WEBVTT - O'Brien, Watson, Hopkins and more 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.480 What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a Wednesday edition of 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.800 Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.080 your host, John Harris, Footballanos and salary reporter Glad to 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.080 be joining you on day number one of Lions v. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:18.240 Texans joint practices here at the Houston Mephist Training Center. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.120 And it was so funny because the practices we've had 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.599 have been started like nine fifteen, they got moved up 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.920 to eight fifty or so. And as fine as twenty minutes, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.240 it's no big deal, you'd think, but twenty minutes at 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.879 the back end of practice can mean a lot. And 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.240 so I was staying there at practice, met o'donald, assistant 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:37.680 defensive coach, came out to me and he's like, man, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.600 I'm so mad. I was like, why, coach, and he goes, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.440 I wanted it to be like a thousand degrees for 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.440 these guys from Detroit, and I was like, coach, that's 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.519 not so nice. But I was thinking the same thing too. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.840 I was actually walking in with about three or four 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.120 Lions and we kind of got a discussion and I said, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.080 you're about to have As we were walking back to 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.200 NRG went over to Bridge, went over Kurby going back in. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.720 I said, you're about to have the best part of 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.480 any camp happened for you, and that kind of looked 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.640 at me. And then we walked in and they were like, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.200 oh that ay, and I said, see that's it, and go, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.160 oh yeah, I get it. And I said, what's it 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.760 been like in de trade five eighty? No big deal. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:16.199 I'm like, oh senty f eighty, Oh my goodness. So 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.720 they were in for a little bit of a rudewakening, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:23.840 but really good on both sides today. I thought, very competitive, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.800 and I said this and Andre Ware. I watched practice 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.800 with Andre Ware and Dana Holgerson for a while, and 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.520 that was fun to just kind of talk ball with 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.240 the two University Houston greats, obviously Dre having won a 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.280 Heisman there and grace player in Houston history, and then Dana, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:38.920 who's now the head coach there I've known for a 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.760 long time and we're just watching practice. Just it was 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.640 really fun, but it was it was good on both sides. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.679 But I said to Dre. At some point I turned 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.520 to him and I said, why's it better than Packers? 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.120 Pretty much clearly? And Dre was like, well, you know, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.080 and I said, I'm not basing it on what I 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.960 saw in the game against the Packers, because there were 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.760 so many Packer players didn't play. Just watching the two teams, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.520 seeing how they they play, and watching the Lions at 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.799 certain spots, that's a pretty dark good football team. That's 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.560 a pretty good squad. Now I've heard some rumblings that, 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.480 oh yeah, the Lions can be a surprise team in 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.320 the NFC for the playoffs. I'll bite. I'll bite if 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.920 I were gonna go to Vegas and put one on. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.280 Kind of a long shot, if you will, that might 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.640 be a team might put it on. Man, Matt Stafford 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.680 is fun to watch. He is fun to watch. He's 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.040 got as quicker release than strong arms as anybody I've seen. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.040 I mean, that's been the great thing about all these 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.120 joining practices. I've seen all these quarterbacks over the years, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.600 Brady Breeze, Garoppolo, this guy's got a can and it 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.480 gets out fast. But your Texans had I thought a 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.399 pretty good day too. Some things that need to get 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.160 short up. One. It was a little surprising. I thought 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.520 Lions ran the ball pretty well, but get that short 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.919 up look. No DJ Reader, no Carlos Watkins, a few 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.840 guys missing in the middle, so low frustrating their butt. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.040 I thought the Texans had a really nice day doing 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.040 some good things against the Detroit Lions. We get into 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.560 a little bit of that as the show goes on, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.200 but we are going to you from secondary coach Anthony Midgett. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.440 We're also gonna have a dirty dozen with Colin Gillespia. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.639 The rookie Drew Doherty had a chance to catch up 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.280 with the young man from Taylor High School out in 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.920 Katie from Texas A and M the twelfth man. If 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.320 you're an Aggie, you know who Gilly is, as they 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.160 call him, and I think we'll call him that at 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.520 some point. He's Gilly. That's when I go on tex aggs. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.280 That's what they Hey, how's Gilly doing. How's Gilly doing? 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.200 So Colin Gillespia sometimes it's we gotta be official about it. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.640 But Gilly's done a nice job. I think of training 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.720 camp and he's gonna have a great opportunity again on 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.040 Saturday night against the Lions to continue to make a 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.520 bid for this roster, to make a bid for the 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.600 forty six man roster and find a way to impact 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.320 this team in twenty nineteen, So we got Midgett, we 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.520 got calling Gillespia. I'll give you some of my thoughts 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.280 and notes from the day. My hairs hits a little 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.600 bit later in the show, but it's time for a 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:11.880 little Texans audio. Ju Buck sets right. I'm singing, I'm singing. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.440 Deal with it. It's here from the head coach himself, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.920 Bill O'Brien, and he was asked about any number of things. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:24.520 But these training camp practices with coaches that you know now. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.120 Last week it was with Matt Laflour. I think coach 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.880 probably knew him, but he knows Matt Patricia very well, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:36.520 and that made practice a little bit easier. Throughout the 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.480 two hour workout, we go back a long way coach 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.560 together in New England. Didn't didn't really even have to 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.200 meet about this, you know, we just knew how it 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.479 would work, and it was smooth operation. Matt does a 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.200 really good job, a very smart guy, a really good coach, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.280 and it was good to work with those guys today. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.160 It was really good. And like Matt Laflour, Matt Patricia, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.520 I think it's an achilles, but he was riding around. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.680 I was four by four like he has been at 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.720 Detroit's practices, and I wondered what they would do when 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.280 he went on the road, and they found him a 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.280 four by four, and so he was tooling around the 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.240 fields on that four by four. I tried to stay 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.680 out of his way. So I did end up being 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.440 a hood ornament. But when you have two coaches that 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.159 know how these things go, things are pretty smooth. And 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.880 you could tell that things were very smooth for both 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.080 sides getting from drill to drill and going against one another. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.320 So those two having that knowledge of one another, having 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.600 coached with one another, know each other for a long time, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.719 that made practices pretty smooth today. Now. A big talking 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.920 point obviously throughout from last year and before last year, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.960 going through this offseason, etc. Has been the offensive line, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.560 and coach discussed that and trying to find out what 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.880 that five is going to be on September ninth, we're 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.000 getting more towards where we believe it'll be. You know, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.320 Nick hasn't been in there obviously, so that's a big 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.920 part of it. Greg injured last week in the game, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.720 so you know, those guys are big parts of it. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.200 It's good that we have Zach Fulton who can lay 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.800 in there in center. But I'd say I'd say that 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.880 is still a work in progress, but we're getting closer 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.120 to what we believe it will be. You know, the difference, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.039 if there is one between these these two teams, when 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.080 you look at the Lions offensive line, that's a group 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.839 that's been together and Ricky Wagner, Glasgow, Graham Glasgow, and 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.120 Frank Ragnow Taylor Decker that that group's been together for 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.479 a while. And continuity Waite Smith will tell you this, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.120 Eric Wins will tell you this. Guys we had in 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.760 the show will tell you this. The continuity that they had, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.440 especially in that twenty eleven group, that continuity had been 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.640 there for a few years and so it really jelled 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.640 and it showed when you watch him play how much 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.960 working together. This group is still trying to find its 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.560 way kind of together. And one of those guys is 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.240 Titus Howard, first round draft pick. Playing some guard. He 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.960 did move out to tackle a little bit and one 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.240 on once, so he does get that time out of 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.640 tackle and coach said, hey, Titus, I think is doing 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.360 a pretty good job. He works hard, really good kid, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.600 really smart, good teammate. Everything that you're looking for, he 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.599 does he does a good job. He gets every day 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.680 he does. He's stout, he's tough, he don't back down 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.040 from anybody. Are there some technique things that he's got 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.520 to work out? Of course, every rookie's got to deal 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.960 with that, There's no question about that. He definitely has 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.440 to work on it, and he's getting better at that. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.320 And he has to learn some of the guard techniques too, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.760 and that's not the easiest thing either, because you play 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.040 tech all your career or all your college career, and 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.440 all of a a sudden the movie to Guard, you think 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.400 it's very similar. Right, there's three feet that are right. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.360 Don't always work that way, but Titus is definitely working 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.960 at now. One of the biggest talking points because there 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.000 has been a lot of smoke, and with smoke, you 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.680 think there's a fire, but who knows having to do 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:43.360 with Jadeveon Clowney and Coach was asked about Clowney playing 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.240 for the Texans in twenty nineteen. Here's what he had 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.120 to say about that situation. We haven't really seen him 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.360 since the end of you know, the season, so you know, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.040 I really, I really don't know. I can do my 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.000 best to answer your question, but you know, really really 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.720 don't know when he when he arrives, you know, we'll 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.120 handle it when he arrives, but that's that's his prerogative. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.840 You know, he doesn't have to be here right now. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.000 That's um part of the franchise tag and all those 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:14.880 different things. So um, you know, we'll do the best 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.240 week can. A couple of my buddies have put some 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.560 information out there about Clowney and saying that there were 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.760 deals or there have been some deals. You know, who's 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.080 to say. So we'll we'll find out here in a 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.880 short amount of time what's going to happen and whether 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.160 JD does play for us to twenty nineteen, which I 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.760 hope is the case, and hopefully he gets in soon 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.240 and shows everybody what he can do, and then we'll 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.760 take it at that point. But hopefully JD is gonna 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.640 be here and and and shows up in good time 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.760 to get ready for a game one and and we'll 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.240 move on. But if the organization decides to move on, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.840 then uh, you know, I'm always gonna cheer for Jevon 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.920 Clowney and unless we have to see him across the 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.599 across the field, he's just he's been one of my 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.120 favorite guys in the locker room. He's he's always had 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.679 a smile. A smile brightens up the room. But look, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.360 it's a business of football, man. It is the business 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.160 of football that we see here in the NFL. Now, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.680 speaking of business, Gota did his business today. It's the 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.079 best receiver in the league. That would be DeAndre Hopkins. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.600 He went against Darius Slay throughout the day and he 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.680 was asked right off the top about Will Fuller, Kiki 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.520 QT and himself. Is that the best wide receiver trio 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.400 in the league when everybody's healthy. We put it in 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.880 the work so and hopefully those three will be on 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.439 the field together. Now, Kiki, we know is banged up, 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.760 and hopefully we're getting back for Week one. Maybe not, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.200 but hopefully it's not something that's going to linger on 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.000 into the season that costs games like it did last year. Now, 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.360 Hot made fu tremendous catches today. I'm I mean, just 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:59.559 absolute jaw dropping catches. I mean they're just ridiculous. And 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.880 he he said, you know what, I give a lot 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.800 of that credit to the guys that I work with, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:10.079 in particular a quarterback number four, Shan Watson. You see 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.160 him out here making passes that you know he's a 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:13.880 great quarterback, but I can't say you know he would 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.960 have made you know two years ago. And then that 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.200 comes from building a chemistry not just with myself but 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.319 with the with the tight ends, with the running backs, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.439 and uh, you know that's that's the show I'm putting 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.839 in work this all season in the film room. You know, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:26.719 you know we could take credit, but he really is 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.720 on the quarterback it is Deshan Watson has definitely stepped 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.120 up his game. There's no doubt about it. Now. Hot 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:38.640 talk afterwards about being really tough on himself, like he's 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.440 always tough on himself. He's always his his toughest critic, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.800 and he said, well maybe with the exception of one person, 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.920 there's maybe one person that is my biggest critic who's 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.880 at Hot presson. Don't meeting anybody though, um, because you 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.800 know she feels like I can be better. You know, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.760 she talked junk to me, even if it's like a 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.160 good game I have for us on my did you know, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.120 she's always pushing me to be better. So I got 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:05.880 I'll put a lot of pressure on myself, but you 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.959 know I got people around me. They put more pressure 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.600 for me to do better and pushed myself. I love 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.959 that Mom's no best. Hob knows that, we know that, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.040 we all know that. I mean, I went back to Wisconsin. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.760 My mom's no best. Mom My mom, my mother sent 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.600 me a drawn map, a picture of a drawn map 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.600 to her house. I've never been to their house because 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.439 they just moved back three or four years ago. I 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.880 met in their house in Wisconsin. She drew me a 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.120 map like I couldn't find it with my GPS. So 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.439 I was being a smart ass and I took a 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.040 picture of the GPS and said to her, filowing the GPS, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.640 guess who got lost me? I followed mom's map on 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:41.840 the way home and it got me all the way 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.840 back to Green Bay. Fine. So hashtag Mom's no best 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:49.319 and DeAndre Hopkins would absolutely agree with that. Whitney Merciless 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.280 also spoke today and Coach and Brian talked about Whitney 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.199 and said, you know, there were maybe something said he 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.520 was dealing with last year, maybe being banged up, and 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.520 when it wasn't about to go in that direction, he 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.480 said injuries didn't hurt his production last year. To be 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.000 honest with you, I don't think so um. Early on 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.520 in camp, yes, but during the season I was. I 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.040 was fine by then. I played all sixteen. I was 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.560 out there healthy, rehab my hamstering and injury as well 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.880 too last year and so um, just a different role 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.600 from me as far as that goes, you know, dropping 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.800 a little bit more into coverage, limited repsay as far 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.520 as rushing the passer. When he's rushing the passer, now, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.560 forget it. This guy is getting after it. And he said, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.040 you know what, my style isn't complicated. Man, I can 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.760 rush the quarterback. There's no doubt about that. Here's Whitney on. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.280 His style has been the same thing since day one. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.440 I mean, wherever I'm at on the field, going create, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.840 having disrupt him, make plays. At the end of the day, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.120 it didn't complicated. Go find a quarterback. And he threw 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.839 a sick spin move today on Live's left tackle. It 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:57.880 was I mean, wow, it was ridiculous. Ridiculous now when 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.360 he has been rushing from that side. But Romeo Cornell 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.920 said a few days ago, hey, look, we don't mind 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.559 moving Whitney and around a little bit if we have to, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.800 And what said, Yeah, bring it all raight, I'm all 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.640 about it. You know, allow me to do what I 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.800 do best. You know, we're having in a backfield and 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.440 go disrupt quarterbacks and they're timing and everything. I can't 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.320 wait to see what they got playing for fifty nine. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:23.319 But quietly, Whitney Merciless has had maybe the best training 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.640 camp of any Texan. He's been phenomenal. He's been healthy, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.000 he's been ready to go. His pass rush is on point, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.400 he's trying and using his cadre of moves. I mean, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.240 he's been really really fun to watch the training camp. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.600 And I think it's one of the least discussed storylines 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.000 throughout this entire training camp is what Whitney Merciless is 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.240 doing rushing off the edge. Look, we're talking about JD 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.040 coming back, and I hope we have JD. Because if 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.800 you've got JD Witt and you got what, you've got 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.760 three of the best pass rushes all at the same time. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.040 And Wit is showing I can go get the quarterback, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.480 I could find it. So that's to me been one 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.839 of the bigger storylines. And yea, I haven't talked about it, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.040 and that's a shame because Wit has been all kinds 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:08.280 of fantastic. All Right, Matt Khalil also talked to the 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.720 media today and he said, this is my motivation for 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.640 twenty nineteen. It's right here proven to myself that I 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.559 can do it. Um, you know all the stuff I've 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.120 been through as far as injuries and struggling at some 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.440 points with that, but um, you know, I think I'm 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.000 to the point where I'm feeling really good and get 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.240 my confidence back. So you know, it's it's a battle 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.040 every day with the guy in the mirror. So that's 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.240 what it comes down to. That's a great point. He 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.920 talked about that, and then he went further and said, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.040 you know what, my injury history has has kind of 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.840 gotten after my confidence a little bit. It takes a 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.119 little while to get that confidence back. It always diministers 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.680 are confidence a little bit when you're not able to 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.520 do the things you want to do because physically your 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.760 body won't let you do it. So I think that 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.320 plays a mental factor. But you know everyone plays hurt, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.360 so that's not really an excuse. So but you know, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.200 I'm just really fortunate that I feel really healthy right 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.760 now and grinding away during this camp and you know, 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:04.480 get every day. So Matt, how close to being all 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.280 the way back are you? We all like to see 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:08.720 you at one hundred percent. Where do you feel like 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.040 you are right now? It's to the point now where 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.400 I'm doing the things I want to do and not 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.320 thinking like, Okay, well if I stepped this way, it's 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:15.720 gonna hurt. So you know, I gotta figure out a 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.640 different way around that. So I don't have pain in 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.000 mind here, you know, just just little things. And it's 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.080 already hard enough to pay the guy to play the 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.920 guy across the ball, So when you're not thinking about 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.520 that other stuff, it makes a game a lot easier. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.200 And I know there's been a lot of talk about 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.920 Matt and the left tackle position and what they're gonna do, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.640 pretty interesting sound bites talking about that, and I said, look, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.720 with Matt Khalil, you're talking about a guy that didn't 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.200 play two less three years and shaking that amount of 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.360 rust off. It can be. It can be tough. You're 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.240 facing some really good rushers in practice. You face some 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.400 really good rushes with the Lions and the Packers, and 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.560 it's not as if that's gonna take a break. It's 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.440 Camera Jordan week one, It's Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram Week two, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.280 it's Yannick and I'm sorry, Jannick can go way and 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.720 Clais camera week too, Joey Bosa of an Ingram Week 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.000 three facing some dudes right out of the shoot. So 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.200 it's gonna be tough. So hopefully Matt continues to do that. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.960 And you know, Bill O'Brien had a comment about Matt 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.840 Clill and I'll play that for you now because I 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.760 figured it's fitting as we talk about Matt Khalil to 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.280 get coach O'Brien's thoughts on what he's seen from Matt. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.280 He's had a really good camp. You know, it's hard 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.120 to judge in a practice setting. Sometimes, you know, you 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.760 can't hit the quarterback, you know what I mean, So 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.320 quarterback maybe holding the ball sometimes try to get the 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.280 guys open. So it's you know, I think he's had 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:36.080 a very consistent camp. He's a really good guy to coach, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.280 very smart player, good guy in the room. He's got 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.880 everything you're looking for. There is Coach O'Brien, Matt Khalil, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:49.160 DeAndre Hopkins, Whitney, Merciless, your Texans Audio jubux O camp 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.480 Don't with the sing all right? Coming up next, secondary 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.840 coach Anthony Midget. He spent some time with the Voice 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.240 of the Texans, Mark vandermir will have that for you 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.920 next on Texans All Access. Welcome back to one day 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.879 Innitio Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.359 I'm your host, John Harris. Glad to be with you. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.919 We had a lot of sound in the first segment. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.440 Will have a little bit more now with a guy 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.640 that has been with the Texans since Billow Brown arrived 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.480 in twenty fourteen. He coached up with Bill at Penn 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.840 State and then joined him as an assistant secondary coach, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.600 and then last year he took over as the secondary coach. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.320 I think he does a will of a job. And 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.800 one of my favorite moments in all of twenty eighteen 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.840 Anthony midgett as secondary coach against it was against the 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.920 Miami Dolphins, is one. It just stood out to me. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.359 And the Texans were banged up in the secondary. I 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.320 want to say Joe Jjoe was banged up for some reason, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.040 and I think he was actually hurt on that particular 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.480 play and that's that's what happened. And so I looked 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.879 out on the field and I saw essentially five safeties 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:02.240 on the field it was l Jamerson, who played safety 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.200 at Wisconsin. It was Kareem who we knew last year 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.280 was he played corner, but he had he had been 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.440 a safety and should have been a safety. He was 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.639 on the field, Tyren, Matthew, Justin Reid, and then I 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.000 think Andrea Howe was the fifth guy that was out there. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.760 It was either how No, No, Yeah, it was how No. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.160 Andrea was hurt. It was Mike Tyson. It was those 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.440 five guys. He basically had five safeties out on the field. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.320 And I remember Midge in the middle that huddle kind 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.720 of talking to all of them, looking at the young guys, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.200 making sure that everybody was communicating with the right guy 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.240 and communicating to be in the right spot. And I 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.080 just thought, man, what a challenge that is. He's essentially 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.959 got five safeties out on the field and he's got 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.960 to keep it, keep those guys together. And you had 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:52.119 Jamison playing man one of his it was one of 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.720 the few games he was active, so it was like 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.359 a second or third game. Maybe you had Justin Readers, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.520 a rookie. You had Mike Tyson who didn't play a 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:00.879 whole heck of a lot, and then you had the 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.880 two Vetchia, Kareem and Tyrant. But you had three guys 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.280 that hadn't even played a half of a full season. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.440 And I just remember Mitch pulled them together and talking 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.000 to him and I felt like, you know what, they're 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.639 gonna be Okay, They're gonna be all right, guys. A 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.120 heck of a play at Virginia Tech has turned into 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.880 one heck of a coach. Here's Mark Vandermer with secondary 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.959 coach Anthony Midgett. Okay, before we talk about the current Texans. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.359 Virginia Tech nineteen ninety nine, I was the voice of 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.800 the Miami Hurricanes. You had three interceptions against the Canes. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.520 You remember that well, I do. Stadium. Yeah, you guys 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.160 started out ten zero, we ran off forty three straight 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.240 UM to put the shelak in on him. That was 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.480 an amazing night for Virginia Tech. And that was your 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.560