Speaker 1: To be able to take it to that next level.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm excited about. Blast hard with the sack
Speaker 1: back at the twenty five yard line touchdown. You're standing
Speaker 1: rock and roll, Tremont Smith, Coast to coast. There is
Speaker 1: no off season for your Houston Texans. Game day is
Speaker 1: every day. No, it's Texans all excess. Hello Texans, and
Speaker 1: welcome to the program that takes you inside NRG Stadium
Speaker 1: where it is game day eve Johnny, the Texans game.
Speaker 1: It's the Cobande Lone Star with Manchester City. That's your
Speaker 1: favorite team, isn't it? It is my favorite team. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited. When I pulled in today, one of their
Speaker 1: buses was there and I just it was so It's
Speaker 1: so wild. It was in the cafe a little while
Speaker 1: ago and their their staff. There was some staff in
Speaker 1: there and it was just like, WHOA man, this is
Speaker 1: It's really cool. Now. I haven't seen any of any
Speaker 1: of the players roaming around, but that's what tomorrow's for.
Speaker 1: Taking on Club America from Mexico. The one thing I
Speaker 1: love about soccer are these the way that they do
Speaker 1: their international play, like Champions League. I love because it's
Speaker 1: bringing in the champions from France and Germany and from
Speaker 1: England obviously from Premier League, but then to have England's
Speaker 1: champ and you know, a team from Mexico professional from
Speaker 1: I just love the fact that you can kind of
Speaker 1: cross streams like that, yeah, whereas you can't do that
Speaker 1: in and but you can obviously with soccer. So it's
Speaker 1: beautiful that. It's really really cool. It is the beautiful
Speaker 1: game that way, because you're right, you can actually play
Speaker 1: the sport tomorrow night here at NRG Stadium with Club
Speaker 1: America and Manchester City and it's fun and I think
Speaker 1: there's some tickets still available, so go to your ticketmaster's
Speaker 1: sources um Loan Start Sports and Entertainment. Putting the game
Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans. This is gonna be fun. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be there with her kid too, because he's a
Speaker 1: big soccer fan. When he sees the Dynamo, he goes
Speaker 1: nuts on TV the Dynamo, so he's really fired up
Speaker 1: about this one tomorrow. I had to explain to him
Speaker 1: how this is this Club America versus Manchester City thing.
Speaker 1: But I love it. It's great and it's football. And
Speaker 1: here's another thing, Johnny and Texans fans will be interested
Speaker 1: in this, I think, not to get into the field situation,
Speaker 1: but they bring in a natural grass field for this, yes,
Speaker 1: and you and I noticed this. I was coming up,
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday or the day before, coming
Speaker 1: up to the loading dock where I park, and I
Speaker 1: noticed the field. The roof was open and the field
Speaker 1: was covered in sunlight all the way through end zone
Speaker 1: to end zone. And I thought, now, I don't see
Speaker 1: that every day, because when the field is open on
Speaker 1: those rare occasions for a Texans football game, it's usually
Speaker 1: November at the earliest, right, and the sun covers from
Speaker 1: the twenty yard line in the south end zone on
Speaker 1: and then it gets smaller or the area throughout the
Speaker 1: day because the sun is at an angle further south
Speaker 1: right correct, for lack of a better way of putting it,
Speaker 1: this thing is right at this thing, the sun, this
Speaker 1: thing is right up above the roof, the open roof,
Speaker 1: just shining it on the entire field. So, World Cup,
Speaker 1: whatever soccer events you have here in the summer, not
Speaker 1: that you would open the roof for a game, but
Speaker 1: in between games to keep the grass fresh or you know,
Speaker 1: get natural sunlight on it. You've got that opportunity here,
Speaker 1: and I love that. I think it's great for the
Speaker 1: game of soccer. Now for the football games, obviously we
Speaker 1: have the artificial surface now, so that's taken care of, right,
Speaker 1: And I know fans like, but wait the sad when
Speaker 1: I have the roof open. I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1: When I walked in the Bowl around eleven ish eleven
Speaker 1: fifteen thirty, it was well over one hundred degrees on
Speaker 1: that bowl. In the bowl. Oh sure, it was unbelievably hot.
Speaker 1: So I know there are a lot of people going, well,
Speaker 1: I went to that Pittsburgh game and it was, yeah,
Speaker 1: you keep that thing closed in in the fall. The
Speaker 1: thing is, once you get to once you get past
Speaker 1: daylight savings time, all of a sudden that sort of
Speaker 1: changes the angles of when the shadows coming in and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But it's really cool when
Speaker 1: the roof is open here. I mean, it's it's gotten
Speaker 1: a point where I I'll be honest, I didn't like
Speaker 1: it at first. I didn't like it at first, and
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I got used to the roof
Speaker 1: being closed and so it's something new, and so I
Speaker 1: didn't really like it at first. When I say it first,
Speaker 1: I mean twenty twenty, yeah, because that was you know,
Speaker 1: for the six years prior I had not seeing it open,
Speaker 1: so I didn't like it at first. And I remember
Speaker 1: going through that game and I think it was a
Speaker 1: Patriots for the first game, and of course the Texas
Speaker 1: played very well that game and end up winning and
Speaker 1: beating the Patriots, and I remember thinking, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: This is pretty cool. Now it's a it's a wreck
Speaker 1: when you go to watch the film afterwards, because you
Speaker 1: got where's the ball if the ball is going from
Speaker 1: sun to shadow? For getty, Iris is too open when
Speaker 1: it's in the darker part than it just black asks
Speaker 1: when it gets to the brighter part. But in the
Speaker 1: like you said it now, when that's when the sun
Speaker 1: is sitting right over the top of the thing, there's
Speaker 1: no shadows, but man it is. Yeah, it gets a
Speaker 1: little warm now. The only way you could do it
Speaker 1: for this soccer match would be to open it right
Speaker 1: before the kick. Yeah, at eight pm, I guess it
Speaker 1: is to three. You know the Astros do they still
Speaker 1: open the roof later at night around nine thirty ten.
Speaker 1: They used to do that a long time ago, but
Speaker 1: I haven't been to that. Many games lately haven't been
Speaker 1: made park, but they're able to do that anyway. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun Tomorrow night, Manchester City and Club America
Speaker 1: check it out as soccer at NRG. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Also a beautiful thing is training camp opening a week
Speaker 1: from friday, as we will see guys around the building.
Speaker 1: We already are, but they'll start officially reporting over the
Speaker 1: weekend and through early next week. And veterans and Waves
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks and whatever, they'll all be here next week
Speaker 1: and practicing on Friday. And just to promote this now,
Speaker 1: a week from Friday, our training camp shows began eight
Speaker 1: to ten am right here on Sports Radio six ten
Speaker 1: and the Texans app and the Odyssey app. And Nick
Speaker 1: Kissio is going to join us live at the practice
Speaker 1: field to kick off training camp. How about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. Well, Nick on and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be on with Sean and Seth a few days later
Speaker 1: on the following Monday, but we'll have him on to
Speaker 1: kick off training camp and go over everything that's gonna
Speaker 1: be happening at camp and all the big stories and
Speaker 1: players to watch the whole bit. As I cannot wait,
Speaker 1: this is our time, fans, This is the fun part
Speaker 1: football starting up, back to football. We have back together Saturday,
Speaker 1: a week from Saturday, with the battle red helmet being
Speaker 1: unveiled at camp. That is gonna be awesome, bizarre seeing
Speaker 1: the red helmet at practice. That's why I love and
Speaker 1: I can't wait that. Of all people ask me a
Speaker 1: lot like what are you excited about training camp? And
Speaker 1: each one is the one. The one thing I always
Speaker 1: say is I love doing our training camp shows. I
Speaker 1: loved I love doing those shows because we have done
Speaker 1: them in Denver in closet, We've done them at the Greenbrier,
Speaker 1: We've done them here. We've actually done them in studio
Speaker 1: when there hasn't been a practice, We've done them out
Speaker 1: on the field. We've done them later in today, we've
Speaker 1: done them earlier in today. I love doing those training
Speaker 1: camp shows, just being in the thick of it. I
Speaker 1: love those shows. But the fact that we're we're back
Speaker 1: home here in Houston, the Fancies celebrate. But this year
Speaker 1: in particular, seeing the red helmet on these guys running
Speaker 1: around at practice is gonna be equal parts odd. It's
Speaker 1: a little strange, but a good and a good strange,
Speaker 1: like I think I'm gonna I really think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: like it. One of the football or one of the
Speaker 1: sports accounts on Twitter posted four alternate helmets and I
Speaker 1: can't remember what it was, begels, but it was the
Speaker 1: Beatles with the white helmets. They they haven't shown those yet.
Speaker 1: Well where have I seen it? But I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I've seen the helmet like they've put it, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But either way it was it was all red.
Speaker 1: It was the retro pat patriot pat pat patriot snapping one.
Speaker 1: It was the black sinks, which I don't care for.
Speaker 1: I don't like how they went about it. But then
Speaker 1: there's the black panther's helmet. Oh yeah, the black Panthers helmet,
Speaker 1: which that's kind of say, I know, that's kind of
Speaker 1: that's kind of sweet. Four. I still think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm biased, but I still would take the red. I
Speaker 1: love the red. I love the red regardless. I've always
Speaker 1: liked the chief's helmet. Yes I'm a Texan, but I've
Speaker 1: always loved that red white chief's helmet. I've always loved that.
Speaker 1: So seeing our guys wearing I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really cool. But of those four, I would take it,
Speaker 1: but that will say that black Panther's helmet. Hey forgive
Speaker 1: me for not knowing and having show prep meeting on
Speaker 1: the air, But the Titans going to go to some
Speaker 1: sort of oiler thing. Remember that there have been rumors
Speaker 1: it's been floating. The fiftieth of the AFL. The fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary of the AFL, they wore the very first oiler helmets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and oiler uniforms, which are very similar to what they
Speaker 1: eventually evolved into, but they were different and they're not
Speaker 1: the typical of you blue or even Warren Moon era uniforms.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if the Titans are gonna do that.
Speaker 1: And please, you're not the oilers. I know it's the
Speaker 1: same franchise, Mark. Yeah, whatever you can, you can live
Speaker 1: in that logistical dream that you want to last. I
Speaker 1: looked in the seventies, eighties and nineties and the sixties,
Speaker 1: sixty seventies, eighties and nineties when I watched the oilers,
Speaker 1: they were here in this town. I saw my own eyes.
Speaker 1: It happened here the last time that they wore those
Speaker 1: oilers throwbacks. Do you remember what happened? They lost? It
Speaker 1: was vy on Christmas or something. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: might have been, but the one I remember was two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine and Tom Brady and the Patriots put
Speaker 1: a fifty burger on them, almost a sixty burger. They
Speaker 1: fifty nine up on them, so good and wear them
Speaker 1: very nice, good wear them. Maybe that was the game
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of. Was it Christmas? It might have been.
Speaker 1: It might have been, And I might have been celebrating
Speaker 1: that that very night because I root for the Titans
Speaker 1: to lose consistently. Yeah, that's how I roll. But I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to all this battle red helmet training camp
Speaker 1: one week from Saturday, and then you have the one
Speaker 1: week from Friday, start to it all. Johnny. This came
Speaker 1: up in the conversation as I'm about to go off
Speaker 1: on this. I don't believe it. The NFL Throwback Account,
Speaker 1: I love this. Actually they do throwback games. I also
Speaker 1: love the Old Time Football account because they'll run chunks
Speaker 1: of older games from the eighties and nineties and it's
Speaker 1: just fun to watch. Sometimes the seventies, they had a
Speaker 1: Pastorini performance on there from pre Earl Campbell era when
Speaker 1: he beat the Steelers, and I texted it to him.
Speaker 1: I sent him to link and he said, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was one of our four wins that year, but that
Speaker 1: was a good one that I love that stuff. But anyway,
Speaker 1: they tweeted out the choose your two thousands all star offense,
Speaker 1: and you get to choose two wide receivers from a
Speaker 1: group of ten. This is the two thousands. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: We all know who played in the two thousands for
Speaker 1: your beloved franchise here and he's not in this. I'll
Speaker 1: give you the receivers you will. Did me to this yesterday,
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Tarall Owens, Reggie Wayne, Isaac Bruce, Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: Hines Ward, Steve Smith Senior as opposed to junior Steve Smith,
Speaker 1: the only wide receiver you know named Steve Smith. Who
Speaker 1: counts Chad Johnson, Marvin Harrison, Tory Holt the two thousand's
Speaker 1: top ten wide receivers according to them, Ha, you do
Speaker 1: not have Andre Johnson in here, and that's ridiculous. You
Speaker 1: need him in here, which begs the next logical question,
Speaker 1: who are you bumping out? Mark? I know exactly who
Speaker 1: I'm bumping out. You go first, Hines Ward. I love Haines.
Speaker 1: Everything about Hines is great. I love the way he
Speaker 1: played the game. Some thought he did some things dirty.
Speaker 1: I thought he did a lot of little thing and
Speaker 1: there maybe some questionable hits at the whistle whatever. Hines
Speaker 1: Hines is a baller, and I remember seeing him in
Speaker 1: college when George's quarterbacks are all dead for the year
Speaker 1: and he goes in and he's busted up, but he
Speaker 1: plays back, oh yeah, and did a great job. I've
Speaker 1: always been a hines Ward guy. But there is no way,
Speaker 1: no way that you tell me that he would be
Speaker 1: on that list before Andre Johnson. Not even I think
Speaker 1: hines Ward would tell you not on Andre Johnson. If
Speaker 1: you're at GM drafting receivers and you're asked to give
Speaker 1: a top ten from the two thousands, yeah, Andre Johnson's
Speaker 1: going ahead of hines Ward. Absolutely, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: He's also going ahead of Reggie Wayne. And he's also
Speaker 1: going ahead of Marvin Harrison. I think, yes, here's a
Speaker 1: hot take for you. Marvin Harrison's not going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame without Peyton Manning. Of course, I agree.
Speaker 1: Now if you put him with another great quarterback, maybe,
Speaker 1: but you put Marvin Harrison and look, not to take
Speaker 1: anything away from his performance. But I guess I'm about
Speaker 1: to You put Marvin Harrison with the Houston Texans in
Speaker 1: the two thousands, and you know he's a nice receiver, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not who he became. There, you put Andrey Johnson
Speaker 1: on that team, and we're talking about Randy Moss type
Speaker 1: image status. If you put Andrey Johnson on the two
Speaker 1: thousands Indianapolis Colts with Peyton mannings sling, are you sure
Speaker 1: you want that image in your head? No, I really
Speaker 1: don't want that image in my head because that's just
Speaker 1: horrible for the Houston Texans. But I'm just doing it
Speaker 1: to support Andrey Johnson here. So those names again, yeah,
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, like I don't have I don't have an issue.
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald don't have an Those guys are those guys
Speaker 1: are are incredible. But there was those Listen, there was
Speaker 1: a time. Listen. I'm saying listen to you. There, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: listen to the fans. Yeah, there was a time when
Speaker 1: I would say Andre Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald were pretty
Speaker 1: even here. Yeah, but Larry just lasted so long and
Speaker 1: in the postseason shined when they went to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and I just think the off field status of Larry
Speaker 1: Johnson and doing all the commercials for University of Phoenix.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm thinking of here. I guess
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald I said, doesn't say Johnson anyway, Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: able to continue the career, you know. But it's not
Speaker 1: like I'm Ray Johnson cut his career short. It's just
Speaker 1: that Larry Fitzgerald is freakish in the longevity department. When
Speaker 1: I when I say Larry Fitzgerald's a no brainer, I'm implying,
Speaker 1: and I'll say it now. I'm blind, Larry, that Andrea
Speaker 1: should be a no brainer too. Absolutely, if you put
Speaker 1: five guys, you should put Andrea in that mix. Look,
Speaker 1: Tory Holt, I can't remember who I got in this
Speaker 1: argument with. It really was an argument. We were talking
Speaker 1: about Tory Holt, and I can't remember who was Tory
Speaker 1: Holt were compared Tory Holt somebody else, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I I'm telling you, I'll take dre over any of them.
Speaker 1: Isaac Bruce, go through those ways, go through those quarterbacks again. Yea,
Speaker 1: these guys, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Larry Fitzgerald, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a litany of guys thrown to him,
Speaker 1: but he had Kurt Warner at the end of his
Speaker 1: career that helped well well, Tory Holt career that was
Speaker 1: a while ago. Actually, Tory Holt Isaac Bruth both had
Speaker 1: Kurt Warren, Carson Palmer number one overall pick who came
Speaker 1: in and resurrected things in Arizona. Goes on there in
Speaker 1: front of Andre. That drives me insane. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: he was really good, but this is an image thing
Speaker 1: right here. I would put Andrea ahead of Chad Johnson
Speaker 1: as a receiver. I don't think anybody's gonna draft Chad
Speaker 1: Johnson ahead of Andre Johnson, knowing what they could do
Speaker 1: for their offense. I'll even say Steve Smith Johnny. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like Steve Smith. I'm not saying these guys are terrible.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying Andre Johnson's better. Yes, Is that too
Speaker 1: much of a hot Texans take there to say Andre
Speaker 1: Johnson over Steve Smith. I don't think so. I was
Speaker 1: always a Steve Smith fan. I think he's unabashedly honest,
Speaker 1: played with his guy. He plays guts out every time
Speaker 1: he walked in the field. I would take Steve Smith
Speaker 1: Senior over Hinz Award, over Tory Holt over Isaac Bruce,
Speaker 1: all those guys that produced the greatest show on I
Speaker 1: don't want to take away from their production because they
Speaker 1: were tremendous. This is but this is like the This
Speaker 1: is the top of that group and the decade. And
Speaker 1: by the way, this is receivers from the two thousands
Speaker 1: for those wondering, you know, where are some of the
Speaker 1: guys who have played in the teams and now this
Speaker 1: is from the two thousands on the NFL throwback account.
Speaker 1: And we're complaining about it because we like to complain
Speaker 1: about things on sports talk radio. That's just part of
Speaker 1: the plan here, right, Uh, any other complaints here? How
Speaker 1: about these quarterbacks Peyton, Manning, five, Brady and if you're wondering,
Speaker 1: Rogers didn't start playing until two thousand and eight. Yeah
Speaker 1: he's so he doesn't really count in the two thousands.
Speaker 1: So Brady, Farve, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees who really didn't
Speaker 1: start slinging it well for New Orleans to one six six, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean he made the Pro Bowl, oh four oh six.
Speaker 1: They went to the NFC Championship Game, so it had
Speaker 1: a strong second half of the decade. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he went and they won at No. Nine. Here's the
Speaker 1: one guy I would put on there. Here, here's the
Speaker 1: here's the prows by the way, Kurt Warner. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner should be on there. Yeah, because he went
Speaker 1: to I mean obviously did what he did with the Rams,
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl for the Cardinals was in OH
Speaker 1: nine Super Bowl, the Cardinals wash eight oh eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh nine played at O nine oh eight season. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of guys you could argue, okay, but hisstically
Speaker 1: it's not statistically you'll get a you'll get a fight,
Speaker 1: because I don't think statistically through the two thousands that
Speaker 1: these two guys were at that particular level. But game
Speaker 1: on the line or I got one game to win,
Speaker 1: I don't think I had a problem handing the ball
Speaker 1: to Ben Roethlisberger the second half of the decade or
Speaker 1: Steve McNair, I agree McNair was MVP during that time.
Speaker 1: One of those years Steve McNair was awesome and the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, well that was he was really good. But
Speaker 1: they started to dip as a team in OH four.
Speaker 1: He ends up with Baltimore. They do pretty well with him,
Speaker 1: didn't They win the MVP at one point though, in
Speaker 1: that co MVP with Peyton Manning and three three, okay,
Speaker 1: so you gotta give him credit for that. And who's
Speaker 1: the other one you just said? Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger who went
Speaker 1: to two Super Bowls during that period? Three oh he
Speaker 1: went to three. He went to three, and he took
Speaker 1: it back. I'm sorry. His third one was twenty ten.
Speaker 1: It's two thousand ten season, so okay, so that doesn't count.
Speaker 1: I guess it's the count, all right, but I don't
Speaker 1: get right. But either way, he's a rookie and oh five, right,
Speaker 1: and they go to four oh four. He's a rookie
Speaker 1: to go five oh five, they win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: eight win again? Wow? And then ten ten he goes
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl in the second half of that.
Speaker 1: How you bump it out? I know, Farve Manning, Warner,
Speaker 1: Brady Breeze. These are quarterbacks of the two thousands, the os.
Speaker 1: They called him the outs, but I'd like to say
Speaker 1: the os. I don't Breeze wanted in oh nine, went
Speaker 1: to an NFC championship game at OZH six. It's it's
Speaker 1: hard to make a case for Roethlisberger and or McNair
Speaker 1: over those guys. McNair does have the MVP. Why are
Speaker 1: we saying Farv though in the OH I don't, far
Speaker 1: to me feels very nineties. He is very he is nineties.
Speaker 1: That's a good point because Farves last year with Green
Speaker 1: Bay now Farves oh nine year with the Vikings was outstanding.
Speaker 1: Of course, he blew it in a championship game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but five six and seven he's still outstanding. He loses
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game to the Giants and oh seven
Speaker 1: at home, at home in the cold, but he makes
Speaker 1: it there. But that was his best year in like
Speaker 1: three or four years. You know what far Of is
Speaker 1: in the o's he's kind of Aaron Rodgers in the teens.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, not the teams, but since the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl win, you know what I mean. NFC championship games
Speaker 1: doesn't get over the hump. Still so respected. But Farve
Speaker 1: had that six interception playoff game, and I want to say,
Speaker 1: oh one, he was the Rams against the Rams and
Speaker 1: it's it's just it's awful. I mean, it's look away.
Speaker 1: I think far in the nineties, five two, super Bowl appearances,
Speaker 1: wins won great. I'm gonna be the guy to go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bump him off this Listen, I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger in there. Come on, Okay, three super Bowls? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's definitely way to go. What about
Speaker 1: running backs? All right? So running back of the Os
Speaker 1: the Aughts, Ladanian, Tomlinson. These are the top five recordings
Speaker 1: NFL throwback Ladanian, Tomlinson, Edgar and James Marshall, falk Sean Alexander,
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson's Adrian Peterson just retired last Tuesday. By the way, Well,
Speaker 1: with Adrian, it's hard because it was really just it
Speaker 1: was the second half of even the second half. He's
Speaker 1: drafted No. Seven, so it's only four years now. Those
Speaker 1: four years are unbelievable. But if we're gonna compare for
Speaker 1: four years, I'm gonna give you a complete wild card. Okay,
Speaker 1: Priest Holmes, you know, it's interesting that he doesn't end
Speaker 1: up on this list. I think he never got the
Speaker 1: respect because he was playing against one of the greatest
Speaker 1: offensive lines you can imagine from one blocking. I mean,
Speaker 1: those guys were Matt Trucks and look, I can I
Speaker 1: always say this, it's hard for It's hard for me
Speaker 1: to evaluate offensive line play just being honest. Here are
Speaker 1: they pushing guys out of the way to make holes?
Speaker 1: Are they protecting the quarterback? Does the quarterback have some
Speaker 1: time to throw? Good job? Offensive line? That's my offensive
Speaker 1: line evaluation. But when I used to watch those Chiefs
Speaker 1: with priest homes from San Antonio, by the way, Longhorn,
Speaker 1: when I used to watch those Chiefs teams play, you
Speaker 1: could see a surge. You want to talk about Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien discussing moving the line of scrimmage. The line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage moved clearly to the lay person with the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs of that era, and they never won a
Speaker 1: playoff game with that squad. Here's a four year run,
Speaker 1: Holy smokes. Oh yeah, it was phenomenal. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, he ran for fifteen fifty five eight touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He caught sixty two passes for six to fourteen and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. The next year he had sixteen fifteen rushing,
Speaker 1: twenty one rushing touchdowns, seventy receptions for six seventy two
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns, So he had twenty four touchdowns that year.
Speaker 1: The next year two thousand and three at fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: twenty yards twenty seven rushing touchdowns. He caught seventy four
Speaker 1: passes for six hundred ninety yards. So he had two
Speaker 1: straight years of twenty four touchdowns in twenty seven total touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And the next year he's on pace eight games, eight
Speaker 1: hundred ninety two rushing yards, and he had nineteen receptions
Speaker 1: for one hundred and eighty seven and he had four
Speaker 1: He had fourteen touchdowns rushing in eight games. Priest Holmes
Speaker 1: needs to be on that list. Priest Holmes won a
Speaker 1: lot of people some fantasy championships from OH one even
Speaker 1: through A four. He only had eight games, all right,
Speaker 1: so you want to do here, We've got that. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Tight ends of the o's according to NFL
Speaker 1: Throwback Top five. Tony Gonzalez Antonio Gates, no argument there.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys are unbelievable. Jason Witten, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: oh three draft Dallas Clark. People forget how amazing he
Speaker 1: was in that attack. And Jeremy's shocky interesting, Yeah, shocky one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That feels like a stretch. But he
Speaker 1: really was good. He really was good. He kind of
Speaker 1: had a period like Priest Holmes not I don't think
Speaker 1: you can get that that close. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can get that close to him. But I mean Shocky
Speaker 1: when you look at him through that, he was consistent
Speaker 1: seventy this is receptions, seventy four, forty receptions in nine games,
Speaker 1: sixty one, sixty five, sixty six, fifty seven, fifty forty eight,
Speaker 1: forty one, thirty seven. He started off a little bit
Speaker 1: when he got to New Orleans. Ironically with Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: he fell off. Um, he was pretty he was pretty good.
Speaker 1: He was he was pretty good. I'm thinking in the
Speaker 1: two thousands, who else Learning Davis gets some love here.
Speaker 1: As far as the all time list, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the all time tight ends receptions list, and he might
Speaker 1: be the highest receiving tight end that they don't mention. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I think you boy, Shocky has more catches in his
Speaker 1: career than Kellen Winslow Senior. That's amazing. That's amazing, Todd Heap,
Speaker 1: Ben Coats, that's nineties. Why check nineties vibe. It's so
Speaker 1: funny that all those Patriots fans love Croc and Oh
Speaker 1: Grocks the greatest tight end and there's not too much,
Speaker 1: too much argument there being coach was a bad you
Speaker 1: know what, he was a bad man. And he was
Speaker 1: a blocking tight end too, Like I mean, he could block,
Speaker 1: but he was so so very good, you know, in
Speaker 1: a two thousands now, I think it was a little
Speaker 1: bit later, he was mid two thousands. Ben Watson, Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he ever put up receiving numbers
Speaker 1: like shocking. Well, no, he did, he did. He's he's
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack of this top twenty five.
Speaker 1: You know, the twenty fifth leading tight end is all
Speaker 1: time receptions. It is all time. That's pretty strong man, man,
Speaker 1: that's really good. That's really good. That is outstanding time
Speaker 1: with Kyle Rudolph. I don't think you have too much
Speaker 1: too much issue with those those tight ends. I mean
Speaker 1: I think that's Yeah. The Dallas Clark one we go
Speaker 1: back to. Is he a tight end? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you have to, I guess call him that he is deceiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to be on. I mean that group of
Speaker 1: Marvin and Edgeran and Reggie and Dallas Clark, I mean,
Speaker 1: Peyton made them better. They helped make Peyton look pretty good.
Speaker 1: It was a really it was a synergistic relationship. Really good.
Speaker 1: But Peyton Manning, you're talking about one of the greatest
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who ever lived. I know the postseason quote failures,
Speaker 1: lack of ability to get there often enough. Not like Brady,
Speaker 1: of course, but man, oh man, could he light people up?
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Speaker 1: have a better season, Johnny, the Jacksonville Jaguars or the
Speaker 1: New York Jets, give it to me. You have Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson and whatever he's doing in a spare time, and
Speaker 1: you have the Jacksonville Jaguars led by Trevor Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: happen to watch an interesting video the Jets put out.
Speaker 1: We do ours, you know, building the Texans. We put
Speaker 1: out the draft coverage and we do a great job
Speaker 1: with that. The Jets put one out, but it was
Speaker 1: just about seven and a half eight minutes long, just
Speaker 1: on their first round, just on sauce. Yeah, they had
Speaker 1: two other first round picks. They had Jimmy Johnson and
Speaker 1: they had one of their trying to remember the name
Speaker 1: by oh Caret Wilson wide receiver. That it was a
Speaker 1: good draft for that. Um, there's a vibe with the Jets.
Speaker 1: With Joe Douglas's GM, Solis got a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: I'm buying the Jets, Okay over the better season for
Speaker 1: the Jets than the Jacksonville Jaguars. What about the divisions here?
Speaker 1: You get the Bills, got the Patriots, who are not
Speaker 1: gonna be an easy out. I don't care what anybody
Speaker 1: predicts about their demise. And the Dolphins. Hey, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are gonna hang around and win eight or nine games.
Speaker 1: They should. If they don't, it's a total disaster for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a tough division, but their crossover is AFC North,
Speaker 1: which I've said is is very difficult. It's maybe not
Speaker 1: absolutely on part with the FC West, but it's still
Speaker 1: pretty are good And look, the Jackson got to face
Speaker 1: the FC West, so they've got to face the same
Speaker 1: schedule that we've got to face. For the most part,
Speaker 1: I just believe in what Salo's doing around everything that's
Speaker 1: gone on around Zach Wilson. Okay, So if Zach ends
Speaker 1: up finding the secret sauce this year, which that maybe
Speaker 1: with everything's going on with there's the wrong way of
Speaker 1: saying it. But he's got weapons to throw too. Now
Speaker 1: he's got an offensive line that have healthy can can
Speaker 1: protect him. I think the running game has to get
Speaker 1: a little bit better, but I think defensively, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it's a bunch no names in sauce,
Speaker 1: but it kind of has a bunch of no names
Speaker 1: in sauce. But we saw that front last year. John Franklin, Myers,
Speaker 1: Quinnin williams now a sauce in them back in c. J.
Speaker 1: Mosley still there at linebacker. He's still there at linebacker. Belue. Anyways,
Speaker 1: they've got they've got some work to do. But I
Speaker 1: just I would trust the Jets getting there before the
Speaker 1: Jack's just the hair in front of the Jacks. Okay,
Speaker 1: sidebar question. Don't want to labor the point here, but
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel I mentioned if the Dolphins don't win eight
Speaker 1: or nine, that's a disaster for them. Correct, they win
Speaker 1: seven or less, that's not cutting it. After the acquisitions
Speaker 1: and hello, and we removed the head coach after reasonable success.
Speaker 1: I mean I hate to use that word, but I
Speaker 1: don't hate to use that word. I mean, look, you
Speaker 1: know he got the season going after one and seventh start. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel takes over there, is it better to take
Speaker 1: over a team like that or to be Rob Salad
Speaker 1: take it over in New York Jets or Lovey Smith here.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the expectations for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are higher. So what do you say that? Because I
Speaker 1: always I remember when I using my example, just the
Speaker 1: way I thought way back in the day I coached
Speaker 1: the piscocal High School, had a bunch of really smart
Speaker 1: kids and really good players, but because of our academic requirements,
Speaker 1: we just were not going to have an opportunity. It
Speaker 1: was kind of like you know a lot of college locations,
Speaker 1: you know, Northwestern Stanford. We just were not going to
Speaker 1: have kids that we're gonna come to our location that
Speaker 1: could have handled academically, but admissions was not going to
Speaker 1: allow them in. And so I always felt like, man,
Speaker 1: what could I do if I had talent at this
Speaker 1: high school? If I had a talent at this high school, man,
Speaker 1: I this would be it would be awesome. But I'd
Speaker 1: love being at Episcopal because we always kind of had
Speaker 1: that underdog mentality like you guys can't do it, and
Speaker 1: I love that. So I would love to take over
Speaker 1: a team like the Jets and proved everybody, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can do it, because the expectations do get astronomically high
Speaker 1: when you bring in Tyreek Hill and what if you
Speaker 1: you but what if Mike McDaniel, quarterback guru, quarterback whisper
Speaker 1: can't get it out of two a tongue of violoa.
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien faced that here. Bill had other issues, but
Speaker 1: when Bill got here, it wasn't what he said was
Speaker 1: what everybody else said about, Oh he's a quarterback guru,
Speaker 1: he'll make it work. He's a quarterback guru's offensive group,
Speaker 1: and it built up this expectation that offensively we're gonna
Speaker 1: be outstanding because Bill is the quarterback whisper. That's tough,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be tough for Mike McDaniel because we
Speaker 1: don't we don't know what too really is. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: having that talent is enticing, But I always like being
Speaker 1: the underdog where the expectations were low and showing everybody
Speaker 1: that we could do it no matter what. And then
Speaker 1: you get to that level in the NFL. Obviously, with
Speaker 1: the draft of free agency, everything is a little bit
Speaker 1: more level into this high school level. I would love
Speaker 1: the opportunity to coach the Jets and try and make
Speaker 1: them a winner and take that challenge head on. I
Speaker 1: just feel like, if you win less than ten in Miami,
Speaker 1: you better have a good excuse, right, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting the fan base. Rea, what's the excuse? Got
Speaker 1: to be that injuries whatever? Yes, and if two one
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, you could say, well, look, not that
Speaker 1: because somebody else's decision. Yeah, you could say that. I
Speaker 1: guess all right, next, more likely to happen. Sorry about
Speaker 1: that sidebar, but I had to get there, more likely
Speaker 1: to happen making his first start first, So more likely
Speaker 1: to start first. Malik Willis or anybody in Washington not
Speaker 1: named Carson Wentz, Sam Howe, Taylor Heineke, there might be
Speaker 1: somebody else there as well. Give it to me. I
Speaker 1: really want to say, Malik Willis, Okay, I really want
Speaker 1: to see really, oh, I really want to There's a
Speaker 1: part of me that wants to see him and a
Speaker 1: part of me that absolutely no doubt does not want
Speaker 1: to see him. On a field that day because as
Speaker 1: a rookie, I mean thinking about rookies have a little
Speaker 1: bit of talent and that can move like he. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen Malik Willis play, he's magnificent. They
Speaker 1: can manufacture a win somehow, yes, yes, and they can
Speaker 1: run for a first down. You can have everything did.
Speaker 1: Now we've obviously seen Ryan Tannehill shake off a sack
Speaker 1: and throwing a big third down against US too, so
Speaker 1: we've seen that. But I just think Washington's headed for
Speaker 1: disaster with Carson Wentz. Okay, I just feel like it's
Speaker 1: going You think Willis starts first, though, No, I think Washington.
Speaker 1: I want to say Willis, but I'm not. I think Wentz.
Speaker 1: Is it a benching or is it an injury that
Speaker 1: brings Howel or Heineke into the lineup? Yes? Okay, got it,
Speaker 1: got it all right? Next one more likely to happen,
Speaker 1: more likely to make the first start. Here, I'm doing
Speaker 1: it again, except with different teams. Desmond Ritter or Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna start first? Ritter in Atlanta or Pickett in Pittsburgh. Well,
Speaker 1: those are really close. See, I almost feel like those
Speaker 1: are close to the other two. Mariota's ahead of Ritter
Speaker 1: for those playing at home, and Pickett obviously has our
Speaker 1: good friend from the twenty seventeen top. This is why
Speaker 1: I think it's so close, because Tisky Mitchell Trubisky. I
Speaker 1: feel like the book on Trubisk. And I know our
Speaker 1: buddy andre Ware is listening to Johnny you know how
Speaker 1: to answer this question. He loves mister Trubisky. I'm the
Speaker 1: biggest fan of him. But I think Trubisky is gonna
Speaker 1: get a little bit more of a shot. I feel
Speaker 1: like the book is not completely written on Trubisky now.
Speaker 1: The first few chapters have been up and down and
Speaker 1: all over the place. I feel like the book has
Speaker 1: been done on the shelf and gathering dust on Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 1: I feel like Ritter we will see first. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see Ritter first. You're ready for one more, the
Speaker 1: final one, more likely to happen, more likely to get
Speaker 1: an expansion franchise in their city. NHL in Houston, NFL
Speaker 1: and Saint Louis go NHL and Houston. Really yeah, if
Speaker 1: I'm the NFL Okay, not that I want to take
Speaker 1: anything away, It's not really about Saint Louis. But if
Speaker 1: I'm expanding in the NFL, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to go to a market where I haven't been. I
Speaker 1: don't let me read you the question, strike the question
Speaker 1: from the record, your honor getting a team of any kind,
Speaker 1: getting a team of any kind, Saint Louis, getting a
Speaker 1: team any kind or just no, no, non team of
Speaker 1: any kind or NHL team of any kind of coming
Speaker 1: to Houston, Which is my question back to you where
Speaker 1: let's say it's the NFL. Where who's leaving? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: who's leaving? But where would you put one Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: I already have a deal that didn't get done but
Speaker 1: could have been done for a stadium. But Cronky obviously
Speaker 1: had other designs on LA and it's working out wonderfully
Speaker 1: for him, and he built a facility. Give him credit
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, and I still felt like the Chargers
Speaker 1: when you flirt with Saint Louis. I get my stadium.
Speaker 1: I got the Saint Louis Chargers thing going on. I
Speaker 1: know they supported the team, we just didn't have a
Speaker 1: good facility. That dome was horrible. Now, okay, what about
Speaker 1: NHL and Houston closer to home? We have much more
Speaker 1: of an educated opinion here. See, I think the NHL
Speaker 1: people tell me the NHL could work in Houston. Mark Listen,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even keep the arrows here, all right, And
Speaker 1: I know it's a different deal. People like their sports
Speaker 1: big time here, major league edition. Please. I have a
Speaker 1: hard time seen an NHL team working here long term
Speaker 1: if they're not winning. If they're winning, that's fine, that's
Speaker 1: but that's their sub five hundred. Yikes, we're off very
Speaker 1: very soon. Look, I've seen great rocket teams, not good
Speaker 1: rocket teams. Really good rocket teams have dollar hot Dog
Speaker 1: Night in the playoffs. Yes, don't tell me an NHL
Speaker 1: team is an automatic to work out here. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I agree with you on that point.
Speaker 1: I just feel like Saint Louis is an option, but
Speaker 1: you'd like to have options. I think about Portland, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Seahawks would like that to
Speaker 1: have a team up in Portland. So you start, man,
Speaker 1: start whittling it down and going, man, where could where
Speaker 1: can we go? Where would the NFL? San Antonio is
Speaker 1: a pretty big market, it's gotten semi attached to it.
Speaker 1: But Jerry wouldn't like that, and a Cat probably would.
Speaker 1: You might not be too crazy about it, probably, And
Speaker 1: I'm not going on the record for him or anything,
Speaker 1: and I haven't heard from him directly on that. I'm
Speaker 1: just hypothesize. I mean, Saint Louis makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense because you've been there with the Cardinals, You've been
Speaker 1: there with the Rams, which begs the question. You've been
Speaker 1: there with the Cardinals, and you've been there with the
Speaker 1: Rams stadium, right, so do you get the stadium because
Speaker 1: the stadium that I saw, the renderings that I saw, yeah,
Speaker 1: were gorgeous. Absolutely that they were gonna build for the Rams. Scourgeous.
Speaker 1: You get that, wow, I mean, and there's a there's
Speaker 1: a lot you can do with that potential. You have
Speaker 1: a stadium and a facility like that, you get concerts,
Speaker 1: you get all kinds of things. I'm gonna go. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with NFL Saint Louis. You know what I
Speaker 1: like about the Rams winning the Super Bowl? I hate them.
Speaker 1: It's really solidified my sports hate for the Rams because
Speaker 1: I didn't like them much in Saint Louis. I've respected them,
Speaker 1: of course, and I like for Meal and the Skirt
Speaker 1: Warner story is great, but come on, and then you
Speaker 1: leave a city where you want a championship, went to
Speaker 1: another super Bowl, and then you have the nerve to
Speaker 1: go back to LA and actually win. I hate you Rams.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing too, with if you add a team,
Speaker 1: now you're at thirty three, and it throws off the
Speaker 1: whole algorithm. Oh no, no, you can't do that. You
Speaker 1: gotta go too. You'd have to go to London, baby,
Speaker 1: And Sean's gonna say, wait a minute, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving North Florida, which is always a possibility in
Speaker 1: my mind. It is in the Jacksonville people know it too.
Speaker 1: They know they know it too, and I hate that
Speaker 1: for them. You're already giving up a home game a year.
Speaker 1: And it was two. It was two. It was gonna
Speaker 1: be two in the COVID season at twenty twenty. If
Speaker 1: you went in too, If Shot went to Saint Louis
Speaker 1: right now, Hey, what do you got for me? They
Speaker 1: would say, we got a stadium for you. Come on over,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Jaguars. And you know what, having to travel
Speaker 1: to Saint Louis every year wouldn't be the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world in the division. I'm just saying, But
Speaker 1: I like going to Jacksonville and I love it because
Speaker 1: we get to go see Episcopal High School where he
Speaker 1: used to coach. Coming up next, we mentioned there's another
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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans, and one of them is the
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl, the Tax Act Texas Bowl, which features the
Speaker 1: SEC at Big twelve Semi Traditionally, at least lately, not
Speaker 1: always has been the case. But what is going on
Speaker 1: with those leagues? There is some news that we need
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Speaker 1: Great to have you listening. Mark Vandermayer and John Harris
Speaker 1: with you. SEC Media days in full swing. SEC A
Speaker 1: sixteen team league, one of the leagues that participates in
Speaker 1: the Tax Act Texas Bowl annually. Big twelve the other. Look,
Speaker 1: we'll see where this is all going soon enough. But
Speaker 1: Big twelve with the breakup with Texas and oh you
Speaker 1: going to the SEC Johnny, talks are off reportedly between
Speaker 1: the Big twelve and the PAC twelve. First of all,
Speaker 1: solve that little ditty for me, Big twelve, PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: Should they get back together? Should they figure something out?
Speaker 1: Should the Big twelve try to do something else? Should
Speaker 1: different things happen? If you're gonna split up, now it
Speaker 1: becomes between the new PAC twelve, I'm sorry, the new
Speaker 1: Big twelve commissioner and George Clarkoff, the PAC twelve commissioner.
Speaker 1: You better go solidify whatever you have left in the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. And if you're the Big twelve, you go
Speaker 1: back to those four teams you went and you saw
Speaker 1: Arizona State, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. I believe right that's
Speaker 1: not gonna set the world on fire, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: allow you to keep the Big twelve going. That's what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Now. If the Big twelve PAC twelve
Speaker 1: were smart, and maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but
Speaker 1: I think unification of that part of the country. Yes
Speaker 1: you don't have USC, and yes you don't have UCLA,
Speaker 1: but if you have Oregon in Washington to the far
Speaker 1: outpost and then you can come into Texas with what
Speaker 1: you have remaining in the Big twelve, TCU, Baylor, etc.
Speaker 1: And you dominate the coast if you will, outside of
Speaker 1: not having USC UCLA, that's the best way to go
Speaker 1: about it. But to merge two major conferences like that.
Speaker 1: Claioff just got hired as the PAC twelve commissioner, I
Speaker 1: think a year and a half ago. A year ago,
Speaker 1: Big twelve just named a commissioner. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you put that together and make one's got to take
Speaker 1: over the other right es Sexually, at this point you
Speaker 1: can't come together, then it's a game of risk and
Speaker 1: we're gonna go take over your guys, and that's it.
Speaker 1: So it's either gonna be the Big sixteen or it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the Pac sixteen. One's gonna have to go away.
Speaker 1: If you can't learn how to merge or come together
Speaker 1: on a merge, then I think that's the only way
Speaker 1: you really can go for them. So are we gonna
Speaker 1: form some gigantic monstrosity here? Is this is the whole
Speaker 1: country gonna be the SEC? Eventually? Is it gonna be
Speaker 1: an SEC with like sixty four teams in it? And
Speaker 1: that's it? Yeah? I think that's where we're going. I
Speaker 1: think I think that's where we're headed. And once they
Speaker 1: get there in the football realm, then maybe they could
Speaker 1: put together some universal recruiting rules, guidelines, playoff rules, nil rules,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and it applies to these
Speaker 1: sixty teams. This is how we're gonna do. What we're
Speaker 1: gonna do an eight team playoff amongst these sixty teams
Speaker 1: and these four conferences ACC, SEC, PAC twelve, Big twelve,
Speaker 1: mash up in the Big ten, those four those would
Speaker 1: be the ones and away we go. Have we talked
Speaker 1: to Nick about how nil might affect incoming NFL players?
Speaker 1: I did ask him a question about that, So I
Speaker 1: think this is a It's not really a problem for
Speaker 1: the NFL, honestly, but I do think it's a real
Speaker 1: it's a real situation's top it could be a good
Speaker 1: thing for the colleges. And I go back to I
Speaker 1: got a call from a buddy of mine the COVID
Speaker 1: year because the nc DOABLEA was granting an extra year
Speaker 1: for players that played in ncabas in nc DOABA football,
Speaker 1: they were giving him another year. And my buddy called me.
Speaker 1: He says, hey, y'all know you're you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: hard time. And I was like, I didn't really know
Speaker 1: what he was referring to, and he said, you got
Speaker 1: these college coaches that live in the recruiting world and
Speaker 1: they're recruiting their guys back. Well, that's gonna happen and
Speaker 1: then something because the coach is gonna look at a player,
Speaker 1: guys played three years, he's done great, but he's a
Speaker 1: little bit smaller, maybe a little bit slower. He's a
Speaker 1: third round fourth rounder. And those coaches are gonna be
Speaker 1: able to say, look, is a third fourth rounder For
Speaker 1: the next three years, You're gonna make X, but you're
Speaker 1: an ideal is allowing you to make why it might
Speaker 1: be less than X, but you get to stay as BMOC,
Speaker 1: you get to have another year under your belt, you
Speaker 1: get to work towards your degree, and you're gonna get
Speaker 1: money equivalent to what you can get in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a handful of players or more that decide,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna stay that those third fourth
Speaker 1: rounders that are bordering on she like go, should they not?
Speaker 1: They're not gonna have financial issues, Like a lot of
Speaker 1: players in college and families have financial issues, they have
Speaker 1: to go to the NFL. They have to go. Well,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, they've got an anil deal.
Speaker 1: I don't know, seven hundred fifty a year. Hang out
Speaker 1: one more year, hang out one more year, do the college,
Speaker 1: stay one more year. You're you're satisfying your family's financial
Speaker 1: needs doing that, get your degree, and then go to
Speaker 1: the NFL. At that point, now they're gonna be some
Speaker 1: that are like, look, I'm a first round pick and
Speaker 1: there's no nil money that's gonna be equivalent to that, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go or you want to get your clock
Speaker 1: start in the NFL. I understand that, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: be some players, and I think back to Johnny man
Speaker 1: Tell and am, but Johnny was making an I all money.
Speaker 1: There's probably gonna better than make what he made at
Speaker 1: number twenty two overall the draft. Yeah he stayed another year.
Speaker 1: He's a king. You could stay absolutely all right, Thanks
Speaker 1: a lot, Johnny Gottam. All right, Tomorrow we will talk
Speaker 1: more about the upcoming training camp practices starting one week
Speaker 1: from Friday. You know, we have plenty of stuff as
Speaker 1: always on that get you ready for Cope Day lone stars. Well,
Speaker 1: why not a little soccer, a little soccer or derv
Speaker 1: to the football season. Of course, more than a little.
Speaker 1: It's at NRG Stadium. It's huge. He thanks a lot
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