Speaker 1: What is happening to everybody?
Speaker 2: Welcome to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from
Speaker 2: the Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, Football
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Speaker 2: On the show today, we're going men behind the Mics
Speaker 2: in their second hour with the guy that Mark vandermir
Speaker 2: knows really, really well. Now it's not the play by
Speaker 2: play voice of the Dolphins, Jimmy Seffalo, but it's Joe Rose,
Speaker 2: the game analyst for the Miami Dolphins, who Mark has
Speaker 2: known for a long long time, dating back to Mark's
Speaker 2: days with the Miami Hurricane.
Speaker 1: So Joe Rose will join us a little later in
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Drew Doherty's gonna join us for in the lab as
Speaker 2: we give you the cream of the crop players that
Speaker 2: have to have to play well. Now you wonder why
Speaker 2: we call them the cream of the crop players, It's
Speaker 2: basically because Drew had a SoundBite he really liked from
Speaker 2: Macho Man Randy Savage, and so he kind of spun
Speaker 2: that sound bite into part of a segment on our
Speaker 2: podcast in the lap.
Speaker 1: So which players need to step up?
Speaker 2: We give you two, So that'd be a little later
Speaker 2: in the show as well. Our next segment, we're also
Speaker 2: gonna talk to k three. Kamari Lassiter is gonna stop
Speaker 2: by the show. He stopped by studio for the first time.
Speaker 2: Had a great, great, great conversation with Kamari. Absolutely get
Speaker 2: You know what's funny when we go through all this
Speaker 2: draft process and the one thing that I'm not able
Speaker 2: to do is talk with these guys the teams get
Speaker 2: to But every time after we have spoken with a
Speaker 2: rookie or young guy on the team and they leave
Speaker 2: the studio when they're done, I look at Mark and go,
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand completely.
Speaker 2: And I thought this already about Kamari, but spending you know,
Speaker 2: good ten to twelve minutes with him, just talking about football,
Speaker 2: talking about life, his mom. I looked at Market said, Taw,
Speaker 2: I totally get it. I totally completely understand what Nick
Speaker 2: and Dimico saw with with Kamari last yer.
Speaker 1: Totally.
Speaker 2: So we'll get Kamari in the next segment. But we
Speaker 2: kick off every Wednesday show with the Man the Myth.
Speaker 2: General manager Nick Caserio love ever love the fact that
Speaker 2: we could spend every Wednesday with him, and obviously we
Speaker 2: had to ask him about the big news Now.
Speaker 1: We talked with Nick on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Nothing has been decided at North Carolina about Bill Belichick,
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of rumors flying out there
Speaker 2: about what could happen in North Carolina, so obviously we
Speaker 2: had to get Nick's thoughts on it, and a lot
Speaker 2: of other things as well, including the Miami Dolphins. The
Speaker 2: scouting report is here. Buckle up, let's go. It's Nick
Speaker 2: with Mark and myself.
Speaker 3: In studio with US Executive vice president and general manager
Speaker 3: Nick Cassario. Nick, back from the bye.
Speaker 1: How was it for you, fellas good to be here
Speaker 1: like we never left. Yeah, it is like we never left.
Speaker 1: He probably, that's right.
Speaker 2: You were even coming in here on Sunday because you're
Speaker 2: a family Evan energy arena.
Speaker 4: My youngest daughter had a cheerlead competition, so she was
Speaker 4: here at seven o'clock Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, does that part of game day.
Speaker 4: She did a great job. She's did an awesome job.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: That's got to be stressful to watch, though.
Speaker 1: More for my wife.
Speaker 4: I'm just there and I just let him go through it.
Speaker 4: She's hooting, hollering, screaming, So it was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was really good.
Speaker 2: It's cool to go through that with her, to be
Speaker 2: able to be there to have the bye week.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about all.
Speaker 2: The negative things about having a bie weeks so late,
Speaker 2: everybody so tired, fatigue, but timing works that you get
Speaker 2: a chance to be there for that.
Speaker 4: No, last we had a chance to do that on Sunday,
Speaker 4: and then it was the middle of the week. Later
Speaker 4: in the day our middle daughter had a soccer game,
Speaker 4: so to be able to go over there and watch
Speaker 4: her play soccer. So lose sights sometimes like we have
Speaker 4: a job to do, but we're also husbands, fathers, dads,
Speaker 4: I mean, so I want to make sure we don't
Speaker 4: lose sight of what's important.
Speaker 3: Is there a time of year where you really unplug.
Speaker 3: Is it that break between mini camp and training.
Speaker 4: Yes, once you get through call, it may into June.
Speaker 4: So really June called middle of June to middle of
Speaker 4: July is literally unwined nothing. The building's empty, everybody's away,
Speaker 4: and that's the opportunity to really just be away from football,
Speaker 4: understanding the rigors of what's going to be in front
Speaker 4: of us.
Speaker 2: There was some talk last year Nick and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you want to speak to this or not,
Speaker 2: but that time is pretty important because families are getting
Speaker 2: out of school. Kids are getting out of school, so
Speaker 2: you get that chance. Well, there was some talk last
Speaker 2: year about kind of moving the off season, kind of
Speaker 2: changing around, and I remember seeing a couple of things
Speaker 2: from scouts that were unnamed, like, man, if we lose
Speaker 2: that time, holy cow, what are we ever going to
Speaker 2: be with our families?
Speaker 4: The one thing we all learned being the NFL, you'll
Speaker 4: adjust and adapt to whatever the situation. The circumstances are.
Speaker 4: There will likely be some level of discussion in the
Speaker 4: offseason about how to best structure it. So whatever the
Speaker 4: rules are, we'll be prepared for either way, and we
Speaker 4: adapt and adjust. In this league, that's probably a hallmark
Speaker 4: of a lot of people that are doing this all right.
Speaker 3: So not to ask for a state of the Union here, Nick,
Speaker 3: but we're going into a really tough three games stretch,
Speaker 3: nothing more important than Sunday against the Miami Dolphins and
Speaker 3: coming off the by what are your observations and thoughts
Speaker 3: as you embark on the final four games of the
Speaker 3: regular season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good opportunity last week for the team
Speaker 4: to just really get away. Honestly, for our situation less
Speaker 4: was more so we didn't practice. We came in out
Speaker 4: on Monday, met went through some things, and it was
Speaker 4: really best for everybody to just kind of take a
Speaker 4: step away, kind of take inventory. Coach, that an opportunity
Speaker 4: to go through some of the film, you do a
Speaker 4: little bit of the self scout. What are some of
Speaker 4: the things that we talked about this even going into
Speaker 4: last week. What are some of the things that we've
Speaker 4: done well, What can we improve upon, What are some
Speaker 4: things that we might be might be able to implement
Speaker 4: on the margins. So teams in a good spot came
Speaker 4: in the other day trying to treat normal Tuesday as
Speaker 4: a normal off day and then get back ready to
Speaker 4: go Wednesday, Thursday, Friday a normal week, if you will.
Speaker 4: And then once we get through the Miami game, then
Speaker 4: the timing will be a little bit different. So all
Speaker 4: we can do is control what's in front of us,
Speaker 4: which is Miami understanding. On the back end of that,
Speaker 4: we'll have to make some modifications and adjustments for the
Speaker 4: next few games.
Speaker 2: So Christian Harris Kenyon Green, you know, that was a
Speaker 2: little bit of a talking point about coming back to
Speaker 2: practice Kenyan, we obviously have seen play this year. Christian,
Speaker 2: we've not seen play this year. Last game we played
Speaker 2: was that game against the Ravens. It's a long time
Speaker 2: for your body to not be callous to the physicality
Speaker 2: of the NFL. Nick, what are your thoughts about just
Speaker 2: each one of them and what they might possibly be
Speaker 2: able to bring and what they bring back to practice.
Speaker 4: Anytime you're away from football, there's always going to be
Speaker 4: an adjustment period. So to your point, Kenyan has had
Speaker 4: an opportunity really went through training camp, he played eight
Speaker 4: to nine games, whatever it was, missed a period of time.
Speaker 4: We'll see where he is physically. Christian's just missed a
Speaker 4: lot of football. They're no one's fault, of anybody's fault.
Speaker 4: It's just a reality of where we are. So what
Speaker 4: we try to do when we prepare the athlete is
Speaker 4: monitor as best we can their loads, what they're going through.
Speaker 4: Are they physically ready for what a normal practice would
Speaker 4: look like. The game is a separate stimulus, So if
Speaker 4: in fact he is ready to play and does end
Speaker 4: up playing a game, that'll be another step. So nobody's
Speaker 4: going to get everything back all at once, So you
Speaker 4: have to take proper steps along the way. Christian has
Speaker 4: had a good ass attitude despite what he's had to
Speaker 4: go through. We'll go through the week of practice, we'll
Speaker 4: evaluate it, and then we'll try to make the decision
Speaker 4: that makes the most sense for the team comes Sunday.
Speaker 2: You talked about this before about monitoring players.
Speaker 1: Is that more week to week or is that more cumulative.
Speaker 4: It's twofold, Johnny, So we look at it during the
Speaker 4: course of the week. You're just trying to get e
Speaker 4: gauged of what a player's normal workload is. You kind
Speaker 4: of set a baseline and then you're able to evaluate
Speaker 4: that on a weekly basis. Is he doing more? Is
Speaker 4: he doing less? We have to do a little bit extra.
Speaker 4: Is you reaching a certain level of speed during the
Speaker 4: course of practice, Because whatever you do in practice, you
Speaker 4: want to make sure you're prepared if you're to put
Speaker 4: your body through that in the course of a game.
Speaker 4: So practice becomes reality. So you're not going to do
Speaker 4: something in a game that you haven't done in practice.
Speaker 4: So you just want to be as prepared as you
Speaker 4: can physically. But we do to your question, we monitor
Speaker 4: all that and it's really just to kind of get
Speaker 4: a baseline understanding of where the player is, so we
Speaker 4: understand if we're taxing them more, taxing them less, or
Speaker 4: just we need to increase his workloads some degree.
Speaker 3: All right, going over some things in no particular order here,
Speaker 3: we're talking about the tight end group and Kate Stover.
Speaker 3: Kate has done a really good job for you, full back,
Speaker 3: tight end, whatever he's doing out there. And Schultz obviously
Speaker 3: Irv Smith played against the Jaguars. Andrew Beck is back
Speaker 3: in the organization. What about that whole group, Nick, Yeah, we've.
Speaker 4: Had to make some adjustments as we have gone through
Speaker 4: the season. So started the year with Brevin Brevin like
Speaker 4: he's going to have significant impact on the offense. Unfortunately
Speaker 4: got hurt. So then we had a pivot in diven direction.
Speaker 4: We brought Teagan back. So Teagan was here in training camp,
Speaker 4: missed some time with the injury, was able to give
Speaker 4: us a handful of games whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Irv has kind of been here for a period of time.
Speaker 4: Ors an experienced player who's his career has kind of evolved.
Speaker 4: He's kind of been at a couple different places. He's
Speaker 4: kind of changed kind of the type of player that
Speaker 4: he is now relative to what he was coming out.
Speaker 4: But he is a very professional kid, works really hard,
Speaker 4: he's got a good attitude, went in the game and
Speaker 4: Matt was actually able to execute some of his assignments.
Speaker 4: So and Andrew has experience in our program in a
Speaker 4: variety of different levels. So at some point, whoever is
Speaker 4: in the building, there's a good chance we're probably going
Speaker 4: to need him, like we've talked about. So Detroy Harrison's
Speaker 4: given us some plays as well. In the kicking game.
Speaker 4: We activated him for whatever week that was, and then
Speaker 4: he went and played made an impact play in a
Speaker 4: kicking game. So our depth is if it's not on
Speaker 4: the roster, it's off the roster, and at some point
Speaker 4: we're likely going to have to use everybody, and those
Speaker 4: are two I'd say. HER's a really good example, especially
Speaker 4: late in a week, getting called up and he went
Speaker 4: on there and played competitively against the Jaguars.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it today because I just saw
Speaker 2: Kaid a little while ago, was chatting with him for
Speaker 2: a second and I looked on the wall and I
Speaker 2: see on the wall we have offense defense special needs
Speaker 2: players of each win and you look up there and
Speaker 2: you're like, wait, kid's up there. Well, that's especially teve
Speaker 2: tackle he made against the Colts. He's done some things
Speaker 2: on special teams. He had to tackle the other day against Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: How important has that been to adding to the mix,
Speaker 2: whether you guys thought he could do it or not.
Speaker 4: When you're drafted, well, you increase your overall value to
Speaker 4: the team if you can handle multitude of roles. So
Speaker 4: in Kid's particular case, started his career on a defensive
Speaker 4: side of all, transition to a tight end, so he
Speaker 4: has a little bit of a defensive mentality. But he's
Speaker 4: got good playing strength, he's got good athleticism, and he
Speaker 4: runs well. He's tough, he's physical, he's shown the ability
Speaker 4: to make tackles in space, so in a backup capacity,
Speaker 4: sort of hybrid role, and then also have value in
Speaker 4: the kicking game. I would say Brevan is a good
Speaker 4: example of a player who really improved significantly in a
Speaker 4: kicking game. We were counting on him as much as
Speaker 4: we were offensively for a role in the kicking game
Speaker 4: as well. So anytime you can do anything to increase
Speaker 4: your overall value to the team, then it's certainly going
Speaker 4: to make a difference.
Speaker 3: How about the offensive line coming off that performance against
Speaker 3: the Jaguars, what you did in the second half and
Speaker 3: moving forward out of the buy playing the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that group has done a pretty good job really
Speaker 4: since the Jets game. We've kind of shored up some
Speaker 4: things protection wise, and we've been able to run the ball.
Speaker 4: So you'll kind of see where we are at and
Speaker 4: Kenyan back in the mix. You know, players like Zach
Speaker 4: Thomas have gotten some different reps at different points. We've
Speaker 4: had a number of players that have kind of been
Speaker 4: in and out, so similar to the tight end position,
Speaker 4: a good chance we probably need everybody there in the
Speaker 4: offensive line, but I mean the mainstay is kind of
Speaker 4: been to two tackles in shack and any inside players
Speaker 4: we've kind of had to rotate to some degree from
Speaker 4: center to left guard.
Speaker 1: So kind of see where we are here moving forward.
Speaker 1: Defensive line.
Speaker 2: Last week, no sacks, but maybe it wasn't a game
Speaker 2: that was kind of conduced to that. Max seem like
Speaker 2: he was getting the ball out obviously, you know, after
Speaker 2: Trevor went out, you what's your thought about kind of
Speaker 2: how all that's now, you know, coming together, you know,
Speaker 2: with Mario coming back off the suspension, with de Nico,
Speaker 2: back guys that were banged up. Will was banged up
Speaker 2: and now he's back. How do you that kind of
Speaker 2: the mix of what you've got on the front.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's probably been as as consistent and productive a
Speaker 4: group as we've had on a football team. They've all played,
Speaker 4: they've all impacted the game and their varying roles to
Speaker 4: some degree. So the fact that we kind of have
Speaker 4: all of them was kind of see where Fully is
Speaker 4: at some point, would expect to see him back on
Speaker 4: the field. So he certainly brings a presence on the
Speaker 4: inside part of the defense from a run perspective. So
Speaker 4: that group overall has been fairly productive and it's good
Speaker 4: to have them all available.
Speaker 3: What do you want to see from the offense overall?
Speaker 2: Here, Nick, as we get into the final four games
Speaker 2: of the regular season, more consistency, I would imagine.
Speaker 3: But what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think you allude to it.
Speaker 4: Mark, that's a big thing as an overall team is
Speaker 4: just playing consistent football, trying to play good, clean football
Speaker 4: from start to finish. So we've done it in spurts,
Speaker 4: We've done it at different quarters, done it in parts.
Speaker 1: Of the half.
Speaker 4: The areas that are going to have an impact on
Speaker 4: winning moving forward. Are going to be the turnover margin,
Speaker 4: how that goes production on third down, and then how
Speaker 4: you perform in a red area. So when you look
Speaker 4: across the league, typically the teams that perform the best
Speaker 4: in those areas start the ones that are going to
Speaker 4: put themselves in a pretty good position. Would say, from
Speaker 4: our perspective, those are probably three tangible areas. If we
Speaker 4: can just make some incremental improvements, it's going to help
Speaker 4: the overall football team. And then just maintain a certain
Speaker 4: level of performance in the kicking game. So that's a
Speaker 4: big thing. And each week is going to present its
Speaker 4: own challenges. So the challenge in front of us here
Speaker 4: is Miami and what they provide, well, we'll talk about
Speaker 4: them here in a minute, but overall as a team
Speaker 4: is just playing good, consistent football from start to finish,
Speaker 4: and then we'll see where we are at the end
Speaker 4: of the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know exactly where we're going.
Speaker 2: We're done with the state of the Union stuff about
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, the team that's won a few in a row.
Speaker 1: To his back, Tyreek Jalen names that we know.
Speaker 2: But defensively, they did some some decent things last week
Speaker 2: against the Jets.
Speaker 1: He's got a reported in Miami Dolphins. Yeah, really good
Speaker 1: football team. This is this is a playoff team.
Speaker 4: So last year they went eleven and six, made the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and a lot of players that were on that team,
Speaker 4: you know, were on the current team here. Tua makes
Speaker 4: a significant difference when he's available. He's he's played as
Speaker 4: well as any quarterback in the league since he's returned
Speaker 4: from the injury. I think he leads a league in
Speaker 4: completion percentage. He's very accurate with the football. His ball
Speaker 4: placement is exceptional, and there's a timing element to their
Speaker 4: passing game, and he does a really good job takes
Speaker 4: care of football. I think he's only he's got seventeen
Speaker 4: and four something like that. He's completing seventy plus percent
Speaker 4: of his passes, which that's a good place to start.
Speaker 4: So offensively, they just present a lot of problems because
Speaker 4: of their speed. You know, when you look at they
Speaker 4: really have four players that have fifty plus catches in
Speaker 4: including eight chain so between a Chane, John U, Tyreek
Speaker 4: and Waddle, all four of them, when they get the
Speaker 4: ball in their hands, they can literally score touchdowns. So
Speaker 4: the speed and the stress that they put on the
Speaker 4: defense presents significant challenges. So they've got good skill John
Speaker 4: who's really come on here over the last however many weeks,
Speaker 4: John who's always been a good catch and run player,
Speaker 4: A couple of players there. At the end of the
Speaker 4: Jets game, we're illustrated that I took the two screens
Speaker 4: and he ate up twenty five to thirty yards before
Speaker 4: he got touched. So they certainly put a lot of
Speaker 4: stress on the defense from the skill positions, and you know,
Speaker 4: a chain makes a difference both in the passing game
Speaker 4: in a running game. And then Moster's done a good job.
Speaker 4: They got some snaps out of right and the offensive line,
Speaker 4: mostly on the perimeter. They've had some injuries they've had
Speaker 4: to deal with Los Jackson, Tron didn't play last week,
Speaker 4: Armstead and or He came out to probably be available.
Speaker 4: But the inside they've been kind of the same core
Speaker 4: three groups. So it's a really good offense that can
Speaker 4: score points in a hurry. And then defensively, you know,
Speaker 4: coach Weaver comes over from Baltimore, so he implemented some
Speaker 4: different things. Starts with the front. They've got a lot
Speaker 4: of really good individual players, probably a couple guys are
Speaker 4: one particular play doesn't give her a lot of notoriety,
Speaker 4: which he should at siler as good as any defensive
Speaker 4: lineman in a league period. And here's a good example.
Speaker 4: Played Division two football Fair of State, late round seven
Speaker 4: round pick whatever. He was started screing in Baltimore and
Speaker 4: he's made himself into a really really good football player.
Speaker 4: So between him and Jones inside, and then that's say
Speaker 4: Chop has got kind of similar to Smith on often,
Speaker 4: but Chop Robinson has really come on, can stress the
Speaker 4: offense with his with his rush ability, looks like they're
Speaker 4: gonna get chubbed back. So they got a good front
Speaker 4: with Jordan Brooks leaves in the tackles, who's fast, like
Speaker 4: a really fast linebacker over one hundred tackles, excuse me.
Speaker 4: Then Ramsey is basically a matchup piece, matchup tool. He
Speaker 4: can line up anywhere, plays in a perimeter, plays inside
Speaker 4: the formation. But looks like they've kind of settled on
Speaker 4: him on a perimeter with Cahou inside and Fuller. And
Speaker 4: then Hollin's a really good young player. And they brought
Speaker 4: Poyer over from Buffalo, who's there's a second leading tackler.
Speaker 4: So this is I mean, this is a really good
Speaker 4: football team. Like we talked about eleven and six last year,
Speaker 4: there are maybe not quite where they thought they were
Speaker 4: going to be, but they've played really good football here
Speaker 4: as of late. So I mean we're preparing to play,
Speaker 4: you know, one of the better teams on our schedule,
Speaker 4: which is what they are.
Speaker 3: Well, when you look at a guy like Kalais Campbell,
Speaker 3: who it seems like he should have retired ten years ago, Nick,
Speaker 3: but he's still playing and he's still playing well for them.
Speaker 3: When you analyze players like that, what is it? Is
Speaker 3: it the way they take care of their body is
Speaker 3: a genetics? I mean, what do you determine is the factor.
Speaker 4: A going And he's as consistent and professional as a
Speaker 4: player as there is, and he's available, so he always
Speaker 4: starts with availability. So he's obviously done enough things to
Speaker 4: make sure that he's there for his teammates every Sunday,
Speaker 4: and he's done that over the course of his career.
Speaker 4: And just his length is six to seven three hundred pounds.
Speaker 4: Their Harvardman thirty five thirty six inch arms presents a
Speaker 4: lot of problems, but in a true professional like leadership,
Speaker 4: even even though he's only been there probably for a year.
Speaker 4: My suspicion is he's had a significant imprint on the
Speaker 4: overall program from a leadership standpoint. So a lot of
Speaker 4: respect for kalayis anytime you play that number of years,
Speaker 4: you can't put tip of your hat to a player
Speaker 4: like that at what he brings to the team.
Speaker 2: Tyrek and Jalen, do you guys We talked about it
Speaker 2: being fast when we talk about eight chan and right
Speaker 2: those guys are running back of a different element because
Speaker 2: of the speed. But with Tyrek and Jalen, and I
Speaker 2: asked us of the Miko in a kind of a
Speaker 2: sense like we know they're fast, but what makes them problematic?
Speaker 2: Like we've seen fast guys before that can't be they
Speaker 2: just don't make plays. But these guys are fast, and
Speaker 2: it's like their speed allows them to make plays.
Speaker 1: What makes them so difficult?
Speaker 4: Well, they're fast time speed, and they play fast and
Speaker 4: they play with urgency and they both have a combination
Speaker 4: of speed and or short space quickness, so they can
Speaker 4: get away from the defense lot it can get away
Speaker 4: from coverage line of scrimm. It's Tyreek transitions with the
Speaker 4: ball in an instant after the catch, So their ability
Speaker 4: to accelerate with the ball when they get into their
Speaker 4: hands to play at their speed, that's what I would say,
Speaker 4: is as taxing as anything else. And you see it
Speaker 4: when they both had over one hundred catches or whatever
Speaker 4: was last year, it was.
Speaker 1: A lot this year with two out, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit different.
Speaker 4: But you've seen over the last however many weeks they've
Speaker 4: made a significant impact on the offense.
Speaker 3: It seems like when they can't run the ball well
Speaker 3: and I know they want to run it better, they
Speaker 3: just go with that short passing game, right, that high
Speaker 3: percentage completion stuff.
Speaker 1: It's really an extension in a running game.
Speaker 4: So given an overtime, going back to the game the
Speaker 4: other day, they had two screens of John Who and
Speaker 4: they threw a screen day chain and they were basically
Speaker 4: in a red area. So sometimes those plays are not
Speaker 4: breather plays, but they're an extension of the running game.
Speaker 4: They're just plays they get to the perimeter of the defense.
Speaker 4: So there's certain there's good a screen team, at least
Speaker 4: a perimeter screen team as there is in the league.
Speaker 4: I mean Kansas City probably put them up there. It's
Speaker 4: a more traditional kind of screen team which you'll see here,
Speaker 4: you know, in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: But they do a good job with the passing game.
Speaker 4: They mix and match a little bit, and TUA does
Speaker 4: a good job not only on the screens, but of
Speaker 4: just taking what the defense gives them and then throwing
Speaker 4: a catchable ball and then give them their skill players
Speaker 4: an opportunity to transition with the ball after the catch.
Speaker 2: I know you'd like to be good in both areas,
Speaker 2: but maybe against this group it's I mean, maybe you
Speaker 2: can't be.
Speaker 1: But what's going to be more important this week?
Speaker 2: Nick being good on first and second down or taking
Speaker 2: away the explosives.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like you want to be able to
Speaker 1: do both.
Speaker 4: The answer is yes, yes, but it always starts with
Speaker 4: first down production, so because that puts you in a
Speaker 4: position where you're in more advantageous but by the same token,
Speaker 4: long yardage, they have the ability to launch the ball
Speaker 4: over your head if you if you give that opportunity
Speaker 4: to do so, so first down production. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 4: talk about this on Sunday. It was certainly going to
Speaker 4: be the kid at this game, and I would say,
Speaker 4: you know what, these two teams offensively, it's certainly going
Speaker 4: to be at the forefront.
Speaker 3: All right, a couple of wild card questions before. Okay,
Speaker 3: college football, we're in a playoff. Now, how is it
Speaker 3: for you, because you've analyzed college football for a long
Speaker 3: time to see an actual bracket. When I saw the bracket,
Speaker 3: I just thought, oh, we are in another era now,
Speaker 3: So how do you see this and how does it
Speaker 3: affect what you do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like the NCAA tournament, so when brackets come out,
Speaker 4: so it's interesting. Sure, they're kind of experimenting with what's
Speaker 4: the best formula. I'm sure there discussion about who made it,
Speaker 4: who didn't make it. Looks like are trying to save
Speaker 4: on travel with Notre Dame in Indiana playing right next
Speaker 4: to each other. But what you see is you see
Speaker 4: a lot of good football teams. Was you know, we
Speaker 4: actually started our kind of first round draft meetings here
Speaker 4: in preparation for the draft, which I know when I
Speaker 4: talk about the draft, we will be at some point.
Speaker 4: But you know, so it'll be fun. I'm sure it'll
Speaker 4: be exciting. Adds a little bit more to the bowl games,
Speaker 4: the meaning of the actual bowl games. And then you
Speaker 4: know's a handful of teams or four teams whatever it
Speaker 4: was to have to buy. So it'll be fun. I'm
Speaker 4: sure the fans will. We'll watch and tune in to
Speaker 4: some of the matchups, look, which look pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: We could talk the draft if you want. We can't
Speaker 2: talk draft, like wait, knife to my heart. So let's
Speaker 2: stick with college football. And you might be the perfect person.
Speaker 2: We've asked almost everybody because we saw this rumor that's
Speaker 2: floating out there about your former boss potentially taking over
Speaker 2: at North Carolina, which when people see it, go, what
Speaker 2: mind blown? North Carolina not the NFL, And then you
Speaker 2: start thinking about a little bit like, you know what
Speaker 2: college is moving towards the NFL well, and Bill's always
Speaker 2: seemingly kind of found an inefficiency somewhere to take advantage of,
Speaker 2: and there aren't a lot of college teams that are
Speaker 2: doing it like NFL teams, And that's what it looks.
Speaker 1: Like he's doing.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts about if you potentially would take this job
Speaker 2: in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whatever's going on externally, I would just say, from
Speaker 4: you know, Bill's perspective, Bill enjoys coaching, and he enjoys teaching,
Speaker 4: which at the end, that's what coaching is all about.
Speaker 4: And what better group to impact than eighteen to twenty
Speaker 4: one year old kids. But the landscape as a whole,
Speaker 4: you're seeing a lot of overlap between college and pro football.
Speaker 4: How you set up a roster. The NYL collective is
Speaker 4: essentially a salary cap, so you have X amount of
Speaker 4: resources that you can allocate to certain players. You essentially
Speaker 4: have free agency with the transfer portal, So there's a
Speaker 4: lot of probably more elements than people realize. So not
Speaker 4: exactly sure what's going to happen in that situation, but
Speaker 4: probably people shouldn't be as surprised as they might be,
Speaker 4: just relative to you know, Bill can basically coach probably
Speaker 4: any sport and be really good at it, regardless of
Speaker 4: the level. So it interesting kind of but there's just
Speaker 4: a lot of overlap between college and pro football, more
Speaker 4: so than probably people realize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of these teams have general managers. Now,
Speaker 3: you know, Adrian Andrew luck going back to Stamford to
Speaker 3: do that, I guess you got to be really good
Speaker 3: at excel if you do that, So I'd be bad
Speaker 3: at this. You know, you got to be really organized.
Speaker 1: Excel is critical.
Speaker 4: No, you bring up Andrew Luckcker, there's a good example,
Speaker 4: even you kind of have a college front office, so
Speaker 4: whether it's a general manager kind of overseeing certain elements
Speaker 4: of the program. A lot of college programs out kind
Speaker 4: of a director of player of personnel, which kind of
Speaker 4: helps oversee recruiting. So again, you're seeing a lot of
Speaker 4: crossover and a lot of carryover, more so than you've
Speaker 4: probably seen in recent years. And you have a number
Speaker 4: of coaches that have worked in both arenas. You know,
Speaker 4: look at Boston College coach O'Brien in his experience in
Speaker 4: the NFL. Well mus Champ, who's at Georgia right now,
Speaker 4: has worked both in the NFL and college. You have
Speaker 4: coach Saban is another good example. So it's interesting time
Speaker 4: in collegiate sports. But there's probably more similarities than there
Speaker 4: are similarities.
Speaker 2: Has that changed y'all's approach and how you guys go
Speaker 2: about scouting and how you go about your writing reports
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 1: Has that changed at all? You're cognizant and aware of it.
Speaker 4: And it was funny we were talking about this, So,
Speaker 4: all right, some players are multi school transfers, So what's
Speaker 4: the reason behind that. Some players have been allocated resources
Speaker 4: because of the analic collective, so they're essentially making number
Speaker 4: of dollars. So one anything, it's just having an awareness
Speaker 4: and understanding. It doesn't necessarily affect the evaluation of the player.
Speaker 4: It just creates a little bit more context into the
Speaker 4: overall profile that goes into the prospect.
Speaker 3: All right, another wild card question. There was an event
Speaker 3: in Houston last weekend sumo wrestling.
Speaker 1: Hear me out that one. Hear me out. Hear me out.
Speaker 1: I talked at Parsons about this.
Speaker 3: The average weight is three twenty five and you've seen
Speaker 3: sumo wrestling. This had to be tried before.
Speaker 1: Where was this, I don't know. It was in Houston somewhere.
Speaker 3: I read it in the chronicle and I just thought,
Speaker 3: why aren't these guys looked at? Maybe maybe they are,
Speaker 3: you can tell me, because I know that there's a
Speaker 3: lot of efforts out there to find international players in
Speaker 3: the NFL. But three twenty five, Nick, and they're just
Speaker 3: I mean, they're going at each other, and maybe there's
Speaker 3: some balance and some traits that can carry over there.
Speaker 4: We got low center of gravity like that about the
Speaker 4: only thing I can think of. Okay, maybe the NFL
Speaker 4: can actually the international Pathway program of international players so
Speaker 4: maybe they can find a similar wrestler part of that
Speaker 4: here at some.
Speaker 1: Point that's probably the next that'd be the next step.
Speaker 4: Out between that, and then we'll be playing games in
Speaker 4: China as a results. Okay, don't worry about that's no,
Speaker 4: that's that's coming regardless. I got a feelings all the
Speaker 4: different places we could play. But something we were talking
Speaker 4: about earlier, we're talking about Brevin Jordan. It got me
Speaker 4: thinking about looking at players and projecting players like a
Speaker 4: like assumer wrestler or just somebody different in saying, Okay,
Speaker 4: this guy has been a tight end at such and
Speaker 4: such a place.
Speaker 2: I was watching Matt Locke. The other was Matt Locke,
Speaker 2: the kid with defensive tack chargers. Yeah, bois defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: Thats transition full back, exactly like Recard with the Ravens.
Speaker 2: How tough is that, Nick, to look at a player
Speaker 2: and go, he plays linebacker. We don't think he's a linebacker.
Speaker 2: He might be a fullback, or he might be a
Speaker 2: I don't know, Troy Harrison tight end Trump. How difficult
Speaker 2: is that to kind of look at somebody and go, no,
Speaker 2: you're not going to be that, You're going to be this.
Speaker 1: How does that kind of how difficult. No, it's interesting.
Speaker 4: You can't necessarily strapolate every player, Well he can't play
Speaker 4: this position, we're going to transition to something else. A
Speaker 4: lot of it has to do with mindset and the
Speaker 4: vision of the coaching staff, whether or not you have
Speaker 4: enough of an open mind to consider player like that.
Speaker 4: Even go back to my time in New England, we
Speaker 4: had Landon Roberts was he was playing that, he wasn't playing,
Speaker 4: he was a backup. Then we used him a little
Speaker 4: bit of fullback. Now he's a better linebacker than he
Speaker 4: as a fullback. But some players embrace it and if
Speaker 4: that's their best opportunity to get on the field and play,
Speaker 4: then go ahead and do it.
Speaker 1: So you never want a pigeonhole guy.
Speaker 4: You want to stay open minded, but you have to
Speaker 4: be careful of it doesn't work out here, well, we're
Speaker 4: just automatically going to make him this so it happens.
Speaker 4: And i'd say those two cases, you know, Matt Locke,
Speaker 4: Rickard is as good of an example. There's a guy
Speaker 4: defensive tackle didn't work out or he played, but he
Speaker 4: found kind of a perfect Niche a perfect offense. Not
Speaker 4: a guy's a Pro Bowl fullback or whatever he's been.
Speaker 2: Man, you guys did it all the time. Troy Brown,
Speaker 2: Julian Adaman playing Nick Cole.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you guys are all ten touchdown catches.
Speaker 4: You're just trying to maximize your roster. You only get
Speaker 4: X number of players that you can take to the
Speaker 4: game each week. So if you can create more versatility
Speaker 4: for yourself, if that helps the team, then increase the
Speaker 4: overall value of what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3: And you could be a sumo wrestler and play and
Speaker 3: never mind, We'll see how that goes. Nick, thanks a
Speaker 3: lot for joining us, Good luck this week.
Speaker 1: Thanks fellas.
Speaker 2: We always one percent of time have a blast talking
Speaker 2: with Nick all the different topics we can get into.
Speaker 1: Appreciate him for stopping by each and every week.
Speaker 2: He don't have to do that, but man, we love
Speaker 2: it when he does, and we appreciate it every single time.
Speaker 2: Kamara Laster has not had a chance to step into
Speaker 2: studio like Nick does, but he did today and it
Speaker 2: is awesome stuff. Kamara Laster joins us next right here
Speaker 2: on Texas All Access the Man, It's.
Speaker 1: Texans All Access Time. I'm your host.
Speaker 2: Sean Harricks for playing on a sideline reporter, and it's
Speaker 2: time to talk with the man known as K three.
Speaker 2: Kamario last year and I were number three in college,
Speaker 2: and so that's what it came from. But I believe
Speaker 2: I've heard Kamari you talk about this. We may have
Speaker 2: asked him in a phone interview, y K three. I
Speaker 2: think he's been wearing three ever since. He wears four
Speaker 2: now because there's a really good wide receiver. Where's three
Speaker 2: that beat him here by a year that being tanked out?
Speaker 2: So Kamari wears four and he mixed it up on
Speaker 2: Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Man he got after it,
Speaker 2: and he has made a ton of plays for this team.
Speaker 2: Three interceptions through the first thirteen games, not even through
Speaker 2: his rookie season. He has been all that and a
Speaker 2: bag of chips.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: He has been really, really good.
Speaker 2: So when he sat down in the chair across from
Speaker 2: Mark and I and we just fired questions at him,
Speaker 2: he just went to work. He is fantastic on the mic,
Speaker 2: he's great in the field. So lucky to have the
Speaker 2: young man from seven at Georgia on with us.
Speaker 3: Right now, Kamori last Nar joining us in studio Kamari,
Speaker 3: great to see it's your first visit to the Hundae
Speaker 3: Texans radio studio.
Speaker 6: Yes, serious, my first time.
Speaker 3: The Maiden Voyage. Well, how's the rookie season going? Apparently
Speaker 3: pretty good looking at the numbers. I know you're out
Speaker 3: for a little bit, but you're back and you're playing well.
Speaker 7: Yes, serious, A blessing to be on his team, blessing
Speaker 7: to be able to play with the guys I play,
Speaker 7: and I just like to go out there and play
Speaker 7: fast and play physical.
Speaker 2: So against Jacksonville, I said this to coach Ryan's the
Speaker 2: other day.
Speaker 1: You were involved in the run game a lot, and
Speaker 1: it it appears just watching.
Speaker 2: The game like you like that part of the game,
Speaker 2: Like you appreciate that part of the game where there
Speaker 2: are a lot of guys that play your position, are
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, I'm gonna cover that guy, but that
Speaker 2: tackling is not my thing. But you were diving into
Speaker 2: plays and making plays in the run game.
Speaker 1: How much do you take pride in that part of
Speaker 1: the game, Kamari.
Speaker 7: I feel like that's just a part that's always been
Speaker 7: a part of me, you know, since I started playing
Speaker 7: a little league. You know, my mom used to always
Speaker 7: tell me big hits all day. So physicality was just
Speaker 7: something that was always a part of me. And uh,
Speaker 7: even when I got to Georgia, you know, coach mart
Speaker 7: super physical coach. You know, he wants us to come
Speaker 7: up and make tackle. So I mean when I translated
Speaker 7: to the league, so I mean, I just go in
Speaker 7: there and I just throw myself on fire.
Speaker 3: Comark, when they drafted you, a lot of people labeled you,
Speaker 3: He's a Nike gol. He's going to be a nickel
Speaker 3: on this team. And that was from the outside end.
Speaker 3: And then you get to OTAs and you're covering guys.
Speaker 3: Really well, you're playing outside. How did all that take
Speaker 3: place for you? What was that like as you became
Speaker 3: outside instead of playing nickel.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, you know, in college, I played outside,
Speaker 7: but uh, I always got reps in nickel, and I
Speaker 7: played a game in two a nickel in college. But
Speaker 7: I always just probed myself on being a football player,
Speaker 7: you know. So I mean I feel like, you know,
Speaker 7: I just played football, play defense. So it's not really
Speaker 7: a single position that I could just label myself too.
Speaker 7: If they need me to play outside, I play outside.
Speaker 7: I need to play nickel. I played Nickel. If I
Speaker 7: need to play back, I could play back or doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: I just want to be on the field.
Speaker 1: So you say that very nonchalantly.
Speaker 2: But there was one game in particular that you played
Speaker 2: inside in twenty twenty three at Georgia, in one game
Speaker 2: that I watched a lot, and there was a reason
Speaker 2: you played inside m HM and his name was Luther
Speaker 2: burden right that.
Speaker 1: Game against Miaszoo. Yes, sir, that's when because your snaps.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three almost all of them are outside.
Speaker 2: But then that game you played inside against Luther Burdon.
Speaker 2: That's when I was convinced Kamari that Okay, this dude's
Speaker 2: gonna be able to play in the league because if
Speaker 2: you could take on that challenge, no matter where he
Speaker 2: lines up, that's where you're lining up. Was that kind
Speaker 2: of the role for you that day? And how much
Speaker 2: did you kind of relish that, whether it was inside
Speaker 2: or outside, you had him and you were going against
Speaker 2: him all day long. What are the best receivers in
Speaker 2: the country.
Speaker 7: Well, that's what I asked for at the beginning of
Speaker 7: the week. I remember asking coach fran My Corners.
Speaker 6: Coach.
Speaker 7: I was like, coach can you talked to coach Martin,
Speaker 7: let me follow him, and he was like, you know,
Speaker 7: he travels all over the field. And I was like,
Speaker 7: I don't care. And Coach Martin, he was all good
Speaker 7: with it. I had already been familiar with Nickel. He
Speaker 7: gave me a lot of reps, you know, coming in,
Speaker 7: so I was already familiar with it. And I just
Speaker 7: went out there, studied the film Playball, and uh, you
Speaker 7: know left it on the field.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys here from the SEC obviously. And
Speaker 3: what is it about that? Because you came in here
Speaker 3: and it didn't seem like the moment was too big
Speaker 3: at all for you. You rose to the occasion from
Speaker 3: day one. Is playing at Georgia a big part of that?
Speaker 3: It's got to be? And what else about you got
Speaker 3: you ready for that limelight here in the NFL so young?
Speaker 7: I feel like playing at Georgia is a huge part
Speaker 7: of it. I mean, Coach mart put us through every
Speaker 7: situation possible to be ready for this moment. You know,
Speaker 7: he puts us through you know, rigorous practices, meetings are
Speaker 7: very extensive.
Speaker 6: You know, you're learning a lot of football. I learned
Speaker 6: a lot of football at Georgia.
Speaker 7: So whenever I got to the league, it was almost
Speaker 7: like I'm just picking up where I left off. And
Speaker 7: a lot of guys that I'm playing with or around
Speaker 7: I've either played against before while I was watching them
Speaker 7: play in the SEC. So it's kind of like we
Speaker 7: all kind of have the same mindset because you know,
Speaker 7: in college is different than SEC. You know, there's a
Speaker 7: lot more physical. The game just means a lot more.
Speaker 7: So just coming in here it wasn't really much. I mean,
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, you know, it's football.
Speaker 7: I've been playing football since I was three, So it
Speaker 7: was really just me proven it to myself that you know,
Speaker 7: I'm here for a reason.
Speaker 2: I thought about you a little bit in Week two
Speaker 2: we played the Bears on Sunday night. I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, the light talk will be too bright. You
Speaker 2: played in every big game imaginable that you could in college.
Speaker 2: You played in front one hundred of thousands, you with
Speaker 2: Tennessee or back home at Georgia, and you get your
Speaker 2: first interception. That had to be pretty special, though, to
Speaker 2: get your first NFL interception on that Sunday night, all
Speaker 2: your Georgia guys watching you make that, what was that, like,
Speaker 2: did you get a big response from your Georgia guys
Speaker 2: congratulating you after that getting that first interception against the Bears.
Speaker 6: Man, it was a great moment. It was at home.
Speaker 7: I remember, I got the I got the book, and
Speaker 7: then first thing I looked for I looked for my
Speaker 7: mom in the stands and just being able to just
Speaker 7: run down to the side to the end zone and
Speaker 7: have all the guys coming with me and we all
Speaker 7: celebrate and everyone was just so happy for me. It
Speaker 7: just showed me how much we were really connected. And
Speaker 7: then even after the game, I just had a lot
Speaker 7: of messages from guys who I played with, guys who
Speaker 7: coached me, or anything from all the.
Speaker 6: Way from the Little League all the way up until college.
Speaker 6: So you know, a.
Speaker 2: Couple hundred, three hundred hun or a few hundred coming
Speaker 2: into your inbox for sure, that's all Comario.
Speaker 3: I'm always curious about this with rookies. You have that
Speaker 3: entire offseason before your rookie season where you have the
Speaker 3: pre draft stuff and the workouts, and then you have
Speaker 3: the rookie camp and OTAs. We came to camp early
Speaker 3: here in Houston in mid July for the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame Game and all of that. How do you feel
Speaker 3: physically right now coming into the most important stretch of
Speaker 3: the year, and here we are with four games to
Speaker 3: go in the regular season.
Speaker 7: I mean, I would say, you know, it has been
Speaker 7: a long time since the last time I played a
Speaker 7: football game at Georgia. All up until now, it's been go, go, go,
Speaker 7: go go. But going into that, you know, I already
Speaker 7: knew that's what it was gonna be, So I already
Speaker 7: had my mind prepared, and uh, you know, we're coming
Speaker 7: off of bye week, which was kind of crucial. I mean,
Speaker 7: it was a long stretch before, but the bye week came,
Speaker 7: I feel like at a good time, and I feel like,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm ready to go tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What's that secondary room been like? You've got Sting who
Speaker 1: doesn't say a whole lot.
Speaker 2: It just goes out there on balls, but just when
Speaker 2: you guys are in there watching film and you're watching
Speaker 2: some things he does and you're watching some things you
Speaker 2: guys do.
Speaker 1: What's that room like? Is a good supportive group?
Speaker 2: Is a group you can learn from because are some
Speaker 2: vets in there that have been around and seen some things.
Speaker 1: What's that secondary room.
Speaker 3: Like for you?
Speaker 7: I mean the room is The room is, first off,
Speaker 7: is extremely funny. There's a lot of guys in the
Speaker 7: room that just you wouldn't think they're the funnier.
Speaker 6: It is just hilarious.
Speaker 7: I mean, we were so connected. We like playing with
Speaker 7: each other, we like playing for each other. So I
Speaker 7: just feel like, you know, from staying to Jimmy to
Speaker 7: CB even going to e Murray Patriots out there, I mean,
Speaker 7: it's just a lot of guys who play who played
Speaker 7: really good football, and we play what we play with
Speaker 7: a lot of passions. So it's just like, I know
Speaker 7: he's going to do his thing, so now just motivates
Speaker 7: me more to go do my thing.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 2: What about playing the Dolphins and everything they've got at
Speaker 2: wide receiver here, there's a lot of speed, a lot
Speaker 2: of tough guys to cover.
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean they're a really good team, really explosive offense,
Speaker 7: starting with a quarterback, really accurate guy, been watching him
Speaker 7: since he was at Bama. And then you got the
Speaker 7: two guys on the outside. You got Tyreek Hill obviously,
Speaker 7: and then you got Jase and waldall right beside him.
Speaker 7: So I mean you already know what you're getting yourself into.
Speaker 7: Explosive guys who can run routes and make explosive players
Speaker 7: after the catch. So it's just you gotta be got
Speaker 7: to have the right mindset going into the game, knowing
Speaker 7: what you're about to get into and just going out
Speaker 7: there and being a dog comar.
Speaker 2: We've talked about this market as we've been around here
Speaker 2: for a long time. We've never seen a bye week
Speaker 2: this late in the year, your rookie year. So it's
Speaker 2: the only thing you knew. But or was it to
Speaker 2: get to buy? How good was it to just kind
Speaker 2: of step back and mentally just released for a little
Speaker 2: bit physically your body, give it a chance to not
Speaker 2: play for a weekend.
Speaker 1: What was the by like for you?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: The bill was pretty smooth. I did. I didn't do
Speaker 6: a lot of traveling.
Speaker 7: I spent a little bit of time here just resting,
Speaker 7: spending time with my family, and then I went back
Speaker 7: home to Georgia and I spent a little bit more
Speaker 7: time with family, and then after that it's time to
Speaker 7: come back.
Speaker 3: What was it like growing up in Georgia? But you
Speaker 3: go to high school in Tuscaloosa, right, and then back
Speaker 3: to Georgia because that's where you're from. But was it
Speaker 3: a temptation at all to play at Alabama or Auburn
Speaker 3: or in Alabama school.
Speaker 7: I would say they recruited me pretty well, but Georgia
Speaker 7: was my last offer, so it was really it really
Speaker 7: annoyed me, like Kirby annoyed.
Speaker 6: He annoyed the crap out of me because he was
Speaker 6: my last offer.
Speaker 7: Had I had been to Georgia a couple of times
Speaker 7: before COVID hit, did a camp, did pretty well, talked
Speaker 7: to him and he just waited. It waited, and I
Speaker 7: remember I had to send videos of Georgia just because
Speaker 7: it was and they would just make me, you know,
Speaker 7: go through a little bit more than other schools went
Speaker 7: through that I had to go through other schools, and
Speaker 7: it just really just put some in my like put
Speaker 7: some in my mind, and like I'm going back to Georgia,
Speaker 7: even though the whole time I look he wanted to
Speaker 7: go back to Georgia and beginning, but I just wanted
Speaker 7: to prove it to myself. They're like, yeah, like I
Speaker 7: can play at Georgia. I can help, you know, because
Speaker 7: they hadn't won any Natties before we got there, but
Speaker 7: they were really good. And I was like I can
Speaker 7: be a part of the solution and go help us
Speaker 7: win championships. And I just put that in my mind.
Speaker 7: I told my parents. They all for it.
Speaker 2: So when I asked you about the year, you didn't
Speaker 2: win a Natty last year, and I know it's a
Speaker 2: bad thing for you guys. You lose by three in
Speaker 2: SEC Championship to Alabama. Alabama gets into the playoff, you
Speaker 2: guys don't. So you end up going to the Orange
Speaker 2: Bowl and you play another team that famously did not
Speaker 2: get in there. That's Florida State. And Florida State has
Speaker 2: a dozen or more guys, maybe we might have been
Speaker 2: two dozen guys. They aren't playing that game because they're mad,
Speaker 2: they're moving on the NFL, et cetera. You at that point,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you decided you were going on
Speaker 2: the NFL, but you decided to play that game. And
Speaker 2: there was a lot made about that that you decided
Speaker 2: to play that game instead of you know what, Floors State.
Speaker 1: Guys are out, NFL guys are out. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm playing? Hey, why did you decide to play that game?
Speaker 2: And b when you talk to NFL people afterwards, how
Speaker 2: much did they ask you about playing in that game,
Speaker 2: and why.
Speaker 7: I would say the reason I played the game is
Speaker 7: because it was a game.
Speaker 6: It was a game on our schedule. I was still
Speaker 6: at Georgia.
Speaker 7: I felt like, you know, I came here to go
Speaker 7: to school and play football, and there's a game on
Speaker 7: our schedule, and I'm completely healthy, so why would I
Speaker 7: not play. On top of that, we had lost our
Speaker 7: last game and I refused to just in my career
Speaker 7: at Georgia with a L like that. I mean, it
Speaker 7: was already we had lost a game and then they
Speaker 7: bowed us out the playoffs, so it was already a
Speaker 7: lot on our minds. And then on top of that,
Speaker 7: I just felt like I just wanted to play with
Speaker 7: the guys one more time, you know, because I had
Speaker 7: already knew in the back of my head. I talked
Speaker 7: to coach, talk to my family like I'm gonna come out.
Speaker 7: I felt like I had a good year, so I
Speaker 7: just wanted to play with the guys one more time.
Speaker 7: I'm like, we just go out with an L like
Speaker 7: I want to play with y'all. Let's go get a
Speaker 7: dub let's go enjoy Miami, let's go win, and then
Speaker 7: let let it be that.
Speaker 2: Did you sense that because ninety players that are in
Speaker 2: that position where you're gonna be a top two round
Speaker 2: pick aren't playing in that game. You talk about a
Speaker 2: very matter of fact, but that's kind of a rare thing, Kamari,
Speaker 2: that you ended up playing in that game when a
Speaker 2: lot of guys are begging out and not playing because
Speaker 2: they're going on to the next level.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say, it's just really the g means
Speaker 7: the world to me. So I just wanted to play again,
Speaker 7: you know, for the fans, for my teammates, for my
Speaker 7: coaches even I mean they they helped me a lot
Speaker 7: at Georgia, you know, just helped develop me. And then
Speaker 7: it was really for my teammates, to be honest, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I just want to play with my guys one one time,
Speaker 7: show them that, you know, I really care about them
Speaker 7: energy honestly.
Speaker 3: All right, one more for you, pregame ritual. It's brought
Speaker 3: to you by Mattress Firm. What is your night before ritual?
Speaker 3: Pregame ritual? Take us through some of that, Kamari. Has
Speaker 3: it changed it all as a pro What can you share.
Speaker 6: With us pregame ritual?
Speaker 7: I would say night before I'm usually cooling night before
Speaker 7: I'm usually with the guys, like whether we're at the
Speaker 7: hotel here or whether we're at a hotel out of town,
Speaker 7: like you know, we just I'm really just cool and
Speaker 7: just kicking it with the guys, honestly laughing, talking a
Speaker 7: little smack, and then you know, when it's time to
Speaker 7: lock in towards probably like ten o'clock, then I'll go
Speaker 7: to sleep. But game day, I would say the biggest
Speaker 7: thing that I do, no matter what, before I play
Speaker 7: any game, I gotta pray with my mom, whether she
Speaker 7: comes on the sideline and we pray, whether it's on
Speaker 7: the phone before I warm up, Like that's mandatory.
Speaker 3: You know, that's awesome, That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I think it's the best ritual we've heard.
Speaker 3: We've heard that is that's the last one year. Congratulations
Speaker 3: and good luck to you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of the things I remember seeing
Speaker 2: at Orange Bowl and I seen him out there playing,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, the hell's he playing against.
Speaker 1: Florida State for Florida States.
Speaker 2: Draft eligible dudes were all gone, transfer portal dudes gone.
Speaker 2: It was like they didn't get in the playoffs and
Speaker 2: they're like, we're not playing and there Kamario Laster going, Nah, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm playing. We got a game on the schedule. I'm
Speaker 2: balling out and I can promise you, promise you. That
Speaker 2: was a big deal in scouting circles that he went
Speaker 2: out and played. Now, could have hurt him if he
Speaker 2: got hurt, yeah, probably, but it didn't. He went out
Speaker 2: and he played. Kirby Smart is blown away by it.
Speaker 2: I think scouts are blown away by it. And I
Speaker 2: think that that playing spirit you can see in him
Speaker 2: every single time he is out on the field. So
Speaker 2: glad that man we just talked to is a Houston Texan. Now,
Speaker 2: Texas got a big one on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Coming off of bye week. You'd like to think that the.
Speaker 2: Injury report would be okay, But there is one thing
Speaker 2: we've got to talk about because it could impact the
Speaker 2: one area that the one unit that was really good
Speaker 2: in Jacksonville but has been kind of in the spotlight.
Speaker 1: That's the offensive line. Could there be a change due
Speaker 1: to an injury.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that next and then right here in
Speaker 2: Texans All Access. Back on Wednesday edition of Texans All
Speaker 2: Access from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio, not typically Wednesday.
Speaker 2: We make this kind of our injury segment because in
Speaker 2: week fifteen there's always a lot going on. Now, coming
Speaker 2: off the bye week, well, how do I put this?
Speaker 2: There's really good and bad watching practice today. It felt
Speaker 2: like man, a lot of the guys that we have
Speaker 2: talked about probably all year long in some cases about
Speaker 2: guys being back. Christian Harris seeing number forty eight out
Speaker 2: of practice today was really really cool. Kenyan Green out
Speaker 2: at practice today. Again, Kenny's been able to play this year,
Speaker 2: but had missed since the Jets game and hopefully he's
Speaker 2: gotten right.
Speaker 1: So those two are out of practice today. That was
Speaker 1: kind of nice.
Speaker 2: But the injury report it has, well, it has some
Speaker 2: news to.
Speaker 1: Go with it, if you will, and that's.
Speaker 2: Distressing, not great news, but it is news, and so
Speaker 2: we obviously want to report it here as much as
Speaker 2: we possibly can.
Speaker 1: So let's get it to the injury report first.
Speaker 2: Then we'll get to the news because they're obviously related.
Speaker 2: So dnps today at practice. Robert Woods not injury related personal.
Speaker 2: The other two have some news that go with it.
Speaker 2: Jalen Petrie now he's been dealing with that shoulder issue.
Speaker 1: And earlier today.
Speaker 2: I believe it was Aaron Wilson had a tweet or
Speaker 2: post that said that Jalen is going to undergo season
Speaker 2: ending surgery to repair a partially torn peck muscle, per
Speaker 2: league sources. So we have not seen anything come down
Speaker 2: from the team at this point, but I kind of
Speaker 2: had a feeling it was maybe going in that direction.
Speaker 2: So my guess is that Jalen would go on IR,
Speaker 2: opening opening up a spot on the roster, and unfortunately
Speaker 2: JP five would be done for the year. And that
Speaker 2: is a gut punch because I believe that man was
Speaker 2: playing some really, really good football and we're gonna miss him.
Speaker 2: So that news came down probably I don't know, but
Speaker 2: an hour show hour or so before the show, at
Speaker 2: least that's when I saw it, so it could have
Speaker 2: been earlier. But by the way, Aaron Wilson was reporting
Speaker 2: that about Jalen Peatree undergoing season ending surgery to repair
Speaker 2: that partially torn peck that he hurt in the lost
Speaker 2: to Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: So he was a DNP at practice. Now. They could
Speaker 1: leave him there as a DNP. That's fine, they don't.
Speaker 2: They don't have to put him on IR, but I
Speaker 2: would imagine knowing this news and again nothing official from
Speaker 2: the team, just what we had heard. Also, thing official
Speaker 2: from the team on Juice scrugs. Juice probably played his
Speaker 2: best game at left guard last week against Jacksonville Senior
Speaker 2: reported in a few places. Now the injury is afoot
Speaker 2: as per the injury report, and it appears again we
Speaker 2: have no confirmation on this, but it appears as if
Speaker 2: Juice is gonna miss a few weeks dealing with that
Speaker 2: foot injury. And look, there's never good timing for injuries ever,
Speaker 2: But just the fact that Juice had one of his
Speaker 2: best ball games, if done his best ball game last
Speaker 2: pass Sunday, but the Sunday before against Jacksonville Jaguars just
Speaker 2: stings that much more.
Speaker 1: So hopefully Juice can get back and due time.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this offensive line. What do you
Speaker 2: do now left guard? And that ends up being the question.
Speaker 2: You've got options? You know, Nick Broker's been here for
Speaker 2: a while, Zach Thomas is a guy that can play
Speaker 2: guard and tackle.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Green is back, but does he go.
Speaker 2: Back into the starting lineup when he returns, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He got a lot of things that Chris Strausserko Popovich,
Speaker 2: the offensive line, Bobby slowk have got to try and
Speaker 2: figure out, and of course that coach Demiko Ryan's what
Speaker 2: they want to do with that left guard position as
Speaker 2: they get ready for Miami. Facing Zach Stealer, who silo,
Speaker 2: excuse me, who was AFC.
Speaker 1: Defense play of the week.
Speaker 2: He was really really good against the Jets crap and
Speaker 2: Klay's campbell who lines up inside outside. It's a tough
Speaker 2: front to go against, There's no question. So keep an
Speaker 2: eye on that left guard position. Now, limited participants in practice,
Speaker 2: Nico Autry limited, Nico Collins not injury related, gets a rest, a,
Speaker 2: Larmie Tunsel not injury related rest day.
Speaker 1: Christian Harris, Kenyan Green.
Speaker 2: We talked about there both out their practice full of
Speaker 2: root so far to Kasi that foot injury back at
Speaker 2: practice at least in a limited participation. Those guys saw
Speaker 2: all of them in the viewing window of practice. Now,
Speaker 2: sometimes that means a lot, Sometimes it means very little
Speaker 2: other than the fact they're all back at practice.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: X Xavier Hutchinson full participant after dealing with his shoulder issue.
Speaker 2: Now Miami, a team that did play Sunday, did come
Speaker 2: out of there banged.
Speaker 1: Up a little bit.
Speaker 2: DMPs the two starting tackles Toront Armstead and former Texan
Speaker 2: Kendall Lamb. Klais Campbell got a rest day, OBJ personal day.
Speaker 2: Jordan Poyer got a rest day. Limited participants Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: Jaylen Waddle. I think they can just kind of take
Speaker 2: the day off if they want. An Anthony Walker, junior linebacker,
Speaker 2: was a full participant, even though he's dealing with a hamstring.
Speaker 2: Another one to keep an eye on with the Dolphins
Speaker 2: is Bradley Chubb. He's been an ir, he's in the
Speaker 2: practice window. There's a thought and I think we're anticipating
Speaker 2: that we will see Bradley on Sunday, but he was
Speaker 2: a limited participant in practice. We'll see what that means
Speaker 2: going forward. Butts of news on Jalen Petrie Andrew Scruggs
Speaker 2: not great news whatsoever. And hopefully those guys can get
Speaker 2: back suited in later. But obviously JP, it sounds like
Speaker 2: it's gonna be out for the year. We're gonna miss him,
Speaker 2: no question. All right, we get back, it's maybe hind
Speaker 2: to Mike's time. That means Mark Vandermier is gonna sit
Speaker 2: down with Joe Rose game analyst for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 2: former Dolphin that's text the Texans All Access right here
Speaker 2: on Texans All Access. Appreciate you being with me, John Harris,
Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it's
Speaker 2: time to go man behind the mics. We kick off
Speaker 2: every second hour week of a game with the voice
Speaker 2: that will call the game on the other side. Now,
Speaker 2: this one kind of comes with a little bit of
Speaker 2: a caveat. Mark typically gets to play by play voice
Speaker 2: to join and that's Jimmy stuff well for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: But Mark is really good friends with Joe Rose, the
Speaker 2: game analyst for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So Mark reached out to Joe.
Speaker 2: They sat down and had a wonderful discussion about the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: about this matchup on Sunday, and the good old days
Speaker 2: those two being in Miami with well back in the day.
Speaker 1: I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 2: Here's Joe Rose, game analysts for Miami Dolphins, with our
Speaker 2: own Mark vanderm.
Speaker 3: Me, the Voice of the Texans, joining us now Joe Rose,
Speaker 3: WQAM morning host. More importantly, color commentator of the Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins radio network and former Dolphin tight end, Joe, always
Speaker 3: a pleasure. How's it calling my friend Mark?
Speaker 5: It's always great talking. I wish we could play each
Speaker 5: other every year so we could talk more.
Speaker 3: I would love that. Except for the radio booth at
Speaker 3: your stadium. It's the worst of the league, and I'm
Speaker 3: not shy to say that. Is there any improvement anything
Speaker 3: happened since I've last last been there? Because that thing
Speaker 3: is horrible.
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you a funny story I had. Bob
Speaker 5: was shoesing on from the Jets Friday last Friday, and
Speaker 5: first thing he said, Hey, is it any better in
Speaker 5: the corner? And I go, no, it's the same He goes, great,
Speaker 5: and then we moved on. No, it's the same thing.
Speaker 5: I'm sitting here with a sore back right now. It's
Speaker 5: not meant for bigger people, and it is in the corner.
Speaker 5: And you got to be a superstar to catch everything
Speaker 5: going on on that field.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, when they crossed the fifty the game is
Speaker 3: a rumor. But anyway, we're playing at Cozy NRG Stadium
Speaker 3: this week with the Miami Dolphins. So, Joe, you've been
Speaker 3: at this for so long, what are you seeing in
Speaker 3: this year's team? It just seems like if Tua had
Speaker 3: been able to stay healthy somehow stay on the field,
Speaker 3: it would be such a different season for the Dolphins,
Speaker 3: who look like they're getting warm right now at the
Speaker 3: very least.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So if Tuoa is playing, yeah, you win some
Speaker 5: some of those games, or at least they're a lot
Speaker 5: closer than some of our backup quarterback play was just
Speaker 5: bad during his four weeks out when he went on
Speaker 5: ir But since he's been back, the numbers are just
Speaker 5: off the chain. You know, he's averaging way over three
Speaker 5: hundred yards a game passing. I think in the last
Speaker 5: four games he's got eleven touchdowns, zero interceptions. He's not
Speaker 5: thrown in interception. Since being back, they changed the offense.
Speaker 5: It's a shorter passing game. It's not down the field.
Speaker 5: They feel like everybody's gone too deep on them and
Speaker 5: keeping safeties deep. So nobody's given up the fifty to
Speaker 5: sixty seventy yard plays that we kind of got used
Speaker 5: to over the last couple of years with Tyreek Hill
Speaker 5: and Jalen Waddle. But Mike has really designed an offense
Speaker 5: here that allows to it to get rid of the
Speaker 5: ball pretty quickly, and he just he's been getting a
Speaker 5: lot of guys open. Nobody's running these screens outside right
Speaker 5: now with everybody receivers, tied end, running backs with blockers
Speaker 5: out front pulling a lignement out there. Nobody's blocked it
Speaker 5: better than the Miami Dolphins just become you know, we
Speaker 5: run them a lot some teams, a lot of teams
Speaker 5: try it, but we've really perfected it. Guys will cut
Speaker 5: all the way back in knowing the blocks are coming
Speaker 5: from the inside, and they're patient, and it's been a
Speaker 5: really good play to go with everything else. But they're
Speaker 5: using the whole field the inside as well. But very
Speaker 5: few throws now are over twenty yards down the field.
Speaker 5: Doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 3: Joe, What are you seeing from Hill at this stage
Speaker 3: of his career. I got to think he does like
Speaker 3: those seventy yard completions, but he's willing to do what
Speaker 3: it takes to help the football team. What are you
Speaker 3: seeing from him?
Speaker 5: I see the biggest thing for Tyreek, who got fourteen
Speaker 5: targets in the last game, the biggest thing I see
Speaker 5: he just wants he just wants to be involved in
Speaker 5: the offense. And you know, he and Wata we're going
Speaker 5: you know, you go back and mark, you look at
Speaker 5: some of the game's three catches for thirty yards, four
Speaker 5: catches for thirty eight yards, and I'm sure those guys
Speaker 5: were shell shocked, like they thought maybe a week or
Speaker 5: two and it's probably been half the season of that.
Speaker 5: And last week one guy got fourteen targets and Tyreek
Speaker 5: Hills and a Lotto had twelve. Just to give you
Speaker 5: an idea, and they win the game. They come back
Speaker 5: and win the game against the Jets down eight to
Speaker 5: fourth quarter. But I just think those guys being back
Speaker 5: involved was really important to them. Not necessarily it has
Speaker 5: to be a play that gives them a chance to
Speaker 5: run sixty or seventy yards. They just want to be
Speaker 5: part of this offense. And it got really heavy with
Speaker 5: an On Htn out of Texas A and m who's
Speaker 5: turned into a really good running back. They use Perst
Speaker 5: second and third down, and then John Newsmanthon we got
Speaker 5: from the free agent from the Atlanta Falcons. Wow, I
Speaker 5: didn't realize, And Mike's really figured out how to use him,
Speaker 5: and he's right up there at the top now with
Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill for catches, he and Thwaddle, they're all having
Speaker 5: big years and he's on his way. He's a heavy
Speaker 5: targeted guy. In the month of November he had thirty
Speaker 5: three catches alone. So he's become a big part of it.
Speaker 5: I call him the Big four now running back to
Speaker 5: tight end and two wide receivers and to auditioning into
Speaker 5: all of them right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's homecoming time for Waddle and eight Chan in particular.
Speaker 3: And Joe, tell me about eight Chan as a receiver.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the screen game. He has more touchdowns receiving
Speaker 3: than rushing. What about running the ball in general and
Speaker 3: that short passing game a little bit more on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So Mark last year he broke a ton of
Speaker 5: I mean, he only played like half the year and
Speaker 5: he put up stupid numbers. I mean it was it
Speaker 5: looked like, you know, a state champion in a Texas
Speaker 5: league going against a team that doesn't winning games aways
Speaker 5: running he was breaking the long plays every game. So
Speaker 5: he's come back now. But he's still having a really
Speaker 5: really good year. We haven't run the ball as well.
Speaker 5: That's been the biggest problem. Just have not been able
Speaker 5: to run the ball over the last four or five games,
Speaker 5: and had another stinker against the Jets. But the great
Speaker 5: thing about Devaughon if he's not running, because he has been.
Speaker 5: He's been really good running inside and outside, got real
Speaker 5: good balance. But his thing is he's really worked on
Speaker 5: his hands have gotten a lot better, a lot better.
Speaker 5: He catches everything, and you know, he's got that great speed.
Speaker 5: He's a track guy, and so they really like to
Speaker 5: get him out in space one on one. Uh even
Speaker 5: They'll swing him out there, even if it's you know,
Speaker 5: if he's a third option, if two a halftime, He's
Speaker 5: got no problem throwing to him and allowing him to
Speaker 5: try to beat a guy one on one, getting him
Speaker 5: to the ball quickly. But boy, he has been really good.
Speaker 5: We're talking about those screens earlier with with blockers out
Speaker 5: in front and receivers blocking for you. He is really
Speaker 5: good at being patient and knows when to take off
Speaker 5: and go, and he gets to that top gear real quickly,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, you're looking at ten or
Speaker 5: fifteen yard play.
Speaker 3: Joe Rose joining US Miami Dolphins color commentator, Joe, what
Speaker 3: about the defense here? I'm not looking at voluminous sack
Speaker 3: numbers here, pass rush, but what do they do well?
Speaker 3: What do they do that the Texans should be concerned about.
Speaker 5: I think our two guys inside are really good. Zack
Speaker 5: Steelers having another really good season, and the thirty eight
Speaker 5: year old and I know you know this guy and
Speaker 5: I have seen a lot of them. Kalais Campbell at
Speaker 5: thirty eight is just probably playing more than they planned
Speaker 5: on him playing. He has been really good. I have
Speaker 5: been surprised. You know, he came here, They pay him
Speaker 5: a lot. He wanted this is where he wanted to
Speaker 5: settle down, he and his family. But boy, I thought
Speaker 5: anybody thought he might be coming on the four oh
Speaker 5: one k Early program. He is. He's playing and playing
Speaker 5: at a really high level. So for me, it's been
Speaker 5: that the linebackers have been pretty good. The secondary has
Speaker 5: been banged up, a lot of guys in and out,
Speaker 5: and that seems to be an area where certain teams
Speaker 5: have had some success against this and especially some of
Speaker 5: the tight ends. We went to a couple of weeks
Speaker 5: where the tight ends really chewed us up with New
Speaker 5: England Patriots and also with the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Joe, what is the talk in Miami right now? You
Speaker 3: do the morning show, of course, and you've got the Texans,
Speaker 3: forty nine Ers, Cleveland and the Jets and the Texans
Speaker 3: are leading the AFC South, So it's not like you
Speaker 3: can knock off a team like Denver or the Chargers.
Speaker 3: Teams you're chasing to get into that final playoff spot
Speaker 3: or one of them anyway, But what is the thought
Speaker 3: here for postseason possibilities with four games remaining?
Speaker 5: Mark It's a great question, and we do talk a
Speaker 5: lot about it. I know the team keeps it, you know,
Speaker 5: the old one game at a time, let's be on.
Speaker 5: Everybody feels like this is the game, this is the
Speaker 5: best team we're gonna play. We're getting ready to go
Speaker 5: against this Texans team. You look at them, they look balanced.
Speaker 5: You know a lot more about your team than I do.
Speaker 5: But I think winning on the road against this team,
Speaker 5: they really circled this game to to this. This is
Speaker 5: a big game for him because it's not only the
Speaker 5: next game, but you've got the forty nine ers coming
Speaker 5: to town. They've had their problems and they're really banged up.
Speaker 5: And listen, I don't know who's going to play, but
Speaker 5: if they've got everybody back, of course, it's going to
Speaker 5: be a tough game. But I just think off of
Speaker 5: everything that's going on right now that I look at
Speaker 5: the Texans has been the most consistent team. They have
Speaker 5: the best record of what we have left, and it's
Speaker 5: on the road, and so I think guys aren't going
Speaker 5: to have any problem getting motivated for this one. It's
Speaker 5: not going to be cold weather. You know that knock
Speaker 5: on the Dolphins, and you've probably heard it. Everybody around
Speaker 5: the country's heard it that we don't win in cold
Speaker 5: weather against really good teams. And then, of course thirty
Speaker 5: nine Thanksgiving we get beat up pretty good by the
Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers. But I think they feel like it's
Speaker 5: a little different game, different temperature obviously, but also, you know,
Speaker 5: just as much as we throw the ball, I think
Speaker 5: they really like where they're going to be playing.
Speaker 3: Joe Rose with US Miami Dolphins color commentator Joe, I
Speaker 3: wanted to ask you about this, how the game has evolved,
Speaker 3: rules wise, protecting the quarterbacks, everything involved in that. You
Speaker 3: tell me, because you played in a couple of Super
Speaker 3: Bowl's early eighties, what do you think of the way
Speaker 3: the game is going in terms of protecting players, safety,
Speaker 3: all of that. I think it's a good thing. But
Speaker 3: what are your thoughts overall?
Speaker 5: Well? Mine a little different. Everybody else is man, I
Speaker 5: think it's really hard to be a defensive player right now.
Speaker 5: Of course, now again they're going to go with who
Speaker 5: you're talking like in old schooled on CULI guy, and
Speaker 5: I'm saying, well, yeah, every time I ran across the middle,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, guys where if they couldn't intercept it,
Speaker 5: they were they were trying to they were trying to
Speaker 5: hit you. They were trying to hurt you. So next
Speaker 5: time you ran across the middle, you think about it
Speaker 5: a little bit and we'd have we'd had that courage
Speaker 5: check a little bit there with with your arms and
Speaker 5: your your brain and everything else. Uh, it's hard, man,
Speaker 5: it is hard. The area to hit the quarterbacks cutting smaller,
Speaker 5: hitting area in general has been it's gotten a lot
Speaker 5: harder now. They're they're calling everything down the field. You know,
Speaker 5: every time there's a throw it's incomplete. Everybody's wondering if
Speaker 5: there's going to be pass interference, and there is a lot.
Speaker 5: So it's I'm like you, I get frustrated when a
Speaker 5: game and we we go penalty, penalty, penalty, and and
Speaker 5: a play gets called back and you know, it just
Speaker 5: gets it gets really frustrating. But uh, I understand protecting
Speaker 5: the quarterbacks. I know everybody wants to see the TuS
Speaker 5: and the CJ shrouds and and and so they're going
Speaker 5: to protect those guys the money they're making. I understand it.
Speaker 5: We do. We want to see the best quarterbacks play.
Speaker 5: But uh, you know, it's it's tough. It's it's tough.
Speaker 5: We've we've talked a lot about the sliding of quarterbacks
Speaker 5: and win to slide, and if you're going out of bounds,
Speaker 5: you've got to go out of bounds. You can't fake
Speaker 5: it and then run down the sideline. I think there's
Speaker 5: some things the league is going to have to look
Speaker 5: at a little bit when the rules committee gets together,
Speaker 5: because there there's got to be a lot of frustration,
Speaker 5: you know, with with everything that's going on and everybody's
Speaker 5: all over and you know, and if it's your quarterback
Speaker 5: and he gets hit and you're you're looking, you're mad,
Speaker 5: and as a fan, that's a cheap shot, and you're upset.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think they got to go back. And again,
Speaker 5: I know I've got somebodies that have been affected. Now
Speaker 5: they're in their sixties that are going through stuff right now.
Speaker 5: But but saying that, I mean we all know what
Speaker 5: we're getting into. Mark, there's no secret to what we're
Speaker 5: we're all getting into. Right, everything's out there. It's well documented.
Speaker 5: If you get a concussion, usually sit out at least
Speaker 5: one game. If you play in South Florida, because of
Speaker 5: what happened to do it, you may sit out longer.
Speaker 5: And and so you know they're they're they're trying to
Speaker 5: protect guys the best they can. I think it's good.
Speaker 5: I know there's a fine line between that and still
Speaker 5: being able to watch what kind of look like football
Speaker 5: you want football to look like?
Speaker 3: All Right, a couple more for you. As a guy
Speaker 3: who played for Don sh.
Speaker 5: How did I do on that? Mark?
Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was
Speaker 3: pretty good. No, Look, we're dealing with the aziz Au
Speaker 3: Shier suspension here, which we thought was certainly a suspension.
Speaker 3: Nobody was going to be surprised at a game, but
Speaker 3: three games just sounded ridiculous to us. And we move
Speaker 3: on here. But as a guy who played for Shula,
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick, are you buying that he's interested in North
Speaker 3: Carolina or do you think he's gonna chase the Shula record,
Speaker 3: which Andy Reid is chasing. As well, But who knows
Speaker 3: if either guy would last as long as necessary to
Speaker 3: pass Coach Shula.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, my thoughts.
Speaker 5: Bill Belichick has no interest at all in that North
Speaker 5: Carolina job. Can you see Bill Belichick recruiting fourteen fifteen
Speaker 5: sixteen year olds spend in a week in recruiting in
Speaker 5: South Florida and has to fly to North Carolina or
Speaker 5: Georgia for some top notch kid, and then he's got
Speaker 5: to go kiss his bud and then he's got to
Speaker 5: tell him what kind of money am I going to get?
Speaker 5: This new nil situation? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 5: I just don't I don't see it would drive him nuts.
Speaker 5: He's an NFL coach. He is dying to get a job.
Speaker 5: And I agree with everybody. He wants Don Shula's record.
Speaker 5: That was No Love Affair. Everybody knows it, and he
Speaker 5: would like to have that record. He's done everything else,
Speaker 5: but he would love to have on Jewlis record. And
Speaker 5: let's be honest, he got so close. I didn't think
Speaker 5: New England would let him go till he got the record.
Speaker 5: I was surprised I let him. I thought they'd let
Speaker 5: him stay around. Yea, but he is dying to get back.
Speaker 5: Is there any show? He's probably doing your show. He's
Speaker 5: doing everybody's brothers show right now.
Speaker 1: I get back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he hasn't done this one yet, but I'd love
Speaker 3: to have mine. He's actually really good. I like his
Speaker 3: media stuff. I hope he stays here the media.
Speaker 5: I got that. He and Saban are pretty damn good.
Speaker 5: I'm getting more. I like Nick Saban on the college stuff.
Speaker 5: And Belichick does do a lot of good stuff for
Speaker 5: on NFL stuff from a real insider, right, he does
Speaker 5: great stuff absolutely.
Speaker 3: All Right, Well more, what's the fallout from Mike Canes
Speaker 3: not making the playoff and the way things went down
Speaker 3: end of the season. Obviously a tough game that they
Speaker 3: lost and knocked him out. Basically were they thinking they
Speaker 3: might get in? How did all that go?
Speaker 5: Well, a lot of people were pissed off about it
Speaker 5: because I think everybody thought, well, you know, you're up
Speaker 5: twenty win nothing at Syracuse and you end up losing
Speaker 5: that game. So there was a lot of frustration from that.
Speaker 5: You end up losing two out of three games the
Speaker 5: season after finding all these wild ways to win all
Speaker 5: these shootouts, and cam Ward has just been unbelievable. I know,
Speaker 5: I'm not one to rank quarterbacks, because there's been some
Speaker 5: great ones come out of here, some of the greatest
Speaker 5: college football quarterbacks, Heisman Trophy quarterbacks. You are around us
Speaker 5: to see some of them. You saw the Ken Dorsey years.
Speaker 5: But I gotta tell you, man, this guy is he is.
Speaker 5: He is special. He's got some special physical talent, and
Speaker 5: so I thought, for all those reasons, and they score
Speaker 5: so many points, I thought they were going to let
Speaker 5: him get in and it didn't happen. But I'm happy
Speaker 5: for SMU. Man, what a great story that is SMU. Honestly,
Speaker 5: I thought they deserved to be in. I guess the
Speaker 5: question is Crimpton really screwed things up. But by winning,
Speaker 5: losing three games in the regular season and still find
Speaker 5: a way without believing in that transfer of portal, they
Speaker 5: win that acc It's just incredible by Dabble what he
Speaker 5: was able to do. But some people hurting down here,
Speaker 5: by the way, you haven't heard the latest. I got to
Speaker 5: leave you with this the um part of your blood
Speaker 5: that's still left. Cam Ward and those guys are going
Speaker 5: to play in this game in Orlando. I think the
Speaker 5: whole group, I think all the NFL guys are going
Speaker 5: to dam Ward came out the last couple of days
Speaker 5: and said, I'm playing in this bowl game, and everybody's
Speaker 5: going what I'm going to play? And I think he
Speaker 5: expects a lot of his teammates are going to play
Speaker 5: in the Senior Bowl, will play in the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 5: to go ahead and play in this bowl game. And
Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to see that a lot
Speaker 5: if you're not playing in that big playoff, twelve team
Speaker 5: playoff system. I think a lot of guys are going
Speaker 5: to start getting ready for the NFL that think they're
Speaker 5: going to get drafted in the first few rounds, don't you.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree. It was happening anyway without the twelve team playoff,
Speaker 3: and now at least you know that you have twelve
Speaker 3: teams where they're going to protect most of the guys
Speaker 3: or have most of the guys in their stable ready
Speaker 3: to go for these games, which should be phenomenal. Are
Speaker 3: you a fan of this the twelve team bracket?
Speaker 1: All of it?
Speaker 5: Love it. Matter of fact, I might add a few more,
Speaker 5: but I do like it. I got excited watching all
Speaker 5: the championship games. I thought it was great because they
Speaker 5: were playing for something. They were playing for an automatic
Speaker 5: you know, automatic bid to the to the playoffs. So
Speaker 5: I like it. I like to build up to it.
Speaker 5: You think it's too many. I like the twelve right now.
Speaker 3: I'd go sixteen. Let's go to sixteen. Call of a day.
Speaker 5: No, No, I'm with you. I would I would add
Speaker 5: a few. I'm not real big on watching the SEC
Speaker 5: have so much power because I thought Alabama was going
Speaker 5: to get in, and I don't think they deserve to
Speaker 5: be in after they lost Oklahoma. But but SEC is
Speaker 5: loaded right now, and so it is a big ten.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Joe, great stuff as always, Thanks so much for visiting.
Speaker 5: You and I my friend could go forty minutes and
Speaker 5: I could go get another cup of coffee and we
Speaker 5: can still roll it right along. I can't wait to
Speaker 5: see you.
Speaker 3: Likewise, Joe, thanks a lot, a lot of respect for
Speaker 3: those two gentlemen, and for good reason. I got a
Speaker 3: chance to meet Joe a couple of years ago when
Speaker 3: I called the game with Mark up in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one when we face the Dolphins down there at hard
Speaker 3: Rock Stadium, and he was fantastic. I love getting a
Speaker 3: chance to meet Joe, a guy that I watched when
Speaker 3: I was growing up, So it was always cool to
Speaker 3: kind of catch up with those guys. It's really it's
Speaker 3: always neat. That's one of the neat things about this
Speaker 3: job is meeting those players that meant a lot as
Speaker 3: I was growing up. And Joe Rose one of those
Speaker 3: guys that watched play a lot of football for the
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. All right, coming up, speaking to Mark vanderm here,
Speaker 3: he's gonna stop by and we're gonna talk about this
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins team.
Speaker 1: I want him to calm me down, if you will.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of juiced up about this one against the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins because they worry me.
Speaker 1: They worry me a lot.
Speaker 2: I want to see if Mark can alleviate some of
Speaker 2: those fears that I.
Speaker 1: Have about the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Next right here in Texas Auccess Quarterback, Everybody to Wednesday
Speaker 2: issue of Texans All Access. It was great to hear
Speaker 2: from Joe Rose on the Dolphins broadcast. Mark, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be pretty cool for you, John Harris, Mark Vandermier with you.
Speaker 2: Mark's gonna be pretty cool for you each time that
Speaker 2: we play the Dolphins. To catch up with Joe Rose
Speaker 2: just given your connection with Miami.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I don't catch up with Jimmy Sepphalo,
Speaker 3: who is there play by play guy who I like?
Speaker 3: I like Jimmy. I didn't really have a background with
Speaker 3: Jimmy right now. Jimmy has had an amazing career as
Speaker 3: a receiver, obviously with the Dolphins, but he was doing
Speaker 3: game shows and did he do Good Morning America or
Speaker 3: the Today Show or something like he did one of those.
Speaker 3: This is a long time ago, kids, Jimmy Cephalo has
Speaker 3: got some TV and broadcasting pelts and then he got
Speaker 3: the Dolphin play by play job. Oh should I tell
Speaker 3: this now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: So I love have I got Air five? I got
Speaker 3: a call from the Dolphins. Do you want to come home?
Speaker 5: You know that?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Like meaning my Miami was my home. It really
Speaker 3: wasn't my home. I was there for three years. But
Speaker 3: do you want to consider this? You know? And I
Speaker 3: was like, you know, tempting, okay, you know, to ride
Speaker 3: back to Miami and a white horse and be the
Speaker 3: voice of the Dolphins and all that. But I honestly, Johnny,
Speaker 3: I felt like this is my home. Houston is my home.
Speaker 3: Texas is my home. The McNair's are my home because
Speaker 3: when I got into the business of professional sports working
Speaker 3: for a professional sports team, everyone told me it's all
Speaker 3: about ownership, and they all raved about Bob McNair, right,
Speaker 3: and he's the guy who brought the NFL back to
Speaker 3: Houston and all that, and everybody I talked to they said, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's the organization you want to be with. And
Speaker 3: not that the Dolphins are bad, but at the time
Speaker 3: I was doing the Hurricanes and the Dolphins weren't a
Speaker 3: factor for me. So I came here. And after three
Speaker 3: years here, I got that call and I thought, I'm
Speaker 3: not leaving. And the guy he's no longer with the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: The guy who called, he was a senior VP, and
Speaker 3: he said, well, the reason you want to stay in
Speaker 3: Houston is the.
Speaker 2: Reason we want you, you know, because you're and that
Speaker 2: was flattering to me.
Speaker 3: But I really wanted to stay here with this organization,
Speaker 3: with the mcnairs. And you know, at the time, I
Speaker 3: was working for the station and doing the games, but
Speaker 3: it was all together because I was doing all the
Speaker 3: events here and everything. But yeah, Joe, you know, was
Speaker 3: a guy that I did shows with at WQAM and
Speaker 3: I love Joe's history. He downplays his playing career. You know,
Speaker 3: he caught touchdown passes from Dan Marino and David Woodley
Speaker 3: Don Strock, Yeah, you know he I think he had
Speaker 3: a couple of touchdown catches in the forty one thirty
Speaker 3: eight overtime famous playoff game where Straw came off the
Speaker 3: bench and the Dolphins were down twenty four to nothing
Speaker 3: and they almost won it. They actually took the lead.
Speaker 3: Chargers came back and won that game. And that twenty
Speaker 3: four to nothing lead was something I referenced during the
Speaker 3: break during our twenty four to nothing in Kansas City
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, oh twenty four to try to bring
Speaker 3: that up. But it's it's a thing. Remember the Cults
Speaker 3: were up twenty four to nothing on us on a
Speaker 3: Thursday night here in twenty fourteen, and we came back.
Speaker 3: The mcafeeons kick game, that's the McAfee on side kick game,
Speaker 3: and that's the Watt return the fumble for a touchdown
Speaker 3: game and you're down five and you're gonna win the game,
Speaker 3: but you didn't win the game anyway. I love Joe.
Speaker 3: He's a great guy, good broadcaster, my gosh. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: he's done TV there, does q AM mornings. It taught
Speaker 3: me a lot about doing live spots for clients and
Speaker 3: everything like that. He's a great dude, So that that
Speaker 3: was a fun interview.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine that's that's pretty fun. It's it's
Speaker 2: kind of weird that way when you catch up with
Speaker 2: Frank Frangi because I didn't know Frank that well. I
Speaker 2: was pretty young when I was living in Jacksonville at
Speaker 2: the time, but but I didn't know him and got
Speaker 2: to know him even more over the years, right before
Speaker 2: I left there in two thousand and one. So it's
Speaker 2: always weird, like when you're talking to Frank, because I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: these are two guys, you know, two guys that I
Speaker 2: love the death. I think they're great, and yet I
Speaker 2: want one to lose badly on Sunday and one I
Speaker 2: want to have the best broadcast ever. But it's just
Speaker 2: kind of that connection you end up having with Joe
Speaker 2: as you were talking and got me thinking about Jimmy Seffalo,
Speaker 2: So I pulled.
Speaker 1: Up his wiki.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, it's incredible right all over the place. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like all over the place in a good way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got pelts on the wall for all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: He did pregame coverage for the Nationalleague Championship Series in
Speaker 2: baseball in nineteen eighty seven. How about that because Marv
Speaker 2: Albert was a way in a boxing assignment for NBC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was one of the NBC stalwarts at the time.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's amazing to look at the different things,
Speaker 2: but this is my best, is my favorite one. I
Speaker 2: don't even know how you say this? Okay, Ohnea file,
Speaker 2: what does that mean? You're a lover of wine?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I didn't know this.
Speaker 3: How about winoh file file. It doesn't sound good.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound why anyways, he has he has twelve
Speaker 2: hundred bottles of wine in his personal wine cellar. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh. He and Dale Robertson should get together. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's exactly right. Maybe they have at some point. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's pretty wild. It's got all like paragraphs of his
Speaker 2: relationship to wine and his cellar, and I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's incredible. But he's got an Honorary Actor of Business Administration,
Speaker 2: Food and Beverage Management from Johnson and Wales, which can
Speaker 2: you name where Johnson Wales is from? And just know
Speaker 2: that when your co host was in college. He knew
Speaker 2: exactly where Johnson, Wales promis RhE Island. Really, I would
Speaker 2: have been here all day. We always said somewhere in Ohio.
Speaker 2: We had Risdey, we had Right Island schools.
Speaker 3: I know about Risdey. I had high school friend who went.
Speaker 2: There, and we had Johnson and Wales that were literally
Speaker 2: like right close to our campus. Brown, Yeah, Sod Island
Speaker 2: has a lot of weird like Roger Williams College. They
Speaker 2: had a lot of weird ones. They do absolutely even
Speaker 2: Brown Brown is weird. But I'll tell you this. When
Speaker 2: we stayed there in Providence and for the Patriots game,
Speaker 2: and I got a chance to walk to campus, like, man,
Speaker 2: that's a beautiful campus.
Speaker 1: I get it now.
Speaker 2: When I was eighteen to twenty tails it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is where I go to college. But now I
Speaker 2: get it. I look around like, Okay, this old get
Speaker 2: this place.
Speaker 1: Is pretty cool. Okay, talk me off the.
Speaker 3: Ladder here, Okay.
Speaker 2: In some sense, I'm worried about Miami.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about the team.
Speaker 2: I watched not the whole Jets game, but I did
Speaker 2: a lot of it was on red Zone, so I
Speaker 2: had already seen a good number of it, but just
Speaker 2: watching the things the Dolphins do, watching a chan on screens,
Speaker 2: watching Tyreek and Jalen just get open against whatever the
Speaker 2: coverage is and then catch the ball and run faster
Speaker 2: than anybody can run in the NFL. I didn't walk
Speaker 2: away from there going ah yeah, defense is just lock down,
Speaker 2: like I don't get that. But I also know who
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator is and respect the hell out of
Speaker 2: him and love him. That's Anthony Weaver. So that worries
Speaker 2: me a little bit talking about a lot. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm worried about this game. And I know whenever I
Speaker 2: had that kind of feeling that I'm a little bit
Speaker 2: worried about it, then.
Speaker 1: For it's for good reasons.
Speaker 2: But I know we're come off with bye, We're back home,
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I know it shouldn't be, but I am. I'm worried
Speaker 3: about these guys. Well, look at their last four wins.
Speaker 3: Now they lost to the Packers, which is a semi
Speaker 3: aberration game.
Speaker 1: Cold weather.
Speaker 3: They're terrible in cold weather. Nothing we can do about that. Yep,
Speaker 3: open the room. See all right, let's go open the roof.
Speaker 3: If it's a chilly day, their last four wins. Twenty
Speaker 3: three points, okay against the Rams, and the Rams are
Speaker 3: capable of beating anybody or losing to anybody, I guess.
Speaker 3: So then thirty four against the Raiders, thirty four against
Speaker 3: the Patriots, thirty two against the Jets. Now, these are
Speaker 3: not great teams they're playing at the time, but we
Speaker 3: know what that Jets defense is capable of. However, I
Speaker 3: know I don't even have to look. I don't have
Speaker 3: to live inside the locker room. I know that that
Speaker 3: Jets performance that they got is not the same one
Speaker 3: that we got a little bit earlier in the season. Right,
Speaker 3: this is a Jets team. You know, people look at
Speaker 3: the Jets, they should be able to do this and
Speaker 3: the other thing. No, they're dealing with a massive meltdown
Speaker 3: and it's tough for them to get up for every game.
Speaker 3: And they were still in that game and went overtime,
Speaker 3: So you don't know what to make of that. But
Speaker 3: this is my feeling on facing this offense. This is
Speaker 3: not like you gotta go tackle Jonathan Taylor and watch
Speaker 3: out for Pierce with the deep ball and watch out
Speaker 3: for the Pittman screens. It's not that it's holy smokes.
Speaker 3: Look what they do. Look at all that eye candy
Speaker 3: and window dressing, and then all of a sudden they're
Speaker 3: smashing through the window with one of those four guys
Speaker 3: who's capable of taking it to the end zone. As
Speaker 3: Nick said, on any given play, so be ready. And
Speaker 3: Kamari Lasseter talked about this. I think, you know, I
Speaker 3: know they are super fired up for this one. But
Speaker 3: you have to be mentally sharp as well as physically
Speaker 3: fired up for this one. Now you can say that
Speaker 3: about any game, but especially this one. You got to
Speaker 3: be real smart the way you handle them.
Speaker 2: I when you think about football, obviously, like you get
Speaker 2: you know, really intense, and you know, Jacksonville was one
Speaker 2: of those games.
Speaker 1: You know, Kamari talked about it. You know you're just
Speaker 1: diving into the run game.
Speaker 2: This is one of those games where I always use
Speaker 2: my analogy to Chinese finger lock, like if you try
Speaker 2: and give it the curve too much, you're just gonna
Speaker 2: lock yourself up because these guys get a step and
Speaker 2: is to the house. It has to be more about like,
Speaker 2: as Bruce Lee said, be water. You've got to be
Speaker 2: more flowing and fluid in this game so that you're
Speaker 2: tackling in space, you're making good cuts. This isn't for
Speaker 2: the back seven in particular. This isn't one of those
Speaker 2: We've got to stuff Derrick Henry in the whole kind
Speaker 2: of games. This is we got to be alert where
Speaker 2: all of these fast guys can be at all times,
Speaker 2: and we have to have two three four deep steel
Speaker 2: blue shirts around these guys. If one guy misses, there
Speaker 2: are three guys there to make the tackle. You can't
Speaker 2: take five and turn into fifty. You can't take fifteen
Speaker 2: and turn it into eighty five. And that's what they
Speaker 2: can do. And one of the things that I love
Speaker 2: watching Mike McDaniel's offense because there's gonna be something different
Speaker 2: that you see from them that like, I haven't seen
Speaker 2: that from anybody else, And I get why they do it.
Speaker 2: You know, last year in twenty twenty three was really
Speaker 2: you know, being the number two receiver, the inside receiver
Speaker 2: and then he'd motion outside fast and take off. And
Speaker 2: what that does is it messes with your match and
Speaker 2: your man principles right, and teams are really having a
Speaker 2: struggle with that, and they just do different things That
Speaker 2: worry me too, that if you're not locked in with
Speaker 2: eye discipline, like, okay, I know if they motion here, okay,
Speaker 2: my rules change. Are the safety this is the stafety
Speaker 2: in the corner on the same page knowing the rules change,
Speaker 2: or do they both go to tyreek and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden here comes the inside receiver whoever that
Speaker 2: might be getting a cheap one because you you messed
Speaker 2: up the rules and the communication was off. That's not
Speaker 2: really been something I think the secondary this year. It's
Speaker 2: not really been your blown coverages that has you know,
Speaker 2: have given up explosives like against Jacksonville. Jacksonville blew a
Speaker 2: coverage against US and Dald Schultz is wide open.
Speaker 1: We haven't had that.
Speaker 2: What's happened a lot of times is rush doesn't get
Speaker 2: back there. We're in a particular coverage and because of
Speaker 2: that coverage, there's gonna be a point, kind of a
Speaker 2: breaking point that if the rush doesn't get there, we're
Speaker 2: gonna end up with a bad matchup down the field.
Speaker 2: We're gonna end up with a safety on a really
Speaker 2: fast wide receiver, which is not what you don't want.
Speaker 2: You want your corner on a wide receiver, but if
Speaker 2: he gets too much time. That happened against Tennessee with Levis.
Speaker 2: They ran her out with Calvin Ridley, and the longer
Speaker 2: that he got to hold the ball, Levis, did that
Speaker 2: put the safety or put us safety.
Speaker 1: On Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 3: Well, that's not what you want when they were going
Speaker 3: to fight to left and hit that big PLAYND.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
Speaker 2: And so that's what I hope this week is that
Speaker 2: can get some pressure and to his thinking, get the
Speaker 2: ball out. And you're all in the same page with
Speaker 2: your rules, so you don't let Tyreek sneak behind you. You
Speaker 2: don't let Jalen, you know, catch one across the middle.
Speaker 2: And I think of that turpin play against Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and how he just caught a little slam. They can
Speaker 2: do that, and they can do that U in s page.
Speaker 3: It's weird to say you hope that Tua doesn't play
Speaker 3: as well well as Will Levis. You know, it's weird
Speaker 3: to say that because you'll hope he plays the way
Speaker 3: Josh Allen did here Jared Goff for much of the game,
Speaker 3: not the whole game, but much of the game, because
Speaker 3: you did do that to those quarterbacks. We went into
Speaker 3: the Detroit game feeling pretty much the same way about
Speaker 3: that offense. It's a little bit different, but feeling the
Speaker 3: same way, like, oh my gosh, what are you gonna
Speaker 3: do about this? And they took care of business for
Speaker 3: so much of that game didn't finish, but there were
Speaker 3: some things to take away from perhaps, and you gotta
Speaker 3: do the same kind of thing. You got to find
Speaker 3: a way to get to him. You got to find
Speaker 3: a way to pull him off the first read and
Speaker 3: sack him. He doesn't take many sacks. He's eighteen sacks
Speaker 3: on the season. The high water mark for sacks against
Speaker 3: is five in the Green Bay game. That was a loss.
Speaker 3: But you know what his completion percentage was in that
Speaker 3: Green Bay game, eighty eight. He threw for three hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty five yards, two touchdowns, no picks, eighty percent
Speaker 3: completions and they lost. Wow. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2: And it really it got close at the end a
Speaker 2: little bit. It was gonna be a stretch for them
Speaker 2: to win that football game, but it got close in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter in weather conditions that Miami doesn't like
Speaker 2: to play against. So I just I and it's that
Speaker 2: kind of pressure that I know Mike McDaniel has tried
Speaker 2: to place on teams with all the speed he's add
Speaker 2: it like everybody.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if.
Speaker 2: You know, like you get into college with this high
Speaker 2: SAT score and it's like, hey, what's your forty times?
Speaker 2: I run a four to three. Okay, we'll draft you.
Speaker 2: You know I run a four to three. All right, great,
Speaker 2: we'll sign you. You know those kinds and it just
Speaker 2: puts so much pressure on a defense. And yeah, the
Speaker 2: pass rush is going to be hugely important. I think
Speaker 2: one of the things with the pass rush is getting
Speaker 2: in the passing lanes. Two is only six to one.
Speaker 2: Getting in passing lanes such that you disrupt to his vision,
Speaker 2: knock them down, knock them down. You know he's gonna
Speaker 2: get rid of the ball quickly, so you might have
Speaker 2: to give up on a rush and get your hands
Speaker 2: up and try and knock things down. JJ Watt life
Speaker 2: if you will, that would be had of Dolphins before. Yes,
Speaker 2: knock it down, keep them from catching the ball in
Speaker 2: the run, and then tackle like your life depends because
Speaker 2: really in this game, your football life against the Dolphins
Speaker 2: really really depends on it. Now, the flip side of
Speaker 2: this is the Jets should have won that game twenty
Speaker 2: six to twenty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they really have killed the clock, right, they.
Speaker 1: Really should have won it. With that.
Speaker 2: The Packers held the Dolphins to seventeen, so in some sense,
Speaker 2: I'm talking not on both sides of my mouth, but
Speaker 2: it's teams have slowed them.
Speaker 3: Now, what's the number? Are we ready to say it?
Speaker 3: On a Wednesday? What the number is? I got a
Speaker 3: number thirty. I'm gonna go twenty eight. I think twenty
Speaker 3: eight gets it down. I think twenty seven twenty eight
Speaker 3: could get I was actually.
Speaker 1: Think in twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to go all the way to thirty,
Speaker 2: So I think your number is probably better.
Speaker 1: I like twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Can you put twenty eight up on the board against
Speaker 2: these guys, because I do think I think twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I think twenty eight wins that game. Now, how many
Speaker 2: times have you scored twenty eight at home this year?
Speaker 1: Let's do it?
Speaker 2: Bears nineteen, No Jaguars twenty four, No, no Bill's twenty three,
Speaker 2: No Colts twenty three, no Lion's twenty three, No Tennessee
Speaker 2: twenty seven. So we haven't gotten to twenty eight at home.
Speaker 2: It's time. This is that time, dude, This is that time.
Speaker 2: And coming up next is the time for in the
Speaker 2: lab Drew Dordy's gonna stop by we discuss who the
Speaker 2: cream of the crop players are. I've got an offensive guy.
Speaker 2: He is going to be under the microscope because of
Speaker 2: who he faces on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Won't be every play, but it's gonna be a number
Speaker 1: of plays.
Speaker 2: Am I right in saying Titus Howard is the cream
Speaker 2: of the crop player needed against the Dolphins.
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