Speaker 1: What is up. Good people of Houston and all of
Speaker 1: you listening over in London. Welcome in to Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst and side
Speaker 1: of the reporter, and yes, we are getting ready to
Speaker 1: go over the Pond to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Welcome into the show. I'm your host, John Harris, football
Speaker 1: analysts and side of the reporter, and glad to be
Speaker 1: with you tomorrow at this time. We will be in
Speaker 1: or actually on our way to London tomorrow and then
Speaker 1: Friday for our next All Access show will actually mine.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing it from the barrow Boy and Banker
Speaker 1: Pub that's been designated as the Texans Pub over in London,
Speaker 1: So if you're on your way over then that's where
Speaker 1: you should go. That's like, that's your hangout spot. That's
Speaker 1: the place and Drew took dude Ahredy took a video
Speaker 1: of that. He's already over there getting some pre roll
Speaker 1: on staff. He's giving you kind of the sights and sounds.
Speaker 1: Apparently todayo's a beautiful day over in London. Doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be that for the next few days,
Speaker 1: but it does sound like for the game, just checking
Speaker 1: BBC Weather that may before the game. It may not
Speaker 1: be horrible, may not be horrible, but it'll be grant
Speaker 1: cloudy apparently. But it does say that low chance of precipitation.
Speaker 1: So keep our fingers crossed during a game that won't happen,
Speaker 1: but we will get there. When we get there, we've
Speaker 1: got plenty to do. On tonight's show, we have got
Speaker 1: Brent Scarlett gonna join us for a deep sunt interview
Speaker 1: of the week. Well, main, Clint Stern is gonna stop by.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk some ball. Then Frank Frangie, a good
Speaker 1: friend of mine, a good friend of Mark's, is gonna
Speaker 1: stop by as we have our men behind the Mike's segment.
Speaker 1: Then we got our good buddy andre Ware gonna stop by,
Speaker 1: followed by going behind enemy sidelines with DPC two with
Speaker 1: j P. Shadwick. So we've got plenty to do, So
Speaker 1: let's jump right in to our hot Reeves Hot reachs
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Speaker 1: with our trip to London, leaving on Thursday after practice midday,
Speaker 1: the team and all of us getting on the plane
Speaker 1: flying over, gonna get over there Friday in the morning,
Speaker 1: London time, and go right through the practice field, get
Speaker 1: a good practice in after the eight and a half
Speaker 1: eight eight and a half to nine hour flight, and
Speaker 1: then got all kinds of things going on. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody is going over there or headed
Speaker 1: over there already over there and listening, but that's gonna
Speaker 1: be kind of be it practice on Friday, and then
Speaker 1: Mark and I are gonna go over to the Barrel
Speaker 1: Boy and Banker Pub. We're gonna be hanging out. Kevin Walter,
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be over there, gonna probably be
Speaker 1: smother ambassadors and other people are gonna be over there.
Speaker 1: A lot of people going over for this trip, and
Speaker 1: for good reasons historical first time the Texas ever played
Speaker 1: on European soil, so they will do that on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So that's what you have to look forward to, this
Speaker 1: trip to London. And it's weird, it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: kind of been in the back of our minds for
Speaker 1: a while, like that London trip is still it's still
Speaker 1: kind of out there. It's still kind of out there.
Speaker 1: But obviously we had to get through a number of
Speaker 1: hard fought games, one score games. They've all be one
Speaker 1: score excepting Atlanta game. Kind of having to get through
Speaker 1: all of that, and now it's like, okay, now we
Speaker 1: can focus on it. All that preparation that this whole
Speaker 1: organization has been doing, Now we put it into focus.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow the Texas will practice, we will fly out after that.
Speaker 1: We'll get there on Monday morning. They will practice Friday morning.
Speaker 1: When they get there thereabouts front of like late morning,
Speaker 1: early afternoon when they get there. Then they'll have a
Speaker 1: walkthrough on Saturday, and then Sunday we'll kick off two
Speaker 1: thirty London time, eight thirty back here if daylight savings
Speaker 1: time in America and the United States. So make sure
Speaker 1: you turn your clocks back. You've a manuel clock on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and don't miss the kickoff. Actually you won't miss the kickoff,
Speaker 1: you'll just be an hour early if you haven't set
Speaker 1: them back. London's already gone back their daylight savings time,
Speaker 1: so instead of being six hours ahead, which they typically are,
Speaker 1: the only five through this week through Sunday, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: through Saturday, and then on Sunday they'll go back here
Speaker 1: in the States, and so that I'll make a six
Speaker 1: hour time difference. So eight thirty kick here, two thirty
Speaker 1: kick at Wembley Stadium in London. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to our next hot read. That is going to be
Speaker 1: some transactions. Yes, Texas add a couple of players to
Speaker 1: the practice squad. Anthony Chesley corner out of Coastal Carolina
Speaker 1: or rookie, and also Eddie Vanderdos. Now, if you follow
Speaker 1: high school football recruiting at any point, then you should
Speaker 1: remember the name. Eddie Vanderdos was a guy that was
Speaker 1: committed to Notre Dame, ended up going to UCLA. Played
Speaker 1: three years at UCLA Claire for the draft. Hasn't really
Speaker 1: been able to find at home. But a very talented
Speaker 1: interior player. Had some injuries when he was at UCLA.
Speaker 1: I want to see add a knee injury when he
Speaker 1: was at UCLA, but a very talented player. So two
Speaker 1: players added to the practice squad Eddie Vanderdos and also
Speaker 1: Anti Chesley. Another transact Brian body Calhoun brought back. I
Speaker 1: love it BBC. Ironically the week we're going to London,
Speaker 1: BBC added to the roster for your Texans. Texans needs
Speaker 1: some helping a secondary due to all the injuries. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the other end of that transaction is JJ Watt going
Speaker 1: to i R and he will miss the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. So those are your transactions that have transpired.
Speaker 1: Chesley vanderdos to the practice squad, BBC Brion Body Calhoun
Speaker 1: goes to the fifty three man roster, and unfortunately the
Speaker 1: great JJ Watt goes to R and our final hot read.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for this because before Drew Dorty took
Speaker 1: off for London, you get a chance to sit down
Speaker 1: with a guy that's going to be the focus on
Speaker 1: this defense Russian from the Edge with JJ Watton. Now
Speaker 1: and I are, and that is Whitney Merciless. Drew caught
Speaker 1: up with witt to talk about all kinds of different things.
Speaker 1: Was it light going against Gardner, Minshew, going to London?
Speaker 1: All the things that I'm sure Whitney thinks about. It
Speaker 1: is off time set down with Drew. Here we go.
Speaker 1: You are an international man of I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say mystery, but you've been around the world. We've seen
Speaker 1: your travels over the years in your time as a
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. So let's start right there. How much of
Speaker 1: a challenge is it actually playing a game overseas you think,
Speaker 1: I know you've not played overseas. You played in Mexico City,
Speaker 1: but you know the time zone difference thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: from my travels across the world and all that, getting
Speaker 1: adjusted tom wise, it's pretty difficult. And one way to
Speaker 1: do that is as soon as you land, it's morning
Speaker 1: and you got to stay up all day. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: really try to force your body to acclimate and just
Speaker 1: allow yourself to crash and then just like get in
Speaker 1: sync with the time difference that's over there. And so
Speaker 1: now I haven't done anything that's physically straining when I traveled,
Speaker 1: so this would be a different experience as far as
Speaker 1: that goes. And as for a few guys over there,
Speaker 1: some guys probably maybe one or two have been over
Speaker 1: to London to play a few times in the careers,
Speaker 1: but for the majority of the team, we have not
Speaker 1: done that. So it'll be interesting. Yeah, how energizing is
Speaker 1: it to be in London and to get to play
Speaker 1: in London they get to be in front of a
Speaker 1: different crowd than you normally are. Yeah, it's gonna be exciting,
Speaker 1: different venue cross the pond, Yeah, of course, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's a cool thought. And also I hear those fans
Speaker 1: are like absolutely crazy. Just talking to a few guys
Speaker 1: around the league who've done that travel a few times,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to get in front of that crowd.
Speaker 1: See how crazy it is the atmosphere. And hopefully it's
Speaker 1: not too cold. Hopefully it's not too cold. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit chilly this time here, but nothing you can't handle.
Speaker 1: You've played in much colder environments. And let's talk about
Speaker 1: how this season has been for you. What's the deal
Speaker 1: do you have? Is there like a magnet in your
Speaker 1: body now because you're around the ball all the time,
Speaker 1: it seems what's going on? Buddy? No, man, you know what,
Speaker 1: God just designed that way for this year. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, this is my thought. I just want to
Speaker 1: get around the ball, just make sure that I'm creating
Speaker 1: or impacting the game somehow, just to get the ball
Speaker 1: back to the back to the offense, whatever it is
Speaker 1: is stripping it, intersecting it, or recovering a fumble, pretty
Speaker 1: much like it just happens to be just right there.
Speaker 1: And so I just want to try to continue that forward.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a slow down just a little bit.
Speaker 1: But it's all good. It's been fun seeing you play
Speaker 1: so well, and it's also been fun seeing these celebrations afterwards.
Speaker 1: You're part of quote unquote the Rock Boys. Can I
Speaker 1: know mostly what it is, but for those that haven't
Speaker 1: heard it, can you kind of explain where that came from,
Speaker 1: who the Rock Boys are and what's going on with
Speaker 1: all that? Oh? Of course, I would love to elaborate
Speaker 1: Rock Boys. It's a great shout out for everybody in
Speaker 1: the in the linebacker group itself. So b Max, the manager,
Speaker 1: he came up with it, you know the name. But
Speaker 1: to go back to how it actually started was during
Speaker 1: training camp. Yeah, it's like, okay, man, we make these
Speaker 1: like great plays, you know, sacks and all that, and
Speaker 1: guys are celebrating individually. So it's like, how do we
Speaker 1: get because everybody's involved in the play to make it happen, right,
Speaker 1: So how do we get more people involved and do
Speaker 1: like a group celebrations. So we just it was just
Speaker 1: me and Scarlett. We just messed around and it's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just playing a guitar, air guitar and
Speaker 1: all that. Then Bmac jumped in and then now it
Speaker 1: just snowballed. And then finally Bmac came up with a
Speaker 1: name for it, and we've just been rocking with it
Speaker 1: ever since. And so outside linebackers are the Rock Boys,
Speaker 1: right BM Active Manager. Okay, that's how it is. And
Speaker 1: then we got a collaboration with the LPC crew. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the LPC crew is obviously the lunch pill crew, kind
Speaker 1: of the interior defensive lineman. And you know, Dylan Cole
Speaker 1: was sitting in your spot about a week ago when
Speaker 1: we did this interview, and he said, he wedged himself
Speaker 1: into the Rock Boys and he's the drummer because hey,
Speaker 1: every good band needs a drummer. So that's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: It's it's an inclusive process for guys that are making place.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt. And also, well we're still looking
Speaker 1: for that singer as well too. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. Well, how do the Rock Boys, how does
Speaker 1: the LPC? How do they come together and compensate for
Speaker 1: the loss of a guy like JJ Watt? I know,
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, replace a guy like that one
Speaker 1: on one, but you gotta do things a little bit
Speaker 1: differently now to kind of stem the tide. I suppose yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt. First of all, guys got it now. It's
Speaker 1: the next man up mentality Scarlett. Let's see Charles Yea
Speaker 1: Barghevas and also Jacob who got to step up their
Speaker 1: game as well too, just replacing Way it's some form
Speaker 1: of fashion, and also just the ski team as far
Speaker 1: as replacing such a monumental guy on defense as well too.
Speaker 1: So the thing is we've got to just locking our keys,
Speaker 1: just play that a whole lot better affect the game
Speaker 1: in some type of shape or form. And we've got
Speaker 1: to get a lot of penetration up front in the
Speaker 1: run game and the past game as well too. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's nothing we're going to freak out about.
Speaker 1: This has happened to us, you know before, and guys
Speaker 1: stepped up then, and guys are gonna step up now.
Speaker 1: And probably it doesn't hurt to have a mind like Romeo.
Speaker 1: Cornell's helping orchestrate some of these things too, right exactly, Romeo,
Speaker 1: he's gonna look at it, and I mean, of course
Speaker 1: they they're already looking at it early on and all that,
Speaker 1: and so pretty much he's gonna look at what he asks,
Speaker 1: what the skill set is, and adapt to it. And
Speaker 1: so that's that's literally what this league is all about
Speaker 1: is just adaptation. Yeah, Sunday morning, it'll be Central Time,
Speaker 1: it'll be breakfast with the Texans. You guys will be
Speaker 1: playing in the middle of the afternoon. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about the opponent. Gardner Minshew. He's not playing like a
Speaker 1: rookie who was drafted in the late rounds who's just
Speaker 1: coming in and has a mustache. This guy can play.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got them in position they're due. Really well,
Speaker 1: what was the challenge initially when you saw him? And
Speaker 1: how has he kind of grown over the last month
Speaker 1: or so? Man, So, Okay, the biggest thing is the
Speaker 1: first time that we faced him. His composure is unusually
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of de Shaun Watson's composure when
Speaker 1: he first came into the league, right, And the guy
Speaker 1: just goes out there with a not care attitude, honestly,
Speaker 1: And so he's just trying to win a game and
Speaker 1: he's a competitor and I'd love to see that, and
Speaker 1: it makes it tough for defenses to contain him. He's
Speaker 1: good at scrambling, making plays with either his feet or
Speaker 1: scrambling outside the pocket and throwing balls downfield getting out
Speaker 1: of sacks as well too, So that'll be challenging. So
Speaker 1: we've got to be able to contain him seeing him
Speaker 1: grow over the letting you know, the course of the
Speaker 1: season since we've last seen him, he's done exactly that.
Speaker 1: His confidence has definitely been boosted more and more and more,
Speaker 1: and he's been more confident in his level of play
Speaker 1: and just making some health five plays out there. It's
Speaker 1: actually impressive for a rookie. And so I think they've
Speaker 1: done a great job as far as getting him ready
Speaker 1: to play week to week. And you know, he's really
Speaker 1: embraced the embraced his role as far as that goes.
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna have to contain them in the pocket,
Speaker 1: allowing play quarterback, get them rattled off the spot. Really
Speaker 1: come there, we gotta we gotta be humming, But first
Speaker 1: of all, we gotta take care of that run. So
Speaker 1: we turn them into a one dimensional team. How hard
Speaker 1: is it to be humming against that offensive line? What
Speaker 1: have you seen from them? Man? The group? There are
Speaker 1: some holes in the group that you could take advantage
Speaker 1: of on one on ones and things like that. They're
Speaker 1: still solidly at the end of the day, no doubt,
Speaker 1: and you cannot underestimate your opponent because that one time,
Speaker 1: you know they will get you and flighting you on
Speaker 1: your back, no question is. So we've got to be
Speaker 1: great up front, run some stunts things and things to
Speaker 1: that nature, and so I think all we gotta do
Speaker 1: is just be conscientious of our rush so we don't
Speaker 1: get broken off for like a twenty yard run by
Speaker 1: Minshu himself. You've seen a lot of variations of the
Speaker 1: AFC South in your time. Is a Texan, I think
Speaker 1: this has got to be the toughest, most rugged version
Speaker 1: of it, you know, midway through the season that you've
Speaker 1: ever seen, Right, all four teams are above or at
Speaker 1: five hundred. Yeah, it's a pretty tough division, man, it is.
Speaker 1: It is. And you know, saying it's my time coming
Speaker 1: into the league, you know, yeah, there's been some there's
Speaker 1: been one team that's always dominated, of course, the Colts whatnot,
Speaker 1: and so, but over the course of years, as these
Speaker 1: teams have built themselves up, you know, with the rosters,
Speaker 1: with the coaches, the staff and things of that nature,
Speaker 1: it's being it's become super super competitive over the last
Speaker 1: few years or so. Then that's exactly what you're seeing
Speaker 1: right now. What has always been one of my favorites
Speaker 1: to sit down and talk ball with, talk off the field, talk,
Speaker 1: travel anything. Whit is kind of a go to and
Speaker 1: I was glad that Drew had a chance to catch
Speaker 1: up with him before Drew got on the bird and
Speaker 1: went over to London early and awaits the team's arrival
Speaker 1: early Friday morning. But there you go, a little bit
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Speaker 1: text from some people in the building and they said
Speaker 1: a picture and it was of four different characters I'll
Speaker 1: put it that way, the Rock Boys. And in that
Speaker 1: group you had Bernardrick McKinney, yeah, Whitney Merciless, and you
Speaker 1: also had Brennan Scarlett and they were dressed up as kiss.
Speaker 1: That was really really cool. Well, dpcit who had a
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Speaker 1: the most unique people that we have had in this building.
Speaker 1: I love getting a chance to talk to him. I
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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I love the Rock Boys this year.
Speaker 1: I feel like every year at a certain position group
Speaker 1: really stands out as bringing the juice and the adrenaline.
Speaker 1: And it's usually dB, sometimes it's wide receivers, but the linebackers,
Speaker 1: the Rock Boys have really come into their own this year.
Speaker 1: What's going on with the energy of that position group?
Speaker 1: We just got we got a lot of good guys
Speaker 1: in the room, a lot of playmakers in the room,
Speaker 1: so a lot of opportunity to get out there and
Speaker 1: rock out with the boys, and so the linebackers this
Speaker 1: year just kind of taking that and you know, everybody
Speaker 1: grabs an instrument and yeah, I would think we were
Speaker 1: talking to Whitney Boddy. He said it was. It sort
Speaker 1: of came about in training camp. You guys just messing around,
Speaker 1: decided to whip out some instruments and that became a
Speaker 1: celebration which became the Rock Boys. And now you guys
Speaker 1: have your own T shirts. You provided the group of
Speaker 1: T shirts recently. Yeah, we're we have a uniform now,
Speaker 1: Oh it's a uniform. Okay, we do have a uniform. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's not just straight chaos anymore. We've got some
Speaker 1: structure to the rocket. Yes, you definitely. Well what happens
Speaker 1: to the teenage mutant ninja turtle all black? Um, the
Speaker 1: game day fits that you guys see that is that
Speaker 1: separate from the Rock Boys. Okay, that is specifically in
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker room. The outside linebackers don't take oh
Speaker 1: I see game group matching the matching here unless it's
Speaker 1: a Rock Boys. Sure, unless it's the Rock Boys shirt.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, that's the insiders thing. You guys are
Speaker 1: so calm and collected off the field, and then you're
Speaker 1: on the field and you become the Rock Boys. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about that transition one day in practice.
Speaker 1: You know, we watch a little bit of practice. We
Speaker 1: watch you guys activate, which is the warming up period.
Speaker 1: And then afterwards the entire team got into a huddle,
Speaker 1: and I want to say was Bernardick McKinney was in
Speaker 1: the middle and started doing his pregame huddle. You'd think
Speaker 1: it was a game day and you guys just were
Speaker 1: just so energized. I find out later that that was
Speaker 1: a walkthrough. It was not even a little practice. But
Speaker 1: the energy that you guys bring, Like, when does that
Speaker 1: transformation sort of when do you guys just put on
Speaker 1: those rock boy hats and really get to work? How
Speaker 1: about you think? I think just as soon as you
Speaker 1: step on the field, you know, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we train all year round for the opportunities that we
Speaker 1: have in the season, you know, so you know, you
Speaker 1: have a lot of built up excitement and energy, and
Speaker 1: you know the best way to perform it is using
Speaker 1: that energy, you know. And you know, having obviously the
Speaker 1: games you got sixteen for sure opportunities to go out
Speaker 1: there and show your stuff. But even in practice, like
Speaker 1: you know, those are limited opportunities too, And you know
Speaker 1: all offseason you train and train and then you get
Speaker 1: those limited opportunities, So you might as well come listen, juice, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you definitely do. So you're four for you and you
Speaker 1: came I mean we remember when you were here as
Speaker 1: an undrafted and here you are year four. You signed
Speaker 1: the big contract extension before the season started. What about
Speaker 1: those limited opportunities for you, because Bill Obriant says you've
Speaker 1: done a really great job of taking your limited opportunities
Speaker 1: and turning into your role on the team. Now, how
Speaker 1: did you manage that? Because now it seems like you're
Speaker 1: getting better and better because you have all the opportunities,
Speaker 1: But how did you sort of make that jump? I
Speaker 1: imagine it was harder early on when you weren't on
Speaker 1: the field as much. Yeah. Yeah, I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for me is just to continue to grow every day,
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what those opportunities look like. You know,
Speaker 1: find a way, whether it be in practice, sitting back
Speaker 1: and watching JJ Watt rush or watching the Whitney Merciless
Speaker 1: set the edge, you know, and as a younger player
Speaker 1: learning and like Okayking growing that way. I might not
Speaker 1: be out there getting those reps, but at least I'm
Speaker 1: I'm learning and seeing the you know, the footwork or
Speaker 1: the hands or you know the techniques and you know
Speaker 1: from their special teams. Let me make sure I'm the
Speaker 1: best that I can be, and you know, continue to
Speaker 1: set goals, you know best. You know, I just want
Speaker 1: to be the best out there. I want to win
Speaker 1: every rep. So if I can do that, I know
Speaker 1: I continue to grow as a player. And then you know,
Speaker 1: now on the defensive side of the ball, the same
Speaker 1: thing goes and yeah, it's just something that I think
Speaker 1: we'll continue through my career. But it's helped me to
Speaker 1: this point. When you first started out, I imagine a
Speaker 1: lot of guys who were undrafted to say they had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a chip on their shoulder to prove,
Speaker 1: you know, that they were someone that could contribute on
Speaker 1: a team. What was that like for you? What did
Speaker 1: you envision for yourself? Have you sort of exceeded your
Speaker 1: expectations of where you thought you could be or is
Speaker 1: this sort of what you had pictured for yourself that
Speaker 1: you were going to be on the defense be a
Speaker 1: big part of it. You know, what did you think
Speaker 1: as far as your NFL career starting out? I think,
Speaker 1: you know, luckily, I grew up with a support system
Speaker 1: and a close knit family that instilled a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in me. You know, my My parents did a
Speaker 1: great job of you know, let me know that I
Speaker 1: can do anything if I sent my mind to it.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you work and prepare, you can
Speaker 1: do anything. So that's how I approached the game of football.
Speaker 1: You know, regardless of where I'm at as a player,
Speaker 1: I always see, you know, the the growth opportunity, the
Speaker 1: potential of what it could be. So, you know, to
Speaker 1: be where I am now in year four and having
Speaker 1: art it as an undrafted free agent, I mean, I
Speaker 1: obviously it's hard to expect this to happen, but you know,
Speaker 1: this is what I've worked for, you know, and and
Speaker 1: even now I continue to see, like I want to
Speaker 1: continue that con trajectory and you know, see bigger, bigger things.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of something that I would say I
Speaker 1: give thanks to the parents for You are expected to
Speaker 1: do a lot of things, both on defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, is there one aspect of your game
Speaker 1: that is your most favorite thing that you get to
Speaker 1: work on? I know you had the strip sack against
Speaker 1: Carolina a few weeks so that had to have been
Speaker 1: pretty fun. You've caused some turnovers in your in your
Speaker 1: time on special teams. Yeah, is there one play that
Speaker 1: just really is the play that is most exciting, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think you hit it on the head there.
Speaker 1: I think getting the ball out from the yeah, from
Speaker 1: the offensive player and getting the ball back to our offense,
Speaker 1: you know, so they can go down there and score.
Speaker 1: It's just that's a huge turn in the game. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a big momentum swing. And do you know what
Speaker 1: they say about Big Mo? What do they say about
Speaker 1: Big Moo? I don't know, but Big Moe man, he's uh,
Speaker 1: he's important. I think that Mo on side. So if
Speaker 1: you can get that ball out, then Big Mo is
Speaker 1: gonna take one step closer to you. All Right, How
Speaker 1: does Big Mo travel when it comes to London? You
Speaker 1: got a big game in London coming up. I know
Speaker 1: you're like a little bit of a world traveler, but yeah,
Speaker 1: how does that change when you have to play overseas
Speaker 1: first time for the Texans, to play in London, first
Speaker 1: time for yourself as well. Uh? So Big Moe I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you never know when when he'll show up,
Speaker 1: but hopefully it's a it's on the first kickoff of
Speaker 1: that first kickoff return and uh and he peeks his
Speaker 1: head for the for the good guys. Are you excited
Speaker 1: about going over there and playing in front of those
Speaker 1: those English fans? I am, I am, I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: happy that, uh, this beautiful game of football is becoming
Speaker 1: uh more of an international thing. Obviously, It's it's big
Speaker 1: here and in America, and I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities for it to continue to grow worldwide. So
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to be a part of that opportunity.
Speaker 1: And I think actually having traveled to London this past
Speaker 1: offseason and seeing the people in the sights and just
Speaker 1: kind of the vibe of the city, I think it'll
Speaker 1: be a good fit for us as we go out there.
Speaker 1: All right, So in the off season you did some traveling.
Speaker 1: You also were doing some some video videos. I guess
Speaker 1: where it was at YouTube or you had a Brennan
Speaker 1: Scarlett channel. So now you've got b scar TV. You're
Speaker 1: in the locker room on Friday's doing your thing. Is
Speaker 1: this what you sort of Is this like something that
Speaker 1: you think you might want to do in the future
Speaker 1: one day? What do you want people to see when
Speaker 1: they see you in front of the camera. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's like two questions, and one of so let's start
Speaker 1: with what do you want people? Okay, let first of all,
Speaker 1: would you do this? Was this something that you could
Speaker 1: see yourself doing in the future. I enjoy being in
Speaker 1: front of the camera. I do. I think that there's
Speaker 1: a certain performance aspect to it that I enjoy, you know,
Speaker 1: And I can relate that to what I do now,
Speaker 1: you know, playing ball, and it's a performance. But there's
Speaker 1: also an art to it, and I'm sure you can
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Like, no, there's an art to what you do,
Speaker 1: how you ask questions and how you formulate them and
Speaker 1: how you get your guests comfortable, stuff like that, right,
Speaker 1: And so I think there's an art to it. So
Speaker 1: you know that intrigues me as well, but um, you know, possibly,
Speaker 1: but I really just have fun with it and creative
Speaker 1: outlet for me. Now. So who knows when people watch you,
Speaker 1: because it's a very different side of you and your
Speaker 1: teammates that they see versus what they see on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is it that you hope really gets across to
Speaker 1: the fans that are watching TV? You know, b scar
Speaker 1: TV is as you pointed out, it's it's the pursuit
Speaker 1: of high quality content. So it is I'm b scar TV.
Speaker 1: We want our viewers to see our guests and the
Speaker 1: guys on the team for who they are, you know,
Speaker 1: without the helmet, without the jersey. You know, these guys
Speaker 1: are great dudes. They're all so different and you know,
Speaker 1: just to be able to see their individual personalities. It's
Speaker 1: I think it's a cool opportunity for the for the
Speaker 1: viewers and the fans to see the Texans kind of
Speaker 1: in a more relaxed state. I agree. I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys are having so much fun on and off the field,
Speaker 1: why shouldn't everyone else get a chance to enjoy it?
Speaker 1: Good stuff? All right, We hope you have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun as a season continues. Best of luck. Brennan
Speaker 1: Scarlett on the deep Slant, Thank you. That was kind
Speaker 1: of theme earlier in the show about JJ walk going
Speaker 1: to i R. And the requisite follow up question is
Speaker 1: who's going to replace him? And it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: few people to do it, but one of the more
Speaker 1: important ones is going to be that man right there,
Speaker 1: Brendan Scarlett. We care a little bit more pressure, but
Speaker 1: if there's a guy that I know that will respond
Speaker 1: to it, it's gonna be brend Scarlett. And look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing what he does with a little bit more
Speaker 1: time playing the edge, playing some defensive and playing some
Speaker 1: stand up o LB. He does a lot of different
Speaker 1: things and has done a ton of different things for
Speaker 1: this team since he got here, and he's one of
Speaker 1: the one of the key cogs to the engine, if
Speaker 1: you will, and he will be that much more important
Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday in London. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up as a guy that played a lot of
Speaker 1: European football, he played in Scotland, played for Amsterdam. He
Speaker 1: knows what it's like. He also knows football better than
Speaker 1: anybody you're gonna find. And that's my good friend Clint Sterner.
Speaker 1: Coming up next on Texans All Access. We'llcome back to
Speaker 1: a Wednesday nitition of Texans All Access from Monday Texans
Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I am John Harris, your host, joining me
Speaker 1: right now. You can hear him from two to six
Speaker 1: on our flagship Sports Radio six ten. You hear him
Speaker 1: covering arcsall razorback football. You can hear him on our
Speaker 1: postgame show Sean Pendergast and they do a hell of
Speaker 1: a job. Every time I get in the car after
Speaker 1: the game, which we haven't had him many home games.
Speaker 1: When I do, I definitely tune in to listen to
Speaker 1: my man, Clint Starner. Clint, how do you do my mam? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm doing great. Man. It's what a
Speaker 1: week to be in Houston, Han Texans. Texans after a win,
Speaker 1: Rockets appear to be m awfully sexy to watch, and
Speaker 1: then man, you got the Astros in in game seven,
Speaker 1: so uh look, man, it's it's a good time to
Speaker 1: be here. Glad to be talking to you. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it definitely is. Okay, I got a number of things
Speaker 1: I gotta hit even before I get to the Texans.
Speaker 1: Number one, I know that Arkansas razorback blood just flows
Speaker 1: through you and coach Chad Morris guaranteed victory against Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? Well, I think they
Speaker 1: may have misconstrued a little bit. I think he's I
Speaker 1: think he was more or less saying he's gonna play
Speaker 1: whoever gives him a chance to win, They're going to win.
Speaker 1: Like going down there to win a game necessarily not
Speaker 1: necessarily guaranteeing a win. But by the time it gets
Speaker 1: to Houston, that's what it sounds like. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're very very close. I mean, it's a football
Speaker 1: team that they've got very poor quarterback play and that
Speaker 1: has really slowed them down. And I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's hamstrung the team to a point of where
Speaker 1: it appears that there's there's not a lot of good
Speaker 1: and when in reality there is. They've got they've got
Speaker 1: some serious young talent, they've got some speed, they've got there.
Speaker 1: They're scheming up some really really good schemes offensively, but
Speaker 1: the quarterback play, they're turning the football over way too much.
Speaker 1: Four times in the first half last week, five times
Speaker 1: in a game earlier in the season, any of that,
Speaker 1: and so if they clean it up, man, they'll have
Speaker 1: a chance to beat Mississippi State, because Missisippi States in
Speaker 1: a similar position right now as far as a rebuild goes. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yesterday, I'm listening to your show just two to six,
Speaker 1: Aren't Flax of Sorts? Ray is six ten and they're
Speaker 1: form you on the air, Jeremy Brannon Waite Smith and
Speaker 1: you guys have Brandon Backy on. As Sean Pennergass knows
Speaker 1: that's red meat a lark and the discussion of George
Speaker 1: comes up and there's four of you wearing George, and
Speaker 1: I put all my money on Backy the guys from Galveston.
Speaker 1: I was like, he's definitely wearing the Georgs. And come
Speaker 1: to find out it's Clear Sterner wearing the George. Do
Speaker 1: you have anything to say for yourself? Hey, man, look,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. I'm okay with with bringing back
Speaker 1: the old school George. Man. I like to push the
Speaker 1: envelope a little bit with the fashion every now in
Speaker 1: the end, and the Georgs are coming back, and I
Speaker 1: thought a j hints and Alex Bregman and had a
Speaker 1: little back and forth about it, and I thought, well, hell,
Speaker 1: why not wear my George on Game six and see
Speaker 1: if we can't bring a little bit of luck. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it didn't bring the luck, so I will not wear
Speaker 1: them again for to Night Game seven. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'll push the limit a little bit posting George. I'm
Speaker 1: over wrong with that. I love that. I love it.
Speaker 1: Anything you do for the team, that's that's fantastic. That's
Speaker 1: Clint Sterner just all about the team. What we saw
Speaker 1: Clint on Sunday, and it's funny. Mark and I talked
Speaker 1: about this. We talked about this with Obie, and of
Speaker 1: course he didn't want to hear it, but we said it. Anyways,
Speaker 1: At some point in that game on Sunday against the Raiders,
Speaker 1: the Texans are down nine starters playing an Oakland team
Speaker 1: that is sort of They've got a lot of young talent.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say sort of like Arkansas got a lot
Speaker 1: of young talent, but the quarterback positions a little bit
Speaker 1: better for Oakland that gives him a chance with what
Speaker 1: Derek Carr's doing. It felt like a game that, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this is gonna be one of those games
Speaker 1: where Oakland just does enough to win it, but they
Speaker 1: deserve to win. And yet in the end, the Texas
Speaker 1: end up pulling that one out with nine starters, sitting
Speaker 1: out a lot of the second half, without JJ Watt,
Speaker 1: obviously without Lonnie Johnson who had gone out to me
Speaker 1: Clinton to us. It felt like a really gutty, gritty
Speaker 1: win that the coaching staff and Deshaun Watson really kind
Speaker 1: of helped pull that team through. How did you see
Speaker 1: that win on Sunday against the Raiders? Well, I mean, gutty,
Speaker 1: gutsy and gritty are definitely two very accurate terms. I mean,
Speaker 1: at one point, you look up and you've got Skipper
Speaker 1: at right tackle and m clark at left tackle, and
Speaker 1: then you know, you look up and you've got Crossing
Speaker 1: and you've got Gary on Conley and Armstrong. I believe that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to practice squad moved up. Yep.
Speaker 1: Those those are your three dvs that that are in
Speaker 1: there with with read obviously, I mean those two scenarios
Speaker 1: there on both sides of football are very detrimental if
Speaker 1: you get poor player tackled and then it's hard to
Speaker 1: operate and execute on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: And defensively, if if you can't just sack the quarterback
Speaker 1: every time. With JJ Watt going out, obviously, it's it's
Speaker 1: more difficult to get pressure when we're back end. You've
Speaker 1: got guys that haven't proven they can cover he had
Speaker 1: in this league and with the Houston Texans. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was definitely a trying afternoon for the Texans. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say until I'm blue in the face,
Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's just a tough game where you're
Speaker 1: not executing very well, or there's key injuries across the board,
Speaker 1: you know, or it's criddled with penalties, and and for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, when a team can win those kinds of games,
Speaker 1: you know the expectations. I expected Houston to win that
Speaker 1: game by two touchdowns or more. But clearly you get
Speaker 1: into the game and it's just struggle. And when you
Speaker 1: can still come out on top, when you can do
Speaker 1: what it takes in the end to get out of
Speaker 1: that arena, get out of that stadium with a victory,
Speaker 1: then you're playing championship caliber football. And here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I think what's the most telling thing about that game, John,
Speaker 1: to me, was that it came down to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: We can have, we can reask, we can discuss all
Speaker 1: everything that went on for three and a half quarters,
Speaker 1: but when it came down to the fourth quarter, late,
Speaker 1: your defense, Garyon Connolly makes a play and breaks gets
Speaker 1: a past breakup, they punt to your offense. Your offense
Speaker 1: choose up four minutes on the clock and takes a
Speaker 1: knee on the ball. That's winning situational football and as
Speaker 1: boring as it is. And then some people don't want
Speaker 1: to hear about They want to talk about the injuries
Speaker 1: and the flags, and when people get beat and poor
Speaker 1: plays that right there is winning football when you're playing
Speaker 1: high caliber football teams, there's no question. And Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: You obviously, Clint, having played the position, you understand what
Speaker 1: goes into playing that position. And it seems like right
Speaker 1: now he is in some sort of groove with the
Speaker 1: plays he's making, the things he's doing. I thought, Clint
Speaker 1: early on in that game when he made a couple
Speaker 1: of throws early on the first couple of drives and
Speaker 1: they were kind of not like the Deshaun throws we've
Speaker 1: seen before. I mean, he missed Aiken's one time by
Speaker 1: about two yards. I thought, boys, something's kind of off.
Speaker 1: But then he sort of got into the game. The
Speaker 1: RPO stuff that they've really brought out for him has
Speaker 1: really been working for him. When they put him on
Speaker 1: the run, put him on the move, that's really been helping.
Speaker 1: What have you seen in the growth the last few
Speaker 1: weeks of Deshaun? I mean, look, not everybody can do
Speaker 1: the things he does, spinning out of tackles, getting kicked
Speaker 1: in the eye, throwing a touchdown blindly, but just his
Speaker 1: overall operation, the way he's running a Clint, what have
Speaker 1: you seen in the growth of the Shawn, especially since
Speaker 1: that Carolina game where the Texas last sixteen to ten. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of couple of things you mentioned there, John,
Speaker 1: You know, I think overall, Deshaun Watson is he's doing
Speaker 1: a great job of playing within the system, being a
Speaker 1: distributor for the majority of the game. But when certain
Speaker 1: situations come up and you need to be aggressive, you
Speaker 1: need to keep a play alive, or you need to
Speaker 1: get kicked denye and go make a play. Um, you
Speaker 1: know he's able. He's obviously able to do that to me, man,
Speaker 1: and I heard John Cruden postgame talk about Deshaun Watson's
Speaker 1: ability to play unscripted, like the out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: the extending plays, the things that a coach doesn't call
Speaker 1: within a play call, the things that a coach doesn't
Speaker 1: expect the quarterback to execute, the off script stuff. Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is absolutely killer at right and and I and
Speaker 1: the unscript stuff is what I believe. That's how Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson puts this team in position to win a championship.
Speaker 1: That's how Bill O'Brien puts this team in a position
Speaker 1: to make a run of the playoffs and win a
Speaker 1: championship is how good can they become and how and
Speaker 1: how how long can they stay on script, on time,
Speaker 1: in rhythm, and then when the one or two or
Speaker 1: three plays pop up where Deshawn's gotta beat Deshaun and
Speaker 1: put his cape on, he goes in that. And so
Speaker 1: to me, it's about it's about continuing to play on
Speaker 1: script as much as they possibly can and be as
Speaker 1: clean within that time as you possibly can. And then
Speaker 1: when it comes time, you just let de Shan go
Speaker 1: be de Sean. But the kicker there is you've got
Speaker 1: to constantly work. If you're seventy five percent on script
Speaker 1: right now, it's pretty damn good. And we get to
Speaker 1: eighty five by the time the playoffs kick. Can you
Speaker 1: get to ninety by the second round? You know? And
Speaker 1: then you're playing good, clean football. The offensive lines is
Speaker 1: playing efficient upfront, they're protecting the run game benefits. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just it's got to be a constant. It can't be. Well,
Speaker 1: we won, that was a good recipe. No, No, You've
Speaker 1: got to keep working on the on script stuff and
Speaker 1: let the all script stuff happen when when when the
Speaker 1: situation presents itself. And so there's a nice little, uh
Speaker 1: massaging of that to me, of that on script all
Speaker 1: script type of stuff that's going on between Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: and the play call Bill O'Brien, and it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: It gives it gives this team a chance in the
Speaker 1: end down the road if they keep progressing. It gives
Speaker 1: them a chance to really be in in those games
Speaker 1: and win games in the forward quarter versus the best
Speaker 1: teams in the in the in the league. Talker Clint
Speaker 1: Starner who played at Arkansas from Baytown, but he also
Speaker 1: played over in the World League Clinton, did you ever
Speaker 1: play in London? I know you played, you know at
Speaker 1: Amsterdam or in Amsterdam that was your home base? Correct? Yeah.
Speaker 1: One year I was in Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland, which
Speaker 1: is very close to London, and I played one year
Speaker 1: there and then I went and played another year. A
Speaker 1: couple years later I played in Amsterdam and there were
Speaker 1: six teams in the league. We never played. There was
Speaker 1: not a team in London. I had some teammates when
Speaker 1: I was in Scotland that were from London that play
Speaker 1: American football in London during the year, and then they
Speaker 1: came and played in the NFL. Europe League with us
Speaker 1: up in Scotland, so I'm familiar with some of the players.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with some of the league that the league
Speaker 1: that goes on in London. But but no, we didn't
Speaker 1: play literally in London. We flew through there to get
Speaker 1: to Scotland. We're flying in and out of Scotland to
Speaker 1: go to games. But for the most part, I haven't
Speaker 1: played in London, but Europe absolutely all over the place,
Speaker 1: and clute, what was that experience like, Well, there's London, Scotland,
Speaker 1: just just playing football in Europe, which I know a
Speaker 1: few years back and I don't want to date you,
Speaker 1: but it's it's been a few years since the NFL
Speaker 1: really made this sort of stance of playing in London
Speaker 1: on an annual basis of playing four five games, and
Speaker 1: that might increase over the years because it does feel
Speaker 1: like the fans in London love seeing these teams come
Speaker 1: over there. They you know, all thirty two teams are
Speaker 1: seemingly represented on the fans with their jerseys, etc. But
Speaker 1: I would imagine that playing in Europe is just a
Speaker 1: completely different ball game, just everything is different about it.
Speaker 1: What was your experience like playing in Europe? Well, from
Speaker 1: a fan standpoint, there's there's not as many fans obviously.
Speaker 1: Now this is Europe ten years ago and in NFL
Speaker 1: Europe ten years ago, so the the appeal um of
Speaker 1: the players isn't what it is obviously with the Texans
Speaker 1: going over there. But um it's it's it's not as
Speaker 1: they're not. There's not as many um, you know, fans
Speaker 1: as there there are here in the United States. I mean,
Speaker 1: Deshauna Watson can go to California and get flocked in
Speaker 1: a in a restaurant line he's trying to eat. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's going to be the case all
Speaker 1: over Europe. But when when you when you do go
Speaker 1: over there, the fans that do follow American football and
Speaker 1: the fans that do come to the game, they are passionate, man.
Speaker 1: I mean the Europeans are. It's unbelievably passionate about the
Speaker 1: game of soccer, right, I mean the game of soccer
Speaker 1: over there. I mean there's riots and fights and I
Speaker 1: mean it's crazy to the point where when I was
Speaker 1: playing in Europe, they were like, don't go to the
Speaker 1: soccer games because something's liable to break out at any
Speaker 1: point in time. Versus rival teams, you know, so that
Speaker 1: they're extremely passionate about their sports and and and the
Speaker 1: ones that do pick up on American football and follow
Speaker 1: them American football, they are very very passionate about American
Speaker 1: football in there and whoever they're following. So I think
Speaker 1: it's I think it's just a really cool experience. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's super cool for these for these athletes. Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, I was. I can relate to ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent of the athletes in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: I was. I was born and raised in the South
Speaker 1: side of the Tracks. I never would have left the
Speaker 1: state of Texas if it wasn't for football. And I
Speaker 1: looked up, I looked up in the NFL Europe, and
Speaker 1: I'm playing ball in different countries. So ninety percent of
Speaker 1: these guys would never go Overseas if it weren't for
Speaker 1: the game of football. And so, uh, super cool. I
Speaker 1: tell you. Safety is a real problem over there, because
Speaker 1: these guys will be targets. Everybody knows they're coming in
Speaker 1: um and and you gotta take the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: and ugly. Safety will be a problem and keep keep
Speaker 1: a close high on the players, and I make sure
Speaker 1: they don't wonder too far from the from the hotel
Speaker 1: or the practice field. Food is a real problem over there,
Speaker 1: because it's not that they don't eat the exact same
Speaker 1: way we eat here, um, you know. And then in
Speaker 1: game stuff is maybe a problem because it's hard to
Speaker 1: manage whether they're letting like noisemakers into the into the arena.
Speaker 1: When I was playing man, there was whistled. They let
Speaker 1: whistle oh that be blown in the stands, and so
Speaker 1: it was. It was very frustrating. So definitely a challenge, man,
Speaker 1: But what an experience with these guys to get to
Speaker 1: go old here to do it. I've heard you say
Speaker 1: that before on the air, about being from Baytown and
Speaker 1: having the opportunity to go play internationally and just playing
Speaker 1: NFL and all those things that you have as a
Speaker 1: result of playing football, And I'm glad you brought that up, man,
Speaker 1: because I think there are a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: feel that way. Clint Sterner you can hear him two
Speaker 1: to six our flagship sports Radio six ten, and definitely
Speaker 1: tune in for the post game early edition, but the
Speaker 1: games starting at eight thirty local time. Clint's gonna Beyond
Speaker 1: with Sean I believe on Sunday, so you want to
Speaker 1: tune in and hear the man break it down like
Speaker 1: no other. Clinton, the best of man. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to again next week. Brother, you guys, brother,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I'll be good. One of the
Speaker 1: things I love about having Clint on with me is
Speaker 1: the perspective he provides, but also the perspective he owns.
Speaker 1: And he talked about that, saying, look, man, I came from.
Speaker 1: I heard him tell the story a few months back
Speaker 1: on the air, and I was like, man, I want
Speaker 1: him to I want to talk about that a little
Speaker 1: bit more with him. And he talked about what football
Speaker 1: has done for him in opening him up his eyes
Speaker 1: to travel the world basically to play this game and
Speaker 1: open up opportunities, and he was so thankful for that,
Speaker 1: and I always I loved hearing that when I was
Speaker 1: listening a few months back on the radio he was
Speaker 1: telling that story. I would love to hear more about
Speaker 1: his Amsterdam stories, but that's probably for another date and time,
Speaker 1: and probably not for Sports Radio Sixen, to be honest,
Speaker 1: given where those stories can go once you go to Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt. Now. One of the things I love
Speaker 1: about this week of shows when we played the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now,
Speaker 1: I love going to Jacksonville. Last year we went to Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: had a chance to catch up with my former players,
Speaker 1: and it's been a while since I've coached them, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'd talked to him like, well, yeah, you know, coach,
Speaker 1: I just got married. I've been married now for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. And another one's saying, oh, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I got you kids in third and fifth grade. I'm like,
Speaker 1: these these guys were kids. They were younger than my
Speaker 1: daughter when I first met them, and so Jacksonville is
Speaker 1: always a pretty special trip to me. But now we're
Speaker 1: obviously not going to Jacksonville. We're going off to London,
Speaker 1: which is fine, and we're gonna see some of the
Speaker 1: same people and one of my friends, a guy that
Speaker 1: I've known for a very long time. The voice of
Speaker 1: Jacksonville to me is Frank Franjie. He's become a good
Speaker 1: friend from Afar. Even when I was living in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: I got a chance to know him. He is a
Speaker 1: fantastic dude. He is a play by play voice of
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars, and he caught up with Mark Vandimir
Speaker 1: to break this one down. We'll how that were you
Speaker 1: next on Texans All Access. You are looking live at
Speaker 1: NRG Stadium for a Wednesday night edition of Texans All
Speaker 1: Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. And this is
Speaker 1: Brent Musburger. That's actually what Brenton would have sounded like
Speaker 1: if he were doing the show. But he's not. And
Speaker 1: I probably should have used that last week when Brent
Speaker 1: was coming in, but that was for the Raiders. Brent
Speaker 1: took over a couple of years ago as the Raiders
Speaker 1: prepared for a move to Las Vegas. And that's actually
Speaker 1: where Brent, I think resides is in Las Vegas, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna actually work out for him. But this week
Speaker 1: it's about the Jacksonville Jaguars. Well, before we get there,
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Speaker 1: the stats Challenge. Now, I there are certain things on
Speaker 1: a big stat head about but I put together in
Speaker 1: our article usually every Friday, and it's our Daily Brew.
Speaker 1: If you didn't know, we have this thing called Daily
Speaker 1: Brew where each day one of us takes the day
Speaker 1: and we kind of read a short article to you know,
Speaker 1: feature something that is going on. Well, I've decided because
Speaker 1: my day is Friday, I decided to use that as
Speaker 1: kind of a kind of a facts and figure sort
Speaker 1: of day. I kind of pull some of the cool
Speaker 1: facts out of the release, the weekly release that my
Speaker 1: buddy Omar puts together over in pr some of things
Speaker 1: that Nathan gives to me, and so I'd like to
Speaker 1: put that together to I don't know the cut of
Speaker 1: little tidbits that you can kind of share. Hey, that
Speaker 1: was a catched by such and such. Oh, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be his second game with five catches. And I like
Speaker 1: to put those things together. So I went to Omar today, said, look, Omar,
Speaker 1: I've got to put that together article together before I
Speaker 1: go to London. And so I always use one of
Speaker 1: your nuggets from the weekly release, and I said, do
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is the first player to have at least
Speaker 1: fifteen passing touchdowns. He got sixteen and five rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's got five in his team's first eight games of
Speaker 1: a season in NFL history. Let me repeat that, Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is the first player to have at least fifteen
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns in his team's first
Speaker 1: eight game aims of a season in NFL history. That's
Speaker 1: what this man is doing. Wow. That is this week's
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Speaker 1: a guy that would take that stats challenge as a
Speaker 1: guy I know love sports. He is the voice of
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Radio and has been for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and that is Frank Franjie is also the play by
Speaker 1: play man for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Mark caught up
Speaker 1: with him for our Men behind the Mics segment, Frank
Speaker 1: on our way to London both teams. But you've done
Speaker 1: it before several times, So tell me what's the thing
Speaker 1: that stands out the most to you when you think
Speaker 1: about traveling to London to play an NFL game. I
Speaker 1: gotta be your tour guide, right Mark, And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna veteran at this. Now we go every year.
Speaker 1: It's good to be on with you. Um, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's a fund trip. Now it's a fast trip for us.
Speaker 1: We try to number of different ways. Back in the
Speaker 1: day we go for a whole week, get in there
Speaker 1: on Sunday and let the team get acclimated. Didn't go
Speaker 1: as well, So now we travel on Thursday. That's kind
Speaker 1: of the dude thing. And I think that's what the
Speaker 1: teams are doing now. You know, like you if you've
Speaker 1: been to London. If you haven't been to London, you
Speaker 1: got to do all the London stuff, right, you got
Speaker 1: to see Big Ben and the bridge in the in
Speaker 1: the eye and all that, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun place if you haven't been. It
Speaker 1: shuts down early. Um, you know hard party was like
Speaker 1: John Harris, gonna be hard for him because they shut
Speaker 1: it down about eleven o'clock. The old guys like you
Speaker 1: and I will be okay. But but it's a fun place.
Speaker 1: It's so it's a fun place to go. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: they have sort of a street party to celebrate the
Speaker 1: NFL with those teams involved, which is a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: So for people that haven't been market. It's been awful
Speaker 1: lot of fun, so I know you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: good time over there. What do your players say about
Speaker 1: body acclamation, the body clock, getting yourself ready to play
Speaker 1: an NFL game? What have they learned over the years
Speaker 1: about it? You know, it's funny. We fly at night.
Speaker 1: We fly, we leave about eight o'clock or so, eight
Speaker 1: hour flights, so we get in there and what would
Speaker 1: be four am hour time, nine am there time you
Speaker 1: try and sleep on the plane. That's the big thing.
Speaker 1: And they go right to practice day, they stress, get loose,
Speaker 1: and then they go right to practice. Which you don't
Speaker 1: want to do is sleep all day and then you're
Speaker 1: never used to it. So the idea is to get
Speaker 1: right to practice and then I think they have meetings
Speaker 1: afterwards and then by then it's an early night because
Speaker 1: they're kind of tired. So that's what's worked for them
Speaker 1: in terms of the schedule. I think going Thursday, having
Speaker 1: it there or so to get acclimated. It hasn't been
Speaker 1: a big It hasn't had a big, big effect on
Speaker 1: this team. I think they've gotten accustomed to it. I
Speaker 1: think they know how to do it now, and I
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of it, so I think
Speaker 1: they I think they've kind of learned the drill. Mark,
Speaker 1: I really do. I know all of us. First time
Speaker 1: I went, man, I don't think I ever got over.
Speaker 1: I think I think I was mumbling during my game call.
Speaker 1: But by Monday or Tuesday, I think we felt more.
Speaker 1: I'm more back to normal. But I think by now
Speaker 1: we're all kind of used to it. Frank Frangchie, voice
Speaker 1: of the Jaguars with US on Texans Radio. Okay, what
Speaker 1: about the fans. One more about London. The fans you
Speaker 1: see over there. I've heard that different jerseys are worn
Speaker 1: because they're NFL fans, not necessarily fans of the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there'll be more act than anything else because
Speaker 1: we've become sort of a quasi home team over there,
Speaker 1: so you'll see more Jacks jersey than you will other teams.
Speaker 1: But having said that, you'll see everybody you will see,
Speaker 1: and teams with big followings to go for the first time.
Speaker 1: I guess the Texans will be this way. I could
Speaker 1: tell you the first time when played the Eagles over
Speaker 1: there last year, there were tons of Eagles fans because
Speaker 1: they've never made the trip before. But yeah, you will
Speaker 1: see they all were at jerseys too, bro, so you
Speaker 1: will see more NFL jerseys from more different teams. I
Speaker 1: think the first year I went, I was kind of
Speaker 1: astounded by that mark. I think I probably counted fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen teams at one walk around the stadium. I think
Speaker 1: I could probably counted fifteen or sixteen for half of
Speaker 1: the NFL team. So it's colorful, it's kind of neat.
Speaker 1: They've had to learn how to cheer. It's a different
Speaker 1: kind of cheer than you're used to, and, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, even your players have to get used to
Speaker 1: that because you're you know, you're players who used to
Speaker 1: a certain cadence of the crowd. Home crowd acts a
Speaker 1: certain way, the road crowd acts a certain way. Well,
Speaker 1: these these tands are learning kind of how to cheer
Speaker 1: a little bit. It'll be a very different experience for
Speaker 1: you and for that team, for sure. Frank Franchis, Voice
Speaker 1: of the Jaguars with us. Okay, what about the team itself?
Speaker 1: Here you are at five hundred, are you surprised? How
Speaker 1: do you feel about the first half of the season
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. I gotta tell you, and I think
Speaker 1: this The feeling around here is to have lost your
Speaker 1: quarterback eleven plays into the season, Mark eleven plays. You
Speaker 1: spend eighty eight million dollars on Nick Bold and you
Speaker 1: lose him eleven plays in. Then have all the Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey stuff Jalen wanted out of here. They you know
Speaker 1: the whole story by now. By now all about the
Speaker 1: confrontation or the discussion with the front office that he
Speaker 1: asked for a trade a day later. I think everybody
Speaker 1: knows the drill. To lose your best defensive player, one
Speaker 1: of the best corners in the league is not the best.
Speaker 1: To lose your quarterback eleven plays in, and then you
Speaker 1: look up and you're right in the middle of the
Speaker 1: race and you're four and four. It's a pretty good
Speaker 1: four and four. The rookie quarterback's pretty good. I think
Speaker 1: everybody knows that. Now. Now, look, they've beaten struggling teams
Speaker 1: that yet they're struggling. The Bengals are struggling the Bronch
Speaker 1: it was a struggling. The wins have come against bad teams.
Speaker 1: They have to see if they can do it against
Speaker 1: good teams, and that, of course starts in London. I
Speaker 1: thought the Texans. Jack Warred getting the first time around
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Game came down to a two point
Speaker 1: conversion and Leonard Fournette was stopped about an inch short,
Speaker 1: and there was a one point game. So but now
Speaker 1: I think, all told, they feel pretty good about where
Speaker 1: this team is. Okay, what about Minshew? And I know
Speaker 1: you probably get asked all the time about what happens
Speaker 1: when Falls gets back? But what happens when Falls gets back?
Speaker 1: Frank I did get asked all the time. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody knows that answer. I think let's see what
Speaker 1: happens in London. If the Jags win, that's three straight wins.
Speaker 1: He's played very well, thirteen touchdowns, only two intersteps. He's
Speaker 1: way beyond where a speed. Mentally, I think everybody knows
Speaker 1: that he's got a good arm, not a great arm.
Speaker 1: He's mobile, he's got he's got a little moxie about him.
Speaker 1: There's something special about this guy that nobody would debate.
Speaker 1: Chat having said that you're committed, this team committed themselves,
Speaker 1: didn't expold you don't make the commitment. Someone said, well,
Speaker 1: you gotta play. They're gonna play poles through their pative. No,
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with it, but you paid
Speaker 1: him because you're committed to him being your guy for
Speaker 1: the next three years. So I don't know which way
Speaker 1: they're gonna go. Honestly, I don't know that dog does.
Speaker 1: I have stuck about that the other day and he
Speaker 1: told me he really doesn't know, and I tend to
Speaker 1: believe him. I don't think they've decided. I think the
Speaker 1: feeling is as an open day after the game, play
Speaker 1: the game, see what happens when you play the game,
Speaker 1: catch your breath, and then and then see what happens.
Speaker 1: My guest is Mark. At some point it folds, will
Speaker 1: quarterback this team again, whether it's the week after the
Speaker 1: buyron out, will see? All right? Tell me about DJ
Speaker 1: Shark and what you're getting out of him. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy's really making a lot of noise right now
Speaker 1: with the six touchdowns, six hundred and sixty yards. What
Speaker 1: are you seeing? Yeah, he's a good player at LSU.
Speaker 1: He's got all the measurable He's six foots four, he's
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds. He can run. He reminds you Boddy,
Speaker 1: he reminds you of Hopkins a little bit in terms
Speaker 1: of the way he looks. He did not catch a
Speaker 1: lot of balls at LSUCK. He probably got fifty sixty
Speaker 1: balls his whole career there. So for that reason, he
Speaker 1: wasn't the most seasoned there skilled guy. I had learned
Speaker 1: how to catch the ball. He kind of thought the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit Marcus first year. Now he's really
Speaker 1: worked on that. He's a good pass catcher, and the
Speaker 1: other stuff was there. He's really fast, he's very athletic,
Speaker 1: he works really hard. He's got a toughness about him.
Speaker 1: He's good. This guy's going to be legit. It's a
Speaker 1: good We have never had a great receiver for him,
Speaker 1: you know. We had. We had Jimmy Smith and Keenan
Speaker 1: McCardell in the early years in the nineties, and since then,
Speaker 1: it just hasn't been a very good core. It's pretty
Speaker 1: good now. Deeedi Westbrook's a good player. Chris Conley got
Speaker 1: buried a little bit in Kansas City, but now that
Speaker 1: he's here, he's a good player. So I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: having a tight end. Tight End play hasn't been very good.
Speaker 1: But as far as the white receivers, they've been pretty good.
Speaker 1: I thought you were on your way with Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: and Hearns and those guys. They were looking like a
Speaker 1: good young crew, but it never quite materialized, right, that
Speaker 1: was part of it. And look, Alan Hearns is a
Speaker 1: really good player, and Alan Hearns is the best teammate
Speaker 1: of all the time. But those guys weren't very fast.
Speaker 1: We've gotten into it. We've gotten a time in the
Speaker 1: league I think, and maybe you just agree with this,
Speaker 1: but we've gotten to a time in the league where
Speaker 1: possession receivers have had to give away to guys that
Speaker 1: can run. I mean, look at Fuller. I mean, who's
Speaker 1: faster than Fuller in this league? And he's the second
Speaker 1: rest receiver on your team. So I think we've gotten
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Mark, I think we've gotten
Speaker 1: where guys have to run as good as as good
Speaker 1: as a rob and Hearns and Markus Lee where they
Speaker 1: all came into the league together, none of them took
Speaker 1: the top off the defense. These three guys can all run. Now,
Speaker 1: this is three guys that can run. They haven't had
Speaker 1: that before. What's different about Fournette if anything? Seven yards
Speaker 1: my goodness, five yards per carry. The guys doing really
Speaker 1: well for him, Well, he's healthy, he was hurt most
Speaker 1: of last year. And last year it got away from
Speaker 1: the Jaggers for whatever reason. They had a lot of
Speaker 1: young guys. You started wondering if they were playing for
Speaker 1: each other or are playing for themselves a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think they would tell you that in a very
Speaker 1: introspective moment. I think most of the guys on the
Speaker 1: team would tell you that. I think Leonard recommitted himself
Speaker 1: went to Wyoming in the off season. Mark really really worked,
Speaker 1: got himself in great shape. He's he's the running him now.
Speaker 1: He gets all the carry they throw it to him
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, and I think he's healthy. I
Speaker 1: think he's in shape. I think he's a year older,
Speaker 1: a year of more mature, and he's having a terrific year.
Speaker 1: But this whole team, look, I'm Jayleen Rams. He is
Speaker 1: a magnificent player and everybody hated to see him go
Speaker 1: to be sent a good player, and he was a
Speaker 1: hard worker and he cared. He wanted to be the
Speaker 1: best in his craft. So there's no negative stuff about Jalen.
Speaker 1: Yet it's got to where this team. I think this
Speaker 1: team plays for each other more now than it has
Speaker 1: in many many years. I think you can sense that.
Speaker 1: I think you can feel that, and I think there's
Speaker 1: a pretty good vibe in that locker room. Frank Frangie,
Speaker 1: voice of the Jaguars with us, Frank, give me a
Speaker 1: player too. That doesn't get pub that. You think more
Speaker 1: people should be talking about somebody's doing well for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there's some under the radar guys, some of
Speaker 1: the young second year guys, Tavin Bryant starting to play
Speaker 1: well along that defensive front. Josh Allen's getting a lot
Speaker 1: of pubs, so I guess he wouldn't qualify as that guy.
Speaker 1: He's getting a lot. I think the two safeties, the
Speaker 1: two young safeties, remember it ad to Sean Gifton is
Speaker 1: there now? And Church who better in safeties? Who kind
Speaker 1: of anchored that defense when the team was the defense
Speaker 1: was so good two years ago? They're gone. So the
Speaker 1: two young safeties, Jerry Wilson's played well, Ronnie Harrison's played well.
Speaker 1: This young defensive tackle the first round or a year ago,
Speaker 1: Taven Bryan. When Caven Brian came into the league, he's
Speaker 1: six foot five to sixty five and kind of looked
Speaker 1: in a uniform like JJ Watt and everyone said he's
Speaker 1: j J Watt. Well he's not Ja, but he's the
Speaker 1: tackle is the three technique. He's not an end. They
Speaker 1: tried him an end the last year. He didn't play
Speaker 1: the well. So he's starting to play better. The Wan
Speaker 1: Smoot is a draft pick a third round or three
Speaker 1: years ago that they thought maybe they had missed on.
Speaker 1: He's got two sacks already. He's starting to play better.
Speaker 1: So some of the young guy. And I'll give you
Speaker 1: one more guy, hup and eye and Trey Herndon the
Speaker 1: cornerback number thirty seven. Mark. He's a guy that had
Speaker 1: to He's an undrafted guy out of Vanderbilt that had
Speaker 1: to go in and play. When they traded Jalen and
Speaker 1: people thought, oh boy, well he had two interceptions last week.
Speaker 1: And I mean good interceptions. I don't mean bought the
Speaker 1: pumped in his hands. I mean he went dove and
Speaker 1: went and got him. The week before against Cincinnati, he
Speaker 1: thought he had an intercept head was overturned by replay.
Speaker 1: This guy's got two picks, almost three. He's been a
Speaker 1: really good cornerback for them, so he's played pretty well.
Speaker 1: Excellent stuff, Frank, all right, one more for you. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody should be surprised that the AFC South
Speaker 1: has all four teams at five hundred or better. But
Speaker 1: it's the way they got there. I think that is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a surprise at the very least.
Speaker 1: What about the Titans and the Cults, your quick thoughts
Speaker 1: on them, Yeah, I'm not surprised that you Phoby were set.
Speaker 1: I know him a little bit when he was at
Speaker 1: Florida before he transferred to NC State. I said on
Speaker 1: my day on my daily radio show. Watched it. He's
Speaker 1: not Andrew the Locks. Nobody's gonna do luck, but he
Speaker 1: is a really good player and they will not take
Speaker 1: the step back to people thinking. The people on the
Speaker 1: radio show with me look like I had a blue head.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, I'm not surprised by that. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of the Titan I think
Speaker 1: they're a good, tough, physical football team. Mariota got benched.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to make of him. Mike, he's
Speaker 1: a good friend of bothyers in mine and Mike and
Speaker 1: I talk about it a lot. I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: knew where they were headed with Mariota. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what to make of the Titans. The tough, nos
Speaker 1: physical football teams it finds the way to win. They
Speaker 1: know how to win. I'm not surprised by the Colts.
Speaker 1: I think your Cobe brissetted good player. I expected him
Speaker 1: to play well like he had. Unfortunately, we found out
Speaker 1: how good a player Jacoby Brissett actually is. We found
Speaker 1: it out in twenty seventeen, but it was just emphasized
Speaker 1: again in twenty nineteen. The Jags will have their opportunity
Speaker 1: to see that as well. They still have two meetings
Speaker 1: with the Colts over the last eight excuse me, last
Speaker 1: seven games of this season. They'll match up twice, just
Speaker 1: like the Texans will match up with the Titans twice
Speaker 1: over the last Actually it'll be for the Texas last
Speaker 1: four games of the year. So there you go, all right,
Speaker 1: great stuff from Frank. Coming up, it's our good friend
Speaker 1: Game Analyst nineteen eighty nine Heisman Trophy winner Andre Where
Speaker 1: joining us right here on Texans will Access but shop
Speaker 1: back into this Wednesday Nia of Texans All Access from
Speaker 1: the Monday Texans Radio studio with our good friend Andre Where,
Speaker 1: my broadcast partner and my friend before we talk about football.
Speaker 1: I know you've been overseas many times, so what is
Speaker 1: your advice for jet lag. What do you think of
Speaker 1: going to London the whole thing. Uh, plenty of water,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's what you would start with. And just
Speaker 1: make sure you're hydrated because it's a long flight. Um
Speaker 1: that that seems to always help me with jet lag.
Speaker 1: And then when you get there, I've got a couple
Speaker 1: of favorite restaurants. So then it becomes what you want
Speaker 1: to do when you have a flavor for what you've
Speaker 1: read about in terms of the city that you're visiting,
Speaker 1: in this case London and all that it has to offer.
Speaker 1: So just just kind of dive into the culture there
Speaker 1: and become part of the everyday where life. We're not
Speaker 1: there a whole lot or a long time, but it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun. Did you ever
Speaker 1: play a game overseas? Uh? Yeah, uh in Tokyo of
Speaker 1: all places. I was in camp with the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: at the time with them, and we played the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs in u in in Tokyo. I actually think
Speaker 1: I've played in London as well, in a pre season
Speaker 1: game or a game against the Cowboys when I was
Speaker 1: I know I did against the Cowboys over there. So
Speaker 1: this isn't in my first trip to London by any stretch,
Speaker 1: and I've actually played a game there. How tough was
Speaker 1: it to go to Tokyo as an athlete and take
Speaker 1: the field and do all of that with that kind
Speaker 1: of travel situation to deal with jetlag wise and otherwise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you go over and it's it's early enough. For The
Speaker 1: thing about preseason games is you leave you can leave
Speaker 1: super early. When you get into the regular season, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different kind of deal because there is
Speaker 1: such a short turnaround. But in the preseason you can
Speaker 1: leave really early. There you can get adjusted a lot better.
Speaker 1: We got a chance to visit an aircraft carrier. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things that you do one time in
Speaker 1: your life and that's enough. Because of the way you
Speaker 1: have to land and take off on an aircraft carrier,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. But as far as a game,
Speaker 1: once once you get there and you start to prepare
Speaker 1: and prep and you share practices. We shared him with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs at that time. I got a chance. Joe
Speaker 1: Montana was with the Chiefs at that point in time,
Speaker 1: so you really I really just studied and watched him
Speaker 1: and how he went about his business. As a young
Speaker 1: when I was a young player, So it was very good, beneficial,
Speaker 1: very cool, And as far as the aircraft carrier goes,
Speaker 1: I don't like pulling g's on a roller coaster, so
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. And no, I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where they tell you
Speaker 1: when you're taking off to lead that if you hear
Speaker 1: sound after ten seconds, you know you're in the air,
Speaker 1: and if you don't, then you know you're pretty much
Speaker 1: in trouble. So that that was all I had to
Speaker 1: hear one time, and one time doing it is has
Speaker 1: been enough. Ouch. Hey, I know you do a lot
Speaker 1: of interviews out of town and everything, and everybody probably
Speaker 1: asks you about the Shawn Watson and I never get
Speaker 1: tired of talking about him. But I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: funny because I'm wondering what else I can say about
Speaker 1: the guy. He's amazed. What do you say about him
Speaker 1: when people ask you what kind of quarterback he is
Speaker 1: and what he's doing for this football team right now? Well,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I was talking to a big group last
Speaker 1: night at the Astros game and that you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people were asking about Deshaun and what I
Speaker 1: thought the very question that you're asking, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, this is no surprise to me. And when
Speaker 1: they asked, well, why is that, I said, because I
Speaker 1: thought he should have been the first player drafted in
Speaker 1: that draft. I thought he was that good. I was
Speaker 1: that sure of it. And I think if you go
Speaker 1: back and and you reevaluate the whole draft and you
Speaker 1: shuffle the cards, maybe mahomes and a lot of eyes,
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of them would have changed
Speaker 1: their mind and their their thought process on where and
Speaker 1: when Deshaun should have been drafted. It's no surprise to me.
Speaker 1: Is the message that I seem. He's a transcendent player
Speaker 1: that a lot of guys, a lot of teams would
Speaker 1: love to have. Each and every week there's an all
Speaker 1: moment in a game, like you know you took it
Speaker 1: away from him a week ago against the Colts, Well
Speaker 1: he came back and showed it again the very next
Speaker 1: week against the Raiders and so um and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the play when they blew it dead and what
Speaker 1: should have been a touchdown pass in Indianapolis, Well, he
Speaker 1: made sure of it this week. And he's he's just
Speaker 1: literally what Dabo Sweeney described to everyone is that he's
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan on a football field, and that kind of
Speaker 1: that kind of plays out each and every week. We're
Speaker 1: lucky to have the seats that we're in, yeah, and
Speaker 1: lucky to have DeAndre Hopkins too, but no JJ Watt
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. So, Andrea, what do
Speaker 1: they do? And I know you've been asked this as well,
Speaker 1: what do they do to try to combat the loss
Speaker 1: of j J Watt on that defensive front. I think
Speaker 1: it's a lot of players, a lot of different mixtures
Speaker 1: of things, and you got to be real careful in
Speaker 1: how you do it and about it because you can't
Speaker 1: get two blitz crazy because you've got some of the
Speaker 1: inexperience right now that's playing on the back end. But
Speaker 1: you have to pick and choose when you do it,
Speaker 1: mix and rotate a handful of players and many who's
Speaker 1: gonna be big. He's going to have to really grow
Speaker 1: up in a hurry and start to contribute in a
Speaker 1: major way. And I think he's got some talent there
Speaker 1: that can certainly get you by. There're gonna be other
Speaker 1: others that will have to step up in terms of
Speaker 1: rush defense that on Earth, especially on early downs. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to stand in there and fight and scratch
Speaker 1: and not give up an inch here and there, and
Speaker 1: others will have to make plays because of that, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just going to be a totally different way
Speaker 1: in which you go about playing defense with a player
Speaker 1: like JJ out of the lineup. Well, we've been working
Speaker 1: together eighteen years, so I'm sure you've seen the same
Speaker 1: thing I have and are concerned about the same thing.
Speaker 1: And that's Leonard Fournette, who's having a really good season.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the early downs and needing to stop him.
Speaker 1: The Texans did a good job last time, but they're
Speaker 1: going to have to do that again and maybe more
Speaker 1: this time. Yeah, and he seems that. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what's what's the difference in Leonard Fournette is that he's
Speaker 1: running behind a healthier offensive line. They've gotten some players
Speaker 1: back up front that have opened some holes for him.
Speaker 1: And when you're playing with backups, we know how tough
Speaker 1: that is to to especially get the running game going,
Speaker 1: when everybody's not in sync or you have one guy
Speaker 1: in one guy out. It's it's tough to go about
Speaker 1: your business that way, especially for a talented backlight Fournette,
Speaker 1: but he's back, the offensive line is a little bit healthier,
Speaker 1: and he's starting to reap the benefits. We know what
Speaker 1: type of talent he is. He looks as though, studying
Speaker 1: last week's film, he's having fun again. And when you're
Speaker 1: there are no holes there and you're constantly being stopped
Speaker 1: in the backfield at the line of scrimmage, it's no
Speaker 1: fun for not only a quarterback, but certainly a running back.
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew seems like, you know, he's just continuing to
Speaker 1: build every single week on the last week's performance, where
Speaker 1: his confidence is at an all time, all time high
Speaker 1: right now. So those are two weapons. Are certainly a
Speaker 1: lot more that are around those two that will be
Speaker 1: a factor in Sunday's game. But they look like a
Speaker 1: very good, young offensive team that's starting to turn the
Speaker 1: corner and starting to compete at a high level. Minshew
Speaker 1: is kind of making it, I hate to say, look easy.
Speaker 1: It's not easy, and maybe he's not making it look
Speaker 1: that easy, but he's a rookie Andre and they're four
Speaker 1: and four, and I know the competition isn't super Bowl worthy,
Speaker 1: but you have to give him some credit here for
Speaker 1: coming in and doing a nice job. Yeah. I credit
Speaker 1: how he was coached in college and being able to
Speaker 1: read defenses and things of that. That goes a long
Speaker 1: way when you can come to the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and see different looks and know how to attack certain
Speaker 1: defenses based on where the weaknesses are. Mike Leach did
Speaker 1: an outstanding job with him, and I think that's he's
Speaker 1: part of a trend where that's the way in the
Speaker 1: direction that the NFL is going. It's going more towards
Speaker 1: the spread looks, the offenses, the air raid type offenses,
Speaker 1: where guys are are prepared for what the NFL has
Speaker 1: in store from a defensive standpoint, not a whole lot.
Speaker 1: You can show him that he hasn't seen to be
Speaker 1: quite honest, and and he has taken the coaching is
Speaker 1: he's often running with it, and he's getting he's improving
Speaker 1: each and every week, and you can actually see it
Speaker 1: when you turn on the tape and watch it. All Right,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the cults here going to Pittsburgh, and
Speaker 1: we saw Pittsburgh. I hesitate to use the word struggle,
Speaker 1: but it was more of a struggle than we thought
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night, So what are
Speaker 1: you thinking of the Steelers hosting the Cults this weekend. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I go back to that game on Monday
Speaker 1: night against the Dolphins. I think it may have been
Speaker 1: one of those where you underestimate an opponent and a
Speaker 1: young team. You know Mason Randolph or Rudolph there as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, and you just can't do that. There's a
Speaker 1: there are a lot of young components to the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and then you're reading about the Dolphins and how the
Speaker 1: tank in the season and how you know this and
Speaker 1: the other where it's going to be an easy games.
Speaker 1: Just we're at home. We'll roll the helmets out there
Speaker 1: and roll the balls out. We'll win and move on. Well,
Speaker 1: it's the NFL and you find yourself up, Oh, we're
Speaker 1: down fourteen nothing, we better start playing. I think it
Speaker 1: was more more of that than it was a lapse
Speaker 1: of talent. With the Steelers going to or playing against
Speaker 1: Indie this week, this will be a tough game. It's
Speaker 1: one that on paper, the Colts should be able to
Speaker 1: take care of the Steelers, but it's the NFL and
Speaker 1: you never know. Any given Sunday it can happen. We
Speaker 1: saw that Miami came out fighting and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Steelers reacted. This could this is one
Speaker 1: of those where it's the coach should win it, but
Speaker 1: it could be a toss up game. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: you have the Titans in Carolina in North Carolina, so
Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting as well. Carolina coming out
Speaker 1: that bad loss seems to be coming down, you know,
Speaker 1: back down to Earth. There was a lot of Kyle Allen.
Speaker 1: He suffered his first loss this past weekend. I know
Speaker 1: they've got some injuries in Carolina, but Tennessee is a
Speaker 1: team that is starting to roll a little bit. They're
Speaker 1: going on the road Tanny Hills, starting to play some
Speaker 1: consistent football. And that's always been the scary thing about Tennessee,
Speaker 1: as if they can get consistent quarterback play each and
Speaker 1: every weekend a week out with a dominant running game,
Speaker 1: and I think that's exactly what coach Brabo wanted. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what he's starting to get and he's starting to
Speaker 1: reap the benefits of it. All Right, Well, I'll see
Speaker 1: on the plane and I'll be the one jealous of
Speaker 1: looking at you sleeping like a baby while I'm wired
Speaker 1: and can't sleep because I have difficulty sleeping with air travel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta get hydrated, man, maybe something to help your
Speaker 1: nose off a little bit. And you can get on
Speaker 1: London's time as quickly as you possibly can, because when
Speaker 1: we get there it'll be Friday, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: relatively early, so you got the whole day. You can't
Speaker 1: just go to bed, so up on the plane. I'll
Speaker 1: do my best, all right, my friend, We'll see you there,
Speaker 1: all right, buddy. I think I'm just gonna get up
Speaker 1: at like three to thirty in the morning, thirty four
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, so I'm just so exhaust. I
Speaker 1: have to sleep on a plane. But man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's either that aren't pulling it all night,
Speaker 1: or in London, I'm just staying up all the way
Speaker 1: through and then all the way through the next day.
Speaker 1: It's probably not the best I could do. I would assume.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I wish I could sleep on
Speaker 1: a plane. Drake can half the time on a plane
Speaker 1: fly at home. He's kicking my chair falling asleep, so
Speaker 1: I know exactly all about him getting z's on a plane.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Now coming up next, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go behind them sidelines with Deep City. This week,
Speaker 1: Deep caught up with JP Shattered to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit of London minshoe Mania kind of like Beatlemania, Wimbley
Speaker 1: Stadium and what we're gonna see Sunday from the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Keep me locked right here, I'll Texans Access. We got
Speaker 1: one final segment of this Wednesday edition of Texans All
Speaker 1: Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,
Speaker 1: John Harris. We will have All Access for you tomorrow
Speaker 1: as normal, even though we will be about on our
Speaker 1: way out of town. We'll have that taken care of
Speaker 1: for you. John McClane, David Fletcher will be on the
Speaker 1: show with Mark Vandomir and then we will do the
Speaker 1: show Mark and I from the barrow Boy and Banker
Speaker 1: Pub in London for Friday. Kevin Walter is scheduled to appear,
Speaker 1: amongst others. We also will have all the things that
Speaker 1: go with this game that I always do on Friday's
Speaker 1: my Keys to the Game, my predictions, all those kind
Speaker 1: of things we will do. We will do it on
Speaker 1: Friday from London, and that is if you're headed over there.
Speaker 1: Or you're already over there and listening a barrow Boy
Speaker 1: and Banker pub. That's Texans home base. That's where you
Speaker 1: kind of want to be. It's like where everything is stationed.
Speaker 1: You go there, and then you know, that's like the
Speaker 1: middle on trivial pursuit. You know, I had the outer ring,
Speaker 1: but had to go to the inner ring. Well, barrow
Speaker 1: Boy and Banker apparently is the inner ring. You go
Speaker 1: there for anything. Apparently food is pretty good there too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I gotta find out. I do want
Speaker 1: some fish and chips. I do want that. I do
Speaker 1: not want to hag us, but I do want the
Speaker 1: fish and chips for sure. I might eat that every meal.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea what I'm gonat
Speaker 1: when I'm gonna over there, I'm kind of excited about it.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. I know a guy that's
Speaker 1: been over there a few times with the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and that's our good friend JP Shattuck, who covers Jacksonville
Speaker 1: four Jaguars dot com and whatever. It's time to go
Speaker 1: behind enemy sidelines in Jacksonville deep S calls up our
Speaker 1: good friend JP sha JP just ahead of our London game.
Speaker 1: How's it going, Oh, it's great. I feel like I
Speaker 1: never talked to you before Texans game DP. We never talk.
Speaker 1: We never talk. And the fact that we're playing each
Speaker 1: other twice before the bye week and then that's it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna feel weird the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. Not that I'm complaining, but these two teams
Speaker 1: won't have to face each other after the bye week
Speaker 1: unless it's in the playoffs. Yeah, well, let's let's hope. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can hope it for Houston,
Speaker 1: but hope for the Jaguars that they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That means the jagson made a nice run here in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season with three straight division games
Speaker 1: this week of course in London, and then a bye
Speaker 1: week and then games against the Colts and the Titans
Speaker 1: back to back after that. So I think we'll know
Speaker 1: pretty quick in Jacksonville at least if this team is
Speaker 1: playoff worthy or not. Let's talk about this Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: It's the seventh year for the Jaguars traveling to London
Speaker 1: for a home game. The Jaguars have done a phenomenal
Speaker 1: job over the years just honing in on the travel
Speaker 1: plans and their schedule. What does the schedule look like
Speaker 1: this year in this week for the Jags. Well, the
Speaker 1: last few years it's been pretty much the same travel
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon evening around six or seven o'clock. The plane
Speaker 1: leaves charter from Jacksonville and straight into Heathrow and then
Speaker 1: we usually arrive at Heathrow six six fifteen in the
Speaker 1: morning London time, check into the hotel and it's been
Speaker 1: the same hotel right near Wimbley Stadium the last number
Speaker 1: of years. Actually, I think almost all every year the
Speaker 1: days prior to the game have been right there at Wimbley,
Speaker 1: Check into the hotel, and then there's a walkthrough at
Speaker 1: Allian's Park, the home of Saracens Rugby club. That's on
Speaker 1: Friday around noon, just to get the guy's legs moving
Speaker 1: again and get them doing something that they do the
Speaker 1: media responsibilities there at the practice that day. All the
Speaker 1: UK folks are in for that. And then Saturday, usually
Speaker 1: Friday night, there's a couple of events with the ownership group,
Speaker 1: do a few things in town with some sponsors and stuff.
Speaker 1: Saturday there's a team walk through and then a couple
Speaker 1: of events for fans midday and in the evening a
Speaker 1: pub party for Jaguar fans. Fulham Football Club plays on
Speaker 1: Saturday as well. That's Shad Khan's soccer team in London
Speaker 1: in the Championship League. They're playing at like three o'clock
Speaker 1: and then Sunday it's game day and here you go.
Speaker 1: It's a two thirty kickoff London time. And then we
Speaker 1: hop on the plane right after the game and come
Speaker 1: on back home. We're back in Jacksonville by about one
Speaker 1: one thirty in the morning, so two nights on the
Speaker 1: ground in London. That's been at least a winning formula
Speaker 1: for this team over time the last few years or so. Now,
Speaker 1: the first couple of years they went all week long
Speaker 1: and that was the team wasn't great anyway, but there
Speaker 1: was a lot of distractions, a lot of things going on.
Speaker 1: It just didn't end well on the field on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So the shortened trip and it's the same routine every
Speaker 1: single year, and I think that's the home field advantage.
Speaker 1: And not to mention that there are a bunch of
Speaker 1: Jaguar fans too, but to have that routine is key. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it built up quite a bit of a following there.
Speaker 1: What's the longest amount of time that the Jaguars have
Speaker 1: stayed in London? Am I remembering correctly? That one year
Speaker 1: they even spent an extra night after the game and
Speaker 1: then came back. That's correct. So that was the first
Speaker 1: year and that or was it the first year? Gosh,
Speaker 1: they're all running together now. So the first year they
Speaker 1: played the forty nine ers. I remember the game itself
Speaker 1: was a blowout and the forty nine ers ran up
Speaker 1: and down the field. Colin Kaepernick was running like a
Speaker 1: deer all day and scored two touchdowns on the ground
Speaker 1: and it was twenty eight zip in four drives. But
Speaker 1: that was the year that they The Jags left on Monday,
Speaker 1: got there Tuesday morning, stayed in the countryside out west
Speaker 1: of town, and then came into town. Stayed down on
Speaker 1: Park Lane downtown the nights before the game and around
Speaker 1: the game. The next year, the Jags were on the
Speaker 1: road the week before they were in Cincinnati, so came
Speaker 1: straight from Cincinnati Sunday night, flew over, got there Monday morning,
Speaker 1: and then stayed up at another resort north of town
Speaker 1: all week long with the practice field. Did all that
Speaker 1: and then moved to the Hilton right near Wembley Stadium
Speaker 1: the nights Friday night before the game. So after that,
Speaker 1: they've decided they were two blowout losses. They decided to
Speaker 1: shorten it up and change it up. Here. You guys
Speaker 1: are London pros over there in Jacksonville. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Jags Week two. These two teams
Speaker 1: face each other. Now they're gonna face each other again.
Speaker 1: Lots changed since that Week two matchup. So let's start
Speaker 1: with Jalen Ramsey because I feel like things are going
Speaker 1: well for the Jags and Jalen right before that game
Speaker 1: and then things just took a turn for the worst
Speaker 1: after that. He's already played some games out there in LA.
Speaker 1: What was the catalyst for that move happening when it did?
Speaker 1: And tell me a little bit about the Jaguars defense,
Speaker 1: how they've sort of made up for the loss of
Speaker 1: one of their top corners. Of course, all that started
Speaker 1: in Houston Week two and on the putting drive when
Speaker 1: there was an little out route by DeAndre Hopkins that
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey thought that he dropped and he was yelling
Speaker 1: at the sideline and Dug Maron to challenge the play.
Speaker 1: And they go through their process from upstairs to see it,
Speaker 1: and they didn't challenge it. So the rest of the drive,
Speaker 1: Jalen is yelling at the sideline. He's late to his
Speaker 1: assignment to get out there. He's angry that Maron didn't
Speaker 1: challenge the call, and of course, later in the drive
Speaker 1: gives up another third down reception for a first down
Speaker 1: to keep the drive alive. I think the Jags held
Speaker 1: him the field goal if I remember right on that drive. Well,
Speaker 1: he comes off the field and goes right by coach
Speaker 1: Maron and swats him on the arm as he walks by.
Speaker 1: Ramsey touches Maron. Well, he puts his hands on the head. Coach,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Right? So a little later in
Speaker 1: the in the disagreement there, Maron goes over and trying
Speaker 1: to sort him back out. Hey, let's get ready focused
Speaker 1: and ready to go. Oh there, some players on the
Speaker 1: bench stand up. It's a whole thing in the sideline, right,
Speaker 1: But okay, either way, the defense settles in. They played
Speaker 1: a pretty good football game. And he plays a great
Speaker 1: game against DeAndre Hopkins that day, right, I mean, he
Speaker 1: shuts him down for most of the day. One of
Speaker 1: the great performances he's had against Hopkins, and then after
Speaker 1: the game, apparently there's a conversation around the locker room,
Speaker 1: in the locker room somewhere between Ramsey and some of
Speaker 1: the executives, and then after that meeting, there's an official
Speaker 1: ask for a trade from Ramsey's representatives to the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: So that was right after that game is when the
Speaker 1: official word came in that they wanted to trade. And
Speaker 1: of course a few weeks go by, he has you know,
Speaker 1: he's got the flu, the baby's coming in Nashville, he's
Speaker 1: got to go, and then the back injury for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and then they finally found a trade
Speaker 1: partner in LA that gave them two first round picks
Speaker 1: and a fourth and they got him out of here.
Speaker 1: And I think over time, you know, they never set
Speaker 1: it publicly in the locker room, but you could tell
Speaker 1: by that second or third week of him not being available,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to practice limited and then not being
Speaker 1: able to go on game day. You know, I think
Speaker 1: that kind of worth than in the locker room here,
Speaker 1: though they say it publicly, you can just kind of
Speaker 1: get that feeling and hearing some guys after the fact
Speaker 1: now of course say that. So I think it's probably
Speaker 1: brought him together a little bit because they were playing
Speaker 1: okay at times without him. Yeah, he's a great corner,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot that comes with that, and in
Speaker 1: that locker room, they feel like they can play defense
Speaker 1: without him. So this will be the challenge this week
Speaker 1: because guess what. Houston, as you know, has fantastic wide
Speaker 1: receivers and a great quarterback. Yeah, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball with Gardner Minshew. Now he's
Speaker 1: got thirteen touchdowns, two interceptions, and he's broken I don't know,
Speaker 1: like a million more rookie records since the Texans faced
Speaker 1: him in a Week two. How have you seen him
Speaker 1: progress over the last seven games? What's changed at about
Speaker 1: Minshew now that he's got some more experience in hers built.
Speaker 1: It's funny, there's not a lot. I mean, he's seen
Speaker 1: probably a few more different looks on defense. There's going
Speaker 1: to be something that surprises him here and there, right,
Speaker 1: and a different look or a different blitz concept or whatever.
Speaker 1: But he's still the same guy who was in Houston
Speaker 1: week two and in week one when he came in
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. Well, now you just have a little
Speaker 1: more belief that something good's going to happen. Then you
Speaker 1: had no idea. Who knows what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: this kid, right, And then he drives down the field
Speaker 1: and scores a touchdown in Houston, And if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for the two point try, then you know, you go
Speaker 1: to overtime. Who knows. But they lost that football game,
Speaker 1: but you saw a little spark and then it happened again.
Speaker 1: And then they go to Denver and win, and he
Speaker 1: rallies them back from a late score that the defense
Speaker 1: gave up and they went on the road in Denver,
Speaker 1: tough place to play. So he's doing things. He's he's
Speaker 1: got great awareness of the scheme and where guys are
Speaker 1: going to be. He when he is pressured, he can
Speaker 1: keep his head up and look down field. He's great
Speaker 1: in his progressions. I think that that keeping the head
Speaker 1: up thing is really important because especially for a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're used to a guy ducking and cover
Speaker 1: right for when there's pressure, any flash of the other
Speaker 1: colored jersey, he's going to go down, right, Well, this
Speaker 1: guy gets out of the way, keeps it alive, somehow,
Speaker 1: keeps his eyes down field, and receivers get open and
Speaker 1: make place for him too. So you have all that
Speaker 1: combination together. It is exciting to watch. I'm curious how
Speaker 1: much longer we'll get to watch it. And that's the
Speaker 1: big debate. Deep you down here right now? Hi? You
Speaker 1: were you're leading into my next question JP Nick Foles. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're reading my mind. He's it's about that time for
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. So it's it's going to be a pretty
Speaker 1: big decision for the Jags. Where do you see it going.
Speaker 1: He's eligible week eleven? Okay, so I think officially will
Speaker 1: be eligible week ten, but the Jags have a bye
Speaker 1: that week, so week eleven against the colt So if
Speaker 1: Minshew comes out and throws for three fifty and three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in Wimbley on Sunday against the Texans, it gets
Speaker 1: a win against the division rival, and the Jags are
Speaker 1: five and four and he's five and three as a starter,
Speaker 1: can you pull him out? Well, this offense was built
Speaker 1: for Nick Foles, right, I mean, so, do you ride
Speaker 1: the wave and try to get through the middle part
Speaker 1: of this season with a hot quarterback and a defense
Speaker 1: that's starting to come into its own or do you
Speaker 1: shake it up and put folds in there and hope
Speaker 1: he's at his peak performance, you know, in a time
Speaker 1: where he has to be right, because if they don't
Speaker 1: get through the middle part of the schedule, the next
Speaker 1: month December won't matter because you're gonna lose three division games,
Speaker 1: then you're not gonna be you know, the five games
Speaker 1: in December, three at home, or you're you're playing uphill
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. So it's really about what
Speaker 1: gives them the best chance to win the next month's
Speaker 1: worth of worth of games, and then they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: If they try him and he at some point does
Speaker 1: fail and doesn't look as sharp, then you make the
Speaker 1: move because I think if you if you make the
Speaker 1: move and unmake the move, then you're flopping quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: you have two quarterbacks you don't have one. That's a
Speaker 1: whole issue. For me. I'm kind of split. I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you. It's really tough. And the analysts here
Speaker 1: that we have on our shows that it's you just
Speaker 1: don't have a feel for it yet. And Doug Morone
Speaker 1: says publicly he hasn't thought about it. I think that delay.
Speaker 1: I think he has a gut feeling what he wants
Speaker 1: to do, but hey, it's the hot hand. And then
Speaker 1: you got a guy who's come off the bench in
Speaker 1: key situations late in seasons before lead a team to
Speaker 1: the promised Land. So who knows, the next two weeks
Speaker 1: will be just fascinating to see what they come up
Speaker 1: with that. It's funny that Nick Foles always finds himself
Speaker 1: in that situation where even if he's meant to be
Speaker 1: the starter, he's going to come off the bench in
Speaker 1: December or a time like maybe maybe he will, maybe
Speaker 1: he won't for Jacksonville and make things happen. I know
Speaker 1: the Texans saw him last year against Philly, and boy
Speaker 1: does he look good late in the season. I got
Speaker 1: to say, all right, let's talk about before I let
Speaker 1: you go, Leonard Fournette. We saw what he's done over
Speaker 1: the last few years. But man, he's really having a season.
Speaker 1: Leads the AFC, ranked second in the NFL with seven
Speaker 1: hundred ninety one rushing yards on the season. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the season that he's having so far.
Speaker 1: Do you think he sustains it for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. He's well on his way. You know. The
Speaker 1: one thing he just hasn't scored much. He's had one
Speaker 1: touch all year, so that's bothered him. You can tell
Speaker 1: he's just a different cat altogether. And I'm not just
Speaker 1: talking about on the field. That's obvious with the numbers
Speaker 1: and he's leading the league and attempts as well. I
Speaker 1: mean they're running him a lot, and he's got a
Speaker 1: great average and he's getting good yardage Abbott and production
Speaker 1: and everything. But his attitude and the way he goes
Speaker 1: about his day to day business has changed. You gotta
Speaker 1: remember the last time we saw Leonard Fournette in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: he's sitting on the bench down there in your place,
Speaker 1: and with t J. Yeldon alongside him, sitting on the
Speaker 1: bench during offensive drives. Now, he wasn't active, TJ was,
Speaker 1: and they were just kind of it was a moping basically,
Speaker 1: and Tom Coughlin made a public statement after the game
Speaker 1: chastising both of them basically, right, So he's in the
Speaker 1: doghouse basically at that point. Then he goes to Wyoming
Speaker 1: to go with his old college strength and conditioning coach
Speaker 1: to kind of get away from New Orleans, get away
Speaker 1: from here, see if he can get back on track. Physically.
Speaker 1: He'd gotten a little bit, you know, so that's one thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a good start. Then he gets arrested in April
Speaker 1: for a suspended license and some other traffic violations. Kind
Speaker 1: of a wake up call, Okay, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: Like you let me get my thing in order here,
Speaker 1: and he said, and he said this the other day.
Speaker 1: Actually that that kind of woke him up. So he's
Speaker 1: focused a little more on everything off the field, focused
Speaker 1: more on football, and you can tell like he's actually
Speaker 1: he's a pleasure to talk to this year. He was
Speaker 1: not great with the media at all last year, very short,
Speaker 1: one word answers, you know, very very short. Not much
Speaker 1: you're gonna get out of him. This year, he's you
Speaker 1: can chat him up after the press conference. He's engaged,
Speaker 1: he's locked in, he's a he's a different guy, and
Speaker 1: I think that shows up on the field too, so
Speaker 1: everything around him is different. It's an unbelievable turnaround from
Speaker 1: last year when there was talk of you gotta get
Speaker 1: this guy out of here right Well now, it's what
Speaker 1: would they be without him? They wouldn't be four and four.
Speaker 1: I could tell you that even with what Gardnerman Sheho's doing.
Speaker 1: It's a dramatic turnaround and it's I think it's saved
Speaker 1: at least the first half of the season, and I
Speaker 1: don't see any signs of slowing down. Yeah, it's amazing. Well,
Speaker 1: how he's really turned his position and what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do in just one year. I do remember
Speaker 1: last year he missed a lot of games at the injury,
Speaker 1: had a rough offseason, didn't know how much longer, and
Speaker 1: the welcome out was gonna be rolled out for him
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, So we got in a fight during the game,
Speaker 1: went to Buffalo and his punching shack Lawson and without
Speaker 1: a helmet on, like what are you doing? You know,
Speaker 1: there's just dumb things happened last year and that's just
Speaker 1: the maturation process. And he's the first one to tell
Speaker 1: you that we have had a jam packed show tonight.
Speaker 1: So many people to thank, Whitney, Mercillas, Drew Doherty, Brennan Scarlett,
Speaker 1: DPC Too, Clinch, Durner, Frank Franie, Mark Vandamer Andre Ware
Speaker 1: and JP Shatick. Got to thank all my guys back
Speaker 1: in Sports Radio six ten to make sure this show
Speaker 1: got on the air as planned. Thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for listening. Mark will have you tomorrow for alls.
Speaker 1: We will talk next from London, looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: As always, go textans and of course go astros.