Speaker 1: What's happening everybody? Happy Monday to all of you out there.
Speaker 2: Welcome into Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio,
Speaker 2: John Harris Football and Outside of the Reporter, alongside the
Speaker 2: voice of the Texans who is gassed up about flag
Speaker 2: football after this weekend, Mark Vandermin, Mark, how do you feel, Johnny?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great and watching a lot of basketball, like
Speaker 3: everybody is, in fact, trying to recall some of these
Speaker 3: games over the weekend.
Speaker 1: It's all a blur, right, Wait, coach? Game was that.
Speaker 3: Where the guy took the past and he did? It's
Speaker 3: so hard to remember did the thing? Who are they
Speaker 3: playing again? Because they knocked somebody off? I know Iowa
Speaker 3: State's really good. Longhorns are in the sweet sixteen. Of course,
Speaker 3: the Coup's playing at home, which is freaking awesome. It
Speaker 3: is awesome, So there's a lot to digest from that.
Speaker 3: But I know this is not an NCAA tournament show.
Speaker 3: Maybe we should just do a podcast once a year
Speaker 3: on basketball because it's so much fun to dissect the
Speaker 3: crunch time moments of these games, like Saint John's yesterday
Speaker 3: and what happened with Iowa and Florida. My goodness, they
Speaker 3: ran a football play to them. That's beautiful. There's so
Speaker 3: many fun things to watch, so I enjoyed it. But
Speaker 3: you mentioned the flag football that was Saturday at three
Speaker 3: Central Tom Brady his showcase. They were going to do
Speaker 3: this in Saudi Arabia. I guess yeah, yeah, right, they
Speaker 3: did it in LA and you had Team USA facing
Speaker 3: two semi NFL, semi current, semi former player laden teams,
Speaker 3: right yeah, and Team USA took it to them.
Speaker 1: I'm being shit. We thought that it would happen up
Speaker 1: and down the field. Who told you was gonna happen?
Speaker 3: We did, and to the point where they had I
Speaker 3: believe it was fifteen drives on the day and scored
Speaker 3: on all but one of them because they took a
Speaker 3: knee or something. So, oh my gosh, is that good.
Speaker 3: They can do whatever they want against anybody they want. Now, look,
Speaker 3: if you took NFL players and had them practice and
Speaker 3: refine their skills in this particular kind of sport, it
Speaker 3: would be different because these are world class athletes you're
Speaker 3: talking about with the NFL players, the players they had
Speaker 3: on the field, not the krem delink for the most part.
Speaker 3: You know, Jade and Daniels probably would be a pretty
Speaker 3: good flag football player, but they had guys like Kyle
Speaker 3: Yuschek out there. If I'm casting a flag football team
Speaker 3: with NFL players, He's not even on the top three
Speaker 3: pages of names that I want. So you know, von Miller,
Speaker 3: Come on, these guys can't play flag football. I don't
Speaker 3: want Logan Paul on my team either. By the way,
Speaker 3: I want to knock somebody out I'm not gonna have
Speaker 3: Or is that Jake, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want any of the Palls anywhere near my sport.
Speaker 2: And look, they've turned themselves into good marketers and somewhat
Speaker 2: showmen and all that kind of stuff, But no, stay
Speaker 2: away from my field. I said this, and this this
Speaker 2: goes back a long way with me. Nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 2: we took a group of I was living Jacksonville at
Speaker 2: the time. We took a group of Jacksonville all star
Speaker 2: high school basketball players over to Spain to play an
Speaker 2: international tournament teams from Greece, Turkey, Spain.
Speaker 1: But we were playing international.
Speaker 2: Rules different and trapizoil lane, trapezoid lane, euro steps all day.
Speaker 2: Our guys couldn't figure it out. Yeah, because they wanted
Speaker 2: to close. They wanted to go up to block a shot,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden the guy would slide
Speaker 2: under and lay one in, and we, I mean Mark,
Speaker 2: we couldn't figure it out. And finally in the game,
Speaker 2: we were playing the Greek team and they got out
Speaker 2: big on us.
Speaker 1: Well, we decided to press.
Speaker 2: Them because we were more athletic and bigger and longer,
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And we got back in the game.
Speaker 2: We got back in a game, but because of the
Speaker 2: rules and point differni and all that, we had to
Speaker 2: win the game by six. So even though we were
Speaker 2: up three, we kept pressing when they got a couple
Speaker 2: of easy baskets end up beating us. But either way,
Speaker 2: I remember coming back from that thinking, this is it's
Speaker 2: a different game.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's a different game.
Speaker 2: High school basketball, college basketball, pro basketball fairly similar. International
Speaker 2: basketball is so incredibly different. And I remember thinking about
Speaker 2: that when we were talking about the flag football stuff,
Speaker 2: like it's.
Speaker 1: A different game, so different.
Speaker 2: And just like with Dream Team back in nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 2: these many years ago, go they had to play together,
Speaker 2: they had to figure out the international rules, they had
Speaker 2: to be on a team for longer than just the
Speaker 2: two weeks it took to lead up, which is what
Speaker 2: they had been doing. And then when they started kind
Speaker 2: of falling off the twenty and eight team, Mike Krzyzewski
Speaker 2: had them commit for a couple of years so that
Speaker 2: they could play together, they could learn the international game.
Speaker 2: And now the international game in the pro game have started.
Speaker 3: To blur a little bit, sure, because the international players
Speaker 3: have gotten so much better. They were influenced heavily by
Speaker 3: the Dream Team. They up their games everywhere around the
Speaker 3: globe and it evens things out a little bit, right, Right.
Speaker 2: You're playing a similar game. Flag football and NFL football
Speaker 2: aren't even.
Speaker 3: Close to use a football that's a similarity, right, Like
Speaker 3: you said, if.
Speaker 2: You came up with the right group of guys, guys
Speaker 2: that change direction like JSN.
Speaker 1: We'll get to him in just a second.
Speaker 2: You had guys that you know that were like Tyreek,
Speaker 2: you know, tank, a healthy tank, you know those kind
Speaker 2: of players.
Speaker 1: Twitch, twitch, Kyler Murray's guy.
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray would be my choice in the quarterback exactly
Speaker 3: because he's got all the twitch in the world, world
Speaker 3: class twitch can throw the ball and I know as
Speaker 3: an NFL quarterback, you might think differently, but as a
Speaker 3: flag football quarterback, he's my guy. But as you notice,
Speaker 3: Team USA, if you watch the thing and it's up
Speaker 3: on YouTube, you can watch these games. Hush, who's Daryl
Speaker 3: dus said, is not even really the quarterback. He's a throwback.
Speaker 3: He's a running back who throws. And the other guy,
Speaker 3: I forget his name, Cicero's something. He can throw it,
Speaker 3: but he can also run with it. So they do
Speaker 3: so many different things to space the field, and you
Speaker 3: just have to practice and play this wart and.
Speaker 1: Be dedicated to it. Johnny.
Speaker 3: If I'm an NFL owner, I don't want any part
Speaker 3: of this for my players. I really don't use former
Speaker 3: players or guys on the fringe who are still going out,
Speaker 3: like after the Olympics they can try out again or
Speaker 3: something like that. They're looking for a team, maybe something
Speaker 3: of that nature. But there are plenty of great athletes
Speaker 3: in this country to play flag football, including the ones
Speaker 3: on Team Team USA right now, and that's probably enough
Speaker 3: to win you a gold. Just go with that and
Speaker 3: enjoy the games and let NFL football be what it is.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely one thousand percent agree. I will say we
Speaker 2: were talking about NCAA tournament. We were in here Friday.
Speaker 2: We were getting ready to record what you could see
Speaker 2: on YouTube. It's basically a free agent prime, like an
Speaker 2: offseason prime, what the Texans.
Speaker 1: Have done thus far.
Speaker 2: In nine minutes, we give you everything that's happened and
Speaker 2: how it impacts this team going forward. It's fantastic. Go
Speaker 2: check out on your YouTube, go to our Houston Texas page.
Speaker 2: You'll see Mark and I breaking down free agency like
Speaker 2: none other.
Speaker 1: We gave you all that. Well, we were about to.
Speaker 2: Start filming that on Friday and Santa Clair and Kentucky
Speaker 2: had an all time or ending in regulation.
Speaker 1: You, me and Will.
Speaker 2: Will was down here shooting, and we were all three
Speaker 2: just running around watching this game.
Speaker 1: It was unbelieved.
Speaker 2: There were some endings like that, but for the most part,
Speaker 2: teams came to do work. Kog's dominant duke dominant. There
Speaker 2: were teams that came to do work. But I thought
Speaker 2: about you and and Dre in this sense we've been
Speaker 2: doing games together.
Speaker 1: Now this will be this will be my thirteenth year.
Speaker 2: You guys are called everyone from the beginning, and I've
Speaker 2: always wondered, I dream about, like, what's it gonna be
Speaker 2: standing on that field hearing you and my you and
Speaker 2: Dre in my ears, and we're going to the AFC
Speaker 2: Championship game. I thought about that. Camp Pavelka has been
Speaker 2: doing Nebraska games football and basketball for forty one years.
Speaker 1: And they had never forty tournament game.
Speaker 2: They've never won a tournament game, never won a tournament
Speaker 2: game game. So in the first round, and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to remember, I can't remember who, off the top of
Speaker 2: my head who they beat, but they knocked down three
Speaker 2: after three, after three after three, and it was the
Speaker 2: first it was the first game they had won.
Speaker 1: And so bake up in the booth.
Speaker 2: Aaron, our engineer, Aaron Raybold has a camera on you
Speaker 2: and Dre and Robert sits in between you guys, and
Speaker 2: so you can see some of the great moments that
Speaker 2: happened and you calling them from the booth and what's
Speaker 2: that like and the celebration in the booth and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So somebody was recording it. The end his reaction and
Speaker 1: he wears.
Speaker 2: His bow tie and he's got his he's got his
Speaker 2: quarter zip and everything, and he is he's going through it,
Speaker 2: you can tell.
Speaker 1: And he's whole, like he's holding it together. But just
Speaker 1: bear right.
Speaker 2: So they play on Saturday, and on Saturday they played
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt in one of the craziest endings you're gonna ever see.
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt misses a shot, kind of a crazy Tyler Tanne
Speaker 2: the point guard, throws it inside. Chandler Bing catches it. Yes,
Speaker 2: Chandler Bing not named after their friend's character. Chandler Bing
Speaker 2: catches it in the air. But he's got to get
Speaker 2: it off because on like three seconds on shot like
Speaker 2: so he catches on the run and shoots, misses. Nebraska
Speaker 2: comes down, kid makes a left handed layup. It's seventy
Speaker 2: four to seventy two. Van he's got one time out
Speaker 2: to call it two point two. They throw the ball
Speaker 2: at Tyler Tanner and he's beyond half court and launches
Speaker 2: and goes. And this is what's always weird to be
Speaker 2: because when a ball goes off the glass from that
Speaker 2: far out, the ball goes off the glass, it hits
Speaker 2: the rim once and gone. This thing goes off glass,
Speaker 2: it's halfway down and pops out, pops out, and Nebraska wins.
Speaker 2: And so the game is over. Everybody's celebrating in every
Speaker 2: Cornhusker player walks over and hugs and celebrates with.
Speaker 1: Kent Pavelka at mid.
Speaker 2: Court, and I just was like, I am doing everything
Speaker 2: possible to keep together. I'm like, I, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it was the coolest. I mean, they're hugging him. Two
Speaker 2: guys are hugging him. I mean, guys are slapping fives
Speaker 2: with the fans, and then they turn around and see
Speaker 2: him and they give him a great, big bear h
Speaker 2: I'm like, it is the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: Forty one years and now.
Speaker 2: They will be here the Corn Bowl right here, the
Speaker 2: Corn Classic twenty twenty six. I would Nebraska taking all.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a weekend is gonna be in Houston.
Speaker 2: You got the Astros Opening Day coming up, got the
Speaker 2: It's not Shell.
Speaker 1: Houstope anymore, No, it's Houston Open. I think it does
Speaker 1: have a sponsor.
Speaker 2: But go on, Shell the Houst Open and you've got
Speaker 2: the uh Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight featuring Iowa, Nebraska,
Speaker 2: Illinois and hometown Houston. You think I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 2: that's the toughest ticket to get in town maybe ever
Speaker 2: with the Koogs, with the corn Huskers, the Huskers will
Speaker 2: show up, will travel way, they will Indiana football this thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're right, They're gonna stay everywhere, aren't.
Speaker 2: They were playing in Oklahoma City, they were playing I
Speaker 2: think it was Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: Is that where it was? I think it was. And
Speaker 1: it was a home game, see of Red. It was
Speaker 1: a home game Nebraska environment, and that building was unbelievable. Mark,
Speaker 1: it was incredible. I was incredible.
Speaker 3: The only year I went to the College World Series
Speaker 3: at the old Rosenblatt Stadium in two thousand and one
Speaker 3: with the Hurricanes and we won it that year, Nebraska
Speaker 3: was there. We didn't play, oh, I bet, but Nebraska
Speaker 3: was there, and I think they had never been either
Speaker 3: that or they had never won that. I think they
Speaker 3: had never been.
Speaker 1: Johnny, Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: And there was tailgating like you wouldn't believe for a
Speaker 3: baseball game. They didn't know how to handle it because
Speaker 3: it was tailgates everywhere.
Speaker 1: It was like a football game. And then they cheered everything.
Speaker 3: If there was a sack bunt, it was it was
Speaker 3: like touchdown, turner gill.
Speaker 1: You know, it was huge anything. Yeah, they were ready
Speaker 1: for anything.
Speaker 3: And they didn't win, obviously, but it was a tremendous atmosphere.
Speaker 3: So schools like that when they're in a sport where
Speaker 3: they're not normally good or that great, they show up.
Speaker 2: They've got the bug. Yeah, and the footballs. Those three
Speaker 2: teams all travel. Illinois will two Illinois, I went to Nebraska.
Speaker 2: Will all travel. And then you've got obviously the Kougs
Speaker 2: playing at home. What a great night for downtown Houston.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it is great weekend Unblialia.
Speaker 1: Oh it's good. Hotel rooms everywhere filled.
Speaker 2: It's it's going to be along with the golf tournament
Speaker 2: with I mean opening Day. I saw a Nebraska fan
Speaker 2: and he said, I can't remember what he said. I
Speaker 2: think it's Thursday, they play Nebraska. He said he would
Speaker 2: go to Opening Day at three. I think he said
Speaker 2: he would go. He said he was going downtown somewhere
Speaker 2: for something, then Opening Day at three and then walking
Speaker 2: over and watching Iowa Nebraska play in the Corn Classic.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm calling it the Corn Classic twenty twenty
Speaker 2: seven day. That's unbelievable in Illinois. Houston is gonna be.
Speaker 2: I know, Houston's hot. I mean, Houston was unbelievable against
Speaker 2: A and M. I mean at one point, I can't
Speaker 2: remember where it was, like eighteen thirteen, twenty fourth something
Speaker 2: like that, and then all of a sudden, the Koogs went,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, we're ready and then went on like a
Speaker 2: twenty four to three run and it was Donzo absolutely done.
Speaker 3: So okay, a way, the weather this week outstanding. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be great. They're gonna love that. I know
Speaker 3: we need some rain, but not yet. Hold on, you're
Speaker 3: gonna see a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna see every one of those fan
Speaker 2: bases all week long. I WOA Nebraska, Illinois and Houston.
Speaker 2: You're gonna all all week long. It's gonna be phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Not to bet you Astros kicking it off this this
Speaker 2: week as well, and then the golf tournament starting Thursday.
Speaker 1: I had to go back.
Speaker 2: I didn't start getting ready for golf, so I watched
Speaker 2: on Sunday morning when I got up, I watched the
Speaker 2: fifty five minute twenty twenty five Masters, like what would
Speaker 2: you call highlight show?
Speaker 1: And I forgot how.
Speaker 2: I forgot a that Rory won it and that was
Speaker 2: his first b how Rory won it, which was amazing.
Speaker 3: We go over this again quick well, he had had
Speaker 3: the lead, a big lead going and then drops Justin.
Speaker 2: Rose came out and kind of came out of nowhere
Speaker 2: kind of forts and on the last hole, Rory bogies, yeh,
Speaker 2: he's gotta whose Birdie or par Bogies and they got
Speaker 2: to go to an indititional hole. His approach shot he
Speaker 2: hits within like five feet, yeah, at ten and and
Speaker 2: just that was it and he ends up winning it
Speaker 2: with that. So it was I mean, it's a highlight.
Speaker 2: Just so you got all the good feelings and everything that,
Speaker 2: you know. It was crazy seeing him, you know, celebrate
Speaker 2: with his his dog.
Speaker 3: I pull for him now because he tried to save
Speaker 3: the tour. He did, and the tour is gonna make it.
Speaker 3: I mean we didn't. We didn't think they were not
Speaker 3: gonna make it. But to get Kopka back as big others,
Speaker 3: they'll get more guys back as time does.
Speaker 1: Bryce will come back.
Speaker 2: And that was one of the things I forgot that
Speaker 2: Rory and Bryson were teamed together on the final day
Speaker 2: and Bryson sort of melted.
Speaker 1: You got damn corner in his prayers and so he
Speaker 1: was in trouble.
Speaker 2: Okay, you mentioned a little bit earlier, and I didn't
Speaker 2: want you to steal our thunder. It's sizzle fire Todd. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's time for the hot takes. Now, I come up
Speaker 2: with the hot takes? Did you send me? Went over
Speaker 2: the weekend from you? And I said it was like
Speaker 2: ten sizzle fires. Wait, well I can't remember what you remember. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I gotta make sure it's something that I can't say.
Speaker 1: Or what it was. But I was like, are you crazy?
Speaker 2: That's oh no, we can't say this one on the air.
Speaker 2: But the Texans do you have a number one wide receiver?
Speaker 1: So hot take sizzlefires. So here's what we do.
Speaker 2: There are hot takes of plenty throughout sports, and we'll
Speaker 2: try and keep this one to football for the most part. Okay,
Speaker 2: but there are hot takes of plenty out there, some
Speaker 2: by some people, some for others, some I will create myself, okay,
Speaker 2: And you will again assess that hot take with number
Speaker 2: of sizzle fires. One meaning that that's that's not really
Speaker 2: a hot take. That's pretty much right on point. It's true.
Speaker 2: Five sizzle fires means I have gone conspiracy theorists. It's
Speaker 2: the dumbest thing ever. There's no chance it is not happening.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna start with an easy one. This one,
Speaker 2: this one's mine, and it also allows us to kind
Speaker 2: of combine some of the around the NFL news too.
Speaker 2: Woke up this morning to the news that Jackson Smith
Speaker 2: Injigbas signed the largest contract for a wide receiver in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Here's my hot take, not even based on
Speaker 2: the money. JSN was the best player that we saw
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 1: Player NFL play.
Speaker 2: Jaysen was the best player that we faced last year. Now,
Speaker 2: as you think about that, we did face the MVP,
Speaker 2: Matt Stafford.
Speaker 1: We saw him in Week one.
Speaker 2: We did face Puka Nakua, we saw him, both of
Speaker 2: them in Week one. We saw Jaysn. Week eight on
Speaker 2: a Monday night, Bakers. Yeah, we saw Bakers. We saw
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. We end up seeing Drake May.
Speaker 3: I'll give it a one sizzle fire Johnny. Okay, I
Speaker 3: think that's a good take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: Jysn gave us problems. We know how good this secondary is.
Speaker 3: This defense. I think the Texans coming off the bye
Speaker 3: playing the late night game didn't help.
Speaker 1: But no excuses.
Speaker 3: You know, there's sometimes instances where this team in the
Speaker 3: last three years hasn't dealt well with a weird scheduling arrangement,
Speaker 3: and that was one of them. You would think you'd
Speaker 3: be fully arrested, ready to go.
Speaker 1: And they were.
Speaker 3: But I think they were almost rusty in that one
Speaker 3: defensive league.
Speaker 1: And the Seahawks are really good.
Speaker 3: We know that they won the Super Bowl, so that combination,
Speaker 3: you know, the NFL is a fine line. You're not
Speaker 3: quite on top of your game, they are, and you
Speaker 3: didn't handle it well, and voila. You came up with
Speaker 3: JSN having a big game. And I don't think that's
Speaker 3: a hot take at all. You handled Matthew Stafford really well.
Speaker 3: Stafford might be the better player that you faced all year.
Speaker 1: Slightly.
Speaker 3: He's a quarterback, you know, apples and oranges quarterbacks to
Speaker 3: wide receivers. But the Texans dealt with Stafford very well,
Speaker 3: and they forced a turnover on that final Rams drive
Speaker 3: to get the ball back and turn it over, and
Speaker 3: then the Rams ran out the clock. So I think
Speaker 3: that Jayassent take is good. Other losses the Texans had, gosh, Johnny,
Speaker 3: they won ten in a row, including the playoff game.
Speaker 3: You know what game I was going over, not to
Speaker 3: get two tangenty tangent e, but the forty nine er
Speaker 3: game because I was going over some air check stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to come up with something to play for
Speaker 3: business ops and sales and everything here. And the opening
Speaker 3: of that game, Texans are two and four, Niners are
Speaker 3: five two, and the Niners have something going on. They're
Speaker 3: banged up, but they've been playing well despite that. And
Speaker 3: the Texans are without Nico Collins and Christian Kirk. So
Speaker 3: how are they going to get this done today? Coming
Speaker 3: off the loss to Seattle on a short week, over
Speaker 3: three hundred yards for CJ. Strad two touchdowns and they
Speaker 3: ran for a buck fifty plus. That's how they dealt
Speaker 3: with it. The Houston Texans. I mean, we had some
Speaker 3: games this year that people forget about that were really
Speaker 3: good performances by the quarterback and the offense. And I
Speaker 3: know they didn't finish enough drives whatever, they scored twenty
Speaker 3: six points.
Speaker 1: Guess what, it was enough, So.
Speaker 3: You got to play like that next year and then
Speaker 3: some Anyway, I think it's a good take. JSN best
Speaker 3: player of the Texans faced all year.
Speaker 1: Yes, bringing up that forty nine Ers game.
Speaker 2: If somebody had been out of the country flew back
Speaker 2: in some the Texans were twelve and five, won a
Speaker 2: playoff game, et cetera, and they said, Hey, which game
Speaker 2: should I go watch to see get the essence of
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Texans.
Speaker 1: I would tell them that forty nine Ers game. Really,
Speaker 1: no need go No.
Speaker 2: Christian Kirk, Jared Wayne's got to play, Braxton Barris has
Speaker 2: got to play ce Jazz's best game Wood. He had
Speaker 2: a solid game. The defense was phenomenal. Really gave McCaffrey
Speaker 2: nothing other than George Kittle making one hell of a
Speaker 2: catching the end zone.
Speaker 1: Right before half. Yep, that was it. That was all
Speaker 1: they got.
Speaker 2: I would say I would take that and go this
Speaker 2: is a divisional playoff team in the forty nine Ers, yep,
Speaker 2: and they came to our house and they got They
Speaker 2: got trounced. The score may not have said it, but
Speaker 2: they got absolutely trounced. I would put that game. This
Speaker 2: is the one. This is the one that you want
Speaker 2: to watch to see the complete Texas from twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Well, I like Kansas City too, because, yeah, it shows
Speaker 3: you the struggles third quarter offense, fourth straight three announces
Speaker 3: that what it was. Yeah, but then the offense wakes
Speaker 3: up in time to get the job done. In the
Speaker 3: defense eats Holmes three picks for the first time in
Speaker 3: three years. Phenomenal performance all the way around when you
Speaker 3: consider road Kansas City's last stand to get something going
Speaker 3: before they were going to slide out of control. So
Speaker 3: I like that one too, But I know that's not
Speaker 3: the topic anyway. Next sizzle fire evaluation, Well, I'm glad
Speaker 3: you brought up the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Okay, The Kansas City Chiefs have signed Travis kelce to.
Speaker 1: A three year, fifty four point seven million dollars deal.
Speaker 2: Now I am not privy to the information to see
Speaker 2: of that, what's guaranteed, et cetera. My hot take is
Speaker 2: that's stupid. Give it the sizzle fires.
Speaker 1: So your take, not the corr. My take is it stupid.
Speaker 1: I would say that's.
Speaker 3: Two point seventy five maybe two and a half, okay,
Speaker 3: because it is Travis kelce And until further notice, let's
Speaker 3: just say Travis Kelcey retires right now, Johnny, what would
Speaker 3: you have to say about the Chiefs. Don't you feel
Speaker 3: like you still need him around it, at least until
Speaker 3: you can for a year. Yes, I know, but maybe
Speaker 3: it all works out with the guaranteed money and they're
Speaker 3: able to kind of flush things away. And it's Travis
Speaker 3: Kelsey does the Lifetime Achievement Award contract, and you're rewarding
Speaker 3: him for being.
Speaker 1: The what is he the second greatest chief ever? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean right now as it stands at the moment,
Speaker 3: who's the great Look, who's.
Speaker 1: The greatest chief ever? Patrick Mahomes. Okay, it's Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Until people retire, Let's let's just say active players are discluding.
Speaker 1: I guess so Len Dawson, Len Dawson, Yeah, Len Dawson,
Speaker 1: Len Dawson. Super Bowl, Gonzales, len Dawson won, Gonzales.
Speaker 3: He's still the all time leader at tight end receptions,
Speaker 3: right or is it witting?
Speaker 1: He's right up there right. The Gonzales was amazing.
Speaker 3: It's that I never really felt Gonzales because he never
Speaker 3: did it in a postseason, right, you know, masterpiece performance.
Speaker 2: It always felt like Sharif abdu Raheem rip Sharif abdu
Speaker 2: Raheem was putting up twenty but nobody cares because it
Speaker 2: was for the Vancouver Grizzlies, right, Atlanta Hawks when they
Speaker 2: weren't going well. It was like he go get you buckets.
Speaker 2: It's like Bradley Beal, Bradley Beale, go get you buckets.
Speaker 2: You know, but it was for teams that just weren't
Speaker 2: going we're doing anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Gonzales was really great when he could You imagine
Speaker 3: him with the Patriots or you know, a team brought
Speaker 3: a really good quarterback, you put him on the Colts,
Speaker 3: you put him on the Saints when Breeze was there. Gosh,
Speaker 3: it's elevated Kelsey. If Kelsey's not with Mahomes, we're saying
Speaker 3: Kelsey's great, but he's more like George Kittle great rather
Speaker 3: than Travis Kelsey great. I agreed, agree against Taylor Swift
Speaker 3: and it goes to the stratosphere as far as the
Speaker 3: TVQ rating.
Speaker 1: I see, I see your sizzle fire, I get it.
Speaker 3: I want Trav if I'm a chief now, I don't
Speaker 3: want to see him around. I want him to retire
Speaker 3: because maybe I'll start liking him if he retires, you know,
Speaker 3: like I liked Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: Now and I like Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: Like Tom Brady, but I hated them like poison when
Speaker 3: they were players, Yes, because they were the enemy. I
Speaker 3: want Travis Kelsey to stop being the enemy and start
Speaker 3: being a retired guy that I can say, Okay, he's.
Speaker 1: Kind of I like, I like that thought process. I
Speaker 1: like that thought process.
Speaker 2: Okay, this one comes from Dan or Oh jeez, and
Speaker 2: I quote I think ty Simpson is QB one in
Speaker 2: this draft.
Speaker 3: All right, that's going to live with him for a
Speaker 3: long time. Right now, it looks like for sizzelefire's minimum
Speaker 3: because Mendoza is the guy, and he's the flavor of
Speaker 3: the year, not just the month.
Speaker 1: It's Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 3: Now, it could end up that ty Simpson goes to
Speaker 3: a team that's a lot better than the Raiders and
Speaker 3: somehow works his way into the lineup and boila, we've
Speaker 3: got a situation.
Speaker 1: Starter gets hurt. Maybe he's that good. Who knows.
Speaker 3: Once upon a time, Russell Wilson was a third round
Speaker 3: draft choice who beat out a free agent named Matt Flynn,
Speaker 3: who was there with big money on the table of.
Speaker 1: Seattle, and they said, we got to go with the
Speaker 1: better guy.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's ty Simpson, but stranger things have
Speaker 3: happened in this league, and it maybe doesn't happen right away.
Speaker 3: So is Orlowski right If in year three Simpson is
Speaker 3: doing well and going to the playoffs and maybe not
Speaker 3: Greape but good and Mendoza turns into nothing ish for
Speaker 3: THELA or Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: I did it.
Speaker 3: You know, I am more likely to say LA Raiders,
Speaker 3: I mean than Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: I am too. I do that a lot at Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: I kind of came of age football wise with the
Speaker 3: Raiders in LA, even though I knew the Oakland thing,
Speaker 3: of course, and they went back to Oakland. But I
Speaker 3: still feel like, say in LA sometimes they're an LA
Speaker 3: team anyway, They're still their preseason games are still in
Speaker 3: the air in Los Angeles. That believe me, they pay
Speaker 3: good money to get that done. I know this for
Speaker 3: a fact.
Speaker 1: The Athletic did their mock draft.
Speaker 2: As we move on to another one, okay, number twenty
Speaker 2: eight they have chosen. Mike Jones has chosen for the Texans,
Speaker 2: Blake Miller off. It's to tackle from Clemson. Here's my
Speaker 2: hot take. I don't believe the Texans are going to
Speaker 2: take an offensive line and it picked number twenty eight.
Speaker 1: How hot is that hot take?
Speaker 3: I think that's only a one and a half at
Speaker 3: this point. I do believe they will take two linemen
Speaker 3: in the first four rounds. So I got to go
Speaker 3: into Saturday with this prediction, which is not really going
Speaker 3: out on a big limb, but to not take one
Speaker 3: in the first round, I think is very understandable because
Speaker 3: Nick could look at it and say, there's nobody worth
Speaker 3: this pick right here, and I feel like there are
Speaker 3: a few guys that are definite second rounders and we
Speaker 3: can get two picks that.
Speaker 1: Let's just wait, thank you, We'll wait till Friday, will
Speaker 1: get our guy.
Speaker 3: It will trade up if we really feel like we
Speaker 3: have to going into Friday night or on Friday night
Speaker 3: to move up and get the player or players that
Speaker 3: we want, but late in the first round.
Speaker 1: Listen, there's a lot of talk around here about the
Speaker 1: draft party. What do we do? What have we decided yet?
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 3: I don't know. We're still looking at the pride look
Speaker 3: at it like this. I know all you and I
Speaker 3: have the idea of doing it Friday. No matter what,
Speaker 3: I can guarantee ninety nine point nine percent will be
Speaker 3: picks Friday night, no matter what happens in the first
Speaker 3: ye absolutely will be picks on Friday Night.
Speaker 1: Nick Nick. Nick even says I gotta pick at some point, right,
Speaker 1: He's not trading out of rounds two and three, there
Speaker 1: will be picks Friday night.
Speaker 3: We'll have multiple picks Friday night for a happier draft
Speaker 3: party of Friday night than a Thursday night where they
Speaker 3: might not draft. But I do think this. I don't
Speaker 3: think Nick trades out of the first round if he
Speaker 3: does until that night. Yeah, so we're gonna go through
Speaker 3: what we went through last year, hopefully without the thunderstorm.
Speaker 1: But we'll go through what we went through last year,
Speaker 1: which is waiting, waiting, waiting.
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden he's out and see a
Speaker 3: Friday everybody, and.
Speaker 1: Then we'll have a fun Friday night. Yeah, we will
Speaker 1: have a fun Friday night.
Speaker 2: I first of all, I mean maybe the Texas draft
Speaker 2: Blake Miller or not. I'm I'm not a fan of
Speaker 2: him at twenty eight. Probably wouldn't be a fan until
Speaker 2: sixty something whatever. But that's maybe for a different discussion.
Speaker 2: But I've thought through this thing backwards and forwards, and
Speaker 2: when they put a tackle there that almost made little
Speaker 2: That made little sense to me because you've got to
Speaker 2: ursera left tackle. You just haven't got Braden Smith. Oh
Speaker 2: what if Braidon gets hurt? That's why you signed Trent
Speaker 2: and you still have Blake Fisher. I think you've got
Speaker 2: your four tackles. Now you're gonna have to have some
Speaker 2: depth during camp. Guys are gonna get banged up and
Speaker 2: they can't take every single rep.
Speaker 3: But that's when George the second comes back exactly. Not
Speaker 3: a high draft yet, George fan meaning a pronoun here
Speaker 3: of a player who might be available, who might be
Speaker 3: able to help.
Speaker 2: You out right, And there's gonna be you know, Jarek
Speaker 2: Kingston is gonna get some time at tackle right there,
Speaker 2: and he's he was resigned.
Speaker 1: So I feel like tackle is okay, you know, is it?
Speaker 2: You know Trent Williams on one side and Lane Johnson
Speaker 2: and the other. No, we're not there yet, but I
Speaker 2: feel like you've got enough resources that tackle to feel
Speaker 2: good about it.
Speaker 1: If anyboding draft Charlie Heck the second.
Speaker 2: Right, which Charlie didn't go till day three, which I
Speaker 2: could see them taking a tackle on day three, serviceable right,
Speaker 2: Blake Miller that said, I could see them taking a guard,
Speaker 2: And I thought this was interesting. When I did my
Speaker 2: my my three round mock at football takeover dot Com,
Speaker 2: I had the Texans at that point drafting a guard
Speaker 2: Chase Pisantis.
Speaker 1: Now, I love everything about Chase. He's from New Jersey.
Speaker 2: It Scott, some nasty enemy played started his career tackle
Speaker 2: move to guard. Everything you like about him. He's agile,
Speaker 2: good hands, good run blocker. I think you could be
Speaker 2: a really good pass protector as well. I really like
Speaker 2: Chase Pisantis. So that was my That was my pick
Speaker 2: at twenty eight to take a guard. I still think
Speaker 2: even with Wyatt Teller here, even with resigning at Ingram,
Speaker 2: I still feel like at guard you might you might
Speaker 2: be a guy short, and that might be the perfect
Speaker 2: opportunity at that point to take a guard. And I
Speaker 2: also feel like the guards are more plentiful in this draft.
Speaker 2: I like the guards a lot more than I like
Speaker 2: to tackle.
Speaker 3: As I think about it, how many sicel fiers did
Speaker 3: I give you for saying no offensive lineman the first
Speaker 3: round that hot take?
Speaker 1: You gave me at least four?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I thought it was I thought
Speaker 3: it was like, okay, I can go with that one
Speaker 3: and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now I want to up the sizzle fire count, Johnny,
Speaker 3: because as I think about it, and I mentioned this
Speaker 3: briefly last week, Nick's doing it to us again.
Speaker 1: He signs these veterans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he drafts underneath or over them, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it, alongside them and says, go fight
Speaker 3: it out. We'll see how the wash comes out during
Speaker 3: training camp. No, look, why Teller's gonna play. But you
Speaker 3: want to catch lightning in a bottle maybe, and you
Speaker 3: gotta go relatively high to do that, so you can't
Speaker 3: eliminate the first round. I still won't up until more
Speaker 3: than more than two sizzlefires.
Speaker 2: But in my in my second mock, it's not gonna
Speaker 2: be an offensive line. It's not definitely not gonna be
Speaker 2: a tackle. I can promise that. It's not gonna be
Speaker 2: a center. It's little hyphens. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 2: By the way, Vandermock three point zero comes out this week?
Speaker 2: Oh nice, we could talk about that. Oh yeah, my
Speaker 2: mock will probably come out because I'll do a three rounder.
Speaker 2: It probably come out early next week. I'm working on
Speaker 2: getting my one hundred, uh so i'd be out there.
Speaker 2: But I thought it was interesting because I had them
Speaker 2: taking Chase Pasontis and my first mock, which was back
Speaker 2: in early February. Daniel Jeremiah's most recent mockus who had
Speaker 2: at twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Oh Chase Best, there you go. Yeah, so nothing that
Speaker 1: Johnny Harris stuff. Believe me. You know it was interesting.
Speaker 1: You remember who I also had going number thirty two
Speaker 1: to the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 2: You remember that because I said they were gonna lose
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker and Genarian Price. You know he had going
Speaker 2: number thirty two to the Seattle Seahawks. Zarion Price.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm not saying this is plagiarism, because I
Speaker 3: know it's not. I know there's only so many players
Speaker 3: at all around, and it's exactly if it's logic driven,
Speaker 3: that's exactly right, simple logic driven, like they need somebody.
Speaker 1: But I can guarantee you this.
Speaker 3: I don't even have to look every draft guy like Jeremiah,
Speaker 3: all those draft guys out there, Kuyper, they're.
Speaker 1: All reading the other mocks of people they respect.
Speaker 3: They're all reading they want to see what the other
Speaker 3: guys are thinking because they want to gauge.
Speaker 1: Am I crazy? That's right? At least there's multiple crazy people.
Speaker 3: If I'm crazy thinking the same thing or something similar,
Speaker 3: Am I nuts?
Speaker 1: When I go to do my mock.
Speaker 2: I mean there's certain people for particular teams I go
Speaker 2: I'll go look at to see what they're saying, what
Speaker 2: they're thinking their draft needs are. Now, I won't look
Speaker 2: at who they've taken, but the needs. But I'll look
Speaker 2: at the needs and what they're thinking about.
Speaker 3: Good point because no matter how well you know the league.
Speaker 3: And I listened to serious x MNFL radio, those guys
Speaker 3: pack Kurwin knows things pretty well. He does, and I
Speaker 3: still don't know what happened to Jim Miller, by the way,
Speaker 3: but pack Kerwin knows things well. But some of those
Speaker 3: guys don't know them as well. And you listen to
Speaker 3: them talking about other teams, and the way you know,
Speaker 3: and listeners of this show will know. The way you
Speaker 3: know is when they're talking about your team. You know
Speaker 3: what's real or at least what's real enough, right, And
Speaker 3: then you hear their take any national media member and
Speaker 3: you think, oh, they don't really know us, they don't
Speaker 3: really know us.
Speaker 1: They know us at all.
Speaker 2: But I could see of all those and I it's
Speaker 2: funny because I've been thinking about and doing my second mock.
Speaker 1: I'm like, where am I? Where am I going with
Speaker 1: this pig?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like it could be a guard and
Speaker 2: I'd be okay with that, I think center is a
Speaker 2: little too early. I think thirty eight you can get
Speaker 2: a center and maybe get the number one center, and
Speaker 2: I think center will be different for everybody. But I
Speaker 2: think there are some definite names at center. But I
Speaker 2: feel like it's that one's gonna be tough. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: kind of let it play out and see. What I
Speaker 2: have to make sure I do is put logic behind it,
Speaker 2: so I don't just put Kenyon Sadik at twenty eight
Speaker 2: and then that's what I did.
Speaker 1: It's is always sometimes.
Speaker 2: I would love Kenyon Sadig all right. I love a
Speaker 2: lot of people. I love the NFL. There's plenty of
Speaker 2: news I mentioned earlier. Jas San's got a new contract.
Speaker 2: How big is it? It's big, It's real big and
Speaker 2: he deserves it. Talk about that and then some around
Speaker 2: the NFL. Next right here in Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: Here we go Happy Monday, everybody. It's a beautiful night.
Speaker 2: So it's just great wherever you are, especially for the
Speaker 2: city of Houston. I'm your host the season for Texans
Speaker 2: All Access, John Harris Football and All Sideline reporter and
Speaker 2: not a fan of Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, any of them.
Speaker 2: But I'm really excited for them to come to town for
Speaker 2: this South Regional this weekend.
Speaker 1: It is going to be fabulous.
Speaker 2: Those fan bases all travel extremely well. And then of
Speaker 2: course you got the Kooks in their hometown looking to
Speaker 2: make another Final Four.
Speaker 1: Made it last year, fell short to Florida.
Speaker 2: Will not get a shot at revenge because Florida got
Speaker 2: Iowa and market I was so funny weird studio today
Speaker 2: and Mark was like, man, did you see that last
Speaker 2: play for Iowa that scored a three point bucket?
Speaker 1: Man, Florida played horrible defense. Be'st basketball.
Speaker 2: We won't worry about that for the time being, but
Speaker 2: we gotta go on the NFL. We mentioned earlier at
Speaker 2: JSN is going to be the top paid wide receiver
Speaker 2: in the NFL by how much?
Speaker 1: What are the numbers?
Speaker 2: You can look obviously at different people's accounts of what
Speaker 2: they all mean, but basically, on an average annual average
Speaker 2: value basis, he will get forty two point one point
Speaker 2: five million dollars per year in new money. That moves
Speaker 2: past Jamar Chase, who is making forty and a quarter
Speaker 2: million four years, one hundred and sixty eight point six
Speaker 2: million dollar contract extension one hundred and twenty million guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Yuh me, Wow, that is a lot of cash.
Speaker 2: But as I said in the first segment, and I
Speaker 2: through the hot take at Mark, this is a hot take,
Speaker 2: I actually believe and I agree with Mark wholeheartedly. When
Speaker 2: you think about the players the Texas faced last year
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, that first game of the year,
Speaker 2: we got Matt Stafford and Puka Nakua.
Speaker 1: Puka was awesome in that game. I mean awesome.
Speaker 2: We try to knock him out, I mean he was
Speaker 2: bleeding all over the place, came back in as he
Speaker 2: get ten catches.
Speaker 1: He was outstanding.
Speaker 2: He and JSN, and I think JSN was the best
Speaker 2: that we saw. JSN was incredible. He was absolutely amazing
Speaker 2: that night. Got a little dust up on the sideline
Speaker 2: as well. He's got some Texas toughness. I just think, Jess,
Speaker 2: I think the world is JSN. And I know there
Speaker 2: are a lot of people that at some point CEJSN
Speaker 2: are like, oh man, we could add JSN if we
Speaker 2: just stay at number twelve instead going up and getting
Speaker 2: Will et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, but we went have
Speaker 2: Will Anderson. So I like what we have. But I
Speaker 2: have the utmost respect for jsn I. Dude is a baller.
Speaker 2: He can do anything on a football field. He plays
Speaker 2: through through injury places for being hurt. He's as tough
Speaker 2: as hell, and he was tremendous seventeen hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: three receiving yards averaged, fifteen point one yards per catch
Speaker 2: at one hundred nineteen receptions, and ten tuddies me to touchdown. Sorry,
Speaker 2: Sean and Seth. He's Mason first team All Pro in
Speaker 2: the right year to be first team All Pro. But
Speaker 2: keep in mind the sale Seahawks trade away DK Metcalf,
Speaker 2: and they're trading away DK Metcalf, You're like, okay, well
Speaker 2: got eat somebody.
Speaker 1: So he wented.
Speaker 2: They got Cooper Cup. It's great they drafted Elijah Arroyo.
Speaker 2: But in a grand scheme of things, those guys did well.
Speaker 2: But jays Sen was a straw that started drink. I
Speaker 2: think he was the best player we saw last year.
Speaker 2: It was pretty pretty amazing, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: A former Texan said that he is open to reuniting
Speaker 2: with a former quarterback.
Speaker 1: That would be DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: The former quarterback Kyler Murray said that DeAndre Hopkins he
Speaker 2: talked to TMZ was out for Tom Brady's flag football contest.
Speaker 2: He made an incredible catch, which Hop does. He said, Kyler,
Speaker 2: that's my bro man. Kyler's like family. I talked to
Speaker 2: Kyler throughout the year. Last year, I talked to Kyler
Speaker 2: after his situation in Arizona. Kyler's like family man, and
Speaker 2: I would would always embrace that journey with him. He's
Speaker 2: in a one year deal. If I'm not mistaken, whatever
Speaker 2: I can do for someone like that. If Kyler needed me,
Speaker 2: the Vikings need me, they know I'll be there. Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 2: the Vikings got one of the best receivers in the game,
Speaker 2: but Hop knows he is a piece that could help
Speaker 2: the Vikings. He said, and I quote even further, I
Speaker 2: just want to be around good people man that love
Speaker 2: the game. Just be able to give some knowledge if
Speaker 2: I can, to some young players. I've played this game
Speaker 2: thirteen seasons, so I think it's a blessing to be
Speaker 2: able to see other guys grow and help their development.
Speaker 2: That is going to be one of the most talked
Speaker 2: about stories this offseason is how that goes with Kyler Murray,
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy and Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota. Jalen Naylor took
Speaker 2: money to leave off the top of my head. I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm blanking. Oh, Naylor went to the Raiders. He
Speaker 2: went to the Raiders, so he's gonna be out with
Speaker 2: the Raiders. Ought Naylor is one of the top number
Speaker 2: threes in the league, so he goes. Maybe Hop steps
Speaker 2: in Addison Jefferson Hopkins, Hockinson getting the ball from Kyler
Speaker 2: Murray or JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he could work. Could work.
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell's gonna have to try and make that work.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what they do. But Hop said he's
Speaker 2: open to reuniting with Kyler in Minnesota. He did say
Speaker 2: he learned a lot about zone coverage from Bill O'Brien,
Speaker 2: which I heard that interview, and of course you couldn't
Speaker 2: see Hop's tongue lodged in cheek. There's a little sarcasm there.
Speaker 2: But either way, if you know Hop, you know what
Speaker 2: that is. The Fanatics Flag Football contest this weekend. If
Speaker 2: you missed it, Team USA dominated. Pick Six's Darryl Ducett
Speaker 2: just went off. I mean it was it was really
Speaker 2: not even close. Mark and I talked about this a
Speaker 2: little bit. Jalen Hurts threw a pick six, but they
Speaker 2: picked everybody. Team USA was just they were fabulous. Tom
Speaker 2: Brady looked okay for a guy that's forty day forty seven.
Speaker 2: I don't know what he is right now, but he
Speaker 2: had the couple. He had a nice throw in the ends.
Speaker 2: I can't remember who threw it. Maybe Steph Stefan Digsy
Speaker 2: threw that too. So uh yeah, Team USA was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2: I mean, they were amazing Texans News. I guess, if
Speaker 2: you want to call it, this looks like there're gonna
Speaker 2: be some number changes coming. At least that's what's been
Speaker 2: teased by our social media department. Earlier today they put
Speaker 2: one out that said Tank that will move to number one.
Speaker 2: I think we knew that as soon as I knew
Speaker 2: that was happening, and I, in fact, I went all
Speaker 2: the way back back to last year when Stefan Diggs
Speaker 2: got hurt and it looked like he wasn't coming back.
Speaker 2: I told Mark, I said, Tank's going to number one,
Speaker 2: and Kamara last is gonna go back to number three.
Speaker 2: He's known as K three for a reason. So if
Speaker 2: Tank's leaving three, Kamar is gonna take three, Tank's gonna
Speaker 2: take number one. Red Blanket Ship's gonna wear number six.
Speaker 2: David Montgomer's gonna wear number thirty two. And I'll bring
Speaker 2: those two up because Blanket Ship wore thirty two in Philly,
Speaker 2: Dave Montgomery wore five in Detroit, but then he wore
Speaker 2: thirty two in college. You were thirty two Chicago, and
Speaker 2: I was gonna wear thirty two again with the Texans.
Speaker 2: So a few number changes as it sits right now.
Speaker 2: Tank Dell going number one, Kamari Lasser going number three,
Speaker 2: Read Blanket Ship six, Dave Montgomery thirty two. And that's
Speaker 2: all I know about numbers, And trust me, I've thought
Speaker 2: about this because some of the offensive line are gonna
Speaker 2: have to change number two. So we'll wait to see what
Speaker 2: that's all about. Speaking of Reblanket Ship, he's gonna join
Speaker 2: us next right here on Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this one of this year at Texans
Speaker 2: All Access from the Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.
Speaker 2: It's time to catch up with Read Blanket Ship sat
Speaker 2: down Mark vander Meer's great stuff. If you missed it,
Speaker 2: well we got it for you right here.
Speaker 3: Read your reaction to joining the Houston Texans organization.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was juiced. I was able to talk to
Speaker 4: Demiko before it all went down. I guess that's a
Speaker 4: new thing they could do. And just hearing his words,
Speaker 4: just hearing that, I feel like he's more of a
Speaker 4: player coach, and and that's what I wanted.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I love.
Speaker 4: That's what I love, and in my age is like,
Speaker 4: you know, the Texans are really pursuing you, and I
Speaker 4: really like that. That was honestly one of the last
Speaker 4: teams I would think to pursue me because they had
Speaker 4: like a great defense. And but obviously coming here, man,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm so so thankful, so so happy.
Speaker 3: You're not fully embedded into the culture yet. But you
Speaker 3: said you talked to the micro Ryans and you were
Speaker 3: also part of a great culture in Philadelphia obviously, So
Speaker 3: how do you feel about that part of it? Jumping
Speaker 3: into this phrase as far as the culture and everything.
Speaker 1: Else goes, Yeah, I feel great.
Speaker 4: I feel like their culture kind of, you know, was
Speaker 4: running parallel with the one in Philly, but I just
Speaker 4: want to want to step in, don't want to step
Speaker 4: in on anybody's So just continue what they're what they're
Speaker 4: doing and what they're building. I feel like they're building
Speaker 4: towards the right way, the right direction, and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: we're just here to have fun.
Speaker 1: What makes a great defense read when.
Speaker 3: You look at it, not only playing well on the field,
Speaker 3: but off the field, being tight together.
Speaker 1: How important is that? How do you look at it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like you said, it's not just on
Speaker 4: the field, it's definitely off the field. You got to
Speaker 4: spend time with your guys, your dB group, your your
Speaker 4: linebacker room, your D line. Like I used to call
Speaker 4: it as like a as a marriage, Like everybody has
Speaker 4: to be involved. Everybody has to contribute to this relationship.
Speaker 4: And once you all get involved and start clicking on
Speaker 4: the same cylinders, I mean pretty much unstoppable.
Speaker 3: Fans have obviously seen you play, but take us inside
Speaker 3: a little bit more. What kind of player are the
Speaker 3: Houston Texans getting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're they're getting a player that loves
Speaker 4: the game of the football. I've said that from when
Speaker 4: I started playing in high school to college that no
Speaker 4: matter what, I'm not going to lose the love of
Speaker 4: the game. I love it with all my heart. I
Speaker 4: lay my body online for it. Especially for my teammates.
Speaker 4: You know, they're very important to me because I know
Speaker 4: they're going to this exact same thing. So they're getting
Speaker 4: a player that loves to play football and a guy
Speaker 4: that studies the game really well and has IQ to
Speaker 4: communicate and get guys lined up.
Speaker 3: How about the hunger you have as a player from
Speaker 3: a young age playing in Alabama, going to Middle Tennessee,
Speaker 3: getting into the league undrafted, You've had to fight for everything?
Speaker 1: Read how and why is that?
Speaker 4: That's just how it rolls. That's how life rolls. And
Speaker 4: you know the saying once if life gives you limits
Speaker 4: and make lemonade. And I feel like I've been doing
Speaker 4: that at each level of my career. And I'm thankful
Speaker 4: and blessed that I have people into my corner, you know,
Speaker 4: my family, my wife, to continue that and to keep
Speaker 4: me humble and continuing my career here.
Speaker 3: So well, you talked about what makes you really good
Speaker 3: as a player. What about a safety in general? What
Speaker 3: are we looking at here? What is a great safety?
Speaker 3: And I know there are different kinds of safeties.
Speaker 4: There is just the first thing. Don't let anything get
Speaker 4: behind you. First off, Second off. Obviously the communication part.
Speaker 4: I feel like the safety is the quarterback of the defense.
Speaker 4: And you know, sometimes people think the mic linebacker is,
Speaker 4: which I he can be at times, but I mean
Speaker 4: safety has a lot of communications. They can talk to
Speaker 4: the d line at times. Some d NS linebackers. You
Speaker 4: got to talk to your corner across the field, so
Speaker 4: you got to direct traffic and become that air traffic
Speaker 4: control type guy. So, uh, I believe that safety is
Speaker 4: a pretty hard position to play because if things happen,
Speaker 4: you're the last guy there and they're gonna blame you.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know that's that's just part of it.
Speaker 4: But like I said, we just get guys lined up
Speaker 4: and then play hard.
Speaker 3: You've been an important part of a championship team and
Speaker 3: that's what we're trying to create here in Houston. And
Speaker 3: you talked about what makes a great defense and everything,
Speaker 3: what makes a great secondary and safety? What about the
Speaker 3: whole team and accomplishing the ultimate goal?
Speaker 1: What's important about that?
Speaker 4: I mean everybody has to be bought in, you know,
Speaker 4: from day one, OTA's you have to be bought in there.
Speaker 4: You can't really be missing. Guy's got to show up
Speaker 4: to and show the little details matter. We preached out
Speaker 4: a lot, and I'm sure that to me, Go preaches
Speaker 4: that too here, that the little details matter the most
Speaker 4: and you can't skip out on those. And if you
Speaker 4: skip out on those, then that can mean between winning
Speaker 4: and losing. So and like I said, the relationships in
Speaker 4: the locker room, like defense has relationships, but it's also
Speaker 4: an offense. You gotta be a whole family. You gotta
Speaker 4: be combined together. You got to do everything together, and
Speaker 4: we all go through the tough things together. So you know,
Speaker 4: why not strive to be the best.
Speaker 1: What do you know about Houston? What are your impressions?
Speaker 3: I know that we're just getting started here, but tell
Speaker 3: us about your impressions of h town.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean don't really know much about Houston. I've
Speaker 4: played here once and that was in I Guess twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two. I played here once but didn't get to
Speaker 4: see the city. I'm a Southern guy at heart, so
Speaker 4: coming down here seeing obviously the rodeo and the livestock
Speaker 4: and everything, it feels like home. And the weather down
Speaker 4: here is so nice. So first impressions really love it.
Speaker 4: I'm sure as time goes on, I will fall in
Speaker 4: love with it even more.
Speaker 3: You've been part of a great defense, and this defense
Speaker 3: is so close to be number one in all categories.
Speaker 3: And he probably didn't have much time to watch it,
Speaker 3: but you know a.
Speaker 2: Lot about it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean watching the Texans defense when it pops up
Speaker 4: on the screen, it's just you know, you got guys
Speaker 4: flying around. You know, you got a bunch of dogs
Speaker 4: on the defense, and you know, I take pride in
Speaker 4: flying around getting to the ball. And what's kind of
Speaker 4: been instilled in me is if you stop the camera
Speaker 4: and when you're watching watching film and you have nine
Speaker 4: to ten, maybe eleven guys all in that one picture,
Speaker 4: that's a really good defense. And regardless of what position
Speaker 4: you play, this corner can be on the other side
Speaker 4: of the field, but he's in that picture on that
Speaker 4: last clip of the play that shows that shows a
Speaker 4: great defense.
Speaker 2: Youre better stuff there from one of the newest Texans
Speaker 2: read blank and ship Baby. Yeah, it's gonna be fun
Speaker 2: watching the new number six, which makes me think he
Speaker 2: wore thirty two in Philly and now David Montgomery, I
Speaker 2: believe is wearing thirty two. Well, we got a lot
Speaker 2: of numbers, and we talked about that a little bit earlier,
Speaker 2: so believe read blank and ship gonna one number six
Speaker 2: for your Houston texts.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow as always, Go Texans.