Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show. We can't wait. It's
Speaker 1: training camp. Eve, it's officially training camp. If not, oh,
Speaker 1: it's in three weeks or two weeks or a week
Speaker 1: from Tuesday. No, it's tomorrow morning. Wednesday morning, we will
Speaker 1: be out live eight to ten am and shot him
Speaker 1: set before that. After that it's in the loop. We
Speaker 1: will be covering camp practice number one.
Speaker 2: It's here.
Speaker 1: It's football season. The off season is over, Johnny. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to say that, are you. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: off season is over now, I am, and I'm not
Speaker 1: because this time of year usually gets really busy trying
Speaker 1: to set up everything for our first broadcasts. So you
Speaker 1: feel like you feel like you could use another week
Speaker 1: for that. That yeah, but I don't want to wait
Speaker 1: for football any longer. At the same time, that's well said.
Speaker 1: That's exactly the way to feel about it.
Speaker 3: I think is that, man, I wish I had a
Speaker 3: week to do all those other things and then could
Speaker 3: kind of just mentally clear my head for all that.
Speaker 3: But then again, you kind of just dive right in.
Speaker 3: You don't get a chance to kind of ease your
Speaker 3: way too. He's die right in it.
Speaker 2: Let's go mysay professor in college.
Speaker 1: When we did this huge project and I mentioned that,
Speaker 1: you know, we could use another week, he gave me
Speaker 1: the right phrase, which is work fills the time allotted.
Speaker 1: If we gave you another week, you'd be saying that
Speaker 1: in another week, right. I mean, it's just what happens,
Speaker 1: because a lot of what I do or have to
Speaker 1: prepare is dependent on other people as well and them
Speaker 1: doing stuff.
Speaker 2: But I'm not making excuses. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 3: It's just so wait as you get ready for training
Speaker 3: camp and it's starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm sucked. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So since it is the end of the off season, okay,
Speaker 1: the top five off season moves for your Texans and
Speaker 1: they all relate to what's happening to a training camp.
Speaker 2: Okay, they all relate.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna give you a couple of honorable mentions
Speaker 1: to start it off. Okay, okay, all right, so these
Speaker 1: are really acquisitions. All right, let's just call them what
Speaker 1: they know, whether it be trayed draft, whatever, but honorable mention.
Speaker 1: Second honorable mention Evan Brown. Signing of Evan Brown I
Speaker 1: think deserves an honorable mention up here.
Speaker 3: So I had a conversation. We had a media event
Speaker 3: last night, which kind of kicks it off kind of
Speaker 3: for us, like, all right, we get all the media
Speaker 3: back together, and we're considered part of the media, even
Speaker 3: though we're kind of not kind of are either way,
Speaker 3: We got invited and we really appreciate Omar, David Lindsay,
Speaker 3: et cetera, you know, asking us to be there. So
Speaker 3: we were there and I was signing a conversation and somebody,
Speaker 3: somebody asked me, somebody being Landry Locker kind of asked
Speaker 3: me about, you know, the interior offensive line and you
Speaker 3: know what, what about rut Ledge, you know, who plays center?
Speaker 3: All that kind of stuff. And as we were talking,
Speaker 3: I remember saying, you know, look, Evan Brown is on
Speaker 3: this team, and Evan Brown, I think can do. I
Speaker 3: think everybody's gonna be asked to do some some things
Speaker 3: for this offensive line this year. And I think having
Speaker 3: a guy like that that's played center, that's played guards,
Speaker 3: played both, he's stout, he could jump right in and
Speaker 3: play either position. We know over the year years the
Speaker 3: offensive line, I mean, what was it twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: the first year to meek, it was here like within
Speaker 3: ten minutes Scotti Quisenberry ended up tearing as acl right.
Speaker 3: Then later Juice got hurt. You know, Deeter had to
Speaker 3: come in at center. You know, after Jared Patterson got hurt.
Speaker 3: They went through like three or four different centers before
Speaker 3: Deeter had to then finish off the year. So you
Speaker 3: know you're gonna have years like that. You're gonna have
Speaker 3: a rash of injuries and you're gonna need depth. And
Speaker 3: one of the points I made the other day was
Speaker 3: talking about the depth of the offensive lines, the depth
Speaker 3: in general of the team, but the depth in general
Speaker 3: on the offensive line in particular. They're I think in
Speaker 3: a better shape than they've been in a long time,
Speaker 3: and Evan Brown is a big factor in that big factor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's a good one. So another
Speaker 1: honorable mention, And I struggled with this one. This one
Speaker 1: almost broke into the top five. Top five offseason moves
Speaker 1: for your Texans. Okay, Caden McDonald honorable mention. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think that this could be a really good player for
Speaker 1: this football team. And it's a guy that maybe the
Speaker 1: rookie season isn't one of those that explodes, but there's
Speaker 1: some plays made maybe in the postseason it comes on
Speaker 1: even stronger. Who knows, But I think in the years
Speaker 1: to come, we're gonna look at Caiden McDonald and say, wow,
Speaker 1: you know, I did a thing with Keeland Rutledge last
Speaker 1: week for the Lux Partners, and if you're a Lux partner,
Speaker 1: you know what that means. Sweets and all the treats
Speaker 1: and sweets that go along with that lifestyle. So you
Speaker 1: get exclusive content like me talking to Kailan Rutledge. But
Speaker 1: he was talking about Kaiden McDonald. You know, he knows
Speaker 1: who he is, and you know, I think they're both
Speaker 1: from Georgia. Yeah, they didn't play against each other, but
Speaker 1: they knew about each other, That's right.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because Kiln Rylery has played Kristin Miller from Georgia,
Speaker 3: but Kate McDonald's from Georgia.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so they're all Georgia. Sure.
Speaker 1: And then that led to the conversation, Man, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL players from Georgia and that has
Speaker 1: been coming on strong in the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Johnny.
Speaker 1: I feel like prior to ten fifteen years ago, certainly
Speaker 1: had a lot of players from Georgia, but not as
Speaker 1: many as we have have now. Do you think that's
Speaker 1: a relatively recent phenomenon.
Speaker 3: I think Georgia high school football has been exceptional and
Speaker 3: one of them. I mean, they have a lot of talent.
Speaker 3: I mean theyn't get me wrong, but State Georgia pays
Speaker 3: its coaches very very well. They pay like they do
Speaker 3: here in Texas. Maybe not to that level, but pretty close.
Speaker 3: We had a coach Jabar Gafney's high school coach was
Speaker 3: a man named Welton Coffee and Rains High School in Jacksonville,
Speaker 3: and he's the head coach. They went to a state
Speaker 3: championship kind of out of nowhere in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 3: I think it was. I think it's what it was.
Speaker 3: Ninety six ninety seven, won a state championship. He hit
Speaker 3: a stipend, a fifteen hundred dollars. Wow, So he decided,
Speaker 3: you know what, forget this, I'm going to Georgia. He
Speaker 3: got a job literally thirty minutes on the northern or
Speaker 3: north of the Georgia border. I can't remember what it was,
Speaker 3: but it was a county, one of the county schools,
Speaker 3: like Coldwood County or something like that, and he ended
Speaker 3: up making sick Sick Bank. I mean he made a
Speaker 3: lot of money to be a high school football coach.
Speaker 3: And so that's what was happening in a lot of coaches.
Speaker 3: They get they get taken, they get sucked into Georgia.
Speaker 3: And so now you've got these great athletes, you know,
Speaker 3: guys like Kamara Lasser, guys like Kiden McDonald, okay in
Speaker 3: went to Ohio State. But they're getting coached by really
Speaker 3: good coaches. The good coaches want to be there because
Speaker 3: they can get paid. I mean, you think about it,
Speaker 3: good coaches want to be somewhere where they're gonna get money.
Speaker 3: And wellt Coffee is a great example of that. He
Speaker 3: went up there, he got paid, and that has happened
Speaker 3: to a lot of coaches in not only Jacksonville, but
Speaker 3: in North Florida. They kind of get you know, sucked
Speaker 3: across the line Valdosta. They'll pay a lot of money
Speaker 3: to be the coach there, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So that's I think helped that they're they're better coached.
Speaker 3: But there are some really good programs, really really good
Speaker 3: programs in Georgia, and that doesn't even count. You know,
Speaker 3: all of the city schools that are in Atlanta. Uh
Speaker 3: and then obviously the suburbs of Atlanta. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a really really good state. I just think they're getting
Speaker 3: better coached, they're more polished now, and I think that's
Speaker 3: given him better opportunity and it helps that a place
Speaker 3: like University of Georgia, you can stay home and you can,
Speaker 3: you know, be a really good player staying at home
Speaker 3: to go University of Georgia before you end up going
Speaker 3: to the league. And obviously Kamari you approve that. Jordan Davis,
Speaker 3: you know the guys that have all come out of
Speaker 3: Georgia that have Georgia ties. So I don't I want
Speaker 3: to say it's a recent phenomenon, but I think there's
Speaker 3: a lot of factors that go into it that it's
Speaker 3: not surprising now. But one of the best is, you know,
Speaker 3: University of Georgia's you know, helping, but I think the
Speaker 3: high school coaches being of a higher caliber because they
Speaker 3: end up getting paid. So that's there. Speaking of can
Speaker 3: I give you Honora mentional fast?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it might be part of my top five,
Speaker 1: but go ahead try it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, in your top five, do you have anything
Speaker 3: having to do with coaches? No, So here's my top five.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: The fact that, especially defensively, you have one hundred percent
Speaker 3: continuity defensively at a go O case back, Vaso's back,
Speaker 3: Online's back.
Speaker 1: Does that count as an off season move or it's
Speaker 1: it off season development or story?
Speaker 3: Well, it depends on how you has how you look
Speaker 3: at it. Because Unlin, Vasso, Burke all had different interviews
Speaker 3: along the way. Yep, they could all They could have
Speaker 3: all left, they could have taken a job. I mean,
Speaker 3: Corey could have very easily have been I think it
Speaker 3: was Cleveland. Then he interviewed with He very easily could
Speaker 3: have been the DC. So maybe the move is a
Speaker 3: lack of a move, but it ends up being a
Speaker 3: huge off season story in a sense that the coaching staff,
Speaker 3: especially defensively, stayed very stayed what it was from last year.
Speaker 2: Kind of mind blowing a defense like this.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, they must think that is the mad scientist and
Speaker 1: he does it all. Why wouldn't you hire one of
Speaker 1: these guys?
Speaker 3: That's right? Or or look, maybe maybe teams wanted to
Speaker 3: and maybe the situation wasn't what they wanted. But either way,
Speaker 3: you're bringing back your defensive staff and your defensive personnel
Speaker 3: and adding Caiden McDonald and read Blankenship too.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many coaches I don't want to sing. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll single a couple out right here, and you agree
Speaker 1: with me because you know I hate seeing anybody leave
Speaker 1: really but Rod right, yeah, my gosh, the job he's
Speaker 1: done with the D line. And then the guy who's
Speaker 1: the assistant D line coach as of last year of
Speaker 1: Frank Okamp, former Texan. He watched this. This is sneaky
Speaker 1: hot right here. That guy is a head coach. And
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people on the
Speaker 1: staff like that, but I'll identify I like coming up
Speaker 1: with the guy who's the assistant assistant, right, you know,
Speaker 1: a guy who's way under the radar because.
Speaker 2: I would watch out for him. Yep, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that he's got the chops. And there are
Speaker 1: numerous others on this staff. But Frank Ocam, Now, Demiico's
Speaker 1: not going to want to hear me say this.
Speaker 2: What if people are listening.
Speaker 1: See Bill O'Brien would have thought they're listening in New England,
Speaker 1: they're going to steal him or something like that, and
Speaker 1: he might have been right, you know, I mean if
Speaker 1: they combed through all the team media to see what
Speaker 1: guys like us say, you know, maybe that's an edge.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they're gonna buy like Bill O'Brien bought what
Speaker 3: we were selling. But I agree with you. When these
Speaker 3: coaches sit down, I think Stevian Otta Okay is going
Speaker 3: to be a head coach someday.
Speaker 1: One I mean the other one, I'm going I'm going
Speaker 1: to layer under, you know, because someday, you know, we
Speaker 1: because it's well documented. We had the flour here, Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel here, we had Rob Salah here, We've had so
Speaker 1: many guys here, you know who.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see. Speaking of assistant to the assistant. Look,
Speaker 3: you know Ben mcgames has been tremendous.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's another one.
Speaker 3: But his his wide receiver assistant is aka kiddn Play
Speaker 3: Taekwan Underwood.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: And the first time I see him in the whole way,
Speaker 3: I started hearing like, you know, a host party in
Speaker 3: my head because he's got that game play haircut. But
Speaker 3: I think he's a guy, and I go back to this.
Speaker 3: I hear people say this a lot. In fact, I
Speaker 3: heard somebody talking about this the other day. Oh, he
Speaker 3: was a great player, so he'll be a great coach.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, No, Sometimes you're best coaches are the
Speaker 3: guys that got the most out of themselves as players
Speaker 3: so often, but they understand the game, they understand how
Speaker 3: it works. And I think Taekwan is one of those guys.
Speaker 3: And he's the assistant wide receivers coach Taekwan Underwood, So
Speaker 3: I'm I'm really excited about what he brings to the
Speaker 3: party as well. I watch him out at OTA's and
Speaker 3: he's just got good vibes. He's very positive, he's always
Speaker 3: just kind of running and moving to the next next one,
Speaker 3: and I just think he's got the right mentality, especially
Speaker 3: to coach that particular position. But I think he's got more.
Speaker 3: He's got more in the hopper than just being wide
Speaker 3: receivers coach or if that's where it stops, whatever, He's
Speaker 3: gonna be a tremendous one. But I think tak One
Speaker 3: Underwood is a guy, like you said, the assistant to
Speaker 3: the assistant. I think he's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. So many players during their career
Speaker 1: you could identify them as coaching prospects because of their
Speaker 1: intellect and they appear to have the goods to teach others,
Speaker 1: But are they going to.
Speaker 2: Want to do it?
Speaker 3: That's a big question.
Speaker 2: You just never know who's gonna want.
Speaker 3: To do it. Wait, by the way, by the way,
Speaker 3: did you see who was helping out Mike Vrabel what
Speaker 3: Patriots practiced last weekend?
Speaker 2: The puppy. Oh no, that was a different thing.
Speaker 3: No, what potential wide receivers coach DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I did see this. Interesting I saw that.
Speaker 1: I just went so Vrabel, Yeah, Vrabel, of all people, Rabel,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: I guess so.
Speaker 3: I mean the thing I forgot is you coached him
Speaker 3: at Tennessee. But I think, I mean, I think Hop,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's gonna be tough for Hop to say,
Speaker 3: guy's got drops, what do you do? And Hop's like, well,
Speaker 3: you catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Just catch the ball. Catch the ball, I mean, just
Speaker 1: high point the ball. You just go get it. You
Speaker 1: just go get it. But Pop was one of the
Speaker 1: best I ever saw.
Speaker 3: I mean obviously catching the ball, but body controlling the sidelines,
Speaker 3: getting two feet in bounds. It was funny because I
Speaker 3: feel like Hop, you know, you and I talked about
Speaker 3: this over the years, about how the ball would be
Speaker 3: thrown by the sidelines, and it changed the way that
Speaker 3: you would call the game because at first, at first
Speaker 3: you would be always out of bounds, but then when
Speaker 3: you show the ball staring Hop.
Speaker 1: You would kind of and you'd wait, you wait for
Speaker 1: the official.
Speaker 3: You have to wait for the official because he would
Speaker 3: do some things and then you'd see the replay like,
Speaker 3: holy crap.
Speaker 2: I don't know how the officials see that. You have
Speaker 2: to look to make sure the ball is secure and
Speaker 2: the feat you see both.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I'm just gonna call it
Speaker 1: in and then go ahead and review it if you
Speaker 1: need to.
Speaker 3: Co Hopkins though, how about that? Now that's not set
Speaker 3: in stone because I still think DeAndre wants to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if he coaches, that's unlikely. I mean in
Speaker 1: terms of a projection I would have had while he
Speaker 1: was Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Exactly, I didn't. I didn't think hop would have been
Speaker 3: a coach.
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson, who sat in the chair you're sitting and
Speaker 1: told us the story of you know, when hop was
Speaker 1: a rookie.
Speaker 2: He's like, well, why don't we just throw the throw up?
Speaker 1: To throw the ball up, you know, and Andre's explaining
Speaker 1: route running and everything, Andrey Johnson would be a hell
Speaker 1: of a coach, but he doesn't want to do it right.
Speaker 2: Otherwise he'd be doing it.
Speaker 3: That's right. So there's a lot that goes in.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys goes in.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's I mean, it's it's.
Speaker 1: A I mean, he would be a hell of a coach,
Speaker 1: but you know, he doesn't want to coach. He wants
Speaker 1: to He is a hell of a coach in basketball.
Speaker 1: You know, he wins all these tournaments, these national tournaments
Speaker 1: with his team and everything. But uh and he and
Speaker 1: he or it goes deep at the very least and
Speaker 1: wins some and he just doesn't want to do the
Speaker 1: full time, you know, twenty six hours a day football coach.
Speaker 1: Now that's a grind of a different type. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we got off the track, Yeah we did. So we
Speaker 1: haven't getting back to the top. So we did honorable mention. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're going to reverse order here.
Speaker 2: I'm going to reverse order.
Speaker 1: Top five off season stories or acquisitions, moves, moves moves
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texts. Number five, the acquisition of read
Speaker 1: blanket ship. He's a top five.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We could talk all we want about other things, and
Speaker 1: they're coming. Don't worry but read blanket Ship. My gosh,
Speaker 1: you know you have a beautiful house and you put
Speaker 1: an addition on it. Did you need the addition? You
Speaker 1: know it was a luxury? This is called a luxury Johnny.
Speaker 1: Well maybe it's a necessity. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: think the health of m J. Stewart factors in here.
Speaker 1: But all that aside, you have m J. Stewart in
Speaker 1: the building and at some point we'll be ready and
Speaker 1: then you're looking at let's get even better, right because
Speaker 1: them Jay can help us no matter what. Absolute But
Speaker 1: read blanket Ship steps into the starting lineup with Calen Bullock,
Speaker 1: Petrie Nickel.
Speaker 2: You know who else is out there? This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely phenomenal that you acquired Read blanken Ship.
Speaker 3: There are a couple of ways, like when you use
Speaker 3: the house comparison like do you you know, do you
Speaker 3: need this?
Speaker 2: Do you need that?
Speaker 3: And it hit me like there are a couple of
Speaker 3: things like maybe you have a an electric stove. Reblanket
Speaker 3: ship is gas because a lot of people want to
Speaker 3: use gas in cooking, Like, yeah, the electric stove is good,
Speaker 3: it's good, but all but you can get gas.
Speaker 2: I have induction.
Speaker 3: That's good. I never liked the induction.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't like it much either.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have a gas but but but you get
Speaker 3: the point. It's like having you know, you've got a house,
Speaker 3: and you had you know, you've got like neighborhood security.
Speaker 3: But then you put in a ring at your you
Speaker 3: know what, you know whatever, the doorbell ring security service.
Speaker 3: You know, that's kind of reblank It's It's something that
Speaker 3: I didn't think they were going to. I thought that
Speaker 3: might be something they approached the draft. I thought it
Speaker 3: might be something that I don't say they look past.
Speaker 3: But they survived last year the best defense in the league,
Speaker 3: and they had four or five guys playing in that
Speaker 3: particular position. But they decided, look, we've got we got
Speaker 3: to lock this down with somebody that we trust, somebody
Speaker 3: that can, you know, be versatile, dependable, physical, helping run past.
Speaker 3: I think they found that reblanket ship. I remember I
Speaker 3: was driving somewhere and I heard reblankets. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I mean it was one of the acquisitions that I
Speaker 3: was so excited about because I really felt like that
Speaker 3: was the Okay, we've done everything on this house. Now
Speaker 3: we just put the ring camera on. It's it's hugely
Speaker 3: important for a lot of houses. And we've just put
Speaker 3: that on and this house is ready to go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like it all right.
Speaker 1: So that's number five off season moves for your Texans
Speaker 1: on the eve of training camp beginning.
Speaker 2: What are they well? Five is Reid blanket Ship. Four.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna chick it out here a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Braiden Smith, but I'm gonna say right tackle. Okay,
Speaker 1: right tackle? Oh, okay, we know the left tackle is
Speaker 1: arianta URSII. Right tackle. What they did here they not
Speaker 1: only signed Braiden Smith, but they reupt Trent Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: therefore you have solidified right tackle. You have built pillars there.
Speaker 1: And Blake Fisher is still on his football team and
Speaker 1: is a swing type guy. I would imagine Trent would
Speaker 1: play left tackle if you needed him to.
Speaker 2: Could would good. Maybe Blake does. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see it. I want to see
Speaker 1: Tay out there seventeen games plus, thank you. But the
Speaker 1: point is this, I like what they did here because
Speaker 1: they made it so.
Speaker 2: Trent is not the guy who has to play at all.
Speaker 1: Maybe, but if you need to play him, you can
Speaker 1: and Braiden Smith, but he's got injury issues. Maybe well
Speaker 1: you have Trent Brown and hopefully Braiden can go the
Speaker 1: whole way. But if you can't, you got Trent Brown
Speaker 1: to go some of the way and then you still
Speaker 1: have Blake.
Speaker 2: I like what they did here at right tackle.
Speaker 3: Most years, let's just say most years. There have been
Speaker 3: some years where Plan A wasn't a good plan for anybody.
Speaker 3: You're like, who's our starter? You don't even know? Now you're
Speaker 3: satisfied with Plan A, B and C. Like you just said,
Speaker 3: you just laid it out, Braiden Smith, Blake Fisher, Trent
Speaker 3: Brown and whatever order you got plans. You don't just
Speaker 3: have all plan. If something doesn't work out or there's
Speaker 3: an injury, you can go to Plan B, whatever that
Speaker 3: ends up being. But you have options. And there have
Speaker 3: been years there haven't even options. There have been years
Speaker 3: where you thought the plan you had was gonna be good,
Speaker 3: and then a training camp you get guys banged up,
Speaker 3: and then VOILA. For a million bucks, you get George
Speaker 3: Fant and you got more than a million dollars worth
Speaker 3: of value from him. And that's the way it's worked out.
Speaker 2: In some years.
Speaker 3: This year, I think you've got the plan for that
Speaker 3: particular position for the entire season, not just well this
Speaker 3: will get us by. I feel like that's the plan,
Speaker 3: whether it's you know, Braden starts, Trent's ready to go
Speaker 3: at a moment's notice. Look, it'd be great if every
Speaker 3: all of them could play all seventeen games. But as
Speaker 3: we said earlier, we know we know on the offensive
Speaker 3: line doesn't always happen. So I like the way you
Speaker 3: phrased that right tackle. I might even move that up.
Speaker 3: You get that four, I might even move that up
Speaker 3: to three or two because how important the offensive But
Speaker 3: I want to hear the rest, to hear the rest
Speaker 3: before I make that assessment. But if you gave it,
Speaker 3: gave it to me a blind ranking, I probably would
Speaker 3: have put it too.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's the top five offseason moves on the eve
Speaker 1: of training camp beginning. So five read blanket ship four,
Speaker 1: the right tackle, the right tackle acquisition, slash keeping Trent
Speaker 1: Brown yep number three the drafting of Keeland Rutledge. I
Speaker 1: did that thing with him last week, Johnny, And what
Speaker 1: strikes me about him is there are certain rookies who
Speaker 1: come in who are so mature, they don't seem like
Speaker 1: and he's one of those guys. He just doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a rookie already. You know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: compare him to Dimico Ryans. Oh wait, I am, because
Speaker 1: Demiko as a rookie, I know, different positions, different sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. But Dimiko as a rookie was so mature,
Speaker 1: didn't seem like a rookie. Never mind on the field
Speaker 1: and cap and all that. I'm just talking about talking
Speaker 1: to him straight up as a rookie because I did
Speaker 1: a couple of events prior to the opening gun that
Speaker 1: two thousand and six season. We used to have so
Speaker 1: many more events pre season, right.
Speaker 2: We had that thing at Keema Boardwalk with the rookies.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well for me, now, it was pretty hot, and it
Speaker 1: was really hot because you know in the band stages
Speaker 1: at Keema, you know, in the open area there. We'd
Speaker 1: go up there and didn't have the cheerleaders and the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and it was awesome.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: And that then, I mean, it must have been the
Speaker 1: first nine ten years of franchise history. The rookies on
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend at Keema boardwalk.
Speaker 2: That was a thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a thing. I did it every year,
Speaker 1: was bring it back. It was kind of fun. It
Speaker 1: was fun. It would have been better at night as
Speaker 1: far as temperature, but Demiko was at that one and
Speaker 1: that was really cool. Anyway, Rutledge, I think super mature
Speaker 1: obviously plays well. I think that this guy playing center
Speaker 1: in all likelihood is going to be a difference maker.
Speaker 1: I think if he doesn't play center, he's going to
Speaker 1: be a difference maker at guard. Either way, he's a
Speaker 1: difference maker on your old line. First round draft choice,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 3: I think it was funny talking to Kate Stover. He
Speaker 3: was the one who said it in only the way
Speaker 3: that Kate Stover can say it on radio. When we
Speaker 3: asked about look, everybody talks about, oh, the Texans defense
Speaker 3: has swarm. At Texas defense is swarming. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 3: what about the offense? Is the offense mirror that? And
Speaker 3: he's like, look, we get ticked off or we're tired
Speaker 3: of that. But I think they finally have the personnel,
Speaker 3: including Caid, including Keelan Rutledge, that has that mentality that
Speaker 3: thinks like the defense does across the board. And I
Speaker 3: feel like Keithen Rutlige kind of epitomizes that. It's I
Speaker 3: mean the Wednesday before the draft and I was on
Speaker 3: a sean it Seth I said those exact words, like,
Speaker 3: you want to change the mentality, you oftentimes have to
Speaker 3: change the personnel. And I think the personnel they've brought
Speaker 3: in to do that. You mentioned Braden Smith, Trent Brown
Speaker 3: from from last year. They've they've wanted to reset that
Speaker 3: offensive line room such that the personnel just naturally thinks
Speaker 3: like the defense does. If you want to put it
Speaker 3: in those terms, Keelan Rutligs is key to that. Wyatt
Speaker 3: Teller is key to that. Ed Ingram is key to that.
Speaker 3: Drafting Arianta erstri He is certainly key to that. And
Speaker 3: the more guys you have that think that way, the
Speaker 3: better off you're going to be. Because you know, if
Speaker 3: if we talk about you know different you know rooms,
Speaker 3: you know position rooms. You know there there are rooms
Speaker 3: that you know, one guy can infect the entire room
Speaker 3: with a bad attitude or whatever it might be, whether
Speaker 3: it's a receiver dB or you know, offensive line or whatever.
Speaker 3: But if you've got enough guys in there that think
Speaker 3: the way that Keiland Rutlish does that can be powerful
Speaker 3: as well for the guys that maybe you don't always
Speaker 3: think that way. So I think hopefully you put that
Speaker 3: culture in Keilan Rutlis will be a big part of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he's three in our top five offseason moves.
Speaker 3: I would that three is probably about that's where I would.
Speaker 2: Put It's okay.
Speaker 1: Now with the top two, you would think that I
Speaker 1: might have struggled a bit who's one and who's two
Speaker 1: in the top five offseason moves in the eve of
Speaker 1: training camp, But I did not struggle with this, Johnny.
Speaker 1: It was pretty clear to me that number two in
Speaker 1: the top five is the acquisition of David Montgomery. Okay,
Speaker 1: running back for your Texans, a man who will change
Speaker 1: things in the running game, and acquiring him and really
Speaker 1: nobody else told me a couple of things. One they
Speaker 1: like him a lot, sure. Two they like Woody marks
Speaker 1: a lot. Yes, they love what he marks. And I
Speaker 1: think they feel like this one. Two is gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty good, right. Three at a third Okay, they think
Speaker 1: Jamar Jordan can play, and I think they're right, because, Johnny,
Speaker 1: where else are they going to find running back?
Speaker 2: Help?
Speaker 1: British is on the team, right, Jawar is on the team.
Speaker 1: Who's your guy from Yale again?
Speaker 3: Oh, Josh Pittsenburger.
Speaker 2: Let's go Pittsenberger IV.
Speaker 1: Pittsenburger is gonna be one of those camp stars, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, and and he's gonna light up telling you
Speaker 1: midway through the third quarter of a couple of preseason games,
Speaker 1: he's coming in.
Speaker 3: To find out football is all about baby, and.
Speaker 1: People are gonna be like pitts a Burger And you
Speaker 1: never know, maybe he turns intwo.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, he scores a touchdown that first preseason game,
Speaker 3: and I will go. I will have replays and everything
Speaker 3: going on TV. Dave Keene's gonna get sick of me.
Speaker 2: Have you already gotten the TV graphic on him?
Speaker 3: The NFL. I'm making sure when I send in because
Speaker 3: Dave wants us to send in kind of our storylines.
Speaker 3: I'm making sure that sneaking it right in there. Good.
Speaker 2: It's a good one because it's preseason. He always gonna
Speaker 2: be there. I like him. Mark.
Speaker 3: You know, I've been a big fan of mot Coomery
Speaker 3: for a while. I just I love his running style.
Speaker 3: I love to come on Iowa State. I love Guys,
Speaker 3: when I when I think about just playing defense, I
Speaker 3: think about how difficult it would have been. In my mind,
Speaker 3: I got to tackle this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is tough.
Speaker 3: And when you watch him, even in OTA's in mini camp,
Speaker 3: I would have some pretty good angles to see him
Speaker 3: run the button. Look, it's not one hundred percent, it's
Speaker 3: not with pads. I get all that, But when you
Speaker 3: just watch him just make those powerful cuts and jump
Speaker 3: cuts and just getting in out of holes and just
Speaker 3: making peoples he was making. He was taking every run
Speaker 3: like it was a run in the super Bowl. And
Speaker 3: I think he's got so much more left in the tank.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a great acquistion. I'm wh we
Speaker 3: trade for him, like, and I know people got all
Speaker 3: up in their feeling, Well, you gave up three different pieces, like, man,
Speaker 3: you kidding me. You gave up a seven to twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven. You gave up a guy that what probably
Speaker 3: wasn't gonna make your team as much as we loved him,
Speaker 3: juice scrugs, he wasn't gonna make your team. And you
Speaker 3: give a fourth rounder and you got David Montgomery, a
Speaker 3: guy that you think has got plenty of juice left
Speaker 3: and hoping that he does.
Speaker 1: I got a staff for you. Go ahead, I can
Speaker 1: throw a bunch of numbers out there. Yeah, here's what
Speaker 1: I like. Okay, thirty three thirty three touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last three years. David Montgomery. We struggled with last year
Speaker 1: for sure scoring touchdowns. All right, these are rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: and he's not even the top running back on the team, right,
Speaker 1: and he gets into the end zone thirty three times
Speaker 1: in the last three years.
Speaker 2: Sign me up for some of this.
Speaker 3: How much do you think one hundred percent truth Serum
Speaker 3: and Nick Serio and Dimiko Ryans, how much do you
Speaker 3: think when they talked about obtaining David Montgomery? Do you
Speaker 3: think they talked about and said, hey, remember seeing him
Speaker 3: enjoy practice last year? Sure, I guarantee you that was
Speaker 3: that was part of it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's something we could talk about with Nick when
Speaker 1: we have him on on Thursday morning. Because they scout everybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no better places houses than your very
Speaker 1: own league. And note to self, he might be available
Speaker 1: next year via trade, so maybe won't want to go
Speaker 1: after him.
Speaker 2: Let's monitor it. They monitor everybody.
Speaker 1: It's a thirty two team league and they got guys
Speaker 1: Galore upstairs, whose job it is to survey and spy
Speaker 1: not you know, not ill that's a bad word to examine,
Speaker 1: analyze every player in the practice gate, you know, vanderm
Speaker 1: Meracusa Texas spying.
Speaker 2: Oh shoot, anyway you can that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Now you say number one. Now I'm curious, number one, number.
Speaker 2: One off season move.
Speaker 3: I thought that was going to be number one.
Speaker 1: I thought about it, But as I think about it deeply, deeper,
Speaker 1: this is the number one off season move for your
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. And to me, I think there's a considerable
Speaker 1: gap between one and two. And that is the acquisition
Speaker 1: of whyatt teller? Whyatt teller? And look, people.
Speaker 3: Say, well, you know, maybe end of the career ish.
Speaker 1: And is he going to be able to stay healthy?
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to say I don't care. I
Speaker 1: care about that, but I want him in this building.
Speaker 1: I want him in that room. All the reasons you
Speaker 1: pointed out about the offensive line getting swarmy or whatever,
Speaker 1: all of that, you're bringing in a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1: You're bringing in Braden Smith. You've drafted Keelan Ruttledge from
Speaker 1: the Benchi wee wu. Let's see what he does. We
Speaker 1: talked about Evan Brown. You re signed and by the way,
Speaker 1: ed Ingram I did not forget about you. You're in
Speaker 1: the honorable mentioned category two.
Speaker 2: At the very least.
Speaker 1: The resigning of Editingram is huge because you don't have
Speaker 1: to do anything at that spot and you know that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be okay. But with Wyatt Teller, you need
Speaker 1: that guy in the room. You know, Rutlers can be
Speaker 1: that guy eventually, and maybe somebody else as well.
Speaker 2: Maybe Tay is that guy.
Speaker 1: I like Tay's attitude too, Johnny, but we experienced his
Speaker 1: rookie season. I don't know if he's ready to take
Speaker 1: over the room just yet. Right think he's question than
Speaker 1: we think maybe. But Whyatt Teller is? I know this
Speaker 1: and you get a bunch of guys together. I think
Speaker 1: this is a very key individual to have in that
Speaker 1: room psychologically and physically. So let's see how it all
Speaker 1: plays out on the field. You had to improve the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and I'll say this tomorrow morning, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about it. I think we're gonna lead off the
Speaker 1: show with the old line because that's the story that's
Speaker 1: down and the quarterback. Maybe I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: going to do one tomorrow because we got Nick Casarius
Speaker 1: press conference and a lot of stuff going on. But
Speaker 1: the point is this, they will be better than they
Speaker 1: were last year period. Now, how much better remains to
Speaker 1: be seen, but I will guarantee they'll be better.
Speaker 2: Will they be a lot better? I hope so I
Speaker 2: think they will. But at the very.
Speaker 1: Least, they'll be better. And better is good. Better could
Speaker 1: get you there. A lot of other things have to
Speaker 1: go right, but better could get you there. Even a
Speaker 1: little bit better could possibly get you there. You know
Speaker 1: what if Sean and Seth always say I think Seth
Speaker 1: is a guy who says stuff like this a lot.
Speaker 2: If they get just and maybe Sean too, if.
Speaker 1: They just get average play just whatever, the middle of
Speaker 1: the road is right on the offensive line, they can
Speaker 1: do X right obviously quarterbacking, you know, you can't shurt
Speaker 1: it over.
Speaker 2: I get it. But I think they could be better
Speaker 2: than that with this group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, And I was wondering. I was like
Speaker 3: number one, and then I remember, oh, I already mentioned
Speaker 3: whyatt telor and so yeah, I think because I mentioned
Speaker 3: keeping track of talking about geez.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: But but as we were talking about things, I mentioned
Speaker 3: the name Wyatt teller and so when you're like, what
Speaker 3: would be you know, oh yeah, and then you said it,
Speaker 3: and I think again it goes back to like you
Speaker 3: said what I was talking about earlier, and I think
Speaker 3: people get a little bit tired of hearing this, but
Speaker 3: I think that's what today's NFL really is all about.
Speaker 3: You look at teams and places with good cultures, and
Speaker 3: you're looking at division winning teams, conference winning teams, super
Speaker 3: Bowl championship teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember last year's they were going into the sea,
Speaker 3: and of course I follow all the teams just falling
Speaker 3: from Afar and watching the Seahawks, and you could just tell, man,
Speaker 3: there's a good vibe around this team. If Sam Darnold
Speaker 3: could play well, you know, they added Grace Sable to rookie.
Speaker 3: He came in and did really good things for them.
Speaker 3: They had a couple of tackles that had been there,
Speaker 3: and they played a little bit better, but it was
Speaker 3: like they're the vibes that they had. The other thing
Speaker 3: you have to have, I think.
Speaker 4: Is.
Speaker 3: You have to have players that speak the same language
Speaker 3: as the position coach. And Cole Popovich to me, he
Speaker 3: we seen Cole. Cole said in his seat, and we
Speaker 3: asked Cole about the offensive line last year after they
Speaker 3: had played better.
Speaker 2: What did he say? Oh, he was not happy.
Speaker 3: He was not happy. He he is a guy that
Speaker 3: challenges them, he coaches them hard, and I think he
Speaker 3: wants guys that respond to that.
Speaker 1: What I just said about that being better, he would
Speaker 1: hate that.
Speaker 2: He's like a little bit better. It is not good
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that because I know people out
Speaker 3: there hear that and go average. I don't want to
Speaker 3: have That's not That's not what.
Speaker 1: I was I wasn't saying that. I was saying, get
Speaker 1: us to at least that, get us at least that.
Speaker 3: But our expectation is with these individuals, these acquisitions, because
Speaker 3: you mentioned right tackle, which ends up being a couple
Speaker 3: of guys, whyatt teller Keelan Rutliche. We're talking about what
Speaker 3: could be seventy five to the the crux of this
Speaker 3: offensive line.
Speaker 1: And people hyper examine in progress, trade versus free agent
Speaker 1: versus whatever. Who cares how they all got the You
Speaker 1: know you didn't trade two ones for Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 3: Oh stop me, sorry, Sorry, all shows violence today, go
Speaker 3: around the league later and coming up the best of
Speaker 3: the choice cuts of off season interviews on the Way
Speaker 3: next year on Texans Radio, give it Things Moving run
Speaker 3: along here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio on the
Speaker 3: eve of training camp, I was outside earlier at.
Speaker 1: The Houston that his training center, checking out our broadcast
Speaker 1: position for the first day of practice open practices get rolling.
Speaker 2: Saturday.
Speaker 1: Tickets are already distributed, so if you have friends who
Speaker 1: are going or whatever, maybe they can hook you up.
Speaker 1: But they are all out of tickets for open practice.
Speaker 1: And that'll be Saturday. They have eight open practices, but
Speaker 1: you'll have three practices before we get to that point.
Speaker 1: Will they be in pad Saturday or not? I cannot
Speaker 1: tell you right now. I would think probably not. Maybe Monday.
Speaker 1: Sunday's a day off. One thing about Tamiko Ryans he
Speaker 1: takes Sundays off. Now you might think, well, is that good.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't they be working all the way through. No, he
Speaker 1: times it that way because Sunday is an important day, right,
Speaker 1: So he takes it off instead of and I'm sure
Speaker 1: the coaches are working, by the way, but instead of
Speaker 1: having it off day Tuesday or whatever, he wants to
Speaker 1: time it. So days off ten to be on Sundays
Speaker 1: during training camp, and that's just the way he rolls,
Speaker 1: and it's worked out pretty well. This is the greatest
Speaker 1: era of Texans football. I will say that again. And
Speaker 1: Tamiko Ryans is off to the hottest start of any
Speaker 1: coach in the history of the franchise, no question about that,
Speaker 1: with three consecutive winning seasons. Now, he's not the only
Speaker 1: coach to start his tenure with three consecutive winning seasons.
Speaker 1: That was Bill O'Brien the other one in twenty fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 1: and sixteen, But in twenty fourteen no playoffs nine and seven,
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen playoffs nine and seven, didn't win the playoff game,
Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen finally won a playoff game and lost
Speaker 1: in the Divisional Round two. The new nemesis, They're really
Speaker 1: not a new nemesis. They've always been a nemesis. They're
Speaker 1: not the nemesis. The nemesis is the Horseshoe, the Colts.
Speaker 1: But the Patriots are a close second. And I've said
Speaker 1: it before, the Patriots at Foxborough are an all time
Speaker 1: Texans villain for me, period full stop. I'm still saying
Speaker 1: full stop. I guess I have to phase that one out. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I promise some best of stuff from our off season interviews,
Speaker 1: and here's a few things, and I thought i'd focus
Speaker 1: it on a theme here. I got four cuts here.
Speaker 1: The theme is how is the offense doing?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: This is certainly after OTAs and going into mini camps.
Speaker 1: So these four players all had a good taste of
Speaker 1: how the offense was progressing throughout the offseason and had
Speaker 1: comparative analysis based on what they've seen before. For instance,
Speaker 1: the longest tenured Texan position player is Davis Mills. How
Speaker 1: about that, now, Fairbaron Kaemi Fairbairn is the longest tenured player,
Speaker 1: but Mills drafted in twenty twenty one the longest tenured
Speaker 1: position player. Not not my much, because that night Nico
Speaker 1: Collins was drafted. The next day Brevin Jordan was drafted.
Speaker 1: But you get my drift here. Mills kind of the
Speaker 1: spokesman now for the team. Not really, I'm going a
Speaker 1: little too far with that, but he's a guy's been
Speaker 1: around here for a while, right. If you live through
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, you know that was a big struggle.
Speaker 1: If you live through twenty twenty two, that was another
Speaker 1: big struggle with a tie to open up the season.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one was a much rougher season, more blowout losses.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two a lot of close games, but that
Speaker 1: really the kind you want, and twenty twenty three the
Speaker 1: rest of the story the Demico Ryan's ever.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's get to Mills here.
Speaker 1: How is the offense this year under Nick Kelly his
Speaker 1: second years offensive coordinator? Mills in year six of his career,
Speaker 1: how does the offense compared to this time last year?
Speaker 5: I think this time of year right now, we're I mean,
Speaker 5: I think light years ahead of where we were last year.
Speaker 5: We're in a really good spot. It's always nice going
Speaker 5: into year two of an offense instead of having to
Speaker 5: fully install the entire thing for the first time. I've
Speaker 5: been through that a couple of times here, but year
Speaker 5: two of the offense, that's a big jump to build
Speaker 5: off what we did well last year, but also adding
Speaker 5: new things. And I think coach Kayley's done a great
Speaker 5: job really taking inside of all of his players, especially
Speaker 5: us in the QB room, really kind of building an
Speaker 5: offense around us and around CJ to things that he
Speaker 5: does really well and things he's done in the past
Speaker 5: that he feels really comfortable doing so, I mean, really
Speaker 5: an open book with how we've been installing plays up
Speaker 5: to this point. And we obviously have the base installs
Speaker 5: of what the foundation of this offense is, but then
Speaker 5: there's things He's like, all right, what do you guys
Speaker 5: want to put in to add to the end of
Speaker 5: this install that we can run and rep and make
Speaker 5: sure everyone's comfortable with, because once you get later in
Speaker 5: the season, a lot of it really is just game
Speaker 5: plan and making sure we have content concepts that are
Speaker 5: built in to go against these certain defenses. And a
Speaker 5: lot of times or from times in my past, when
Speaker 5: you're in OTAs, you're really running like the foundation plays.
Speaker 5: But it seems like we're already kind of getting ahead
Speaker 5: to work some of those game plan related plays that
Speaker 5: you might only get to run a handful of times
Speaker 5: of season. But if we're already getting reps this early
Speaker 5: in the spring, it's it's valuable because it's kind of
Speaker 5: just everything starts loading into that memory brank in our
Speaker 5: in our heads and we're able to pull back on
Speaker 5: some of that training that we put in to make
Speaker 5: it effective in the season.
Speaker 3: What can you tell us about Jerry and how he's
Speaker 3: impacted the room.
Speaker 5: He's been great. Nothing about respect and good things to
Speaker 5: say about him. Knows the offense extremely well, and he
Speaker 5: does a great job coaching and kind of portraying his
Speaker 5: knowledge to us as players. So I'm excited to be
Speaker 5: in the room with him. He was there last year,
Speaker 5: but he's taken on a bigger role this year. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: All Right.
Speaker 1: There's Davis Mills from where we talked to him prior
Speaker 1: to Mini camp on the offense this year versus last year.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the same kind of question here, but
Speaker 1: with Cad Stover, who's entering year three of his career. Man,
Speaker 1: he's looking for a big one here. He's looking for
Speaker 1: a big year. Got hurt early last year, came back.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a kind of season he wanted. Let's see what
Speaker 1: he does in twenty twenty six. Anyway, Stover at the
Speaker 1: same point prior to Many Camp offense this year versus
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 6: It's been good obviously, just getting to know like I'm
Speaker 6: getting those James obviously smart mine really good in the
Speaker 6: blocking game wise, like fundamental wise, really really really educated
Speaker 6: with that. We've taken a lot of good steps as
Speaker 6: far as an offense, We're in a much higher developed
Speaker 6: area than we were last year, as far as fundamentally wise,
Speaker 6: as far as understanding of concepts and what we want
Speaker 6: looking to get done. So, I mean, I think we're
Speaker 6: in eight. We're light years above where we were last
Speaker 6: year at this time, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Kate Stover right there referenced James. That would be James Ferrence,
Speaker 1: tight Ends coach and ference was with the Texans briefly
Speaker 1: during the Bill O'Brien era as an offensive lineman, son
Speaker 1: of Kirk Farrence, the head coach of the Iowa Hawk.
Speaker 1: Guys who's been there for a thousand years. I like
Speaker 1: guys who stay. I like guys who stay for a
Speaker 1: long time in their spot in college. I know, college
Speaker 1: is just crazy, not what it was. It's completely off
Speaker 1: the rails right now. We don't have to get into
Speaker 1: that at this particular moment, do we anyway? Stover on
Speaker 1: year one versus year two offense. Now, let's get to
Speaker 1: Jake Andrews center. Can't wait to see how that competition goes.
Speaker 1: Camp opens tomorrow. It's underway.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: You want to see the offensive lineman in pads? YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: But there's no stopping every human who's observing camp from
Speaker 1: evaluating what they're seeing from snap number one going to
Speaker 1: be the classic overreaction under reaction.
Speaker 2: Is it one or the other? We'll see, we'll discuss.
Speaker 1: We got nothing else to do until they play a
Speaker 1: game August thirteenth, except listen to Texans Radio every morning
Speaker 1: eight to ten live from training camp and the sports
Speaker 1: Radio six to ten shows until the station converts to
Speaker 1: ninety five seven the fan. You say, how I worked
Speaker 1: in all the promo stuff on the runway to the
Speaker 1: Jake Andrews cut. And this is a question right before
Speaker 1: mini camp about the offensive line personality, the gelling of
Speaker 1: the different types of characters in the room. How's it
Speaker 1: working at developing this swar mentality? And then you get
Speaker 1: to year one versus a year two offensive progress.
Speaker 7: It's of the utmost importance. I mean, if I know
Speaker 7: a guy's watch name and his kid's name, and I
Speaker 7: know why he does it, you know, it makes it
Speaker 7: so much easier to go out there and be able
Speaker 7: to play for him, and likewise he plays for me too,
Speaker 7: and so just being able to get to know guys
Speaker 7: on a deeper level than just football has always been
Speaker 7: really important for me personally. Like I said, you can
Speaker 7: start to build that relationship and that trust together, and
Speaker 7: I trust you and you trust me, it's bound to
Speaker 7: go a little bit more smooth out there.
Speaker 2: Where's the offense this year versus last year?
Speaker 7: Jake a big step ahead. I mean at this point
Speaker 7: last year we had probably less than half of what
Speaker 7: we have in now.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: So it's been really fun to kind of see the
Speaker 7: growth that you know, Kaylee and Pop and Jerry, Everybody's
Speaker 7: been able to kind of kind of lead us through.
Speaker 7: You know, when you have a guy like CJ back
Speaker 7: there in Davis and all these guys that have, you know,
Speaker 7: yet another year under their belt in the same systems,
Speaker 7: there's always going to be improvements. And you're light years
Speaker 7: ahead in the year two.
Speaker 1: That's Jake Andrews and light years ahead sounds like a
Speaker 1: theme to me. It sounds like the guys have all
Speaker 1: discussed this and decided they're light years ahead of last year.
Speaker 1: Light years is a long time. Look, I'm a big
Speaker 1: sci fi fan. Light years is a long time and
Speaker 1: a long distance. So it's great progress. That sounds like
Speaker 1: quantum leap stuff to me. I can't wait. If they're
Speaker 1: a quantum leap better on offense than last year, sign
Speaker 1: me up for that every time.
Speaker 2: Just give me some good improvement.
Speaker 1: You know, the offense last year fourteenth in the league
Speaker 1: in passing. Nobody's throwing a parade for fourteenth in the
Speaker 1: league in passing. But the way people talk, it's like
Speaker 1: they were bottom three. Now they were bottom third of
Speaker 1: the league in running the football, and that's not going
Speaker 1: to get it done. They were eighteenth in offense overall.
Speaker 1: Not gonna get it done. And that's why you made
Speaker 1: all the improvements. We talked about it in segment one.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna watch starting tomorrow camp gets underway. Let's
Speaker 1: get to one final cut here, British Brooks, same question,
Speaker 1: same topic, offense this year versus last year. Through OTA's
Speaker 1: heading into mini camp and as we embark on training
Speaker 1: camp tomorrow.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I mean we came out basically just saying like we're
Speaker 4: gonna we're gonna go right into it. We're gonna install,
Speaker 4: we're gonna get to the you know, the knee gritty
Speaker 4: like not not just the basics, even though we do
Speaker 4: you know, hone in on the basics all the time,
Speaker 4: but now it's like we need to be progressing a
Speaker 4: lot faster than than we did last year. And it's
Speaker 4: like you can definitely see that with like just being
Speaker 4: in the offense for a second year.
Speaker 1: Now there's British Brooks on the offense improvement year one
Speaker 1: to year two under Nick Caley.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's gonna do it for those cuts.
Speaker 1: That was the theme the offensive improvement and camp against tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Can't wait.
Speaker 1: By the way, British going into year three man time
Speaker 1: Freaking flies running back competition. We mentioned Pittsenberger from Yale
Speaker 1: in the opening segment, but I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: Jamar Jordan out there. Of course Montgomery, but we expect
Speaker 1: big things from him. I don't want to see too
Speaker 1: much from him, actually see a little bit, see a
Speaker 1: little bit. Put him in bubble wrap. Woo, he marks
Speaker 1: two bubble wrap. I don't want to see too much
Speaker 1: of these guys. I want to see them gel with
Speaker 1: the offense, yes, but I don't want to expose them
Speaker 1: too much. You got huge games to open this season
Speaker 1: at Reliant Stadium, and in fact, something is happening this
Speaker 1: year with the schedule that only happened once before the
Speaker 1: history of the franchise.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you next on Texans All Access Final Lap
Speaker 1: around the Track here tonight before we get to training camp.
Speaker 1: Live shows tomorrow morning, starting off with Panting Pendergast at
Speaker 1: six am on Sports Radio six ten, soon to be
Speaker 1: ninety five to seven of the fans. See I said
Speaker 1: it again, getting you ready for August thirteenth, when the
Speaker 1: station flips to FM. You'll still get it on six
Speaker 1: to ten, but it'll be called ninety five to seventh
Speaker 1: the fan And why wouldn't you go to the FM
Speaker 1: at that point?
Speaker 2: Yes? Please?
Speaker 1: It'll happen the day of our first Texans preseason game
Speaker 1: against the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Can't wait?
Speaker 1: Okay, So tomorrow morning at six p and p and
Speaker 1: then eight am, Johnny and I for a couple of
Speaker 1: hours as the team takes the field, and then in
Speaker 1: the loop has you for the rest of practice. They'll
Speaker 1: probably get a player live. In fact, I'll virtually guarantee that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I said something that's happening this year with the schedule,
Speaker 1: now that it's camp time. A lot of my casual
Speaker 1: sports friends and you're thinking, Mark, you have friends, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I have friends and some friends follow sports
Speaker 1: more than others.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 1: I know that people wouldn't follow sports as deeply as
Speaker 1: you and I do, but it does happen. So people
Speaker 1: are asking me, Hey, who do they play this year?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Okay, the schedule's loaded. Cowboys Week four
Speaker 1: at home. Everyone's looking forward to that one. But I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to Week one Buffalo, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: This is a war? And then week two the Bengals.
Speaker 1: So back to back games at home to start the schedule.
Speaker 1: Did you know that this is only the second time
Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise that this has occurred.
Speaker 1: The only other time was twenty sixteen. And the Texans
Speaker 1: did well the first two games. They beat the Bears
Speaker 1: who opened up the season, and that was brock Osweiler.
Speaker 1: And then in week two it was a bloodbath against
Speaker 1: Kansas City and they won the game Travis Kelce played.
Speaker 1: There was no Mahomes yet. I mean Mahomes existed, but
Speaker 1: not in professional form. That was Alex Smith.
Speaker 2: But that was a war.
Speaker 1: And then they had to go on the road short
Speaker 1: week at New England. You know what happened there? They
Speaker 1: got shut out. That really hurt a lot but anyway,
Speaker 1: they did open to and Zho and they did go
Speaker 1: nine and seven and win the division that year. Other
Speaker 1: items from the schedule that are interesting because here we are,
Speaker 1: we're embarking on football season. Thirteen of the fourteen opponents
Speaker 1: this year were on the schedule for the inaugural season
Speaker 1: of two thousand and two. I think that's cool because
Speaker 1: here we are celebrating the twenty fifth year franchise history
Speaker 1: and we've got thirteen of those fourteen teams on the schedule.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, well, don't they play seventeen games? But you're
Speaker 1: thinking or not thinking about duplicate games that the Jags, Titans,
Speaker 1: and Colts.
Speaker 2: Don't. Forget about that.
Speaker 1: But I think that is super interesting that they play
Speaker 1: all those squads from the inaugural season, especially Dallas Week four.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a huge celebration of the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth year. That game and other news and notes. Just
Speaker 1: know that camp starts tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: As I said from the get go, eight open practices
Speaker 1: practices one, two, and three are not open to the public,
Speaker 1: but they are live on the radio. Baby, we will
Speaker 1: have them for you, and we are super fired up
Speaker 1: to be with you live from the Houston Methodist Training
Speaker 1: Center tomorrow morning, six am, P and P. Eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: Johnny and I take over. Looking forward to it. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening. Area forty five coming up next
Speaker 1: to have a great night, Go Texans.