1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome into a Friday edition of 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, Football Ana, a South one reporter, 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: and we are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, five days. I'd 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: do some quick counting there, real fast, and I did 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: use my fingers just because you can't see me do it. 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: Not that I normally do that, but it's always good 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: when you get up in age a little bit to 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: kind of use your fingers. You tell us how much 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: you're trying to count a little bit. And my son 11 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: caught me doing that last night. I was trying to 12 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: figure out the days, and hecaus were doing I was 13 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: like counting. I mean, who doesn't use their fingers to count? 14 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: Either way, we got a good show for you. Mark 15 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: Vannimer is gonna be by in the next segment to 16 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: do a little gut reaction to all that's going on. Man, 17 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: there's a ton going on throughout the world's sports, including 18 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: an ongoing story seemingly with Rick Dennison with the Minnesota Vikings. 19 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: There was a report today, then there was a statement, 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: and it feels like they're trying to work some stuff out. 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with the Vikings, but 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: it's kind of crazy with COVID and vaccinations and coaches 23 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: and players, and yesterday there are a lot of players 24 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: making noise. One that made his home here for a 25 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: number of years, Cole Beasley and the Bills are fighting 26 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: over Twitter about vaccination. It's it's nuts. The NFL putting 27 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: its foot down yesterday saying, look, here's the deal, non 28 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: vaccinated players. Sorry, you're gonna have to go through, you know, 29 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: all these hoops and jumps like you did last year. 30 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, there are gonna be no 31 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: forfeits this year. Not gonna move games around the way 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: that they did last year. And if they can't find 33 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: another they can't find another place to put that game. 34 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: Then year out, both teams are out game checks the 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: team that then forfeits on the rerecord. It's it's it's crazy, 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: but taking drastic measures at this point because it feels 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: like drastic measures are needed heading into the twenty twenty 38 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: one season. But we'll talk a little bit about that 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: with Mark and much more, no doubt, but we're gonna 40 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: kick off today's show with two guys that are very 41 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: very good on the radio. One who works for us, 42 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: Drew Dorty, one who used to work for US and 43 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: did radio while he was working and applying for US, 44 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: And that was Antonio Smith. You heard if you listen 45 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: to our in the Lab podcast, me tell the story 46 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: of Antonio Smith's first practice with the Texans back in 47 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. And it's one of the funniest 48 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: stories I think that I have in my time of 49 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: being with the Texas. It was great. But he is 50 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: fantastic on the radio because he's pretty much unfiltered and 51 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: just let's fly. And Drew had a chance to catch 52 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: up with the Ninja Antonio Smith. Some fun stuff here 53 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: from Drew and from anton on you. It is always 54 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: a good day when you get to talk with Antonio Smith, Antonio, 55 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 1: the Ninja, ton Stradamus, Tone, There's so many wonderful nicknames 56 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: for you. We've missed you so much. It's great to 57 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: see your smiling face. How are you, Oh, blessed man, 58 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: I'm blessed. Take you some time off, you know. I 59 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: hear you, I hear you. Know. When we were setting 60 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: this up, you're huffing, you were puffing. You've just gotten 61 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: in from a workout. So what was that all about? 62 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: You said, you're trying to get get into shape, get 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: back into shape? What's going on? Yeah? Yeah, you got Hey, 64 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: sometimes you just got to let yourself go so you 65 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: can rebuild, you know. And I've made that rebuild and 66 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: priced it. Okay, Okay, you've done that a time or 67 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: two in your life, haven't you. Oh yeah, about a million? Yeah, 68 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: a million v jillion? Well where are you these days? 69 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: What are you up to? What's going on in your world? Well? 70 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: I'm still in Oklahoma. Uh, got my brands, going out 71 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: here and raising my babies. That's it. That's it. When 72 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: you say babies, what are you talking about? Which babies 73 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: I choose? Oh? Your children? Okay, I didn't know if 74 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: you're talking about like kids. I know we're talking about cattle, 75 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: horses or what because all that too, got cattle, got horses? 76 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: Oh um, rabbits really as my daughter's doing though your daughters. 77 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: So you started probably with one or two rabbits and 78 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: you got like six thousand now because that's what rabbits do. 79 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: Now we have to start right now too. Oh you're 80 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: only have two? Yeah, but she's playing it on breed. Yeah, 81 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: I mean by the time this podcast finishes, they'll you'll 82 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: probably have like a dozen, right, Yes, yes, Well, you 83 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: played defensive end for you know, a decade or so 84 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: in the NFL. A lot of that was with the Texans, 85 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: some of that was with the Cardinals before that. Afterwards, 86 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: you want a Super Bowl ring with the Wrongers, And 87 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: you came back to the Texans for a nice stint 88 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: there in a year when the Texans had a really 89 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: good team and you were a key guy for down 90 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: the stretch. But you know, what do you remember most 91 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: fondly about that first stretch with the Texans? You signed 92 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine and then you were here 93 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: through twenty thirteen. Um, most finally, what I remember is, uh, 94 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: the feeling of you know, being desired, wanted, you know, 95 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: because truthfully, you know, I I was. I'm a person 96 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: who plays with my heart, so my heart was with Arizona. 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: Didn't didn't understand the business of the game, didn't understand 98 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: why did why they wasn't trying to sign me back. 99 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,119 Speaker 1: But after going through that feeling of not feeling wanted 100 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: and coming in Houston and first people I met was 101 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: Travis and and with Travis Johnson and then Andre, uh huh, 102 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: right off, right off the bat. We hit it off, 103 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 1: and there's one last like, that's one of my memorable moments. 104 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: They took me to Popados, which became like my my 105 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: week weekly place to eat after that. Never had you know, 106 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: had popados like that before. They had one in Arizona, 107 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: but it didn't taste the same. Yeah, so that that 108 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: was that was a big one when I first got there. 109 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: First memorable moment was was that, you know, feeling like, 110 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: all right, I'm at home. Those are two good guys 111 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: to to kind of welcome you in. I mean, Travis Johnson. 112 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: I don't know as that guy ever met a stranger maybe, No, No, 113 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: he knows everybody and remembers everything. Yeah, he's on. He's 114 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: on a higher level than tones to dam that's high praise, man, 115 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: I don't know about that is high praise. Hold on 116 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: now wow. And then you bring up Andre. I mean 117 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: he's I guess personality wise quite a bit different, but man, 118 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: he's special in his own way too. Oh yeah, oh yeah. 119 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: Like I said, those two guys brought me right in, 120 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: made me feel at home. Andre stay family, you know, 121 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: Travis stay family, Mario stay family. Shane Cody, Connell, Cushion, 122 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: uh Sharp, all of them stay family, you know, and 123 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: all of them you know here and there we keep 124 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: in touch with each other. Yeah, you know, you guys 125 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: were really tight off the field. Those names you just 126 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: brought up. That was the core of probably the best 127 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: defense that this franchise has ever had. If you go 128 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: to that twenty eleventh season, not all of them were 129 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: there at that time, but many and most were. Tell 130 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: me about that two eleven squad, How good was that defense? 131 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: Because you played on some great ones four and after 132 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: your time there with the Texans um in my opinion, 133 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: I felt like we was we were the best defense 134 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: in the league. You know, it was some weeks there 135 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: we was competing number one, number two, then something big happening. 136 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: We'll dropped right number four, number five, and then we'll 137 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: come back up to number three. But the way I 138 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: felt about our team, like healthy, we were unstoppable. But 139 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: both those years we just was fighting injuries. But it 140 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: was fun. Yeah, it was fun to play with those 141 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: guys and for us to just pin our ears back 142 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: and get to go. You know, hell of a lot 143 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: of talent on those two defensive squads. What did Wade 144 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: Phillips do to kind of harness that talent and set 145 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: you guys free. You know, what I tell everybody about 146 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: Wade mad love Way is that he comes in with 147 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: the attitude of letting you be you. For when he 148 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: first came in, he was watching us, watch filmed on us, obviously, 149 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: but then as we was going through OTAs and things 150 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: like that, he was watching us. You know, he came. 151 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: I know, he came to me individually, you know, telling me, 152 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: you know, what my attributes was and how he was 153 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 1: going to use that, you know in his uh because 154 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: we was in four or three at that time before 155 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: he came in, and when he came he went to 156 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: a three or four. I never really played that defense, 157 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: but he told me it was gonna be the same, 158 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: and he let me be more of me did I 159 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: ever had had ever been, you know, I always had 160 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: to play within the framework of the defense, being an 161 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: underside three technique outside in old like outside in. But 162 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: he just letting me do me, and he let everybody do. 163 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: He let Cushion off the chain. I think that was 164 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: with Cushion and Demiko brains bronze, you know, letting him 165 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: just just tear stuff up. You know, Wade just had 166 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: a knack for letting you um perform at the best 167 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: of your ability, trying to make you do stuff in 168 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: the framework of how he sees it. In his defense. 169 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: He made the defense fit around us, and that was 170 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: uncommon that allowing you guys to to kind of accentuate 171 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: your strengths was And you didn't see that with other 172 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: defensive coaches. And you're in your time in the league 173 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: all the time, did you, Uh No, Because you know 174 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: coaches have they set ways and defense and they have 175 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: a vision of what you can do and that thing 176 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: they want to use for their defense. Wade was more 177 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: or less like, um, okay, I see all that this 178 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 1: kid can do. I can I didn't bring this defense 179 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: for so many years that I could tweak it any 180 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: type of way to fit penetrators, uh, two gappers, whatever 181 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: whatever that you that he needed. And in that defense 182 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: we did both. Some guys played on the line of 183 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: scrimmage two gaping, some guys was penetrating guys and it 184 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: just it just worked out for it was all just 185 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: having fun. Some of the funds the funnest years of 186 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: my life playing in football. Yeah, you bring up the 187 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: fund and I don't want to make this all about 188 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: Wade Phillips, So this is the final way of Phillips question. 189 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: But when we talked with Cody a couple of weeks 190 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: ago doing this, he said play playing for Wade Phillips 191 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: was like playing for a stand up comedian at times. 192 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: Clearly the guy, the guy is one of the brilliant 193 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: minds in all of NFL history. But he was funny one, 194 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: n't he. Oh Yeah, just when you least expected, He'll 195 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: walk through the locker room and we'd be playing music 196 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: and here just pop out and do some crazy dance 197 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: or tell you some crazy better for his sister, humor 198 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 1: was uh uh second to none other than uh shine 199 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: Cody right right. And you had you You had your 200 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: good times with Cody too, didn't you. You? You kind 201 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: of got you the ninja character and tonstra Damas came 202 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: unleashed and got kind of more exposed to the public, 203 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: didn't it. Yeah, my family still laugh about that to 204 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: this day. Yeah, the family you're blood related to, and 205 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: then your Texans fan family too, because we still get 206 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: people from time to time will say, what's he up to? What? 207 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: We love seeing that? That that video, But where did 208 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: that come from. I mean, I know the story you've 209 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: told him a few times, but for those that haven't, 210 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: you used to celebrate, you know, like a ninja after 211 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: a sack, and you had your your fair share of sacks. 212 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: Here where that gonna come from? How much fun did 213 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: you have when you got going with that? Um? Oh man, 214 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: it was. It was amazing, so much fun. Like I said, 215 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: got to be me that That's that's who I am, 216 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: That's how I am. Uh. Even before you know I 217 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: created that that dance, I've always been uh into martial 218 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: arts from a kid um martial arts movie, Mega fan, 219 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: anime fan, and you know, we was having that that 220 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: first year, you know, where we was kind of come 221 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: out of that slump. You know, it is kind of 222 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: winning some games, losing some games. So we wanted to 223 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: create something that can give us like some excitement to play. 224 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: And so we always said, we're gonna go home and 225 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: create us a sack dance, you know. And I saw 226 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 1: that movie Ninja Assassin. It right at the end of 227 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: the movie did and so I took that and I 228 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 1: turned it into the Ninja Assassin. You still do you 229 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: still do any ninja stuff? Nowadays? I can't even get 230 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: that out in my blood. Yeah, every night, and then 231 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: I do some great every night. And so are your 232 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: days now or I mean, is it mainly you're you're farming, 233 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: you're ranching, you're you're you're taking care of what's going 234 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: on up there. Yeah, mainly that's it, you know, just 235 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: just getting that time that I didn't get to spin 236 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: out of time with my boys or my daughter, Um, 237 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: showing them a little bit of the country life because 238 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: they kind of half city, mostly city and half country 239 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: and um, just enjoying that, you know, enjoying, joy that time, 240 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: getting spending with them. Yeah. It's a different, different way 241 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: of living. You know, it's it's something that most NFL 242 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: players are not accustomed to. You know, there's a few 243 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: guys on the current team that they grew up on 244 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: a farm, but most guys didn't grow up on a farm. 245 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: And it was fun. Sometimes you'd show up the Texans games, 246 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: relieve Texans games, the cowboy hat on cowboy boots. I mean, 247 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: you grew up that way, you're living that way. Now. 248 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: How how special do you think that is to you? 249 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: And for you to have gone through that and and 250 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: be a little bit different in that regard. Um, I think, Um, 251 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: it's it's like one of the most important uh aspects 252 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: of my upbringing because at the time why I needed 253 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: piece it became peace, you know. And now you know, 254 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: when leaving football and trying to you know, get you know, 255 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: reacclimated to regular life. You know the farm, I mean 256 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: the ranch and the animals and the peace inquired, getting 257 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: to do what I want to do, shoot, ride for 258 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: with us, get bucked off with losses, jump back on 259 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: them with I have to worry about practicing today. It's 260 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: it's it's is. I can't even think of the words 261 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: for it. What it what it brings me? You know 262 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: that that I have such a place like that, and 263 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: my children have such a place. Or you can actually 264 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: let your kids go run outside. I don't have to 265 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: worry one thing about them getting hit by a car 266 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: or anything snatching them up. Just let them do kids, 267 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that's a valuable, valuable experience. You left 268 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: the Texans and you win a Super Bowl ring with 269 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, and you win it with your old 270 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: ball coach, Gary Kubiak. I'm guessing pinnacle of your career 271 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: when that happened. Um, I would have to say no, no, really, okay, 272 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: some of those those years that we had down there 273 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: in Houston was was a pinnacle. You know, um Um, 274 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: definitely it felt awesome, uh to win a Super Bowl, 275 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: especially with Bill, with Coop, with Wade and all the coaches, 276 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: you know, mum, for them to know how close we 277 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: got Houston and knowing that if we really had the 278 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: chance to get past those two powerhouses, we probably could 279 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: have been super Bowl champs. You know, uh in that 280 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: own right, you know, it felt good. But those times 281 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: we had um um in Houston and that they they 282 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: right up there, yeah, at the top, you know, at 283 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: the top. And you know me I played more of 284 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: a supporting role up there with the Broncos and watching 285 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: those junksters, um um, just reek having man and that 286 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: that that that team was exciting. Now they put us 287 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: to shame, but having fun. Now that group up there 288 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: and then what they love playing with each other. They 289 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: have fun. Um jokes. We had our own versions of 290 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: Sean Cody's and and you know, ever since uh Vine 291 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: came into league, you know, um, I always took to him, 292 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: you know, I always we met off the field and 293 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: he was just me and his dad hit hit off 294 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: right from the beginning, So just watching him and DeMarcus Man, 295 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: it was amazing. But I still don't think it stands 296 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: up to those years we had two thousand and eleven, 297 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve. Yeah, much different type of fun. Yeah, yeah, 298 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: that's that's for sure. What was it like when you 299 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: did come back, because it was it seemed like it 300 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: had been so long and it only been three years, 301 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: but it seemed like there was just this golf and 302 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: you come in in December of twenty sixteen, I believe, 303 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: and you really helped out. And you were next to 304 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: DJ Reader, who was a rookie at that time and 305 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: he's gone on to a really nice career. He was 306 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: a good Houston Texan here. But it was funcy you're 307 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 1: you're still there near JJ Watt. I mean, what was 308 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: that like that second time around for you? Um? Different 309 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:03,919 Speaker 1: because I was extremely out of shape a little. What 310 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 1: you're doing now is kind of what you were doing 311 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: back then in a different sort of way. Wasn't it 312 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: even less than this? You know, because I didn't Football 313 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: wasn't even on my mind, you know. But when I 314 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: got the phone called, definitely, uh Um, I'm a taxiing 315 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: at heart. And whatever. I feel like whatever's needed. Okay, 316 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: you know, Rick called me, asked me, you know what 317 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: I built a whole mom was I did in shape? 318 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I've been kind of doing 319 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: it a little bit, trying to at that time. I 320 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: was trying to build like a little teaching pass for 321 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: us thing. So I kind of but nah, I've never 322 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: been that heavy in my life playing football. But once 323 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: I got there, Um, I felt like it was a 324 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 1: red carpet. My number was waghing on me, My locker 325 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: was waging on the same, like the same number. Um. 326 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: The environment, you know it, it was a little bit different. 327 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: But uh uh, those those like, like I said, some 328 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: of my core guys were still there, Mushion was still there, 329 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: you know. Uh, and got to meet new guys. It 330 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: was fun to me. I enjoyed it. It was it was. 331 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: It was absolutely fun as an outside observer. It was 332 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: fun to see that dynamic that you still had with 333 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 1: the Watts, the Cushings, j Joe Man. But it's really 334 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: fun seeing guys like Reader. I think Christian Covington was 335 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: starting out too. They were they were kind of amused 336 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: by you, learning from you and taking quite a bit 337 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: because you know, you've seen it all at that point, 338 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 1: hadn't you? Oh yeah, oh yeah, man, it had been 339 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: a long career by then. I think when I came 340 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: back that made thirteen. Yeah, I made thirteen plus two 341 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: plus a year and in NFL year. So you know, um, 342 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: all I do the last few years of my career, 343 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: all I wanted to do was just pay for a 344 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: give give that information, that knowledge in which that I 345 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: had to pass it on, and watch them, you know, 346 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: make away in their own lives, you know, and and 347 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: and those guys was was was, like I said, having 348 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: fun for sure. And you know it's no surprise you're 349 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: still keep in touch with many of those those Texans teammates, 350 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: don't you mean? How often are you talking with guys? 351 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: And who are you talking with? Um man off for known? Um, 352 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 1: quite a few, you know, but consist like like the 353 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: most consistent would be the text thread of me having 354 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: daily comedy with Cody uh. He mentioned Cushion and Sharpton 355 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: and Brooks read jesse Man. I mean when I tell 356 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: you it's comedy, it's common and you know comed I 357 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: need to make a reality show just with these guys. 358 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: Oh well, listen, we love catching up with you. We 359 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: appreciate everything you did as a Texan, everything you're doing 360 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: with us right now, and you're gonna come back and 361 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: see us sometime soon. Oh yeah, definitely, most definitely. You 362 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: need to let us know when you're down here for 363 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: a game, because we want to We want to catch 364 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: up with you again and say hello, give you a 365 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: big hug and talk with you. Sound good? Sound good 366 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: to me? I'm there, the one, the only Antonio Smith. 367 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: We thank you so much for the time, and we 368 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: can't wait to see you again, my friend. Take care, 369 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: Take care. You're one of the things we interviews when 370 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: you do them, and you do them with guys, obviously, 371 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: you know you finish up the radio part and then 372 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: when you're done, you know you might say, hey, man, 373 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, whatever the case might be. Well, 374 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: Drew when he sent me that, he actually had the 375 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: rest kind of the interview attached to it, and Antonio 376 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: was so gracious and thankful that Drew asked him to 377 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: be on the air. I thought it was really really cool. 378 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: I didn't play that part because it's kind of outside 379 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: the perv you of the interview itself, but it was 380 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: just really neat to hear Antonio like, thanks, Drew, that 381 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: was really fun man, Thanks for having me on. It 382 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: just meant a lot to him, and I thought that 383 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: was really really cool to share that with the people 384 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: when I heard that. So Antonio Smith, great, great stuff. 385 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: Ninja all right, gut reaction time. Mark Vanney will join 386 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: me next right here on Texans All Access. Welcome back 387 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: to this Friday edition tgi FF. Thank god it's football 388 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texas All Access. I am John Harris, 389 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: football Analyst, silo report of your Houston Texans. Now joining 390 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: me the voice of the Texans, Mark vander Meer, also 391 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: my partner doing Texas Training Camp Live, which we will 392 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: take over Wednesday. I believe that is July twenty eighth, 393 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: eight am. Sport Train six ten will be there for 394 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: two weeks. Mark, I can't tell you how excited I 395 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: am looking forward to this. But then again, because this 396 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: is now the eighth year we've on this together, I 397 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: think you probably already know how I feel. I got 398 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: a feeling. I know how you feel as well. Yeah, 399 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: I feel great, Johnny. I was just down there earlier 400 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: at the set again, the set for Texas Radio, and 401 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 1: it's interesting because you have the twenty foot rule with 402 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: the fans, and you have the tears and it's just 403 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: a different kind of feel and look down there, and 404 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: they have these gigantic video monitors that I don't know 405 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: if we talked about. I think we did talk about 406 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: them during OTA's where they can actually have a meeting, 407 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: a quick little meeting like a five minuter like let's 408 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: go over that again and look at what you did 409 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: on the video right on the field. Or sometimes they 410 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: have and I think David Culley and Nicko Sirio talked 411 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: about this. Sometimes they'll have a meeting in the building, 412 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: but they'll go out and there's nothing like being out there, 413 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: of course, and they could say, all right, quick review, 414 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: here's what you need to do on the video, and 415 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: then go right to the field and do it, which 416 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: is just feet away. So they have a bunch of 417 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: those out there. They have the gigantic scoreboard for a 418 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: practice field that they had last year that we featured 419 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: on social media and we talked about on the radio. 420 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: So it's really cool to see the setup. But they're 421 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: not even done with some of the fans setup, because 422 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: you know that takes a while to build. It's a 423 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: PGA tent type stuff. But it'll get done in the 424 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: next couple of days and then the first public practice 425 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: is not for another week, so I guess that's why. 426 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: But the team will be out there on Wednesday. You know, 427 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: they'll be doing stuff on Tuesday. I believe the conditioning 428 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: test is on Tuesday. So it's here, Johnny. Several teams 429 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: already reporting and added the Cowboys Steelers are gonna be 430 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: that Hall of Fame game. They've been added. So this 431 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: is cool stuff. You want to watch a bunch of 432 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:45,439 Speaker 1: old heads just quake in their boots. Just walk up 433 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: next to them if you know they've played football, especially 434 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: in my era in the eighties and the nineties, and 435 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: just go. Your conditioning test is today, Oh not good, 436 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: Oh it's brutal. Isiing test was a little different. I've 437 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: always asked guys what the conditioning test is. I can't 438 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: remember what it is, and then Bill Brian, I think 439 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: it was it was hundreds or something like that. Well, 440 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: when we were in college, we did what was called 441 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: the ten forties test. In looking back, I remember hearing 442 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 1: about it and I was like, doesn't sound that hard, 443 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: but you ran two forties your fastest forties. Now you 444 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: could sandbag your forties, but it probably didn't help you 445 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 1: sandbag your forties because then your coach is like, well 446 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: he's only a four eight guy when you knew you 447 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: were forty six. So you don't want to sandbag your forties. 448 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: So you ran two forties, got your best time, then 449 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: you ran ten forties after that, oh with half? What 450 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: was it? It was thirty seconds in between each one. 451 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: So you get to the line and you go forty 452 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: number one and you take off and you they time you. 453 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: You'd have to be within half a second of your time, 454 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: So you ran four four. Every single forty had to 455 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: be four nine or less, and all you had was 456 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: thirty seconds in between. I'm telling you that piano got 457 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: into your back on Rep eight or nine and they 458 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: would count you down like you'd have to run thirty seconds. 459 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: They count you down five four three, and you could 460 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: go at any time. Holy smokes. The first couple, I'm like, 461 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: I'm good, dude, I'm gone. Yeah, and those last couple, 462 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: Holy smokes. I made it my sophomore year. I missed 463 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: it by one my senior year because I actually got faster, 464 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: I think, but man conditions and it's like the worst 465 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 1: words ever, conditioning test. I uh, I hate hearing those words. 466 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 1: Then again, I'm like, thank god, I never have to 467 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: do it again, because if I remember doing a conditioning 468 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: test ever again, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to HR 469 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: and tell them that you're being mean to me because 470 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: you're my boss. So I'm not I'm not gonna. I'm 471 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: not gonna go with that. Okay, all right, But two words. 472 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: The brain in Spain stays mainly on the plane again. 473 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: I don't know that I can do that. Yeah, I 474 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: don't know how I can do that. Okay. The two 475 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: words I know that I like to use that you 476 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: like is gut reaction. I like to do this. Well, 477 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, and it feels like there's 478 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: a lot going on in the world of sports life 479 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 1: all of that. Okay, So here's the first one for 480 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: gut reaction. The Cleveland Indians will be going forward, the 481 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians. Your gut reaction to the Indians name change. 482 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: You can't hang on to Indians. You just can't do it. 483 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: It's just it's twenty twenty one. It's just not gonna happen. 484 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: I know it's been there for what's one hundred and 485 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: ten years or a while. I think it's nineteen fifteen actually, 486 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: so it's been a long time. It's been over a 487 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: one hundred years. And it's just the way it is. 488 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: The word Indian fascinates me because you know, it's incorrect, right. 489 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: I understand that the explorers and whatnot came here and 490 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: they thought they were going to India and they saw 491 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: the natives and they said the Native Americans. They didn't 492 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: call them that, but they said, you guys are Indians. 493 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: And there's a comedian as a routine I think it 494 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: might be Louis k or somebody like that, and like, no, 495 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: we're not, this is not India. And the explorer said, ah, 496 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: you're Indians, you know, and the way he does it, 497 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: and I know he's kind of canceled or very much canceled. 498 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: But the point is this, it's an inaccurate name, and 499 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: we've stuck to it for centuries. I don't know why 500 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: we just did. There might have been a better name 501 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: for the indigenous people of this continent, but that's another 502 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: story for another day. I'm fine with it. Rename them 503 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: I guardians. I'd have to take the temperature of the 504 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: locals in Cleveland to see how they really feel about 505 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: that name. But that's the name you'll never have to cancel, 506 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: So that's one good thing about it. At the very 507 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: least that is true. I will hit you with the 508 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: name that our buddy Figy, producer or Lander and Lopez 509 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: in the loop on Sportrait of six ten Figgy came 510 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: up with. And I thought you would like this one. 511 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: The Cleveland Rockers, Oh my gosh, so much better. It 512 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: sounds like a minor league team a little bit, But 513 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: what the heck go with the Rockers? Rock and roll, 514 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: Alan Freed was invented in Cleveland. They get the credit 515 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: for it, But Johnny, in my mind, rock and roll 516 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: was invented in you know, the Delta Blues areas right 517 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: New Orleans, Louisiana, anywhere where guys like Robert Johnson, earlier 518 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: versions of him, we're playing the Blues. That to me 519 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: is early rock anyway, I digress. I like the Cleveland 520 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: Rockers though. That was a pretty good one from Figgy. Okay, 521 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: number two, Okay, I gotta braced myself for this one. 522 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: Oh Minnesota Vikings offensive line coach Rick Dennison aka Rico 523 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: and Patriots assistant old line coach Cole Popovic both not 524 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: being asked back to their teams due to not wanting 525 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. Your gut reaction to this one, well, 526 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: I love employment, Johnny, and it's such a good thing. Look, 527 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: I get it, you know my honest feeling on this. 528 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: I get it if you really don't think the vax 529 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: is this or that, or you don't want to get vaxed, 530 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: But at some point you have to understand that if 531 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: you want to work in this league, you're gonna have 532 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: to get the vaccine and is it? And I'm all 533 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: for conspiracy theories and question big pharma and all that. However, 534 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: I saw a great tweet early on in this big debate, 535 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: and it was a guy saying, do you know what 536 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: you put in your body? Do you know what's in 537 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: the water? Do you know what's in all the food 538 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: we're eating? You know all this stuff that you're doing, 539 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: the air that you're breathing. You know what's the vaccine? 540 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: And I do agree with that. I think there's so 541 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: much stuff in the atmosphere, in our food, in our air, water, whatever. 542 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: I mean, what's another what's a vaccine? Right? Again, I'm 543 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: off for questioning, but at some point, with so many 544 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: people getting it, I just said, look, I'm gonna get it. 545 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: I first of all, employment again a good thing, and 546 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: I don't want to get the COVID again. I'm not 547 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: naive enough to think that this is bulletproof as far 548 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: as that part of it goes. But you know, I'm happy, 549 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: and I question everything, I really do. I questioned authority, 550 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: I questioned everything, but I decided to do it, and 551 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: I think, look, everybody's got that personal decision. However, the 552 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: decision in this league comes with not working in it 553 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: anymore if you do that. So that happened, and here 554 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: we are, and look, the players have a union so 555 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: they don't have to get it, but as we can 556 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: see around the league, you are highly incentivized to get 557 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: it and dectivized not to get it. So yeah, that 558 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: kind of thing I thought. Andrew Brandt put it really 559 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: really well on Twitter. He said, look, the NFL is 560 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: not mad and dating vaccinations, but it is making it 561 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: very very difficult for those that aren't vaccinated. I thought 562 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: that was an interesting way of putting it. And you 563 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: also mentioned a really key word, and that is now 564 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how future employers will look at 565 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: coaches that like Rick Dennison, like called Popovic, how they'll 566 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: look at them in the future, how that will It's 567 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: gonna be really it's gonna be really interesting to watch 568 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: how a decision like that will impact them going forward. Okay, 569 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: we talked about this a little bit last night, but 570 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: as the days are going on, it feels like we 571 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: are getting even closer to it happening. Your gut reaction 572 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: to the reality that is seemingly setting in that Texas 573 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: and OU are going to the SEC Your gut reaction 574 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: to A them going to the SEC B what happens 575 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: to the Big twelve? And see if you're an A 576 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: and M, if you're an aggie, how do you feel 577 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: about all this? You know what I would rebrand, get 578 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: you h rebrand is the Southwest Conference twenty twenty one. 579 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: I do it again. You won't have the laws one 580 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: to the Sooners, but you know what, you have enough 581 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: of everybody. You don't have Arkansas, but you have and 582 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: you have some new people as well. But you're, as 583 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: I was, State, really gonna be part of the Southwest Conference. 584 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: Maybe bad idea altogether. You know what, Johnny go back 585 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: to the Big Eight. The Big Eight still has a 586 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: little appeal to it. That name still has a little 587 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: panache to it college football history right now. It's weird 588 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: because Oklahoma was in the Big Eight, right, Nebraska big 589 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: damn So so was Colorado. Oh no, we can't do 590 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: the Big Eight either, Johnny. It's it's so sad to 591 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: me that they're doing this. Obviously it's for the cash. 592 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,719 Speaker 1: It's not just that though. This deal. So the Alabama 593 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: quarterback and what he's been able to put to yeah, yeah, yeah. 594 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: I think the schools looking at this are saying, if 595 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: we want to be a big time player, we have 596 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: to provide opportunities for these kids to make this kind 597 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 1: of money. On the side, these these great recruits, not everybody, 598 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: but the real major blue chippers, you know, the platinum chippers, 599 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 1: and you feel like maybe you can't get that done 600 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: unless you're in a league like the SEC. You know, 601 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 1: so ou in Texas, they don't want to be left out, 602 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 1: and they carry the Big twelve. Let's be honest, they 603 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 1: really carry the Big twelve. And they feel like they 604 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: can start this or form help form this new situation 605 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: where you're gonna have four super conferences, and that's where 606 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: it's all going. And you know, I think the rest 607 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: of the Big twelve or the marquee whatever however you 608 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: wanted to find that, whoever that is is in Oklahoma State, 609 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: is at Texas Tech. Who is it that's going to 610 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: be sucked up by the PAC twelve. Probably not the 611 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,919 Speaker 1: Big ten, but we'll see how it goes. You're gonna 612 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: have four big ones. The interesting part you mentioned right 613 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,839 Speaker 1: there at the end, that's the PAC twelve. If there's 614 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 1: any conference that really needs a boost of something, and 615 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if the remainder of the Big twelve 616 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: does it. I don't know if Boise State does it. 617 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. The PAC twelve needs something. The Pack 618 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: twelve needs something. And I came up with a scenario 619 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,359 Speaker 1: where if you went to those four sixteen teams, if 620 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: you boot Rutgers out of the Big ten, send them 621 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 1: to the AC, you let West Virginia go to the ACC. 622 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: Then the Big ten absorbs Iowa State, Kansas and Kansas 623 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: State in Oklahoma State, the PAC twelve becomes the Pack sixteen. 624 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: It goes to the old Pack eight and then Arizona, 625 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 1: Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, and then four teams from the 626 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: Big twelve whatever's left over if I did my math correct. 627 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: Either way, point being, I think there's a way that 628 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 1: you could do it, and it would be geographically It 629 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: would geographically fit. You would actually bring back some rivalries 630 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 1: that you've been lacking. I e. Texas and Texas. A 631 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: and M is one that would come back. You know, 632 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: Arkansas Texas. I believe they're playing this year anyways, So 633 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 1: there there would be a lot advantages to it. But 634 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: I could go on for days about this one. It's 635 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 1: just I know, I know it's a It's an amazing 636 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 1: topic to be honest, and to see it happening. I 637 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: just it's so funny because I on Tuesday said that 638 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,479 Speaker 1: very thing to David. You know, I'm I said, David, 639 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: my gut tells me. With all this and i LL 640 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: stuff and the court cases being nine, oh, I guess 641 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: the NC double A, they're gonna be people that just 642 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,120 Speaker 1: want to get out of their conference. For you a lot, 643 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: and just get out of their conference. There's something going 644 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: they want to feel secure. I didn't realize there was 645 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 1: Texas or you, and I didn't realize the SEC, but 646 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: I knew something was gonna happen kind of based on 647 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: what was going down. I said it Tuesday. That story 648 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: came out Wednesday, and I was like, hey, all right, 649 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 1: I got one right, I felt pretty good. You brought 650 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 1: it up, like who's gonna get cut? You know the SEC. 651 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: Look they have Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt drives up the grade point average, 652 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,840 Speaker 1: and it's in Nashville. So but you get Nashville from Tennessee. 653 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: That's why Rutgers never made sense to me. For the 654 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: Big ten. You already get in New York with Penn State. 655 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,960 Speaker 1: It's four hours away. They've always delivered the New York 656 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: market when they're good, So you don't need Rutgers. When 657 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,279 Speaker 1: are they ever gonna be good? Why do you really 658 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: need Maryland? You're just helping them out. Really, they're not 659 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 1: really helping you out. They're not giving you anything. And 660 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: that's why this stuff is so tough. I think you 661 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,360 Speaker 1: of h Look the Aggies and Long Orangs always delivered Houston. 662 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: But now if you want Houston in a conference, UH 663 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: is right there. They're gonna get picked up by somebody, 664 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: and I hope it's I hope the Big twelve survives 665 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: for Uh's sake, because it would be nice to see 666 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,600 Speaker 1: them lifted up into that league. It's a pretty good chance. 667 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,920 Speaker 1: Mark appreciates being with me. Thanks Johnny. There it is 668 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: Mark van Amir joining me. We get back, we'll go 669 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,680 Speaker 1: around the league. There's still some hot stuff going on, 670 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,280 Speaker 1: and potentially they on the Viking situation with Rick Dennison 671 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 1: next on Texans All Access. It's on Texans All Access. 672 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 1: It's on Texans All Acts Up. Everybody, welcome back to 673 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: find a segment on this Friday edition of Texans All Access. 674 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 1: And it's funny as I write down the day seven 675 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: twenty three, July twenty three, I'm like, man, what July 676 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,000 Speaker 1: twenty third seems to stand out? Why is this stand 677 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,839 Speaker 1: Oh it's Ted Lasso Day. Yes, it's Ted Lasso Day, 678 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 1: Season two out today. I don't exactly know if that 679 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 1: means I haven't checked. I've been waiting. This is kind 680 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: of tough because everybody in my family loves Ted Lasso, 681 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:33,840 Speaker 1: but two of them are out in LA and Jack, 682 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: my son is here with me. So I'm like, do 683 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,160 Speaker 1: we watch it? Do we all watch it together? I 684 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,040 Speaker 1: mean we can't. You can do that now in technology days, 685 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 1: I mean you can do pretty much anything with technologies, 686 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: so maybe we'll all watch it together. Although they're two 687 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,320 Speaker 1: hours behind us, as my daughter is actually, believe it 688 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: or not, shooting in a new HBO series that I 689 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,760 Speaker 1: can't I guess I'm not supposed to say anything about. 690 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. The only hint I can 691 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,080 Speaker 1: give is magic and Kareem. That's all I can say. 692 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 1: That's it, I guess. But eitherway, it's Ted Lasso Day, 693 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 1: so go check that out. Appreciate you being here. I'm 694 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,240 Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst and silent reporter for your Houston 695 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,440 Speaker 1: Texans and this Rick Dennison situation we're watching now, the 696 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,720 Speaker 1: cole pop of it. I guess that decision has already 697 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 1: been made that he is not he is not going 698 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 1: to be back with the Patriots because of the vaccination situation, etc. 699 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: The Viking's put out a statement a while ago, and 700 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 1: I happened to see it while Mark and I were 701 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: talking about Rick Dennison. Now, if you missed it in 702 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,120 Speaker 1: the previous segment and what's been talked about, it was 703 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,880 Speaker 1: reported that Rick Dennison had essentially lost his job because 704 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 1: he chose to not get vaccinated. The Vikings then put 705 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,919 Speaker 1: out a statement that said in part and um um paraphrasing. 706 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 1: And my guess is this is not going to be 707 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: the last we hear of this. That I could see 708 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: lawyers and legal getting involved. But essentially, the Vike's put 709 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: out a statement saying, look, he's not been fired, he's 710 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: not in some special category for vaccination exemption. He's we're 711 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: talking about it basically. So I don't know what's going 712 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:40,479 Speaker 1: to come of that situation. But my guess is if 713 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: all the way along Rico has just said no, I'm 714 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,440 Speaker 1: not doing it, I don't know that. I don't know. 715 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe losing the opportunity to coaches the Viking's offensive 716 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,840 Speaker 1: line that will get his get his attention. Maybe not. 717 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 1: Maybe there's a legal situation that's about I don't know, 718 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 1: but it's marking I talked about, man, this thing. It's 719 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 1: it's crazy that we've gotten to this. It's crazy that 720 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:12,920 Speaker 1: shots and vaccinations and masks have been been so politicized 721 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: in this whole thing. In a matter of science, people 722 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: are just trying to keep other people healthy. And I 723 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:25,160 Speaker 1: know hundreds of people that have gotten the vaccine they're fine. 724 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,120 Speaker 1: Then again, I do know a number of people that 725 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,040 Speaker 1: didn't get the vaccine and they have been fine too, 726 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: So you know, again, I understand the the personal choice aspect, 727 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 1: but I think Clint Sterner put it best. But man, 728 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,320 Speaker 1: dirty read. I don't remember the exact tweet, but I 729 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: do remember this, and I'll probably remember this for as 730 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:52,880 Speaker 1: long as I live. And he said, it'll be interesting 731 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 1: essentially for what the quote, you're not going to tell 732 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,239 Speaker 1: me what to do unquote generation not thought. That's a 733 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,279 Speaker 1: perfect way of putting it. You're not gonna tell me 734 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,840 Speaker 1: what to do generation. It's a great way of putting it. 735 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: So we've kind of come to the crossroads and we'll 736 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,239 Speaker 1: see how it turns out, especially for a guy who 737 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,320 Speaker 1: coached here in Houston, played his ball in Denver, and 738 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 1: has been around the league for a very long time, 739 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,800 Speaker 1: very well respected coach Rick Dennison, with the Vikings, with 740 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,919 Speaker 1: other like He's not totally sure what's going to happen 741 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 1: at this point, but we will keep an eye on it. 742 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,880 Speaker 1: I think Mark, I think Drew and the Ninji, Antonio Smith, 743 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 1: all of you for list of my manity, Penn for 744 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,680 Speaker 1: producing y'all the best. We'll see you on Monday, two 745 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,799 Speaker 1: days away from the start. Of training camp right here 746 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: in Texas. All Access, Go Texas.