WEBVTT - Weekly NFL News Recap | Texans All Access 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.480 Hey, Hey, what's up. Everybody? Welcome into a tgi F 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.200 edition of Texans All Access. I used to say a 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.159 thank god his Friday, but thank god his football, thank 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.400 god his football Friday. I don't know how you want 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:12.719 to look at if you want to an ex draft. 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.120 Either way, appreciate you being here. I am your host, 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.360 John Harris, football analyst and side one reporter and a 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.640 draft guy for the Texans. Really appreciate you being here 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:28.320 with me on a wonderfully hot Friday afternoon. I love 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.440 the weather in the city of Houston, just sometimes not 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.479 so hot. You know, it's like eating how panios in 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.280 some sense, like you know how painios can be really good, 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.720 really flavorful, but every now and again you get the 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.880 one that just has a little bit a few too 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.160 many seeds and you're like, hah, that's kind of where 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.920 the summer is here. But either way, glad you are 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.479 with me. My man David Fletcher gml SC is going 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.680 to join me in the second segment to talk about 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:00.080 all the week got going on this summer. And I 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.600 guess the summer goes all the way to what early September, 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.040 so I guess it's summer. But then on into fall 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.960 and then on into winter, actually on into twenty twenty two. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:15.120 It is a jam packed season of events for twenty 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.240 twenty one for our friends at the Lone Star Sports 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.479 and Entertainment. It starts with CONCAF Gold Cup soccer. Then 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.160 you've got the Battle to Bands, the Cracker Barrel Battle 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.880 of the Bands resented by Coke zero excuse me, Pepsis 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:34.240 zero Sugar, the Texas Kickoff which is Houston and Texas 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.520 Tech September fourth, you got Piney Woods in October. You're 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:43.120 gonna have the Bowl game January fourth, twenty twenty two. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.240 Ellis's he's got it going on. I mean, I'd tell 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.440 you it was a rough rough fall without those events. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.200 I love all those events. You know what I I feel 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.040 about the college football coming through here. Piney Woods takes 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.680 on a whole new meeting now that you've got the 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.640 national champs coming in. So my man David Fletcher's coming 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.360 in to tell about the first three events, the Battle 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.240 of the Band's, CONCAFT Gold Cup, and the kickoff game 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.080 with Houston and Texas Tech. So we'll have that in 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.400 our next segment. We'll go around the league. There's still 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.520 things happening throughout the league. It's always that way, you 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.000 know how it goes three sixty five, eight days a week, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.400 twenty eight hours a day. It is. It's always going on. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:29.520 There's there's always something happening. Somebody's talking, somebody's trading, somebody's moving, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.839 somebody got hurt. We do have one. I hope it's 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.359 minor one, minor aspect that we're gonna hit right off 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.800 the bat here, and then we're going to hear from 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.240 We're gonna hear from Mark Vandamer and Tony Banks and 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.400 where are they now? Segment. But before we get to them, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.519 a quick note that I saw come down from Ian Rappaport, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.040 and I just I swallowed my gum and then I 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.520 read it and went, um, okay, all right, let's let's 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.440 let's see where we go with this. But the Texans 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:12.519 traded for Marcus Cannon back in March Alia's March Ian 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.800 Rappaport reported that the new Texans offensive tackle recently underwent 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.680 minor knee surgery following the offseason. The off season ended 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.400 last week. Cannon is said to be feeling good already 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:29.200 in the operation isn't likely to affect Cannon's participation in 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.560 training camp. So that is one of those where you 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.040 get kicked square in a groin and you're like, oh wait, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:42.400 it's not that bad, but it could be. But as 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.720 of right now, it looks pretty good. And that's kind 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.320 of the way I looked at this whole thing, like 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.880 I saw surgery. I saw a knee, and then I 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:54.280 saw surgery, and I just went all bleep. But then 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.400 I kept reading. And sometimes I think we all need 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.280 to quote unquote keep reading the league. Sometimes we dunk 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.560 the conclusions before we should. And I'm guilty of it, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:09.320 just like everybody else. But minor knee surgery said to me, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.240 feeling good already. Operation isn't likely to affect Cannon's participation 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:18.400 in training camp. Now. We have talked about a number 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.159 of different things with that offensive line, how Marcus Cannon 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.719 fits in. Is her guards he tackled, No, he's a tackle. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.040 What is it? What does it all mean? The one 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.760 thing that we I know I have consistently brought up 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.080 is the fact that potentially forty percent of your starters, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.799 two out of five and Justin britt and Marcus Cannon 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.679 did not play in twenty twenty and for different reasons, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.240 in twenty nineteen. By my way through twenty nineteen, Justin 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.719 Britt got hurt, wasn't ready to go for twenty twenty. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.280 Set out of twenty twenty was released ended up in Houston. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.240 Thank god, we needed a guy like that. Marcus Cannon 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.480 opted out due to COVID concerns. He is a cancer survivor, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.159 and so he opted out of twenty twenty. Texas traded 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.360 for him in March to bring him here. Those two 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.559 I don't want to see, you would assume, but you'd 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.400 like to believe they're gonna start on the offensive lit 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.280 in some way, shape or form. The one thing that 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.480 I know we've talked about. I know I've talked about 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.280 is well having places twenty nineteen. So I always kind 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.400 of thought, well, maybe there's some rust, Maybe they got 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.920 to shake some of that off, the one thing you 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.000 didn't really want to dive into. But you know, in 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.960 the back of your mind you've got to think about 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.040 how healthy are they? And oh my gosh, I saw 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.680 that today and that just kind of shocked me back 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.360 in reality, like, oh my god, please be healthy. It 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.920 looks like things are going to But as reported by 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:45.240 Ian Rappaport, today, Marcus Cannon minor knee surgery should be 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.520 good to go for training camp. Today is June eighteenth. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.640 Training camp is gonna start late in July. And that's 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.159 one of those things where if you know he's gonna 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.840 make it back, you don't have to rush him back. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.200 You can work him in. You want him to get 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.200 work because obviously hasn't played in twenty nineteen, and you 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.880 want him to start getting the body callous to some 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:10.240 physicality things like that. But you don't have to push 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.800 the envelope. You've got to make sure that he's healthy 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.400 for as many games as he can play in twenty 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.760 twenty one in the regular season, and well, we would 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.960 all love to believe playoffs, but we'll just take the 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.000 seventeen games as they come. Right now, Marcus Cannon is 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.280 going to be a huge part of that. So fingers crossed, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.200 everything's gonna stay okay. But you see the words knee 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.640 and surgery, and you know Marcus Cannon is thirty three, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.320 and you're like, oh man, please be okay. Now, there 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:40.400 are a lot a lot a lot of surgeries and 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:46.200 a lot of procedures that don't get reported, aren't out 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.719 for public consumption. Sometimes they get out there. Sometimes they don't. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.960 This one did, so be it. It looks like you'll 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.280 be back for a training camp. But there are a 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.760 lot of guys that fall into this. So it's one 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.359 of those where you don't want to panic. You just 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.960 want to keep fingers crossed and looks good. Let's hope 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.720 that it stays that way, and hopefully by the time 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.480 we get to July, everybody's healthy enough to put pads 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.680 on and ready to rock and roll. Speaking of rock 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.920 and roll, the Voice of the Texans, Mark Vandermere, in 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.440 one of our department meetings, probably about I don't know, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.920 about a month to six weeks ago, had come up 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.400 with an idea called where are they now? Players from 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.960 the recent past? I guess it's all pretty recent with 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.960 the Texans, all the way back to the beginning. I mean, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.160 the Texans are going into year what twenty is all right, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.600 You're twenty, so, I mean the Texans at that point 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.840 can't even They're not even illegal to drink age wise 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:44.080 either way, most everybody relatively recent, if you will. But 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.040 it is kind of cool to go back and talk 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.040 with some of those guys that were in some of 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.400 those early years. Some of those guys that were, you know, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.800 at the back end of dom On into the Gary 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.520 years and you know, five or six or seven or 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.360 eight those years on itto Gary Kubiak years, maybe at 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.040 the beginning of O'Brian years. Where Are They Now? Segments 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.480 pretty interesting, and Mark vandermir decided to start right at 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.400 the top with a guy that golf signals for the Texas. No, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.360 not David Carr, but the guy who came in after 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.720 David Carr, that being Tony Banks, is Mark Vandermuir. Where 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.000 are They Now? With quarterback Tony Banks joining us right 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.600 now on Texans Radio for our where are They Now 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:30.640 segment with Texans Legends. It's Tony Banks, quarterback for your Texans, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.800 starting out from the very beginning in two thousand and two. Tony, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.520 how's it going, my friend? I'm doing well. Mark, are you? 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.480 I'm doing great? And let's just start there right What 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.560 is your prevailing memory? Give me one or two, maybe 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.080 three of your time with the Houston Texans. I know 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.720 you started and won some games for this team. Allas 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.960 game the one that sticks out? Is it something else? 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.240 How do you see it? I really enjoyed my time there, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.439 you know. I always still wanted to start my last 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.120 forty years. I want to be a starter somewhere, but 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.800 that didn't work out. But so I was kind of 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.800 the older statesman on the team, so I kind of 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.880 enjoyed that. You know, most of my career I was 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.920 the young guy playing early and trying to figure things out, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.320 and then by time I got to the Texans, I 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.840 was trying to be a good influence on my teammates. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.240 So that's what I remember the most. And I don't 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.320 know about but winning percentage wise, I might be the 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.440 winningest quarterback in Texas history two and one or three 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.320 and one, something like that. Well, I'll tell you what 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.719 stands out to me is battle Red Day, the very 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.880 first one in two thousand and three, taking out the 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.679 Carolina Panthers, and you got to start that day and 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.440 beat the eventual NFC champions. Do you remember that game much? 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.200 Oh yeah, oh yeah. We had a rough first half 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.319 and then kind of lit him up in the second half. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.400 Mason big throws and just somebody just sent me. One 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.640 of my son's friends sent him one of the throws 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.480 in that Caroline of game or video, So my son 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.040 sent it to me, so it was kind of cool. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.520 You always seem to be the kind of quarterback that's fearless. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.160 You're not afraid to take that chance to make a 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.120 throw that can make a difference. And what is that 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.600 about you, Tony? And why do some guys have it 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.760 and some guys don't. I think it's just, you know, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.720 I have so much confidence in my arm, you know, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.679 and most of my career, the plays I've made have 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.360 been pushing the ball down the field. I had to 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.640 kind of learn to, uh, you know, take what the 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.760 defense gives me as my career went on. But I 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.040 always thought that I could throw in the small windows 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.400 and I could make throws that other guys couldn't, so, uh, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.560 you know, I like to think, you know, not like 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.240 I played well every time I played. But you're gonna 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.839 see a big time throw if you watch me for 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.800 the whole game. Tony Banks joining us former Texans quarterback 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.400 and Tony, you were drafted by the Rams. But let's 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.520 go back earlier than that. You played a little pro 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:49.959 baseball and discuss that with us, that transition. Obviously you 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.720 played football before that as well, But what made you 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.520 want to play baseball and then switch back to football? Honestly, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.360 just looking back on my athletic career, I think I 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.760 chose base because it was easy. You know, football practice 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.880 is hard, basketball practice so much running baseball. I never 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.080 had a hard baseball practice, you know, running the basis 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.480 every now, and it was the only conditioning we did. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.319 And when you're athletic on the baseball field, it was 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.960 a big, tall shortstop, you know. I stuck out like 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.840 a sword thumb. And growing up I had kids, you know, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.560 guys like Kevin Mitchell and his brother Keith Mitchell, and 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.240 you know countless others who had got drafted out of 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.440 my neighborhood. When you know, there was a lot more 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.719 you know, black guys playing baseball back then. Now my 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.800 little league, I don't even think they can feel the team. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.760 One team, let alone twelve of fifteen. We had every 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.600 every level I played on back then. So the game 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.240 has changed a little bit. But yeah, I was just 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.000 an athletic shortstop. The game kind of came easy to me, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.679 and uh me seeing guys in my neighborhood who were 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.200 older than me get drafted, not have to go to college. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.800 Like my brother's a doctor, my other brothers a architect. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.840 They they're the brainy acts. I never really was interested 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.520 in college. And then when I did get drafted and 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.559 when played, I didn't enjoy it. Though. I didn't enjoy 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.200 pro baseball at all. Its baseball all day, every day, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.079 and I did not enjoy that as an eighteen year 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.839 old kid, so especially I tore my rotator cup. I 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.160 actually got drafted with a torn rotator cup and didn't 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.680 know it. I finally got it fixed after my first 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.720 year in the minors and every went back. That's amazing. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:22.760 And you end up eventually at Michigan State and then 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.280 getting drafted by the Saint Louis Rams, So clearly the 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.680 rotator cuff problem did not stick with you. No, I 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.120 got it fixed that um, you know after I left 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.520 that spring training of the next year, and you know, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.160 I took a while to rehab. It was my first 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.320 real injury, and I went to DUCO after that, actually 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.000 before I went to Michigan State, so I had to 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.200 rehab a lot of DUCO and it was pretty emotional 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.640 little deal, but things ended up working out. And yeah, 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.920 I've never had any issues with RM since. All Right, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.400 Tony bags with us. Tony, You're in Dallas right now 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.000 and you're coaching a high school football team. What is 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.439 that like for you having played in the NFL. I'll 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.240 tell you what. When I played, I had no interest 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:03.800 in coaching at all. You know, a lot of those 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.640 coaches don't really know their kids. They spend so many 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.600 countless hours in the building, and I just was never 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.560 interested in that, even though I did. My kid wasn't 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.400 My son wasn't conceived until my last year in the NFL. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.840 He never got a chance to see me play or anything. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.959 But I always envisioned myself as a very engaging father 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.040 because me and my father really really close, So that 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.640 was always important to me. And then when I started 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.240 coaching my son and his little youth leagues, I just 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.360 fell in love with coaching. I fell in love with 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.600 the kids and being able to be a positive role 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.199 model and impact their lives. So yeah, so now this 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.520 is just my second year at Green Hill School out 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.800 here in Dallas and just the beginning of my coaching career. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.360 That sounds fantastic. And you've also done broadcasting for Fox 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.959 Sports Southwest at the time in Dallas, you did Texans 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.839 postgame and pregame shows for a long time. How did 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.480 you enjoy the broadcasting part of things? I really enjoyed 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.319 that too, especially some of the stuff Fox let me do. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.800 You know, I got to break down a lot of 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.400 my own segments. I was basically like a co host 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.319 and I got to, you know, use my creativity as 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.080 far as breaking down the game and quarterbacks and players. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.920 So I really enjoyed it and had a great a 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.440 great staff for people to work with out here in Dallas. Yeah, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.840 Dave Raymond was on that show for a while. Now 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.840 he's with the Texas Rangers, So that's pretty cool stuff. Yeah, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.040 O day, I almost forgot about Dave. I liked him 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.960 a lot, and then h Aaron Hartigan too. So yeah, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.040 So what attracted you to staying in Dallas just to 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.840 be and around? I know you're with the Cowboys for 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.880 a bit, but is that it? It just kind of 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.280 you know, during my career when I got here to Dallas, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.560 I you know, bounced around a little bit. I was 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.160 in Saint Louis three years, Baltimore two years, and I 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.520 was supposed to come here to the Cowboys, and then 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.800 I went to the Red Skin. So just bouncing around. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.320 I needed a home base. And I just got married 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.440 my second year in Baltimore in two thousand, so yeah, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.120 I just kind of worked out and then after you know, 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.200 you have children and they get entrenched in school. You know, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.640 it's just this is home now, Tony backs with us. Tony, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.480 what about today's NFL game? It's not like you played 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.400 that long ago. But the game does evolve and seems 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.680 to go through big changes every few years. What do 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.000 you think of the way the game is played right now? 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.200 I think quarterback still is the toughest position in all 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.520 the sports, but it has the NFL has made it 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.680 easier with implementing a lot of the college schemes. You know, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.920 I didn't think any of the college concepts were really 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.400 gonna float in the NFL with all the bubble screens 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.200 and all the horizontal passing game instead of the vertical 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.280 passing game. But you know, now these guys are you know, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.120 throwing ten balls behind the line of scrimmage and completion 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.120 percentage through the roof is When I came into the league, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.640 if you couldn't make the big throws, you were not 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.360 drafted early. Now you got some guys that can't make 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.880 all the throws, but those throws aren't in a lot 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.400 of offenses anymore. It's a great point. You make about 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.680 completion percentage because and then you go back an era 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.160 or two before you when fifty percent was good completion percentage, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:07.320 that sixty seventy. It seems those high percentage throws that 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.360 you discussed Tony, you were part of that Ravens team 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.160 that won the Super Bowl, the first Ravens Super Bowl team. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.040 That defense. Can you talk about them a little bit, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.360 because that was obviously incredibly impressive. I've always, for some 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.600 reason in my careery team I'm on, I always seem 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.200 to gravitate the defensive players. So I hung out with 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.560 those guys a lot. We had some studs on that defense. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.600 I mean, I think we had the year we went 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.120 to the Super Bowl, might have put seven or eight 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.000 guys on that defense in the Pro Bowl. I mean, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.200 it was just an incredible the amount of talent we 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.040 had on that defense. Then, of course, the big guy 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.560 in the middle, Ray kind of ran the show. You know. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.840 When people ask me about him, you know, especially kids, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.960 they about that's about the only name they can remember 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.520 from my Baltimore days. Did you believe with Ray Lewis? 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.600 You know? So they always asked me a lot of 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.400 questions about him, and one of the things I say 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.360 is you know, he was the first defensive player that 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.320 watched film like a quarterback. You know, most of the 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.240 defensive guys they can't wait to get out to and 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:05.040 when practice was over. So Ray was really demanding with 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.960 those even though he wasn't the oldest guy on the defense. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.919 I mean, we had Mike mccrearry, Robert net, we had 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.280 guys have been around, wow, Tony Saragosa. Those guys almost 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.640 acted like they couldn't line up with Ray not out there. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.359 I remember sometimes during training camp, Ray would miss a 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.600 practice or something, you know, just taking the day off 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.000 or maybe with a little thing, and the defense was 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.119 not the same. So, yeah, that defense was very impressive 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.520 and deserve all they deserve all the accolades that they 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.080 have gotten and your time with the Texans. In the 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.439 early days, the Texans had a pretty good defense. You 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.400 had that game where you beat Pittsburgh with the three 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.960 defensive scores, and they had a lot of outings where 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.280 the defensive side of the ball was really doing the job. Oh, definitely, 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.240 definitely when we needed that defense. Usually on any team, 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.240 especially when you're a new franchise, the defense is going 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.840 to be ahead of the offense, and we had a 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.199 young offense and we needed defensive step up for us 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.600 a lot and didn't score very many points very many times. Well, Tony, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.720 we really appreciate time. It's great to catch up with you. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.000 I'm excited to hear about what happens with coaching. You're 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.959 a high school there, Green Hill High in Dallas, and 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.560 we wish you the best of luck. I appreciate it. Mark. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.280 I don't know why it's been the last few months 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.640 or so, but being on the twitters as I am, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.480 I seem to, I don't know why, stumble almost every 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:25.600 single day on a former player, whether it's NFL player, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.360 college players, somebody I remember from one of those two 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.119 realms getting into coaching and then becoming the head coach 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.280 at a particular school, alma mater or whatever. It is, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:37.879 just feels like there are a lot of them, Philip 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.160 Rivers going back to be go to become the head 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.320 coach back into Alabama. I'm trying to remember the school 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.040 he ended up at. I think it was a Catholic 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.639 school in Alabama. It's not the one he went to. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.360 He went to Athens High School, but I think it's 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.680 in that general but city either way, see a lot 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.040 of guys going back and giving back essentially to the 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.240 high school level, and I love seeing that in Tony 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.960 Banks is obviously doing that as well right there in Dallas, Texas. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.080 But that was great where they now Coming up next, 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.720 a man David Fletcher GM of LSSC manages the Texas 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.159 Bullet Texas kickoff all the different events that happen with 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:17.359 Lostar Sports Entertainment. Fletch is their god. He's the leader, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:18.959 he's the best. 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