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Speaker 1: and a big bunch of shows coming your way starting
Speaker 1: today for the next ten business days eight to ten am.
Speaker 1: Lots of interviews, exclusives. Nick Casserio Press conference today, Cassario
Speaker 1: exclusively here afterwards. Stay tuned. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: interesting day, Johnny, because, as I said, the twentieth year,
Speaker 1: we've seen them all and they're all different. A former
Speaker 1: coach of this franchise said, every year is different. That's true,
Speaker 1: and It's especially true right now because this is a
Speaker 1: unique day for a variety of reasons. We have so
Speaker 1: many new players, we have a quarterback who may or
Speaker 1: may not be here today, and that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: huge story nationally and locally, and so much going on.
Speaker 1: But I think that you and I always have an
Speaker 1: interesting perspective. I was just in the building. I just
Speaker 1: saw Nick Casserio, I just saw David Culley, just saw
Speaker 1: a bunch of coaches and players getting ready for their
Speaker 1: first training camp practice. And there is a buzz, there's
Speaker 1: an excitement to this. They know that it's about to
Speaker 1: start here. You're on the record, it's happening here where
Speaker 1: every snap matters as you ramp up to the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one season. Interesting, as I was walking from my
Speaker 1: car to the into the stadium and then got in
Speaker 1: the building and I just there's just this charge I get,
Speaker 1: and I got the same charge walking over. And as
Speaker 1: I was walking over, the guys were activating. So the
Speaker 1: guys were walking back from the Houston Methist trains and
Speaker 1: are bubble back over soaked like they had already had
Speaker 1: a workout, a workout, Yeah, and then they're gonna work
Speaker 1: out and I just walked over the bridge and seeing
Speaker 1: guys walk over, it's like, man, it's on. You said
Speaker 1: twentieth year and you're like, you're all different, and they are.
Speaker 1: They're all different, and we got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: What's not different. We could have taken a picture, a
Speaker 1: snapshot of this. I know what you're gonna say, and
Speaker 1: it's the same other than the two years we were
Speaker 1: at the Green bright although the first day at the
Speaker 1: Greenbrier it was it was like this too, not a
Speaker 1: cloud in the sky, the sun is out. And we
Speaker 1: always talked about the weather and yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: steaming hot. Those interesting talking to the guys yesterday for
Speaker 1: media days, talking to some Julie Johnson was one that
Speaker 1: stood out. Always played in the the Midwest with Iowa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: played for the Vikings, always in the Midwest. He's noticing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we asked him, you know what about you know,
Speaker 1: coming to Houston. He's like, oh, man, you know, first
Speaker 1: thing that's hot. I remember C J. Fit Orwitz ironically
Speaker 1: both going up having gone to Iowa said the same
Speaker 1: thing to go to go out to man. Something just
Speaker 1: bit me. Holy smokes, Wow that hurt. Oh maybe it's
Speaker 1: a wasp. I don't know, man, but if it's a wasp,
Speaker 1: I might die. I'm allergic to wasp and beasting. So hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully your legs start swelling up. We do have medical
Speaker 1: professionals here. Then that's the one thing about being here
Speaker 1: at training camp is if something does happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of doctors, but they don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with you. No, they don't want to deal with me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: they don't want to deal with anybody. I remember twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: the year A Hard Knocks. I mean, we were halfway
Speaker 1: through the first day and Jeff Kaplan's walking over to
Speaker 1: former head coach Bill O'Brien and saying, yeah, Arian's got
Speaker 1: a groin, And then we didn't see Arian for weeks
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, I mean, it was just it
Speaker 1: was crushing to that's the old he's gotten growing, he's
Speaker 1: got a foot, he's got a knee. I know he
Speaker 1: has a knee, and we're gonna see that today. One
Speaker 1: other thing I told myself all night, all night, all
Speaker 1: this morning. I went from my three mile walk this
Speaker 1: morning like five fifteen and walking around the neighborhood and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know how you get first day of
Speaker 1: training camp, you know how you get Just relax, just breathe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just don't talk over Mark, just have fun, don't talk
Speaker 1: a mile a million miles a minute, just relax because
Speaker 1: you seem to be bothered by this. Yeah, well they
Speaker 1: keep biting if it keeps continuous thing. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: get him. So either way, maybe somebody built a nest
Speaker 1: under each made him Darius Leonard and I will stop him, Yes,
Speaker 1: please do stop Darius Leonard. So did you see the
Speaker 1: car he rolled up in yesterday? No? It Coult's camp. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I don't want to watch their coverage.
Speaker 1: They do a pretty good job there, staff they do,
Speaker 1: they do that, They do pretty good job. They get
Speaker 1: they get some pretty some pretty sweet access. But he
Speaker 1: rolls up and I don't. I can't even put it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a like gold plated, like muscle car
Speaker 1: looking thing, convertible. It was pretty sweet, so pretty sweet
Speaker 1: of the cults. Dante Moncrief no longer with the team, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was we. You know, we had media days yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people know because we played
Speaker 1: some of the interviews yesterday and Dante was on our
Speaker 1: list and we didn't get him. We didn't get him,
Speaker 1: and you start thinking, Okay, at that point, you know,
Speaker 1: things move around on might you never know. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then as we're you know, about half hour after we're
Speaker 1: supposed to get him, you look on Twitter and you
Speaker 1: see the Texas have moved on from Dante Moncrief obviously,
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller comes in the building. Um, and there's we
Speaker 1: don't know the news that's gonna happen with Randall copy either.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of rumors and a lot of
Speaker 1: speculation about what could happen with potentially at Trade de
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I've seen him in the building all summer.
Speaker 1: I've seen him in I saw him building yesterday, So
Speaker 1: he's been around. Yeah, who knows what's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: that and whether he's gonna be out here. So by
Speaker 1: the time nine fifteen comes around, and maybe even before that,
Speaker 1: because Nick Cassario will meet with the media at eight
Speaker 1: forty five, and then he'll come over with us exclusively.
Speaker 1: As you said, you'll hear the press conference right here
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, we'll carry it live. So there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of stuff out there, and there might
Speaker 1: even be stuff before we get there. Things are gonna
Speaker 1: break on Twitter, yep, who knows, but we'll find out
Speaker 1: hopefully a little bit more. But whatever team walks out
Speaker 1: here wearing the logo, that's a team that we'll rock with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what time we're gonna go, and that's we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about in this twenty three. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: said that. Twentieth year, so it's your twentieth. This is
Speaker 1: my fourteenth. I think this is my fourteenth training camp
Speaker 1: in moving up there. Holy smokes. Here. I was thinking
Speaker 1: as I was on my walk this morning, like I'm
Speaker 1: feeling young, I'm feeling good, And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this is my fourteenth train camp. Holy fourteenth Texans camp. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: only fourteen years. Baby, you're at us together and we're
Speaker 1: still twelve short of the general. Hey see I remember
Speaker 1: the first fun I was yesterday. See, hey, we were
Speaker 1: right out here. They did two days back then, Johnny,
Speaker 1: they did two days, and yes, they did attempt an
Speaker 1: afternoon practice or two and that just stopped immediately because
Speaker 1: well I guess not immediately if they attempted too. But
Speaker 1: I just remember remember coming out for an afternoon practice
Speaker 1: at some point and then that stop. But Dom usually
Speaker 1: did one day on and then one day with one
Speaker 1: practice and then a two a day on the next day.
Speaker 1: But he would go morning and evening. He would want
Speaker 1: two meals in the guys between practices for hydration or
Speaker 1: whatever else recovery. So that was pretty cool. But you
Speaker 1: mentioned it guys activating this morning, and maybe they'll do
Speaker 1: that every day and then come right out here. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised they go back in, but I know they had
Speaker 1: a meeting this morning and they're coming back out. So
Speaker 1: here's the deal with that. I believe that this is
Speaker 1: not going to be a full blown deal today. I
Speaker 1: don't have any information on that, but I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if they go a little lighter today. They're
Speaker 1: not going to go in pads for a few days obviously,
Speaker 1: and it is the first one. They just have the
Speaker 1: conditioning test yesterday. But we'll see, maybe we see a
Speaker 1: full blown thing. I think it'll be a very heavy
Speaker 1: OTA practice. I think you're right that kind of format.
Speaker 1: I was listening to Matt Campbell from Iowa State. I
Speaker 1: know it's college, but I was listening to Matt Campbell
Speaker 1: and he did. There was like a long video piece
Speaker 1: and I was watching he was talking about what COVID
Speaker 1: taught them, and I read an article about it later.
Speaker 1: He talked about what COVID kind of changed for them,
Speaker 1: and he said he felt in twenty twenty the way
Speaker 1: that they ramped up to the season and how they
Speaker 1: went about it, especially in this because there was no
Speaker 1: spring last year going into twenty twenty, he said that
Speaker 1: changed forever how he was going to approach practice, fall practice,
Speaker 1: and even spring practice. He had a great year. Well
Speaker 1: not only that, but he also felt like at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, he felt like his players had
Speaker 1: more juice left. He felt like they had more juice
Speaker 1: than they had ever had because of how they went
Speaker 1: about ramping them up, getting them to the season and
Speaker 1: then through the season. And he said he'll continue to
Speaker 1: do that going forward. So I'll be curious to see
Speaker 1: how teams, how the Texans, how other teams adjust. I've
Speaker 1: heard Sean McVay talk about that on the podcast Flying Coach,
Speaker 1: about how to how to adjust, what COVID taught them,
Speaker 1: how they could go about And I know they've made changes,
Speaker 1: especially in the Rams Scotty department, talked about that just
Speaker 1: being onto all that kind of stuff, but how they
Speaker 1: ramp up during training camp and especially with now a
Speaker 1: seventeenth game, that whole marathon, it's already started. But it's
Speaker 1: it's not like one of those things where you get
Speaker 1: to training camp you just hit it full bore, kind
Speaker 1: of ramp that thing up, be ready to go by
Speaker 1: September twelfth, and not to say that you can't be
Speaker 1: ready by obviously August fourteenth in a preseason game, but
Speaker 1: I'll i'll be curious to see the approach and how
Speaker 1: it had in contrast that to previous years, not last year,
Speaker 1: because last year was just weird. But here's the thing
Speaker 1: about this staff. We haven't seen them operate. They haven't
Speaker 1: operated as a staff before. I mean, they've all done
Speaker 1: their thing with different organizations. Obviously, Love he've been a
Speaker 1: head coach, a real successful one, Caserio in New England,
Speaker 1: Gully everywhere he's been as an assistant head coach and
Speaker 1: two other stops. So here we are in Houston, and
Speaker 1: we don't know how they would handle it in a
Speaker 1: non COVID year. We don't know how they would handle
Speaker 1: practice at a place like the Greenbrier with good weather
Speaker 1: or you know, cooler weather. I should say this is
Speaker 1: great weather. I love this. This is vintage Texans training
Speaker 1: camp weather. And remember a few weeks ago it was
Speaker 1: raining every day. We're getting that cloud cover a lot
Speaker 1: and it was kind of nice. And no, I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: though a lot of cloud cover. That's gone. All right,
Speaker 1: we have blue sky, hot humid Texas. Here we go.
Speaker 1: It's training camp. So I've said this. Some people know
Speaker 1: my wife and my daughter and are out in LA
Speaker 1: and so I checked the weather out there every day.
Speaker 1: And there's no sense in even doing it because when
Speaker 1: you go to the weather app and they've got like
Speaker 1: eight or nine days and all you see is this
Speaker 1: yellow orb but just all the way down that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all you see. Yeah, that's it. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of where we'll be. You might get a little cloud cover,
Speaker 1: but not today, No, not today, not today at all.
Speaker 1: There is You couldn't buy a cloud today. You mean,
Speaker 1: they're all gone. You said something about it being the same,
Speaker 1: but things have changed over the years. And we talked
Speaker 1: about this with John Weeks yesterday. You heard that on
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. The show is up on the app.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's a great show with Chris Conley,
Speaker 1: Chris Moore, and John Weaves. Is unbelievable. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know these aren't names that are necessarily going to sell
Speaker 1: out the theater, but let me tell you something. These
Speaker 1: guys were phenomenal guests. And that show is on our
Speaker 1: app you can listen to it later. But the scoreboard,
Speaker 1: which was new last year here at the Houston Methodist
Speaker 1: Training Center. Now fans will be back. They're not here today,
Speaker 1: a few days until we get them, but everything is covered.
Speaker 1: It's gigantic. The canopy they have over the middle stands.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a hospitality area up there with the
Speaker 1: bleachers and then all the bleachers on the side. I
Speaker 1: know they've been covered before, but not this much. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of cover there, so that's gonna be cool
Speaker 1: in multiple ways. They still have the CRV. Is that
Speaker 1: what it's called cool zone, the cool zone unit for
Speaker 1: the players. They've got some shaded areas in the end zones,
Speaker 1: and they have the twenty foot rule. They have to
Speaker 1: keep the fans away from the players by at least
Speaker 1: twenty feet. All sorts of protocols in place here. I'm
Speaker 1: in the inner tier now, John, I have graduated into
Speaker 1: the intertier. Well, it's it's a kind of training camp
Speaker 1: slash travel entertier status I have. I just stay away
Speaker 1: from everybody. That's what I do, except for John McClain,
Speaker 1: who who is actually making his way back toward the
Speaker 1: tent here and we'll get him on the air. And General,
Speaker 1: we do have a more shaded area for you to sit,
Speaker 1: but I know you like getting a tan here at
Speaker 1: the Houston Ato the training Center. It's part of the
Speaker 1: training camp, stinking shade. Like wait a second, I could
Speaker 1: walk right out here. I'm only there. Come out here
Speaker 1: and stand in the shade block the sun. I've been
Speaker 1: out there for an hour and now I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it forever long. You'll all right, General, it's a pleasure
Speaker 1: to have you on. We'll have Nicko Sarrio's press conference
Speaker 1: at eight forty five, and then we'll have him on
Speaker 1: this show right after that, and we'll talk to him
Speaker 1: about the big story of the day, of course, and
Speaker 1: everything else going on with this team, because there's plenty
Speaker 1: going on with this team. But John, what about the
Speaker 1: big story of the day and what you're expecting today
Speaker 1: from your perspective? I still believe that the NFL for
Speaker 1: at some point, we'll put Watson on the example list,
Speaker 1: which means he'll get paid his bass salary at ten
Speaker 1: point five four million, But he don't get paid that
Speaker 1: bass salary till the season begins and the league announced
Speaker 1: they're continuing the investigation in which we already all knew.
Speaker 1: And so what I'd like to know with Nick is
Speaker 1: what's Watson's status? Is he just one of the guys.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be out here? Is he going
Speaker 1: to be fourth team? Who's he going to be taking
Speaker 1: snaps away from snaps at training camp? With three new
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are invaluable, you don't need somebody it's not going
Speaker 1: to be on the team taking snaps. And you guys
Speaker 1: remember two seventeen, nobody touched him. He took a couple
Speaker 1: of steps after pass blew out his knee. That could
Speaker 1: happen at any time. So if I'm am I'm hoping
Speaker 1: to get a great offer for Deshaun Watson, No way
Speaker 1: I'm putting him out on the field, run the risk
Speaker 1: of an injury, and they could send him home with
Speaker 1: an excused absence and not find him. But if they
Speaker 1: were going to do that, I think they all would
Speaker 1: he would have. So we're all curious to see when
Speaker 1: he gets out here, where will number four be and
Speaker 1: what will he be doing. Will he be working with
Speaker 1: Davis Mills to help him? Will he try and you'd
Speaker 1: think he'd like try to help them become familiarity with
Speaker 1: they're familiar with their teammates, they and know most of them.
Speaker 1: Now that Dante Mincrave has gone, they're back to fifty
Speaker 1: new players, including forty two veterans and Randall Cob. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's going to be traded, and so that would
Speaker 1: take open up another spot for another veteran to come
Speaker 1: in here. So there's so many players that are getting
Speaker 1: to know each other on the field, as the coaches too.
Speaker 1: So watching so many moving parts, the defense and the
Speaker 1: new four three with Lovey Smith, the new emphasis on
Speaker 1: the running game, all new quarterbacks. It's going to be fun.
Speaker 1: A lot of things that make this a fascinating training camp.
Speaker 1: In preseason, John Over the weekend Texans trade for Anthony Miller.
Speaker 1: The news comes down because everything going on at green
Speaker 1: Bay about the potential of Randall Cobb going to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Don't know what's gonna happen. With that, What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts about the Miller trade here Cobb potentially going there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: GOB's going to Green Bay. They were trying to work
Speaker 1: out the pick, and I'm guarantee I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: the Packers were wanting to take on that contract in
Speaker 1: paying what he was due to make with that contract
Speaker 1: he signed with him Texans last year. So Miller can
Speaker 1: play insider outside. People Chicago were glad he left. They
Speaker 1: didn't think he lived up to the potential he showed
Speaker 1: as a rookie his second round pick in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna be hungry. Like a lot of these
Speaker 1: veterans Nikessario is brought in who are on one or
Speaker 1: two year contracts, big increased coming to the salary cap.
Speaker 1: They know if they play well and they provide the
Speaker 1: kind of culture that they're looking for here, and they
Speaker 1: got a chance to get paid. And Anthony Miller's one
Speaker 1: of them. He could get paid here, He could get
Speaker 1: paid in free agency. So I'm guessing they're gonna be
Speaker 1: get the best that that guy's got and hopefully he
Speaker 1: won't be punched and any defensive backs that got him
Speaker 1: kicked out of the playoff game against the Saints. Well,
Speaker 1: if there's any defensive back who deserved to punch m
Speaker 1: hunc Garter Johnson. Yeah, And the fact is that said
Speaker 1: the coaches told him to not fall for this guy.
Speaker 1: That's his game. That he did. And the thing was
Speaker 1: is in the first matchup John Gardner Johnson did those
Speaker 1: same things. He did those same things to Miller, and
Speaker 1: Millard just shoved at his side and caught eight passes
Speaker 1: for seventy three yards like he was running his routes
Speaker 1: against Gardner Johnson and physically like getting him off of him.
Speaker 1: And then got to the playoff game and let all
Speaker 1: this stuff bother who knows. I like the Millard drade
Speaker 1: because he and Chris Conley both had forty or more
Speaker 1: catches the last two seasons. Of course he's had that
Speaker 1: many for three seasons, but I would look for him
Speaker 1: and Cooks, and I think Connley will end up being
Speaker 1: a starter when Jackson Toil comes to town. Those will
Speaker 1: be the three wideouts if they go with three wives
Speaker 1: instead of two tight ends. Conley already talked about playing
Speaker 1: his former team last night when we interviewed him. All right, general,
Speaker 1: in a normal situation, if this were an established roster
Speaker 1: with these running backs and they had been around for
Speaker 1: a bit, you'd say, well, you don't want to wear
Speaker 1: them out or anything. It's training camp. You know what
Speaker 1: you've got. But you really don't know what you have
Speaker 1: with these guys. Even though they're veterans, they need the work.
Speaker 1: Yet you can wear them out because they're veterans. So
Speaker 1: how do you handle the running back snaps in this
Speaker 1: training camp? Well, first of all, they're not gonna run
Speaker 1: over anybody. They can't be hit, they don't go to
Speaker 1: the ground on purpose. So it's going to be the
Speaker 1: preseason before we really get a good look at them.
Speaker 1: You know, Philip Lanes, he had thousand yards two years ago,
Speaker 1: Mark Ingram had fifteen touchdowns two years ago. And David Johnson,
Speaker 1: of course, they know what they've gotten him. Not sure
Speaker 1: what the contribubuitions will be for Rex burkeead he's never
Speaker 1: been a regular starter. They won't. I can't imagine they'd
Speaker 1: keep all four because you got to play special teams.
Speaker 1: Don't know how many of those guys would play special
Speaker 1: teams in backup roles. But you need three good ones
Speaker 1: when you're gonna run the ball. As much as the
Speaker 1: text and when you got a seventeenth game. So I
Speaker 1: look for them to get a good look in training camp,
Speaker 1: and then I'm guessing they'll go into the season with
Speaker 1: David Johnson as a starter. But the one I'm most
Speaker 1: interested in is Philip Lindsay john If I gave you
Speaker 1: a million bucks and said, you can't watch the quarterbacks today,
Speaker 1: can't even set eyes on them, because I know everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna be watching the quarterbacks. So give a million dollars,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch something else. What's the first thing you're
Speaker 1: watching today train Well, since they don't hit and they're
Speaker 1: not wearing pads, the only thing we're watching would be
Speaker 1: the receivers. But you'd have to hold your hand up
Speaker 1: like this so you didn't see who's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: and just watch it go down the field, and the
Speaker 1: guys running with the receivers and the backs tight ends
Speaker 1: will catch passes. So I'd be watching the receivers and
Speaker 1: the dbs because really they're the only ones that are
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do anything today since they're not
Speaker 1: putting on bads. So that's a bad investment by me
Speaker 1: to give you a million dollars to just watch passcap well,
Speaker 1: if you gave me a million dollars, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1: You've watched any you and Mark can watch anybody you want,
Speaker 1: and I'll listen to you on the sports radio six.
Speaker 1: All right, General, what about the defensive line here? We
Speaker 1: taught to Malie Collins yesterday. As you get to know
Speaker 1: these guys and see them up close and personal eyeballed them,
Speaker 1: you start realizing, you know what, there's talent up there
Speaker 1: and they could do some damage in his Lovey Smith
Speaker 1: for three. What do you make of what they have
Speaker 1: up front? Millie Collins did a good job at Dallas,
Speaker 1: did not do a good job with the Raiders. So
Speaker 1: he's a guy should be playing tackle with a chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder. Jolil Johnson, who I think will be
Speaker 1: the other tackle, started sixteen games for the Vikings. They
Speaker 1: didn't trade bernardert McKinney for Shack Lawson. For Shack Lawston
Speaker 1: to be in a bench. And then I think Charles
Speaker 1: a Minna who would be the fourth starter, and then
Speaker 1: they'll make part of a rotation. Well, the player I'm
Speaker 1: most interested to watch on defense is Ross Blacklock. Going
Speaker 1: into his second year. He was a disappointment as a rookie.
Speaker 1: He needs to really step up his game and make
Speaker 1: that transition to a four to three, which is a
Speaker 1: whole lot easier than a three four for a young player.
Speaker 1: So this should be ideal. And I think my prediction
Speaker 1: is a man who will be the biggest improved player
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. If you think about the limited
Speaker 1: number he snaps he had last year and anytimes he
Speaker 1: hit the quarterback, what in the world would he do
Speaker 1: if he's playing most of the time and he can
Speaker 1: play inside the r outside. He's too big for a
Speaker 1: four or three defensive end, but he can play it
Speaker 1: against the run, and of course they have to improve
Speaker 1: against the run, But why don't you know those guys
Speaker 1: up front? To me is the most interesting thing about
Speaker 1: the defense. I think the big thing for a manner
Speaker 1: who on rundowns being inside. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: he's a liability, but it's just it's not a strength.
Speaker 1: But I think he could do it outside if you
Speaker 1: go inside to rush, that's where he really has success.
Speaker 1: And John, you stole my thunder with Ross Blacklock, because
Speaker 1: I think there are three really key guys amongst a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, but Ross Blacklock taking that step going
Speaker 1: from year one, year two, like you said, tough year one,
Speaker 1: year two, coming back with a vengeance hopefully. I think
Speaker 1: one as tight as Howard two years. I think he's
Speaker 1: shown some really good things, but he's got the athletic
Speaker 1: ability in the talent to be even more. He's got
Speaker 1: to take that leap. The third to me is Lonnie
Speaker 1: Johnson at safety. What do you expect from the third
Speaker 1: year now and his second year at safety? And how
Speaker 1: important is he is he to the defense? You know
Speaker 1: which starters started the most games last year and secondary
Speaker 1: Vernon Ard Rays seventeen. He's the only one. So you
Speaker 1: had Eric Murray and Justin Reid doing most of the starting.
Speaker 1: Johnson had five games. It's his third year. They need
Speaker 1: to see the improvement and in consistency they expected when
Speaker 1: he was second round pick. If not, he may not
Speaker 1: be back for the fourth year in a new contract.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was so interesting fewer changes in
Speaker 1: the secondary, and considering they had only two interceptions last
Speaker 1: year when they had nine turnover second few and since
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty that's the stat I'll guarantee you is going
Speaker 1: to be improved under Lovey Smith. His hame work has
Speaker 1: been forcing turnovers. They that starts up front, of course
Speaker 1: with the pressure, but I guarantee you they're not gonna
Speaker 1: finish last against the run, and they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: whole lot more turnovers than nine. I just think you're
Speaker 1: going to have more than nine. Well, Terrence Brooks, Terrence Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Desmond King, somebody's gonna rise up, maybe more than one guy.
Speaker 1: Mitchell's only one of those who started every game last year,
Speaker 1: and he did it for the Browns. I just those guys, though,
Speaker 1: have made plays in this league. It's funny, John, as
Speaker 1: we're interviewing all these guys, I'm realizing everybody seems to
Speaker 1: be twenty seven years old on this team. It's not true,
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of guys who are in
Speaker 1: that one smart because that means I've got one more
Speaker 1: good contract in them, right, one more. One last hurrah
Speaker 1: for some of these guys, and they wanted to create competition,
Speaker 1: they clearly have it. Let's go to the offensive line
Speaker 1: for a moment, because on pup you've got Marcus Cannon
Speaker 1: and Lane Taylor, and those are two guys you'd love
Speaker 1: to see in the mix here very much upfront. So
Speaker 1: obviously it's not forever, and it could be very short.
Speaker 1: But what are you thinking there on the offensive line?
Speaker 1: Soon as hain't passed their physicals after their knee injuries,
Speaker 1: they'll be back the two starters tackle or sat Laramy Tunsil.
Speaker 1: They're best player on offense and according to the league,
Speaker 1: the best player on the team according to ESPN and
Speaker 1: their survey of fifty executives and players and coaches. And
Speaker 1: then uh Tydus Howard right tackle, Justin Brett center. Both
Speaker 1: guards are wide of but I assumed that Lane Taylor
Speaker 1: would Starkness. He played for James Camping in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and he was ticketed to start for the Packers last year,
Speaker 1: and he had a biceps injury and when he came
Speaker 1: back from that, he blew out his knee. And I
Speaker 1: think he'd be really nice if Max Sharping played well
Speaker 1: better than last season and nailed down the left guard job.
Speaker 1: But those guys are pumped because they're gonna get the
Speaker 1: run block so much more than they did last season. John,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite thing about training camp? Truthfully, come in
Speaker 1: out the camaraderie of seeing everybody again. You know the restrictions,
Speaker 1: I understand them. I don't like them, just the sign
Speaker 1: of the times. But seeing new players, you know, it'd
Speaker 1: be so much It's more fun if nothing, if Watson
Speaker 1: had never demanded to be traded or at his legal issues,
Speaker 1: and they could focus their rebuild around him. But seeing
Speaker 1: new players, new coaches, to change to the four to
Speaker 1: three for a first time since two ten. There's just
Speaker 1: so many changes on this team, so many places to look,
Speaker 1: and we're not really going to get a good barometer
Speaker 1: of where they are until we get into the preseason
Speaker 1: and they start at Green Bay with the Packers and
Speaker 1: they can hit legitimately. But watching how it all plays out,
Speaker 1: and I don't care how many games they win, watching
Speaker 1: how it all plays out is going to be so interesting.
Speaker 1: That's the reality show ever it is. General. Thanks a
Speaker 1: lot for joining us. We look forward to seeing your
Speaker 1: stuff in the chronicle. And I'm guessing you're having me
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Speaker 1: on a need to know basis all right, and no,
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Speaker 1: see Nick Cassario, General Manager of the Houston Texans Training
Speaker 1: Camp Press conference number one. Obviously, you don't hear from
Speaker 1: the GM much during training camp, at least once and
Speaker 1: maybe twice, and David Culley pretty much every day from
Speaker 1: here on out until we get to the opener in September,
Speaker 1: when the Texans take out the Jacksonville Jaguars at NRG
Speaker 1: Stadium preseason game number one, two weeks from Saturday night
Speaker 1: at Green Bay, Johnny. So here we go, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get more practices than usual. This is an early
Speaker 1: start usually in a normal situation. By normal, I mean
Speaker 1: pre COVID, you'd have two weeks of practices, so you'd
Speaker 1: probably start Saturday morning with your initial training camp practice.
Speaker 1: Now you have three more, if three extras to get ready.
Speaker 1: They'll be in pads on Monday, they'll have Sunday off.
Speaker 1: And don't get me started on game day week yet.
Speaker 1: I will mesh with you when we get to that point. No,
Speaker 1: today's Wednesday. It's Wednesday because I woke up this morning
Speaker 1: thinking it was Friday. Oh gosh, I don't know. Don't
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, and don't do that to the listener either,
Speaker 1: because thank you. Yeah. All right, So let's get to
Speaker 1: this now. I promised you this. I'm going to deliver
Speaker 1: Texans running back situation. Look, Philip Lindsay, I'm excited about him.
Speaker 1: We saw him at OTA's. Look he didn't see him
Speaker 1: hit anybody or get hit by anybody. But he looked
Speaker 1: spry and that was good. You know, when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's good, and you hope he stays healthy. Obviously, mark Ingram,
Speaker 1: we'll see him out here soon enough. I don't know
Speaker 1: about Rex Burkhead. Maybe still on the mend here, but
Speaker 1: let's see what we get out of him. Obviously, David
Speaker 1: Johnson coming back is interesting because you had those three
Speaker 1: games where he had one hundred and thirty yards plus
Speaker 1: from scribbage. In those last three contests. He looked different,
Speaker 1: looked like a different player at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: looked like he was really jelly with the entire offensive
Speaker 1: unit and Johnny and I. This is a little snippet
Speaker 1: of an interview we did with him. We asked David
Speaker 1: Johnson what the difference was at the end of the
Speaker 1: year when the production amped up. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for me was I got to talk to a psychologist.
Speaker 1: I mean, really focus more on my ability now worrying
Speaker 1: so much about what's going on outside of my control.
Speaker 1: And that's what he told me. Man control what I
Speaker 1: can control, do what I can and be positive. I
Speaker 1: think that's another big thing. And just be positive when
Speaker 1: you start having negative thoughts or saying negative things to
Speaker 1: start manifesting into bad things, obviously, So I started doing
Speaker 1: that a lot more and really just doing everything I
Speaker 1: can to try to keep my body healthy and mentally
Speaker 1: be strong. How tough, David, was it for you to
Speaker 1: make the change from Arizona to come here, especially with
Speaker 1: all of us going on last year with COVID and
Speaker 1: SUE meetings and all that. I'm not not making excuses
Speaker 1: for anything or making or forcing you to do that,
Speaker 1: but what was How difficult was that to make the
Speaker 1: change from the only NFL team you had known to
Speaker 1: come to a totally new situation that you came to
Speaker 1: last year. It was very different. It was very hard
Speaker 1: at the very beginning because it wasn't just me coming.
Speaker 1: It was my family, have two kids and a wife,
Speaker 1: and we were trying to come in the middle of
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and I was trying to set up you know,
Speaker 1: the pediatric, a doctor, everything, trying to get a house
Speaker 1: and it's not like you can just walk into to
Speaker 1: view houses anymore. It's all virtual, so everyone's getting used
Speaker 1: to being on zoom and stuff. And I think that
Speaker 1: was the hardest thing is actually outside of football, um
Speaker 1: learning playbooks. You know, when you become a veteran, you
Speaker 1: learn playbooks pretty well. You know, football football is always
Speaker 1: usually the same, just wordings different. And so for me
Speaker 1: it was just that my family and getting them all settled.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing that for me that was
Speaker 1: hard as well as learning the guys, seeing them on
Speaker 1: on zoom is not the same as meeting him in person.
Speaker 1: So when I first got here and meeting him really
Speaker 1: for the first time during practice, it was really hard
Speaker 1: to like know guys face, you know, get to know
Speaker 1: them well and know their characteristics and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And so even you know, we did zoom all the
Speaker 1: way through OTAs, but I felt like I still was
Speaker 1: on a new team when I first got here for
Speaker 1: training camp and getting to meet the guys and just
Speaker 1: seeing how everyone and you know plays, you know, what
Speaker 1: their strengths, what their weaknesses are, how they play, what
Speaker 1: motivates them, you know, how you talk to him during
Speaker 1: games and stuff like that. That is probably the hardest thing.
Speaker 1: There's David Johnson, new to this team last year now.
Speaker 1: Also new to this team last year was one of
Speaker 1: the receivers Randall Cobb. Johnny we have some breaking news
Speaker 1: here to report. Yes, from the source himself on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb. And I've looked at that's that's his Twitter handle.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's got a blue check mark. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it just says I'm coming home. It's a picture of
Speaker 1: him and his green Bay Packers number eighteen, Jersey. So
Speaker 1: apparently a deal has been made, Randall Cobb going back
Speaker 1: to green Bay. We'll see what the deal is, what
Speaker 1: the Packers have coming back. And I got to thinking
Speaker 1: about this. I was listening to Sean and Seth Mark
Speaker 1: on the way up here, and I started thinking the
Speaker 1: Texans trade for Miller was from the Bears. Texas got
Speaker 1: Miller in a seventh for a fifth of twenty twenty two. Right,
Speaker 1: So if they move Cobb, who knows what they're gonna get.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it almost becomes almost becomes in essence,
Speaker 1: Miller in a seventh for cop right, in essence, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, I know it's different teams and all that,
Speaker 1: but that's in essence what this becomes is a younger,
Speaker 1: more athletic player with a seventh rounder for Randall. I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll see in Randall's coming off An injury. But Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb tweeted four minutes ago, now I'm coming home. His
Speaker 1: picture in a Green Bay Packers jersey. So apparently that
Speaker 1: deal is done and the cop contract definitely comes into
Speaker 1: play when you're figuring what the value absolutely is going
Speaker 1: back toward green Bay coming here obviously, because they are
Speaker 1: taking that on. And as far as the Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: chemistry goes up there with Davante Adams and his other
Speaker 1: pass catchers, he clearly wants to work with Randall Cops
Speaker 1: and I think it's maybe beyond that. I can't speak
Speaker 1: for him obviously, but having a guy like Randall Cob around.
Speaker 1: We talked to Randall Cop. He's a terrific guy. Obviously,
Speaker 1: did not go well for him here. He made some plays,
Speaker 1: but it did not go well for him here. But
Speaker 1: he goes back to Green Bay where he's comfortable. They're
Speaker 1: very comfortable with him. We'll see how it works out
Speaker 1: for him at best of luck. Well, with all that
Speaker 1: was going on last night, we left the building. I
Speaker 1: don't know, six is six something, six fifteen or so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I came out here and just decided to bake a
Speaker 1: little bit, yeah, you know, just to get used to, well,
Speaker 1: I went to go put my connects on down where
Speaker 1: we put them all as we walk in. As I
Speaker 1: was walking, I was going to put that back on
Speaker 1: the tray as they can trace me throughout practice and
Speaker 1: where I am. As I was walking, I saw one individual.
Speaker 1: It's really only one in the other the individual of
Speaker 1: the service lab one is Randall. And I debated whether
Speaker 1: I should say something like and that's what made COVID
Speaker 1: last year so weird, Like we didn't even we're there
Speaker 1: all year, but we never got a chance to meet him.
Speaker 1: And so I just as I had seen him throughout
Speaker 1: the summer, I just said, I said, hey, rand know
Speaker 1: how you doing. He was nice, And my guess is
Speaker 1: I mean he was walking somewhere. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he was going, but the first time we had seen
Speaker 1: him in a building. So official Randall Cobb going back
Speaker 1: to Green Bay. Okay, next up Nick Casserio live for
Speaker 1: the party which is a few feet away from us.
Speaker 1: That we'll have them live on this very radio program.
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Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. We are a few feet
Speaker 1: away from fields one and two, and the media is here,
Speaker 1: or the media are here. It's a plural, Johnny, That's
Speaker 1: what it is. It's as awkward. It's one of these things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this always comes up when talking about Premier League
Speaker 1: soccer teams and talking about Manchester City are here, and
Speaker 1: it always blows my mind like oh eight no, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the media are here. You're right. I used
Speaker 1: to be a stickler, but I think it's sports. Everything
Speaker 1: is okay. How about this. You have members of the
Speaker 1: media are here. There you go, that's easier, all right.
Speaker 1: I think Sario is making his way over to the
Speaker 1: podium as we'll have him live here in just a
Speaker 1: moment and we'll find out what he has to say
Speaker 1: about numerous things related to this team heading into training
Speaker 1: camp number twenty in the history of the franchise, Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb deal done. According to Randall himself. Let's hear from
Speaker 1: the general manager now is he addresses the media making
Speaker 1: his way to the microphone. Morning, Welcome to training camp.
Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody being here. Take a couple of minutes, talk
Speaker 1: through a couple of different things, and then we'll kind
Speaker 1: of get into a little bit of Q and A.
Speaker 1: But I would just say, first off, appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 1: A lot of work by a lot of people has
Speaker 1: gone in to get us to this point. I would say,
Speaker 1: the players are excited, the team's excited, the organizations excited.
Speaker 1: We're all excited to be here. My arms excited. We'll
Speaker 1: see if we help them maintain that performance throughout the
Speaker 1: course of camp here. But you know, We've done some
Speaker 1: things during the off season, made some modifications to the facility.
Speaker 1: As some of you may have seen kind of online
Speaker 1: appreciative of support of ownership on the capital commitments they
Speaker 1: made with the new locker room, training space, with all
Speaker 1: that design really to give the players and staff of
Speaker 1: the resources they need to be successful and given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: you know, go out there and perform to the best
Speaker 1: of their ability. So, you know, training camps here, it's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for us to get started. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of things that I think are relevant right now.
Speaker 1: Just I would say that we're dealing with that, teams
Speaker 1: are dealing with I would say there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of discussion and questions about COVID, the vaccine, kind of
Speaker 1: that situation. I would just say the league has done
Speaker 1: a great job putting protocols in place with the goal
Speaker 1: in the intent to give every team and opportunity to
Speaker 1: be functional from a workflow standpoint. So that's the most
Speaker 1: important thing. Relative to the vaccine. I would just say
Speaker 1: what Joe Judge said about that yesterday, I think we'll
Speaker 1: spot on it's not about picking sides, you know, it's
Speaker 1: about educating the players it's about providing them the information
Speaker 1: and the resources. And the reality is, as we've all seen,
Speaker 1: COVID is with us a lot of research, a lot
Speaker 1: of medical professionals. It spent a lot of time on this,
Speaker 1: and right now the delta strain is as contagious as
Speaker 1: any strain that's out there. So I think it's important
Speaker 1: for all of us to maintain, you know, vigilance, be
Speaker 1: smart about how we're handling everything. We're gonna be smart,
Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna be flexible relative too if
Speaker 1: we have to make some modifications. So the building is
Speaker 1: set up a certain way right now. If we get
Speaker 1: to the point where we have to make some changes,
Speaker 1: then we'll modify and make some adjustments. ARREA players have
Speaker 1: done a great job responding and handling the workflow and
Speaker 1: the workload. And again, I think we're making some progress
Speaker 1: just on the vaccine front, so we're in a pretty
Speaker 1: good position. So again, it's not about picking sides. It's
Speaker 1: an individual choice. Our job and our goal is to
Speaker 1: create you know, as healthier work environment and flow for
Speaker 1: everybody involved on the roster. As you all know, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty fluid situation, so it just kind of commented
Speaker 1: on some of the things that I've taken place the
Speaker 1: past few days. So we made a few transaction trader
Speaker 1: for Anthony Miller to receiver from Chicago, and the corresponding
Speaker 1: move was to drop Mitch from the roster, released Ante
Speaker 1: Moncrief yesterday, who wasn't given be ready to participate in
Speaker 1: training camp. And I'd say we're kind of working through
Speaker 1: a situation relative to Randall Cob. I know some of
Speaker 1: that's been reported. There's probably there's a few moving pieces
Speaker 1: on that, So I don't really want to comment about
Speaker 1: anything kind of being complete and come to fruition, but
Speaker 1: I would say the roster is kind of a day
Speaker 1: to day endeavor. I'm probably gonna give a little shameless
Speaker 1: plug here for the guys at six ten. Maybe you
Speaker 1: guys can take a poll and say how many roster
Speaker 1: transactions are the Houston Texans gonna have over and under
Speaker 1: between now and start a training camp, and I'll maybe
Speaker 1: give a hundred bucks to the winner, so you guys
Speaker 1: can handle that however you wanted. But again, there's always
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of movement on and off the roster.
Speaker 1: We have fifty new players. Again, it's a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for everybody to kind of get started. The goal for
Speaker 1: training camp is for everybody establish their level of performance.
Speaker 1: We're not going to predetermine everything. Nobody has a defined role.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go out there and let the players kind
Speaker 1: of take care of themselves and that'll sort itself out.
Speaker 1: I'd say we probably have about seventy nine players that'll
Speaker 1: be kind of working, and then we got some other
Speaker 1: players that are a different categories relative to whatever their
Speaker 1: health status is. So again, we're not necessarily going to
Speaker 1: give kind of a day to day report about who's
Speaker 1: doing what, who's where. Everybody has a process and a
Speaker 1: protocol that they're following, and the goal is to get
Speaker 1: everybody out there at some points they're can participate in,
Speaker 1: performed to the best of their ability, and give them
Speaker 1: a chance to compete for a roster spot. One other comment,
Speaker 1: I would say, probably a little bit more personal of them,
Speaker 1: maybe for some of y'all here in the media, just
Speaker 1: the tragic loss of coaching Nap. I know a coach
Speaker 1: Nap was here a little bit in Houston. Some of
Speaker 1: you maybe had a better relationship than others. But I
Speaker 1: think it's a great reminder for all of us on
Speaker 1: really the fragility of life and what's in front of us,
Speaker 1: and that the reality is we're not guaranteeing anything. We're
Speaker 1: not We're guaranteed today, but we're not guaranteed much beyond that.
Speaker 1: So you know, our thoughts and prayers with the now family,
Speaker 1: to the Jets or organization. I would say my memory
Speaker 1: a coach nap. Really when you think of the scouting combine,
Speaker 1: he's really been a kind of prominent fixture with the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Kind of everything to kind of started with him, So
Speaker 1: when you watch a quarterback drills, so again, I think
Speaker 1: it's just a great reminder for all of us we
Speaker 1: can't take anything for granted, and we're only guaranteed today.
Speaker 1: And you know, certainly our thoughts are with his family
Speaker 1: and you know the Jets or organization you know as well.
Speaker 1: You know, i'd say on the Shawn's situation, and there'll
Speaker 1: probably be a lot of questions about that, I would
Speaker 1: say my comments about that, or he reported for training
Speaker 1: camp the other day. I know the league but put
Speaker 1: out a statement and made some comments about where they
Speaker 1: are in that process. And again, I think from our perspective,
Speaker 1: it's a day to day endeavor. You know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take the information, we're going to process that. We're respectful
Speaker 1: of everybody and everything that's involved. So we'll kind of
Speaker 1: take it one day at a time, and you know,
Speaker 1: ultimately we're gonna do what we feel as best, you know,
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans. I'm sure there'll be some questions
Speaker 1: and now there's been a lot of speculation about what
Speaker 1: the Texans will do, buy a lot of different scenarios,
Speaker 1: I mean, quite frankly, I mean a lot of its speculation.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to comment all about a bosher rumors
Speaker 1: about what we've done, what we're gonna do, what the
Speaker 1: plan is like, That's not what I'm gonna do. That's
Speaker 1: not my responsibility. The reason I was brought here by
Speaker 1: the McNair families to do what I feel is best
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texas organization on a day to day basis,
Speaker 1: and that's my responsibility to ownership, that's my responsibility to
Speaker 1: the players, and that's my responsibility to the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: So that's how we're going to handle it, Okay, So
Speaker 1: you know that we'll take some questions here for a
Speaker 1: few minutes and then we'll kind of get moving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into an individual discussion about
Speaker 1: who's gonna be doing what. Again, everybody will go out there.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever they're gonna do, they're gonna do. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to comment about somebody. You know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do on a day to day basis. It's
Speaker 1: not your decision to make. But you just spend five
Speaker 1: minutes talking about everything. You're the GM whose decision does
Speaker 1: it to make about what de Shaun Watson does with
Speaker 1: this team. Again, we're gonna do what we feel as
Speaker 1: best for the organization on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1: So again it's a collective effort. I mean, between myself
Speaker 1: and David Colley, we're gonna talk about everything each day
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna do what we feel as best
Speaker 1: is the best interest of this team for Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: to be around this team right now. Again, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get into speculation about what's right what's not. Again,
Speaker 1: the most important thing for us is do what we
Speaker 1: feels best, and the most important thing is for the
Speaker 1: players to go out there and get themselves ready to play.
Speaker 1: So whatever that entails, whatever that look like, looks like
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna do with everything going. I mean,
Speaker 1: Sean Watson is a national story and you're not you're
Speaker 1: not giving any update about his status with your team
Speaker 1: when he's under ross. Again, it's my responsibility is to
Speaker 1: the players versus foremost in the organization, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's where it's going to be. How is he engaged
Speaker 1: with the coaches and yourself? Yeah, I mean i'd say
Speaker 1: we've had conversations. I'm not going to get into the
Speaker 1: nature of those conversations. Again. Um, he's here. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been in meetings, he went through the conditioning test,
Speaker 1: you know, just like cover many other players that we
Speaker 1: had that we're here. So again, we're gonna take it
Speaker 1: one day at time, ed, Um, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do what he feels best on a day to day basis. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to comment about who's gonna be out here,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be doing what? John, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go out here, We're gonna prepare for practice and then
Speaker 1: you know, let's just take it one day at a time,
Speaker 1: one period at a time. Part of meting everybody had
Speaker 1: a report date, you know, and uh, you know that
Speaker 1: was noted for. The players are notified of what their
Speaker 1: reporting date was, so everybody knew when they were scheduled
Speaker 1: their report, so you know, everybody knew what was expected
Speaker 1: on that front. Yeah. No, our players and staff have
Speaker 1: done a great job. I mean focusing on what they
Speaker 1: can control, which is their job, which is their individual performance,
Speaker 1: which is their individual skill development and you know, their
Speaker 1: development as a player. Again, kind of where we are
Speaker 1: a training camp and this week is kind of unique.
Speaker 1: We're in this kind of ramp up period. There's no pads,
Speaker 1: you know, it's helmets. You know, we're going to go
Speaker 1: through practice like we normally do. But the most important
Speaker 1: thing for each player, each person is to focus on
Speaker 1: themselves and the things that they can control. Again, we
Speaker 1: have fifty new player or whatever it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys have done account probably better than I have.
Speaker 1: But we have a lot of new players. So their
Speaker 1: responsibilities for themselves to each other, to go out there
Speaker 1: and just do their job, impair themselves to play. Again,
Speaker 1: the roster construction, what that looks like again. Between now,
Speaker 1: I mean we play a game and what is it
Speaker 1: seventeen days or something like that, So we have twelve
Speaker 1: to thirteen practices, so we have a lot to get
Speaker 1: done in a short period of time. So the most
Speaker 1: important thing is for the players to focus on the
Speaker 1: things that they can controls and tell you guys that
Speaker 1: he again, that does not Yeah, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: comment on what's been communicated with conversations we've had. I
Speaker 1: think that's more of a private you know, I respect
Speaker 1: everybody involved. I think that's you know, the most important
Speaker 1: thing is to keep it between ourselves. Physical conditioning, Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd say I'd say most of our team looks like
Speaker 1: they're ready to go. I'd say, you know, mostly, I
Speaker 1: think just about everybody you know, pass the conditioning test,
Speaker 1: which is kind of one measure of their physical performance,
Speaker 1: and what that says is whether or not they're they're
Speaker 1: ready to practice. So um, again, the players have worked
Speaker 1: hard in the offseason that kind of prepare themselves. Again,
Speaker 1: are things going to happen out here in the practice field?
Speaker 1: And absolutely so. Again, the most important thing is getting
Speaker 1: themselves physically ready to play. And again, the way the
Speaker 1: practices are structured, the way the league has put in
Speaker 1: place for the CBA, it gives everybody kind of an
Speaker 1: opportunity with some of the jaded and jaggett kind of
Speaker 1: offseason program. So again, where the team is now, most
Speaker 1: players are in condition, most are ready to go. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll have to monitor, you know, workload and level of
Speaker 1: performance and those types of things on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: and that's what we'll do. But the players out are
Speaker 1: here are ready to practice um and then you know,
Speaker 1: we'll take it one day at a time to decide
Speaker 1: about the situation, like what are the main venture considerate,
Speaker 1: what is the best that you talked about, what's best
Speaker 1: for the organization. I come to as far as just
Speaker 1: you're talking about an individual basis or just yeah, again,
Speaker 1: it's not about one person or one individual. I think
Speaker 1: our focus is on our team and always doing what's
Speaker 1: in the best interests of our team. And you know
Speaker 1: that's how we're going to handle it. Again, I would say,
Speaker 1: there's always a lot that go into these things. And
Speaker 1: again and look, every team is dealing with different things,
Speaker 1: I would say when you looked around the league, so
Speaker 1: we're no different. So again, we talk about everything. David
Speaker 1: and I talk about everything on a day to day basis,
Speaker 1: and you know we're gonna go out there in h
Speaker 1: day just try to do what we feel is best
Speaker 1: for us. Uh. I'm not going to get into the percentage. John.
Speaker 1: What I would say is, I'd say we've made progress
Speaker 1: from the spring relative to where we are now. So, um,
Speaker 1: we're making progress. Um. Again, I don't want necessarily get
Speaker 1: into percentages because some of that is it's pretty fluidous
Speaker 1: relative to the dates and the timing of one that
Speaker 1: actually comes to fruition. So I'd say we've made progress
Speaker 1: from the spring. Um, we're on track. I think we're
Speaker 1: in a decent position. So you know, each day we'll
Speaker 1: probably get more information as we go. Part me. I
Speaker 1: would not expect him to be out here note starting quarterback. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: we really haven't talked about anybody relative to who's a
Speaker 1: starter who's not. Again, everybody's gonna get a lot of reps.
Speaker 1: We're gonna mix and match the groups. You know, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna get the same. I would say this is really
Speaker 1: our first time to kind of evaluate, you know, our
Speaker 1: team OTAs or ota. So now we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: a little bit more Okay, individual group drill seven on seven,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna see more. We're gonna have more information. Again,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna get X number of reps. At some point
Speaker 1: we'll have to make a decision about who sits where
Speaker 1: and who goes where. I would say day one is
Speaker 1: really not the place to determine that. So it's not
Speaker 1: about our starters, it's not about whose role. It's about
Speaker 1: the players going out there and just establishing their level
Speaker 1: of performance. That's the most important thing. Hold on one
Speaker 1: at a time, go ahead business all season. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: say with a lot of the new players that have
Speaker 1: come in, um, their attitudes have been good, they worked hard.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a four week period there where
Speaker 1: we're able to get some things accomplished. So m again,
Speaker 1: everybody's here now, UM in training camp, so we'll get
Speaker 1: a better barometer is to where people might be. So again,
Speaker 1: i'd say just the construction of the team as we
Speaker 1: sit here today. We have a lot of guys that have,
Speaker 1: you know, certain level of experience in the league. So again,
Speaker 1: now that we're kind of starting over, like that's not
Speaker 1: as germane and as relevant, So all we can go
Speaker 1: is based off of what we see here. So again,
Speaker 1: the most important thing here and is for for everybody
Speaker 1: just to kind of focus on what they can do
Speaker 1: and what they can handle and ends in situation handling anything.
Speaker 1: How much does noise or distraction factor in or is
Speaker 1: that just something you just have to put to decide
Speaker 1: and focus on. Yeah, it's a great question. Um, I'd
Speaker 1: say just generally speaking, society, there's probably a lot of
Speaker 1: noise on an external basis. I think one of the
Speaker 1: things that that we've you know, been consistent about is
Speaker 1: kind of focusing on what goes on in our building
Speaker 1: and the things that we can control, you know, which
Speaker 1: is our effort, which is our attitude, which is our meeting,
Speaker 1: which is preparing for practice. So again, our players and
Speaker 1: staff have done a great job. Um, I would say
Speaker 1: the attitude in the building, um has been great, kind
Speaker 1: of going even going back to January when you know
Speaker 1: I first arrived. So again, I like the most important
Speaker 1: thing is for us to focus on what's going on
Speaker 1: inside the building. And again there's always going to be
Speaker 1: things externally that that are said or noise as your reference,
Speaker 1: But again, it's not our job to kind of get
Speaker 1: caught up in that. At least that's not you know,
Speaker 1: I'd kind of wouldn't be doing my job if I
Speaker 1: was kind of worried about you know, some of those things. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: like everybody had a reporting day and the expectation was
Speaker 1: that you know, the players would report, so you know
Speaker 1: that was you know, and you know everybody had their
Speaker 1: time that they were going to be in the building.
Speaker 1: So you know we have However, many players are here
Speaker 1: right now. I think it's eighty eight is shading out
Speaker 1: whatever it is relative to the roster. So um again,
Speaker 1: it's where we are for today and we're moving forward.
Speaker 1: So take maybe taking out can you give us your quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: Are taular positions to so much focus on it anybody. Yeah, again,
Speaker 1: I think the performance will It's hard for me to
Speaker 1: sit here and say, well, this is what I think
Speaker 1: right now. So again, we've assembled the team. We've added
Speaker 1: players to the team that again cross positions with variety
Speaker 1: different backgrounds, variety of different levels of experience. Um again,
Speaker 1: our job is to go out here and kind of
Speaker 1: valuate what we see moving forward. Again, can't have any
Speaker 1: preconceived notions, and we've communicated this to the players and like, respectfully,
Speaker 1: it's not about what's happened in the past. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be judged on what happens moving forward. And I think
Speaker 1: the players understand that, and you're gonna hold themselves accountant
Speaker 1: fat fresh starts and doing things that are the best
Speaker 1: interested in the organization. You mentioned several times a day
Speaker 1: back to Watson, though, is a distraction and the best
Speaker 1: interests the organization at this point when you're trying to start, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would just speak. I don't want to speak for
Speaker 1: anybody else, but it really hasn't been a distraction, and
Speaker 1: you know, we don't think it will be a distraction. Again.
Speaker 1: I think our staff and players have done a great
Speaker 1: job of focus on the things that you know, our
Speaker 1: germain and relevant to them, which is their individual performance
Speaker 1: and their individual jobs. So again, I again I don't
Speaker 1: want to speak for too many people, but I would
Speaker 1: say to answer your question, it really is not It
Speaker 1: hasn't been a distraction. So maybe one more the fact
Speaker 1: that he's here again, we'll take the information each day. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not a distraction for the team. Our players have
Speaker 1: done a great job with their attitude and approach. So again,
Speaker 1: they're professionals and they're going to handle things the right way,
Speaker 1: which quite frankly, they've done all the way up until
Speaker 1: this point. Okay, all right, guys have a good day.
Speaker 1: There's Nick Kissario who is at the podium and now
Speaker 1: he's gonna walk right over here to our broadcast tent
Speaker 1: at the Houston Methodist Training Center and have a conversation
Speaker 1: with us as the Texans get their first practice under
Speaker 1: way of training camp number twenty in the history of
Speaker 1: the franchise. And here he is General manager Nick Assari,
Speaker 1: a long walk for the podium and headphones. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, John Mark. Well, it's great to see you.
Speaker 1: And uh, I know you just took thirty seven questions
Speaker 1: about the quarterback situation, but let's talk about the guys
Speaker 1: who were here with you. Yeah, well, it's it's over.
Speaker 1: But we we observed OTAs and the guys who were
Speaker 1: here with you during OTAs, and I know that you
Speaker 1: mentioned carving up reps and things like that will be
Speaker 1: determined on a day to day basis almost, But what
Speaker 1: kind of practice do we expect today overall? Nick, as
Speaker 1: this is the first day in and you're not in
Speaker 1: pads yet. Yeah, it's a great question. So look, the
Speaker 1: rules are what the rules are relative of the CBA,
Speaker 1: So this is kind of the ramp up period. So
Speaker 1: I would say, really, this first week will be essentially
Speaker 1: an extension of a tas in some respects with the
Speaker 1: addition of maybe some more team related activities, So from
Speaker 1: seven on seven to one on ones to team offense
Speaker 1: versus defense, which we really didn't do much of in
Speaker 1: the spring. So up till that point everything is probably
Speaker 1: similar relative to the pace relative to individual even some
Speaker 1: of the special teams period. And then once we kind
Speaker 1: of get through that, we can do a little bit
Speaker 1: more team working against one another lineup call to play,
Speaker 1: the defense can get the adjustment, see the alignment you
Speaker 1: getting the huddle call to play. I would say that
Speaker 1: will be the probably the main difference from the spring
Speaker 1: relative to now. So again, even without pads, you'll still
Speaker 1: be able to get enough things done. So we have
Speaker 1: a few team periods lined up here for practice, so
Speaker 1: we'll go through that. So again we'll just get more
Speaker 1: information as we go and then kind of ramp up
Speaker 1: into the next phase next week when we get ready
Speaker 1: for padded practices, and then we can work on maybe
Speaker 1: more of the running games. So some of this will
Speaker 1: be a little bit more I would say passing emphasis again,
Speaker 1: how you double team and deuce block and all that on.
Speaker 1: With talmets and shorts versus when you actually get into
Speaker 1: a padded practice, you'll be able to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Nick, you've reminded us many times as you've
Speaker 1: talked with Mark and I about roster management. It's twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven, three sixty five. It doesn't stop even
Speaker 1: two days before players are report. You make a deal
Speaker 1: for Anthony Miller? What can you tell us about Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: former Chicago Bearer, former Memphis Tiger. And I'll ask you
Speaker 1: this you tell us and you told us to draft
Speaker 1: is overhyped. Okay, but we know that Anthony Miller. I
Speaker 1: know you spend a lot of time on that and
Speaker 1: make you feel bad you cut me to the cord, Nick,
Speaker 1: But how much do you take out of what scouts
Speaker 1: are able to see of him coming out of Memphis
Speaker 1: versus what they saw with him in Chicago before you
Speaker 1: bring him here to Houston. John, It's actually a really
Speaker 1: good question. And I think you put so much into
Speaker 1: that college scouting process. So you develop a backlog of
Speaker 1: information at a a database of information, so you have your
Speaker 1: evaluations of said player coming out. You know, what are
Speaker 1: the factors, what we're his skills, what did we think
Speaker 1: what were our interactions, and then you take that and
Speaker 1: then we can go back and look at the three
Speaker 1: years of what he did in Chicago. And again, when
Speaker 1: you make a transaction, you make a trade, you're taking
Speaker 1: as much information in as possible wherever it comes from.
Speaker 1: So it's a good reference point. A more recent reference
Speaker 1: point would be what they did against NFL competition or
Speaker 1: what they did in the league. But again, now you're
Speaker 1: kind of taking that player out of their existing system
Speaker 1: into a new system. And I would say with a
Speaker 1: player in his particular case, still be some ketchup work
Speaker 1: that needs to be done because you didn't have the
Speaker 1: ability to kind of go through an offseason program. So
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get him up to speed as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible and do the best we can. But you
Speaker 1: take all the information that you have access to and
Speaker 1: try to use that as a part of your decision
Speaker 1: making process. I know you said that you have a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts with the Cops situation, but looking
Speaker 1: at the whole group here, Nick, how flexible is it
Speaker 1: when a guy comes in and people label him, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a slot receiver, but maybe he can play outside,
Speaker 1: or maybe an outside guy can play the slot sometimes
Speaker 1: and we saw Cooks do some short passing game work
Speaker 1: last year. How important is flexibility in this group? It's
Speaker 1: a great question, I think sometimes John, you've probably seen
Speaker 1: this a little bit. Sometimes people get pigeonholed they can
Speaker 1: only do this. But again, we kind of have to
Speaker 1: get to take that bias out. What you won't really
Speaker 1: want to do is present the player of the information,
Speaker 1: put him in different spots and you might find, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe he actually can do something different than
Speaker 1: we thought. So again, part of our responsibility is to
Speaker 1: maybe put that player in the position and not just
Speaker 1: say he's just this or he's just that. You know.
Speaker 1: So again, the player never played like Nate Solder, you know,
Speaker 1: going back to my time in New England. You know
Speaker 1: he was a left tackle and there's a rookie he
Speaker 1: played right tackle in jumbo tight end. So if you
Speaker 1: go into it saying, well he can only do this,
Speaker 1: well you kind of limit your possibility. So again, when
Speaker 1: you actually get down to the fifty three man roster, okay,
Speaker 1: you bring x number of let's say receivers to the game,
Speaker 1: Well you have to be able to back up some spots.
Speaker 1: So who can handle that job? So That's what part
Speaker 1: of training camp is for, to see who can handle
Speaker 1: maybe some of those different responsibilities. I think. I know
Speaker 1: we're a few weeks away from having to make a
Speaker 1: cutdown to fifty three. But last year the NFL, because
Speaker 1: of COVID, open up the practice squad rules, and it
Speaker 1: looks like they're gonna keep them in place for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. I believe. How does that help you as
Speaker 1: an evaluator of this roster to make sure, Hey, I've
Speaker 1: got the right fifty three, but I've got this repository
Speaker 1: of players that I know I've got to be able
Speaker 1: to count on. How important is it to have those
Speaker 1: rules again at twenty twenty one. No, it's a great point.
Speaker 1: I think. You know, when you go through the roster,
Speaker 1: everybody kind of gets caught up in fifty three. It's
Speaker 1: fifty three players. But then when you add another sixteen
Speaker 1: let's call it whatever, the number is going to be
Speaker 1: more than likely sixteen. So you're working with call it
Speaker 1: sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy players in total. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's your team. Now, who's on who's off the roster? Again?
Speaker 1: Our goal is to try to keep as many good
Speaker 1: players in the building as possible. How do you do
Speaker 1: that and what's the best mechanism to do it? Okay,
Speaker 1: you have to figure out what makes sense. Okay, did
Speaker 1: we cut this guy and try to put them on
Speaker 1: a practice squad or you know, while we're not sure
Speaker 1: if we can get him there. You know, those are
Speaker 1: some of the things that will go into some of
Speaker 1: the psychology as we get a little bit closer. But
Speaker 1: you're really looking at that group in totality because at
Speaker 1: any point those players could be active on Sunday at
Speaker 1: least that's how we're approaching it. Nick, When you look
Speaker 1: at the scope of camp here and you've taken to
Speaker 1: consideration the weather, they heat, all of it. How extensive
Speaker 1: were those meetings and determining how you're going to do
Speaker 1: business here? Because you have some guys who coached here
Speaker 1: before and played here before, but you have a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who didn't. So how did you go about
Speaker 1: that process? Yeah, it's new for a lot of us,
Speaker 1: and really what you want to do is try to
Speaker 1: educate them. So, I mean, our sports performance staff, strength
Speaker 1: conditioning staff can reiterate some things relative to some of
Speaker 1: the data shows this. So, but hydration taken care of
Speaker 1: your body. I mean again, we're practicing in the morning,
Speaker 1: because practice in the afternoon from a health and safety standpoint,
Speaker 1: could put players at risk, you know, so you try
Speaker 1: to do what we feel as best. You know, again,
Speaker 1: we have the bubble, we have outdoor practice field, so
Speaker 1: pooling all that information and you look, you can explain
Speaker 1: it to them and prepare them for it, but then
Speaker 1: they get out here and it's a totally different situation.
Speaker 1: So we got to be a diligent monitor. Make sure
Speaker 1: we're not gonna put anybody at Look, training camp is
Speaker 1: gonna be hot, it's gonna be hard, it's gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult. It should be. That's what training
Speaker 1: camp is. It's time for it. But you also want
Speaker 1: to make sure you don't put the players in his position,
Speaker 1: you know, where they're at risk for no particular reason.
Speaker 1: Along those lines, Nick, I've I've read different coaches and
Speaker 1: different people talk about what COVID last year taught them
Speaker 1: and kind of the ramp up to their season. I
Speaker 1: listen to Matt Campbell talk about a Friday State and
Speaker 1: some others. Does any of that kind of carry over
Speaker 1: to this year and maybe using some of the efficiencies
Speaker 1: found going through that, even though it's a rough situation
Speaker 1: to take and put it towards this year and the
Speaker 1: fact you got another week added on to the season.
Speaker 1: Does any of that kind of carry over any kind
Speaker 1: of best practices from last year? Absolutely? Absolutely, and we
Speaker 1: try to incorporate them to the best of our ability.
Speaker 1: Because again, I mean we just talked about this a
Speaker 1: few minutes ago with the press. I mean, COVID is
Speaker 1: still relevant and it's still out there and we're going
Speaker 1: to be dealing with it and it's probably not going away.
Speaker 1: So your ability to kind of adapt and adjust on
Speaker 1: the fly, we have experience doing that. Last year. I
Speaker 1: think everybody, teams, coaches, staff, the league showed the ability
Speaker 1: to be able to adjust. So I think you have
Speaker 1: to be flexible when you're thinking and can't get so
Speaker 1: caught up and oh man, we can't do this, we
Speaker 1: can't do that. It's really what can we do. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna make excuses and we're gonna try to maximize
Speaker 1: whatever the resources we have. Are are you throwing today, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how's the way? How's the guy? I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: go out there and warm up before practice, So I know,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to see me throw about. Whatever I could
Speaker 1: do to help the team, then I'll do that. We
Speaker 1: got hundred throws a day. Yeah, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: getting a little bit older, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: I contain that performance. We have video guys ready ready
Speaker 1: for this act. Sure, the cameras will be on me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: said there will be a Tell straighter later on. Oh man,
Speaker 1: a Johnny straighter. All right, Nick, thanks a lot for
Speaker 1: joining us. Well, thanks, have a great day you too.
Speaker 1: Nick Cassario, general manager of your Houston Texans, and he
Speaker 1: just did a big session with the media, did a
Speaker 1: little session with us, and we'll probably roll some of
Speaker 1: that later on on Texans All Access tonight with our
Speaker 1: David Johnson interview. We're having a show meeting right now.
Speaker 1: I think the David Johnson an interview has to happen tonight.
Speaker 1: But he obviously I said thirty seven questions. It might
Speaker 1: have been that. It might have been thirty seven questions
Speaker 1: about they're a rapid fire at some point. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I get it because the media all wants a story.
Speaker 1: Here's look, I'm part of the media sort of maybe
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been for a long time. I
Speaker 1: know I'm with the team now, but you and I
Speaker 1: always stick to the facts. You know, people always ask us, well,
Speaker 1: how do you guys address these things? We stick to
Speaker 1: the facts. You know, Hey, if Watson's here, Watson's here.
Speaker 1: If he's not, he's not facts. And the situation is
Speaker 1: though the media, I get why players and coaches are
Speaker 1: reluctant sometimes to give too much because the shortest little
Speaker 1: blurb can become a huge headline and it could be
Speaker 1: buried in a transcript in a press conference and they
Speaker 1: didn't really mean it to be that of that magnitude,
Speaker 1: but it becomes that way. Here's a great example. I
Speaker 1: just read this right before we went on the air.
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians went off on PFT. Yes, because of something
Speaker 1: that was on PT Now. PFT is like the game
Speaker 1: of telephone, right, because Florio will take stories and then
Speaker 1: put it on his sides, the aggregation side, and then
Speaker 1: kind of give his thoughts about it. And the way
Speaker 1: that he quote unquote reported it was not the actual
Speaker 1: way that it's going because he puts something in there
Speaker 1: that you would think his innocuous, right, but it's a
Speaker 1: big deal and it had to do with the wristbands
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and arians went off
Speaker 1: ye yesterday, And there's a part of me it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't blame him. I don't blame him because somehow
Speaker 1: there was a report that gets out there and then
Speaker 1: it gets to Florio, then he aggregates it and puts
Speaker 1: it out there, and pft, he's got a massive audience
Speaker 1: and you've played a game of telephone. By the time
Speaker 1: it gets to the fourth person there, it's not the
Speaker 1: story is completely changed. And Mike does a really good job,
Speaker 1: but he does looking for certain things sometimes and and
Speaker 1: obviously they get blown up. Okay, we're gonna break here
Speaker 1: because we're a little bit hind in that category. Max
Speaker 1: sharpin coming up as well. And players not of the
Speaker 1: field yet by the way, you mentioned they acted early
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Speaker 1: players are out here. In fact, I see the longest
Speaker 1: tenured Texan making his way over to the midfield area.
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Speaker 1: John Harris. We've got players on the field and a
Speaker 1: lot of players in the bubble right now. Is there
Speaker 1: in the uniform getting ready for today's session number one
Speaker 1: of Texas Training Camp. Now, they're going with the they're
Speaker 1: going with what is it shells, Johnny or is that
Speaker 1: just a straight jersey jersey? Some of these guys are
Speaker 1: so jacked up it looks like they're wearing shoulder pads. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: speaking it jacked up. Not to say that our punters
Speaker 1: in the past, like Shane Leckler was country strong, now
Speaker 1: Henry Strong, Matt Turk was pretty jacked. Turk was pretty jacked.
Speaker 1: I'll put Cam Johnson up against Oh my gosh, yes
Speaker 1: he is yo. He looks like he's an Australian, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Jocko. Is that like an eighties reference? Boy?
Speaker 1: Remember that guy Australian rules football for the hair that's
Speaker 1: pretty good, you know, to these Australian Rules football players, Like,
Speaker 1: all right, whatever, he's he's the putter. He probably wants
Speaker 1: to go hit people. All right, I will pay, I'll
Speaker 1: I'll pay whatever fine he gets if he lays a
Speaker 1: lick on somebody. So I got a feeling it's in him.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for it. I can't wait to watch
Speaker 1: this unit operate because he and some of the gunners
Speaker 1: that they have it look not that special team touse.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel about special teams practice, trying
Speaker 1: to training catch You're time to check your face? It's
Speaker 1: my time. It is. It is the veteran band playing
Speaker 1: stuff from the new album, and I go to the
Speaker 1: concession stand. All right, I want to hear the greatest hits.
Speaker 1: I want to see offense defense when they do special
Speaker 1: teams at camp. Now special teams at a game. Okay,
Speaker 1: full boat, you got all the activity going on. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving the booth ever, but during training camp,
Speaker 1: that is the time to visit the restroom, check the phone.
Speaker 1: I do like to see, though, who's lining up as
Speaker 1: a returner and this team has multiple options there. And
Speaker 1: I do like to see on this team in this
Speaker 1: situation who the gunners are, because look, they have a
Speaker 1: lot of guys they could use there. And they didn't
Speaker 1: mess around when they were signing all these you know,
Speaker 1: five hundred players. They went heavy on the special teams, specialists,
Speaker 1: if you will, guys who were versatile could do I
Speaker 1: know that's a dirty word sometimes with people. Why is
Speaker 1: that such a bad word because why do the guys
Speaker 1: make fun of it on the rest of these shows
Speaker 1: Here I realized this because essentially the word satile was
Speaker 1: equated with couldn't do any of those things. But what
Speaker 1: versatile actually means is you do a number of things well.
Speaker 1: And I think what happened is it was it became
Speaker 1: because of that tag being placed on you know, because
Speaker 1: Charles a menu, he's versatile, right, you can go inside
Speaker 1: that side, because Charles has shown that he can do that.
Speaker 1: I think he's better outside and rundowns better inside on
Speaker 1: pass downs. But there were players and look the first
Speaker 1: I think the first one that comes to mind for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, Xavier Sphilo yah Zere guard was
Speaker 1: he a tackle and the word versatile got broad alone
Speaker 1: and he obviously was a high second round pick, first
Speaker 1: pick in the second round, and the tag kept coming
Speaker 1: verst a verst, the versatile, and then people would watch
Speaker 1: him and go, well, wait a second, they're bouncing him around,
Speaker 1: but he's not really good at any of them. And
Speaker 1: so the word versatile became a negative in that Well,
Speaker 1: that means you're not good enough to hold one particular
Speaker 1: spot and play one particular spot. But it needs to
Speaker 1: be the other way, and that is you want guys
Speaker 1: that are versatile, that can do a number of things,
Speaker 1: that can be good at a number of different things.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna say these guys are versatile, okay, well
Speaker 1: that does mean he could put his hand down, he
Speaker 1: can stand up, that he can play in coverage, and
Speaker 1: he can stop the run, that he can play corner
Speaker 1: and Nicol like, versatile needs to actually mean what it is,
Speaker 1: and that is you can be good at a number
Speaker 1: of different things. Yeah, because if you're not, then guess
Speaker 1: what you're You're not good. It's not even versatile, it's
Speaker 1: just you're not very good. So well, that's that's where
Speaker 1: I think it ended up becoming kind of a talking point,
Speaker 1: is because the versatile players and the players are getting
Speaker 1: tagged with that, we're showing they weren't good enough to
Speaker 1: hold a spot, any spot, any of the one that
Speaker 1: they could play. Seemingly Philip Lindsay just fist bumped Steve
Speaker 1: Wish of the NFL net work Here. They have a
Speaker 1: little interview history between them. Oh yeah, Philip Lindsay. By
Speaker 1: the way, he didn't miss a day in the waiting
Speaker 1: room either. Yeah. Oh, look he's he's not the tallest guy.
Speaker 1: He's quick, he's good, he's look a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: You have to say this about a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: If he stays healthy, you know, the if I always
Speaker 1: say if is the biggest word sports talk radio and
Speaker 1: just being a sports fan. If this happens, then this
Speaker 1: could happen, And look, this is why we love this
Speaker 1: stuff because it's the unknown. But Lindsay is one of
Speaker 1: those additions on this team that maybe doesn't get talked
Speaker 1: about enough. This guy, look, it's gonna be a committee situation,
Speaker 1: or at least a mini committee, but he'll factor in.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's healthy, he's playing. I'm sorry he's
Speaker 1: getting snaps, He's gonna get the rock. I tell you
Speaker 1: a guy that I think has not not much has
Speaker 1: been made of and sitting next to him yesterday, we said,
Speaker 1: when the when the defensive lineman came in our right yesterday,
Speaker 1: I looked at them and was like, dang, like built
Speaker 1: completely differently than guys I've seen coming through here. Now.
Speaker 1: We used to have DJ Reader come through there, but
Speaker 1: DJ was, he was a DJ is a different dude.
Speaker 1: Vince was, Vince Wilfork was, you know, kind of well
Speaker 1: passed his prime. That said, when Vincent Taylor, Jalil Johnson, MALIEK.
Speaker 1: Collins came into our room yesterday, and I'm sitting next
Speaker 1: to Millie Collins and I can like, he's got shorts
Speaker 1: on his thighs are like gonna bust out of his shorts,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, these guys are built definitely VT Vincent Taylor,
Speaker 1: My god, he was. He had a sweatshirt on. He
Speaker 1: had kind of been moving around sweating a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I mean he just filled out this triple X
Speaker 1: sweatshirt just massive. So I'm curious to see how those guys,
Speaker 1: in particular Millie Collins. I think Mollie Collins has got
Speaker 1: a lot left in his game. I think he's got
Speaker 1: a lot left in his game. I think he's quick,
Speaker 1: I think he's athletic. I think for Malik, for even
Speaker 1: dating back those days in Nebraska, it was all about
Speaker 1: consistency because at volume ten, Willie Collins is a heck
Speaker 1: of football player, but the volume can't go down to
Speaker 1: volume of three or four. He's got to keep that
Speaker 1: thing cranked at volume ten as much as possible. And look,
Speaker 1: I know you can't do that as much. But he's
Speaker 1: the type of player that when he is boy, he
Speaker 1: can be disruptive. And I think this is the type
Speaker 1: of defense that would allow him, this type of defensive
Speaker 1: scheme that would allow him to do this. I think
Speaker 1: a guy like Willie Collins is someone maybe we don't
Speaker 1: talk a lot about. You throw in big Z to
Speaker 1: Malik and Vincent Taylor, there's some size up front. Now
Speaker 1: there's size big. That was not quite the case the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Last year in particular, Well, big
Speaker 1: Z is a guy who I would have loved to
Speaker 1: interview yesterday. We'll get a chance to talk to him
Speaker 1: soon enough. I mean, when you look at this d
Speaker 1: line and you mentioned some of those guys, Jalil's three
Speaker 1: sixteenth listed, these listings come on Vincent Taylor three eleven.
Speaker 1: It was three eleven. I think you know, back when
Speaker 1: he was a kid, MALIEK Collins three ten. Big Z's
Speaker 1: listed at three twenty. Yeah, it's not like your college
Speaker 1: basketball roster where they tend to inflate the heights of dudes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although Marcus Canby when I was at U match, we
Speaker 1: listed him at six to eleven. I thought he was
Speaker 1: seven feet But anyway, I digress. Big Z listed at
Speaker 1: three twenty. I don't know. That must be before breakfast. Okay,
Speaker 1: have you seen any quarterbacks yet, Johnny, I'm looking. It's
Speaker 1: quarterback watch. Yeah, they're walking across people and obviously the
Speaker 1: player everybody is wondering about number four to Shaun Watson
Speaker 1: is in Jersey and out of practice. Okay, he's out
Speaker 1: of practice. So yeah, I can see the media. It's
Speaker 1: almost like um when you're tacking a gigantic sailboat and
Speaker 1: everyone goes from one side to the other. As he
Speaker 1: crossed to go to the other field, he's had his
Speaker 1: jersey on. He's now jogging and took his jersey off.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see what happens at this particular point.
Speaker 1: But he was he did have his red jersey on,
Speaker 1: his red number four on and going across the field.
Speaker 1: So listen, this is gonna be something that we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to talk about whether we like it
Speaker 1: or not. We have not talked about it throughout the
Speaker 1: off season because obviously the legal situation became the overbearing
Speaker 1: part of it, and it's still it's still there. But
Speaker 1: you got the training camp, and now it becomes a
Speaker 1: part of training camp and a part of the season
Speaker 1: for as long as he is here, how long his
Speaker 1: career is, and if you joined us late. Nick Kissirio
Speaker 1: met with the media and answered dozens of questions about Watson,
Speaker 1: but did he answer them. He just said it's a
Speaker 1: matter that they're handling. They're gonna do the best thing
Speaker 1: for the organization. They are going to keep things private,
Speaker 1: and that's basically it. He was asked point blank whether
Speaker 1: Watson requested a trade or not, and he said, we
Speaker 1: don't really talk about those things, so that's it. He
Speaker 1: has taken some practice snaps without a jersey on right now.
Speaker 1: These are just practice snaps with the centers, snap at
Speaker 1: the ball and nothing else around, just air. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll keep you posted. We're gonna be back here at
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Speaker 1: is at training camp. Welcome back to Texans Training Camp Live,
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Speaker 1: then joined us. He's gonna join the morning program of
Speaker 1: Seth and Sean Paynton Pendergast and that's gonna be tomorrow
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Speaker 1: he'll be back with us on Monday, Wednesday, Friday next week.
Speaker 1: So we'll have him on a bunch during our shows
Speaker 1: here eight to ten am. And if you're just kind
Speaker 1: of new to sports Radio six ten, where have you been?
Speaker 1: And this is something we do every training camp. First
Speaker 1: ten business days of training camp. We're on eight to
Speaker 1: ten am. Johnny me sometimes we pull in the guys
Speaker 1: from six to ten. Nick Casserio joins us, McLean joins
Speaker 1: us every day. You know what I just thought about,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna get our questions from Landry Locker?
Speaker 1: You know I didn't ask him that, Johnny, And I
Speaker 1: don't mean he's standing right there. You said, we're doing
Speaker 1: business on the air, and I know Landry Lockers listening
Speaker 1: to us. Landry Landry's camp camp questions with us starting tomorrow,
Speaker 1: will you do him all right, yeah, he said thumbs
Speaker 1: upright those are That's one of my favorite segments. I
Speaker 1: don't believe we forgot about. I know Landry's camp questions.
Speaker 1: He's in his own show from right here right afterwards,
Speaker 1: so what the heck? I mean, he might as might
Speaker 1: as well. But training camp is underway. They got the
Speaker 1: giant video board here, giant for a practice field. I
Speaker 1: gotta say that is awesome. Look it is so high
Speaker 1: defth they have a wide angle shot right now, and
Speaker 1: it's just they got a lot of pixels on that thing.
Speaker 1: That thing is if there's four K, that's like eighty K.
Speaker 1: That is really impressive stuff, all right. Also impressive. Could
Speaker 1: be it's a projection. Could be the depth on the
Speaker 1: old line. The old line looks good now. Kennon and
Speaker 1: Lane Taylor open camp on PUP. Hopefully they get back
Speaker 1: very quickly. Third year player Max Sharping, aiming to really
Speaker 1: solidify his status as a guard on this team. Although
Speaker 1: you never know how it's gonna go. So Johnny and
Speaker 1: I caught up with him. Let's listen it. Max Sharping
Speaker 1: joining us right now in Texans Radio and it's year three.
Speaker 1: My mind is blown. I mean, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about that when I just put it that way, Year
Speaker 1: three in the National Football League, and it's crazy. I
Speaker 1: love it. That's awesome. What do you think about going
Speaker 1: into year three? Was the big focus for you? I
Speaker 1: saw you in a building a lot this summer, So
Speaker 1: what was the focus for you this offseason to get
Speaker 1: ready for year three? Yeah, I mean I think it
Speaker 1: was just uh, you know, trying to build up a
Speaker 1: little bit of strength, get used to the to the
Speaker 1: heat down here. I mean, obviously last year it was
Speaker 1: different being out of the building, so I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to stick around, you know, keep keep my mind,
Speaker 1: you know, present in the building in Houston. Yeah, absolutely important. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to Green Bay again, reminiscent of your rookie
Speaker 1: year where you started out your first preseason game experience.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on going back. I know it'll be a shorter
Speaker 1: trip this time. Yeah, I'll be shorter, but it'll still
Speaker 1: be good. You know, Obviously, anytime you get to go
Speaker 1: back to your hometown, it's it's a good time. So
Speaker 1: I'm super excited. You know, it's a special place for
Speaker 1: me and you know, for football in general. So I'm
Speaker 1: very excited. Had you ever been on Lambeau Field. Prior
Speaker 1: to playing in that game as a rookie, I had
Speaker 1: not Actually that was the first So it's very cool,
Speaker 1: very cool. That's very cool to being just to have
Speaker 1: those How much pressure did you feel? I mean, I
Speaker 1: know it's the preseason game one, but you're rookie, you
Speaker 1: got a ton of families. How much pressure did you
Speaker 1: feel for that night? Uh? Honestly, I mean we had
Speaker 1: been practicing against them for a little bit, so actually
Speaker 1: the game wasn't wasn't too much pressure. Um. I was
Speaker 1: more just kind of excited to see you know who
Speaker 1: all came out with my family and stuff like that
Speaker 1: after the game, and you know it, it was cool
Speaker 1: seeing all of them support and wearing uh Texas stuff
Speaker 1: in Lambeau instead of all of the packer here. All right,
Speaker 1: So here we are with a new offensive line. Coach
Speaker 1: tell us about James camping Man, I mean another guy
Speaker 1: who came from Green Bay. Yeah, I love it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's great, he's uh, he's really uh,
Speaker 1: you know, getting the guys to gel together, I think,
Speaker 1: and sending a tone about who who we're going to
Speaker 1: be as as an offensive line, as as an offense,
Speaker 1: as a team. UM, so I think, you know, having
Speaker 1: a guy who who played in the league himself for
Speaker 1: a long time and has than coaching for an extremely
Speaker 1: long time. Um has coached some of the greats in
Speaker 1: the game. You know. I mean, it's uh, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: The chemistry between the guys up front. First of all,
Speaker 1: how long does it take to create that chemistry and
Speaker 1: be how important is it to have it to be
Speaker 1: successful as an offensive line? I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of a lot of what we do
Speaker 1: is you know, helping each other, you know, double teams,
Speaker 1: pass protection, slides, all that stuff. So I mean having
Speaker 1: that chemistry with each other is extremely important, and I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: a lot of it is off the field more than
Speaker 1: even on the field, because you got to you gotta
Speaker 1: be able to trust each other, and you gotta know
Speaker 1: who he is in his background and what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do in certain situations, and UM that that takes time.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I mean I think off the
Speaker 1: field and meetings and discussing, you know, what he's seeing
Speaker 1: or what they're seeing. All this stuff, UM, even just
Speaker 1: talking about or in a walkthrough or something. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily all practice that helps obviously, and you need that, UM,
Speaker 1: but off the field stuff is pretty important to what
Speaker 1: do you think will be different about the offense this year?
Speaker 1: Without giving away state secrets and strategy secrets, what's going
Speaker 1: to be different about what you guys do up front?
Speaker 1: I think it's like I said, I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: with Campy coming in, it's it's a lot about a mentality.
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's what's going to be different
Speaker 1: this year. UM, just the mentality and the way we're
Speaker 1: gonna go about, you know, practice games. Everything is going
Speaker 1: to be all all the mentality. It is just gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit different. As you've gotten into your
Speaker 1: third year in the NFL, I would imagine that you
Speaker 1: work on technique. You work on technique. You work on
Speaker 1: technique all the time. That's something you just do all
Speaker 1: the time. So what's the key in getting better as
Speaker 1: an individual offensive lineman? Is it kind of learning tricks
Speaker 1: of the trade. Is it's studying more film. What's kind
Speaker 1: of the key to take in I don't say the
Speaker 1: next step, but what's kind of the key to becoming
Speaker 1: even better weekend and week out? Is it more about
Speaker 1: just emphasizing technique. Is it learning new techniques? Is it
Speaker 1: kind of the little tricks of the trade you learn
Speaker 1: playing inside? What's kind of the key max for for
Speaker 1: taking you know, that step of of becoming the NFL
Speaker 1: lineman that you want to be. I think it kind
Speaker 1: of honestly, it's a little bit week by week, um,
Speaker 1: day by day type of thing. You know, certain certain things, Um,
Speaker 1: you know you're good at coming in certain things you
Speaker 1: need to improve on, right, And I think obviously you
Speaker 1: never want to lose what you're good at, but you
Speaker 1: got to take h take what your maybe he's not
Speaker 1: your strong suit, and you got to work on that
Speaker 1: every single day until it kind of creeps up closer. Um.
Speaker 1: And then depending on the week. You know, if you
Speaker 1: if you've played a guy before, you have a little
Speaker 1: bit of an idea of what he's gonna do to
Speaker 1: try to attack you or what he might try this time.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't, um, you know, played against him before,
Speaker 1: you got to watch a little bit more film on
Speaker 1: him and you know, ask around the vets, see if
Speaker 1: they've played against them before anything like that. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit, uh, a little bit unique to
Speaker 1: every every person, every situation um, and you just kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, focus on maybe one thing one day, one
Speaker 1: thing another day, and just stack them up. We've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about how last year was tough on the rookies,
Speaker 1: but it was no picnic for you guys going into
Speaker 1: your second year either, because you were kind of deprived
Speaker 1: of that entire offseason to get ready as opposed to
Speaker 1: the rookie year when you're getting ready for draft and
Speaker 1: all that other stuff. So what was that like for you?
Speaker 1: And I know everybody had to deal with it, But
Speaker 1: now that you're sort of through that, I know we're
Speaker 1: still living in the protocol world, but it's not quite
Speaker 1: the same. Yeah, I mean you definitely. I mean I
Speaker 1: didn't even really have a full NFL off season until
Speaker 1: this year, so it was different going into that first
Speaker 1: That first off season, you never really get a feel
Speaker 1: for what you know, what vets do, what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and you're supposed to learn from everybody, but
Speaker 1: if they're not around, how can you do that? So
Speaker 1: it took a bit a little bit of getting used to.
Speaker 1: But I like, you know, having the process this year
Speaker 1: definitely helps you, know, you get you get you moved through.
Speaker 1: Like I was saying, day by day, you kind of
Speaker 1: have a little bit more of a process, a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a setup where you can focus on
Speaker 1: certain things at certain times. All Right, that's Max Sharping,
Speaker 1: who joined Johnny and myself in the hunday Texans radio
Speaker 1: studio and a terrific visit with him. Team practicing right
Speaker 1: now at the Houston Methodist Training Center. Media just tweeting
Speaker 1: everything that a certain quarterback does. Oh he took his
Speaker 1: jersey off, Oh he put it back on. Oh he
Speaker 1: lifted his left foot, And I get it, I suppose.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of other things to talk
Speaker 1: about on this team. But I understand it's a huge story.
Speaker 1: We all want to know what happens. Although I don't
Speaker 1: know if every little movement here at camp is filled
Speaker 1: with significance, is filled with projection on what is ultimately
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Speaker 1: unique situation. This is the twentieth Texans training camp and
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Speaker 1: stories on this team that one is obviously on a
Speaker 1: national basis and locally to overshadowing the rest, But there
Speaker 1: is a lot to go over. So Landry is gonna
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Speaker 1: For the latest on your favorite team in mind, go
Speaker 1: to Houston Texans dot com. All right, we gotta correct
Speaker 1: that bump. He's not an outside live backer. He's a
Speaker 1: d L. Who's a Whitney. Oh yeah, he's DL. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gone back to the future. He's been he's been
Speaker 1: around since twenty twelve, so that's okay. That's what he
Speaker 1: was in Illinois, he was a four. It was so
Speaker 1: funny because in twenty eleven he gets all these sacks.
Speaker 1: He's playing four down D lineman defensive end, and some
Speaker 1: of the Texans drafting was like, well, you know, how's
Speaker 1: he gonna transfer, how's he gonna translate to a three? Four?
Speaker 1: And now it's like, well, how's it gonna be a fourth? Three?
Speaker 1: He's like, guys, he did that in college. I know
Speaker 1: was years ago, but he's got it in his bag.
Speaker 1: He's got the club in his bag. He always definitely
Speaker 1: got the club. And don't forget how to hit the
Speaker 1: sand wedge. In fact, it's one of his favorite clubs,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been able to use it. So and
Speaker 1: you know who we taught to yesterday and I want
Speaker 1: to run that tomorrow. I think because Jacob Martin. We
Speaker 1: had a terrific visit with him and he could not
Speaker 1: be more excited about playing defensive end in a four three.
Speaker 1: He said, this is why I was drafted, this is
Speaker 1: why they liked me in this league because I could
Speaker 1: do that well. And then he's an outside linebacker and look,
Speaker 1: he got some things done. You know it's he's in
Speaker 1: this league. He's employed in this league. Look, we make
Speaker 1: a big deal about wanting guys to be Pro Bowlers.
Speaker 1: We want everybody to be a Pro Bowler, all pro. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: first round draft choice ability. But the fact is there's
Speaker 1: a huge middle class, if you will, in this league.
Speaker 1: And he fitted just fine in his role. But this
Speaker 1: is a role where he might flourish. Johnny defensive end
Speaker 1: in a four to three where he's a situational guy
Speaker 1: and he's probably not in there first down, but he's
Speaker 1: a situational guy, but he could be really productive here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think for him it was really interesting.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to run an interview because we I
Speaker 1: get so interested in talking to the pass rushers. I
Speaker 1: love talking about you guys, were really love talking about
Speaker 1: I had to excuse myself these guys were talking pass
Speaker 1: rush moves and lifting up your elbow and doing the
Speaker 1: swim and that. It was so awesome. But it's just
Speaker 1: a comfortability of knowing as a defensive end, guess what
Speaker 1: you're not dropping in coverage. Yeah, you're going forward, whether
Speaker 1: it's forward to attack a blocker in a run game,
Speaker 1: whether it's rushing quarterback, looping inside on games and stunts, whatever,
Speaker 1: you're going forward. You're not having to think about going back.
Speaker 1: And I think about one play in particular, as it
Speaker 1: pertains to Jacob. It's not really fair to him because
Speaker 1: Kansas City schemed it up. But in that playoff game,
Speaker 1: it's twenty four nothing, but the Chiefs get that long
Speaker 1: return from Hardman and they take Damian Williams and they
Speaker 1: run him down the seam. Well, Jacob's got to read
Speaker 1: and then get out to it, and it's just not
Speaker 1: in his purview. It's just not something that he really
Speaker 1: does instinctively, and did instinctively. And then Mahomes drops a
Speaker 1: bullet and you know, put a bullet on Williams at
Speaker 1: the touchdown twenty four seven in the floodgates open in.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Jacobs, but it just showed where he was
Speaker 1: not as comfortable as he said he wasn't a four
Speaker 1: three at Temple, which he is now in here with us.
Speaker 1: So we have ones and twos and ones and twos
Speaker 1: going at it here in a non padded practice. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're not going fold, They're going about three quarters
Speaker 1: here at best. Uh. You have Taylor manning the quarterback
Speaker 1: position on one end of the field and Davis Mills
Speaker 1: on the other end of the field, with Driscoll and
Speaker 1: Watson watching. That's how this is right now. Don't know
Speaker 1: how it's going to change as these reps progress here,
Speaker 1: but giving you a little update. We don't do much
Speaker 1: play by play of practice. Just try to give you
Speaker 1: a few tidbits, a few nuggets here and there. What's
Speaker 1: going to do you want to go to rep in
Speaker 1: re Oh? You know, because it's good. It's a good
Speaker 1: bead for me to get a preseason RepU. Oh, I
Speaker 1: do to my head, Johnny all the time when I'm
Speaker 1: watching practice. I don't know if you knew this all right,
Speaker 1: I can't see us in the backfield, but Lindsay, just
Speaker 1: gotta carry yeah when you're watching a game at home,
Speaker 1: because I do sometimes when I'm watching a game at home,
Speaker 1: I'm calling out formations. I'm calling out like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this motion, like I'm calling it out as I'm watching it.
Speaker 1: Do you call out the you know, watching you? And
Speaker 1: I did the Southern Conference championship basketball game this year, right,
Speaker 1: and I was leading up to that, I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll do like a couple of minutes of a basketball
Speaker 1: game here and there, just to get a little rhythm
Speaker 1: because it's a rhythm game and so it's football really.
Speaker 1: But yeah, every once in a while, I'll call absolutely
Speaker 1: out loud at home. Are you kidding? Look, if you're
Speaker 1: not doing that as a play by play guy, if
Speaker 1: you say you're not doing it, you're lying. They're all
Speaker 1: nances at home doing it sometimes seriously because they're in
Speaker 1: this business, and anybody who does any kind of presentation
Speaker 1: work at this supplies to all businesses. If you do
Speaker 1: zoom call presentations, if you do any kind of presentation
Speaker 1: in front of multiple people, do it out loud. Practice
Speaker 1: out loud. You don't have to do the whole thing necessarily,
Speaker 1: but not in your head. In your head, it's not working.
Speaker 1: It's a motor skill. It's got to go from brain
Speaker 1: to mouth. The lungs, everything moving as a machine. If
Speaker 1: you're not doing that, you're not getting the reps that
Speaker 1: you need to get better. Johnny, when I first started
Speaker 1: doing football play by play at Central Michigan, you know,
Speaker 1: at a high level. I was doing high school before that,
Speaker 1: I would sit in the stands and watch practice, and
Speaker 1: as they were running reps, I would just call all
Speaker 1: the action like I was way high in the stands
Speaker 1: where no one could hear me. And I wasn't like
Speaker 1: they couldn't hear me, but I was doing it out loud,
Speaker 1: just to get that, you know, get the reps going.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. Whether you like your voice
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