1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the show that takes you 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: inside NRG Stadium. It's Texans All Access. Like the man said, 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: I'm Mark Vandermere and joining me tonight is John mcclaim 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: from the Houston Chronicle. We will also here tonight from 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: Buddy Howe Johnny and I talked to him a while back, 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: but Drew Doherty caught up with him, so we'll hear that. 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 1: And it's good stuff from Drew. I almost said uncle Drew, 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: which reminds me of that basketball movie that was out 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: last year that my kids saw and I watched. Part 10 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: of that was entertaining with Kyrie Irving and a bunch 11 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: of players acting like older people. You have to be there. Anyway. 12 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: We will talk to Buddy Holm Drew will and we'll 13 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: have that for you in segment three tonight. He's one 14 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: of those guys that's really interesting to me because he's 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: a special teams specialist, but he also plays running back. 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: But he's got a great perspective of things and he 17 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: knows his job description with this squad. And a little 18 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: bit later on as well, I'll share my thoughts on 19 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: the tweet of the week, not what you might think 20 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: from dpcity likes and stuff she does that social media 21 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: mini program. No, not that, just something that made me 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: feel good about this team. All right, let's get to it. 23 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: The general John McClain, John Well, I would say a 24 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: lot is going on. Is a lot going on. We've 25 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: had some news, we've had some non news, I guess, 26 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: but the team still without a general manager, and there's 27 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: been a lot of discussion and from outside the building 28 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: where this team is headed. We've talked about it here, 29 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: where this team is headed, what the inventory is. I've 30 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: went over that this week, how things are going. And 31 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: you and I have not had a chance to really 32 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: be on the air long form since the news broke 33 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: last Friday about the Texans no longer pursuing Nick Casserio 34 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: as a general manager candidate, unless they were to trade 35 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: for him, unless they were to get him next year 36 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: when his contract expires after the draft. But so many 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: things can happen between now and then. As you know, 38 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: I've been writing for ten days now. The current management 39 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: structure is what I think they will stick with. That 40 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: would be Bill O'Brien over personnel. He would work closely 41 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: with the twenty three person personnel's staff led by Matt 42 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: Missurigan and and then of course Rob Keisel and James 43 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: Lipford director of pro personnel in college scouting, and Jack 44 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: Easterby could handle all of football ops, that's everything else 45 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: that comes under the football umbrella. He can do that 46 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: for O'Brien because you can't do everything when you're the 47 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: head coach. Chris Olsen continued to do contracts in the cap, 48 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: and Jamie Rhodes of course and handled the administrative side, 49 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: and then Calmanare would sign off and he's like his 50 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: dad always did on big deals. I think the last 51 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: thing Bob did substantial before he started his last battle 52 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: with cancer was when they signed Tyron Matthew one year, 53 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: seven million. And Bob always signed off on things. Macanare's 54 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: have never letting money stand in the way of trying 55 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: to do what's best for the team to win. So 56 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: a lot of people have problem with that, and and 57 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: but I think I'm another what they're gonna do and 58 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: see it works out. May work out great, might not. 59 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: Nobody knows for sure, but it that's the way it's 60 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 1: going to be, so people should give it a chance. Well, 61 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: I think you bring up some interesting points and without 62 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: a definitive statement from the Texans on this. Let's just 63 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 1: go down this road for a moment. Like we said 64 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: last Friday night, we did have you on the air, 65 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: so as I said, we haven't talked, we actually talked 66 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: a little bit after the story broke, so I appreciate that. 67 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: But they do have that team of management in place, 68 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: that football operations crew in place to handle whatever comes up, 69 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: or if they want to make a deal, whatever they 70 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: want to do, they can do it with those guys. 71 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: I think it gets more interesting if they go into 72 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: draft season like this, but we'll take it one step 73 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: at a time. I just find it interesting from the 74 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: outside looking in. You have two candidates that were interviewed. 75 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: They wanted to interview Casserio, they backed away from that. 76 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: It's really not a very large pool of individuals you 77 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: can choose from for general manager anyway. And the other 78 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: thing is you never know what's out there that they're 79 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: not getting permission to interview either, so we don't know 80 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: what's happening behind the scenes. This is our best guest sometimes, 81 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: well I'll say this, this is exactly what's going to happen. 82 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: What I just said, they're not reaching out to anybody. 83 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: I'm curious to see if they have or will make 84 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: an offer to the Patriots for Casario. Like they're not 85 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: going to give up a one or two offer three. 86 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get multiple threes because of compensatory 87 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: pick possibly extra two for Kareem Jackson and Tyran Matthew. 88 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: That would give them three. Trade there, three and at five. 89 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: See if the Patriots bid on it. The key here 90 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: is Jack easter But he just spent six years with 91 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: the Patriots and he did a lot of things for 92 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Belichick had him in evaluations, he trusted him, 93 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: he really liked the way grown in the organization. They 94 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: offered him a new contract, but it was gonna be 95 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: for the same position where other teams like the Texans, 96 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Panthers, among others, were after him. And 97 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: the Texans paid a good amount of money to get 98 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,799 Speaker 1: him to come here. But they give him more authority. 99 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: If I'm Jack easterby and I want to be, like say, 100 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: run football operations or eventually be a general manager, whatever 101 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: his ambitions are, and I don't stay there. There's too 102 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: many people between that goal. But if he comes here 103 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: and he works closely with Bill O'Brien and they and 104 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: they answer to cal McNair. He gets to do a 105 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: lot of things for O'Brien because the head coach can't 106 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: handle the medical, the training, the nutrition and the everything 107 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: that goes under football operations. No head coach does that. 108 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick relies on people like Jack Easterby, like Neck Cassario, 109 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: so this would be a better situation for him. I 110 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: was told by a friend of mine who covers the 111 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: Patriots that James Lipford, the college personnel director who had 112 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: been with the Patriots, he is the reason and he's 113 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: the one that he knew easter Be from working with him. 114 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: O'Brien never worked with him. I'm sure O'Brien because he's 115 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: good friends with Belichick and and Belichick and Cassario probably 116 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: heard easter Be through the last few years because they 117 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: talk a lot. It was really good at what he did, 118 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: and so he's here. He's got growing influence in the organization. 119 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: People that I every time I googled a story on him, 120 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: they were all glowing. It didn't matter who who wrote it, 121 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: it was about the players, people in the organization. During 122 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week, he got a lot of attention. Everything 123 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: was positive. Now there's some bitterness coming out in anonymous 124 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: quotes from New England. But if there was a lot 125 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: of bitterness on the part say Robert Craft, why would 126 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: he have invited him to his home for the ring ceremony. 127 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: So obviously the bitterness wasn't as bad as a lot 128 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: of people are trying to portray it. And uh, well, 129 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: here's the other thing, China. You don't complain about somebody 130 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: leaving that you wanted to leave. If you wanted him 131 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: to go, If you're okay with him going, you're like, 132 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: all right, great. But if you're a bit or very 133 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: often it's because you wanted them to stay and you 134 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: feel like they should have been part of it. And 135 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: they did. They did offer him a new contract and 136 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: we turned him down. He came here, they still brought 137 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: him back for the ring ceremony. So he's the one 138 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,559 Speaker 1: I'm going to watch the closest. They said that Jack 139 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: would He is an athlete in college and that he's 140 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: got his hands and a lot of different things. In 141 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: one of them, he liked to jump in on scout 142 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: team drills and and uh, Nick Sarrio helps coach the 143 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: offense up there, specifically the quarterback. So I can't wait 144 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: to see id's gonna fit in here. And when the 145 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Texans come back for training camp and he's out there, 146 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be watching Jack Euster be to because he's 147 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: new and he's in He's been in the news a lot, 148 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: and I do not believe there will be another general 149 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: manager here unless it's Nick Cassario worked out with the 150 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: trade Well. I've met with Jack several times and I 151 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: heard him speak to partners on one occasion and he 152 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: was amazing. I mean, he's an amazing speaker. And I 153 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,679 Speaker 1: think people have read about that, and there's some stuff 154 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: online about that, and I don't know what's going to happen. Really, 155 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: I can't confirm anything, but I can I can tell 156 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: you this, there's something about the guy. So I think, 157 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: no matter what he's involved in, he could be involved 158 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: in retail sales somewhere. I think he would make a 159 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: difference for that organization. So I think he's one of 160 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: these people that can read situations, he knows people, he 161 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: can motivate people, and we'll see how it goes. I 162 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: think it's exciting, it's interesting, it's different, and as you 163 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: and I always like to point out there's a team 164 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: in place here to do business on and off the 165 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: field in twenty nineteen, so we'll see how it goes. 166 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: They've been working on the draft here since the last draft. 167 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: I was asking on sixteen, well, who's going to do this? 168 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: I said, they're already doing that. They got a director 169 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: and player personnel who worked under the general manager and 170 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: he oversees it. They've already way ahead on college prospects 171 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: as well as possible free agents who don't resign. Well, 172 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: you mentioned next year, you mentioned Lifford. I mean, who 173 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: do you think, even when Brian Game was here, who 174 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: do you think books the flights for the scouts to 175 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: go wherever? I mean that stuff is taking care of it. 176 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: Levels lower than that, and there's an organizational process now 177 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: it could be tweaked to proof whatever. But it's not 178 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: like it's not going to happen. To your point, the 179 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: difference is who the answer to and in all one 180 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: is Brian Gain worked closely with O'Brien and they didn't 181 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: make Bill take players, build controls and game day roster. 182 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: If he said, Bill, you're gonna take this guy though 183 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: you don't want him, think Bill is gonna play the guy. 184 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: No good general managers make sure they get the players 185 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: that their coaches like. If you if you have a 186 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: big difference, you should pass that guy up. You need 187 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: to both have You may disagree on the guy's strength 188 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: and weaknesses, but if you fits what you want to 189 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: do and you agree, bring them in here. And that's 190 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: the way they did it, and that's the way they'll 191 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: continue to do it. And they have people underneath them 192 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,319 Speaker 1: to keep up with the waiver wire free agents that 193 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: are still a available when guys get hurt, who they're 194 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: going to bring in? And I wish Brian gained all 195 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: the best. I think he'll get a job in personnel, 196 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: not sure when, but I believe he will. And and 197 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: I'm eager to see how this management team is going 198 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: to function based on the way they have since the 199 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: franchise was awarded here and they started with Charlie Casserley before. 200 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: What wouldn't Charlie get hired two thousand? He has a 201 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: way of a job a couple of years before that. 202 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: So just because you don't have a guy general manager entitled, 203 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: people have the responsibilities. Absolutely, John, When people ask you 204 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: about Clowney, what's your response and how this might be 205 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: affecting that situation. Absolutely no effect whatsoever. I've been saying 206 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: since he turned down a contract offer last year that 207 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: he would play under the franchise tag. I do not 208 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: believe any different. I think he'll play under the franchise tag. 209 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll have great year as a pass rusher, and 210 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: that'll help to make more money. You know, Jadevion is 211 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: not gonna I don't think we'll get the kind of 212 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: money the guys who have double digit sacks every year 213 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: get until he's doing that. So keep him from the 214 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: franchise tag for two years if they want, could trade 215 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: him next year, could keep him two years and trade him. 216 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: All I know is there's not gonna be a third 217 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: franchise tag for anybody, because it's the quarterback money. And 218 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: and I think it's good for him to come in 219 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: here because say he got fifteen sacks all of a sudden, right, 220 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: and it's gonna cost a lot more to keep him. 221 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: Absolutely John side note here on the franchise tag. A 222 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: lot of fans media roll their eyes at the franchise tag. 223 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the horror, so unfair to the player. 224 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: Yet this was collectively bargaining back in twenty eleven. So 225 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: what's your take on the franchise tag and where a 226 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: Mico in the next agreement It will be again because 227 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: it affects so few players when the union is negotiating 228 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: a new deal. The guys that are doing the negotiations, 229 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: they don't get in trouble, they don't hit women, they 230 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: don't do things that the guys are getting trouble do. 231 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: They don't care about the guys that do that. And 232 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: really a small segment franchise he eat. Franchise tags affect 233 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: the NFL. When you figure fifty three players figure ir 234 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: practice squad sixty three, let's say ends up being like 235 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: seventy to seventy five per team, that's a lot of 236 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: people franchise tag facts what like three or four year 237 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: five maybe, So that's not going to be an issue. 238 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: People think it is are crazy. They're not gonna say, 239 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: we're not gonna give back get you have four more 240 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: OTAs and the coaches have more time with us just 241 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: because you'll give us a franchise tag back. That's not 242 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: the way it works. I am just completely shocked when 243 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: players don't play under that tag, How can you put 244 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: all that money back? Because they see this guy got 245 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: a long term deal and he got fifty million guaranteed, 246 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: not being asked to play for seventeen million, And a 247 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: lot of it is ego. I don't know how you 248 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: walk away with that kind of money. Most don't like. 249 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 1: I don't think for a minute Clowney's gonna miss time. 250 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,599 Speaker 1: I think he'll come in here when the game. And 251 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: that's all those guys can do is withhold their services. 252 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: Like Dante Robinson. Remember he stayed out and then Rick 253 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: Smith said the next year, if you come in, we 254 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 1: won't tag you again, and then he was gone to Atlanta. 255 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: And I don't think I would ever give in on 256 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: a player like that. And I've thought that Clowney is 257 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: never gonna get paid like Aaron Donald Khalil Mack, maybe 258 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: not even like to Marcus Lawrence and Frank Clark. Those 259 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: guys average double digit sacks for the last three years. 260 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: Maybe like Trey Flowers he got like ninety million. And 261 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: I can't remember what he got guaranteed from Detroit. But 262 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: if he has a big year, great year, then the 263 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: price of doing business goes up, absolutely goes up. It's 264 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: gonna be significant, all right. The general is gonna stick 265 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: around with us. What are the Texans rank or stack up? 266 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: How do they in the AFC As far as looking 267 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: at potential projections of the performance this season, that's a 268 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: lot of peas. We'll get to it all next on 269 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: Texans Radio Hanging out Thursday night here in the Hunday 270 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio. I almost broke into song I'm so 271 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: happy because the General John McLean is here from the 272 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle. All right, General, let's go AFC. We talked 273 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: a bunch about the GM situation in the first act 274 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: of this program, so we're not really going to recap 275 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: too much of that. In fact, by not too much, 276 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: I mean zero. So let's get into some football stuff. John. 277 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: When you talk about a team's projection for a year 278 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: and how they might do, very often we look at 279 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: this entire thirty two team field and it gets kind 280 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: of overwhelming to think about all those teams. Let's just 281 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: break it down. I mean, all you're trying to do 282 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: is be one of the top six in the AFC, 283 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: whether it's wildcard or division winner or whatever. You want 284 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: to be one of the top six in the AFC. 285 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: But I think you did league rankings, so what do 286 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: you got here from the Chronicle from what you wrote 287 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: this week? I did Dave's rankings based on everybody being 288 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: through with offseason programs and the teams that I had. 289 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: I'll tell you where you mentioned AFC. I have ahead 290 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: of the Texans New England one. I have Indianapolis four, 291 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: Kansas City five, Chargers six, and the Texans eleventh, and 292 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: so that would make them what fifth or fifth in AFC. 293 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: And and so I think that was because the schedule. 294 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: I didn't think record, because the schedule it's just so hard. 295 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: So we had Chargers, Patriots, Chiefs calls. So the Texans 296 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: have been fifth, fifth in AFC. Okay, so behind the 297 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: Texans would be the Ravens yep. Behind the Steelers for sure. 298 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: Everybody else, everybody like Pittsburgh thirteen, Cleveland fourteen, Tennessee fifteen, 299 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: Jacksonville sixteen, Baltimore seventeen, and other AFC at Oakland twenty one, 300 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: Buffalo twenty two, Denver twenty three and two, ass Jets 301 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: twenty five, Miami twenty seven, Bengals twenty eight, and I 302 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: have the worst. That's all. That's all they have. See 303 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: my three worst teams in the league Arizona, Tampa, Washington, 304 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: and then fourth worst is a Giant. So the bottom 305 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: four all NFC teams. Wow. Okay, So if the Texans 306 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: are the fifth best team in the AFC, behind the Chargers, Pats, Chiefs, Cults, 307 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: what do they all have in common? Let's see quarterbacks 308 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: and who do they play each other? The Texans playoffs those, yeah, 309 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: and they play the Chiefs, the Chargers on the road. 310 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: They of course play the Colts home at home. They 311 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: get the Patriots in Energy Stadium. That's rough, no doubt 312 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: about it. And it's not like the games that aren't 313 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: that are any kind of walk. You've got Atlanta at home, 314 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: you have Carolina at Orlans that's you got to go 315 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: to New Orleans to play Drew Brees. Gosh, I'm getting 316 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: ill right now. I don't want to talk about this 317 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: at all. Those there are seven games, the quarterbacks they play, 318 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: there's no break. Okay, there's no doubt that it's brutal. However, 319 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: everybody in the AFC South has virtually the same thing, 320 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: except for the two teams in the opposite divisions that 321 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: you're not playing. So the fact that the Colts have 322 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: to go to Pittsburgh is nice for the Texans, right 323 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: because the Texans have to go to Baltimore, but the 324 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: Colts are off to Pittsburgh and that's no walk in 325 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: the park. So that's pretty good. And then you look 326 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: at the Titans and the Jags. Obviously that's gonna be 327 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: a little bit different with the AFC North. But the 328 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, Okay, they're gonna play the Tennessee Titans. That's nice. 329 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: Maybe the Browns can help you out right there. So 330 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: in other words, you have some games like that. Your 331 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: AFC East opponent is the New England Patriots play at 332 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: Kansas City and at charged at the two best teams 333 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: out there on the road. But John, you said yourself, 334 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: that charge your road trip to me. You see, they 335 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 1: sold out all their tickets. They had a big announcement yesterday. 336 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: They put out a release that said they'd so I 337 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen. I guarantee there will be 338 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: five thousand Texans fantom oh at least, yeah, they'll find 339 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: a way Houstonians relocated or people just traveling out to 340 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: La Tragson's great trip. They know they can go in 341 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: there and make a lot of noise to help the team. 342 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be great. But there's one problem. 343 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: What Philip Rivers, Yeah, great pass rush, Keenan Allen, Melvin Gordon. 344 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 1: You want to be the best, you gotta beat the best. 345 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: I hate that though, I'd and you know, Texans won 346 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: at Dallas against Dallas last year, they beat Indie and 347 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: if you can win those get people always terrible schedule. 348 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: Both those teams won playoff games. And I do believe 349 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 1: that Texans gonna be better. I think the offensive line 350 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: will be better. I'm not sure a secondary will be better. 351 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: They got a lot of new people in there. Better 352 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: be better considering these quarterbacks. But I look mark for 353 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I've been telling people this on national radio shows. 354 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: If he for fantasy players, if he accounted for thirty 355 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: one touchdowns considering the limitations that he played with last year, 356 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: including second third receivers missing nineteen games, Miller missing two 357 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: and a half for him, and not doing anything with 358 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: the protection, problems with his issues that contributed to the protection, 359 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 1: and he's still accounted for thirty one touchdowns. I look 360 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: for him to be in the forties. In the forties, 361 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: in the forties rushing and passing combined. Yeah, you realize 362 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: they've never passed for more than thirty or twenty nine. 363 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be in the thirties onscown passes, 364 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: and I think Adam I gonna say he's gonna run 365 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: for more than five. That's dangerous when they get down 366 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: closed and he starts running for the pyline like against 367 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And but I think that Watson will be 368 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: a legitimate MVP candidate after watching him an off season 369 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: program in shorts with nobody covering, just watching him deal 370 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: with the players and the coaches knowing and seeing how 371 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: accurate he was. He reminds me so much of Warren Moon. 372 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna be a legitimate MVP candidate, 373 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: and he's gonna be a big time fantasy player. And 374 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: I think that the Texans will have their best chance 375 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: to go to a super Bowl with him than Houston's 376 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: ever had with any quarterback. Back to this division thing 377 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: for a moment, the fact that the Texans have to 378 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: play the AFC East in the first place. South is 379 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: toughest division in the NFL. It's got to be. I mean, 380 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: I think there's no question you had two playoff teams 381 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: in each of the last two years, and you had 382 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: three winning teams last year, the only division in football 383 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: with three winning teams. That's tough stuff right there. You 384 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: didn't have a real top heavy team. Necessarily, the Texans 385 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 1: won the division with eleven victories, but that's saying something 386 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: when you have three winning teams. Anyway, the AFC East, 387 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: I looked up some historical information in the Brady Belichick era. 388 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: I'd like to throw this out there from time to time. 389 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: Everybody but the Patriots is under five hundred overall in 390 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: the AFC East. So the Patriots a lot of time 391 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: researching that because that seems like no breaker. Sorry, but 392 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: when you look at the rankings, I was looking at 393 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:14,439 Speaker 1: records since then since oz One and the Jets, Bills, 394 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 1: and Dolphins are all twenty fourth and lower, you know, 395 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: in the entire league aggregate record stat So to me, 396 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: it's just awful the Patriots. Do you say that the 397 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: East is that bad because of the Patriots, or the 398 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,360 Speaker 1: Patriots are that good because the East is so bad? 399 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of a to everybody. 400 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: But on the other hand, think of all the head coaches, 401 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: of general managers, all the changes those other quarterback quarterbacks, 402 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 1: of course, and the Patriots have capitalized on it. And 403 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: the only time anybody really scared him was when Rex 404 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: Ryan first got there and they went to the playoffs 405 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: and they beat him in Foxborough. That was the only 406 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: time anybody has really made him sweat. From the afcast 407 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: back to back AFC Championship game appearances for the New 408 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: York Jets with Mark Sanchez at quarterback, and they don't 409 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: break through to go to a super Bowl, and the 410 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: rest is history. Rex really never panned out after that, 411 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: all right, shifting gears a bit here on NFL dot 412 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: com where he's Jones Drew ranks the running backs and 413 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:22,199 Speaker 1: he's got Lamar Miller at thirtieth, thirtieth in the league. 414 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: Come on, people around the NFL don't seem to respect 415 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: Lamar at all. They kept talking before the draft they 416 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 1: have to get another running back. He averaged what four 417 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: point He had his highest average per carry since last 418 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: year at Miami. He missed two and a half games. 419 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 1: He couldn't catch the ball because he had to block. 420 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: He's a really good receiver. Bill O'Brien said he'd liked 421 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: to incorporate him more in the passing game. A lot 422 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 1: of that'll have to do is pass protection good enough 423 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,479 Speaker 1: where they can send him out. Remember when they used 424 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: to line him up wide, put him in the slot, 425 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: let him go in motion. They couldn't do that because 426 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: he had to block. So I'm not saying he's in 427 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: the top half of the running bags, but I don't 428 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: certainly don't think that he's thirty four point six yards 429 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: per carry, nine hundred and seventy three yards all right, 430 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: unbelievable those two and a half games, and he'd averaged 431 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: sixty yards a game. That would have given him one 432 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thirty, another one hundred and fifty than 433 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: he would have been up around eleven hundred and then 434 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: people probably wouldn't have said a word. Yeah, maybe maybe 435 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: they'd rank him a lot higher. But to me, when 436 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: you look at thirtieth, that's just total disrespect. And I 437 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: know everyone's gonna ask, well, who you take it out? 438 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,360 Speaker 1: Who you take it out ahead of him? I think 439 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys. I mean, look, I 440 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: think James Connor is a really good player, but I 441 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: think when you look at the reliability of Lamar Miller, 442 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: he's so reliable and this year, he finally had some 443 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: of those runs that you were really waiting for for 444 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: a long time from him, like ninety seven yards against 445 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans on Monday Night Football. James Connor had 446 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: one of the two best offensive line coaches in the NFL, 447 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,080 Speaker 1: and Mike Munchack. He had a really good off in 448 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: some line in front of him, and I guess they 449 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 1: still do. And so does that have anything to do 450 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: with the running back success? Yes, sometimes I check that out. 451 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: And Frankedom considered that at all. What about Pro Football 452 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: Focus saying the Texas had the twentieth best offensive line 453 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,199 Speaker 1: in the NFL. Look, that's hardly stuff to throw a 454 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: parade about. But a lot of people saw that and said, 455 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: wait a minute. I thought, that doesn't fit the narrative. 456 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: That doesn't fit the narrative that the line's not good enough. Now, 457 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: no one's saying twenty is good enough. But it's a 458 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: lot better than some people thought. That's the truth. And 459 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what they're basing it on because 460 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: I didn't see that. But and a lot of the 461 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: sacks in one hundred and thirty two knockdowns were Watson's fault, 462 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: and he says, you know, people would say I hold 463 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: the ball too long until I throw the ball down 464 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: the field and make a play, and they don't say anything. Well, 465 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: Seth brought this up this morning because they're talking about 466 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: this thing. And I think twelve or fourteen sacks were 467 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: determined to be Watson's fault. And then yet another I 468 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: don't know, double figures number where it was backs and 469 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: tight ends fault and set To saying, well, you have 470 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: the backs and tight ends in because you're blocking, because 471 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: you're helping out the line. Look, you have to go 472 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: deeper into the analytics than and he makes a reasonable point, 473 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 1: I suppose, but you can't prove that either, because you 474 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,199 Speaker 1: could say there's blitz pick up. Running backs have to 475 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: be able to pick up the blitz. I mean, the 476 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: teams are the best. Old lines have to be ready 477 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: for that. To the heart receiver on a blitz, sometimes 478 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: they send more than you can block. Five is not enough, 479 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: and very often you have six because you do have 480 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: a tight end or a back end to block. So 481 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 1: it's really hard to evaluate these things. I just found 482 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: that number interesting. Okay, a few other things to cover 483 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: with you general. In fact, I'm gonna go retro on 484 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: you and people can't think about recent history. But what 485 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: do the Patriots and the Rockets have in common? The 486 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: Rockets and the Patriots. Think about that, and we'll have 487 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: some more stuff as we go around the league here 488 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: on Texans All Access, Mark Andremere and John mcclaim from 489 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle here in the hunday Texans Radio Studios 490 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: Texans All Access, and I gave a tease, a retro tease. 491 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: A lot of people are confused. Go back to the eighties. 492 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: What did the Rockets and the Patriots have in common? Now, 493 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: when you hear the word Patriots, you think Tom Brady 494 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick. No, I'm talking about the Patriot pat 495 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: logo on the helmet, the old Patriots. Because what did 496 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: the Rockets and the Patriots both do to the national 497 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: sports fan that upset them? They prevented an all time 498 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: great matchup in a championship situation in their sport. For 499 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: the Rockets, it was nineteen eighty six when they knocked 500 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 1: off the Lakers Ralph Sampson at the Buzzer to win 501 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals and face an unbelievable Celtics team 502 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: depriving the nation. Look was great. Here at Houston, but 503 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: depriving the nation of Lakers Celtics in the Finals Part three. 504 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: For the Patriots, it was knocking off Dan Marino and 505 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins for their shot to take on the 506 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: Chicago Bears in the eighty five season Super Bowl. That 507 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: would have been an epic Super Bowl. There's no way 508 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: the Bears probably win that game, but there's no way. 509 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: It's forty six to ten. The Patriots beat the Dolphins 510 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship Game. Remember, the Dolphins were the 511 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: only team to beat the Bears that year, and everyone 512 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: wanted to see the match. Bears would have lamed based 513 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: at them in the in the you think so at 514 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: that point? At eight, Associated Press has been having a 515 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: bunch of us covered in the NFL Long Time Vote 516 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: on a lot of things for the hundred year anniversary, 517 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: and one of them was the most dominant team. And 518 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: the most dominant team I've seen was eighty five Bears. 519 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: I had Steelers, one of the Steelers teams from seventies, 520 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: Packers from the sixties, and that Bears team. We've got 521 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: a great running game, good enough passing game, but defense 522 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it, including the steel curtain, 523 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: and I think revenge Buddy Ryan and Mike Ditka. It 524 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: would have been dangerous. I thought you were gonna say 525 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: they both had the number one pick, and and the 526 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: Patriots took Kenneth SAMs In. The Rockets took Ralph Sampson. Interesting, 527 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: that's right, and Samson injuries derailed that career. The Twin Towers, 528 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: all of it, Oh my gosh. And the Patriots screwed 529 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 1: up left and right. They drafted Tony Easton in the 530 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: eighty three draft. How dare they? Buddy helped him go 531 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl? He did. I'll tell you what 532 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 1: rushed the run. They had to get there, winning three 533 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: games on the road in the playoffs, which they were 534 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: the first team to ever pull that off. So the 535 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: Steelers did it about twenty years later. But they were 536 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: the first team to ever pull that off Wildcard, divisional 537 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: round and championship game on the road. But they got 538 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: crushed like a great gas left in the tank. When 539 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: they played the Super Bowl in New Orleans, they had nothing. 540 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: It was controversial at that John, this is why one 541 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: of the big reasons why I wanted to get into radio. 542 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: There was a huge debate because Steve Brogan started something 543 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: like six games that year when Easton got hurt or whatever, 544 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,479 Speaker 1: and he did really well. They won, and then they 545 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: put Easton back in the saddle for the postseason. Now 546 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: they won those three games, like I said, with Easton, 547 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: but the fans still weren't happy Easton had to The 548 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: fans had the shortest leash ever. Now they passed on Marino, 549 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: as did a lot of teams. Did A lot of 550 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: teams did that eighty three draft right, they could have 551 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: had a shot at Marino and they didn't take it. 552 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: A lot of teams passed up Marino. There was rumors 553 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: about drugs. He was stupid, He had a low wonderlinck 554 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: and he fell right to the Dolphins, which is the 555 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: best thing could happen to him, and him only going 556 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: to one Super Bowl, a loss in his second season 557 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: of eighty four when he broke all the records at 558 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: Peyton Mannings and Drew Brees broken. But I thought sure 559 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: after his second season we were going to see him 560 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: in multiple Super Bowls, and we never saw him in 561 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: another one. Well, you could have seen him against the Bears, 562 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: but maybe that would have been another loss. He would 563 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: have gotten Owen too. I mean, Jim Kelly was another 564 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: great quarterback that went owen four in the Super Bowls. 565 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: You just never know how it's gonna go. All right, 566 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: So it is the one hundred year. So the Bears 567 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: the most dominant team you've ever opinion, And I'm not 568 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: sure what the panel how it will end up come in. 569 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: We vote for a top fifty and then they'll come 570 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: up with the top one hundred out of that. But 571 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: I've never seen a team dominate like those Bears did. 572 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: What's the best offense you've ever seen? Never mind stats, 573 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: but an offense for two thousand and seven or even 574 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: though they lost on the miraculous David Tyree catch setting 575 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: up plax Cove Bursts touchdown, I still think that was 576 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: the greatest. That was the greatest offensive team I've ever seen, 577 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: with Brady throwing the Moss Rams what about them Rams? 578 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: But yes, that was a great offense there has been. 579 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: Steelers were loaded with Hall of famers when they won 580 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: four Super Bowls. Um to me, a great offense got 581 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: to be able to run and pass. And the Rams, 582 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: of course had had an incredible running game with Marshall Falk. 583 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: Remember when the Vikings blew it and didn't get to 584 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl ever fifteen and one, and they had 585 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: the highest scoring team in history, the eighty three Redskins 586 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: with the highest scoring team in history, and they got 587 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: blasted by the Raiders. So to me, to be considered 588 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: the greatest, you have to win a championship. But that that, 589 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: and to me, the most overrated team that I didn't 590 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: put in my top five was the unbeaten Dolphins and overrated, overted. 591 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: How can you overrate perfection? They were overrated. You go 592 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: back over all those games and look at them. They 593 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: were over there close. They go crazy when anybody says that. 594 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: But but yod, you gotta give them credit for running 595 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: top ten. But I didn't put them in my top five. 596 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: I will say this. When I lived there, I had 597 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting them. A bunch of those guys 598 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: like Manny Fernandez. I've worked with Jim Mandich a few times. 599 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: It was a tight end for that team, and so 600 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: I got to like those guys and I understood those guys. 601 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: And to meet coach Shula that's pretty special as well. 602 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: Of course. I just it's funny because there's all this 603 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: historic stuff going on, historical stuff with the one hundredth 604 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: birthday of the league. And Don Shula is such a 605 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: fast seating character in this game because he still leads 606 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: by a long way in all time victories. Right, Christ 607 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: you said characters. We had to pick characters, okay, and 608 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: then we had to pick the greatest coaches. It was 609 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: very It was fascinating. They gave us examples, records and 610 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: biggest plays, best teams. It was fun to do. It 611 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: took a long time. What about greatest coaches. I mean, 612 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: Shula's got more wins than anybody. Okay, I get it 613 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: that he didn't win as many championships, party as the 614 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: number one great five championships, totally transformed, transformed a franchise 615 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: and a city. And it was pretty easy to pick 616 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: top ten because there's so many great ones. And I 617 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: don't even remember who I picked a second and as 618 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: Jula of course in the top three or four, along 619 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: with No Walls, Landry, Paul Brown, you know, George Hollis 620 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: was in the top ten there. I mean, you got 621 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: to go back. It was a fascinating and I can't 622 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: wait to see when this comes out to see how 623 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: it ended up. Really, you can't go wrong. My greatest 624 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: game ever and I've seen a lot of them. I 625 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: went and put the championship game between the Colts and 626 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: Giants first overtime game because it transformed interest in the 627 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: NFL from college football to pro football. But man, I thought, 628 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: how many times I was at games and covered great 629 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: like the catch. So you were at the catch. We 630 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: talked about that, races Number two, I might have had 631 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: the iceball. Number three had Tyree's catch, even though it 632 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: wasn't a touchdown, is one of is like top five 633 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: all so games you were at though? Were you at 634 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: San Diego Miami forty one thirty eight overtime? No? I 635 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: watched it, but I was not there, And but it's 636 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: just amazing. That was the same year as the Catch. Actually, 637 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: the San Diego Miami forty one thirty eight overtime, a 638 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: game that really doesn't get talked about it all anymore, 639 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: and a lot of people thought that was the greatest 640 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: game them. It was a fabulous game. What everybody I 641 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: remember the hook and ladder with Tony Nathan, but everybody 642 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: remembers Kellen Winslow being helped off the field totally exhausted 643 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: after having one of the greatest games in history. Twenty 644 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: four nothing lead the Chargers, Dolphins go ahead, Chargers tie it, 645 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: win it in overtime. I think I think each field 646 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: goal kicker missed kicks in the extra samaculate receptions right 647 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: up there. You know that. It's just amazing. The Ghost 648 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: Holy Roller. If it's got a nickname, you knew it 649 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: was big. As far as the coaching thing goes. One 650 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: more for you here. If Shula was with the Colts 651 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: and he loses the Super Bowl to name it in 652 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: the Jets, but then goes to the Dolphins and he's 653 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: in the Jets division and torments them for a long time. 654 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: It's just kind of an interesting dynamic to me that 655 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: he was in that fray. But he started out as 656 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: a young guy. That's why he's got so many wins. 657 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: He started so young in the coaching profession, he was 658 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: one of the youngest head coaches. I don't think he 659 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 1: was as young as John Madden was, but he was. 660 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: And of course he coached forever and that's the reason 661 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,360 Speaker 1: he's is the all time winning his coach and I 662 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: don't see anybody passing him up today. The way coaches 663 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: have quick cooks. Yeah, John by Bell checo catch him. John, 664 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: what's going on in the Houston Chronicle. Well, let's see, 665 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 1: it's the slight time of the year. I've got a 666 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,800 Speaker 1: podcast up, got a chat up, have a Facebook live up, 667 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: and I'm probably gonna take a few days off from 668 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: writing and we'll start writing again next week. All right, John, 669 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: Great weekend the general John McLean joining us most Thursdays 670 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access. And next week we'll let 671 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: you know. Next couple of weeks are going to be 672 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: a little bit different, some vacation time. We'll have some 673 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: great interviews for you. We've got a lot of stuff, 674 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 1: a lot of acorns that we've stored up for this time. 675 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: And you never know what kind of news breaks, if any. 676 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 1: We really don't know, but we'll let you know, of 677 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: course we will. Now, let's get to Buddy how Buddy 678 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: how a running back who went to FAU spent a 679 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: little time with the Miami Dolphins, but then was released. 680 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: Texans got him right before the start of the season. 681 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: He paid dividends on special teams almost instantly. Drew Doherty 682 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,240 Speaker 1: had a chance to visit with Buddy Howe. Special teams 683 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 1: as a whole year made drastic improvements. It's one of 684 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: the bestest franchises ever had, and they had been pretty 685 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: bad before that. Your second on the team and special 686 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: teams tackles how much pride you taking that knowing where 687 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 1: he came from and your journey to the NFL being 688 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 1: a competitor come from downside. That's how we do is compete. 689 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: So like accepting the role that I was in, I'm 690 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,359 Speaker 1: not gonna just sit there and trying to just make 691 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: my way through, but I would gonna have fun and 692 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: trying to make a play anyway possible. Because what you're 693 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,439 Speaker 1: just going out there having fun with the group, which 694 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: is why we have so much success because we have 695 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: fun together and just making plays. You know, that competitive 696 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,879 Speaker 1: avantage is something that just pushed me along the way. 697 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 1: So it's going out to make a tackle. I'm gonna 698 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: do something if that's my job. How do you build 699 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: on that? Try to stack you try to beat what 700 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: you did last year? You continue to compete with your teammates, 701 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: and we compete with each other in the game like 702 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: like who's gonna go down and get this? Like that's 703 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: how we kept each other up. We wanted to be 704 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: to want to make the tackle, and I build all 705 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: that because how am I making impression for the next year. 706 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: You know, you can't just stay the saying you can't 707 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 1: go down. You want to stack that up. So then 708 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: the organization tends to love you and want to keep 709 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: you around. So that's the way to keep your name 710 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,399 Speaker 1: in the business. Cre We're saying that with who's gonna 711 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,600 Speaker 1: make this tackle? It'd be a J. Moore, it would 712 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,719 Speaker 1: be PK. It could be bad, it could be Joe like, 713 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,439 Speaker 1: but mostly it would be like me and AJ could 714 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: me a AJ in the interior and PK. So that's 715 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,240 Speaker 1: not a coincidence that the four names you just filled 716 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: off those are the four leaders. Yeah, those guys the 717 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,399 Speaker 1: one thing in that Terry be like, yeah, we gotta 718 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: run down. That's our job to go cass having and 719 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 1: get to the ball. Without that mind how much do 720 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: you actually want to carry the ball on offense? Honestly, 721 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: I got to the point where I sat in my 722 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: role carrying the ball will be a bonus to me. 723 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,320 Speaker 1: They had to give you the opportunity to put the 724 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,319 Speaker 1: organization in my hands and carry the ball, I'd be 725 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: grateful for it. So I'm not really looking for that 726 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,439 Speaker 1: because it's a mindset thing. If you know your role. 727 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,960 Speaker 1: You'll never have yourself in a hole where you think like, oh, 728 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: I should get the ball. To get the ball, I 729 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 1: don't want to have that feeling. I want to have 730 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,439 Speaker 1: that mindset. So I just focus on what they told 731 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,919 Speaker 1: me to come in and focus on that special team. 732 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 1: But I know if I get the ball, you know, 733 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: being a running back, it's up and popping. You know, 734 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,839 Speaker 1: that's gonna be something, you know, a little extra little 735 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: juice for me. So like I have no number for it. 736 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: I just want the opportunity. But I'm not saying I'm 737 00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,240 Speaker 1: begging for it. I's gonna go out and make my tackles, 738 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 1: you know, block, kick our return, block on probably returning 739 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,839 Speaker 1: all this stuff, and do what I gotta do. But hey, 740 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: they give me the wrong, that's a bonus for me. 741 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: What's the mindset when you're flying down field and you 742 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: got a guy in your sights, you're not gonna block me? 743 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: Watch out? It's really like got my way, Like what 744 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: you're doing. That's kind of like how I think of it, 745 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,040 Speaker 1: because it's opponents somebody that's trying to stop you. So 746 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: I'm really just look I don't really look at my opponent. 747 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: I look past them. You practice so much to what 748 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: it stuff just second nature, so like moves and stick 749 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,719 Speaker 1: and getting it out. But you know, when we had 750 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,880 Speaker 1: them double teams, that's what I'm like, all right, so 751 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: I gotta take one for the team to release somebody 752 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: else on my team. So it's a team. It's a 753 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: team sport. So when I took them double teams on, 754 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,040 Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm for the cause a lot of 755 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,239 Speaker 1: habit so I can like really make those guys come 756 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,560 Speaker 1: to me, and then whoever's running off of me has 757 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: a free land, so it's a give and take. I 758 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 1: really just run down man, like a little kid. To 759 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 1: be honest, I'm like, hey, I'm flying down as a 760 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 1: chance of run fasts. Everybody love a rough ass. Where's 761 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 1: the buddy nickname come from? My mom was pregnant with me. 762 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 1: She's watching a little professor Buddy love come on, my 763 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: little buddy, and like she was calling me that since 764 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: I was a baby. And the funny thing about it, 765 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: once I got to college, she didn't think it was 766 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,880 Speaker 1: gonna stick. And then coaches asked me what they want 767 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 1: me to call him? I was like, buddy. And then 768 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,840 Speaker 1: when I got to the NFL, nobody don't even know 769 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: my real name, it's Gregory. So I was like, it 770 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 1: was like, what you want to put on the rocks. 771 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: I like buddy out because it's a you know, for me, 772 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,919 Speaker 1: it's a marketing thing because it's something that stands out 773 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 1: and that's where everybody called me. That's what everybody know 774 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: me for. So I just start with buddy out and 775 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,799 Speaker 1: spready do. So, what's your goal for twenty nineteen for you? 776 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: Go out there and play fast, have fun, help with 777 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 1: the team, get more wins, continue or like you know, 778 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,720 Speaker 1: field this coaching with the team. Obviously make more tackles 779 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: than I did last year. She had what I caused 780 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,879 Speaker 1: one funnel, so caused another funnel that out did last year. 781 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: Just do something different. Just try to make an impact play. Honestly, 782 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,240 Speaker 1: Like everybody want to have that moment and that shine. 783 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna find my moment and that shine, my 784 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 1: shine from an impact play, something that just changed the 785 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: whole game or just changed the whole momentum. That's what 786 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: you shoot for because those type of moments, it's something 787 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: that to a team a lot of juice, and once 788 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: your team all juicef nobody can stop it. So my 789 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 1: goal this is to go out there and beat me. 790 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,719 Speaker 1: Be the same person I am, and compete each and 791 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,919 Speaker 1: every rapping, play fast, play fast, and be that person 792 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,920 Speaker 1: that the people around me trust every moment. Buddy how 793 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 1: with Drew Doherty on Texans All Access and a young player, 794 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 1: but we've got even younger ones, rookies trying to make 795 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 1: their way onto this team. I brought up my favorite 796 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,320 Speaker 1: tweet of the week. This did not make lights and 797 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 1: stuff because it happened. I think it was yesterday at 798 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,320 Speaker 1: the day before, but the rookies were at the YMC, 799 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: the Houston Texans YMCA on MLK, and they did a 800 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: rookie splash bash. I forget exactly what they called it. 801 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 1: It's all part of Texans Care and Champions for Youth, 802 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,720 Speaker 1: but the rookies were in the pool with the kids 803 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,360 Speaker 1: and it is priceless stuff. Go to the Houston Texans 804 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,279 Speaker 1: Twitter account check out some of the picks, or on 805 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: the website Houston Texans dot com. We also did a 806 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,440 Speaker 1: video on this and I tweeted something out because the 807 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,759 Speaker 1: kids are hanging all over these players and in the 808 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: pool and they're just having a good time in the 809 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: summer sun and I just said something like, looks like 810 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,080 Speaker 1: the Texans fans at the Houston Texans YMCA approve of 811 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 1: the rookie class. Yes they do. It's all about the kids, 812 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,360 Speaker 1: seeing them so happy, seeing these young guys get baptized 813 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,719 Speaker 1: in the NFL on the field, what they've gone through 814 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,000 Speaker 1: with this whole offseason program, and then they get to 815 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 1: play with these kids, and it just looked like a 816 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,799 Speaker 1: whole bunch of fun. So go check it out. Yes, 817 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 1: it's a feel good things. So what I can hear 818 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 1: some of you eye rolling out there, You stop it 819 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: right now. This is the professional football team at one 820 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,840 Speaker 1: eleven games last year, and the guys do have some 821 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,920 Speaker 1: fun off the field too and do good things for 822 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,319 Speaker 1: the community as well. All right, Like I said, we're 823 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,919 Speaker 1: in that long break between mini camp and training camp 824 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,439 Speaker 1: that I called the desert. It hasn't been that dry though. 825 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: Some things have been happening. Plenty of conversation about what's 826 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,840 Speaker 1: happening with this football team. Don't forget July twenty fifth 827 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,360 Speaker 1: team goes to camp. We'll be out there at the 828 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center presenting you all our training camp 829 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,799 Speaker 1: programming and the guys from Sports Radio six ten. We'll 830 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,840 Speaker 1: be broadcasting out there as well. I'm gonna be on 831 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,360 Speaker 1: with Mike and Seth eight am tomorrow morning. We'll be 832 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 1: back on the air with Johnny Harris tomorrow at six. 833 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,480 Speaker 1: And don't forget about Tech Sass three sixties Saturday Night, 834 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,720 Speaker 1: ABC thirteen, eleven o'clock. I am the guest of Drewe 835 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,040 Speaker 1: Doherty on that show, and he asked me back. I 836 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:07,719 Speaker 1: must have done something right. I don't know why, but 837 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: he asked me back for this week's episode. So let's 838 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 1: do it Saturday Night at eleven o'clock on maybec thirteen. 839 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for listening. Everyone, have a great night 840 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 1: and go Texans.