WEBVTT - Texans Camp is Here | Training Camp Live (7-28-2021) 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.280 It's finally here. Now it's time to put on the pads. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:15.120 Counting makes some noise. Good work, Good work. Your Houston 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.680 Texans are back for training. Can trust each other and 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.480 trust the process. Trust what we're doing. Welcome to Texans 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.680 Training Camp Live. Your sideline pass to the Houston Texans 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.240 as they get to work for the season. Texans Training 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.960 Camp Live is presented by Exfinity. Now let's go down 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.960 to the Houston Methodist Training Center. Here are your hosts, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:44.880 Mark Vandermere and John Harris. A twentieth training camp in 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.800 the history of the franchise is about to begin. Mark Vadimir, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.960 John Harris with you as we are live at the 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:55.000 Houston Methodist Training Center. Sports Radio six TAD Texans Radio 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.920 and a big bunch of shows coming your way starting 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.040 today for the next ten business days eight to ten am. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.600 Lots of interviews, exclusives. Nick Casserio Press conference today, Cassario 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:11.080 exclusively here afterwards. Stay tuned. It's going to be an 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.000 interesting day, Johnny, because, as I said, the twentieth year, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.360 we've seen them all and they're all different. A former 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.160 coach of this franchise said, every year is different. That's true, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.520 and It's especially true right now because this is a 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.800 unique day for a variety of reasons. We have so 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.080 many new players, we have a quarterback who may or 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.640 may not be here today, and that's gonna be a 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.240 huge story nationally and locally, and so much going on. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.480 But I think that you and I always have an 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.800 interesting perspective. I was just in the building. I just 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.000 saw Nick Casserio, I just saw David Culley, just saw 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.039 a bunch of coaches and players getting ready for their 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.480 first training camp practice. And there is a buzz, there's 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.840 an excitement to this. They know that it's about to 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.760 start here. You're on the record, it's happening here where 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.800 every snap matters as you ramp up to the twenty 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.840 twenty one season. Interesting, as I was walking from my 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.080 car to the into the stadium and then got in 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.040 the building and I just there's just this charge I get, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.280 and I got the same charge walking over. And as 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.800 I was walking over, the guys were activating. So the 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.639 guys were walking back from the Houston Methist trains and 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.960 are bubble back over soaked like they had already had 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.639 a workout, a workout, Yeah, and then they're gonna work 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.840 out and I just walked over the bridge and seeing 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.120 guys walk over, it's like, man, it's on. You said 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.240 twentieth year and you're like, you're all different, and they are. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.440 They're all different, and we got a lot going on. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.000 What's not different. We could have taken a picture, a 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.720 snapshot of this. I know what you're gonna say, and 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.600 it's the same other than the two years we were 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.080 at the Green bright although the first day at the 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.000 Greenbrier it was it was like this too, not a 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.840 cloud in the sky, the sun is out. And we 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.519 always talked about the weather and yeah, it's gonna be 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.840 steaming hot. Those interesting talking to the guys yesterday for 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.520 media days, talking to some Julie Johnson was one that 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.280 stood out. Always played in the the Midwest with Iowa. Yeah, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.720 played for the Vikings, always in the Midwest. He's noticing it. Yeah, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.160 And we asked him, you know what about you know, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.200 coming to Houston. He's like, oh, man, you know, first 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.040 thing that's hot. I remember C J. Fit Orwitz ironically 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.119 both going up having gone to Iowa said the same 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.080 thing to go to go out to man. Something just 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.120 bit me. Holy smokes, Wow that hurt. Oh maybe it's 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.000 a wasp. I don't know, man, but if it's a wasp, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.400 I might die. I'm allergic to wasp and beasting. So hopefully, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.960 hopefully your legs start swelling up. We do have medical 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.120 professionals here. Then that's the one thing about being here 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.960 at training camp is if something does happen. I mean, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.679 there are plenty of doctors, but they don't want to 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.600 deal with you. No, they don't want to deal with me. Honestly, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.080 they don't want to deal with anybody. I remember twenty fifteen, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.880 the year A Hard Knocks. I mean, we were halfway 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.720 through the first day and Jeff Kaplan's walking over to 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.440 former head coach Bill O'Brien and saying, yeah, Arian's got 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.160 a groin, And then we didn't see Arian for weeks 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.440 and we're like, oh, I mean, it was just it 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.320 was crushing to that's the old he's gotten growing, he's 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.720 got a foot, he's got a knee. I know he 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.200 has a knee, and we're gonna see that today. One 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.360 other thing I told myself all night, all night, all 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.280 this morning. I went from my three mile walk this 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.840 morning like five fifteen and walking around the neighborhood and 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.840 I'm like, you know how you get first day of 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:14.200 training camp, you know how you get Just relax, just breathe. Yeah, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.320 just don't talk over Mark, just have fun, don't talk 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.800 a mile a million miles a minute, just relax because 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.880 you seem to be bothered by this. Yeah, well they 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.120 keep biting if it keeps continuous thing. Yeah, I didn't 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.880 get him. So either way, maybe somebody built a nest 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.960 under each made him Darius Leonard and I will stop him, Yes, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.800 please do stop Darius Leonard. So did you see the 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.040 car he rolled up in yesterday? No? It Coult's camp. No, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.560 I didn't see it. I don't want to watch their coverage. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.400 They do a pretty good job there, staff they do, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.280 they do that, They do pretty good job. They get 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.640 they get some pretty some pretty sweet access. But he 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.920 rolls up and I don't. I can't even put it. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.600 I mean, it's a like gold plated, like muscle car 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.719 looking thing, convertible. It was pretty sweet, so pretty sweet 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.840 of the cults. Dante Moncrief no longer with the team, right, Yeah, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.400 that was we. You know, we had media days yesterday. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:09.800 I think a lot of people know because we played 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.880 some of the interviews yesterday and Dante was on our 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.960 list and we didn't get him. We didn't get him, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.000 and you start thinking, Okay, at that point, you know, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.440 things move around on might you never know. Uh. And 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.040 then as we're you know, about half hour after we're 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.000 supposed to get him, you look on Twitter and you 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.159 see the Texas have moved on from Dante Moncrief obviously, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.160 Anthony Miller comes in the building. Um, and there's we 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.839 don't know the news that's gonna happen with Randall copy either. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.200 There's been a lot of rumors and a lot of 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.320 speculation about what could happen with potentially at Trade de 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.880 Green Bay. I've seen him in the building all summer. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.880 I've seen him in I saw him building yesterday, So 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.200 he's been around. Yeah, who knows what's gonna happen with 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.480 that and whether he's gonna be out here. So by 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.240 the time nine fifteen comes around, and maybe even before that, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.000 because Nick Cassario will meet with the media at eight 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.320 forty five, and then he'll come over with us exclusively. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.320 As you said, you'll hear the press conference right here 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.400 about it. Yeah, we'll carry it live. So there's gonna 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.160 be a lot of stuff out there, and there might 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:02.880 even be stuff before we get there. Things are gonna 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.400 break on Twitter, yep, who knows, but we'll find out 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.440 hopefully a little bit more. But whatever team walks out 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.120 here wearing the logo, that's a team that we'll rock with. Yeah, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.760 and that's what time we're gonna go, and that's we're 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.240 gonna talk about in this twenty three. I'm glad you 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.840 said that. Twentieth year, so it's your twentieth. This is 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:25.080 my fourteenth. I think this is my fourteenth training camp 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.280 in moving up there. Holy smokes. Here. I was thinking 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.640 as I was on my walk this morning, like I'm 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.400 feeling young, I'm feeling good, And I was like, man, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.960 this is my fourteenth train camp. Holy fourteenth Texans camp. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.279 only fourteen years. Baby, you're at us together and we're 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.680 still twelve short of the general. Hey see I remember 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.320 the first fun I was yesterday. See, hey, we were 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.120 right out here. They did two days back then, Johnny, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.560 they did two days, and yes, they did attempt an 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.760 afternoon practice or two and that just stopped immediately because 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.280 well I guess not immediately if they attempted too. But 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.919 I just remember remember coming out for an afternoon practice 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.040 at some point and then that stop. But Dom usually 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.400 did one day on and then one day with one 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.840 practice and then a two a day on the next day. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.080 But he would go morning and evening. He would want 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.480 two meals in the guys between practices for hydration or 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.960 whatever else recovery. So that was pretty cool. But you 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.440 mentioned it guys activating this morning, and maybe they'll do 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.800 that every day and then come right out here. I'm 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.680 surprised they go back in, but I know they had 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.520 a meeting this morning and they're coming back out. So 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.440 here's the deal with that. I believe that this is 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.920 not going to be a full blown deal today. I 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.160 don't have any information on that, but I would not 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.280 be surprised if they go a little lighter today. They're 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.240 not going to go in pads for a few days obviously, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.440 and it is the first one. They just have the 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.120 conditioning test yesterday. But we'll see, maybe we see a 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.560 full blown thing. I think it'll be a very heavy 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.520 OTA practice. I think you're right that kind of format. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.000 I was listening to Matt Campbell from Iowa State. I 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.680 know it's college, but I was listening to Matt Campbell 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.320 and he did. There was like a long video piece 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.960 and I was watching he was talking about what COVID 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.840 taught them, and I read an article about it later. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.000 He talked about what COVID kind of changed for them, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.880 and he said he felt in twenty twenty the way 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.040 that they ramped up to the season and how they 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.080 went about it, especially in this because there was no 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.680 spring last year going into twenty twenty, he said that 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.920 changed forever how he was going to approach practice, fall practice, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.160 and even spring practice. He had a great year. Well 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.120 not only that, but he also felt like at the 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.240 end of the year, he felt like his players had 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.880 more juice left. He felt like they had more juice 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.640 than they had ever had because of how they went 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.880 about ramping them up, getting them to the season and 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.440 then through the season. And he said he'll continue to 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.920 do that going forward. So I'll be curious to see 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.720 how teams, how the Texans, how other teams adjust. I've 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.120 heard Sean McVay talk about that on the podcast Flying Coach, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.680 about how to how to adjust, what COVID taught them, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.080 how they could go about And I know they've made changes, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.560 especially in the Rams Scotty department, talked about that just 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.199 being onto all that kind of stuff, but how they 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.680 ramp up during training camp and especially with now a 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:15.240 seventeenth game, that whole marathon, it's already started. But it's 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:16.760 it's not like one of those things where you get 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.240 to training camp you just hit it full bore, kind 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.400 of ramp that thing up, be ready to go by 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.520 September twelfth, and not to say that you can't be 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.679 ready by obviously August fourteenth in a preseason game, but 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.199 I'll i'll be curious to see the approach and how 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.640 it had in contrast that to previous years, not last year, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.280 because last year was just weird. But here's the thing 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.760 about this staff. We haven't seen them operate. They haven't 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.240 operated as a staff before. I mean, they've all done 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.560 their thing with different organizations. Obviously, Love he've been a 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.240 head coach, a real successful one, Caserio in New England, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.319 Gully everywhere he's been as an assistant head coach and 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.480 two other stops. So here we are in Houston, and 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.200 we don't know how they would handle it in a 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.800 non COVID year. We don't know how they would handle 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.280 practice at a place like the Greenbrier with good weather 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.760 or you know, cooler weather. I should say this is 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.000 great weather. I love this. This is vintage Texans training 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.079 camp weather. And remember a few weeks ago it was 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.280 raining every day. We're getting that cloud cover a lot 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.120 and it was kind of nice. And no, I like, yeah, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.920 though a lot of cloud cover. That's gone. All right, 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:22.840 we have blue sky, hot humid Texas. Here we go. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.240 It's training camp. So I've said this. Some people know 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:27.760 my wife and my daughter and are out in LA 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.520 and so I checked the weather out there every day. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.040 And there's no sense in even doing it because when 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.920 you go to the weather app and they've got like 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.559 eight or nine days and all you see is this 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.000 yellow orb but just all the way down that's it. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.760 That's all you see. Yeah, that's it. And that's kind 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.880 of where we'll be. You might get a little cloud cover, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.360 but not today, No, not today, not today at all. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.760 There is You couldn't buy a cloud today. You mean, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.760 they're all gone. You said something about it being the same, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.880 but things have changed over the years. And we talked 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.920 about this with John Weeks yesterday. You heard that on 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.920 Texans All Access. The show is up on the app. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.520 By the way, it's a great show with Chris Conley, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.360 Chris Moore, and John Weaves. Is unbelievable. I mean, I 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.439 know these aren't names that are necessarily going to sell 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.719 out the theater, but let me tell you something. These 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.520 guys were phenomenal guests. And that show is on our 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.920 app you can listen to it later. But the scoreboard, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.520 which was new last year here at the Houston Methodist 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.640 Training Center. Now fans will be back. They're not here today, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.360 a few days until we get them, but everything is covered. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.320 It's gigantic. The canopy they have over the middle stands. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.560 They're gonna have a hospitality area up there with the 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.280 bleachers and then all the bleachers on the side. I 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.160 know they've been covered before, but not this much. There's 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.800 a lot of cover there, so that's gonna be cool 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.560 in multiple ways. They still have the CRV. Is that 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.800 what it's called cool zone, the cool zone unit for 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.840 the players. They've got some shaded areas in the end zones, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.040 and they have the twenty foot rule. They have to 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.000 keep the fans away from the players by at least 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.800 twenty feet. All sorts of protocols in place here. I'm 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.120 in the inner tier now, John, I have graduated into 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.120 the intertier. Well, it's it's a kind of training camp 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.960 slash travel entertier status I have. I just stay away 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.040 from everybody. That's what I do, except for John McClain, 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.880 who who is actually making his way back toward the 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.600 tent here and we'll get him on the air. And General, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.559 we do have a more shaded area for you to sit, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.160 but I know you like getting a tan here at 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.360 the Houston Ato the training Center. It's part of the 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:27.600 training camp, stinking shade. Like wait a second, I could 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.840 walk right out here. I'm only there. Come out here 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.240 and stand in the shade block the sun. I've been 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.400 out there for an hour and now I'm gonna do 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.640 it forever long. You'll all right, General, it's a pleasure 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.079 to have you on. We'll have Nicko Sarrio's press conference 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.880 at eight forty five, and then we'll have him on 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.240 this show right after that, and we'll talk to him 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.560 about the big story of the day, of course, and 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.840 everything else going on with this team, because there's plenty 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.080 going on with this team. But John, what about the 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.160 big story of the day and what you're expecting today 0:12:55.320 --> 0:13:00.079 from your perspective? I still believe that the NFL for 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:04.000 at some point, we'll put Watson on the example list, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.439 which means he'll get paid his bass salary at ten 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.920 point five four million, But he don't get paid that 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.320 bass salary till the season begins and the league announced 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.160 they're continuing the investigation in which we already all knew. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.840 And so what I'd like to know with Nick is 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.560 what's Watson's status? Is he just one of the guys. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.720 Is he going to be out here? Is he going 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.439 to be fourth team? Who's he going to be taking 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.679 snaps away from snaps at training camp? With three new 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.320 quarterbacks are invaluable, you don't need somebody it's not going 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.880 to be on the team taking snaps. And you guys 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.840 remember two seventeen, nobody touched him. He took a couple 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.960 of steps after pass blew out his knee. That could 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.280 happen at any time. So if I'm am I'm hoping 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.480 to get a great offer for Deshaun Watson, No way 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.520 I'm putting him out on the field, run the risk 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.040 of an injury, and they could send him home with 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.199 an excused absence and not find him. But if they 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.800 were going to do that, I think they all would 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.760 he would have. So we're all curious to see when 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.560 he gets out here, where will number four be and 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.320 what will he be doing. Will he be working with 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.080 Davis Mills to help him? Will he try and you'd 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.400 think he'd like try to help them become familiarity with 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.200 they're familiar with their teammates, they and know most of them. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.600 Now that Dante Mincrave has gone, they're back to fifty 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.520 new players, including forty two veterans and Randall Cob. I'm 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.239 sure it's going to be traded, and so that would 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.120 take open up another spot for another veteran to come 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.400 in here. So there's so many players that are getting 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.960 to know each other on the field, as the coaches too. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.160 So watching so many moving parts, the defense and the 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.680 new four three with Lovey Smith, the new emphasis on 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.800 the running game, all new quarterbacks. It's going to be fun. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.000 A lot of things that make this a fascinating training camp. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.080 In preseason, John Over the weekend Texans trade for Anthony Miller. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.760 The news comes down because everything going on at green 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.320 Bay about the potential of Randall Cobb going to Green Bay. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.080 Don't know what's gonna happen. With that, What are your 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.200 thoughts about the Miller trade here Cobb potentially going there. Yeah, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.360 GOB's going to Green Bay. They were trying to work 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.920 out the pick, and I'm guarantee I can't imagine that 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.520 the Packers were wanting to take on that contract in 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.200 paying what he was due to make with that contract 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.720 he signed with him Texans last year. So Miller can 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.840 play insider outside. People Chicago were glad he left. They 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.960 didn't think he lived up to the potential he showed 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.920 as a rookie his second round pick in twenty eighteen. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.920 But he's gonna be hungry. Like a lot of these 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.720 veterans Nikessario is brought in who are on one or 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.880 two year contracts, big increased coming to the salary cap. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.120 They know if they play well and they provide the 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.520 kind of culture that they're looking for here, and they 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.760 got a chance to get paid. And Anthony Miller's one 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.880 of them. He could get paid here, He could get 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.680 paid in free agency. So I'm guessing they're gonna be 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.240 get the best that that guy's got and hopefully he 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.400 won't be punched and any defensive backs that got him 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.360 kicked out of the playoff game against the Saints. Well, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.520 if there's any defensive back who deserved to punch m 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.840 hunc Garter Johnson. Yeah, And the fact is that said 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.040 the coaches told him to not fall for this guy. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.520 That's his game. That he did. And the thing was 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.840 is in the first matchup John Gardner Johnson did those 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.200 same things. He did those same things to Miller, and 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.080 Millard just shoved at his side and caught eight passes 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.400 for seventy three yards like he was running his routes 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.800 against Gardner Johnson and physically like getting him off of him. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.000 And then got to the playoff game and let all 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.480 this stuff bother who knows. I like the Millard drade 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.960 because he and Chris Conley both had forty or more 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.960 catches the last two seasons. Of course he's had that 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.920 many for three seasons, but I would look for him 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.160 and Cooks, and I think Connley will end up being 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.400 a starter when Jackson Toil comes to town. Those will 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.320 be the three wideouts if they go with three wives 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.360 instead of two tight ends. Conley already talked about playing 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.240 his former team last night when we interviewed him. All right, general, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.159 in a normal situation, if this were an established roster 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.560 with these running backs and they had been around for 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.360 a bit, you'd say, well, you don't want to wear 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.439 them out or anything. It's training camp. You know what 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.199 you've got. But you really don't know what you have 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.800 with these guys. Even though they're veterans, they need the work. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.960 Yet you can wear them out because they're veterans. So 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.119 how do you handle the running back snaps in this 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.440 training camp? Well, first of all, they're not gonna run 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.560 over anybody. They can't be hit, they don't go to 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.919 the ground on purpose. So it's going to be the 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.400 preseason before we really get a good look at them. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.520 You know, Philip Lanes, he had thousand yards two years ago, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.520 Mark Ingram had fifteen touchdowns two years ago. And David Johnson, 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.400 of course, they know what they've gotten him. Not sure 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.159 what the contribubuitions will be for Rex burkeead he's never 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.960 been a regular starter. They won't. I can't imagine they'd 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.520 keep all four because you got to play special teams. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.000 Don't know how many of those guys would play special 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.000 teams in backup roles. But you need three good ones 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.639 when you're gonna run the ball. As much as the 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.320 text and when you got a seventeenth game. So I 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.439 look for them to get a good look in training camp, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.840 and then I'm guessing they'll go into the season with 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.480 David Johnson as a starter. But the one I'm most 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.560 interested in is Philip Lindsay john If I gave you 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.440 a million bucks and said, you can't watch the quarterbacks today, 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.880 can't even set eyes on them, because I know everybody's 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.080 gonna be watching the quarterbacks. So give a million dollars, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.760 you gotta watch something else. What's the first thing you're 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.800 watching today train Well, since they don't hit and they're 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.280 not wearing pads, the only thing we're watching would be 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.919 the receivers. But you'd have to hold your hand up 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.960 like this so you didn't see who's throwing the ball 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.280 and just watch it go down the field, and the 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.880 guys running with the receivers and the backs tight ends 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.760 will catch passes. So I'd be watching the receivers and 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.159 the dbs because really they're the only ones that are 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.159 gonna be able to do anything today since they're not 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.320 putting on bads. So that's a bad investment by me 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.439 to give you a million dollars to just watch passcap well, 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.320 if you gave me a million dollars, I'm out of here. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.600 You've watched any you and Mark can watch anybody you want, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.840 and I'll listen to you on the sports radio six. 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.639 All right, General, what about the defensive line here? We 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.399 taught to Malie Collins yesterday. As you get to know 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.479 these guys and see them up close and personal eyeballed them, 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.760 you start realizing, you know what, there's talent up there 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.919 and they could do some damage in his Lovey Smith 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.480 for three. What do you make of what they have 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.000 up front? Millie Collins did a good job at Dallas, 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.879 did not do a good job with the Raiders. So 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.760 he's a guy should be playing tackle with a chip 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.480 on his shoulder. Jolil Johnson, who I think will be 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.600 the other tackle, started sixteen games for the Vikings. They 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.240 didn't trade bernardert McKinney for Shack Lawson. For Shack Lawston 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.520 to be in a bench. And then I think Charles 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:37.800 a Minna who would be the fourth starter, and then 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.320 they'll make part of a rotation. Well, the player I'm 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.040 most interested to watch on defense is Ross Blacklock. Going 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.280 into his second year. He was a disappointment as a rookie. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.160 He needs to really step up his game and make 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.960 that transition to a four to three, which is a 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.879 whole lot easier than a three four for a young player. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.520 So this should be ideal. And I think my prediction 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.760 is a man who will be the biggest improved player 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.600 on the defensive line. If you think about the limited 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.920 number he snaps he had last year and anytimes he 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:10.920 hit the quarterback, what in the world would he do 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.080 if he's playing most of the time and he can 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.440 play inside the r outside. He's too big for a 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.320 four or three defensive end, but he can play it 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.400 against the run, and of course they have to improve 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.000 against the run, But why don't you know those guys 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.080 up front? To me is the most interesting thing about 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.040 the defense. I think the big thing for a manner 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.520 who on rundowns being inside. I don't want to say 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.040 he's a liability, but it's just it's not a strength. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.000 But I think he could do it outside if you 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.240 go inside to rush, that's where he really has success. 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.960 And John, you stole my thunder with Ross Blacklock, because 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.159 I think there are three really key guys amongst a 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.600 lot of guys, but Ross Blacklock taking that step going 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.640 from year one, year two, like you said, tough year one, 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.800 year two, coming back with a vengeance hopefully. I think 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.200 one as tight as Howard two years. I think he's 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.360 shown some really good things, but he's got the athletic 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.399 ability in the talent to be even more. He's got 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.000 to take that leap. The third to me is Lonnie 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.600 Johnson at safety. What do you expect from the third 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.520 year now and his second year at safety? And how 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:11.639 important is he is he to the defense? You know 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.560 which starters started the most games last year and secondary 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.560 Vernon Ard Rays seventeen. He's the only one. So you 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.479 had Eric Murray and Justin Reid doing most of the starting. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:26.119 Johnson had five games. It's his third year. They need 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.160 to see the improvement and in consistency they expected when 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:32.399 he was second round pick. If not, he may not 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.080 be back for the fourth year in a new contract. 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.439 But I thought it was so interesting fewer changes in 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:43.680 the secondary, and considering they had only two interceptions last 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.000 year when they had nine turnover second few and since 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.639 nineteen eighty that's the stat I'll guarantee you is going 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.480 to be improved under Lovey Smith. His hame work has 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.720 been forcing turnovers. They that starts up front, of course 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.040 with the pressure, but I guarantee you they're not gonna 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.200 finish last against the run, and they're gonna have a 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:04.320 whole lot more turnovers than nine. I just think you're 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.360 going to have more than nine. Well, Terrence Brooks, Terrence Mitchell, 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.800 Desmond King, somebody's gonna rise up, maybe more than one guy. 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.679 Mitchell's only one of those who started every game last year, 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.720 and he did it for the Browns. I just those guys, though, 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.600 have made plays in this league. It's funny, John, as 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.040 we're interviewing all these guys, I'm realizing everybody seems to 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.919 be twenty seven years old on this team. It's not true, 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:28.439 but there are a lot of guys who are in 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:30.680 that one smart because that means I've got one more 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.719 good contract in them, right, one more. One last hurrah 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.960 for some of these guys, and they wanted to create competition, 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:40.320 they clearly have it. Let's go to the offensive line 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.480 for a moment, because on pup you've got Marcus Cannon 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:45.879 and Lane Taylor, and those are two guys you'd love 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.480 to see in the mix here very much upfront. So 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.639 obviously it's not forever, and it could be very short. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.280 But what are you thinking there on the offensive line? 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:57.880 Soon as hain't passed their physicals after their knee injuries, 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.600 they'll be back the two starters tackle or sat Laramy Tunsil. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.920 They're best player on offense and according to the league, 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:07.560 the best player on the team according to ESPN and 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:11.399 their survey of fifty executives and players and coaches. And 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:15.440 then uh Tydus Howard right tackle, Justin Brett center. Both 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.760 guards are wide of but I assumed that Lane Taylor 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:22.080 would Starkness. He played for James Camping in Green Bay, 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.000 and he was ticketed to start for the Packers last year, 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.760 and he had a biceps injury and when he came 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.080 back from that, he blew out his knee. And I 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.440 think he'd be really nice if Max Sharping played well 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.800 better than last season and nailed down the left guard job. 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:37.119 But those guys are pumped because they're gonna get the 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:41.440 run block so much more than they did last season. John, 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:47.240 what's your favorite thing about training camp? Truthfully, come in 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:53.240 out the camaraderie of seeing everybody again. You know the restrictions, 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.359 I understand them. I don't like them, just the sign 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:59.080 of the times. But seeing new players, you know, it'd 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:01.800 be so much It's more fun if nothing, if Watson 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.640 had never demanded to be traded or at his legal issues, 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:09.399 and they could focus their rebuild around him. But seeing 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:12.920 new players, new coaches, to change to the four to 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.320 three for a first time since two ten. There's just 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:20.639 so many changes on this team, so many places to look, 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:23.400 and we're not really going to get a good barometer 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:26.480 of where they are until we get into the preseason 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:30.000 and they start at Green Bay with the Packers and 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:33.359 they can hit legitimately. But watching how it all plays out, 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.640 and I don't care how many games they win, watching 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:38.359 how it all plays out is going to be so interesting. 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.080 That's the reality show ever it is. General. Thanks a 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:42.520 lot for joining us. We look forward to seeing your 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:45.119 stuff in the chronicle. And I'm guessing you're having me 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.800 every day again every day every day. What time am 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:49.159 I going to be in the future or do I 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:51.400 need to be flexed? That's that information is given out 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:53.320 on a need to know basis all right, and no, 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:55.960 it'll be early, it'll be around now. If that's okay, 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:59.360 I'll be here. I'll do anything you guys want. 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Obviously, you don't hear from 0:30:58.360 --> 0:31:01.680 the GM much during training camp, at least once and 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:05.320 maybe twice, and David Culley pretty much every day from 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:08.960 here on out until we get to the opener in September, 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:12.760 when the Texans take out the Jacksonville Jaguars at NRG 0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:16.920 Stadium preseason game number one, two weeks from Saturday night 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:20.600 at Green Bay, Johnny. So here we go, and you're 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:24.080 gonna get more practices than usual. This is an early 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:28.640 start usually in a normal situation. By normal, I mean 0:31:28.760 --> 0:31:31.880 pre COVID, you'd have two weeks of practices, so you'd 0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:36.560 probably start Saturday morning with your initial training camp practice. 0:31:36.640 --> 0:31:40.600 Now you have three more, if three extras to get ready. 0:31:40.600 --> 0:31:43.360 They'll be in pads on Monday, they'll have Sunday off. 0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:45.800 And don't get me started on game day week yet. 0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:48.000 I will mesh with you when we get to that point. No, 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:51.840 today's Wednesday. It's Wednesday because I woke up this morning 0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:54.440 thinking it was Friday. Oh gosh, I don't know. Don't 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.080 to me. Yeah, and don't do that to the listener either, 0:31:57.160 --> 0:32:02.520 because thank you. Yeah. All right, So let's get to 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:04.600 this now. I promised you this. I'm going to deliver 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:08.520 Texans running back situation. Look, Philip Lindsay, I'm excited about him. 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:10.360 We saw him at OTA's. Look he didn't see him 0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:12.800 hit anybody or get hit by anybody. But he looked 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:15.080 spry and that was good. You know, when he's healthy, 0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:18.840 he's good, and you hope he stays healthy. Obviously, mark Ingram, 0:32:19.080 --> 0:32:22.160 we'll see him out here soon enough. I don't know 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:24.800 about Rex Burkhead. Maybe still on the mend here, but 0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:28.120 let's see what we get out of him. Obviously, David 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:31.680 Johnson coming back is interesting because you had those three 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:33.640 games where he had one hundred and thirty yards plus 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:36.360 from scribbage. In those last three contests. He looked different, 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:37.920 looked like a different player at the end of the year, 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:41.440 looked like he was really jelly with the entire offensive 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:44.040 unit and Johnny and I. This is a little snippet 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:46.760 of an interview we did with him. We asked David 0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:49.880 Johnson what the difference was at the end of the 0:32:49.960 --> 0:32:52.880 year when the production amped up. I think the biggest 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:55.320 thing for me was I got to talk to a psychologist. 0:32:55.680 --> 0:32:59.760 I mean, really focus more on my ability now worrying 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:02.560 so much about what's going on outside of my control. 0:33:02.600 --> 0:33:04.320 And that's what he told me. Man control what I 0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:06.840 can control, do what I can and be positive. I 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:10.000 think that's another big thing. And just be positive when 0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:12.360 you start having negative thoughts or saying negative things to 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:16.680 start manifesting into bad things, obviously, So I started doing 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:20.960 that a lot more and really just doing everything I 0:33:21.040 --> 0:33:24.520 can to try to keep my body healthy and mentally 0:33:24.600 --> 0:33:28.280 be strong. How tough, David, was it for you to 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.920 make the change from Arizona to come here, especially with 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:33.920 all of us going on last year with COVID and 0:33:34.320 --> 0:33:37.000 SUE meetings and all that. I'm not not making excuses 0:33:37.040 --> 0:33:39.320 for anything or making or forcing you to do that, 0:33:39.400 --> 0:33:41.880 but what was How difficult was that to make the 0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:44.080 change from the only NFL team you had known to 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:46.320 come to a totally new situation that you came to 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:49.080 last year. It was very different. It was very hard 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:52.120 at the very beginning because it wasn't just me coming. 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:54.080 It was my family, have two kids and a wife, 0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:56.680 and we were trying to come in the middle of 0:33:56.720 --> 0:33:59.160 the pandemic, and I was trying to set up you know, 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:03.080 the pediatric, a doctor, everything, trying to get a house 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:06.240 and it's not like you can just walk into to 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:10.480 view houses anymore. It's all virtual, so everyone's getting used 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:13.000 to being on zoom and stuff. And I think that 0:34:13.040 --> 0:34:16.000 was the hardest thing is actually outside of football, um 0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:18.880 learning playbooks. You know, when you become a veteran, you 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:22.520 learn playbooks pretty well. You know, football football is always 0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:25.480 usually the same, just wordings different. And so for me 0:34:25.520 --> 0:34:28.680 it was just that my family and getting them all settled. 0:34:29.080 --> 0:34:31.520 And I think the thing that for me that was 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:34.640 hard as well as learning the guys, seeing them on 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:37.280 on zoom is not the same as meeting him in person. 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:40.720 So when I first got here and meeting him really 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:43.279 for the first time during practice, it was really hard 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:46.600 to like know guys face, you know, get to know 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:49.200 them well and know their characteristics and stuff like that. 0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:52.000 And so even you know, we did zoom all the 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:54.320 way through OTAs, but I felt like I still was 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:55.960 on a new team when I first got here for 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:59.279 training camp and getting to meet the guys and just 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:01.480 seeing how everyone and you know plays, you know, what 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:03.759 their strengths, what their weaknesses are, how they play, what 0:35:03.880 --> 0:35:06.000 motivates them, you know, how you talk to him during 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:08.359 games and stuff like that. That is probably the hardest thing. 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.799 There's David Johnson, new to this team last year now. 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:15.160 Also new to this team last year was one of 0:35:15.160 --> 0:35:18.640 the receivers Randall Cobb. Johnny we have some breaking news 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:22.640 here to report. Yes, from the source himself on Twitter, 0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:26.880 Randall Cobb. And I've looked at that's that's his Twitter handle. 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:30.359 It's not. It's got a blue check mark. Yeah, and 0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:33.200 it just says I'm coming home. It's a picture of 0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:36.160 him and his green Bay Packers number eighteen, Jersey. So 0:35:36.760 --> 0:35:39.520 apparently a deal has been made, Randall Cobb going back 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:42.080 to green Bay. We'll see what the deal is, what 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:44.239 the Packers have coming back. And I got to thinking 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:46.520 about this. I was listening to Sean and Seth Mark 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:48.680 on the way up here, and I started thinking the 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:54.120 Texans trade for Miller was from the Bears. Texas got 0:35:54.280 --> 0:35:58.480 Miller in a seventh for a fifth of twenty twenty two. Right, 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.000 So if they move Cobb, who knows what they're gonna get. 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:05.720 I don't know, but it almost becomes almost becomes in essence, 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:10.359 Miller in a seventh for cop right, in essence, I mean, 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:12.600 you know, obviously, I know it's different teams and all that, 0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:15.560 but that's in essence what this becomes is a younger, 0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:20.600 more athletic player with a seventh rounder for Randall. I mean, 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:22.800 we'll see in Randall's coming off An injury. But Randall 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:27.319 Cobb tweeted four minutes ago, now I'm coming home. His 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:29.520 picture in a Green Bay Packers jersey. So apparently that 0:36:29.560 --> 0:36:32.520 deal is done and the cop contract definitely comes into 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:35.440 play when you're figuring what the value absolutely is going 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:39.640 back toward green Bay coming here obviously, because they are 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:43.320 taking that on. And as far as the Aaron Rodgers 0:36:43.560 --> 0:36:46.399 chemistry goes up there with Davante Adams and his other 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:49.520 pass catchers, he clearly wants to work with Randall Cops 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:51.920 and I think it's maybe beyond that. I can't speak 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.800 for him obviously, but having a guy like Randall Cob around. 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:57.360 We talked to Randall Cop. He's a terrific guy. Obviously, 0:36:57.400 --> 0:36:59.440 did not go well for him here. He made some plays, 0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:01.160 but it did not go well for him here. But 0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:03.600 he goes back to Green Bay where he's comfortable. They're 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:05.319 very comfortable with him. We'll see how it works out 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:07.279 for him at best of luck. Well, with all that 0:37:07.400 --> 0:37:11.120 was going on last night, we left the building. I 0:37:11.120 --> 0:37:14.759 don't know, six is six something, six fifteen or so. Yeah, 0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:16.960 I came out here and just decided to bake a 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:18.839 little bit, yeah, you know, just to get used to, well, 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:20.879 I went to go put my connects on down where 0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:22.759 we put them all as we walk in. As I 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:25.640 was walking, I was going to put that back on 0:37:25.640 --> 0:37:27.640 the tray as they can trace me throughout practice and 0:37:27.680 --> 0:37:30.400 where I am. As I was walking, I saw one individual. 0:37:30.440 --> 0:37:32.000 It's really only one in the other the individual of 0:37:32.000 --> 0:37:34.600 the service lab one is Randall. And I debated whether 0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:37.800 I should say something like and that's what made COVID 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.160 last year so weird, Like we didn't even we're there 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:42.239 all year, but we never got a chance to meet him. 0:37:43.160 --> 0:37:45.480 And so I just as I had seen him throughout 0:37:45.480 --> 0:37:48.000 the summer, I just said, I said, hey, rand know 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:50.560 how you doing. He was nice, And my guess is 0:37:50.600 --> 0:37:52.040 I mean he was walking somewhere. I don't know where 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:53.239 he was going, but the first time we had seen 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:56.319 him in a building. So official Randall Cobb going back 0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:59.440 to Green Bay. 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It's 0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:03.439 uncertain environment, but you can count on Houston Texans Lux 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:06.440 to work for you. Contact is today. For more information 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.200 on Limited Lux memberships, visit Houston Texans Lux dot com. 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:12.919 We're called eight three two six six seven, twenty two, 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:21.000 ninety nine nine nine No. Texans Training Camp Life presented 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:28.440 by Exfinity continues Mark vadamerin John Harris with you Texans 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:30.880 Training cap Live presented by Exfinity. As we are at 0:43:30.880 --> 0:43:34.080 the Houston Methodist Training Center. We are a few feet 0:43:34.120 --> 0:43:38.399 away from fields one and two, and the media is here, 0:43:38.920 --> 0:43:41.160 or the media are here. It's a plural, Johnny, That's 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:43.520 what it is. It's as awkward. It's one of these things. Yeah, 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:46.319 and this always comes up when talking about Premier League 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:50.040 soccer teams and talking about Manchester City are here, and 0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:54.560 it always blows my mind like oh eight no, so yeah, 0:43:54.600 --> 0:43:56.400 I think the media are here. You're right. I used 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.280 to be a stickler, but I think it's sports. Everything 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:01.960 is okay. How about this. You have members of the 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:04.360 media are here. There you go, that's easier, all right. 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:06.200 I think Sario is making his way over to the 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:09.799 podium as we'll have him live here in just a 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:13.480 moment and we'll find out what he has to say 0:44:13.480 --> 0:44:16.720 about numerous things related to this team heading into training 0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:22.280 camp number twenty in the history of the franchise, Randall 0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:25.400 Cobb deal done. According to Randall himself. Let's hear from 0:44:25.440 --> 0:44:30.560 the general manager now is he addresses the media making 0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:37.439 his way to the microphone. Morning, Welcome to training camp. 0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:41.319 Appreciate everybody being here. Take a couple of minutes, talk 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:43.200 through a couple of different things, and then we'll kind 0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:45.400 of get into a little bit of Q and A. 0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:48.399 But I would just say, first off, appreciate everybody being here. 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:51.040 A lot of work by a lot of people has 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:53.520 gone in to get us to this point. I would say, 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:56.880 the players are excited, the team's excited, the organizations excited. 0:44:56.880 --> 0:44:59.480 We're all excited to be here. My arms excited. We'll 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.239 see if we help them maintain that performance throughout the 0:45:02.239 --> 0:45:05.120 course of camp here. But you know, We've done some 0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:08.520 things during the off season, made some modifications to the facility. 0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:11.200 As some of you may have seen kind of online 0:45:11.800 --> 0:45:14.920 appreciative of support of ownership on the capital commitments they 0:45:15.000 --> 0:45:18.000 made with the new locker room, training space, with all 0:45:18.080 --> 0:45:21.239 that design really to give the players and staff of 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:24.640 the resources they need to be successful and given the opportunity, 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:27.160 you know, go out there and perform to the best 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:30.000 of their ability. So, you know, training camps here, it's 0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:32.800 a great opportunity for us to get started. You know, 0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:35.080 a couple of things that I think are relevant right now. 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:37.640 Just I would say that we're dealing with that, teams 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:40.239 are dealing with I would say there's been a lot 0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:43.560 of discussion and questions about COVID, the vaccine, kind of 0:45:43.560 --> 0:45:47.040 that situation. I would just say the league has done 0:45:47.040 --> 0:45:50.480 a great job putting protocols in place with the goal 0:45:50.480 --> 0:45:52.719 in the intent to give every team and opportunity to 0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:55.200 be functional from a workflow standpoint. So that's the most 0:45:55.239 --> 0:45:58.640 important thing. Relative to the vaccine. I would just say 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:01.120 what Joe Judge said about that yesterday, I think we'll 0:46:01.239 --> 0:46:04.160 spot on it's not about picking sides, you know, it's 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:07.000 about educating the players it's about providing them the information 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:10.359 and the resources. And the reality is, as we've all seen, 0:46:10.480 --> 0:46:13.120 COVID is with us a lot of research, a lot 0:46:13.160 --> 0:46:15.520 of medical professionals. It spent a lot of time on this, 0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:18.759 and right now the delta strain is as contagious as 0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:21.120 any strain that's out there. So I think it's important 0:46:21.160 --> 0:46:23.440 for all of us to maintain, you know, vigilance, be 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:26.640 smart about how we're handling everything. We're gonna be smart, 0:46:26.680 --> 0:46:28.920 and I think we're gonna be flexible relative too if 0:46:28.920 --> 0:46:31.840 we have to make some modifications. So the building is 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:34.120 set up a certain way right now. If we get 0:46:34.120 --> 0:46:35.720 to the point where we have to make some changes, 0:46:35.760 --> 0:46:38.800 then we'll modify and make some adjustments. ARREA players have 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:41.080 done a great job responding and handling the workflow and 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:44.600 the workload. And again, I think we're making some progress 0:46:44.600 --> 0:46:48.360 just on the vaccine front, so we're in a pretty 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:52.960 good position. So again, it's not about picking sides. It's 0:46:52.960 --> 0:46:55.359 an individual choice. Our job and our goal is to 0:46:55.400 --> 0:46:58.360 create you know, as healthier work environment and flow for 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:02.680 everybody involved on the roster. As you all know, it's 0:47:02.719 --> 0:47:05.280 a pretty fluid situation, so it just kind of commented 0:47:05.320 --> 0:47:06.640 on some of the things that I've taken place the 0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:09.440 past few days. So we made a few transaction trader 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:13.239 for Anthony Miller to receiver from Chicago, and the corresponding 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:16.839 move was to drop Mitch from the roster, released Ante 0:47:16.920 --> 0:47:19.600 Moncrief yesterday, who wasn't given be ready to participate in 0:47:19.640 --> 0:47:21.920 training camp. And I'd say we're kind of working through 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:24.279 a situation relative to Randall Cob. I know some of 0:47:24.320 --> 0:47:27.480 that's been reported. There's probably there's a few moving pieces 0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:29.479 on that, So I don't really want to comment about 0:47:29.480 --> 0:47:32.600 anything kind of being complete and come to fruition, but 0:47:32.680 --> 0:47:34.560 I would say the roster is kind of a day 0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:37.200 to day endeavor. I'm probably gonna give a little shameless 0:47:37.200 --> 0:47:39.279 plug here for the guys at six ten. Maybe you 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:41.640 guys can take a poll and say how many roster 0:47:41.719 --> 0:47:44.160 transactions are the Houston Texans gonna have over and under 0:47:44.200 --> 0:47:46.399 between now and start a training camp, and I'll maybe 0:47:46.400 --> 0:47:48.080 give a hundred bucks to the winner, so you guys 0:47:48.160 --> 0:47:51.600 can handle that however you wanted. But again, there's always 0:47:51.640 --> 0:47:53.760 gonna be a lot of movement on and off the roster. 0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:56.960 We have fifty new players. Again, it's a great opportunity 0:47:56.960 --> 0:47:58.840 for everybody to kind of get started. The goal for 0:47:58.960 --> 0:48:01.160 training camp is for everybody establish their level of performance. 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:04.040 We're not going to predetermine everything. Nobody has a defined role. 0:48:04.239 --> 0:48:06.040 We're gonna go out there and let the players kind 0:48:06.040 --> 0:48:08.600 of take care of themselves and that'll sort itself out. 0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:14.120 I'd say we probably have about seventy nine players that'll 0:48:14.160 --> 0:48:16.080 be kind of working, and then we got some other 0:48:16.120 --> 0:48:19.319 players that are a different categories relative to whatever their 0:48:19.320 --> 0:48:21.920 health status is. So again, we're not necessarily going to 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:23.959 give kind of a day to day report about who's 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:26.080 doing what, who's where. Everybody has a process and a 0:48:26.120 --> 0:48:28.520 protocol that they're following, and the goal is to get 0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:30.520 everybody out there at some points they're can participate in, 0:48:30.520 --> 0:48:32.399 performed to the best of their ability, and give them 0:48:32.400 --> 0:48:36.120 a chance to compete for a roster spot. One other comment, 0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:37.960 I would say, probably a little bit more personal of them, 0:48:37.960 --> 0:48:41.319 maybe for some of y'all here in the media, just 0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:43.879 the tragic loss of coaching Nap. I know a coach 0:48:43.960 --> 0:48:45.960 Nap was here a little bit in Houston. Some of 0:48:46.000 --> 0:48:48.799 you maybe had a better relationship than others. But I 0:48:48.840 --> 0:48:50.560 think it's a great reminder for all of us on 0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:52.839 really the fragility of life and what's in front of us, 0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:55.520 and that the reality is we're not guaranteeing anything. We're 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:58.000 not We're guaranteed today, but we're not guaranteed much beyond that. 0:48:58.120 --> 0:49:00.400 So you know, our thoughts and prayers with the now family, 0:49:00.440 --> 0:49:03.080 to the Jets or organization. I would say my memory 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:05.360 a coach nap. Really when you think of the scouting combine, 0:49:05.400 --> 0:49:07.920 he's really been a kind of prominent fixture with the quarterbacks. 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:09.520 Kind of everything to kind of started with him, So 0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:12.279 when you watch a quarterback drills, so again, I think 0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:14.040 it's just a great reminder for all of us we 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:16.959 can't take anything for granted, and we're only guaranteed today. 0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:19.760 And you know, certainly our thoughts are with his family 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:22.320 and you know the Jets or organization you know as well. 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:26.040 You know, i'd say on the Shawn's situation, and there'll 0:49:26.040 --> 0:49:27.680 probably be a lot of questions about that, I would 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:30.280 say my comments about that, or he reported for training 0:49:30.320 --> 0:49:32.000 camp the other day. I know the league but put 0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:34.000 out a statement and made some comments about where they 0:49:34.000 --> 0:49:37.520 are in that process. And again, I think from our perspective, 0:49:37.560 --> 0:49:40.120 it's a day to day endeavor. You know, we're gonna 0:49:40.120 --> 0:49:42.640 take the information, we're going to process that. We're respectful 0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:45.799 of everybody and everything that's involved. So we'll kind of 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:47.440 take it one day at a time, and you know, 0:49:47.480 --> 0:49:49.400 ultimately we're gonna do what we feel as best, you know, 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:52.400 for the Houston Texans. I'm sure there'll be some questions 0:49:52.440 --> 0:49:54.400 and now there's been a lot of speculation about what 0:49:54.440 --> 0:49:57.200 the Texans will do, buy a lot of different scenarios, 0:49:57.239 --> 0:49:59.480 I mean, quite frankly, I mean a lot of its speculation. 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:01.760 I'm not going to comment all about a bosher rumors 0:50:01.800 --> 0:50:04.239 about what we've done, what we're gonna do, what the 0:50:04.280 --> 0:50:06.239 plan is like, That's not what I'm gonna do. That's 0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:08.759 not my responsibility. The reason I was brought here by 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:10.799 the McNair families to do what I feel is best 0:50:10.800 --> 0:50:13.480 for the Houston Texas organization on a day to day basis, 0:50:13.520 --> 0:50:16.080 and that's my responsibility to ownership, that's my responsibility to 0:50:16.120 --> 0:50:18.880 the players, and that's my responsibility to the coaching staff. 0:50:18.920 --> 0:50:21.120 So that's how we're going to handle it, Okay, So 0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:23.960 you know that we'll take some questions here for a 0:50:23.960 --> 0:50:28.759 few minutes and then we'll kind of get moving. Yeah, 0:50:28.800 --> 0:50:31.120 I'm not going to get into an individual discussion about 0:50:31.160 --> 0:50:34.359 who's gonna be doing what. Again, everybody will go out there. 0:50:34.480 --> 0:50:36.120 You know, whatever they're gonna do, they're gonna do. And 0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:38.000 I'm not going to comment about somebody. You know what 0:50:38.000 --> 0:50:40.319 they're gonna do on a day to day basis. It's 0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:42.200 not your decision to make. But you just spend five 0:50:42.200 --> 0:50:45.279 minutes talking about everything. You're the GM whose decision does 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:47.040 it to make about what de Shaun Watson does with 0:50:47.080 --> 0:50:49.040 this team. Again, we're gonna do what we feel as 0:50:49.080 --> 0:50:51.160 best for the organization on a day to day basis. 0:50:51.160 --> 0:50:53.760 So again it's a collective effort. I mean, between myself 0:50:53.760 --> 0:50:55.960 and David Colley, we're gonna talk about everything each day 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.520 and then we're gonna do what we feel as best 0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:00.000 is the best interest of this team for Deshaun Watson 0:51:00.080 --> 0:51:01.640 to be around this team right now. Again, I'm not 0:51:01.640 --> 0:51:04.200 going to get into speculation about what's right what's not. Again, 0:51:04.239 --> 0:51:05.719 the most important thing for us is do what we 0:51:05.760 --> 0:51:07.520 feels best, and the most important thing is for the 0:51:07.520 --> 0:51:10.239 players to go out there and get themselves ready to play. 0:51:10.280 --> 0:51:12.440 So whatever that entails, whatever that look like, looks like 0:51:12.480 --> 0:51:14.279 That's what I was gonna do with everything going. I mean, 0:51:14.360 --> 0:51:16.640 Sean Watson is a national story and you're not you're 0:51:16.680 --> 0:51:19.000 not giving any update about his status with your team 0:51:19.000 --> 0:51:21.400 when he's under ross. Again, it's my responsibility is to 0:51:21.440 --> 0:51:24.080 the players versus foremost in the organization, and that's you know, 0:51:24.080 --> 0:51:26.360 that's where it's going to be. How is he engaged 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:30.359 with the coaches and yourself? Yeah, I mean i'd say 0:51:30.360 --> 0:51:32.200 we've had conversations. I'm not going to get into the 0:51:32.280 --> 0:51:35.600 nature of those conversations. Again. Um, he's here. Um, you know, 0:51:35.640 --> 0:51:37.600 he's been in meetings, he went through the conditioning test, 0:51:37.680 --> 0:51:39.520 you know, just like cover many other players that we 0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:41.120 had that we're here. So again, we're gonna take it 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:43.200 one day at time, ed, Um, you know, we're gonna 0:51:43.239 --> 0:51:47.160 do what he feels best on a day to day basis. Again, 0:51:47.200 --> 0:51:49.000 I'm not going to comment about who's gonna be out here, 0:51:49.000 --> 0:51:50.719 who's gonna be doing what? John, you know, we're gonna 0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:52.520 go out here, We're gonna prepare for practice and then 0:51:52.760 --> 0:51:54.040 you know, let's just take it one day at a time, 0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:59.560 one period at a time. Part of meting everybody had 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:01.640 a report date, you know, and uh, you know that 0:52:01.760 --> 0:52:03.600 was noted for. The players are notified of what their 0:52:03.640 --> 0:52:06.480 reporting date was, so everybody knew when they were scheduled 0:52:06.480 --> 0:52:08.880 their report, so you know, everybody knew what was expected 0:52:08.920 --> 0:52:14.520 on that front. Yeah. No, our players and staff have 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:17.440 done a great job. I mean focusing on what they 0:52:17.480 --> 0:52:20.360 can control, which is their job, which is their individual performance, 0:52:20.360 --> 0:52:22.759 which is their individual skill development and you know, their 0:52:22.800 --> 0:52:24.600 development as a player. Again, kind of where we are 0:52:24.600 --> 0:52:26.760 a training camp and this week is kind of unique. 0:52:26.880 --> 0:52:29.440 We're in this kind of ramp up period. There's no pads, 0:52:29.880 --> 0:52:31.960 you know, it's helmets. You know, we're going to go 0:52:32.000 --> 0:52:34.360 through practice like we normally do. But the most important 0:52:34.360 --> 0:52:36.920 thing for each player, each person is to focus on 0:52:36.960 --> 0:52:39.440 themselves and the things that they can control. Again, we 0:52:39.480 --> 0:52:41.080 have fifty new player or whatever it is. I mean, 0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:43.440 you guys have done account probably better than I have. 0:52:43.560 --> 0:52:45.640 But we have a lot of new players. So their 0:52:45.680 --> 0:52:48.319 responsibilities for themselves to each other, to go out there 0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:50.719 and just do their job, impair themselves to play. Again, 0:52:50.760 --> 0:52:53.480 the roster construction, what that looks like again. Between now, 0:52:53.520 --> 0:52:55.400 I mean we play a game and what is it 0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:58.120 seventeen days or something like that, So we have twelve 0:52:58.160 --> 0:53:00.560 to thirteen practices, so we have a lot to get 0:53:00.600 --> 0:53:02.279 done in a short period of time. So the most 0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:04.120 important thing is for the players to focus on the 0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:06.799 things that they can controls and tell you guys that 0:53:06.880 --> 0:53:09.759 he again, that does not Yeah, I'm not going to 0:53:09.800 --> 0:53:12.440 comment on what's been communicated with conversations we've had. I 0:53:12.440 --> 0:53:14.440 think that's more of a private you know, I respect 0:53:14.520 --> 0:53:16.680 everybody involved. I think that's you know, the most important 0:53:16.719 --> 0:53:21.000 thing is to keep it between ourselves. Physical conditioning, Yeah, 0:53:21.000 --> 0:53:23.160 i'd say I'd say most of our team looks like 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:26.160 they're ready to go. I'd say, you know, mostly, I 0:53:26.239 --> 0:53:28.439 think just about everybody you know, pass the conditioning test, 0:53:28.480 --> 0:53:31.040 which is kind of one measure of their physical performance, 0:53:31.040 --> 0:53:32.839 and what that says is whether or not they're they're 0:53:32.840 --> 0:53:35.359 ready to practice. So um, again, the players have worked 0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:37.480 hard in the offseason that kind of prepare themselves. Again, 0:53:37.520 --> 0:53:39.359 are things going to happen out here in the practice field? 0:53:39.360 --> 0:53:42.440 And absolutely so. Again, the most important thing is getting 0:53:42.480 --> 0:53:44.560 themselves physically ready to play. And again, the way the 0:53:44.600 --> 0:53:47.719 practices are structured, the way the league has put in 0:53:47.719 --> 0:53:50.359 place for the CBA, it gives everybody kind of an 0:53:50.400 --> 0:53:52.719 opportunity with some of the jaded and jaggett kind of 0:53:52.719 --> 0:53:55.839 offseason program. So again, where the team is now, most 0:53:55.840 --> 0:53:58.040 players are in condition, most are ready to go. You know, 0:53:58.080 --> 0:54:00.840 we'll have to monitor, you know, workload and level of 0:54:00.840 --> 0:54:03.080 performance and those types of things on a regular basis, 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:05.319 and that's what we'll do. But the players out are 0:54:05.320 --> 0:54:07.520 here are ready to practice um and then you know, 0:54:07.560 --> 0:54:13.680 we'll take it one day at a time to decide 0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:17.040 about the situation, like what are the main venture considerate, 0:54:18.440 --> 0:54:20.839 what is the best that you talked about, what's best 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:25.440 for the organization. I come to as far as just 0:54:25.560 --> 0:54:29.600 you're talking about an individual basis or just yeah, again, 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.560 it's not about one person or one individual. I think 0:54:32.560 --> 0:54:34.919 our focus is on our team and always doing what's 0:54:34.920 --> 0:54:36.640 in the best interests of our team. And you know 0:54:36.640 --> 0:54:38.920 that's how we're going to handle it. Again, I would say, 0:54:38.960 --> 0:54:40.960 there's always a lot that go into these things. And 0:54:41.000 --> 0:54:43.319 again and look, every team is dealing with different things, 0:54:43.360 --> 0:54:44.960 I would say when you looked around the league, so 0:54:45.000 --> 0:54:48.120 we're no different. So again, we talk about everything. David 0:54:48.160 --> 0:54:50.240 and I talk about everything on a day to day basis, 0:54:50.320 --> 0:54:52.040 and you know we're gonna go out there in h 0:54:52.160 --> 0:54:53.560 day just try to do what we feel is best 0:54:53.600 --> 0:54:59.239 for us. Uh. I'm not going to get into the percentage. John. 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:01.520 What I would say is, I'd say we've made progress 0:55:01.600 --> 0:55:04.879 from the spring relative to where we are now. So, um, 0:55:04.880 --> 0:55:07.560 we're making progress. Um. Again, I don't want necessarily get 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:10.880 into percentages because some of that is it's pretty fluidous 0:55:10.920 --> 0:55:12.960 relative to the dates and the timing of one that 0:55:13.000 --> 0:55:16.040 actually comes to fruition. So I'd say we've made progress 0:55:16.040 --> 0:55:19.399 from the spring. Um, we're on track. I think we're 0:55:19.400 --> 0:55:22.200 in a decent position. So you know, each day we'll 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:28.080 probably get more information as we go. Part me. I 0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:36.400 would not expect him to be out here note starting quarterback. Yeah. Again, 0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:39.320 we really haven't talked about anybody relative to who's a 0:55:39.360 --> 0:55:42.160 starter who's not. Again, everybody's gonna get a lot of reps. 0:55:42.200 --> 0:55:44.400 We're gonna mix and match the groups. You know, everybody's 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:46.120 gonna get the same. I would say this is really 0:55:46.120 --> 0:55:48.799 our first time to kind of evaluate, you know, our 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.120 team OTAs or ota. So now we're gonna get into 0:55:51.120 --> 0:55:54.080 a little bit more Okay, individual group drill seven on seven, 0:55:54.120 --> 0:55:57.000 so we're gonna see more. We're gonna have more information. Again, 0:55:57.280 --> 0:55:59.640 everybody's gonna get X number of reps. At some point 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:01.759 we'll have to make a decision about who sits where 0:56:01.760 --> 0:56:04.160 and who goes where. I would say day one is 0:56:04.200 --> 0:56:07.200 really not the place to determine that. So it's not 0:56:07.239 --> 0:56:09.640 about our starters, it's not about whose role. It's about 0:56:09.680 --> 0:56:12.040 the players going out there and just establishing their level 0:56:12.040 --> 0:56:16.520 of performance. That's the most important thing. Hold on one 0:56:16.560 --> 0:56:22.200 at a time, go ahead business all season. Yeah, I'd 0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:23.759 say with a lot of the new players that have 0:56:23.880 --> 0:56:26.479 come in, um, their attitudes have been good, they worked hard. 0:56:26.560 --> 0:56:28.279 You know, we had a four week period there where 0:56:28.280 --> 0:56:30.520 we're able to get some things accomplished. So m again, 0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:33.239 everybody's here now, UM in training camp, so we'll get 0:56:33.239 --> 0:56:36.439 a better barometer is to where people might be. So again, 0:56:36.480 --> 0:56:38.920 i'd say just the construction of the team as we 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:40.600 sit here today. We have a lot of guys that have, 0:56:41.120 --> 0:56:43.960 you know, certain level of experience in the league. So again, 0:56:44.480 --> 0:56:46.840 now that we're kind of starting over, like that's not 0:56:46.960 --> 0:56:48.920 as germane and as relevant, So all we can go 0:56:49.040 --> 0:56:51.680 is based off of what we see here. So again, 0:56:51.719 --> 0:56:53.840 the most important thing here and is for for everybody 0:56:53.920 --> 0:56:55.480 just to kind of focus on what they can do 0:56:55.520 --> 0:57:00.680 and what they can handle and ends in situation handling anything. 0:57:00.719 --> 0:57:03.400 How much does noise or distraction factor in or is 0:57:03.400 --> 0:57:05.280 that just something you just have to put to decide 0:57:05.280 --> 0:57:09.600 and focus on. Yeah, it's a great question. Um, I'd 0:57:09.640 --> 0:57:12.680 say just generally speaking, society, there's probably a lot of 0:57:12.719 --> 0:57:15.520 noise on an external basis. I think one of the 0:57:15.600 --> 0:57:19.080 things that that we've you know, been consistent about is 0:57:19.120 --> 0:57:21.240 kind of focusing on what goes on in our building 0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:23.600 and the things that we can control, you know, which 0:57:23.640 --> 0:57:26.320 is our effort, which is our attitude, which is our meeting, 0:57:26.440 --> 0:57:29.240 which is preparing for practice. So again, our players and 0:57:29.280 --> 0:57:31.640 staff have done a great job. Um, I would say 0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:34.160 the attitude in the building, um has been great, kind 0:57:34.200 --> 0:57:36.400 of going even going back to January when you know 0:57:36.440 --> 0:57:39.080 I first arrived. So again, I like the most important 0:57:39.080 --> 0:57:40.880 thing is for us to focus on what's going on 0:57:40.960 --> 0:57:42.880 inside the building. And again there's always going to be 0:57:42.960 --> 0:57:46.840 things externally that that are said or noise as your reference, 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:48.640 But again, it's not our job to kind of get 0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:50.280 caught up in that. At least that's not you know, 0:57:50.240 --> 0:57:52.000 I'd kind of wouldn't be doing my job if I 0:57:52.080 --> 0:58:02.320 was kind of worried about you know, some of those things. Yeah. Again, 0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:05.040 like everybody had a reporting day and the expectation was 0:58:05.080 --> 0:58:06.920 that you know, the players would report, so you know 0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:09.720 that was you know, and you know everybody had their 0:58:09.760 --> 0:58:11.280 time that they were going to be in the building. 0:58:11.360 --> 0:58:13.680 So you know we have However, many players are here 0:58:13.760 --> 0:58:16.120 right now. I think it's eighty eight is shading out 0:58:16.160 --> 0:58:18.560 whatever it is relative to the roster. So um again, 0:58:18.640 --> 0:58:20.520 it's where we are for today and we're moving forward. 0:58:20.600 --> 0:58:25.960 So take maybe taking out can you give us your quarterbacks? 0:58:25.960 --> 0:58:31.280 Are taular positions to so much focus on it anybody. Yeah, again, 0:58:31.360 --> 0:58:33.360 I think the performance will It's hard for me to 0:58:33.360 --> 0:58:35.000 sit here and say, well, this is what I think 0:58:35.080 --> 0:58:37.440 right now. So again, we've assembled the team. We've added 0:58:37.440 --> 0:58:40.800 players to the team that again cross positions with variety 0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:44.200 different backgrounds, variety of different levels of experience. Um again, 0:58:44.440 --> 0:58:45.760 our job is to go out here and kind of 0:58:45.800 --> 0:58:48.200 valuate what we see moving forward. Again, can't have any 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:51.800 preconceived notions, and we've communicated this to the players and like, respectfully, 0:58:51.800 --> 0:58:54.080 it's not about what's happened in the past. You're gonna 0:58:54.080 --> 0:58:55.800 be judged on what happens moving forward. And I think 0:58:55.800 --> 0:58:58.440 the players understand that, and you're gonna hold themselves accountant 0:58:58.440 --> 0:59:02.320 fat fresh starts and doing things that are the best 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:04.840 interested in the organization. You mentioned several times a day 0:59:05.120 --> 0:59:07.520 back to Watson, though, is a distraction and the best 0:59:07.640 --> 0:59:11.480 interests the organization at this point when you're trying to start, Yeah, 0:59:11.480 --> 0:59:13.120 I would just speak. I don't want to speak for 0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:16.240 anybody else, but it really hasn't been a distraction, and 0:59:16.520 --> 0:59:18.520 you know, we don't think it will be a distraction. Again. 0:59:18.560 --> 0:59:20.400 I think our staff and players have done a great 0:59:20.440 --> 0:59:22.760 job of focus on the things that you know, our 0:59:22.840 --> 0:59:25.640 germain and relevant to them, which is their individual performance 0:59:25.680 --> 0:59:28.560 and their individual jobs. So again, I again I don't 0:59:28.560 --> 0:59:30.800 want to speak for too many people, but I would 0:59:30.840 --> 0:59:32.840 say to answer your question, it really is not It 0:59:33.000 --> 0:59:36.200 hasn't been a distraction. So maybe one more the fact 0:59:36.200 --> 0:59:41.240 that he's here again, we'll take the information each day. Again, 0:59:41.320 --> 0:59:43.520 it's not a distraction for the team. Our players have 0:59:43.560 --> 0:59:46.120 done a great job with their attitude and approach. So again, 0:59:46.240 --> 0:59:49.000 they're professionals and they're going to handle things the right way, 0:59:49.040 --> 0:59:51.439 which quite frankly, they've done all the way up until 0:59:51.440 --> 0:59:55.200 this point. Okay, all right, guys have a good day. 0:59:55.560 --> 0:59:59.560 There's Nick Kissario who is at the podium and now 0:59:59.560 --> 1:00:01.800 he's gonna walk right over here to our broadcast tent 1:00:01.960 --> 1:00:05.760 at the Houston Methodist Training Center and have a conversation 1:00:05.800 --> 1:00:09.919 with us as the Texans get their first practice under 1:00:10.000 --> 1:00:13.640 way of training camp number twenty in the history of 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:15.960 the franchise. And here he is General manager Nick Assari, 1:00:16.040 --> 1:00:19.200 a long walk for the podium and headphones. Good morning, 1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:21.880 Good morning, John Mark. Well, it's great to see you. 1:00:21.920 --> 1:00:24.320 And uh, I know you just took thirty seven questions 1:00:24.320 --> 1:00:27.320 about the quarterback situation, but let's talk about the guys 1:00:27.320 --> 1:00:33.320 who were here with you. Yeah, well, it's it's over. 1:00:33.880 --> 1:00:36.440 But we we observed OTAs and the guys who were 1:00:36.480 --> 1:00:39.680 here with you during OTAs, and I know that you 1:00:39.880 --> 1:00:42.400 mentioned carving up reps and things like that will be 1:00:42.440 --> 1:00:44.720 determined on a day to day basis almost, But what 1:00:44.800 --> 1:00:47.440 kind of practice do we expect today overall? Nick, as 1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:49.320 this is the first day in and you're not in 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:51.760 pads yet. Yeah, it's a great question. So look, the 1:00:51.840 --> 1:00:54.080 rules are what the rules are relative of the CBA, 1:00:54.200 --> 1:00:55.920 So this is kind of the ramp up period. So 1:00:56.280 --> 1:00:59.080 I would say, really, this first week will be essentially 1:00:59.160 --> 1:01:01.800 an extension of a tas in some respects with the 1:01:01.840 --> 1:01:04.840 addition of maybe some more team related activities, So from 1:01:04.880 --> 1:01:08.360 seven on seven to one on ones to team offense 1:01:08.480 --> 1:01:10.520 versus defense, which we really didn't do much of in 1:01:10.520 --> 1:01:13.720 the spring. So up till that point everything is probably 1:01:13.760 --> 1:01:16.600 similar relative to the pace relative to individual even some 1:01:16.640 --> 1:01:18.760 of the special teams period. And then once we kind 1:01:18.760 --> 1:01:20.040 of get through that, we can do a little bit 1:01:20.080 --> 1:01:23.800 more team working against one another lineup call to play, 1:01:23.840 --> 1:01:26.280 the defense can get the adjustment, see the alignment you 1:01:26.400 --> 1:01:28.480 getting the huddle call to play. I would say that 1:01:28.520 --> 1:01:30.920 will be the probably the main difference from the spring 1:01:30.960 --> 1:01:34.960 relative to now. So again, even without pads, you'll still 1:01:35.000 --> 1:01:37.560 be able to get enough things done. So we have 1:01:37.600 --> 1:01:40.280 a few team periods lined up here for practice, so 1:01:40.320 --> 1:01:42.400 we'll go through that. So again we'll just get more 1:01:42.440 --> 1:01:44.720 information as we go and then kind of ramp up 1:01:44.760 --> 1:01:47.640 into the next phase next week when we get ready 1:01:47.680 --> 1:01:50.720 for padded practices, and then we can work on maybe 1:01:50.720 --> 1:01:52.400 more of the running games. So some of this will 1:01:52.440 --> 1:01:55.080 be a little bit more I would say passing emphasis again, 1:01:55.360 --> 1:01:58.240 how you double team and deuce block and all that on. 1:01:58.360 --> 1:02:01.600 With talmets and shorts versus when you actually get into 1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:03.600 a padded practice, you'll be able to see a little 1:02:03.600 --> 1:02:06.760 bit more. Nick, you've reminded us many times as you've 1:02:06.760 --> 1:02:09.280 talked with Mark and I about roster management. It's twenty 1:02:09.280 --> 1:02:12.439 four to seven, three sixty five. It doesn't stop even 1:02:12.440 --> 1:02:14.880 two days before players are report. You make a deal 1:02:14.920 --> 1:02:17.080 for Anthony Miller? What can you tell us about Anthony Miller, 1:02:17.400 --> 1:02:20.000 former Chicago Bearer, former Memphis Tiger. And I'll ask you 1:02:20.000 --> 1:02:22.160 this you tell us and you told us to draft 1:02:22.240 --> 1:02:25.760 is overhyped. Okay, but we know that Anthony Miller. I 1:02:25.800 --> 1:02:27.840 know you spend a lot of time on that and 1:02:27.920 --> 1:02:30.720 make you feel bad you cut me to the cord, Nick, 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:33.920 But how much do you take out of what scouts 1:02:33.960 --> 1:02:35.760 are able to see of him coming out of Memphis 1:02:36.160 --> 1:02:38.800 versus what they saw with him in Chicago before you 1:02:38.840 --> 1:02:41.000 bring him here to Houston. John, It's actually a really 1:02:41.000 --> 1:02:43.960 good question. And I think you put so much into 1:02:44.040 --> 1:02:47.000 that college scouting process. So you develop a backlog of 1:02:47.040 --> 1:02:49.800 information at a a database of information, so you have your 1:02:49.800 --> 1:02:52.640 evaluations of said player coming out. You know, what are 1:02:52.680 --> 1:02:54.480 the factors, what we're his skills, what did we think 1:02:54.520 --> 1:02:57.360 what were our interactions, and then you take that and 1:02:57.360 --> 1:02:58.880 then we can go back and look at the three 1:02:58.960 --> 1:03:01.919 years of what he did in Chicago. And again, when 1:03:01.920 --> 1:03:04.360 you make a transaction, you make a trade, you're taking 1:03:04.400 --> 1:03:06.840 as much information in as possible wherever it comes from. 1:03:06.880 --> 1:03:10.360 So it's a good reference point. A more recent reference 1:03:10.360 --> 1:03:12.720 point would be what they did against NFL competition or 1:03:12.760 --> 1:03:14.960 what they did in the league. But again, now you're 1:03:15.000 --> 1:03:17.880 kind of taking that player out of their existing system 1:03:17.880 --> 1:03:19.800 into a new system. And I would say with a 1:03:19.840 --> 1:03:22.240 player in his particular case, still be some ketchup work 1:03:22.280 --> 1:03:24.680 that needs to be done because you didn't have the 1:03:25.120 --> 1:03:27.640 ability to kind of go through an offseason program. So 1:03:27.880 --> 1:03:29.480 you know, we'll get him up to speed as quickly 1:03:29.520 --> 1:03:31.800 as possible and do the best we can. But you 1:03:31.920 --> 1:03:34.680 take all the information that you have access to and 1:03:34.720 --> 1:03:36.720 try to use that as a part of your decision 1:03:36.720 --> 1:03:39.080 making process. I know you said that you have a 1:03:39.080 --> 1:03:41.080 lot of moving parts with the Cops situation, but looking 1:03:41.080 --> 1:03:44.600 at the whole group here, Nick, how flexible is it 1:03:44.680 --> 1:03:46.840 when a guy comes in and people label him, oh, 1:03:46.880 --> 1:03:49.680 he's a slot receiver, but maybe he can play outside, 1:03:49.720 --> 1:03:52.080 or maybe an outside guy can play the slot sometimes 1:03:52.080 --> 1:03:55.280 and we saw Cooks do some short passing game work 1:03:55.400 --> 1:03:58.360 last year. How important is flexibility in this group? It's 1:03:58.360 --> 1:04:00.840 a great question, I think sometimes John, you've probably seen 1:04:00.840 --> 1:04:03.160 this a little bit. Sometimes people get pigeonholed they can 1:04:03.160 --> 1:04:05.360 only do this. But again, we kind of have to 1:04:05.400 --> 1:04:07.360 get to take that bias out. What you won't really 1:04:07.400 --> 1:04:09.600 want to do is present the player of the information, 1:04:10.040 --> 1:04:12.200 put him in different spots and you might find, you 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:15.360 know what, maybe he actually can do something different than 1:04:15.400 --> 1:04:18.240 we thought. So again, part of our responsibility is to 1:04:18.280 --> 1:04:20.440 maybe put that player in the position and not just 1:04:20.520 --> 1:04:23.160 say he's just this or he's just that. You know. 1:04:23.320 --> 1:04:26.520 So again, the player never played like Nate Solder, you know, 1:04:26.560 --> 1:04:28.200 going back to my time in New England. You know 1:04:28.240 --> 1:04:29.920 he was a left tackle and there's a rookie he 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:32.320 played right tackle in jumbo tight end. So if you 1:04:32.400 --> 1:04:34.160 go into it saying, well he can only do this, 1:04:34.440 --> 1:04:37.120 well you kind of limit your possibility. So again, when 1:04:37.120 --> 1:04:39.600 you actually get down to the fifty three man roster, okay, 1:04:39.640 --> 1:04:41.919 you bring x number of let's say receivers to the game, 1:04:42.120 --> 1:04:43.800 Well you have to be able to back up some spots. 1:04:43.800 --> 1:04:46.120 So who can handle that job? So That's what part 1:04:46.160 --> 1:04:48.080 of training camp is for, to see who can handle 1:04:48.120 --> 1:04:50.240 maybe some of those different responsibilities. I think. I know 1:04:50.280 --> 1:04:52.280 we're a few weeks away from having to make a 1:04:52.280 --> 1:04:54.760 cutdown to fifty three. But last year the NFL, because 1:04:54.760 --> 1:04:57.640 of COVID, open up the practice squad rules, and it 1:04:57.680 --> 1:04:59.320 looks like they're gonna keep them in place for twenty 1:04:59.360 --> 1:05:02.000 twenty one. I believe. How does that help you as 1:05:02.120 --> 1:05:04.720 an evaluator of this roster to make sure, Hey, I've 1:05:04.720 --> 1:05:08.040 got the right fifty three, but I've got this repository 1:05:08.040 --> 1:05:09.600 of players that I know I've got to be able 1:05:09.640 --> 1:05:11.640 to count on. How important is it to have those 1:05:11.720 --> 1:05:14.080 rules again at twenty twenty one. No, it's a great point. 1:05:14.120 --> 1:05:16.560 I think. You know, when you go through the roster, 1:05:16.720 --> 1:05:18.840 everybody kind of gets caught up in fifty three. It's 1:05:18.880 --> 1:05:21.560 fifty three players. But then when you add another sixteen 1:05:21.640 --> 1:05:23.360 let's call it whatever, the number is going to be 1:05:23.400 --> 1:05:26.240 more than likely sixteen. So you're working with call it 1:05:26.400 --> 1:05:30.760 sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy players in total. Right, So 1:05:31.080 --> 1:05:34.040 that's your team. Now, who's on who's off the roster? Again? 1:05:34.080 --> 1:05:36.080 Our goal is to try to keep as many good 1:05:36.080 --> 1:05:38.760 players in the building as possible. How do you do 1:05:38.800 --> 1:05:41.320 that and what's the best mechanism to do it? Okay, 1:05:41.360 --> 1:05:43.400 you have to figure out what makes sense. Okay, did 1:05:43.400 --> 1:05:44.680 we cut this guy and try to put them on 1:05:44.720 --> 1:05:46.360 a practice squad or you know, while we're not sure 1:05:46.400 --> 1:05:48.600 if we can get him there. You know, those are 1:05:48.640 --> 1:05:50.120 some of the things that will go into some of 1:05:50.120 --> 1:05:51.880 the psychology as we get a little bit closer. But 1:05:52.280 --> 1:05:55.280 you're really looking at that group in totality because at 1:05:55.320 --> 1:05:57.920 any point those players could be active on Sunday at 1:05:57.960 --> 1:06:00.480 least that's how we're approaching it. Nick, When you look 1:06:00.520 --> 1:06:03.800 at the scope of camp here and you've taken to 1:06:03.920 --> 1:06:08.320 consideration the weather, they heat, all of it. How extensive 1:06:08.320 --> 1:06:10.320 were those meetings and determining how you're going to do 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:12.520 business here? Because you have some guys who coached here 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:14.760 before and played here before, but you have a lot 1:06:14.760 --> 1:06:16.840 of guys who didn't. So how did you go about 1:06:16.880 --> 1:06:18.600 that process? Yeah, it's new for a lot of us, 1:06:18.640 --> 1:06:20.000 and really what you want to do is try to 1:06:20.120 --> 1:06:22.720 educate them. So, I mean, our sports performance staff, strength 1:06:22.800 --> 1:06:26.120 conditioning staff can reiterate some things relative to some of 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:29.120 the data shows this. So, but hydration taken care of 1:06:29.120 --> 1:06:31.280 your body. I mean again, we're practicing in the morning, 1:06:31.680 --> 1:06:35.280 because practice in the afternoon from a health and safety standpoint, 1:06:35.560 --> 1:06:38.000 could put players at risk, you know, so you try 1:06:38.080 --> 1:06:39.919 to do what we feel as best. You know, again, 1:06:39.920 --> 1:06:42.560 we have the bubble, we have outdoor practice field, so 1:06:42.840 --> 1:06:46.000 pooling all that information and you look, you can explain 1:06:46.040 --> 1:06:48.360 it to them and prepare them for it, but then 1:06:48.400 --> 1:06:50.840 they get out here and it's a totally different situation. 1:06:50.920 --> 1:06:53.120 So we got to be a diligent monitor. Make sure 1:06:53.200 --> 1:06:55.160 we're not gonna put anybody at Look, training camp is 1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:57.439 gonna be hot, it's gonna be hard, it's gonna be tough, 1:06:57.720 --> 1:06:59.640 it's gonna be difficult. It should be. That's what training 1:06:59.680 --> 1:07:01.120 camp is. It's time for it. But you also want 1:07:01.120 --> 1:07:02.920 to make sure you don't put the players in his position, 1:07:03.320 --> 1:07:06.360 you know, where they're at risk for no particular reason. 1:07:06.480 --> 1:07:09.000 Along those lines, Nick, I've I've read different coaches and 1:07:09.000 --> 1:07:11.760 different people talk about what COVID last year taught them 1:07:11.760 --> 1:07:13.440 and kind of the ramp up to their season. I 1:07:13.480 --> 1:07:15.680 listen to Matt Campbell talk about a Friday State and 1:07:15.800 --> 1:07:18.439 some others. Does any of that kind of carry over 1:07:18.480 --> 1:07:21.400 to this year and maybe using some of the efficiencies 1:07:21.440 --> 1:07:23.800 found going through that, even though it's a rough situation 1:07:23.840 --> 1:07:26.480 to take and put it towards this year and the 1:07:26.520 --> 1:07:28.720 fact you got another week added on to the season. 1:07:28.760 --> 1:07:30.760 Does any of that kind of carry over any kind 1:07:30.760 --> 1:07:34.080 of best practices from last year? Absolutely? Absolutely, and we 1:07:34.160 --> 1:07:36.280 try to incorporate them to the best of our ability. 1:07:36.280 --> 1:07:38.000 Because again, I mean we just talked about this a 1:07:38.000 --> 1:07:40.120 few minutes ago with the press. I mean, COVID is 1:07:40.120 --> 1:07:42.160 still relevant and it's still out there and we're going 1:07:42.200 --> 1:07:44.680 to be dealing with it and it's probably not going away. 1:07:44.760 --> 1:07:47.560 So your ability to kind of adapt and adjust on 1:07:47.600 --> 1:07:50.880 the fly, we have experience doing that. Last year. I 1:07:50.880 --> 1:07:54.920 think everybody, teams, coaches, staff, the league showed the ability 1:07:55.000 --> 1:07:56.680 to be able to adjust. So I think you have 1:07:56.720 --> 1:07:59.160 to be flexible when you're thinking and can't get so 1:07:59.240 --> 1:08:01.880 caught up and oh man, we can't do this, we 1:08:01.920 --> 1:08:04.160 can't do that. It's really what can we do. We're 1:08:04.160 --> 1:08:06.320 not gonna make excuses and we're gonna try to maximize 1:08:06.360 --> 1:08:09.200 whatever the resources we have. Are are you throwing today, Yeah, 1:08:09.240 --> 1:08:11.640 how's the way? How's the guy? I'm gonna have to 1:08:11.640 --> 1:08:14.040 go out there and warm up before practice, So I know, 1:08:14.160 --> 1:08:16.160 nobody wants to see me throw about. Whatever I could 1:08:16.160 --> 1:08:18.080 do to help the team, then I'll do that. We 1:08:17.760 --> 1:08:20.960 got hundred throws a day. Yeah, I don't know. I'm 1:08:21.000 --> 1:08:22.519 getting a little bit older, so I don't know if 1:08:22.520 --> 1:08:26.439 I contain that performance. We have video guys ready ready 1:08:26.439 --> 1:08:28.960 for this act. Sure, the cameras will be on me. Yeah, 1:08:29.000 --> 1:08:31.280 said there will be a Tell straighter later on. Oh man, 1:08:33.040 --> 1:08:35.120 a Johnny straighter. All right, Nick, thanks a lot for 1:08:35.200 --> 1:08:37.599 joining us. Well, thanks, have a great day you too. 1:08:37.760 --> 1:08:42.040 Nick Cassario, general manager of your Houston Texans, and he 1:08:42.200 --> 1:08:44.200 just did a big session with the media, did a 1:08:44.200 --> 1:08:47.000 little session with us, and we'll probably roll some of 1:08:47.040 --> 1:08:49.400 that later on on Texans All Access tonight with our 1:08:49.520 --> 1:08:52.160 David Johnson interview. We're having a show meeting right now. 1:08:52.160 --> 1:08:54.519 I think the David Johnson an interview has to happen tonight. 1:08:54.720 --> 1:08:58.040 But he obviously I said thirty seven questions. It might 1:08:58.080 --> 1:08:59.679 have been that. It might have been thirty seven questions 1:08:59.720 --> 1:09:02.080 about they're a rapid fire at some point. Yeah, And 1:09:02.280 --> 1:09:04.320 I get it because the media all wants a story. 1:09:04.439 --> 1:09:07.920 Here's look, I'm part of the media sort of maybe 1:09:07.960 --> 1:09:09.640 you know, and I've been for a long time. I 1:09:09.680 --> 1:09:11.800 know I'm with the team now, but you and I 1:09:11.840 --> 1:09:14.920 always stick to the facts. You know, people always ask us, well, 1:09:14.960 --> 1:09:17.000 how do you guys address these things? We stick to 1:09:17.000 --> 1:09:20.080 the facts. You know, Hey, if Watson's here, Watson's here. 1:09:20.160 --> 1:09:24.800 If he's not, he's not facts. And the situation is 1:09:24.840 --> 1:09:28.639 though the media, I get why players and coaches are 1:09:28.680 --> 1:09:33.240 reluctant sometimes to give too much because the shortest little 1:09:33.280 --> 1:09:36.320 blurb can become a huge headline and it could be 1:09:36.400 --> 1:09:40.880 buried in a transcript in a press conference and they 1:09:40.880 --> 1:09:44.600 didn't really mean it to be that of that magnitude, 1:09:44.600 --> 1:09:46.439 but it becomes that way. Here's a great example. I 1:09:46.520 --> 1:09:48.080 just read this right before we went on the air. 1:09:48.479 --> 1:09:54.200 Bruce Arians went off on PFT. Yes, because of something 1:09:54.240 --> 1:09:57.320 that was on PT Now. PFT is like the game 1:09:57.360 --> 1:10:02.960 of telephone, right, because Florio will take stories and then 1:10:03.200 --> 1:10:05.519 put it on his sides, the aggregation side, and then 1:10:05.600 --> 1:10:07.920 kind of give his thoughts about it. And the way 1:10:07.960 --> 1:10:11.320 that he quote unquote reported it was not the actual 1:10:11.520 --> 1:10:15.400 way that it's going because he puts something in there 1:10:15.439 --> 1:10:18.920 that you would think his innocuous, right, but it's a 1:10:18.960 --> 1:10:20.759 big deal and it had to do with the wristbands 1:10:20.800 --> 1:10:23.519 and all that kind of stuff, and arians went off 1:10:23.840 --> 1:10:26.120 ye yesterday, And there's a part of me it's like, 1:10:26.600 --> 1:10:29.640 I don't blame him. I don't blame him because somehow 1:10:30.200 --> 1:10:32.400 there was a report that gets out there and then 1:10:32.400 --> 1:10:34.479 it gets to Florio, then he aggregates it and puts 1:10:34.479 --> 1:10:37.040 it out there, and pft, he's got a massive audience 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:39.720 and you've played a game of telephone. By the time 1:10:39.720 --> 1:10:42.439 it gets to the fourth person there, it's not the 1:10:42.600 --> 1:10:45.439 story is completely changed. And Mike does a really good job, 1:10:45.520 --> 1:10:50.479 but he does looking for certain things sometimes and and 1:10:50.600 --> 1:10:52.880 obviously they get blown up. Okay, we're gonna break here 1:10:52.920 --> 1:10:55.760 because we're a little bit hind in that category. Max 1:10:55.800 --> 1:10:58.439 sharpin coming up as well. And players not of the 1:10:58.439 --> 1:11:00.479 field yet by the way, you mentioned they acted early 1:11:00.560 --> 1:11:03.800 that the meeting. They're coming out here to practice. Some 1:11:03.880 --> 1:11:05.879 players are out here. In fact, I see the longest 1:11:05.880 --> 1:11:10.400 tenured Texan making his way over to the midfield area. 1:11:10.439 --> 1:11:12.600 That would be John Weeks, the long snapper. 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Get all the breaking news, updates, interviews, 1:17:34.400 --> 1:17:38.360 and more right now at Houston Texans dot com. Now 1:17:38.560 --> 1:17:45.400 backtor Texans Training Camp Live presented by Xfinity Mark Vadimir 1:17:45.520 --> 1:17:47.680 John Harris. We've got players on the field and a 1:17:47.680 --> 1:17:49.679 lot of players in the bubble right now. Is there 1:17:49.680 --> 1:17:52.960 in the uniform getting ready for today's session number one 1:17:53.000 --> 1:17:57.599 of Texas Training Camp. Now, they're going with the they're 1:17:57.640 --> 1:17:59.760 going with what is it shells, Johnny or is that 1:17:59.800 --> 1:18:02.680 just a straight jersey jersey? Some of these guys are 1:18:02.680 --> 1:18:05.280 so jacked up it looks like they're wearing shoulder pads. Okay, well, 1:18:05.320 --> 1:18:08.160 speaking it jacked up. Not to say that our punters 1:18:08.200 --> 1:18:10.720 in the past, like Shane Leckler was country strong, now 1:18:11.080 --> 1:18:14.880 Henry Strong, Matt Turk was pretty jacked. Turk was pretty jacked. 1:18:15.520 --> 1:18:18.320 I'll put Cam Johnson up against Oh my gosh, yes 1:18:18.600 --> 1:18:23.080 he is yo. He looks like he's an Australian, So 1:18:23.080 --> 1:18:27.000 I'm gonna go Jocko. Is that like an eighties reference? Boy? 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:31.599 Remember that guy Australian rules football for the hair that's 1:18:31.640 --> 1:18:34.360 pretty good, you know, to these Australian Rules football players, Like, 1:18:34.400 --> 1:18:36.800 all right, whatever, he's he's the putter. He probably wants 1:18:36.840 --> 1:18:40.760 to go hit people. All right, I will pay, I'll 1:18:41.439 --> 1:18:44.479 I'll pay whatever fine he gets if he lays a 1:18:44.560 --> 1:18:46.400 lick on somebody. So I got a feeling it's in him. 1:18:46.600 --> 1:18:49.120 I can't wait for it. I can't wait to watch 1:18:49.160 --> 1:18:53.160 this unit operate because he and some of the gunners 1:18:53.360 --> 1:18:56.479 that they have it look not that special team touse. 1:18:56.560 --> 1:18:58.519 You know how I feel about special teams practice, trying 1:18:58.520 --> 1:19:00.400 to training catch You're time to check your face? It's 1:19:00.439 --> 1:19:03.240 my time. It is. It is the veteran band playing 1:19:03.280 --> 1:19:05.680 stuff from the new album, and I go to the 1:19:05.720 --> 1:19:08.920 concession stand. All right, I want to hear the greatest hits. 1:19:09.040 --> 1:19:11.200 I want to see offense defense when they do special 1:19:11.200 --> 1:19:13.679 teams at camp. Now special teams at a game. Okay, 1:19:13.760 --> 1:19:16.720 full boat, you got all the activity going on. And look, 1:19:16.760 --> 1:19:19.920 I'm not leaving the booth ever, but during training camp, 1:19:20.000 --> 1:19:23.120 that is the time to visit the restroom, check the phone. 1:19:23.240 --> 1:19:25.519 I do like to see, though, who's lining up as 1:19:25.520 --> 1:19:28.080 a returner and this team has multiple options there. And 1:19:28.120 --> 1:19:30.800 I do like to see on this team in this 1:19:30.840 --> 1:19:34.600 situation who the gunners are, because look, they have a 1:19:34.640 --> 1:19:37.240 lot of guys they could use there. And they didn't 1:19:37.240 --> 1:19:39.320 mess around when they were signing all these you know, 1:19:39.479 --> 1:19:44.480 five hundred players. They went heavy on the special teams, specialists, 1:19:44.560 --> 1:19:46.840 if you will, guys who were versatile could do I 1:19:46.920 --> 1:19:49.800 know that's a dirty word sometimes with people. Why is 1:19:49.840 --> 1:19:52.479 that such a bad word because why do the guys 1:19:52.520 --> 1:19:55.160 make fun of it on the rest of these shows 1:19:55.240 --> 1:20:00.840 Here I realized this because essentially the word satile was 1:20:00.920 --> 1:20:06.280 equated with couldn't do any of those things. But what 1:20:06.400 --> 1:20:09.719 versatile actually means is you do a number of things well. 1:20:10.200 --> 1:20:14.160 And I think what happened is it was it became 1:20:15.080 --> 1:20:18.439 because of that tag being placed on you know, because 1:20:18.600 --> 1:20:21.479 Charles a menu, he's versatile, right, you can go inside 1:20:21.479 --> 1:20:24.000 that side, because Charles has shown that he can do that. 1:20:24.560 --> 1:20:26.760 I think he's better outside and rundowns better inside on 1:20:26.800 --> 1:20:29.599 pass downs. But there were players and look the first 1:20:29.600 --> 1:20:30.920 I think the first one that comes to mind for 1:20:30.920 --> 1:20:33.800 a lot of people, Xavier Sphilo yah Zere guard was 1:20:33.800 --> 1:20:36.160 he a tackle and the word versatile got broad alone 1:20:36.280 --> 1:20:38.439 and he obviously was a high second round pick, first 1:20:38.439 --> 1:20:40.639 pick in the second round, and the tag kept coming 1:20:40.720 --> 1:20:42.400 verst a verst, the versatile, and then people would watch 1:20:42.479 --> 1:20:45.200 him and go, well, wait a second, they're bouncing him around, 1:20:45.240 --> 1:20:47.040 but he's not really good at any of them. And 1:20:47.080 --> 1:20:49.719 so the word versatile became a negative in that Well, 1:20:49.760 --> 1:20:52.080 that means you're not good enough to hold one particular 1:20:52.120 --> 1:20:55.040 spot and play one particular spot. But it needs to 1:20:55.080 --> 1:20:57.479 be the other way, and that is you want guys 1:20:57.479 --> 1:20:59.559 that are versatile, that can do a number of things, 1:20:59.560 --> 1:21:02.320 that can be good at a number of different things. 1:21:02.360 --> 1:21:04.920 If you're gonna say these guys are versatile, okay, well 1:21:04.920 --> 1:21:06.920 that does mean he could put his hand down, he 1:21:06.920 --> 1:21:08.880 can stand up, that he can play in coverage, and 1:21:08.880 --> 1:21:11.920 he can stop the run, that he can play corner 1:21:11.960 --> 1:21:15.600 and Nicol like, versatile needs to actually mean what it is, 1:21:15.640 --> 1:21:17.080 and that is you can be good at a number 1:21:17.080 --> 1:21:19.320 of different things. Yeah, because if you're not, then guess 1:21:19.360 --> 1:21:22.880 what you're You're not good. It's not even versatile, it's 1:21:22.920 --> 1:21:25.559 just you're not very good. So well, that's that's where 1:21:25.600 --> 1:21:29.240 I think it ended up becoming kind of a talking point, 1:21:29.360 --> 1:21:31.639 is because the versatile players and the players are getting 1:21:31.640 --> 1:21:33.680 tagged with that, we're showing they weren't good enough to 1:21:33.680 --> 1:21:36.439 hold a spot, any spot, any of the one that 1:21:36.439 --> 1:21:39.840 they could play. Seemingly Philip Lindsay just fist bumped Steve 1:21:39.840 --> 1:21:41.880 Wish of the NFL net work Here. They have a 1:21:41.880 --> 1:21:45.000 little interview history between them. Oh yeah, Philip Lindsay. By 1:21:45.040 --> 1:21:46.320 the way, he didn't miss a day in the waiting 1:21:46.360 --> 1:21:49.679 room either. Yeah. Oh, look he's he's not the tallest guy. 1:21:49.920 --> 1:21:54.240 He's quick, he's good, he's look a lot of guys. 1:21:54.560 --> 1:21:55.840 You have to say this about a lot of guys. 1:21:55.920 --> 1:21:58.360 If he stays healthy, you know, the if I always 1:21:58.400 --> 1:22:01.439 say if is the biggest word sports talk radio and 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:03.960 just being a sports fan. If this happens, then this 1:22:04.040 --> 1:22:06.160 could happen, And look, this is why we love this 1:22:06.200 --> 1:22:09.960 stuff because it's the unknown. But Lindsay is one of 1:22:10.000 --> 1:22:13.280 those additions on this team that maybe doesn't get talked 1:22:13.280 --> 1:22:17.440 about enough. This guy, look, it's gonna be a committee situation, 1:22:17.600 --> 1:22:20.640 or at least a mini committee, but he'll factor in. 1:22:20.720 --> 1:22:22.479 I mean, if he's healthy, he's playing. I'm sorry he's 1:22:22.479 --> 1:22:25.439 getting snaps, He's gonna get the rock. I tell you 1:22:25.479 --> 1:22:27.439 a guy that I think has not not much has 1:22:27.479 --> 1:22:31.679 been made of and sitting next to him yesterday, we said, 1:22:31.760 --> 1:22:35.599 when the when the defensive lineman came in our right yesterday, 1:22:35.880 --> 1:22:40.040 I looked at them and was like, dang, like built 1:22:40.120 --> 1:22:43.240 completely differently than guys I've seen coming through here. Now. 1:22:43.439 --> 1:22:44.960 We used to have DJ Reader come through there, but 1:22:45.040 --> 1:22:47.800 DJ was, he was a DJ is a different dude. 1:22:49.520 --> 1:22:51.960 Vince was, Vince Wilfork was, you know, kind of well 1:22:52.000 --> 1:22:57.960 passed his prime. That said, when Vincent Taylor, Jalil Johnson, MALIEK. 1:22:58.080 --> 1:23:02.240 Collins came into our room yesterday, and I'm sitting next 1:23:02.240 --> 1:23:04.719 to Millie Collins and I can like, he's got shorts 1:23:04.720 --> 1:23:07.240 on his thighs are like gonna bust out of his shorts, 1:23:07.240 --> 1:23:10.360 And I'm like, these guys are built definitely VT Vincent Taylor, 1:23:10.880 --> 1:23:13.400 My god, he was. He had a sweatshirt on. He 1:23:13.400 --> 1:23:15.599 had kind of been moving around sweating a little bit, 1:23:15.640 --> 1:23:18.720 and I mean he just filled out this triple X 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:23.559 sweatshirt just massive. So I'm curious to see how those guys, 1:23:23.600 --> 1:23:26.040 in particular Millie Collins. I think Mollie Collins has got 1:23:26.040 --> 1:23:27.960 a lot left in his game. I think he's got 1:23:27.960 --> 1:23:29.759 a lot left in his game. I think he's quick, 1:23:29.800 --> 1:23:33.840 I think he's athletic. I think for Malik, for even 1:23:34.000 --> 1:23:35.920 dating back those days in Nebraska, it was all about 1:23:35.960 --> 1:23:39.280 consistency because at volume ten, Willie Collins is a heck 1:23:39.280 --> 1:23:41.720 of football player, but the volume can't go down to 1:23:41.760 --> 1:23:43.720 volume of three or four. He's got to keep that 1:23:43.760 --> 1:23:45.840 thing cranked at volume ten as much as possible. And look, 1:23:45.880 --> 1:23:48.880 I know you can't do that as much. But he's 1:23:48.920 --> 1:23:51.240 the type of player that when he is boy, he 1:23:51.280 --> 1:23:53.120 can be disruptive. And I think this is the type 1:23:53.160 --> 1:23:56.160 of defense that would allow him, this type of defensive 1:23:56.160 --> 1:23:57.640 scheme that would allow him to do this. I think 1:23:57.640 --> 1:23:59.840 a guy like Willie Collins is someone maybe we don't 1:23:59.800 --> 1:24:03.000 talk a lot about. You throw in big Z to 1:24:03.160 --> 1:24:07.360 Malik and Vincent Taylor, there's some size up front. Now 1:24:07.600 --> 1:24:10.640 there's size big. That was not quite the case the 1:24:10.760 --> 1:24:12.760 last couple of years. Last year in particular, Well, big 1:24:12.840 --> 1:24:14.400 Z is a guy who I would have loved to 1:24:14.439 --> 1:24:16.479 interview yesterday. We'll get a chance to talk to him 1:24:16.520 --> 1:24:18.360 soon enough. I mean, when you look at this d 1:24:18.520 --> 1:24:21.800 line and you mentioned some of those guys, Jalil's three 1:24:22.000 --> 1:24:25.519 sixteenth listed, these listings come on Vincent Taylor three eleven. 1:24:26.439 --> 1:24:29.000 It was three eleven. I think you know, back when 1:24:29.040 --> 1:24:32.479 he was a kid, MALIEK Collins three ten. Big Z's 1:24:32.560 --> 1:24:37.280 listed at three twenty. Yeah, it's not like your college 1:24:37.320 --> 1:24:41.880 basketball roster where they tend to inflate the heights of dudes. Yeah, 1:24:41.960 --> 1:24:46.080 although Marcus Canby when I was at U match, we 1:24:46.120 --> 1:24:47.760 listed him at six to eleven. I thought he was 1:24:47.800 --> 1:24:51.240 seven feet But anyway, I digress. Big Z listed at 1:24:51.240 --> 1:24:55.240 three twenty. I don't know. That must be before breakfast. Okay, 1:24:55.320 --> 1:24:58.479 have you seen any quarterbacks yet, Johnny, I'm looking. It's 1:24:58.560 --> 1:25:03.640 quarterback watch. Yeah, they're walking across people and obviously the 1:25:03.680 --> 1:25:07.240 player everybody is wondering about number four to Shaun Watson 1:25:07.360 --> 1:25:10.479 is in Jersey and out of practice. Okay, he's out 1:25:10.479 --> 1:25:14.240 of practice. So yeah, I can see the media. It's 1:25:14.240 --> 1:25:17.720 almost like um when you're tacking a gigantic sailboat and 1:25:17.760 --> 1:25:19.840 everyone goes from one side to the other. As he 1:25:19.960 --> 1:25:23.439 crossed to go to the other field, he's had his 1:25:23.520 --> 1:25:25.760 jersey on. He's now jogging and took his jersey off. 1:25:25.800 --> 1:25:29.240 So we'll see, we'll see what happens at this particular point. 1:25:29.320 --> 1:25:31.680 But he was he did have his red jersey on, 1:25:31.760 --> 1:25:34.439 his red number four on and going across the field. 1:25:34.439 --> 1:25:36.880 So listen, this is gonna be something that we're gonna 1:25:36.880 --> 1:25:38.519 we're gonna have to talk about whether we like it 1:25:38.600 --> 1:25:41.120 or not. We have not talked about it throughout the 1:25:41.120 --> 1:25:44.600 off season because obviously the legal situation became the overbearing 1:25:44.640 --> 1:25:46.960 part of it, and it's still it's still there. But 1:25:47.240 --> 1:25:49.519 you got the training camp, and now it becomes a 1:25:49.520 --> 1:25:51.200 part of training camp and a part of the season 1:25:51.280 --> 1:25:54.400 for as long as he is here, how long his 1:25:54.479 --> 1:25:57.400 career is, and if you joined us late. Nick Kissirio 1:25:57.520 --> 1:26:00.879 met with the media and answered dozens of questions about Watson, 1:26:00.960 --> 1:26:03.120 but did he answer them. He just said it's a 1:26:03.240 --> 1:26:05.800 matter that they're handling. They're gonna do the best thing 1:26:05.840 --> 1:26:09.280 for the organization. They are going to keep things private, 1:26:09.520 --> 1:26:13.000 and that's basically it. He was asked point blank whether 1:26:13.160 --> 1:26:15.720 Watson requested a trade or not, and he said, we 1:26:15.760 --> 1:26:18.760 don't really talk about those things, so that's it. 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Sports Radio six 1:31:47.439 --> 1:31:53.759 ten with the Texas Play Years, Play Years Texans Radio 1:31:54.000 --> 1:31:58.080 is at training camp. Welcome back to Texans Training Camp Live, 1:31:58.680 --> 1:32:06.200 presented by x SO. Nick Casserio met with the media earlier, 1:32:06.479 --> 1:32:09.599 then joined us. He's gonna join the morning program of 1:32:09.840 --> 1:32:13.799 Seth and Sean Paynton Pendergast and that's gonna be tomorrow 1:32:13.800 --> 1:32:16.160 at about seven thirty. So he'll visit with them, but 1:32:16.160 --> 1:32:19.639 he'll be back with us on Monday, Wednesday, Friday next week. 1:32:19.680 --> 1:32:21.679 So we'll have him on a bunch during our shows 1:32:21.680 --> 1:32:24.120 here eight to ten am. And if you're just kind 1:32:24.120 --> 1:32:26.360 of new to sports Radio six ten, where have you been? 1:32:26.760 --> 1:32:29.120 And this is something we do every training camp. First 1:32:29.160 --> 1:32:31.280 ten business days of training camp. We're on eight to 1:32:31.360 --> 1:32:34.040 ten am. Johnny me sometimes we pull in the guys 1:32:34.040 --> 1:32:36.960 from six to ten. Nick Casserio joins us, McLean joins 1:32:37.040 --> 1:32:39.000 us every day. You know what I just thought about, 1:32:39.080 --> 1:32:41.920 what are we gonna get our questions from Landry Locker? 1:32:42.600 --> 1:32:44.320 You know I didn't ask him that, Johnny, And I 1:32:44.320 --> 1:32:46.160 don't mean he's standing right there. You said, we're doing 1:32:46.200 --> 1:32:48.439 business on the air, and I know Landry Lockers listening 1:32:48.439 --> 1:32:53.320 to us. Landry Landry's camp camp questions with us starting tomorrow, 1:32:53.360 --> 1:32:55.120 will you do him all right, yeah, he said thumbs 1:32:55.160 --> 1:32:57.479 upright those are That's one of my favorite segments. I 1:32:57.479 --> 1:32:59.719 don't believe we forgot about. I know Landry's camp questions. 1:32:59.720 --> 1:33:01.959 He's in his own show from right here right afterwards, 1:33:01.960 --> 1:33:04.760 so what the heck? I mean, he might as might 1:33:04.800 --> 1:33:07.680 as well. But training camp is underway. They got the 1:33:07.720 --> 1:33:10.080 giant video board here, giant for a practice field. I 1:33:10.120 --> 1:33:13.400 gotta say that is awesome. Look it is so high 1:33:13.439 --> 1:33:16.240 defth they have a wide angle shot right now, and 1:33:16.280 --> 1:33:19.000 it's just they got a lot of pixels on that thing. 1:33:19.200 --> 1:33:22.599 That thing is if there's four K, that's like eighty K. 1:33:23.360 --> 1:33:27.519 That is really impressive stuff, all right. Also impressive. Could 1:33:27.560 --> 1:33:30.360 be it's a projection. Could be the depth on the 1:33:30.400 --> 1:33:34.040 old line. The old line looks good now. Kennon and 1:33:34.200 --> 1:33:37.840 Lane Taylor open camp on PUP. Hopefully they get back 1:33:38.160 --> 1:33:43.280 very quickly. Third year player Max Sharping, aiming to really 1:33:43.320 --> 1:33:47.040 solidify his status as a guard on this team. Although 1:33:47.080 --> 1:33:49.720 you never know how it's gonna go. So Johnny and 1:33:49.800 --> 1:33:52.320 I caught up with him. Let's listen it. Max Sharping 1:33:52.400 --> 1:33:55.439 joining us right now in Texans Radio and it's year three. 1:33:55.640 --> 1:33:57.880 My mind is blown. I mean, how do you feel 1:33:57.920 --> 1:33:59.639 about that when I just put it that way, Year 1:33:59.680 --> 1:34:03.080 three in the National Football League, and it's crazy. I 1:34:03.160 --> 1:34:05.840 love it. That's awesome. What do you think about going 1:34:05.880 --> 1:34:08.200 into year three? Was the big focus for you? I 1:34:08.200 --> 1:34:10.439 saw you in a building a lot this summer, So 1:34:10.479 --> 1:34:13.000 what was the focus for you this offseason to get 1:34:13.000 --> 1:34:15.240 ready for year three? Yeah, I mean I think it 1:34:15.280 --> 1:34:19.200 was just uh, you know, trying to build up a 1:34:19.200 --> 1:34:21.040 little bit of strength, get used to the to the 1:34:21.080 --> 1:34:23.000 heat down here. I mean, obviously last year it was 1:34:23.000 --> 1:34:24.519 different being out of the building, so I kind of 1:34:24.560 --> 1:34:28.519 wanted to stick around, you know, keep keep my mind, 1:34:28.760 --> 1:34:33.599 you know, present in the building in Houston. Yeah, absolutely important. Hey, 1:34:33.600 --> 1:34:35.920 we're going to Green Bay again, reminiscent of your rookie 1:34:36.000 --> 1:34:39.200 year where you started out your first preseason game experience. 1:34:39.240 --> 1:34:40.920 Thoughts on going back. I know it'll be a shorter 1:34:40.960 --> 1:34:43.040 trip this time. Yeah, I'll be shorter, but it'll still 1:34:43.080 --> 1:34:45.120 be good. You know, Obviously, anytime you get to go 1:34:45.120 --> 1:34:47.360 back to your hometown, it's it's a good time. So 1:34:47.840 --> 1:34:50.400 I'm super excited. You know, it's a special place for 1:34:50.479 --> 1:34:52.639 me and you know, for football in general. So I'm 1:34:52.760 --> 1:34:56.320 very excited. Had you ever been on Lambeau Field. Prior 1:34:56.400 --> 1:34:58.439 to playing in that game as a rookie, I had 1:34:58.520 --> 1:35:01.080 not Actually that was the first So it's very cool, 1:35:01.160 --> 1:35:03.360 very cool. That's very cool to being just to have 1:35:03.400 --> 1:35:05.479 those How much pressure did you feel? I mean, I 1:35:05.520 --> 1:35:07.439 know it's the preseason game one, but you're rookie, you 1:35:07.560 --> 1:35:09.280 got a ton of families. How much pressure did you 1:35:09.320 --> 1:35:13.800 feel for that night? Uh? Honestly, I mean we had 1:35:13.840 --> 1:35:16.360 been practicing against them for a little bit, so actually 1:35:16.360 --> 1:35:19.320 the game wasn't wasn't too much pressure. Um. I was 1:35:19.360 --> 1:35:22.320 more just kind of excited to see you know who 1:35:22.400 --> 1:35:24.160 all came out with my family and stuff like that 1:35:24.200 --> 1:35:26.080 after the game, and you know it, it was cool 1:35:26.160 --> 1:35:28.960 seeing all of them support and wearing uh Texas stuff 1:35:29.000 --> 1:35:32.280 in Lambeau instead of all of the packer here. All right, 1:35:32.360 --> 1:35:35.479 So here we are with a new offensive line. Coach 1:35:35.600 --> 1:35:38.519 tell us about James camping Man, I mean another guy 1:35:38.520 --> 1:35:40.919 who came from Green Bay. Yeah, I love it. Um, 1:35:40.960 --> 1:35:44.360 you know, he's he's great, he's uh, he's really uh, 1:35:44.479 --> 1:35:46.840 you know, getting the guys to gel together, I think, 1:35:46.880 --> 1:35:50.519 and sending a tone about who who we're going to 1:35:50.560 --> 1:35:53.679 be as as an offensive line, as as an offense, 1:35:53.720 --> 1:35:56.280 as a team. UM, so I think, you know, having 1:35:56.280 --> 1:35:58.600 a guy who who played in the league himself for 1:35:58.680 --> 1:36:01.719 a long time and has than coaching for an extremely 1:36:01.760 --> 1:36:04.640 long time. Um has coached some of the greats in 1:36:04.680 --> 1:36:07.639 the game. You know. I mean, it's uh, it's awesome. 1:36:08.160 --> 1:36:11.599 The chemistry between the guys up front. First of all, 1:36:11.640 --> 1:36:14.280 how long does it take to create that chemistry and 1:36:14.400 --> 1:36:16.479 be how important is it to have it to be 1:36:16.520 --> 1:36:19.559 successful as an offensive line? I mean, you know, I 1:36:19.560 --> 1:36:21.519 mean a lot of a lot of what we do 1:36:21.640 --> 1:36:23.639 is you know, helping each other, you know, double teams, 1:36:23.680 --> 1:36:26.400 pass protection, slides, all that stuff. So I mean having 1:36:26.400 --> 1:36:30.040 that chemistry with each other is extremely important, and I think, honestly, 1:36:30.080 --> 1:36:32.599 a lot of it is off the field more than 1:36:32.640 --> 1:36:34.360 even on the field, because you got to you gotta 1:36:34.400 --> 1:36:36.920 be able to trust each other, and you gotta know 1:36:37.000 --> 1:36:39.000 who he is in his background and what he's gonna 1:36:39.000 --> 1:36:42.519 do in certain situations, and UM that that takes time. 1:36:42.640 --> 1:36:45.160 But um, you know, I mean I think off the 1:36:45.160 --> 1:36:47.920 field and meetings and discussing, you know, what he's seeing 1:36:48.120 --> 1:36:50.920 or what they're seeing. All this stuff, UM, even just 1:36:50.960 --> 1:36:53.600 talking about or in a walkthrough or something. It's not 1:36:53.640 --> 1:36:57.080 necessarily all practice that helps obviously, and you need that, UM, 1:36:57.160 --> 1:36:59.320 but off the field stuff is pretty important to what 1:36:59.360 --> 1:37:01.680 do you think will be different about the offense this year? 1:37:01.680 --> 1:37:06.000 Without giving away state secrets and strategy secrets, what's going 1:37:06.080 --> 1:37:07.960 to be different about what you guys do up front? 1:37:09.439 --> 1:37:11.559 I think it's like I said, I think it's you know, 1:37:11.680 --> 1:37:15.160 with Campy coming in, it's it's a lot about a mentality. 1:37:15.520 --> 1:37:17.759 And I think that's that's what's going to be different 1:37:17.800 --> 1:37:21.120 this year. UM, just the mentality and the way we're 1:37:21.120 --> 1:37:24.519 gonna go about, you know, practice games. Everything is going 1:37:24.600 --> 1:37:26.720 to be all all the mentality. It is just gonna 1:37:26.720 --> 1:37:28.760 be a little bit different. As you've gotten into your 1:37:28.800 --> 1:37:31.760 third year in the NFL, I would imagine that you 1:37:31.880 --> 1:37:33.800 work on technique. You work on technique. You work on 1:37:33.800 --> 1:37:36.120 technique all the time. That's something you just do all 1:37:36.200 --> 1:37:40.160 the time. So what's the key in getting better as 1:37:40.200 --> 1:37:43.280 an individual offensive lineman? Is it kind of learning tricks 1:37:43.320 --> 1:37:45.519 of the trade. Is it's studying more film. What's kind 1:37:45.560 --> 1:37:47.280 of the key to take in I don't say the 1:37:47.320 --> 1:37:49.360 next step, but what's kind of the key to becoming 1:37:49.760 --> 1:37:52.400 even better weekend and week out? Is it more about 1:37:52.479 --> 1:37:55.720 just emphasizing technique. Is it learning new techniques? Is it 1:37:55.800 --> 1:37:57.400 kind of the little tricks of the trade you learn 1:37:57.479 --> 1:38:00.200 playing inside? What's kind of the key max for for 1:38:00.360 --> 1:38:04.599 taking you know, that step of of becoming the NFL 1:38:04.680 --> 1:38:07.080 lineman that you want to be. I think it kind 1:38:07.120 --> 1:38:09.720 of honestly, it's a little bit week by week, um, 1:38:09.800 --> 1:38:13.240 day by day type of thing. You know, certain certain things, Um, 1:38:13.280 --> 1:38:15.080 you know you're good at coming in certain things you 1:38:15.080 --> 1:38:17.200 need to improve on, right, And I think obviously you 1:38:17.439 --> 1:38:19.040 never want to lose what you're good at, but you 1:38:19.120 --> 1:38:22.240 got to take h take what your maybe he's not 1:38:22.280 --> 1:38:23.880 your strong suit, and you got to work on that 1:38:23.960 --> 1:38:27.160 every single day until it kind of creeps up closer. Um. 1:38:27.240 --> 1:38:28.840 And then depending on the week. You know, if you 1:38:29.040 --> 1:38:30.920 if you've played a guy before, you have a little 1:38:30.920 --> 1:38:32.760 bit of an idea of what he's gonna do to 1:38:32.800 --> 1:38:35.639 try to attack you or what he might try this time. 1:38:35.760 --> 1:38:38.960 And if you haven't, um, you know, played against him before, 1:38:39.000 --> 1:38:40.640 you got to watch a little bit more film on 1:38:40.720 --> 1:38:43.120 him and you know, ask around the vets, see if 1:38:43.160 --> 1:38:46.759 they've played against them before anything like that. So, um, 1:38:46.840 --> 1:38:49.040 it's a little bit, uh, a little bit unique to 1:38:49.120 --> 1:38:53.040 every every person, every situation um, and you just kind of, 1:38:53.120 --> 1:38:55.320 you know, focus on maybe one thing one day, one 1:38:55.320 --> 1:38:57.840 thing another day, and just stack them up. We've talked 1:38:57.880 --> 1:39:00.679 a lot about how last year was tough on the rookies, 1:39:00.800 --> 1:39:02.559 but it was no picnic for you guys going into 1:39:02.600 --> 1:39:04.759 your second year either, because you were kind of deprived 1:39:04.800 --> 1:39:07.920 of that entire offseason to get ready as opposed to 1:39:07.920 --> 1:39:09.720 the rookie year when you're getting ready for draft and 1:39:09.760 --> 1:39:11.880 all that other stuff. So what was that like for you? 1:39:12.280 --> 1:39:14.240 And I know everybody had to deal with it, But 1:39:14.360 --> 1:39:16.160 now that you're sort of through that, I know we're 1:39:16.200 --> 1:39:18.840 still living in the protocol world, but it's not quite 1:39:18.880 --> 1:39:21.960 the same. Yeah, I mean you definitely. I mean I 1:39:21.960 --> 1:39:24.400 didn't even really have a full NFL off season until 1:39:24.400 --> 1:39:27.160 this year, so it was different going into that first 1:39:27.360 --> 1:39:30.880 That first off season, you never really get a feel 1:39:30.920 --> 1:39:33.080 for what you know, what vets do, what you're supposed 1:39:33.120 --> 1:39:34.600 to do, and you're supposed to learn from everybody, but 1:39:34.680 --> 1:39:37.080 if they're not around, how can you do that? So 1:39:37.680 --> 1:39:39.479 it took a bit a little bit of getting used to. 1:39:39.880 --> 1:39:42.439 But I like, you know, having the process this year 1:39:42.520 --> 1:39:45.080 definitely helps you, know, you get you get you moved through. 1:39:45.240 --> 1:39:46.720 Like I was saying, day by day, you kind of 1:39:46.720 --> 1:39:48.320 have a little bit more of a process, a little 1:39:48.320 --> 1:39:51.519 bit more of a setup where you can focus on 1:39:51.560 --> 1:39:55.400 certain things at certain times. All Right, that's Max Sharping, 1:39:55.600 --> 1:39:59.200 who joined Johnny and myself in the hunday Texans radio 1:39:59.320 --> 1:40:03.519 studio and a terrific visit with him. Team practicing right 1:40:03.560 --> 1:40:06.559 now at the Houston Methodist Training Center. Media just tweeting 1:40:06.600 --> 1:40:09.280 everything that a certain quarterback does. Oh he took his 1:40:09.360 --> 1:40:11.000 jersey off, Oh he put it back on. Oh he 1:40:11.080 --> 1:40:14.439 lifted his left foot, And I get it, I suppose. 1:40:14.800 --> 1:40:16.280 But there are a lot of other things to talk 1:40:16.320 --> 1:40:18.479 about on this team. But I understand it's a huge story. 1:40:18.520 --> 1:40:20.040 We all want to know what happens. Although I don't 1:40:20.080 --> 1:40:23.040 know if every little movement here at camp is filled 1:40:23.080 --> 1:40:27.560 with significance, is filled with projection on what is ultimately 1:40:27.600 --> 1:40:30.920 going to happen. So we'll find out. This is a 1:40:31.080 --> 1:40:35.040 unique situation. This is the twentieth Texans training camp and 1:40:35.080 --> 1:40:38.759 we've never seen anything like this. There are so many 1:40:38.800 --> 1:40:42.439 stories on this team that one is obviously on a 1:40:42.520 --> 1:40:46.400 national basis and locally to overshadowing the rest, But there 1:40:46.479 --> 1:40:49.240 is a lot to go over. 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Find out how you can use Texans Lux 1:46:09.760 --> 1:46:13.000 to grow your network by visiting Houston Texans Lux dot com. 1:46:18.160 --> 1:46:21.679 I'm Whitney Merciless, starting outside linebacker for your Houston Texans. 1:46:22.040 --> 1:46:24.320 For the latest on your favorite team in mind, go 1:46:24.400 --> 1:46:28.200 to Houston Texans dot com. All right, we gotta correct 1:46:28.240 --> 1:46:32.400 that bump. He's not an outside live backer. He's a 1:46:32.520 --> 1:46:36.520 d L. Who's a Whitney. Oh yeah, he's DL. Now, yeah, 1:46:36.520 --> 1:46:38.320 he's gone back to the future. He's been he's been 1:46:38.360 --> 1:46:41.400 around since twenty twelve, so that's okay. That's what he 1:46:41.520 --> 1:46:43.559 was in Illinois, he was a four. It was so 1:46:43.640 --> 1:46:46.080 funny because in twenty eleven he gets all these sacks. 1:46:46.080 --> 1:46:49.240 He's playing four down D lineman defensive end, and some 1:46:49.320 --> 1:46:51.120 of the Texans drafting was like, well, you know, how's 1:46:51.120 --> 1:46:53.400 he gonna transfer, how's he gonna translate to a three? Four? 1:46:53.439 --> 1:46:55.360 And now it's like, well, how's it gonna be a fourth? Three? 1:46:55.360 --> 1:46:57.080 He's like, guys, he did that in college. I know 1:46:57.240 --> 1:46:59.320 was years ago, but he's got it in his bag. 1:46:59.520 --> 1:47:01.559 He's got the club in his bag. He always definitely 1:47:01.560 --> 1:47:03.120 got the club. And don't forget how to hit the 1:47:03.120 --> 1:47:07.000 sand wedge. In fact, it's one of his favorite clubs, 1:47:07.120 --> 1:47:09.439 but he hasn't been able to use it. So and 1:47:09.520 --> 1:47:11.920 you know who we taught to yesterday and I want 1:47:11.920 --> 1:47:14.840 to run that tomorrow. I think because Jacob Martin. We 1:47:14.880 --> 1:47:17.840 had a terrific visit with him and he could not 1:47:18.000 --> 1:47:20.760 be more excited about playing defensive end in a four three. 1:47:20.760 --> 1:47:22.240 He said, this is why I was drafted, this is 1:47:22.240 --> 1:47:24.479 why they liked me in this league because I could 1:47:24.479 --> 1:47:27.760 do that well. And then he's an outside linebacker and look, 1:47:27.760 --> 1:47:30.439 he got some things done. You know it's he's in 1:47:30.479 --> 1:47:33.599 this league. He's employed in this league. Look, we make 1:47:33.640 --> 1:47:36.080 a big deal about wanting guys to be Pro Bowlers. 1:47:36.120 --> 1:47:39.560 We want everybody to be a Pro Bowler, all pro. Yes, absolutely, 1:47:39.960 --> 1:47:43.960 first round draft choice ability. But the fact is there's 1:47:43.960 --> 1:47:46.400 a huge middle class, if you will, in this league. 1:47:46.560 --> 1:47:51.439 And he fitted just fine in his role. But this 1:47:51.520 --> 1:47:55.160 is a role where he might flourish. Johnny defensive end 1:47:55.400 --> 1:47:58.799 in a four to three where he's a situational guy 1:47:58.920 --> 1:48:00.760 and he's probably not in there first down, but he's 1:48:00.760 --> 1:48:03.760 a situational guy, but he could be really productive here. Yeah, 1:48:03.800 --> 1:48:07.400 I mean, I think for him it was really interesting. 1:48:07.439 --> 1:48:11.120 I can't wait to run an interview because we I 1:48:11.160 --> 1:48:13.800 get so interested in talking to the pass rushers. I 1:48:13.920 --> 1:48:16.960 love talking about you guys, were really love talking about 1:48:17.040 --> 1:48:19.760 I had to excuse myself these guys were talking pass 1:48:19.840 --> 1:48:22.519 rush moves and lifting up your elbow and doing the 1:48:22.600 --> 1:48:26.640 swim and that. It was so awesome. But it's just 1:48:26.680 --> 1:48:31.720 a comfortability of knowing as a defensive end, guess what 1:48:32.600 --> 1:48:36.000 you're not dropping in coverage. Yeah, you're going forward, whether 1:48:36.040 --> 1:48:38.400 it's forward to attack a blocker in a run game, 1:48:38.800 --> 1:48:42.559 whether it's rushing quarterback, looping inside on games and stunts, whatever, 1:48:43.040 --> 1:48:45.840 you're going forward. You're not having to think about going back. 1:48:45.880 --> 1:48:48.000 And I think about one play in particular, as it 1:48:48.040 --> 1:48:50.679 pertains to Jacob. It's not really fair to him because 1:48:50.760 --> 1:48:52.920 Kansas City schemed it up. But in that playoff game, 1:48:52.960 --> 1:48:55.479 it's twenty four nothing, but the Chiefs get that long 1:48:55.520 --> 1:48:58.680 return from Hardman and they take Damian Williams and they 1:48:58.760 --> 1:49:01.719 run him down the seam. Well, Jacob's got to read 1:49:01.920 --> 1:49:04.120 and then get out to it, and it's just not 1:49:04.200 --> 1:49:06.840 in his purview. It's just not something that he really 1:49:06.920 --> 1:49:10.560 does instinctively, and did instinctively. And then Mahomes drops a 1:49:10.640 --> 1:49:13.040 bullet and you know, put a bullet on Williams at 1:49:13.080 --> 1:49:15.160 the touchdown twenty four seven in the floodgates open in. 1:49:15.200 --> 1:49:18.120 It wasn't Jacobs, but it just showed where he was 1:49:18.560 --> 1:49:21.360 not as comfortable as he said he wasn't a four 1:49:21.479 --> 1:49:23.280 three at Temple, which he is now in here with us. 1:49:23.800 --> 1:49:27.439 So we have ones and twos and ones and twos 1:49:27.520 --> 1:49:30.840 going at it here in a non padded practice. Okay, 1:49:30.840 --> 1:49:32.839 so they're not going fold, They're going about three quarters 1:49:32.880 --> 1:49:37.000 here at best. Uh. You have Taylor manning the quarterback 1:49:37.040 --> 1:49:40.120 position on one end of the field and Davis Mills 1:49:40.160 --> 1:49:41.920 on the other end of the field, with Driscoll and 1:49:42.000 --> 1:49:45.519 Watson watching. That's how this is right now. Don't know 1:49:45.560 --> 1:49:47.960 how it's going to change as these reps progress here, 1:49:48.000 --> 1:49:49.800 but giving you a little update. We don't do much 1:49:49.880 --> 1:49:51.800 play by play of practice. Just try to give you 1:49:51.800 --> 1:49:55.000 a few tidbits, a few nuggets here and there. What's 1:49:55.040 --> 1:49:56.479 going to do you want to go to rep in 1:49:57.280 --> 1:49:59.840 re Oh? You know, because it's good. It's a good 1:50:00.080 --> 1:50:04.880 bead for me to get a preseason RepU. Oh, I 1:50:04.920 --> 1:50:06.760 do to my head, Johnny all the time when I'm 1:50:06.760 --> 1:50:08.880 watching practice. I don't know if you knew this all right, 1:50:08.880 --> 1:50:11.040 I can't see us in the backfield, but Lindsay, just 1:50:11.080 --> 1:50:14.479 gotta carry yeah when you're watching a game at home, 1:50:14.920 --> 1:50:17.720 because I do sometimes when I'm watching a game at home, 1:50:17.760 --> 1:50:20.439 I'm calling out formations. I'm calling out like, oh yeah, 1:50:20.479 --> 1:50:22.960 this motion, like I'm calling it out as I'm watching it. 1:50:23.000 --> 1:50:25.880 Do you call out the you know, watching you? And 1:50:25.920 --> 1:50:29.640 I did the Southern Conference championship basketball game this year, right, 1:50:30.120 --> 1:50:33.200 and I was leading up to that, I was, you know, 1:50:33.240 --> 1:50:36.680 I'll do like a couple of minutes of a basketball 1:50:36.680 --> 1:50:38.880 game here and there, just to get a little rhythm 1:50:38.920 --> 1:50:41.320 because it's a rhythm game and so it's football really. 1:50:41.560 --> 1:50:44.120 But yeah, every once in a while, I'll call absolutely 1:50:44.200 --> 1:50:47.040 out loud at home. Are you kidding? Look, if you're 1:50:47.080 --> 1:50:49.400 not doing that as a play by play guy, if 1:50:49.439 --> 1:50:52.080 you say you're not doing it, you're lying. They're all 1:50:52.240 --> 1:50:56.439 nances at home doing it sometimes seriously because they're in 1:50:56.479 --> 1:50:59.280 this business, and anybody who does any kind of presentation 1:50:59.320 --> 1:51:01.519 work at this supplies to all businesses. If you do 1:51:01.600 --> 1:51:04.600 zoom call presentations, if you do any kind of presentation 1:51:04.640 --> 1:51:08.840 in front of multiple people, do it out loud. Practice 1:51:09.000 --> 1:51:11.360 out loud. You don't have to do the whole thing necessarily, 1:51:11.400 --> 1:51:14.320 but not in your head. In your head, it's not working. 1:51:14.360 --> 1:51:16.679 It's a motor skill. It's got to go from brain 1:51:16.840 --> 1:51:20.120 to mouth. The lungs, everything moving as a machine. If 1:51:20.120 --> 1:51:22.439 you're not doing that, you're not getting the reps that 1:51:22.479 --> 1:51:24.719 you need to get better. Johnny, when I first started 1:51:24.720 --> 1:51:27.120 doing football play by play at Central Michigan, you know, 1:51:27.160 --> 1:51:29.320 at a high level. I was doing high school before that, 1:51:29.520 --> 1:51:31.519 I would sit in the stands and watch practice, and 1:51:31.720 --> 1:51:33.599 as they were running reps, I would just call all 1:51:33.640 --> 1:51:35.240 the action like I was way high in the stands 1:51:35.240 --> 1:51:36.600 where no one could hear me. And I wasn't like 1:51:37.080 --> 1:51:40.120 they couldn't hear me, but I was doing it out loud, 1:51:40.280 --> 1:51:42.519 just to get that, you know, get the reps going. 1:51:42.600 --> 1:51:44.320 And here's the other thing. Whether you like your voice 1:51:44.439 --> 1:51:48.000 or not, listen to it. I don't love I don't 1:51:48.040 --> 1:51:50.639 love my voice. But I remember the very first segment 1:51:50.720 --> 1:51:53.200 you and I ever did together. I was listening to 1:51:53.240 --> 1:51:55.760 it and I said the word you know way more 1:51:55.800 --> 1:51:58.000 than I wanted to. Oh, so you worked on correct 1:51:58.000 --> 1:51:59.479 I was like, okay, I'm gonna try and correct it now. 1:51:59.479 --> 1:52:01.240 I fall back. Can to have I say it a 1:52:01.240 --> 1:52:05.160 lot in a show the Habits, but I try to 1:52:05.160 --> 1:52:09.200 take the pause as opposed to, you know, get going fast. 1:52:09.200 --> 1:52:11.800 You never know what happens, but it's it's hard not to. 1:52:12.120 --> 1:52:14.920 It's hard not to. Uh, it's really important to try 1:52:14.920 --> 1:52:17.479 to correct that and cut out all the ums and 1:52:17.520 --> 1:52:19.760 the odds. But sometimes that's difficult too, because you're trying 1:52:19.760 --> 1:52:21.760 to have a natural conversation at a sports talk show. 1:52:21.880 --> 1:52:25.320 That's it, folks. And here's another tidbit. Somebody who's asking 1:52:25.320 --> 1:52:27.559 me I want to get into sports talk. I said, well, 1:52:27.640 --> 1:52:30.160 while you're in your car, just shut off the radio 1:52:30.720 --> 1:52:34.759 and do three minutes by yourself. You're live, pick a topic, 1:52:35.000 --> 1:52:38.160 go alone, and if you can survive that, maybe you 1:52:38.160 --> 1:52:40.559 can think about the next start. All right. Anyway, that 1:52:40.600 --> 1:52:42.719 was our broadcast lesson of the day. As the team 1:52:42.760 --> 1:52:46.840 continues to do reps, Taylor still operating at QB. I 1:52:46.840 --> 1:52:50.080 didn't see anybody else get reps other than Taylor. The 1:52:50.080 --> 1:52:52.000 two spots, so Mills was down on the other end 1:52:52.000 --> 1:52:54.439 and Toronto was down here. So that's how they split 1:52:54.479 --> 1:52:57.200 it up and different you know, all three running backs, 1:52:57.360 --> 1:52:59.320 the three running backs. Well, it was one of the 1:52:59.360 --> 1:53:03.080 things that I'm noticed thirty seconds bad. Yeah, Rex Burkhead 1:53:03.200 --> 1:53:06.200 not on pups out here. That's very here. That's great news. 1:53:06.200 --> 1:53:09.360 That's a little silver lining or a little bright spot 1:53:09.360 --> 1:53:12.479 of the day. And Landry and Lopez are coming up. 1:53:12.479 --> 1:53:14.240 I mean they are just dying for us to leave 1:53:14.280 --> 1:53:17.960 this shoost so they can take over. And during their 1:53:18.000 --> 1:53:20.280 program they'll have a player, a player to mean names 1:53:20.320 --> 1:53:23.280 later and they'll also have David Culley's press conference. I 1:53:23.280 --> 1:53:25.040 guess a little bit of that as Cully will be 1:53:25.120 --> 1:53:28.960 peppered with questions on you know what, as Nikos Sarria was, 1:53:29.000 --> 1:53:31.599 so we'll find out. Thank you Ben for producing. 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