1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: What's up everybody, Texas All Access coming at you. John 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Harris here, and I've been waiting a week to say 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: this or more. The Voice of the Texans joins me 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: right now, Mark van Amer, and Mark, how are you doing? 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: My friend? Johnny? We haven't done a show in a while. 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: How about that. It's been a while these interviews, but 7 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, spoiler alert, we did some of these interviews 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: a while back, like during Mini Caamp. Yeah, a long 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: time ago. We were clear about that, I said when 10 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: I ran some of those the previous week. Hey, we 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 1: caught up with so and so during our miniicamp visit, 12 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: just in case they slip in a mini camp reference 13 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: or whatever. But here we are, and Johnny, two weeks 14 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: from Friday, rock and Roll, Let's go, Yeah Friday. When 15 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: I looked up and saw because I can do the 16 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: math on weeks, and I saw July eighth and three 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: weeks away, I'm like, whoa, three weeks away? It's three 18 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: weeks it's three weeks away. Of course, as I said it, 19 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: I realized, oh wait a second, we'll be doing our 20 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: All Access show six to seven, and we'll be recapping 21 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: the first day of training camp three weeks from Friday, 22 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: which is obviously r under three weeks now, so cannot wait. 23 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: Was announced on Friday Thursday. Actually training camp dates and 24 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: times Houston Texas dot com check out the US Texas app. 25 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: It will start July twenty nine at eight am, which 26 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: is really really great and really really not so great. Wait, 27 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: why is it not so great? We're on the air 28 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: from eight to ten. Oh, and we can't watch a 29 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: ton of practice. But here's the thing. I got a plan. 30 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: I've got some Oh you got a plan. I got 31 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: a plan, and it involves our film department helping me 32 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: out with some film. After you're gonna put on the 33 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: live version of Enda Gotta Da Vitae or Stairway to 34 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: Heaven or days to give us twenty six minutes from 35 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: the song remains the same. Oh speaking up, Yeah, just 36 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: what you mentioned a music got me thinking, Um, you 37 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: watch Stranger Things? All right, It's funny you mentioned that 38 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: because my kid's been watching it. He's watched all of it, right, Okay, 39 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: I started on this past vacation. I was down in 40 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: Porto Ranzas. I started watching it with him and I 41 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: started season one. I said, put on episode one. You know, 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: we're just two of Us at Night. So I've gotten 43 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: through season one and I'm like three episodes into season two. 44 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: That's all I've gotten. But give me some credit there, 45 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: because I just started this thing and I would put 46 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: Yellowstone down in the middle of it all, which I 47 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: felt fine doing. And I'm watching Stranger Things, which I 48 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: kind of like, it's not you know what this is. 49 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 1: It's Poltergeist, Close Encounters, Gremlin's Et and one More had 50 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: a baby, and that's what this is. But that one 51 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: that one More has to be stand by me. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, 52 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: like a non science fiction part because you gotta get 53 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: that that part in there. Absolutely. The eighties references are terrific, 54 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,839 Speaker 1: and he likes all these eighties tunes. Now, yeah, that's 55 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: really cool because there's in episode or in season four, 56 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: there's a character that you will meet and he shreds, 57 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I heard about this. He shreds. I don't 58 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: know if it's him, but who's ever playing the guitar? 59 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: He looks like he's playing. Maybe he's playing Eric Gaitar. 60 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, but he shreds. Can I tell you 61 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: the song? Yeah? Go ahead? Master Puppets from Talica. Oh 62 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: my gosh, he shreds, and you'll find out. You'll find out, 63 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: you'll find out what I can't. I can't believe that. Oh, 64 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: I'll catch up. Well, you also know what's on tonight too. 65 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: By the way, wait what's on tonight? It's the return 66 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: the return of Oh better call Saul. Yes, oh, well, 67 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: Powers out of my house Johnny currently, and I'm hoping 68 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: that I'm hoping that it comes on a little bit 69 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: later so I can DVR watch it. Whatever, because just 70 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: only seven houses. A transformer blows in the neighborhood. Seven houses, 71 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: and I we'll get to it. No, I love my 72 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: friends at Center Point, I really do. Please get to 73 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: my house. They definitely will take care of you, no doubt. 74 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: And Owen Daniels used to take care of us and 75 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: probably still does. And you're gonna hear from Aaron Owen 76 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: Daniels a little later in the show with a little 77 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: where are they now with our guy Drew Doherty. So 78 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: it's fun to hear from the former Pro Bowl tight end. 79 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,239 Speaker 1: But Mark, I thought of you when I saw this today, 80 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: So I want to do our version of gut reaction. Okay. 81 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: Peter King turned over his Football Morning in America article, 82 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: and he gave it over to his listeners thirty ideas 83 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: on improving the NFL. So I want to do the 84 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: voice the Texans gut reaction to some of these ideas 85 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: because Peter King, as he should to his listeners and readers, 86 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: was very nice. He was not that idea is terrible. 87 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: We don't have to be as nice. We can go 88 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: ahead and shoot them down. I tell you we are 89 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: going to improve the NFL. I think some of these 90 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: are really actually pretty interesting. Okay, go ahead, ready, here's 91 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: you want. Gut the reaction to this. After the initial 92 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: overtime kickoff, So this is an overtime no punting, no 93 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: fuel goals, The ball is turned over on downs only 94 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: teams play until someone scores a touchdown or fifteen minutes 95 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: and call it a tie. With coaches choose the ball 96 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: or the fuel position. How fired up would a defense 97 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: be to try to hand the ball to their offense 98 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: twenty five yards from the end zone. No kicking in overtime? 99 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: Your gut reaction. That really is entertaining, But no coach 100 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: would ever want that decision to make You know, it's 101 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: funny because we say, well, whoever gets the ball is 102 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: a tremendous advantage. Oh really, would you like the ball? 103 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: There's no punt, you have to go for it on 104 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: fourth down. Would you like the ball? Do you want 105 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: it now? Coach? You want it now? The person who 106 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: thinks that whoever gets the ball has an unfair advantage. 107 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: Take the ball. But guess what, you don't convert on 108 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: fourth or you don't convert on third down, you must 109 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down, and then we get 110 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: the ball at your twenty if you failed to do that, 111 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: or wherever you are. So I was watching USFL championship camp. 112 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: I think it was a championship game. Was Birmingham Stallions 113 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia Stars, and it was one of those situations. 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: The thing it was the start the Stars score to 115 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: make it thirty three thirty, so they did the on 116 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: side kick of fourth and twelve and going for it. Yeah, Mark, 117 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: I gotta admit it was really compelling just listening to 118 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: the announcers talk about how both offensive defense were gonna handle. 119 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: I've never seen it in action before. We've always talked 120 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: about in theory. Is it an option or do you 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: have to go for it fourth and twelve? Oh? No, 122 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: it's an option. You can always kick, well, you could 123 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: kick off, but you're down three, so there's like a minute. 124 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: There's a minute. You're not gonna onside kick. You're gonna 125 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: go for a fourth run a play, right, So they 126 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: picked fourth and twelve they were gonna go for I 127 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: think it's fourth and twelve, maybe it's fourth and fifteen. 128 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: They went for it, and it was really interesting to 129 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: hear the announcers talk about the kind of the game asmanship, 130 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: like do you blitz? Do you? Do you not? Do you? 131 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: What kind of player are you thinking? Offensively? You know, 132 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: obviously you just have to get to the first down 133 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: market to maintain the ball. But the bigger thing was defense. 134 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: And so I can't remember who who's on the announced crew, 135 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: but they're like, I'm not letting that quarterback sit back 136 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: there and pick us apart on fourth and whatever. Got 137 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: to send somebody, and so they did. They sent heat 138 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: and made him throw it early, and it ended up 139 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: getting knocked down at about the ten or eleven mar 140 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: Even if the guy had caught it at that point, 141 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: he still would have to get another two three yards 142 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: or wherever it was. But it was really just the 143 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: strategy involved and how intense it made that particular moment 144 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: in the game. It was like, wow, it was really 145 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: I've been a proponent of it, but after watching it play, 146 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: I don't thought, Man, this is really exciting. And look, 147 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: the US has historical press ident the NFL has adopted 148 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: things from the USFL. We've been over this, like the 149 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: red job flag was for instance. Yes, very good. Okay, 150 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: this one is seventeenth game ideas. I've had this one before. 151 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: This idea is two fold, grow the game domestically internationally, 152 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: and create a consistent in the fairway. It's allocate the 153 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: recently added seventeenth game. Every team plays one neutral site game, 154 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: so eight home, eight road, one neutral site. Continue to 155 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: schedule seven in the national games London, Mexico, Munich. Mix 156 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: in new locations Dublin, Barcelona, Barcelona, Sydney, Rio de Janeira, Toronto. 157 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: Here's a twist and a way to connect with your 158 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: casual US fans. Maybe college football fans schedule the remainder 159 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: of the neutral site games and traditional college markets Lincoln 160 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: State College, Clemson, Tuscaloosa. And then this guy brought up 161 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: think about what it would mean if the Steelers and 162 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: Eagles played for bragging rights in front of one hundred 163 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: and seven thousand at Beaver Stadium, or play a Salute 164 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: to Service weekend matchup between the Bills and Giants in 165 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: West Point. There's a lot. There's a lot of a 166 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: lot there. But I've all I've been. When they said 167 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: we were going to seventeen game game that was That 168 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: was one of my ideas that seventeenth game needs to 169 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: be I said at the time. He'd be an international game. 170 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: But you've got to find I mean, if you if 171 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: you played him in all different sites, it would be 172 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: sixteen different sites. I don't know if you had to 173 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: play them different sites, but if you doubled up in 174 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: places like two in Mexico, two in London to you 175 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: know too in Wembley too at Tottenham, I don't know. 176 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: Maybe you could do it that way. But I didn't 177 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: really think about the college says. I'm like, you know, 178 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: we're really gonna go are they're really gonna go to 179 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: state College? But then again, I'm like, wait a second, 180 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: he said, Steelers Eagles at Penn State. Oh boy, that 181 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: could be kind of interesting. It could be very interesting. 182 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: Huge crowd, like you said, so that makes it appealing. 183 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: I don't think there's a, there's a Texas equivalent, the 184 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: Texans and the Cowboys doing business at Kyle Field doesn't 185 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: quite do it for me the same way as Steelers 186 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: Eagles at Penn State or Bengals and the Browns at 187 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: the Horseshoe would be incredible. That would be pretty cool. 188 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: That would be that would be pretty cool. But Johnny, 189 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. Look, I don't know what that really 190 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: does for the league. And besides, what everyone has to 191 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: get around, you know here revenue wise, is that, yes, 192 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: you have seventeen games in a regular season, you have 193 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: three preseason games, you still get ten games at home. 194 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: No matter what, whether two preseason or one preseason, that 195 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: means ten home games of revenue for the owners. So 196 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: you have to address that part. And those of you 197 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 1: rolling your eyes right now, he say, Mark, come on, 198 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: let us play around. I get it, play around, But 199 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: that has to be addressed because that's real money coming 200 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: through the door, very much. So okay, So that leads 201 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: me to this idea that was a little bit further down. 202 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: Eighteen game regular season, two preseason games. Okay, Yeah, no 203 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: player could play more than sixteen regular season games at 204 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: the beginning of the week for that week's games, Teams 205 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: must list their eligible players from a newly expanded roster. 206 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: Ineligible players to have the week off and would not 207 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: be allowed to practice with the team. This would make 208 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: an interest in coaching strategy, so I know where that's going. 209 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: Most teams would use your best players. You're stronger aial opponents. 210 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: This plan would do the following pro alarmed player's career, 211 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: show it backup quarterbacks can do. Give players a chance 212 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: in NFL career, More players a chance. Players of borderline 213 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: injuries may be less likely to be pressure to play. 214 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: The players sixteen game season records would be comparable eighteen 215 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: game season, but they only get to play sixteen. Where 216 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: I said heck no was when he said this would 217 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: make an interest in coaching strategy because coaches, I mean, 218 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: how many times have we been sitting in here with 219 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: head coaches from Bill O'Brien, Romeo, David and Romeo or 220 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: to love you as well? You just add another decision 221 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: in their lape. No, there's no Well, well, plus I 222 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: do I think the genesis the idea is not bad. 223 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: Bucks are saying they're gonna wrest Tom Brady when they 224 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: play Atlanta this week. That has an extra dynamic. It 225 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: adds something to that game. It takes a big thing 226 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: away for the fans. I wanted to see Brady and 227 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: you're taking him away from me. But it adds something 228 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: in that Now Atlanta is gonna be thrown questions. Hey, 229 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: they're resting Tom Brady against you, right, how does that feel? 230 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: Arthur Smith? Exactly. I don't like the way that tastes. 231 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to use that as motivation for my team, right. 232 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I'd rather not face Brady, But you know 233 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, This actually helps me in multiple ways. 234 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't see it. I don't 235 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: see it. I don't I hate load management in the NBA. 236 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: I think it sucks with you. I think it's an 237 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: admission by that league that the schedules too long, right, 238 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: and teams well whatever, yeah, whoever, if if and no 239 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: one can win that debate against me, right right, No, 240 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: Market's eighty two games is tradition. No, you're staying the 241 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: schedules too long. No, but you have to arrest Why 242 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: you have to arrest them because the schedules too long. 243 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: Rest players in the NFL, and it is they're actually hurt. 244 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: There's no load management. You know, maybe the last game 245 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: of the season when you clinched a playoff appearance. Even 246 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: then people are like, I don't know about setting this 247 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: guy down because we need the rhythm and everything would happen. 248 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: I get it, So, okay, I don't like it. No, 249 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: I don't don't like the eighteen either. I mean, it 250 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: took me hard. It was. It was hard enough to 251 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: get me the seventeen. Well, I don't want The last 252 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: thing that you can do is put a season and 253 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: then mandated team you have to rest players. What if 254 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: I mean, what if you screwed up the first year 255 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: you do it, and all of a sudden you've only 256 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: got thirty five players for the for the game. How 257 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: about your rest your starting quarterback? And then the next 258 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: week he gets hurt and you're thinking, man, yeah, exactly, man, exactly. Okay, 259 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: this one's pretty simple. Adopt relegation. I don't know how 260 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: where they're going, right exactly. You go to the SEC 261 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: for a year. So this is what he's said. Soon enough, 262 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: those SEC players are going to be making more than 263 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: the rookies in the NFL. To make it work, the 264 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: NFL would make the USFL the Champions League, O boy 265 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: and form a partnership, leave the USFL team in Birmingham 266 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: and put other teams in cities without teams the USFL 267 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: will play in the fall championship game when we played 268 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: on a Saturday, when colleges will be on their bowl break. 269 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: Then the worst team where teams in the NFL would 270 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: be regulated a regulated after the season, and the best 271 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: team where teams the USFL would move into the NFL. 272 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: I got two words, hell and no. No, it's not 273 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: gonna happen, and it shouldn't happen. But it is cool 274 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: that they do it over there. Yes, I think it's 275 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: a cool thing. However, all right, so Fulham's going back up, right, 276 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: Fulham's going back up? How are they gonna do? AFC 277 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: Richmond's going back up, by the way, Ted Lasso season 278 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: three because they got to go against West Hammon Nate. 279 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: So yeah, there's that. Yeah, so there is there. You 280 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: can go back up. I'm telling you, watching a game 281 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: for regulation relegation is talk about intense. Yeah, I mean, 282 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: holy smokes, it's the difference going for championship. It's like 283 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five hundred and eighty million dollars 284 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: just to go from championship to the premier league. So 285 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: there's something with relegation, but there's there's no you can't 286 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: you can't do it this particular sport. Who came up 287 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: with that idea about playing for the number one pick 288 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: the week before the Super Bowl or something like that. Oh, 289 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: you and I were talking about that. Yeah, that it 290 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: freaks me. That would be fun. That's a bowl game 291 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: for the number one overall pick. That would be fun. Yeah, 292 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: I mean playing for I don't know in this case 293 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: Will Anderson maybe I don't know people would watch it. Oh, 294 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: but here's the thing. Let's say it's I don't know, 295 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: Jags Lions, right, right, and whoever's the Jaguar quarterback at 296 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: that point, say it's before Trevor Lawrence is drafted, wins 297 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: the Jaguars the game, It wins him the first round pick, 298 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: and then he gets bounced because Trevor Lawrence is coming 299 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: in as the first But at least he puts something 300 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: good on tape, like Gardner Minshew that could benefit him. 301 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you know, you know it's funny 302 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: about all this stuff NBA Summer League. It's interesting to 303 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: me and I almost tweeted this out, NBA Summer League 304 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: greater than NBA preseason games. I mean, NBA Summer League 305 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: is compelling. Stuff is There seems to be some vibe 306 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: for Vegas. They're playing for something. They just got there. 307 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: You know, I'm watching the Rockets with great interest here 308 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: and it's I don't know, there's just some kind of 309 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: atmosphere about it, the stands of a lot of people there. 310 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: I remember when the Summer League was like they did 311 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: it like you masked Boston one year. They've done it 312 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: in some weird places. It's become a thing. They broadcast 313 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: all these games. I think it's fun. Settling in Vegas. 314 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: I think it was a good thing because getting neck 315 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: even though it's Thomason Max Center, and I've not been 316 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: at Thomason Max Center, but just that used to be. 317 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: Well it is where un LF he still plays that said, 318 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: it's Vegas. So you're gonna get every now and again. 319 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: You're gonna get some stars, some entertainers that want to 320 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: come to games and Shore Jabari Smith, Power Banka. You 321 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: get some of that kind of kind of runoff over 322 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: into the Summer League. I just wish they wouldn't have 323 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: besides the fact that they're giving Summer League championship rings. Oh, 324 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: don't give a ring if I have a mug. Interesting? Nice. Yeah, 325 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: it's a like give him like give him something you want. Hey, 326 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: here's fifty dollars to go to circus, circus or whatever. 327 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: If I don't know ring, I mean my no, no, no, no, okay, 328 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: this one. I think you and I maybe talked about 329 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: this in too. You got reaction to move the super 330 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: Bowl to Saturday night. I'm actually okay with it, more 331 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: okay than you would think to move the Saturday night 332 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: I am too, and didn't didn't not work out this year, 333 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: even with the later Super Bowl. That President's Day was 334 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: actually a week later, right, I think Monday was not 335 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: a national federal holiday as we all hoped, as we 336 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 1: all kind of thought would happen. I'm actually okay with 337 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: the super Bowl on a Saturday night. Why not? What's 338 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: the problem with that? Well, Sunday is sacred, really really 339 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: super Bowl Saturday. Look, you already went to a seventeen 340 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: game schedule. You'll probably go to eighteen. At some point, 341 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: Washington changed its name to the Commander. Yes, you can 342 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: play the super Bowl on Saturday night. You can change that. 343 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: Trust me, people will still watch. Now. They might think Johnny, 344 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: they might think the League, the TV partners might think, 345 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: you know what, we're not going to get as big 346 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: a number on Saturday night because the casual fringe audience, 347 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: which is millions and millions of people here might opt 348 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: to go to the gala or the party or the 349 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: dinner or the whatever over the super Bowl on a 350 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: Sunday night because it still kicks off at six thirty eastern, which, look, 351 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: you don't have anything else going on at six thirty 352 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: eastern on a Sunday night. It's not going to happen. 353 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: As I talk myself out of it, I just decided, no, 354 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 1: that's a that's a good point. Yeah, you're gonna get 355 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: a smaller You'll people will watch it. You and I'll 356 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: always watch the super Bowl, and there will be there 357 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: will be millions of people. I will always watch this. 358 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: I think like ten million fewer viewers or something like. 359 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: It'll be a huge number of people that, well, I 360 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: was gonna watch it, but I'll miss the first half, 361 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: or I've got this, or I've got that. Kids still 362 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: have AAU tournaments and you know, whatever, whatever they got, 363 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: they got Saturday night, Sunday night, you have nothing. By 364 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: and large, I think you've talked me out of it too. 365 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't mind it. Sunday, Saturday, Tuesday. It 366 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. I mean, I'm gonna watch the game. 367 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: But you're right to get that audience. And on a 368 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: kind of side note, related note, have you seen the 369 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: Netflix documentary that they did with Jennifer Lopez No called Halftime. 370 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: I saw it on my scroll, but I haven't watched 371 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: it yet. It's it's interesting because it's about the Super 372 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: Bowl in Miami, right before COVID, right and it's about 373 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: it's basically leading up to that. Now there's other things involved, 374 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of awards season and nominations 375 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and she doesn't get 376 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,719 Speaker 1: a nomination for Hustler was I think Hustlers Hustlers. She 377 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: doesn't get a nomination for that. But it's all this 378 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: kind of behind the scenes stuff about how they built 379 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: the halftime show for the Super Bowl. And there's one 380 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: scene in particular where Jennifer Lopez basically said the NFL 381 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: and I mean, we know the NFL. I mean, who 382 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: tells the NFL like no. Uh. She basically was like, Oh, 383 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it my way. It's it's kind of interesting. 384 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: You gotta watch it sort of play out. But I 385 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good documentary. Um. I've never been 386 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: the biggest Jennifer Lopez fan, but I walked the other going. Okay. 387 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: I always respected the heck out of her because singer, actress, 388 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: she does everything. She's funny. She can be funny when 389 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: she wants to be. She could be serious what she 390 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: wants to be. I like her. I have this This 391 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: one I think was my my favorite one, okay, because 392 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: I think there's not you know, in college football, you 393 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: have built in a lot of built in geographical rivalries. Texas, 394 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: Texas saying am Pit, Penn State, Nebraska, Oklumba. Some of 395 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: those don't. I think I picked three that don't play 396 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: anymore consistently. Ucla USC which is another story. And so 397 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: there's always kind of hatred Auburn. Alabama's always kind of 398 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: hatred amongst the teams just because of geographic stuff. And 399 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: there's there's hate. But in the NFL, sometimes it's born 400 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 1: on a circumstance. You know, the Ravens and Steelers kind 401 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: of hated each other because they were always playing with 402 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: big games. There's big things on the line. How much 403 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: hate do you think would be generated between teams if 404 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: we allowed the best teams in the playoff to pick 405 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: their playoff opponent. What, yes, pick your playoff opponent. So 406 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: take your seven team, your seventeam playoff number one gets 407 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: to buy, right, So two, three and four are hosting, correct, 408 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: and they get to pick. Two gets to pick. There's two. 409 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: Probably will pick seven, but maybe not. Somebody just got hurt. 410 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,239 Speaker 1: That team is weaker, right, somebody might get hot. Right. 411 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 1: The Bengals played at home all right against the Raiders. 412 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but then they went on the road, and 413 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: then they went on the road again, right, and they 414 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: won both of those games. Right, But can you imagine 415 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: somebody have taken the Bengals. Let's see, because the Bengals 416 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: beat the Raiders, they got to pick. They would have 417 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: picked the Raiders. Would they have picked anybody else? I 418 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: think they would have picked the Raiders because the Raiders. 419 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: Remember how the Raiders eaked in last year with that 420 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: fuel goal. Ever, they thought the Chargers and the Steelers 421 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: were gonna tie, yea, Our Chargers and Raiders were gonna tie, 422 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: and that would have gotten both of them in. But 423 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: then at the end the Chargers called a time out. 424 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: The Raiders got all upset. The Raiders like, wow, we're 425 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: just gonna kick a field goal and beach and knock 426 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: you out, and then they did. With the Bills, have 427 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 1: picked the Patriots, see exactly Steelers, That's exactly my point. 428 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: But the Bills. But the Bills were what seat the 429 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: Bills were the three? And who is the who is 430 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: the four? I can't remember. Anyways, the Chiefs ended up 431 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: playing the Steelers, and then I think the three in 432 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: the six game was the Bengals and the Yeah, with 433 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: the Bills have picked the Patriots, they would have been 434 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: left with the Patriots. Probably they would have been left 435 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: with the Patriots. But man talk about making talk about 436 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: making a decision though, and then all of a sudden 437 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 1: you broadcasted, Hey, at five o'clock tonight, the kan City 438 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna pick their playoff opponent. And Andy Reichs 439 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: trives to the podium and he's gotta he said, we're 440 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: gonna play the La Chargers' it'll add something to playoff. 441 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: It's interesting. I don't think you need it. I don't 442 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: think it could be fun. It would be fun, but 443 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if it adds enough. I mean, what's 444 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: the first question in the locker room evers the downside 445 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: of it? Hey, what do you feel about the Chiefs 446 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: peaking you guys to play? Right? As John McClain would ask, Yes, 447 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: what would be the downside of it? That kind of stuff? 448 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: But what's wrong with that? Nothing? But again, it's it 449 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: seems cheap in a way, maybe not all out cheap, 450 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: but I think it's part of the less than what 451 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: the league is right now, which is about you finishing 452 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: this slot. This is who you're getting. Yeah. Well, I 453 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: think even more interesting would be the next round because 454 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: the team with a buye would have three teams to 455 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: pick from, and you got to pick a team to 456 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: just won a game, and you have to pick anybody 457 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,719 Speaker 1: who won. That's pretty good, right, So what the Titans 458 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: have picked the Bengals because you had the Chiefs, the Bills, 459 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: the Bengals. Yeah, the Titans will still pick the Bengals 460 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: out of those three every single time. Yeah, and so essentially, 461 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: not only I mean, how valuable is the one seed 462 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: at that point because the one seed gets a buy 463 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: But then gets to pick who plays each other in 464 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: the next two rounds. Right, that would be awesome. I'll 465 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: hope you pick a winner that's weakened somehow by injuries 466 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: throughout the game or something like that. I like this one. 467 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: I like this one. I'd like this one to happen to. 468 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: Let's talk. Let's talk, well, why you marinate on that. 469 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: We'll have own Daniel stop by. They'll where are they now? 470 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: With Drew Dorty next on Texas to All Access. That's 471 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: that's that's welcome back, Texans All Act Cess from the 472 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris. Glad that 473 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: you have chosen to join me this evening or whenever 474 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: you are listening to this. It's Monday where I am, 475 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: but it could be Thursday when you get to it 476 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: could be Friday. I don't know. Either way, you're listening 477 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: to it, really appreciate it. If you're not listening to 478 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: it live right here in Sports Radio six ten, then 479 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: you're listening to it on the app. And we truly 480 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: truly appreciate that. Now, about a decade ago, there was 481 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: a guy that we loved watching in the City of Houston, 482 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: Number eighty one tight end Owen Daniels. Dredeordy had a 483 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: chance to catch up with y'all Pro Pro Bowl tight 484 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: end Owen Daniels and see where is heat now, Drew 485 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: take it away. We've never caught up with the greatest 486 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: Texans tight end ever. That's right, Owen Daniels joining us. Now, 487 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: how you've been, man, you're looking good? What's new? I 488 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: am doing all right? Great to see you great. I'm 489 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: living in Houston. I got two little boys four years old, 490 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: Henry and Benjamin, and my wife's doing great, tools doing well, 491 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: and so I've been This is my sixth season out. 492 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: Retirement was interesting at first, you know, interesting water to 493 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: navigate and not it was actually ended up being a 494 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: much more difficult transition than I had anticipated it being 495 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: if you followed my journey at all through what Henry, 496 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: my son has been through, and then what I've been 497 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: through with my mental health. But I have learned a 498 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: lot and I'm in a good place now. People go 499 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: through stuff all the time, so you know, from my end, 500 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: I'm realizing that being out of football, it's you're gonna 501 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: have your good days, you have your bad days, and 502 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: got to do it our best to kind of be 503 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: mindful of everybody, and especially with everything's going on in 504 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 1: the world right now. So the great thing for me 505 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: is that, So obviously retiring from football, it's kind of 506 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: I've been doing my whole life right and then all 507 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's like a loss. I didn't realize 508 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: it was going to be like that. Necessarily, I've had 509 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: the opportunity twenty nineteens the first season I'm not three 510 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: seasons in, I had opportunity to get football back in 511 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: my life, and I'm an assistant coach on the varsity 512 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: football team I think in Cade School like Ink School 513 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: here in town. So I've had a ton of fun. 514 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: It's been super rewarding. Exactly what exactly are you coaching 515 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: them on? Like, are you the tight ends coach or 516 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: more than that or so, yeah, it's high school football, 517 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: so we have. Our offense is kind of has changed 518 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: a little bit over the first couple of years. My 519 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: first year I was at the tight end coach. We 520 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: had tight end bodies, we were able to do that 521 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: type of stuff, and then this past season we did more. 522 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: Of the past two seasons it was more of an 523 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: air raid type of an offense. So I was coaching 524 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: the inside receivers. Okay, so that was my position group, 525 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: the inside slot receivers kind of where I worked a 526 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: lot as far as similar type of routes and things 527 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: like that. So we had some really good athletes to 528 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: work with, and as far as my role on the team, 529 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: I just tried to help out wherever I could, wherever 530 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: I thought I could help out, whether if it was 531 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: an old alignment with their with their technique receiver running 532 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: a route, going back to my quarterback days, helping quarterbacks 533 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 1: with their football work and things like that. So just 534 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: doing what I can to help make the games simpler. 535 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: The kids. Those kids are cank college prep school, and 536 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: they got a lot going on with that, academics and 537 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: all those things, and they're eager to learn, they want 538 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: to improve, and I just try to find a way 539 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: to communicate things to them in a way that's that's simple. 540 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: Football is a pretty simple game. It comes down to fundamentals, 541 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: comes down to simplifying as much as possible, and that 542 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: makes the game that much easier. So you just doing 543 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: what I can to kind of pass my knowledge down 544 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: all the things that I've the knowledge that I've accumulated 545 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: over the years over, you know, learned from great coaches 546 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: that I've had in college and the NFL. Obviously just 547 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: teaching kids the things I wish I would have known 548 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: back in high school. So it's been there's been an 549 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: awesome part of my life. You got any baby Owen Daniels, 550 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: baby Joeld Greason's that you've been working with, their kind 551 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: of so asking a lot. You know, it is because 552 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: baby o d in high school was it was a quarterback, 553 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: true true who wanted to be a big time college quarterback. 554 00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know if we have a 555 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: guy like Joel Recenter myself on the roster right now, 556 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: I'm hoping I could get back to getting some kids 557 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: to the body type to where we can run the 558 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: type of offense we're gonna We had an offensive coordinator 559 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: change during the season and so but there's a potential 560 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: for having a new type of an offense next year, 561 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: having a little heaven and tight end a little bit 562 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: more involved. So I'm really pushing, you know, anytime I 563 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: get a chance, I am pushing for those Kubiak keepers 564 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: and all those run fakes and things like that to 565 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: get to tight end involved because we like to run 566 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: the ball there. Our head of coach is great about 567 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: he wants them to be a physical game, wants to 568 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: run the faytball. So I got a whole bunch of 569 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: ideas about stuff to do off of those runs. So 570 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: and anytime I can help out, whether it's a tackle, 571 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: I feel like my experience in the NFL when it 572 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: comes to blocking guys, is it really similar to a 573 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: lot of these kids who play old line at think now. 574 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: Typically they're undersized kids, they got a lot of heart, 575 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,719 Speaker 1: they're tough kids, super smart kids, but they tend to 576 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: be maybe a little bit smaller than you'd want to 577 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: have in an old alignment. Which it's perfect for me 578 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: to explain things to them because we can relate, like, hey, 579 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: you had a compensate guys that were way bigger than 580 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: me too, So I understand and I know what it 581 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: takes to be successful about those guys, you know, against 582 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: those type of guys. So I think that's when they 583 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: kind of said ten start to tune in a little 584 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: bit like, oh, yeah, he did have to block guys 585 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: are way bigger than him, and I'm in that same situation. 586 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: So it's been awesome pot balls in my life. I 587 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: get all the best parts of the game. You know, 588 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: get to go over there for three to four hours 589 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: every every day and throw a play ball if the 590 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: kids play catch, and it's been awesome. That's cool. You know. 591 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: You just brought up Gary Kubiak and we were lucky 592 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: enough we got to spend a little time with him 593 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: in April and go up to his ranch just northwest 594 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: of town. And he said, he's enjoyed catching up with 595 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: you over the last few years. It's kind of a 596 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: nice that's a nice guy. You can kind of dial. Hey, 597 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: if you had a question, you can always go to 598 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: that guy. He's just down the road right one hundred 599 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: percent and I have so there you go. There. You know, 600 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: I consider coach Kubiak to be a great friend of mine, 601 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: someone who I can hit up anytime I need anything 602 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: at all. We've kept in touch, like he you know, 603 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: he said, he mentioned over the years, got a chance 604 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: to play some golf together. I saw him most recently 605 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: at Peyton's Hall of Famous trimn So that was great 606 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: to see him there with some other former teammates. But 607 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: he every time I see him, whether it's him or 608 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: him and his wife, Hey, bring the kids up to 609 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: the farm, yeah, fishing or whatever. And I've already gotten 610 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: his here. I already have our training camp playbook from 611 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: from back in the Texans days, so I have that 612 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: I can access it anytime I need to. I'm looking 613 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: at it week to week during the season and the 614 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: offseason to see what I can add to the Concaid 615 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: offensive plans. So he's been awesome and it's great to 616 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: It's always great to have something like that on your side. 617 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: That's really cool. That's really cool. He's good dude, and 618 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: love hearing from him. Yeah, that's for sure. You know, 619 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: you were here a couple of weeks ago for the homecoming. 620 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: You were one of many former Texans that got to 621 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: check things out. What was that like for you? What 622 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: was it like seeing some guys that you you brushed 623 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: up against, you played with during your time here. How 624 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: was that. Yeah, it's great to be back in the 625 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: buildings by what's going on. It's always great to run 626 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: in the guys. Who man, even if it was even 627 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: it was one year together or a bunch of time 628 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: together over the years, deal to run into guys those 629 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: weekends are it's it's hard sometimes and sometimes, like I 630 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: kind of understand. I think we had a pretty good turnout, 631 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: but sometimes I can just understand guys hesitancy towards going 632 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: back for those things. It's been hard sometimes to be 633 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: proud of, you know, sometimes things that I did on 634 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: the team back in the day, or my you know, 635 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: football career, because sometimes you feel like you don't want 636 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: to boast or brag about it. But at the same time, 637 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: that was a big part of my life, and it's 638 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: hard sometimes to go back to those things because that 639 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: part of your life's over sure. But then but once 640 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: so this year I was I had gone a few 641 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: years ago. I think I had taken a year or 642 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: two off from going. I didn't I didn't go last 643 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: year just in pandemic reasons, and then I might have 644 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: missed twenty nineteen and I was kind of bouncing back 645 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: from my mental health struggles but kind of find finding 646 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: my right place, and it was kind of busy with 647 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: first year of high school coaching anyway. But this year 648 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: I made a point to go back and even and 649 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with the event, I think, 650 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: you know, Candice does a fantastic job getting all the 651 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: guys together, and the Texas Organization has nothing to do 652 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: with because they do a fantastic job, but welcome guys back, 653 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: and it's just like a personal thing where it's like, man, 654 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: so I want to go back, and and really little 655 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: of times like without that, I'll never be able to 656 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: get to go back to again. It's it's one of 657 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: those It's weird because once I once I decided to 658 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: go and I'm actually there and talking to guys, it's like, oh, man, 659 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 1: like I wish we could do this every weekend type 660 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: of thing. You know. It's it's it's a natural reaction, 661 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: man like. It's and it's not just limited to you 662 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: and and other guys that played football. I mean, hell 663 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: I talked with I just had my twentieth high school 664 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 1: reunion twenty fifth. Excuse me, that's how old I am. 665 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: Back in the summer, and there were guys that basically 666 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,239 Speaker 1: we're in the same boat as you like, for whatever reason, Hey, 667 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: do I want to go back? You know, am I 668 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: have what I has? What I've done since high school? 669 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: You know? Will people think this of me? You know, 670 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: it's it's a natural. It's I think it goes to 671 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: apples and oranges, but it goes and translates to all 672 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 1: all parts of society, going back to a time in 673 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: your life which was drastically different and most ways happy 674 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: were Sometimes it's different, but I think that's a natural 675 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: response to have, you know, and I'm glad it was. 676 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: I'm glad it turned out, you know, in a positive 677 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: way for you, because yeah, I love you, you know. 678 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: I think I think it is natural, and I think 679 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,799 Speaker 1: that's why I'm mentioning it is kind of because I'm 680 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: just I've learned how to be a little bit more 681 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,479 Speaker 1: honest with myself and actually verbalize things that I'm talking about. 682 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,319 Speaker 1: It that I'm kind of going through my head through 683 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 1: learning about myself and saying things and speaking about experiences 684 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: helps other people, you know, and it helps you know, 685 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: hopefully maybe I'll donald like whether it's next year, if 686 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: someone he sees this or hears this is like, oh, 687 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking about going, and I was 688 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: kind of feeling about kind of feeling the same way 689 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: as Od and and he said he, you know, really 690 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: enjoyed the experience. It was happy that he went, and 691 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: and it is different. It's definitely worth it. I came 692 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: back from that weekend. I'm here in time, but just 693 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: from that experience just being grateful and it's a lot 694 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,040 Speaker 1: of good energy around the guys, and it's definitely it 695 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: is a little bit of a boost totally. I didn't 696 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,479 Speaker 1: get a chance to see you while you were here, 697 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: but you know, I keep up with you on social media, 698 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: and when I saw you, I was like, oh, that's all. 699 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: That's what's really cool. And you're you know, your boys 700 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: with you, your wife. I was it was really fun. 701 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: I'm glad you got to make it and glad you 702 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 1: got to got to see some some of your old too. 703 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: I am. So we had to leave a little early 704 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: because we got uh, Henry the little kid, we had 705 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,399 Speaker 1: a basketball practice. Yeah yeah, yeah, we get too, and 706 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: and he's pumped about hoops. It's one of the it's 707 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: like the first sport. He's like actually really excited and 708 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: asked me to go outside and practice with them and 709 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: things like that. So as if you gotta love that, huh, 710 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: that's uh, it's super cool. I'm like, every he comes 711 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: out from school yet we can we go outside and hoops, 712 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,919 Speaker 1: like absolutely, man, that's for this the last six years. 713 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: So that's tremendous. Man, that's that's really really did it 714 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,800 Speaker 1: just kind of happen over the last few months that 715 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: he's gotten into that because he's what a kindergarten first, 716 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: because he's in kindergarten. Yeah, and he's he's done soccer, 717 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: and he's done te ball and he did some flight 718 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 1: football this past fall. We're just kind of have him 719 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: try everything out. And basketball is the first sport where 720 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 1: he was like, I want to do basketball, and so like, 721 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 1: all right, awesome, I'll make sure I sign you up 722 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: for this. SBMSA is hard. You better be on there 723 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: signing up right away. Better again, I'm at sb We're 724 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: a SBMSA two with ours. Yeah, because man, there's so 725 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: many dank kids and which is which is awesome for 726 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: the kids. And it's just he's pumped and he's out 727 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: there shooting, shooting every day. It seems like he can 728 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: get out there. So yeah, like it like you're asking 729 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah, he uh, I guess whenever weeks 730 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: you know, he like when is practice starting? What? You know? 731 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,320 Speaker 1: What team am I on? Who's on my team? We're 732 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: waiting for them to kind of organize everything over November 733 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: and December. So yeah, over the past month he's just 734 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: kind of really jumped into it. Yeah, You guys are 735 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: about to hit it real hard in the next few weeks. 736 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: Tell me about becoming a Texan. You're in that splendid 737 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: draft draft class. He's pretty much smack dab in the 738 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: middle of it. You got Mario at the front and 739 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: Demico and at the very end you got David Anderson, 740 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: you Eric Winston, lots and lots and lots of talent 741 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: guys that helped franchise turn the page. You were here 742 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: from when the Texans were mired in beginning as losers, 743 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,799 Speaker 1: and I mean, shoot, you were here through the best 744 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: years of their existence in eleven and twelve. What was 745 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,160 Speaker 1: it like when you got here? What was draft weekend 746 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: like for you coming out of Wisconsin? Oh, the draft 747 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,719 Speaker 1: weekend was. It was cool back when it was just 748 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,799 Speaker 1: two days, right, it was just Saturday Sunday. So I 749 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 1: was third or fifth round pick projected. Obviously, I thought 750 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 1: I should have been a higher pick, but hey, that's 751 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: just the way that it goes, and injuries and things 752 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: like that. In fact, those type of things. But the 753 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: first three rounds went by, and ask some people at 754 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: my house that weekend as the hoursick by Saturday in 755 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: the picks came off the board just kind of getting 756 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: a little bit quieter and a little bit quieter in 757 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,479 Speaker 1: the house. It's like, guys, it's not a big deal. 758 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,800 Speaker 1: You know, we got tomorrow. So yeah. I got a 759 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 1: call first thing that Sunday morning and the Texans had 760 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 1: the very first pick of the fourth round, the very 761 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: first pick of the second day, and got a call 762 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: from Coach Kubiak. Got to talk to everyone and asked 763 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,879 Speaker 1: if I if I'd been in any trouble, Like, no, sir, 764 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: I haven't been arrested, you know, just you know, house 765 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: cleaning questions. I asked you just to make sure it was. 766 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,799 Speaker 1: It was crazy because I was talking to him, and then, 767 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: you know, as I was on the phone with the 768 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: team that said they're gonna draft me with the first 769 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: pick of that day, I'm getting a call from somewhere else, 770 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: like I didn't know, you know, I wasn't up on 771 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 1: my southern area codes back then. There's a five or 772 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,840 Speaker 1: four number, and I was like, I can't answer this. 773 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 1: I'm on the phone Coach Kubiak and that number. I 774 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,239 Speaker 1: called back later on for the drafted star that day, 775 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 1: and it was Sean Payton who was calling to say hey, hey, 776 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: uh so Sean Payton and I went to the same 777 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 1: high school, Naperville, right, Naperville, Naprivil Central. Hey, oh, when 778 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,360 Speaker 1: has anyone called you yet? Today? It's like, ah, sure, 779 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,000 Speaker 1: sure enough. Actually, um coach Kubiak can texts. We call, 780 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 1: they said they're gonna take me, and he's like, well, congrats, 781 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: happy for you. You know, we'll be there right behind 782 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,600 Speaker 1: you if there's something happen and that falls through. And 783 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: so it was a crazy morning for me. I'm telling you, man, 784 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,360 Speaker 1: you can do a podcast, just a draft stories the 785 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: phone calls guys that have gotten things that have happened 786 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 1: in the draft process. I mean, you could do NFL 787 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,720 Speaker 1: Draft hashtag storytime and it would be absolutely fantastic. In fact, 788 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,880 Speaker 1: that might be an idea for yours truly. I don't know. 789 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,520 Speaker 1: We'll see. But that was Owen Daniels. That was great stuff. 790 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 1: There's more of that. If you go to the app 791 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,120 Speaker 1: you can hear the full interview, which went on for 792 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 1: way longer than what we just played. But that's okay, 793 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,440 Speaker 1: we got enough of it for you and a fitish up. 794 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: We're gonna go round the NFL. We'll do that next raight. 795 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 1: Hear in Texans All Axis, so here in Texans, All Axis, 796 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: so here in Texas. We got one fall segment of 797 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: this this and Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans 798 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,840 Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris, glad to 799 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,319 Speaker 1: be with you in A big thanks to Mark vander 800 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,799 Speaker 1: Meer and Owen Daniels and Drew Dohrty for being on 801 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,920 Speaker 1: the show this evening. A big thanks in particular to 802 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,799 Speaker 1: Drew Doherty for all the great where are They Now 803 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:03,720 Speaker 1: interviews that he provided throughout this desert time frame aka 804 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 1: the time between Minicamp at training camp. Drew's been a 805 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 1: rock star and really appreciate all that Drew has brought 806 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 1: to the table for us during that time. Let's go 807 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 1: around the NFL, and we're gonna start at Heinz Field, 808 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 1: I mean, well not quite heinz Field anymore. The ketchup 809 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,799 Speaker 1: bottles apparently are empty because the Pittsburgh Steelers have a 810 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:36,360 Speaker 1: new home. And it's accresher. Now, I can't tell you 811 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 1: whether I'm saying that properly. I'd like to think I'm 812 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 1: saying accressher, accreshire accressher. Anyhow, it's a insurance company apparently 813 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: in Michigan, and they procured the naming rights to the 814 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:59,279 Speaker 1: location where Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh Steelers play their games, so 815 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:04,080 Speaker 1: you will know longer see Hinz Field or catchup bottles 816 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:10,959 Speaker 1: of any sort. As Actress Sheer Stadium takes over as 817 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,360 Speaker 1: the Steeler's new home. Now, it's hard enough to remember. 818 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 1: And I remember my dad when the Baltimore Colts went 819 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,960 Speaker 1: to Indianapolis, they always stayed the indian Apple. I'm sorry, 820 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,160 Speaker 1: the Baltimore Colts in my household. So when the Ravens 821 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 1: came around, it was really really difficult, but they were 822 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: always the Baltimore Colts just for some reason couldn't get 823 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 1: over that hump. The San Diego Chargers, Yeah they're this 824 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 1: well the LA Chargers now, but they always stayed to 825 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,880 Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers. I got a feeling in the Harris 826 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,799 Speaker 1: household mine and Harris the Senior that it's always gonna 827 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,359 Speaker 1: be Hindesfield. You play Pittsburgh, Oh you're going to hinds Field. No, No, 828 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,200 Speaker 1: that we're going to accreas Sheer Stadium. I don't even 829 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 1: know if I'm saying it right, but big ups to 830 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:07,960 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers forgetting that deal. Accomplished. Over the weekend, hines 831 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:13,960 Speaker 1: Field renamed Accressher Stadium right there on the three rivers 832 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,520 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I will say this, that's one of the 833 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,760 Speaker 1: more gorgeous places to go watch a game. And I 834 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,360 Speaker 1: try trying to remember it's twenty twenty six, where we 835 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,560 Speaker 1: would go back there for sure, twenty twenty six. Go, 836 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 1: you gotta go to that place twenty twenty and a 837 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,040 Speaker 1: lot of fans and it was a gorgeous day right 838 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,759 Speaker 1: down the river. It was one of the most incredible 839 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,280 Speaker 1: days ever for football. There wasn't a soul in the stands. 840 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,880 Speaker 1: It was the weirdest day. But if you get the 841 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 1: opportunity to go to Accresssher Stadium to see the Steelers 842 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,880 Speaker 1: play at Texans, A twenty twenty six might be before, 843 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,319 Speaker 1: but we know a twenty twenty six for sure, go 844 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,359 Speaker 1: experience it. It's beautiful. All right. That's the show. Big 845 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,520 Speaker 1: thanks to Marked Oh and to Drew, all of you. 846 00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: Thanks so much. We'll see tomorrow everybody, as always, go Texans.