WEBVTT - Hot Takes and Reed Blankenship's First Texans Interview 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.200 What's happening everybody? Happy Monday to all of you out there. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.119 Welcome into Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio, 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.799 John Harris Football and Outside of the Reporter, alongside the 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.040 voice of the Texans who is gassed up about flag 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.800 football after this weekend, Mark Vandermin, Mark, how do you feel, Johnny? 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.239 I'm doing great and watching a lot of basketball, like 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.960 everybody is, in fact, trying to recall some of these 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:24.960 games over the weekend. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.040 It's all a blur, right, Wait, coach? Game was that. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.480 Where the guy took the past and he did? It's 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.000 so hard to remember did the thing? Who are they 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.040 playing again? Because they knocked somebody off? I know Iowa 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.120 State's really good. Longhorns are in the sweet sixteen. Of course, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.239 the Coup's playing at home, which is freaking awesome. It 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.080 is awesome, So there's a lot to digest from that. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.200 But I know this is not an NCAA tournament show. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.480 Maybe we should just do a podcast once a year 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.680 on basketball because it's so much fun to dissect the 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.560 crunch time moments of these games, like Saint John's yesterday 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.720 and what happened with Iowa and Florida. My goodness, they 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.280 ran a football play to them. That's beautiful. There's so 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.280 many fun things to watch, so I enjoyed it. But 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.800 you mentioned the flag football that was Saturday at three 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.960 Central Tom Brady his showcase. They were going to do 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.360 this in Saudi Arabia. I guess yeah, yeah, right, they 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.760 did it in LA and you had Team USA facing 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:22.000 two semi NFL, semi current, semi former player laden teams, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.880 right yeah, and Team USA took it to them. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.440 I'm being shit. We thought that it would happen up 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.199 and down the field. Who told you was gonna happen? 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.399 We did, and to the point where they had I 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.400 believe it was fifteen drives on the day and scored 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.920 on all but one of them because they took a 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:44.039 knee or something. So, oh my gosh, is that good. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.640 They can do whatever they want against anybody they want. Now, look, 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.240 if you took NFL players and had them practice and 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.200 refine their skills in this particular kind of sport, it 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.320 would be different because these are world class athletes you're 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.200 talking about with the NFL players, the players they had 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.000 on the field, not the krem delink for the most part. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.320 You know, Jade and Daniels probably would be a pretty 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.200 good flag football player, but they had guys like Kyle 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.359 Yuschek out there. If I'm casting a flag football team 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.120 with NFL players, He's not even on the top three 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.040 pages of names that I want. So you know, von Miller, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.200 Come on, these guys can't play flag football. I don't 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.320 want Logan Paul on my team either. By the way, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.040 I want to knock somebody out I'm not gonna have 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.240 Or is that Jake, I don't know. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.960 I don't want any of the Palls anywhere near my sport. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:33.640 And look, they've turned themselves into good marketers and somewhat 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.880 showmen and all that kind of stuff, But no, stay 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.400 away from my field. I said this, and this this 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.799 goes back a long way with me. Nineteen ninety nine, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.760 we took a group of I was living Jacksonville at 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.760 the time. We took a group of Jacksonville all star 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.160 high school basketball players over to Spain to play an 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.880 international tournament teams from Greece, Turkey, Spain. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.640 But we were playing international. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:03.959 Rules different and trapizoil lane, trapezoid lane, euro steps all day. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.400 Our guys couldn't figure it out. Yeah, because they wanted 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.959 to close. They wanted to go up to block a shot, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.160 and then all of a sudden the guy would slide 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.520 under and lay one in, and we, I mean Mark, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.960 we couldn't figure it out. And finally in the game, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.480 we were playing the Greek team and they got out 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.000 big on us. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.239 Well, we decided to press. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.960 Them because we were more athletic and bigger and longer, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:24.920 all that kind of stuff. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:25.800 And we got back in the game. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.799 We got back in a game, but because of the 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.919 rules and point differni and all that, we had to 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.120 win the game by six. So even though we were 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.320 up three, we kept pressing when they got a couple 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.440 of easy baskets end up beating us. But either way, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.560 I remember coming back from that thinking, this is it's 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:41.280 a different game. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.080 Yep, it's a different game. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.440 High school basketball, college basketball, pro basketball fairly similar. International 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.480 basketball is so incredibly different. And I remember thinking about 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.360 that when we were talking about the flag football stuff, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:54.040 like it's. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.640 A different game, so different. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.960 And just like with Dream Team back in nineteen ninety two, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.200 these many years ago, go they had to play together, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.480 they had to figure out the international rules, they had 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.400 to be on a team for longer than just the 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.280 two weeks it took to lead up, which is what 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.480 they had been doing. And then when they started kind 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.520 of falling off the twenty and eight team, Mike Krzyzewski 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.960 had them commit for a couple of years so that 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.479 they could play together, they could learn the international game. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.000 And now the international game in the pro game have started. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.040 To blur a little bit, sure, because the international players 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.240 have gotten so much better. They were influenced heavily by 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.840 the Dream Team. They up their games everywhere around the 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.880 globe and it evens things out a little bit, right, Right. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.520 You're playing a similar game. Flag football and NFL football 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:40.240 aren't even. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.480 Close to use a football that's a similarity, right, Like 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:43.040 you said, if. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.719 You came up with the right group of guys, guys 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.520 that change direction like JSN. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:49.880 We'll get to him in just a second. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.160 You had guys that you know that were like Tyreek, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.200 you know, tank, a healthy tank, you know those kind 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:55.679 of players. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.920 Twitch, twitch, Kyler Murray's guy. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.920 Kyler Murray would be my choice in the quarterback exactly 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.120 because he's got all the twitch in the world, world 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.520 class twitch can throw the ball and I know as 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.719 an NFL quarterback, you might think differently, but as a 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.599 flag football quarterback, he's my guy. But as you notice, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.280 Team USA, if you watch the thing and it's up 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.200 on YouTube, you can watch these games. Hush, who's Daryl 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.800 dus said, is not even really the quarterback. He's a throwback. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.840 He's a running back who throws. And the other guy, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.600 I forget his name, Cicero's something. He can throw it, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:31.840 but he can also run with it. So they do 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.159 so many different things to space the field, and you 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.200 just have to practice and play this wart and. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:37.560 Be dedicated to it. Johnny. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.680 If I'm an NFL owner, I don't want any part 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.600 of this for my players. I really don't use former 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.880 players or guys on the fringe who are still going out, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.880 like after the Olympics they can try out again or 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.760 something like that. They're looking for a team, maybe something 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.359 of that nature. But there are plenty of great athletes 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.680 in this country to play flag football, including the ones 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.440 on Team Team USA right now, and that's probably enough 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.120 to win you a gold. Just go with that and 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.600 enjoy the games and let NFL football be what it is. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:10.320 Yes, absolutely one thousand percent agree. I will say we 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.240 were talking about NCAA tournament. We were in here Friday. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.599 We were getting ready to record what you could see 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.640 on YouTube. It's basically a free agent prime, like an 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.480 offseason prime, what the Texans. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:21.960 Have done thus far. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.680 In nine minutes, we give you everything that's happened and 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.120 how it impacts this team going forward. It's fantastic. Go 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.240 check out on your YouTube, go to our Houston Texas page. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.600 You'll see Mark and I breaking down free agency like 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.560 none other. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.600 We gave you all that. Well, we were about to. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.240 Start filming that on Friday and Santa Clair and Kentucky 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.760 had an all time or ending in regulation. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:43.800 You, me and Will. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.120 Will was down here shooting, and we were all three 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:47.440 just running around watching this game. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:48.080 It was unbelieved. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.239 There were some endings like that, but for the most part, 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:56.560 teams came to do work. Kog's dominant duke dominant. There 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.640 were teams that came to do work. But I thought 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.440 about you and and Dre in this sense we've been 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.119 doing games together. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:04.760 Now this will be this will be my thirteenth year. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.080 You guys are called everyone from the beginning, and I've 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.240 always wondered, I dream about, like, what's it gonna be 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.280 standing on that field hearing you and my you and 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.720 Dre in my ears, and we're going to the AFC 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.720 Championship game. I thought about that. Camp Pavelka has been 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:25.440 doing Nebraska games football and basketball for forty one years. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.080 And they had never forty tournament game. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.400 They've never won a tournament game, never won a tournament 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.400 game game. So in the first round, and I'm trying 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:35.560 to remember, I can't remember who, off the top of 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.080 my head who they beat, but they knocked down three 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.760 after three, after three after three, and it was the 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.520 first it was the first game they had won. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.880 And so bake up in the booth. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.080 Aaron, our engineer, Aaron Raybold has a camera on you 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.640 and Dre and Robert sits in between you guys, and 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.720 so you can see some of the great moments that 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.560 happened and you calling them from the booth and what's 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.200 that like and the celebration in the booth and all 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:57.880 that kind of stuff. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.000 So somebody was recording it. The end his reaction and 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:02.760 he wears. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.760 His bow tie and he's got his he's got his 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.280 quarter zip and everything, and he is he's going through it, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:09.960 you can tell. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.720 And he's whole, like he's holding it together. But just 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:15.720 bear right. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:21.720 So they play on Saturday, and on Saturday they played 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:27.040 Vanderbilt in one of the craziest endings you're gonna ever see. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:32.320 Vanderbilt misses a shot, kind of a crazy Tyler Tanne 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.319 the point guard, throws it inside. Chandler Bing catches it. Yes, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.240 Chandler Bing not named after their friend's character. Chandler Bing 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.120 catches it in the air. But he's got to get 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.760 it off because on like three seconds on shot like 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.600 so he catches on the run and shoots, misses. Nebraska 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.120 comes down, kid makes a left handed layup. It's seventy 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.120 four to seventy two. Van he's got one time out 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.839 to call it two point two. They throw the ball 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.080 at Tyler Tanner and he's beyond half court and launches 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.760 and goes. And this is what's always weird to be 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.960 because when a ball goes off the glass from that 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.920 far out, the ball goes off the glass, it hits 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:10.160 the rim once and gone. This thing goes off glass, 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:17.320 it's halfway down and pops out, pops out, and Nebraska wins. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:22.439 And so the game is over. Everybody's celebrating in every 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:28.319 Cornhusker player walks over and hugs and celebrates with. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.320 Kent Pavelka at mid. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.640 Court, and I just was like, I am doing everything 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.600 possible to keep together. I'm like, I, oh my god, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.200 it was the coolest. I mean, they're hugging him. Two 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.800 guys are hugging him. I mean, guys are slapping fives 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.480 with the fans, and then they turn around and see 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:43.920 him and they give him a great, big bear h 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.600 I'm like, it is the coolest thing. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.280 Forty one years and now. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.520 They will be here the Corn Bowl right here, the 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.240 Corn Classic twenty twenty six. I would Nebraska taking all. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:56.880 I mean, what a weekend is gonna be in Houston. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:02.280 You got the Astros Opening Day coming up, got the 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:04.360 It's not Shell. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.520 Houstope anymore, No, it's Houston Open. I think it does 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:08.080 have a sponsor. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.839 But go on, Shell the Houst Open and you've got 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.720 the uh Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight featuring Iowa, Nebraska, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.199 Illinois and hometown Houston. You think I'm telling you right now, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.760 that's the toughest ticket to get in town maybe ever 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.640 with the Koogs, with the corn Huskers, the Huskers will 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.439 show up, will travel way, they will Indiana football this thing. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.640 Oh, you're right, They're gonna stay everywhere, aren't. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.360 They were playing in Oklahoma City, they were playing I 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:37.520 think it was Oklahoma City. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.640 Is that where it was? I think it was. And 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.640 it was a home game, see of Red. It was 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.600 a home game Nebraska environment, and that building was unbelievable. Mark, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.280 it was incredible. I was incredible. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.360 The only year I went to the College World Series 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.959 at the old Rosenblatt Stadium in two thousand and one 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.720 with the Hurricanes and we won it that year, Nebraska 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.920 was there. We didn't play, oh, I bet, but Nebraska 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.760 was there, and I think they had never been either 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.400 that or they had never won that. I think they 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.000 had never been. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.160 Johnny, Yeah, I think you're right. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.080 And there was tailgating like you wouldn't believe for a 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.640 baseball game. They didn't know how to handle it because 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.360 it was tailgates everywhere. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.920 It was like a football game. And then they cheered everything. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.840 If there was a sack bunt, it was it was 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.360 like touchdown, turner gill. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.520 You know, it was huge anything. Yeah, they were ready 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.160 for anything. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.280 And they didn't win, obviously, but it was a tremendous atmosphere. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.440 So schools like that when they're in a sport where 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.000 they're not normally good or that great, they show up. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.880 They've got the bug. Yeah, and the footballs. Those three 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.200 teams all travel. Illinois will two Illinois, I went to Nebraska. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.000 Will all travel. And then you've got obviously the Kougs 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.800 playing at home. What a great night for downtown Houston. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.000 Oh my god, it is great weekend Unblialia. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.240 Oh it's good. Hotel rooms everywhere filled. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.200 It's it's going to be along with the golf tournament 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.800 with I mean opening Day. I saw a Nebraska fan 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.200 and he said, I can't remember what he said. I 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.600 think it's Thursday, they play Nebraska. He said he would 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.440 go to Opening Day at three. I think he said 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.560 he would go. He said he was going downtown somewhere 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.559 for something, then Opening Day at three and then walking 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.120 over and watching Iowa Nebraska play in the Corn Classic. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:19.920 That's why I'm calling it the Corn Classic twenty twenty 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.560 seven day. That's unbelievable in Illinois. Houston is gonna be. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.480 I know, Houston's hot. I mean, Houston was unbelievable against 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.440 A and M. I mean at one point, I can't 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.040 remember where it was, like eighteen thirteen, twenty fourth something 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:33.840 like that, and then all of a sudden, the Koogs went, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.240 uh yeah, we're ready and then went on like a 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.280 twenty four to three run and it was Donzo absolutely done. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.200 So okay, a way, the weather this week outstanding. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.400 it's gonna be great. They're gonna love that. I know 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.240 we need some rain, but not yet. Hold on, you're 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.520 gonna see a lot. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.960 I mean, you're gonna see every one of those fan 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.920 bases all week long. I WOA Nebraska, Illinois and Houston. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.599 You're gonna all all week long. It's gonna be phenomenal. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.439 Not to bet you Astros kicking it off this this 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.520 week as well, and then the golf tournament starting Thursday. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:06.520 I had to go back. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.520 I didn't start getting ready for golf, so I watched 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.920 on Sunday morning when I got up, I watched the 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.800 fifty five minute twenty twenty five Masters, like what would 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:16.720 you call highlight show? 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.120 And I forgot how. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.520 I forgot a that Rory won it and that was 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:25.400 his first b how Rory won it, which was amazing. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.800 We go over this again quick well, he had had 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.760 the lead, a big lead going and then drops Justin. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.360 Rose came out and kind of came out of nowhere 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:38.640 kind of forts and on the last hole, Rory bogies, yeh, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.360 he's gotta whose Birdie or par Bogies and they got 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.000 to go to an indititional hole. His approach shot he 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.800 hits within like five feet, yeah, at ten and and 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.800 just that was it and he ends up winning it 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.960 with that. So it was I mean, it's a highlight. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.760 Just so you got all the good feelings and everything that, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.600 you know. It was crazy seeing him, you know, celebrate 0:13:58.679 --> 0:13:59.960 with his his dog. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.480 I pull for him now because he tried to save 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.840 the tour. He did, and the tour is gonna make it. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.600 I mean we didn't. We didn't think they were not 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:11.000 gonna make it. But to get Kopka back as big others, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.080 they'll get more guys back as time does. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:13.920 Bryce will come back. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.920 And that was one of the things I forgot that 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.320 Rory and Bryson were teamed together on the final day 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.480 and Bryson sort of melted. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.520 You got damn corner in his prayers and so he 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:27.320 was in trouble. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.640 Okay, you mentioned a little bit earlier, and I didn't 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.200 want you to steal our thunder. It's sizzle fire Todd. Yeah, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.080 it's time for the hot takes. Now, I come up 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.600 with the hot takes? Did you send me? Went over 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.360 the weekend from you? And I said it was like 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:48.400 ten sizzle fires. Wait, well I can't remember what you remember. Yeah, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.400 I gotta make sure it's something that I can't say. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.720 Or what it was. But I was like, are you crazy? 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.360 That's oh no, we can't say this one on the air. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.280 But the Texans do you have a number one wide receiver? 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.920 So hot take sizzlefires. So here's what we do. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.680 There are hot takes of plenty throughout sports, and we'll 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.920 try and keep this one to football for the most part. Okay, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.480 but there are hot takes of plenty out there, some 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:17.240 by some people, some for others, some I will create myself, okay, 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.920 And you will again assess that hot take with number 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:26.080 of sizzle fires. One meaning that that's that's not really 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.840 a hot take. That's pretty much right on point. It's true. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.440 Five sizzle fires means I have gone conspiracy theorists. It's 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:38.040 the dumbest thing ever. There's no chance it is not happening. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.840 But I'm gonna start with an easy one. This one, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.400 this one's mine, and it also allows us to kind 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.480 of combine some of the around the NFL news too. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.200 Woke up this morning to the news that Jackson Smith 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:55.040 Injigbas signed the largest contract for a wide receiver in 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.320 the NFL. Here's my hot take, not even based on 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.760 the money. JSN was the best player that we saw 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:03.760 last year. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.240 Player NFL play. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.440 Jaysen was the best player that we faced last year. Now, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.680 as you think about that, we did face the MVP, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:14.080 Matt Stafford. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.040 We saw him in Week one. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.800 We did face Puka Nakua, we saw him, both of 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.720 them in Week one. We saw Jaysn. Week eight on 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.280 a Monday night, Bakers. Yeah, we saw Bakers. We saw 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.280 Josh Allen. We end up seeing Drake May. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.880 I'll give it a one sizzle fire Johnny. Okay, I 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:32.640 think that's a good take. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.200 Yeah, Okay. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.880 Jysn gave us problems. We know how good this secondary is. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.600 This defense. I think the Texans coming off the bye 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.360 playing the late night game didn't help. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:43.360 But no excuses. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.760 You know, there's sometimes instances where this team in the 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.840 last three years hasn't dealt well with a weird scheduling arrangement, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.480 and that was one of them. You would think you'd 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:53.920 be fully arrested, ready to go. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:54.760 And they were. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.800 But I think they were almost rusty in that one 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:58.640 defensive league. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:16:59.880 And the Seahawks are really good. 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.680 We know that they won the Super Bowl, so that combination, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:04.840 you know, the NFL is a fine line. You're not 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.040 quite on top of your game, they are, and you 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.679 didn't handle it well, and voila. You came up with 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.120 JSN having a big game. And I don't think that's 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.480 a hot take at all. You handled Matthew Stafford really well. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.160 Stafford might be the better player that you faced all year. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:18.760 Slightly. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.879 He's a quarterback, you know, apples and oranges quarterbacks to 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.000 wide receivers. But the Texans dealt with Stafford very well, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.000 and they forced a turnover on that final Rams drive 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.399 to get the ball back and turn it over, and 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.480 then the Rams ran out the clock. So I think 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.560 that Jayassent take is good. Other losses the Texans had, gosh, Johnny, 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.480 they won ten in a row, including the playoff game. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.639 You know what game I was going over, not to 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.919 get two tangenty tangent e, but the forty nine er 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.520 game because I was going over some air check stuff. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.240 I'm trying to come up with something to play for 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.400 business ops and sales and everything here. And the opening 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.600 of that game, Texans are two and four, Niners are 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.400 five two, and the Niners have something going on. They're 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.960 banged up, but they've been playing well despite that. And 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.439 the Texans are without Nico Collins and Christian Kirk. So 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.040 how are they going to get this done today? Coming 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.560 off the loss to Seattle on a short week, over 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.199 three hundred yards for CJ. Strad two touchdowns and they 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.000 ran for a buck fifty plus. That's how they dealt 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.159 with it. The Houston Texans. I mean, we had some 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.040 games this year that people forget about that were really 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.840 good performances by the quarterback and the offense. And I 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.120 know they didn't finish enough drives whatever, they scored twenty 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:30.639 six points. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.120 Guess what, it was enough, So. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.080 You got to play like that next year and then 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.360 some Anyway, I think it's a good take. JSN best 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:39.840 player of the Texans faced all year. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.639 Yes, bringing up that forty nine Ers game. 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.720 If somebody had been out of the country flew back 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.800 in some the Texans were twelve and five, won a 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.040 playoff game, et cetera, and they said, Hey, which game 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.600 should I go watch to see get the essence of 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:56.639 the twenty twenty five Texans. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.040 I would tell them that forty nine Ers game. Really, 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:00.720 no need go No. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.000 Christian Kirk, Jared Wayne's got to play, Braxton Barris has 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.719 got to play ce Jazz's best game Wood. He had 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.760 a solid game. The defense was phenomenal. Really gave McCaffrey 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.840 nothing other than George Kittle making one hell of a 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:13.920 catching the end zone. 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.520 Right before half. Yep, that was it. That was all 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:16.960 they got. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.119 I would say I would take that and go this 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.680 is a divisional playoff team in the forty nine Ers, yep, 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.320 and they came to our house and they got They 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:25.960 got trounced. The score may not have said it, but 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.000 they got absolutely trounced. I would put that game. This 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.640 is the one. This is the one that you want 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.280 to watch to see the complete Texas from twenty twenty four. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.320 Well, I like Kansas City too, because, yeah, it shows 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.680 you the struggles third quarter offense, fourth straight three announces 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.520 that what it was. Yeah, but then the offense wakes 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.800 up in time to get the job done. In the 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.720 defense eats Holmes three picks for the first time in 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.080 three years. Phenomenal performance all the way around when you 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.840 consider road Kansas City's last stand to get something going 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.040 before they were going to slide out of control. So 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.119 I like that one too, But I know that's not 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.120 the topic anyway. Next sizzle fire evaluation, Well, I'm glad 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:04.040 you brought up the Chiefs. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:09.720 Okay, The Kansas City Chiefs have signed Travis kelce to. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:15.440 A three year, fifty four point seven million dollars deal. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.240 Now I am not privy to the information to see 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.040 of that, what's guaranteed, et cetera. My hot take is 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.600 that's stupid. Give it the sizzle fires. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.960 So your take, not the corr. My take is it stupid. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:34.760 I would say that's. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.919 Two point seventy five maybe two and a half, okay, 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:43.680 because it is Travis kelce And until further notice, let's 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.760 just say Travis Kelcey retires right now, Johnny, what would 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:48.680 you have to say about the Chiefs. Don't you feel 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.960 like you still need him around it, at least until 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.600 you can for a year. Yes, I know, but maybe 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.760 it all works out with the guaranteed money and they're 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.000 able to kind of flush things away. And it's Travis 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.800 Kelsey does the Lifetime Achievement Award contract, and you're rewarding 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:05.520 him for being. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.400 The what is he the second greatest chief ever? Right? 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:10.560 Yeah? 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.159 Well, I mean right now as it stands at the moment, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.280 who's the great Look, who's. 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.440 The greatest chief ever? Patrick Mahomes. Okay, it's Patrick Mahomes. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.600 Until people retire, Let's let's just say active players are discluding. 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.919 I guess so Len Dawson, Len Dawson, Yeah, Len Dawson, 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.600 Len Dawson. Super Bowl, Gonzales, len Dawson won, Gonzales. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.280 He's still the all time leader at tight end receptions, 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:38.080 right or is it witting? 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.160 He's right up there right. The Gonzales was amazing. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.200 It's that I never really felt Gonzales because he never 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:49.200 did it in a postseason, right, you know, masterpiece performance. 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.359 It always felt like Sharif abdu Raheem rip Sharif abdu 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.040 Raheem was putting up twenty but nobody cares because it 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.800 was for the Vancouver Grizzlies, right, Atlanta Hawks when they 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.680 weren't going well. It was like he go get you buckets. 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.399 It's like Bradley Beal, Bradley Beale, go get you buckets. 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.639 You know, but it was for teams that just weren't 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:07.679 going we're doing anything. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.880 Yeah, Gonzales was really great when he could You imagine 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:13.680 him with the Patriots or you know, a team brought 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.560 a really good quarterback, you put him on the Colts, 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.560 you put him on the Saints when Breeze was there. Gosh, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:23.080 it's elevated Kelsey. If Kelsey's not with Mahomes, we're saying 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.800 Kelsey's great, but he's more like George Kittle great rather 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.040 than Travis Kelsey great. I agreed, agree against Taylor Swift 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:31.960 and it goes to the stratosphere as far as the 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:32.760 TVQ rating. 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.360 I see, I see your sizzle fire, I get it. 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:37.760 I want Trav if I'm a chief now, I don't 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:39.320 want to see him around. I want him to retire 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.639 because maybe I'll start liking him if he retires, you know, 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:43.640 like I liked Peyton Manning. 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:44.480 Now and I like Tom Brady. 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:46.760 Like Tom Brady, but I hated them like poison when 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.119 they were players, Yes, because they were the enemy. I 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.320 want Travis Kelsey to stop being the enemy and start 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.560 being a retired guy that I can say, Okay, he's. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.840 Kind of I like, I like that thought process. I 0:22:56.920 --> 0:22:57.880 like that thought process. 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:02.040 Okay, this one comes from Dan or Oh jeez, and 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:08.359 I quote I think ty Simpson is QB one in 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:09.720 this draft. 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:11.679 All right, that's going to live with him for a 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:14.920 long time. Right now, it looks like for sizzelefire's minimum 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.119 because Mendoza is the guy, and he's the flavor of 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:20.639 the year, not just the month. 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:22.639 It's Fernando Mendoza. 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:26.359 Now, it could end up that ty Simpson goes to 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.480 a team that's a lot better than the Raiders and 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:33.000 somehow works his way into the lineup and boila, we've 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:33.760 got a situation. 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:37.000 Starter gets hurt. Maybe he's that good. Who knows. 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:39.200 Once upon a time, Russell Wilson was a third round 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:42.919 draft choice who beat out a free agent named Matt Flynn, 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:46.160 who was there with big money on the table of. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:48.199 Seattle, and they said, we got to go with the 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:48.720 better guy. 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:52.040 I'm not saying that's ty Simpson, but stranger things have 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.480 happened in this league, and it maybe doesn't happen right away. 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:58.879 So is Orlowski right If in year three Simpson is 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.679 doing well and going to the playoffs and maybe not 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:06.520 Greape but good and Mendoza turns into nothing ish for 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:08.600 THELA or Las Vegas Raiders. 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:09.080 I did it. 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:12.640 You know, I am more likely to say LA Raiders, 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:14.280 I mean than Oakland Raiders. 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:18.000 I am too. I do that a lot at Las Vegas. 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:20.879 I kind of came of age football wise with the 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.080 Raiders in LA, even though I knew the Oakland thing, 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.600 of course, and they went back to Oakland. But I 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:29.159 still feel like, say in LA sometimes they're an LA 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:31.480 team anyway, They're still their preseason games are still in 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:33.640 the air in Los Angeles. That believe me, they pay 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:35.639 good money to get that done. I know this for 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:36.080 a fact. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.280 The Athletic did their mock draft. 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:43.639 As we move on to another one, okay, number twenty 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:48.800 eight they have chosen. Mike Jones has chosen for the Texans, 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.919 Blake Miller off. It's to tackle from Clemson. Here's my 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:56.800 hot take. I don't believe the Texans are going to 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:58.960 take an offensive line and it picked number twenty eight. 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:00.280 How hot is that hot take? 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.159 I think that's only a one and a half at 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:07.400 this point. I do believe they will take two linemen 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.639 in the first four rounds. So I got to go 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:14.440 into Saturday with this prediction, which is not really going 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:17.239 out on a big limb, but to not take one 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.520 in the first round, I think is very understandable because 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:22.200 Nick could look at it and say, there's nobody worth 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:24.159 this pick right here, and I feel like there are 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:26.320 a few guys that are definite second rounders and we 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:27.360 can get two picks that. 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.119 Let's just wait, thank you, We'll wait till Friday, will 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:30.640 get our guy. 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:32.840 It will trade up if we really feel like we 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:36.080 have to going into Friday night or on Friday night 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:38.199 to move up and get the player or players that 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.520 we want, but late in the first round. 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:42.560 Listen, there's a lot of talk around here about the 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.440 draft party. What do we do? What have we decided yet? 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:47.199 What do we do? 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:51.600 I don't know. We're still looking at the pride look 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:53.840 at it like this. I know all you and I 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:55.680 have the idea of doing it Friday. No matter what, 0:25:56.240 --> 0:26:00.359 I can guarantee ninety nine point nine percent will be 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:02.320 picks Friday night, no matter what happens in the first 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:04.600 ye absolutely will be picks on Friday Night. 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:08.280 Nick Nick. Nick even says I gotta pick at some point, right, 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.280 He's not trading out of rounds two and three, there 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:12.359 will be picks Friday night. 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:14.960 We'll have multiple picks Friday night for a happier draft 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:17.600 party of Friday night than a Thursday night where they 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:21.680 might not draft. But I do think this. I don't 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:23.679 think Nick trades out of the first round if he 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.480 does until that night. Yeah, so we're gonna go through 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:29.360 what we went through last year, hopefully without the thunderstorm. 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:31.479 But we'll go through what we went through last year, 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:33.600 which is waiting, waiting, waiting. 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:35.760 And all of a sudden he's out and see a 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:36.840 Friday everybody, and. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:38.560 Then we'll have a fun Friday night. Yeah, we will 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:39.520 have a fun Friday night. 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:42.720 I first of all, I mean maybe the Texas draft 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.800 Blake Miller or not. I'm I'm not a fan of 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:48.040 him at twenty eight. Probably wouldn't be a fan until 0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:51.920 sixty something whatever. But that's maybe for a different discussion. 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:56.919 But I've thought through this thing backwards and forwards, and 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:00.639 when they put a tackle there that almost made little 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:03.960 That made little sense to me because you've got to 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:07.160 ursera left tackle. You just haven't got Braden Smith. Oh 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:09.680 what if Braidon gets hurt? That's why you signed Trent 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:12.360 and you still have Blake Fisher. I think you've got 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:14.359 your four tackles. Now you're gonna have to have some 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:16.359 depth during camp. Guys are gonna get banged up and 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:17.640 they can't take every single rep. 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:22.000 But that's when George the second comes back exactly. Not 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:25.320 a high draft yet, George fan meaning a pronoun here 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:28.159 of a player who might be available, who might be 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:28.760 able to help. 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:31.000 You out right, And there's gonna be you know, Jarek 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:33.560 Kingston is gonna get some time at tackle right there, 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:36.040 and he's he was resigned. 0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:40.800 So I feel like tackle is okay, you know, is it? 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:45.399 You know Trent Williams on one side and Lane Johnson 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:47.199 and the other. No, we're not there yet, but I 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:50.160 feel like you've got enough resources that tackle to feel 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:50.639 good about it. 0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:53.119 If anyboding draft Charlie Heck the second. 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.199 Right, which Charlie didn't go till day three, which I 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:59.360 could see them taking a tackle on day three, serviceable right, 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:05.440 Blake Miller that said, I could see them taking a guard, 0:28:05.480 --> 0:28:07.200 And I thought this was interesting. When I did my 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:10.679 my my three round mock at football takeover dot Com, 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:14.320 I had the Texans at that point drafting a guard 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:15.400 Chase Pisantis. 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:19.399 Now, I love everything about Chase. He's from New Jersey. 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:21.800 It Scott, some nasty enemy played started his career tackle 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:25.200 move to guard. Everything you like about him. He's agile, 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:27.639 good hands, good run blocker. I think you could be 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:30.439 a really good pass protector as well. I really like 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:34.800 Chase Pisantis. So that was my That was my pick 0:28:35.000 --> 0:28:37.200 at twenty eight to take a guard. I still think 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:41.880 even with Wyatt Teller here, even with resigning at Ingram, 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:44.720 I still feel like at guard you might you might 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:46.920 be a guy short, and that might be the perfect 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:49.080 opportunity at that point to take a guard. And I 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:53.760 also feel like the guards are more plentiful in this draft. 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:55.600 I like the guards a lot more than I like 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:56.040 to tackle. 0:28:56.120 --> 0:28:57.840 As I think about it, how many sicel fiers did 0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:00.280 I give you for saying no offensive lineman the first 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:01.320 round that hot take? 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:02.480 You gave me at least four? 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.040 No, no, no, no, I thought it was I thought 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:08.239 it was like, okay, I can go with that one 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:08.720 and a half. 0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:09.400 Yeah. 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.360 Now I want to up the sizzle fire count, Johnny, 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:15.280 because as I think about it, and I mentioned this 0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:18.480 briefly last week, Nick's doing it to us again. 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:20.240 He signs these veterans. 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:23.800 Yeah, and he drafts underneath or over them, whatever you 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:27.000 want to call it, alongside them and says, go fight 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:30.200 it out. We'll see how the wash comes out during 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:33.160 training camp. No, look, why Teller's gonna play. But you 0:29:33.200 --> 0:29:36.000 want to catch lightning in a bottle maybe, and you 0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:38.920 gotta go relatively high to do that, so you can't 0:29:38.920 --> 0:29:41.160 eliminate the first round. I still won't up until more 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:42.800 than more than two sizzlefires. 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:45.360 But in my in my second mock, it's not gonna 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:47.280 be an offensive line. It's not definitely not gonna be 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:49.040 a tackle. I can promise that. It's not gonna be 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:50.680 a center. It's little hyphens. Why are you doing that? 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:53.240 By the way, Vandermock three point zero comes out this week? 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:55.240 Oh nice, we could talk about that. Oh yeah, my 0:29:55.280 --> 0:29:57.000 mock will probably come out because I'll do a three rounder. 0:29:57.040 --> 0:29:59.160 It probably come out early next week. I'm working on 0:29:59.160 --> 0:30:01.720 getting my one hundred, uh so i'd be out there. 0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:03.760 But I thought it was interesting because I had them 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:06.120 taking Chase Pasontis and my first mock, which was back 0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:10.120 in early February. Daniel Jeremiah's most recent mockus who had 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:10.680 at twenty eight. 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:14.560 Oh Chase Best, there you go. Yeah, so nothing that 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.680 Johnny Harris stuff. Believe me. You know it was interesting. 0:30:17.840 --> 0:30:19.880 You remember who I also had going number thirty two 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:20.760 to the Seattle Seahawks. 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:22.640 You remember that because I said they were gonna lose 0:30:22.720 --> 0:30:27.120 Kenneth Walker and Genarian Price. You know he had going 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.760 number thirty two to the Seattle Seahawks. Zarion Price. 0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:32.440 Well, look, I'm not saying this is plagiarism, because I 0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:34.440 know it's not. I know there's only so many players 0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:37.479 at all around, and it's exactly if it's logic driven, 0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:42.160 that's exactly right, simple logic driven, like they need somebody. 0:30:42.240 --> 0:30:43.280 But I can guarantee you this. 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:47.760 I don't even have to look every draft guy like Jeremiah, 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:50.680 all those draft guys out there, Kuyper, they're. 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:53.040 All reading the other mocks of people they respect. 0:30:53.400 --> 0:30:57.040 They're all reading they want to see what the other 0:30:57.080 --> 0:30:59.000 guys are thinking because they want to gauge. 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:03.000 Am I crazy? That's right? At least there's multiple crazy people. 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:06.040 If I'm crazy thinking the same thing or something similar, 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:07.080 Am I nuts? 0:31:07.240 --> 0:31:08.320 When I go to do my mock. 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:11.040 I mean there's certain people for particular teams I go 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.880 I'll go look at to see what they're saying, what 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.040 they're thinking their draft needs are. Now, I won't look 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:19.200 at who they've taken, but the needs. But I'll look 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:21.680 at the needs and what they're thinking about. 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:25.520 Good point because no matter how well you know the league. 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:28.920 And I listened to serious x MNFL radio, those guys 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:32.440 pack Kurwin knows things pretty well. He does, and I 0:31:32.800 --> 0:31:34.720 still don't know what happened to Jim Miller, by the way, 0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:37.520 but pack Kerwin knows things well. But some of those 0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:41.640 guys don't know them as well. And you listen to 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:43.640 them talking about other teams, and the way you know, 0:31:44.000 --> 0:31:46.160 and listeners of this show will know. The way you 0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:48.800 know is when they're talking about your team. You know 0:31:48.920 --> 0:31:51.800 what's real or at least what's real enough, right, And 0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:55.360 then you hear their take any national media member and 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:58.560 you think, oh, they don't really know us, they don't 0:31:58.600 --> 0:31:59.400 really know us. 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:01.840 They know us at all. 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:05.480 But I could see of all those and I it's 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:08.280 funny because I've been thinking about and doing my second mock. 0:32:08.360 --> 0:32:10.320 I'm like, where am I? Where am I going with 0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:10.800 this pig? 0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:15.040 Because I feel like it could be a guard and 0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:17.360 I'd be okay with that, I think center is a 0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:19.040 little too early. I think thirty eight you can get 0:32:19.040 --> 0:32:21.840 a center and maybe get the number one center, and 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:25.640 I think center will be different for everybody. But I 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:28.719 think there are some definite names at center. But I 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:31.000 feel like it's that one's gonna be tough. I'm gonna 0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:33.000 kind of let it play out and see. What I 0:32:33.080 --> 0:32:35.920 have to make sure I do is put logic behind it, 0:32:35.960 --> 0:32:38.400 so I don't just put Kenyon Sadik at twenty eight 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:41.080 and then that's what I did. 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:46.520 It's is always sometimes. 0:32:46.360 --> 0:32:48.480 I would love Kenyon Sadig all right. I love a 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:51.320 lot of people. I love the NFL. There's plenty of 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:54.720 news I mentioned earlier. Jas San's got a new contract. 0:32:54.960 --> 0:32:58.880 How big is it? It's big, It's real big and 0:32:58.920 --> 0:33:01.120 he deserves it. Talk about that and then some around 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:04.280 the NFL. Next right here in Texans All Access. 0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:10.560 Here we go Happy Monday, everybody. It's a beautiful night. 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:13.400 So it's just great wherever you are, especially for the 0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:16.040 city of Houston. I'm your host the season for Texans 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:19.400 All Access, John Harris Football and All Sideline reporter and 0:33:19.840 --> 0:33:23.680 not a fan of Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, any of them. 0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:27.000 But I'm really excited for them to come to town for 0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:29.680 this South Regional this weekend. 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:31.520 It is going to be fabulous. 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:35.280 Those fan bases all travel extremely well. And then of 0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:37.680 course you got the Kooks in their hometown looking to 0:33:37.760 --> 0:33:40.200 make another Final Four. 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:43.080 Made it last year, fell short to Florida. 0:33:43.200 --> 0:33:46.880 Will not get a shot at revenge because Florida got 0:33:46.920 --> 0:33:49.720 Iowa and market I was so funny weird studio today 0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:51.320 and Mark was like, man, did you see that last 0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:54.400 play for Iowa that scored a three point bucket? 0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:56.680 Man, Florida played horrible defense. Be'st basketball. 0:33:56.800 --> 0:33:59.160 We won't worry about that for the time being, but 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:01.560 we gotta go on the NFL. We mentioned earlier at 0:34:01.600 --> 0:34:05.080 JSN is going to be the top paid wide receiver 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:07.600 in the NFL by how much? 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:08.680 What are the numbers? 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.319 You can look obviously at different people's accounts of what 0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:18.239 they all mean, but basically, on an average annual average 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:23.719 value basis, he will get forty two point one point 0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:28.360 five million dollars per year in new money. That moves 0:34:28.440 --> 0:34:32.200 past Jamar Chase, who is making forty and a quarter 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:36.439 million four years, one hundred and sixty eight point six 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:41.240 million dollar contract extension one hundred and twenty million guaranteed. 0:34:42.640 --> 0:34:46.200 Yuh me, Wow, that is a lot of cash. 0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:48.799 But as I said in the first segment, and I 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:50.920 through the hot take at Mark, this is a hot take, 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.799 I actually believe and I agree with Mark wholeheartedly. When 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:56.600 you think about the players the Texas faced last year 0:34:57.120 --> 0:35:01.040 in twenty twenty five, that first game of the year, 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:02.560 we got Matt Stafford and Puka Nakua. 0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:04.880 Puka was awesome in that game. I mean awesome. 0:35:04.960 --> 0:35:06.640 We try to knock him out, I mean he was 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:08.719 bleeding all over the place, came back in as he 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:09.360 get ten catches. 0:35:09.400 --> 0:35:10.239 He was outstanding. 0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:14.279 He and JSN, and I think JSN was the best 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:18.360 that we saw. JSN was incredible. He was absolutely amazing 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:21.520 that night. Got a little dust up on the sideline 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:24.360 as well. He's got some Texas toughness. I just think, Jess, 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:26.960 I think the world is JSN. And I know there 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:28.839 are a lot of people that at some point CEJSN 0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:30.680 are like, oh man, we could add JSN if we 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:33.040 just stay at number twelve instead going up and getting 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:35.719 Will et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, but we went have 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:39.000 Will Anderson. So I like what we have. But I 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:42.840 have the utmost respect for jsn I. Dude is a baller. 0:35:42.920 --> 0:35:44.920 He can do anything on a football field. He plays 0:35:45.000 --> 0:35:49.040 through through injury places for being hurt. He's as tough 0:35:49.080 --> 0:35:52.600 as hell, and he was tremendous seventeen hundred and ninety 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:56.640 three receiving yards averaged, fifteen point one yards per catch 0:35:56.640 --> 0:36:01.359 at one hundred nineteen receptions, and ten tuddies me to touchdown. Sorry, 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:04.880 Sean and Seth. He's Mason first team All Pro in 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:07.080 the right year to be first team All Pro. But 0:36:07.719 --> 0:36:10.240 keep in mind the sale Seahawks trade away DK Metcalf, 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:14.600 and they're trading away DK Metcalf, You're like, okay, well 0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:16.120 got eat somebody. 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:16.520 So he wented. 0:36:16.560 --> 0:36:20.640 They got Cooper Cup. It's great they drafted Elijah Arroyo. 0:36:21.440 --> 0:36:24.360 But in a grand scheme of things, those guys did well. 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:26.799 But jays Sen was a straw that started drink. I 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:28.440 think he was the best player we saw last year. 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:31.040 It was pretty pretty amazing, to be honest with you. 0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:36.120 A former Texan said that he is open to reuniting 0:36:36.239 --> 0:36:37.480 with a former quarterback. 0:36:38.480 --> 0:36:39.760 That would be DeAndre Hopkins. 0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:45.160 The former quarterback Kyler Murray said that DeAndre Hopkins he 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:49.120 talked to TMZ was out for Tom Brady's flag football contest. 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.760 He made an incredible catch, which Hop does. He said, Kyler, 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:55.000 that's my bro man. Kyler's like family. I talked to 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:57.000 Kyler throughout the year. Last year, I talked to Kyler 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:00.120 after his situation in Arizona. Kyler's like family man, and 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:03.239 I would would always embrace that journey with him. He's 0:37:03.239 --> 0:37:05.840 in a one year deal. If I'm not mistaken, whatever 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:09.040 I can do for someone like that. If Kyler needed me, 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:13.320 the Vikings need me, they know I'll be there. Justin Jefferson, 0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:16.880 the Vikings got one of the best receivers in the game, 0:37:18.239 --> 0:37:21.560 but Hop knows he is a piece that could help 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:24.920 the Vikings. He said, and I quote even further, I 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:26.680 just want to be around good people man that love 0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:29.080 the game. Just be able to give some knowledge if 0:37:29.080 --> 0:37:30.879 I can, to some young players. I've played this game 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:33.120 thirteen seasons, so I think it's a blessing to be 0:37:33.200 --> 0:37:36.040 able to see other guys grow and help their development. 0:37:36.080 --> 0:37:38.360 That is going to be one of the most talked 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:43.280 about stories this offseason is how that goes with Kyler Murray, 0:37:43.360 --> 0:37:47.560 JJ McCarthy and Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota. Jalen Naylor took 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:50.600 money to leave off the top of my head. I'm 0:37:50.600 --> 0:37:52.560 just I'm blanking. Oh, Naylor went to the Raiders. He 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:54.600 went to the Raiders, so he's gonna be out with 0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:56.200 the Raiders. Ought Naylor is one of the top number 0:37:56.200 --> 0:37:59.200 threes in the league, so he goes. Maybe Hop steps 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:07.000 in Addison Jefferson Hopkins, Hockinson getting the ball from Kyler 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:08.280 Murray or JJ McCarthy. 0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:10.839 Yeah, he could work. Could work. 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:12.840 Kevin O'Connell's gonna have to try and make that work. 0:38:13.360 --> 0:38:15.080 So we'll see what they do. But Hop said he's 0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:18.480 open to reuniting with Kyler in Minnesota. He did say 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:21.120 he learned a lot about zone coverage from Bill O'Brien, 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:25.280 which I heard that interview, and of course you couldn't 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:29.160 see Hop's tongue lodged in cheek. There's a little sarcasm there. 0:38:29.200 --> 0:38:30.960 But either way, if you know Hop, you know what 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:35.880 that is. The Fanatics Flag Football contest this weekend. If 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:43.840 you missed it, Team USA dominated. Pick Six's Darryl Ducett 0:38:44.400 --> 0:38:46.680 just went off. I mean it was it was really 0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:49.279 not even close. Mark and I talked about this a 0:38:49.320 --> 0:38:52.880 little bit. Jalen Hurts threw a pick six, but they 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:57.200 picked everybody. Team USA was just they were fabulous. Tom 0:38:57.200 --> 0:39:00.799 Brady looked okay for a guy that's forty day forty seven. 0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:02.759 I don't know what he is right now, but he 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:04.400 had the couple. He had a nice throw in the ends. 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:07.360 I can't remember who threw it. Maybe Steph Stefan Digsy 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:12.000 threw that too. So uh yeah, Team USA was absolutely fantastic. 0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:15.719 I mean, they were amazing Texans News. I guess, if 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.320 you want to call it, this looks like there're gonna 0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:22.680 be some number changes coming. At least that's what's been 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:27.480 teased by our social media department. Earlier today they put 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:29.520 one out that said Tank that will move to number one. 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:32.640 I think we knew that as soon as I knew 0:39:32.680 --> 0:39:35.000 that was happening, and I, in fact, I went all 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:38.040 the way back back to last year when Stefan Diggs 0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:40.080 got hurt and it looked like he wasn't coming back. 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:42.319 I told Mark, I said, Tank's going to number one, 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:45.400 and Kamara last is gonna go back to number three. 0:39:46.000 --> 0:39:48.879 He's known as K three for a reason. So if 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:52.919 Tank's leaving three, Kamar is gonna take three, Tank's gonna 0:39:52.920 --> 0:39:55.960 take number one. Red Blanket Ship's gonna wear number six. 0:39:56.320 --> 0:39:59.160 David Montgomer's gonna wear number thirty two. And I'll bring 0:39:59.239 --> 0:40:02.200 those two up because Blanket Ship wore thirty two in Philly, 0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:07.520 Dave Montgomery wore five in Detroit, but then he wore 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:09.560 thirty two in college. You were thirty two Chicago, and 0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:12.239 I was gonna wear thirty two again with the Texans. 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:14.600 So a few number changes as it sits right now. 0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:17.959 Tank Dell going number one, Kamari Lasser going number three, 0:40:18.640 --> 0:40:21.840 Read Blanket Ship six, Dave Montgomery thirty two. And that's 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:24.600 all I know about numbers, And trust me, I've thought 0:40:24.640 --> 0:40:26.200 about this because some of the offensive line are gonna 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:28.759 have to change number two. So we'll wait to see what 0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:31.560 that's all about. Speaking of Reblanket Ship, he's gonna join 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:34.200 us next right here on Texans All Access. 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:37.040 What's happened? Everybody? 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:38.880 Welcome back to this one of this year at Texans 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.879 All Access from the Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, 0:40:41.920 --> 0:40:46.440 John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:50.080 It's time to catch up with Read Blanket Ship sat 0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:52.680 down Mark vander Meer's great stuff. If you missed it, 0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:54.800 well we got it for you right here. 0:40:55.280 --> 0:40:58.840 Read your reaction to joining the Houston Texans organization. 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:01.719 Yeah, I was juiced. I was able to talk to 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:04.680 Demiko before it all went down. I guess that's a 0:41:04.719 --> 0:41:08.080 new thing they could do. And just hearing his words, 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:09.640 just hearing that, I feel like he's more of a 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:12.200 player coach, and and that's what I wanted. 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:13.160 That's that's what I love. 0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:16.480 That's what I love, and in my age is like, 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.000 you know, the Texans are really pursuing you, and I 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:21.120 really like that. That was honestly one of the last 0:41:21.120 --> 0:41:23.719 teams I would think to pursue me because they had 0:41:23.800 --> 0:41:27.719 like a great defense. And but obviously coming here, man, 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.760 I'm I'm so so thankful, so so happy. 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:33.759 You're not fully embedded into the culture yet. But you 0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:35.960 said you talked to the micro Ryans and you were 0:41:36.000 --> 0:41:38.799 also part of a great culture in Philadelphia obviously, So 0:41:39.320 --> 0:41:41.920 how do you feel about that part of it? Jumping 0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:44.640 into this phrase as far as the culture and everything. 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:45.480 Else goes, Yeah, I feel great. 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:47.880 I feel like their culture kind of, you know, was 0:41:47.960 --> 0:41:50.680 running parallel with the one in Philly, but I just 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:52.560 want to want to step in, don't want to step 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:54.719 in on anybody's So just continue what they're what they're 0:41:54.760 --> 0:41:56.960 doing and what they're building. I feel like they're building 0:41:57.239 --> 0:42:00.239 towards the right way, the right direction, and uh, you know, 0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:01.239 we're just here to have fun. 0:42:01.800 --> 0:42:04.720 What makes a great defense read when. 0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:06.920 You look at it, not only playing well on the field, 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:08.680 but off the field, being tight together. 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:10.799 How important is that? How do you look at it? 0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:13.319 Yeah, you know, like you said, it's not just on 0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:15.840 the field, it's definitely off the field. You got to 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:19.120 spend time with your guys, your dB group, your your 0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:21.719 linebacker room, your D line. Like I used to call 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:24.040 it as like a as a marriage, Like everybody has 0:42:24.080 --> 0:42:27.000 to be involved. Everybody has to contribute to this relationship. 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:30.480 And once you all get involved and start clicking on 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:33.799 the same cylinders, I mean pretty much unstoppable. 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:37.720 Fans have obviously seen you play, but take us inside 0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:39.840 a little bit more. What kind of player are the 0:42:39.880 --> 0:42:40.960 Houston Texans getting. 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:43.839 Yeah, I mean they're they're getting a player that loves 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:46.600 the game of the football. I've said that from when 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:49.359 I started playing in high school to college that no 0:42:49.400 --> 0:42:51.080 matter what, I'm not going to lose the love of 0:42:51.120 --> 0:42:54.160 the game. I love it with all my heart. I 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:56.960 lay my body online for it. Especially for my teammates. 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.799 You know, they're very important to me because I know 0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:02.640 they're going to this exact same thing. So they're getting 0:43:02.640 --> 0:43:04.920 a player that loves to play football and a guy 0:43:04.960 --> 0:43:07.840 that studies the game really well and has IQ to 0:43:08.480 --> 0:43:10.000 communicate and get guys lined up. 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:13.120 How about the hunger you have as a player from 0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:16.520 a young age playing in Alabama, going to Middle Tennessee, 0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:19.800 getting into the league undrafted, You've had to fight for everything? 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:21.480 Read how and why is that? 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:24.480 That's just how it rolls. That's how life rolls. And 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:26.920 you know the saying once if life gives you limits 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:28.960 and make lemonade. And I feel like I've been doing 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:32.000 that at each level of my career. And I'm thankful 0:43:32.040 --> 0:43:34.040 and blessed that I have people into my corner, you know, 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:37.120 my family, my wife, to continue that and to keep 0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:40.359 me humble and continuing my career here. 0:43:40.440 --> 0:43:43.239 So well, you talked about what makes you really good 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:45.840 as a player. What about a safety in general? What 0:43:45.880 --> 0:43:48.000 are we looking at here? What is a great safety? 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:49.560 And I know there are different kinds of safeties. 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:52.759 There is just the first thing. Don't let anything get 0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:56.439 behind you. First off, Second off. Obviously the communication part. 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.200 I feel like the safety is the quarterback of the defense. 0:43:59.320 --> 0:44:02.440 And you know, sometimes people think the mic linebacker is, 0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:05.839 which I he can be at times, but I mean 0:44:05.840 --> 0:44:08.520 safety has a lot of communications. They can talk to 0:44:08.600 --> 0:44:11.840 the d line at times. Some d NS linebackers. You 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:13.880 got to talk to your corner across the field, so 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:17.480 you got to direct traffic and become that air traffic 0:44:17.560 --> 0:44:21.120 control type guy. So, uh, I believe that safety is 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:23.919 a pretty hard position to play because if things happen, 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:26.399 you're the last guy there and they're gonna blame you. 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:28.440 But uh, you know that's that's just part of it. 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:30.680 But like I said, we just get guys lined up 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:31.479 and then play hard. 0:44:32.000 --> 0:44:34.839 You've been an important part of a championship team and 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:37.799 that's what we're trying to create here in Houston. And 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:39.920 you talked about what makes a great defense and everything, 0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:42.359 what makes a great secondary and safety? What about the 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:45.359 whole team and accomplishing the ultimate goal? 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:46.520 What's important about that? 0:44:46.760 --> 0:44:49.040 I mean everybody has to be bought in, you know, 0:44:49.360 --> 0:44:52.280 from day one, OTA's you have to be bought in there. 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:55.120 You can't really be missing. Guy's got to show up 0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:58.839 to and show the little details matter. We preached out 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:00.840 a lot, and I'm sure that to me, Go preaches 0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:03.720 that too here, that the little details matter the most 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:06.120 and you can't skip out on those. And if you 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:10.040 skip out on those, then that can mean between winning 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:13.160 and losing. So and like I said, the relationships in 0:45:13.200 --> 0:45:15.600 the locker room, like defense has relationships, but it's also 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:18.879 an offense. You gotta be a whole family. You gotta 0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:22.200 be combined together. You got to do everything together, and 0:45:22.280 --> 0:45:24.960 we all go through the tough things together. So you know, 0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:26.960 why not strive to be the best. 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:30.280 What do you know about Houston? What are your impressions? 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:33.440 I know that we're just getting started here, but tell 0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:35.080 us about your impressions of h town. 0:45:35.200 --> 0:45:38.560 Yeah, I mean don't really know much about Houston. I've 0:45:38.680 --> 0:45:41.439 played here once and that was in I Guess twenty 0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:43.360 twenty two. I played here once but didn't get to 0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:46.160 see the city. I'm a Southern guy at heart, so 0:45:46.640 --> 0:45:49.840 coming down here seeing obviously the rodeo and the livestock 0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:52.919 and everything, it feels like home. And the weather down 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:56.080 here is so nice. So first impressions really love it. 0:45:56.560 --> 0:45:59.080 I'm sure as time goes on, I will fall in 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:00.000 love with it even more. 0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:03.440 You've been part of a great defense, and this defense 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:06.080 is so close to be number one in all categories. 0:46:06.120 --> 0:46:08.160 And he probably didn't have much time to watch it, 0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:08.759 but you know a. 0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:09.279 Lot about it. 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:11.200 Absolutely. Yeah. 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:13.920 I mean watching the Texans defense when it pops up 0:46:13.920 --> 0:46:15.880 on the screen, it's just you know, you got guys 0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:18.240 flying around. You know, you got a bunch of dogs 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:20.680 on the defense, and you know, I take pride in 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:23.120 flying around getting to the ball. And what's kind of 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:25.440 been instilled in me is if you stop the camera 0:46:25.520 --> 0:46:29.000 and when you're watching watching film and you have nine 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:32.280 to ten, maybe eleven guys all in that one picture, 0:46:32.560 --> 0:46:35.000 that's a really good defense. And regardless of what position 0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:36.759 you play, this corner can be on the other side 0:46:36.800 --> 0:46:39.160 of the field, but he's in that picture on that 0:46:39.280 --> 0:46:41.920 last clip of the play that shows that shows a 0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:42.640 great defense. 0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:45.680 Youre better stuff there from one of the newest Texans 0:46:45.840 --> 0:46:49.080 read blank and ship Baby. Yeah, it's gonna be fun 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:53.320 watching the new number six, which makes me think he 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:57.359 wore thirty two in Philly and now David Montgomery, I 0:46:57.400 --> 0:46:59.440 believe is wearing thirty two. Well, we got a lot 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:01.760 of numbers, and we talked about that a little bit earlier, 0:47:01.840 --> 0:47:04.320 so believe read blank and ship gonna one number six 0:47:04.480 --> 0:47:05.880 for your Houston texts. 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:07.839 All right, that's gonna do. Appreciate you guys. 0:47:07.719 --> 0:47:12.480 Being with me as always. We are one month from 0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:15.560 the draft. I got everything for you draftwise, football take 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:17.880 over dot com. Come check it out Houston Texas dot com. 0:47:17.960 --> 0:47:19.920 We got all kinds of stuff up there. Check out 0:47:19.920 --> 0:47:23.360 our free agent video that we did on YouTube, just 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:26.640 taking everything in the offseason, kind of putting it in 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:30.960 one nine minute plus video so you guys, you know, hey, 0:47:31.000 --> 0:47:33.080 what happened with the Texas this offseason will boom. 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