Speaker 1: What's happened?
Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome into a one of the editions of Texans
Speaker 2: All Access.
Speaker 1: From the Hunday Texans or radio studio.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for
Speaker 2: your Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Glad to be with you.
Speaker 2: We got a very eventful couple of days coming up
Speaker 2: for your Texans. Throughout the league, teams already slicing your
Speaker 2: rosters down little by little. I don't think anybody's gotten
Speaker 2: their full fifty three just yet, but you're seeing various
Speaker 2: moves bleed out across various social channels, and the Texans
Speaker 2: had one very important one that we need to hit
Speaker 2: right off the top, and I will read straight from
Speaker 2: the statement. So we are clear tomorrow at three pm
Speaker 2: Central Standard time, when everybody needs to be down to
Speaker 2: fifty three man roster. We e the Texans will officially
Speaker 2: move running back Joe Mixon from the active NFI list
Speaker 2: to the reserve non football injury list. Players placed in
Speaker 2: the reserve Non football Injury List may begin to practice
Speaker 2: and play after the club's fourth game of the regular season.
Speaker 2: We will provide further updates at inappropriate time. Now, a
Speaker 2: couple of things. Number one I think a lot of
Speaker 2: us out there, and by a lot of us, I
Speaker 2: mean fans, analysts, et cetera, et cetera, kind of saw
Speaker 2: this coming. So this I think is just confirmation of
Speaker 2: what we already knew. You know, It's like when you're
Speaker 2: asked that question, Hey, uh, you think it's gonna rain
Speaker 2: today and you look up sun no clouds, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna be okay, and the days ago,
Speaker 2: the day goes through and you're like, yeah, confirmation it
Speaker 2: didn't rain. Well, this is the confirmation that I think
Speaker 2: we knew was coming, and so we're kind of rebracing
Speaker 2: for it all along that Joe wouldn't be ready for
Speaker 2: the first four games. Now what that means is Week
Speaker 2: five is at Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Now, one of the things that I said, I think
Speaker 1: we're at the.
Speaker 2: Greenbrier when I may, I said this, that's the last
Speaker 2: game before a bye.
Speaker 1: So you get through that game. Let's let's let's.
Speaker 2: Just just go with me on this. Let's just say
Speaker 2: were extended one more week, then you got to buy.
Speaker 2: Then you don't play till Monday night at Seattle. Now, look,
Speaker 2: when it comes to medical stuff, nobody ever knows to
Speaker 2: be honest.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're never gonna know medical staffs.
Speaker 2: They're not out there, you know, tweeting, and players aren't
Speaker 2: out there putting stuff out there. They're not about injuries
Speaker 2: things like that for the most part, So we're not
Speaker 2: gonna know exactly where Joe is in his rehab. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: this this might just be you know, longer than four weeks.
Speaker 2: This could be ten weeks, this could be fourteen weeks.
Speaker 1: We don't know.
Speaker 2: So there's no telling when Joe could honestly come back.
Speaker 2: But let's just say it's with this mindset, this time
Speaker 2: frame of four weeks that you definitely that when you
Speaker 2: go on the active or the res deserved non football
Speaker 2: injury list, you've got to wait out those four weeks.
Speaker 1: So let's say waits out the four weeks.
Speaker 2: At that point, if he's a thousand percent ready to go, okay,
Speaker 2: let's play against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Let's rock and roll. Let's go.
Speaker 2: I think with where the bye week is, just give
Speaker 2: it one more week. That just gives you two more
Speaker 2: weeks before you've got to play a game. And then
Speaker 2: let's start it with Seattle and let's run it eleven
Speaker 2: weeks straight. Uh, and let's go, you know, win a
Speaker 2: lot of games with Joe fully healthy, hopefully at that point,
Speaker 2: and let the running back room as it is right now.
Speaker 2: We don't even know what that's gonna be. We already
Speaker 2: said it's gonna be a tough cut. But let's let
Speaker 2: the running back room as it sits right now go forward.
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb, Damian Pierce, Dargon Muwally Wood, he Marks Juar Jordan,
Speaker 2: British books. However, they're going to pare it down. We
Speaker 2: don't know how many they keep. We don't know, but
Speaker 2: that room. And I've said this for a while now,
Speaker 2: and I think you've said it on Texas Monday this morning.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that group. I like that group. I
Speaker 2: like the young guys in that group. I like what
Speaker 2: do I like you are? They've been saying it since
Speaker 2: the first day camp. There was probably this in the
Speaker 2: back of my mind with Joe, that it might be
Speaker 2: a while before we see Joe, but not going to
Speaker 2: be there for the first four games.
Speaker 1: So that's the news as it sits.
Speaker 2: The roster will get down to fifty three by three PM.
Speaker 2: But at least the question a lot of people asking
Speaker 2: about Joe Mixon was answered by the Texans today on
Speaker 2: their social media channels that release of Joe Mixon moving
Speaker 2: from active NFI to reserve NiFi. He will miss the
Speaker 2: first four games at a minimum, and then after that
Speaker 2: work his way back into practice. Like I said, because
Speaker 2: where the bye week is, there's in my mind there's
Speaker 2: a thought, Okay, maybe keep them until after the bye week.
Speaker 2: But again, Week five a's Baltimore, and you want to
Speaker 2: go hit Baltimore in a face with everything you got,
Speaker 2: including a hopefully at that time healthy Joe Mixon. So
Speaker 2: that's down the road. We can handle that business once
Speaker 2: we get there. We gotta beat the Rams in week one,
Speaker 2: and that's a couple of weeks away. We're under two
Speaker 2: weeks away from Texans v. Rams at three twenty five
Speaker 2: Central Time on September seventh, and cannot wait.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get to our guest.
Speaker 2: We had an absolute blast talking to Andre where in fact,
Speaker 2: the first probably five to seven minutes of our discussion
Speaker 2: maybe the funniest discussion we've.
Speaker 1: Had in a while, and it deals with hot keys.
Speaker 3: Here we go to Woody.
Speaker 4: Over left guard across to five peason touchdown Houston, Woody
Speaker 4: marks power running into the end zone, good blocking on
Speaker 4: the left side, and the Texans are back in front
Speaker 4: of Detroit.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, that's gonna be a hot key.
Speaker 1: I am just saying, did you say that's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be hot key in the call?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So Ben, I'm gonna Ben, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: a challenge. I don't know if you can do this,
Speaker 2: but I know on in the loop what there's well,
Speaker 2: they used the hot key. They have a hot When
Speaker 2: I was talking about what he marks.
Speaker 3: That's that's okay, wait play him back to back.
Speaker 7: Ben, that is too good. Andres on the phone too.
Speaker 7: This is Andre, Yes, that is that is hot key
Speaker 7: right there.
Speaker 8: My intent was then what he marks wasting basically, uh,
Speaker 8: setting an example or telling you, hey, I'm arriving and
Speaker 8: you know, there's this whole competition going on, but running
Speaker 8: back and he's just making his mark.
Speaker 9: No pun intended, but that's kind of where I was
Speaker 9: coming from. I'm here to stay as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: That that was my thought on draft day, like this
Speaker 2: dude is coming to make an impact.
Speaker 10: You didn't even up, you didn't even need to say
Speaker 10: what you said, Dre. We got it all with this.
Speaker 10: H see that that explains everything.
Speaker 2: And on Draft weekend, I felt like, oh.
Speaker 9: Hey, god it before we just started this morning. Because
Speaker 9: this rarely has happened to me. I'm sure you guys,
Speaker 9: in your in your in your daily travels, fans approach
Speaker 9: you and you have conversations all the time. But I
Speaker 9: bet you you haven't had a fan approach you and
Speaker 9: tell you that they've listened to you for twenty twenty
Speaker 9: two years. So big shout out to Sydney Evans. I
Speaker 9: saw him in the gym this morning and we had
Speaker 9: a nice conversation. But twenty two years he's been listening
Speaker 9: to us, So thanks a bunch, Sidney.
Speaker 3: That's a that's huge, that's that's nice.
Speaker 10: You could shout out the name because that has happened
Speaker 10: to me, and I never shout the person out. So
Speaker 10: I'm really sorry now to everyone I haven't shouted out
Speaker 10: to about long time listening to Texans Radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all I get is, well, where were you the
Speaker 1: first eight years? Johnny?
Speaker 3: That's what? Exactly Where were you, Johnny?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 9: Where you were?
Speaker 1: Where you are not?
Speaker 6: Johnny?
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true, And I get I get to
Speaker 2: be back with the crew starting Sunday, September seven, so
Speaker 2: as much they.
Speaker 1: Love being with TV, I'm back with the Fam on Sunday.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but I watched broadcast. It was awesome. Yeah, great,
Speaker 10: we had did a great job. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 10: And but you didn't have this, Johnny, you didn't have
Speaker 10: this in the booth, Ben hit it again because see
Speaker 10: you didn't have that.
Speaker 1: That's that's my first time. It's my first time hearing that.
Speaker 2: And normally when I'm on the sidelines, I hear those things,
Speaker 2: so I would be like, oh, okay, we gotta we
Speaker 2: gotta keeps.
Speaker 1: But I didn't hear it until just now.
Speaker 10: That is an Andre wear legendary hockey. I don't know
Speaker 10: if it replaces the oh no though that yes.
Speaker 2: See okay, oh no is my that's my fault because
Speaker 2: that was the game against the Colts, and I remember
Speaker 2: they were they were blitzing us, and I remember saying
Speaker 2: oh no, and then I hear Andre say it right
Speaker 2: after me, and I was like, oh no, I planted.
Speaker 2: I planted to see Andre. It was a game against
Speaker 2: the Colts. I think it was one we ended.
Speaker 10: Up winning, which I really say was Thursday night. Maybe
Speaker 10: it doesn't sound like it was going that well.
Speaker 9: Recovered from thee Yeah.
Speaker 1: We didn't know. Uh. To me, my my favorite one.
Speaker 2: I mean, those are my two favorites, along with beating
Speaker 2: the Steelers and their fans leaving and Mark's.
Speaker 1: Like get out, get out. Yeah, there's that one.
Speaker 2: And then I don't know if we have this one
Speaker 2: on hockey with Kimmie Fairband and overtime beats the Titans.
Speaker 1: You could put those things in the trunk.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was a great one. I felt deeper
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: That was yeah, that was That was one of my
Speaker 2: favorites too, after beating the Oilers, Titans.
Speaker 3: Whatever they were.
Speaker 9: Was with us Mark, But do you remember the wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Trump, he's quick with it.
Speaker 9: But do you remember the wow? A long time ago?
Speaker 9: It almost sounded like a cat.
Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, Benny, I don't even know if Ben
Speaker 10: has that. It's been a while since we played that one.
Speaker 10: But Drey became another you know species at that point.
Speaker 3: It was good. It was good anyway, all right, Dray.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Now that that wasn't the one though. That's a wow, yes,
Speaker 10: but it was a wow where it was. It became
Speaker 10: a me out.
Speaker 3: At some point anyway.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go to the position you play quarterback.
Speaker 2: Graham Mertz fourteen to sixteen. The other day, in his
Speaker 2: first real extensive playing time, I mean even through practice
Speaker 2: since the Minnesota game, he had three interceptions which weren't
Speaker 2: on him.
Speaker 1: What'd you a think about Mertz and B Dre? What
Speaker 1: do you do with the quarterbacks?
Speaker 11: We know?
Speaker 1: CJ? And Davis? One? Two?
Speaker 2: Do you keep two? Do you keep three? If you
Speaker 2: keep three, who do you want to keep? Would you
Speaker 2: like to keep all four? I don't think you can.
Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna have to have a spring toe today. Walk
Speaker 2: in the hallway. Somebody put them on. Ir What are
Speaker 2: your thoughts about what you're gonna do and what they're
Speaker 2: gonna do with the quarterback position?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think every team when when you start trying
Speaker 9: to round out a fifty three man roster, and I
Speaker 9: kind of go here first, there are some players you're
Speaker 9: going to have to kind of take a gamble on.
Speaker 9: And by that, I mean you're gonna have to put
Speaker 9: him out there to hope sit there with your fingers
Speaker 9: crossed for twenty four hours that they clear waivers. And
Speaker 9: I think Graham Merz is that guy. You'd love to
Speaker 9: bring him back of the practice roster, but you got
Speaker 9: to expose him first in order to get him on
Speaker 9: the practice roster. I think they have two solids and CJ.
Speaker 9: Stroud and Davis Mills as solid as there is in
Speaker 9: terms of starter and backup as there is around the league.
Speaker 9: Davis Mills is much much improved and you feel really
Speaker 9: good about if you have to go with him with
Speaker 9: it in terms of a stretch of games. But with
Speaker 9: Graham Merch, he's a draft pick that they spent a
Speaker 9: six round pick on, so he's going to get the
Speaker 9: benefit of the doubt. I think over Keaton Slovas, because
Speaker 9: there's an investment there, also think they're going to have
Speaker 9: to expose him in order to bring him back. And
Speaker 9: he's there after cutdowns, he comes back and he's on
Speaker 9: the practice roster or as your third quarterback. But there
Speaker 9: are guys on the roster and he's not the only
Speaker 9: one that they're gonna have to take a swing at
Speaker 9: and put him out there and kind of subject them
Speaker 9: to the waiver wied who if somebody wants them, if
Speaker 9: somebody is hurting at that position, or bring him back
Speaker 9: on the practice Russ and I think if it's going
Speaker 9: to a practice roster somewhere else over staying with the
Speaker 9: Texans where you just spent months learning this offense. This
Speaker 9: is where you're going to come back to.
Speaker 10: What do you make of these receivers. Now, I'm not
Speaker 10: saying any of these guys are going to make the team.
Speaker 10: They might make the practice squad. But Powell, Winfree, Cephis,
Speaker 10: they combined for one forty eleven catches a touchdown and
Speaker 10: this was on short order. Drace Cefiz was in Canada
Speaker 10: last year, but the system is different. He comes back
Speaker 10: two and a half weeks before the game, and then
Speaker 10: the other guys get back or get to the team
Speaker 10: that week and they go out and put up the
Speaker 10: numbers I just described. And it wasn't just dink and dunk.
Speaker 10: I mean, they were making plays. What did you think
Speaker 10: of that performance?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was very impressed with Powell Winfree and in
Speaker 9: terms of him blocking, Cephas had obviously a pretty good
Speaker 9: game as well. And they you know, with the addition
Speaker 9: of the expansion of the practice roster going to sixteen,
Speaker 9: one of those guys gave him themselves a chance, whether
Speaker 9: Cephas or Powell. Powell came man, picked up things. He
Speaker 9: made plays, not only on offense and catching the ball
Speaker 9: as well as blocking. But he made some plays and
Speaker 9: tackle of two on special teams. So when you can,
Speaker 9: when you can affect the game as a receiver in
Speaker 9: those three areas, you give yourself a chance. And then
Speaker 9: he came in on such short notice and was able
Speaker 9: to do exactly that. I think he's got a shot.
Speaker 9: So him, he and Cephas practice roster guys maybe, but
Speaker 9: they certainly did themselves well on Saturday. On Saturday, so.
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of quarterback movement in the league
Speaker 2: over the last I don't know, forty eight hours or so.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you both this because we got to
Speaker 2: see it Thursday in practice and then we got to
Speaker 2: see it Saturday in a game after Jared Goff. How
Speaker 2: bad is that situation in Detroit? Dre and Mark Dre
Speaker 2: you go first.
Speaker 9: I've got more confidence I think in Kyle Allen than
Speaker 9: maybe a lot, And it's just because sometimes as a quarterback,
Speaker 9: it's finding the right mix and chemistry. And I alluded
Speaker 9: to this on the air. I think John Morton is
Speaker 9: a heck of a football coach, and he's now their
Speaker 9: offensive coordinator as well, Mark Brunell being their quarterback coach.
Speaker 9: And then you got Marcus tuiasa SOPO who is just
Speaker 9: kind of an offensive assistant but has played the position.
Speaker 9: And I talked to Kyle down on the sideline before
Speaker 9: the game and he's just like, you know, this is
Speaker 9: like quarterback Heaven for me. He understands better, he operates better,
Speaker 9: and it's just finding the right place at the right time.
Speaker 9: I think that's set up for them. Would they love
Speaker 9: to go seventeen games with Jared Golf and not have
Speaker 9: to ever play Kyle Allen? Absolutely? Is it realistic? Probably not,
Speaker 9: He doesn't have a big injury history. But if they
Speaker 9: had to go a game or so with Kyle Allen
Speaker 9: as their quarterback, I think they'd be Okay. Hnton Hooker,
Speaker 9: he has had the job taken from him. He was
Speaker 9: the quarterback going into the offseason and into training camp,
Speaker 9: the second guy rather in the pecking order, and Kyle
Speaker 9: Allen is just leapfrogging outplayed him in the preseason. And
Speaker 9: I would imagine as they're backup at this point in time.
Speaker 10: Interesting point, I think Kyle Allen on this team right
Speaker 10: now would do better than Kyle Allen on this team
Speaker 10: in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I agree with that.
Speaker 10: I agree with that, So that's it's certainly worth watching.
Speaker 10: But we've got a long way to go here, and
Speaker 10: you know, hopefully for them Goff stays healthy. I'd love
Speaker 10: to see them again because that would mean we're playing
Speaker 10: them in February. Yes, that would be very nice. Indeed,
Speaker 10: Drey thoughts on the defense here. CJ. Gardner Johnson, we
Speaker 10: don't know the availability of him come cut down time
Speaker 10: tomorrow at three. I mean, this is one of the
Speaker 10: X factors, the variables that factors into if you put
Speaker 10: together a roster, let's say it's approximately twenty five defensive
Speaker 10: players twenty five offensive players. That's really going to create
Speaker 10: some interesting situations in the secondary, his availability or not, and.
Speaker 3: The D line as well.
Speaker 10: You know they keep ten or nine guys that they
Speaker 10: keep nine, you're cutting some interesting names. But I think
Speaker 10: the big headline here is you are pretty thick.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 10: You could use some depth in the secondary at corner
Speaker 10: and maybe it's safety of CJ. Gardner Johnson's not healthy,
Speaker 10: But overall, defensively, this is as good a defense as
Speaker 10: maybe you've ever put on the field.
Speaker 3: And they've had some good ones here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's some playmakers across the board, and with CJ.
Speaker 9: Gardner Johnson, you just don't know. We won't have the
Speaker 9: way long though. We'll know tomorrow for sure exactly where
Speaker 9: he's going to start the season or if he's ready
Speaker 9: to actually start the season playing. If he is available
Speaker 9: and ready to go, and there's still some extra time
Speaker 9: before that Rams game, he I think he's gonna be
Speaker 9: just fine. They'll be fine in the secondary and Petrick
Speaker 9: can slide over and make some plays there.
Speaker 11: M J.
Speaker 9: Stewart I think has been another solid edition on the
Speaker 9: back end, along with Bullock who's a playmaker, Stingley and
Speaker 9: lass or Ballhawks. I think guys that may be the
Speaker 9: fifty oh, fifty one, fifty two, and fifty three may
Speaker 9: be in trouble. And I say that from a depth
Speaker 9: standpoint because you mentioned it at corner. There's gonna be
Speaker 9: some guys cut from other teams, and if you're the
Speaker 9: last couple of guys that make this roster, you could
Speaker 9: still be let go and then they pick up guys
Speaker 9: off the waiver wire. Two add that depth at at
Speaker 9: in the secondary, whether it's that corner and coort safety.
Speaker 9: So uh there, I mean some guys that make it
Speaker 9: and feel like whoa, they'll exhale today, but then once
Speaker 9: the wave of wire starts to present itself, there still
Speaker 9: may be some some movement.
Speaker 2: We need Austin Brateman to be healthy. By the way,
Speaker 2: that's a different discussion too. But I'll ask you this
Speaker 2: and maybe it fits into this, and I'm about to
Speaker 2: ask you've been talking about Oh, the depth is good.
Speaker 1: We've been talking all the good, the good, the good,
Speaker 1: the good.
Speaker 2: So let's bring it down a notch because all three
Speaker 2: of us have a concern maybe a couple, maybe more
Speaker 2: than a couple, but we at least have a chief
Speaker 2: concern about something.
Speaker 9: Where you're going before you finish your question.
Speaker 2: But go, okay, what is your one concern heading into
Speaker 2: week one? Like your chief concern? There might be a
Speaker 2: couple that are come buzzing, but you're like, man, there's
Speaker 2: one right here in front of us. What's your major
Speaker 2: concern each of you going into Week one?
Speaker 1: Dray? Was that the question you were thinking I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask.
Speaker 9: Pretty much? And you know, I think it's the inevitable.
Speaker 9: It's it's the guys up front, how how do they play?
Speaker 9: Because you haven't seen if it's Cam Robinson at left
Speaker 9: tackle or or Ursery who's at right time? I mean
Speaker 9: it's it's a mixture of of of guys, and the
Speaker 9: chemistry up up front needs to be there with those
Speaker 9: five more so than anywhere else on this football team.
Speaker 9: I think CJ has blended well with new receivers, the
Speaker 9: rookies Noel and as well as Higgins. Uh. You've had
Speaker 9: some superb play from the tight end group. Uh, and
Speaker 9: there's some consistency there, but it doesn't work unless the
Speaker 9: five guys up front, UH, do their their their portion
Speaker 9: of bits and hold up up front. And you haven't had.
Speaker 9: If Cam Robinson's going to start a left tackle, well,
Speaker 9: it'll be the first time they're all out there together, uh,
Speaker 9: this this preseason or to start the season. And that's
Speaker 9: kind of not That's not where you want to have
Speaker 9: it happen. So I I just get I get agitated
Speaker 9: sometimes when guys you think guys can go and they're not,
Speaker 9: and then they pull the move on you, and so
Speaker 9: on and so forth, because you know your position. Every
Speaker 9: one of them is important on this team, but none
Speaker 9: more important than the five guys up front.
Speaker 2: All right, Mark, what's your your chief concern going on.
Speaker 2: Trey's a good one.
Speaker 10: You guys hit on it because I think, and I
Speaker 10: could be wrong, it's pretty easy to name nine offensive
Speaker 10: linemen who make this football team, but it's not easy
Speaker 10: to know exactly how they're going to line up.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if we still know what what
Speaker 5: are they doing?
Speaker 10: In the joint practice it was Robinson left, Ursery right correct?
Speaker 1: No, No, Titus is that right?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: Titus was that ro.
Speaker 1: And Urcery had left, and then Cam was at the
Speaker 1: left with the twos.
Speaker 3: Cam was at the left with the twos. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure that's it.
Speaker 10: I think it's entirely in play that Robinson starts at
Speaker 10: left tackle, but I could be wrong because Titus could
Speaker 10: play any one of three spots. Still, I think it's
Speaker 10: also in play that they move back to left guard.
Speaker 10: I don't think they will, but I think that's a possibility.
Speaker 1: Could.
Speaker 5: So the whole thing's a big mystery. And Dre's right.
Speaker 10: They got to get the chemistry quickly because you're going
Speaker 10: on the road to play against a tough team that
Speaker 10: knows how to get after the quarterback. Now on the
Speaker 10: road against them, Look, they're on off. It's one of
Speaker 10: those things. Rams will be on offense. It'll be quiet
Speaker 10: for them. I don't think that building gets exceptionally loud.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong. We'll see whose house.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's well, yeah, see I knew it.
Speaker 2: I knew it because they're gonna throw that out there
Speaker 2: and marks if you described the actions going.
Speaker 1: Koop's house, Cook's house, Yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Mean it's in my DNA. You hear that and he
Speaker 9: just that's an automatic response for me and most trum.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: I don't imagine the Texans will have a pretty decent
Speaker 2: throng of fans.
Speaker 5: I would think, so we won l A. Yeah, there
Speaker 5: are a lot of creaks.
Speaker 9: The Texans fans travel well, man, we go everywhere we go. Now,
Speaker 9: what I want to see is that that the game
Speaker 9: in Seattle. How you know, let's see who's really committed
Speaker 9: when you when you start talking about going way up there.
Speaker 5: And on Monday night, eighth Pacific.
Speaker 9: Time camp part.
Speaker 2: It's uh seven Pacific time kick it's ten eastern.
Speaker 10: So it's seven Pacific, ten eastern. And that game nationally
Speaker 10: is on ESPN Plus, not ESPN ESPN Plus.
Speaker 9: If you're traveling for that one as a fan, you're
Speaker 9: essentially taking off baby maybe three days, Yeah, to travel
Speaker 9: the day of the game and obviously the day after
Speaker 9: because you're not coming right back after the game because
Speaker 9: it's so late, so you're you want to make that's
Speaker 9: a that's a mini vacation, so to speak.
Speaker 10: Right, you'll never catch a red eye out of Seattle
Speaker 10: after that game, so you're staying Tuesday and coming back,
Speaker 10: and you might be You're right, you might be taking
Speaker 10: a red eye Tuesday, because why those West coast trips.
Speaker 3: Are just awful to get back from.
Speaker 2: Those are two places on the West Coast and aren't
Speaker 2: bad to be staying in LA and Seattle.
Speaker 3: It's true, but.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's pretty nice.
Speaker 10: I just think that ten Eastern started. That'shoulda be weird
Speaker 10: for the league, that is. Do you think people are
Speaker 10: going to sign up for ESPN Plus to watch that game?
Speaker 1: I don't know if locally you'll be able to see it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, locally, it'll be on over the air TV. I
Speaker 10: believe it's on ABC thirteen.
Speaker 9: Anyway, we have a negative body clock effect, Mark, you know,
Speaker 9: we used to talk about that a lot.
Speaker 1: I go on the other way.
Speaker 5: It's going the other way.
Speaker 10: I usually think not, but they might have other ideas,
Speaker 10: so we'll see how they handle it. Drey, I gotta
Speaker 10: ask you about this because it is so late. Well
Speaker 10: we're going to get back at like eight in the morning,
Speaker 10: but we'll just suck it up. You know, it's it's
Speaker 10: a privileged so.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Uh, we are the home of the.
Speaker 10: Texas Bowl, all right, and so we talk a little
Speaker 10: college football here. And I know that you're vaguely familiar
Speaker 10: with the subject, Dre on ESPN Friday nights usually, but
Speaker 10: we've got a little ditty this Saturday, and it's time.
Speaker 10: I mean, here we go. It's college football season here.
Speaker 10: Do you have a game this weekend or are you
Speaker 10: off this weekend?
Speaker 9: I do actually this weekend. I'm on on Saturday to
Speaker 9: start the season, and I'll be up at A and
Speaker 9: M with A and M hosting UTSA. That would be
Speaker 9: a fun one. That's one that I can drive to
Speaker 9: and then come on back to the house and watch
Speaker 9: everybody else do their thing with it. Normally would be
Speaker 9: Colorado hosting Georgia Tech, but I'm gonna have Colorado two
Speaker 9: weeks later, so it never made sense to have us
Speaker 9: on Colorado two out of the first three weeks, so
Speaker 9: there was a little shuffling and a schedule for us.
Speaker 9: We'll have Colorado right on the campus at u of
Speaker 9: H after week two, and that's a trip to Louisville,
Speaker 9: so A and m Louisville U of H are the
Speaker 9: first three weeks, all.
Speaker 1: Right, also driving to two of the three. Man, that's nice.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 9: Indeed, the third week I don't even have to leave
Speaker 9: the city because I think the Texans had the Titans
Speaker 9: at home that weekend, So that's gonna be a fun, fun,
Speaker 9: fun deal.
Speaker 10: The one I want your opinion on is the Texas
Speaker 10: Longhorns at Ohio State Saturday, eleventh Central.
Speaker 3: Let's go, what do you think.
Speaker 9: I think it's a tough football game for Texas because
Speaker 9: you are replacing two offensive tackles that went to the NFL.
Speaker 9: I think there's another one or two offensive linemen that
Speaker 9: are being replaced as well. You're replacing a lot of
Speaker 9: players on defense. Running back, your top receiver and golden
Speaker 9: is gone. So just you know, plugging arch in and
Speaker 9: thinking oh, it's National championship time doesn't work. I saw
Speaker 9: that with Sam Bradford, who was a Heisman Trophy winner,
Speaker 9: get hurt when he when Oklahoma one year, replaced four
Speaker 9: offensive linemen, had all skill position players coming back. He
Speaker 9: took a beating in the opening game against BYU ultimately
Speaker 9: lost that game. He was out of the game. They
Speaker 9: knocked him out with a shoulder injury because they just
Speaker 9: kept pounding in the offensive line. The chemistry just hadn't developed,
Speaker 9: and he took a lot of punishment. Sam Bradford, I'm
Speaker 9: talking about and now I'm not saying that happens with
Speaker 9: arch but I'm saying, you got a lot to replace
Speaker 9: a him. And last I checked, no quarterback to Superman
Speaker 9: without the five guys in front of him holding up.
Speaker 9: So there, and you're and that game's on the road.
Speaker 9: So if you're asking me why I'm picking to win it,
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go Ohio State from the simple fact that
Speaker 9: they're at home. They're replacing a lot, including the quarterback,
Speaker 9: but it's a home game for them, and that that
Speaker 9: in and of itself is the reason I'm picking them.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, can't wait for that one, or should I
Speaker 2: say can't wait for that one?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2: Can't wait Texas for the Ohio State arch Manning getting
Speaker 2: to start for ut. That is probably the sexiest thing,
Speaker 2: Julians saying, the young man from Ohio State starting U.
Speaker 2: And if there's somebody who knows all about starting at
Speaker 2: Ohio State for the first one, a big one like this,
Speaker 2: it's CJ.
Speaker 1: Shroud.
Speaker 2: He knows all about that. Okay, we get back. Let's
Speaker 2: talk to our guy in d Clue. We had plenty
Speaker 2: to catch up with n D my broadcast partner on
Speaker 2: preseason games. He was awesome to work with. Weklu all
Speaker 2: with us next right here in Texas All Access. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to Monday Initiative, Texans All Access from Monday Texans
Speaker 2: Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrits, football analyst, sideline reporter.
Speaker 2: And it has been a big, big day for a
Speaker 2: couple of guys that were holding in. In fact, I
Speaker 2: don't even know they're holding out in the NFL. Trey
Speaker 2: Henderson looks like he's about to get a deal, making
Speaker 2: him one of the highest paid defenders for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Tompelo Serro Ian Rappaport both reporting that, so it looks
Speaker 2: like they're getting a contract. On to Terry McLaurin got
Speaker 2: a new contract today, So hold in get.
Speaker 1: Money or hold out get my I don't know either way.
Speaker 2: Michael Parsons still waiting to see what's gonna happen with
Speaker 2: him in Dallas, but it does look like to the
Speaker 2: bigger holdouts hold ins from this summer, Trey Hendrickson will
Speaker 2: apparently be signing a deal with the Bengals sometime soon,
Speaker 2: and Terry McLaren already did that, and so leclaren back
Speaker 2: at practice, and now Hendrickson gets back at practice. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: can we just say, hey, I want money and you
Speaker 2: know what, let's just get this deal done.
Speaker 1: With two weeks right after preseasons over? How about that?
Speaker 2: Because that's what we're doing. I mean, that's what these
Speaker 2: guys are doing. You know, you can go back and forth.
Speaker 2: Now the Mica stuff, that feels like it's getting personal
Speaker 2: in Dallas.
Speaker 1: But then again, I think a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people, as I see it, it'll get done. Not
Speaker 2: worried about it. If I'm a Cowboys fan, I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna get done. What may not in the future, though,
Speaker 2: is how long Mike ends up in Dallas, especially if
Speaker 2: David Mulaghetta, who I think is one of the better
Speaker 2: agents in the game, and that to me is what's
Speaker 2: gonna end up being something down the road.
Speaker 1: Do the Cowboys no longer drafted David Mulagetta client.
Speaker 2: I know we talked about that in Houston because everything
Speaker 2: I went down with the Shawn et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But this one is maybe getting to that point where
Speaker 2: the Cowboys like, we're not gonna take a move aget
Speaker 2: a client, were good, leave a good leave good player
Speaker 2: on the draft board for the rest of US teams
Speaker 2: that will because I know the Texas is dealt with
Speaker 2: davidget in the past. They made things happen, made things
Speaker 2: work with him. Maybe Cowboys notn't going to do that.
Speaker 2: So thank you Jerry and for many things, including twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen Hurricane Harvey. Okay, let's get to our conversation with
Speaker 2: our good pal in d klue. We caught up with
Speaker 2: him and talked about everything we saw in the preseason.
Speaker 1: We had a really fun time talking Andy.
Speaker 3: We have Eddie Kalou on the line.
Speaker 10: He did a great job in the preseason broadcast booth
Speaker 10: with Johnny Harris and Kevin Koogler and d We thought
Speaker 10: the story of the game was again running the football.
Speaker 10: The running backs we could talk about Mertz. I think
Speaker 10: that's a one a type story. But what did you
Speaker 10: make of what you saw Saturday preseason finale as we
Speaker 10: head for cutdown day tomorrow at three?
Speaker 6: You know, I saw a lot of guys competing, and
Speaker 6: like you said with Mertz, I saw a guy that
Speaker 6: if they decided to go with three quarterbacks, you have
Speaker 6: a young, developmental type guy.
Speaker 11: That you're gonna keep on the roster.
Speaker 6: But again, that's a luxury that too many teams don't
Speaker 6: get it to keep three quarterbacks. But I just really
Speaker 6: liked the way they finished the preseason. I like the
Speaker 6: aggressiveness of the play because you feel like that's just
Speaker 6: not the players out there, that's just the culture of
Speaker 6: that entire team. So it just felt good finishing the
Speaker 6: way they did.
Speaker 2: Andy, how tough is this weekend as both a player
Speaker 2: that could be cut and versus a player who's locking
Speaker 2: the roster, but it's seeing some of his boys get
Speaker 2: cut throughout this weekend? How tough is this as a
Speaker 2: player to kind of get through this before you can
Speaker 2: kind of get to the first week of practice for
Speaker 2: week one.
Speaker 6: It's funny you asked that John, I was talking to
Speaker 6: my son who's a Baylor. Now he's at that age
Speaker 6: where guys he's played with are on the bubble. They're
Speaker 6: trying to make teams. And I told him, man, these
Speaker 6: next few days are the worst and the best days,
Speaker 6: you know, these guys' lives, because some guys are gonna
Speaker 6: be told, hey, the dream is over, you know, and
Speaker 6: you're always gonna think to yourself, if I get cut,
Speaker 6: someone else will pick me up. I'll go to the UFL,
Speaker 6: get more film, and get back into the NFL. So
Speaker 6: you never have that that just hard end. You know,
Speaker 6: that herd stop. But for many guys that would be
Speaker 6: the last time that they play. But the cool thing
Speaker 6: on the positive side, you're gonna have some guys who
Speaker 6: weren't drafted, who were drafted sixth, seventh round and they
Speaker 6: end up making the team, and those are joyous stories.
Speaker 6: So such an emotional roller coaster when you look at
Speaker 6: the big picture of cutdown day.
Speaker 2: Okay, mark Im, I'll let you have a second. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wanna build on that. Talk about sixth round surprise,
Speaker 2: seventh round surprise. Nick Asio has made deals at different
Speaker 2: points throughout his career as GM, and they got a
Speaker 2: sixth round pick back or they have a pick swap
Speaker 2: of fifth and a six, those kind of things. To
Speaker 2: Indy's point, you never know when that pick swap is
Speaker 2: gonna end up being the player that comes here and
Speaker 2: stays for however long. I mean, Henry Toto is a
Speaker 2: fifth round pick. Jared Patterson was a sixth round pick.
Speaker 2: Those guys have started for this team. So when there's
Speaker 2: a deal made today even early tomorrow, that we hear
Speaker 2: about where Nick has traded a player from this roster
Speaker 2: and gotten a sick round pick for him, that's.
Speaker 1: Not something to scoff at.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a victory in some sense that somebody
Speaker 2: that probably would have been cut ends up being a
Speaker 2: player down the road. Hey man, this guy ends up
Speaker 2: being a player for us for the next four or
Speaker 2: five years or more that we end up getting on
Speaker 2: late on Day three because in training camp of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, this guy was a pretty good player and
Speaker 2: we got a trade out of it.
Speaker 9: You know what.
Speaker 6: I'm so glad you bring that up, John, because and
Speaker 6: I know you're gonna feel me on this, because you're
Speaker 6: like me when it comes to, you know, being a
Speaker 6: football nerd. That's why I never quite understand when people
Speaker 6: kind of turn their nose up during the draft when
Speaker 6: we get to the fourth, fifth, sixth round because if
Speaker 6: you look at a roster, I don't know the exact number,
Speaker 6: and I don't want to tell you anything false, but
Speaker 6: there's more guys on a roster from like fourth round
Speaker 6: and below. But you know there's a stat something like that,
Speaker 6: and those are the guys that you get value. If
Speaker 6: you look at the roster, you could point out four
Speaker 6: or five six guys that are either starters or contributors
Speaker 6: that were drafted after the fourth round. So no, if
Speaker 6: you could pick up those six round picks, I never
Speaker 6: quite understood the thought during the draft, Oh, just trade
Speaker 6: away that sixth round pick, it doesn't matter, or just
Speaker 6: waste it on a kicker, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: Like there's some gems, in my opinion, that you could
Speaker 6: find in the later rounds. And when it's all said
Speaker 6: and done, it's a numbers game.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 6: The more you bring in, some guys are going to
Speaker 6: fail that are higher picks. Other guys are going to succeed.
Speaker 6: So I'm all for getting as many picks as possible.
Speaker 10: Wow, it's interesting because like at a sales organization, you
Speaker 10: have the eighty twenty rule. Eighty percent of the stuff
Speaker 10: is sold by twenty percent of the staff, and those
Speaker 10: are your key salespeople and the rest of the staff.
Speaker 3: You're like, all right, you guys, do whatever you do.
Speaker 10: But on a sports team, especially an NFL team, those
Speaker 10: eighty percent who aren't making the money that the twenty
Speaker 10: percent are, because the twenty percent are going to make
Speaker 10: eighty percent of the money roughly, those eighty percent have
Speaker 10: to do great jobs for you. Otherwise you're not gonna
Speaker 10: win as a team. You're just gonna have this lopsided situation.
Speaker 10: And d I want to get give me two of
Speaker 10: your favorite defensive linemen not named Will Anderson or Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 10: because those guys are easy pickings.
Speaker 3: And I know you love Will Anderson.
Speaker 10: You have actually said, and I'm going to out you
Speaker 10: off the record that you want to adopt him. But
Speaker 10: we won't tell anybody but other than those guys who
Speaker 10: impressed you on this D line, because I'm looking at
Speaker 10: tough decisions there, especially if they want to keep and
Speaker 10: I think they do six linebackers. If they want to
Speaker 10: keep ten dbs, this gets really tough at the end
Speaker 10: of that D line.
Speaker 3: Group, so give me two or three of your favorite guys.
Speaker 6: Well, I like those inside guys. You know, Ceti, Cossi.
Speaker 6: We didn't get to see it. We did not get
Speaker 6: to see a lot of him during this preseason, but
Speaker 6: the eleven games he started last year you understood why
Speaker 6: he's been around in this league for as long as
Speaker 6: he has. And get another guy that was either drafted
Speaker 6: later or even undrafted, if I'm not mistaken, Tim Settle,
Speaker 6: Like I think Tim Settle's a dog. And when I
Speaker 6: say Doll, I mean in a good way, like that's
Speaker 6: one of those guys you just want to play with.
Speaker 6: Sheldon Rankins. I really like those three guys interiorly. So
Speaker 6: when you look at the Will Anderson's Daniel Hunter, they're
Speaker 6: gonna get all the press, as they absolutely should, but
Speaker 6: a lot of those sacks are they're getting is because
Speaker 6: they're beating the tackle around the edge, and those guys
Speaker 6: in the middle aren't given the quarterback any room to
Speaker 6: step up. So I just really think those those interior linemen,
Speaker 6: the feder Pascity, Tim Settle, Sheldon Rankins, those are guys
Speaker 6: that don't get their due. They're kind of like offensive
Speaker 6: linemen where they do the grunt work and the teammates
Speaker 6: they appreciate it, but they don't get the press clippings.
Speaker 2: And we were talking about earlier. Obviously Graham was really good.
Speaker 2: Graham Mertz at quarterback on Saturday. We saw three preseason
Speaker 2: games together. Keithon Slovas threw it pretty well. We know
Speaker 2: that CJ. Stroud is a starter for this team, and
Speaker 2: Davis Mills is definitely and he's throwing it well throughout
Speaker 2: all training camp. He's thrown it as well as I've
Speaker 2: seen him. How would you go about handling this quarterback
Speaker 2: situation going forward? With these four? You'd love to be
Speaker 2: able to keep four, but then you have to kind
Speaker 2: of get creative. Do you want Mertz exposed to Waivers
Speaker 2: Slovas out there? How do you go about this quarterback
Speaker 2: situation with three and four?
Speaker 1: Do you keep three? D you keep two? How would
Speaker 1: you do it? GM?
Speaker 3: And d Klue.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, because I feel like you're gonna have to carry
Speaker 6: an extra safety and an extra running back due to
Speaker 6: injuries to some guys that you just know you're not
Speaker 6: gonna cut, So I'm thinking you have to keep two quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: I love Davis Mills as your backup quarterback, and with
Speaker 6: Graham Mertz, you put them on practice squad and if
Speaker 6: somebody signs them to their active roster, you shake his
Speaker 6: hand and.
Speaker 11: Said, you know what you earned it, go make that money.
Speaker 6: But you know, with every scenario, the rainbow situation is, oh,
Speaker 6: let's keep this guy, let's keep that guy. But the
Speaker 6: reality you only have fifty three spots. You're gonna have
Speaker 6: to keep an extra running back and extra safety. So
Speaker 6: I don't think the Texans have that luxury in my
Speaker 6: opinion of keeping three quarterbacks. Now. Nick to Cereal gets
Speaker 6: paid a lot of money, has done an awesome job
Speaker 6: over the years, so he figures out a way to
Speaker 6: keep three quarterbacks.
Speaker 11: More power to him.
Speaker 6: But I think what Mertz did this past weekend, he
Speaker 6: just allowed everyone else to notice that, Hey, if you
Speaker 6: need a number two, check out this film.
Speaker 11: I might be that guy.
Speaker 10: We said, GM and D Kalud, not Mertz's agent. D Geez,
Speaker 10: what are you doing to me over here? I need
Speaker 10: Mertz on this football team now because and look, I
Speaker 10: know I'm going a little Mertz crazy this morning, but
Speaker 10: I liked what I saw and.
Speaker 3: Here's the moment.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, prisoner of the moment is a great way to
Speaker 10: put it, because ND I look at what Mertz did,
Speaker 10: and I'm looking around the league saying he's better than
Speaker 10: that backup.
Speaker 3: He's better than that backup.
Speaker 10: It's not just now, it's what he can do for
Speaker 10: you in the future, because they draft all these rookies
Speaker 10: and you want to catch lightning in a bottle somewhere.
Speaker 10: And I'm not saying he's the guy, but he looks
Speaker 10: pretty good to me. I think if you let him go,
Speaker 10: you expose him, somebody might take him. And by might,
Speaker 10: I mean will. I think that he's got a good
Speaker 10: chance to get scooped up by one of these teams
Speaker 10: that's not so thick at the quarterback position, certainly as
Speaker 10: a number three maybe.
Speaker 3: So I feel like I got to keep him on
Speaker 3: the roster.
Speaker 10: But you already shared how you felt about that, and
Speaker 10: I get it, and you mentioned this the running back position.
Speaker 6: I really like, and that's British Brooks, Like, that's the
Speaker 6: guy that I can just see him behind that starting
Speaker 6: offensive line. I can just see him playing with ones
Speaker 6: that having success if they open up holes. But isn't
Speaker 6: that the case every year? Going back to Jonathan Grimes.
Speaker 6: I remember. I don't know if y'all remember that name.
Speaker 11: Listen.
Speaker 6: I know y'all do, but I remember thinking, Johathan Grimes,
Speaker 6: oh man, this is gonna be the greatest story in
Speaker 6: the world. For some reason, it seems like the running
Speaker 6: back position is at one position where there's always going
Speaker 6: to be three or four guys that are let go
Speaker 6: that you can envision them playing and playing a lot
Speaker 6: for your squad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, British Brooks is when we've talked about, but we haven't,
Speaker 2: so I'll go to that realm. Yakub can play full back,
Speaker 2: and he's a true fullback. I don't know how much
Speaker 2: Yakub could play tight end because a lot of times
Speaker 2: you're thinking about what are we keep it at tight end?
Speaker 2: You bring in the full backs, you bring in the
Speaker 2: tail the tight ends. You kind of like British Brooks
Speaker 2: does tailback pretty well. I think he could play full back,
Speaker 2: and in fact, in one of the practices I remember
Speaker 2: seeing him at fullback. So it was kind of going
Speaker 2: back to that thought of, well, maybe he can be
Speaker 2: a fullback, and then you know, on special teams you
Speaker 2: could argue he was the best special teams player this
Speaker 2: team had he had a couple. He had a rock
Speaker 2: solid tackle against Minnesota. I'm with Indy, I just wish
Speaker 2: that's a guy that I could keep around in some way,
Speaker 2: shape or form, But my numbers get squeezed so much.
Speaker 2: To Indy's point, safety, you probably got to keep an
Speaker 2: extra one because you don't know the health the CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson and then.
Speaker 2: Running back is one you just you don't know how
Speaker 2: it's gonna play out. But when you're talking about guy
Speaker 2: forty eight, forty nine to fifty, they got to be
Speaker 2: able to do multiple things for you or be a
Speaker 2: specialist in a particular area, like maybe you're a pass
Speaker 2: rush specialist. I don't know, but that might be. You know,
Speaker 2: the thing for British Brooks, the one for me and
Speaker 2: d is linebacker, and that's the one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Man, he got his ease.
Speaker 2: He's gonna got a little minor thing, but I guess
Speaker 2: he's gonna be okay injury wise. You got Henry, you
Speaker 2: got Christian, you got e J. Speed, And I know
Speaker 2: you and I talked a lot about EJ. You pointed
Speaker 2: out the first game and that he was tremendous. How
Speaker 2: would you look at the linebacker situation with guys behind
Speaker 2: him like Jake Hanson, who is pretty good in preseason,
Speaker 2: You've got Jamal Hill, You've got Nick Neemon, and then
Speaker 2: you got the two rookies.
Speaker 1: I think linebacker gets pretty.
Speaker 2: Tough as well, especially because those guys can all be
Speaker 2: pretty good on special teams in d What are your thoughts.
Speaker 6: That's a very tough one and it just goes to
Speaker 6: show how many great players you know great in college
Speaker 6: don't make it in the NFL because we're naming some guys,
Speaker 6: whereas casey Oside, whether it's Jake Hanson Woodard who shown
Speaker 6: up on film during the preseason, but they're not gonna
Speaker 6: be able to keep them. I actually think John it's
Speaker 6: easier at the linebacker position than some of the others.
Speaker 6: And when I say easier, because they have so many
Speaker 6: good guys in depth, the biggest question is gonna be
Speaker 6: how are you gonna get ej Speed on the field.
Speaker 11: How are you.
Speaker 6: Gonna get Henry toatoa Christian Harris all those guys on
Speaker 6: the field together, or you're gonna have to do different
Speaker 6: packages to meet Jake Canson if healthy, you leave them
Speaker 6: all because of what he does with special teams and
Speaker 6: every time he plays, if somebody goes down, he always
Speaker 6: he's very solid. He's a solid player where you're not thinking, oh,
Speaker 6: you know, Jake Canson has to start because ex players down,
Speaker 6: so there's gonna be this big hole. So I think
Speaker 6: Jake Canson is a must than Casey Osi with what
Speaker 6: he does physically. If he could just learn, be in
Speaker 6: the system, be on practice squad, but being that playbook,
Speaker 6: and really fight for a spot next year, I think
Speaker 6: that would be the ideal situation.
Speaker 10: And Dy, what is this week like for players? I
Speaker 10: know it's different from when you played because the practice
Speaker 10: squad was a very different thing. It was ten people.
Speaker 10: I think the number changed while you were playing throughout
Speaker 10: your twelve year career. You were in the league for
Speaker 10: a long time. But anyway, it's different now with the
Speaker 10: sixteen player practice squad. There are more job opportunities than ever,
Speaker 10: in opportunities to get elevated to the active roster than ever.
Speaker 10: But what is it like when teammates of yours might
Speaker 10: be getting cut, when you might be getting cut?
Speaker 3: What is this week like for players?
Speaker 6: It's tough, I mean, and again and you mentioned that
Speaker 6: it just depends where you are in your career. So
Speaker 6: in my twelve years, the first three years, I'm sitting
Speaker 6: right now looking at my phone praying that I don't
Speaker 6: get that call. You know, you're praying that your phone
Speaker 6: doesn't rain because this is cut down day. And then
Speaker 6: you're kind of anxious. You get excited as it gets
Speaker 6: closer to Tuesday at three o'clock. But then if you're
Speaker 6: a guy that you know you're going to make the team,
Speaker 6: you're feeling bad and you're looking at the waiver wire.
Speaker 6: You're kind of getting online seeing which one of your
Speaker 6: boys got cut. And then when it's and you know,
Speaker 6: you're like, you have a feel. I hate to admit it.
Speaker 6: There were times, and look this is coming from a
Speaker 6: guy who was cut his second year, but there are
Speaker 6: times when I wasn't gonna get cut. Where me and
Speaker 6: the guy right next to my locker, Derek Burgens, we
Speaker 6: were trying to determine, Okay, who's gonna be the fifty
Speaker 6: three man roster, and we're putting a list together and
Speaker 6: a guy walks by us and we're like, nah, he's cut.
Speaker 6: They were, you know, trying to play GM but but
Speaker 6: then when it happens, we feel bad like like we
Speaker 6: feel bad because it's like we know the work that
Speaker 6: they put in. So for a guy like the guys.
Speaker 11: We've mentioned the British book Brooks, excuse.
Speaker 6: Me, the Jay Kanses, they're they're they're thinking to themselves, Hey,
Speaker 6: I did all I could and I can't control certain things,
Speaker 6: so now it's in God's hands. It's not in my
Speaker 6: hands anymore. But when you don't get that call after
Speaker 6: the deadline man mark, it is such a great feeling,
Speaker 6: like you just feel this relief, You feel the weight
Speaker 6: that's been lifted off your shoulder. And but what sucks
Speaker 6: then is the fifty one, fifty two to fifty three.
Speaker 6: You're never really comfortable, like you're never you're never really comfortable,
Speaker 6: so you're always looking over your shoulder. You know that
Speaker 6: every Tuesday, every NFL team's bringing in about twenty guys
Speaker 6: to work them out as they try to improve.
Speaker 11: So just depend on where you are in your roster.
Speaker 6: But for the guys that end up making it that
Speaker 6: we're on the bubble, it's a beautiful, beautiful feeling.
Speaker 2: All right, We get back a little bit of news
Speaker 2: around the NFL ready here in Texas, All Access scene
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: What's up everybody.
Speaker 2: We got one final segment here on a Monday, the
Speaker 2: issue of Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio.
Speaker 2: I am your host, John Harris, So glad a to
Speaker 2: be back from Detroit, b to be your host. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you being with us. We got plenty of stuff going
Speaker 2: on in Texans world this weekend, in particular the fifty
Speaker 2: three man roster cut down. Now, as Nick Cassario outlined,
Speaker 2: as Zmiko Ryans reiterated, probably won't know what the fifty
Speaker 2: three man roster is in full until tomorrow at three.
Speaker 2: The Texans have been fairly consistent with doing everything possible
Speaker 2: to make trades, to make moves, and then taking it
Speaker 2: all the way to the three pm deadline. So I
Speaker 2: think that's when we'll find out everything. There will be
Speaker 2: drips and drabs tomorrow that come out. Somebody's saying, go
Speaker 2: by to Houston, hate the Houston, thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 2: You may see a few other things as well, So
Speaker 2: just keeping all of that in mind as you go
Speaker 2: through the rest of tonight, that might be something that
Speaker 2: pops out. The news of today in our Texans world
Speaker 2: is the fact that Joe Mixon will be moved from
Speaker 2: the active NFI to reserve NFI. And what that means is,
Speaker 2: in other words, because there's so many NFI pup in
Speaker 2: c'son pup IR designated return, it gets kind of confusing.
Speaker 2: Basically moving Joe from the list he was on to
Speaker 2: this new list that they're gonna move him to, it
Speaker 2: means he's out the first four games. In those games,
Speaker 2: the Texans are at LA to take on the Rams,
Speaker 2: they're at home taking a Bucks, they're on the road
Speaker 2: to take on Jacksonville, and then they're at home to
Speaker 2: take on Tennessee. He's eligible to start practicing heading into
Speaker 2: the week against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Then there's the buye.
Speaker 2: So the question becomes, well, they want to just give
Speaker 2: him another couple of weeks to make sure he's a
Speaker 2: hundred percent ready to start basically the second half of
Speaker 2: the year in Seattle Monday night, so you get an
Speaker 2: extra week in a day.
Speaker 1: If that's the case. Joeby chomping at the bit. Joe
Speaker 1: wants to play.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 1: I know Joe and I know how he reacts, and
Speaker 1: he wants to play. Now. This is killing him. That said, I.
Speaker 2: Think the Texas running backs are going to be quite okay.
Speaker 2: Some other news around the league. Trey Hendrickson getting a
Speaker 2: deal done. He's getting more money this year, still will
Speaker 2: be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Terry mclaarin signed his deal with the Washington Command. There's
Speaker 2: three years, ninety six million dollars, so I was glad
Speaker 2: for that. I like Terry McLaurin. He's one of my
Speaker 2: non favorite Texans. Sotory with non Texans. Yeah, he's one
Speaker 2: of my favorite non Texans in the league.
Speaker 1: I like him.
Speaker 2: I loved him at the Senior Bowl. I just thought
Speaker 2: he was a player of the Texans would highlight didn't
Speaker 2: get their hands on him, but it happens. Jacoby Myers
Speaker 2: wide receiver, requests the trade from Las Vegas Raiders. Kind
Speaker 2: of like the Texans are pretty good shape receiver wise,
Speaker 2: so I don't think they'll get in that mix whatsoever.
Speaker 2: But Jacoby Myers wants out of Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They were trying to get a deal done or he
Speaker 2: wanted to, guess the Raiders didn't want to, so they
Speaker 2: are at an impasse at this point and he wants
Speaker 2: to move on.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it. For today's news, tomorrow's news.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, get ready because there's gonna be a fifty
Speaker 2: three man roster.
Speaker 1: Mark and I will talk about it.
Speaker 2: I'll take your calls tomorrow night, so make sure you
Speaker 2: are locked and loaded tomorrow night for Texans All Access. Well,
Speaker 2: seeing that everybody dot int as always go Texans