WEBVTT - Past and present players week: Part 3 | Texans All Access 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.080 Hello Texans, and welcome to the program. We have another 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.760 summer Special's week special for you players past in present, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.959 Texans Legends community members. Tonight it is going to be 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.520 Jay Foreman, tackling machine from the early days of Texans history. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.639 Great guy as well, and other than that, a potpourri 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.759 of running backs. Maybe I could come up with a 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.320 better word, a Shmorga's board of running backs. How about 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.920 an assortment of running backs? That's what we're gonna do. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.000 And a reminder, this is a legal issue, suspension issue, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.519 hearing issue free zone here tonight. Of course I have 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.000 plenty of thoughts on everything, we'll get to those later. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.440 This is about players past and present for your Houston Texans, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.200 and there's no better way to start this running back 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.600 assortment we have than with a player who used to 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.760 play for the Nemesis Boy. I did a daily brew 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.160 this week on All Time Texans Villains. We covered this 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.520 on Monday with Johnny on the show, and three of 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:04.280 those top five slots were occupied by Colts Peyton, Manning, 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.120 t Y Hilton, and we gave one slot to the 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:13.600 Lennon and McCartney of Backfield Torment, Mathis and Freeney those 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.760 two went in as a pair all time Texans villains. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.440 If you're curious about the others, go to Houston Texans 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.360 dot com and the Texans app and read the story 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:26.560 Daily Brew from Wednesday. Anyway, this player, Marlon Mack also 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:31.320 participated in some big ones against the Houston Texans in 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.640 the Royal Blue, including his performance in the playoff victory 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.880 for Indie to cap the twenty eighteenth season. And I 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.560 mean cap at a variety of ways here, ouch, but 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.080 Mac is now a Texan and looks spry at OTA's 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.920 great to have him on the squad. Of course, when 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.120 Johnny and I sat down with him at mini camp 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.960 in the Hunday Texans Radio studio, it was going to 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.800 be interesting for me. Feeling the way I do about Indianapolis. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.960 I'm gonna get emotional about this one. Marlon Mack is 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:06.880 with us, all right, just so you know, and welcome 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.160 to the Texans. I hate the Colts like poison in 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.960 a healthy football sports way. So it's great to have 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.480 you on our team now because I'm tired of you 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.040 doing the damage you've done against the Texans and that 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.120 whole franchise. So welcome, thank you, thank you. Glad to 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:23.800 be here. Can you help us get over the hump 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.080 on them? I mean, all right, good good, I'm glad. Yeah. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.560 When we think about Marlon Mack and we heard that 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.440 we were signing you, the first thing we thought about, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.520 oh my god, that playoff game and then I send 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.280 us down a rabbit hole in that playoff game where 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.959 you just went absolutely nuts at that particular point. The 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.760 last couple of years, you've had a few injuries. I'm 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.480 sure you've probably heard that along the way, and so 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.880 people are like, what's he got left? I ask Marlon 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.600 mac Yeah, what you got left? I think I got 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.800 a lot left, man. Uh. This past few year has 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.000 just been tough for me. But last year I just 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.760 didn't get that chance. And now I'm here with the Texans. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.720 They just gotta work. Hopefully I get that chance here, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.520 and I'm glad to do what I do. What's the 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.800 system like for you? How do you see your fit 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.200 in this system? What can you tell the fans about 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.359 what it's gonna look like. Uh, definitely gonna be good 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.360 for me, hopefully breaking a lot of a lot of 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.760 the arts, a lot of touchdowns, That's what that's been playing. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.720 And uh, hopefully I do that bring some assitement to 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.360 the football team. When you were growing up a did 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.520 if you always played running back and be as you're 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.640 playing running back. Was there any particular guy that you 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.600 looked after looked at college or pro that you were like, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.480 that's the guy I want to be. Like? Uh, so 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.840 I played a play defense, play safety, Yeah, growing up, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.600 Uh love safety, but then I just fell a love 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.560 running the ball growing up watching ap you know, was 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.120 one of the guys. I watched a lot of Percy 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.640 Harmon in college. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was he 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.640 was excitement. Uh, that's what I loved to watch him 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.880 go in there and watch people highlighting go out there 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.880 and do what they do. All right, So let me 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.280 take you back to Indy. Sorry, Uh, what was the 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.440 biggest divisional rival when you look at the Jags, the 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.200 Titans and the Texans? Who do the cults see as 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.920 a big rival or is it all kind of the 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.720 same to that? Uh? It was definitely all the same 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.480 because like coach, you couldn't we couldn't win in Jacksonville 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.640 for nothing. Um, Texas, you know, you you go get 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.160 a good game no matter what. Defense was always good 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.559 and um Jackson Tennessee. It was like a back and forth. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.400 I mean, that's what I think with this division. You 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.440 never know who you're gonna beat with weak because you 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.920 never know man easy weak is like always a battle 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.240 with these guys. The reason I asked you about who 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.480 you watched is there's a there's a patience. Now we're 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.680 watching without pass, but we've seen you play. It's like 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.159 a patience level to your run until you get to 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.680 a point where there it is boom, I'm gone. Like 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.080 you have this patient level even back to the USF 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:41.640 And I was actually watching this morning that we were 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.680 talking to you, going back and reminding you, oh yeah, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.320 number five, okay, and watching you hit the gas once 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.520 you got beyondline scrimmage. But there was kind of levion 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.600 bell patient, I'm gonna find my hole, and then when 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.880 I find I'm gonna make you pay. How would you 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.800 describe your running style us more of a patience but 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.600 once that that time and tick off, you gotta hit 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.800 it kind of like slow show, slow go yause that's 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.080 what I learned coming to this league, man and watching 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.360 Frank Gore in front of me, who actually just retired 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.680 fights to legend, but just watching him be patient, but 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.560 once he hit it, he hit it. Yeah, he went hard. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.440 So that's that's kind of helped my game. And when 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.400 I came into him and I had learned be patient, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.320 slow it down a little bit, but then go and 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.440 that's when I used that speeds and get through the whole. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.960 Marlon Mack with us so far in your career, you've 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.960 been around a bunch of different quarterbacks with one franchise, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.400 but a lot of guys have been through that door. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.160 So what are you seeing in young Davis Mills here 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.840 as he enters year two? And I know it's your 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.080 first interaction with him in offseason practices, but how has 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.320 that been for you? What are you seeing in the 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.040 young quarterback? Big steps, this leadership out of him. He 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.680 got that that leadership that all qbs need, leads us, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.640 getting guys in the right formation, right play, makes you 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.760 guys know what they're doing, and that what you need 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.560 in a quarterback. Man. That leadership, that leading guys, that's 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.920 leading by example, telling us make sure everybody in the 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.080 right direction, going know to play and being on point. Man, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.400 that's what I see, am, Marlon. We love Houston, we 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.760 love Texas, but Mark was the play by play voice 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.560 in Miami Hurricanes. I coached in Northeast Florida, so we 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.560 know there's something a little different about players, especially those 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.560 from the South Florida area. What is it? How do 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.520 you describe it? We see so many players around the 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.359 league that are from the South Florida area, as for 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.000 Lauderdale or you know, down in Miami Dade County. Whatever 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.360 it is? Why, what's what's in the water, what's in 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.760 the sauce? What what makes that area so rich with 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.680 ball players? Uh do not know. Man. For many years, 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.040 I always wondered. But it's just like we just we're 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.239 born into it. I guess we live it, we sweated, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.520 we just we just grew up playing it so much 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.279 and we love it. Man, I don't know. But there's 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.600 a lot of us, and there's a bunch of time 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.160 of down there. So whatever was in the water keep 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.840 being in the order. Did you know when did you 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.960 know I'm going to the league? When did you know, Hey, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.320 this is my goal? And then b I can get 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.920 there and I'm gonna get there. I won't even lie, man, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.560 I didn't recognize it to Like my sophomore year in college, 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.479 I just went through it. I was just playing a 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.240 game to join it. Um sophomore year after I racked 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.800 up but like my uh my freshman year, I did 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.800 two thousand. Second year I did two thousand. Again, I 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.640 had like thirteen hundred. I was like, oh, man, I 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.280 think I got a chance, and I just got to 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.840 keep improving. And that's why I belieeding myself. I knew 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.080 I could do it. Why did you pick South Florida 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.520 fifteen years earlier? It might have been Florida, Florida State, Miami, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.400 but then South Florida comes up and sent from Florida, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.080 there are other options that are attractive. What attracted you 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.000 to South Florida? South Florida was was kind of there 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.200 from the start. Um. They believed in me. I believed 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:40.840 in the program. I wanted to help it get back 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.800 to what it was. And uh, coach Billy tagger Man, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.760 he was in my ear and uh he was just like, man, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.240 let's get his back to program to what it was 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.480 ranking them between the nation. Man, I believe that on 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.160 that route a Raccoon class that year was in one 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.560 of the tops in the nation. And Uh, I believed 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.920 in all of us, and I belied in the school. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.120 I wanted to help temple areas that kind of out 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.800 Florida area actually bring up the school, and that's what 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.960 we did. All right, to either or as you're ready, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.840 this is pretty simple. Okay, it's just either or what 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.480 you use an iPhone android phone? Okay? Good? Would you 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.160 rather be miked up for a full game or sing 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.200 your favorite karaoke song at a karaoke bar? I'll be 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:25.320 mike full full. Nobody's picked singing, nobody's picked singing karaoke? Yeah, okay. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.440 The only pizza you can have is pineapple pizza. That's it, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.440 or never having pizza ever. I have the pineapple pizza. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.120 I mean, I'm not a big fan of it, but 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.360 you'll have it. I have it. Okay. Would you take 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.400 the pineapple pieces off the pizza before eating it? Or 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.319 leave on some days once I get tired of I 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.520 would figuring out? Yeah, exactly? Exist shoes a J one 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.599 or AJ elevens. Yeah, okay. Now we've asked this a 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.480 few times, gotten some different answers. Business dress, but it's 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.640 not it's not like a business event. But you gotta 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.560 have busines his dress off? Maybe travel? Yeah, traveling? Good? 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.800 You weren't clean Jordan's or you weren't some leather dress shoes. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.160 It depends when I'm feeling like the sauce that day. Really, Yeah, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.360 so I might go I'm I'm an joy one guy 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.960 first though, okay, and then I'll probably switch it up sometimes. See, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.400 I think Jordan once can go with a lot of 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.719 different dresses, right, you know, like suits and such. I 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.040 believe that too. Different color ways. I mean, you can 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.760 have some fun with that. Yeah, you definitely have different 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.719 color ways. Gotta go. Uh, the low top man, the 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.760 low top one. All right? One more for you, okay? 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:35.040 One hundred degrees or thirty degrees degrees? All right, easily, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:40.720 that's the guy, Texas guy joining us. Good lot, Thank you. There. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.000 It was a Marlin mac Attack and the Hunday Texans 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.080 radio studio. Hey, Marlin Macattack. I might be able to 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.920 use that this season. I hope I get to a lot. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.920 All right, Let's continue with running backs. Royce Freeman. We 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.400 visited with him around Mini Camp as well. You might 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.920 remember he showed up during the campaign last year, and 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.079 he burst out of the scene in the NFL in 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.360 twenty eighteen with the Denver Broncos. Here he is talking 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.160 about the adjustment to year two in Houston great. I mean, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.360 just getting to know more of the staff and the 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.839 players that a return and you know, getting to the 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.559 flow of things, like you said, being able to get 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.000 a full offseason. I mean, it's very exciting. I'm just 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.240 excited to be here. How important is that to be 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.400 more comfortable if you will, You're coming last year, You're like, man, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.480 I don't even know where the bathroom is. Now you're 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.280 here for a year. How much more comfortable do you feel? 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.280 And how much how much more important is that for you? 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.559 Very important? And also, like I said, being able to 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.640 learn from the staff, learn the staff and the players, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.160 you know, get associated with them. But being able to 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.360 have that full offseason of work, being able to show 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.800 the capabilities, work with the training staff, work with the 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.520 strength and conditioning staff. So I mean all positive for 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.560 your position, Royce. How different is this system with Pep 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.000 Hamilton as the coordinator versus what you got last year 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.400 with the Texans. Honestly, we're kind of similar in a way. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.480 I think we're doing a good job of going ahead 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.679 and exploiting our weapons we have on offense, you know, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.719 and I think we're trying to be able to get 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.320 the weapons the ball and go out there and just 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.160 put a lot of pressure on the defense, just like 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.440 I said, exploit, exploit them. This offseason. What was the 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.200 biggest thing that you wanted to work on for you personally, Like, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.800 hey man, I've got to be able to do this. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.520 I'll work on this this offseason or was it I 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.800 gotta get better at everything. I'm just gonna do what 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.720 I've done in the past years. Yeah, I agree with 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.280 with the ladder. Just being able to do everything I've 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.240 done in the past, but at a higher level. I mean, 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.800 being a jack of all trades. Basically, anything they asked 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.559 me to do, the staff, the coaching staff, I want 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.640 to be able to do and I want to succeed 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.079 and excel at that. I mean just from special teams 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.199 all the way to um actual pass protections, running the ball. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.000 So anything to ask the me, like I said, being 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.640 able to excel at that. Well. And OTA's mini camp 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.240 no contact. Really there's some contact, but it's not like 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.120 you guys are hitting and taking people to the ground 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.680 and things like that. But what can you get better 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.960 at right now? And then talk about the rookies too, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.240 or a rookie back like Daby and Pierce trying to 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.440 get adjusted to the NFL. You were a rookie at 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.600 twenty eighteen and had some success. What was the key 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.160 to that. I think everyone can get better at Like 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.240 you said, it's a new offense, so just slowing it down, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.560 being able to learn the ins and outs of it, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.360 you know, and that'll come over time. But especially as 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.400 a rookie relating back to my rookie year, it just 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.920 feels like a whole whole different world. You know, you 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.640 have guys who are the best of the best. They 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.719 let you know. The coaches did a great job of 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.080 building this team up and we have some great players 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.040 and just dp Damien, he's done a great job of 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.840 just learning and taking everything from the veteran leaders in 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.920 the group and excited to see him grow. He's definitely 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.040 been able to grasp everything and helping him out along 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.520 the way. Rus We talked about this a lot when 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.319 new coaching staff ticks over or new coordinator ticks so 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.560 we rough it's a new offense and it's a new defense, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.080 and a lot is made of that because we talked 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.360 about the NFL game being so complicated, all the verbiage 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.000 and all that kind of stuff. What does it really 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.360 like to learn a new offense? Honestly, they're they're all 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.360 kind of similar in a way. I mean, I've learned 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.640 a couple since I've been in the league, But I 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.599 think with repetition and more exposure, the easier and the 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:11.839 quicker it is to learn it. You know, you just 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.320 got to dive into the books. You gotta get with 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.800 the quarterbacks, you know, Um, they're the ones soaking up everyone. Um, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.560 the knowledge of you know, everybody's responsibility and things like that, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.240 picking the brains of your position, coach and the offensive coordinator. So, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.319 I mean, diving into it full forest is the best method. Honestly. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.120 What are you seeing from Davis Mills going into his 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.640 second year as the leader of the offense? I feel like, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.040 I mean like I was just partially here last year, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.040 but um, and what I've seen, he's more comfortable. Um, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.679 he's he's exuding in that leadership role. UM, looking to 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.760 him for guiding especially offensively, you know, knowing everyone's responsibility, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.800 and I'm just excited to see him excel playing wise. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.040 So you're a callie guy, right, I am san Diego right? Uh? 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.880 In prero Valley, technically two hours east of San Diego. Okay, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.280 all right, down in the desert. So but you're callie guy. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.680 Yeah desert. Yeah, that's a crazy ride, bro. I did 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.240 that last year from Houston San Diego. Like where like 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.040 the are you in the like huge mountains and all that. Yeah. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.040 I tell people, you know, you leave the mountains of 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.760 San Diego as you're getting into you know, palm Desert, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.480 into into the valley as we call it. And you know, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.719 if you think your loss, just keep going and it's 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.360 will be down there valley Okay. And then you went 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.920 to school in Oregon, I did, played in Denver, I did. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.200 So it's Houston last year when you got here, was 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.480 that the first time, other than maybe playing a game 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.480 here or traveling through here, that you had been in Houston? 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.600 Was that kind of the first year introduction to Houston 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.080 being here and what was that light? Coming here? Um? 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.080 It was very exciting. I uh, just being around and 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.160 knowing of the team, you know, um, being able to 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.040 watch them as I've been in the league growing up 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.480 and being a part of the organization and seeing what 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.680 it's all about playing and RG playing against the conference, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.920 you know, it was very exciting. It's just like something 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.320 that I was just fully embraced in and um and 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.160 uh at coming here. It was just and I'm very 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.440 grateful for what's Danny Barrett like in the running back room. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.520 I mean, he's got a great personality and everything. I 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.640 know he's recovering from a knee injury or something right now, 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.680 but that probably doesn't affect you guys. I don't know 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.200 if he talks about that. But what is he like 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.000 to be a boss? Oh, he's great, He's chill. But 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.280 as as far as like being a coach, he definitely 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.440 gets his point across. He wants the details, you know, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.600 he wants us to tax sell as well. So like 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.440 we're out there on the field, we're working. But he 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.840 has the full most trust and all of us to 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.480 get the job done. And that's something I appreciate coming 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.760 from a player, receiving it from a coach, just like 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.600 the respect that he has for us, as you know, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.800 running backs to go out there and handle business. Our 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.960 minicamp visit with Royce Freeman in the Hunday Texans Radio 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.760 studio coming up another running back. He used to be 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.800 a Texan, He used to be a Jaguar now he's 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:52.360 a Texan. Keep track. Dare Ogambawali joins us, followed by 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.840 Jay Foreman. Really fun interviews on the way here on 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.720 the Summer Specials players past in prison for your Texans 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.240 here on Texans All Access, keeping in rolling here on 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.200 this Summer Special's week with Texans players passed and present, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.880 members of our legends community, and of course current players. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.120 Johnny Harris and I visited with a bunch of them 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.120 during Mini camp. Let's get to this running back to 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.240 running back. So far, as we heard from Marlon Mack 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.120 and Royce Freeman, dari Ague has made a name for 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.240 himself in this league as a special teams player who 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.480 can also help out a running back. Very well, thank you, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.920 former Jaguar. But he also spend time with the Houston Texans. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.920 Let's get to our visit. Daria good Balle joining us 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.240 on Texans Radio. Did I say that correctly? All right? Well, 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.880 you know why, because you were here before. Welcome home. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:49.680 You're finally back. So that's got to be strange. You know, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.640 you've had a little bit of a journey here between 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.280 what was the twenty seventeen and now, so tell us 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.720 your reaction to coming back to Houston, it was um strange. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.800 I say strange is the word. I mean, it was 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.280 definitely exciting, man, just um, just the kind of a 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.000 full circle type of moment type thing. Um. I loved 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.240 Houston when I was here for those couple of months. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.560 I was here starting off my NFL journey and bounced around, 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.600 had some success. So now being back, um with a 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.280 lot of like I said, a little bit more success, 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.840 a little bit more comfort in the league. It's a 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.280 good feeling. So when you think back now we went 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.560 to the greenbrid for training camp, so it's a little different. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.800 But when you think back to you being a rookie 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.320 and you think about where you are now nine and 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.479 day different, what's kind of the biggest what's the biggest 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.040 thing you've probably learned about yourself about the whole process 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.080 of the NFL. It's a business we all well, I 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.320 mean I was gonna say that that first and foremost. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.040 I would say, it's a business man just when you're 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.640 a rookie, Like it's like, I felt I was good 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.119 enough to be here, but obviously there was just different 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.400 things that got in the way. Um, But I was still, 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.760 like I said, still in practice, squad still had a 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.440 lot of fun with the guys in the locker room. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.920 But yeah, it was just, um, it's a lot different 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.880 than you expect college and then um getting a chance 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.439 to bounce around, seeing different type of coaches, seeing different 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.040 locker rooms. Being back here now, Like I said, I 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.040 just feel like I got a bigger grasp on what 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.879 the NFL life is like, what it takes to be 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.800 successful in the league. And I feel like I've kind 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.560 of gotten a good, like I said, a good grasp 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.880 of that. And I'm excited. I'm excited to be back here. Man. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.320 All right, Darry you're with Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville for 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.080 a bit and now you're with David Smells comparing contrash. No, 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.480 but tell us a little bit about what you're seeing 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.600 from David so far, and if you want, you know, 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.439 throwing some Trevor Lawrence information there too. Well. Trevor, like 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.000 me and Trevor, we got along great. Man. Trevor was 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.640 a great teammate. It was fun to be a part 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.920 of that season with him. And obviously he was highly 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.199 touted rookie and stuff, and Davis, I see a lot 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.520 of the same talent. Man. Obviously he didn't have the 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.080 same scouting report that Trevor had coming out. But Davis 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.280 is talented man, He's real talented. And then he's a 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.720 good leader. Man, He's a good leader. And Um, I'm 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.119 excited to play with him. Um, he's gonna have a 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.560 lot of success in the league. I feel like he's 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.639 gonna have a lot to success this year. And Um, 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.879 like I said, he's just got great arm, talent, UM, 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.280 great poise. He's really really smart. I mean that's Stanford stereotype. 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.040