1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into her Wednesday edition of 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: am your host for this Seve Nick John Harris, football 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: anials sideline reporter celebrating December fifteenth, my twenty sixth wedding anniversary. Yes, 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: I know, I don't look a day past twenty nine. 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: But back on December fifteenth, nineteen ninety five, in Orange 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: Park floorage outside of Jacksonville, where we are going this weekend. 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: By the way, it was this weekend twenty six years ago. Man, 9 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: I wish we get that weather that we got that weekend, 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: But Paige Williams said, I do became Page. Harris and 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: I have been insanely happy for the last twenty six 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: years and hopefully they'll be twenty six plus more with 13 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: the love of my life. So love her. Wanted to 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: make sure I started the show with that because I 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: get talking football and God only knows what I'll say 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: along the way that'll embarrass her, because I know she's 17 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: probably out there driving around listening. Know what I just 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: said about her? It's totally embarrassed. That's okay, It's all right, 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: A little bit embarrassed. I embarrassed myself pretty much every 20 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: single day, so that's okay. It's cool. So on the 21 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: show this evening, we're gonna go behind enemy sidelines with 22 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: a good friend Deep City. And because it's Jacksonville Week, 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's JP Shatterick. He covers the Jacks or 24 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com. He's a senior team reporter. He's also 25 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: a play by play voice four Touchdown Radio. So he 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: called the Alabama Auburn game I think earlier this year. 27 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: He's called some pretty good games this year in college football. 28 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: So I don't know if d people get into that, 29 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: but some great stuff from JP Shatterck. Then we will 30 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: go men behind the mics. Two of my very good friends. 31 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: Obviously Mark Vanimer I work with on a daily basis. 32 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: He has become a great, great friend and a dear friend. 33 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: But Frank Frangie is as well. I've known Frank with 34 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: the Jacksonville back in nineteen ninety four. Frank is the 35 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: voice of the Jacksonville Jaguars. So we will go men 36 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: behind the mics all later in the show, and we 37 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: got a little in the lab with Drew Doherty with me. 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: We talked about this game this offense. What we'd like 39 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: to see change some of the things that we're seeing. 40 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that in our in the lab segment. 41 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: We obviously got around the NFL. There's a lot happening 42 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: in the NFL, and unfortunately that five letter word is 43 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: pumping back up again. COVID. Boy, it's tough, and we 44 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: got some news about that with the Texans, and we 45 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: will get there in just a little bit. But we 46 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: kick off every Wednesday show with the general manager of 47 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: your Houston Texans, Nick Cassario, And for some reason we 48 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: got to talking about sleep and how important it actually is. 49 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: Here's Nick with myself and Mark. Let's go joining us 50 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: right now Texans Radio. It's Texans general manager Nick Casserio. Nick, 51 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: great to see how you doing? All right, great to 52 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: see it. Now let's talk about Davis Mills for a moment. 53 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: Here gets to start on Sunday throws for over three 54 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: hundred yards. What did you see that you liked and 55 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: what needs work moving forward? Nick? Yeah, offensively, we're able 56 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: to get off to a decent start, you know, scoring 57 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: the first drive, so you know, overall execution was good. 58 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: Um had some success as a team, you know in 59 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: the first half and the second half maybe not as consistent, 60 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: you know as we would have liked to think from 61 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: the quarterback position. You know, the one thing that we 62 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: always talk about is take care of the football. So 63 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: took care of the football. You know, made decision, pretty 64 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: good decisions for the most part. Was able to get 65 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: the ball you know, out on time. You know, could 66 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: have done a little bit better job in a pocket, 67 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: you know, some of the movement and just kind of 68 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: have a better sense of the rush and feel around him. 69 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: But you know, overall, you know, we move them all 70 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: offensively in the first half, second half, you know, kind 71 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: of hit some rough spots and you know, at the 72 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: end of the game was trying to make up some grounds, 73 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: so you know, making progress, but in the end it 74 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: wasn't good enough. Nickling all, how important is that you 75 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: have a guy like Brandon Cooks Obviously goes out and 76 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: he's a tremendous player, but just how hard he plays 77 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, thirty seconds left down, thirty three thirteen. Yet 78 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: he's right for every John importon is to have a 79 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: guy like that. Yeah, it really just speaks to who 80 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: Brandon is as a person. You know, we talk about 81 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: you know, Obviously everybody sees what happens on the football 82 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: field and looks at him as football players, but you know, 83 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: a lot of the individuals and a lot of the players, 84 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: it's about who they are as people and what the 85 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: what they do on a day to day basis. So 86 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: we have a lot of people that are emblematic of that, 87 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: that have the core values and principles that are important, 88 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: I would say to this program and team as we're 89 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: trying to build this out. But you know, Brandon's been 90 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: that way since he's been in the league. I mean, honestly, 91 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: he was that way going back to Oregon State. You 92 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: know when he came out of Oregon State. Like his personality, 93 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: his demeanor quite frankly, they haven't really changed. So, I 94 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: mean it's been consistent for however long he's been in 95 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: the league. So it speaks to him as a person 96 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: who he is and how much he cares about football, 97 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: and you know, it sends a great message to you know, 98 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: the rest of the team. Well, he's the OG of 99 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: the playmakers on the offense. Nick and when you see 100 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: Brevin Jordan getting his third touchdown reception, when you see 101 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: Nico continuing to make catches we mentioned Mills, what do 102 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: you want to see out of the young guys in 103 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: these next few games here to close out twenty twenty one. 104 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: I think it's important just for everybody just to try 105 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,239 Speaker 1: to make progress and continue to make improvement in areas, 106 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is, your particular position you play, 107 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: in the skills that you have. I think the biggest 108 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: thing for a player is consistency week to week. So 109 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: you want to be able to maintain that over the 110 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: course of a long duration of time. So you don't 111 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: want to see it one week and then next week 112 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: it's not as good. And it's not necessarily about touches, 113 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: their catches, their production. Maybe they're doing it in some 114 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: other ways that they haven't understanding the assignment. They haven't 115 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: understanding the opponent, So just their overall I would say 116 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: knowledge base and understanding of football and realizing that each 117 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: week's a different entity. So the opponent this week, so 118 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: how Jacksonville plays, how their corners play, how their secondary plays, 119 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: how their linebackers play, is different than the way Seattle plays. 120 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: So being able to understand that, being able to apply 121 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: that once you go through the week and understand it, 122 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: those are the things that you're looking for, and it's 123 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: just overall growth and development from one day to the next, 124 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: one week to the next, and it's really just about 125 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: stacking as many days on top of each other as 126 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: possib Jacksonville week one, Jacksonville week fourteen. We've seen division opponents. 127 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: I mean we saw the Colts, you know, both games 128 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: in between. The span of that thirteen weeks is a 129 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: long time and we've probably seen changes on our team. 130 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: How are they changed from week one week fourteen, Nick, Yeah, 131 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: it's interesting when you look at their team, they haven't 132 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: had a lot of I would they've had some changes, 133 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: but they haven't had a lot of changes. So when 134 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: you look at how they're playing defense on the defensive 135 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: side of the ball, like the group that's playing the 136 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: front seven, and then even in the secondary. You know, 137 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: other than they added laws in here kind of made 138 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: way through the year. Actually get coincided with the Henderson trade, 139 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: so they added Lawson, so he's kind of given them 140 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: some death. But they've gotten pretty good play from Campbell 141 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: from the from the beginning of the year until now, 142 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,239 Speaker 1: so he's done a nice job. And the perimeter Griffin 143 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: has kind of been there for every snap you know, 144 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: it's safety. They kind of you know, Jenkins has been 145 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: you know, a steadying force I would say all year, 146 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: and it say it's interesting with him. You know, he's 147 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: a guy plays ninety percent or whatever it is, leaser 148 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: team and special teams, tackled so just to talks about, 149 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: like I would say, his commitment to the team. So 150 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: and wing guard has taken a bigger role on in 151 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: the secondary. In the linebackers is still a problem. You 152 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: know Jack is you know, probably he's a good a 153 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: linebacker that will face Wilson has done a good job. 154 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: So when you look at their actual defensive configuration, they 155 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: haven't necessarily had a lot of personnel changes. The same 156 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: thing on the offensive side of the ball, and Trevor 157 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: started every game they've had. Really their changes have come 158 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: on a perimeter um at the receiver position. You know, 159 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: Law had Agnew lost Agnew had Shark lost Shark. So 160 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: a guy like Treadwell has actually stepped up and made 161 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: the most of his opportunity here when quite frankly, not 162 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: sure anybody had expected that. But you know, Tredy's been 163 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: in the league a long time and he's taken advantage 164 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: of some opportunities. You know, Jones's been there from the beginning, 165 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: so any offensive line for the most part has kind 166 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: of been impact. You know, the running back position, those 167 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: Hide and Robinson you know been there from the beginning, 168 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: and Dare has his role in the kicking game. So 169 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: a lot of the people are the same. They've you know, 170 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: had to make some modifications and changes as they've gone 171 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: and to a certain extent, they've kind of experienced some 172 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: of the same things that we have. And they've had 173 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: some good moments. They've had some you know games where 174 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: they played well it had some other games they haven't 175 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: played as well. So you know, it's really an opportunity 176 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: for both team this week to go out there and 177 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: you know, execute against a new opponent. Nick, we talked 178 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: about Davis Mills a little bit. It's a rookie quarterback 179 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: matchup this week, and we talked about some of the 180 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: other rookies. With rookies, you know, traditionally we've talked about 181 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: this rookie wall that can happen during a season, but 182 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: you guys have so much technology now with everything they're 183 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: wearing in and out of the building and on the 184 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: practice field and during games. Have you been able to 185 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: analyze rookie walls in general and see that they actually 186 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: do exist, or how do you gauge that. No, it's 187 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: an interesting concept as far as the technology is concerned. Really, 188 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: what I would say most teams are probably doing with 189 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: that technology is just measuring the loading of their team 190 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: on a week to week basis, to see the level 191 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: of exertion, to see some of the things that go 192 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: on on a practice field, to see if you have 193 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: a big spike from one week to the next. So 194 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: then take that information and if you have to modify 195 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: maybe some of the things that you do during the 196 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: course of the week in order to get your team 197 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: to Sunday. Ultimately, that's the most important thing. But as 198 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: it pertains to young players and rookie players, the biggest 199 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: difference is just the sheer volume. So we've played thirteen 200 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: regular season games, three preseason games, so it's sixteen games. 201 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: So for those players in particular, they've had essentially two seasons, 202 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: so they've had maybe a modify or adjust kind of 203 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 1: their process and realize, Okay, the season's not over, you know, 204 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: in the middle of December, so we have another month. 205 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 1: So this is where the importance of their routine. What 206 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: you do on a daily basis, how you prepare the 207 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: nutrients and the food that you put into your body, 208 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: the fuel that you put in your body affects your 209 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: performance on the field. Your performance on the field is 210 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: impacted by some of the things you do in strength 211 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: and development. So the biggest thing in the messaging is 212 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: it's all tied together. So the more consistent you can 213 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: be with that, the more you can develop and evolve 214 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: that over the course of the year. That's going to 215 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to hopefully make it to the 216 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: end of the year and be productive and stay healthy. 217 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: So I would say with our rookies, Wallow is a 218 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: good example of a player who's actually he's gotten stronger, 219 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: he's actually gotten faster, He's modified his routine throughout the 220 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: course of the year, has been very receptive to the 221 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: information that we've provided to him, and you know, it's 222 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: turned into i would say, fairly productive performance over the 223 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: course of the year. In a kicking game and then 224 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: he had an opportunity to play defensively there on Sunday, 225 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: he's gotten a few more reps just given where we 226 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: were linebackers. So a lot of this is just preparing 227 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: your mind, preparing your body, and utilizing the resources that 228 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 1: we have in the building that are ample that we're 229 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 1: here to serve the players. Those people are here in 230 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: the various departments, they're here to serve the players. So 231 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: the resources are here, so take advantage of them and 232 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: use them wisely. There's one extra game this year, and 233 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: Nick in the regular season up to seventeen, did that 234 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: And has that factored into all those things you talked 235 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: about about. I don't want to use the words and 236 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: loads management, but whatever the case might be. But has 237 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: that one game of Okay, this is an extra long 238 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: your regular season, we've never played seventeen games before. Has 239 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: that got off factored in the way you look at 240 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: things or No? Not necessarily, John, you know, going from 241 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 1: sixteen to seventeen games, I would say, it's just one 242 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: more game, it's one more week of whatever. When you 243 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: look at basketball, maybe you know they have eighty two games, 244 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: so when they're playing one, you know, three four nights, 245 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: you know, back to back, and then they're off and 246 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: they're playing again, maybe that has a little bit more relevance. 247 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: But I'd say some of the things that we're doing 248 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: and some of the things that other teams in the 249 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: league are doing have probably really started to take speed 250 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: catch some pace here over the last you know, probably 251 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: a couple of years. I think teams are more cognizant 252 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: of it, and a lot of it is just to 253 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: making sure that their athletes are in the best position 254 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 1: to go out there and optimize their performance on Sunday. Yeah, 255 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: have you had over time and I would imagine there's 256 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: probably been a player somewhere I was just like, look, 257 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: just give me this Sunday. Just give me this Sunday. 258 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: I can be ready to go on Sunday. Well, when 259 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: I get the week fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, I'm not 260 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: gonna be able to practice, but I can be there 261 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: on Sunday. I could be ready to go. If you 262 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: had situations like that, and when you did, or if 263 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: you did, how did that sort of play throughout the team? 264 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: Did they kind of understand it? Hey, we know we 265 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: need this guy on Sunday, so that means you don't practice. 266 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: We got to deal with it. You've ever had this situation. 267 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: Every player's different. A lot of this comes down to communication, 268 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: and you know, a player that has more experience than 269 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: a younger player maybe you're more receptive to what he's 270 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: telling you. But I think what you're finding is, well, 271 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: we can we have data that can actually back up 272 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: maybe how you think you're feeling, so that if you 273 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 1: can communicate that information and then show it to them honestly, 274 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: once you actually show them, then they come to realization 275 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: and go, okay, that makes some sense. So a lot 276 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: of this is communication, a lot is actually taking the information, 277 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: and really, I think sometimes players are sort of hesitant 278 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 1: to sort of buy into or listen to that, but 279 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: the reality is it's to their benefit. We're actually trying 280 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: to help them. So once you look at it through 281 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: that lens and perspective, it's a lot of a little 282 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: bit easier. You do have to be careful of Okay, 283 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: not going to practice all week, but then I'm gonna 284 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: be ready to go on Sunday. Practice matters. Practice is important, 285 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: the timing, the execution and just being able to go 286 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: through those repetitions and practice. So practice does make a difference. 287 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: Practice is important. If you can figure out a way 288 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: to manage those players within the context of finds off 289 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: your practice, then that's okay. But I think this whole 290 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: idea of all right, you know, I'm not going to 291 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: do anything all week and then be ready to go 292 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,599 Speaker 1: on Sunday. Your body is not built that way, so 293 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 1: you're probably going to have an adverse effect or adverse 294 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,719 Speaker 1: reaction or something else is going to happen that we're 295 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: not even talking about. So depending on the player, think 296 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: you just have to be really careful about just kind 297 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: of you know, coming to that conclusion and taking that 298 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: leap of faith. All right, this might be a longer conversation, 299 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,239 Speaker 1: but how do you guys handle sleep and the direction 300 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,599 Speaker 1: of how much sleep they should get as players? And 301 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna layer on something else coaches too, Nick, Coaches 302 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: need to sleep, No, Mark, It's it's an excellent point. 303 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: So not to get into a big like nutritional exercise pascussion, 304 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: but it's all related. Yeah, sleep, how much time you 305 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: give your body to recover the fuel that you put 306 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: into your body, and then the activity how much that 307 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: is in duration, all matters and all factors in So 308 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: each person is wired differently, Like we're all wired differently. 309 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: How much we need you know, some of us can 310 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: survive on less sleep and not have you know, ill effects. 311 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: Other people need more sleep because they're trying to regulate 312 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: their body. But we you know, we've sleep is important. 313 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: We've talked to the players about sleep and we have 314 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: ways to educate them about their sleep patterns and what 315 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 1: they can do or if they're having troubles sleeping. Some 316 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: people don't even know have sleep apnet right they're up 317 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: in the middle of the night or hey, I'm waking 318 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. Okay, well then 319 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: you do kind of a sleep analysis, like okay, what 320 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: are some of the factors that can into it? You know, 321 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: what are you eating after a certain hour? Are you 322 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: putting certain things into your body? You know, we spend 323 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: a lot of time on that in New England as well. 324 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: So athletes need sleep, they need recovery time because they 325 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: tax their body, i would say, very rigorously during the 326 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: course of the week. So you can't you know, be 327 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: ready to play and feel fresh if you're not giving 328 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: your body a chance to recover. So sleep, what goes 329 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: into your body, your nutrition, the recovery action that you 330 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: take during the course of the week. Combine that with 331 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: your practice. It all factors into it. Absolutely. When you 332 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: think back Nick too, when you got into the league 333 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: and the information that you guys had then versus what 334 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: you have now, I'd imagine it's night and day. But 335 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: could you ever haven't imagined when you got in the 336 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: league that you would be able to analyze the sleep, 337 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: analyze what they eat, analyze their miles per hour at practice? 338 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: That difference it's not a big difference in time, but 339 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: yet I would imagine it was sort of when you 340 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: look back, like, man, how did we even do these 341 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: things back then? Yeah? He just go off of the 342 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: resources and the information to have available at that time. 343 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: So a lot of this is a credit to the 344 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: technology that's evolved and grown over time. So there this 345 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: is a credit to what goes on and whether it's 346 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: in Silicon Valley or a number of different entities that 347 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: have provided technology. Now, I think what you have to 348 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: be careful of is just trying everything and saying, okay, 349 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: we're going to implement that. So if there's a particular reason, 350 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: you've really researched it and studied it and said, you 351 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: know what, this is something that can help us. Here's 352 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: what it tells us. It Really it goes back to 353 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: the why, like why are we doing it? Why are 354 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: the players using it? What's the tangible benefit. And look, 355 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: there's a thousand things that are out there, from fitbit 356 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: to whoop band to whatever. Is one better than the other? 357 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure, but at the time, going 358 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: back to you know, when I started the league, you know, 359 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: we didn't have those things available, but you train the 360 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: athletes and there were certain ways that you can measure 361 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: some of their recovery and you can look at them 362 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: in a training room and just make sure they're healthy. 363 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: Now we have more things available, there's more resources and 364 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: more people that you're allocated towards that, and really it's 365 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: with the idea of trying to provide the player as 366 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: much information as possible because actually, if you think about it, 367 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: during the off season, so when they go to these 368 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: training facilities, whether it's exos or whatever it is, off site, 369 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 1: they're doing those same types of things. So in some respects, 370 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: if you can provide a similar type of environment, then 371 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: if they're in Houston all year, like, we have everything 372 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: they need all in one spot, so we can do 373 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: the same things here as they do if they would 374 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: be doing somewhere else in California, Arizona or wherever it is. 375 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: Nick next couple of years, you have nineteen draft choices 376 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: as an organization, that's without making any additional moves whatsoever. 377 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: I know you guys are always a valuating the class 378 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: of twenty two and beyond. But how does that make 379 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: you feel as a staff as you and your staff 380 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: evaluate who's out there for you to have all those 381 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: picks moving forward, not that you know how you'll use 382 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: them yet, but it gives you a lot of opportunities. 383 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: Is there really that many? I didn't realize it. It's 384 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: the most in the history of this franchise since years 385 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: one and two, and in the expansion year there were 386 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: thirteen picks because it was an expansion, right It's like 387 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,239 Speaker 1: you walked to the checkpot tape and you're like, I'll 388 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: just take all those right here. We added some of those, yeah, 389 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: over the last year. It's really it just creates more opportunity, 390 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: and ultimately it just comes down to what you do 391 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: with those decisions, and just I think from our perspective, 392 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: it's always just trying to make sound quality decisions, understanding 393 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: that even in when you draft a player, where you 394 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: draft a player, if you pick them, it doesn't necessarily 395 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: guarantee like you're going to have results behind it. So merely, 396 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: the draft is kind of a starting point of Okay, however, 397 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: you the draft is about player acquisition, and it's really 398 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: about getting them into the building. So once they get 399 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: in the building, okay, then you take away their draft 400 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 1: round status wherever they were. Then everybody starts from ground zero, 401 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: and then they start kind of their process and their 402 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: evolution and their development as a player. So what it does, 403 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: It just gives us organizationally, you know, more opportunities to 404 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: acquire more players, hopefully and bring more quality people and 405 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: players into the building. And as we look to grow 406 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 1: and put a foundation in place that's sustainable for a 407 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: long period of time, hopefully there's some players in there 408 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: that you know, we add to the roster and the 409 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: team that will be able to do that, you know, 410 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: for the years to come. We were talking to coach 411 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: of today and I don't know how we got on 412 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: his topic, but he said he had gone to an 413 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: Army Navy game. He said it was the most incredible 414 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,719 Speaker 1: thing that he had ever seen. In all of your 415 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: travels and going to college games and such, was there 416 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: a game that you would I mean, I know you 417 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: had to go to the work, but was there one 418 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: where you're like, whoa, this is pretty cool, like a 419 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: rivalry game or just a game that you remember. In general, 420 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: when you've been out traveling going to games, have you 421 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: had a situation like that, like when you gotta get 422 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: to that you want to get to. Yeah, And actually 423 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: we've talked this interesting that everybody I think wants to 424 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: go through the Army Navy experience or visit Army's campus 425 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: or visit Navy's campus. I haven't had the opportunity to 426 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: do so as yet. So sometimes it's just environments being environments. 427 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: I mean quite frankly, when I was at the Alabama 428 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: Arkansas game, that was the first time I've been in 429 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: their stadium. Yeah, so it's you know, it's a pretty 430 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: you know, pretty cool environment. So you're trying not to 431 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: get too caught up in the game, but you know, 432 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: there's a lot of great college atmospheres that are out there. 433 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: I would certainly put that out of the top of 434 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 1: the list. I think it was at Ohio State when 435 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: Philip Rivers was coming out and they played like it 436 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: was a Saturday after Yeah, we actually were playing in 437 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: Philadelphia the next the next day, so I went from 438 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: Columbus and they got havd on a flight and then 439 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: went to Philadelphia to be ready to go for our 440 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 1: game there in Philly. So um, a lot of it. 441 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: It's just trying to, you know, just experience some different environments, 442 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: some cool environments. And we talked about this out in stadium, 443 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: like when I was there for a game like that's 444 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: it's it's a really cool place. It's a really really 445 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: awesome place. So there's a lot of good places out 446 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: there in college football. So hopefully at some point Bill 447 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: at all of them. Well one more for you, the 448 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner King from Alabama. I know he's not 449 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: eligible to be drafted, but as that experience goes, seeing 450 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: those players the final go to New York and whoever 451 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: the winner might be, do you ever look at that 452 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: stuff as far as draft analysis, just to see how 453 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: they conduct themselves or whatever, getting to know the guys 454 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: a little bit better, because I would imagine all the 455 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: data is important no matter where it comes from. Yeah, 456 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: any opportunity you kind of have to evaluate a player 457 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: is just another you know, it's a different arena. And 458 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: I would say specific to the Heisman, you know situation, 459 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 1: you know that they're outside of their element a little bit. 460 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: So it's obviously like they've accomplished so very much to 461 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: get there, So you know that overall experience, some are 462 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: overwhelmed by it's some handle it and just how they 463 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: you know, the people that are with them, the people 464 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:37,919 Speaker 1: that have had the biggest influence on their lives, they 465 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: are obviously you know, they're with them celebrating. So I 466 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: mean the players that were there as good as any 467 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: players in college football this year. So it's a credit 468 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: to them. So only one player can win, but any 469 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: opportunity you have to kind of watch and evaluate just 470 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: how a player goes through a certain experience. It's always helpful. Nick, 471 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck this week. 472 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: Thanks guys. Yeah, sir, congrats the Bryce Young quarterback at Alabama. 473 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: But following them for a while, there's a there's a 474 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: YouTube account called Under the Radar Highlights and I stumbled 475 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: on it probably about three or four years ago, and 476 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: they go to games, high school games. So they started 477 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: in California and they started filming games in California. They're 478 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: not branched out. They're not doing them for games in Texas, 479 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: big games in Georgia, and they get on field access 480 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: and they've got down on the field high so you 481 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: don't see it from them high seat down low. But 482 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: thinking a lot of stuff. So I've been kind of 483 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: following Modern Day and Bryce Young for a while. He 484 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: is really fun to watch. One of my favorite ones 485 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: was won St John Bosco a modern Day went toe 486 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: to toe few years ago. Dj Ungula, whose quarterback at 487 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: Clemson and Bryce Young went at It ended up being 488 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 1: thirty nine thirty eight. Bosco had to come from behind 489 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: to win either way. Point being Bryce Young, congratulations on 490 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: winning the Heisman. I did think that will Anderson was robbed. 491 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: He should have been there as well, alongside Aiden Hutchinson, 492 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: because to me, the three best players at college football 493 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: this year were Bryce Young, Willie Anderson, junior outside linebacker 494 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: from Alabama, Trew Software Sun eligible for the in Aiden Hutchinson, 495 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: who is eligible for the draft, whose dad played at 496 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: Side Creek. I believe I think it was psychreg I 497 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: it was in the Cypress area. I think he was 498 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: a year before me, a year younger. I'm sorry you're 499 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: older than me. I'm a year younger. But yeah, he 500 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,719 Speaker 1: was a great, great player here to stay Texas. Went 501 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: to University of Michigan, and then stayed up there for 502 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: his I think his medical schools where he end up 503 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: going was Michigan, so Aiden grew up there, and I 504 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: would imagine his dad played in Houston, he played in Michigan. 505 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: I'm sure the lines would love him. We would love 506 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: him Aidan Hutchinson as a whale of a player. But 507 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: congratulations Vice Young for winning the Heisman Trophy. Okay, we've 508 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: got information on the Texans. Will save that a little 509 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: bit later in the show. Big injury report came out today. 510 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: It's long as you would expect, and that transaction listing 511 00:22:55,040 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: was about as long to COVID striking yet. But we'll 512 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: get to that little later in the show because coming 513 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: up next, JP shad Rick, our good pal from Jacksonville, 514 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: covers the Jaguars for Jaguars dot Com. We'll join us 515 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,479 Speaker 1: as we go behind enemy sidelines on Texans All Access 516 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: box ess Box, ess Box, Welcome back to this Wednesday 517 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: Dash of Texans All Access. I am your host, John Harris, 518 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: and earlier today my wife and I were trying to 519 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: create plans for my anniversary, our anniversary, and she said, well, 520 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: where do you want to go eat? And I know 521 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: that she wasn't gonna be happy with my answer, But 522 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: I actually said Freddie's Frozen Custer and Steakburgers because I 523 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: love the double steak burger, no onions. I like my 524 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: fried cheese courage, and I love the turtle concrete like that. 525 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: Like that's a that's a meal that I could, I 526 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: could have every single day. Now. I might be, you know, 527 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: a few LB's larger than I am now, but that's 528 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: that's really what I wanted could because Freddy's Frozen Custer 529 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: and Steakburger is all about the good in creating more 530 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: of it. More drive through celebrations, more road trips around 531 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: the block, more family dinners and lunches, more car picnics 532 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: and desserts, more maybe even more second desserts, more being 533 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: together as much as we can. With seventeen area locations 534 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: in the Houston area, Freddie's keeps the good going with 535 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: the taste that brings you back. In fact, there's my 536 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: wife who actually opened my eyes to Freddie's and I've 537 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: never looked back. I'll absolutely love that place. And look, 538 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: you don't just need to go there frinand Verse. You 539 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: can go to any time you want. Just get on 540 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: over to Freddie's Frozen Custard and Steak Burgers. Now I 541 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: know a guy that would definitely go over there if 542 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: he lived in Houston, and that's our good friend J. P. Shadrick. 543 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: Each and every week, Deep City goes behind Enemy Sidelines 544 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: to speak with a key information gatherer from the other side. 545 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: This week it's JP Shadick and he is typically our 546 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: go to for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and that's a good 547 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 1: thing because he is absolutely fantastic. He's a great play 548 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: by play man in college football, a great play by 549 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: play man, just peer. Here's JP Shadrick. Well, a good friend. 550 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: Deep Takeaway. It's Enemy Sidelines presented by Microsoft. It's my 551 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: good friend JP Shadrick of the Jaguars at Radio Network 552 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: joining me once again. We spoke in week one. Here 553 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: he is again, Jp. How's it going here in the 554 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: final stretch of the season. Well, it's going DP. It's 555 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: always good to be with you. Two and eleven. You 556 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: guys know the feeling. It's not a good one. The Jags, unfortunately, 557 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 1: have had this feeling a lot over the years. This 558 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: one's coming with a little more headlines around it and 559 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: some drama and some bad offense. Thrown in there as well. 560 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: So there's a lot going on here. It's going the 561 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: wrong way right now, and but yeah, a month to 562 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: maybe try to salvage something in the form of a 563 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: winning results. They haven't been able to do that lately though. Well. 564 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: The Texans beat the Jags in Week one. So what 565 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: is the mindset of this Jaguars team as they head 566 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: into Sunday's matchup at home against the Texans, especially after 567 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: coming off of a shutout loss against the Titans just 568 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: the week before. Yeah, step one is just to move 569 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: the ball efficiently and then somehow score points. They were 570 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: shut out for the first time since two thousand and 571 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: nine last week in Tennessee, and they were held under 572 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: two hundred yards total in the game for the third 573 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: time this season and now in back to back weeks. 574 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 1: So the offense just feels worse than it's been all year. 575 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: Offensive line is having some past protection issues, at least 576 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: they did last week, certainly on the interior. The guard 577 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: play was not ideal against the Titans defensive line. And 578 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: then the receivers on the outside have had issues throughout 579 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 1: the season consistently finding a way to get open, especially 580 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: down the field, and then the running game, they got 581 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: away from it. They only ran the ball eight times, 582 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: seven of those by running backs, for a total of 583 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: eight yards last week, and it was a ten nothing 584 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: game a lot of the way they just got away 585 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: from it a little early and it's the lowest production 586 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: in the rushing game in the history of the franchise 587 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: last week. So they've got to figure it out. They're 588 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: at their best when Jane Robinson is fully healthy. They 589 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: give him the football and then give Trevor Lawrence that 590 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: security blanket at least to fall back on. But it's 591 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: just felt like lately they haven't really been able to 592 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: figure out an attack in the running game, whether it's 593 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: bringing the guy off or they fumbled the ball. They've 594 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: got to get that figured out if this offense is 595 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: going to improve. I think down the final month well 596 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: a lot to unpack their jp. Let's start with Trevor Lawrence. 597 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: He threw four interceptions and threw the ball a ton 598 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: against the Titans, but it seems like he had a 599 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: stretch of games in October where he showed progress. What 600 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: have you seen from him over the course of the 601 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: season since we faced him in Week one? Yeah, he 602 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: was he was really good. Actually, you know, he had 603 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: ratings above ninety and was doing all that and then, 604 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: like we said, the running game changed when James Robinson 605 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: got hurt, and that was in Seattle, not long after 606 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 1: the Week seven bye week. That's when this offense just 607 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: started to go down a little bit because it was 608 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: more on Trevor's shoulders. And as we said, they've had 609 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 1: some wide receiver issues trying to get open consistently, and 610 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: as it's gone, I mean, you know, he's trying to 611 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: protect the football and he does do some things very well. 612 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: This past week, though, there were a couple of balls 613 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: that you could claim or not his fault. Lebiscus should 614 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: all dropped one and it was tipped up in the 615 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: air and intercepted another one similar situation, but two times 616 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: in he said it in the post game press conference 617 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: last week. You know, it just made bad decisions or 618 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: the linebacker jumped back and made a good play on it. 619 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: But you know, the four interception day, that's the reason why. 620 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: I mean, they were they were trying to fight back 621 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: in that game. They gotten away from the run and 622 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: it turned out to be a tough day at the office. 623 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: I think there's still a lot of hope and optimism 624 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: around Trevor Lawrence. The statistics have not shown it lately, 625 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: but if you ask the guys in the locker room, 626 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: they still believe in what he can do and what 627 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: he has done on the practice field and has the 628 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: ability to do in games, and leadership in the huddle 629 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: and on the sideline and everything. So make no mistake, 630 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: he is the franchise guy. He's gonna be here. His 631 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: face is plastered all over town. It's just a rough 632 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: little patch now. I think in the second half of 633 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: the season four him. You mentioned James Robinson in the 634 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: run game, and the run game is so perplexing for 635 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: the Jaguars because when you look at their numbers, they're 636 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: averaging over one hundred yards per game. They had one 637 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: hundred ninety eight yards rushing against Tennessee the first time 638 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: to play them, and then just the eight yards like 639 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: you mentioned on Sunday total for the team in the 640 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: run games. It's the same back. James Robinson is back 641 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: in the game. How do they get him the ball 642 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: more and get that run game off to where it 643 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: was just a few months ago. Well, as Tony Vasselli 644 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: said on a show earlier this week. If you're going 645 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: to be dedicated to the run, you've just got to 646 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: be dedicated to the run. Even if you're down to nothing. 647 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: You might get two yards, three yards, six yards, two yards, 648 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: but you have to just maintain it and do it. 649 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: And they just haven't done that, honestly in the play calling. 650 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: They just haven't handed the ball off to him. Now. 651 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: It all started when he had that heel and knee 652 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: issue in Seattle. He hasn't really been one hundred percent 653 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: since then. Then there was the fumbling issue. A couple 654 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: of weeks ago he had fumbles and back to back games. 655 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: There was the question did you know did you bench 656 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: him for sixteen plays in the Rams game? And then 657 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: the next week he fumbled the ball early second play 658 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: of the game and didn't play for the next twenty plays. 659 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: It was into the third quarter before he got a 660 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: touch again. You know, the question for urban Meyer was 661 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: did you sit him down? Was it injury related? There 662 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: were some different answers early in the week on that, 663 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: and it turned out, you know, later to find out 664 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: that yet you know, they did kind of bench him, 665 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: and so you know, got to hang out of the 666 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: football because of the practice issues with the injury surrounding it, 667 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: not being able to be on the field a lot. 668 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: He's off on Thursdays now trying to get right. Urban said, Hey, 669 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: we haven't been able to practice a lot of that 670 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: holding onto the football, gripping it properly and all that. 671 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: So there's a there's a move back to some of 672 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: the fundamentals behind that. We'll see if it works out 673 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: down the stretch. But at the end of the day, 674 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: if they're going to run the ball, you got to 675 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: run the ball, and they haven't really done that a lot, 676 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: just in the calling of the place. All right, what 677 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: about this defense? Just six takeaways for this year, five interceptions, 678 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: one fumble their last in the league. Why the lack 679 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: of turnovers and takeaways? And it has that been their 680 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: biggest issue this year? Yeah, but I think that's the 681 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: one thing they obviously wish they would have had more of, 682 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: is takeaways. They haven't. They've had some opportunities, especially early 683 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: in the season, with the ball in their hands, dropped interceptions, 684 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: things like that shot. Griffin had two or three that 685 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: I can think of off the top of my head, 686 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: and you know, earlier in the season. But as a whole, 687 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: the defense, I think has improved as the season has 688 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: gone along. Last week was their second best yardage day 689 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: allowed all season. I mean they you know, not the 690 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: Tennessee is, you know, thrown it all over the yard 691 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: or anything. But hey, considering what's going on right now, 692 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: to give this team an opportunity in a game like 693 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: that was a big deal. So you know, they have 694 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: made some adjustments in their coverage from earlier in the season, 695 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: moved to a lot of zone. They were playing man 696 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: early in the season more they switched that and since 697 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: that switch things have improved. Joe Colin has settled in now. 698 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: I think he's a defensive coordinator for the first time 699 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's been in the league forever, but 700 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: it's his first year colling defensive plays. They have an identity. 701 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: They're gonna play well against the run, that's the idea 702 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: at least, and they're gonna bring heat. They're gonna blitz you, 703 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: and they're not gonna gonna sit back there and rush four. 704 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: They're gonna bring different blitz packages and they may not 705 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: execute all the time, but hey, they're gonna they know, 706 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: you know what they are. And there are some individual 707 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: guys that have improved of the season, goals as the 708 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: season has gone along, and then last week, you know, 709 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence throws four interceptions on those sudden change situations. 710 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: The Jags defense allowed a total of twenty one yards 711 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: and only a field goal to keep the game somewhat 712 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: within reach. If there was any offensive production at all, 713 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: Jags are right back in the game. That's a big 714 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: part of it in the second half. So that's been 715 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: a bright spot, I think relative to what we're talking about, 716 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: a bright spot for the Jaguars. The defensive play as 717 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: the year has gone on, you know what they are 718 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: at least? Yeah, I was. I was going to say 719 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: there are, obviously are bright spots, but sometimes hard to 720 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: see amidst two and eleven season. I'd be remiss if 721 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: I didn't ask you about rban Meyer. It's been tough 722 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: for him both on and off the field. And I 723 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: saw that the Jags owner Shodkhn met with him earlier 724 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: this week. What can you tell us about that meeting 725 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: and why it took place when it did. Well, there's 726 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: those reports last weekend that came out Tom Pelli Sero, 727 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: NFL Network and NFL Media of tension from the coaching 728 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: staff and the players and the assistant coaches, and well, yeah, 729 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: I mean they're two and eleven, you know, two and 730 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: ten at that point, so there's certainly tension, and I 731 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: was trying to work through it. I think Shodkhan is 732 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: he sees the head lines to throughout the season, in 733 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: the offseason and now into the regular season that has 734 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: happened that aren't football related. There's a lot of those 735 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: that have happened so far this year, and mister Khan 736 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: is a patient owner. You gotta remember he gave Gus 737 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: Bradley four years around here as the head coach. Doug 738 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: Marone got four years as the head coach here. They 739 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: didn't win a lot of games really with either one, 740 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 1: with the exception of the one AFC Championship game run 741 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,839 Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen under Moron. But in those points, okay, 742 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: they were playing well, they had rebuilt the roster. It 743 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: was kind of the as he said this week, mister Khan, 744 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: they're lowly Jags. Nobody's dealing with you. Okay, Well, now 745 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: it's the Jags aren't playing well and there's all this 746 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: off the field headline drama that goes with it. The 747 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: balance of that we'll see in the next few weeks, 748 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: you know, if mister Khan has a decision to make, 749 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: if he wants to if he's going to ride it 750 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: out and give it a shot. Do they believe that 751 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,359 Speaker 1: this can be built properly? There's still at least believe 752 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 1: from Irban Meyer that can happen. So that was a conversation, 753 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: and I think the conversations are on going. It's not 754 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: the only time they've talked this year. They talk a 755 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: good bit, but considering all the headlines lately, it's a 756 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: note all right, good stuff. JP Shaddick has always final 757 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 1: matchup between the Jaguars and the Texans on Sunday, looking 758 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 1: very much for intuit, JP, you thanks so much for 759 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:24,240 Speaker 1: the time. Always deeply thank you. Great dude with unbelievable 760 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: pipes sense of humor. JP Shatterick's an awesome guy. I'm 761 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: glad we get a chance to share for the last 762 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 1: time in twenty twenty one. I'm sure we'll catch up 763 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: at the Combine, which will be a hopefully a fun 764 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: reunion because we haven't been to a combine since March 765 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,359 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, which feels like eons ago. Yeah, it's 766 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: been less than two years, but hopefully that's gonna happen 767 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: down the road. I've got my fingers crossed considering all 768 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: the things that are happening, especially with COVID. We're gonna 769 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 1: get to that in our next segment. 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You gotta have supplies, you 798 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 1: gotta have tools, And I'm telling you right now, flag 799 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 1: football is the best. When I was growing up, I 800 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,399 Speaker 1: didn't play tackle football. I didn't play tackle football till 801 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: I moved here to Texas, and that wasn't until sixth grade. 802 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 1: Lamar Hornets, baby, we were tough anyhow. Beat the Longhorns, 803 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: beat the Sugarland Cowboys, took care of a lot of people. 804 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,080 Speaker 1: I think it was a Stafford Longhorns too. Either. Flag 805 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 1: football I played for fourth grade, fifth grade. I played 806 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: it when I graduated college. Loved it. Flight football is awesome. 807 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 1: So make sure you check that out at Houston Texas 808 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: dot com slash flag. Okay, let's get into some Texans 809 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: news from today. Now, this one's gonna take a little while. 810 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: But I mentioned earlier that COVID is reaking havoc across 811 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 1: the league, and it's not just in Houston. I think 812 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 1: they're eight or nine teams that are in the intensive 813 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: COVID Protocol list. There have been discussions amongst or are 814 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,400 Speaker 1: gonna have discussions apparently amongst the owners about what to 815 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 1: do about this. There's thoughts about boosters anyhow. I don't 816 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 1: want to get into the whole politics of this situation. 817 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,920 Speaker 1: Your politics be what they are. This is just the facts. 818 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 1: COVID is again reaking havoc in the league. Number of 819 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,440 Speaker 1: players have gone on to the COVID nineteen list. That 820 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,240 Speaker 1: was the case for the Texans last week with David Johnson, 821 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 1: well it is struck again. Three more players have been 822 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: placed on the reserve COVID nineteen list for the Texans 823 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:18,880 Speaker 1: starting linebacker Christen Kirksey, Special Team or Extraordinary A. J. Moore, 824 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,400 Speaker 1: and defensive linemen from sandal Wood High School right there 825 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, Florida, DeMarcus Walker. I would imagine DeMarcus with 826 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:32,520 Speaker 1: a trip to Jacksonville at hand. Hey, now the rules, 827 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: I think at this point maybe we know, maybe we don't. 828 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: If they're vaccinated, and I'm pretty sure that they are, 829 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:45,040 Speaker 1: they've got to have two positive tests before they can 830 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: come back, as long as they are asymptomatic, So there's 831 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,080 Speaker 1: a possibility. Who knows. David was put on COVID, the 832 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen reserved list, I think on a Saturday or 833 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,359 Speaker 1: early Sunday morning, so he wasn't going to be able 834 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,759 Speaker 1: to make it back. But he was back at practice 835 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 1: I think today, so he was able to get off 836 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 1: that list pretty quickly. So vaccinated, you need too positive 837 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: to negative tests excuse me to be able to get back. 838 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 1: But as of right now, Christan Kirkseyja Moore to Marcus 839 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,400 Speaker 1: Walker put on that COVID nineteen list. The Texans, and 840 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,720 Speaker 1: this is good news, have designated the following player for return, 841 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,760 Speaker 1: and that's Jordan Jenkins, who was playing some outstanding football 842 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins right before the bye week, and 843 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,480 Speaker 1: I think it was against Tennessee when he got dinged 844 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,280 Speaker 1: up early in that game. He has been out since. 845 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,880 Speaker 1: He has been designated for return, and the defensive linement 846 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,800 Speaker 1: were all the way into far corner today and practice, 847 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,720 Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I saw five out of practice. 848 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,280 Speaker 1: I was good news to see Jordan Jenkins out of practice. 849 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,680 Speaker 1: He has been designated for a return. Darius Anderson is 850 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:55,880 Speaker 1: a name that locals may recognize. He played. I believe 851 00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: it was George Ranch. I believe it was George Ranch. 852 00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,600 Speaker 1: Maybe Foster. Now I'm messing it up, but I know 853 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 1: he's from my neck of the woods out there. Richmond 854 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: Rosenberg in that area, played his college ball at TCU 855 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,920 Speaker 1: running back. He has been signed to the practice squad 856 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 1: in the Texas Deed running backs because Rex Burkhead, as 857 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: coach announced today more than likely not gonna be going 858 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: this week, so that leads running back situation. David Johnson 859 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,640 Speaker 1: coming back off COVID, ready to go, and Royce Freeman, 860 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,279 Speaker 1: who I thought there's some good things in both the 861 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,840 Speaker 1: running and receiving game. On Sunday Darius Anderson added the 862 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 1: practice squad. We'll see what that means. We'll see if 863 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,959 Speaker 1: the team can get back Jaylen Samuel's at some point 864 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 1: and try and bolster that running back position, because at 865 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,000 Speaker 1: the end of the game, actually the second and half 866 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,239 Speaker 1: of the game, it was just Royce Freeman and that 867 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,799 Speaker 1: was it. And then it was what are we gonna 868 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 1: do a running back with what we have left? So 869 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,600 Speaker 1: Darius Anderson going to the practice squad. That dude can run, 870 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,680 Speaker 1: I know that much. He can absolutely fly. And last, 871 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 1: it's certainly not least and I hate this going on 872 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,240 Speaker 1: the injured list with a oaken leg. Is Davion Davis. 873 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,200 Speaker 1: I love Davey On Davis. I've been following for a 874 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 1: long time. I want to see him succeed, come out 875 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,839 Speaker 1: of sam Houston State playing for Casey Keeler. I called 876 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,880 Speaker 1: a number of his games all four years that he 877 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,360 Speaker 1: was at sam Houston State and really have been cheering 878 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 1: for him to succeed. And he got off to a 879 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,279 Speaker 1: great start the other day, gets a third down catch 880 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,440 Speaker 1: and then on the tackle he ends up breaking his ankle, 881 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 1: breaking his leg. I think it was his ankle, but 882 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 1: Davey On Davis goes to the reserve injured list. That's 883 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:34,439 Speaker 1: a lot. That is an absolute mouthful. However, the next 884 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 1: two gentlemen joining the show, they can go for way 885 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,240 Speaker 1: longer than I just did. Frank Francie, the Voice the Jags, 886 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,280 Speaker 1: Mark Vanamir, the Voice of the Texans, my two pals 887 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,680 Speaker 1: get together from men behind the MIC's next on Texans 888 00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:51,360 Speaker 1: All Access. We've got one hour in a book. So 889 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,719 Speaker 1: on this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access, one hour 890 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: left to go. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, 891 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,480 Speaker 1: sideline reporter for your Hughton Texans. And I know a 892 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,320 Speaker 1: lot of you out there know my history. I started 893 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,360 Speaker 1: after I graduated from Brown I went down to Jacksonville, Florida, 894 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 1: where I was teaching coaching Episcopal High School, which is 895 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,160 Speaker 1: just on the other side of the Saint John's River 896 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:20,360 Speaker 1: from where we will be on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. 897 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,480 Speaker 1: I grew up listening to a guy in sports radio 898 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,920 Speaker 1: by the name of Frank Frangie, and about seven eight 899 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,040 Speaker 1: years ago Frank was named the play by play voice 900 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,279 Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Is about that same time that 901 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,239 Speaker 1: I got down on the sidelines for our radio broadcasts, 902 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 1: and it was a couple of years later when I 903 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: suggested the Mark, look, you need to get these played 904 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: by play voices on with you. I'll call it men 905 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,360 Speaker 1: behind the Mikes. It will be an awesome segment, and 906 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: he bit. He took the bait, but it's a great segment. 907 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,640 Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites all week long. When Mark 908 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,440 Speaker 1: sits down with the voice from the other side. I 909 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,439 Speaker 1: called it men behind the mikes. Like I said, here's 910 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,520 Speaker 1: Frank and the voice of the Texans, Mark Vanomer, Mark, 911 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,879 Speaker 1: take it away, joining us right now in Texans Radio. 912 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,520 Speaker 1: It's the voice of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Frank, Frangie and Frank. 913 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,080 Speaker 1: We have to stop meeting like this. Here we are 914 00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,880 Speaker 1: after the opening day matchup. It's the rematch the Texans 915 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: at Jacksonville. How you doing and how do you see 916 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: this one? Heading in? Well? Tough tough here and Mark, 917 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,080 Speaker 1: good to be on with you, Thanks for calling it. Yeah, 918 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,200 Speaker 1: I no drama here, bro, the same old stuff day 919 00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:26,759 Speaker 1: in and day out. It's a it's been it's been 920 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,279 Speaker 1: an unusual season to say the least. And yeah, I 921 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,239 Speaker 1: think it's two teams that are kind of evenly matched 922 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,200 Speaker 1: both struggling to kind of find themselves. And it's more 923 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,359 Speaker 1: unusual for you guys, Mark, I think because you guys 924 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,719 Speaker 1: are accustomed for a long stret to winning the division. There, 925 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,600 Speaker 1: it's it's been a tougher go here. So but yeah, tough, 926 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,360 Speaker 1: tough season so far. In the interesting game coming up 927 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: this week for sure. Well, opening day the Texans and 928 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 1: Jaguars met. You knew it was the debut for Trevor 929 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,680 Speaker 1: Lawrence and all that, and I expected the Jags to 930 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,239 Speaker 1: develop and improve from there. But what hasn't happened, what's 931 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,080 Speaker 1: needed to happen that you haven't scene from this team 932 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,839 Speaker 1: in a couple of key areas. Frank, you know it's funny, Mark, 933 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,839 Speaker 1: I think that Jacks were terrible that that opening day. 934 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,479 Speaker 1: It was the first game for Urban in the league, 935 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,920 Speaker 1: first game for Trevor in the league, and they were terrible. 936 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,239 Speaker 1: They got steadily better, you get there. They led Arizona, 937 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,000 Speaker 1: a really good football teams deep into the third quarter. 938 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,399 Speaker 1: They led Cincinnati and the half, who was a pretty 939 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: good football team. They were getting better. They won two 940 00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,400 Speaker 1: out of three. At one stretch it looked like they 941 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,840 Speaker 1: had turned the corner, and then the progress stopped. I 942 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,120 Speaker 1: think a number of things happened. They never found the 943 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,080 Speaker 1: running game. James Robinson's a good back, they just haven't 944 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,279 Speaker 1: fed him. And I think that that has halted the 945 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,279 Speaker 1: progress and development of Trevor Lawrence Mark. He's certainly frustrated 946 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,040 Speaker 1: now a little bit. He's had some of his toughest 947 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,800 Speaker 1: games of late, because I think teams no longer respect 948 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,560 Speaker 1: the run or the fact that Jackson was going to 949 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,680 Speaker 1: try and run, and so I think the lack of 950 00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,640 Speaker 1: a running game has led to a lack of an offense. 951 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,040 Speaker 1: And I mean, this is the only team in the 952 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,040 Speaker 1: league that hasn't scored twenty four points in a game 953 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,000 Speaker 1: all year. Most of the teams in the league have 954 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,200 Speaker 1: done it between five and ten times. The Jags haven't 955 00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: done it one. They haven't been north of seventeen points 956 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,239 Speaker 1: since going to London in the middle of October. So 957 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,080 Speaker 1: this has been a tough go. Offense is the problem. 958 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,440 Speaker 1: Defense isn't bad. Actually, this guy, Joe Cullum, the defensive coordinator, 959 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,200 Speaker 1: has done a pretty nice job with this group. But 960 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,640 Speaker 1: the offense has really struggled. That's that's the big picture, Mark, 961 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,640 Speaker 1: and that's what's gone wrong here. Yeah, I look at 962 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,120 Speaker 1: last week, Frank, and the point total for the Titans 963 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,200 Speaker 1: is not that high. Obviously, the turnovers for the Jaguars 964 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,680 Speaker 1: was a big problem. Why couldn't they run it or 965 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,799 Speaker 1: why didn't they try to run it more last week? 966 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,520 Speaker 1: Was it just because they weren't converting on third downs 967 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,000 Speaker 1: or they were turning it over? Yeah? Well there's two 968 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,920 Speaker 1: quite that. There's two questions. Why couldn't they and why 969 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,040 Speaker 1: didn't they try more? Two different questions? Why couldn't they? 970 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,600 Speaker 1: The line didn't play very well, The two guards had 971 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,560 Speaker 1: a tough day. The right tackle had a tough day 972 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,160 Speaker 1: last week against the Titans or physical football team. Same 973 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,640 Speaker 1: thing happen against the forty nine US TO or a 974 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,399 Speaker 1: physical football team. Mark. The big mystery is didn't look 975 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,840 Speaker 1: they're trying to get it right. Daryl Bevil, the coordinator, 976 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,560 Speaker 1: has been around this league along time. He's a good 977 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,799 Speaker 1: football coach. But they seem to have bailed on the run. 978 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,640 Speaker 1: They didn't run very much last week. There were times 979 00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,200 Speaker 1: I thought they could have stuck to the run a 980 00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,160 Speaker 1: little bit more. They tend to go five wide and 981 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,359 Speaker 1: attack when you would think they might run. So that's 982 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,319 Speaker 1: a big misty. Urban Meyer spoke to it this week. 983 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,600 Speaker 1: He said, look, we probably bailed on the run again 984 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,759 Speaker 1: too early. I think this is a team that needs 985 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,239 Speaker 1: to try and run the football mark even if it's 986 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,359 Speaker 1: running on first down and make two yards, and run 987 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,799 Speaker 1: on the second down to make a yard. Third and seven, 988 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,680 Speaker 1: run and draw playing punt of me now and then. 989 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,160 Speaker 1: I think you're sending a message that you're not afraid 990 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,080 Speaker 1: to run and you're gonna beat on the defensive line 991 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,400 Speaker 1: for a while. And that's what NFL teams do and 992 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,279 Speaker 1: this team hasn't done as much. So I think if 993 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,799 Speaker 1: there's an adjustment to be made, I think they've got 994 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,200 Speaker 1: to run the ball more. And I think they've got 995 00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,080 Speaker 1: to be more committed to trying to run the ball. 996 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,840 Speaker 1: I think that's the thing. Frank Frangie, voice of the 997 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,239 Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, joining us. Give me a couple of wow 998 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,040 Speaker 1: moments for Trevor Lawrence so far this season where you say, 999 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,480 Speaker 1: all right, that's why he's the number one pick. We 1000 00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,480 Speaker 1: get it, we see it. I know you've seen it 1001 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,920 Speaker 1: since training camp, but have their been certain moments this 1002 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,320 Speaker 1: season where you see those flashes and he gives you 1003 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,480 Speaker 1: great encouragement for the future. There haven't been enough. I 1004 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,719 Speaker 1: can tell you he made two or three in the 1005 00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,240 Speaker 1: Dolphins win, he made two or three really good throws, 1006 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,560 Speaker 1: one on a little skinny post to Chennault that's set 1007 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,880 Speaker 1: up the game winning field goal. Same thing against Buffalo. 1008 00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,560 Speaker 1: But the reality is it's there. Mark. This guy has 1009 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,440 Speaker 1: got a big arm. He's athletic, he's twitchy for a 1010 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,279 Speaker 1: six foot six guy. All that's there. I'll tell you 1011 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,600 Speaker 1: what I've been most depressed with, though, it's the software, 1012 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,359 Speaker 1: not the hardware. You know, the hardware is there. He's 1013 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,279 Speaker 1: a six foot six guy with a big arm. His 1014 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,760 Speaker 1: numbers aren't very good this year. Neither were Josh Allen's, 1015 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,560 Speaker 1: the Buffalo quarterback when he started. His numbers are very 1016 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,520 Speaker 1: similar to what Josh's bars a rookie. But the way 1017 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,280 Speaker 1: he's handled everything emotionally, this is a humble guy, Mark. 1018 00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,400 Speaker 1: He's down to earth. He's a regular guy. He doesn't 1019 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,919 Speaker 1: throw anybody under the bus. He's accountable. That's why he's 1020 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:54,960 Speaker 1: going to be great. This guy, remember now, he was 1021 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,160 Speaker 1: thirty four and two in college. He barely lost the 1022 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,440 Speaker 1: game in high school. He expects to win, and that 1023 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,000 Speaker 1: part has been frustrating for him. But he'll be okay. 1024 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,920 Speaker 1: They got to find a way to develop him. They 1025 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,680 Speaker 1: got to make sure the offensive plans to write one 1026 00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:07,920 Speaker 1: and I think that's the one thing they're gonna have 1027 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,960 Speaker 1: to evaluate when the season's over. But this guy's gonna 1028 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,560 Speaker 1: be pretty good. I can tell you. There's there's a 1029 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,480 Speaker 1: comments to him. There's a there's a professionalism, there's a maturity. 1030 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,360 Speaker 1: In addition all those those great physical schools. He just 1031 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,360 Speaker 1: gotta figure it out right now. He's he's bailing on 1032 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,960 Speaker 1: the pocket sometimes too early. He's not he's getting fooled 1033 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,560 Speaker 1: by Robert Coverages. He's getting fooled by his own blitz 1034 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,080 Speaker 1: of things that he hasn't seen a lot because he's 1035 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,040 Speaker 1: new to the NFL. But he's going to be a 1036 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 1: very good player. There's no doubt in my mind about that. Frank, 1037 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,440 Speaker 1: straighten me out on this, because when urban Meyer got 1038 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,040 Speaker 1: the job, I figured the offense would have a lot 1039 00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,040 Speaker 1: of cool, innovative college type stuff in there. And maybe 1040 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:45,879 Speaker 1: it has more than I'm seeing because I don't watch 1041 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,880 Speaker 1: every second of the Jaguars games. And why, in your opinion, 1042 00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,440 Speaker 1: is there not more if I'm correct about that? And 1043 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,280 Speaker 1: did he do it just because he wanted to adapt 1044 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,279 Speaker 1: to the NFL faster with traditional NFL coaches. What's your 1045 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,120 Speaker 1: take on that, Well, you're he is correct, It is not. 1046 00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,160 Speaker 1: It's an offense that hasn't had a lot of imagination. 1047 00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,759 Speaker 1: It's an offense and just they just can't find their way. 1048 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:09,960 Speaker 1: The first of all, I'm talking with the offense and 1049 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,520 Speaker 1: I'll get to Urban's presence in a minute. Month they 1050 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,479 Speaker 1: just can't seem to find their way offensively. That that's 1051 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,080 Speaker 1: the thing. Who are they? There's no identity. Do they 1052 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:19,520 Speaker 1: want to run or do they want to pass it? 1053 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,800 Speaker 1: And they in even thirteen games in, they're still striving 1054 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,319 Speaker 1: to figure that out. As for Urban, he's been throwing 1055 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,759 Speaker 1: hands off. He has not been He's talked about how 1056 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,879 Speaker 1: he's not micromanaging. There's times you'll ask him why didn't 1057 00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,719 Speaker 1: James Robinson playing more? And he said, you know, you 1058 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,040 Speaker 1: gotta ask this position coach. I don't know that answer yet. 1059 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,880 Speaker 1: He's been very very It's an unusual dynamic. He's been 1060 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:44,080 Speaker 1: very hands off. He's been way more CEO than getting 1061 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,200 Speaker 1: the Weeds coach guy. And that surprised me a little 1062 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 1: bit too, and so and I think it's surprised a 1063 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,399 Speaker 1: lot of folks here, so there hasn't been a lot 1064 00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:56,080 Speaker 1: of Urban Meyer fingerprints on this offense. In terms of 1065 00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,879 Speaker 1: plays and gadgets, there hasn't been much of that. It's 1066 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,000 Speaker 1: been Daryl Bebel's offense, Joe Collins defense, and Urban at 1067 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,880 Speaker 1: least from the outside looking in, appears to be more 1068 00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,680 Speaker 1: of a CEO with this team. Frank Frangie, voice of 1069 00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,759 Speaker 1: the Jaguars, joining us on Texans Radio. All right, you 1070 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,560 Speaker 1: just play the Titans. Texans beat them a few weeks ago, 1071 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 1: and the Jaguars held them down. I know there's no 1072 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,040 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, we all know that, But what do you 1073 00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,719 Speaker 1: make of their situation here? Because for a while it 1074 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,680 Speaker 1: looked like they were the darlings of the AFC. And 1075 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,640 Speaker 1: I know a lot of teams have had that distinction 1076 00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,920 Speaker 1: from time to time this season, But what about the 1077 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,040 Speaker 1: Titans moving forward? Frank, I think they have a good 1078 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,960 Speaker 1: team without Derrick Henry and now without a j. Brown. 1079 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,160 Speaker 1: It's not a great team. They are, you know how 1080 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,319 Speaker 1: they're built, Mark, They're gonna run the ball, They're gonna 1081 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,360 Speaker 1: try and play defense. Last year they went good defensively, 1082 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,160 Speaker 1: but over the years they've been a good defensive team. 1083 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:45,600 Speaker 1: They're a physical team. Ryan Tannehill managed he stron a 1084 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:46,960 Speaker 1: lot of picks this year, so he hasn't had a 1085 00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,320 Speaker 1: great year, but he manages the game more than he 1086 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,160 Speaker 1: wins the game for you. And when that's how you're built, 1087 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,279 Speaker 1: and then you lose the guy you've builded around your 1088 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,080 Speaker 1: best player, Derek Derrick Henry, the world changes, okay, and 1089 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,520 Speaker 1: I think the world is change for them. But Foreman's 1090 00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,239 Speaker 1: a good running back. They're a physical football team. They 1091 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,680 Speaker 1: had lost too, they had to buy before we played them. 1092 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,719 Speaker 1: They're good, not great. I will tell you the team 1093 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,440 Speaker 1: that's playing as well as anybody in football right now, 1094 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,160 Speaker 1: and I think's the Colts. Colts got off to that 1095 00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,000 Speaker 1: tough start so because of that, and they lost twice 1096 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,920 Speaker 1: to the Titans early on, so the Titans have every 1097 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,760 Speaker 1: tiebreaker obviously, but that's a team I don't think anybody 1098 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,840 Speaker 1: wants to play right now. Mark. I think if you 1099 00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,160 Speaker 1: ask me the best teams in the National Football League, 1100 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,319 Speaker 1: everybody's gonna say the Bucks, because the Bucks are great, 1101 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,520 Speaker 1: and the Packers are right there, and the Bills have 1102 00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,480 Speaker 1: been up and down. The Patriots are playing great now. 1103 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,319 Speaker 1: But I think the culture I think the Colts might 1104 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:37,759 Speaker 1: be one of the last teams I don't want to 1105 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,120 Speaker 1: play if I was a playoff team. So I'm the 1106 00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,040 Speaker 1: Titans are ahead. I don't know if they're a better 1107 00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,360 Speaker 1: football team than the Colts right now. Really interesting stuff 1108 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,160 Speaker 1: because when you think about the start they got off to, 1109 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people left them for dead, and it 1110 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,759 Speaker 1: just goes to show you how this league is. Frank, 1111 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,000 Speaker 1: how do you think this season's playing out when you 1112 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,680 Speaker 1: look at the picture at large with seventeen games, with 1113 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,320 Speaker 1: the COVID situation really heating up this week especially, and 1114 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,360 Speaker 1: all the factors involved. Yeah, you got the dog on 1115 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,839 Speaker 1: COVID thing market. You keep thinking it's over and then 1116 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,240 Speaker 1: it comes back right. And I don't even mean just football, 1117 00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,920 Speaker 1: I mean in life and in cities. We'll fly to 1118 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,719 Speaker 1: a city and all of a sudden, everything's shut down. 1119 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,040 Speaker 1: We'll fly on another city it's not. And we're very 1120 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,319 Speaker 1: blessed here in Florida. Man, everything's open and people are 1121 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:24,200 Speaker 1: moving here. Because there's some there's some there's some face masks, 1122 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,120 Speaker 1: but but for the most part, it's a pretty open 1123 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,919 Speaker 1: world here. But man, it's affected the NFL. I saw 1124 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,920 Speaker 1: something today where the league, and I think this could 1125 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,319 Speaker 1: be a big breakthrough the league is considering. I read 1126 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,600 Speaker 1: this on Twitter because Twitter is always right, right, Sure. 1127 00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,000 Speaker 1: I read this today that that it said they're considering 1128 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,480 Speaker 1: Albert brier Road the league is considering as an enticement 1129 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,759 Speaker 1: to get the booster for fully vaccinated players. That now 1130 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,439 Speaker 1: add the booster. If you get the booster, you won't 1131 00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,120 Speaker 1: be tested. Now that's not decided that they're thinking about that. 1132 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,760 Speaker 1: That would be a game changer because then people aren't 1133 00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,879 Speaker 1: testing anymore. And I'm not saying they shouldn't be tested 1134 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,359 Speaker 1: are positive, but I think that would be the game 1135 00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,600 Speaker 1: changer for the league as regard to COVID as for 1136 00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:08,560 Speaker 1: how the league's gone. Look, the great quarterback is the 1137 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,520 Speaker 1: great quarterback, Tom Brady. He's probably gonna be in the 1138 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,000 Speaker 1: super Bowl. The great coach Bill Belichickie might be in 1139 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,840 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers is a dynamic player. He 1140 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,480 Speaker 1: could be in the super Bowl. At the end of 1141 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,560 Speaker 1: the day, there's not a lot of surprises when we 1142 00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,120 Speaker 1: get to January and deep into January, we know the 1143 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,040 Speaker 1: league markets the teams that know how to do it, 1144 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,200 Speaker 1: and I think the rest of us. David Culley is 1145 00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,520 Speaker 1: going to try and build that over there. Urban Meyer 1146 00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,960 Speaker 1: is going to try and build that here. Everybody seized 1147 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,759 Speaker 1: where the model franchises do it. And at the end 1148 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:34,920 Speaker 1: of the day, I think you're going to see the 1149 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,959 Speaker 1: model franchises standing for whatever reason. If everybody can figure 1150 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,880 Speaker 1: out that secret sauce that the ones who are really 1151 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,799 Speaker 1: good at it half, they're the ones that are gonna 1152 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,160 Speaker 1: play in very deep there. There's no real surprise to 1153 00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,400 Speaker 1: me the way that all points out. Frank, I know 1154 00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,759 Speaker 1: you cover college football in the Sunshine State as well, 1155 00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,400 Speaker 1: So what do you make of what's going on with 1156 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,840 Speaker 1: the Holy Trinity of Florida, Florida State and the University 1157 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,360 Speaker 1: of Miami. I mean, these teams have just not produced 1158 00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,960 Speaker 1: the way they've been a cu them too in the past. 1159 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,400 Speaker 1: And look, I think the Gators in the seminals can 1160 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:04,879 Speaker 1: get back there. I think it's going to be harder 1161 00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,840 Speaker 1: for the Hurricanes, but they just got Crystal Ball. What 1162 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,400 Speaker 1: are you thinking, Well, say, what's happened, Mark? I think 1163 00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,319 Speaker 1: Exac's what's happened in the state. People tried to win 1164 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,399 Speaker 1: with XES and Os. Dan Mullin's a very good XS 1165 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,920 Speaker 1: and OSE guy. Jim Mcowen the former Florida coach McCown 1166 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,360 Speaker 1: came to Florida's and XS and ose guy, Mike Norvell, 1167 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,719 Speaker 1: the FSU guy now was a very good XS and 1168 00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,000 Speaker 1: those offensive guy as a coordinator for Tid Graham in 1169 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,080 Speaker 1: Arizona State and then a head coach at Memphis. I 1170 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,560 Speaker 1: think that's changed. You know what Florida and Miami did, 1171 00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,759 Speaker 1: They went and hired guys who would work for the 1172 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:35,880 Speaker 1: Saban Corporation. Okay, the Saban Corporation otherwise known as Alabama 1173 00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,000 Speaker 1: Football is what's winning. That means you build this gorgeous 1174 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:42,160 Speaker 1: football facility, and you hire one hundred analysts, and you 1175 00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,080 Speaker 1: have the and it's all geared about around getting recruits 1176 00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,239 Speaker 1: to come to your school. And the Saban Corporation does 1177 00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,640 Speaker 1: it better than anybody you know where Mario crystal Ball 1178 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:51,800 Speaker 1: will have learned how to do it when he was 1179 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,920 Speaker 1: under Sabing. You know, Billy Napier learned how to do 1180 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,320 Speaker 1: it when he was under Saban. I think both Florida 1181 00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,960 Speaker 1: and Miami they're tired of all these really good players 1182 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,279 Speaker 1: from Florida leaving and going to Alabama and Clemson, an 1183 00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,080 Speaker 1: Ohio State and LSU in Georgia and I think they're 1184 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,200 Speaker 1: trying to keep those players here. So what they've done, 1185 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,600 Speaker 1: I don't know how good an exts an those coach 1186 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,440 Speaker 1: crystal Ball is or day perious. What I do know 1187 00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,120 Speaker 1: is they worked for the saving corporation. Get this Mark, 1188 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,480 Speaker 1: So we saw the numbers for a billion Napier. Think 1189 00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,800 Speaker 1: about this for a second. He's making seven and a 1190 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,920 Speaker 1: half million, which is standard for a good coach in college. 1191 00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,080 Speaker 1: He's got seven million to pay his ten assistant coaches, 1192 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:26,640 Speaker 1: so they're gonna have a seven hundred band. A guy 1193 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,960 Speaker 1: will be more, son't be less. Mark. He also has 1194 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:34,000 Speaker 1: five million dollars to go to everybody else that's not 1195 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,160 Speaker 1: a head coach or an assistant coach five million. So 1196 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,319 Speaker 1: let's say that average analysts makes fifty grand or whatever 1197 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,880 Speaker 1: whatever they make. That's a hundred guys one hundred. Now, 1198 00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:45,920 Speaker 1: it's not going to play out exactly like that, but 1199 00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,279 Speaker 1: that gives you an idea of what Alabama has done. 1200 00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,240 Speaker 1: They have more analysts, more employees. It's a corporation built 1201 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:56,040 Speaker 1: on bringing players to your school. And everybody watched how 1202 00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:57,920 Speaker 1: Alabama did it in Miami and Florida trying to do 1203 00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,920 Speaker 1: the same thing. It's gonna be a very very intriguing 1204 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,719 Speaker 1: watsinex to it three year? Yeah yeah, nil, to the 1205 00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,800 Speaker 1: race to the arms, race of college athletics, and it 1206 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,440 Speaker 1: really changes everything. Frank, one more for you here. And 1207 00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a direct answer to this, 1208 00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,840 Speaker 1: but number one pick in the draft. You had it 1209 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,200 Speaker 1: last year and here are the Texans and the Jags, 1210 00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,080 Speaker 1: and I would say trying to avoid that. Maybe I 1211 00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,960 Speaker 1: never feel good about having it. And the Texans have 1212 00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,080 Speaker 1: had it three times expansion year. They had it in 1213 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,840 Speaker 1: O six, they had it in thirteen. I think that 1214 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,760 Speaker 1: sometimes it's a trap. What are your thoughts on the 1215 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:37,000 Speaker 1: Jags and maybe the fan base, media, maybe the organization too, 1216 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,000 Speaker 1: how they feel about possibly having the number one overall 1217 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,400 Speaker 1: pick again. Well, you don't want to have it because 1218 00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,800 Speaker 1: that means you're lousy. You know, nobody wants to be lousy. 1219 00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,480 Speaker 1: And this is the first time with Trevor Lawrence, the 1220 00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,320 Speaker 1: first time Jags have ever had that first pick, and 1221 00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,520 Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a really good player. So 1222 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:52,800 Speaker 1: now you don't want to have it because that means 1223 00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,600 Speaker 1: you're lousy. It's also not the right year to have 1224 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,040 Speaker 1: it because it's not a great draft. I do think 1225 00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,840 Speaker 1: between the Jags, the Texans, and the Lions, they're gonna 1226 00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,160 Speaker 1: have the two first picks. Three of those between those 1227 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,600 Speaker 1: three teams, I do think the two defensive ends are 1228 00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,919 Speaker 1: pretty good players. I really, I really think the kids 1229 00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,919 Speaker 1: from Michigan and the kid from Oregon are pretty good players. 1230 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,840 Speaker 1: Mark So, so whoever gets those first two is their 1231 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,240 Speaker 1: team's going to be better. I will tell you this 1232 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:18,000 Speaker 1: about the draft. The one thing I believe passionately, man passionately, 1233 00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,360 Speaker 1: is when you get one of these young quarterbacks and 1234 00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,200 Speaker 1: you surround them with receivers, your team gets pretty good. 1235 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,640 Speaker 1: The Cardinals never beat anybody, all of a sudden, get 1236 00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,800 Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and then they go and get him Christian 1237 00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,760 Speaker 1: Kirk and Rondel Moore and DeAndre Hopkins from your team, 1238 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,320 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're really good. Same with the Bengals. 1239 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,240 Speaker 1: The Bengals have never beaten anybody, but they getting Borrow 1240 00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,560 Speaker 1: and then they get Jamar Chase and Kyler Boyden. They 1241 00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,800 Speaker 1: surround him all of a sudden, Joe Mixon, he's pretty good. 1242 00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,280 Speaker 1: Go get a lot of weapons and put them around 1243 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,080 Speaker 1: your quarterback. And that's what I hope the Jags do. 1244 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:46,880 Speaker 1: So I'll give you a long answer to a short question. 1245 00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,000 Speaker 1: I don't think they want the number one pick because 1246 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,920 Speaker 1: that means they're not a very good football team. If 1247 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,480 Speaker 1: they get one or two, I think they'll take one 1248 00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,640 Speaker 1: of those defensive ends. But other than that, I think 1249 00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,160 Speaker 1: you've gotta go get receivers. Receivers, receivers, whether it's through 1250 00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,760 Speaker 1: free agency or the draft, and give Trevor Long some weapons. 1251 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,280 Speaker 1: What you're feeling on this game this weekend, Frank, because 1252 00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,400 Speaker 1: the Texans are very different than they were opening Day. Yeah, 1253 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:10,320 Speaker 1: they are, and I think Davis Mills playing changes the dynamic. 1254 00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,400 Speaker 1: I think Tyrod Taylor playing the Texans would beat the Jaguars, 1255 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,440 Speaker 1: and I have no doubt about it. With Davis Mills playing, 1256 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,080 Speaker 1: I still probably lean toward the Texans because right now 1257 00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,800 Speaker 1: it just feels dysfunctional here. You know as well as 1258 00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,720 Speaker 1: I do. There's there's stories in the news about the 1259 00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:26,919 Speaker 1: urban stuff, and everybody in the world wants to write 1260 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,400 Speaker 1: a story about how Urban doesn't get along with this 1261 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,680 Speaker 1: guy or that guy, or players or staff and the 1262 00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,760 Speaker 1: Jet no matter how much of that's true or not true. 1263 00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:36,280 Speaker 1: The Jags have had to manage that mark. And so 1264 00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,160 Speaker 1: when you have to manage that. I think it affects 1265 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,440 Speaker 1: your team. I still think it's gonna be hard. Any 1266 00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:42,920 Speaker 1: of these games are gonna be hard for the Jags 1267 00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,120 Speaker 1: to win because in addition to not having a great roster, 1268 00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,440 Speaker 1: they're having to manage that. They're having to manage the dysfunction. 1269 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:51,680 Speaker 1: I don't sense, and you know better than me, you're 1270 00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:55,160 Speaker 1: right there. I don't sense there's dysfunction in Houston. I 1271 00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,560 Speaker 1: just sense it's a young team that suddenly got younger 1272 00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:02,120 Speaker 1: when they committed to Dave Mills. But I don't sense 1273 01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,320 Speaker 1: there's dysfunction there. This team has to find a way 1274 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:07,919 Speaker 1: to get beyond the dysfunction, and until they do, it's 1275 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,360 Speaker 1: hard for me to see them winning many of these games. Well, Frank, 1276 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,640 Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you on Sunday game Day. 1277 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,080 Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, Always fun to have game day, no 1278 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,240 Speaker 1: matter what the situation is. So thanks so much for 1279 01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,720 Speaker 1: the visit you dug on right, Mark, great catching up 1280 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,440 Speaker 1: with you to see us. Every time I hear Frank's 1281 01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,160 Speaker 1: voice it takes me back. But when I hear Mark 1282 01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,320 Speaker 1: talking to Frank, it's really weird because I've known Frank. 1283 01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,600 Speaker 1: I mean, we watched high school baseball together like twenty 1284 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,120 Speaker 1: five years ago, and he was the guy I listened to. 1285 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,040 Speaker 1: I mean, he was my afternoon drivetime host. I'd be 1286 01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,600 Speaker 1: driving home from practice and Frank would be cranking through 1287 01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:44,640 Speaker 1: the last hour of his radio show. And he's been 1288 01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:48,360 Speaker 1: doing radio show there in Jacksonville. He's he's at Jacksonville, Florida, 1289 01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,800 Speaker 1: living legend. He is fantastic, just one of the nicest 1290 01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,000 Speaker 1: people you're ever gonna meet. And of course the same 1291 01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:57,120 Speaker 1: goes for my boss, Mark Vanimir. But hearing them on 1292 01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,160 Speaker 1: this week the fact that I'm going to Jacksonville and 1293 01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,320 Speaker 1: we are going to Jacksonville on this weekend, the one 1294 01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,920 Speaker 1: in which I got married twenty six years ago, seems 1295 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,800 Speaker 1: kind of strange and odd, but I am looking forward 1296 01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,120 Speaker 1: to it nonetheless. And here's one other nugget about this. 1297 01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,640 Speaker 1: Mark Andre and I have not done a game together 1298 01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:29,760 Speaker 1: in Jacksonville in over three years. Week seven in nine eighteen, 1299 01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,640 Speaker 1: we went to Jacksonville, Jacksonville three and three. We were 1300 01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:37,240 Speaker 1: three and three. We had to go there and go 1301 01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:43,160 Speaker 1: get a massive win against the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was 1302 01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,760 Speaker 1: an unbelievable day. It was DeShawn Watson took a bus day. 1303 01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,360 Speaker 1: Andre Howe was coming off of the ir to play 1304 01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:52,280 Speaker 1: for the first time that year as he was dealing 1305 01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,040 Speaker 1: with cancer. He had lost his father earlier in the week. 1306 01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:59,120 Speaker 1: It was emotional, like you wouldn't believe that was twenty eighteen. 1307 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,280 Speaker 1: Hot made at one night. It catch down the sideline. 1308 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,600 Speaker 1: We've not been together in Jacksonville, all three of us 1309 01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:09,240 Speaker 1: to call a game since twenty eighteen. Twenty nineteen. We 1310 01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,040 Speaker 1: were in London, twenty twenty was COVID. I was there, 1311 01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,600 Speaker 1: they were back here in Houston, and finally in twenty 1312 01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:20,520 Speaker 1: twenty one, we will make our voyage together back to Jacksonville. 1313 01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,640 Speaker 1: Well over three years. I always look forward this trip. 1314 01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,720 Speaker 1: I could see some friends, but I always look forward 1315 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:27,760 Speaker 1: this trip because we go there and get a w 1316 01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,000 Speaker 1: and hopefully that's what will happen on Sunday. We'll break 1317 01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,240 Speaker 1: down the game more on Friday with my keys to 1318 01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,440 Speaker 1: the game and such, but really looking forward to getting 1319 01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,120 Speaker 1: to Jacksonville, Florida, right there in the Saint John's River 1320 01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:44,920 Speaker 1: to take on Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville jack wires. 1321 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:48,520 Speaker 1: Speaking of Drew Dorty and I, well, we wax poetic 1322 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,480 Speaker 1: about some of the trips to Jacksonville, some of the 1323 01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,640 Speaker 1: things about Jacksonville, and then we dove into the nitty 1324 01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,280 Speaker 1: gritty about this team, this offense, it struggles. We'll do 1325 01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,760 Speaker 1: that next in the lab right here on Texans All 1326 01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:09,160 Speaker 1: Access Access Access. We are approaching the end of the season, 1327 01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,320 Speaker 1: but we still want you to experience that football feeling 1328 01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:15,720 Speaker 1: at n ERG Stadium. Single game tickets are available for 1329 01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:22,360 Speaker 1: remaining home games. Visit Houston Texans dot com slash tickets. 1330 01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:26,600 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show Texans All Access on this Wednesday, 1331 01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:31,680 Speaker 1: and it's time for the Schlumberge stats Challenge. We are 1332 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,520 Speaker 1: going to do a little subtraction to get to our 1333 01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:40,440 Speaker 1: stat Davis Mills has played in nine games this year. 1334 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,120 Speaker 1: He started against the Seattle Seahawks. Was the first time 1335 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:49,600 Speaker 1: he had started. Sends the game before the Rams. No, 1336 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,120 Speaker 1: he started against the Rams. Sorry, and then next week 1337 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:54,440 Speaker 1: I think it was Tyrod Taylor who took over. I 1338 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:58,000 Speaker 1: think that's the math on that that he was starting 1339 01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:02,720 Speaker 1: at that point. Either way, Davis Mills has eight interceptions 1340 01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:08,720 Speaker 1: on the year. Against Buffalo we had four. So take 1341 01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,520 Speaker 1: out the Buffalo game in the rain and look, I 1342 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,760 Speaker 1: understand you can't always do that. You can do whatever 1343 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,120 Speaker 1: you want the stats to make them look good. But 1344 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:21,320 Speaker 1: Schlumberge would like for stats to look good. You take 1345 01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:26,440 Speaker 1: those four away. In eight games, Davis has eight passing 1346 01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:30,720 Speaker 1: touchdowns and four interceptions at two to one touchdown interception ratio. 1347 01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,920 Speaker 1: Now is it enough. No, not at all, especially the 1348 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,480 Speaker 1: fact that there have not been any touchdowns scored in 1349 01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:41,560 Speaker 1: the second half. And I certainly will not put all 1350 01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:46,000 Speaker 1: of that on Davis. The offensive issues and you know what, 1351 01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,040 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about these in just a second with 1352 01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,600 Speaker 1: our in the Lab podcast Drew Doherty and myself. But 1353 01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:54,600 Speaker 1: that game against Buffalo, using that as an outlier to 1354 01:04:54,680 --> 01:05:01,320 Speaker 1: just eliminate that eight touchdowns four interceptions, Now, I'm gonna 1355 01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:06,840 Speaker 1: compare that to a few quarterbacks around the league. Trevor 1356 01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,720 Speaker 1: Lawrence is playing in thirteen games. He has nine touchdowns 1357 01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:15,600 Speaker 1: fourteen interceptions. Taysom Hill has played in nine games as well. 1358 01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:23,360 Speaker 1: He has two passing touchdowns five interceptions. Justin Fields is 1359 01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:29,560 Speaker 1: played in eleven games, He's throwing six touchdowns ten interceptions. 1360 01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:37,080 Speaker 1: You've also got Zach Wilson number two overall, pick six touchdowns, 1361 01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:43,400 Speaker 1: eleven interceptions, almost a one to two touchdown interception ratio. 1362 01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:51,040 Speaker 1: So Davis Mills not only has done a solid job 1363 01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:55,280 Speaker 1: as a rookie, he really is spoutshining a lot of 1364 01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:59,120 Speaker 1: the rookies. Now, if you just leave his numbers as 1365 01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:01,640 Speaker 1: they are, eight touch downs interceptions, that's a one to 1366 01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:07,960 Speaker 1: one ratio. Ryan Tannehill fourteen passing tds, thirteen interceptions, that's 1367 01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:14,080 Speaker 1: nearly that's nearly one to one, nearly. And again, eight 1368 01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,920 Speaker 1: touchdowns take out those four, that's a two to one 1369 01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:22,480 Speaker 1: touchdown interception ratio. Mac Jones sixteen touchdowns interceptions. That's a 1370 01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:26,000 Speaker 1: two to one ratio right there. Point being with Davis 1371 01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:29,520 Speaker 1: Mills more than holding his own as a guy, A 1372 01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:31,920 Speaker 1: lot of people had some issue with. Now, Well, I 1373 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,400 Speaker 1: sit here and tell you that Davis Mills is lighting 1374 01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:40,000 Speaker 1: the world on fire man No, but as a rookie 1375 01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,360 Speaker 1: playing behind an offensive line that was not the offensive 1376 01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:47,560 Speaker 1: line that was expected to play. I no Laramie Tunsil, 1377 01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,400 Speaker 1: no Marcus Cannon, Tyus Howard moved out to the left 1378 01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,920 Speaker 1: tack Although Titus has more than held the zone out 1379 01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,480 Speaker 1: left tackle. It's not perfect and there are still some 1380 01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:57,760 Speaker 1: things to learn, but Tyus is holding his zone out 1381 01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,000 Speaker 1: there with no running game to speak of, throwing to 1382 01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,400 Speaker 1: a wookie, rookie a wookie, I hopefully he's throwing to wookies, 1383 01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:08,680 Speaker 1: a rookie wide receiver, a rookie tight end. Davis Mills 1384 01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:12,240 Speaker 1: more than holding his own and Sunday is going to 1385 01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,439 Speaker 1: be a great test against the defense. That will bring 1386 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,680 Speaker 1: a lot of blitzes from a lot of different angles, 1387 01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:22,480 Speaker 1: a lot of sim pressures where guys coming from read blitzes. 1388 01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:26,680 Speaker 1: They're reading the protection, how the well there's a slide protection, 1389 01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,200 Speaker 1: different kind of things, and Davis has got to be 1390 01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:32,320 Speaker 1: spot on with his blitz pickups, get the ball to 1391 01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,520 Speaker 1: his hot receivers, get the ball to guys that are open, 1392 01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:38,920 Speaker 1: and hopefully it won't rain, but if it does, they 1393 01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:40,600 Speaker 1: got to be able to manage all of that in 1394 01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:45,840 Speaker 1: the rain as well. So Schlumberge Status Challenge brought to 1395 01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:50,280 Speaker 1: you by Schlumberjay checkout Houston Texans dot com and the 1396 01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:55,920 Speaker 1: Schlumberge Stats Challenge. Now I mentioned this offense and some 1397 01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,880 Speaker 1: of the issues, well, Drew Doherty and I on are 1398 01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,680 Speaker 1: in the Lap podcast. As decided we would dive in 1399 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,400 Speaker 1: and discuss some of those things and get ready for Jacksonville. 1400 01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:12,360 Speaker 1: So here we go in the lab a Texans podcast 1401 01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:16,080 Speaker 1: that takes a different look at things. True. Doherty and 1402 01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:19,479 Speaker 1: John Harris have their lab coats and goggles on and 1403 01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:24,680 Speaker 1: the Bunsen burners burning. Here's Drew. Hello, they're friends and 1404 01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:29,960 Speaker 1: welcome into in the Lab Me Drewe Doherty and John 1405 01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:34,759 Speaker 1: Harris and the Texans are facing the Jaguars. John Houston's 1406 01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:36,720 Speaker 1: won seven in a row. If you go back to 1407 01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,840 Speaker 1: the final game of the twenty ten season, it was 1408 01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:44,040 Speaker 1: Week seventeen. Texans were five and ten going into that 1409 01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,479 Speaker 1: game and they beat the Jags, who kind of had 1410 01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:48,280 Speaker 1: something to play for that day, but they beat them. 1411 01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:52,600 Speaker 1: So since that span, they've lost four times to Jacksonville, 1412 01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,160 Speaker 1: both games in thirteen, both games in seventeen, and they've 1413 01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:59,720 Speaker 1: won every other game since. It's pretty good, Mark, and 1414 01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:06,080 Speaker 1: they're dead last in turnover differential, whereas Houston is plus one. Remarkably, 1415 01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:08,400 Speaker 1: you know they're they're positive in that stat but they've 1416 01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,200 Speaker 1: only won two games. Zoinks Man, I kind of send 1417 01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:13,680 Speaker 1: that email out to you and to DP into Mark 1418 01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,840 Speaker 1: vandermur every Tuesday. You guys were joking about it with 1419 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,240 Speaker 1: Paint and Pendergas on the pregame show a week or 1420 01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,680 Speaker 1: so ago and that's fine, but that's that's what I do. 1421 01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,120 Speaker 1: Texans have not won this year unless they've gone plus 1422 01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:29,120 Speaker 1: three or better. So they're plus three against the Jags 1423 01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:31,080 Speaker 1: in Week one, they took took them all away three 1424 01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,360 Speaker 1: times and they didn't turn over, and then they were 1425 01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:37,000 Speaker 1: plus five against the Titans. Other than that, if they're 1426 01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,600 Speaker 1: even if they're underwater, they lose. That's one of the 1427 01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,280 Speaker 1: things that sticks out to me. Trevor Lawrence through four 1428 01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:45,320 Speaker 1: picks last week, they got blanked. You know, the Texans 1429 01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:48,040 Speaker 1: are basically after the half, they're getting blanked. And the 1430 01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:52,000 Speaker 1: last four losses, I think seven or eight losses on 1431 01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,200 Speaker 1: the season, they haven't scored after the half. They've not 1432 01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,320 Speaker 1: scored after halftime, and that's just really doomed them. And 1433 01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,519 Speaker 1: when they have scored, it hasn't been a whole lot. 1434 01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:04,040 Speaker 1: So they've got to find a way, hopefully to either 1435 01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:05,920 Speaker 1: get out to a big lead or get some points 1436 01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:08,439 Speaker 1: in the half after the half and make things happen. 1437 01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:10,160 Speaker 1: Those are the things that are just sort of sticking 1438 01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:13,599 Speaker 1: out and kind of drilled on my brain right now. 1439 01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:17,080 Speaker 1: What are you thinking about with this matchup? First of all? 1440 01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:20,120 Speaker 1: First of all, I'll tell you it's all love when 1441 01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:22,360 Speaker 1: I bring that up. I will get that email from 1442 01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,240 Speaker 1: you every single week, and I love it because it 1443 01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:29,720 Speaker 1: reminds me and I and Drew. It's you know, I 1444 01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:34,160 Speaker 1: know that coach Cully had taken some grief because, oh, 1445 01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:37,160 Speaker 1: at a press conference he brings up penalties and turnovers. Well, 1446 01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:41,160 Speaker 1: there's a reason for that, people, because if if you 1447 01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,720 Speaker 1: have too many dumb penalties, if you have too many turnovers, 1448 01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:48,960 Speaker 1: you will lose. As Dragos said Rocky four, you will lose. 1449 01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,519 Speaker 1: You're gonna lose. And last two weeks I've been a 1450 01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,519 Speaker 1: perfect example that. Now thirty one enough and against the Colts, 1451 01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:58,400 Speaker 1: I don't know that anything was really gonna anything was 1452 01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,960 Speaker 1: really gonna change with one penalty, but the offense couldn't 1453 01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:04,479 Speaker 1: get it going until the second quarters. Seven enough, and 1454 01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:08,480 Speaker 1: they did need go on about a twenty five yard completion. 1455 01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:12,760 Speaker 1: But it's called back why because guys were lined up 1456 01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:17,120 Speaker 1: wrong last week when it would have mattered. Against the Seahawks, 1457 01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:21,599 Speaker 1: they're at the one foot line and they're again lined 1458 01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:24,760 Speaker 1: up wrong, so they moved back five yards. Can't score, 1459 01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:26,800 Speaker 1: got it? I mean it costs them four points against 1460 01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:30,920 Speaker 1: the Cults, it cost them some offensive. Um, you know mojo. 1461 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,840 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they get it going a little bit, who's 1462 01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,320 Speaker 1: to say, but those things killed the offense on those 1463 01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:41,320 Speaker 1: two particular plays cost some points, cost the mojo, and 1464 01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,200 Speaker 1: then the takeaways or the turnovers have been you know, 1465 01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:46,040 Speaker 1: at issue. I mean, you think about the Buffalo game, 1466 01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:49,280 Speaker 1: any game. You know, there have been some, there've been stars, 1467 01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:50,720 Speaker 1: but when they take care of the ball even in 1468 01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:53,680 Speaker 1: the rain, and Tennessee didn't turn over. You watch in 1469 01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,200 Speaker 1: the second half offensive, it's weird, didn't turn it over. 1470 01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:59,920 Speaker 1: It's really weird. Man. Like last year, the Texans did 1471 01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,160 Speaker 1: not turn the ball over that much. They were good, 1472 01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:04,080 Speaker 1: they were good. They just couldn't get a takeaway to 1473 01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:07,280 Speaker 1: save their lives. That's yeah, uh, that's not what the 1474 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,519 Speaker 1: Jags are like. The Jags are horrible at getting takeaways. 1475 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:12,200 Speaker 1: They've only got six, yes, and they've got four games 1476 01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,599 Speaker 1: to go, so they're they're they're threatening last year's Texans 1477 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,840 Speaker 1: team in that regard, but they're they're coughing it up, 1478 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,439 Speaker 1: I mean something fear so you know they're they're in 1479 01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:25,040 Speaker 1: they're in similar they're a different boat. But this year 1480 01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:28,040 Speaker 1: the Texans are turning it over a whole lot more 1481 01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:31,160 Speaker 1: than they did last year. But luckily Levy Smith's crew 1482 01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:33,599 Speaker 1: is getting those takeaways and they've just got to figure 1483 01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:36,680 Speaker 1: out a way to clean that up and score after 1484 01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,080 Speaker 1: the intermission. I mean, and and run. There's lots of 1485 01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:43,680 Speaker 1: problems with this team. Yeah, you're right offensively, It's just 1486 01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,839 Speaker 1: it's mystifying to me how the second halves of games 1487 01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,040 Speaker 1: they get a little I mean and and last week, 1488 01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:53,240 Speaker 1: I think it was a perfect sort of it was 1489 01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:55,800 Speaker 1: sort of the microcosm of what we've seen this year. 1490 01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,599 Speaker 1: They'll get a first down, you think things are going. 1491 01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,840 Speaker 1: Maybe they'll get the second first down, and hey man, 1492 01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:03,960 Speaker 1: we're kind of all right, maybe this things didn't get 1493 01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:07,120 Speaker 1: rolling a little bit, and then a penalty sets them back, 1494 01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,240 Speaker 1: or a sack sets them back, or a run play 1495 01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:13,880 Speaker 1: that's you goes for a two three yard loss turns 1496 01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:16,719 Speaker 1: in the second and thirteen and now you're you're trudging 1497 01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:19,839 Speaker 1: against the stix, and this offense is not a trudge 1498 01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:22,120 Speaker 1: against the sixth story. You gotta stay in front of that. 1499 01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:25,280 Speaker 1: It's gotta be second and six, it's gotta be third 1500 01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:26,960 Speaker 1: and three. You've got to be able to get in 1501 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,600 Speaker 1: those situations. You can't be in third and thirteen and 1502 01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:33,599 Speaker 1: so last week against the Seahawks, there were I think 1503 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:37,240 Speaker 1: seven drives in total, if I remember no, no, I 1504 01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:42,000 Speaker 1: think we're five sorry. Five of those five four got 1505 01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,840 Speaker 1: to the fifty yard line or closer to the end zone. 1506 01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:50,120 Speaker 1: Four and yet got no points and didn't even get 1507 01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:51,760 Speaker 1: a field ball attempt out of any of them. Now, 1508 01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,840 Speaker 1: the last drive, when there's thirty three thirteen, I think 1509 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,360 Speaker 1: got all the way down to the fourteen yard line. 1510 01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:57,840 Speaker 1: Now you could have gotten at least a field goal 1511 01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,000 Speaker 1: out of that, but point being, you got the ball 1512 01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,080 Speaker 1: on the other side of the fifty. You did a 1513 01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:07,160 Speaker 1: few different things, but you just couldn't get the square. 1514 01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:11,200 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen an offense that has 1515 01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,720 Speaker 1: struggled so badly in a half, the at first half, 1516 01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,960 Speaker 1: second half. Another were times when you know Bill Bryant 1517 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:21,599 Speaker 1: back in say sixteen fifteen sixteen, where they might struggle 1518 01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:25,519 Speaker 1: in the first half, and I remember a few times 1519 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,040 Speaker 1: the games were zero zero at the end of the 1520 01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:28,800 Speaker 1: first quarter, of three nothing at the end a half, 1521 01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:32,080 Speaker 1: or zero zero at half. But then they come out 1522 01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:34,880 Speaker 1: the second half, do a few different things and put 1523 01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:36,720 Speaker 1: fourteen up in the board, put seventeen up on the board, 1524 01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:39,720 Speaker 1: and win the game twenty to fourteen. You know, final 1525 01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:41,320 Speaker 1: hopey way to win it. But I don't know, I've 1526 01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:46,200 Speaker 1: ever seen success in the first half, limited success, but success, 1527 01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:48,640 Speaker 1: and then nothing in the second half. I mean, you 1528 01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,320 Speaker 1: had forty four in his three game homestand it was 1529 01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:55,040 Speaker 1: fourteen eleven. You were led the Jets. Now you didn't 1530 01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:57,760 Speaker 1: do anything again the Colts fourteen, you're down fourteen nothing. 1531 01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,120 Speaker 1: But against the Seahawks, well a lot off its weapons, 1532 01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:04,679 Speaker 1: it's sixteen thirteen you're down. So in those three games, 1533 01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:07,160 Speaker 1: you scored forty four points in the first half, but 1534 01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:14,479 Speaker 1: then it was ten nothing, seventeen nothing, in seventeen nothing. 1535 01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:18,880 Speaker 1: You gotta scored forty four to nothing in the second half. 1536 01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:21,920 Speaker 1: And I don't I'm trying to think. I think in 1537 01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,080 Speaker 1: those second half, how many times you had an opportunity 1538 01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:25,640 Speaker 1: it was if you threw an interception in the end 1539 01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:27,800 Speaker 1: zone where you're threw an interception in the red zone. 1540 01:15:28,360 --> 01:15:30,599 Speaker 1: I don't even know that there was a fuel goal opportunity. 1541 01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:34,040 Speaker 1: Maybe a fuel goal opportunity, I don't know. But getting 1542 01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:38,479 Speaker 1: to the second half and not being able to run 1543 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:40,160 Speaker 1: the balls, I mean, that's a big one. If you 1544 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:42,840 Speaker 1: can't establish anythings running the ball that what are they 1545 01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,240 Speaker 1: gonna do play action because they go in and they've 1546 01:15:45,280 --> 01:15:46,519 Speaker 1: done it before that, but they go in a half 1547 01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:47,920 Speaker 1: time and they're like, look, they can't run it, So 1548 01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:49,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna stay with two safeties on the roof. And 1549 01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,760 Speaker 1: you know, it's completely antithetical to what Pete Carroll believes in. 1550 01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:56,479 Speaker 1: You know, he's a he's a cover three, middle of 1551 01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:58,840 Speaker 1: the field, closed kind of defense. That's the way he's 1552 01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:01,960 Speaker 1: kind of always been. They were playing two safeties high 1553 01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:04,000 Speaker 1: in that game because they just realized, we're not going 1554 01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:07,200 Speaker 1: to be able to run the ball effectively. So let's 1555 01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:09,080 Speaker 1: take away some of the deep shots, let's take away 1556 01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:12,000 Speaker 1: some of the intermediate deeper shot, and let's let the 1557 01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:15,120 Speaker 1: front six essentially front six, front seven, whatever, but then 1558 01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:17,439 Speaker 1: play the run. Might be out gap, but we'll be okay. 1559 01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,320 Speaker 1: And they were. We just couldn't couldn't run it effectively 1560 01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:22,800 Speaker 1: enough to be able to get them out of that 1561 01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:25,840 Speaker 1: to go back to taking some shots down the field. Yeah, 1562 01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,720 Speaker 1: as we wrapped this up when you were starting up 1563 01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,160 Speaker 1: that last point by talking about getting across the fifty, 1564 01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:35,519 Speaker 1: how tough Being a child of the eighties who also 1565 01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,479 Speaker 1: played Texas high school football in the eighties when there 1566 01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:43,040 Speaker 1: were ties and football games were stupidly decided by penetrations. 1567 01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:44,920 Speaker 1: How tough was it for you not to say the 1568 01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:50,760 Speaker 1: word penetration? Oh, because the Texas had what four penetrations 1569 01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,280 Speaker 1: you're talking about, but they didn't they didn't score. That 1570 01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:55,640 Speaker 1: would have mattered. All had been a scoreless game in 1571 01:16:55,680 --> 01:17:00,519 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. So technically, not to be well act guy, 1572 01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:06,000 Speaker 1: but in Texas high school football, penetration was inside the twenty. 1573 01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:09,200 Speaker 1: And I know this, yeah, I know this because in 1574 01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,760 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine we played Tomball High School on Thanksgiving 1575 01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:17,200 Speaker 1: night over at Polly Stadium, ten thousand people, great environment, 1576 01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:22,599 Speaker 1: had arnificial surface. Oh my god, and I mean I'm 1577 01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:24,080 Speaker 1: talking it's one of them. It was one of the 1578 01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,800 Speaker 1: hardest sitting games i'd ever. I mean, I broke my 1579 01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,160 Speaker 1: shoulder pads. I had a guy so hard they I 1580 01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:34,679 Speaker 1: mean dudes were just getting beaten. And it was seven 1581 01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:37,040 Speaker 1: to seven. We started to drive in the fourth quarter 1582 01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:41,360 Speaker 1: and we got inside their twenty yard line and at 1583 01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:44,200 Speaker 1: that point that gave us three penetrations inside of twenty 1584 01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:47,200 Speaker 1: to their one. So at seven to seven, there's like 1585 01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,040 Speaker 1: twenty seconds left and we go four on fourth down 1586 01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:51,680 Speaker 1: and not even take the field goal because we had 1587 01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:56,439 Speaker 1: technically won the game by the penetrations inside the twenty 1588 01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,720 Speaker 1: yard line. So if those have been tied, then it 1589 01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:01,479 Speaker 1: would have gone to first down. Then at that at 1590 01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,080 Speaker 1: some point there's a coin flip. There was no overtime, 1591 01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:08,120 Speaker 1: and so penetration inside the twenty that was the one 1592 01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:10,479 Speaker 1: that we needed. That's salted it. And coaches like, no, 1593 01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:13,800 Speaker 1: we'll tie, but we'll advance to the playoffs because we 1594 01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,840 Speaker 1: got the penetration. So my buddy, who played for Tom 1595 01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,240 Speaker 1: All at the time, was like, now you didn't meet 1596 01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:21,639 Speaker 1: as we tied. I'm like, Nanna, we beat you because 1597 01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:25,320 Speaker 1: we played the next week. So yeah, penetrations inside the twenty, man, 1598 01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:27,360 Speaker 1: that was a that was a that was a real 1599 01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:29,840 Speaker 1: thing back then. I don't know why they thought of that, 1600 01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,799 Speaker 1: but that's how dumb life used to be. Kids, That's 1601 01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:34,479 Speaker 1: how dumb life used to be. They didn't they didn't 1602 01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:38,240 Speaker 1: like just play overtime, like you you should have time. 1603 01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,960 Speaker 1: What are we doing get more points? Yeah? Way man, 1604 01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,559 Speaker 1: Always fun talking with you, and uh, we will see 1605 01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:45,880 Speaker 1: you very very soon. This has been in the lab. 1606 01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,560 Speaker 1: I did sound a little bit like I was in 1607 01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:53,200 Speaker 1: a cave, but I was not. I I think I 1608 01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:55,760 Speaker 1: had the wrong setting on my headphone, so I apologize. 1609 01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:57,800 Speaker 1: It didn't sound like I was on the phone. That's cool, 1610 01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:01,920 Speaker 1: But yeah, going back, she's nineteen eighty nine. Man, I'll 1611 01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:05,400 Speaker 1: never forget it. You talk about the old old, what's 1612 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:10,080 Speaker 1: the old saying? Tie is like he's like kissing your sister. Man. 1613 01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:15,280 Speaker 1: It was the most weird feeling to know we had 1614 01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,280 Speaker 1: and I got my air quotes up, won a playoff game, 1615 01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:23,599 Speaker 1: we had advanced in the playoffs, having more penetrations inside 1616 01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:26,000 Speaker 1: the twenty. It was just it was weird. It was 1617 01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:31,519 Speaker 1: really really weird. But by the way, congratulations to Tomball 1618 01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:33,280 Speaker 1: High School. I know they got beat last week by 1619 01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:37,280 Speaker 1: Dent Guy or but my buddy Mike Zero line assistant 1620 01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,560 Speaker 1: coach for them. What that team was able to do. 1621 01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:43,400 Speaker 1: I've been following Kate Hillums. I think was up one 1622 01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:45,639 Speaker 1: week for a player of the Week for Texas Football. 1623 01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:48,920 Speaker 1: He just was fantastic. And I know that Dan Guy 1624 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:50,560 Speaker 1: put it on him last week in wake up. But 1625 01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,240 Speaker 1: I don't know that that much was expected of them. 1626 01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:55,599 Speaker 1: But they were able to get to the final four 1627 01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:59,080 Speaker 1: in six eight Division two I believe it was, and 1628 01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:02,920 Speaker 1: just an INCREDI incredible show. And this week you got 1629 01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:06,080 Speaker 1: Katie Peyto, who's playing in a state championship game. You 1630 01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:12,160 Speaker 1: got north Shore taken on Duncanville again. My goodness, that's 1631 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,040 Speaker 1: gonna be a whale of an opportunity for north Shore 1632 01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,800 Speaker 1: to take on Duncanville. I was watching Duncanville and stuff 1633 01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:22,840 Speaker 1: like Carol and Duncanville just hammered, hammered stuff like Carol. 1634 01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,519 Speaker 1: I mean it was even close. I wonder what quinn 1635 01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:28,880 Speaker 1: Ewers would have done with Carol this year. But he's 1636 01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:30,920 Speaker 1: going to University of Texas, so a lot of things 1637 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,080 Speaker 1: coming into play there. But best of luck to all 1638 01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:38,519 Speaker 1: the teams competing in state championship games up in Jerry 1639 01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:42,040 Speaker 1: World this week. I always love watching those games. It's 1640 01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,920 Speaker 1: such a blast. And you get to the Saturday night 1641 01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:48,400 Speaker 1: games and man, there are forty five fifty thousand people there. 1642 01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:50,920 Speaker 1: It's just incredible the love that people have for high 1643 01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:54,559 Speaker 1: school football around here. But it's really really no surprise, 1644 01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:56,840 Speaker 1: to be honest. All right, we get back, We're gonna 1645 01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,040 Speaker 1: go around in the NFL. There's news about a former 1646 01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:03,160 Speaker 1: Texan in the Desert and it's not great news. There's 1647 01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:07,280 Speaker 1: a team in the AFC North that needs every single 1648 01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:10,519 Speaker 1: ounce of what they have and they're not gonna have it, 1649 01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,800 Speaker 1: including their head coach. What team is that? We'll go 1650 01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,679 Speaker 1: around the league next. Right here on Texans All Access, 1651 01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:22,000 Speaker 1: All Access All Access, We've got one final segment this 1652 01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:26,960 Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access. On this wonderful Wednesday evening. 1653 01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,920 Speaker 1: Glad you have spent it with me. I am John 1654 01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,280 Speaker 1: Harris Football and a sideline of reporters celebrating my twenty 1655 01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:37,639 Speaker 1: six wedding anniversary to my wonderful wife, Page Harris. Hopefully 1656 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:40,400 Speaker 1: now there might be somebody out there celebrating anniversary, So 1657 01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:44,680 Speaker 1: happy anniversary, Happy birthday, all of you celebrating a milestone 1658 01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:50,439 Speaker 1: this evening, well, happy milestone, whatever that might be. I 1659 01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:52,760 Speaker 1: know I saw a tweet today said twenty five years 1660 01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:56,559 Speaker 1: ago the Oilers played their last, their last home game 1661 01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:00,960 Speaker 1: here at the Astronome, which is just it's so strange 1662 01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:05,000 Speaker 1: to think about, really strange. So hopefully we won't have 1663 01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:09,240 Speaker 1: to experience that ever ever again. With your Houston Texans. 1664 01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:12,200 Speaker 1: Speaking of, when you join a Houston Texans fan club 1665 01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:15,680 Speaker 1: for free, you get to attend exclusive events, enter to 1666 01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:20,040 Speaker 1: win prizes like autographed items and game tickets, received special offers, 1667 01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:24,559 Speaker 1: and so much more. Visit Houston Texans dot com slash 1668 01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:29,920 Speaker 1: fans to see which one you want to join. All right, 1669 01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,400 Speaker 1: let's go round the league. There's a lot of information 1670 01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:38,240 Speaker 1: flying left and right, in large part because COVID has 1671 01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:44,280 Speaker 1: just reared its ugly head yet again. It strikes in 1672 01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:49,240 Speaker 1: La with the Chargers with this dude, with this news, 1673 01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:53,320 Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater. Andre Ware just talked about him the other day. 1674 01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:57,800 Speaker 1: He is Regislator's son and Rashawn played at Clements High School, 1675 01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:00,840 Speaker 1: went to Northwestern, opted out of last year. Doesn't matter. 1676 01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:02,360 Speaker 1: I mean the guys that opted out of last year, 1677 01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:07,519 Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, Rashawn Slater, Jamar Chase, those dudes have been 1678 01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:10,400 Speaker 1: as good as you're gonna find now. I don't think 1679 01:23:10,439 --> 01:23:12,479 Speaker 1: Slater's gonna be offensive rookie the year because I think's 1680 01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:14,759 Speaker 1: gonna end up going to Jamar Chase. But Slater should 1681 01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,960 Speaker 1: end up being either an All Pro or Pro bowler 1682 01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:20,439 Speaker 1: because he's been fantastic. Well, He's out in a massive 1683 01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:27,200 Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs on Thursday night. Trey Pipkins, Yes, 1684 01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:30,600 Speaker 1: Trey Pipkins will start left tackle and the Chiefs have 1685 01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:35,360 Speaker 1: to be licking their chops to be able to not 1686 01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:41,160 Speaker 1: face Rashawn Slater. The Raiders in Las Vegas will host 1687 01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:45,719 Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty eight that I think is the twenty 1688 01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:51,479 Speaker 1: twenty four twenty twenty three season, twenty twenty four in February. Yeah, 1689 01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:54,479 Speaker 1: so it's a twenty twenty three seasons, So not next year, 1690 01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:57,599 Speaker 1: but the following year that's gonna be nuts Super Bowl. 1691 01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:01,280 Speaker 1: Radio Row in Las Vegas is gonna have like eight 1692 01:24:01,439 --> 01:24:09,040 Speaker 1: thousand Radio Row members for that particular Super Bowl. DeAndre Hopkins, 1693 01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:14,599 Speaker 1: you've heard of him, injured his leg against the La 1694 01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:18,920 Speaker 1: Rams on Monday night. Now he is going for a 1695 01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:22,559 Speaker 1: second opinion, or actually he went for a second opinion. 1696 01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,200 Speaker 1: He got bad news. He is likely to be out 1697 01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:28,519 Speaker 1: against the Lions and it's thought to be a couple 1698 01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:34,400 Speaker 1: games longer, potentially the rest of the regular season. It's 1699 01:24:34,439 --> 01:24:39,200 Speaker 1: a knee sprain. But following the MRI on Tuesday, DeAndre 1700 01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:42,320 Speaker 1: went out and got a second opinion confirmed it it's 1701 01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:45,680 Speaker 1: a sprain, more than likely out for the rest of 1702 01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:48,240 Speaker 1: the regular season, and that as a gut punch for 1703 01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:52,400 Speaker 1: the Cardinals who have fallen from the perch they've held 1704 01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:54,519 Speaker 1: all year long at number one. They're now third in 1705 01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:58,120 Speaker 1: the NFC, behind the Packers and the Buccaneers. So missing 1706 01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:03,120 Speaker 1: hop not good. Speaking of missing individuals, I mentioned there's 1707 01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:05,160 Speaker 1: a team in the AFC North missing it a lot. 1708 01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:12,240 Speaker 1: That's the Browns. Tom Pelissar reported Wednesday Baker Mayfield tested positive. 1709 01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:18,360 Speaker 1: Also testing positive Troy Hill, John Johnson, Leek McDowell, Effaeti 1710 01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:24,000 Speaker 1: and danbo Nathan Meadowers all placed on COVID nineteen list Wednesday, 1711 01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:29,360 Speaker 1: and found out today that Kevin Stefanski also tested positive 1712 01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:33,120 Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen. Oh boy. And the Browns just got 1713 01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,800 Speaker 1: a win last week they needed desperately against Baltimore. Now 1714 01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:40,000 Speaker 1: they've got. They got hit with a number of COVID 1715 01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:43,920 Speaker 1: nineteen situations, So tough stuff there in Cleveland. Man, A 1716 01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:48,160 Speaker 1: big thanks to everybody in this show, Frank Frangie, Mark Vandemir, Dpcity, 1717 01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:51,519 Speaker 1: JP Shadwick, my Man, Drew Doherty and of course the 1718 01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:54,960 Speaker 1: general manager of your Houston Texans and Nick Cassario. Thank 1719 01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:56,880 Speaker 1: you to my guys back at six ten for keeping 1720 01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,680 Speaker 1: on the straight and narrow. We'll see tomorrow everybody, and 1721 01:25:58,720 --> 01:25:59,799 Speaker 1: that's always go Texans.