1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Good evening, Texans, and welcome to the program that brings 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: you inside n RG Stadium right across the half in 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: the locker room here in the Honday Texans Radio studio. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: Mark vander Meer with you, joined by the General John 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: McLean from the Houston Chronicle. Our first off season to 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 1: show together. It's been a few weeks, so John, good 7 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: to see how you doing. I'm doing great, Mark, I'm 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: fired up about the combine, fired up about free agency. 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: I though, based on what we saw from Bill O'Brien 10 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: and general manager in last offseason, he's gonna make moves. Yeah. 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: And I referred to him as trader Bill after trader 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: Jack McKinnon. And I think he'll make trades. I think 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: that he'll he'll sign free agents. It wouldn't surprise me. Mark. 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is gonna happen, but it wouldn't 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: surprise me. If there's a player that they like, say 16 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: at the end of the first round, that Bill wouldn't 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: trade back into the first round. That's gonna cost you, though, 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: Well it is, and they don't have much next year, 19 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: But what if they've got there to this year and 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: they got their three this year? Because they'll get a 21 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: compensatory three for Matthew and that'll go to Cleveland for 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: Dudon Johnson. So maybe somebody to bottom would take a 23 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: three and a four or something else. But you know, 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: it's not a good draft for corners this year, but 25 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: you get down at the bottom of the first round, 26 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: second and third round, there's a lot of corners and 27 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: to me, that's what the Texans need more than anything. 28 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: So I think he's gonna be a fun off season 29 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: because O'Brien is not gonna sit on his hands. Well, 30 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: I agree with you, John, I think that it was 31 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: so disappointing obviously to losing the playoffs, and it's disappointing 32 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: for everybody to losing the playoffs. But that was a 33 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: rough one, I get it. But one thing he's proven 34 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: as the general manager. He's been announced as the general 35 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: manager as the guy who now has control of the acquisitions, 36 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: and he's always had final sale things anyway, but really 37 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: with his hand on the trigger of things, he's been aggressive. 38 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the moves made after the 39 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: preseason right before kickoff, my gosh, and they really helped out. 40 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: And to people who say, well, they didn't get you 41 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I'm thinking, well, imagine if they 42 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: had not made those moves, I don't know where they 43 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: would be. Would they have had a winning season? Would 44 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: it be a whole lot worse had they not acquired 45 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde, Duke Johnson turing training camp, Laramie Tunsil at 46 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: the buzzer, and also Kenny Stills at the opening bell. 47 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: Those guys meant a lot to this team this year. 48 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: So without them, without making those moves, I don't know 49 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: where they are in twenty nineteen. So it's a good 50 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: thing they did those things. How they gotta build off. 51 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: I'll tell you where they would have been. If they'd 52 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: had Julian Davenport left tackle still, Laramie Dods, they had 53 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: Kenny Stiles wasn't there from when Will Fuller got hurt 54 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: and Kiki was in the doghouse, who would they have? Yeah, 55 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: they had where they had DeAndre Carter and Slot and 56 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: Vincent Smith outside, they they would not even won the division. 57 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,839 Speaker 1: I fully believe. I think Watson would have been sacking Moore, 58 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: and I think they wouldn't have beaten Buffalo. They didn't 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: have Tonsil and Stills and and so maybe five years 60 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: from now we look back and go, wow, those were 61 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: bad deals because offense draft Hall of famers. But when 62 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: out look and you're picking twenty six and you gotta 63 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: have a left tackle, is there any tackle? And this 64 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: is a deep draft for left tackles, But is there 65 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: anybody in that draft right now? You say, oh, I'd 66 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: rather have him over Lammy Tunsil. No, and you get 67 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: y Kenny Steeles as well. And with free agency, picks 68 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: are not as valuable as they used to be, but 69 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: they want to win while they can maximize their chances. 70 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: And the other thing is they're not trading or acquiring 71 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: guys who are thirty years old. All these guys are young, 72 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: still got a chance to be on another contract. I 73 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: think when all of a sudden done, tuns will be 74 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: the highest paid offensive lineman in history and Watson will 75 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: be the second highest paid quarterback in history behind Patrick Mahomes. Yep. Yeah. 76 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: And it's funny how the offensive line paychecks go any position, really, 77 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: because last year Trent Brown became the highest paid offensive 78 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: lineman of all time during free agency, and if Laramie 79 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: has a contract extension, you would assume that he'd be 80 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: in that range as well, or a higher age whatever, 81 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: because it's year to year inflation. But John, you mentioned 82 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: the draft and possibilities there. You have free agency coming up, 83 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: and that'll be interesting to see how they handle it. 84 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: Do they like the one year deals? Maybe not. Bill 85 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: O'Brien said, I'm not a big fan of that anymore necessarily, 86 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: So we'll see how they handle that part of it. 87 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: Are these gonna be big marquee busting acquisitions, Maybe not, 88 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: because they do have some guys they want to take 89 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: care of in house. But players will be acquired and 90 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: we'll find out who they are and hopefully they make 91 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: a big difference. As of last week, the Texans were 92 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: fifty six million on the cap. You don't have to 93 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: sign Watson, you don't have to sign Laramie Tounsel or 94 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: Zach Cunningham. They want to do it, but this year, 95 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: because last year the CBA, you can protect a franchise 96 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: player and a transition player. So say DJ Reader, they 97 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: not reach the contract agreement with him, and his contracts up. 98 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: You know, he's the most important. His is up. He 99 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: can franchise him. And then and picking out of the 100 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: players that say Kamie fairbearon, you know you can put 101 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: a transition tag on him and match it. So it's 102 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: it's the Texans have eighteen unrestricted, one restricted, and I 103 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: look through that list, there's maybe seven or eight they 104 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: got to resign, not the whole list, But what they 105 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: do in free agency depends a lot on if they 106 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: sign these other guys to extensions. You don't want to 107 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,119 Speaker 1: spend all that money. And then Watson's okay, we're ready 108 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: to pull a trigger right before training camp. So they 109 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: have to be very wise about how they go about it. 110 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: But you know they're gonna sign some players. I don't 111 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,799 Speaker 1: know if it be a guy who breaks the bank, 112 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: one guy, or if it be three or four guys 113 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: to fill in like Carlos Hide, Dared Fells, Vernon R. Graves, 114 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: Gary Uncondley and those guys that contributed to what they 115 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: were able to do last season. Well, you want to 116 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: have some stars, but you definitely need the middle class, 117 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: so to speak, right, You need those guys to make 118 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: plays through the course of a season. You need a 119 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: lot of depth. I mean every year, I feel like 120 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: every year the offseason we set up this this fictional 121 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: depth chart and we look at the first line and 122 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: it's great or I mean it's great to do that, 123 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: but you really need those second and third teamers because 124 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: those are the guys who play a ton of snaps 125 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: for you throughout the course of a season. So we'll 126 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: be watching out. They're not even the middle class. That's 127 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: the lower class, those second and third guys. And something 128 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: to think about. When the quarterback is on his rookie contract, 129 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: that's when you have more money to spend. Yeah, once 130 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: he gets on that next big one like Kansas City, 131 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: once they make my home's the first forty million a 132 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: year quarterback and Watson somewhere to thirty seven million year range, 133 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: common sense tells you you're not gonna have as much. 134 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: Here's something to think about. And I wrote about this 135 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: on Texas Sports Nation a couple of weeks ago. Okay, 136 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: we all know they need corners, we all know need 137 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: a couple more pass rushers. But if the season started Sunday, 138 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: you would have JJ wat DJ Reader, and Angelo Blackson 139 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: as your three starters. Then you would have Charles Amina who, 140 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: Brandon Dudd and Carlos Watkins behind him. Well, can you 141 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: assume you would have a Reader if the seasons he 142 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: ain't going anywhere, He's gonna be franchise. He's not gonna 143 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: I can't imagine DJ would sit out a season. So 144 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: those would be your six and they all got experience, 145 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: they've been here. And then you have your four starting linebackers. 146 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: You'd have Jacob Martin outside, do cagun Pour outside dealing 147 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: call inside. So if you had to go to war 148 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: with your front seven and the depth, they could do it. 149 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: But at corner, I'm assuming Bradley Roby's gonna lead because 150 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: he's gonna get like a Matthew deal. And I'm guessing 151 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph want to be back, and that would leave 152 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: Lonnie Johnson Junior Gary and con Late, Vernon Hargraves, Kean crossing. 153 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: That is the position that needs targeting, like the offensive 154 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: line did last year. But there I don't think they're 155 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: that far away. Jacob Martin was better in his second year, 156 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: in his third year, he'll be better this time. His 157 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: first year, he'll be better this year. Right, they had 158 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: high holes for dude Cajun four. He's been healthy, he's 159 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: been ever meeting every practice. Dylan Cole's back. They got 160 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: depth in the middle, and you, like Charles a Mini, 161 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: you is the one with these guys that usually make 162 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: their biggest improvement between the first and second season. As 163 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: you know, I really look at a mini you and 164 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: see can he go from three to six sacks? That 165 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that much, But I look for him 166 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: to take a jomp, Martin to take a jomp at 167 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: HAJN four after a year of rehabbing him to contribute 168 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 1: as well, but still think you need a couple more 169 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: pass rushers. Well, it'll be interesting at safety as well, 170 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: because Justin Reid, of course, has been a really good 171 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: player for them, played hurt all season long. A healthier 172 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: Justin Reid and he'll be even better, obviously, and he's 173 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: emerged as this team leader, if not a star. Potentially 174 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: Gibson should be back as well, still under a deal, 175 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: and maybe Lonnie moves to safety, maybe he doesn't. I 176 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: don't know he's got the size to do it, and 177 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if you can afford to do that. 178 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: But we'll see how they shape it. Every time I 179 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: Sawin Reid going off the field holding his shoulder and 180 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: getting him pop back in as someone who had his 181 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: shoulder replaced and knowing the agony of the pain watching 182 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: him do that, even though it was a different kind 183 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: of injury is still my goodness is tolerance pain thresh 184 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: all night. And players see that and they know a 185 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: guy's going all out to try to win. And that's 186 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: why Justin Reid, you know he's soon to be a captain. 187 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: Captain for a long time. Right, Well, we'll see as 188 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: far as these contracts go. And this is the stuff 189 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: I hate talking about in sports sometimes two things I 190 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: don't like talking about, injuries and contracts, but they come 191 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: up on. Unfortunately, they are a big part of a 192 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: huge part of everything. Now the contracts could be affected 193 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: by a new collective bargaining agreement, John, and any moment 194 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: we could have one. So your thoughts on that they're 195 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: gonna they were talking about voting on a seventeen game 196 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: schedules soon. They won't vote unless they know what's gonna pass. 197 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: The NFL have done one egg on its face. The union. 198 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: They will do a straw poll and not they have 199 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: the executive committee and then they have the union reps 200 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: for every team. They will know it's going to pass 201 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: at a time. And players, a lot of them have 202 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: spoken out, why should we play seventeen games when they're 203 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: concerned with injuries? Well, I think they'll have two preseason games, 204 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: but that doesn't really matter because they don't play the 205 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: starters much. Without the preseason games, we'll see more joint practices, 206 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: which coaches are all for. I think someday it wouldn't 207 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: surprise me if there's no preseason games. It's all joint practices. 208 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: But for the owners to give up the money they 209 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: make in preseason, they're gonna make it back with that 210 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: extra game. I think there'll be two bye weeks, super 211 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: Bowl being moved back a weekend. Could play a Super 212 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: Bowl April if you wanted to. They'll never play on 213 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: They'll never play on Labor Day weekend. They used to 214 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: and the ratings always took a beating and had to 215 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: work their way out of a hole. And then they realized, 216 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: let's don't play on Labor Day weekend. So there's gonna 217 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: be change. Is the best that I can see is 218 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: anything less a preseason is an advantage and one thing 219 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: I would try to get if as the players, if 220 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: owners really wanted this, I would say lifetime insurance. Now 221 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: the owners say it's impossible. You'd have to be a 222 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: vested veteran with four years in the league, but you 223 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: get a lifetime insurance and for a business that's multi 224 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: billion dollars, you should be able to do that. And 225 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: the other thing, I would insist on free agency after 226 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: three years, no fifth year option, give me a chance 227 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: to hit the market sooner. And then I don't know 228 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: what the benefits packages. I know it's good and I 229 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: hope like crazy the union does something for the older 230 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: guys like they did last time and help them get 231 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: more money because they certainly need it. But it's gonna 232 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: be fun players. Maybe the cap goes up another ten 233 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: million a year, but about the roster size from fifty 234 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: three to fifty five? Or do you activate more on 235 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: game day especially with a seventeen game schedule potential? The 236 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: reason they haven't done that, and we all, I think 237 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: it's ridiculous not to let all fifty three suit up. 238 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: As they say, well, some teams have a bigger advantage 239 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: because of injuries and all that was, So what that's 240 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: gonna happen to anyone dude for scouting let him suit 241 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: up all fifty three. They may have to let you 242 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: bring back another couple from injury reserve. It's gonna affect 243 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: the way they do business and for things like that. 244 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: But I think it's going to be exciting and anything 245 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: that gets more joint practices, to me are so much 246 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: more fun. You'll have to be doing play by play 247 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: at joint practice to get you pipes limbered up for 248 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: regular season. I can do it, John, I've I've already 249 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 1: thought about that kind of thing. And actually they did 250 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: want here when they scrimmaged the Dolphins inside NRG Stadium 251 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: back a thousand years ago, back in two thousand and 252 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: five or something, and Jason Taylor was there. I think 253 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: that's what he was putting together. Well maybe that was 254 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: before his Defensive Player of the Year, but anyway, that 255 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: was kind of cool. They opened up the stadium, and 256 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: it's difficult here politically because it counts as another event. 257 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: Well whatever, but maybe they would do more stuff like that. 258 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: But let me ask you this. If it's a seventeen 259 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: game schedule and you said two buys, that's a nineteen 260 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: week not a seventeen week of nineteen week season. There's 261 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: a lot of money because now you have two extra 262 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: weeks of primetime games, all right, and to the networks, 263 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: buy no boy, I'm getting a primetime game, all right. 264 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: So I'm getting two more primetime games. The playoffs will expand, right, 265 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: seven teams per conference. I'm getting one more playoff game 266 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: there the opening weekend. I'm getting tripleheader Saturday Sunday. I 267 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: know they've always wanted that Monday night playoff game. If 268 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: they get that, whatever, But also, John, if we were 269 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: in that right now, and if you're right about they'll 270 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: never play on Labor Day, the super Bowl would be 271 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: a week from Sunday, we would still not even be 272 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: there at the super Bowl yet. So here we go. 273 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: And you know who's gonna hate this NBA in baseball, 274 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: March Madden as well. March Madness will always be March Madness. 275 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: But man college basketball, it'll be a blip until you 276 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: get done with the NFL season. Never underestimate streaming too. 277 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: Amazon Google all those heating and they make up fortune 278 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: off of that something I heard. And I think this 279 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: would be great. Okay, seventh seventeenth game that they can 280 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: be playing at some neutral sights. Yeah, I like big 281 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: college stadiums have never had the NFA. Easier said than done, 282 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: though it's hard to put it is. I know, all right, 283 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: they'd have to want to do it, and it would 284 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: be great publicity for the College. When we come back, 285 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the unfairness of letting 286 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: the Jaguars play two consecutive games in London. We'll go 287 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: right there, we'll go around the league. It's Texans Radio, 288 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: It's Texans All Access, Mark vandamer John McClain here in 289 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. Great to be on the 290 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: air again talking NFL football and your Houston Texans and 291 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: the offseason dates. You can check out the website for that. 292 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: Important dates with the Texans combine coming up in a 293 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: few weeks will be there. The owners meetings, obviously free 294 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: agency in between that. But the general John Acclaim from 295 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle with us and you mentioned this going 296 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: into the break, the Jags playing back to back in 297 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: London this year. John, At some point, I'm not saying 298 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: they're gonna fully move there. Yesterday, I think I said 299 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: it on the air that I wouldn't be surprised if 300 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: they did four and four at some point, four games 301 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: in Jacksonville and four games in London and called themselves 302 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: the Atlantic Jaguars or something like that. I don't know 303 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, but it seems like they're headed 304 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: more in that direction. It's gonna be thrown in their 305 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: face if they do move there. But when they have 306 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: two games back to back in London and other teams 307 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: have to travel, it seems like a distinctive manage for them. 308 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: But they should have a big advantage over the Texans 309 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: last year, and the Texans beat them like a drum 310 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: twenty six to three. And I believe that when they 311 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: moved one they want to move to. I'll tell you 312 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: another team. I bet that starts leaking out. They might 313 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: be the second team. The Bills need a new stadium. 314 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: They've already the owner, Kim Pagoula has said publicly, we 315 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: spent all our money on the team. You know, they 316 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: paid a couple of billion, and so does that part 317 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: of the country have the money to build them a 318 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: new stadium. And they had an option to getting out 319 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: of their lease. Now they said no, we're not exercising it. 320 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: So I think it's twenty twenty three. But every any 321 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: other's team that needs a stadium, they're they're looking for 322 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: the city to use. And it seems to me with 323 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: Wimbley Stadium and now Tottenham Hot Spurs that stadium which 324 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: is I think this was the second season. Those are 325 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: fancy facilities, and those would be a good one to 326 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: use because everybody thinks eventually they're going Arthur Blank mentioned 327 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: something really caught me off guard. The Falcon's owner brought 328 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: up expansion, and I'm thinking, jeezures, not enough good quarterbacks 329 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: to go around. Now, it's let's bring in another franchise. 330 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: And but it's the first time somebody's done that could 331 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: go into thirty three, that would make no sense. Now 332 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: thirty three makes zero sense. You have to expand by two. 333 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: So do you go to London and go to Saint Look, 334 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: Jacksonville has already proven to be a very tough market, right, 335 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: so I don't know how they handle that if they're 336 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: going to stay there long term. And they need a 337 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: new stadium down there eventually, so that gets a little complicated. 338 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: They're now playing two home games there instead of one, 339 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: so in five years where they played I think you're 340 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: exactly right for at some point it's gonna be happening, 341 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 1: and it'll be really interesting and challenging because you know, 342 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: at least a couple of those have to be divisional games. 343 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to go there, maybe every other year. Wow, 344 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: all right, So speaking of the division John Tennessee, what's 345 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: gonna happen? The false rumor about Jelle looking at true, 346 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: that was Steve Hudginson's wife, right. We put him in 347 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame on Saturday. And then they got 348 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: out in the school and a Hall of Famer's blond 349 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: wife was looking for a new school. And everybody just 350 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 1: threw it out there with Brady gots or some bad 351 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: reporting out there. Absolutely, but the thing. And I wrote 352 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: a column for Sunday about where did the Texans stand 353 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: in the AFC hierarchy at this point offseason? And to me, 354 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: if Brady goes somewhere else and tells are right there 355 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: number three behind Kansas City in Baltimore, which clearly ought 356 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: to be the first two and the Titans, a lot 357 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: of people will pick the Titans. They get tired. I 358 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: think of picking the Texans and them not going out 359 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: farther divisional round. Indy was the fair haired team last year. 360 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: They go seven to nine, I think Tennessee, even though 361 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: the Titans had to be the half of a Texans 362 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: team here to get the last wild card and finished 363 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 1: nine and seven for the fourth year in a row. 364 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: They did have an astonishing playoff, but winning those road 365 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: games against New England and Baltimore, a lot of people say, Okay, 366 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: they're ready to take the next step. I try not 367 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: to pick the Texans just out of have it. It's 368 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: gonna be hard to pick the Titans considering if Bill 369 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: O'Brien had not been a position to rest the players 370 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: and he's played the starters, they might have swept him, 371 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: and then the Titans wouldn't even made the playoffs, where 372 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: I think they still make it anyway though, based on 373 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: the help they got. Did that happen? I think so 374 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: they could have lost. I think they could have lost 375 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: and still made it, but they couldn't take that chance. 376 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Who's gonna be the quarterback? Is it? 377 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: Definitely Tananeo? Yeah, they're trying to resign Daniel all right, 378 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: and he has no intention of leave him because he knows. 379 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: He said the mother load as far as coaches and 380 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: players in the city for him and his wife, and 381 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: he's gonna be thirty two or three. He's not gonna 382 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: get a long term contract. He might get three years 383 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: or something like that, but it's all about the upfront money. Derry. 384 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: Henry's the one that he wants to start at Ezekiel Elliott, 385 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: and considering the beating he takes and everything, he's not 386 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: gonna get a monster contract. Yeah, it's gonna be tough 387 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: for him. John. Let's rewind a little bit though, back 388 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 1: to Brady for a moment. No question that he's back 389 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: in New England. Well, there's got to be a question 390 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: because if you think about Lex's last season and the 391 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 1: Texans beat them here, the problem was not Brady. They 392 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,719 Speaker 1: didn't have a replace for the gronk, and they tried. 393 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: They were so desperate they brought in Antonio Brown previous year, 394 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: Josh Gordon both beat him in the button. They cut 395 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: him to kill Harry first round hurt. Most of the year. 396 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: They had receivers not Julian Edlman, but others that ran 397 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: wrong routes, drop passes caused interceptions. The offensive line was injured. 398 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: Now Dante Scarnaki, as good as any offensive line coach 399 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: in history, is retired for the second time. I wouldn't 400 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: blame Brady if he wanted to go to say Indianapolis, 401 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: where he got a great line they got In my 402 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: first mock draft, Aaron Wilson. I doing them every Tuesday, 403 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: and our first ones on Texas Sports Nation. I have 404 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: them taking a receiver to play opposite t Y Hilton. 405 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: I am taking Henry Ruggs. Alabama is one of the fastest. 406 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,120 Speaker 1: Can you imagine Paris Campbell, t Y Hilton and Ruggs 407 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: playing with Brady? What's well? So what's the planet quarterback? Though? 408 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 1: For the cults, if it's not, it's gonna be a 409 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: veteran like Rivers or breaking some one of those two guys. 410 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: But and you know Las Vegas, and boy that sounds weird, 411 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yeah, Las Vegas is interested. They got a 412 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: good they got a good office. Can't say Las Vegas. 413 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: You gotta see the Raiders. You can't do the Raiders 414 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: got a good offensive line for the Argers. Say the Chargers, 415 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: and we're about the Chargers. Chargers got good receivers, they 416 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: good running back. They do not they have a good 417 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: offensive one. Brady has got to have a good offensive. 418 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 1: I'm torn about this just as a fan or ain't 419 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: even doing what I do Brady in Indie. Yeah, I 420 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: really don't want to see it because I think the 421 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: upside is just too terrible to consider. But I'll say this, 422 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: and I've mentioned this a few times, I think when 423 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: you're picking the AFC South in twenty twenty, I don't 424 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: know what the culture doing at quarterback, but I assume 425 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: it's gonna be better, right somehow they'll try to make 426 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: it better. Whether it works out or not remains to 427 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: be seen. But on paper, going in, that's gonna be 428 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: a team that a lot of people will pick the 429 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: finish first. Maybe not a ton, but maybe a lot 430 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: of the wrong word. But I think some people will 431 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: certainly say that's a team to watch out for because 432 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: they were going along pretty well. They beat the Texans 433 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: up there. They were going along okay, and they beat 434 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: the Chiefs in Kansas City early, but Brissette got hurt. 435 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: They were never quite the same once they had to 436 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: play Hoyer. Go back to Brissette. If they get it 437 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: straightened out at quarterback, they could be day dress. He 438 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: had one great game and you know it was against 439 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: four touchdowns, one hundred and twenty six raiding and uh, 440 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 1: if they stick with him, and I can't imagine they're 441 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: going to but if they did, I don't think they'd 442 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: be picked to go of the playoffs. But and do that, 443 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: And what about this? They're picking high enough where they 444 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: might could trade up and get a young guy justin 445 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: Herbert or a pea tag of a Lowa. You got 446 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: to you got to see, you know, maybe tag of 447 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,239 Speaker 1: a lower people don't want to take a chance on him, 448 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: and they would And and then there and Rivers or 449 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: Brady or maybe Cam Newton, Derek Carr might be available. Uh, 450 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater to me as the X factor five and 451 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: oh as a starter. I cannot understand Mark why he 452 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: goes five and oh in place some Breeze. And all 453 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: the talk is about Taysom Hill replacing Breeze, not Bridgewater. 454 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: And remember Bridgewater turned down a chance to start for 455 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: the Dolphins last year to come back to New Orleans 456 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: to be groomed as the heir apparent. But they're not 457 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: talking about it. But I would. I would. If I'm 458 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: a team needs a quarterback, I would seriously consider looking 459 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 1: at him. I think Taysom Hill's a hell of a 460 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: football player. I don't know if I'm ready to invest 461 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: in him as my quarterback. And they don't have to 462 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: do it right now because Breeze is still there for 463 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: a while. We'll see how that plays out. I don't 464 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't understand the fascination with him as you're, like 465 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: you said, quarterback, it's fun to watch. He's a he's 466 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: a uh, what's the knife that's got all the swim 467 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: rummy knife player for them. But boy, Drew brees Taysom Hill. 468 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: Drew Brees Taysom Hill. Breeze scares you as Hill as 469 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: a runner, yeah, and as a receiver. Yeah, he's interesting 470 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: to watch, John, what do you have going out of 471 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: the Chronicle. I've got the Sunday column on the Texans 472 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: where they stand in the AFC, and then Aaron Wilson, 473 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: I first mock draft up, and I've got a chat. 474 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: I've got a mailbag that's supposed to Friday morning. And 475 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: thank you very much. As always, it's good to be 476 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: back with you. And we're both fired up about the 477 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: combine and free agents see in the draft. Can't wait. 478 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 1: John McClain, the General from the Houston Chronicle. Up next, 479 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: best defensive play of the year, best run of the 480 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,360 Speaker 1: year with the Oscars On Sunday, We're doing the best 481 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,719 Speaker 1: Dove stuff with DP, Drew and Johnny. It's coming up. 482 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: I'm Texans Radio. Hello Texans and welcome once again to 483 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: Texans All Access. And we're shifting gears here as I 484 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: have three experts with me, and one would be DBC 485 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: do leadwriter Houston Texans dot Com, also Texans TV, Texans Radio, 486 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: John Harris, Texans Sideline reporter, and everything else he does 487 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: because I don't want to say titles anymore. Andrew Doherty 488 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: the face of the Texans. If I'm the voice, he's 489 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: kind of the face. Deshaun Watson and Jji Watter the 490 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: face of the Texans. So they are. Andrew Doty, you're 491 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: the media, the media in house media face of the Texans. 492 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: How I'll go that. I'll go that. Okay, So let's 493 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: do this, folks. We've been doing best of stuff because 494 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: it's the time of year. The oscars aren't the Sunday 495 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: dp's written a series. Is it you writing it? Or 496 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: is everybody contributed? I put my name on it, okay, 497 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: because because you're compiling, because because I can, because I'm 498 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: the one that's inputting it into the website. We're all 499 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: actually we all all of anyone that writes for Houston 500 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: Texans dot com, such as the four of us. I 501 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: wanted to get everyone's opinions right on some of the 502 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 1: best plays of the season, because I think it's an 503 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: interesting discussion. There's a lot of great plays from twenty nineteen, 504 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: a lot of which we've forgotten about since, you know, 505 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: through games, through wins, through losses, with with other bigger plays, 506 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: taking taking presidents, press precedents over the course of the season. 507 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 1: I think it's still the time to sort of reflect 508 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: a little bit on what happened. I know everyone wants 509 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: to move on to the future, and yes we are, 510 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: but it's also good to remember some of the joy 511 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: is in the journey moments. As I wrote in Daily 512 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: Brew on Wednesday, because I was writing about putting together 513 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: the highlight video for the fifty three our video series. 514 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: Tyler Suttarth put that together and it's on Houston Texas 515 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: dot Com all over the places like the NFL Films 516 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: season recap. It's really good. It kind of is I 517 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: kind of I did it in that style a little 518 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: bit when I wrote the script for it, but Tyler 519 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: put together all the highlights. I just I know him 520 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: watching his stuff, and I knew what he was gonna 521 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: do with it. I just felt it, so I just 522 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: wrote him a bunch of stuff and recorded it and 523 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: he built the video around it, and it's it's his video. 524 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm just sort of I tried to be John for 525 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: something like Dave Chappelle talking about his punch lines, like 526 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: I'm so good, I can take the punch line and 527 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: fit the joke in and you'll never know. I No, 528 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: he's so good he can take whatever I say and 529 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: make it into video matches. I'm not going to tell 530 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: you what. I'll pass on the credit anyway. He was 531 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: so Mark Vannimer just compared his own self to the 532 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: Chapelle game. I really did it. But did you did? 533 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: You guys do best catches? All right? So you did 534 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: best catches? And I wrote in the yeah, Jordan Nakin's 535 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: fifty three yard catch and run against the Chargers. And look, 536 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: there are some obvious ones, like what's the play of 537 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: the year. Is it Watson versus Buffalo or Watson with 538 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: the I kick one of those? Right? But that was 539 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 1: what categories did the best reception? Yeah, okay, that went 540 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: in there, but where where? So we haven't done play 541 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: of the year yet. Well, we're gonna do best catch. 542 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: We're gonna do best We did best catch, best best run. 543 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 1: We're gonna do best defensive plays. Best runs already out there, 544 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,360 Speaker 1: and best defensive play is getting it's published now, right, 545 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: so we have that up there. So we've got a few, 546 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: all right, So let's catch up here. You did the 547 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: catches the other day. Let's go to best runs. What 548 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: was yours, Johnny, Well, I didn't think about it, as 549 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: when I think about running with the ball, there's one 550 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: thing that stands out, and that is Taiwan Jones against Buffalo, 551 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: because when he catches that football against Buffalo, it's like 552 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: run forrest, run like go. And I mean there were 553 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: there were some really good runs. In fact, I saw 554 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: some of the I saw y'all's responses to it, and 555 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: I went, I totally forgot about one and in that 556 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: Buffalo game that was exceptional. Carlos Hides run against Jacksonville 557 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: in London, not the one that he fumbled the goal, 558 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: but the one that sort of broke it open. Yeah, yeah, 559 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,479 Speaker 1: the forty eight yard that kind of got it down 560 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: there to the duke scored in a few plays later. 561 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: But Taiwan Jones catches that ball and then it's just 562 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: like run, yes, and he just takes off and he 563 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: runs season when I saw best run, I thought of that. 564 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: And he catches that ball and there's so much green 565 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: grass to the inside and he just takes off. Mike 566 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: High misses him and then he's just flying. And that 567 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: to me, when I think about running, that was the 568 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: one that stood out because it was like, just you know, 569 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: run like you stole it, as they said, and he 570 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: just took off and ended up getting down inside the 571 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: ten yard line. So to me, that was the best 572 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: run was Taiwan Jones run after the catch? Okay, so 573 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: you qualified it that way, Yeah, which, by the way, 574 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: best catch of twenty nineteen. Wouldn't that be the best catch? Also, 575 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: we all sort of missed on that, but hang on, 576 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: but a catch sures was Akins. That was the easiest 577 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: thing in the whole play, the catch. Yeah, yeah, I 578 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: know it was technically at I know it was technically 579 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,959 Speaker 1: he looking at sort of the big You could look 580 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: at it both ways. You could say, well, it was 581 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: physically the best catch. What catch came in the biggest 582 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: moment of a game or change the court? I mean 583 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: understand that's what That's the great part of it is. 584 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: It's it's subjective. I'm just playing heavy beauties in the eye. 585 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: You could say best play in which a reception was made, right, yes, 586 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: or best player, best run after whatever. I just say, 587 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: whoever got the ball, however they got it Taiwan Jones. Okay, 588 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: next year, Yeah, next year, we can do best run 589 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: after the catch, best run after the run rule because 590 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: he's got to split hairs. No, I just I thought 591 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: that was because for the catch. For me, it was 592 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. It was technically a catch and it was 593 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: a tremendous Actually it was tremendous catch. He caught it 594 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: with one hand before you got on the hand. Well 595 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: you you could, you could do the best run after 596 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: an interception. Whinney merciless. I mean he was huffing and puffing, 597 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: but he got there. He but to Sean Gibson actually 598 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: got to the end zone. So you got to give 599 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: that one in there. Same with Bradley Roby too. Think 600 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: about that. That's that's a beauty of these segments that's 601 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: brought through. What was yours my best run? Well, you 602 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: guys took the other two that I wanted because you 603 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: took the London one and you took the what did 604 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: you take? You took? Were just unveiling surprises. Whatever, what 605 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: do you what do you have? You get yours? That's 606 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: want to make sure you present, to make sure people 607 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: don't think that I chose this first, because I didn't. 608 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: But what do you think I was gonna choose Aikins 609 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: catch first? Well, you just compared yourself praising the play 610 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: and yet tearing it down at the same time. I 611 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: love that play, but come on, I mean hot to 612 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: me Hopkins by the way, just to go back to 613 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: catch for a minute. Hopkins is always It's like Michael 614 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: Jordan when he was winning ranks like Who's second for 615 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: the m v P, you know, or Tiger Woods when 616 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: he was doing It's one of those things you should 617 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: have finished second because d hop is the catch master. Anyway, 618 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: go on, what's run? My my run that I chose 619 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: happened in London and happened late. The game is in hand, right, 620 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: I mean you were just you're celebrating at this point 621 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: and the Texans are knocking on the door inside the 622 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: five and Deshaun Watson takes off to his right, jumps 623 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: up and basically looks like Michael Jordan on the you know, 624 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: the jumpman logo. The Jordan shoes logo, and I thought 625 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: he scored a touchdown. I was standing next to this guy, 626 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: Johnny on the sidelines, on the opposite sideline. I was like, 627 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: how that what huh? And they said he. I guess 628 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: he was just shy the goal line or whatever, and 629 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: maybe it was so late and so out of hand. 630 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, let's just keep playing. But that was 631 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: that was the run for me. I thought that was 632 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: so much fun because afterwards and right in the aftermath 633 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: of it, people were putting it side by side with 634 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: the Jordan logo, and it was so cool because he 635 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: was compared by his head coach at Clemson, Debo Sweeney, 636 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: to Michael Jordan, and that was just such a fun, 637 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: fun trip, fun fun game. It was cool the aftermath 638 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: of it because on the next play, it's uh, you know, 639 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: second and one second and an inch and he hits 640 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins and Hopkins is able to go celebrate, jump 641 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: into the basically jump into the stands with the fans 642 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: and he high fived all those fans. It had traveled 643 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: over there and traveled from Italy, Denmark, all over Europe 644 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: to see the Texans. But it was fun. It was 645 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: just a cool time, so I went with the Jordan 646 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: jump Man Watson run. Very cool, dB, what do you have? 647 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: You took the London screws and Drew didn't unveil all 648 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: of our play. Mine was actually Deshawn's a twenty yard 649 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: touchdown run against Buffalo in the wildcard game. Because down 650 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: sixteen nothing at the end of the third quarter, it 651 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: seemed like the Texans finally we're in the red zone. 652 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,239 Speaker 1: But why could they did not score? They were just 653 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: struggling offensively all game long. And then Watson just like 654 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: powers through on this play. And I thought the best 655 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: part of the touchdown run was the fact that it 656 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: wasn't even like he was unobstructed. He was totally obstructed, 657 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: but he just had these Bills defenders. It's like he 658 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: was wearing them like backpacks into the end zone, like 659 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: he was just determined to get into the end zone. 660 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: So they score that and then he leads. He follows 661 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: it up with a two point conversion to the same 662 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: side of the end zone, and just like that, you 663 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: go from sixteen nothing to a one possession gamel and 664 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: the air just went out of the Bills fans in 665 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: the building and the Bills players. Remember we did that 666 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: augmented highlight with de Hop and Spinner rama, you know, 667 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: and and when he's he's spentning dirty dancing stage and 668 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: he spent what were some of the other ones he 669 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: was doing. Yeah, all that stuff you could have done 670 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: Watson with like people loading stuff up on you know him, 671 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: he could have had it like he just carried two 672 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: bills into the end zone and he carried his football 673 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: team on his back. I mean, yeah, you could have 674 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: all the Texans on there. You know. Just that was 675 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: a tremendous I think that is actually the run of 676 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: the year. If you have to come up with the 677 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: gold medal, that's the run of the year considering what 678 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: it meant what you were going through at the time. 679 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: You know, wat had the big sack to create the sparks, 680 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: as they put it. But Watson's run got him on 681 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: the board and got him going. And I'm glad you 682 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: brought up the London thing about the Michael Jordan pose 683 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: because to me, he loves this. He loves trying to 684 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: find that pylon, you know. I know he grew up 685 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: watching Michael Vick and all the great plays he made, 686 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: uh doing similar things, and Watson just enjoys going into 687 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: the air. You know, he likes to take to the 688 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: air and see where it takes it. Now, it's so 689 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,879 Speaker 1: counterintuitive to what you traditionally want out of your quarterback, Like, yeah, 690 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,439 Speaker 1: you want your quarterback to be able to run every 691 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: once in a while. But but but it gives you a 692 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,959 Speaker 1: heart attack when it's late and you're down the whole 693 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: bunch and you're getting clubbed by the bill the Broncos. Yea, 694 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: the one against Denver in London. Uh, just ever, only 695 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: one come from New Orleans. That was the one. I 696 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: was actually fresh in my mind. Um because he as 697 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,919 Speaker 1: he's he gets oh man hurt his tailbone? Oh my good, 698 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: just to think of it, he's the only one comes 699 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: opening night. We're thinking, oh my gosh, is he hurt. 700 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: It's opening night, you can't be hurt. There are a 701 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,320 Speaker 1: few minutes of the press box deep and I were like, 702 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: oh my god, this is something sideline. Which one did 703 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,280 Speaker 1: you come up with? All right, here's mine? And again 704 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 1: I don't think it's the run. I think the run 705 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: of the year is the twenty yarder against Buffalo in 706 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 1: the playoffs. But the one in London where he it's 707 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 1: technically a run. See Johnny I stuck to the criteria. 708 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: Here where he passes backward as he's going down another 709 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: Watson escape, if you will, but this time it's a 710 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: throw escape and now he gets out of a sack himself. 711 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: He throws it backwards to Carlos Hides and he actually 712 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 1: says los like here it is like you're playing with 713 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 1: your friends, you know, Hey, heads up, Here comes the 714 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,919 Speaker 1: ball and Lose catches it. And it's only a seven 715 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: yard catch and run, but or lateral if you will. 716 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,439 Speaker 1: But it resulted in the first down and it got 717 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: them going. And I think that those little plays sometimes 718 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,759 Speaker 1: means so much because it's not that you made it 719 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: seven yards it's a first down, it was a second 720 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: down play. It's what if you didn't make that? Yeah, 721 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,839 Speaker 1: well what if you don't make these plays? Had been 722 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: the ref for that game, Yeah, blakeman, and then you 723 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,279 Speaker 1: get a fifteen yard penalty for something clip Blake, But 724 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: who loves me? Yeah? And now you got CORRECTI he 725 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: let that play go. I talked to him about that 726 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: before the game. That was that was a that's a 727 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: good one and technically a run. Okay, give it to you. 728 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: So mine wasn't technically a run, but we understand and 729 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: I think you're right though, by the way, because that 730 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones play it was so huge because he made 731 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: sure well, he made sure he got as far as 732 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: he could. But that play made sure that the field 733 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: goal was gonna have very little drama. You know, it's 734 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: not like a forty five yard or oh you know 735 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: we're on the edge of range or you know, close 736 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 1: to it anyway and you're sweating it out. This was 737 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,279 Speaker 1: a chipper and he made it. Not no guarantees, but 738 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: he made it. Okay, defensive player of the year. Who 739 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: wants to go first with the defensive player of the 740 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 1: Year first? All right? I since I I think I 741 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 1: mean again, they all probably agreed that there's one or 742 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,240 Speaker 1: two head and shoulders above the rest, but we spread 743 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: about go ahead. I was gonna pick one because when 744 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: I did out through eleven, it actually ended number two 745 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 1: on my ultimate eleven Plays of the Year. Number one 746 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 1: was the Watson. This is what I did it before 747 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: the playoffs. This is just for the regular season. Number 748 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: one was the Hopkins the Watson touchdown against New England. 749 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: Number two I put a play that I don't think 750 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 1: any of us picked, but I felt like I was 751 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,439 Speaker 1: leaving that on the table for you guys. So when 752 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: I wrote mine, I decided that the defensive play of 753 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:18,320 Speaker 1: the year was Bradley Roby's interception against the Patriots. And 754 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,759 Speaker 1: I went back to driving home that night, which I 755 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,879 Speaker 1: guess was early Monday morning by the time we got 756 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,720 Speaker 1: out of here, and I just remember driving home, thinking, 757 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: we just finally beat the Patriots. Yeah, we finally beat 758 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: these SOPs finally. And I'm not totally sure that it 759 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,880 Speaker 1: happens unless Bradley makes an interception, because the Patriots came 760 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: right down and kicked the fuel goal. We didn't do 761 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,160 Speaker 1: anything punting it back to him. But we get him 762 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,680 Speaker 1: in a third and sixth situation, and Roby's in his 763 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 1: first game back, and he makes one heck of a 764 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 1: player man coverage. I've tellustrated that, I think three or 765 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 1: four times, so I've seen his cover and it's brilliant 766 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: and he just darts in front and you think it's 767 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: gonna be a pick six and he goes down and 768 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god. Then I got worried 769 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: because I was like, oh my god, they're not gonna 770 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 1: score on this Strather. They got to kick a fuel goal. 771 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: That's gonna be a huge win for the Patriots. Then 772 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: there's a penalty. He hits Watson hits Duke Johnson for 773 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,960 Speaker 1: the touchdown, and you're like, oh man, that was that 774 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,480 Speaker 1: was it. That started it for a win over the Patriots, 775 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 1: something that we hadn't done in ten years something. And 776 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 1: I was like, I've been on the sidelines for fifteen 777 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 1: twice in sixteen seventeen eighteen. I was like, that's five 778 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: miserable afternoons and evenings against those guys, and we finally 779 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 1: got one. And the key was to me that Brad 780 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: the Robe interception, that's huge, good play, grow the wat 781 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: sack Buffalo Okaya down thirteen nothing, They're about to make 782 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: it twenty nothing. They're on the twelve and it was 783 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,919 Speaker 1: gonna be pretty pretty tough after that. What comes through 784 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,359 Speaker 1: gets the sack, drops him for a loss of eight, 785 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,480 Speaker 1: and then he goes crazy celebrate, I mean just crazy. 786 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: So I mean, I think the play itself would have 787 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 1: gotten the crowd juiced and excited, but he kind of 788 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 1: whipped it up into a frenzy and everybody in that 789 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: building was quite aking from that point on through the 790 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: end of regulation into overtime. We all aged about thirty 791 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:11,080 Speaker 1: five years and what um, you know, all his teammates 792 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,280 Speaker 1: said it, that was a spark, and then Deshaun Watson 793 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,399 Speaker 1: lit the fire, so it was that was a play 794 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: of the year for me. Defensively, I love how the 795 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 1: players came off the bench and they patting him on 796 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,920 Speaker 1: the back. I think everyone just knew everything that he'd 797 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,360 Speaker 1: gone through those past few months and the injury, and 798 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 1: how much it meant to him, not just to be 799 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:29,560 Speaker 1: back on the field for the game, but to have 800 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,240 Speaker 1: a play like that, to be back to be contributing 801 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:33,959 Speaker 1: the way he did. That is why he came back. 802 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 1: He even said so afterwards, He's like, this is why 803 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,319 Speaker 1: we come back for moments like that. The one thing 804 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 1: that stands out to me that I'll never forget. It 805 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,359 Speaker 1: was a third down play and I just remember Dre 806 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:47,000 Speaker 1: saying on the broadcast, I cannot emphasize enough how important 807 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: it is to keep the bills out of the ends. 808 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: Old like he says it right before the play, and 809 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,120 Speaker 1: I was just like a man, and then what makes 810 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,400 Speaker 1: the play? I don't think we thought about it because 811 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,880 Speaker 1: I remember in years passed you said that hey, JJ's 812 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: time to make a play like you did that fourteen once. 813 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 1: I was like, then he went and made a huge play, 814 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: ran fumble back against the colt. I don't think we 815 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 1: had that thought of JJ making a play, but we're 816 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,719 Speaker 1: just like, somebody's got to make a play. And Dre 817 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,640 Speaker 1: just verbalized, please just keep the mind of the end zone. 818 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,720 Speaker 1: Keep mind of the end zone. You've got a shot. 819 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,359 Speaker 1: Even though you guys both said there's three scores when 820 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,840 Speaker 1: you only needed I did up. That's a different point altogether. 821 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: You know what that was the psychological thing. Johnny was 822 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 1: extra win and it was a psychological thing. It really was, 823 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: because I was like, there's no way that yes you did. 824 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: You got two touches and two twos, and there you 825 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,840 Speaker 1: were with actually, no, you did. You got the touchdown, 826 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,040 Speaker 1: then he and the two point and then he got 827 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: the field goal. So it was three scores that you need. 828 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: Not everybody get it that you needed to take the lead. 829 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 1: That's what I meant, That's what you meant, That's what 830 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 1: I meant. Got all right? I got Week two justin 831 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: read the stop at the two point conversion. I know 832 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: it's not in the playoffs, but I felt like that 833 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,239 Speaker 1: play in that moment of the game, had had they 834 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,319 Speaker 1: not stopped the Jags, and let's say the Jags had won, 835 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: I think it could have altered the course of a 836 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: lot of different things. I feel like that could have 837 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 1: been like the butterfly effect, because last year I just 838 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,719 Speaker 1: remember starting a win three with the locker room, was like, 839 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,239 Speaker 1: how how hard and insurmountable that was to come out 840 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,520 Speaker 1: of and then to lose on the last play the game. 841 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,279 Speaker 1: Back to back weeks and it's the Jaguars, and then 842 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 1: you think about the playoff implications, like Deshaun Watson would 843 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,400 Speaker 1: not have gotten that rest week in week seventeen, and 844 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: what if you're on the road for the PA as 845 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,279 Speaker 1: opposed to be could have been worse than that you 846 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: would you would have seen Taiwan Jones either, And if 847 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: Jones week seventeen, do you see him in the playoff game? 848 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,359 Speaker 1: You might haven't even made it as a wild card. 849 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,279 Speaker 1: Very interesting of any play really that I feel like 850 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:51,520 Speaker 1: that's write it down offseason shows. Butterfly one little add 851 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 1: on to that. So that was on a Sunday. The 852 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,239 Speaker 1: next day I talked with Mike Leach ar Old pal Yeah, 853 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: and he were chit chatting on the phone and Minshew, 854 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,439 Speaker 1: his quarterback, was dicing the Texans up there late. Yeah, 855 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,960 Speaker 1: and he said, I still don't understand why they gave 856 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: the ball to Fournette when Minshew was doing what he 857 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:14,000 Speaker 1: was doing. True, mine's pretty easy. It's the Whitney pick off, 858 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,720 Speaker 1: the deflection read with the hit on first Sir, Whitney 859 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,320 Speaker 1: runs an eighty six yards, sets up the opening score, 860 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: first score of the game in the second quarter between 861 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 1: the Texans and Titans, and I must have game, guys. 862 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 1: Takes a lot for the time. Thanks Mark, all right, 863 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,640 Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for the show today. I want 864 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: to thank you for listen, Nick, thank you to the 865 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,000 Speaker 1: General for being on as well. We'll be back tomorrow 866 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,720 Speaker 1: at six with more Texans Radio, maybe the best plays 867 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,520 Speaker 1: of the year, maybe something else. We'll set you up 868 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,399 Speaker 1: later and I'll be at six ten by the way, 869 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,120 Speaker 1: between eight and nine tomorrow morning with Wade Smith and 870 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: Cecil Shorts. Have a great night and go Texans.