1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 1: Welcome in, everybody to a Wednesday edition, a wet Wednesday. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not as wet as it was last night 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: wherever you are, but everyone, hang in there. The weather 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: will get better, I believe, I believe. Welcome in to 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: this Wednesday edition of Texas All Access. I'm your host, 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: John Harris, football and a sideline reporter and now joined 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: by my good friend, the voice of the Texans right 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: off the top mark Van of your mark Good evening. 9 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: How are you, my good friend. I'm sure everyone who 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: has pets who are afraid of lightning, or if days, 11 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: are afraid of lightning and thunder, they're not well rested today, Johnny, 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: like me because my dog Pippa, who we've had for 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: a year, a rescue dog, does not like the lightning 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: and thunder, and I had to comfort her several times 15 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: and also make sure that the backyard sump pump thing 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: was working properly in the middle of the night, because 17 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: sometimes that shorts out in rainy weather, so which is 18 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: when you really needed the most, of course. But everything's 19 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: cool and I'm happy, and it's fun to be on 20 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: the air talking's some football, no doubt, judeor is gonna 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: be by our next segment, we're gonna go in the 22 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: lab and discuss someone living in the Houston area who 23 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: has been around that would make for a pretty good consultant, analyst, coach. 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: He's done of it. Four. We'll get into that in 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 1: our in the Lab segment, as we will also look 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 1: at the quarterbacks that the Texas will face this year. 27 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: But Mark, you sent me a text as we were 28 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: setting up our show for tonight and you said, Hey, 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: I'm doing my daily brew based on the five, and 30 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: I want to make sure I get this, get this 31 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: right because the way you said it really caught my attention. 32 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: The top five crowd experienced games in team history, and 33 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: that got my attention. That got me thinking because I 34 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: was wanting to either or and I was like, no, 35 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm curious now all of those five, 36 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: let's see if we can. I want to narrow these down, 37 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: all those five and you know all how long I've 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: been here. How many of those was I down on 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: the sideline? Four? All right, you've been on the sideline 40 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: for one, two, two, two of them? That's it? Just two? Wait? 41 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, two of them. But you've been in 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: town four Because I know you've been. You were in Houston, 43 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: so we all know Lamar consolidated, then you left town 44 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: for a while, came back. Uh, let's see all but 45 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: one of them, Johnny, have you been in the building. 46 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: So I'm guessing I'm guessing that number one that it's 47 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: two thousand and two. That's the one I didn't see, 48 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 1: Cowboys Texans the opener, the first one is that number one. 49 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: You think that's gonna make it. Huh, yeah, that's gonna 50 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: make the list. It's gonna make the top five. But 51 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: it isn't number one, john It's not number one. Yeah. 52 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: And these are the games to clarify where the crowd 53 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: kind of not necessarily took control, but where it was 54 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: the loudest and the most passionate and the most noticeable 55 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: crowd reaction, because look, there's been so many moments, and 56 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: you know, I could point to She's I mean, the 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: crowd went nuts when Andre Johnson fourth and ten against 58 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: Miami in two thousand and eight, when you avoided going 59 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: oh and five. I know that's not a moment that's 60 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: gonna be a top five moment, but and maybe not 61 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: a top five crowd moment, but they went nuts, and 62 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: they went nuts for his overtime catching run against the 63 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: Jaguars and twelve, and they went nuts when Chris Brown 64 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: kicked it through the uprights and six to beat the 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: Colts for the first time ever. But to me, that's 66 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: not a top five crowd moment either. It's really great 67 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: and even Watson hitting Taiwan Jones to me, as great 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: as that was, and if we're ranking top moments in 69 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: franchise history, maybe that's number one. I don't know. I 70 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: didn't want to have that debate right now, but when 71 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: the crowd was so electric that I couldn't even hear 72 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: myself think talk whatever, these are those moments, you know, 73 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: whether it was throughout a whole game, or moments in 74 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: a game, or a moment in particular. I know one 75 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: moment for me, This would be mine from twenty fourteen on. 76 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: It actually happened in twenty fourteen. We've talked about this 77 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: a little bit when on a Thursday night when we're 78 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: getting kicked into teeth and finally we chip away, chip away, 79 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: chip away, chip away, but we can't get that that 80 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: score thirty three, twenty one, and we boxed it something 81 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember how we boxed me I think think 82 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: maybe missed the field goal. I can't remember exactly, but 83 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: it's third down and you made the call. You put 84 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: out the bat signal for JJ Watt and the ball 85 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: somehow gets away from Andrew. Luck JJ gets it while 86 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: he's on the ground, but there are enough blue shirts 87 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: around him to keep him from getting touched. He pops 88 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: up and runs in the end zone and Mark, I 89 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: thought the place was going to fall down. I have 90 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: never that was That was my true holy bleep, this 91 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: is oh my gosh. And then the second thought was, 92 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: holy smokes. J J Watt just listen to Mark. Mark 93 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: sent to make a play and made a play. So 94 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: I would say that's the loudest moment in twenty fourteen. 95 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: That one again, that with JJ Watt picking up the 96 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: fumble and making it thirty three twenty eight. That is 97 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: number three on my all time Top five crowd Experience 98 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: Slash Moments list, Johnny, that was unbelievable and it was 99 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: a loss right they were down twenty four to do. 100 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: I think they chipped the way as you said, they 101 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: were down five after the watch scoop and score. But 102 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: that moment right there and Watts dancing in the end 103 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: zone with Merciless and who was the other game boy 104 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: I think was down there and they're doing the Nena 105 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: or whatever. And it was only a few seconds, but 106 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: that was an iconic sort of shot right there, and 107 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: I just think that that moment was unbelievable. It was 108 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: as loud as I've ever heard the stadium. It was 109 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: just Earth's shattering, and I thought, there's no way we're 110 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: gonna lose the game now. But obviously couldn't get over 111 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: the hump and Fitzy got the ball back. You got 112 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 1: the ball back, you stopped the've got the ball back, 113 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: couldn't score and you know, I don't believe it. I'm Fitzy. 114 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: It's just one of those things. And unfortunately, but we 115 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: remember the moment. There's another loss on the list. By 116 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: the way, I'm getting there in a second. But I 117 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: want to ask you this. When the crowd gets to 118 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: that level, you as the point guard, the you know, 119 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: the engine driving the car, how does that change things 120 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: for you calling the game? Do you feed off of that? 121 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,119 Speaker 1: Is it distracting? Do you have to kind of sift 122 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: what's that life for you? Calling the game? After you know, 123 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: in the residual noise is just so unbelievable. What's that 124 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: like for you? I think? All right, So two things 125 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: as far as doing the play by play for the 126 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: call you described. You're right the ball was on the 127 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: ground and what it's up? And I'm looking and I 128 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: couldn't believe that it was returnable, right. I thought that 129 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: I knew the ball was out, but I thought everybody 130 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: was gonna be down, and I didn't say that, and 131 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: I think I said, and guess who's got it? Because 132 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: I wasn't sure that Watt jumped up with it initially, 133 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: and so I was like, I'm not gonna be wrong 134 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: as as he's got it, because I was thought it's 135 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: most likely him that I see him running, and I'm like, 136 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: it's JJ. And the call turned out to be pretty good, 137 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: so that I held it together there. But there are 138 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: two games on this list, Johnny, where where the crowd 139 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: was sold out on defense that I couldn't hear myself talk. 140 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: You know, where it's third down, the opponent has the 141 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: ball and it's so loud that I'm just saying third 142 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: and ten, you know, like Peyton Man or whoever the 143 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: quarterback would be. There have been moments like that at 144 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: a n RG Stadium, where I'm just sort of hanging 145 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: in there and talking and hoping that it's coming out right, 146 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, you know, deaf people can talk. Yeah, 147 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: there are many of them, but it doesn't always come 148 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: out as cleanly as they would like because they can't 149 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: hear themselves. And that's a big thing. You have to 150 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: be able to hear yourself in order to speak clearly. 151 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: Then they'd be the first to say that. And that's 152 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: my ultimate, you know, extreme example of what happens when 153 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: you can't hear yourself talk. You can't be as good 154 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: as you normally could be, but you're hanging in there 155 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: for those moments, and that has happened on many occasions 156 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: that archie where it's that loud, and that's a testament 157 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: to the crowd, to the fans, and you know the 158 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: fact that I wrote this piece because hey, this fall, 159 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: we can all be together again. And that's gonna be 160 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: phenomenal opening Day against the Jaguars to all be there 161 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: again for a regular season game, the home opener, and 162 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: I can't wait. I would imagine that twenty seventeen Week 163 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: one would have made your list had we won that 164 00:08:54,960 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: game when JJ comes out of the tunnel after Hurricane Harvey. Yeah, 165 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I don't know how you put words 166 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: together because I was struggling to keep it together. Just 167 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: know what everybody had gone through, what I know we 168 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: had gone through personally being away from our families, Our 169 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: families had gone through here in Houston, and I just 170 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: remember him coming out with that flag and like, oh 171 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: my gosh, place canna fall down. And then of course, 172 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: you know the Jack that was such a that was 173 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: actually that was a great Jack's team and they were 174 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: ready to roll that afternoon for sure. But that would 175 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,839 Speaker 1: I think that would have made it because that was 176 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: such an incredible moment. It was from that perspective. There 177 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: was another one. There was another one that quickly quieted 178 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: down postseason twenty fifteen. Oh, I was so faithful, but 179 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: you gotta admit, for write until the ball went into 180 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: who was it? Nile Nile Davis, Ni Davis. As the 181 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: balls in the air, it's as loud as it can be, 182 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: and the towels are waving and it's such a site 183 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: and that it's like, oh, the kickoff return for a 184 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: touchdown and then the you know, the deflation and it 185 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: never got better, and that was that was a rough day. 186 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 1: That that was a rough But man, I had said 187 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: this to too many people. In two thousand and twelve, 188 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: I was doing overnight show on national radio, and so 189 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: my hours are all screwed up. I very I got 190 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: to a couple of games during that time frame, but 191 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: it was so hard because I was sleeping during the 192 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: day and then awake at night. But I remember, and 193 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: so I didn't get to the playoff games eleven to twelve, 194 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: And I remember you and I talked about I talked 195 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: about it with Drew and Deep and they're like, look, man, 196 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: now this game against the Chiefs, it's gonna be unbelievable. 197 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: And I just remember towels in the air. I'm like, 198 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: holy crap, this is incredible, and could somebody tackle that 199 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: guy who's actually from the greater Houston area, which just 200 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: set up for an awful afternoon. Um. So okay, So 201 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: you said two games since twenty fourteen, So yes, the 202 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: Colts game Thursday night in twenty fourteen, No, no doubt. 203 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: It's a tricky one, Johnny, because should I give it away? 204 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: Should I give you the ultimate hint? Does it have 205 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 1: to do with the former Texan who missed the field goal. No, no, 206 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: that was a good night though. That was a good 207 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: night twenty sixteen Randy Bullock missing the field goal. But 208 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: you have to look at the fine printier because it 209 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: is about the crowd experience and the effectiveness of the crowd. 210 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: And this particular game did not take place at n 211 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: RG Stadium. And now I know you know what it 212 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: is as the Texans were on the road in your 213 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: first season at a place where they seldom go oh 214 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: oh oh oh, yes, okay, they both are from twenty fourteen. Yeah, oh, 215 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen against the Cowboys in Jerry World. Oh man, 216 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: I just got chill thinking about that. And you're right there, 217 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,599 Speaker 1: both in losses that gumm it, I know, but you 218 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: got to admit that that Cowboy game is a top 219 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 1: five crowd impact experienced game. You didn't win the game, 220 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: but they came back forced overtime. The crowd was as 221 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: good as you can have a Texans crowd, and they 222 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: weren't even at home. They forced Tony Romo into a 223 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: silent count. It was mayhem in Big d And I know, 224 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: and I mentioned this in the article on Houston Texans 225 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: dot Com that yes, opposing fans often are at Big 226 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: D I mean, you know, you have a lot of 227 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: opposing fans in that building. It's happened a bunch of times, 228 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: but nobody has ever invaded Jerry World like the Traveling Texans. 229 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: They took over the joint. There were dozens of thousands there. 230 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: It was monumental what they were able to do all 231 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: in battle read it was glorious. Unfortunately ended an overtime 232 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: with a loss, but man, what a day that was. Johnny, 233 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,599 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this one of my It's interesting you 234 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: bring it up because one of my enduring memories, not 235 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: only from that season, but from a lot of seasons, 236 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: happened in that particular game. I mean, I just I see, 237 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: I don't know how Romo gets away from JJ. I 238 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: don't know how, and then he throws the bomb. But 239 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: I remember, we're down late. We gotta drive and Fitzee 240 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: of all people, Fitz he drives him down and Aryan scores. 241 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: I think they make it seventeen seventeen. Yeah, I think 242 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: that's what it was. So I was obviously I was 243 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: on our sideline, so you're the booth is on that 244 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: side of the field, so it's all on that side 245 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: of the field. The run goes to the other side, 246 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: and so as I'm you know, celebrating a touchdown, I 247 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,959 Speaker 1: look and Andre Johnson is standing in the end zone 248 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: all by himself, and he's literally standing out what looks 249 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: like the star. And I don't think he's doing that 250 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: on purpose, but he's literally standing on the star and 251 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: he is looking up at all the Texans fans and 252 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: he's just like he's not like pointing and like he's 253 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: just kind of gesturing like yes, like you can just 254 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: tell it's an emotional woman, like he's sharing it with 255 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: the fans. And it was just so cool because it 256 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: was so Andre, because it was so understated, but it 257 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: was just like, yes, it was like Jonah Hill in Moneyball, 258 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: there's that moment where they get the money from the 259 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: owner to make that deal for the picture. Jonah Hill 260 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: just turns and he does a little that's kind of 261 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: like what he was doing, and I just thought, this 262 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: is one of the greatest things. I'll never forget this 263 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: for as long as I live. And of course, then 264 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: Dan Bailey missed the field goal to send us to overtime, 265 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: and then we couldn't convert a third and two, they 266 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: came down and kicked the field goal on the game. 267 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: Oh man, that way. But but you're right though, from 268 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: a crowd experience standpoint, my goodness, it was incredible. You know, 269 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: I could have picked a lot of That was number five, Okay, 270 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: Number five was Dallas on the Road in twenty fourteen. 271 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: I mentioned already. Number three. This is top five crowd 272 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: experiences games in the history of the franchise. Number three 273 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: was that Indie moment where Wat Scoop didn't scored in 274 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: the roof was about to blow up the building. Number 275 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: four took place before you were on the sideline, but 276 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: you were in town and it was part of the 277 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: twenty eleventh season and it wasn't the playoff game. I 278 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: know which one. It is Atlanta, correct, Atlanta was on 279 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: a different level now it was. It was on a 280 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: whole different level. I was. That was another one of 281 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: those games. Like I said, I was watching from home, 282 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: but there was something about that game mark. I don't 283 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: know what it was, but that game was on that 284 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: was on a whole different level. I just remember watching 285 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: home like this is one of the most intense things 286 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. This is incredible to watch, 287 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: all right, so you know what it was. So Shop 288 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: goes out after the win at Tampa Bay, right, right, 289 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: And at the time they're seven and three, they've won 290 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: four in a row. The season starts a little shaky, 291 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: like three and three, and this is the season where 292 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: you hide Wade Phillips as the defensive coordinators. This gonna 293 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: work or not. You beat already Pittsburgh seventeen to ten 294 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: at home, and that was a great, great day, but like, 295 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: where's this going at three and three? And then they 296 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: get on a roll. They win four in a row 297 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: and then Shop, Oh my gosh, he's out. But that 298 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: game was on the road, and then you had the 299 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: buy and there's Liner coming in to save the day. 300 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: You thought, maybe hopefully, And you're at Jacksonville, still on 301 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: the road after the bye, so you haven't been at 302 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: home in a while, right, and we all know what happened. 303 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: Liner gets hurt before the half, Yates comes in. Oh 304 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: my gosh, you're down to your third string and a 305 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: rookie quarterback or you drafted in the fifth round and 306 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: you pull out against the Jags. But you had seven sacks. 307 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: You knew that for the first time, really that you 308 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: are building an elite defense. You had a seventeen ten 309 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: win over Pittsburgh at home earlier in the season. The 310 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: defense had been playing well and you just throttled. I 311 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: know it was blaying Gabbert, but throttled Jacksonville was seven sacks. 312 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: Everybody's going nuts for this defense, and why does it 313 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: even want yet? I mean they have seven sacks. I 314 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: think Barwin and four of them or something. Yeah, then 315 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: you come home and play Atlanta, and Atlanta's pretty good 316 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 1: back then, right, this is the Mike Smith Falcons, and 317 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: you know they're regular playoff participants. They come into your 318 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: joint and you're playing them and Johnny when the defense 319 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: takes the field every time, it's so electric in that game. 320 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: That's one of those games where it's so loud I 321 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: can't hear myself think or talk. Everyone knows Yates is 322 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: getting his first start, and the crowd realizes. I think 323 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: it's not the first time in franchise history, but it's 324 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: the first time that it really feels like there's such 325 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: a cause and effect. Crowd can make it stops along 326 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: with the d and you just feel this power, this 327 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: energy in the building when the defense is on the 328 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: field and bulls on parade is firing over the loudspeakers 329 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: and bam, you make stop after stop after stop and 330 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: hold them to ten points and beat them seventeenth to 331 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: ten and Yates looks pretty good and the crowd felt 332 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: like they had more of an effect maybe than ever, 333 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: and it was there was just something special about that day. 334 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: You know, another game that and it should have to 335 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: a degree, but it kind of had that same sort 336 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: of feel that every time the defense went out on 337 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: the field, it was like the fans took it to 338 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: a different level. Was in twenty sixteen in the playoff 339 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: game against the Raiders. Yeah, that was another one where 340 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: it felt like the crowd understood, look, we can impact 341 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: this game. They've got a rookie at quarterback. We can 342 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: be a part of this game. And then it starts 343 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: off with with you know the way that it starts off. 344 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: They get to stop and then they get a field 345 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: goal and then Clownie gets the interception and get to touchdown, 346 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: and it was like the crowd understood it was watching 347 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: such a nasty defense just go to work, and they 348 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 1: had such an impact on the first half of that game. 349 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: I mean, Cook never got got comfortable and I think 350 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: a lot of that was just the crowd every single 351 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: time getting hyped about about what was going It was. 352 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: It was unbelievable to watch. And of course the other 353 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: time we would say was in the second half of 354 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: the game against the Bills in the playoffs. I mean, 355 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: after JJ gets the sack, it's like, yo, look, it's 356 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: sixteen nothing, we haven't done anything, and they're just imploring, 357 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: like the offense like do something, come on, let's go 358 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: because we're ready to explode. And then of course get 359 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: the touchdown at a two point and the places like 360 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: on fire at that point, and the second loudest I've 361 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: heard it was not I it's so funny because I 362 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: can't remember much about the Taiwan Jones other than screaming 363 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: in your ear Taiwan Jones. Taiwan Jones. Make sure that 364 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: you knew because he didn't play much, I was making 365 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: sure that you knew he was in the game. Anyhow, 366 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: When Jacob Martin gets the sack on fourth down, when 367 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: Josh Allen is trying to scramble yea and they sack 368 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: on the other side of fifty, I was all the 369 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: way down in the end zone on the other ends 370 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: and I was in the South End zone by that point, 371 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: thinking Okay, well they've been driving, but then all of 372 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: a sudden, it's like back back, and I didn't want 373 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: to move. And then when he gets sacked, I just 374 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: remember this noise, and I mean, I'm just I'm like, 375 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: you know, screaming going down. Somebody's got a photo of 376 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: me and I put up in my office of just 377 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: celebrating that moment. I don't, I don't. I didn't hear anything. 378 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: It was so loud. I'm scra couldn't hear myself at all. 379 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,239 Speaker 1: That was one that I can distinctly that moment was 380 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: as close to as loud as the Watt one in 381 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. But I think my favorite one on that list, 382 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: even though it was in a loss, was going to 383 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: Jerry World and turning that into a basically a fifty 384 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: fifty neutral site game and Tony Robos go to a 385 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: silent counting his own building. That was that was that 386 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: was incredible. I mean about the Texas fans, and I 387 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,479 Speaker 1: know we're probably running out of time here, but Dallas 388 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: number two opening night, right, I mean, that was that 389 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: was so incredible. No one who was there we'll ever 390 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: forget it. You'll never forget that day, that night, the electricity, 391 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: the five years of no professional football frustration. I wrote 392 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,479 Speaker 1: screams of joy trumpeted from every row, and it's so true. 393 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: You know, Billy Miller with the touchdown pain and a 394 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: little bit of Gary Walker with the sack at the 395 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: end to seal the deal, and the number one game 396 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: fan experience wise. As far as the loudness, the effect, 397 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: I think was the Bengals in the playoffs, because yeah, 398 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: that was the perfect day, Johnny. I mean the wat 399 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: pick six. You had stop after stop, Gavin Gurton and 400 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 1: his crew on the video board. They had that Assassin's 401 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,719 Speaker 1: Creed video game all the defense. Every time the defense 402 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 1: took the field, they put the robes over their heads 403 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: like one. That video gave me chills. I was like, 404 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: this is so badass, this is so awesome to have 405 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: a defense like this, number two defense in the league 406 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: that you were talking about. The playoff game in twenty sixteen, 407 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: that was the number one defense in the league and no, 408 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: what I mean that was incredible. So I think the 409 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: Bengals are number one, Dallas number two. I know people 410 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 1: are going to debate this and disagree with some of it. 411 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: A lot of it is subjective. I know David Barron 412 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: who is no long with the Chronicle, but he used 413 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: to come in with the with the with the crowd 414 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: noise meter, right, the decibel, Yeah, this is louder than 415 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: a jet engine or whatever. You know. I don't know 416 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: what the numbers are, but I know what the feelings are, 417 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: and I think a lot of it is based on that. Yeah, 418 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: very much so, Mark, that was awesome. Can't wait to 419 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: see it in print. Thank you very much for joining 420 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: me on tonight show. Thanks Johnny. All right, we get back. 421 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: We've got one note about a preseason game actually at 422 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: a location we were just discussing for twenty twenty one, 423 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 1: and Drew Doherty joins me four in the Lab podcast. 424 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: You don't want to miss that. We'll be back in 425 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: just a bit. On Texas to Access, Forcing Back was 426 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: an issue of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans 427 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris, football analyst, 428 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: sideline reporter, Jeff Grewer, whatever you want to call me, 429 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: And I think I probably just butchered about eight words 430 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,959 Speaker 1: in that opening, But bear with me. It was a 431 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,479 Speaker 1: long night. As Mark said, earlier, a lot of lightning, 432 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: a lot of rain, a lot of thunder, a lot 433 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: of scary moments for everybody, a little bit of time 434 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: in a closet with some tornado warnings. And I know 435 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: those tornadoes hit over here on the west side of 436 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: town and over in Full Shore, over in Katie. It 437 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: was pretty nasty night. So hopefully that's beyond us. Doesn't 438 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: look like more rain, But you guys, stay safe and 439 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: hopefully we'll keep you entertained here on Texans All Access. Now. 440 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: One note, I got this just a little while ago. 441 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: I should have got marks thoughts on it. But either way, 442 00:23:53,040 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: the Texans will face the Dallas Cowboys week two of 443 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: the preseason, seven o'clock Saturday night in Jerry World. If 444 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: you're not going, you can watch on ABC thirteen where 445 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: all of our preseason games are taking place seven o'clock Saturday, 446 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: August twenty first, ABC thirteen, where you can watch it obviously, 447 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: Mark Andre and myself on Sports Radio six ten. You 448 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: definitely want to listen to that if you can. Sometimes 449 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: it's you're not able to. Sometimes you can't watch a 450 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: game because you're driving somewhere, so you listen to us. 451 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: Sometimes you're inside, and you want to hear the guys 452 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: and Drew Doherty talk. So there you go. But either way, 453 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: August twenty first against the Cowboys, seven o'clock August twenty first. Now, 454 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: if you want to do the math on that, it's 455 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: June July, August three months away, because it's by nineteenth, 456 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 1: it's a wash a couple of days. Three months and 457 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: a couple of days. How about that three months a 458 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: couple of days. That'll be our second preseason game following 459 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: the week before get against the Green Bay Packers. Fingers crossed, 460 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: oh Man, fingers crossed. And I'm telling you, Harris the 461 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: senior and moms have got fingers toes everything crossed so 462 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: they can get their son up to Wisconsin for a 463 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: week like they did back in twenty nineteen. That was 464 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: really cool for them, really really cool for me. So 465 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: everybody's kind of hoping that we get up there for 466 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: some joint practices. Aaron Rodgers didn't quite like him, so 467 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: I know, but he may not be there, So what 468 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Okay, let's jump into our In 469 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: the lab discussion, Drew Doherty and I talked about quarterbacks 470 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: and Wade Phillips we're talking about quarterbacks that the Texans 471 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: will face on the twenty twenty one calendar. One thing 472 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: that stood out to me last week when well not 473 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: last week, but when you know the draft finished, and 474 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: then you sync that up with when you thought about 475 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: who the Texans were gonna play in betwe in the 476 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: draft and the schedule release, he saw, Hey, they're gonna 477 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: face four teams that drafted a QB in the first round. 478 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 1: You got the Patriots, you start off with the Jaguars 479 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. You also have who am I missing the Jets, 480 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: as well as potentially the forty nine Yeah. Yeah, so, 481 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 1: and I'm not saying they're they're playing, but they did 482 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: draft a quarterback in the first round. But yeah, you 483 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: get the forty nine ers on January second out there, 484 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,719 Speaker 1: so you might see four. You and I talked about this. 485 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: I think we set the over under two and a 486 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: half of the ones you're going to see, and we 487 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 1: both kind of think it's going to be the over. 488 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: But that's one of the most interesting things because I 489 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: believe in years past the Texans have faced more than that, 490 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: and I think they kind of feasted on that and 491 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: took it to their full advantage, as they should, but 492 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: this year it's going to be a fascinating one. What 493 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: do you think about the quarterbacks? Just as far as 494 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: that goes the four teams who you're gonna ultimately play 495 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: five games against, because the Jaguars you face twice. You 496 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: know you're gonna get Trevor Lawrence twice as long as 497 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: he's helped, right, no, no doubt, no doubt. I mean 498 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: the other aspect of it is the fact that Trevor 499 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: Lawrence has not played in an NFL game, I think 500 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: can work to your advantage. But you have an opportunity, 501 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: like you said, to face those rookies in five games 502 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: and look for his We've seen we've seen very good rookies. 503 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: I go back to Baker Mayfield twenty eighteen. Yeah, first 504 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: half we picked him off three times. Second half, I 505 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: mean kind of back and off, trying to get the 506 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: game to a finish. He kind of let us up 507 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: and really, yeah, he saw what he was a first 508 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: overall pick. Yeah, yeah, So you saw kind of a 509 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: little bit of everything from Baker Mayfield in that respect. 510 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: We saw Josh Allen and the Bills in twenty eighteen, 511 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: and it was pretty much a mess all day long. 512 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: And then I think it was J. I think JJ 513 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: knocked him out as JJ clowney knocked him out, hit 514 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: him on the elbow, he goes out. Peterman comes in 515 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: and you know he let him a touchdown. But you know, 516 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: so you know, Alan had a had a rough start. Um. 517 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 1: So we've seen some really good rookies. And look last year, 518 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: and and we've talked about this numerous times. I'm not 519 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: I'm not breaking news here. This was not the twenty 520 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: sixteen Texans defense or even the twenty eighteen Texas defense, 521 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: at least in the first fourteen fifteen games. Right, twenty 522 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: twenties defense struggled. However, how many rookies did we face 523 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: last year? And this is the this is the tribute 524 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: question for all in the laborers out there. How many 525 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: rookies did we face last year? And who was it? Oh? 526 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: I just gave it away. Who who? Who were they? 527 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: It was one? He got to figure that out. But 528 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: do you remember who he was? He was not a 529 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: first rounder. He was a sixth rounder down in Jacksonville. 530 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. Jake Luton. Yeah yeah, Jake Luton 531 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: was the guy that Texans face. Is the only rookie 532 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: that the Texans faced a twenty twenty. Now there's a 533 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: positive that was one game. Now there's a possibility of 534 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: facing four rookies in five games. You pretty much know 535 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: you're gonna face Lawrence and Zach Wilson. So that's three 536 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: games against a rookie. So are you're already plus two 537 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: over rookies? You know, facing rookie quarterbacks. There's a possibility 538 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: of facing Mac Jones a week five, and then there's 539 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: a possibility of Trey Lance in week seventeen. I think 540 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: it is I got to recalibrate all my weeks because 541 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm used to saying, oh, last week of the year's 542 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: week seventeen, but it's week eighteen. I think I think 543 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: he will see Lance. The wild card for me is 544 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: Mac Jones. I just have no idea what is gonna do? 545 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: You know, I have no idea because he's got you know, 546 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: you just saw he's he resigned Hoyer, who that guy's 547 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: always going to rattle around him be always the because 548 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,239 Speaker 1: what happens, what happens injury wise, you know exactly are 549 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: they in a position where they want to win, or 550 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: let's see what this guy's got, or I think this 551 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: guy can actually help us win in mac Jones better 552 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: than better than Hoyer can. So it'll be interesting to 553 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: see how they create sort of phases of the season. 554 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: I sort of thought I thought about this on my 555 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: on my walk today and I was thinking about phases 556 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: of the season and kind of breaking it up. But 557 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: I know that some teams kind of look at it differently. 558 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: They look at time out time out. I know that 559 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: Cam Newton is a starter. I didn't want people to 560 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: think that yeah, well yeah, and that was just because 561 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: Newton gets hurt sometimes. Is it gonna be horyer to 562 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: come in, Is it gonna be mac Jones or are 563 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: they just scrapping all that to go a mat job? Anyways? Sorry, Yeah, 564 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: And to that point, if you know, in week five, 565 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: I think it matters when we face the Patriots a 566 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: week five, I think unless something does happen to Cam, 567 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: I think we will see Cam at least early on. 568 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: If we had faced the Patriots in week fourteen or fifteen, 569 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: I do think there's a better chance we would have 570 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: seen Mac because as although the Patriots I think are 571 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: going to be better, I don't know how far Cam 572 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: can take them given the pounding and the health, the 573 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: health issues he's had every single year, all of a 574 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: sudden he's gone. He's aged another year, and he's gonna 575 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: be able to play seventeen games clean. I don't I 576 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: don't know how I see that, but you know, facing 577 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: the rookies is gonna be I think we do see 578 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: cam in a week five, so I do think we'll 579 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: see four rookies. I think you're right. I do think 580 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: we see Trey Lance, whether it's because Jimmy's hurt, Jimmy 581 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: Garoppolo's hurt, or the forty nine ers have things kind 582 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: of clenched up and they want to see what they 583 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: have and Trey Lance kind of like the Chiefs did 584 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes back in twenty seventeen, when Alex Smith 585 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: had gotten him to an AFC West title. The last 586 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: game didn't matter, so they let Patrick Mahomes play against 587 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: the Broncos and he lit it up and everybody's like, oh, 588 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: when Alex Smith has done this, guy's gonna be pretty good. 589 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: And he's turned out to be pretty good. To me. 590 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: The one thing that struck me, Drew was the fact 591 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: that the Texans in twenty twenty faced four League MVPs 592 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Jackson, Aaron Rodgers, and Cam Yeah, which camps 593 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: pretty much the last probably five six years day back 594 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: to twenty fourteen. It might get all of them except 595 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: for Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan in twenty sixteen, but I 596 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: think I think Mahomes, Lamar Rogers, and Newton were the 597 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,239 Speaker 1: other ones that from twenty fourteen on, and Rogers being 598 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: the bookended and you faced Rogers in the year that 599 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: he won the MVP in twenty twenty. The league MVP 600 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: quarterbacks are scheduled to face in twenty twenty one. And 601 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: this goes to our discussion could be zero, but at 602 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: this point it's one because it's Cam Newton, that's it. 603 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: So that's a that's a pretty massive deal to me 604 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: about the fact that you're facing guys, these these big guns. 605 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: And it also goes to this one too. I remember 606 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: last year, Drew and the schedule came out and we 607 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: looked at it and went wholly bleep. The first four 608 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: games were a Thursday night against Patrick Mahomes, back home 609 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: against Baltimore Ravens, and Lamar Jackson, then back on the road. Yeah, 610 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: the reigning MVP. The twenty eighteen MVP and Super Bowl 611 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: MVP in week one. In Week three, it was going 612 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh take on Big Ben, a guy who's been 613 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: a perennial Pro Bowler, super Bowl champ, and coming back 614 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: off an injury feeling as good as he's ever felt. 615 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: In Week four was a guy that's made the Pro 616 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of times, in Kirk Cousins with the 617 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. That's the way you start that off. This year, 618 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: all things expected to go the way they are, you'll 619 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: face Trevor Lawrence who's never played an NFL game, albeit 620 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: very talented. I get that, and I was one of 621 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: those that did not want Trevor to go to Jacksonville. 622 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: Was chairing like heck for the Jaguars and for the 623 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: Jets to lose games so the Jets could get him. 624 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: But either way, Trevor Lawrence a Week one at Cleveland 625 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield a week two Thursday Night against Sam 626 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: Donald who's already been traded to the Panthers and don't 627 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: know that he's gonna stick. And then you got Josh 628 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 1: Allen week four, who's turned into a legit, legit quarterback. 629 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: But that in comparison to what you faced last year 630 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: coming out of the gate, and I think for us, 631 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: crazy as last year was, to start off those four 632 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: games the way that we did, I think it just 633 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: set a tone, unfortunately for the rest of the season. 634 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,359 Speaker 1: And and you start off the season own four, like God, 635 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: that's a that's a and you gotta trudge back, you 636 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,919 Speaker 1: gotta really like, it's tough to get back from own 637 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 1: four start, and facing those four quarterbacks was gonna be 638 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: you know, um, was gonna be extremely difficult. Now, I'm 639 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: not saying that Sam Donald, Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, and 640 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence are any any easy pickings at all. It's 641 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: but it's no, I mean there's in comparison, there is. 642 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: There isn't one. And I think that's getting just getting 643 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,879 Speaker 1: out of the gate. Look, the Jags won the first 644 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: game last year and then lost fifteen straight. So just 645 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,839 Speaker 1: the first four games don't tell you everything. But even 646 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: after that, after we face those four guys, you know, 647 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was was looming. You know, we faced Cam Newton, 648 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: you know the league MVP. You know Ryan Tannehill, very 649 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 1: very good quarterback, um was was on the schedule. Um, 650 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,720 Speaker 1: so you still were gonna face some some pretty tough 651 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: nuts along the way. Even after those four I mean, 652 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: Philip Rivers you face twice, Tannily, you face twice. Um, 653 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,439 Speaker 1: you face Stafford up in Detroit, you'll face him again 654 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: just as a member of the ram so Um. The 655 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: quarterback group that they face is still pretty good, but 656 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: it's one with more potential. It's more beatable. Yeah, I 657 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,880 Speaker 1: mean it's more beatable. There's yeah, there's no mincing of 658 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: the words like now you gotta you gotta beat them. 659 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: And it's gonna be because we don't know much about 660 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 1: what Lovey Smith is going to trot out there on defense. 661 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 1: It's gonna look differently than what we've seen in the 662 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: last decade, because hey, really this has been a three 663 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: four since twenty eleven, right, Wade and then Romeo. Different 664 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: three fours, but still yes, three fours as opposed. You 665 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 1: got to go back to twenty ten. The last time 666 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 1: you saw a four to three, and that was you 667 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: don't want to see what we saw in twenty ten. 668 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: Oh god, no, performance wise, because that's what made things 669 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: change age and brought our good pal Wade Phillips into town. 670 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: And that was a good thing. Speaking a Wade Phillips 671 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 1: just kind of as an aside. He was here in 672 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: the building about a month ago and it was fun 673 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,760 Speaker 1: to see him. We were working on some projects and 674 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 1: we interviewed him. We interviewed Gary Kubiak about a week 675 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: before Wade. So we've got some stuff cooking as it 676 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 1: pertains to eleven and twelve, and I can't wait to 677 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: get that going. I'm fascinated to see what becomes. But 678 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: it was fun. I got to uh. I met him 679 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: as he came in the building and chit chatted with 680 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 1: him for a while. And the guy can still coach. 681 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: Somebody needs to snap him up if they want to 682 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,799 Speaker 1: want to get better because that guy knows. The guy's 683 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,800 Speaker 1: forgotten more defense and NFL football than a lot of 684 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,279 Speaker 1: people could ever hope to learn. Well, I think one 685 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: of the aspects of it. And I've come to this conclusion. 686 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 1: It's funny because I used to I used to joke 687 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 1: many many years ago about you know, the Patriots, or 688 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: they don't give their guys titles or whatever the case 689 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: might be. And now I kind of I kind of 690 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: understand why because I look at a guy like like 691 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: Wade Phillips, and you know, okay, well, Is he a coach? 692 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: Is he this? It's like, it doesn't matter if the 693 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: guy knows what the heck he's talking about, and he 694 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,360 Speaker 1: can help in any way, shape or form. Who cares 695 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,759 Speaker 1: what the daggum title is. If he can come on 696 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 1: and he can help in some way and not just 697 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 1: talking here. I mean, maybe there's a university that could 698 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 1: use him. Yeah, I think about University Houston. You only 699 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: Daniel Holberson could bring that that mind power in and 700 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,239 Speaker 1: utilize him in some way, shape or form on the 701 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, even if it's just to 702 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 1: give the current defensive coordinator a different look or a 703 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: different thought, like, hey, we used to see this and 704 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 1: so this is what we did. You never know when 705 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: that nugget is going to come. And I just think 706 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 1: Wade's too valuable and too intuitive and seeing it all 707 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 1: to not have an opportunity to help a team, high school, 708 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: college pro I mean, maybe help high school tea. That 709 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: would be kind of interesting. That would be really fun. 710 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: Wade Phillips coaching a high school team. Oh, that would 711 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,839 Speaker 1: be very very cool. But yeah, it's I've never had 712 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: a chance to meet him, and I had one of 713 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,200 Speaker 1: the best moments I think of my life when I 714 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,760 Speaker 1: was just cruising Twitter and I got a notification like, Okay, 715 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: what's this Wade phillips Son a bum is now following you. 716 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god. I mean I felt like 717 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 1: I won the lottery. So it's just you know, you know, 718 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: Nick has talked about this, A lot of people have 719 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: talked about this. Man. Information is key and if he 720 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: doesn't matter who you get it from. If that information 721 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,719 Speaker 1: is useful and it's trustworthy, man, it's like it can 722 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,759 Speaker 1: come from anywhere. You get him in your building. That's 723 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: like plopping a football library in your building. Yeah, absolutely, 724 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: human being, So absolutely yeah, that'd be fascinating. Sy Man 725 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,800 Speaker 1: certainly knows ball, there's no doubt about that. Wade Phillips 726 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 1: definitely does that. There's a good discussion about quarterbacks. Got 727 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,279 Speaker 1: a little bit deeper in depth with Drew on Our 728 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: in the lab that we've done here on All Access 729 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: as well. All Right, we gotta go around the NFL. 730 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: We gotta do it fast, and we'll do it in 731 00:38:54,760 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: our final segment next of Texas All Access. Well back 732 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 1: their final segment here on this Wednesday issue in Sexans 733 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 1: All Access from the Howday Texans Radio studio. I am 734 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football hands sideline reportless bouncer on 735 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:15,720 Speaker 1: the league about as quickly as we possibly can. Jalen 736 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: Hurts met with the Philadelphia media and was asked about 737 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:27,840 Speaker 1: being starting quarterback there in Philadelphia and if anybody understands 738 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: competition and fighting for a starting job or fighting for 739 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,439 Speaker 1: time on a field, Jalen Hurts is definitely that guy. 740 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 1: If you know, Jalen's story went to Versa, Alabama. He started, 741 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: didn't start the first game of his career, but he 742 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 1: came in at halftime and from that point on. He 743 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: started all the way through the twenty seventeen season up 744 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: until the championship game and actually started a championship game 745 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 1: against Georgia, was pulled at halftime to a tongue of 746 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: l one on the field led them to win. Jalen 747 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 1: stayed that next year and then when two got hurt 748 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 1: in the championship game against Georgia, who arrived to the 749 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 1: rescue none other than Jalen Hurts to get the Alabama 750 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,319 Speaker 1: Cripson tied over the top and it's a championship game. 751 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,560 Speaker 1: He is forever highly thought of because of the way 752 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: that he handled that he's a coach's son, he's from 753 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,759 Speaker 1: Channel View, and he is. He is the epitome of 754 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,480 Speaker 1: what you want a player at all levels to be. 755 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,960 Speaker 1: And when I asked about it, he said, I'm not 756 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,399 Speaker 1: above competition, man. I got to compete every single day, 757 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 1: he said, and I believe using a term. JJ Watt 758 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: used a phrase he used, rents do and you gotta 759 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 1: make the payment. You gotta go out there and make 760 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: some place. Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia, not above competing for 761 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:57,480 Speaker 1: that number one spot. Antonio Brown underwent knee surgery. Now 762 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: there have been some I don't know, rumblings, but the 763 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,000 Speaker 1: truth of the matter is he was supposed to have 764 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,279 Speaker 1: signed with the Buccaneers, but the contract has yet to 765 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: become official because Brown must first pass a physical. That 766 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: has not happened. Now, Jason light did say he was 767 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 1: not worried about about Brown's status. He just said it's 768 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,320 Speaker 1: a matter of time, but he's gotta get that physical 769 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:30,840 Speaker 1: taken care of. But Antonio Brown underwent a successful knee surgery. 770 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,320 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to pass physical, who knows, but it's odd. 771 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: Two summers ago, Antonio Brown was all anybody ever talked about. Now, 772 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,960 Speaker 1: he's just kind of flying under the radar. Found at 773 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,319 Speaker 1: home there in Tampa Bay with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. 774 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,960 Speaker 1: But contract not official yet because he has got to 775 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 1: pass that physical. Speaking of signing contracts, the Troy Lyons 776 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 1: and first rounder often to tackle Pingay Suel Green determines 777 00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:00,320 Speaker 1: on a rookie deal, and the Eagles also signed a 778 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 1: player of the Texans know a little bit because he 779 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 1: had played with the Indianapolis Colts. Former Texas Tech star 780 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 1: offensive lineman the Raven Clark signs with the phildelf Eagles 781 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 1: and former Indianapolis assistant Nick Sirianni, who's now the head 782 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:21,279 Speaker 1: coach there in Philadelphia. So things still happening in the 783 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,160 Speaker 1: NFL as we speak. It's been a great show. Appreciate 784 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,279 Speaker 1: you guys being here. Thanks to Mark for being on, 785 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,160 Speaker 1: Thanks to all of you for listening. I did this 786 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 1: season ticket, remember Carl last night We're coach Cully and 787 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,719 Speaker 1: it was awesome and he said it best, just thank 788 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,640 Speaker 1: you because without you guys, without you guys listening, without 789 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 1: your support, we can't be here. So we really appreciate it. 790 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,200 Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow right here on Sports Radio six 791 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,240 Speaker 1: ten appreciate you guys, and as always, go Texans.