1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Well, welcoming everybody to a Friday edition the Texans All Access. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: I love saying the word Friday. Yes, I love saying 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: that I'm your host, John Harris, football, anost and silent 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: reporter for your Houston Texans. We got plenty for you 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: on the show. But we will start the show. I 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't say, as we always do, but when I'm hosting, 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: I love to have the voice of the Texans and 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: of course my boss Mark Vandomyre on the show. Mark, 9 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: are you doing, Johnny? I'm doing great, looking forward to 10 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: a big weekend. Anybody who's working, We've got you entertained 11 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: with this podcasts everything. I'm Houston Texans dot Com, video 12 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: Wise and Texans three sixties Saturday night at eleven o'clock 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: on ABC thirteen. Did I promo enough stuff? I'm gonna 14 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: give a few shameless plugs. Okay. One the last vandoms 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: view that we did was Stories from the Booth, right, 16 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if you've done another one 17 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: since I have another one? Oh go ahead? That was 18 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: that would like this next one, by the way, which 19 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: I think is up right now it is. Are you ready? Yeah? Okay? 20 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: If Joe's Ahakyon is the voice of the Boy Hurricanes. Yeah, 21 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: we go bol thirty for thirty on Canes who have 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: played in the NFL, some of the Texas of course, 23 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: one very notable one the history of such and you know, 24 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: people always ask me my Andre Johnson stories from the 25 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: University of Miami. He's got great stuff Joe does that 26 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: I forgot about or didn't know in the first place. 27 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: And it's good what the guys used to call him 28 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 1: when he first came out. I mean, it's just you 29 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: gotta listen. It's up Vandermeer's view on iTunes and on 30 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: Houston Texas dot com. Well for those that for those 31 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, we went to SEC media days, this 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: was maybe four years ago, and didn't know Joe at all, 33 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: had no I had no idea about Joe. We're at 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 1: SEC media days, but the as Orange Bowl representatives, Joe 35 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: was there and somebody else was there as well, and 36 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: we sat down at the table and I was wearing 37 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: Texans gear and he goes, hey, you know Mark vandermir 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: We all chuckled because all of us obviously knew Mark 39 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: Vanni were like, hey, yeah, we know Mark, and he 40 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: goes my name is Joe Sighaki and I was like okay, 41 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: and he goes, I used to do games with Mark 42 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,919 Speaker 1: at Miami. Now he had my attention to, like whoa, 43 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: and so kind of moved my chair a little bit 44 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: closer and he was like, yeah, you know now I'm 45 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: the play by play guy followed Mark have been there forever. 46 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 1: So that we told you that we met Joe and 47 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: you about foll out of your chair. You're like, that's awesome. 48 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: But it was at SEC Media Days. It was kind 49 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: of weird, but it was really neat to have that connection. 50 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: So Vannermsview has that I will listen to that on 51 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: my way to Austin today, so that will be something 52 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 1: that I will do later this evening on my way 53 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: in the lab this week, Drew and I. You can 54 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: go check that out on Tuesday. And also Deep Slant 55 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: Interview or Deep Slant Podcast Dpcity who had Sean Pendergast 56 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: on the Threat on Sports Radio six ten, and of 57 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: course he tells all the stories of Sean and I 58 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: doing a show together many many eons ago when we 59 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: both got our start in radio at another radio station. 60 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: It's very fun enough. Sean is doing very well the 61 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: Triple Threat and on national radio on CBS Sports Radio. Now, 62 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: mark you on your Vandermeer's view the written Wait a second, 63 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: that just hit me. You have Vandomer's view the written version, 64 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: but then you got Vandermer's view the podcast. It's always 65 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: a brand, it is. But you talked about the you 66 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: talked about the division. Now we talked about the division 67 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: just looking at the division as a whole, and I've 68 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: said a few times with the AFC South that a 69 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: it's as good as it's been in a long time. 70 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: If ever, it could be the best division in football 71 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. And I still am on that train. 72 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: And see, depending on whether Andrew Luck comes back or not, 73 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: that could really tell you. Especially we've talked about the 74 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: top three teams. Sometimes the cults were like, well, we 75 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen, but if Luck comes 76 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: back to me, there's no question it is the best division. 77 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: Now that's said. Your article today talked about is this 78 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: the strongest division has been Texans Tom's been in two 79 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: thousand and two. It's probably a contender, Johnny, but there's 80 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: no way you can call it the strongest division in football. Well, 81 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: or the strongest the AFC South has ever been. Because 82 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven and I'm just looking at something 83 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: right here. Two thousand and seven the AFC South was unbelievable. 84 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: And two thousand and seven, now in the I'm that 85 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: was my first year here in Houston, so I'm trying 86 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: to think of the division at that point. Two thousand 87 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: and seven. So in Jacksonville, you had David Garrard, right, 88 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: and the Jags ended up going to the playoffs. And 89 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: what did they do in the playoffs? Pittsburgh? They beat 90 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh sounds familiar, does Yeah? You had Tennessee 91 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: rob Ronis just kicking eight million fuels the game rip, 92 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: and then you had the what did Tennessee do that year? 93 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: So I'm trying to remember what Tennessee today. Tennessee went 94 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: to the postseason in two thousand and seven with Vince Young, 95 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: they went ten and six. Tennessee did and the Colts 96 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: of course had Peyton manning at that point, and they 97 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: went thirteen and three, tied to their second best ever 98 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: regular season record. And the last place team in the 99 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: AFC South was your Houston Texans at eight and eight. Okay, Now, 100 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: Needa remind you that a couple of years ago, eight 101 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: and eight flirts with winning the division. Then it was 102 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: the last place record in the division. That was the 103 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: first time the Texans ever finished eight in eight. So 104 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: twenty and seventy had the Colts thirteen and three, Jaguars 105 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: eleven and five, Titans ten and six, Texans eight and eight. 106 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: Nobody had a losing record and the winning team. It 107 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: wasn't like there were nine and seven and everybody bunched in. 108 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: The Colts were thirteen and three. The only division that 109 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: you could say could have been stronger or just as 110 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: strong was the NFC East, with the Cowboys having a 111 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: big year at thirteen and three, then the Giants ten 112 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: and six and they won the Super Bowl that year. 113 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: The Redskins at nine and seven and the Eagles at 114 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: eight and eight. So they and the AFC South the 115 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: only divisions with all the team teams having five hundred 116 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: or better records? Is that? And I know we haven't 117 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: done the history, but I don't know. Maybe I'm asking 118 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: this rhetorically in some sense, but is that the last 119 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: time that everybody was five hundred or better in the division? 120 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: In the AFC South, Yeah, I mean it's all's gotta 121 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: be because there were years where either Jacksonville and Tennessee 122 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: we're awful, We're we're bad, And of course the Texans 123 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: have had a couple of hiccups in twenty thirteen in 124 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: this past year, but to have everybody eight and eight surprised? 125 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: How about this? Three playoff teams? Yeah you have. That's 126 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: the only time in the history of this division that 127 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: you had two wild cards coming out of the division 128 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: scale one to ten. Yeah, how surprised would you be 129 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: for those two things to happen? Three teams to the 130 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: AFC South get in and all four teams go eight 131 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: and eight or go five hundred or better in division 132 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: this year. I think that the first thing is more 133 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: likely than the second thing. That I'm not saying it 134 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: is likely, but it's more likely to have three playoff 135 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: teams because I still don't think the Colts can go 136 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: five hundred. I'm still if you're on Andrew Bluck, I 137 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: think the texts Texans are capable of a big bounce 138 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: back and getting into the playoffs. I think the way 139 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: Tennessee and Jacksonville are, you could have all three teams 140 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: in based on what they did last year you hope 141 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,679 Speaker 1: for if you're them in incredential improvement at the very least, 142 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: and maybe everybody gets in except for the Colts. Now, 143 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: could the Colts bounce back to a plus five hundred record. 144 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: I think that that's unlikely, But you know, injuries, and 145 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: let's say Andrew Luck is suddenly fully healthy, you never 146 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: know what can happen. Everybody's beating each other up, everyone's 147 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: around eight and eight, and then they creep above everybody else, 148 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: kind of like the way it was a couple of 149 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: years ago before everybody gets super strong. I don't know. 150 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: I doubt that happens, but anything's possible. Another really strong 151 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: year was the next year when you had Tennessee at 152 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: thirteen and three, in the Colts at twelve and four, 153 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: and the Texans finished eight and eight again, but the 154 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: Jags fell off the face of the earth at five 155 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: and eleven. That was a big year as well. I mean, 156 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: it's funny to watch the history of this thing. You 157 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: had one year in twenty twelve when the Texans went 158 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: to eleven four and the Coults were actually eleven and five, 159 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: and Andrew lux rookie year eleven and five and a 160 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: wildcard team. So you've had some strong years in this division, 161 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: but to say that this is going to be the strongest, 162 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: it's a hard stretch because I doubt everybody finishes at 163 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: least five hundred, and you have a team going thirteen 164 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: and three, I think that's almost unlikely as well to 165 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: have somebody run away with a thirteen and three type record. 166 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is fully and completely healthy for the Colts, 167 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: more likely to happen sixteen and zero or oh and 168 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: sixteen for the Cults. Yeah, fully healthy, Andrew Luck is 169 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: fully healthy. It's plays all sixty more likely than to 170 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: happen would be sixteen and oh. I it's fully healthy, 171 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: but it's not going to happen. Like if you had 172 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: odds on either one of those happening and you had 173 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: to pick one of the other sistuff. But just thinking 174 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: about eight and eight, like where the Colts would be 175 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: if he's, if he's, and I mean that to me 176 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: is the biggest that's the wild that's the wild card 177 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: in this division. Because I could completely see a team 178 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: going thirteen and three. I could see eleven and five, 179 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: I could see ten and six. I could see that 180 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: happening because and we've talked about this. Yes, this division 181 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 1: matches up with the AFC East and the NFC East, 182 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: and when you look at those divisions and the Patriots, 183 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: and okay, say the Patriots go four and now against 184 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: AFC South, I don't think that'll happen. But let's say 185 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: I don't know that the Dolphins, Jets, or Bills end 186 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 1: up knocking off anybody else in AC South except for 187 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: the Colts. I think the Colts are the team that 188 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: they can end up being. I think the Titans, Texans, 189 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: and Jaguars are clearly better than those three teams by 190 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: a long stretch. In the NFC East, you don't know 191 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: what you have with the Cowboys. The Cowboys they've gone, 192 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: so they're they're kind of the I don't know how 193 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: to say it, but they're the huge, swinging NFC East, 194 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: like twenty sixty and they're fantastic. Last year they're eight 195 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: and eight or whatever it was. They just kind of 196 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: ride the way they've been. Years they have been five 197 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: and eleven. There have been years they're thirteen and three. 198 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: I just don't know what really the trust And obviously 199 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: you got the defending champs in there, but red Skins 200 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: on paper, I don't. I don't. The Redskins don't scare 201 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: me whatsoever. And the Giants that to me, he's gonna 202 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: I think the Giants bounce back. I'm gonna I think 203 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: the Giants bounce back. I'm gonna dim the party lights 204 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: a little bit here. Actually, that would be making the 205 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: party better. I'm gonna turn on the floodlights party here 206 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: about the Cowboys, because they did go nine and seven 207 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: last year in a bad year, and I quote bad year. 208 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: This is was suspended for six games. This is a 209 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: team that has some capability of bouncing back. And I 210 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: would say that that division is a little wolf in 211 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: sheep's clothing light heading into twenty eighteen here, because the 212 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: Eagles just won the Super Bowl. Let's see if they 213 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: have a you know, come back to earth. But all right, 214 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: let's say they win three fewer games, they're ten and six. 215 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: They're still a tough team to beat. You have them 216 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: second the last week of the season, it's gonna be 217 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: tough up there. Redskins went seven and nine, so as 218 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: horrible as they are, they went seven and nine, and 219 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: that means you can beat anybody. And they have Alex 220 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: Smith coming in. I don't know what that's gonna mean 221 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: for them, but we'll find out. And the Giants three 222 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: at thirteen last year, I think that's the team that 223 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: bounces back. Though they're gonna bounce back. I think mary 224 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior ends up being healthy. They had an 225 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: eight solder at tackle. The offensive line is gonna be better. 226 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: I mean, who knows what Chad with Eli, But I 227 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: think that defense could could bounce back. I mean, Olivia 228 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: Vernon's still there, Snacks Harrison is there, but they don't 229 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: have Jason Pierre Paul. So do they have a great 230 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: pass rush? Yeah, I just think they're gonna outscore people. 231 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: But I'm much rather be matched up with the NFC 232 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: East this year than with the NFC South, which will 233 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: be twenty nineteen. I would much rather face off with 234 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: NFC East and the NFC South. I mean, first of all, 235 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: you get Dallas here. I mean, that game, no matter 236 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: what it is, gonna be an entire week leading up 237 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: to that one is gonna be like a like a 238 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: bowl game, plus plus atmosphere here, which is gonna be fantastic. 239 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: But I just I'm not buying the Redskins. I think 240 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: the Giants will be better. How much better. They've lost 241 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: a ton of talent over the last couple of years. 242 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: I think the Eagles come back to the pack a 243 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: little bit. And I've said along I think that week's exteen. 244 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 1: Nobody really agrees with me on this. I just think 245 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: Week sixteen is not gonna matter for one of these teams, 246 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: for one of them, and I don't know, I don't 247 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: maybe both, but I just don't think it's gonna matter 248 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: because they're gonna be Things are gonna be sealed up 249 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: from one of them at that point. I don't know. 250 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: I do think the Cowboys will be better. But who 251 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: the Cowboys throwing too? Who? Who the Cowboys throwing to? 252 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: Their best option? Apparently is Alan Hearns. There's no Witten, 253 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: there's no Hey, let's lean on Witten with why option anymore? 254 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: Who you're throwing them all tough, there's no des Bryant. 255 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: You're gonna run Ezekiel. I've had the best line in 256 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: football and I and I went too. But they can 257 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: bludge in you that way. It's almost more of a 258 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: Jacksonville sort of vibe. But two years ago was a 259 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: great chance for them that they blew. When Aaron Rodgers, 260 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: it's hard to say they blew it. When Aaron Rodgers 261 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: makes super human plays the way he did, what are 262 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: you gonna do? But defensively, other than DeMarcus Lawrence, you 263 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 1: look at defense and go they scare you. I mean 264 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: Sean Lee and Jaylen Smith. I think we'll play pretty well, 265 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: but you don't know Sean Lee's gonna be healthy. Okay, 266 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: I'm giving the party lights again. The party's back, parties, 267 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: parties back. I convinced you the NFC East. That's why 268 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 1: I say the South. I mean, look, I'm not convinced 269 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: that Jacksonville completely repeats everything that they did last year. Yeah, 270 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: I do think that Jacksonville played its best football in 271 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is what you want ont of the team. 272 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: I think that's when they played. Think about it. When 273 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: we went Monday Night football one week after beating the Cardinals, 274 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 1: we were up in Baltimore. We were sitting at a 275 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: sports bar in that hotel that we were in watching 276 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: the Cardinals, who we just beat, beat the Jaguars twenty 277 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: seven twenty four. But the Jaguars got in the playoffs 278 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: and I think played their best ball right there at 279 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: the end of the Visional playoff round. So but that 280 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: shows you right there. I mean, it's it's obvious to 281 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: say anybody can beat anybody. But that's why a team 282 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, all right, maybe record wise, you're right, 283 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 1: but they're gonna give you a hell of a game, 284 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: especially here, especially they can run the football that one 285 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 1: Giants Week three, it's like, oh, you just got through 286 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: this brutal two game stretch, win or lose, whatever you 287 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: did on it. You were on the road twice to 288 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: start the season. And now you have the New York 289 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: Giants here at NRG Stadium, like we talked about when 290 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: we were doing the road schedule the other day. That 291 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: is hardly a cupcake, get well type game. I don't 292 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: care what last year's record was, and early on, even 293 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: if you're owen, two oh and two doesn't mean anything. 294 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: You know, record doesn't mean anything. Early it's like, how 295 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: good really are you? Yea? Although two enough with the 296 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: Texans would mean something at that point, I'll say that 297 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: right now, I'll take it, and I'll like it very much, 298 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: thank you. Oh going oh and tune. Then having to 299 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: face Saquon Barkley and Odell Beckham juniors, that's not going 300 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: to make for a very comfortable Sunday, that third Sunday. 301 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: That's the thing. So you know, we'll just we'll hope 302 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: for the very best right there. But I can't wait. 303 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: It's all gonna start soon enough. Mark, appreciate, Thank you 304 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: very much. Thanks Johnny coming up and next, Drew door 305 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: you will join me and talk about well the best 306 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: thing he found in his office. So I'll explain next 307 00:14:44,160 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: right here in Texas Axis, Welcome back to Texans All 308 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: Access on this Friday evening from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. 309 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, had Mark Vandimir on the show. 310 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: We're talking about the AFC South and the Strength, THENFC 311 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: South and now I bring on my good friend my 312 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: in the lab, Podna True Doherty. Drew, what's up, what's 313 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: going on? How are you doing? Oh I'm good, I'm good. 314 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: It's the weekend and packed up my office today. Well 315 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: that's why I wanted you in here. Yeah, because for look, 316 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: there's been a lot of there's been a lot of 317 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: movement around here. We've been talking about this new sports 318 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: performance team nutritionist Luke Ladd. There's no lock going on. 319 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: There's a ton of construction going on in this building 320 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: right outside these doors, right right outside these doors, locker rooms, 321 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: training room, meeting rooms, I mean you name it, including 322 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: upstairs where our offices are. We are moving not two 323 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: different location, but just a different location in our own building. Yeah, 324 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: where there's some configuration going on. We're moving down the 325 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: hall basically. So that means that we had to go 326 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: through all of our offices. And I went through my 327 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: office and I have a half office. I share it 328 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: with Jesse Clark, our social media grew who is in Madrid, Spain, 329 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: And so we've been going through the offices and pack 330 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: it up. And I had like I had two boxes, 331 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: like I had one legit boxes filled with stuff and 332 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: then I had so I cleaned my office out in 333 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: a big way. Now you have been in that office 334 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: for longer than I've been in mind, and you got 335 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: a full office. It's a palatial office. It is when 336 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: you at some point you emailed the group on something 337 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: and you oh, by the way, there's a prize for 338 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: the person with the best find in your office, and 339 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: you're like everybody's playing for second place. Yeah. Van Muir said, hey, 340 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: there's a prize, and then I immediately responded with all 341 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: you chump are playing for second place because I got 342 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: the locked up emphasis on chumps. Yeah, and we were 343 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: the chumps. Yeah. So what would do I knew I 344 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: had like just a treasure trove of weird stuff that 345 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: I didn't I knew what I didn't know, and what 346 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: I didn't know I knew would be weird. The I 347 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: would imagine all people start cleaning out their offices, They're 348 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: gonna end up finding some weird stuff, like, oh my god, 349 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: I've got like gummy bears from like, you know, two 350 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 1: thousand and nine in here. I had oatmeal from two 351 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: thousand and probably eleven in their oat bill packs. Pretty good. 352 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: It was pretty good. What was that one item that 353 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: you found? One? Come on, John, I had dozen, had dozens. 354 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: I tweeted about this earlier today and took photos of 355 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: some of the just weirder things I had. Probably had 356 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: a Santa Claus hat. I had a Elf hat that 357 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: you know, Dwight from the office war at about three 358 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 1: or four baseball caps I've never taken the tags off of. 359 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: Had a Super Bowl Beanie, had a Diadealos Mortos plastic hat. 360 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: Had two luch door wrestling you had a what's November? 361 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: First day of the dead. Yeah, it's like this party hat. 362 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: So I had that. I don't know where I got this. 363 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: It was like a stand up cardboard cutout of the 364 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: villain in the parts of the Caribbean movies. I was 365 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: behind my TV for some reason. I had one of those. 366 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I had um the qute cards for 367 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: the rookie hazing episode on the Nose with Sean Cody 368 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: that Cody was talking about he said, Hello Texans fans. 369 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: It seems like every year you hear about it. Under 370 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: a widespread practice throughout This is all written on orange 371 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: poster board. Had a name plate for Brooks. Read, another 372 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: name plate for Philip Supernol. Wait, hold on, another name 373 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: plate for Brian Pittman, So, hold on, hold wait Brian Pittman. Yeah, Brian, 374 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: he was he was a lunch Yeah. Yeah. How did 375 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: you come up with those? I don't know, but I'm 376 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: I'm I had a good relationship with Brooks and with Supernol. Yeah, 377 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: and I guess I don't know what happened. I somehow 378 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: came up with those so so name plates. If you 379 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: want a name plates, the things that get in the 380 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: locker room. Right, there's a little slot. Now the Texas 381 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: locker room. Now there's just it's just their number. It's 382 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: not their name, it's just their number. But over their 383 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: locker there would be like a slot and you slide, 384 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: you know, a name plate in and it shows obviously 385 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 1: who's playing in those And that was always a big 386 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: I've still got I don't know. My parents packed up 387 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: my room when they left the house, but I had 388 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: mine on my bedroom door. It was my number in 389 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: my name. I got mine from high school. Yeah, we 390 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: took all our names. We never had one in high 391 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: school because we just were that way. I guess it 392 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: was pretty revolutionary when I got mine in ninety four. 393 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: She also went to a high flood private school too, 394 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: so that's a little different. There was a vote. I 395 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: found a vote for Jacoby pin hold On. Vote for 396 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: Jacoby Yeah, like Jacoby Jones from two thousand and nine. 397 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,479 Speaker 1: What for the Pro Bowl? The Pro Bowl didn't make 398 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: it that year. We did it official yearbook in two 399 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: thousand and one. Evidently, now this is way before I 400 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: got here, But I found that an official yearbook from 401 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: two thousand and one. Yeah, who was on the cover. 402 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: It was just two thirty two jerseys. How can we 403 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: have a how can we have a yearbook, because you 404 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: remember that the organization was founded before that, and so 405 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: they had they had hired the coach at that point. 406 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: I hired Dom Capers and Charlie Castley, so they had 407 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,239 Speaker 1: info on them and mister McNair stuff about him, and 408 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: it was it was chugging along and plans for the stadium. 409 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind reading that. Yeah, it was. 410 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. That would be kind of cool. 411 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: That's the one thing that's the void in my Texans life, 412 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: if you will, is oh two even before that, from 413 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: two thousand to two thousand and sevens. I moved back 414 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven so we can start the 415 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: radio station. I'm along the same lines as Hugh John. 416 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I was in Texas, but it was I was. 417 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: I was not I was in Dallas and yeah, and 418 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: so I kind of saw that from AFAR. I also 419 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: had a voice mail log book, and it's it's like 420 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: you write down messages. Somebody calls and they say, hey, 421 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 1: can you tell John to call me back? You write 422 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: down you know your name? Oh like those little pink yeah, yeah, yeah, 423 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: the pink slips. Those at a we used to do. 424 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 1: We should record conversations and podcasts. Sometimes I do a 425 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: phone interview. I just would. I had basically a phone tap, 426 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: like a tap of phone, so I found that old 427 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: phone tap. I had four different voice recorders, you know, 428 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: like little handhelds, old school, old school. So everybody's doing 429 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: on phones now, Yeah, you know what, that's the thing 430 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: when you walk into a media scrum session if you will, 431 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: can't I don't think I can say the name they're 432 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: actually called in the media world. But in the locker room, 433 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: you see whenever you see videos of players in the 434 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: locker room, you know, that's a little what we call 435 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: media scrum, and you'll see there's basicallydy circle of media 436 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: around a player, right, and of course they just inch 437 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: closer and closer and closer, which makes some guys, I know, 438 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: it makes Coach O'Brien he hates that. But anyways, there's 439 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: some players that do that as well. But anyhow, invariably 440 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: you'll see somebody with a hand with the phone. If 441 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: you see somebody walking in there with age old recorder, 442 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: with just the old school recorder like those that you have, 443 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: you're like, okay, that that that guy's truly old school. 444 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: Because you can do it on the phone so easily. Now, 445 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: I mean I do that's pretty much the same, if 446 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 1: not better, exactly exactly, And so you see everybody doing 447 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: on the phone. Now you don't need that recorder. But 448 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: that was one of the first purchases I had when 449 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: I got into the business, was getting one of those 450 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: recorders to figure out be in the locker room, getting 451 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: some sound like I got to do that. And then 452 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: of course phones, just what is it you can't do 453 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: with with a particular phone? So what was the item 454 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: that you found that you knew was going to be 455 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: number one? You would beat everybody. I mean, I think 456 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: that stand up cutout thing was pretty weird. It's pretty weird. 457 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: I don't know why or what that was there for. 458 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: That was odd. I founda plan to do that keeping 459 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: it well, I've I've repositioned it somewhere else. Somebody's gonna 460 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: find that and be surprised by in their office. Is 461 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: it gonna end up in my office? So no, it 462 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: doesn't involve anybody in our group. It's somebody else. But 463 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: they'll be very pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised when they see it. 464 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: I saw it, you know, what when I was in Lubbock. 465 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: That was where I was there from five for nine 466 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: before I got here in oh eight, the Texas Tech 467 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: Media Relationship Department came up with a great campaign because 468 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: they had Graham Harrold and then Michael Crabtree had the button. 469 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: They had two of the Yeah it was it was 470 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: Pastor Catch two thousand and eight. You know, it coincided 471 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: with the presidential election, but they were trying to get 472 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: those guys to New York for the Heisman, and I 473 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: still contend Crabtree should have won that Heisman over the 474 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: four quarterbacks. Well Pays pretty much put up the same numbers. 475 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: Sam Bradford wound up putting it. Anyways, Crabtree was better 476 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: than them. Anyways, they had a Pastor Catch campaign. I 477 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: found a that notebook from that campaign and I tweeted 478 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: that outside. I used to have that fun. One of 479 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: my favorite things I was. I used to be a 480 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: member and I probably still should be of the Football 481 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: Writers Association of America covered college football, and I used 482 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: to be a member of all that stuff an stuff. 483 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: Here's the best thing that I ever got. I don't 484 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: know if you'll remember this. This is this is dating myself. 485 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: There was this thing called a viewfinder. Oh yeah, you 486 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: remember if you finder and you do the little little 487 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 1: little button on the side. My mom has them at 488 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: her house and my kids play with it. Now do 489 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: that and you would turn it up to the light. 490 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: That's the way you could see it best, and you 491 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,199 Speaker 1: just kind of take your finger and you would slide 492 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: this little lever down and it would move the little 493 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: disc and then you could see something. It looks sort 494 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,239 Speaker 1: of three dsh and all that kind of stuff. In 495 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, though, two thousand and seven, Missouri 496 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,959 Speaker 1: put one out on Chase Daniel cool and I was like, 497 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,199 Speaker 1: this is the It had missoo on the thing, and 498 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: it had the disc inside that was of Chase Daniel 499 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: and it was just all these fun and it was 500 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: like goofy stuff is like Chase Daniel was on Game 501 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: Day last year or did a postgame interview with these people. 502 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: It was really kind of weird. While I was cleaning 503 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 1: out my office at home, and I had to decide, like, 504 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: I'm moving to a little bit smaller space so I 505 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: couldn't keep all my that's really tossed it. Oh man, 506 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: I know. I felt bad about it because I kept 507 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: it for all these years, but I but I tossed it. 508 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: But I would have stacks of those notebooks, stacks. Would 509 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: you get videos? Stacks Uh I got? I got No, 510 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: I didn't get videos. I got uh, I got RG 511 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: three football cards I had. Um let's see chase the 512 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: chase Daniel, you find her thing which was the crab 513 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: crabtree Haro. I got the button, I got the notebook. 514 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: I loved it and I used to have I still 515 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: have some of those notebooks. You know, you and I 516 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: have talked about Eric Metcalf from time time he was 517 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: he was playing college ball when you were still in 518 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: high school. So you wouldn't have gotten this promo material. 519 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 1: And I don't know that they necessarily set this out, 520 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: but somebody at the University of Texas made his Heisman 521 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: campaign video and I think it was before the season started, 522 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: and so they've got all these awesome videos of him, 523 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 1: like cuts of him scoring. But they scored, and they 524 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: had Ron Franklin voicing it, which was big. Ron Franklin 525 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: was he was the guy. But then they wrecked it, 526 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: I mean absolutely wrecked it by playing Alabama's not the 527 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: not the state, but the group the bands a good band. 528 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: I mean great, they pumped out hits, but they played 529 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: You've Got the Touch, which is a real slow love song, 530 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: and yeah, I did not get it. Google that Eric 531 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: Metcalf Highlights. Well by that time, by two thousand and seven, 532 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 1: everything was online. You could just hey, they would send 533 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: you a they would send you a you know, a 534 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: card and they would say, uh, you know here you 535 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: go go check out uh, you know, Bradford for Heisman 536 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: dot com. And then there would be a website and 537 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: so that's that's where they would do all their Heisman 538 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: hype videos and all that kind of stuff. But the 539 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: Rose Bowl sent, uh, the Rose Bowl always had cool stuff. 540 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 1: One year they sent coasters, so they were like paper 541 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: coasters though, and then they sent like a luggage tag, 542 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: like a black luggage tag that said the like Raised 543 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: Rolls Bowl game logo cool. And I was like, man, 544 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: get some cool you know, get some cool stuff from 545 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: the I mean I used the stuff that you would get. 546 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: I need to get back on that. You do need 547 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: to get back in there. I don't cover Couds football 548 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: as much as I used to. I could definitely do that. 549 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: I shut the figure out. What would I cover it 550 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: for but that said, there it's not quite like bowl 551 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: game bag bowl game bag swag, but it's chokey ville 552 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: yeless and every now and again, every now and again 553 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: you get some cool and I remember when I got 554 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: the Crabtree Harold book and um, button like this is this, 555 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: this is staying with me. It was a very creative 556 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: process that they went through. I wish you would have 557 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: had Cody with you going through your office. That would 558 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: have been fun, I really do. I mean, first of all, 559 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 1: he would have put on the luchador mask, uh that 560 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: our buddy Moscow gave to us. He would have definitely, 561 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 1: first of all, he would have worn that and he 562 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: would have done all his commentary with that on. Yeah, 563 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: so sunglasses because he always had on sunglasses, but he 564 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: would have both. Yeah, I mean he probably would have 565 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: had sunglasses over the mask or the mask over the 566 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: sunglasses either way. But just seeing him kind of kind 567 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: of poked the bear, if you will, with Drew, what 568 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 1: is this for? Like finding all the recorders, finding the 569 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: phone taps, That would have been pretty funny. Yeah, we 570 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: could have had a good time with that. That would 571 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: have been That would been a good one. That was 572 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: going in my office I had. I had not been 573 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: there as long, but going through my office, I think 574 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: I think the one thing that I found I was 575 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: going through I would keep all the game programs. I've 576 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 1: always been big on that. I don't know why I 577 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: dumped out probably forty of them. I had like four. 578 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: I had like three four years of I didn't have 579 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen. I didn't have an office in fourteen. 580 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: I became full time in fifteen, so I had fifteen, sixteen, 581 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: and seventeen, and so I did want to go through, like, oh, man, 582 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: who's in the cover, And it's a lot of the 583 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: usual suspects, you know, JJ and then Clowney. Then you 584 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: had some offshoots like Earl Mitchell and Jered Crick and 585 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: brought us father. Yeah, Brock, Yeah, that was That was 586 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: a That was a fun one. It's the first game 587 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: of the year and I'm looking at it, going, oh, 588 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: there's a victory. He won that game. He did. He 589 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: did win that game. He was a touchdowns and I 590 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,239 Speaker 1: don't know where it all went south, but yeah, to 591 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: see him on the program was like, oh man, wow, 592 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: this you would be tough to figure out. We got 593 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: ten guys, I've got to go on programs and hopefully 594 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: more once we get to the playoffs, trying to figure 595 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: out which ten those guys are, which ten guys will 596 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: get program love this year. He's pretty easy for the 597 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: first one. Well, yeah, for the first one? Sure? Why not? Well, yeah, 598 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: go with it with Sean. Sean, Oh, you aren't gonna 599 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: go watch the first one? Quarterback? What loves Liberty White Day? 600 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: J J loves Liberty White Day. He does. But you know, 601 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: let's give him some time, you know him some time. 602 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, he's gonna be. I would save 603 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: Watson for Dallas, would you? I would how come the 604 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: Dallas all right, I'll him a dude on the program 605 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: for Dad Watter Watson for Dallas, I think would be 606 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: the way to Yeah, either way, I can't wait. You 607 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: know I was. I did a Q and A in 608 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center yesterday with Whitney Merciless. We 609 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: did it that the youth camp had been going on 610 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: this week, so it was the end of the day. 611 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: They got to mingle with Whitney. But I did a 612 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: Q and A with him, and then I opened up 613 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: to questions for from the kids, and they had they 614 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: probably had like eight or nine questions, and one of 615 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: them was have you ever had an interception? And he said, 616 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: I almost did, but it dropped through my hands in Indianapolis. 617 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: And then he finishes telling the story and the kid goes, well, 618 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: can you please get one against the Cowboys? So yeah, 619 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: we all kind of we're holding him to it. We 620 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: hope he gets one this year. Well, Whitney almost had one. Yeah, Jacksonville, 621 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: but Jacksonville when Brock, when Brock Brock portals Blake Bortles 622 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: threw it off TJ, but it got ruled a fumble instead, 623 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: and so he ended up not getting credit for the interception. So, yeah, 624 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: get an interception, maybe a couple of them, a couple 625 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: of sacks. That's the one thing everybody will beat Dallas. 626 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: Beat Dallas. Hey, John, tell tell the guys that gotta 627 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: beat Dallas, Like you know that one means a lot 628 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: the city of Houston, Like, yeah, I mean, I get it, 629 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: I get it. Wait till that week. The players will 630 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: understand it too. And hopefully we're four and I'm going 631 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: into that one. So it'd be nice be the first 632 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: time since so two. It would be nice, very nice. Drew, 633 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, Have a great Weekend's fun going down 634 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: memory lane with you, Bro Sophi, Yeah, man coming back, 635 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: Ibraheim Campbell and Chad Slade don't know him, well, we 636 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: do and we had him on Texans Radio and they'll 637 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: be up next. What a final segment of Texans All 638 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: Access on this Friday evening. Glad to have been with you. 639 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: My name is John Harris, Football NAS and Silent Report, 640 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: and it's my Friday. Yeah, Mark Vandamer was here. He 641 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: will have next Friday, and then we will have the 642 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: week of July. First week in July, sorry, the fourth 643 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: of July week, we will have for you a Texans 644 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: Radio Summer celebration. I'll explain a little bit more what 645 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: that means. But there will be nobody in a building 646 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: that week, nobody They're going to continue construction and everybody's 647 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 1: out or likely there will be no Texas News over 648 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: that week. So we will have a Texans Radio Summer celebration. 649 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: We will celebrate a lot of the different a lot 650 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: of different things we did this offseason, a lot of 651 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: player interviews, a lot of coaches interviews, interviews with some 652 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: other key people, and of course we'll have some Wednesday 653 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: Night draft and on July fourth. I've got a special 654 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: segment that we did that you will love on July fourth, 655 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: the All American Dude Draft. That was one of the 656 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: most fun segments that we did, Mark, Drew and myself 657 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: we drafted. It was really kind of off the cuff. 658 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 1: We drafted four actually maybe five, I can't remember. I 659 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: think we did five All American Dudes and there were 660 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: so many of course there's only fifteen that we selected, 661 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: and there are so many that we left and left off. 662 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: And we heard it from Hugh on Twitter many many times. 663 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: You forgot this guy, you forgot that guy. And of 664 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: course we ain't even talked about the guy that we 665 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: left off that should have been maybe the first pick, 666 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: John Wayne. Oh gosh. But you'll love hearing that All 667 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: American Dude Draft and how we came to our selections, 668 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: and that was really kind of off the cuff. It 669 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: was something I had come up with maybe about fifteen 670 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: minutes before we even started a segment. Mark and Drew 671 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: jumped on it and we just had a We had 672 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: a blast with it. So we'll have that for you, 673 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: amongst other things in our summer celebration that will begin 674 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: July second. The first week in July, and then after 675 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: that it is all go towards the Greenbrier. Everything. We'll 676 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: still have our weekly shows, our daily shows, excuse me, 677 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: and everything that you want heading up to the Greenbriar. 678 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 1: And then in July, I believe it's July twenty sixth, 679 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 1: starting at eight o'clock in the morning, Texans all Access 680 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: from the Greenbriar. Yes, can't wait looking forward to that. 681 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: So you got that on the horizon. But we got 682 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,720 Speaker 1: to finish up this show and next week as well. 683 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 1: So let's get right into it. And I mentioned two 684 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 1: guys that maybe a lot of people that follow the 685 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: Texans but don't kind of dive deep into the Texans. 686 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,919 Speaker 1: Two names they may not be all that familiar with. Well, 687 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: let me educate you a little bit. Abrahim Campbell, a safety. 688 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: I gotta play that Northwestern smart played with Brian Peters. 689 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,839 Speaker 1: I watched Campbell for four years at Northwestern. Every year 690 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: got better and better and better. And then Chad Slate 691 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: from Auburn played offensive line. Started from the offensive line 692 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: the last couple of games for the Texans. I think 693 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,359 Speaker 1: this is now my math is correct. I think this 694 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: is year four in sixteen seventeen and eighteen. I believe 695 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: I think it's your four. Yeah for Chad Slade and 696 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: a guy like I said, it started the last couple 697 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,439 Speaker 1: of games of last year. Where does he fit on 698 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: this offensive line? So we're gonna hear from them both. 699 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: Let's start with Ibraheim Campbell joining us right now in 700 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,399 Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. It's Ibraheim Campbell. How's it going, 701 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: It's going well? All this offseason, preseason? What are you 702 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: working on individually to take that game up to the 703 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: next level? Um? Right now? Kind of just getting to 704 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 1: Houston and the tech. My biggest thing is getting the 705 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: playbook down because once I have that down, I can 706 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: play fast. So that's my focus right now. Does almost 707 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 1: feel like a rookie being a rookie all over again 708 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: every time, you know, you go to a new city 709 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,280 Speaker 1: and you have to learn the playbook and where everything 710 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: is Somewhat UM, Obviously, I feel a little bit step 711 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 1: ahead of the rookie than that I've I've played in 712 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: this league before, so I kind of know what they expect. 713 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: But it's just the intricacies within the playbook that is it. 714 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 1: The terminology that's sometimes what you hear is the terminology 715 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: is the toughest part to mouse. Yeah, that's that's tough 716 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,400 Speaker 1: sometimes because you'll you'll know what you want to get into, 717 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: like what position or call you want to make with 718 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: a guy, but you don't necessarily know the terminology for 719 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: this team. Um, and that's the toughest thing that you 720 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: just got to get sharp with that and then then 721 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 1: it'll be flowing and then you can play fast. You've 722 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: got tying. You and Tyron both kind of new, I 723 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: guess to the Texans, but not new to the game 724 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: of football. How much have you two sort of leaned 725 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,320 Speaker 1: on each other through this process so we get acclimated. 726 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,879 Speaker 1: You know, everyone everyone in the DVA room, we've kind 727 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: of been bounced stuff off each other because we're all 728 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,359 Speaker 1: trying to get on the same page, get to push 729 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: each other. Um. And the better better we are as 730 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: a position group, the better will be on the field 731 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: as a team. So we're trying to push each other 732 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: all across the board. How long did it take when 733 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,240 Speaker 1: you were in Cleveland to feel like things we're getting 734 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 1: to be second nature? Does that take a year or 735 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: two years? I mean, how do how does that work? Well? 736 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: The thing The thing about Cleveland is ever every time, 737 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 1: every year we actually had a different, different coordinator. So 738 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 1: I guess that challenging. Yeah, yeah, it's it's a little different. 739 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: Um it's an adjustment, but you know, you kind of 740 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: get used to the learning process of learning a new playbook. UM. 741 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,839 Speaker 1: So that I think that's helped me in that way 742 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: because that's kind of the nature of of the NFL 743 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: turnover happens. Um. So you know, the sooner you can 744 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: acclamaton and get up to speed, the better off you'll be. 745 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,439 Speaker 1: Have you talked to Sammy Coates about the experience of 746 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,360 Speaker 1: being there now coming here. Yeah, obviously, any anybody you 747 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 1: played with before you you try to link with the 748 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,960 Speaker 1: mutual experiences. Um, you kind of share those one when 749 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 1: you're out of there and in new places. What are 750 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: your impressions of Houston so far. You're from Philly, you 751 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: played in Cleveland, you went to Northwestern. Yeah, I'm a 752 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: big fan of Houston. It's a big city actually pretty 753 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 1: really spread out, so I still I feel like it's 754 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 1: a great city, but i still feel like I have 755 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,320 Speaker 1: a lot to see, So I'm excited to kind of 756 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,399 Speaker 1: experience that while I'm here in the heat. There's that, Yeah, 757 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,320 Speaker 1: there's that, But Chicago and Cleveland it's the complete opposite. 758 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: So I'd rather the son you know what that's You'll 759 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 1: get plenty of that feel the exact same way when 760 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: you go to Northwestern. What is that like? Because the 761 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 1: Northwestern guys, you know, we we have a lot of 762 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: Vanderbilt guys here or we have had and still do. 763 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: In the Northwestern experience, I think it is somewhat similar. 764 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 1: You know, great academic institution, can you compete with the 765 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,799 Speaker 1: big boys? And you clearly can? So what is that like? 766 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 1: I mean, it was a great experience. I wouldn't to 767 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 1: change it for the world. The opportunity, like you said, 768 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,120 Speaker 1: to complete to compete at the highest level in Big 769 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 1: Ten in football and then pushed not only on the 770 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,799 Speaker 1: field but also off the field kind of prepared you 771 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,480 Speaker 1: for whatever's next in life, football, anything, um, you know, 772 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,239 Speaker 1: because you're challenged in every way possible while you're there. 773 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: So were you teammates with Brian Peters? Were you guys 774 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 1: were there at around the same time him and I? 775 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,879 Speaker 1: Him and I were starting safety is my freshman year 776 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,240 Speaker 1: um at at Northwestern, and he used a starting safety 777 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,919 Speaker 1: safety before and a linebacker. Ye, so do you think 778 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,439 Speaker 1: that somewhere in the recesses of my brain? So have you? Yeah? 779 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,520 Speaker 1: What's that like? Reuniting with him? It's it's definitely really cool. Um. 780 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: He kind of welcomed me here. I stayed with him 781 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,479 Speaker 1: when I first got here, and he kind of showed 782 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,920 Speaker 1: me around the city a little bit and introduced me 783 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: in a couple of new things. So it's been great. 784 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck to you, 785 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it. There's probably a lot of 786 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,520 Speaker 1: you out there that moved to Houston, didn't know anybody, 787 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: had no idea, kind of had to work your way 788 00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 1: with friends and all that kind of stuff. It always 789 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 1: kind of helps if you know somebody. And obviously Ibrahim 790 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: Campbell knew Brian Peters here. So we'll see what Ibraheim 791 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,880 Speaker 1: Ibraheim is able to do at training camp at the Greenbrier, 792 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 1: whether he can find a spot in the fifty three. 793 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 1: And again, I don't think anything is locked away as safety. 794 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:19,240 Speaker 1: Obviously Tyron Matthew added to that mix, but Andre Howe 795 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: not able to go seemingly for twenty eighteen, Corey Moore 796 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: coming off an injury, Kurtis Drummond is a guy that's 797 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 1: been back there for a few years. Where does where 798 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: do all those pieces fitting? Of course, you got the 799 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: rookie there, justin Reid and Trusting Decoux and Kreem Jackson 800 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,279 Speaker 1: are moving to safety. So what does that mean for 801 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: a guy like Ibraheim Campbell? Well impressed at the Greenbriar, 802 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,719 Speaker 1: has some really nice preseason games, and there's opportunities there. 803 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 1: So we'll see what Campbell's able to do now. Chad 804 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: Sleigh has been with this organization since twenty fifteen and 805 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,879 Speaker 1: he finally got an opportunity to get on the fifty three. 806 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: And of course once you get on the fifty three, 807 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,719 Speaker 1: you're on the forty six. Once you get to the 808 00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,719 Speaker 1: forty six, there's a chance you're gonna play. Well, there 809 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: was not only a chance, there was a hundred percent 810 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 1: chance because he was gonna start and did some good things. 811 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: I know over the years. The coaches have been impressed 812 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: with Chad's growth. Over the years, There's been a lot 813 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,440 Speaker 1: of competition at it at the guard spots. Ye has 814 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: Zabel super Philo and Jeff Allen longer there, bring in 815 00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,920 Speaker 1: Senio Kalumete and Zach Fult, where's Chad Slade fit in? 816 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,319 Speaker 1: Let's hear from the former Auburn product Chad Slade. Chad 817 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: Slade joining us on the Hunday Texans Radio studio. How's 818 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,400 Speaker 1: it going? Chad's going good? All right? So what's it 819 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: gonna be like this year? Got an opportunity here, a 820 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 1: lot of juggling around on the offensive line. So how 821 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,320 Speaker 1: do you see it? I see it. There's gonna be 822 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,799 Speaker 1: a lot of competition on the line. We're out there 823 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: working hard. You know it's going to be you know, 824 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,480 Speaker 1: especially one of those positions to where you don't know 825 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 1: who's going to is not set starters like it has 826 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 1: always been when I've been here in the past. My 827 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,239 Speaker 1: rookie year, I was here with Ben Jones, Brooks and 828 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,359 Speaker 1: all that. They had that set spot. But now it's 829 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 1: all about competition, and I feel like we're gonna have 830 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 1: a lot of competition in the room. It seems like 831 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 1: they really want versatility out of the old lineman as well. 832 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,839 Speaker 1: What is it that you feel it is about your game? 833 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 1: The esset you can bring h you know, you know 834 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,480 Speaker 1: during this time, you know, I've been on the practice squad, 835 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 1: so I've had the ability to show them that I 836 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 1: can play right guard, right tackle, left guard, left tackle. 837 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,400 Speaker 1: I've had all this experience, and then you know, coming 838 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: in last year being active, I got to do a 839 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,319 Speaker 1: little bit of the heavy tight end role. I've you know, 840 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: sailed at the right guard, and you know, all these preseasons, 841 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,799 Speaker 1: I've been switched all over the place. So, I mean 842 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: that's how I was in college. I mean college, I 843 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: was all over the place from left tackle, right, I 844 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,040 Speaker 1: started every position but center. So I mean that's just 845 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,919 Speaker 1: something that I bait, like, you know, based my game 846 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: off of. I'd imagine it'll also be easier coming back 847 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 1: because you've had a year with DeShawn Watson. A lot 848 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 1: of guys coming in haven't had that. So how much 849 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,520 Speaker 1: does that help you moving forward that you know he's 850 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: a very unique quarterback. I would imagine it it's different 851 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: for different quarterbacks. But how does that make your job easier? 852 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:50,879 Speaker 1: It makes my job easy because I know what I'm 853 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,080 Speaker 1: going to get from Deshaun. I mean, Deshaun's wanted, you know, 854 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,239 Speaker 1: the most amazing quarterbacks we've seen, you know today being 855 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,399 Speaker 1: a rookie, I mean last year, you couldn't really tell 856 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: that he was a rookie. I mean he came in 857 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,239 Speaker 1: a huddle, he took control. I mean he had so 858 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 1: much passion in the game, you know, so much poise 859 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,680 Speaker 1: that you know, he's just like you know, hey, you 860 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: know I gotta block for something. I've ordered to block 861 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: for some guy like that. But I mean, he's It's 862 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,440 Speaker 1: gonna be a good thing to be able to go 863 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,359 Speaker 1: out there knowing to who I got, you know, how 864 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,640 Speaker 1: to block. You know knows that's gonna You know, some 865 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,560 Speaker 1: players are gonna take longer than others. I mean, you 866 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,239 Speaker 1: know that's how the Shaun is. He gonna make plays, 867 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,880 Speaker 1: so it's gonna take more than others. You gotta keep 868 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,680 Speaker 1: bloging too. The whistles great answer, Hey, Chad, you've been 869 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,280 Speaker 1: here for a while. As you said, you know, people 870 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,400 Speaker 1: hearing you say that you've been here with Ben Jones 871 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,399 Speaker 1: and Brandon Brooks and it sounds like a why how 872 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 1: long does it take for the light to go on? 873 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,880 Speaker 1: You think? I mean, because clearly it doesn't happen right 874 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: away for offensive line. And I remember talking to some 875 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,879 Speaker 1: veterans Pro bowlers and said, three four years, So how 876 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 1: do you see it? I see it? I mean I've 877 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: came in undrafted. I mean, of course that's just you know, 878 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: one of the hard things that you know, most people 879 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: come in and like, you know, I wasn't drafted and 880 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 1: all that, but you have to outwork other people, you know. 881 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 1: I mean, of course, I've been here since twenty fifteen. 882 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,399 Speaker 1: I've been here for a while, so I mean I've 883 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,480 Speaker 1: had to outwork myself. I gotta work myself up. So 884 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: I mean I've in from the practice ir the practice squad, 885 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,759 Speaker 1: I mean active roster. I mean I've I've worked for that. 886 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 1: I mean I've I've maintained my game off, you know, 887 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,960 Speaker 1: just looking up to people I've I've had so many 888 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,719 Speaker 1: mentors as in like Chris Clard, Dwayne Brown. I've had 889 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 1: all those mentors to me that you know, they told me, like, 890 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,759 Speaker 1: you know, you have the ability to play. You just 891 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 1: got to go out there and show it. You know, 892 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 1: you can't, you know, get down because you know you're 893 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,279 Speaker 1: not up there. Yeah, you can't get down because you 894 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 1: know you're in the back of the you know, back 895 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,160 Speaker 1: of the room. You can't get down for that. You 896 00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:28,800 Speaker 1: got to go out there and just keep working and 897 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,600 Speaker 1: working and working in your time will come chat. Thanks 898 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,120 Speaker 1: a lot for joining out. Thank you each and every 899 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,360 Speaker 1: training camp. Mark Van Meer and I we do a 900 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,640 Speaker 1: thing where we look at the play the subterranean players, 901 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,520 Speaker 1: the players we all know about the Shawn Watson JJ 902 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,200 Speaker 1: while we all talk about those particular players, and then 903 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,560 Speaker 1: there's kind of the honestly mid level guys but kind 904 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,279 Speaker 1: of the next tier of guys. And then there's the 905 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,680 Speaker 1: group of guys that are subterranean below there that nobody's 906 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,640 Speaker 1: even talking about, nobody's even mentioning. And we love talking 907 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: about those guys because invariably one of those guys is 908 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,160 Speaker 1: going to end up making the roster, and Chats laden 909 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,640 Speaker 1: Ibraheim Campbell end up being kind of the two. The 910 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,360 Speaker 1: guys that fall in there that have played some football 911 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,560 Speaker 1: for this team, have been on the fifty three man roster, 912 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,480 Speaker 1: have been on the active forty six on game days, 913 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,960 Speaker 1: but we're not really talking about them as much. Can 914 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,920 Speaker 1: either one of them end up getting in that forty 915 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,239 Speaker 1: six and finding more playing time as their career moves on. 916 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,680 Speaker 1: That's obviously a big question and something we'll talk about 917 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,160 Speaker 1: a lot from now, all the way through training camp, 918 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: So we'll definitely talk about those two down the road. 919 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,200 Speaker 1: No question about that. A big thanks to my either 920 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 1: two Mark Vandermer Drew Doherty for joining me to my 921 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,640 Speaker 1: guys back at Sports Radio six ten, to all of 922 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,280 Speaker 1: you for listening. Everybody, have a safe and happy weekend. 923 00:44:42,520 --> 00:45:02,800 Speaker 1: See I'm on everybody, and as always, go Texans.