 00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:00,720 Speaker 1: and the fact that he's help He's gonna do that 1165 01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,160 Speaker 1: to a few guys this year when they faced him, 1166 01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,400 Speaker 1: they're like, look, I'm gonna get right up on this dude. 1167 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:06,680 Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to run by me. And 1168 01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:10,280 Speaker 1: within two steps he's buy them and your toast. And 1169 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,240 Speaker 1: luckily Sean took advantage of that on the long seventy 1170 01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,400 Speaker 1: seven yard or to Will and got him the football. 1171 01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,400 Speaker 1: Because Will got to a point where he was pushing CJ. 1172 01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,920 Speaker 1: Own the field. Henderson's off balance. He can go up 1173 01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:24,560 Speaker 1: and make the catch and take off, but he's come 1174 01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,240 Speaker 1: so far and he puts so much pressure on defensive 1175 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,880 Speaker 1: backs and just we just need him to stay healthy. 1176 01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:32,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's been the same story as a twenty sixteen, 1177 01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,280 Speaker 1: but he's come so far from then to be this 1178 01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:40,440 Speaker 1: this really productive, explosive, number one type weapon. It's just 1179 01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,560 Speaker 1: been really fun to watch. Are you getting a shootout 1180 01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:47,800 Speaker 1: vibe from this weekend? Because the Browns, Oh my gosh, Johnny, 1181 01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,680 Speaker 1: they got a lot of weapons, I OBJ or no OBJ. 1182 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,160 Speaker 1: They got a lot of places to go with the football. 1183 01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,960 Speaker 1: When you know you Chubb coming back, and Hooper and 1184 01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,880 Speaker 1: Landry and oh boy, this is not gonna be I mean, 1185 01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,640 Speaker 1: this feels a lot like forty two thirty six. Geez, Tennessee. 1186 01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,480 Speaker 1: I mean, but I mean, when you think about it, 1187 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,160 Speaker 1: they're they're they're similar and different. But the Browns have 1188 01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,800 Speaker 1: the running game. Titans have running game Titans. The Browns 1189 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,720 Speaker 1: really improved that offensive line with the two tackles, one drafted, 1190 01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,880 Speaker 1: one a free agent. So the offensive line is much 1191 01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,560 Speaker 1: better the Titans are that, you know, the offensive line 1192 01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,000 Speaker 1: is really good. The Browns wide receivers Jobbers, Landry one 1193 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,520 Speaker 1: of the better ones in the league. A J. Brown 1194 01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,080 Speaker 1: one of the better receivers in the league. They're built 1195 01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,920 Speaker 1: very similarly. The offense they run is very similar. It's 1196 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:36,520 Speaker 1: gonna be very similar to play in the Tights. I 1197 01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,560 Speaker 1: just don't think the Browns are as good defensively as 1198 01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:45,160 Speaker 1: the Titans. Overall, I think you, yeah, yeah, the Browns. 1199 01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:49,560 Speaker 1: The Browns run defense is a little better. But if 1200 01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,560 Speaker 1: you throw away from Denzel Ward, I think you got 1201 01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:53,640 Speaker 1: an opportunity to put them up on the board. But man, 1202 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,600 Speaker 1: you're talking about the Browns with weapons. They got Austin 1203 01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,120 Speaker 1: Hooper at tight end, David and Joku at tight end. 1204 01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,680 Speaker 1: You got the rookie Harrison Bryant tight end and Jarvis Landry, 1205 01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:06,000 Speaker 1: and then they've got potentially Nick Chubb coming back to 1206 01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:09,640 Speaker 1: go along with Cream Hunt. Even if it's just Cream Hunt. Yeah, well, 1207 01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,680 Speaker 1: with Chub. With Chubb in the first four games, they 1208 01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,600 Speaker 1: led the league in rushing through four games. That's frightening 1209 01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,240 Speaker 1: to me. I don't want to hear that at all. 1210 01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,680 Speaker 1: I'm more I'm worried about their pass catchers, you know, 1211 01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm worried about the passing attack. And now you're telling 1212 01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,479 Speaker 1: me that when Chubb was there, they led the league 1213 01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:31,200 Speaker 1: in rushing for four games. Yikes. Yeah, you better be 1214 01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,160 Speaker 1: sharp offensively, because either you gotta play keep away or 1215 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,840 Speaker 1: keep up in the scoring department. Yeah, no doubt. And 1216 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,760 Speaker 1: I hope Chubb, just I hope they give him another 1217 01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:41,840 Speaker 1: week thinking they can pull this off and it's just 1218 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,160 Speaker 1: cream hunt. But because Nick Chubb gets in there, oh boy, 1219 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:50,120 Speaker 1: are bad tackling habits could be exposed again. And hopefully 1220 01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:52,280 Speaker 1: that's not the case. But I'm with you. I feel 1221 01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,320 Speaker 1: a shootout vibe. But be kind of nice to win 1222 01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:57,200 Speaker 1: one of these shootouts, There's no question about that. I 1223 01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:01,040 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thanks shotting up next 1224 01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,840 Speaker 1: and well Mark didn't even know it. 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Now, one of 1243 01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:14,640 Speaker 1: my favorite stats, one of my favorite things in all 1244 01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:18,040 Speaker 1: of football is the long ball. I think everybody likes 1245 01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:22,000 Speaker 1: to see the bomb. I mean everybody loves that, right, 1246 01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:25,120 Speaker 1: I mean I do. I love the bomb now. I 1247 01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,320 Speaker 1: love the intricacies of football, those kind of things, but 1248 01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,640 Speaker 1: the bomb has always been my guilty pleasure, especially when 1249 01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:35,000 Speaker 1: somebody throws as pretty a deep ball as Deshaun Watson. 1250 01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,760 Speaker 1: And the only person before that that I loved really 1251 01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:40,240 Speaker 1: watching through the deep ball was Warren Moon. I thought 1252 01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,920 Speaker 1: Warren Moon had the prettiest release spiral everything. Warren Moon 1253 01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,400 Speaker 1: came out of the womb throwing a football like it's 1254 01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:50,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be done. I used to love watching Warren Moon, 1255 01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,520 Speaker 1: and I feel that same way about Deshaun Watson. And 1256 01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:56,760 Speaker 1: I know that Warren Moon's a huge fan of Deshaun Watson. Well, 1257 01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,760 Speaker 1: when it comes to the long ball, Deshaun Watson is 1258 01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:04,760 Speaker 1: second in this season in twenty twenty for the longest 1259 01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:11,760 Speaker 1: completed air distance for a completed throw, sixty three point 1260 01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:16,840 Speaker 1: four yards completed. That, my friends, is a bomb, and 1261 01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:18,680 Speaker 1: so what that means it? Man, I have been a 1262 01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,280 Speaker 1: sixty three yard touchdown, but it was a sixty three 1263 01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:27,200 Speaker 1: point four yard throw for a touchdown. And you know 1264 01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,600 Speaker 1: at the other end of that had to be Will Fuller. 1265 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:35,360 Speaker 1: But man, what a second. Russell Wilson's first with a 1266 01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:39,000 Speaker 1: throw of sixty four point four yards. You throw something 1267 01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:40,680 Speaker 1: that far, you hope it's completed, but a lot of 1268 01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:42,760 Speaker 1: times it's not. You overthrow a receiver can't hang on 1269 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,880 Speaker 1: to it. That's a long way to toss the ball. 1270 01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,640 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson first, Sean Watson second, just one yard, completing 1271 01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,560 Speaker 1: them for the longest completed air distance in the year 1272 01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:56,439 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. All right, it's time to get to Mark 1273 01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:01,200 Speaker 1: vander Meer's conversation with the Prez No not Jamal Adams, 1274 01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:06,320 Speaker 1: the real president, Jamie Roots, President of the Texans, president 1275 01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:10,600 Speaker 1: of lots Are Sports Entertainment. Jamie has well, you know what, 1276 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,360 Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil the surprise. I don't know, 1277 01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:13,960 Speaker 1: maybe it's not surprising more, but I don't really like 1278 01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:15,480 Speaker 1: to spoil it. I know Mark's going to talk to 1279 01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,160 Speaker 1: him about it, so I don't want to spoil it. 1280 01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,280 Speaker 1: But you'll love hearing what Jamie has to say. Here's 1281 01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:22,560 Speaker 1: Jamie Roots, the President of Texans, with the voice of 1282 01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,720 Speaker 1: Texans Mark Vandemer and a new book authored by you, 1283 01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:29,560 Speaker 1: Jamie called The Winning Game Plan. Welcome and congratulations on 1284 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,920 Speaker 1: the book. Thank you, Mark, I appreciate it. I know 1285 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,919 Speaker 1: you're an author as well, and you've got one coming 1286 01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,160 Speaker 1: out well soon enough, soon enough, but we're here to 1287 01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,479 Speaker 1: talk about yours. And look, I love this idea because 1288 01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:44,040 Speaker 1: there's so much that goes on within the organization operating 1289 01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:47,840 Speaker 1: the organization that so many people never see and never 1290 01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,960 Speaker 1: know about, but they feel the results, if you will, 1291 01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,360 Speaker 1: when they go to a Texans game. Why write the book? 1292 01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:58,200 Speaker 1: Tell us the reasoning? Well, I really wanted to share 1293 01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:03,760 Speaker 1: the fundamental principles that have been so effective for us. 1294 01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:08,120 Speaker 1: As an organization and actually dating back to running the 1295 01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,160 Speaker 1: Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer and in hopes that 1296 01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:15,360 Speaker 1: it can help folks in their leadership journey. None of 1297 01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:23,720 Speaker 1: it's really revolutionary, it's fairly fundamental. But I've spent a 1298 01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:29,560 Speaker 1: lot of time studying, reading, listening, interviewing, talking to leaders 1299 01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,040 Speaker 1: and wanted to put that in one place so that 1300 01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,280 Speaker 1: hopefully it can help folks to be better leaders because 1301 01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:41,160 Speaker 1: we all need we all need better leaders in society. Well, 1302 01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,680 Speaker 1: speaking of leadership, you've had to be at your very 1303 01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:47,880 Speaker 1: best in this last year, the last nine months or so. Obviously, 1304 01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:51,520 Speaker 1: every year is a challenge in every business, professional sports included, 1305 01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,560 Speaker 1: but this year with the coronavirus pandemic, how has it 1306 01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,520 Speaker 1: been different? Take us through a little bit of that 1307 01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:02,520 Speaker 1: journey operating the business sucessfully through everything we've been experiencing. Well, 1308 01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,959 Speaker 1: I'll tell you just the I mean, there's some things 1309 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:10,920 Speaker 1: that I've had to do to transition our organization, to 1310 01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:15,959 Speaker 1: get us refocused on a revised set of priorities really, 1311 01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:21,120 Speaker 1: but the most important thing has been the people that 1312 01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:24,599 Speaker 1: we have within our organization of talent, within the Houston Texans, 1313 01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,920 Speaker 1: the culture that we have that is so resilient and 1314 01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:35,519 Speaker 1: our focus on our purpose of UH winning championships, creating 1315 01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:39,479 Speaker 1: memorable experiences, and doing great things for Houston. The other 1316 01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,960 Speaker 1: thing that is really important is the relationships that we've 1317 01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:47,000 Speaker 1: built over a long period of time, and our ability 1318 01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:52,200 Speaker 1: to preserve those through this situation has been absolutely critical. 1319 01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,400 Speaker 1: That's been our focus. There are two things when I 1320 01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:57,160 Speaker 1: talk about the machine of the Houston Texans, there are 1321 01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,920 Speaker 1: two things that are so critically important. The people that 1322 01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:04,280 Speaker 1: work within our organization and the relationships that we have 1323 01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:07,719 Speaker 1: within our community. That's the machine, and so we've worked 1324 01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:11,400 Speaker 1: very hard this year to protect the machine. How has 1325 01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,320 Speaker 1: operating through other adverse situations in the history of the Texans, 1326 01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:19,599 Speaker 1: numerous hurricanes, other instances, how has that helped you? Now? 1327 01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:21,040 Speaker 1: What are some of the things you've learned along the 1328 01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:24,599 Speaker 1: way that maybe can benefit everybody. Yeah, Well, anytime you're 1329 01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:26,800 Speaker 1: facing adversity, there are a couple of things that are 1330 01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,040 Speaker 1: really important, and I talk about it in the book. 1331 01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,760 Speaker 1: Number one is you gotta you have to push back. 1332 01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,400 Speaker 1: You have to say I am not giving in to 1333 01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:40,799 Speaker 1: this challenge. Number two is you have to be positively focused. 1334 01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:44,200 Speaker 1: And you've heard that phrase a lot really embrace the 1335 01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:48,160 Speaker 1: positive within the situation that you're in and focus on 1336 01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:50,320 Speaker 1: the things that you can control. If you can't control it, 1337 01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:53,679 Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Just focus on what you can control. 1338 01:09:54,080 --> 01:10:00,439 Speaker 1: Number three is to believe we can't overcome this. Walt 1339 01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:08,040 Speaker 1: Disney was was was positioned as a UH when he 1340 01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,600 Speaker 1: while he was interviewing for a job at a newspaper 1341 01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:13,640 Speaker 1: and they did not get the job because he had 1342 01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:19,680 Speaker 1: no original ideas, but he believed in himself and he 1343 01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:22,400 Speaker 1: kept going and it was really I mean, that's that's 1344 01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:24,320 Speaker 1: what you have to do. And then number three. Number 1345 01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,840 Speaker 1: four is just persevered. You know, you just have to 1346 01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,880 Speaker 1: keep going. Uh. The difference between winning and losing is 1347 01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,719 Speaker 1: so often you know how long you give it before 1348 01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,400 Speaker 1: you give up and just so just keep going. And 1349 01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,040 Speaker 1: these are all basic things, but these are things that 1350 01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:44,600 Speaker 1: we've learned through the adversity that we've faced as an organization. Unfortunately, 1351 01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:48,400 Speaker 1: this has been about seven months, a hurricane that lasted 1352 01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:51,840 Speaker 1: seven months, and so we've had to really be very 1353 01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:57,640 Speaker 1: disciplined in our application of those uh those UH adversity 1354 01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:02,559 Speaker 1: plays well and we're still kind of in the storm 1355 01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,479 Speaker 1: right now, so let's hope it ends soon Jamie Roots 1356 01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,400 Speaker 1: joining us, author of The Winning game Plan. All right, 1357 01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:11,880 Speaker 1: those of us who know you know your story, and 1358 01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,880 Speaker 1: it's so interesting. How much of this do you share? 1359 01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,479 Speaker 1: And go ahead and share some of it right now? 1360 01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,800 Speaker 1: Why did you decide and how did you decide to 1361 01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:27,120 Speaker 1: work in sports? Yeah? Well, um, I will share. I'll 1362 01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:28,840 Speaker 1: share a little bit. I share a little bit in 1363 01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:31,080 Speaker 1: the book. But more importantly, I really wanted to make 1364 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,800 Speaker 1: sure that the ideas that can be effective for people 1365 01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:38,240 Speaker 1: or what is down on paper, right, so there's there's 1366 01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,600 Speaker 1: not a ton of it. I decided to work in 1367 01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:46,160 Speaker 1: sports because athletic competition has been so central to my life. 1368 01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:48,000 Speaker 1: I mean from the time that I was a kid 1369 01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:53,040 Speaker 1: through college, I left and I worked in a traditional business. 1370 01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:57,320 Speaker 1: I really tried. I promise to be in a traditional business. 1371 01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:01,040 Speaker 1: I was at IBM for several years. It didn't didn't 1372 01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:05,200 Speaker 1: really take. I was at Procter and Gamble didn't really 1373 01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:09,519 Speaker 1: inspire me, and so um. And it's not that those 1374 01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,479 Speaker 1: are not great organizations. They're great companies, both of them 1375 01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:16,680 Speaker 1: leading in their industries. Right, But I really I just 1376 01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:22,360 Speaker 1: there's something about athletic competition, the drama and you and 1377 01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:29,759 Speaker 1: I align on this the drama, the the excitement, the energy, 1378 01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,120 Speaker 1: the even if you lose, it's better than being in 1379 01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:36,160 Speaker 1: the middle, even if you you know, even if you're 1380 01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:39,360 Speaker 1: at the depths of your sorrow, it's better than just 1381 01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:44,599 Speaker 1: being monotone day after day. And so that's just something 1382 01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:49,640 Speaker 1: that was important to me. And while my approach to 1383 01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:53,320 Speaker 1: running the Houston Texans has always been very much you know, 1384 01:12:54,520 --> 01:13:02,280 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal Best Practice business application, I couldn't do 1385 01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:05,040 Speaker 1: it in a traditional business. It had to be something 1386 01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:09,479 Speaker 1: that gave me that level of energy and passion and excitement. Well, 1387 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,799 Speaker 1: those of us in the building know that you shape 1388 01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:16,200 Speaker 1: the entire business out of the operation like a team, 1389 01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:19,400 Speaker 1: like a gigantic team. And you were on such a 1390 01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:23,880 Speaker 1: successful team, multiple teams in soccer at Clemson, winning two 1391 01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:27,000 Speaker 1: national championships. I know you're very humble about it. If 1392 01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:28,600 Speaker 1: it were me, i'd wear a hat that said that. 1393 01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:31,120 Speaker 1: I'd walk around every day like that. But tell us 1394 01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:32,880 Speaker 1: what you learned from there. I know it's got to 1395 01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:34,759 Speaker 1: be a lot of things, but a couple of central 1396 01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:38,559 Speaker 1: ideas that you learned playing on championship teams that apply 1397 01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:41,559 Speaker 1: to what you're doing today and what everybody can use 1398 01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:45,519 Speaker 1: out there. Yeah. So it was nineteen eighty seven and 1399 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:50,120 Speaker 1: I was on a bus riding to the National Championship game, 1400 01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:53,640 Speaker 1: and I was with my best friend, Paul Rutenants, and 1401 01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:57,080 Speaker 1: Paul said to me, Jamie, we have to play the 1402 01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:02,040 Speaker 1: game anyway, we might as well win it. And at 1403 01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:05,120 Speaker 1: that moment it really struck me. And we did and 1404 01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:07,479 Speaker 1: we won it, and we won. We were champions. But 1405 01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:09,040 Speaker 1: I thought about it and I was like, you know 1406 01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:13,360 Speaker 1: what we had overcome being the last team selected in 1407 01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:16,320 Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. We had to go on the road 1408 01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:20,080 Speaker 1: to Evansville, to Indiana that had never lost in the 1409 01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:23,800 Speaker 1: playoffs at home, had to go to Rutgers with Lexi 1410 01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:28,440 Speaker 1: Lalas and then and then we're playing in the championship 1411 01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:31,600 Speaker 1: game after beating North Carolina, who had beaten US for 1412 01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:36,920 Speaker 1: zero during the season. If we don't win this game, 1413 01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:41,760 Speaker 1: we walk away with nothing. You have to commit to 1414 01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:46,599 Speaker 1: winning that. It's an attitude. It's not I mean, yeah, 1415 01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,040 Speaker 1: you can't win every time, but every time you step 1416 01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,599 Speaker 1: on the field, every time you go into the boardroom, 1417 01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:59,759 Speaker 1: every time you have a negotiation, play to win, whatever 1418 01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,080 Speaker 1: outcome is that you're looking for. Commit to it. You 1419 01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,680 Speaker 1: may not get it. But if you don't commit to it, 1420 01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,800 Speaker 1: if you're wishy washy, if you're not really clear about 1421 01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:12,040 Speaker 1: what you want, you're never going to be successful. Right, 1422 01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,240 Speaker 1: So commit to what you want and go make it happen. 1423 01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,120 Speaker 1: And that is the most important thing that came out 1424 01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:20,600 Speaker 1: of the time that I spent a clumps. All Right, 1425 01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,320 Speaker 1: you talked about what you learned from your best friend Paul, 1426 01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:25,880 Speaker 1: and that seems to stay with you. And I know 1427 01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,720 Speaker 1: you learned from everybody you talk to. But give us 1428 01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,920 Speaker 1: a couple of key influences in your life, people that 1429 01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:35,720 Speaker 1: you've interacted with, worked with that have been big influences 1430 01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,000 Speaker 1: on you and the way you operate. Jamie. Yeah, I'll 1431 01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:40,640 Speaker 1: tell you that the three most important word Number one 1432 01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:45,559 Speaker 1: At Indiana University when I was worked with the team 1433 01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,960 Speaker 1: and got my NBA Jerry Eagle. That Jerry Eagle was 1434 01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,200 Speaker 1: a headman's soccer coach there, and just the way that 1435 01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:58,559 Speaker 1: he conducted himself and the way that he organized the program. 1436 01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:04,240 Speaker 1: It isn't about your your environment. You can create something 1437 01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,320 Speaker 1: truly in world class wherever you are. I mean, it's 1438 01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:11,479 Speaker 1: not like a soccer program at Indiana University was. I mean, 1439 01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,040 Speaker 1: it's not changing people's lives. But the way that Yags 1440 01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:21,000 Speaker 1: ran it incredible. Respect you just I mean you just 1441 01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,439 Speaker 1: had to you had to respect it, you had to 1442 01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,720 Speaker 1: revere it. The principles that he used were so effective. 1443 01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:31,479 Speaker 1: And then going to Columbus with the Columbus Crew, Lamar 1444 01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:35,280 Speaker 1: Hunt the guy with the highest integrity, I mean, the 1445 01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:39,479 Speaker 1: most humble man maybe I've ever met in my life. 1446 01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:42,240 Speaker 1: I mean, somebody had, you know, as successful as he's 1447 01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:46,680 Speaker 1: been to be that humble was really remarkable. And at 1448 01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:51,400 Speaker 1: his u at the service at the end of his life, 1449 01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:55,320 Speaker 1: one of his friends, Jack Steadman, got up and said, 1450 01:16:55,400 --> 01:17:00,479 Speaker 1: when God made man, he had Lamar Hunt and mine. Wow, 1451 01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:04,160 Speaker 1: there's not a better statement about that man. And then 1452 01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:08,040 Speaker 1: of course Bob McNair, who I have dedicated this book too. 1453 01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:13,320 Speaker 1: You know, just he changed my life. He changed the 1454 01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:17,559 Speaker 1: trajectory of my life and my family's life. He taught 1455 01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:22,160 Speaker 1: me so much. In fact, I told someone, actually I 1456 01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,759 Speaker 1: told him the last time we've visited before he passed away, 1457 01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:34,200 Speaker 1: that the Bible, the Bible and Church is all about 1458 01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:39,519 Speaker 1: providing you a guide to live. Okay, you want to 1459 01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,960 Speaker 1: live a christ like life, and nobody can ever live 1460 01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:47,360 Speaker 1: to that standard. But nobody's ever embraced that more or 1461 01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:52,479 Speaker 1: been more effective at it than Bob McNair, A remarkable man, 1462 01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:56,160 Speaker 1: no question about it, the founder of the Houston Texans. Okay, 1463 01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:59,000 Speaker 1: what do people This is a good one because I 1464 01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:02,200 Speaker 1: think that those of us who work in professional sports, 1465 01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:06,120 Speaker 1: and obviously we encounter a lot of interactions with people 1466 01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:08,639 Speaker 1: where they don't really understand the business side of things. 1467 01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:13,520 Speaker 1: What do people not understand about the way a professional 1468 01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:17,879 Speaker 1: sports franchise operates and the way it needs to operate properly. 1469 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,719 Speaker 1: They see the product on the field or the playing surface. 1470 01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,599 Speaker 1: What do they not see that's really important that everybody 1471 01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,960 Speaker 1: can sort of glean something from. Yeah, I think most 1472 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:34,799 Speaker 1: importantly that I love football. I watched football on Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 1473 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,000 Speaker 1: If they go showed on Tuesday, I'm going to watch 1474 01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:42,200 Speaker 1: it too. But very little of our success has to 1475 01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:46,960 Speaker 1: do with what you see on the football field. Our 1476 01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:53,080 Speaker 1: success is driven by our ability to create an environment 1477 01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:59,000 Speaker 1: for our fans that is unavailable anywhere else. The ability 1478 01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:03,200 Speaker 1: to bring people together to share their company, to provide 1479 01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:07,080 Speaker 1: a level of energy and excitement, and then you have 1480 01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:10,320 Speaker 1: to be committed to winning. But it isn't about winning. 1481 01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:15,240 Speaker 1: It's about It's about the community looking at this franchise 1482 01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:20,040 Speaker 1: and seeing themselves in us. And if we can do 1483 01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:25,439 Speaker 1: that well, we can withstand whatever happens on the football field. Now, 1484 01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:28,479 Speaker 1: if you go oh in sixteen for ten years, people 1485 01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,640 Speaker 1: are probably going to check out. But that then what 1486 01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:34,400 Speaker 1: kicks in there is our commitment to winning. If you're 1487 01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,439 Speaker 1: committed to winning, you're probably not going to go in 1488 01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:39,160 Speaker 1: oh and sixteen, right, You're going to take the corrective 1489 01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:42,240 Speaker 1: actions to get yourself in a better place. But it 1490 01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:44,559 Speaker 1: isn't all about that. I've heard people say if we win, 1491 01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,800 Speaker 1: everything will take care of itself. That's not true. That's 1492 01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:54,439 Speaker 1: not true. What is true is be an organization that 1493 01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:59,880 Speaker 1: the community can see themselves in and do great things 1494 01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,280 Speaker 1: for your community. If we do those two things really well, 1495 01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,679 Speaker 1: will be successful well, and you need the right people 1496 01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,800 Speaker 1: on your roster. So give us a couple of tidbits 1497 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:13,599 Speaker 1: on the hiring philosophy of you and the Houston Texans. 1498 01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:18,120 Speaker 1: How you operate? Yeah, well, um, nothing that we do. 1499 01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:21,160 Speaker 1: I mean, we're not we're not NASA. Okay, we're right, 1500 01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:25,640 Speaker 1: we're not. We're not the uh, you know, CDC. We 1501 01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:29,519 Speaker 1: don't need rocket science science. Right, So what we need 1502 01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:34,360 Speaker 1: is people that that have three things. The fundamental non negotiables, 1503 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:39,439 Speaker 1: people with a great work ethic because unfortunately, to do 1504 01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:41,800 Speaker 1: what we do it takes a lot of time. Okay, 1505 01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,840 Speaker 1: you have to be committed to it. Number two is 1506 01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:52,640 Speaker 1: a winning attitude, positive, optimistic, team oriented. You've got to 1507 01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:55,800 Speaker 1: like people. You have to be one of those type 1508 01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:58,800 Speaker 1: of people to be successful with Houston Texans. The number 1509 01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:03,000 Speaker 1: three is you have to be interested in operating in 1510 01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:08,080 Speaker 1: a manner consistent with our values. Be innovative, be memorable, 1511 01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:12,599 Speaker 1: be passionate, be accountable, be courageous, be a team player. 1512 01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:16,479 Speaker 1: And if you have those three things, you can be 1513 01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:19,920 Speaker 1: successful at the Houston Texans. As I think back at 1514 01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,000 Speaker 1: all the people that we have had to part ways with, 1515 01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:28,040 Speaker 1: rarely does it have to do with your performance. Almost 1516 01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:34,839 Speaker 1: always it has to do with attitude, work ethic, values alignment. 1517 01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,760 Speaker 1: That's great stuff, and it sounds like you'll be successful 1518 01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:42,200 Speaker 1: and pretty much anything if you operate that way, if 1519 01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:45,720 Speaker 1: you conduct it's available. Let me tell you, attitude and 1520 01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:50,240 Speaker 1: work ethic is available to everyone. You just have to 1521 01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:56,120 Speaker 1: choose to do it. Yeah, well, it sounds like there's 1522 01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:58,320 Speaker 1: a lot of great stuff in this book and a 1523 01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:00,120 Speaker 1: lot of people are going to benefit from it, and 1524 01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:02,960 Speaker 1: it's exciting. Do you talk about the birth of the 1525 01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:06,320 Speaker 1: franchise and mister McNair and I've read extra ups of 1526 01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:09,160 Speaker 1: the book, but not the entire thing yet. Yeah. Well, 1527 01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:14,120 Speaker 1: one of the more emotional stories is when when Bob 1528 01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:19,840 Speaker 1: McNair passed, And while you know, it does weigh heavy 1529 01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:23,000 Speaker 1: on my heart, just that that that window of time, 1530 01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:28,000 Speaker 1: it was so incredibly gratifying to see the response of 1531 01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:32,280 Speaker 1: our organization to that, to have to put together, you know, 1532 01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:36,599 Speaker 1: in a flash, a remembrance for Bob on Monday night 1533 01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:41,639 Speaker 1: football and then to host a celebration of his life 1534 01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:46,479 Speaker 1: at NRG Stadium. Part of me was concerned that we 1535 01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:49,880 Speaker 1: couldn't handle all that, but in the instance when I 1536 01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:53,400 Speaker 1: was asked, you know, can we make that happen? I 1537 01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:58,000 Speaker 1: saw your face, I saw John Schriever, and I saw 1538 01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:01,599 Speaker 1: Disney Harris, and I saw all the people that would 1539 01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:05,160 Speaker 1: have to be a part of that, and everyone shaking 1540 01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:09,240 Speaker 1: their head. I got it, We got this, and it 1541 01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:16,000 Speaker 1: just was another another reminder of the whatever it takes 1542 01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:19,799 Speaker 1: attitude that exists within our building, and that doesn't happen overnight. 1543 01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:22,920 Speaker 1: You know. I mean you talked about handling adversity. Once 1544 01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:25,000 Speaker 1: you hit adversity, if you don't have the right people, 1545 01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:27,040 Speaker 1: if you don't have the right culture, if they're not 1546 01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:30,400 Speaker 1: all bought in your toast, you are not going to 1547 01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:33,840 Speaker 1: be able to handle what comes. And fortunately for us, 1548 01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:38,920 Speaker 1: we have such incredibly talented and committed people that understand 1549 01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:41,400 Speaker 1: what we're trying to get accomplished and they buy in 1550 01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,519 Speaker 1: that whatever comes, I'm not concerned. We're going to be 1551 01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:48,040 Speaker 1: able to handle it. I texted Jamie after his book 1552 01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:50,400 Speaker 1: came out and I said, look, I'm going to read 1553 01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:53,720 Speaker 1: it because I think everybody should read it, but it's 1554 01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:55,280 Speaker 1: gonna have to wait to after the season because I 1555 01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:59,280 Speaker 1: don't read anything during the season. Nothing. I got too 1556 01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,320 Speaker 1: much football going on. All right, file segment That means 1557 01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:04,559 Speaker 1: it's in the lab time my brows of Drew Dorty 1558 01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:09,320 Speaker 1: stops by and we discuss this one at Cleveland coming 1559 01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:16,200 Speaker 1: up on Sunday. Can't get enough Texans radio. We've got shows, 1560 01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:19,599 Speaker 1: We've got podcast, we've got interviews. It's all on Houston 1561 01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:23,880 Speaker 1: Texans dot com. 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Saturday nights at ten 1592 01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:21,839 Speaker 1: thirty or after the late local news on ABC thirteen. 1593 01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:24,479 Speaker 1: We're one final segment of this Wednesday edition of Texans 1594 01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,920 Speaker 1: All Access. I am John Harris. I am one half 1595 01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:29,880 Speaker 1: of the In the Lab podcast crew. I brought along 1596 01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:33,240 Speaker 1: my Brosiff to give you a little snippet what you 1597 01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:36,680 Speaker 1: got on this week's In the Lab podcast. So here 1598 01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:40,559 Speaker 1: we go. Table of contents is like this two chapters today. 1599 01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:44,160 Speaker 1: First chapter is what if I told you? And then 1600 01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:49,599 Speaker 1: second chapter is the key the Texans have to beating 1601 01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:52,240 Speaker 1: the Browns? Is or what do the Texans need to 1602 01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,640 Speaker 1: do to beat the Browns. So John, what if I 1603 01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:59,760 Speaker 1: told you that a rookie quarterback would throw for three 1604 01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:03,839 Speaker 1: hundred and four yards in a seventy three yard touchdown 1605 01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:06,200 Speaker 1: on the third play of the game. What if I 1606 01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:12,320 Speaker 1: told you that the Texans primary back against Jacksonville would 1607 01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:16,639 Speaker 1: average two point six yards per carry on sixteen carries. 1608 01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:21,879 Speaker 1: What if I told you that the Texans lost to fumble. 1609 01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:25,720 Speaker 1: Would you feel good about the Texans beating the Jaguars 1610 01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:31,799 Speaker 1: with all the Whitney Merciless and Jacob Martin and Bradley Roby, 1611 01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:38,639 Speaker 1: Dylan cole gone, Would you feel good? No? I didn't 1612 01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:41,519 Speaker 1: feel good going into that game. I had studied Jake 1613 01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:44,080 Speaker 1: Luton when he was at Arden State, so I knew 1614 01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:45,920 Speaker 1: the guy could throw it. I knew he could throw 1615 01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:47,880 Speaker 1: it third play of the game. You obviously showed that. 1616 01:27:48,760 --> 01:27:50,400 Speaker 1: But you know, it's one thing to have a strong arm. 1617 01:27:50,439 --> 01:27:52,280 Speaker 1: It's another thing to put the ball on the money 1618 01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:56,240 Speaker 1: to where she doesn't even have to like break stride, 1619 01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,479 Speaker 1: and DJ Chart didn't have to break stride. But I 1620 01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:01,759 Speaker 1: was proud of this team for the way it played 1621 01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,800 Speaker 1: on Sunday. It wasn't always perfect, obviously, but I was 1622 01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:08,439 Speaker 1: proud of the way it played because they did, like 1623 01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:10,800 Speaker 1: like you talked about those things that you mentioned. Now, 1624 01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:12,479 Speaker 1: he threw four or three hundred yards. He got about 1625 01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:15,320 Speaker 1: seventy five or eighty on that final drive when he 1626 01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,720 Speaker 1: took him all the way down the field, and that 1627 01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,040 Speaker 1: doesn't obviously eGain he got seventy three of it on 1628 01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:22,559 Speaker 1: the first third play of the game. But I think 1629 01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:25,680 Speaker 1: in between, I think the defense showed some resilience. Now, 1630 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:29,479 Speaker 1: the one thing the defense didn't do was have a 1631 01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:32,719 Speaker 1: four or five interception day, and it could have. Terrell 1632 01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:36,559 Speaker 1: Adams had one right in his hands. Phil Gaines, Yeah, 1633 01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:39,639 Speaker 1: I had two, you know. Add that onto the Vernon Hargraves, 1634 01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:41,639 Speaker 1: you know, and now you got a rookie with potentially 1635 01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:44,640 Speaker 1: four interceptions. And of those four interceptions, do you turn 1636 01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,599 Speaker 1: it into ten points, fourteen points, twenty eight points? Who knows? 1637 01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:51,599 Speaker 1: But those are interceptions right in your hands. And didn't 1638 01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:53,400 Speaker 1: take advantage of it. But yeah, that's the breaks of 1639 01:28:53,439 --> 01:28:57,719 Speaker 1: the game. But Deshaun did his thing. He was able 1640 01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:03,160 Speaker 1: to spread the wealth, will was able to shine and 1641 01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:05,800 Speaker 1: was fantastic. You know, all the trade rumors, I know 1642 01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:07,400 Speaker 1: that had to impact him, and he talked about it. 1643 01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:09,640 Speaker 1: It didn't impact him, But at the end of the day, 1644 01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:11,160 Speaker 1: he said, look, I just gotta I gotta go play. 1645 01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:13,479 Speaker 1: I gotta play no matter what happens, whether I'm back 1646 01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:16,320 Speaker 1: with the Texans for twenty twenty one and the future 1647 01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:19,360 Speaker 1: or not or what. I gotta go play. And he did, 1648 01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:21,680 Speaker 1: and that catch it he made on the sidelines was 1649 01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:25,320 Speaker 1: just phenomenal. And then he took that to the house. 1650 01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:27,519 Speaker 1: And the thing about it is Drew since twenty sixteen, 1651 01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,000 Speaker 1: I think of all the great things you're watching DeAndre 1652 01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:33,400 Speaker 1: Hopkins catch the ball, JJ Watts, sacks, all that kind 1653 01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:35,720 Speaker 1: of stuff, to Sean doing his thing. I love to 1654 01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:38,599 Speaker 1: watch Will Fuller in the open field with the football 1655 01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:41,000 Speaker 1: and have people try and catch him. I like that 1656 01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:43,559 Speaker 1: more than any Like a deer. It's not going to happen. 1657 01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,080 Speaker 1: It's yeah, and it's I don't know about you, but 1658 01:29:46,160 --> 01:29:49,559 Speaker 1: I was stunned when I saw the note right there 1659 01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:52,120 Speaker 1: during the game that that seventy seven yard or was 1660 01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:55,599 Speaker 1: the longest of his career, because it feels like he's 1661 01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:58,599 Speaker 1: gone deeper and he's he's caught longer passes. But then 1662 01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,519 Speaker 1: I thought back, like, okay, well the Seattle one was 1663 01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:05,000 Speaker 1: seventy five yards. I believe right it was about sixty. Yeah, 1664 01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:08,080 Speaker 1: well he got a first down, they got a first 1665 01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:10,360 Speaker 1: down and got it to about sixty. But you know, 1666 01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,360 Speaker 1: it just felt like a bomb. I mean that was 1667 01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,519 Speaker 1: a bomb and a half. In twenty eighteen against Miami, 1668 01:30:15,600 --> 01:30:18,519 Speaker 1: I think it was seventy three yards and he just 1669 01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:20,920 Speaker 1: roasted the Miami secondary. Sean laid out there and end 1670 01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:23,720 Speaker 1: up being a walk in seventy three yard touchdown. But 1671 01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,839 Speaker 1: this one, you know the thing I said it was interesting, 1672 01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:29,080 Speaker 1: Drew because during the broadcast, Mark threw it down to 1673 01:30:29,160 --> 01:30:31,000 Speaker 1: me and said, hey, what did you see? And I said, 1674 01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:34,280 Speaker 1: talking about that touchdown, I don't know that two three, 1675 01:30:34,400 --> 01:30:36,640 Speaker 1: four years ago, Will makes that catch because of the 1676 01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:39,799 Speaker 1: way he had to adjust to it. I think Will's always, 1677 01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:42,479 Speaker 1: as Tim Kelly told us, he always run really good routes. 1678 01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:47,400 Speaker 1: He's no doubt been twitchy and explosive, But making the 1679 01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:51,120 Speaker 1: adjustment on a ball like that, I don't know that 1680 01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:53,720 Speaker 1: that would have been something that he did that fluidly 1681 01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:56,760 Speaker 1: and he cut in front of CJ. Henderson, went and 1682 01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,400 Speaker 1: got it and ran it to the house. That was 1683 01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:00,920 Speaker 1: just fun to play, as I've seen in a number 1684 01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:04,519 Speaker 1: of years, just because it's Will get loose in the 1685 01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:07,320 Speaker 1: open field of football and you're just not catching him. 1686 01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:09,320 Speaker 1: And it was so funny because earlier in the game 1687 01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:13,040 Speaker 1: drew it was a third and three, and I think 1688 01:31:13,120 --> 01:31:15,679 Speaker 1: when you don't play fuller a lot, you don't really 1689 01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,920 Speaker 1: understand how fast he is. And there's the third and 1690 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:22,040 Speaker 1: three and on the opposite side of me, it was 1691 01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:25,960 Speaker 1: fuller against Sidney Jones, and so Sidney was up on him, 1692 01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,280 Speaker 1: but not like pressing him, but he was up close 1693 01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:32,640 Speaker 1: to him. And as Will left the line of scrimmage, 1694 01:31:32,760 --> 01:31:36,920 Speaker 1: within about three steps, Will had gotten even with Sidney Jones. 1695 01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,280 Speaker 1: With the next two steps, he was pulling away and 1696 01:31:39,439 --> 01:31:41,600 Speaker 1: running away from him. And it's like Sidny Jones is 1697 01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:44,240 Speaker 1: a pretty fast guy, and Will is running away from 1698 01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:46,760 Speaker 1: him down the field. But Deshaun had already decided to 1699 01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:48,479 Speaker 1: throw the ball the other side, so he didn't see 1700 01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:53,080 Speaker 1: Will on that one. But it just showed the explosiveness 1701 01:31:53,120 --> 01:31:55,800 Speaker 1: that he has in the easy way with which he 1702 01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,760 Speaker 1: runs away from people. It's mind blowing to see that 1703 01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:03,439 Speaker 1: guy what he does well pre snap. On the touchdown play, 1704 01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:06,800 Speaker 1: I noticed, you know, I was I was watching the ball, 1705 01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:09,360 Speaker 1: basically watching everything, but for some reason, on that play, 1706 01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:12,519 Speaker 1: right before the snap, I noticed the coverage kind of 1707 01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:16,360 Speaker 1: it looked like he backed up quite a bit and 1708 01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:19,120 Speaker 1: gave him quite a lot of space, And that just 1709 01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:20,640 Speaker 1: sort of caught my eye. But I didn't think, Oh, 1710 01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:23,360 Speaker 1: they're gonna desl sarily go to him. And then Sean 1711 01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:25,479 Speaker 1: was in a little bit of trouble, you know, he 1712 01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:27,920 Speaker 1: had to scramble a little bit, and he saw him, 1713 01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:32,160 Speaker 1: and I mean, it's just like Will went and turned 1714 01:32:32,160 --> 01:32:33,920 Speaker 1: to gear and he was gone. And it was fun 1715 01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:36,920 Speaker 1: to see, Like I said earlier, watching Will Fuller run 1716 01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:40,400 Speaker 1: with a football or just run our football field on 1717 01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:44,280 Speaker 1: a field where fast guys are all over the place 1718 01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:47,760 Speaker 1: and he embarrasses them all. It's just fantastic to watch. 1719 01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:49,760 Speaker 1: That was great stuff. If you want to hear the 1720 01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:52,160 Speaker 1: second part of that conversation, make sure you check out 1721 01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:55,439 Speaker 1: in the Lab podcast. You'll check out Deep Slant and 1722 01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:58,519 Speaker 1: vander Meer's view as well. Podcasts are kicking at this time. 1723 01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:00,360 Speaker 1: Oh by the way, I got a podcast as too 1724 01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:03,000 Speaker 1: at football takeover dot Com. It's called Football Friends. I 1725 01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:05,360 Speaker 1: Go find a friend. I talked to him about college football, 1726 01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,519 Speaker 1: college fab oriented, but I talked about cod football. It's 1727 01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:10,479 Speaker 1: a fun one, so you definitely want to go check 1728 01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:12,960 Speaker 1: that out of think seven episodes so you can check that. 1729 01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:16,960 Speaker 1: Add that to your podcast listening resume as well. Big 1730 01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:21,280 Speaker 1: thanks to Drew Terrell, Adams, Dpcity, Nathan Zigirl, to Mark 1731 01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:24,000 Speaker 1: Vanimir to Jamie Roots, to all of you for listening. 1732 01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:26,120 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll see you tomorrow and as always, 1733 01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:33,160 Speaker 1: go Texans. Oh this is Texans Radio on Sports Radio sixteen. 1734 01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:35,240 Speaker 1: My name is at Phonny Smith Gray, owner of the 1735 01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:38,120 Speaker 1: Spot Lounge and Bar. 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