1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Welcome and everybody to a President's Day a nation of Texans. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: All access from the Honiday Texans Radio Studio. I am 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,159 Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, alongside the voice of Texas, Mark 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Van of your Mark. How is your well weekend? I 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: was gonna say vacation, but it's not really a vacation 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: but really a holiday. Well, I mean it is a holiday, 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: but not for us. We're working. I did. I did 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: stay with the tradition on President's Day of not working 9 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: a lot though, So there's that, you know, okay, And 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have to work a 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: full day today and it is what it is, all 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: right for us. We had a little bit of time off, 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: but you know, we work a lot of holidays in 14 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: this business, and this biz, we work a lot of holidays. 15 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 1: But it's not work. As we've always said, we love 16 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: doing this. We love it. I was trying to think 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: which holidays do we actually get. Well, we get the 18 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: fourth of July usually. My wife's really happy about that. Like, listen, 19 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: my wife has heard the same thing. I heard my 20 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: wife say this the other day. We decided last week 21 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: and we were gonna go to Galveston, and I had 22 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: planned it that way. I'd gotten that for anniversary, and 23 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: I planned it. It It was like as the week after 24 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and it was a couple of weeks 25 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: before the comb I was like, this is the perfect time, 26 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: let's go. And it's February, so it's probably not that expenses, 27 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: so let's just do it. We did a long weekend 28 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: at the at the Beach in Galveston, and I heard 29 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: my wife on the phone as we were about to 30 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: leave that day. She was talking to a friend and 31 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: she said said, yeah, pretty much. You know, July to February, 32 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: we can't do anything because of John's job, so we 33 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: just planned it this way. It was like, yeah, all right, okay, 34 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: he's kind of got it that. Yeah, July to February. 35 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: It's kind of if you get anything, as you said, 36 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: it's great. It is gravy. And I gave you the 37 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: missus Van Gundi test last week, who said that, hey, 38 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: don't count on your husband during the season, and you'll 39 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: be happy, right if you don't count on anything. But 40 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: there are false narratives Johnny in the household, like oh, 41 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm never available for anything, and that's a false narrative. 42 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: I mean I'm home most nights. You know, most nights 43 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: I'm home, and I guess the majority, and then you 44 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: look at I know, I'm away a lot of weekends, 45 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: and I get it. I totally get it. And it's 46 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: not just a one night trip because you get back 47 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: a you know, tennis on a Sunday night, even from 48 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: a close road trip. So it's not like you're really 49 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: participating in the process of raising the family. But it's 50 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: all good. It's all sports. It's the business. This is 51 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: the business we've chosen. Like I always said, you're exactly right. Okay. 52 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: In the next segment, we I know you started a 53 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: series that has been a hot, hot topic that I 54 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: want to get to. I finished a series I didn't 55 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: even I didn't even tell you about that. But it's 56 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: one of my favorites. You know what it is. You 57 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: know when I bring it up and there's an episode 58 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: and I want to talk about a particular individual that 59 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: pops up that I will follow to the end of 60 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: the earth, like of somebody everybody knows or study of 61 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: the series. Some well somebody in the series and somebody 62 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 1: that a national celebrity comes into play. I don't know 63 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: if you series is uh yeah, it's called all nothing. 64 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: Oh it's the all or nothing serious. Yes, I'll get 65 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: to that. We'll talk about that. Well, that's that too. 66 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: I started that. I know, let's look at all of 67 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: that because yeah, we gotta talk about that next time. 68 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: Because we've got more likely to happen to kick off 69 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: the show. Oh we do. We've got more likely to 70 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: happen to kick off the show. Are you ready? I'm listen. 71 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: I am always ready for more likely to happen. So 72 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: usually you're you're on this side and I'm on that side. 73 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: But since you're over there, let's play a little sounder. 74 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: More likely to happen, more likely to last longer. The XFL, 75 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: or the amount of time it takes to get a 76 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: seventeen game schedule in the National Football League, So the 77 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: XFL lasts X number of months years, or it takes 78 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: this amount of time to get the seventeen game schedule 79 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: in which is a major sticking point. This is it. 80 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: I got a feeling, Johnny that we would have the 81 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: CBA already, but it's the seventeenth game that's the big 82 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: bugaboo here because it means so much more money to everybody. 83 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,119 Speaker 1: But I have the solution. By the way, we could 84 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: do that later on another show later this week. I 85 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: can help them out with this. I don't know if 86 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: you saw this. I saw a blurb, but I believe 87 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: it was on Pro Football Talk that mentioned one of 88 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: the aspects of the new CBA that if a say 89 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: a first round draft pick, first round draft pick, goes 90 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl two of the two years, right, 91 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: two or two times within the length of their rookie deal, Okay, 92 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: they can then be franchised at that particular position. So 93 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: just take de Shaun for instance, Right, Sean's gone to 94 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: two Pro Bowls, Right, DeShawn would then have a contract, 95 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: a franchise player contract, which is the average automatically, yes, 96 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: oh so this year. Now, if they don't sign up 97 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: to an extension this year, he's still had his rookie deal. 98 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: But in this new CBA situation, if that would actually occur, 99 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: he would automatically get a top five salaries. Yes, because 100 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: he's been to two Pro bowl He'll be in two 101 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: Pro Bowls within his rookie year contract. I think the 102 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: players would love that. I think so too. So it's 103 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: and you're still under the rookie contract in terms of length. 104 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: Probably in this proposal. Yeah, the other thing is, how 105 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: are you going to change the way you select Pro Bowls? 106 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: If this is the case, you know this is you 107 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: might the NFL might force you to change it. The 108 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: teams might be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we 109 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: need to change this whole thing about you know, the 110 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, on how this game voting and boss and whatever. 111 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: Exactly a lot of money on the line, exactly. I 112 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: mean there's no question. Then what if you're like the 113 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: sixth quarterback alternate who goes because everybody else was either 114 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: either hurt or didn't want to go or whatever, and 115 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you know, you're Jacobe Brissette 116 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl and you're gonna get a franchise. 117 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: Well that would be two though, and it's gonna be 118 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: tough to have that happened twice, I would imagine. Yeah, 119 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: I mean two is the key number because it does 120 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: have to happen twice. But it man, that's sticky. Yeah, 121 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: that is that is sticky. With play with player voting, 122 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: maybe alternates cam voting, I would think alternates wouldn't count. 123 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: But I think if Darius Leonard, for instance, Darius Leonard 124 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: should have made the Pro Bowl his first year, but 125 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: he made All Pro, which is even beyond being a 126 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Well, they would have to say All Pro 127 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: and or Pro Bowl. I think there's actually a way 128 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: that that the NFL could win in all this. First 129 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: of all, they could reassess how they are pulling in 130 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: players for the Pro Bowl. Take for instance, DJ Reader, right, 131 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,559 Speaker 1: they have defensive linemen. Well, the defensive lineman they picked, 132 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: we're all five, like all five techniques, all guys that 133 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: were rushing the quarterback or three four defensive right, they 134 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: don't really have any interior guys. So now I know, 135 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: for DJ not a first rounder, so you know, it 136 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. But I saw that nugget thought, wow, 137 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: the seventeen game. I know there have been some I've 138 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: heard some people talking about this. Well, you know, you 139 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: just get rid of one preseason game and you tack 140 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: on one regular season game, and it really isn't the same. 141 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: I mean, the most amount of plays that any one 142 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: of our starters played in a preseason game was I 143 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: mean maybe a quarter. Yeah, maybe. And now I think 144 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: if you if you put the seventeen game schedule, I 145 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: think you're almost forced to go to seven teams in 146 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: the playoffs, because you have to make that last week. 147 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: You have to make well the last two weeks. You're 148 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: last two weeks schedule because you'll have a double box, right, 149 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: you have to make those last couple of weeks more relevant. Absolutely, absolutely. 150 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I think about the first thing that popped 151 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: into my mind thinking about seventeen games is twenty seventeen. 152 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: Could you imagine if twenty seventeen went on for two 153 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: more weeks? That would be tough when you're out of 154 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: it and you're gas on fumes with those injuries. Here's 155 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: the other here's the side of it. Though, I've clinched 156 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: a playoff berth with four weeks to go, Yeah, maybe five, right, 157 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: because there's seven teams and so worst case, I'm that 158 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: seventh wildcard even if I flame out. So I've clinched, 159 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: I'm the Ravens of this year or whatever team it 160 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: would be. And how do I handle those final weeks? Yeah? 161 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: I want to buy there was one by. I want 162 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: that one buy. So that is something to play for. 163 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna kill myself playing for that by. 164 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,679 Speaker 1: Instead of being able to rest guys, and then I'm playing, 165 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm playing some quote, not meaningless games, but games that 166 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: don't mean as much as they did mid season. Here's 167 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: what I'm here's what I'm changing. If you okay, we're 168 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: going to seventeen games, right, all right, so we're gonna 169 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: go a here's what I'm changing. We're gonna go to 170 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: seven teams in the playoffs to make sure that those 171 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: two weeks matter at least a little bit. Obviously, with 172 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: the seventeen games schedule, like you said, automatically you get 173 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: another buy so there's a double buy in there. The 174 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: other thing I would do is, as we've talked about, 175 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: I would I would put in the plus two rule, 176 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: and that is, if you have a matchup with a 177 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: divisional if you're a wildcard team playing a division champion, right, 178 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: and you have plus two wins, you have two or 179 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: more wins the division winner, you get to host that game. 180 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I think you could put all 181 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: that together because that gives a wildcard team incentive to 182 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: keep to keep fighting, to keep very good, Johnny, I 183 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: like the incentive part of it is the United States 184 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: of America, we need to incentive eyes as much as possible. Okay, 185 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: So back to the original question, now, that we've got 186 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: way off. Which is gonna happen first seventeen game schedule 187 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: or the demise of the XFL happened, maybe they last forever, 188 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: who knows, But this is what you have to take. 189 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: I think now, you know, I watched yesterday. I don't 190 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: get a chance to watch the first week, and I 191 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: watched yesterday. I watched the La Dallas game, and then 192 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: I watched the Houston Saint Louis game, and you know it, 193 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: it's good football. I think it's better football than the AF. 194 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: So I think XFL be around for a little bit. 195 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: The question becomes, and this is not something that we're 196 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: gonna know, and if the XFL is smart, we're probably 197 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: not gonna know until it becomes highly profitable. What's what 198 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: are the financials on it? Right? How much money are 199 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: you getting a lot of money? Right? It's how much 200 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: money is it? It looks better than last year's league 201 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: because they have more money behind it, they have more love. 202 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: They're loving the league. They're giving it love, they're they're 203 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: they're petting it. It's like you're my little pet, and 204 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: they're putting some cash behind it. The bells and the 205 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: whistles and everything The question is do they turn enough 206 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: of a profit fast enough. They said they've said about 207 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: the amount of they've talked about the amount of money 208 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: they're willing to lose for X number of years. But 209 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: that that sounds all well and good. That gets old 210 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: if you're not pulling it in it really does. That's 211 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: all well and good until you realize, whoa, that's a 212 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: pretty big number. I'll tell you one thing that can 213 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: really help it. It's and it's something we've always talked 214 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: about why spring football should exist, and that is, Hey, 215 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: if it looks good on television and it's doing better 216 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: than basketball in the winter, yeah, oh my gosh, they're 217 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: gonna have a home. They're the networks are gonna want it. Yeah, 218 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,439 Speaker 1: there's no question, you know, because it's tough to find 219 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: eyeballs right now, and they're getting them. I mean, they're 220 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: not getting them in huge numbers, but if they get 221 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: more than other stuff they're paying for, they might say, hey, 222 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: let's just keep going for this. It's gonna be a 223 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: minor league if you will. But if it's entertaining and 224 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: it draws some attention, then they'll say why not. So 225 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: one of the things, by the way, did you watch 226 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: the Houston game yesterday, the roughness, Yeah, I watched George 227 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: greg Olsen, Yeah, the analyst. Yeah, he's excellent. No, he 228 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: is excellent. I think he should be on the booth 229 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. He's really really, I mean pretty 230 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: soon here he should be the guy. Now he still 231 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: wants to play. I guess he's not with the Panthers anymore, 232 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: but I think there's a there's certainly a spot somewhere 233 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: for him on Fox at the very least, but he 234 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: might be one of the top guys before it's all 235 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: said and done. I've told a couple of players, not 236 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: in this building, but but elsewhere in this game, you 237 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: just keep playing it until you just either don't want 238 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: to do it ever again, or you just physically can't 239 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: because what's has gone, it's gone. In the very first 240 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: year that it's gone, you're like, WHOA, what is going on? 241 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: What is so if he can play? But man, I'm 242 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: telling you, he would hear the coach's call and he 243 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: would break down what was happening with the call, and 244 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: I mean he was he was excellent. He was excellent. 245 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: He watched he watched the slot receiver run route that 246 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: he typically ran but from a tight end position, and 247 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: he's talking about how, hey, this is a route I 248 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: made my living on right here, and he would show it. 249 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: He was he was excellent. If they go to a seven, 250 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: If the NFL goes to a seventeen game schedule, the CBA, 251 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: from what I've heard, it won't start until twenty twenty 252 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: two or twenty twenty three at the earliest, So that 253 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: would mean XFL would have to be twenty. I think 254 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: the XFL is going to last. But they're they're The 255 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: financials to me are the one thing that not knowing. 256 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: It's kind of like at the combine with the medicals, 257 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: like you can look at everything else, but you have 258 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: no idea what the medicals. You don't know what they say. 259 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: You don't know what the medicals are, and that's a 260 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: huge party. Here's the other thing. You can virtually guarantee 261 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: franchise changing where you'll have a couple of markets. It's 262 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 1: not working here, we gotta go here, right, and it 263 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: looks like it might work here. I don't know. Again, 264 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: we don't know the money situation. So that's a big 265 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: part of it, all right. We spent a lot of 266 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: time on that one so fine, you have your answer, 267 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,839 Speaker 1: all right. Next, more likely to happen, more likely to happen. 268 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: The Texans are picked to win the AFC South or 269 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: somebody else. Now, I'm not gonna say the field because 270 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: some people are gonna A lot of people will pick 271 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: the Titans. Yes, going into the season, Again, we don't 272 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: know what the free agent acquisitions look like, the draft, 273 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: et cetera. But I mean, heck, Tannehill hasn't even signed yet. 274 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 1: He's an unrestricted free agent. Derrick Henry, what's the situation 275 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: with him? But more likely to happen Texans picked to 276 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: finish first or not. I think that most analysts will 277 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: not pick the Texans. Okay, I think they will not. 278 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: And that was even going into last year. People were 279 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: reluctant to put the Texans. To pick the Texans, even 280 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: though the quarterbacks in the league were Marcus Mariota, Ryan 281 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: tani Hill in Tennessee Andrew Lucking retired from Jacobe Brisset. 282 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 1: But hang on a second and fired late. A lot 283 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: of the picks were in. Yeah, there was a lot 284 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: of clicks. Yeah, would if Jacoby Perc said if we 285 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: knew he was gonna be the quarterback at this time 286 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: last year, the offseason with the Cults have been the pick. 287 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: There would have been a few more for for the Texans. 288 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: But I still think at that point there were gonna 289 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: be people that just absolutely, look, we went. We went 290 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: to London and beat the Jags twenty six to three, right, 291 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: thump them up one side, down the other. An article 292 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: appeared the following week that was halfway through the year, 293 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: second half predictions. There was a writer who picked Jacksonville 294 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: to win the division because they were gonna get They 295 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: just weren't gonna pick us to win a division because 296 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: they thought was going to come in. And I guess 297 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: that's that's I suppose. As long as Henry goes back 298 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: and Tannio goes back, I think a lot of people 299 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: will say, oh, the Titans are the class of this division, 300 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: even though they lost those two games down the stretch 301 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: at home. I know you don't know how to think 302 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: that way, but the other people don't look at it 303 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: that way. What they they look at is, oh, the 304 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: Titans win the playoffs and beat the Patriots on the 305 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: road and the Ravens on the road. I listened, I'll 306 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: give them the Ravens win. That that was that was 307 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: a good win. Still gave up over five hundred yards 308 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: and the Ravens just shot their foot off in the 309 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: in the Dagham red zone and the Patriots. Look, we 310 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: know the Patriots were not there. They were beating up. 311 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: They lost for the Dolphins last game of the regular season. 312 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: That was not a great That was not a great team, 313 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: especially by the end of the year. And they feasted 314 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: on the AFC East and the NFC East through the 315 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: first ten games of the year. But they lost to 316 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, to US, to the Ravens, all three first 317 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: place winners, and then they lost to the wild card 318 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: to the Titans. So Patriots weren't all that good to 319 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: begin with. But people are gonna look past that and say, 320 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: oh AFC Championship, and they've got Derreck Henry coming back, 321 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: and they've got Ryan Tannehill. I just wonder if they 322 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: bring both of them back then I think that's gonna 323 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: be really tough because then you're not gonna have any 324 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: other way to address some of the needs. And I 325 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: still think that's set and there is not very good. 326 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: Now we'll have to see what the Colts do. The Colts, 327 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: Paul and Tom Brady every analyst is going to pick 328 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: the Colts, and probably for a good reason if he's 329 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: with the Colts. I know a lot of people have 330 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: made noise about that. I just don't see that happened. 331 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: And the Jags, no, but they are a subject of 332 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: another more likely to happen question, and we're gonna get 333 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: to that after the break right here on Texans All Access, 334 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: I mean President's Day. Everybody, Welcome back to a Monday 335 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Accidents from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. 336 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: I am John, he is Mark, and we are deep 337 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: into more likely to happen? And Mark, boy, we talk 338 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: a lot. By the way, we got through two more 339 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: likely to happens in the first segment. That's all we 340 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: got through. That's all two. Yeah, But you know what, 341 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: it's a President's Day relaxing show edition of the program. 342 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: Just start firing away, all right, here we go, all right, 343 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: next one more likely to happen. But here's the group 344 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew and Nick Foles or someone else at the 345 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: Helm in Jacksonville. So it's some other quarterback or Gardner 346 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: Minshew and or Nick Foles as so you have one 347 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: of those two guys or somebody else completely. These are 348 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 1: the two groups that you have to choose from. Okay, 349 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: a couple of things to consider here. Number one, Last 350 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: year to sign Nick Foles, the Jags had a jettison 351 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: about three or four players, including the Sean Gibson, So 352 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: thank you very much for that. So cap wise, I 353 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: don't think the Jaguars in very they're in great cap situation. 354 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: So that's one thing. Second thing, if that is going 355 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: to be the case, then free agents. You know what 356 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: free agent do you? I mean you kind of go 357 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: down that road again. No, so then you draft? All right, 358 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: you're shitting at number nine. Yeah, they're all gone by 359 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: then that all but Tua Herbert Burrow gone more than likely. 360 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: Is Jordan Love still there at number nine? Now? I 361 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: will say there there have been plenty of people with 362 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: mixed opinions about Jordan Love. I studied him this weekend. Again, 363 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: I studied him last summer. It was so funny because 364 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: I watched him and I'm like, I watched him play 365 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: against Michigan State. I watched it closely. I'm like, I 366 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: love this guy. I mean, he was phenomenal against Michigan 367 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: State as a sophomore to open the twenty eighteen season. 368 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: So we are on our way to what was our 369 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: second preseason game eighteen or this year? This year it 370 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: was Green Bay then home against Detroit. Now who what 371 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: was doing next away game? It was Dallas, Dallas. So 372 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 1: we're on the plane to Dallas, and you know how 373 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: we always sit. I always sit you. You and Dre 374 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: always sit behind me. I always sit directly in front 375 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: of Dre. So I'm sitting there because I'm mind of 376 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: my own business, and all of a sudden, I just 377 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: feel this, and I feel this a lot of times. 378 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: It feels like hit on my shoulder. And I turned 379 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: around and he turned his iPad and shows me his 380 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: Jordan Love Phil he's watching because he's got the very 381 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: first game. He's calling the Wake Forest Utah State game, 382 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: and he's like, this guy, this guy's unbelievable. And I 383 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 1: was like, he was, you've seen Jordan Love. I'm like, heck, yeah, 384 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: I've seen Jordan Love. I've seen that game. You're watching 385 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: right there, Jordan Love. And so then I watched that 386 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: weight game, and then I watched the game against LSU, 387 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: and it's the same way I felt about Drew Lock. 388 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: I watched Drew Lock play Alabama last year, and he 389 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: was like eleven for thirty and had one touchdown and 390 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: you know, I think one interception maybe, but and he 391 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: but he was getting lit up all night he's facing Alabama, 392 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 1: I mean, but the touchdown throw he makes his unbelievable. 393 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 1: I walked out of after watching that Drew Lock game 394 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: against Alabama and went, I'm more impressed with him in 395 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: this game than I am with any other, and then 396 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: saw him. Yeah, even though the numbers didn't look at great, 397 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: well against LSU is the same kind of thing. He's 398 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: his numbers were not great, but they're like three drops. 399 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: He nobody picked up blitzers. He's running for his life 400 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: at times, um, but he just looked. I thought he 401 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: looked really, really good neck. Even the numbers are not great, 402 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: he knows the right ball to throw. His receivers were 403 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: all young. Jordan Love goes to Jacksonville number nine. I'm 404 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: not going to be happy, but that really is your option, 405 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: to be honest, So I think they bring back Gardner 406 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: Minshew nick Foles. I don't know if you're paying falls 407 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: so much, but it made me be a backup. Yeah, 408 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: I know you got who do you think made that 409 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: deal I mean Caldwell was there him guess wrong apparently right, 410 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: and the Costumers, well, he doubled down because he went 411 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: and got Foles and then he got de Filippo to 412 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: be the offensive coordinator, right, so that Foles could have 413 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: his offense, And so they doubled down on that. So 414 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 1: they got rid of d Filippo, but they still have Foals. 415 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: And I know the cap situation isn't great, but you 416 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: might have to go to Falls and say, look, we've 417 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 1: got to we got to rework this contract, and if 418 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: he doesn't take it, you might have to bite the 419 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: bullet and say done. But I just don't think you 420 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: can go into a year with Nick Foles being your backup, 421 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: paying him whatever it is, well money aside, Well, he 422 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: really can. I think Falls would be a if if 423 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: Falls would be a team guy, I think Falls would 424 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: be an absolute backup before Yes, I think he would 425 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: be an absolute perfect team guy. But you don't pay 426 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: team guys twenty million dollars. Yeah, it's a bad look. 427 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: It's bad at the locker room. It just if you're 428 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: gonna commit to Minshew and I say commit in air 429 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: quotes because you'll probably draft a guy at some point. 430 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: If you're not drafting a quarterback number nine, you're drafting 431 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: a quarterback relatively early anyway, because you have to head 432 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 1: your bet with Minshew, who you might think it's gonna 433 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: be pretty good, and he looked pretty good, but who knows. 434 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: But here's where it makes Here's where it's really interesting, 435 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: because I think the number nine pick could tell you 436 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: a lot about the power dynamic in Jacksonville. And that 437 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: is if if Caldwell pulls the trigger again on a 438 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: quarterback as he did with Bortles at number three, you'll 439 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: know full well who was making every decision on the draft. 440 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: You'll know who was drafting Gardener mention. And the thing 441 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: about it is Gardner Minshew is so totally not a 442 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,959 Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin quarterback. Think about all the quarterbacks Coughlin has 443 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: had over his career now minus Mark Brunell. I'll get 444 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 1: that in a second. But he's had Eli Manning, Hey, 445 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: Eli Manning for a long time in New York. Before that, 446 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: you know, he had Steve Burlin. He wanted Burlin to 447 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: be a big, tall pocket passer. You know, in Jacksonville, 448 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: Mark Brunell, he sort of stumbled on. Brunelle was just 449 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: a was just a guy that they brought over to 450 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: Jacksonville to have his depth with Steve Burlin. But then 451 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: Brunell just kept making plays. Brunell's six one, he was 452 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: not a tall, big guy, and he can make plays. 453 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 1: How About off schedule Minshew is kind of like that, 454 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: But I don't think called I don't think that Coughlin 455 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: would have drafted him. How About they had Rob Johnson 456 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 1: as a backup there as well, I know, and he 457 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: was Rob Johnson is the exact thing I'm talking about. 458 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: Coughlin loved Rob Johnson, size six three, two fifteen through 459 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: the ball, looked like a Greek guy like that was 460 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: the kind of guy that Coughlin would want would draft. 461 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: So it just didn't make much sense that Kauflin would 462 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: draft Gardner Minshew. That didn't make much sense. So maybe 463 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: Caldwell did have a hand in a sixth round pick. 464 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: Maybe that was Caldwell saying, hey, let's draft this guy, 465 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: and Kauughlin in the sixth round saying all right, okay, 466 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: let's do it. So I think we'll find out a 467 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 1: little bit more. But if it was not Caldwell's guy, 468 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: Caldwell may take a quarterback at number nine and go 469 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: forget these two guys. I'm going with this guy. I'm 470 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: going and getting a quarterback for our future. I next 471 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: one more likely to happen. Considered the best all Star game, 472 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: has the NBA now taken over the top spot because baseball. Look, 473 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: Baseball is the best all Star game as far as 474 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: you can play the game really more like the way 475 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be played than any other sport. Because 476 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,719 Speaker 1: if I'm a shortstop, this is what I do. If 477 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 1: I'm a second baseman, this is what I do. Basketball 478 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: is a little bit better than not quite as good 479 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: as that, but way better than football, where like, how 480 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: can you really put together a team in a week 481 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: and you're not really playing it? I think watching the 482 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl this year, I saw maybe five plays where 483 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: guys got tackled to the ground. Oh yeah, well, I 484 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: thought the way they did it this year is the 485 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: way you should do a Pro Bowl. Just wrap up, 486 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: do it like THU. Yeah, Like like when we see 487 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: the joint practice, he would have been tackled here. Because 488 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: nobody wants to see anybody get hurt. You don't want 489 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: to see real football to Pro Bowl. I just want 490 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: to see some fireworks except your boy, Sean Taylor, oh boy, 491 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: or I'll tell you what in OH nine. I'll always 492 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: go back to this when Demico was there at OH 493 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: nine and they did it in Miami and he was 494 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: playing pretty hard. I thought, did Demico not get the 495 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: memo that the Pro Bowl? Some guys just don't get 496 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: the memo. Yeah, anyway, what do you think did the 497 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: NBA with their formatic changes last night take over the 498 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: top spot among all star games? I think the format 499 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: change was very interesting because that fourth quarter watching the players, 500 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: I mean getting the rest face talking about fouls. Yeah, 501 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,360 Speaker 1: it was really interesting. Yeah, it was really like it 502 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: was intriguing, is all get out. Yeah, there was there 503 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: was stuff on the line. There was something on the line. 504 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,360 Speaker 1: I didn't like the game ending on a free throw though. 505 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: That's no good. And what are you gonna do? You know, 506 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: because you're gonna foul, right, maybe you know what they 507 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: should do or here's what you should do if there's 508 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: a foul getting the ball back out of bounds. They're 509 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: gonna play too hard. You can foul out. Though you 510 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: can foul out. That might be the way to do it. 511 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: You can, all right, So go ahead and foul, it's 512 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: gonna be like pickup ball. Yeah, they get the ball back, right, Okay, 513 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: so yeah, play hard. I don't know, there's gonna be 514 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: too much Toughna, it's tough. But that was the only 515 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: thing for having a really cool format. I mean, I 516 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: guess there's pressure on the free throw. You got a 517 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: nail this to win it. I mean, I'll tell you 518 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: what else with the David sturn tribute, the Kobe tribute 519 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: man and the Chicago stuff and the singing and that, 520 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it was really good stuff actually, 521 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: but it was I was like, is this the All 522 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: Star Game? It feels like an awards all or something. 523 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: It's a tribute show. It will basketball be played tonight? 524 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 1: I mean, I was wondering watching all that stuff leading 525 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: up to the game. The only thing about it. And 526 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: it's interesting because as I was watching an XFL game 527 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: and I'm watching the end of the game, and I'm 528 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: trying to figure out, Okay, when would I call my timeouts? 529 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: When would I like the game has changed, Like I know, 530 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: I'm watching football and I'm watching professional football because I 531 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: recognize a lot of the names, but the way it's 532 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: played is different. So man, I gotta I gotta think through. 533 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: They only got two timeouts, and then the clock stops 534 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: for five seconds. You know. It's kind of as they 535 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: called the comeback rules of two minutes. It's sort of 536 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: the same thing with basketball. It was like the end 537 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: of the game, there's no clock. Yeah, well the shot clock, 538 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: yeah there's shot clock, but there's no there's no game clock. 539 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: So it's like, whoa, this is kind of this is 540 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: kind of odd. It's kind of strange because when you 541 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: get to the end of the game and to a 542 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: certain number, yeah, so if you miss finish a team 543 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: that's not very good at offense, but it's x a 544 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: lot on defense because they know that. They know that 545 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: in the current clock format of the game, because they've 546 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: talked about this. In regular season, it's a possibility, if 547 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: maybe a far flung possibility, but a possibility nonetheless in 548 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: a regular format, if you're a great defensive team and 549 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: you're down, you might make a ton of stops and 550 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: just get enough to get over the hump. You're down ten, 551 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: you make enough stops, you get eleven or you know whatever. 552 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: You you go on a ten to run or a 553 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: twelve to run, you win the game. Let's just say 554 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: that now you've got to score like twenty four more points, right, 555 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: and you might be gott and score. Yeah. I mean, 556 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: it kind of punishes teams like that, but what the heck, 557 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: it makes the game much more exciting. I think, yeah, 558 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: I thought game. I think it makes it. I think 559 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: it makes for All Star Game. It might be definitely 560 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 1: right fit for an All Star Game. She'll still try 561 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: to figure out whether it's the right fit for consistent 562 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: regular season games. I mean, because you could see a 563 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: situation where I don't know, team's got a twenty point 564 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: league going into that that particular time frame, so you 565 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 1: missed it. The rule that they evoked last that they 566 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: call it the elim ending. Now I don't know where 567 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: the name comes from. But at the end of they 568 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: took the score at the end of the third quarter, 569 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: and they tacked on twenty four points, so it was 570 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: one hundred. Oh wait, it was one thirty three and 571 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: I can't remember what the I don't know what the 572 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: East had, but it was one thirty three to something. 573 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: So you take twenty four points added too, that becomes 574 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: your target score. So the target score became one fifty 575 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: seven and at one point one fifty fifty five. Lebron 576 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: had free throw maybe one fifty seven, so it was 577 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: just they I don't know if a clock, I don't 578 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: know if the clock would have made it as exhilarating, 579 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: but just watching the players and how they're reacting the 580 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: files and all that. Yeah, I think the ending, the 581 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: elim ending had something to do with that. So yes, 582 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: absolutely I would like to see it. I thought it 583 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,479 Speaker 1: was really intriguing for an all star format to go there. 584 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: And I know when they decided, hey, each quarter is 585 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: going to be played like a mini game and then 586 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: the results go to charity and all that, I was like, hey, 587 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: I like the thought. The thought is fine, but okay, 588 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: then the fourth quarter where you Okay, when the fourth 589 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: quarter we're gonna go to elim ending, I'm like, oh 590 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: wait a second, right, how is that? And this thing 591 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: by quarter that's gonna be weird? I love all the 592 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: all the young lings out there saying hey, this is 593 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: so groundbreaking, is so innovative. I'm like, listen. I went 594 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: to CBA games in the nineties. It used to use 595 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: the quarter thing. I went to the Grand Rappids hoops 596 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,959 Speaker 1: and saw them play. They were doing quarters in fact, 597 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: I think in the standings. You know, when you went 598 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: to the newspaper, kids, that was a information on a 599 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: paper that you get every day anyway. In the in 600 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: the aggregate stuff, you would see that the standings had 601 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: how many quarters you want or something like that. In 602 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: the CBA standings, it wasn't just the records. I can't 603 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: remember how they did it, but they did it that way. 604 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: The quarters were meaningful in the CBA standings. The Continental 605 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: Basketball Association which used to be the G League, D League, 606 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: I mean, that was it. It wasn't owned by the NBA, 607 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: but they had a working relationship with the NBA. So 608 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: this weekend, on top of All Star Game in XFL, 609 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: I finished the documentary or or Nothing Okay, which is 610 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: on Amazon, and it was what team? Who was the 611 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles? Right? And there will be some teams that 612 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: have injuries going forward, And if I'm a coach, I 613 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: pull up that series and I just look at all 614 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: the different things that happened to that Eagles team, and 615 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: yet that team still won the AFC East or the 616 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: NC East. It was a phenomenal, first of all, was 617 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: a phenomenal You gotta watch they did fight through a 618 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: lot of injuries. They were decimated, But that really wasn't 619 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: what stood up to me. What stood up to me 620 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: there was an episode in which and you could tell 621 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: that there were certain games where they had players miked up, 622 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: and there was one game before the end of the 623 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: year that they had Josh McCown miked up. Josh McCown 624 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: the backup quarterback, four years old. He was number three. 625 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: They brought him in his insurance, and then something happened 626 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: in Nate Sudfeld. Then McCown moved up to number two, 627 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: and he spent the year essentially as kind of coach 628 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: counselor part time wide receiver. There's actually a game where 629 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: he's warming up at wide receiver because they had so 630 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: many receiver injuries and that's not who you want in there. 631 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: And they're actually defensive players on the sideline laughing because 632 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: McCown went and got his helmet one game just to 633 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: be ready in case he had to go in the 634 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: game at wide receiver. I don't think it was heb 635 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: who could do it. I mean, you'd think, but Mark 636 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: I walked out of there saying, Josh McCown, I'll take 637 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: him on my team any day of the really any 638 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: day of the week, and we all know what happened 639 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: in the playoff game. The playoff game, he pulls his hamstring. 640 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: At some point, he's like he can barely, he can 641 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: barely move, and you see the sideline and you hear 642 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: the sideline because guys are miked up, and the MIC's 643 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: everywhere in the sideline as he is leading him on 644 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: those final drives, and it's just I can't even describe 645 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: it. It It was just incredible. So the game is over, 646 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: he is shaking hands with everybody, he's coming off the field, 647 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: and there is a moment where he's going and at Philadelphia, 648 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: kind of like ours, you go up the ramp and 649 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: then you turn go into the locker room. So this 650 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: one's a little longer ramp, and then there's kind of 651 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: this little turn and then you turn left, and as 652 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: you turn left, you're going towards the locker room, and 653 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: the media and everybody was just waiting there because he 654 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: had taken such a long time, and he literally he 655 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: can barely walk, and he's going around the corner and 656 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he just realizes. He just breaks down. 657 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: He literally is standing there in the hallway and just 658 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: like just loses it because he knows it's his last game. Yeah, 659 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: he's hurting. Yeah, he finally got to play in a 660 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: playoff game. It actually played pretty well. It's over and 661 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: it's over, and he realizes it's over, and they ask 662 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: him the press conference and he's like, yeah, I got 663 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: to talk to my family about it and all this. 664 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: But he was flying back and forth to coach his 665 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: son's high school football team in Charlotte. They showed him 666 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 1: on a Friday, practice would be over, he would fly, 667 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: he would drive to the airport, take a private plane, 668 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: get to Charlotte about three thirty, be there, go over 669 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: the game plan with the coach. Be on the sideline 670 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: that night. They've got a top notch Division one quarterback 671 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: that's going to Alabama at the school Myers Park, which 672 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: is where my brother in law lives. They play the game. 673 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: They show him on the field talking to all his kids, like, Hey, 674 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: you're in charge. Don't let him do this. You guys, 675 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: keep under control. He and his wife get back on 676 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: the private plane, fly back that night to Philadelphia to 677 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: get there about twelve thirty one o'clock in the morning, 678 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: and then he's there for a Saturday morning walk through 679 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: to be ready for the game Sunday. Oh my god, 680 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. It's it's unbelievable. That account. That's an account. 681 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: And I'm and they you know, they allowed him do that. 682 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: But Mark, I'm telling you him miked up. Seeing him 683 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: on the sidelines. You gotta watch it. You gotta watch it, 684 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: because there's one thing that stood out to me more 685 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: than anything else than it was that he was unbelievable. 686 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: How about this unbelievable? Oh, I mean, the most interesting 687 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: note to me is that he was in the class 688 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: of VO two with David Carr, Joey Harrington and not 689 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: drafted in the first round Patrick Ramsey. Those are the 690 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: three first round raft choices at quarterback and McCown was 691 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: way down the line obviously and lasts this long in 692 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 1: the National Football League. He's fantastic. You started a documentary too, 693 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: started started cheer. It's okay. You can say it out loud, 694 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,879 Speaker 1: all right, I loved you can stay it out loud. 695 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: I didn't know it was done by the guys who 696 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: do Last Chance. Ye. Well that's what got me. That's 697 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: how I got it. And you could see how they 698 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,320 Speaker 1: arrived at this because they're at the junior college level, 699 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 1: and then they're like, wait a minute, it was a 700 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 1: weird thing. Is interesting. They find out about Navarro Junior 701 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: College or community college, whatever it's called, and they've won 702 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: national championships against the big schools in cheerleading, which everyone knows. 703 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: It's not just raw raw. It's the one you know, 704 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 1: the ECN ESPN in Daytona, within the national championships, and 705 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,399 Speaker 1: that's serious stuff. I mean, that's real. That's athletic competition. Yeah, 706 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:03,360 Speaker 1: it's like gymnastics me EETs whatever, gymnastics meets dance meets 707 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: throwing people high in the air and hoping they land 708 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,359 Speaker 1: correctly and all this other stuff. And it's you know 709 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: what the funny thing is. It's not the cheerleading it 710 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: gets you. It's the human stories, right, and the coach 711 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 1: which blows me. She what's her name, Monica, Monica Aldama. 712 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: She blows me away. She will win you over, and 713 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: she should. I'll tell you what after this, and probably before, 714 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,720 Speaker 1: but definitely after this. She could command whatever she wants, 715 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: talking to groups, corporate culture, building that program out of 716 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: nothing nothing, you know, she has her NBA and she 717 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: decided to stay in the small town, husband, family, whatever. 718 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,799 Speaker 1: I just never got a chance to move and you know, 719 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: really work it in the big city the way she 720 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: thought she was going to and becomes this cheerleading coach 721 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: and builds a power like she's like the John Wooden 722 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: of cheerleading out anohing and it's again, it's not like 723 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 1: what we have here. And I know that Casey DP 724 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: had the podcast with her and Casey was very clear, 725 00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: that's not what we do here. You know, this is 726 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: a different kind of thing. It is a different kind 727 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: of thing. But we are going to hear from Casey Potter, 728 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,720 Speaker 1: who leads the Texans cheerleaders next right here on Texas 729 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,879 Speaker 1: As we Want Fast segment in this Monday ed issue 730 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. 731 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,799 Speaker 1: I'm your host John Harris and Mark and I were 732 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 1: talking about this new documentary called Cheer on Netflix. It's 733 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. It's about the NVAR Junior College cheerleading squad, 734 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,719 Speaker 1: and cheerleading kind of got us in that mode that 735 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 1: we need to hear from our director to CHEERLEADU program, 736 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: Casey Potter, who sat down with DPC to talk about 737 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,800 Speaker 1: Cheer and the Texans cheerleading program. I am so excited 738 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: to have you. I just powered through six hours of 739 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: cheer on Netflix. So I told myself it was research 740 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,479 Speaker 1: for this interview. It was not researched for this area. 741 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: But I did learn a lot of things which we 742 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: will get to, Okay and a bit, But I want 743 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: to ask you, first of all, what's this transition been like? 744 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: Because it's been a full year now in this role 745 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 1: for you used to be a cheerleader. I think you 746 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 1: were a cheerleader when I started working here, I believe, 747 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: so we overlapped a little bit. Okay, So to go 748 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: from cheerleader to the person who manages the cheerleaders, what 749 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,960 Speaker 1: was that whole transition like for you? Eye opening? I 750 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,040 Speaker 1: had a passion, yes, because I loved cheering and I 751 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: love sports, and so growing up dancing and growing up 752 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: loving sports, what better way to marry those two things 753 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 1: than to be a cheerleader. So it was like my 754 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 1: dream job right there. And then when I came and 755 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 1: cheered for the Texans, I went, wait, I think I 756 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,720 Speaker 1: have another dream job. I want to coach one day. 757 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: And so it's just so that occurred to you while 758 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 1: you were cheering. It was just an idea in the 759 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 1: back of my mind, and I didn't really want to 760 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 1: say anything, you know, I just said, Okay, set your 761 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: goals there, and we'll start making steps towards that over 762 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,920 Speaker 1: the years. And so my coach for the Rockets actually 763 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: was the person who kind of said to me one day, 764 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 1: if you don't say things, just put it out in 765 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: the universe, it might not ever come to fruition. And 766 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: so I remember admitting to some of the my former teammates, like, 767 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,279 Speaker 1: I want to be the coach one day, and so 768 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: that getting in their minds too, and just seeing them 769 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 1: believe in me, and so I was amazing. And so 770 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,880 Speaker 1: getting to come here, be back and getting to make 771 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,800 Speaker 1: the current cheerleaders have the best season, the best year possible, 772 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 1: that's been a dream come true. All right, So what 773 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 1: years were you actually a cheerleader? Give me a timeline 774 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,840 Speaker 1: of when you were here with the Texans, when you 775 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 1: were with the Rockets, yes, and then obviously you started 776 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,120 Speaker 1: in your role last year. Yeah, so Texans. I cheered 777 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,279 Speaker 1: twenty twelve and thirteen those two seasons, and then got 778 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 1: voted to Pro Bowl for that January in twenty fourteen, 779 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: and then right then in fourteen, I went to the Rockets, 780 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,799 Speaker 1: and so I was a Rockets power dancer for three 781 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: years fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, ending in seventeen. Okay, so 782 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 1: you've been cheering and then you went straight into this role. 783 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: There was not a lot of time off. No, I 784 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: took about one year off. I was working on my 785 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,759 Speaker 1: masters and working going to school. So, well, do you 786 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,560 Speaker 1: have does having gone through cheering, how much does it 787 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 1: help you become the program manager? What was it about 788 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,359 Speaker 1: cheering that made you say, you know what, I think 789 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,319 Speaker 1: I can lead one of these programs. I believe in 790 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,840 Speaker 1: my leadership. So I knew I had those skills. I 791 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: have the passion for dance, and then I have the 792 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,360 Speaker 1: passion for giving back to the community. So everything that 793 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,880 Speaker 1: the Texans Organization believes in and does here in Houston, 794 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,799 Speaker 1: I wanted to be a part of that, and so 795 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: I knew it was just the right fit for me. 796 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 1: I knew it. Just had to make the organization know 797 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: that I had let them know that I was the 798 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: right person. You did obviously a great selling job, because 799 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: here you are. How about your experience with your cheerleaders. 800 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: How much of your experience as a Rocket's power dancer. 801 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,560 Speaker 1: As a Houston Texans cheerleader, do you share with the 802 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 1: cheerleaders good and or bad? Everything was a learning process 803 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 1: for me, and so anything I could take my experiences 804 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,359 Speaker 1: from appearances and learning how to speak with people and 805 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: let them have fun and learn about the organization. I 806 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: got to know all of that from cheering myself, and 807 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: so being on this side, it helps me enable the 808 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,839 Speaker 1: current cheerleaders with what to expect when they go out 809 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,960 Speaker 1: into appearances and how to really connect with people one 810 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: on one, so that anytime anyone in Houston meets a 811 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,040 Speaker 1: Houston Texans cheerleader, they get the type of one on 812 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,560 Speaker 1: one contact that you know, it's just what they crave 813 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,320 Speaker 1: and what the relationship that they want with our organization is. 814 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 1: That the toughest part of being a cheerleader is just 815 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: knowing how to go out and to conduct yourself. Because 816 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 1: it's a lot of plates these that these cheerleaders are 817 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: juggling at the same time, isn't it. Between the community events, 818 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,359 Speaker 1: the game. It's like you've got the games, then you've 819 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 1: got all the work, the prep work, the community appearances, 820 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,319 Speaker 1: and a lot of them are working jobs or in 821 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,919 Speaker 1: school at the same time. That is that the toughest part, 822 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,239 Speaker 1: And do you think that that is the toughest part 823 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,920 Speaker 1: is going out in the community and conducting yourself that 824 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: you have all this energy and you have all this 825 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,520 Speaker 1: enthusiasm when you might be really exhausted. So completely I 826 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 1: agree with that one hundred percent, because they've got to 827 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:44,959 Speaker 1: manage their schedules and their other jobs and responsibilities with 828 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 1: finding extra time to do our community outreach and being 829 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,960 Speaker 1: on and being in that moment. It makes making sure 830 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 1: that they're living in that moment and really creating a 831 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 1: unique experience for people that they come in contact with. 832 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 1: What was your favorite part of being cheerleader? Your favorite 833 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 1: definitely the community outreach? Was it? What did you like 834 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,759 Speaker 1: about it so much that it wasn't just standing there 835 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 1: shaking my pomp pomps and smiling at people. It was 836 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:14,320 Speaker 1: going and interacting. It was really working with them. I 837 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 1: even just this season, you know, we were doing Huddle 838 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: for one hundred, celebrating NFL one hund and watching the cheerleaders. 839 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,280 Speaker 1: They're painting with the kids and they're making new fence posts, 840 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: and so it's those things that are going to make 841 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,440 Speaker 1: that kid know like, oh, they grew up in Houston, 842 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 1: just like me. And they went to a regular elementary school, 843 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: just like me. And you know, if that's their dream 844 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 1: or whatever their dream is, they're watching someone live that 845 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 1: out and to see them interact with each other, like 846 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,480 Speaker 1: I just see them lighting little sparks of inspiration. I 847 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 1: love this series and we featured it a lot on 848 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,800 Speaker 1: our show Texans Buzz throughout the year. Beyond the Boots 849 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,799 Speaker 1: a brand new series that followed the cheerleaders sort of 850 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,319 Speaker 1: what their lives are like outside of cheer What did 851 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,840 Speaker 1: you want fans to see or learn about your cheerleaders 852 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,320 Speaker 1: throughout that series? I think the name says it all. 853 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,879 Speaker 1: You know, who are the people on the field who 854 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 1: are our cheerleaders. They wear their famous red boots, but 855 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,479 Speaker 1: what about them makes them special? And so we wanted 856 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,160 Speaker 1: to find a unique, unique way to show that to 857 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: our fans. And you get to see so many things. 858 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,080 Speaker 1: You see them in their careers, You see some of them, 859 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: what their legacy is, why Tori wanted to come try 860 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:25,399 Speaker 1: out after knowing her mom had been an oiler. Yeah, 861 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,479 Speaker 1: and then there's a community involvement episode where you see 862 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,040 Speaker 1: what they're doing in the community and you see you 863 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,360 Speaker 1: go behind the scenes on game day too, and so 864 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,440 Speaker 1: you get to see their dances that they're putting on 865 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,279 Speaker 1: the field, and they're just fire and passionate on this 866 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 1: field and on the sidelines. And so I think that 867 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: Beyond the Boots has been an amazing way to see 868 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: what's on the field, what's behind the scenes, what's in 869 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,960 Speaker 1: their hearts, and what makes them all unique. All right, 870 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,680 Speaker 1: Speaking of series, So Netflix came out with the series Cheer. 871 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:59,520 Speaker 1: It followed the Navarro Junior College cheer team in Corsicana, Texas. 872 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,040 Speaker 1: You and I talked about it briefly. Have you you've 873 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 1: seen a little bit of it? Have you seen I 874 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,920 Speaker 1: haven't finished it yet. I'm probably on the fourth episode 875 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,120 Speaker 1: right now. Okay. So I started it thinking, I'm you know, 876 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,040 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about cheer. I'll probably watch an 877 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,200 Speaker 1: hour of it. I just want to see what the 878 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,680 Speaker 1: what the bus is about? And I kid you not 879 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,600 Speaker 1: casey it in twenty four hours. I was done with 880 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 1: all two hours. And I thought I was an expert. 881 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 1: I was just like Morgan, if you don't point your tale, 882 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,600 Speaker 1: your jumps are gonna look quick trash, you know. I 883 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,160 Speaker 1: was just I was so into it, but that seems 884 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,239 Speaker 1: like a very different world from NFL cheerleading, And what 885 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:29,719 Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that? Is that what it was 886 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,640 Speaker 1: like for you when you were cheering at a younger level. 887 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,880 Speaker 1: So I didn't grew up cheering. I grew up dancing. 888 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,480 Speaker 1: So what we do here at the NFL, that's more 889 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:41,160 Speaker 1: my style. Okay, But I think that cheerleading and dancing 890 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,080 Speaker 1: just in general, our sister sports. Sure, they say some 891 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,160 Speaker 1: things that I own don't understand myself. They're like Matt talk, 892 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:53,120 Speaker 1: yet I know, and I in my world, I'm like, oh, 893 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,919 Speaker 1: just encourage your teammates, so similar bit different talk. Yeah. 894 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 1: So for me watching it, I'm learning things too. I'm like, oh, 895 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,000 Speaker 1: stunts what I don't know anything about the stunting world. 896 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,440 Speaker 1: But I think that overall, watching their team camaraderie, watching 897 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,960 Speaker 1: their encouragement, watching the highs and lows, you know, when 898 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,880 Speaker 1: you don't make something you know you're needing to improve. 899 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,040 Speaker 1: Those are all things that our cheerleaders go through and 900 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,839 Speaker 1: understanding that we call them Houston Texans cheerleaders, but they 901 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: are dancers. That's a skill they have to have. We 902 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 1: have people from both walks of life that come to 903 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,480 Speaker 1: be cheerleaders for us, some that had cheerleader cheerleading inspiration 904 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,719 Speaker 1: growing up and some that had dance technique growing up, 905 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,319 Speaker 1: and so we take all of that and we try 906 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,240 Speaker 1: to create a team of thirty four to thirty six 907 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,520 Speaker 1: that can mesh and blend and go take our field. 908 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,400 Speaker 1: And so we're similar to the Navarro type cheerleading you 909 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,359 Speaker 1: see and cheer, but we're a little different. Great stuff 910 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,799 Speaker 1: there from Casey Potter, we thank her, We thank deep 911 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,360 Speaker 1: thanks to Mark Vandemers stopping by. Happy Presidents to everybody 912 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 1: enjoy it and as always, go Texans.