Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a Wednesday edition of
Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, Footballanos and salary reporter Glad to
Speaker 1: be joining you on day number one of Lions v.
Speaker 1: Texans joint practices here at the Houston Mephist Training Center.
Speaker 1: And it was so funny because the practices we've had
Speaker 1: have been started like nine fifteen, they got moved up
Speaker 1: to eight fifty or so. And as fine as twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: it's no big deal, you'd think, but twenty minutes at
Speaker 1: the back end of practice can mean a lot. And
Speaker 1: so I was staying there at practice, met o'donald, assistant
Speaker 1: defensive coach, came out to me and he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so mad. I was like, why, coach, and he goes,
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be like a thousand degrees for
Speaker 1: these guys from Detroit, and I was like, coach, that's
Speaker 1: not so nice. But I was thinking the same thing too.
Speaker 1: I was actually walking in with about three or four
Speaker 1: Lions and we kind of got a discussion and I said,
Speaker 1: you're about to have As we were walking back to
Speaker 1: NRG went over to Bridge, went over Kurby going back in.
Speaker 1: I said, you're about to have the best part of
Speaker 1: any camp happened for you, and that kind of looked
Speaker 1: at me. And then we walked in and they were like,
Speaker 1: oh that ay, and I said, see that's it, and go,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I get it. And I said, what's it
Speaker 1: been like in de trade five eighty? No big deal.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh senty f eighty, Oh my goodness. So
Speaker 1: they were in for a little bit of a rudewakening,
Speaker 1: but really good on both sides today. I thought, very competitive,
Speaker 1: and I said this and Andre Ware. I watched practice
Speaker 1: with Andre Ware and Dana Holgerson for a while, and
Speaker 1: that was fun to just kind of talk ball with
Speaker 1: the two University Houston greats, obviously Dre having won a
Speaker 1: Heisman there and grace player in Houston history, and then Dana,
Speaker 1: who's now the head coach there I've known for a
Speaker 1: long time and we're just watching practice. Just it was
Speaker 1: really fun, but it was it was good on both sides.
Speaker 1: But I said to Dre. At some point I turned
Speaker 1: to him and I said, why's it better than Packers?
Speaker 1: Pretty much clearly? And Dre was like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm not basing it on what I
Speaker 1: saw in the game against the Packers, because there were
Speaker 1: so many Packer players didn't play. Just watching the two teams,
Speaker 1: seeing how they they play, and watching the Lions at
Speaker 1: certain spots, that's a pretty dark good football team. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good squad. Now I've heard some rumblings that,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, the Lions can be a surprise team in
Speaker 1: the NFC for the playoffs. I'll bite. I'll bite if
Speaker 1: I were gonna go to Vegas and put one on.
Speaker 1: Kind of a long shot, if you will, that might
Speaker 1: be a team might put it on. Man, Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: is fun to watch. He is fun to watch. He's
Speaker 1: got as quicker release than strong arms as anybody I've seen.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's been the great thing about all these
Speaker 1: joining practices. I've seen all these quarterbacks over the years,
Speaker 1: Brady Breeze, Garoppolo, this guy's got a can and it
Speaker 1: gets out fast. But your Texans had I thought a
Speaker 1: pretty good day too. Some things that need to get
Speaker 1: short up. One. It was a little surprising. I thought
Speaker 1: Lions ran the ball pretty well, but get that short
Speaker 1: up look. No DJ Reader, no Carlos Watkins, a few
Speaker 1: guys missing in the middle, so low frustrating their butt.
Speaker 1: I thought the Texans had a really nice day doing
Speaker 1: some good things against the Detroit Lions. We get into
Speaker 1: a little bit of that as the show goes on,
Speaker 1: but we are going to you from secondary coach Anthony Midgett.
Speaker 1: We're also gonna have a dirty dozen with Colin Gillespia.
Speaker 1: The rookie Drew Doherty had a chance to catch up
Speaker 1: with the young man from Taylor High School out in
Speaker 1: Katie from Texas A and M the twelfth man. If
Speaker 1: you're an Aggie, you know who Gilly is, as they
Speaker 1: call him, and I think we'll call him that at
Speaker 1: some point. He's Gilly. That's when I go on tex aggs.
Speaker 1: That's what they Hey, how's Gilly doing. How's Gilly doing?
Speaker 1: So Colin Gillespia sometimes it's we gotta be official about it.
Speaker 1: But Gilly's done a nice job. I think of training
Speaker 1: camp and he's gonna have a great opportunity again on
Speaker 1: Saturday night against the Lions to continue to make a
Speaker 1: bid for this roster, to make a bid for the
Speaker 1: forty six man roster and find a way to impact
Speaker 1: this team in twenty nineteen, So we got Midgett, we
Speaker 1: got calling Gillespia. I'll give you some of my thoughts
Speaker 1: and notes from the day. My hairs hits a little
Speaker 1: bit later in the show, but it's time for a
Speaker 1: little Texans audio. Ju Buck sets right. I'm singing, I'm singing.
Speaker 1: Deal with it. It's here from the head coach himself,
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, and he was asked about any number of things.
Speaker 1: But these training camp practices with coaches that you know now.
Speaker 1: Last week it was with Matt Laflour. I think coach
Speaker 1: probably knew him, but he knows Matt Patricia very well,
Speaker 1: and that made practice a little bit easier. Throughout the
Speaker 1: two hour workout, we go back a long way coach
Speaker 1: together in New England. Didn't didn't really even have to
Speaker 1: meet about this, you know, we just knew how it
Speaker 1: would work, and it was smooth operation. Matt does a
Speaker 1: really good job, a very smart guy, a really good coach,
Speaker 1: and it was good to work with those guys today.
Speaker 1: It was really good. And like Matt Laflour, Matt Patricia,
Speaker 1: I think it's an achilles, but he was riding around.
Speaker 1: I was four by four like he has been at
Speaker 1: Detroit's practices, and I wondered what they would do when
Speaker 1: he went on the road, and they found him a
Speaker 1: four by four, and so he was tooling around the
Speaker 1: fields on that four by four. I tried to stay
Speaker 1: out of his way. So I did end up being
Speaker 1: a hood ornament. But when you have two coaches that
Speaker 1: know how these things go, things are pretty smooth. And
Speaker 1: you could tell that things were very smooth for both
Speaker 1: sides getting from drill to drill and going against one another.
Speaker 1: So those two having that knowledge of one another, having
Speaker 1: coached with one another, know each other for a long time,
Speaker 1: that made practices pretty smooth today. Now. A big talking
Speaker 1: point obviously throughout from last year and before last year,
Speaker 1: going through this offseason, etc. Has been the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and coach discussed that and trying to find out what
Speaker 1: that five is going to be on September ninth, we're
Speaker 1: getting more towards where we believe it'll be. You know,
Speaker 1: Nick hasn't been in there obviously, so that's a big
Speaker 1: part of it. Greg injured last week in the game,
Speaker 1: so you know, those guys are big parts of it.
Speaker 1: It's good that we have Zach Fulton who can lay
Speaker 1: in there in center. But I'd say I'd say that
Speaker 1: is still a work in progress, but we're getting closer
Speaker 1: to what we believe it will be. You know, the difference,
Speaker 1: if there is one between these these two teams, when
Speaker 1: you look at the Lions offensive line, that's a group
Speaker 1: that's been together and Ricky Wagner, Glasgow, Graham Glasgow, and
Speaker 1: Frank Ragnow Taylor Decker that that group's been together for
Speaker 1: a while. And continuity Waite Smith will tell you this,
Speaker 1: Eric Wins will tell you this. Guys we had in
Speaker 1: the show will tell you this. The continuity that they had,
Speaker 1: especially in that twenty eleven group, that continuity had been
Speaker 1: there for a few years and so it really jelled
Speaker 1: and it showed when you watch him play how much
Speaker 1: working together. This group is still trying to find its
Speaker 1: way kind of together. And one of those guys is
Speaker 1: Titus Howard, first round draft pick. Playing some guard. He
Speaker 1: did move out to tackle a little bit and one
Speaker 1: on once, so he does get that time out of
Speaker 1: tackle and coach said, hey, Titus, I think is doing
Speaker 1: a pretty good job. He works hard, really good kid,
Speaker 1: really smart, good teammate. Everything that you're looking for, he
Speaker 1: does he does a good job. He gets every day
Speaker 1: he does. He's stout, he's tough, he don't back down
Speaker 1: from anybody. Are there some technique things that he's got
Speaker 1: to work out? Of course, every rookie's got to deal
Speaker 1: with that, There's no question about that. He definitely has
Speaker 1: to work on it, and he's getting better at that.
Speaker 1: And he has to learn some of the guard techniques too,
Speaker 1: and that's not the easiest thing either, because you play
Speaker 1: tech all your career or all your college career, and
Speaker 1: all of a a sudden the movie to Guard, you think
Speaker 1: it's very similar. Right, there's three feet that are right.
Speaker 1: Don't always work that way, but Titus is definitely working
Speaker 1: at now. One of the biggest talking points because there
Speaker 1: has been a lot of smoke, and with smoke, you
Speaker 1: think there's a fire, but who knows having to do
Speaker 1: with Jadeveon Clowney and Coach was asked about Clowney playing
Speaker 1: for the Texans in twenty nineteen. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say about that situation. We haven't really seen him
Speaker 1: since the end of you know, the season, so you know,
Speaker 1: I really, I really don't know. I can do my
Speaker 1: best to answer your question, but you know, really really
Speaker 1: don't know when he when he arrives, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: handle it when he arrives, but that's that's his prerogative.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't have to be here right now.
Speaker 1: That's um part of the franchise tag and all those
Speaker 1: different things. So um, you know, we'll do the best
Speaker 1: week can. A couple of my buddies have put some
Speaker 1: information out there about Clowney and saying that there were
Speaker 1: deals or there have been some deals. You know, who's
Speaker 1: to say. So we'll we'll find out here in a
Speaker 1: short amount of time what's going to happen and whether
Speaker 1: JD does play for us to twenty nineteen, which I
Speaker 1: hope is the case, and hopefully he gets in soon
Speaker 1: and shows everybody what he can do, and then we'll
Speaker 1: take it at that point. But hopefully JD is gonna
Speaker 1: be here and and and shows up in good time
Speaker 1: to get ready for a game one and and we'll
Speaker 1: move on. But if the organization decides to move on,
Speaker 1: then uh, you know, I'm always gonna cheer for Jevon
Speaker 1: Clowney and unless we have to see him across the
Speaker 1: across the field, he's just he's been one of my
Speaker 1: favorite guys in the locker room. He's he's always had
Speaker 1: a smile. A smile brightens up the room. But look,
Speaker 1: it's a business of football, man. It is the business
Speaker 1: of football that we see here in the NFL. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of business, Gota did his business today. It's the
Speaker 1: best receiver in the league. That would be DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: He went against Darius Slay throughout the day and he
Speaker 1: was asked right off the top about Will Fuller, Kiki
Speaker 1: QT and himself. Is that the best wide receiver trio
Speaker 1: in the league when everybody's healthy. We put it in
Speaker 1: the work so and hopefully those three will be on
Speaker 1: the field together. Now, Kiki, we know is banged up,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we're getting back for Week one. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: but hopefully it's not something that's going to linger on
Speaker 1: into the season that costs games like it did last year. Now,
Speaker 1: Hot made fu tremendous catches today. I'm I mean, just
Speaker 1: absolute jaw dropping catches. I mean they're just ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: he he said, you know what, I give a lot
Speaker 1: of that credit to the guys that I work with,
Speaker 1: in particular a quarterback number four, Shan Watson. You see
Speaker 1: him out here making passes that you know he's a
Speaker 1: great quarterback, but I can't say you know he would
Speaker 1: have made you know two years ago. And then that
Speaker 1: comes from building a chemistry not just with myself but
Speaker 1: with the with the tight ends, with the running backs,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's that's the show I'm putting
Speaker 1: in work this all season in the film room. You know,
Speaker 1: you know we could take credit, but he really is
Speaker 1: on the quarterback it is Deshan Watson has definitely stepped
Speaker 1: up his game. There's no doubt about it. Now. Hot
Speaker 1: talk afterwards about being really tough on himself, like he's
Speaker 1: always tough on himself. He's always his his toughest critic,
Speaker 1: and he said, well maybe with the exception of one person,
Speaker 1: there's maybe one person that is my biggest critic who's
Speaker 1: at Hot presson. Don't meeting anybody though, um, because you
Speaker 1: know she feels like I can be better. You know,
Speaker 1: she talked junk to me, even if it's like a
Speaker 1: good game I have for us on my did you know,
Speaker 1: she's always pushing me to be better. So I got
Speaker 1: I'll put a lot of pressure on myself, but you
Speaker 1: know I got people around me. They put more pressure
Speaker 1: for me to do better and pushed myself. I love
Speaker 1: that Mom's no best. Hob knows that, we know that,
Speaker 1: we all know that. I mean, I went back to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: My mom's no best. Mom My mom, my mother sent
Speaker 1: me a drawn map, a picture of a drawn map
Speaker 1: to her house. I've never been to their house because
Speaker 1: they just moved back three or four years ago. I
Speaker 1: met in their house in Wisconsin. She drew me a
Speaker 1: map like I couldn't find it with my GPS. So
Speaker 1: I was being a smart ass and I took a
Speaker 1: picture of the GPS and said to her, filowing the GPS,
Speaker 1: guess who got lost me? I followed mom's map on
Speaker 1: the way home and it got me all the way
Speaker 1: back to Green Bay. Fine. So hashtag Mom's no best
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Hopkins would absolutely agree with that. Whitney Merciless
Speaker 1: also spoke today and Coach and Brian talked about Whitney
Speaker 1: and said, you know, there were maybe something said he
Speaker 1: was dealing with last year, maybe being banged up, and
Speaker 1: when it wasn't about to go in that direction, he
Speaker 1: said injuries didn't hurt his production last year. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't think so um. Early on
Speaker 1: in camp, yes, but during the season I was. I
Speaker 1: was fine by then. I played all sixteen. I was
Speaker 1: out there healthy, rehab my hamstering and injury as well
Speaker 1: too last year and so um, just a different role
Speaker 1: from me as far as that goes, you know, dropping
Speaker 1: a little bit more into coverage, limited repsay as far
Speaker 1: as rushing the passer. When he's rushing the passer, now,
Speaker 1: forget it. This guy is getting after it. And he said,
Speaker 1: you know what, my style isn't complicated. Man, I can
Speaker 1: rush the quarterback. There's no doubt about that. Here's Whitney on.
Speaker 1: His style has been the same thing since day one.
Speaker 1: I mean, wherever I'm at on the field, going create,
Speaker 1: having disrupt him, make plays. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it didn't complicated. Go find a quarterback. And he threw
Speaker 1: a sick spin move today on Live's left tackle. It
Speaker 1: was I mean, wow, it was ridiculous. Ridiculous now when
Speaker 1: he has been rushing from that side. But Romeo Cornell
Speaker 1: said a few days ago, hey, look, we don't mind
Speaker 1: moving Whitney and around a little bit if we have to,
Speaker 1: And what said, Yeah, bring it all raight, I'm all
Speaker 1: about it. You know, allow me to do what I
Speaker 1: do best. You know, we're having in a backfield and
Speaker 1: go disrupt quarterbacks and they're timing and everything. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what they got playing for fifty nine.
Speaker 1: But quietly, Whitney Merciless has had maybe the best training
Speaker 1: camp of any Texan. He's been phenomenal. He's been healthy,
Speaker 1: he's been ready to go. His pass rush is on point,
Speaker 1: he's trying and using his cadre of moves. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been really really fun to watch the training camp.
Speaker 1: And I think it's one of the least discussed storylines
Speaker 1: throughout this entire training camp is what Whitney Merciless is
Speaker 1: doing rushing off the edge. Look, we're talking about JD
Speaker 1: coming back, and I hope we have JD. Because if
Speaker 1: you've got JD Witt and you got what, you've got
Speaker 1: three of the best pass rushes all at the same time.
Speaker 1: And Wit is showing I can go get the quarterback,
Speaker 1: I could find it. So that's to me been one
Speaker 1: of the bigger storylines. And yea, I haven't talked about it,
Speaker 1: and that's a shame because Wit has been all kinds
Speaker 1: of fantastic. All Right, Matt Khalil also talked to the
Speaker 1: media today and he said, this is my motivation for
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. It's right here proven to myself that I
Speaker 1: can do it. Um, you know all the stuff I've
Speaker 1: been through as far as injuries and struggling at some
Speaker 1: points with that, but um, you know, I think I'm
Speaker 1: to the point where I'm feeling really good and get
Speaker 1: my confidence back. So you know, it's it's a battle
Speaker 1: every day with the guy in the mirror. So that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. That's a great point. He
Speaker 1: talked about that, and then he went further and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, my injury history has has kind of
Speaker 1: gotten after my confidence a little bit. It takes a
Speaker 1: little while to get that confidence back. It always diministers
Speaker 1: are confidence a little bit when you're not able to
Speaker 1: do the things you want to do because physically your
Speaker 1: body won't let you do it. So I think that
Speaker 1: plays a mental factor. But you know everyone plays hurt,
Speaker 1: so that's not really an excuse. So but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just really fortunate that I feel really healthy right
Speaker 1: now and grinding away during this camp and you know,
Speaker 1: get every day. So Matt, how close to being all
Speaker 1: the way back are you? We all like to see
Speaker 1: you at one hundred percent. Where do you feel like
Speaker 1: you are right now? It's to the point now where
Speaker 1: I'm doing the things I want to do and not
Speaker 1: thinking like, Okay, well if I stepped this way, it's
Speaker 1: gonna hurt. So you know, I gotta figure out a
Speaker 1: different way around that. So I don't have pain in
Speaker 1: mind here, you know, just just little things. And it's
Speaker 1: already hard enough to pay the guy to play the
Speaker 1: guy across the ball, So when you're not thinking about
Speaker 1: that other stuff, it makes a game a lot easier.
Speaker 1: And I know there's been a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: Matt and the left tackle position and what they're gonna do,
Speaker 1: pretty interesting sound bites talking about that, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: with Matt Khalil, you're talking about a guy that didn't
Speaker 1: play two less three years and shaking that amount of
Speaker 1: rust off. It can be. It can be tough. You're
Speaker 1: facing some really good rushers in practice. You face some
Speaker 1: really good rushes with the Lions and the Packers, and
Speaker 1: it's not as if that's gonna take a break. It's
Speaker 1: Camera Jordan week one, It's Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram Week two,
Speaker 1: it's Yannick and I'm sorry, Jannick can go way and
Speaker 1: Clais camera week too, Joey Bosa of an Ingram Week
Speaker 1: three facing some dudes right out of the shoot. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. So hopefully Matt continues to do that.
Speaker 1: And you know, Bill O'Brien had a comment about Matt
Speaker 1: Clill and I'll play that for you now because I
Speaker 1: figured it's fitting as we talk about Matt Khalil to
Speaker 1: get coach O'Brien's thoughts on what he's seen from Matt.
Speaker 1: He's had a really good camp. You know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to judge in a practice setting. Sometimes, you know, you
Speaker 1: can't hit the quarterback, you know what I mean, So
Speaker 1: quarterback maybe holding the ball sometimes try to get the
Speaker 1: guys open. So it's you know, I think he's had
Speaker 1: a very consistent camp. He's a really good guy to coach,
Speaker 1: very smart player, good guy in the room. He's got
Speaker 1: everything you're looking for. There is Coach O'Brien, Matt Khalil,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Whitney, Merciless, your Texans Audio jubux O camp
Speaker 1: Don't with the sing all right? Coming up next, secondary
Speaker 1: coach Anthony Midget. He spent some time with the Voice
Speaker 1: of the Texans, Mark vandermir will have that for you
Speaker 1: next on Texans All Access. Welcome back to one day
Speaker 1: Innitio Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris. Glad to be with you.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of sound in the first segment.
Speaker 1: Will have a little bit more now with a guy
Speaker 1: that has been with the Texans since Billow Brown arrived
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. He coached up with Bill at Penn
Speaker 1: State and then joined him as an assistant secondary coach,
Speaker 1: and then last year he took over as the secondary coach.
Speaker 1: I think he does a will of a job. And
Speaker 1: one of my favorite moments in all of twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: Anthony midgett as secondary coach against it was against the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, is one. It just stood out to me.
Speaker 1: And the Texans were banged up in the secondary. I
Speaker 1: want to say Joe Jjoe was banged up for some reason,
Speaker 1: and I think he was actually hurt on that particular
Speaker 1: play and that's that's what happened. And so I looked
Speaker 1: out on the field and I saw essentially five safeties
Speaker 1: on the field it was l Jamerson, who played safety
Speaker 1: at Wisconsin. It was Kareem who we knew last year
Speaker 1: was he played corner, but he had he had been
Speaker 1: a safety and should have been a safety. He was
Speaker 1: on the field, Tyren, Matthew, Justin Reid, and then I
Speaker 1: think Andrea Howe was the fifth guy that was out there.
Speaker 1: It was either how No, No, Yeah, it was how No.
Speaker 1: Andrea was hurt. It was Mike Tyson. It was those
Speaker 1: five guys. He basically had five safeties out on the field.
Speaker 1: And I remember Midge in the middle that huddle kind
Speaker 1: of talking to all of them, looking at the young guys,
Speaker 1: making sure that everybody was communicating with the right guy
Speaker 1: and communicating to be in the right spot. And I
Speaker 1: just thought, man, what a challenge that is. He's essentially
Speaker 1: got five safeties out on the field and he's got
Speaker 1: to keep it, keep those guys together. And you had
Speaker 1: Jamison playing man one of his it was one of
Speaker 1: the few games he was active, so it was like
Speaker 1: a second or third game. Maybe you had Justin Readers,
Speaker 1: a rookie. You had Mike Tyson who didn't play a
Speaker 1: whole heck of a lot, and then you had the
Speaker 1: two Vetchia, Kareem and Tyrant. But you had three guys
Speaker 1: that hadn't even played a half of a full season.
Speaker 1: And I just remember Mitch pulled them together and talking
Speaker 1: to him and I felt like, you know what, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be Okay, They're gonna be all right, guys. A
Speaker 1: heck of a play at Virginia Tech has turned into
Speaker 1: one heck of a coach. Here's Mark Vandermer with secondary
Speaker 1: coach Anthony Midgett. Okay, before we talk about the current Texans.
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech nineteen ninety nine, I was the voice of
Speaker 1: the Miami Hurricanes. You had three interceptions against the Canes.
Speaker 1: You remember that well, I do. Stadium. Yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: started out ten zero, we ran off forty three straight
Speaker 1: UM to put the shelak in on him. That was
Speaker 1: an amazing night for Virginia Tech. And that was your
Speaker 1: last year there, right, Yes, And that was the year,
Speaker 1: you know, we went undefeated and ended up playing in
Speaker 1: a National championship UM and losing the Florida State in
Speaker 1: UM Sugar Bowl. Led by Mike Vick and Chris Winky.
Speaker 1: Those guys, it's a pretty good team. A lot of
Speaker 1: NFL players in that game, right, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a lot. It was fun. When did you realize coaching
Speaker 1: was the thing? Um? You know, when I was playing,
Speaker 1: always had coaches tell me that you would be a
Speaker 1: great coach someday, and they were just planting that seed.
Speaker 1: And then when I finished playing, I just thought about
Speaker 1: what a way I can stay close to the game
Speaker 1: and give back to what the coaches, you know, and
Speaker 1: part of I've been a part of some great coaches,
Speaker 1: from Coach Beemer, my high school coaches, and then coming
Speaker 1: to the NFL being a part with coach Dungee for
Speaker 1: a year in Tampa. So those guys were great influencers.
Speaker 1: And then I've been fortunate to be around some great coaches,
Speaker 1: going back to Virginia Tech to be a grad assistant
Speaker 1: with Coach Beamer, coach Foster, and then going to Georgia
Speaker 1: State working with Coach Curry, which was unbelievable experience. What
Speaker 1: was Curry like because he's such a personality, so larger
Speaker 1: than life. He was unbelievable. Every day it was something,
Speaker 1: you know, we were learning something, you know, from the players,
Speaker 1: the coaches. He was just the unbelievable human being in
Speaker 1: he's you know, he did a great job, giving me
Speaker 1: my first full time job as a college assistant and
Speaker 1: being a great mentor. And he's just a guy that
Speaker 1: does things the right way in doing things by the book,
Speaker 1: and he was awesome. You see these guys here like
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson, Brian Cushing, Tjas, guys who played and now
Speaker 1: they're getting into coaching. What are they going through because
Speaker 1: it's gotta be a weird transition when you're used to
Speaker 1: being a player and now you're a part of management,
Speaker 1: if you will. You're coaching these guys, but they're going
Speaker 1: through the you know, the phase of now they're feeling
Speaker 1: what we feel as coaches. It's long hours, you know,
Speaker 1: but they're doing a great job as far as helping
Speaker 1: us with you know, the guys, just the relationship with
Speaker 1: the guys um that they have former players that they
Speaker 1: can go to a mentor the rookies. So it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: And even Dre just talking to me about what he
Speaker 1: sees as far as you know, from a receiver standpoint,
Speaker 1: learning from here from that deal. And then TJ, you know,
Speaker 1: being a former um quarterback sort of things he sees.
Speaker 1: And then obviously Cush, you know, guy that works hard
Speaker 1: and you know, I was I was making a cut
Speaker 1: up the other day and I showed those guys that
Speaker 1: Clipper Cuss just laying out from Jacksonville, Like that's that's
Speaker 1: what Coush did, so playing physical. So it's great to
Speaker 1: have those guys that guys and go to that's been
Speaker 1: through the fire and doing the things that they're doing,
Speaker 1: had long, successful careers. We talked with Andre Halle, who
Speaker 1: said great things about you, by the way, and we're
Speaker 1: asking about j Joe and he said, Jjoe, it's like
Speaker 1: he doesn't even need to play full speed sometimes because
Speaker 1: he knows what's going to happen out there. And that's
Speaker 1: great experience. But you have young guys who don't have
Speaker 1: that yet, So how do you balance that as a coach.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody in this league is talented, but how
Speaker 1: do you get that edge? How do you get that
Speaker 1: next step? And it's the mental part of it and
Speaker 1: the pre snap information you get, and that's where jjo
Speaker 1: is so valuable because he's seen it a lot. And
Speaker 1: then when he talks to the younger guys on top
Speaker 1: of me and what we're seeing, and then we just
Speaker 1: trying to get them to the love always tell them.
Speaker 1: Remember when you was a rookie in college, I mean
Speaker 1: a freshman in college. Try to get to the point
Speaker 1: that you felt that you as as senior as quick
Speaker 1: as possible. That to give you some success and have
Speaker 1: you feeling comfortable and you're on the field, because if
Speaker 1: you stay playing feeling like you play that you're freshman
Speaker 1: year for a long time, you're going to struggle to
Speaker 1: make the transition. So as quick as you can make
Speaker 1: the transition a feeling comfortable while you're out there, you'll
Speaker 1: be to you know, it be good for you. We've
Speaker 1: heard about that walk through a room with the video.
Speaker 1: How does that help you with your defensive backs? Um,
Speaker 1: it's good because we get the guys in there and
Speaker 1: we can go through all the calls, you know, formations,
Speaker 1: We can get up power points. We have also the
Speaker 1: film from practice with formations, the guys can visually put
Speaker 1: themselves in there. And it's another way, just as opposed
Speaker 1: to just sitting in the meeting room and just watching film.
Speaker 1: And it's another way to break it up and give
Speaker 1: the guys a different opportunity to learn. What about these rookies,
Speaker 1: how are they doing for you? They're doing great, They're
Speaker 1: coming in. You know, we're putting a lot on their plate,
Speaker 1: but they're coming in competing every day and just showing
Speaker 1: up working and um that's been the beauty of it.
Speaker 1: And I just see guys continue to get better. It's
Speaker 1: got to help going against these receivers too, because not
Speaker 1: only do you have the veterans, but some of these
Speaker 1: young guys look like they have some game. It is
Speaker 1: and you know, I tell the guys, you know, we
Speaker 1: got the you know, we got a guy and hopped
Speaker 1: as big as physical with the catch, you know, number
Speaker 1: one receiver in the NFL. Then you got a guy
Speaker 1: will full of that's a great route running, can stretch
Speaker 1: the field. And then you've got a great slot receiver
Speaker 1: and Qut that we see. So we're getting it from
Speaker 1: all angles, which is great for us. And then we
Speaker 1: have some talented tight ends that our safeties are going again.
Speaker 1: So it's been a great It's been great for us
Speaker 1: to be able to go gets those guys and compete
Speaker 1: in practice. Yeah, and the safeties, it looks like the
Speaker 1: veterans you've added really are fitting in really well. I know,
Speaker 1: it's a different dynamic now compared to the group you
Speaker 1: had last year. But it looks like this group gets
Speaker 1: along and they've got great chemistry so far. No, no,
Speaker 1: you want to see it in these games. Ye, And
Speaker 1: that's what we're working towards since we started this thing,
Speaker 1: you know, back in coaching session building through OTA's up
Speaker 1: until now. It's just developing that chemistry and then guys
Speaker 1: just feeling comfortable with each other. But I feel good
Speaker 1: about you know, justin Gibb and Jalila Die, those guys
Speaker 1: have been great. You know. You know, to have a
Speaker 1: guy like Jilio that has starter experience and be able
Speaker 1: to come in and you know, be a part of
Speaker 1: that trio is pretty special. Joint practices. What do you
Speaker 1: get out of them? I like it because you get
Speaker 1: a chance to see the guys compete versus another team
Speaker 1: that's not you know, our team and see how they
Speaker 1: respond to that. And that was great, you know, to
Speaker 1: being Green Bay to see the guys do that. And
Speaker 1: then we got another opportunity to come versus Detroit with
Speaker 1: you had Green Bay with you know, Aaron Rodgers. Now
Speaker 1: we've got Stafford coming to town, so it's a good
Speaker 1: chance to go against another good quarterback. We have the
Speaker 1: sewan every day and then to go against these guys,
Speaker 1: it's been great for us, all right, Well more for
Speaker 1: you going back a little bit because you were with
Speaker 1: Michael Vicken College and when you look at the Sean,
Speaker 1: I know it's different, but you can't help but compare
Speaker 1: and contrast sometimes because they could both make plays with
Speaker 1: their legs. Yes, they extend plays, and it's the unscripted
Speaker 1: plays that they just can turn a negative play into
Speaker 1: a positive game. And that's what you know, give the
Speaker 1: defensive fits where you can't script. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: prepare for that. It's just the threat of that guy always,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to make a play with his
Speaker 1: legs or extend to play. And now on the back
Speaker 1: end we have to cover the guys longer. So it
Speaker 1: puts a lot of stress on you from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: But you know, I I was with Mike and then
Speaker 1: just to send the Sean. He has the same effect
Speaker 1: on the game and you know, to put the pressure
Speaker 1: on the defense with the things he does coach. Thanks
Speaker 1: a Loft for joining us. It's so funny that Mark
Speaker 1: brought it all the way back in nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: to start that interview talking about mids and the three
Speaker 1: interceptions he had and you talk about you talk about
Speaker 1: a game that turned on a dime. The Canes had
Speaker 1: gone ahead in that game, I believe is you're ten
Speaker 1: and nothing, are fourteen and nothing, and then it went sideways,
Speaker 1: completely and totally sideways. Vic was a That was his
Speaker 1: retched freshman year, so it was the first year that
Speaker 1: he was playing, and he was he was unbelievable. They
Speaker 1: scored forty three straight his mids. Talking about it was,
Speaker 1: as he said, it was a shelaki. That's probaly the
Speaker 1: best way of saying it. They destroyed Miami. That just
Speaker 1: didn't happen in Miami, no matter what Miami was going through.
Speaker 1: But that was a good Virginia Tech team. The next
Speaker 1: year in Miami in two thousand, they started. You could
Speaker 1: start to see where this program was going back to, like, oh,
Speaker 1: here they come. Because I was one on one a
Speaker 1: national championship two thousand and two. They lost that one
Speaker 1: to Ohio State, but they were right in it. That
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine team. Really the Miami team took it
Speaker 1: on the champ but that Virginia Tech ninety nine team
Speaker 1: a bunch of lunch pale guys. I got, like Anthony
Speaker 1: midget in the secondary kind of leading and keeping things together.
Speaker 1: The only loss that year was the Florida State and
Speaker 1: National championship game. And had Peter Wark been suspended for
Speaker 1: the whole year after the whole Dillard's incident, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people thought he should have been Anthony Mids
Speaker 1: who have a national championship ring. Michael Vick was unbelievable
Speaker 1: in that game. The only player better than him on
Speaker 1: the field that night was Peter Warick. Peter Warwick was amazing,
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. His number. I just saw his numbers the
Speaker 1: other day. Somebody had had put it online, like the
Speaker 1: top fifty performances by players in the state of Florida
Speaker 1: for Florida colleges, and they mentioned that game and Mits
Speaker 1: played in that game and they took a thirty I
Speaker 1: think they took. They took a twenty nine to twenty
Speaker 1: eight lead in that game in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: Victus bringing him back and like, Wow, he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna do this. I've never seen this happen in Florida
Speaker 1: State defense. And then Peter Warwick went off in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and they ended up winning a game. I
Speaker 1: think it was forty three to twenty nine or something
Speaker 1: like that. But wow, what a team of Virginia Tech
Speaker 1: team had back in nineteen ninety nine with Anthony Midget.
Speaker 1: Now you're Houston Texans secondary leader. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back with a little bit of Dirty dozen with
Speaker 1: Cullen Gillespia. We are also I'm gonna hit a few
Speaker 1: news and notes from the day against the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: some of the things that stood out and some of
Speaker 1: the things I'll be looking forward to tomorrow. We'll do
Speaker 1: that next on Texans All Access. One found a segment
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the hunday at Texans Radio Studio.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna started singing sorry for that. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: John Harris Football anost A sideline reporter. Day one the
Speaker 1: Lions joint practices in the books. I will say I
Speaker 1: found two more people that weren't the happiest about joy practices.
Speaker 1: I'm both affiliated to the U of H. I won't
Speaker 1: I won't spill their guts on the radio, but one
Speaker 1: one a Heisman Trophy winner there and wants the head
Speaker 1: coach there. Yeah, I think I could have talked him
Speaker 1: into it, but I start I see their point when
Speaker 1: I heard it from them. I was like, that kind
Speaker 1: of makes some sense, Like I get it. I understand
Speaker 1: because he as a head coach, you think about the
Speaker 1: injury aspect, like how do I keep my guys healthy
Speaker 1: throughout this? But I think colleges, colleges should should be
Speaker 1: able to do that. Go up and you know, University
Speaker 1: Houston goes to I don't know, goes over to LSU
Speaker 1: and practices against them for a couple of days just
Speaker 1: to see somebody in a different colored jersey. I know,
Speaker 1: as a player, that broke up the monotony. I broke
Speaker 1: it up for me, but maybe maybe not for us.
Speaker 1: But I love these joy practices I always have, and
Speaker 1: I see the value in them. But maybe I see
Speaker 1: a little bit of what they're talking about. And so
Speaker 1: therefore I shouldn't be so hard on Aaron Rodgers for
Speaker 1: his thoughts. So Aaron, I take it back slightly. Shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been as I shouldn't have ambushed you as much.
Speaker 1: But either way, that's kind of the way it goes. Now,
Speaker 1: a guy that loves practice, loves games, loves aggies, loves
Speaker 1: number twelve. Now he wears number forty four, and that's
Speaker 1: calling Gillespia draft in the seventh round, and I've told
Speaker 1: the story and I'll tell a story every every time.
Speaker 1: We talked about calling Gillespia about pro day back in
Speaker 1: in March for the Aggies, and I was I had
Speaker 1: always gone, and I always go. But I realized about
Speaker 1: halfway down my drive, I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna see anybody today. All those guys did
Speaker 1: their workouts before to Common and they all did pretty well,
Speaker 1: So I don't know why, why should I do this?
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'll go anyways. I like going
Speaker 1: down there. I like pro days. And I was standing
Speaker 1: just to the left of calling Gillespie when he rass
Speaker 1: forty and I turned my man, Tyler Suttart, and I said, SuDS,
Speaker 1: that's a great time. He did it again, and I
Speaker 1: was like, sudds, that might be an even better time.
Speaker 1: When he was asked afterwards, he said, my unofficial time
Speaker 1: that I heard was four for eight. Now I think
Speaker 1: what they posted was like four or five five either way.
Speaker 1: At six one two thirty five pounds, that's smoking fast.
Speaker 1: And that really is what helped calling Gillespia get a
Speaker 1: local prote invite. He ran very well again, had some
Speaker 1: good meetings, and the Texans were convinced I was the
Speaker 1: guy we needed to have in this organization. They dropped
Speaker 1: him to seventh round. A guy who grew up a
Speaker 1: Texas fan is now with Drew Doherty with the Dirty Dozen.
Speaker 1: Here's calling Glespia. It's exciting. We've got rookie Colin de
Speaker 1: Lesbia here with us and Culin. How do you prepare
Speaker 1: your hair for practice? Oh? I don't really. I don't
Speaker 1: really mess with it, you know. I warm up in
Speaker 1: a buns, I'm gonna get in my face, and then
Speaker 1: once once practice, stars is just out. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: So how do you prepare your hair when you're going out?
Speaker 1: When I'm going out, keep it in a bunt. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not too big on wearing it down. It
Speaker 1: gets hot, so I kind of just keep it pulled up.
Speaker 1: I kind of grew it out so it looked cool
Speaker 1: hanging out of my helmet, and now it's just kind
Speaker 1: of stuggled me. Brian Cushing just asked me to ask you,
Speaker 1: when are you going to cut the hair? I don't
Speaker 1: really plan on cutting the hair because you want me
Speaker 1: to cut my hair. I'm not. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: plan on cutting it. I also can't predict the future,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. For the record, I don't think you should.
Speaker 1: I think you should be your own man. Cut it
Speaker 1: when you want it, if you want to cut it,
Speaker 1: But don't cut it because that guy said to otherwise.
Speaker 1: Breakfast burritos or breakfast tacos, breakfast taco? What do you
Speaker 1: put on them? Everything? So? Is it like chariso? Is it?
Speaker 1: What's the what's the build up? Like a steak egg? Guawk?
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta have pico, you gotta have some
Speaker 1: hot sauce, pretty much everything. What's on the perfect hamburger?
Speaker 1: Perfect hamburger? Perfect hamburger? Is the Patty Meil from Waterburger,
Speaker 1: double meat, double cheese. You got the pattymil sauce, some
Speaker 1: saunteed onions. If you're feeling a little risky, you can
Speaker 1: throw some girl to hallopenios on there. That's that's my
Speaker 1: go too. So you're kind of dangerous, she'll throw the
Speaker 1: hallopenios on home. Oh, I'm I'm all for the spicy.
Speaker 1: I got you. So you're not into making them, you're
Speaker 1: into buying them? Right? Yeah? I mean, I mean I
Speaker 1: like I like growing. I'm not afraid of though I'm
Speaker 1: on the pit. But Patty Meil from water Burgers, just
Speaker 1: that's my thing. It's not too bad today after practice
Speaker 1: here in Houston, but after a really hot one, how
Speaker 1: do you cool off? How do you? As Brandon done
Speaker 1: like to say, how do you get your life back together?
Speaker 1: Get my life back together? I usually get inside and
Speaker 1: get on dressed and go straight to the cold tub.
Speaker 1: I gotta go and start recovering my body. A little
Speaker 1: bit of a body shot, going from one hundred degrees
Speaker 1: to about thirty five degrees in that cold tub. But
Speaker 1: it cools you down and get your body ride and
Speaker 1: helps you recover. You've been all about business since you
Speaker 1: got here. But how nice is it? You're a Katie
Speaker 1: Taylor mustang. How nice is it being close to home?
Speaker 1: You've got some friends and family here at every practice,
Speaker 1: it seems how nice is it? Just getting to connect
Speaker 1: with them, see them and see them, get to do
Speaker 1: what you do for a living. It's just a blessing.
Speaker 1: It's a blessing to be able to be about twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five mention from home. Yesterday was off day. I
Speaker 1: got to go home again he's dinner with the family.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, I've got family and friends
Speaker 1: coming almost every practice, so it kind of shows the
Speaker 1: sport group I have behind me, and I couldn't be
Speaker 1: more thankful to be where I'm at. How about of
Speaker 1: fellow rookies, which of them has the best hairy h
Speaker 1: of the rookies, who's got the best hair? I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think here. I think my boy, Albert Huggins, he's
Speaker 1: got some. He's got some pretty sweet dreads. I think
Speaker 1: I think he get rocket a little bit. Who's the
Speaker 1: best dresser out of the rookies. It's definitely not me,
Speaker 1: I'll come I got no style. What I got like
Speaker 1: the Texas style, like jeans, boots, like some wranglers, maybe
Speaker 1: like a polo. I actually made fun of a lot.
Speaker 1: I've had to redo my wardrobe a couple of times
Speaker 1: to fit in. But best dresser I think Lonnie. Lonnie
Speaker 1: has got some pretty good style. Okay, you know you
Speaker 1: just piqued my interest. The boots. What's the perfect pair
Speaker 1: of boots for you? I've got to Luke, hey, I
Speaker 1: got all types of boots, and you have a go
Speaker 1: to set though that you wear for just like the
Speaker 1: most special occasions. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's my Luke
Speaker 1: Casey austrich Skins. So have you gone to a lot
Speaker 1: of rodeo concerts? Oh, first concert ever I think was
Speaker 1: here and it was either Maroon five or Alan Jackson
Speaker 1: my Tho was my first two concerts. I was probably
Speaker 1: ten years old, and last year I don't think I
Speaker 1: made any any Two years ago I made a Turnpike Troubadours.
Speaker 1: I'm big on the rodeo. Now that I'm here officially
Speaker 1: and i'm living here, I'll try and make it every night.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about joining a committee as well. You're in
Speaker 1: hog Heaven. Oh that committee. I mean, you've got a
Speaker 1: whole range of things you can do there. Ye got
Speaker 1: a couple of buddies, all my college buddies. Committees so
Speaker 1: kind of the fun thing to do. Being in your
Speaker 1: twenties young, you're gonna do a little bit of volunteer work.
Speaker 1: That's something I'm definitely looking forward to. Okay, last thing,
Speaker 1: you've been to Maroon five, You've been down in Jackson,
Speaker 1: Turnpike Trouberts. But of all of them, is there one
Speaker 1: that stood up as the best. What's the best country
Speaker 1: you've been to here at the rodeo. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely a Texas country guy. I've seen Zach Brown band,
Speaker 1: It's been great. Oh you know, I've seen him all.
Speaker 1: I've seen everybody's come here, but Turnpike Trobberdoors are definitely
Speaker 1: my favorite. Like I said, I'm Texas Country all the way.
Speaker 1: So you got Turnpike. I think I saw Cody Johnson.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd like to see my boy Parker McCallum
Speaker 1: get to come through. He's one of my favorite right
Speaker 1: now as well. So all those guys are really amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll pass that on to the Houston Livestock
Speaker 1: Show and Rodeo Booking Committee that Parker Parker McCollum twice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out Parker McCall and. We need he needs to
Speaker 1: We need to get him a rodeo spot. Colin, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for the time. We really appreciate it. Best
Speaker 1: to luck through camping on into twenty nineteen. I appreciate
Speaker 1: it that my friends was Colin Gillespia the twelfth Man.
Speaker 1: They will have more twelfth men at Texas A and
Speaker 1: M University. They will have more twelfth men. I don't
Speaker 1: know that they will have one that was received and
Speaker 1: is such a legend, like a last FIA. Now, they
Speaker 1: did a textags who I do radio work for, and
Speaker 1: I've been on this. Then I worked with the site.
Speaker 1: So they did a documentary on Colin and it was
Speaker 1: really good. Colin was a heck of a player coming
Speaker 1: out of high school. I mean, I'm not gonna play
Speaker 1: down on the twelfth Man thing, but the guy should
Speaker 1: have had a Skollie early, but he didn't. And he
Speaker 1: ended up earning that Scylli when he was at TEXASM
Speaker 1: and he got it through doing what you seem to
Speaker 1: have practice every day, working his tail off, flying on
Speaker 1: special teams, and then they added the offensive component the
Speaker 1: final year he was at A and M. And I
Speaker 1: think that is what put it over the top. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're always looking for players and athletes and rare spots,
Speaker 1: and hey, is a guy from the SEC that just
Speaker 1: ran on special teams worthy of being drafted? Probably not,
Speaker 1: But what if I tell you that he can play fullback?
Speaker 1: He runs four five, he gets the ball the backfield.
Speaker 1: What about now? Oh okay, Now it's intriguing. And that
Speaker 1: obviously is what the Texans banked on and what they
Speaker 1: were able to find with calling Gillespia, he is a
Speaker 1: heck of a story. He's not just a try hard,
Speaker 1: rudy guy. This is the guy that is going to
Speaker 1: be able to contribute to this organization. And hope that
Speaker 1: he continues to guy was a fan of the organization.
Speaker 1: Want to see how long he can stay here. But
Speaker 1: having a guy like that around and a good interview
Speaker 1: obviously with Drew Doherty the twelfth man. Now we're a
Speaker 1: number forty four it calling Gillespia, all right, a few
Speaker 1: notes and thoughts about practice. I will start with DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins and Will Fuller. No Kiki qt is still coming
Speaker 1: back from the injury, but I mentioned or I had
Speaker 1: this SoundBite from hop earlier. He was asked about the
Speaker 1: trio the three kik QT, Fuller and Hopkins, or can
Speaker 1: you guys be the best trio on the league? Are
Speaker 1: you the best trio in the league? And hop is like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we expect to be. And when No Kiki is Fuller
Speaker 1: and Hopkins the best duo in the league, and that
Speaker 1: to me is is I mean, there's some good duos,
Speaker 1: but I'll take this one. And on Wednesday, those two
Speaker 1: both showed out I thought they had probably the two
Speaker 1: best offensive plays of the day, and obviously the throws
Speaker 1: from Deshaun Watson were on point. The first one was
Speaker 1: Will Fuller on the far sideline. I couldn't tell if
Speaker 1: it was a double move. I was kind of watching
Speaker 1: the secondary on my side, so I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was a double move. But he got down behind with
Speaker 1: Sean No No behind Darius Slay on the far sideline,
Speaker 1: and Deshaan just lofted one beautifully. Fuller makes the catch
Speaker 1: toe taps didn't bounce, probably about twenty five thirty yard catch,
Speaker 1: and they kind of ended up, you know, Slay and Fuller,
Speaker 1: you know, slit trying to make a play floor making catch,
Speaker 1: kind of fell into each other, fell on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: and the fans are cheering the catch, and then when
Speaker 1: Will got up and started running back to the huddle,
Speaker 1: it was as if they started cheering even more, like
Speaker 1: they got it, like they understood, like that was a
Speaker 1: that was a big play. That's a guy we gotta have.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool to see the fans react the
Speaker 1: way they did. Then a little while later, they were
Speaker 1: working on red zone drill and Hop was on the
Speaker 1: right side and as I'm looking at like that single
Speaker 1: coverage that's slant or fade, and so Slay immediately took
Speaker 1: away the fade. So Hop ran a slant and then
Speaker 1: just kept going to the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: So he's running along the back of the end zone
Speaker 1: and you could tell he's got two steps on Sleigh
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Shui, throw it, throw it, And so
Speaker 1: when he threw it, he kind of threw it behind Hop.
Speaker 1: Hop actually slid down first, and then as he was
Speaker 1: on the ground he kind of reached up with his
Speaker 1: right hand and brought it into his body for the catch.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that we see Hop do all the time, like, hey,
Speaker 1: great catch, Hop Hop touchdown it right down on my notes.
Speaker 1: But it's not something we should take from grant. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just one. It was one heck of a catch.
Speaker 1: But seeing those two work against the Detroit secondary, and
Speaker 1: I'll give it the secondary for the lines of credit
Speaker 1: and one on one drills, those guys did some good.
Speaker 1: They got some guys that are long, they're physical, they
Speaker 1: get after a little bit on that on that secondary. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that was it was good to see Hop and Fuller
Speaker 1: have a couple of good days, especially in team drills,
Speaker 1: and I see Will Fuller back at it with hop
Speaker 1: because that dudo is going to be pretty nasty, and
Speaker 1: I have Deshan Watson throwing to him. That was That
Speaker 1: was good stuff. The Texans run defense, which I thought
Speaker 1: was stellar in Green Bay, was stellar last year and
Speaker 1: it's really really good. So the Lions got after him
Speaker 1: a little bit. And that's one thing that I will
Speaker 1: definitely have my eyes on tomorrow how the Texans front responds,
Speaker 1: because I didn't think the Lions had a couple of
Speaker 1: times where they gashed the run in there a few times,
Speaker 1: and that's not something that Texas defense is used to.
Speaker 1: It really isn't. Justin Reid with a with a big
Speaker 1: pick at the end a situational drill that Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: got a little bit of rush in his face and
Speaker 1: kind of faded away from it to throw sailed on
Speaker 1: him as he was looking at a crosser and Justin
Speaker 1: Reid playing it looked like maybe two man I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but he was playing, Uh, he was not in man coverage.
Speaker 1: He was kind of full of the top of a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff and he ended up picking off the
Speaker 1: pass to end that situational drill. Kaymi Fairbir was money
Speaker 1: all day long. They did a situational drill, the same
Speaker 1: one that staffered through the interception. The Texans had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to go at it. Completed a couple of passes,
Speaker 1: there was a holding, there was interference, then a couple
Speaker 1: of completions, so it was fourth down at the forty
Speaker 1: I think there were fifteen seconds on the clock and
Speaker 1: fourth down brought out Kaymi from fifty seven and nailed it.
Speaker 1: Just put it right through. I mean nailed it right
Speaker 1: down the middle would have been good from sixty. Just
Speaker 1: bombed it. And it was funny because Karrion Johnson was
Speaker 1: in front of me and he made some comment about
Speaker 1: their kicker, about Matt Prator. He's like, oh, Prayer could
Speaker 1: have made that too, and I just was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but our kickers better and he and he said something
Speaker 1: about prayers like your kickers just older prayers. Very good though.
Speaker 1: We were just kind of joking around, but he started saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: my kickers got a beer, guys he's talking about. I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty funny. Carry on. John's at a
Speaker 1: day too. He's a fun guy to watch really really
Speaker 1: fun guy to watch. For the Detroit Lions. Tomorrow, I'll
Speaker 1: be taking a look at our dbs against their wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They've got Marvin Jones, who did that practice the day
Speaker 1: they got Kenny Galladay, and I did not see much
Speaker 1: of Dannie am Adulta had a different slot receiver in
Speaker 1: there for a lot of today. They're not blessed with
Speaker 1: the best group of pass catchers in the league. But
Speaker 1: I thought our secondary and team drills in particularly did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job. So I didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to see them go against the receivers because I was
Speaker 1: watching our receivers and our tight ends against their guys.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna flip that tomorrow, so I'll be watching that.
Speaker 1: I want to check out the run defense. No DJ
Speaker 1: Reader yesterday, so I want to say that group responds
Speaker 1: without Reader if he's not in a line up without
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins. See how they respond, See if they played
Speaker 1: a little bit better than they did yesterday. And then
Speaker 1: I'll continue to watch our offensive line against their defensive line.
Speaker 1: There's no Snacks Harrison, no Trey Flowers, but no offensive
Speaker 1: lines getting some good work. Seeing Max Sharping move in
Speaker 1: and out from guard to tackle. See how that looks
Speaker 1: tight us the same thing. See how he looks going
Speaker 1: from guard to tackle. Get some reps at both. I
Speaker 1: think that's been good for them. So those are just
Speaker 1: a few of the notes from today, some of the
Speaker 1: things I would be looking for tomorrow. Got a lot
Speaker 1: of people to thank for today's show. Hearts sound from
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, from DeAndre Hopkins from Whitney, Merciless from Matt Khalil,
Speaker 1: Mark Vandemir, had Anthony Midgett on the show, Drew Dorty
Speaker 1: his Dirty Dozen with rookie Cullen Gillespia. You were here
Speaker 1: and that means everything that you were able to hang
Speaker 1: with me for this hour show. We'll be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the voice that Texas, Mark Vandemir in house. We
Speaker 1: will talk to you then, everybody, and as always, go Texans,