Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a Monday edition of
Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm
Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst, Southern reporter, is so glad to
Speaker 1: be with you this evening, our last all Access show
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty one season. Yes, I know it's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two in the seventeen game schedule, eighteen weeks
Speaker 1: season throws me off. We always play the playoffs in
Speaker 1: one final week in the following year, but it's always
Speaker 1: the season twenty twenty one, and we finished it yesterday
Speaker 1: and fourtunately twenty eight twenty five loss to the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: Man would have come back to get back in that game.
Speaker 1: That that close to a Jacob Martin sack that would
Speaker 1: have just sent the place into hysterics, But gotta give
Speaker 1: it to Ryan Taniell. The man pulled out a huge
Speaker 1: play at the right time. They made a throw to
Speaker 1: Julio Jones in the back of the end zone for
Speaker 1: a huge touchdow down. But that was as fun and exciting,
Speaker 1: exhilarating a football game as there's been an energy stadium
Speaker 1: this year. So we wish you could have gone out
Speaker 1: with a dub, but showed out in that second half.
Speaker 1: Got a bad call in the first half, but I
Speaker 1: don't complain about officials for the most part. But that
Speaker 1: PI call was a joke. A joke, I tell you
Speaker 1: all right, what's not a joke of the guest that
Speaker 1: we have on this show this evening, we got Spencer
Speaker 1: Tillman going to join us. Andre ware is going to
Speaker 1: be here as well on the show. Because we will
Speaker 1: take you all the way till eight o'clock tonight, I
Speaker 1: will give you my ultimate eleven plays of the season.
Speaker 1: We'll look back at Week eighteen in the NFL and
Speaker 1: oh my god, what a week it was. And then,
Speaker 1: because it'll be the last radio we do before the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I'm gonna make my predictions brought to you
Speaker 1: by Caesar's Rewards. Why not, but to kick off the show,
Speaker 1: how about a visit from the president of the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: our good friend Greg Grissom. Right out the shoot mark
Speaker 1: me and the pres Greg Grisom. Here we go joining
Speaker 1: us right now, I'm Texans Radio. It's Texans President Greg Grissom. Greg,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. It's over the season and
Speaker 1: here we're just relaxing here in the studio after a
Speaker 1: long season, but a very entertaining season, especially down the stretch.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's great to see you guys. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: having me in for a few minutes, and thanks for
Speaker 1: all you do for our fans and just keeping everybody
Speaker 1: up to date. But it was it was an exciting year. Obviously.
Speaker 1: The last few games were a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: see this team grow and progress, and you know, the
Speaker 1: atmosphere in the stadium the last couple of games was
Speaker 1: really really a lot of fun see our fans enjoying it,
Speaker 1: and you know, excited way to finish and can't wait
Speaker 1: to get going on twenty twenty two, Greg, your first
Speaker 1: season and your role as president of the team. How
Speaker 1: much changed for you or is it too much even
Speaker 1: say on radio? How much changed for you this year?
Speaker 1: It's probably too much to say on radio, but but
Speaker 1: you know, just having you know, I think most of
Speaker 1: you guys know, but I've been with a franchise since
Speaker 1: the beginning, so i had a chance to really step
Speaker 1: into this role and it's a very different role than
Speaker 1: the role I had before. But but what doesn't change,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of my love for the team, my
Speaker 1: love for the city and the organization and our fan
Speaker 1: base and just the excitement that we can So it's
Speaker 1: very different. A lot of changed in my role, but
Speaker 1: really the core values of what makes this a place
Speaker 1: that I always want to be personally hadn't changed at all. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot has changed in the world really, and last
Speaker 1: season with COVID barely any fans. This season you come
Speaker 1: back in and the world is undergoing a COVID hangover.
Speaker 1: Yet you're still able to maintain this game day atmosphere
Speaker 1: that's second to none. Really, so many great elements, and
Speaker 1: you added new stuff this year, no question. I mean
Speaker 1: this year was at unique challenge just I mean when
Speaker 1: just trying to get back to full capacity events, if
Speaker 1: you go back to the summer, I mean we were
Speaker 1: still unsure about how that was all going to work
Speaker 1: and work through a lot of challenges as it relates
Speaker 1: to even staffing the building in different ways. So we
Speaker 1: had so many different things happening. Um and and everybody
Speaker 1: in live events was dealing with the same thing. But
Speaker 1: um and then you know, wanting to to welcome our
Speaker 1: fans back to the stadium, do some new things, uh,
Speaker 1: introducing the the DJ that We introduced Cecil Shorts, who
Speaker 1: did an unbelievable job on the field, kind of interacting
Speaker 1: with the fans. Some mixed reality, some different food and
Speaker 1: beverage options, so mobile ticketing, so a lot of things
Speaker 1: that we tried this year, and we're going to keep
Speaker 1: trying to lean into how can we always be better
Speaker 1: in the future. But it but it was it was
Speaker 1: a big year. Wait, the bull can move its head now,
Speaker 1: that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah, the bull can
Speaker 1: move its head. Smokes coming every which way. Yeah, very lifelike.
Speaker 1: I can stand on the field and get run over
Speaker 1: by the waste management truck too, that's right. I've always
Speaker 1: looked to see. In this past week, I actually got
Speaker 1: run over by the truck. I was very Maybe better
Speaker 1: the truck than the bull. I don't know, that's true. Greg.
Speaker 1: Last week, I know when the email came into my inbox,
Speaker 1: I thought, oh boy, this is going to be really
Speaker 1: interest thing. I couldn't wait to talk to you about
Speaker 1: season ticket plan tickets that came out and I saw that. Wow.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of thought because we're in the building,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of thought and work and effort
Speaker 1: went into coming up with that plan. What's been the
Speaker 1: response you've gotten from potential season ticket members and from
Speaker 1: season ticket members themselves. Well, you're right, a lot of
Speaker 1: thought has gone into it, and it really goes back
Speaker 1: to just how can we evolve, how can we always
Speaker 1: challenge ourselves to be better? And so we spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time really going back to the summer looking
Speaker 1: looking at our season ticket plan and announced it last
Speaker 1: week as part of fan appreciation a week just because
Speaker 1: we felt like that was the right time to just
Speaker 1: make sure our fans know and our season ticket members
Speaker 1: in particular, know how much we appreciate them and how
Speaker 1: much we want to continue to invest back in that program.
Speaker 1: So a lot of exciting things with that, but the
Speaker 1: response has been fantastic. We've already had thousands of seats renewed,
Speaker 1: season ticket members coming back in very positive you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of new things that we've added into the
Speaker 1: program that they're reacting to very positively. So so far,
Speaker 1: so good. You know. Obviously, the whole off seasons a
Speaker 1: process and we'll continue to work at it, but I'm
Speaker 1: really really pleased at the response where we are today.
Speaker 1: So it's season ticket membership redefined, right, loyalty is a
Speaker 1: big factor here, So if you've been with the Texans
Speaker 1: for a long time, the savings are even bigger, right, correct.
Speaker 1: I mean it's really about three things. It was new savings,
Speaker 1: more flexibility, and better benefits are kind of the three
Speaker 1: buckets of it. And so on the saving standpoint, yes,
Speaker 1: the longer you've been with us, there were some kind
Speaker 1: of a one time price reduction that you can take
Speaker 1: advantage of depending on the time that you choose to renew,
Speaker 1: and that goes really from a deadline of this February
Speaker 1: all the way through May fifth, so just past the
Speaker 1: draft that those types of things, But the better benefits
Speaker 1: and the more flexibility are things that we're hearing a
Speaker 1: lot about that people also appreciate. You know, talked about
Speaker 1: flexibility relative to some payment plans as a thing that
Speaker 1: you know, we're in a kind of a subscription based
Speaker 1: society netflix other things that you want, and so we
Speaker 1: wanted to adjust the way people pay to better fit
Speaker 1: that model. And so we've had a lot of positive
Speaker 1: events around that and then kind of them the better
Speaker 1: benefits a lot of that's merchandise and exclusive access to events.
Speaker 1: We really started that with training Camp last year really
Speaker 1: focusing that on our season ticket members exclusively and had
Speaker 1: great response to that. So as we get into the
Speaker 1: offseason with draft and other things that we can do,
Speaker 1: we really want to allow our season ticket members to
Speaker 1: get to know our team and be as close as anybody. Okay,
Speaker 1: after the game was over, I saw it in print
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the Texans will have a first round pick.
Speaker 1: I saw it. It's in print. We have it now.
Speaker 1: It could also ultimately trade it, but I hope we don't.
Speaker 1: If we maintain those picks, does that mean we have
Speaker 1: a draft party back? Right? That is the plan, John,
Speaker 1: We want to we want to have that big draft party.
Speaker 1: You know, we're maybe here at the stadium, who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe we look at some other options, but we want
Speaker 1: and then it's in Las Vegas. So we're also looking
Speaker 1: at how we can interact with our fans back, you know,
Speaker 1: create an experience for them in a very unique setting.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot on the table. Obviously, it's always
Speaker 1: a unique time right now, and in a COVID environment,
Speaker 1: everything has to be flexible, so we'll always consider that.
Speaker 1: But our goal is to I'll say it differently, we
Speaker 1: want our fans to be able to enjoy their connection
Speaker 1: to the Texans and to get to know our team
Speaker 1: and to go along this journey as we're building this team,
Speaker 1: and so draft is obviously a huge part of that.
Speaker 1: And I hope we can. We can do it big,
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta do it big. Draft parties are awesome.
Speaker 1: They're fantastic everyone, and we've been through here. They've been
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. And I think you just like a crowd
Speaker 1: when you when you're analyzing picks, right. I think it's
Speaker 1: you know, you need a little audience, John, You know
Speaker 1: me extremely well, great, Chris. So that's exactly why I
Speaker 1: want to happen. It's great to have crowds. It's been
Speaker 1: fantastic in this COVID environment to do it safely, and
Speaker 1: obviously that's what we're talking about here. But I just
Speaker 1: know that you're always pushing the envelope to do something different,
Speaker 1: give our fans something a little extra, and that has
Speaker 1: always been something a little extra. Just come on, enjoy
Speaker 1: the night, enjoy these draft picks that some of these
Speaker 1: people have never heard of. They always look to my reaction,
Speaker 1: but I always think it's a really fun night. It's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the most interesting nights of
Speaker 1: the year with the fans that to basically come out
Speaker 1: and watch TV with us. But it's it's it's really
Speaker 1: about being together. And really that's what if you really
Speaker 1: think about what football does, um you know, tailgating, the
Speaker 1: game day environment, it's just people creating experiences and memories
Speaker 1: that they couldn't otherwise do by themselves and drafts, you know,
Speaker 1: a very unique opportunity to do that with a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that are all kind of centered around the
Speaker 1: Texans and center around a game of football. We mentioned
Speaker 1: savings with the season ticket members, and there's an old
Speaker 1: advertising slogan membership has its privileges, and I know there's
Speaker 1: other things involved as well. What can you share with
Speaker 1: us about that, because as a season ticket member, it's
Speaker 1: not just about going to the games, right. No, again,
Speaker 1: we want it to be exclusive. We want it to
Speaker 1: be something that others, you know, maybe can't have, but
Speaker 1: only our season ticket members do have. And so I
Speaker 1: mentioned the payment plans, the tickets and things of that nature,
Speaker 1: but we're doing some exclusive merchandise that's that's only available
Speaker 1: to season ticket members on game day. Our season ticket
Speaker 1: members will experience for the first time in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: the ability to get ten percent off of game day
Speaker 1: concessions basically by scanning a QR code on their phone
Speaker 1: part of the ticket the mobile ticketing process. So there's
Speaker 1: there's over thirteen new benefits that we added into the
Speaker 1: to the season ticket membership redefined. And folks want to
Speaker 1: learn more than go to Houston Texans dot com backs
Speaker 1: or forward slash renew and they can. They can learn
Speaker 1: more about what's fully available. Greg, you talked about being
Speaker 1: here with the Texans for a while. It tugs at
Speaker 1: all of our heartstrings. But from a game experience standpoint,
Speaker 1: what do you think has changed the most? Whether it's
Speaker 1: you know, fans request that, you know, fans want to
Speaker 1: see this. I here all the time. Why I could
Speaker 1: just sit and watch a seventy in screen at home
Speaker 1: and watch the game. But then you go in the
Speaker 1: building and you're like, Yo, this is just wob this
Speaker 1: is fantastic. Well, what's changed the most over the time
Speaker 1: that you've been here when it comes to a game experience? Well, wow,
Speaker 1: so since I've been here, that's a long time here.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a lot more hair back in
Speaker 1: the day. But um no, I think the thing that's
Speaker 1: probably changed the most, um from the game experience in
Speaker 1: the way that fans and enjoy the game is really technology.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, just from the
Speaker 1: video board things that we're able to do there, to
Speaker 1: the mobile ticketing, to the way that concessions are ordered,
Speaker 1: and I mean technologies everywhere. I think our entire lives.
Speaker 1: If you think over twenty years, technology has changed everything.
Speaker 1: But so that I would say just globally, that's probably
Speaker 1: what's changed the most. But what hasn't changed is the
Speaker 1: ability that people want to be together. There's nothing like
Speaker 1: the energy and excitement of game day, you know, giving
Speaker 1: your buddy a high five, or you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: disagreeing with a call in the field, you know boisterously,
Speaker 1: or or having a chance to have Toro meet your
Speaker 1: kids or whatever. Maybe those are the things that's why
Speaker 1: people come, and we just want to continue to facilitate
Speaker 1: that and in many different ways as we can. It's
Speaker 1: true there's nothing like being there live. Because the market
Speaker 1: research focus group known as the vander Kids, they were
Speaker 1: weaned on screens and everything, but they would rather be
Speaker 1: here than anything because there's just something about being in
Speaker 1: the atmosphere, right, I mean, you were there, but there's
Speaker 1: there's a you know, yesterday as we were coming back
Speaker 1: and you know, uh, you know, kind of making a comeback.
Speaker 1: It's just the energy and the building, the excitement, and
Speaker 1: then then that kind of shared belief and then you
Speaker 1: can you feel like you're participating and helping the team
Speaker 1: go on the way. There's nothing like it, and and um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss it for the next for the off season.
Speaker 1: So I was walking out of the building yesterday. I
Speaker 1: was trying to appreciate, you know, that game experience and
Speaker 1: honestly just can't wait to get back to it. It's
Speaker 1: so funny you say that, because when Danny scored the
Speaker 1: touchdown to make a twenty eight twenty five and you
Speaker 1: and I'm looking from our sideline down that way, I did.
Speaker 1: I did the same thing. I kind of just took
Speaker 1: in the crowd and how excited they were, and Danny
Speaker 1: jumps up in the I mean he got up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't know how he got
Speaker 1: up there. I mean he's all like five six and
Speaker 1: he got up there, Like wow, he's skying to get
Speaker 1: up there. But that's what it made me think, Wow,
Speaker 1: this this is a moment. I definitely want to just
Speaker 1: mentally take this in. So in this season, tough as
Speaker 1: it was, is there a moment that you think that's
Speaker 1: it right there, Bottle that moment and that's why you
Speaker 1: come to the stadium to watch a game. Man, that's
Speaker 1: a tough question. Um. Um, you know, I know, I
Speaker 1: know what our well, I know what it is. I
Speaker 1: think mine would have been. Um in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of the game against the Chargers, and and and and
Speaker 1: just um, you know, the excitement of how well the
Speaker 1: team played that day, and you know, from the beginning
Speaker 1: to end, um, the belief that the players had and
Speaker 1: they went out and executed so well, and just as
Speaker 1: a as you know, as a fan and enjoying the game,
Speaker 1: and and and just uh, you know, after Christmas, so
Speaker 1: it was kind of an exciting time. And um, the
Speaker 1: you know, the the stadium was you fork and just
Speaker 1: so just looking around and just saying okay, you know,
Speaker 1: and then the belief that that was creating an excitement
Speaker 1: with our fans about where we're going was just it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun that day. It was wait,
Speaker 1: what's yours Johnny? That one okay, when Tavira Thomas takes
Speaker 1: that takes it. When tab took it to the end zone,
Speaker 1: I was on the other side because I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out because the charges were getting around in
Speaker 1: your midfield. So I got to decide at that point
Speaker 1: I go to the other side or do I go
Speaker 1: and stand outside. So I had moved and so when
Speaker 1: tav goes the other direction, sometimes I go over there
Speaker 1: because there aren't any photos I can stand sure, and
Speaker 1: so tav goes the other way. I'm here, Mark make
Speaker 1: the call, and I'm like one man, just celebration. I mean,
Speaker 1: since you were on the other end. We didn't get
Speaker 1: that on film, so you know we didn't We didn't
Speaker 1: get the we didn't get the Johnny Harris pictures. Oh no,
Speaker 1: but SuDS has got one interview. I'll show it all.
Speaker 1: It's pretty darn good when we made it twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: But that game, to me, Greg is won no matter
Speaker 1: what happens in the next eight to ten years, that's
Speaker 1: one I'll remember because of how tough the season has
Speaker 1: been had been. And I just saw I did the
Speaker 1: same thing. I kind of looked around the stadium and
Speaker 1: I saw fans with the foam fingers and every just
Speaker 1: like having this moment altogether was like really really cool.
Speaker 1: It was actually kind of emotional to think about because
Speaker 1: we had been through so much stuff at that point
Speaker 1: and it was like that all just kind of came
Speaker 1: on that way. And again, everybody, you know, our fans,
Speaker 1: the you know, the the world has been through so
Speaker 1: much just so to get back to where you can
Speaker 1: enjoy something kind of in in all together in a
Speaker 1: unique way. I mean it really you can't describe it.
Speaker 1: That afternoon was a lot of fun. Well, Greg, congratulations
Speaker 1: on your first season as president of the tex and
Speaker 1: looks forward to next year and the off season and
Speaker 1: everything that it. Branks, thanks a lot for joining us,
Speaker 1: No problem. Mark will be working hard and ready to
Speaker 1: get back to twenty twenty two and see where we go.
Speaker 1: But no matter what, Go Texans. Nice Greg gris So
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Speaker 1: Texans has time to catch up with our pal Andre
Speaker 1: where we got a lot to get to with our
Speaker 1: pal Drey so here it is the three of us
Speaker 1: on the radio crew. I wish we'd have Robert on
Speaker 1: her here too. Robert Hansley add in the fourth. As
Speaker 1: Drey said yesterday during the broadcast, we're pretty much like
Speaker 1: this dysfunctional family that loves talking football and getting together
Speaker 1: every single Sunday and hopefully will do a great job
Speaker 1: for you. But we love it. Here's Dre with Mark
Speaker 1: and me. Drey slow day in the NFL, no news
Speaker 1: at all. How are you, my friend? As we're coming
Speaker 1: off the Texans come back, it comes up short. But
Speaker 1: your thoughts on what you saw yesterday out of Mills,
Speaker 1: the offense, the second half comeback, Yeah, it's an NFL type.
Speaker 1: I guess you would say candy store for NFL fans
Speaker 1: if you know you have you're a team that's you're
Speaker 1: looking to get into the playoff and went all the
Speaker 1: way down to like the last snap or the last kick,
Speaker 1: so to speak, yesterday. But I thought Davis Mills said
Speaker 1: it during the broadcast that I thought it was a
Speaker 1: game in which he proved to whomever, whatever set of
Speaker 1: eyes that we're looking at him that he deserves a
Speaker 1: chance to start the season as the starting quarterback next
Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty two. The past he made to
Speaker 1: Danny Amondola up the sideline, that was the one that
Speaker 1: sold it for me, because now he's anticipating throws. I mean,
Speaker 1: he threw an a first touchdown past Amadola showed you
Speaker 1: some athletic ability. The second one showed you that he's
Speaker 1: throwing the ball with anticipation. Like before, guys are coming
Speaker 1: open into windows against zone coverage, and then he can
Speaker 1: throw guys open as well, taking care of the ball.
Speaker 1: The completion percentage, all of that, I think he showed
Speaker 1: you down the stretch to give him a chance to
Speaker 1: be the quarterback next year. Dre Coming out of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one season, I mean, Davis, we saw some some
Speaker 1: good things. This rookie class seemingly had some things. We
Speaker 1: saw a couple of veterans play this year that you
Speaker 1: know stood out you. Willie Collins had a better than
Speaker 1: the stats indicate, cam who was was amazing. What in
Speaker 1: your mind is going to stand out in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one that gives hope going into twenty twenty two if
Speaker 1: it's not Davis, Because I think we all feel that
Speaker 1: way that Davis does seemingly give us hope for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. What else would you say, Hey, man, this
Speaker 1: is gonna gives me hope for going into twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I would say the defense take the ball away, um,
Speaker 1: because they were able to do it with consistency, uh,
Speaker 1: and moving parts to say that, And there wasn't a
Speaker 1: set of guys or you know, a two deep worth
Speaker 1: of guys that that did it throughout the season. There
Speaker 1: was multiple guys along the way, and so that lets
Speaker 1: me know that they're being coached up well. Uh, there
Speaker 1: were multiple guys with takeaways in terms of interceptions, U fumble, recovers,
Speaker 1: any all of that that falls into that that category.
Speaker 1: That and special teams the return game. Uh, there, there's
Speaker 1: definitely hope there when you when you have the kind
Speaker 1: of production that they were able to have a couple
Speaker 1: of holding penalties here or there, stopped or brought back
Speaker 1: some really big returns that you know you really didn't
Speaker 1: need to have. But I think those two things, the
Speaker 1: defense and special teams, if I got to pick something
Speaker 1: opposite Davis Mills, those are the two things. All right, Trey,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be the head coach of an NFL team,
Speaker 1: and we have a number of openings for you to
Speaker 1: consider here. So you bought one party where you'd like
Speaker 1: to go. Okay, Miami which is open after this morning.
Speaker 1: Brian Flores was shown the door and they've got two
Speaker 1: as quarterback currently. Justin Fields is in Chicago where Matteggie
Speaker 1: was let go Kirk Cousins. I believe it's one more
Speaker 1: year on his deal. In Minnesota where Mike Zimmer was
Speaker 1: let go. Denver not so much of anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bridgewater gets heard. Ru Lock is still there. So Denver
Speaker 1: is out there and Jacksonville with Trevor Lawrence. What job
Speaker 1: are you taking, coach Dre, I'm taking Miami. Miami set up,
Speaker 1: they've got draft picks, they've they played well at times
Speaker 1: when don't they go on a seven game winning streak,
Speaker 1: so you know that's enough talent to win in that city.
Speaker 1: And then a South beach. You know where else would
Speaker 1: you rather coach South? So you know, no, it's in
Speaker 1: all seriousness, it would definitely be Miami. They've got a
Speaker 1: defense that is not far away. I think offensively they
Speaker 1: need running back and about it, maybe a receiver to
Speaker 1: go with a pretty talented offense. Offensive group that can
Speaker 1: get it down. I believe in Tua. I always have.
Speaker 1: I've never never doubted that went healthy, we would see
Speaker 1: what we saw out of tah Now, you keep changing
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators and coaching staffs. All you do is set
Speaker 1: your quarterback back, and I've seen that experienced at firsthand.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what goes into who they hire
Speaker 1: or who they keep, but that's the job that I
Speaker 1: would take. I definitely wouldn't go to Chicago. I think
Speaker 1: they're miles away. Minnesota's trending the other way. Cousins probably
Speaker 1: won't even be there next year, and so you know,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of jobs that are very on
Speaker 1: a track. I don't like Jackson Goes job either. I
Speaker 1: think there are ways away. But Miami, Miami's Miami's the
Speaker 1: closest team. I mean that's smart because to back you up,
Speaker 1: one other opening has a team that's coming off back
Speaker 1: to back winning seasons, and that's what the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: there winners so to speak, and they just need to
Speaker 1: win one or two more a year and look what
Speaker 1: you got. I just don't understand that. I don't understand
Speaker 1: how what are they expecting in Miami? A Super Bowl
Speaker 1: trip you know, in the next year. Give the guys.
Speaker 1: He's had winning seasons and been and they're very close
Speaker 1: to turn in the corner to to being a playoff team.
Speaker 1: Why do you keep starting over? I don't I think
Speaker 1: that's a rhetorical question. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think all three of us know the answer, but
Speaker 1: we are I think we all agree with that you
Speaker 1: have to put him to the side. And that's ego
Speaker 1: and relationships. Yeah, and when ego gets in the way
Speaker 1: of relationships and things like that, we get those situations.
Speaker 1: All right. Let me throw another one on the fire.
Speaker 1: This has not happened. But I cannot see Dre how
Speaker 1: the New York Giants go forward with Joe. Judge, if
Speaker 1: I threw the Giants in the mix, would that job
Speaker 1: intrigue you in any way, shape or form? It would
Speaker 1: intrigue me. But I think there are ways away, And
Speaker 1: there's a you know, coach looking for a situation if
Speaker 1: you allowed, you know, if I'm guaranteed X amount of
Speaker 1: years to get it going, But that obviously is in
Speaker 1: the case, and that that one is unbelievable. And Brian
Speaker 1: Flores is looking for a job this morning, and Judge
Speaker 1: is still the head coach of the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Got one. Unbelievable. Is unbelievable. You're talking about a team
Speaker 1: that is on the verge of the playoffs, a team
Speaker 1: that had to winning season, and he's out, and you
Speaker 1: got Joe Judge that's still coaching in the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Now they'll make him empty. They can in terms of
Speaker 1: hiring a new coordinator on both sides of the ball
Speaker 1: and special teams and so on, redoing the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: But all you're doing is prolonged and the inevitable correction.
Speaker 1: I agree, because look, they got blown out by the Bears,
Speaker 1: who blew out their coach. They lose to Washington after Look,
Speaker 1: Washington is not a good team and they've got Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineke at quarterback. How can you possibly beat Taylor Heineke.
Speaker 1: I mean you got to remove some doubt at some point.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done it. Yeah, no, there's no doubt. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if if Brian Flores is employed by
Speaker 1: the end of the week. You know, when you set
Speaker 1: on the table and this is what we've done, and
Speaker 1: this is what we've done. Deal with draft picks that
Speaker 1: have worked out down there and we we won. Uh,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised if he's not
Speaker 1: the head coach somewhere by by weeks in Okay. I
Speaker 1: know the NFL. Drey this actually, I'll put it to
Speaker 1: both of you. But Dre, you call college games every
Speaker 1: single week. You get an opportunity to meet with coaches
Speaker 1: who talk with coaches. Also, we talked with other coaches
Speaker 1: and talk with other coaches, so you have that opportunity.
Speaker 1: I maybe the urban Meyer experiment in Jacksonville turned people away,
Speaker 1: but if people would quit looking at well he was
Speaker 1: a college coach. No, urban Meyer was not a great dude.
Speaker 1: That was why he ended up not being a great
Speaker 1: NFL coach. But if one of these one of these
Speaker 1: NFL teams came to you, Dre and said, look, we really,
Speaker 1: we really think there's some guys down in the college
Speaker 1: level that might make for really good NFL coaches. Is
Speaker 1: there a college coach that maybe you hear through the
Speaker 1: grade final There's been a lot of talking about Jim
Speaker 1: Harbaugh and I just saw a tweet from a guy
Speaker 1: who does college football and he put four college coaches
Speaker 1: in NFL positions, and I'm looking at him going that
Speaker 1: could be kind of interesting. Is there a college coach
Speaker 1: that you think could end up being an NFL A
Speaker 1: good NFL head coach going forward with the knowledge that
Speaker 1: you have about the game, and obviously you know about
Speaker 1: the NFL too. Yeah, there is uh And this would
Speaker 1: be a problem. Maybe a wild card and a surprising name,
Speaker 1: but I think his name had been tossed around last year.
Speaker 1: It's just unfortunate the situation that he's in now, or
Speaker 1: found himself in after his past year. But I would
Speaker 1: say Dan Mullen because I think he has the makeup
Speaker 1: to be an NFL head coach. Is organized, he is
Speaker 1: tough as nails, He has no nonsense. He can teach
Speaker 1: the game from especially with openings, and you look, you
Speaker 1: got all these young quarterbacks across the NFL now at
Speaker 1: those jobs that you just name, he can coach him
Speaker 1: up and his system fits what you want to do
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now, it'll take some tinkering, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, he's not that far away in terms
Speaker 1: of having an NFL system within what he wants to
Speaker 1: do on the college level. So he run the quarterback
Speaker 1: obviously a little bit less he does that on the
Speaker 1: collegiate level, especially down close towards the goal line. But
Speaker 1: I think Dan Mullin would be one hell of an
Speaker 1: NFL coach. I think he's some of the names that
Speaker 1: you mentioned that kept jobs this morning. He's already better
Speaker 1: than they from a spirit standpoint. He is on the
Speaker 1: coaches Committee, the rules committee, so he's gonna know the
Speaker 1: rules in and out. Nobody's gonna have to be in
Speaker 1: his ear telling him what to do in certain situations.
Speaker 1: He's a very, very bright head coach. But obviously things
Speaker 1: didn't work out at the University of Florida. That might
Speaker 1: turn some guys off. It shouldn't. It didn't do it
Speaker 1: to Arizona with Cliff Kingsbury, so it shouldn't happen in
Speaker 1: the case of Damn Mulla. But I've always been a
Speaker 1: big fan of always respected how he ran his programs
Speaker 1: because he was always always buttoned up. Now he's not
Speaker 1: the easiest guy who to coach with, neither's Nick Saban,
Speaker 1: but they he wins wherever he goes. Drey Tonight, Alabama, Georgia,
Speaker 1: Thoughts Abama. I mean, I just you you want to
Speaker 1: get in a box and play football, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's who That's what they want. They want
Speaker 1: to They want a quarterback that's in the pocket. They
Speaker 1: can come after you. You've given Nick saban x amount
Speaker 1: of time to scheme up against Georgia and he's beating
Speaker 1: you already in multiple years. I think it's it's Alabama.
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett is not going to move around and uh
Speaker 1: and be the electric quarterback that makes Nick Sabans stay
Speaker 1: up late game planning and looking at extra film. Now
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that, but it doesn't scare him as
Speaker 1: if then wear a mobile quarterback on the other side,
Speaker 1: they could move around like a Donny Manziel type. So
Speaker 1: I'm going with Bama to night. They're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run the football and then get after you defensively
Speaker 1: and until until I see it or you prove it
Speaker 1: to me. Otherwise it's Alabama. Dreed last night Chargers Raiders
Speaker 1: amazing football game, very unbelievable football game. What do you
Speaker 1: think at the end, and there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: discussion point about off their tie, they both make it
Speaker 1: the time out by Staley, the Raiders then changing the
Speaker 1: play doing all that kind of what did you kind
Speaker 1: of make at the end of the game. Did you
Speaker 1: have any sort of I don't say issue, but what
Speaker 1: did you think about the way that I was handled
Speaker 1: down to stretching O teeth. Anybody who believes that's okay
Speaker 1: for them to run the clock out, both teams go
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. It's one of those everybody gets a
Speaker 1: medal or trophy kind of person. I mean, that's not
Speaker 1: just it's not real life, man, it's just not real life. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you kicked the field goal, you win it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a hell of a game all
Speaker 1: the way through, and I was starting to begin to think,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, to fix is in you know where
Speaker 1: Hey let's go thirty two thirty two and both of
Speaker 1: us go get some extra cash. But um, the Raiders
Speaker 1: showed that that there is still, you know, some life
Speaker 1: to this game, and uh the way old school guys
Speaker 1: think about how it should be played, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: it was real life stuff to see Carlson. Not the
Speaker 1: field goal through, but one hell of a game. I
Speaker 1: thought a lot of games across the board there was
Speaker 1: just great NFL football, not just yesterday in the final
Speaker 1: weekend of the season, but all throughout the year, there's
Speaker 1: upset after upset. Look at it kind of goes to
Speaker 1: show you that on any given Sunday still holds true.
Speaker 1: Right in Indianapolis goes down to Jacksonville, they need to win,
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville's, you know, playing for draft position and you're
Speaker 1: letting yet and still Jaguars not just take care of them.
Speaker 1: They beat them down yesterday. Yeah, and all the Colts
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. So it was a great season
Speaker 1: all the way around. And obviously with the Raiders tapping
Speaker 1: it off against the Chargers. Yeah. And my whole thing
Speaker 1: on that is their division rivals. They hate each other.
Speaker 1: If we were playing the Colt to the Titans, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't want them to get in beat down every Yeah.
Speaker 1: Everyone always says the NFL East has all the rivalries.
Speaker 1: Not until I was with the Raiders did I realize
Speaker 1: how much the Raiders hated the Chiefs, how much the
Speaker 1: Raiders hated the Chargers, and how much the Raiders had
Speaker 1: hated the Bronco. Yeah. That's about the entire division, right,
Speaker 1: and all the other teams hate all the other teams.
Speaker 1: So I don't know about it. If if the rivalry
Speaker 1: lie within the NFC East. It's definitely that division, the
Speaker 1: AFC West with the Raiders, Chargers, Brocos and who's the
Speaker 1: other one out there, Chiefs. I think it's all relative too.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we hate the Colts, you know, so
Speaker 1: much that if we were in that situation, I doubt
Speaker 1: the Texans would want to ever see the Colts get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Just win the game. Hey, look, that
Speaker 1: was a relatively safe play called to hand off to Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and everyone's criticizing Staling on the time out. Look, the
Speaker 1: Raiders are going to run a play anyway. That still
Speaker 1: could have happened, all right, Drey and I l stuff.
Speaker 1: Nick Saban and Kirby Smarta both said, look, we might
Speaker 1: need regulation on this. It's gonna get tough. I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I can't quote them on this,
Speaker 1: but your feelings on nil, I mean, my feelings are
Speaker 1: this is really good for college athletics. I think it
Speaker 1: has to be handled properly, but it's really good for
Speaker 1: the athletes. It's about time, and it's a good way
Speaker 1: to do it in my opinion overall. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna get out of hand. I think it
Speaker 1: me in some cases already be out of hand and
Speaker 1: their needs. And this is coming from two guys that
Speaker 1: are already sitting the top of the mountain. So they're
Speaker 1: trying to tell you that we can pick up the
Speaker 1: phone and call boosters and get whatever we need in
Speaker 1: order to stay competitive and even maybe take it to
Speaker 1: the next level and put some more separation between and
Speaker 1: our programs and the rest. I definitely think there needs
Speaker 1: to be legislation something that puts this in a that
Speaker 1: rebags it, so to speak, to put it out there,
Speaker 1: let it get it. We knew once you open that
Speaker 1: door it was going to get out of hand without
Speaker 1: any structure to it. And so from from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: you can pay anybody anytime and and disguises it right
Speaker 1: now as whatever you want it to be and whatever amountain.
Speaker 1: And I think it's absolutely ridiculous that maybe you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you give kids something, but maybe it's at the
Speaker 1: end at the evencentivize it at the end of graduation,
Speaker 1: that this goes in a trust for when you graduate,
Speaker 1: because the college degree will become absent. Now that we
Speaker 1: have got all this stuff, We're gonna see kids struggle
Speaker 1: to stay eligible because you're giving them all this money,
Speaker 1: what's the incentive to go to class. I'm already hearing
Speaker 1: that the majority of kids are tests starting to take
Speaker 1: classes online now and they aren't even going into a classroom.
Speaker 1: So you know, all this kind of falls under the
Speaker 1: same umbrella of it's going to be tough and it's
Speaker 1: going to get crazy. You already can't tell kids what
Speaker 1: to do. Now you're going to give them money and
Speaker 1: you can't tell them what to do. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: just kind of it needs some structure to it, some way, somehow.
Speaker 1: But I would have incentivized it for after graduation to
Speaker 1: motivate kids to get college degrees so you have somewhere
Speaker 1: to go when it doesn't work out. Over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, in particular man conversations with Dre and
Speaker 1: Mark and me, there's fun. Is anything that we get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do. I mean we almost it stops
Speaker 1: being an interview and it's the three of us just
Speaker 1: chatting about ball talking about things going on. Is such
Speaker 1: a blast to be part of this radio crew. I
Speaker 1: know they've been doing it for twenty years and this
Speaker 1: was just finishing up my eighth year. But love those
Speaker 1: guys to death and it's always a fun conversation with
Speaker 1: the three of us, get together, all right when we
Speaker 1: get back. It was a wild twenty four hours in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean wild. It started at noon, it
Speaker 1: went all the way through the evening, it filtered through
Speaker 1: the morning. Wow, we'll look back at it all next
Speaker 1: right here in Texas all access excess excess. Wow, what
Speaker 1: a wild weekend it was in the NFL Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: But Saturday games pretty much went the way you expected.
Speaker 1: Philly wasn't playing anybody against the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: came out in house the Eagles, and then you had
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had to fight a little bit, had a
Speaker 1: scoop and score by rookie Nick Bolton after a hit
Speaker 1: by Melvin Ingram, who was a great ad to the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs defense, and that locked up win number
Speaker 1: twelve for the Chiefs. But the drama, if you will,
Speaker 1: started on Sunday in the NFL. So you know what,
Speaker 1: queue up my music and let's rock. Looking back at
Speaker 1: these games now, Bengals and Browns. The Bengals didn't send
Speaker 1: anybody to Cleveland for that game. Joe Burrowed didn't play
Speaker 1: a couple of guys were on COVID. In fact, the
Speaker 1: Bengals today brought back eleven guys to get ready for
Speaker 1: the playoff matchup they're gonna have next week. But the
Speaker 1: Browns gotta win case. Keenum got that win one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy six yards passing too tutties and Dearnest Johnson
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred twenty three yards. That's the second
Speaker 1: time he's gone over one hundred this year. The Browns
Speaker 1: finished the year at eight to nine. And why does
Speaker 1: that matter? Well, that win for Cleveland, combined with Baltimore's loss,
Speaker 1: put Cleveland into third place in the AFC North. And
Speaker 1: guests who've finished in third place THEFC South, that's right,
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. So by virtue of that Browns win,
Speaker 1: Ravens loss, and we'll get that Ravens loss a second.
Speaker 1: The Texans will take on the Cleveland Browns at NRG
Speaker 1: Stadium in twenty twenty two. The Lions one by virtue
Speaker 1: of their win over the Packers where Aaron Rodgers played
Speaker 1: just the first half that gave the Jacksonville Jaguars the
Speaker 1: number one overall pick, the Lions do get to win
Speaker 1: thirty seven thirty. Rogers sat the second half, but the
Speaker 1: Lions Jared Goff throws two touchdowns. The Lions finished three
Speaker 1: thirteen and one. Should have had another couple of wins.
Speaker 1: The Lions should not be picking second, They should be
Speaker 1: picking probably fifth or six. But a couple of bad bounces,
Speaker 1: a couple of really big field goals, and the Lions
Speaker 1: end up three thirteen and one. They'll pick second, with
Speaker 1: Jacksonville picking first and the Texans picking third. Green Bay
Speaker 1: finishes thirteen and four, butts number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the NFC, the NFC North two teams completely
Speaker 1: erasing and whitewashing their entire football ops department. The Vikings
Speaker 1: beat the Bears thirty one seventeen this morning. The Bears
Speaker 1: fired Ryan paced GM head coach Matt Nagy. The Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings fired GM Rick Spielman and head coach Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 1: restarting the whole thing in both locations, and by virtue
Speaker 1: of Minnesota's win, Minnesota finished in second place in the
Speaker 1: NFC North, finishing in third place they Chicago Bears. Why
Speaker 1: does that matter? Well, similarly to Cleveland, the Texans will
Speaker 1: play the NFC North third place team, at their location.
Speaker 1: We will be going to Chicago next year. Dang it.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that the Bears would win this one
Speaker 1: that would move the Vikings in the third place, and
Speaker 1: they played at Doome. Oh boy, all right. Anyways, we'll
Speaker 1: go to Chicago next year and see how the Bears
Speaker 1: are reconfigured with new GM, new head coach, and we'll
Speaker 1: eventually see how the Vikings are reconfigured with a new GM,
Speaker 1: a new head coach. Washington football team beat the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, but that's not the story here. The story
Speaker 1: is that the Giants will keep Joe Judge as head coach.
Speaker 1: And if you're a Giants fan, I'm sorry because that
Speaker 1: was abysmal. What happened with your team yesterday, Dave Edelman.
Speaker 1: The GM has retired, so the Giants will be looking
Speaker 1: for a new GM, But for right now, the coach
Speaker 1: is Joe Judge. I mentioned the Colts and the Jaguars earlier.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars earned the number one pick and they will
Speaker 1: have it, but they had a jaw dropper of a
Speaker 1: win yesterday, beating the Indianapolis Colts twenty six to eleven.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence one of his better games two hundred twenty
Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns. Requil Armstead ran for fifty
Speaker 1: two and Marvin Jones had eighty eight yards and a tutty.
Speaker 1: But they dominated this game from beginning to end. The
Speaker 1: Colts didn't score a touchdown until there were four minutes
Speaker 1: and twenty six seconds left in the game. That lost
Speaker 1: knocked the Colts out of playoff competition, and we'll watch
Speaker 1: it all unfold on Hard Knocks this week. Jaguars win.
Speaker 1: That was the third win of the year. They finished
Speaker 1: three and fourteen and fourth in the AFC South. Colts
Speaker 1: finished nine and eight, second in the AFC South. One
Speaker 1: of the games of the day. It was not the
Speaker 1: prettiest play game. It had levels of ugly to it,
Speaker 1: but it didn't matter because Big Ben Roethlisberger found a way.
Speaker 1: This sucker got the overtime. And I'm telling you I
Speaker 1: saw Ben Roethlisberger make a couple of throws in overtime
Speaker 1: like that's the old Ben. And as I look at
Speaker 1: different um score like scoring detail of games, there's some
Speaker 1: places like I'm looking at the ESPN app and they
Speaker 1: have win probability. The win probability graph goes like I
Speaker 1: mean up and down, up and down, up and down,
Speaker 1: up and down and up down in the fourth quarters great.
Speaker 1: I just absolutely nutso what happened in that game. But
Speaker 1: the Steelers got the win, and because of that loss
Speaker 1: by the Ravens, they fell to the basement in the
Speaker 1: NFFC North. That means the Jags will play the Ravens,
Speaker 1: but it means the Texas play the Browns and Steelers
Speaker 1: go on to the playoffs. They will travel to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: The Saints look good in the thirty to twenty win
Speaker 1: at Atlanta. Arthur Smith's first year finishes seven to ten.
Speaker 1: The Saints get to nine to eight and they needed
Speaker 1: some help from the Rams, and the Rams had a
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing lead. But then Jimmy Garoppolo I said it
Speaker 1: during the week. I would have gone with Trey Lance.
Speaker 1: They didn't, and it worked for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo looked as good as I've seen him. He
Speaker 1: made key throws throughout the fourth quarter, tied the game,
Speaker 1: sent to overtime, Jimmy let him on a field goal drive,
Speaker 1: and then Ambrey Thomas, the rookie, picked off a Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford passed to get the forty nine Ers into playoffs.
Speaker 1: San Francisco will take on Dallas this week, but the
Speaker 1: Saints then had to go home. The Bills beat the
Speaker 1: Jets twenty seven to ten to win the AFC East.
Speaker 1: It would have won it anyways, because the Patriots lost
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins thirty three to twenty four. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: my guys, sal for a second straight AFC East championship.
Speaker 1: They those teams will play each other this weekend. In Buffalo.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks beat the Cardinals. The Cardinals had a shot
Speaker 1: with the Rams losing and winning division, but Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: put it on the Cardinals yesterday with two hundred thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards and three tuddies for a shot Penny, just
Speaker 1: like he was against us. The story one hundred ninety
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown, the first round pick finally paying
Speaker 1: off and in the game maybe of the season. The
Speaker 1: Raiders and Chargers last night played one for the Ages.
Speaker 1: My goodness, what a game. Thirty five thirty two. Daniel
Speaker 1: Carlson hits a field goal as overtime expires to move
Speaker 1: the Raiders into the preseason. A tie would have gotten
Speaker 1: both in, but the Raiders win sent the Raiders in
Speaker 1: and the Steelers in What a crazy, crazy ball game
Speaker 1: that was? All right, that's when our in the books
Speaker 1: we get back. Spencer Tuminal join us right here in
Speaker 1: Texas Access. Welcome back to this last hour of Texans
Speaker 1: All Access for the twenty twenty one season. N I'm
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for your
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, and it's time to catch up with our
Speaker 1: good pal Spencer Tillman. I love an opportunity to talk
Speaker 1: to Spencer because I think the phrase keeping it real
Speaker 1: didn't come from Spencer, but I think he believes that
Speaker 1: every single day he will keep it real. So he
Speaker 1: will never say that. He'll say it in a more
Speaker 1: eloquent manner, but he's gonna tell the truth. Whether it
Speaker 1: hurts or doesn't. The truth is coming. It's the truth
Speaker 1: right now. With Spencer Tillman and myself and Mark, here
Speaker 1: we go. So your thoughts at the half and then
Speaker 1: your thoughts after the second half. My friend probably the
Speaker 1: same with yours. Was not very impressive from the first half,
Speaker 1: but I think the upshot for me was what one
Speaker 1: thing we hadn't seen to this point and Davis Mills
Speaker 1: ascension is a second half surge and one where you're
Speaker 1: able to get in at half time, assess what was
Speaker 1: working was not working, and then come out and extended
Speaker 1: a lot of times, what happens when you have a
Speaker 1: young quarterback that is not able to absorb the corpus
Speaker 1: of data that doesn't apply here because the guy's brilliant,
Speaker 1: a smart, a very intelligent, doesn't wear an arm band,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't need a you know, a pridge
Speaker 1: sheet or anything like that. That speaks to something. But
Speaker 1: usually happens those guys sought off slow and but once
Speaker 1: they get all the information, you really can't stop them.
Speaker 1: There's this kind of fast push, and I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of what we saw. To me, it was the
Speaker 1: second half command that really was indicative of his growth.
Speaker 1: That to me was impressive because he built on that
Speaker 1: and we saw four and five tools being expressed on
Speaker 1: individual plays. Slide not a pocket, motion, sideways, going opposite
Speaker 1: against the direction he's going. He saw some athleticism, even
Speaker 1: more decision may if he just eventually learns how to
Speaker 1: kind of own things down just a little bit and
Speaker 1: not let that arm get a little bit too live
Speaker 1: when he gets pressure. I think that's the next step
Speaker 1: that we see in his evolution. Hopefully you know we
Speaker 1: can see a little bit of it and no tas
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, and don't have to wait
Speaker 1: till make sure to see that growth spencer. At halftime,
Speaker 1: Coach Colley told me going into half and I asked
Speaker 1: him about what would maybe jump start the offense. He
Speaker 1: mentioned tempo, and Davis talked about it after the game.
Speaker 1: You've been in a huddle. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: you ever ran much tempo. I know you probably weren't
Speaker 1: two minute situations at time where the tempo has got
Speaker 1: to pick up. Why in your estimation did tempo help
Speaker 1: Davis yesterday and why in general does it seemingly help
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to go with a little faster tempo at times
Speaker 1: that are not the two minute drill. Well, you opening
Speaker 1: up a Pendora's box there. Because you know I'm an analyst,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say what I see right, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the truth about that, Tason. Tempo, John, as you know,
Speaker 1: affects both the head coach, the play caller, and everybody
Speaker 1: involved because what it does it eleerates the time that
Speaker 1: you have to assess what's being done strategically against you.
Speaker 1: It forces you to push the envelope and find out
Speaker 1: what you want to do faster. You have to properly
Speaker 1: dis earn what's the context in the downand distance scenarios
Speaker 1: all of that, and that puts additional stress on you. Listen,
Speaker 1: that's nothing to be ashamed of. Necessarily. It was a
Speaker 1: time when two thousand and twelve, a white hot then
Speaker 1: coach Kevin Sumone rolled into touch Toloosa and just absolutely
Speaker 1: spanked Alabama with you know, Johnny Benzel and they just
Speaker 1: crushed them. And the next thing you heard was Nick Saban.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all can agree that he's one of
Speaker 1: the greatest coaches in colleges, not the greatest that ever
Speaker 1: coached the game. He was lamenting the fact that they
Speaker 1: were going too fast, even citing help in concerns as
Speaker 1: an issue. And then he promptly after he figured out
Speaker 1: he couldn't be when that war when he started running
Speaker 1: pace and tempo. So my point is, this guy's it
Speaker 1: affects a lot of different people. I remember, and I
Speaker 1: said this in this presence too, so you guys may
Speaker 1: have been actually in the room when it happened, but
Speaker 1: I asked Little'brian about running pace and temper using it
Speaker 1: as a tactical advantage and not only asking that question
Speaker 1: because I think the previous week we were down like
Speaker 1: fourteen points or so, when we're still huddling up and
Speaker 1: I'm saying, they do, you know, there's nothing wrong. They
Speaker 1: don't shame in the game if you if you need
Speaker 1: to do, use Payson tempo, particularly to your point against
Speaker 1: the team that's got three or four guys on the
Speaker 1: back end that's out. There's no way they're going to
Speaker 1: be a steeped end, but they're trying to accomplish on
Speaker 1: the back end, and you took advantage of them a
Speaker 1: couple of times, particularly on the first four with the
Speaker 1: fleet flicker. You know, you still those safeties come down
Speaker 1: out of that hole and you've had success for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. You know, Rex didn't have a
Speaker 1: great week last week rushing, but before then he was
Speaker 1: on a tear and those safeties were responding to what
Speaker 1: they saw. And when he saw him with the ball
Speaker 1: that came down high out of that hole and then boom,
Speaker 1: you Moore's right past them. So that stuff matters. And
Speaker 1: when you can take advantage of a back end, the
Speaker 1: struggling Payson Temple is the tactical advantage is a great weapon. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Spencer Tillman joining US spatser offseason prescripture, give me two
Speaker 1: or three priorities. It really helps that you know much
Speaker 1: more about Davis Mills heading into his second season. What
Speaker 1: are you thinking here? Free agency? The draft is a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do. Well. Listen, nothing happens without
Speaker 1: solving or at least from your perspective, let's say yours,
Speaker 1: I meaning the texts perspective, You've got to do something
Speaker 1: with DeShawn Watson. That's the lynchpin. That's the lynchpin to everything.
Speaker 1: Anything that we can speculate on this call about free agency.
Speaker 1: With exception of three or four guys that are you know,
Speaker 1: one year deals on the defense Society lineback you could
Speaker 1: always use personality. Got to do something with read he
Speaker 1: probably won't be here. There's there's always going to be
Speaker 1: one or two or three of those situations and a
Speaker 1: defensive structure that requires a lot of activity. You've got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in that linebacking corps because so
Speaker 1: much is demanded of them that that misted a lot
Speaker 1: of time that we're quite frankly intenser athletic guys, very
Speaker 1: high contributors, but you always got to have that. But
Speaker 1: none of that takes place unless you can deal with
Speaker 1: that forty millions you got on your books with Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson if you let him hang around. So you gotta do,
Speaker 1: you know, gotta do something with that. That numbers around
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen or whatever it is, run ten three this year,
Speaker 1: but then it jumps up significantly next year, but then
Speaker 1: the total of that numbers around forty. So with forty
Speaker 1: million on your books, man, if you even start speculating
Speaker 1: about coaches, who's gonna be moves, knots. I'm just being
Speaker 1: transparent with you as an analyst. What head coach is
Speaker 1: gonna want to come into that scenario where you don't
Speaker 1: have that matter taking care of because everything is affected
Speaker 1: by that. You can't build the team properly with that
Speaker 1: kind of cash out there not available to you. So
Speaker 1: to me, that's the first order of business when March
Speaker 1: rolls around. By mid March, we've got to get that
Speaker 1: thing taking care of Spencer. This is gonna maybe sound
Speaker 1: like an odd question, but you've played the game. You've
Speaker 1: played a final game, and that when the zero's hit
Speaker 1: what's more difficult at the end of the season, getting
Speaker 1: back physically right or getting back mentally right after a long,
Speaker 1: hard season. This would be a good problem for the
Speaker 1: Texans to have. I remember when I was in San
Speaker 1: Francisco that second Super Bowl Trophy. I'm sitting down on
Speaker 1: the floor of the Super Bowl. I'm exhausted, I'm spent,
Speaker 1: and I remember Joe Montana coming up in the back
Speaker 1: of you, slapping on the back of the mac M
Speaker 1: the helmet, and he called me an explative and he says,
Speaker 1: get up. You know he used these explative He says,
Speaker 1: we're already six months behind. And I remember that and
Speaker 1: I started doing the mask. When I got inside, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he's absolutely right. When you scring super
Speaker 1: Bowls back to back to back, all of a sudden, Man,
Speaker 1: if you look over three times of your period, you're
Speaker 1: you're basically a whole frigging year behind. So it gets
Speaker 1: tougher and tougher. Guys who're gonna be able to move
Speaker 1: because of the success that you have. You got to
Speaker 1: hang on to that in the calorie a salary cap environment,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna lose players. And so for me, those
Speaker 1: years go by fast. They're already measured in dollge years.
Speaker 1: But the more successful you are, the more challenging it becomes.
Speaker 1: And you're right, your physical body does not recover as fast.
Speaker 1: And if you're losing and you play an extra month
Speaker 1: and you stack those, that's two months. Man, that's your
Speaker 1: summer basically gone. If you got back to back Super
Speaker 1: Bowls like we had, you're you're in trouble man. Physically,
Speaker 1: your body's not gonna respond the way it typically would
Speaker 1: if you had more time to recover. So if there
Speaker 1: is a a cumulative effect or impact to be sure,
Speaker 1: all right, and sir, jobs open right now you get
Speaker 1: to be the head coach and have to pick one
Speaker 1: of these. Yeah, Miami with two of their Chicago justin Fields, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins still lives there Denver, just watching well, Drew Locke.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Bridgewater's under contract for next year,
Speaker 1: but they've had a tough quarterback situation there in Denver,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville with Trevor Lawrence. Am I missing anybody? Johnny? I
Speaker 1: think that was it? Yeah? Pick one potentially Las Vegas potentially, right,
Speaker 1: I doubt it, doubt it with Rich Pisachi whether he's done,
Speaker 1: but maybe what do you think. You know what I
Speaker 1: would do is because I know Trevor Lawrence well, I
Speaker 1: would go with him. And here's why. I know. There's
Speaker 1: some toxic issues within the culture there, and I think
Speaker 1: that got him again. I'm not trying to disparage anybody here, guys,
Speaker 1: but I understand human personality, particularly in the concept of football,
Speaker 1: and I understand catastrophic leadership and the impact it can
Speaker 1: have on the organization and beyond the walls of the
Speaker 1: program self. Tom Tamson was not a good fit there.
Speaker 1: If you notice his personality, it was wired in such
Speaker 1: a way. They've got prolific numbers in terms of how
Speaker 1: much they penalized guys, and it was just known throughout
Speaker 1: the league NFL PA. I talked to the Marius Smith
Speaker 1: and all of the guys. They're the team they put.
Speaker 1: They levy more fines than anybody ever. It's because of
Speaker 1: his leadership style and Rock saying there's not times where
Speaker 1: that's not warranted. And then you go get an Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer who's basically Urban's got a master's degree in psychology
Speaker 1: and he's a control freak. And so those two types
Speaker 1: of personalities are enabling personality. They do not balance or
Speaker 1: check one another. But I do know that quarterback as
Speaker 1: an unbelievable quarterback, and if you give me him, I
Speaker 1: can build some I take Trevor Lawrence. Of any of
Speaker 1: those teams, in the quarterbacks you mentioned and those other
Speaker 1: four teams you mentioned, Jacksonville got the best quarterback with potential.
Speaker 1: If he's got the right people. Listen, Listen to me.
Speaker 1: Is no different than Joe Burrow. You get with the
Speaker 1: right coordinator, it changes everything. Joe Burrow couldn't even make
Speaker 1: the roster at LSU, went into the Ohio State, That's
Speaker 1: why he ended up there. But with Joe Brady comes
Speaker 1: in boom. You know, the guy's unbelievable. We count. It's
Speaker 1: all about fit, all about personnel. Spencer, what do you
Speaker 1: think tonight? Alabama, Georgia? Who do you got? I like Alabama? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go against Nick Sabans. You know I've
Speaker 1: known Nick brolmost thirty five years, and I can tell
Speaker 1: you it doesn't matter who you mark in there, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have success. I mean, Bill, give him. This is
Speaker 1: not a left hand compliment. Bill O'Brien sliving he's struggling
Speaker 1: from time and that, but he can win in that system.
Speaker 1: It's because of a Nick Saban system. You're one of
Speaker 1: the things you do with your job. I suppose at
Speaker 1: some point you I don't want to say you take
Speaker 1: it for granted, but when you do things on a
Speaker 1: routine basis, you know, Monday's okay, we do this, we
Speaker 1: do that. We talked to Andre Ware, we talked to
Speaker 1: John McClain, We talked to Spencer Tillman. Every single Monday,
Speaker 1: Mark and I get to chop it up about the game,
Speaker 1: the future, all that kind of stuff. I try so
Speaker 1: hard to not take for granted. Well, we here in
Speaker 1: Houston have the opportunity to do. First of all, Mark
Speaker 1: and I we'd love having an opportunity to talk to
Speaker 1: the fans, and it's since fans of the NFL, but
Speaker 1: man talking Andre Ware and Spencer Tillman and John McClain
Speaker 1: is just such a blast. It's such an honor. It
Speaker 1: is really really cool that we get to have them
Speaker 1: every single Monday and then joining us on All Access.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's I never will take that for granted.
Speaker 1: They are good friends, they're great people. They just are
Speaker 1: fantastic and love them to death. And Spencer is covers
Speaker 1: college games. I mean, he knows the game as well
Speaker 1: as anybody. And you know, as a watch this, you
Speaker 1: see Spencer game at As a kid growing up watching
Speaker 1: Spencer Tillman, it's always kind of cool to catch up
Speaker 1: with him and talk some Paul no doubt what Spencer Tillman.
Speaker 1: All right, we get back Ultimate eleven Plays of the Year.
Speaker 1: I do a show every single Tuesday called Texans Replay
Speaker 1: where I always look back and I always do a
Speaker 1: segment called the ultimately the plays the game from the
Speaker 1: previous game. Now, they would have been some good ones
Speaker 1: from this pass game, but there's no Replay show tomorrow
Speaker 1: because the season is over. So I will do just
Speaker 1: a segment at the whole show, a segment of the
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Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, host of All Access
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Speaker 1: at Sports Radio six ten and in various locations throughout
Speaker 1: the state and allotted from places. It's a fun show.
Speaker 1: It's always one in which I look back, so you
Speaker 1: can always find good things to look back on. We
Speaker 1: did a lot of where are they now is this year?
Speaker 1: We look back at four really cool wins. Tough losses too.
Speaker 1: We always look back at those we gotta do it,
Speaker 1: but some really cool moments along the way. Now, this
Speaker 1: obviously was not a season that we look back and
Speaker 1: say that was awesome, but we did still see some
Speaker 1: pretty awesome things along the way. So I figured, why
Speaker 1: not do a season recap with no replay tomorrow? Why not?
Speaker 1: Because our this is it. It's the last hour of
Speaker 1: All Access for the twenty twenty one season. We go
Speaker 1: dark until after the Super Bowl and then offseason twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two starts the Monday after the Super Bowl, we'll
Speaker 1: come back. So with no replay tomorrow, I thought, why
Speaker 1: don't we do an ultimate eleven Plays of the year.
Speaker 1: You know what, why the hell not? It's radio. Let's
Speaker 1: have some fun. Let's look back to fun moments. Football's
Speaker 1: fun didn't crash, David said in Bull Durham, Baseball's fun,
Speaker 1: have fun and they use some words I can't really
Speaker 1: say on the radio, but you get the point. So
Speaker 1: let's have some fun. You know, the only one four games?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? You know what? If you feel
Speaker 1: that way, get lost. We're talking some good fun Ultimate
Speaker 1: eleven moments starting at number eleven in week one. Now,
Speaker 1: all season long, we had the opportunity to talk to
Speaker 1: our pal, Brandy Cooks. He showed up every single Monday,
Speaker 1: no matter what, unless he was hurt, then he couldn't.
Speaker 1: That was when we couldn't do it. And it's San
Speaker 1: Francisco when you know what. I'll tell the San Francisco
Speaker 1: story a little bit later. But we couldn't get to
Speaker 1: him for San Francisco because I had interview him out
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and we couldn't do it. Well, i'll
Speaker 1: tell you why later. It's kind of a fun story.
Speaker 1: And kind of makes twenty twenty one a very special
Speaker 1: year for that matter. Anyways, Brandy Cooks was outstanding and
Speaker 1: it started in week one. We know Brandon can catch
Speaker 1: anything anywhere, anytime. One thing I never thought Brandon really
Speaker 1: was was kind of a fifty fifty ball receiver, like
Speaker 1: going up over guys and catching it. Now he's got
Speaker 1: about a forty in vert maybe more, but it's not
Speaker 1: really his game, you know. But against Jacksonville twice he
Speaker 1: made massive plays. And they come in at number eleven
Speaker 1: one back David Johnson. I'm third and nine from the
Speaker 1: forty two of Jacksonville. Taylor gets the snap. They set
Speaker 1: up the blitz and as a throwdown field Cooks down
Speaker 1: there and a fight for the ball inside the five
Speaker 1: and it's a catch by the Texans. Jenkins and Cooks
Speaker 1: fighting for it and Brandon Cooks tiges to the runner
Speaker 1: first in goal, third down and inches. Here are the
Speaker 1: Texans twenty five seconds on the clock. Taylor gets the snap.
Speaker 1: Taylor with pressure, Taylor looking gets out of it, look
Speaker 1: side squares up and he's a long downfield and cloth
Speaker 1: By Cooks shitside the ten yard line. The brad by
Speaker 1: Brandon time out Texans twelve seconds left, and the Texans
Speaker 1: would score shortly thereafter. I's all right, Taylor too, Danny
Speaker 1: m and Dola touchdown that ended the scoring the first
Speaker 1: half of What a first half that was. In the
Speaker 1: Week one win over Jacksonville. Later in the year, as
Speaker 1: the Texans were looking for win number two, it would
Speaker 1: come against Nashville at number ten. Well. The Texans ended
Speaker 1: up with four of these interceptions on the day, but
Speaker 1: there were two that were back breakers for the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: The first one came when the Titans were trying to
Speaker 1: drive and score to take a lead, but that's when
Speaker 1: Camu Gruger Hill stepped in front to make a play.
Speaker 1: Third down at six, Titans at the Houston eighteen yard line.
Speaker 1: Tannehill calling signals, Texans showing blitz here, Fitzpatrick in motion
Speaker 1: to the left side. Tannehill takes the snap, He's got tied.
Speaker 1: He throws it's picked off Fruge Hill right side, one
Speaker 1: third forty to the fifties right sideline thirty twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: ten five and he's down at the five yard line.
Speaker 1: Could not make it all the way as Hill here.
Speaker 1: It brings them down flut Texans have a first and
Speaker 1: goal after the pick five Cobo bruge Hill. Now that
Speaker 1: did look off we familiar because we had seen that
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Justin Ree got involved to knock a ball
Speaker 1: away from Anthony Firkser, landing the lap of Whitney Merciless,
Speaker 1: and he took off in the same direction, running about
Speaker 1: as fast as Kama gruge Hill was running, and away
Speaker 1: you go. This one was just grugier Hill stepping in front,
Speaker 1: snagging it and going the other way. The Texans then
Speaker 1: later had a nineteen to thirteen lead, but the Titans
Speaker 1: had the ball, started to get a little something going,
Speaker 1: but Desmond King, already having picked off Ryan Tannehill once
Speaker 1: made it twice. This is ten b if you will,
Speaker 1: third town and thirteen Titans from there twenty six Tannehill
Speaker 1: shotgun one back, but clamation right. Here's the snap Texans
Speaker 1: sending people. Tenni Hill hit us, he throws, it's picked
Speaker 1: up by King. King has it to his right across
Speaker 1: the thirty. That's twenty five. That's twenty takes Tale going
Speaker 1: and out of bound inside that's twenty yard line. The
Speaker 1: huge takeaway for the Texas. Just stop Tennessee pouring down rain,
Speaker 1: interception by King and absolute bedlam going onto the sidelines. Man,
Speaker 1: what a day that was. All Right, it's get to
Speaker 1: number nine and when you set a record, you're gonna
Speaker 1: go in the ultimate eleven and right before half. Kymie
Speaker 1: Fairbairn set a record. Now he has knocked home keyfield
Speaker 1: goes throughout his career. Twenty eighteen, he back to back
Speaker 1: game winners against both Indianapolis and Dallas. I mean, of
Speaker 1: all teams take game winners, but this year against Seattle,
Speaker 1: he did something that no Texans ever done, that he's
Speaker 1: never done, and that was in his sixty one yard
Speaker 1: fuel goal, and he did it against the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: to set a team record. It is at number nine,
Speaker 1: sixty one yard field goal attempt for Kimi Fairbairn. The
Speaker 1: snap is down, the kick is up, It's on the
Speaker 1: way man, He's got it. A career past sixty one
Speaker 1: yard field goal for Fairbairn. As time expires in the
Speaker 1: first half and the Texans cut the lead to three,
Speaker 1: you're going back and watch that play. I was standing
Speaker 1: back by the goal post like I always do, and
Speaker 1: I looked in front of him and I saw dk
Speaker 1: Metcalf and I was like, oh man, oh god, no,
Speaker 1: just no. And I'm watching the field goal and I'm
Speaker 1: watching it come down. I'm like, I think he's got this.
Speaker 1: When I went back and I watched the TV replay,
Speaker 1: the offensive front did exactly what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: They all fanned out and started covering just in case
Speaker 1: Metcalf where to catch that ball. But he didn't because
Speaker 1: Fairbairn knocked it home from sixty one yard. Oh baby,
Speaker 1: all right, it's get the number eight and two guys
Speaker 1: that I didn't think would link up for as important
Speaker 1: a play as it was at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: One was Rickie quarterback Davis Mills. The other it was
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver Philip Dorset. The Jags tried to
Speaker 1: brilliant try to bring blitz zero on Davis Mills. Well,
Speaker 1: he recognized it and he flipped one down the field
Speaker 1: to his guy, Philip Doorset. He made a great catch,
Speaker 1: Philip Doorset did in the Charters game. I put this
Speaker 1: one in here because I felt like this was a
Speaker 1: more important play in the win against Jacksonville. It comes
Speaker 1: in number eight Mills to Doorset for thirty three big yards.
Speaker 1: Third down and seven at the Jacksonville forty four. Everybody
Speaker 1: loading up at the line with Mills and the shotgun
Speaker 1: set burke out of the backfield with the Davis with
Speaker 1: extra instructions lunch formation left side. Mills called, so the ball,
Speaker 1: here's the snap, here's the blitz. Mills hears it out
Speaker 1: down field to his left hand. Cut bike Dorset twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen dragged out at the eleven yard line, door set
Speaker 1: with the first out of the red zone. But the
Speaker 1: Texans griffin with a stop. Bo I can see that
Speaker 1: throw float in the air, and I'm like, but that
Speaker 1: ball is on the my mad it cats all. That
Speaker 1: was really fun. That was great stuff there from Davis,
Speaker 1: Mills and Philip Doorset all right to get to number
Speaker 1: seven and seven yards away. The Texans sat in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: hadn't scored a touchdown on the road. I think it
Speaker 1: was like two hundred and forty minutes or something of
Speaker 1: that magnitude. It was just it was not good. We
Speaker 1: didn't score for Arizona, we didn't score Inneapolis or Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and finally, oh man, it's Tennessee after the bye, can
Speaker 1: we put a touchdown up on the board. Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: said yes, And it comes in at number seven, second
Speaker 1: of goal at the seven years tailor out of the gun,
Speaker 1: flushed out to the left side, trying to square up.
Speaker 1: Now he's trying to run across the five tailor of
Speaker 1: times in touchdown Houston. There it is Texans first six
Speaker 1: on the tailor rod, their first TV on the road
Speaker 1: in two months plus. Yeah, you here like that two
Speaker 1: months plus. You're like, well, that's a long time, and
Speaker 1: then you hear the actual amount of minutes. It actually
Speaker 1: was like, wow, it was a long time, but it
Speaker 1: was a big touchdown. I put that one because it
Speaker 1: broke the street. Tyrod scored later and led to Texas.
Speaker 1: He a twenty two thirteen win over the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: that particular day. And it comes at number seven. All right,
Speaker 1: it's get to number six and the clincher. Now from
Speaker 1: a from an end of game standpoint, they didn't need
Speaker 1: a touchdown, just needed to run the clock out in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: But my man Brandon Cooks caught a little tunnel screen
Speaker 1: on third down, started to see a little opening, got
Speaker 1: a block, and I thought, hey, you know what, just
Speaker 1: go score, Brandon, and he did. Davis Mills to Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks scoring in the fourth quarter to cement Davis Mills
Speaker 1: first win as a starting quarterback in the NFL. Third
Speaker 1: down and nine at the Jacksonville forty three Mills out
Speaker 1: of the gun. They rowed the screen to Cook's left side,
Speaker 1: trying to find some room. How's the first out of
Speaker 1: more thirty twenty five twenty tifteen ten five brook and
Speaker 1: roll touchdown Houston, Brandon Cooks to the house. Two touchdown
Speaker 1: wins aren't bad, and the defense was able to close
Speaker 1: it out. That's number six Mills, two Cooks on the
Speaker 1: screen and Brandon Cooks doing the rest looking up at
Speaker 1: that score We'll never forget that, see him look up
Speaker 1: at that scoreboard and seeing what was behind him because
Speaker 1: nobody was gonna catch that guy, no doubt. All let's
Speaker 1: get to our five final plays of the season in
Speaker 1: our ultimate eleven and we fast forward to it. Well,
Speaker 1: it was a play that, ultimately, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it. It didn't decide the game, and in fact,
Speaker 1: had nick O'Collins touches knee down the one, the Texas
Speaker 1: would have won this game twenty seven, twenty three. They
Speaker 1: just needed the first down. But then I realized, wait
Speaker 1: a second, this is Nico's first touchdown, right, It's first
Speaker 1: touchdown ever. I got no problems with it. I really don't,
Speaker 1: because one of our other moments that's coming up came
Speaker 1: as a result of Nico actually scoring this touchdown. So again,
Speaker 1: end of game analytics guy would be like, just got down.
Speaker 1: There's so much good about play number five here number one.
Speaker 1: Davis Mills decided to do this based on what he
Speaker 1: read on the coverage. This is a run play. Go
Speaker 1: back and watch. You can see there's a run play
Speaker 1: going the other way, but there's a pass tag on
Speaker 1: at the offensive coordinator Tim Kelly put on it saying,
Speaker 1: here's your run play. Oh but oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you've got this on the end of it. Nico ran
Speaker 1: at slant, got inside the corner, Davis stuck it on him,
Speaker 1: and Nico got in the end zone. It's play number five,
Speaker 1: this touchdown that made it thirty four twenty three against
Speaker 1: the Chargers. First down at the charge her thirteen, Mills
Speaker 1: digs in burkehead of the backfield. Mills quick Passnik got
Speaker 1: the five, Nike in the end zone. The dagger touchdown. Koston.
Speaker 1: My goodness, they're gonna do it, and I absolutely got
Speaker 1: so charged up by Mark's call. I mean just oh,
Speaker 1: I get chills thinking about it now to get the
Speaker 1: number four. We're gonna stay in the same game, and
Speaker 1: that's against the LA Chargers. Scores twelve to ten, and
Speaker 1: it looked like the Chargers, We're gonna try and put
Speaker 1: some more up on the board right before the half,
Speaker 1: but jo Jonathan Owens made a great interception that got
Speaker 1: the ball back to the Texans. They had it about
Speaker 1: the four yard line and they just couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of the shadow of their own goal post until Lenvell
Speaker 1: Joseph got called for a defensive holding penalty that gave
Speaker 1: the Texans a first down. Shortly thereafter, Davis Mills launched
Speaker 1: a bomb. The Philip Door said, who made a tremendous catch,
Speaker 1: And shortly thereafter came play number four, another bomb. Defensive
Speaker 1: backs sitting low, Chris Conley ran by him, and Davis Mills,
Speaker 1: not supposed to look that direction, did look in that direction,
Speaker 1: and because of that magic happened. Mills took Conley to
Speaker 1: take a seventeen twelve lead before the half. At the
Speaker 1: forty one first down, Mills of the gun airs it
Speaker 1: out longdown the white side, Gona Manna touchdown Chris Conley
Speaker 1: for six. Rocking Room Man marked old out a couple
Speaker 1: of rock and rolls in that game against the LA Chargers.
Speaker 1: He brought a different flavor to this last one at
Speaker 1: number three. For that Chargers game, I mentioned the Nico
Speaker 1: Collins touchdown that made it thirty four to twenty three.
Speaker 1: The Texans had an eleven point lead. Herbert and the
Speaker 1: Chargers are explosive. We saw that on Sunday night. Man
Speaker 1: Holy smokes, he throws rockets, but the Texas defense was
Speaker 1: on one against the Chargers. Justin Herbert went back to
Speaker 1: pass around midfield and Tavier Thomas was about to etch
Speaker 1: his name into Texans history with this play at number three,
Speaker 1: a pick six to seal it against the Chargers first half.
Speaker 1: Chargers at their thirty eight Herbert shotgun one back Jackson.
Speaker 1: Five men across the front for the Texans. Herbert takes
Speaker 1: the snap, Herbert liftime, floats the ball. It's intercept. Thomas
Speaker 1: upside forty thirty twenty fifteen ten five to the house
Speaker 1: picks its Merry Christmas. Obviously, in a four and thirteen season,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be some rough points, a lot of rough points.
Speaker 1: But that went over the Chargers. I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: that went over the Chargers day after Christmas holiday victory.
Speaker 1: You beat the Chargers, a team that was playing for
Speaker 1: the play offs on Sunday night. I know you beat them.
Speaker 1: I mean you beat them. You did it in all
Speaker 1: three phases you had. I mean the number of players
Speaker 1: around COVID that you played without in that particular game.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks was not in that game. Titus Howard's out
Speaker 1: of that game. I don't know how the offensive line
Speaker 1: even came together in that game. And yet Rex Birkehead
Speaker 1: ran for a buck forty nine mills through the ball
Speaker 1: extremely well. Tab with that pick. He ended up being
Speaker 1: AFC defensive player the week. That week. It was just
Speaker 1: it's a victory. I'll remember. Look, there are lots of them,
Speaker 1: big playoff victories, the Raiders in sixteen, the Bills in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen that I'll never forget. Big wins, Kansas City
Speaker 1: in tween nineteen at Kansas City. There are so many
Speaker 1: big wins. Now went against the Chargers. I'll remember for
Speaker 1: a long time. There was a lot of joy in
Speaker 1: that building, and every single person wearing a Texans logo
Speaker 1: that day, needed it, got it, and celebrated it as
Speaker 1: they should. All Right, it's get to number two here,
Speaker 1: and number two actually has got two plays now. I
Speaker 1: for some reason, going into the finale, I had a thought.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, we've been really close
Speaker 1: at halftime, not really close. We've been close in games
Speaker 1: at halftime, nothing really outside the realm of possibility gets
Speaker 1: something going in the you know, in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and maybe get from fourteen and notin to fourteen to
Speaker 1: three or fourteen to seven. We just have not been
Speaker 1: a second half team at all. So I was like,
Speaker 1: how rough is it bad? Well? I looked and I
Speaker 1: was like, we had had three touchdowns in the third
Speaker 1: quarter all season long, up until Sunday against the Tennessee Titans,
Speaker 1: and then we scored another one that gave us four,
Speaker 1: well four touchdowns in the third quarter. Two of them
Speaker 1: came on the exact same flee flicker. I put them
Speaker 1: at two A and two B in chronological order. In
Speaker 1: Week five, to take a twenty two to nine lead
Speaker 1: over the New England Patriots, Davis Mills found Chris Connelly
Speaker 1: after mark Ingram flipped him the ball back to throw
Speaker 1: it down a field Week seventeen, eighteen, Week eighteen, now
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. Look at that seventeen game schedule. Always forget
Speaker 1: that in week eighteen. This time, Rex Burkhead flipped it
Speaker 1: back to Davis Mills, who then found Chris Moore in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Same flee flicker twice, two of the
Speaker 1: four touchdowns that Texas scored a third quarter. Now, I
Speaker 1: want to score a whole heck of a lot more
Speaker 1: than four touchdowns in the third quarter going forward. But
Speaker 1: the fact they scored him on these two plays means
Speaker 1: they're coming in number two. Mills under center, hands off,
Speaker 1: and it's a fleeflicker. Mills firing down field twos right.
Speaker 1: Bons Commy has him at the five reason Texas scoring
Speaker 1: the fleeflicker three touchdown passes for tables Mills first down
Speaker 1: at the Tennessee twenty eight yard line. No Brandon looks
Speaker 1: yet this quarter. Mills feeds Birkhead flee flicker. Mills throwing
Speaker 1: downfield to us right, HiT's Chris Moore. He's in rock
Speaker 1: and roll. Touchdown Houston flee flicker pays offer the Texans
Speaker 1: their first score of the game. Now, oddity of vodity
Speaker 1: as if you will. The Texans didn't win an either game,
Speaker 1: ended up losing by three both times, but Davis Mills
Speaker 1: dropping dimes on those two flee flickers, one to Chris Conley,
Speaker 1: one to Chris Moore. Now at number one, and you
Speaker 1: probably figured it out by now. If you're gonna wait
Speaker 1: a man, well, if you've done something you haven't done
Speaker 1: in twelve years, it's taking you twelve years to do
Speaker 1: this one particular thing, you're probably gonna be number one. Now,
Speaker 1: Kaymie Fairban would have gotten there without sixty one year
Speaker 1: at field goal hadn't won the game or something. So
Speaker 1: the Texas have never done anything like that. But I
Speaker 1: think even Kimie would tell you, Yeah, this one takes
Speaker 1: the cake. At seven to three, Texans with a lead.
Speaker 1: The Jags had just kicked the field goal and decided
Speaker 1: they were going to kick the ball to Tremont Smith.
Speaker 1: Bad move number one. Traymon Smith goes ninety eight to
Speaker 1: the house the first time for the Texans in twelve years.
Speaker 1: Raymond Smith three yards, but the ends up right. Let's
Speaker 1: it fly and Smith is going to make the catch
Speaker 1: at the two right side, over the five cutting left,
Speaker 1: ten fifteenth A little scene twenty twenty five, thirty thirty five,
Speaker 1: still going and he escapes out to the left side.
Speaker 1: Forty thirty twenty ten five touchdown, Houston, Rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Traymon Smith coast to coast. Man. We got a few rockin'
Speaker 1: rolls this year. It's kind of nice. There you go.
Speaker 1: Number one, Traymon Smith ninety eight yards to the He's
Speaker 1: a and he had a great return against Tennessee yesterday,
Speaker 1: got called back for a penalty. But man, Traymond Smith.
Speaker 1: Glad he is coming back in twenty twenty too. We
Speaker 1: are coming back. And I got a new predictions. I
Speaker 1: do it every single week, but this time it's playoff
Speaker 1: predictions because we won't be back on the air. It's
Speaker 1: off to the super Bowl. So I'm putting on wax
Speaker 1: Playoff predictions and what am I think? What do I
Speaker 1: think is gonna happen tonight? Alabama, Georgia. That's next on
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Speaker 1: We got one final segment of this year's Texans All
Speaker 1: Access shows. I am John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter.
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Speaker 1: All right, I said this before I got to put
Speaker 1: it on wax as I like to say. I think
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's probably the nineties thing to say. But
Speaker 1: who cares. I'm an old don't care. March turn of fifty,
Speaker 1: don't care. But I gotta get my playoff predictions right
Speaker 1: now for you, because, like we said this last segment,
Speaker 1: before we go dark, we'll have podcasts and we'll do
Speaker 1: some of those things, and my Senior Bowl stuff definitely
Speaker 1: will share with the guys in Sports Radio six ten,
Speaker 1: so you'll have some of that stuff, but we just
Speaker 1: won't have our all access shows, Mark and I and
Speaker 1: the crew sharing our thoughts about things going on. So
Speaker 1: I got to make sure that we get our playoff
Speaker 1: predictions in order. So giving my music and let's go Saturday,
Speaker 1: two games, both on the AFC. The Raiders will take
Speaker 1: on the Bengals. The Raiders eke into that numbers six spot?
Speaker 1: Am I right about that? No? I'm sorry the five spot.
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders got the five spot because they're
Speaker 1: going to Cincinnati. I think the Bills got the three
Speaker 1: so the Raiders are taken on the Bengals, and I
Speaker 1: know the Raiders won down the stretch. That game they
Speaker 1: want against the Chargers was just ridiculous, man, I mean
Speaker 1: just crazy. But the Bengals rested some starters, a lot
Speaker 1: of starts, a lot of guys, didn't even go to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: They got guys back from COVID. Now getting guys back
Speaker 1: from COVID the double edged sword there is how much
Speaker 1: did COVID affect them, even if they got the mild
Speaker 1: symptoms or no symptoms. How much does it affect them?
Speaker 1: That could be an issue. But if Joe Burrows ready
Speaker 1: to roll, and it sounds as if he is, he did.
Speaker 1: He was a little banged up going into it last week.
Speaker 1: He didn't travel to Cleveland. Cleveland got the wind, didn't matter.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are favored by six at home. I think
Speaker 1: this offense if I had to pick a super sneaky
Speaker 1: dark horse in this thing, I would pick the Bengals.
Speaker 1: That offense is just so wild. They can hit you
Speaker 1: with Joe Mixon in the run game. They hit you
Speaker 1: with Joe Mixon the past game. They can throw a
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd T Higgins, Jamar Chase. It doesn't matter one
Speaker 1: of those three guys is good. You can't double them all.
Speaker 1: And if you double them all, they're gonna check the
Speaker 1: runs at Joe Mixon. That offense is nuts so and
Speaker 1: I think they're hitting their stride at the right time.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be very difficult for the Raiders
Speaker 1: to get a win. I think the Bengals will win
Speaker 1: their first playoff game in a very very long time.
Speaker 1: I think the last playoff win for the Bengals was
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. Maybe I think it was against the Raiders. Two.
Speaker 1: Since he's favored by six, I'm taking the Bengals to
Speaker 1: win and to cover that six. Then later that evening
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, the Patriots and the Bills AFC East Round three.
Speaker 1: Patriots beat the Bills in Buffalo, Bills beat the Patriots
Speaker 1: in New England, and now they meet up with the
Speaker 1: Bills a four point favorite. Now, I don't think the
Speaker 1: Patriots have played very well. I think Mac Jones has
Speaker 1: not played very well lately. It's the playoff. He's a rookie.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be more issues for him in
Speaker 1: this game than it might appear. I think the Bills
Speaker 1: are better than the Patriots. I thought that all year long.
Speaker 1: I think the Bills win this game and cover the four.
Speaker 1: Both home teams are gonna win on Saturday, riding the
Speaker 1: home field advantage. All right, let's get the Sunday and
Speaker 1: I look at these games and I think somebody's got
Speaker 1: to win on the road. Is it the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: going on to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. No, it's not. However,
Speaker 1: the Eagles did play the Buccaneers earlier this season and
Speaker 1: had that thing within six at the end. They just
Speaker 1: couldn't get a stop. But that was in Philadelphia. That
Speaker 1: was on Thursday night. This is gonna be in Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay at noon. That could be a sweltering Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles could, boy, I think they could
Speaker 1: melt a little bit. I think Tampa Bay is an
Speaker 1: eight and a half point favorite. I think they win
Speaker 1: this thing thirty five twenty one, win that thing by
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. I'm really proud of Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: representing the age represent Channel View. Love it. I just
Speaker 1: think they run out of gas against the Buccaneers. The
Speaker 1: Eagles have got man. Eagles gonna playoffs and have three
Speaker 1: first round picks three. That could be a team to
Speaker 1: watch in the near future. Then in the afternoon on Sunday,
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers go to the Cowboys. Wat's this Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans upset special forty nine Ers and Jimmy Garoppolo going
Speaker 1: to Dallas to beat the twelve and five Cowboys. I'm
Speaker 1: saying it right here, not just because I saw the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. The way that they played down the stretch,
Speaker 1: now that's the key. They got to play that way
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. They played in second half against the Rams,
Speaker 1: but defense was on lock, the offense was versatile. There
Speaker 1: was duplicity in the offense. Multiplicity. Excuse me, in the
Speaker 1: offense duplicity? What am I talking about? Multiplicity the offense.
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers going and beat the Cowboys straight up.
Speaker 1: Steelers then taking on the Chiefs, No chance, baby, big Ben,
Speaker 1: glad you get to play a final game. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: are going to house them, house them. They're gonna beat
Speaker 1: them by twenty one. It's gonna be thirty five fourteen,
Speaker 1: and they're spreads twelve and a half. So lay the points,
Speaker 1: take the Chiefs. And then Monday night, Oh boy, Cardinals
Speaker 1: taken on the Rams in LA where the Cardinals beat
Speaker 1: the Rams by seventeen earlier in the year, and the
Speaker 1: Rams play just when you think, yeah, that's the team,
Speaker 1: then they come out and look great in the first
Speaker 1: half against the nine Ers, and then they just yo
Speaker 1: second half, Like what the hell? I don't trust the
Speaker 1: Rams at all, but the Cardinals are beat up. Yes,
Speaker 1: JJ is gonna be back, apparently for the Cardinals, but
Speaker 1: I don't think Hop's gonna be I think the Rams,
Speaker 1: favored by four, win this thing by touchdown. This could
Speaker 1: be a bare knuckle brawl. This could be twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty something of that magnitude. But I go
Speaker 1: with the Rams to find a way to win. Win
Speaker 1: that thing by seven. It won't be more than seven,
Speaker 1: but it will be more than four. Rams win, Chiefs win,
Speaker 1: Niners win, Bucks win, Bills win, Bengals win. So of
Speaker 1: the six, I've got one road team winning, and that's
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. If I had to pick another
Speaker 1: road team to win, I would probably pick the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals would be that team, but that's what I'm
Speaker 1: rolling with. So that will lead to Divisional round matchup
Speaker 1: of the Titans taken on the Bills. Oh wow, Titans
Speaker 1: taken on the Bills. It's my math right yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Titans taking on the Bengals and the Chiefs taking on
Speaker 1: the Bills again. I'm gonna go in an upset. Upset,
Speaker 1: yes calling it. Bengals beat the Titans, but the Chiefs
Speaker 1: beat the Bills. Bengals taken on Chiefs. Chiefs win yet again.
Speaker 1: In the AFC. Over in the NFC, it will be
Speaker 1: the let's see the Green Bay Packers will play the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers. Oh oh oh boy, that
Speaker 1: is going to be wild. That is gonna be wild.
Speaker 1: And then you're gonna have the Buccaneers taken on the
Speaker 1: Rams in Tampa Bay. Go at Tampa Bay to win that.
Speaker 1: Go with the forty nine Ers to upset the Packers
Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers to come out of there. We gonna
Speaker 1: Chiefs Buccaneers yet again. I can't be original of this
Speaker 1: late in the show. Appreciate you guys for being here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We will see you after the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Y'all. Take care, have a great night, and
Speaker 1: go Texans.