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Speaker 1: Oh Mary, Christmas everybody, and happy Holidays to all of you,

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Speaker 1: and welcome into our Christmas version of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Hyunday Texans Radio Studio. I am your radio

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Speaker 1: Santa Claus tonight, the Jolly fat Man himself, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analysts and silent reporter for your Houston Texans, and

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Speaker 1: we've got plenty for you. Now. I know that you're

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Speaker 1: probably out and mount on Christmas, maybe with family reltism up.

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Speaker 1: Some of you are probably driving back home from maybe

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Speaker 1: a holiday gathering that you had, and well, I've got

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Speaker 1: you covered because I've got all kinds of stuff for

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Speaker 1: you tonight. I've got Laramie Tunseell, I got Kenny Stills,

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Speaker 1: I got b scar TV and Brendan Scarlett, got Brian Anger,

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Speaker 1: Angelo Blackson on the show this evening. We've got all

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Speaker 1: the I mean, these are guys that really with Larry

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Speaker 1: Kenny in particular, you get a chance to know them

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Speaker 1: for the first time. In Brian Anger too, the punter

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Speaker 1: who had a tremendous game against his former team of

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Bucks the other day. Man, what a game

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Speaker 1: he had. He was absolutely tremendous. So we got a

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Speaker 1: little bit of mix of Drew's Dirty Dozen Tonight the

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Speaker 1: and then of course we got Play Reporter, brought to

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Speaker 1: got plenty for you. But we are going to kick

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Speaker 1: it off with the goat. Not a goat, the goat.

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Speaker 1: And when you say the goat, now that term takes

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Speaker 1: on a whole new meaning. The goat greatest of all time.

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Speaker 1: I think Muhammad Ali may have been the first that

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Speaker 1: put it as such. But the goat. Andre Johnson Dre

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Speaker 1: came in studio with Mark a few of maybe a

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Speaker 1: week ago or so, to talk about in honor that

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Speaker 1: Andrea had been given. Now it's a pretty cool honor.

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Speaker 1: I think it was really cool, and Mark lays it

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Speaker 1: out perfectly. But I love this. I love the relationship

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Speaker 1: between Andrea and Mark. Andre where too. But Andre Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Mark called all of Andrea's games at the Universe of

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Speaker 1: Miami minus one year, and it was that first year

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Speaker 1: the Texans and then Andrea comes here and then Mark

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Speaker 1: called every single one of Dre's games here. So from

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Speaker 1: the time that Drey graduated high school to the time

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Speaker 1: that he left here after twenty fourteen, Mark Vanniber called

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Speaker 1: every one of his games minus that one year in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two. That's it. So they've known each

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Speaker 1: other for a long time, dating back to their days

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Speaker 1: at the U, and they got together to talk about

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Speaker 1: Dre being voted a Gridiron Legend. There's some awesome stuff.

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Speaker 1: Take a list by him. So happy because Andre Johnson

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Speaker 1: is here and he's part of the Texas Gridiron Legend

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Speaker 1: class for the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl. It's

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Speaker 1: a tradition lone Star States rich football legacy always celebrated

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Speaker 1: by honoring eighty three football cons who have made a

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Speaker 1: lasting impact on the game of football in Texas at

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Speaker 1: the high school, college, pro level. So this has been

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Speaker 1: going on since the Bowl's inception. And Dan Pastorini, Robert Brazil,

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Speaker 1: Andre Ware, my broadcast buddy, Brian Bosworth, so many guys

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Speaker 1: with the lost Dodds, Richmond Webb, David Klingler, Jarrett Dillard,

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Speaker 1: Vince Young at Madison. Andre, welcome, congratulations on being a

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Speaker 1: gridiron legend for the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And how do you feel about that? What is your

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Speaker 1: reaction to it all? It's great. I think anytime you

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Speaker 1: You know on the earl Campbell, there's a grid on legend.

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Speaker 1: You got Billy Simms, you got me and Joe Green.

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Speaker 1: right right, So it's it's it's cool, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a great experience. Um, just taking it all in all right.

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Speaker 1: So do the players call you coach? That's what I

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Speaker 1: want to know. Nah, None, None of the players call

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Speaker 1: hard for you to not want to be out there still?

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Speaker 1: To be able to put that away that part of

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for me is just when

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Speaker 1: And me being a form of player, I'm like, how

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Speaker 1: guys play. Actually, So does that satisfy some of the

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Speaker 1: that's just the competitive nature and you um, but uh,

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Speaker 1: What's it like for you? And this franchise has been

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when I watch him play, I see some of

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Speaker 1: You know, when he first got here, I always tell people,

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Speaker 1: best ball skills I have ever seen, you know, from

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Speaker 1: You know. Um, I was, you know, bigger than he was.

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Speaker 1: because the rules don't allow for it. You know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, but that's the rules. It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: So obviously you played for the University of Miami, and

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Speaker 1: I always go to this area in recruiting for the Hurricanes.

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Speaker 1: When you played, it's not like everybody was from South Florida.

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Speaker 1: Franks in your freshman year he was from Texas, Shocky, Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: What's going on there now? In your opinion, what's going

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Speaker 1: to take to get them back there? And did seeing

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Speaker 1: Hurricanes football program in the future. Well, I think any

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Speaker 1: So how would you describe your style compared to most

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Speaker 1: My mind's kind of like hippieish, rock and rollish modern day.

425
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: It's like old school, like I'm all over the place. Yeah.

426
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: When it comes to fashion, You've got your rock t

427
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: shirts and then you have these Gucci pants which was fake?

428
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: Which were fake? You made sure you shouldn't tell people player, No,

429
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: I don't want you want people to know their their fake.

430
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: Have you been to Harwin and Hillcroft in the Houston area,

431
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: because I think he would really enjoy like a Yeah,

432
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: you could probably have your choice of fake guccies And

433
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should be advertising fake product frauds.

434
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: You get your choice of fake products and whatnot. There.

435
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: I also read that you're really into aliens. Okay, we

436
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: dig deep. Yeah, I could be a PI detective. Okay,

437
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: what's your favorite alien movie of all time? I don't

438
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Speaker 1: I've never seen at what you've been a black predator?

439
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: Like alien movies, like It's one move I actually seen,

440
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Speaker 1: but I just don't know the name of it is

441
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 1: as old as it. So, okay, I don't watch alien

442
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: movies like that. I don't watch I'm not a movies guy.

443
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,479
Speaker 1: I used to get so much stuff about that, Like

444
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: people used to come pick on me and everything because

445
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: I don't watch movies at all. Like Lion King. I

446
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: seen it one time and I don't remember anything. That's

447
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 1: when I was your Okay, you why you don't like

448
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: going to a movie. You just don't like going to

449
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: the movie theaters. Don't like the experience. It's not a movie, guy,

450
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 1: just never been. It's never been a movie. You do

451
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 1: like shows though? I love concerts, concerts, concerts, TV shows, Uh,

452
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 1: because okay, we'll get to the shows in the second.

453
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: Last concert you want to last concert I went to

454
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: was the Dreamville Fist in North oh Okay, Greenville, Jacob, Yeah,

455
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 1: those shirts are everywhere, the Dreamville shirts. So I got

456
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: a couple of shirts. You got a couple, okay. So

457
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Speaker 1: Jay Cole, is anybody that you want to see that's

458
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Speaker 1: on tour will be on tour? Uh? Someone Walker. I

459
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,719
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all know someone. Yeah, she's coming here.

460
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: What about Lizzo, lizz Lizzo, she was just here. Yeah, yeah,

461
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Speaker 1: I don't female, and of course that you're very diverse

462
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: and rock and you're hippop. But I'm looking forward to

463
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: some Walker. I can't wait to see. Okay, I think

464
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: she come down to thirty year from not sure. Okay,

465
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: So you're big into concerts, not in the movie is

466
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: big in the concerts? You are into Stranger Things though,

467
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: that's my show, but it's based it's based on the

468
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: back of the day says they're weird. That's right in

469
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Speaker 1: my And the music is really good. It's good eighties music.

470
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: Did you see the style? It's kind of like the seventies. Yeah,

471
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: for sure. I don't know if eighties are in yet?

472
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Speaker 1: What are they in again? Is it old enough that

473
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: it's in for me? Probably? Carry that on. So you like,

474
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Speaker 1: is there any other show that you binge watch? Stranger

475
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Speaker 1: Stranger Things, Snowfall and oh it's a new series that

476
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: just came up called woutan Clan. So I don't know.

477
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Speaker 1: I mean that does not surprise me. Yeah you should.

478
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: It's a good show too. Clan. Okay, travel, Do you

479
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: like to travel? I do. I don't mind traveling. Okay,

480
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Speaker 1: where's the best place that you've ever gone on vacation?

481
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,959
Speaker 1: Coast Rica for sure? Okay, yeah, the first time going

482
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 1: zip line? It is pretty dope. Yes, that's actually I've

483
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: gone zip lining. And because the jump, the rainforce, I'm

484
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: a bigger guy, like extra reinforce flying down at home,

485
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: it's so much fun. Well that's a little scary though,

486
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,719
Speaker 1: because if you're kind of like Ada, Okay, my biggest

487
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: thing I want to scott dive. I gotta go and soon,

488
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 1: like probably off season. I gotta go scott diving. Like

489
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: jumping out of a sky daving is jumping out of

490
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: the I always confuse it with a parasailing sky daving

491
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: jump out of the plan, So I probably that's not really.

492
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Speaker 1: Where would you like to travel that you haven't been yet?

493
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Speaker 1: I want to go to Greece. I want to go

494
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: to Amsterdam for sure. Okay, Thailand, that's probably is so far.

495
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Speaker 1: I like to pick places based on the food that

496
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: I like so great. I would I would definitely do

497
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Speaker 1: create a grease because I love great food. You used

498
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: to be a food at yourself, right, of course, guy,

499
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: how do you know? Yes, I found about Grace to

500
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills. Kenny Steal went the Greece. He went to Grace.

501
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: He said, the food is amazing, so I'm gonna check

502
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: it up. Houston is great for trying all these different foods.

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Speaker 1: By the way, how have you been able to? Have

504
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: you liked Houston so far? Yes? I haven't been nowhere.

505
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: I was like, have you got I haven't had No,

506
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: I haven't been nowhere besides the old line dinner, But

507
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Speaker 1: how have those been? Can? I ask? How do you

508
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Speaker 1: remember any of like a place that stands out? The

509
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: last place I went to. We got a dinner tonight.

510
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: But the last place I went to steak for the egg. Oh, yes,

511
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: of course it was pretty good. Yes, they're done for

512
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: steaks here. Yeah, who eats the most of the old

513
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: one group? I want to see if it's changed. Since

514
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: you have to give it to the room to give

515
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: it Titus, I was like, which one tights out? Everyone? Okay? Music,

516
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: just to circle back, you played a lot of instruments.

517
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: I thought of this because Titus can sing from what

518
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: I've heard. Yeah, he told me today he was in

519
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: the choir. He was in a quir and you play

520
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: a lot of instruments. You list all the instruments you play,

521
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: because I think I'm going to forget one. I know

522
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Speaker 1: the basics of the guitar, the bass, and the piano, okay,

523
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: the keys, the basics. Did you teach yourself? I told myself, Yeah,

524
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: I actually had a guy in Miami. That's really impressive.

525
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: I actually had a guy in Miami who taught me

526
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Speaker 1: how to play a guitar. Yeah, so he used to

527
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: give me. It's not similar though, like guitar to piano

528
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: to base. It's kind of got the same nose, but

529
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: it's not similar, if that makes sense. You have you

530
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: got to beat pad too. Are you going to produce

531
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: music one day? Do you think that's my goal? I

532
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: think that's a very cool to make. That's my goal.

533
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: The main thing with music, you gotta be consistent, gotta

534
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: be consistent with it. So have you been practicing since

535
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: I've been down here? I mean all this free time later? Yeah,

536
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: but Miami, I used to used to build a music

537
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't have none of my equipment down here,

538
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: but okay, I get it done here. I think that

539
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: may be in the off season. You and Titus that

540
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: kind of him is a great singer too. Yeah. Yeah,

541
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: you guys should make some beats to That's just my suggestion.

542
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: All right. What other impressions of Houston before I let

543
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: you go? You were complaining about traffic the other day. Horrible. Yeah,

544
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: you're you're a true Houstonian if you're complaining about traffic

545
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: worse than Miami. Yes, really, I thought Miami was pretty bad.

546
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: Is pretty bad. But we can get through. You can

547
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: take back roads. And he seemed like you can't take

548
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: no back roads. Yeah, you got to give it a minute.

549
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: I think you'll find some. It's cool, all right, Well,

550
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: welcome to Houston, Larremy. It's good to get to know you,

551
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: all right, thanks so much. Cool. When he was asked

552
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: a little bit later in the year about being here

553
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: with the Texans, said, I want to be here for

554
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: a long time. I wanted here for a long time.

555
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: I know people are talking about the false starts all that. Listen,

556
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: you work that out of your system the more you're

557
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: with a particular line and cadence, all that kind of stuff.

558
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: Neremi Tounsil's an absolute dude. He is the best left

559
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: tackle in the game. And if he's not considered by

560
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: such throughout the league as that he will be in

561
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: due time. He's been fan tastic. All right, coming up,

562
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: just buddy, Kenny Steals one of my favorite guys, and

563
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why next right here on Texans and Access.

564
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: Let's dive back in with one of my faves. Kenny

565
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: Steals came to this football team the first week of

566
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: this season. He's been a revelation ever since. This guy

567
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I was doing my hit for pregame and

568
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of become a little bit of a tradition

569
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: for Kenny to come by and kind of dap me up,

570
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: slop fives, you know whatever before the game. And I

571
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: literally was in the middle of my hit with Mark

572
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: and Dre and Kenny came up and I'm on the

573
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: mic and I'm trying to dap him up. And he's

574
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: done it every time, and every time that he's come

575
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: up to me, the Texans have won. I love this man.

576
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: I think he's great for this Houston community. I think

577
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. I think he's a tremendous player.

578
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: He's a really good fit for this locker room. Here's

579
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Speaker 1: Keny Steals. What Okay, So first thing I got to

580
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Speaker 1: ask you is about your game day fashion, because some

581
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: of the players have thrown you into the mix of

582
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Speaker 1: players to watch on game day, one being Whitney Merciless,

583
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: who said, hey, Kenny Stills really bringing the game day looks.

584
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Speaker 1: So you grew up in California, you played in Miami.

585
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: What sort of your fashion style if you had to

586
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: describe it. I like to kind of just push, push

587
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: the limit, push the envelope on different looks, being able

588
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: to just try out different things and you know, see

589
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: what fits, what looks good, and yeah, I guess just

590
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: kind of pretty straightforward. But is there anything that you

591
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: like absolutely would not wear. No. No, I think it's

592
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: fun to be able to try different things and see

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00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: what looks good. It's pretty interesting how a lot of

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00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: brands are making things that are like for man, men

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00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,959
Speaker 1: and women. So um, you know, I think it's fun

596
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: to try, like, sorry of a unisex sort of a

597
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: look rand. Yeah, I like the intersex stuff, and you know,

598
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: I look at some of the old school like prints

599
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 1: and money crabits and those types of dudes for inspiration.

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00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: But I think, like, deep down inside, I'm just a

601
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: California kid. I like vans and vans too, vans and

602
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: no shirt and board shorts, and I'm good, all right?

603
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: So what does Deon Sanders say? Look good, feel good,

604
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: play good. I'm paraphrasing, but it's something along those lines.

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00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: So you show up for Monday night football and you

606
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if many people knew what to expect

607
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: of you, because you'd been here for a week and

608
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: this is a pretty good wide receiver group. So it's like, okay, great,

609
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: we've got Kenny Stills. You come in, you make some

610
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: big catches, you score that fourth quarter touchdown, and your

611
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: first touchdown as a Texan against a team that drafted you.

612
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: How cool was that moment for you? Were you surprised

613
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: at all by help quickly you assimilated into this offense.

614
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that I was surprised. It was a,

615
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's overwhelming feeling. But people don't know this.

616
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: My first touchdown in the NFL was against Tom Brady

617
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,959
Speaker 1: and the Patriots in a similar situation could have been

618
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: a game winner, like a walk off situation, and we

619
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: gave the Patriots the ball back twice under like two

620
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: minutes and twenty seconds and the Patriots beat us, and

621
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: so that game really reminded me of of that. You know,

622
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 1: you give a Hall of Fame or a future Hall

623
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterback the ball with any time in the clock,

624
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity to come back and win the game.

625
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: So it was overwhelming experience, and obviously you know wish

626
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: that we would have won, but you understand that you

627
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: play against a future Hall of Famer and you know

628
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: it's too much time anytime, it's too much time left

629
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: on the clock. Well, you did win a few games

630
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: after that. I haven't been in LA. You had that

631
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: really cool flee flicker play, which was surprising because you

632
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: think it wouldn't work, but I was reading the stats

633
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: on it's actually pretty successful. How fun was it to

634
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: be a part of that? Have you ever been a

635
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: part of any trick plays like that before? Off the

636
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: top of mine, I know one, actually, I wonder if

637
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,239
Speaker 1: that's the one you're want to mention. Trying to think

638
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, I can't think of any. Okay,

639
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 1: last year, didn't you throw a touchdown? Touchdown? And then

640
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know if you had another fleeflick? Yeah, and

641
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: then we have the Miami miracle, which is like, oh, yeah,

642
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: well I didn't even think about that way, But yeah,

643
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think of those as trick plays.

644
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: We've we've practiced out a bunch, and I guess me

645
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: throwing the ball as a trick play. But I played

646
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: quarterback growing up, so I don't see it as a

647
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: trick player. But the defense it is all right. So

648
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: that's one thing that I've heard a lot about you

649
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: is sort of your hard work, your preparation, how much

650
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 1: you put into the game. What was that first week

651
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: like for you, because I imagine it's pretty tough. You

652
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: get traded, you think you're gonna be with Miami, but

653
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you show up in Houston

654
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: and then you not only have to learn a new playbook,

655
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: you've got to learn a new city, a new stadium,

656
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: new teammates and everything. What was those what were those

657
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: first few days like for you? I'm not gonna lie.

658
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: Those first few days were a lot. You know, it's

659
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: you felt like there wasn't enough time in the day

660
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: as far as trying to meet people and um, you know,

661
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 1: make the right impression on people and learn the offense

662
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: and figure out where to go in the building and

663
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: just like everything, everything's new, and so it was a lot,

664
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: But um I knew that at the the day, I

665
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: was just playing football and get to get the opportunity

666
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: to play on Monday night and have an extra day

667
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: to prepare and and then play against a team that

668
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: drafted me. I just wanted to go out there and

669
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: play and do my job and be somebody that the

670
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: team could count on to make a play. And so

671
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: what's what I've been trying to do. Did it make

672
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: it easier that Laramie was also with you, and you

673
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: had Carlos, had a few other guys that were sort

674
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: of in the same situation. It wasn't just you by

675
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: yourself trying to catch up. You know, whenever you go

676
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: somewhere new with a with a friend and a good friend,

677
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: it makes it a lot easier for you. What were

678
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: those can you get meet like an example of what

679
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: like a day was like for you the first because

680
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien said you were here pretty early, you were

681
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: here pretty late? Yeah, what were those out working hours

682
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: like early on? And maybe they still are that way.

683
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gotten a little bit better. I mean,

684
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: like seven o'clock to like eight or nine when it

685
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: comes to like getting treatment and watching the film and

686
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: then meeting with the coaches extra so I know my

687
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: assignment on the plays and what they expect out of me.

688
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: So um, it was a challenge, but I like a challenge,

689
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: and you know this is it's been a lot of

690
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: fun for me. We have a really great team with

691
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: cool guys and a good staff, and everyone in this

692
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: building has been really nice and made it really easy

693
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: for us to transition. Bill O'Brien said when you first

694
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: got here, said, we're just having Kenny learned his packages.

695
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: He's got certain packages, not unpacking the entire playbook at once.

696
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,479
Speaker 1: But this week he was asked about it and he said,

697
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: Okenny knows the whole playbook like he knows this offense.

698
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you know the whole offense. It's

699
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: not been that long. I know a majority of it.

700
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: And if I don't know, Deshaun needs me to do

701
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: something I understand, and I've seen enough film to go

702
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: out there and execute it. And I've played a bunch

703
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: of football, and you know, at the end of the day,

704
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: it's all football. Like everyone calls it something different, but

705
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: We're not reinventing the wheel. It's just ball and all

706
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: the rap combinations are the same. So a matter of

707
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: just getting on the same page with the quarterback and

708
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: you know, just executing. I saw stat you are tied

709
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: for first among players in the NFL in thirty plus

710
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: yard receptions and the Texans ran second in the NFL

711
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: with thirty plus yard receptions. Would you say that that's

712
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: your strength? Maybe getting separation and all the steady that

713
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: you do with what is the biggest strength you think

714
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: of your game just like that at tension to detail.

715
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: And I've always kind of thought of myself as a

716
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: really detailed receiver and not the most like athleticly gifted.

717
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm fast, but I mean I'm not like one of

718
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: the guys with the big hands or you know, like

719
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: a crazy big frame or anything. So I try to

720
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: make sure that my game is extremely detailed and I'm

721
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: on the same page of the quarterback. And so I

722
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: think the deep stuff just comes from good good play calls.

723
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: You know, we got trick plays in and trick plays yeah, yeah,

724
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: you know, the coaches call on the right places at

725
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: the right time. What about Deshaun Watson, It seems like

726
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: the two of you have such a good chemistry and

727
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: it's it almost seems effortless, which I know it's not

728
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: because you have put in the time, But how do

729
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: you make that work? How does it look so effortless

730
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: and easy and actual between the two of you considering

731
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: you didn't have the off season to really work with

732
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: him on timing and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean,

733
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: the kid's a baller like that. That's really all it

734
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: comes down to. We put the time in that practice,

735
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: and I'm getting a lot of the reps, you know,

736
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: throughout the week, but he's just a baller. We don't.

737
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: I mean, we've probably missed on a couple of throws

738
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: even in practice. So what we're seeing on the field

739
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: and the games is what we're getting in practice. And

740
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, I can't say I can't say

741
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: like enough good things about him. One of the things

742
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: that I knew about you, and I think a lot

743
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: of people knew about you coming here, was how active

744
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: you were in the community. You were named the Walter

745
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: Payton Man of the Year for the Dolphins in twenty seventeen.

746
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen, you get here, you meet with the Houston

747
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: Police chief Art Osservato, and he had a lot of

748
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: really nice things to say about you. What did you

749
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: hope to accomplish out of that meeting? Why was it

750
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: so important to sort of continue that? Yeah, it was

751
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: important for me to just introduce myself and let him

752
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 1: know that, you know, I was here and I could

753
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: be somebody that, um you know, we can work together

754
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: to build relationships in our communities, and it's important, um,

755
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: you know for me to have those conversations that way,

756
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, something positive or negative goes down. Um you know,

757
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: I have his number and I can reach out to

758
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: him and figure out how we can work together to

759
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: work towards solutions. And I think that's the biggest thing

760
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: for me is um you know, solutions and accountability and

761
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: um you know, I try to do everything that I

762
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: can be in a football player or somebody with the

763
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: platform and that people look up to to try and um,

764
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,919
Speaker 1: you know, do good by other people and to influence people,

765
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: you know, to to you know, treat each other the

766
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: right way, and um you know, try and make every

767
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: place that we're in a better place. And so I

768
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: think that's just part of you know, who I am

769
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: and what I'm trying to do. Have you always been

770
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: that way or when when did you really start to

771
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: just think that this is something I got to really

772
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: make time for. You. Seems like you've got so many

773
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 1: only so many hours in a day, and you're sort

774
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 1: of putting it everywhere, but you know, obviously you've made

775
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: it a priority. When did you decide or how did

776
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: you come about thinking that that was something that you

777
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: really wanted to focus on. Um, I think that it's

778
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: been something that's been a part of me for a

779
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: long time when I really like look back at you know,

780
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: who I am. But also I think as I've started

781
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: to see how other athletes were using their platform, I really,

782
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, wanted to start doing the same thing and

783
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: using mind and understanding that people look up to us

784
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: and you know, look at us to see how we're

785
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: acting and how we treat people, and so if I

786
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: can you know, do my part and lead by example,

787
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: then you know I can helpe that other people will

788
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: only do the same thing. One of the first times

789
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: you spoke to the media here, you got a few

790
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: questions about it, and you said, you know, just check

791
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: out my website if you want to know more, and

792
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: actually went to your website. I read about it and

793
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: there was like a documentary on you which I watched,

794
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: and I thought, I'm going to ask him about activism

795
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: and all this, But it really goes into great detail

796
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: to explain how you came about doing all these things.

797
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: But I think for people listening, there a lot of

798
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: people with causes that are important to them. What sort

799
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: of advice would you give them on how to get

800
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: started or how to find that one thing that they

801
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: can really contribute to And how do you, I mean

802
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: everyone's busy, how do you make time for it all? Yeah.

803
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: I think as you start with, like I said earlier,

804
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: just trying to find, you know, one thing you can

805
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: do a day or a week, and then from there,

806
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: I think it starts to kind of just snowball, you know.

807
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: For me, it was being at every community service event

808
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: that we did in Miami, and it's being at every

809
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: community service event that we do here in Houston. And

810
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 1: then you start to meet people that are like minded

811
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: and are interested in the same types of things that

812
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: you care about, and you start to connect with them,

813
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: and then that circle becomes bigger and bigger, and so

814
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: you just figure out what you're passionate about you know,

815
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: things that you care about. For me, it's single parent households,

816
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: it's you know, community police relations, it's you know, teachers

817
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: and education. Like you figure out those things that you

818
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: that you care about, you get on Google and you

819
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: research those nonprofit organizations and figure out what is that

820
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: you can get involved and then you just show up

821
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: and you put your heart into it and then it

822
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: all comes back to you. Have you plan on continuing

823
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,959
Speaker 1: that in Houston? I know you had done some drive

824
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: alongs and like a road trip when you were in Miami.

825
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: You plan on doing some more of that stuff here?

826
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: I know it's really busy right now in the season,

827
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: but you're doing community stuff on the Tuesdays. What is

828
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: sort of your long term plan as far as that.

829
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to think about it? Yeah,

830
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: so I'll continue in my community service road trip which

831
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: we do after the season. It's like two weeks long,

832
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out if I'm gonna start here

833
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: in Texas and do some more work in Texas or

834
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: just continue to work throughout the South. But you know,

835
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 1: there's a program that I'm working on with the police chief.

836
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to get put together and present

837
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: to him, and you know, maybe reaching out back to

838
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: the guys in Miami and trying to get this program

839
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: you know, going there too. And so there's always a

840
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: bunch of little things that I'm working on and trying

841
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: to identify organizations here that I can work with and

842
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: start to educate myself on what's going on in Houston. So,

843
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: like you said, there's not enough time in the day,

844
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: but I'm trying. I'm trying to figure it out and

845
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,919
Speaker 1: you know, scheduling myself and take care of the things

846
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Speaker 1: and prioritize the way that I need to. What a

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Speaker 1: valuable piece Kenny Stills has been to this team in

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00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: this locker room this year, man, he has been tremendous. Now.

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Speaker 1: Earlier in the show, I mentioned that we would have

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Speaker 1: new players on the team and maybe some guys that

851
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: have changed roles. One guy not on the field, but

852
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: in the locker room changed the role. I think it's

853
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Speaker 1: been for the better. We'll hear from Brennan Scarlett next.

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Speaker 1: Right here in Texas Locas. We've got one hour down

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Speaker 1: and one hour to go on this Happy Holiday's Merry

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Speaker 1: Christmas edition of Texans All Access from the Hyundai Texans

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Speaker 1: radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst and

858
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Speaker 1: sideline reporter. And look, I know it's the holidays, I

859
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: know it, but it's game week for us. We got

860
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Speaker 1: to keep working. But I know in a few weeks

861
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Speaker 1: teachers are gonna be going back to work. They got

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Speaker 1: their students coming in to start off twenty twenty. You

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Speaker 1: Toro's Matros. Now. I mentioned a little while ago that

870
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Speaker 1: the There's been I wanted to feature some guys that

871
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: maybe had made some changes this year, or maybe had

872
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: been hot, and that's what this hour is kind of

873
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: all about. A little bit of Brian Anger coming up.

874
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: You got a little bit of angela little Blackson coming up.

875
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: But I also wanted to feature guys that were maybe

876
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: new or change roles this year. And a guy that

877
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: changed his role is Brent Scarlett, and you're going away

878
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: a second. Scars kind of doing the same thing on

879
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: the field that he's been. Yeah, he's kind of had

880
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: the same role. He's planning the outside, he's set in

881
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: your edge's rushing the quarterback, he's making place, He's doing

882
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But in the locker room, we

883
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: need need somebody to take over for player reporter because

884
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson, who is a superstar with kjack TV, moved

885
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: on to Denver, Broncos. We needed we needed somebody to

886
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: step in and fill that role. And Brendan Scarlett has

887
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: stepped up and stepped into be scar TV and absolutely

888
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: slate it, I mean crushed it. He has been phenomenal

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00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: and he was playing Scarlet claws on b scar TV

890
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: this week because while he was handing out gifts and

891
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: getting players to sing Christmas carols in the locker room,

892
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 1: take a listen to be scar TV. The fire side

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00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: is blazing why with Carolly to the and this Christmas

894
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 1: will be a very specio. And we're back with another

895
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: episode of b scar TV. And as you can tell

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Speaker 1: by the half, it is the holiday edition. You have

897
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Speaker 1: to pick a holiday song as your walk up music.

898
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: What is it? Here comes Santa Close, Here comes slant

899
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: running on its slow. Hey, that was solid right there, man,

900
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Speaker 1: solid all on for Christmas? Mark? Here? Can we get

901
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: a demo? All one for Chrism? Is you? I probably

902
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: do the hood version of jingle Bells, the version of

903
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: jingle bells? Can we can we get a demo? You

904
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: gonna put me on the spot. It's hard to be.

905
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: It's harder. It's hard to do the demo. It's the

906
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: same gene go back, but it's the beat. The beat

907
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: is different and it's tuned up a little bit. It's

908
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: not a slow june, you know. It's like the Jingo

909
00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: bel gen jingle banles jingle bans. Yeah. I don't know

910
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: the words for that. Yeah, you got the droop? Yeah,

911
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: I don't catch on my album? That was jolly. That

912
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: was jolly right there. I'm playing Santa Claus today, and

913
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: uh got you a Christmas gift man? Yeah, if you

914
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: were just going to your walker and check on your

915
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: playbook right there? Oh man, oh man, that is a

916
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Speaker 1: b Scar TV air freshener. Got your cup man for

917
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Speaker 1: Christmas morning? If you want some hot choc food or

918
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Speaker 1: coffee or hot tea whatever, what's your boat? Arctic mud?

919
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: That cool ain't gonna hit different coming out of this.

920
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: I just would like you to go and check your

921
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: locker underneath your hat. I don't show him what it is,

922
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: stop talking, show him what it is? When was it?

923
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: And that wraps it up for another episode of b

924
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: SCAR TV. Appreciate y'all tuning in. I am playing Santa

925
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: Claus this holiday season. And if you want to get

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929
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, if you want to drop a comment,

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00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: you know, give us some constructive criticism because you know

931
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: we're trying to get better. We're always in the pursuit

932
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: of high quality content. Please do that. Happy Holidays to

933
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: you and your families, and uh, we're out. He has

934
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: done such a good job with b scar TV and

935
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: he went into that a little bit further with dpcit

936
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Speaker 1: on the Deep Slant One on one presented by Expedited

937
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Speaker 1: Hears Bretty Scarlet Star be scar TV. I love the

938
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: rock Boys this year. I feel like every year in

939
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: a certain position, group really stands out as bringing the

940
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: juice and the adrenaline, and it's usually dB, sometimes it's

941
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: wide receivers. But the linebackers, the Rock Boys, have really

942
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: come into their own this year. What's going on with

943
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: the energy of that position group? We just got we

944
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: got a lot of good guys in the room, a

945
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: lot of playmakers in the room, so a lot of

946
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to get out there and rock out with the boys,

947
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: and so the linebackers this year just kind of taking

948
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: that and you know, everybody grabs an instrument and yeah,

949
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't think we were talking to Whitney Boddy, he

950
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,479
Speaker 1: said it was. It sort of came about in training camp.

951
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: You guys just messing around, decided to whip out some

952
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: instruments and that became a celebration which became the Rock Boys.

953
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: And now you guys have your own T shirts. You

954
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: provided the group with T shirts recently. Yeah, we're we

955
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: have a uniform now, Oh it's a uniform. Okay, we

956
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: do have a uniform. M So it's not just straight

957
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: chaos anymore. We got some structure to the rocket. Yes,

958
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: you definitely, Well what happens to the teenage hut Ninja

959
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: Turtle All Black, Um the game day fits that you

960
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: guys see. That is that's separate from the Rock Boys. Okay,

961
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: that is specifically in the inside linebacker room. The outside

962
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: linebackers don't take oh I see okay, game group um matching,

963
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: the matching gear unless it's a Rock Boys shut unless

964
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: it's Rock Boys shirt. But um, yeah, that's the inside linebackers.

965
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: You guys are so calm and collected off the field,

966
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: and then you're on the field and you become the

967
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: Rock Boys. I want to talk about that transition. One

968
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: day in practice, you know, we watch a little bit

969
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: of practice, We watch you guys activate, which is the

970
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: warming up period, and then afterwards the entire team got

971
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: into a huddle and I want to say, was Bernardiic

972
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,720
Speaker 1: McKinney was in the middle and started doing his pregame huddle.

973
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: You'd think it was a game day and you guys

974
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: just were just so energized. I find out later that

975
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: that was a walkthrough. It was not even a little practice.

976
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: But the energy that you guys bring, Like when that

977
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: transformation sort of when do you guys just put on

978
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: those rock Boy hats and really get the work? How

979
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: about for you personally? I think just as soon as

980
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: you step on the field. You know, it's uh, you know,

981
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: we train all year round for the opportunities that we

982
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: have during the season, you know, so you know, you

983
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: have a lot of built up excitement and energy, and

984
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: you know the best way to perform it is using

985
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: that energy, you know. And uh, you know, having obviously

986
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: the games, you got sixteen for sure opportunities to go

987
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: out there and show your stuff. But even in practice,

988
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: like you know, those are limited opportunities too. And you

989
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: know all offseason you train and train and then you

990
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: get those limited opportunities, So you might as well come

991
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: with some juice. Yeah, you definitely do. So you're four

992
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: for you and you came. I mean we remember when

993
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: you were here as undrafted and here you are, year four.

994
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: You signed the big contract extension before the season started.

995
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: What about those limited opportunities for you? Because Billbrant says,

996
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: you've done a really great job of taking your limited

997
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: opportunities and turning into your role on the team. Now,

998
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 1: how did you manage that? Because now it seems like

999
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: you're getting better and better because you have all the opportunities,

1000
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: But how did you sort of make that jump? I

1001
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: imagine it was harder early on when you weren't on

1002
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: the field as much. Yeah, yeah, I think the biggest

1003
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: thing for me is just to continue to grow every day,

1004
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what those opportunities look like. You know,

1005
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: find a way, whether it be in practice, sitting back

1006
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: and watching J. J. Watt rush or watching Whitney Merciless

1007
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: set the edge, you know, and as a younger player

1008
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: learning and like okayking growing that way. I might not

1009
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: be out there getting those reps, but at least I'm

1010
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm learning and seeing the you know, the footwork or

1011
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: the hands or you know, the techniques and you know

1012
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: from their special teams. Let me make sure I'm the

1013
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: best that I can be, and you know, continue to

1014
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: set goals you know best. You know, I just want

1015
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: to be the best out there. I want to win

1016
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: every rep. So if I can do that, I know

1017
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: i'd continue to grow as a player. And then you know,

1018
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: now on the defensive side of the ball, the same

1019
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: thing goes and yeah, it's just something that I think

1020
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Speaker 1: we'll continue through my career. But it's helped me to

1021
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: this point. When you first started out, I imagine a

1022
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: lot of guys who were undrafted to say, they had

1023
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: a little bit of a chip on their shoulder to prove,

1024
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: you know, that they were someone that could contribute on

1025
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: a team. What was that like for you? What did

1026
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: you envision for yourself? Have you sort of exceeded your

1027
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: expectations of where you thought you could be or is

1028
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 1: this sort of what you had pictured for yourself that

1029
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: you were going to be on the defense be a

1030
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: big part of it. You know, what did you think

1031
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: as far as your NFL career starting out? I think,

1032
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: you know, luckily, I grew up with a support system

1033
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: and a close knit family that instilled a lot of

1034
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: confidence in me. You know, my my parents did a

1035
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: great job of, you know, let me know that I

1036
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: can do anything if I sent my mind to it.

1037
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: And you know, if you work and prepare, you can

1038
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: do anything. So that's how I approach the game of football.

1039
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: You know, regardless of where I'm at as a player,

1040
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: I always see, you know, the the growth opportunity, the

1041
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: potential of what it could be. So, you know, to

1042
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: be where I am now in year four and having

1043
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: started as an undrafted free agent, I mean, I obviously

1044
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: it's hard to expect this to happen, but you know,

1045
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: this is what I've worked for, you know, and and

1046
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: even now I continue to see like I want to

1047
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: continue that contrajectory and you know, see bigger, bigger things.

1048
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: So it's kind of something that I would say I

1049
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: give thanks to the parents for you are expected to

1050
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: do a lot of things, both on defense and special teams.

1051
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, is there one aspect of your game

1052
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: that is your most favorite thing that you get to

1053
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: work on. I know you had the strip stack against

1054
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: Carolina a few weeks so that had to have been

1055
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: pretty fun. You've caused some turnovers in your in your

1056
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: time on special teams. Yeah, is there one play that

1057
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: just really is the play that most exciting? You know,

1058
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: I think I think you hit it on the head there.

1059
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: I think getting the ball out from the yeah, from

1060
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: the offensive player and getting the ball back to our offense,

1061
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 1: you know, so they can go down there and score.

1062
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: It's just that's a huge turn in the game. You know,

1063
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: it's a big momentum swing. And you know what they

1064
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: say about Big Mo. What do they say about Big Moo?

1065
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Big Mo man, he's uh, he's important.

1066
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: I think that should be on your side. So if

1067
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: you can get that ball out, then big Moo is

1068
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: gonna take one step closer to you. All right. So

1069
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: in the off season you did some traveling. You also

1070
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: were doing some some video videos. I guess where it

1071
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,240
Speaker 1: was at YouTube or you had a Brennan Scarlett channel.

1072
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: So now you've got b scar TV. You're in the

1073
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: locker room when Friday is doing your thing? Is this

1074
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: what you sort of? Is this like something that you

1075
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: think you might want to do in the future one day?

1076
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: What do you want people to see when they see

1077
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: you in front of the camera. Oh wow, that's like

1078
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: two questions and one. So let's start with what do

1079
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: you want people? Okay, let first of all, would you

1080
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: do this? Was this something that you could see yourself

1081
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: doing in the future. I enjoy being in front of

1082
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: the camera. I do. I think that there's a certain

1083
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: performance aspect to it that I enjoy, you know, and

1084
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: I can relate that to what I do now. You know,

1085
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: playing ball, and it's a performance. But there's also an

1086
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: art to it, and I'm sure you can appreciate that.

1087
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: Like no, there's an art to what you do. How

1088
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 1: you ask questions and how you formulate them, and how

1089
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: you get your guests comfortable stuff like that. Definitely right,

1090
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: And so I think there's an art to it. So

1091
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: you know that intrigues me as well, but um, you know, possibly,

1092
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: but I really just have fun with it. It's creative

1093
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 1: outlet for me. Now. So who knows when people watch you,

1094
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: because it's a very different side of you and your

1095
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: teammates that they see versus what they see on Sunday. Yeah.

1096
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: What is it that you hope really gets across to

1097
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: the fans that are watching BESTV? You know, B Scar

1098
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: TV is um as you pointed out, it's it's the

1099
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: pursuit of high quality content. So it is I'm b

1100
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: Scar TV. We want our viewers to see our guests

1101
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: and the guys on the team for who they are,

1102
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, without the helmet, without the jersey. You know,

1103
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: these guys are are great dudes. They're all so different

1104
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just to be able to see

1105
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: their individual personalities. It's uh. I think it's a cool

1106
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: opportunity for the for the viewers and the fans to

1107
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: see the Texans kind of in a more relaxed state.

1108
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, you guys are having so much

1109
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: fun on and off the field, why shouldn't everyone else

1110
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: get a chance to enjoy it. Good stuff, all right,

1111
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: We hope you have a lot of fun as a

1112
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: season continues. Best of luck, Brennan Scarlett on The Deep Slant.

1113
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: Thank you, oh man? How can I forget about the

1114
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: Rock Boys? And I mean, this is the one thing

1115
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: that's so great about a team. Things just happen organically,

1116
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: and yeah, Whitty Mercer started kind of playing guitar after celebration,

1117
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: and Brent Scarlett kind of joined in, and now they

1118
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: got a whole da gum band. When Winnie had to

1119
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: pick against the Tennessee Titans and was running on the sidelines,

1120
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: there was like a whole band broke out on the

1121
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: far line as a celebration. The Rock Boys have been fantastic, man,

1122
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: really really fun stuff. Now, as I mentioned earlier, I

1123
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: wanted to have this Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas edition of

1124
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: Texans All Access gonna feature some guys that maybe you're

1125
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: new to the team or change roles on the team,

1126
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: or kind of been hot lately. Well, a guy that

1127
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: has been a new to the team this year and

1128
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: been hot lately, his Bangers, Brian Anger. We will hear

1129
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: from him next on Texans All Access. Welcome back to

1130
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: a holiday edition of Texans All Access from the Hunday

1131
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris, and

1132
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: it's time for this week's Stats Challenge, brought to you

1133
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: by Schlumberge. To Houston Texas dot com today to register

1134
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: to take the stats Challenge and the stats Allan's number

1135
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: for today is fifty three. Yes, it's the number of

1136
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: men on our roster for an NFL team, but it's

1137
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: also the net average for Brian Anger on the two

1138
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 1: punts that landed outside the twenty yard line. I tried

1139
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: to separate like that, there are punts they're going inside

1140
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 1: the twenty, and then there are punts that don't get

1141
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: inside of twenty. What's the net average? Well, the net

1142
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: average was fifty three yards. Brian Anger, with hank time,

1143
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: gave his coverage team time to get down and cover

1144
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: those coverage teams. And here's another stat. Gave up four

1145
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: punt return yards on Saturday on two returns, one a

1146
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: one yard return, one a three yard return. That, my friends,

1147
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: is special. Special teams work right there. And Brian Anger

1148
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: is a big reason why I bring him up because

1149
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: it's time to hear from him. He sat down with

1150
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty four a little Drew's Dirty Dozen, and I

1151
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: thought it was funny. I was actually in my car

1152
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: and Drew had sent me this email and I was

1153
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: with my son and I played it. I had my

1154
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: phone plugged into my car system, and so I just

1155
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: wanted to play it make sure I had it, and

1156
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: so I just hit play wherever it was during a

1157
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: thing and it started playing, and my son looked at me,

1158
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: and I went and he pointed at me, and I

1159
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: was like, no, that's not me. He goes, well, it

1160
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: sounds like you, like Brian Anger sounds like me. And

1161
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, Like that's interesting. So here's Brian Anger

1162
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: sounding a little bit like me. Maybe he can do

1163
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: imitations and not Tyler Suttarth. Either way, let's get to

1164
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: know Brian Anger with our good friend Drew Dorty. I'm

1165
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: here with punter Brian Anger. Brian, what's the deal with spearfishing?

1166
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Yeah, yep, get to do a lot back

1167
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Water is usually pretty warm out there, cool

1168
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: down right now, which is good. It brings a ton

1169
01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:00,040
Speaker 1: of fish and closer and the cooler the water, and

1170
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: less people like to go to, so you kind of

1171
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 1: have an open sea. So it's it's it's awesome. It

1172
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: looks like a lot of fun, but it's usually something

1173
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: that people were stranding on the desert island get into,

1174
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's not just like a natural Hey, let's

1175
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: go get a line. How did you get into spearfishing

1176
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: because you grew up in Camarrio, California. You went to

1177
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: cal But how do you get into spearfishing living there

1178
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: and then doing what you do Now? I've always been

1179
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: a ocean guy, grew up surfing and bodyboarding and everything

1180
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: in the water. So one of my older brothers and

1181
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: I talked about potentially getting into it. And you've got

1182
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,439
Speaker 1: to deal with more stuff out there. They've got great

1183
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: white sharks. It's kind of a breeding ground for some

1184
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: of the juveniles. So it's a different kind of murky

1185
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: water and kelp forests and stuff, which would be cool.

1186
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: But like I said before, warm water I got started

1187
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. More warm and more clear water. Don't have

1188
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: to go as far off to get into deep water

1189
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: in California Jacksonville, You've got to go away far off.

1190
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: We'd go twenty miles and being like eighty feet of water, right,

1191
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: but you've got tons of fish bcs. Yeah. Okay, so

1192
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: clear things up for me because I'm I was under

1193
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 1: the impression that you're standing in like shin deep water

1194
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: and your spear and fish. That's not the case. No, No,

1195
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: we're going we usually go like forty to one hundred

1196
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: feet of going down deep. Yeah. So you're wearing like

1197
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: a snorkel in a mask, wearing a mask, got a

1198
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: full tank and oh you're scuba diving spear fishing. Yeah. Yeah,

1199
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: so you had to go through all the scuba training

1200
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: and then you do you have to train to be

1201
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: a spearfisher or you're supposed to have an advanced open

1202
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: water to be able to that's the classification, I guess.

1203
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 1: So they're certification, so you've got to have that. Second,

1204
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: it starts with open water you can go to like

1205
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: sixty feet, and then advanced open water you can spearfish

1206
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: with a charter. I've got my own boat, so don't

1207
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: quite have to have it, but but I do have

1208
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: that certification. So nice. How often you get to go

1209
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: out on on your boat a couple times a week potentially,

1210
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: It just depends on the weather. The golf will get choppy,

1211
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: real quick, and that storm will pick up and you

1212
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: gotta pay attention what's going on. But a lot of

1213
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: the times it's it's also very good. And like I

1214
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: said before, it's you get that cold weather. Not many

1215
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: people want to go out, so you've got less pressure

1216
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: on the fish and you can hit a lot of

1217
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: different spots. And yeah, it's very very rewarding. Not bad, man,

1218
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: that's not bad. So back to surfing, though, you said

1219
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: you started out as a surfer, started out doing some surfing.

1220
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: Have you done any of that lately? No? You miss it?

1221
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: I miss it. Yeah, I get back to California and

1222
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: I'll do it maybe once a year. Well, I go

1223
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: back home the Atlantic. In Jacksonville, there weren't many ways

1224
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 1: if a like a hurricane or a tropical storm game.

1225
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, the wind would pick up and you got

1226
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: other stuff to do when when a hurricanes coming right, Yeah,

1227
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: but there's no waves in the golf in Tampa, so

1228
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 1: don't get to enjoy that kind of a long lines

1229
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: of fishing. What's an animal that scares you when you're

1230
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: near it? Bull sharks? Bullshots? Okay, not good? All right,

1231
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: you're the first player that I've talked to you that's

1232
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: actually named an animal that's in the water. I've heard bear,

1233
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: I've heard snakes, so bullshark is definitely a good one

1234
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: to have. What are some of your nicknames? Brian Banger

1235
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: who gave you that? Was popular? Had it in high

1236
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: school and then in college. It really caught on, just

1237
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: a combination of your first initial and your last name. Yeah, yeah,

1238
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: and you're booming punts. I'm guessing right, Yeah, it's very fitting.

1239
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: I guess um Bangy was one of the first ones.

1240
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: What somebody didn't want to say banger, so they said that.

1241
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: I think we had Legatron. Yeah, what was that like?

1242
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: When Rich Eisen had John? Did the punters give you

1243
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: the T shirt and all that? That seemed pretty cool? Yeah,

1244
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: that was cool. I had no idea what was going on.

1245
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: I was a football fan, kind of just because I

1246
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: played football. Started junior of high schools when it kind

1247
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: of took off for me and I got recruited. But

1248
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: I'd never been to a football game before, never really

1249
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: followed it. I was more of an outdoorsy guy and

1250
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 1: less sporty, I guess, so I didn't know what the

1251
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: heck was going on. Warren Moon was there, Okay, my

1252
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: brother came with me and they're talking about Hall of

1253
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: Fame stuff, and my brother's just like, are you kidding me?

1254
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: You didn't realize that you were with this guy and

1255
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: I had I had no idea, So yeah, it was

1256
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: it was crazy. He was a big deal around here. Yeah,

1257
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: and I grew up. I'm much older than you, but

1258
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: he was awesome, like he was on some of these

1259
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: teams that anyways, I will, you're off another path there. Okay,

1260
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: let's rank the Brian's. And I know they don't all start,

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Speaker 1: they don't all have a Y in them, but Brian Anger,

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01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 1: Brian Cranston, the breaking Bad actor, He's actually actually been

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Speaker 1: in a bunch of good stuff. Brian College Station, The Town,

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01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: Brian Adams, the singer, and Brian Dennahy, the actor who

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01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 1: was in Tommy Boy, Cocoon, a bunch of different things

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Speaker 1: in Rambo first Rambo, so Anger, Cranston, Brian College Station,

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Speaker 1: The Town, Adams and Dennehy. Who's who's number one? Brian

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Speaker 1: Adams probably the most popular, So Brian Adams number one,

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Speaker 1: Brian Cranston, just because I'm a huge breaking bad Fanny great. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: have you seen Argo? He's in that too Argo. I

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Speaker 1: think there was there's another one. He's been a rezillion.

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Speaker 1: He was in Drive Ryan Gosling and there's a there's

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Speaker 1: a one more kind of lines of Breaking Bad. That

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01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: was a drug he was. Yeah, oh I saw that.

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01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: Yeah movie and he's like an informant or something or yes,

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01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: very good. That's under Ritson, underrated. Yeah, and we just

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01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: watched that. Yeah, that's a good one. Okay, So Adams

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Speaker 1: won Kranston two, still got Anger, still got Brian College Station,

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01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: she got Dennie. I don't even honestly, I don't even

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Speaker 1: know the other two besides myself. So okay, put yourself. Three,

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01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go college Station. Okay, three, you're satisfying.

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01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: The Aggie's there at them in the middle. What was

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01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: the fourth Brian Denny? He he was Tommy boys dad.

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01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: He was like the sheriff and Rambo. That's like the

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01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: original Rambo movie. Haven't seen it. I haven't. I've seen

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01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: the Rambo movies. I just couldn't. I couldn't tell you

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01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: who that is. He's a real jerk in the first

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01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: Rambo's since he's a jerk, will put me over him,

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01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: all right, and we'll put him last. Brian Denny. He

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Speaker 1: is last, Brian Denny. He goes down. I like it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: who is your favorite retired NFL player? Josh Scoby Kicker,

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01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,439
Speaker 1: Nick Harris another punter that I worked with, cal guy.

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Speaker 1: All right, so we'll just go Yeah, we'll go with

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01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: my fellow specialist those work. What's the best Christmas gift

1295
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: you ever got? Probably a spear gun? A spear gun?

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01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 1: Who gave that to you? Holary? I guess I kind

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01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: of supported it myself too, couraged. Yeah, got it back

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01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: five years ago. I want to say it back when

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01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: I was in Jacksonville. So you were a grown up.

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01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 1: I was a grown up. And that that's one of

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01:06:57,520 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: the more rewarding and keeps on giving the type of

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01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: pre Yeah, yeah, you would teach a man to fish,

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01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: will eat forever? Something like that. Yeah, it's kind of

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01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: along those lens. What's your go to karaoke song? No

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01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: scrubs TLC, No scrubs. That's what I told him. I

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01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: keep on telling my wife that I can somehow I

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01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: can sing that song start to finish, And I don't

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01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: know if I'm proud of that or not. So do

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01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: you karaoke? Ever? Not much? Not much okay, but no

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01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 1: scrubs by talk. We're gonna hold you to that. Okay.

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01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: What would your career be if you were not a

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Speaker 1: football player? Probably biology, marine biology? Okay. I was integrative

1313
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: biology major at cow fancy name for there's two branches.

1314
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: Once settling molecular biology, no fun. The other side was ecology,

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01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: so study of animals and stuff. So that's awesome. Yeah,

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01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: would be into that. When's the last time you cooked something? Yesterday?

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01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: Would you cook taketos? Taketos? You're doing well. You are

1318
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 1: along with DeAndre Carter. You are along with Duke Johnson,

1319
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: a player who has recently cooked something that I've interviewed

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01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: on this interview. You are not like Taiwan Jones who

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01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: said the last time cook something was three years ago

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01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: on Mother's Day for his mom. So we cook a lot. Yeah,

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01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 1: that's will cook probably four times a week. Burgers or

1324
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: pizza burgers. What's on the perfect burger? What's what? How

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01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: does Brian Ainger make his perfect burger? Just a classic

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01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: with avocado and bacon. So avocado bacon and avocado, bacon, lettuce.

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,639
Speaker 1: I'm not a big tomato guy. No tomato or onion

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01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 1: catchup mustard obviously, and cheese. Yeah, cheddar cheese, cheddar cheese.

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01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: Brian Anger, this has been a Drews doesn't thank you

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01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 1: so much for the time, my friend, for having me.

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01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Okay, I gotta admit I don't quite

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01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: hear it, but maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit,

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01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit. He sounds like me. But he's

1334
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:42,879
Speaker 1: fun guy and I'm glad he is around this organization.

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01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 1: I think he's done great things for this team thus far.

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01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: He will continue to punt that way. But man, I'm

1337
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: telling you, the two punts that he hit not inside

1338
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: the twenty yard line were just rocket shots. And it's

1339
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: funny because over the years, I've really I bagged on

1340
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 1: the Jaguars when they elected him, they select him in

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01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: the third round. The Jaguars select him in the third

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01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,560
Speaker 1: round before Russell Wilson was picked. Can you imagine the

1343
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: Jaguars with Russell Wilson, they drafted Brian Anger. And this

1344
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 1: is it's really not anything about Brian Anger, but you

1345
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: just don't You don't draft the punter that high. I mean,

1346
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 1: I understand it. You know, punters can have a huge impact.

1347
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 1: We're seeing that Brian Angers having huge impact on this

1348
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 1: team on fuel position every single week. It's been phenomenal.

1349
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: But you just don't draft the one in the third round. Now,

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01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:30,400
Speaker 1: Ray guy who should be in Hall of Fame. He's

1351
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 1: a first rounder, but that was back in the seventies,

1352
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 1: and that was a Raiders team that pretty much had

1353
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 1: every position already locked up. The Jags did not when

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01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: they drafted him in third round. I could see why

1355
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:43,240
Speaker 1: though they did it. And I remember when he was

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01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. I would watch him punt pregame and I'm like,

1357
01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: oh my god, he hit moonshots and he's just long, lanky, flexible,

1358
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,719
Speaker 1: and I mean, he just did such a majestic looking

1359
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: punting for him and he's been really good, and I'm

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01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: I'm glad, You're not glad he sat down with Drew

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01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 1: for a little Drew's Dirty dozen. Now. The last couple

1362
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: of weeks, a player has made his name known by

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01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: blocking fuel goals. He's also been a tremendous fit on

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01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 1: the defensive line in the lunch pill crew, and that's

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01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 1: Angelo Blackson. We will have Popolo next right here on

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Speaker 1: Texans Access forty five yard kick left hash Mark Texans

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01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,559
Speaker 1: loading up on the line. Here's the snap, here's the kick.

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Speaker 1: It's blocked, it's loose and A. J. Moore falls on

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01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: it back inside the twenty two yard line. The Texans

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01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 1: not only make the stop, they blocked the field goal.

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01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: Fifty four yard field goal attempt for Met Gay of

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Speaker 1: the Buccanteers left hash Mark Pinion will hold. The snap

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01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: is down, the kick is on the way, it's blocked,

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01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 1: and it scoots off to the side, I think and

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01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: picked up by cutting HAMRK. It was. It was Angelo

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01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: Blackson for a second time in two weeks, blocking a

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01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: fuel goal, blocked the field goal attempt of Ryan suck Up,

1378
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: and then blocked the field goal attempt of rookie Matt Gay.

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01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: Angelo Blackson coming up big welcome back to Texans All Access.

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01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: Are happy Holiday's Merry Christmas version of Texans All Access

1381
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: and we're well, you know, we're spending tonight getting to

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01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:20,640
Speaker 1: know a few guys that maybe we didn't know, or

1383
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:24,639
Speaker 1: celebrating goats like Andre Johnson, and we've had Brendan Scarlett

1384
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: and Brian Anger. You know, maybe guys that are new

1385
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:28,680
Speaker 1: to the team or changed roles like Brendon Scarlett did

1386
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: adding b scar TV to his list. Angelo Blackson's a

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01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 1: guy that's been here for a few years and now.

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01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: I remember when the Texans had brought him on to

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01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: the organization and I thought, oh, you know good, this

1390
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: is a guy that I think can make some plays upfront,

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01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: big strong style had played at Auburn. I remember him

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01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: in the twenty thirteen team for Auburn. It was like,

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01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: this guy, he could be a good fit. Not only

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01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: has he been a good fit, he's almost been a

1395
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 1: perfect fit alongside DJ Reader, playing in between JJ Watts

1396
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: Debian Clowning for the last couple of years. Now playing

1397
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: with Brandon Donn and DJ Reader up front, Angelo Blackson

1398
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: has been phenomenal. But those two block fuel goals I

1399
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: think have sort of drawn eyes to what he does

1400
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: on the defensive line every single week. What he does,

1401
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: he does the dirty work. He does the lunch pale

1402
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 1: crew kind of thing where he's holding up blockers, holding

1403
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: up not getting knocked off the ball, taking on double teams,

1404
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 1: allowing Zach Cunningham and Bernardic McKinney to go make tackles

1405
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:30,680
Speaker 1: all day long. That's Popolow. That's what he does. He

1406
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 1: does the dirty work. So I'm glad that the block

1407
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: field goals have drawn attention to his overall impact on

1408
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: this team because it's been massive. It's been massive ever

1409
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 1: since he set foot in this building. I'm I think

1410
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: last year to start the year twenty eighteen, he had

1411
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:49,639
Speaker 1: a tip pass at Tyron Matthew picked off a Tom

1412
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 1: Brady and that opener in twenty eighteen. So Angela Blackson

1413
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 1: has done a bunch for this team. But those block

1414
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,680
Speaker 1: field goals are really drawing attention and I like that

1415
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: for well. He sat down with tep City to talk

1416
01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 1: about that and or The nickname Popolo came from Angela.

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01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but every time

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01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: I see you, I call you Papolo in my head

1419
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,920
Speaker 1: because DJ Reader said that's your nickname? Is that's still

1420
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 1: your nickname? That is my nickname? Okay? He said, it's

1421
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 1: because you've got kids and you're like the dad of

1422
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,639
Speaker 1: the group. Although he's a dad now too, so yeah,

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01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: I mean, well, it's just a lot, it's just a

1424
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 1: lot of it's a lot of you know, I don't

1425
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: really like to do too much, so it's I'm a

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01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: home body. That's That's exactly what he said. Do you

1427
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: like you got you got your kids and you want

1428
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: to stay home and you go work to be done

1429
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: at home. You're fire for you. You're part of the

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01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 1: lunch Pill crew, so I know your name always pops

1431
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: up when the lunch Pill crew is talking about the

1432
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 1: things they do. How much do you enjoy being a

1433
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 1: part of this feline because you guys are all very different,

1434
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 1: but I think on the field, you guys are really

1435
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 1: end up just bringing you a lunch paill to work, grinding,

1436
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 1: working hard and not getting a lot of recognition for

1437
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,680
Speaker 1: everything that you do on the field. And that's all.

1438
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 1: That's all it was to symbolize. It is just the work,

1439
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, between us as a d line, as a

1440
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,599
Speaker 1: as a team, as a you know, as an organization.

1441
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: And that's that's what the attitude that we wanted to bring,

1442
01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, just whatever the circumstances, we come into work,

1443
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: no matter no matter the weather, the weather, no matter

1444
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: you know, what happens, we just we're gonna work. And

1445
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: that's that's we've kind of taken that and made it

1446
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: a thing. Yeah. I like I like the shirts too.

1447
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for mine. But you made a play

1448
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:25,759
Speaker 1: that was not a very LPC put the blocked field

1449
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:29,799
Speaker 1: goal at Tennessee. Pretty flashy play earned you AFSP Special

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01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: Teams Player the Week. Congratulations on that. First of all, Um,

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01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 1: all right, so when a play like that happens, because

1452
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 1: you've actually blocked some kicks during your time at Auburn,

1453
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 1: and I'll get into that in a second, when when

1454
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: you're blocking a kick, is it something that you can

1455
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,040
Speaker 1: sort of feel like, I think I'm gonna get a

1456
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,719
Speaker 1: hand on this ball, or are you just as surprised

1457
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 1: as the rest of us when the play happens. It's

1458
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: it's pretty surprising. I don't think you can. I don't.

1459
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 1: I don't think you know when it's coming. It's just

1460
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 1: kind of one of them things where you you you

1461
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: you go hard on the play and you know it's

1462
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: a lot of things to have to shake out for

1463
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:02,960
Speaker 1: you to actually get a blot. The kid has to

1464
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: be low miss time, and you have to get pushed

1465
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: and get your hands up. So it's just one of

1466
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: them things where every time we, you know, get out,

1467
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 1: there were effort and you know, hopefully, you know, hopefully

1468
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: it's this one. That's the kind of mentality we had.

1469
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 1: Was it even cooler because it was at Tennessee. That's

1470
01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: the team that drafted you. Definitely definitely definitely meant a

1471
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: lot and meant a lot all right. So and Auburn

1472
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: you blocked a couple of field goals as well. So

1473
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 1: is that something that when you came into the league

1474
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 1: you were like, I'm gonna block a fuel at some

1475
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 1: point or is that just such a is that? I mean,

1476
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 1: it just seems like such an unusual play, but this

1477
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: is something you've done now three times, right, three? Just

1478
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:40,639
Speaker 1: just the mindset of of like not taking this playoff

1479
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: because it actually matters, you know, to be able to

1480
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 1: keep points off the board and to be able to

1481
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: you know, whatever like could have been returned four points

1482
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: for us. So it's just one of them things where

1483
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 1: you just give effort on the play each and every time,

1484
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,680
Speaker 1: and if it shakes your way, you know, it's a

1485
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 1: good it's a good feeling. You've been a part of

1486
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: some pretty special plays that Auburn you were on the field.

1487
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 1: I remember watching this on TV, the kick six play

1488
01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: against Alabama? So does that rank up there with probably

1489
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 1: one of your best movements. Definitely, definitely just just being

1490
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 1: able to, you know, provide the team with some juice

1491
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:15,679
Speaker 1: and keep points off the board. Definitely, definitely. That's that's

1492
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: one of the things that you can't you can't make

1493
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: up for it. All right. AJ mccarren's here this year.

1494
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: Have you talked to him about that? He was, He

1495
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: was on the other side of the day, didn't have

1496
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: the same reaction to that play. But have you talked

1497
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: about it? We talked about and I the first thing

1498
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: I asked when I said, you know how many teams

1499
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: you've been on where you actually been, you know, with

1500
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 1: an all them player that that won that game. He

1501
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 1: was like, not, man, I'll say, so that's the first

1502
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: thing I said, Well I am, I'm here. So all right,

1503
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: So after your big play on Sunday, who called you first?

1504
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 1: Who who was picking the phone calling you up saying

1505
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: I just saw that crazy play? Um, well definitely definitely. Um,

1506
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, my sister and the family, you know there

1507
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: some of the people that that reach out first. And

1508
01:16:57,240 --> 01:16:59,560
Speaker 1: but it's it's a ton of phone calls, it's a

1509
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: ton of m messages. So I mean they all come through.

1510
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:07,639
Speaker 1: You kind of see them and responding, you know, because

1511
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 1: you're you're on the field every single game. I mean,

1512
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: you've been on the field. You've started every single game

1513
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 1: this year. You got here in twenty seventeen, but it

1514
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 1: was a little bit later in the year there were

1515
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries going on, but you've really sort

1516
01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: of worked your way up to a starting role. So

1517
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: that's got to be pretty cool for you because when

1518
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: you got here, did you sort of expect that this

1519
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:27,559
Speaker 1: is where your career would go and then you sign

1520
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 1: the contract extend? Definitely? Definitely. I mean the mentality was just,

1521
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, carve out your role on the team and

1522
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: and and make sure that you're doing that role to

1523
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: the best of your ability. And that's always what I

1524
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 1: based my you know, my gameplay and my career off

1525
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:42,680
Speaker 1: you know, career off of it is just being a

1526
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: dependable guy, being able to make the players when I'm

1527
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 1: puposed to make them, and help the team however way

1528
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 1: I can. That's always been my goal. You mentioned your sister.

1529
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 1: I read this really cool story about your sister that

1530
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,799
Speaker 1: she watches the press conferences and she gets really excited

1531
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: when mill O'Brien talks about you or mentions you, and

1532
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: you have a really special relationship with your sister. Right,

1533
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 1: she helped raise you? Is that right? Raise me raise

1534
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: me from from six six on she was there. So

1535
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 1: did she watch all of your did she come to it?

1536
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 1: Has she been able to come to anything? She she's

1537
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: actually moved down here, so we've we've been able to

1538
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 1: so we've been able to get her to some games

1539
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 1: and even when she was back home, when she was

1540
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: able to get to some games, and that's all you

1541
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: can access. You know, a lot has to happen, you know,

1542
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,680
Speaker 1: the schedules, has to the match and things like that.

1543
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: So it's just good to be able to have her

1544
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 1: and you know family down here, actually being able to

1545
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: be with them and closer with them. So you grew

1546
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 1: up in Delaware, so from Delaware to Texas and now

1547
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: you've got your family here. What do they think about Texas?

1548
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: I mean they love it. I mean that's the first

1549
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 1: thing I told him. I said, you're gonna love It's

1550
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 1: compared to Delaware, it's gi normous, it's gigantic. Yes, it's

1551
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,679
Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different experience for someone who's

1552
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: coming from Delaware to the South. But I was actually acclimated,

1553
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: you know, I went to Auburn and I spent time

1554
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: with Tennessee. So but they love it. They love it,

1555
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 1: so they love it. I I think it's really neat

1556
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: that you're able to have your family all with you

1557
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 1: and celebrate these big moments for you. Your sister you said,

1558
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:08,600
Speaker 1: she helped raise you. How cool is it now that

1559
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 1: she's down here and you can sort of, you know,

1560
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: get to spend time with her now now that you're

1561
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: successful and you're an NFL player in the league. It's

1562
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's awesome being able to see, you know,

1563
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,799
Speaker 1: see my family and being able to, you know, provide

1564
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:22,840
Speaker 1: for them and take care of them in the ways

1565
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,640
Speaker 1: that I can, because I know my family, everybody has

1566
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: sacrifice a lot for me to be here today. So

1567
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 1: it's just awesome to be able to, you know, give

1568
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 1: back to them and make sure they're you know, enjoying

1569
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 1: the process and come into games and being able to

1570
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:37,879
Speaker 1: experience some of the things that I was able to experience.

1571
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: Is that where you think you get your work ethic

1572
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,639
Speaker 1: from the fact that so many people had to put

1573
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:44,879
Speaker 1: so many things aside to sort of help you succeed,

1574
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 1: and you feel like you don't want to let them down. Definitely, definitely, definitely,

1575
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:51,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I just that's all I work and I

1576
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: think everybody who's able to help me get to this point,

1577
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: and I you know, I always try to be you know,

1578
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: helpful to you know, my family and people who who

1579
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,519
Speaker 1: helped me along this path. And I think that's you know,

1580
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:05,720
Speaker 1: that's bringing me joy to be able to be in

1581
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 1: a position to be able to do that for the

1582
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: people to help me. All Right, You get drafted by

1583
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,240
Speaker 1: the Titans in the fourth round, you spent a couple

1584
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 1: of seasons there, then you spend a little bit of

1585
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 1: time with the New England Patriots on the practice squad,

1586
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:17,640
Speaker 1: and then you get signed here to the Texans in

1587
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. At that point in your career, where what

1588
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: are you thinking is going to happen with your NFL career?

1589
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:24,640
Speaker 1: Did you feel like I just got I just need

1590
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make a chance, or at any point

1591
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: did you feel sort of discouraged, like it's not really

1592
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: going the way maybe you would hoped or expected no,

1593
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:35,679
Speaker 1: because I actually, you know, just talking with my age

1594
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: and he was very confident and about what was going

1595
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: to happen. So at that point, you know, he said,

1596
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: the ball is in your court. So once the balls

1597
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: in my court, I know I can handle it whatever

1598
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:48,000
Speaker 1: that is. So you know, the work ethic and being

1599
01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:50,919
Speaker 1: able to practice and go out there and and disrupt

1600
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: practice and destroy you know, offensive linement and and that

1601
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 1: that were starting. That that that was It was confidence

1602
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: in that, and I knew that all I had to

1603
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:04,559
Speaker 1: do was just work extremely hard and you know, however

1604
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: it was going to shake out what however it was

1605
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,000
Speaker 1: going to be. But I know I did my best,

1606
01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: That's all. I asked Romeo Cornell about this actually in

1607
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 1: a press conference. I said, what did you like when

1608
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:16,560
Speaker 1: you when you guys brought Angelo here? He said, he

1609
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:18,760
Speaker 1: liked your size and you know how strong you were,

1610
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 1: but that you had really made a lot of your opportunities.

1611
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:22,519
Speaker 1: And so I asked him, well, what do you like

1612
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 1: about his game now? And he said, how how physically

1613
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:27,439
Speaker 1: you are at the line of scrimmage and even if

1614
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: you're double team like, you don't move from the line

1615
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Is that what's something that you think is

1616
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 1: your biggest strength of the Definitely definitely just being able

1617
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 1: to allow the linebackers or allow other people to make play.

1618
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 1: Because I got two linemen there that on me right

1619
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: at that moment. I mean, you can't ask for anything different,

1620
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: Like i may not be a part of the play,

1621
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: but I'm actually contributing. And you know, we as a team,

1622
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,720
Speaker 1: we know, but you know, maybe it goes you know, overshadow,

1623
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: but that's fine. I mean that that's a part of

1624
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: my job and I do it every day willingly and

1625
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:00,240
Speaker 1: I love it. So how do you like being part

1626
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:02,120
Speaker 1: of this D line group? You've got DJ Reader, you

1627
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: got DJ Dunny Brandon Done, you got JJ, You've got

1628
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,160
Speaker 1: some cast of characters, and you've got Anthony Weaver who

1629
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: used to play D Lineman as well. So is that

1630
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:13,719
Speaker 1: that's gotta be one of the funnest groups? Great great group,

1631
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: a great group, and I can't I can't ask for

1632
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,760
Speaker 1: a group any better. And everybody, you know, their personalities

1633
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: and what they bring to the group make the group

1634
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: what it is. And you know, we we're just basically

1635
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: we're just trying to take this thing and keep going.

1636
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: That's it for as long as we can. All right,

1637
01:22:29,160 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 1: I like it? All right? Before I let you go,

1638
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: one final question. You used to play basketball, and I

1639
01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 1: know a lot of your teammates have played basketball, So

1640
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 1: if you can have a starting five of your teammates

1641
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:40,679
Speaker 1: who would you who would you put on your team?

1642
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,120
Speaker 1: That's that's that's tough. My starting five would have to

1643
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: be I have to go with dj. I have to

1644
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: go with dj um j Joe. Um. I'm gonna have

1645
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: to go with Fails because he's a basketball game. He

1646
01:22:56,479 --> 01:23:02,160
Speaker 1: played European basketball. Yeah, yes, for sure. Um okay. There

1647
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: was a guy that played in college that you're missing

1648
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: at Clemson. Another Clemson guy, Hopkins play. I haven't seen

1649
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: Hot play. That's tough. That's tough. I'll go with Hot.

1650
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,680
Speaker 1: I'll go I like that. You you're sticking with the defense. Yeah,

1651
01:23:26,760 --> 01:23:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm trying to stick with the guys that

1652
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: I've actually the guys you know, you know, we'll make

1653
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: some room for Hopkins on the side there. Yeah, that's

1654
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: that's tough. That was That was that was out of

1655
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: all the questions I ask you, that's the toughest. All right. Well,

1656
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: hopefully you guys get to play a game of basketball

1657
01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: soon and we look forward to seeing the rest of

1658
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: the season what it holds for you. Thanks Angelo, thank

1659
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 1: you so much. I hope it's more like what we've

1660
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 1: seen the last couple of weeks. Two block field goals

1661
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,639
Speaker 1: for Angelo Blackson wasn't I seeing a few of those

1662
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. You never know what's saving three points.

1663
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: I mean, thinking about it, there are two three point

1664
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,799
Speaker 1: wins on the road, two block field goals which saved

1665
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: three points, and yeah, I know those were first half blocks.

1666
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 1: I feel like it's set the tone of Tennessee, there's

1667
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. I feel like in Tampa Bay

1668
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:15,679
Speaker 1: didn't quite at the top of it's saved three points

1669
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: off the board. The game's probably played a little bit differently.

1670
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if Tennessee is able to put a fuel

1671
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:22,680
Speaker 1: up on the board and go up three nothing, then

1672
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: maybe it changes a complexion of the game. And if

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay puts that three up on the board, it

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01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 1: makes it ten three. Just mathematically, that game is twenty

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01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half. It's twenty three to twenty when

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01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 1: the Texas are driving, so they're not kicking the game

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01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 1: the go ahead fuel goal, they're kicking the tying field goal.

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01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 1: I mean everything changes in these games. In three point

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01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:48,920
Speaker 1: games with three points up on the board, for the

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01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers and for the Tennessee Titans, just peer

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01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 1: and simple, and Angelo Blackson a huge part of doing

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01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:01,720
Speaker 1: that now, DJ reader, I you know, if you have DJ,

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01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 1: he might tell you that that Angelo got him, that

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01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: Popolo got him. But it looked like he was trying

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01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:08,720
Speaker 1: to like raise his hand like he got credit for it.

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01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 1: He may have gotten a little bit of the ricochet.

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01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,920
Speaker 1: But it was Angelo Blackson. And there's something about blocking kicks.

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01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Coach and Bryan's talked about that before. You know,

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Speaker 1: blocking kicks, timing, having it down, timing your jump. And

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01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:23,719
Speaker 1: it's not as if Angelo's got a forty inch vertical,

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01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 1: but you time it right, you get push, time it jump.

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01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:30,560
Speaker 1: It's a knack for that. Marcus Hunt does that with

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01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:34,320
Speaker 1: the Colts. He does extremely well well. Now teams are

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01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:38,599
Speaker 1: gonna have the game plan to stop Angelo Blackson blocking kicks.

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01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 1: You never know what that could lead to down the road.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. A Happy Holidays, Mary Christmas. Addition

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Speaker 1: to the show Weird from Laramy Tunsil from Kenny Stills

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01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: from Brandon Scarlett and a Little Beastcar TV Happy Holiday's

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01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:54,679
Speaker 1: edition where from Brian Anger. You heard from Angelo Blackson.

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01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: Of course the goat Andre Johnson you heard from him

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01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:04,639
Speaker 1: as well. Today. Hopefully you guys had a Merry Christmas.

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01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: We have a happy New Year coming up. There's plenty

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01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: of Texas football left, including this game on Sunday at

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01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 1: three twenty five. Remember that three twenty five. Don't forget

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01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 1: three twenty five. Be there at the Energy State and

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01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: Fan Appreciation Day. It's gonna be fun. It's going to

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01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 1: be fun to see your AFC South Division champs. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for listening. Merry Christmas and happy Holidays

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Speaker 1: to all of you, and as always, go Texans.