WEBVTT - Nick Caserio, Jerry Hughes, Giants preview | Texans All Access 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.400 What's going on? Everybody. Welcome to your Wednesday edition the 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.160 Texans All Access. I am your host, John Harris, football 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.560 and a sideline reporter, and we got a great show 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.840 for you this evening. Boy, we got a lot of stuff. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.800 We got Cherry Hughes on the show today. Mark's gonna 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.880 join me in just a little bit for a number 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.720 of things. Today. We've got Bob Poppa play by play 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.440 voice of the New York Giants on the show today. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.120 And we got a little funky on in the Lab today. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.360 You have to stick around for that one because that 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.120 got all kinds of funky and it's a it's a 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.159 typical in the Lab podcast you're gonna absolutely love. We'll 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.080 have that later in the show with myself and Drew Doherty. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.199 But we kick off each and every Wednesday show with 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.440 the visit from the general manager of your Houston Texans, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:49.120 Nick Cassario. Let's go joining us now the Hounday Texans 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.600 Radio Studio. It's Texans general manager Nick Casserio. Nick, great 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.480 to see you. How was the mini buy the little break? 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.160 I don't know if you took any time off, how'd 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.360 you spend it? Yes, it was good. It's fairly productive. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.200 I got a chance to see some football on Saturday 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.520 on a scouting front, and then Sunday had an opportunity 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.720 to spend the day with my daughter, so I kind 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.640 of the best of both worlds. So worked out well. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.480 So as you're spending your day with your daughter and 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.640 just asking are you able to completely shut off football? 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.600 It is I'm spending with my daughter, whatever's going on 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.520 in football, it just can't even focus on red zone 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.280 on in the background. Nick, No, it's not. I actually 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.240 was able to kind of finish up some things on 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.200 the Giants on Sunday, So it takes some time in 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.400 the morning, get some time with the family, and in 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.680 the afternoon while they're doing some things, try to work 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.240 on the Giants and just try to stay on par 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.760 with on track with the preparation. So that's what I 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.360 try to do. But this is a good question, how 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.399 do you keep up with the league? Now? How do 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.600 you digest information that transpired over the course of a 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.400 Sunday after do? Yeah, you're trying not to worry necessarily 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.560 about what happened one particular weekend or one particular game. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.800 A coincidentally, the Giants are on their by so it 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.120 wasn't as if we had the opportunity to watch them. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.720 So there are other teams that we're playing. We're kind 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.000 of working our way here through kind of the NFC's 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.760 a little bit, you know, Philly last Thursday, Giants this weekend, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.200 Washington next weekend. So I'd say the biggest thing is 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.680 just familiarizing yourself with opponents that you don't see other 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.119 than maybe you know, once every four years. So from 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.880 that standpoint, you try to work on the Giants, finished 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.040 up the Giants and then starting to turn the page 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.640 a little bit and start to prepare a little bit 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.959 for Washington this week so we can kind of stay 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.480 on track. Nicolas seg one final look back at the 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.400 game against the Eagles, because there were some bright moments 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.400 in that particular game. You get ten rookies ended up 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:32.920 playing a game, and a lot of them did some 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.000 really good things. Where are your overall thoughts looking back 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.680 to Thursday against the Eagles. Yeah, it's today. Games kind 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.200 of emblematic a kind of some of the things that 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.400 happened this season, did some good things, kind of put 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.760 ourselves into position in the end, just you know, on't enough. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.200 It's say, in the end situationally, they had the advantage 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.800 third down, redder and the turnovers. So those are the 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.960 areas and the plays that whoever has the advantage, there's 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:54.760 a good chance at the end of the game they're 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.680 probably going to be on top of the scoreboard. So 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.320 they're a good team. You know, we did some decent 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.760 things offense of Lee random ball fairly well, I mean, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.760 DP had a good night, you know, defensively, he did 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.400 a good job. Actually made the quarterback a little bit 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.680 uncomfortable at times, so you know, run game kind of 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.120 gave up, you know, a little bit some yards there. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.040 So but in the end of situational things to turn 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.400 over the third down in the radio or they had 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.200 the advantage and as a result, they had the advantage 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.200 on the scoreboard. We had Tavira Thomas on The Players 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.800 Show and asked him about the rookie class that he said, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.360 in so many words, they don't seem like rookies. They 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.720 seem like they're really taking to things pretty well. How 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.440 would you assess the class midway through the season. May Yeah, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.320 you're trying not to take a snapshot, but I'd say overall, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.280 making progress a little bit up and down. It points 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.320 there are certain things that each player can do individually 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.120 to improve, whether it's their technique, whether it's a skill, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.080 whether it's their preparation, whatever that is. So from that perspective, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.520 i'd say the overall approach and attitude has been good. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.800 It's really more about just trying to improve some things 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.600 and clean up some things so you don't have sort 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.440 of let's say, repeat airs or repeat mistakes. So a 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.640 lot of that is is growing pains and you're gonna have. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.800 The only way you learn is by doing it and 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.680 then doing it on film, and then seeing it and 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.840 correcting it and trying to make sure that it doesn't 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.960 happen again moving forward. So it's all part of the process. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.240 So i'd say overall, the attitude and the effort has 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.920 been pretty consistent from the beginning. I can't believe you 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.840 stole my rookie question. Sorry, it's my question. Okay rookie questions, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.920 and you have more. I'm sure you have more rookie questions. No, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.920 I'm not taking that question. I'm not gonna ask I'm 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.960 gonna ask you about the Giants Nick two part or A. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.120 Let's dive into the Giants to see what we have 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.760 to say. About them, and b did you squats this morning? 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.720 So you can match sea Quon Barkley's legs when you 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.560 see him on us on the My squat day is Friday. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.919 And I'd probably do a little bit less than say Quon, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.000 but I'd say overall, I'd say Joe and Brian have 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.440 done a great job of sort of implementing their program 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.600 from the beginning. I think they're familiarity with each other 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.760 and their time in Buffalo certainly is sort of ease 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.719 that transition. I'd say start at the top. You know, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.200 Brian's a really i would say one of the better 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.560 coaches in the league, very smart, has a background on 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.360 the defensive side of the ball that's kind of always 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.440 trained and then kind of transition to off, has a 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.720 lot of experience, has been a number of different system 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.840 I'd say some of the things that he believes in 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.280 their representative of kind of how they play. You see 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.440 that in their team, and he and Joe have a 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.599 really good working relationship. They done a good job. So 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.760 you know, Brian is the head coach, and then you 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.880 know hired Mike Kafka, who Mike play in the league. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.279 Mike's very smart, has a lot of experience, very good coach, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.760 been in a good system in Kansas City, and then 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.440 Wink has been as good a defensive coordinators who's been 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.240 here for a number of years, had an opportunity, you know, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.240 face their teams in Baltimore and say they play with 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.480 a very aggressive mindset, of very aggressive mentality, probably more 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.599 than any other in the league. And what they've done, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.480 they've actually combined, They've gotten good production from their rookies 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.640 in addition to some of the veteran players. Let's say, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.400 starting defensively, they're really good in a running game, They're 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.599 really good in the red area. And because kind of 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.560 seems like each week we talk about the interior of 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.760 the defensive line and Lawrence Dexter, Lawrence has played as 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.560 good as any defensive line in the league. You know, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.760 put them up there with Simmons Hargrave, some of the 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.920 players that we've seen here. I mean, he's big, he's strong, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.520 he's long, he's very disruptive. He's really had his best 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.400 year this season. So they've done a good job of 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.880 kind of maximizing him. I'd say Leonard's a good player. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.760 He's kind of been bothered a little bit by the 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.080 knee injury, so but he's still a disruptive player. Kate 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:15.960 has done a good job for them since he's kind 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.680 of in Benison or the line of miss a little 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.880 bit in a preseason, missed the first couple of games, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.240 but he's done a good job on the edge of 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.599 the defense. And they've gotten some play out of some 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.080 veterans who maybe weren't with the team. But if they've 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.200 brought in Jalen Smith has done a nice job for 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.400 them on the inside part. And then McFadden has kind 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.600 of started to rotate in an inside linebacker in the secondary. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.200 I mean, Fabian Moreau has done a good, really good 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:37.839 job for him. So they brought him in kind of 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.359 at a in a training camp, put him on a 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.359 practice squad, and he's kind of emerging their best corner. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.919 Jackson's having a good year. They've kind of rotated some 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.360 players inside the formation there a little bit. McKinney's going 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.240 to be out obviously with the situation that took place 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.600 here yesterday. He'll be out for four games, but he's 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.800 done a good job. And then Julian Love his role 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.960 is kind of increased relative to last season. Very versatile, smart, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.680 instinctive player. So defensively they've done a good job. I 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.560 would say situationally, Um, they're at the top. I want 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.440 to say, actually they were like we're tied with the 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.240 tied for ninth in the league in turnover margin. Um. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.400 So they've forced i want to say, nine fumbles, which 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.840 puts them at the top of the league. They don't 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.600 have as many interceptions. Um. Then offensively that kind of 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.240 played with their strength. So they've taken some of the 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.360 things that Daniel does really well, which is run um, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.040 and he's made good decisions, he's mitigated sort of the 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.440 some of the bad plays. He doesn't have a lot 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.160 of interceptions. Sae Quon's a very skilled, versatile player, does 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.000 a lot of things well. I think he has combined 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.480 over a thousand yards between rushing and receiving. So everything 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.360 kind of starts with those two players. And and Andrew 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.000 Thomas has played really really well for them at left tackle. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.080 Their offensive line as a whole, I would say has 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.040 played pretty good for them. Um. Evan is you know, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.000 he's been hurt here Neil past you know, three to 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.240 four games. But Feliciano is a player that you know 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.080 has experience with day Ball and Buffalo with Joe, and 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.840 he's done a really good job sot up find the 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.000 interior of the of the offensive line. They've gotten really 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.760 good play at a bellinger as well at tight end. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.680 I know, we got hurt against Jacksonville kind of poked 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.400 desire or did whatever he did. And then they've kind 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.920 of incorporated one Dale Robinson a little bit. So it's 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.520 a combination of young, old, kind of veteran new and 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.600 then they've really in the end been able to execute 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.200 in the fourth quarter. They're six and one and one 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.920 score games, and a number of those games they've trailed 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.720 in the fourth quarter, So I'd say they've handled a 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.240 lot of the situational elements as a team. It's a 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.640 very tough minded team. They have a certain play style, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.920 certain way they want to play, so we have to 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.760 be able to match how they're going to play. Is 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.520 Daniel Jones the latest good example of Hey, you never 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.240 know how it's going to work out for a player 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.160 over the course of a few years. It might take 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.920 a few seasons for the light to really go on 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.000 in a situation too, with new staff and new new elements. Yeah, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.000 I mean, what's happened in the past really doesn't have 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.319 as much relevance. I think what they've done is kind 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.040 of looked at Daniel and said, oh, what are the 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.360 things that he does well, try to accentuate his strengths, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.000 which he's just very deceptively athletic. He's faster than you 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.760 think he is, He's stronger than you think he is. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.080 There's a lot of quarterback design runs, the zone reads, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.760 and then you combine that with Barkley and he's made 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.520 good decisions so he goes to the right spot with 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.480 the ball, and I'd say that's a credit to the 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.760 offensive staff or how they've handled it, from Brian to 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.960 Mike kind of how they've put the game plan together. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.440 And I think Daniel is a very smart kid, and 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.720 he understands how they need to play, how they want 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.800 him to play, and he's played smart, a good situational 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.400 football and he's been a factor with his legs. And 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.920 then se Quon again has probably been as big of 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.120 an impact under offense as anything. So tackling will be 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.080 at a premium as it's been, you know, for most 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.640 of these games. Nick, since he's been back from missing preseason, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.440 came on Thibadeau from the time he saw him in 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.160 college till now, but you know, years span, what have 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.280 you seen in him and what kind of problems does 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.880 he present on the edge. Yeah, I'd say his effort 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.880 in his overall playing style is very good. He's he's 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.720 very tough. He runs really well. I mean the play 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.440 that he had against ETN chasing him forty five fifty 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.120 yards down the field. He's talking about a guy six 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.840 four two fifty five two sixty. That's Chase the you know, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.520 back for three or whatever et N runs down the field. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.760 So he's played well. He's kind of transitioned to playing 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.320 more exclusively from a two point stance because they're really 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.119 more of a thirty front team, more two outside linebackers, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.400 two end the line of scrimmage players. So he's got 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.760 good lengths, he's got good playing strength, he's got good toughness, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.000 and he's transitioned well to the Winks scheme and kind 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.120 of how they're trying to play. So Kavon was a 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.280 good player at Oregon. He's been a productive player to 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.959 this point. So you know, it's no surprise that he's played. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.679 He's played well. Nick, back to your young players, the 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.160 record isn't what you wanted to be at all, and 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.240 how does that affect them? How important is it to 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.440 keep a positive atmosphere, positive culture going around them as 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.800 they continue to play through the season. Yeah, really, you 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.200 want to take it one week at a time. So 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.920 that's what his league is about. So you try to 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.080 look at the week and what do you have to 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.599 do that week in order to prepare in order to 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.360 get ready to play the next opponent. So I think 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.559 just understanding the week to week nature of it and 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.160 how each week, whatever happened last week in the end 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.560 doesn't have necessarily relevance. Understanding what happened, understand the why 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.599 behind it, and just try to make some progress understanding 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.360 that you're going to go through some ups and downs. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.440 Like we've played eight games, we have another nine remaining. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.880 Then you tack on the three preseason games. So these 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.079 players have played eleven games, so they already played a 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.120 full college season and we don't even have we have 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.200 half the season remaining. So I would say a certain 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.840 level of stick tuitiveness, certain level of discipline to stay 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.080 on your routine and just stay committed to what you 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.520 need to do in a week to week basis, and 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.480 really just understand the opponent who you're playing, and it's 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.880 a very personnel driven league, so understanding Juan Dale Robinson 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:31.440 versus Chris Slayton versus you know Whoever, the different receivers are, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.520 the different offensive lineman that you're going to face, What 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.760 are their strengths, what are their weaknesses? How do you 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.800 exploit those? Because in the end, that's what it's going 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.840 to come down to, and you say, better you understand that, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.720 and that's what you have to focus on and not 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.040 necessarily get caught up and what's the record? What are 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.600 the standings? Like, we can't control that. We can control 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.800 what we can control, which is our performance, is how 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.480 we prepare, and the record is what the record is. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.520 But ultimately you have to focus on that week and 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.240 just kind of going through your process and get ready 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.439 to play on Sunday against a good Giant's team. Nick 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.760 happened to see this article and I didn't read it. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.280 I just saw the headline, and I thought it would 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.360 be a good question to ask you just your opinion 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.520 on somebody had written about the trade deadline being later 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.080 in the year, like week eleven, week twelve, Like you 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.679 just said, we've played eight games and the trade deadline 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.640 was last week and we still have nine games left 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.440 to go, and most teams have nine games left to go. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.280 Would have behoove the NFL to move the trade deadline 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.400 a little bit later. Would you like to see a 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.240 little bit later or is that just like a case 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.320 by case basis, like year to year, like, oh, some 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.600 years I'd won earlier, some years I'd want it later. Yeah. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.959 I think the NFL has done a good job of 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.520 looking at some different policies or different you know, things 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.120 that we can do maybe a little bit differently, or 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.800 their timing element involved, So if there's any merit to 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.200 doing that, So I think whatever it is, you're prepared for. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.400 If it's a week later, then you're prepared for a 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.040 week later. It doesn't necessarily change anything materially. Each team 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.000 has to look at their team, look at their composition. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.120 Like the thing that was unique this year, there was 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.400 more activity this year than it wasn't any other point. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.280 So I'd say that doesn't necessarily mean anything, or is 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.959 that going to be a trend moving forward. A lot 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.120 of trades, even you know, going to the draft and 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.480 even during the offseason, they're all player driven, so you 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.280 don't necessarily know how it's gonna go. You could think 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.280 you're gonna trade or want to trade or do something, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.280 but in the end, if it doesn't materialize, then I'm 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.880 sure there's no trade, and then you move on. So 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.160 I think the league will look at it. If it 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.760 makes sense, you know, moving it, then they'll do it. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.319 If it doesn't, then we'll kind of keep it where 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.000 it is. But you know, in the end, I mean, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.400 you just have to be prepared, just try to make 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.880 good decisions for your team with your roster or whatever 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.400 it is. A couple of other notes from the Philadelphia game. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.040 You're coming off the loss to Tennessee, tough loss, and 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.320 it seemed like the guys really rallied together, particularly early, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.640 trying to fight a way to move the football. They 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.360 did tied at the half fourteen fourteen. You hit Katranto's 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.280 first catch and Chris Wore's another touchdown pass. What about 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.840 the way they came together in the first half overall, Nick, Yeah, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.319 the players in the staff did a really good job 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.320 at getting ready to play. So anytime you have that 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.360 short turnaround, a quick turnarounds, it's taxing, it's mentally and 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.720 physically taxing. But players had a good attitude, the coaches 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.640 make sure the players that were prepared. We were able 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.160 to get off to a good start. There was a 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.200 certain energy that was involved playing Thursday night. You're playing, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.000 you know, the best team in the league on prime time, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.400 so everybody knows that you know, you're playing, you're the 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.640 only game in towns or to speak, other than the Astros. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.440 But so they came out with good energy. Are As 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:10.920 a team, we came out with good energy. He was 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.840 just manibal to sustain it completely until the end. But overall, 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.360 the players and the coach did a really good job 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.600 and get ready to play, and we're able to see 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.880 some things early early in the game. Nick, as we 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.120 get near closer to the end of the college football season, 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:25.920 how does it kind of how does it kind of 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:27.720 change for your college scouts and what's kind of the 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.760 program from from here until we get to the Senior 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.720 Bowl in those all star games at the end. Yeah, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.840 that's a really good question. We're kind of winding down here. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.520 You really have a kind of a handful of weeks 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.560 left in college football. I mean, realistically, kind of Thanksgiving 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.000 weekend is sort of the end. You'll have another game 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.320 the following week, and then you have the conference championships 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.200 and then you're really into bowl season. So our staff's 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:48.800 done a really good job a lot of scouts. A 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.320 matter of fact, it is kind of going through my 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.600 notes from yesterday, some of the reports that have come in. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.640 It's kind of second time through, third time through. You're 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.080 kind of seeing players, seeing any anything that's changed, any upgrades, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.480 any downgrade. So I'd say we've you've seen a lot 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.640 of players, we have a lot of information on those players. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.080 Now it's starting to fine tune that and in December 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.360 will kind of have the first initial run through, maybe 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.240 identify some need not necessarily grades, but some needs, or 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:12.600 here are some of the things that you know, we're 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.760 gonna have to see if we can find more information 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.200 out about over the next however many months and weeks, 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.920 and then once the kind of the season is over, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.240 then you'll have an idea of who's gonna attend East West, 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.960 who's going to attend the Senior Bowl, and kind of 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.400 start to prepare for that. And then you have the 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.480 under classmen, which they'll make a declaration by the middle 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.920 of January relative to their eligibility. So we're winding down. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.760 There's still a lot of information that's available. You maybe 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.400 have a player didn't play earlier in the year that's 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.920 back on the fields. You can kind of see how 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.560 he's played. Vice versa. You had some guys who have 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.320 kind of been hurt all year and it might be 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:45.680 done for the rest of the years. So all right, 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.680 that's all the information that we have. All right, kind 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.440 of transition to the next evaluation stage. Does it translate? 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.960 And I want to ask this in a variety of ways. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.320 Guys who come up big in big games on the 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.480 college level, does that translate sometime? And how do you 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.760 rate that they got a check mark because they're big 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.240 time players and big time situations. No, it's a good 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.360 question mark. Let's say you're looking at and in college 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.760 at times, there's in a lot of a situational football, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.640 I'd say, just because the way that it's played. But okay, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.600 their production relative to the opponent. So when you see 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.920 them against I know we kind of joke about the SEC, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.200 but each week you're seeing them play against the best players. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.000 And when you look at and even you know, back 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.880 to Tennessee's defense, they have I don't know five or 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.000 six guys that played in the SEC you know, we 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.560 have a number of guys that played in the SEC. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.960 You know, that's the best competition. Doesn't mean that there's 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.640 not a lot of other great programs out there, which 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.480 there is. But how the player performs maybe against the 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.120 best competition and critical situation doesn't necessarily mean that's going 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.680 to translate over not necessarily, but it's just kind of 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.760 to your point. We can grade it accordingly. Okay, how 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.680 they played against this team the game great against you know, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.080 against this team in this game? Was this all right? 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.320