WEBVTT - Big addition to AFC South | Texans All Access 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.560 What's up? Everybody? Welcome into a Monday edition of Texans 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:07.000 All Access from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio. Hopefully you 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.920 all had a great weekend like Steph Curry dropping hole 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.120 in ones on par threes, whining golf tournaments. We are 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.000 the Steph Curry of your radio dial, John Harris alongside 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:18.240 the Voice of Texas Mark Vanamirre. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.000 How'd you like that Steph Curry from deed? 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:26.720 That was awesome? He dunked it was terrific. He dunked 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.880 it and pure joy. That was great to see. I 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.040 love that tournament. I think they should do two or 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.280 three more of those in the off season of the NFL. So, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.440 I don't know, everybody's got different offseasons. I don't know 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:39.519 how you coordinate. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.760 All that with the owners meetings. Not a bad idea 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.280 Spring meetings. They put in a place where you can golf, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.680 NFL golf tournament. Put it on live mic, everybody up. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.120 It would be awesome. The coaches the match, do you remember? 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.400 I mean this the match was what a week and 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.640 a half ago. It was Mahomes and Kelsey versus Clay 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.680 and Steph and they're talking trashed or getting after each other. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.679 It's hilarious. Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely awesome. It's some 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.759 of the it's it's really really good. I didn't see 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.120 all of it, but I saw enough of it to know, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.319 you know what, I want to keep watching this. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.400 Everybody's watching that Quarterback series now, so you're seeing a 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.640 lot of stuff about much as you've seen just one episode. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.960 I know, I'm way behind it. Pretty good, it is good. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.000 It's good. I mean, listen, you're not gonna get everything 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.759 broken down, but you're gonna hear more play calls than 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.839 you've ever heard in your life. Yep, and they will 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.800 blow your ever loving mind. They will blow your mind. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.280 I'm not talking to you, I'm just talking to people 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:37.120 in general, like, wait a pass is that long? Yep? Absolutely, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.000 Wait till you hear, Wait till you hear. Kirk Cousins 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.440 called one of the plays for the Vikings all the 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.840 way through. It's it's it's incredible. It's really cool. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.320 It goes to show you how hard it is to 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.400 play this position. And a guy like Cousins can last 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.120 as long as he has. And I know he takes 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.680 a lot of heat. He's won a lot of football games. Okay, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.680 He's not perfect. We all know that he's won a 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.000 lot of football games. I think this is particularly good 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.880 for the Vikings fans to see that he's an actual 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.840 human being. That helps too. And the guy who made 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.760 the biggest play in the last how many years of 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.960 Vikings history, Actually he's in this building. That's Case Keenum. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.200 Yeah right, and Diggs obviously is a huge part of that. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:17.800 But I'm saying the guy who pulled the trigger. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.840 Off, you could say Case that's a top ten play 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:25.160 all time NFL given the situations. It's playoffs, it ends 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:26.520 it's a walk off. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:27.799 Yep, it's huge. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.280 Although they did bring him back out to kick the 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:29.760 extra point. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.200 I was thinking about Vikings history. I know they haven't 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.600 been to the super Bowl since the seventies. They went 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.320 to four and lost them all kids, but Grant was 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:42.160 the head of playing there wrong way. Marshall was a fit. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.480 Maybe their most famous play ever Johnny and negative. It's 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.959 a negative that might have been their most famous play 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.959 ever till the miracle. That says a lot about Case. Yeah, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.800 he was able to execute that thing. Of course, I 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.600 did a training camp position break down. You want to 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.800 check it out on quarterbacks, and I just start doing 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.960 every player. As I go through and I get the 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.720 case and I'm writing about Case and as I'm writing 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.520 about it, like, man, this guy's seen it all. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.919 He's done it all. I mean, he has those two 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.400 years and seventeen with the Vikings and he goes in 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.440 eighteen to the Broncos and he through for about thirty 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.280 eight hundred yards at the Broncos. I mean, we saw 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.200 him that night. He's bringing them back. I mean, if 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.680 McManus doesn't kick it wide right, I mean. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.000 They make that kick. That's not an impossible kick, it's 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.639 not he makes that kick. Case Keenum beats the textall 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:31.760 that kick flew. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.080 Over my head. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.120 Mark it flew. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.280 I mean, we all know the famous story of my 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.600 mic being left up. But I'm screaming wide right. But 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.360 that bat flew over my head and that was from 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.280 fifty plus, so he had enough leg he just missed it. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.520 He makes that Broncos get another win. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:46.320 It. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.360 You know, it just didn't work in Denver for whatever reason. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.360 But it made me think about Case and and just 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.440 his journey and what he's what he's done. This is 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.240 his twelfth season. He technically it's his eleventh. From a 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.920 you know, from a games service standpoint because his first 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.280 year was all in practice squad. That's track at twenty twelve, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.120 so he didn't get on the fiel les twenty five. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.720 And then he has that, you know, statistically put up 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.680 some decent numbers at thirteen, but then get a win. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.040 Then he's got to come out of a deer blinded story, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.159 he told us, which was great. He wins the last 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.000 two games of fourteen. Then it's moving around to the Rams, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.560 and then it's moving around to the Vikings, and then 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.200 it's to Denver and it's to Washington, et cetera. It's 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.480 amazing the journey he's been on. And I start thinking 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.360 about his value to this team, and I know a 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.520 lot of people put them on the field, he'd be great. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.440 I'm like, look, cas is thirty you know, five thirty six. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.440 Right now, it's this is not designed for Case to 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.800 go out on a field and play seventeen weeks. Step 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.920 in when there's an opportunity where there's you know, somebody, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.520 somebody gets hurt, something happens, he's got to step in. Okay, great, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.520 but not to be a seventeen week starter, not not 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:56.120 for this team. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.280 Are still there are a lot of people that don't 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.880 understand that right now, some people will assume that he's 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.200 the guy or the backup, right, and maybe he ends 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.159 up being the backup here. I don't know. But the 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.440 way the reps were going on OTAs and this was 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.719 well publicized, it didn't appear to be the case. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.120 But here's the thing, Mark, and I think this about Case, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.080 Keenan and there might be a few others, but I 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.560 think Case has immense value to this team beyond anything 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.560 he does on the field. And I think that goes 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.839 without saying in some sense, but I think you kind 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.000 of have to say it. You kind of have to 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.560 look at it and go, look, you're gonna get if 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.800 you have players on your team that don't set foot 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.360 on the field, but yet they give you tremendous value. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.400 Do their leadership, just the way that they're able to 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.120 help younger players, the way they can help a coaching 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.400 staff that's young and new. Yeah, I mean I think 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.920 Case is older than drot Oh yeah, Drawd Johnson. I'm 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.120 pretty sure. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.200 Those guys could talk about a lot. Of course, he's older, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.760 Wait is he close? It's close to those But because 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.800 Tannehill's rookie year was well and so was cases and 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.880 Jerrod and Tannehill were in college together, so there, so 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.200 it's close. It's close, but it feels like he's older. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:13.839 Right because case has seen some things and done some things. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.640 Now we're gonna get in some coaches a little bit later. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.520 One of the guys that case Key ended up throwing 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:20.800 football to was DeAndre Hopkins. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.159 I think his first touchdown passing that Kansas City game 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.200 Week seven, twenty thirteen was again was to Hopkins. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.560 Hopkins. We're gonna talk about the DeAndre Hopkins because he 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.040 is now a member of the Tennessee Titans. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:32.240 Mark. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.920 We do this every now and again on Mondays sometimes 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.440 during the season because there's so much going on. Your 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.320 gut reaction when you saw the news this weekend at 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.440 DeAndre Hopkins is going to make his way to Nashville 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:45.760 as a member of the Titans, all right. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:50.560 I hate seeing this for a variety of reasons. I 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.039 don't like seeing I didn't like seeing Andre Johnson go 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.400 to the Colts and then the Titans. I don't like 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.360 seeing DeAndre Hopkins go to the Titans in the division 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.040 Colts Titans. Even Jazz I wouldn't want to see it. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.599 I don't like to see it. So from that standpoint, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.560 I hate it. I want him in the NFC. If 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.520 he's not going to be here, I want him somewhere else, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.640 far away. Now wend would have been preferable to me, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.080 just as a Texans guy, right, I want to see 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:19.160 him not here, not around us, because it is kind 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.440 of painful. Look, I love DeAndre Hopkins. He was a 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:26.000 beloved player here. He was tremendous. I really enjoyed talking 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:27.840 with him. You did, too, You talked to with him 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.000 more than I did. But every time I've talked with him, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.440 I think I thanked him three or four times just 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.880 for his service while he was here. Thank you for 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.000 your service. Thank you for all those touchdowns and amazing 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.920 catches and look, doing what I do. I'm really grateful 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.360 for a guy like DeAndre Hopkins. He was a spectacular 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:49.080 player who made just mind numbing catches, catch after catch, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.040 made it look easy. Just a great player. And now 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.440 he's in Nashville. I don't know how good he is anymore. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.760 I think he's still pretty good, all right. I don't 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.680 know what it's going to mean for them. I think 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.520 it's a little over what he might mean for them. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.920 But it could be really good. At the same time, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.000 who knows, we'll see, we'll we're all gonna we're all 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.080 gonna watch it together. Texans don't face the Titans till 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.520 very late in the year twice, right, so we'll see 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.200 what they are like at that point. Who's playing quarterback? 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.680 How is he doing? But my gut reaction, Johnny was 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.720 I don't I wish it was the Patriots of the 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.160 two because those are the two jockeying for a position 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.920 to get him. I was hoping it was gonna be 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.680 New England instead of Tennessee. But overall, I would prefer 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:26.600 an NFC team. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.920 So we had a text threat going between you and 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.640 I and Deep and Drew. It was on Sunday, and 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.080 Drew just texted with the Twitter notice, and that's what 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:36.960 we do. We see things on Twitter, and you know, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.400 we send it to each other and we kind of 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.800 remark on it in different things. And Drew just said, damn, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.640 and I get that. I felt like the damn part 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.520 was more about him going to Tennessee than it was 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:50.720 he's not in here, you know, because there was some 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.040 talk about, oh, he's got he can come back to Houston. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.960 They need a receiver. This is a big fit. Doesn't 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.680 always work like that. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.079 I think there are a lot of things that are 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.120 that are going on with this this ball club, and 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.880 you already had committed to Robert Woods. I think Robert's 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.960 your oldest receiver. I believe who else will be older. Yeah, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.719 he's the oldest receiver. I just had to say it 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.160 out loud to make it make sense. Yeah, I don't 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.640 know that you could have done another one. And I 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.080 know you know people like, well, you didn't have to 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.080 go sign Wood, you could have signed Hopall. Well, no, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.160 you didn't know Hopkins was gonna be available until around 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.640 draft time, so you didn't know that was gonna be 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.439 the case. So you've also got some young dudes. You 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.040 gotta find some stuff out about. Look this, I don't 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:37.840 know where John Metchi stands in in in his arrival 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.040 re arrival from you know, dealing with leukemia, where whether 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.480 he's getting clear or not. I know that was the 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.880 talk at the end of OTA's and Minie camp. I 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.000 hope that happens. He's gonna need reps. Tank Dell is 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.000 gonna need reps. Nico Collins has really if you look 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.719 at it this way, look at his games played. He's 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.800 basically played one season was like he played one season 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.240 and then the other he didn't, and he wasn't even 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.439 fully healthy for that season. So Nico needs all the 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.440 reps he can. Robert Woods knows this offense, he still 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.680 needs reps to get in a synergy with CJ. Stroud 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.319 and with Davis Mills as opposed to what he was 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.000 with last year in Tennessee and even before that with 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.600 the Rams. The receivers need all the reps they can get. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.200 So I know there's there's some frustration from Texans fans 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.520 that I kind of noticed on Twitter. I'm like, this 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.679 just wasn't the right spot in the right time for 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:20.560 Hop And I'm with you. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.599 I love the guy, absolutely love him. We were at Applebee's. 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.240 I remember, we had like six to eight of us 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.560 out for dinner and Appleby's the Greenbrier. We had a 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.119 big old dinner and he went to Applebee's to go get. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.600 His food a takeout. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.920 He went to get a takeout and he could just 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.160 waved at us. He came over stop, shook everybody's hands. Yeah, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.280 thanks us for you know, for being there. And I 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.280 was like, man, there weren't a lot of players that 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.000 would have that would have done that he did. I 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:45.760 said a soft spot in my heart for him, and 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.280 I hate the fact that we will see him. But 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.920 then again, you said it, we don't play it. Titans 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.000 still December seventeenth. There's a lot of football between now 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.959 and then. And I remember when when Andre Johnson went 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.000 to the Colts in fifteen, and I remember thinking, just 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.960 I love Dre, but fandud Luck's not the quarterback. How 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.600 good is that gonna look every single week? Well, on 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.760 Thursday night, it look good against us and it's stunk. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.960 But then late in the season, Yeah, we went to Indianapolis. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.360 We had arguably our greatest road win ever. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:20.840 Was he playing that day? 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.040 Andre played that day? 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.960 Hassle Beck still playing. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.840 And hassle Beck, now with a clean diaper, was not 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:27.800 getting into football. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.400 And maybe he needs Tazuma's revenge to play well. At mean, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.200 not Andre, but hassle Beck at that stad. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.280 And then the next year he goes to Tennessee and 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.480 We're like, oh my god, he went to Tennessee. We 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.079 won the division both years. Now, I'm not saying Texas 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.000 are gonna win the division this year, but I'm just 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.880 saying if Andre Johnson can go somewhere and we can 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.320 play against him, If JJ Watt can go somewhere, we 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.600 can play against him, We'll survive this. And again, I 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:59.600 love Hop, I love Hop a ton but and there's 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:00.840 been a lot to talk about. Well, you know, he's 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.000 playing with Tannell, he's playing with with Will Levis. Well 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.240 he's had to do the first career. Yeah, but Hop 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.439 isn't the same guy that he was early in his career. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.440 He's he's a different gasp and banged up, doesn't have 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.240 quite the juice he used to have when he was 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.120 playing with the guys that you know, weren't great non 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.840 pro bowlers. It's a little different. He's really gonna be 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.720 that guy again for Tennessee because who else is going 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:27.520 to knock him out of there? 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.880 Trailing Burks, Nick Westburog Keenan. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.680 I like Burks. I think Burke's is gonna end up 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.839 being a solid number one. But he in there yet, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.200 not especially after last year. So from all of that, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:43.000 we'll see what happens. But I'm not totally convinced. I'm 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.319 not one hundred percent convinced that we actually face him 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.000 twice this year. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.840 Okay, No, I'm not either, and he's had some injury issues. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.760 He'll be the first one to tell you that. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:53.640 Uh. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.040 They obviously understand what they're getting. As far as an 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.960 individual goes Tim Kelly, Mike Rabel, They've been around him, 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.800 all the other guys on the Titans in their organization 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.800 who have been Houston Texans, they get it. It just 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.600 feels in some ways because they're gonna win the oiler 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.079 uniforms one game this year, one game this year, and 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.960 they get DeAndre Hopkins. It just feels like the Titans 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:21.160 organization is obsessed with Houston. And sometimes that's a positive 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.760 Rabel and friends, I mean, they've done some good things 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.319 there relatively, but sometimes it's a negative. Right, got to 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.320 get Andre Johnson? Really do you really have to get 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.480 Andre Johnson at that point in his career? And look, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.800 I wish Andre played here forever. It didn't happen. I 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.120 wish he played forever. Whatever didn't happen. You think about 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.800 all the other acquisitions they've made, and they've moved on 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.520 from many of them as well, But think about this. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.559 A couple of things about this acquisition. ESPN had a 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.720 great stat I was in the cafeteria this morning. They 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.520 flashed it up on the screen, and it was pretty 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:58.559 funny because they had Titans organization members all time receptions 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:05.800 t res yes, so it's Hopkins over seventy, Vrabel double figures. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.080 Nobody else more than five. I think Chris Moore might 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.000 have been the leader with five. That's unbelievable, Chris, Johnny, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.520 that's unbelievable. It is that before this acquisition, Rabel had 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.480 more career touchdown receptions in trick plays than any member 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.640 of the Titans organization. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.239 Almost all of them combined. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:27.200 Yes, twelve crazy well and by the way, Verbe played linebacker, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:28.560 not tight ends. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.000 Got an offensive position. He played linebacker. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.120 He caught one here as a chief against the Houston texts. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.240 He yes, as a chief. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.360 Was that was he was at that point, Yeah, must 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:40.880 have been that one. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.440 It wasn't ten ten, it was it was later, because 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:45.680 there was seven. He was still at the Patriots. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.640 They were here in ten when the Texans beat them 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.040 and went four and two at the time. I got 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:50.600 to look that up. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.520 We'll talk about Frabel a little bit later, but. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.880 It's that's funny. The other one is NFL memes, and 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.040 they are so funny. They're so good. I think even 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.480 the league office has like memes because it's just such 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.120 great comic relief. But they had the Antonio Brown ripping 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.920 his shirt off video at the Metal Lands. They had that, 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.320 and that said DeAndre Hopkins after catching passes from Will 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.360 Levis and Ryan Tannehill for two weeks, and I thought 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.200 that was hilarious. But that's not d Hop. D Hop's 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.800 not one to complain and be publicly demonstrative that he's 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.680 not getting the ball enough or in the right way 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.400 or whatever. But I would imagine that behind closed doors, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.480 he's gonna say, listen, it'll be better if we do 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.120 this or do that. He's gonna have feedback, input, whatever. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.080 Because he's DeAndre Hopkins. He's an accomplished receiver, one of 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.720 the very best who's ever played the game. I don't 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.200 care what the numbers say. That is a fact. And 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.160 I'm not sure how this is going to play out. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.400 As long as Tannehill's healthy, they can run the ball 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.000 a bit. There's gonna be so much opportunity. But if 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.280 Tannehill doesn't play that well, the line doesn't pan out. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.640 Because they're rebuilding it. Levis ends up playing. You know, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.240 he's gonna catch his because he's DeAndre Hopkins with a 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.040 catch radius the size of Rhode Island. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:57.520 I get it. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.920 I don't know if it's gonna work out by enlarge though, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.720 big picture wise for the Titans. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.200 Yeah, And I think maybe they're just looking at a 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.000 stop gap. I don't know. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.400 I think the Titans are very confusing because there are 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.320 times when I go, well, okay, they must be quote 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.880 unquote tanking to possibly get Kayleb Williams. Well, then they 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.200 draft Will Levis. Oh okay, well is that the young 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.320 guy they want to groom. So it's like some on 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.880 some hands. On one hand, it looks like they're trying to, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.000 you know, I'll just kind of mail this season in, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.600 but then we'll start a new Hey, look at some 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.760 of the other moves. Well they reupp to with Jeffrey Simmons, Like, okay, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.160 they paid him a lot of money to do it, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.160 which I wish they wouldn't, But it just feels odd. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.400 It feels weird. It's like, are they all in to 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.040 go win games or are they set up to be 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.120 nine to eight? Yet again, I just can't They're kind 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.960 of in the land of mediocrity if you ask me, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.600 I think defense is exceptional. I think the offense is 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.440 still mediocre because I think the offensive line is absolutely dreadful. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.360 But if they can capture, if they can capture uh, 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:05.080 Derek n Best again, if DeAndre stays healthy again, then 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:10.720 maybe maybe if Tannehills stays healthy. Even if Tannehill is healthy, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.480 I put the I put the market nine and eight. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.320 I put it at nine and eight. I don't know 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.040 the water mark high water mark for them, ninety eight 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:17.920 that's well, yeah. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.040 Yeah, because they're gonna have to manufacture wins and do 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.479 it the raable way and all of that. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.399 They are they are. They are literally the twenty fifteen 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.440 Texans and now they have DeAndre Hopkins to prove it. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.360 I don't know if it's gonna work out the way 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.480 they picture it. It is a really it's a rich 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.359 man's acquisition. To me, it seems strange for what they're 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.600 going through. They should be doing more of what the 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.840 Texans are doing. Hey, these young guys gotta play, gotta 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.639 get them seasoned. We feel like we can win some 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.800 games with them, right if we get hot. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:46.399 You never know. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.480 They have to feel that way because they have Derek 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.479 Henry approven commodity MVP candidate as a running back. If 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.520 they can get him going again, it all feeds off him. Well, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.520 as I say this, well, maybe you know, maybe they 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.320 just believe. And we know their defense healthy, especially upfront, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.520 can be very good, can be. So we'll see maybe 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.840 they can knock off the Jaguars. Maybe they're the team 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.000 to do it. But we're all waiting. We're all eager 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.760 and anxious to find out how it plays out. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:16.240 I saw this craft done by somebody today and they said, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:22.200 we're using the same algorithm that some Major League Baseball 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.360 site used to come up with things that have been very, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.960