Speaker 1: This is a young team. We're on the cuff. They're
Speaker 1: hungry to get better.
Speaker 2: Peers lightning right, Spend parrels his way down on the
Speaker 2: forty one yard line.
Speaker 3: Want to run by Piers.
Speaker 2: These are the type of guys, the type of men
Speaker 2: that we want in our locker room.
Speaker 3: Tender top pitch question, Harris.
Speaker 4: Game day is every day.
Speaker 1: I love the energy. Stop by Stateley p Trey. Texans
Speaker 1: have the ball on the pit and if you want it,
Speaker 1: you gotta go work.
Speaker 4: No, it's Texans all xys.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you definitely gotta go work.
Speaker 1: And we are working this evening for you, John Harris
Speaker 1: alongside the voice of the Texans, Mark vandermir That's what
Speaker 1: I have on my phone. And when Mark called me earlier,
Speaker 1: it came up as the voice of the Texans.
Speaker 3: That's all it says. It says voice, and I know
Speaker 3: who that is. It's very nice. Mark. Good evening, We boy,
Speaker 3: good evening. We have a we got a lot a lot,
Speaker 3: a lot a lot.
Speaker 1: To talk about and I'm not even sure where to start,
Speaker 1: but we.
Speaker 3: Talked to Lite nowhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think, all right, I'll go with what you
Speaker 1: want to What do you want to start?
Speaker 2: With all right, I want to have a contest, and
Speaker 2: the contest is name your starting five offensive linemen September tenth.
Speaker 5: I think I can get somebody to ensure it.
Speaker 2: We can give away one hundred grand because it's going
Speaker 2: to be tough to name for most people. But Johnny,
Speaker 2: if anybody can do it, you and I can get
Speaker 2: it done and name the starting five or at least
Speaker 2: give some options because if they come to us, right,
Speaker 2: if they come to us and say, hey, who should start,
Speaker 2: I think we can help them out.
Speaker 5: I don't think they will. In fact, I'm positive they won't.
Speaker 2: But it's been a really interesting few days injuries, Kenyan Green, acquisitions,
Speaker 2: practice squad, and reports.
Speaker 5: And we'll put it together, right we will.
Speaker 1: I'll say this practice was today, and then the guys
Speaker 1: are off the I think they're off Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: so they might have something tomorrow. But then the season
Speaker 1: premiere is tomorrow. Season premiere, Yeah tomorrow, they're all gonna
Speaker 1: be there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're all gonna be there for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So at that point you'll get a look at you know,
Speaker 1: even further because you have the cutdown yesterday at three
Speaker 1: pm Central time. Then you have waiver claims. The Texans
Speaker 1: did make two waiver claims. Those two players go right
Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster. Two rookies Oregon State
Speaker 1: defensive back Alex Austin and Ole Miss guard Nick Broker.
Speaker 1: They were both with the Buffalo Bills. They were both
Speaker 1: claimed on the roster. Now the corresponding moves a little
Speaker 1: bit of a kind of doghead turn here mark the
Speaker 1: corresponding moves. Two players were then released, Derrick Rivers who
Speaker 1: was then signing with the practice squad, and Mike Boone.
Speaker 3: Was released.
Speaker 1: Now, I have not seen anything further on Mike Boone
Speaker 1: unless I've missed it. I have not seen anything further
Speaker 1: on Mike Boone. But he is the second He's the
Speaker 1: second player that is released.
Speaker 3: They make way where John? What's that?
Speaker 2: But Aaron Wilson. I'm gonna give him credit because I've
Speaker 2: just seen it right here. Thirty one minutes ago, uh
Speaker 2: signed re signing to the fifty three man roster Mike
Speaker 2: Boone and Corey Littleton.
Speaker 3: So okay, there we go.
Speaker 2: All right, good, that's what he says, And they haven't.
Speaker 2: The Texas have not come out with the pr email
Speaker 2: today with all the day's activities right.
Speaker 3: Well, you can see why.
Speaker 1: You can see why because there's so many things going on. Also,
Speaker 1: the Texans are resigning Steven Simms Junior, and we talked
Speaker 1: about this machination last night. We said to look out
Speaker 1: for this one because the the this happened with John
Speaker 1: Weeks in I can't remember what year it was, twenty one,
Speaker 1: maybe I think at twenty one, and to get some
Speaker 1: players through to IR and just to kind of roster machinations.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I can't tell you how this works. It's
Speaker 1: just what the CBA allows them to do.
Speaker 3: They released Weeks.
Speaker 1: And then two days later brought him back, and that's
Speaker 1: essentially what the Texans have done with Boone and Lyttleton
Speaker 1: and now Steven Simms. They released them because they had
Speaker 1: to be off the roster by three o'clock yesterday. But
Speaker 1: then they brought them back and they're back on the roster.
Speaker 1: So Lyttleton, Boone and Sims added back.
Speaker 3: Also added to.
Speaker 1: The mix is Alex Austin in the corner of the
Speaker 1: Rookie Corner from out of Oregon State. And then Nick
Speaker 1: Broker and I want to go there with Broker offensive
Speaker 1: Lineman from Ole miss, he's a guard. I've seen him
Speaker 1: play a number of times, so with the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: I think he's a sturdy, developmental guy that you can
Speaker 1: grow and I think he will get better as he grows.
Speaker 1: And the one thing I kept saying about him when
Speaker 1: I would study him, there's nothing elite in have elite
Speaker 1: arm length or size or anything. But he would just
Speaker 1: get guys blocked. So I'm curious to see how he
Speaker 1: fits in. So back to your question about the starting
Speaker 1: five at Baltimore. Go ahead, big fella, who.
Speaker 3: Is what's the starting five? You want me the defensive line.
Speaker 1: I want you to put in your not only suggestion,
Speaker 1: but what your expectation might be for that offensive line.
Speaker 2: All right, By the way, I have Sims here, according
Speaker 2: to sort, not sources, according to reports. I should say
Speaker 2: Sims on the practice practice squad, right, and Boone and
Speaker 2: Littleton on the fifty three. But you know, wait fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: this could change again, exactly until the team says something.
Speaker 2: This is all just stuff in the wind, and we
Speaker 2: might be wrong about it, but let's go with this. Johnny,
Speaker 2: you look at the guard situation, Kenyon green On ir,
Speaker 2: I know it's been a big topic on the station
Speaker 2: all day long, and I get it because he's a
Speaker 2: first round draft choice from last year. We celebrate these guys,
Speaker 2: and then look what happens. I think the situation back
Speaker 2: in May what Nick Assario said today, that they knew
Speaker 2: this was a possibility. Look, guys got it out all
Speaker 2: the time, trying to play through things. And do you
Speaker 2: want to have season ending surgery in May or do
Speaker 2: you want to give it a chance when you might
Speaker 2: be able to possibly make it through the season or
Speaker 2: at least a big chunk, or maybe things turn out Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't live in Kenyan Green's shoes
Speaker 2: and I'm not his doctor, but that could be a possibility,
Speaker 2: because why else would they have done this, right, I
Speaker 2: think they were hoping against hope that this could work
Speaker 2: out for this season at least, but it didn't.
Speaker 3: And he's on.
Speaker 5: IR So there it is.
Speaker 2: And in May when this comes up anyway, it's not like,
Speaker 2: oh suddenly we can acquire we could exhume the career
Speaker 2: of Mike Munchak, or we can exhume the career of
Speaker 2: John It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 5: No one's available in May.
Speaker 2: You know, whoever's available in May is likely to be
Speaker 2: available via a certain kind of trade now or maybe
Speaker 2: an acquisition through the waiver wire or another means. So
Speaker 2: to me, it is what it is, and you gotta
Speaker 2: deal with it. I don't know what happened to Michael Dieter.
Speaker 2: We all wonder about that one. But here they have
Speaker 2: on their roster currently, let's just go with what we have.
Speaker 2: You tell me, can Kendrick Green possibly play? Can you
Speaker 2: move Josh Jones to guard? Can you move Titus to
Speaker 2: guard and put Josh Jones at right tackle? There are
Speaker 2: different opportunities within what they've got right now, practice squad included,
Speaker 2: and we'll get to that. But tell me about that
Speaker 2: guard situation with Green, Jones or Howard possibly, because there
Speaker 2: are some opportunities here. It's just hard to predict what
Speaker 2: they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Do it really is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you start thinking today at practice, there are
Speaker 1: six linemen dressed out. Six now you typically now, I
Speaker 1: once you get the practice squad, there's obviously a lot more.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're working out before the game
Speaker 1: and there are eight offensive linemen dressed out, you feel like,
Speaker 1: oh man, they got all the linemen dressed out.
Speaker 3: No, I mean that's eight and they're usually two that you.
Speaker 1: Know, I think you have nine, sometimes sometimes you have ten,
Speaker 1: depending on you know, how much versatility you have. My
Speaker 1: point in bringing that up is you look down there
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, you got laramie, you've got shack.
Speaker 3: So you've left tackle and right guard.
Speaker 1: As long as nothing happens then physically in the next
Speaker 1: few days, that's the only you know, forty percent of.
Speaker 3: The line that's it.
Speaker 1: After that, a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: Titus's hand in his recovery. Then the question becomes, all right, well,
Speaker 1: Josh Jones and Titus Howard are similar I think in
Speaker 1: this respect. They are both natural tackles, but you might
Speaker 1: need one of them to play guard, and and you
Speaker 1: might have to do that to get your best five.
Speaker 3: On the field.
Speaker 1: So which one is that? If you move Titus over
Speaker 1: there and put him at left guard. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: kind of we've seen that before, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how successful that is now. Would it be more successful
Speaker 1: with a different center in the system, Does it fit
Speaker 1: Titus a little bit more?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: My gut tells me they'll leave Titus over at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and they would move Josh Jones over to left guard.
Speaker 1: Now I don't love that, but if it gets your
Speaker 1: best lineman on the field, then I'm for it to
Speaker 1: a degree.
Speaker 3: Now, let's hop over to center.
Speaker 2: Let's say that pause the center thing for a moment. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's say Titus is unavailable against Baltimore. Let's just go
Speaker 2: there for a moment, and that hypothetical he's not available
Speaker 2: against Baltimore at tackle? Or do you put Jones at
Speaker 2: tackle and then piece it together at guard somehow you're
Speaker 2: really up against it?
Speaker 5: Then, right, This is why the.
Speaker 1: Deeper thing, this is why the Deeterer thing, to me
Speaker 1: is just kind of a miss, because I would have
Speaker 1: felt like, look, Dieter is a natural guard or center, right,
Speaker 1: I mean one of the He could play one or
Speaker 1: the other, and he's done it throughout camp. I don't
Speaker 1: like Dieter at tackle and didn't like Dieter at tackle,
Speaker 1: but Gardner center, I felt like he held his own
Speaker 1: and did good things. So, okay, you put Dieter in
Speaker 1: at left guard, and then you in some sense have
Speaker 1: a competition to see who plays right tackle and Jones
Speaker 1: leading up to the Baltimore week, in which one you
Speaker 1: know can Can Josh Jones get up to speed with
Speaker 1: the protections, with the line calls.
Speaker 3: Can he feel comfortable enough with that? Can he get
Speaker 3: a crash course out on the edge?
Speaker 1: But Mark, I mean, do you want to have a
Speaker 1: tackle out there in Baltimore against edge rushers that are
Speaker 1: not the greatest, but man, they are incredibly quick and
Speaker 1: dynamic in Odefe o Way and David Ojabo.
Speaker 3: Do you want?
Speaker 1: I mean, I I I'm perplexed as to as to
Speaker 1: what and how that can that can shake down. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that Titus is then ready to go, but look,
Speaker 1: I don't want to rush it just because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable in week one. If Titus isn't ready, he's
Speaker 1: not ready. I hope he's ready for week two. They'll
Speaker 1: have as as I've heard both Tamiko and Nick say. Look,
Speaker 1: we'll have a quarterback under center, they'll have an offensive line.
Speaker 3: It's just a matter of.
Speaker 1: How do you put it together if Titus can't go.
Speaker 1: My guess is on the edge leeve Fant and then
Speaker 1: put Josh Jones at guard potentially, and then get to
Speaker 1: the center position, where now you still have questions. I
Speaker 1: hate to, you know, put Jones in that spot of Hey, look,
Speaker 1: you've looked pretty good at tackle the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: You haven't looked that it's good at guard.
Speaker 1: But this might be best for the Texans right now, Josh,
Speaker 1: for you to play guard.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's the hardest thing ever.
Speaker 5: So I've got your center if you need it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Look, I'd love to have Juice fully healthy. Maybe it happens.
Speaker 2: You know, you said only six dress today. I mean
Speaker 2: that was there for the world to see, the media
Speaker 2: to see. Maybe somehow, you know, another few days. All right,
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm over it. I don't know, we don't
Speaker 2: know that. But on the practice squad, reportedly there's a
Speaker 2: player who I like. Now, I've admittedly not been the
Speaker 2: greatest offensive line evaluator. In other words, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Are you pushing their guys out of the way? Are
Speaker 2: you successful when you're in there as a unit? That's
Speaker 2: I look at those things and I'm watching a ball
Speaker 2: anyway what I'm doing play by play. But Jimmy Morrissey's
Speaker 2: on the practice squad. Jimmy Morrissey has started games for
Speaker 2: this team. He's actually started wins for this team. He
Speaker 2: started the Charger game in twenty twenty one, which I
Speaker 2: know for the Chargers was we're hungover or whatever, and
Speaker 2: it's late in the season and we just overlooked this
Speaker 2: one that they make all sorts of excuses. Come on,
Speaker 2: you ran the ball well that day, you played well.
Speaker 2: It was a nice, little tidy win in an otherwise
Speaker 2: really unfortunate season. I think Jimmy might be an option
Speaker 2: for them as an elevation, And I think now that
Speaker 2: he's on the practice squad, I'm not exactly sure of this,
Speaker 2: but I think he's protected till at least after Week one,
Speaker 2: so that might be that might be an option for them,
Speaker 2: among whatever else they can cook up. But I don't
Speaker 2: think that's the worst option in the world, considering he
Speaker 2: has some starting experience.
Speaker 1: Yes, if Juice is unable to go, now, even if
Speaker 1: Juice plays, if Juice is ready to go, which I
Speaker 1: don't know, something tells me that's not gonna happen, But look,
Speaker 1: you never know. Juice is a rookie anyway, so just
Speaker 1: is gonna be playing his first NFL game whenever he
Speaker 1: steps on the field.
Speaker 3: So yep, if Juice is not in there, then.
Speaker 1: Okay, Deeter would have been my next option, Well no longer.
Speaker 1: Here then Jared Patterson is an option. Now. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing with Jared Patterson, the rookie on Notre Dame. He
Speaker 1: played center for three years at Notre Dame. His senior
Speaker 1: year he moved to guard so they could get the
Speaker 1: best offensive line on the field. Harry Heuston, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, went back to Notre Dame in that year
Speaker 1: and he moved Patterson over to guard. He then played
Speaker 1: the full year at guard. The other night, when Juice
Speaker 1: got banged up, Jarrett went into the game. They kept
Speaker 1: the line where it was, They kept Eater at left guard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing that left guard, and they just moved Patterson. So
Speaker 1: instead of having two moving pieces, they just had one.
Speaker 1: And it was Patterson going in. And I thought Jarrett
Speaker 1: more than held his own. I thought he did a great,
Speaker 1: you know, as good a job as you could do
Speaker 1: jumping in there. And I had to go out of
Speaker 1: the game a little bit. I think he just got
Speaker 1: the wind knocked out of him. But once he caught,
Speaker 1: once he caught his breath, he went back in. He
Speaker 1: did some good things. So Jarrett's a smart dude, and
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any mental errors. I thought they would
Speaker 1: try that guard, but he also got centered in his background.
Speaker 1: So Patterson is an option. He'd be a rookie, but
Speaker 1: he knows the offense. Jimmy's an option as an elevation
Speaker 1: because he knows this offense.
Speaker 3: And I got a feeling that Jimmy might the.
Speaker 1: Elevation for the first few weeks until they can kind
Speaker 1: of get everybody back, Juice back, Titus back, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and then get Kendrick Green up the speed. I don't
Speaker 1: know that you can put Kendrick Green in at center
Speaker 1: or guard unless it's a pseudo emergency. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: gonna go up to Baltimore outside in a raucous environment
Speaker 1: and CJ's gonna check to a play and Kendrick's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, huh Now, it's the NFL. You've got to
Speaker 1: be able to step up and step in at some point.
Speaker 1: But he got a rookie quarterback back there. And the
Speaker 1: last thing you want is for Kendrick Green to think
Speaker 1: it's a slide protection to the left and he opens
Speaker 1: up the a gap and here comes Roquan and smashes CJ.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to You're gonna have to work
Speaker 1: those things out, I would feel a little bit more comfortable,
Speaker 1: even though I think Kendrick is probably a better prospect overall.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy and Jarrett both know this offense and they
Speaker 1: know the center position, so that I would think, as
Speaker 1: it sits right now, might make the most sense in
Speaker 1: what they can do. So when I saw Jimmy was
Speaker 1: coming back on the practice squad, I was like.
Speaker 3: Okay, that I can That's okay.
Speaker 1: I feel a little bit better. I don't feel great.
Speaker 1: Even if Juice were one hundred percent healthy, Mark, I
Speaker 1: still would be nervous, of course, nervous going against the Ravens.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not Brandon Williams and Kalays Campbell over there.
Speaker 1: It's not them anymore. But it's Justin Mattabek, who's just
Speaker 1: as disruptive.
Speaker 3: And the guys on the ads. It's not Terrell Suggs
Speaker 3: and Justin Houston.
Speaker 1: But you know, Ojabo and Oway have got a ton
Speaker 1: of speed and explosiveness, and they're playing in that building
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be raucous.
Speaker 3: It's the opener. And then, oh, by the way, playing
Speaker 3: behind him his Roquan.
Speaker 1: So if you're not if you're not buttoned up at
Speaker 1: center or guard, and we saw that last year against
Speaker 1: the Bears when nobody blocked Roquan and Roquand had like
Speaker 1: twenty tackles in that game.
Speaker 3: Right I had a pick, You had a pick. Basically
Speaker 3: it picked in the game.
Speaker 1: So you've got to be solid at center or guard
Speaker 1: so you can get somebody to at least attempt to
Speaker 1: get a hat on Rokwan in the running game. Because
Speaker 1: you don't, then it's forget it. You're not You're not
Speaker 1: running for fifty yards that day. So figuring out left
Speaker 1: guard and center at this point, when you look at
Speaker 1: the options of Kendrick Green recently acquired, Josh Jones, just
Speaker 1: traded for Jimmy Morrissey currently on practice squad, and Jared Patterson.
Speaker 3: A six round rookie. You went from feeling really really good.
Speaker 3: I know I did.
Speaker 1: I went from feeling pretty good about what the line
Speaker 1: was gonna look like with Juice healthy, even if Kenyon
Speaker 1: was in or not it was Deeter. I felt really
Speaker 1: confident about that line. Then Titus gets banged up. George
Speaker 1: has done some good things at right tackle, but it's
Speaker 1: not Titus. You bring in Josh Jones, I'm excited about that,
Speaker 1: but he's been here for a week. So where where
Speaker 1: do you? How do you kind of put all this together?
Speaker 1: And that's where I'm just I'm kind of shaking my
Speaker 1: head about all of it, like, man, what do you?
Speaker 3: What do you do? And that's that's baffling.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Aaron Wilson has this about ten minutes ago, and I've
Speaker 1: seen kind of bits and pieces of these all day.
Speaker 1: This is not I think sixteen could be on practice
Speaker 1: squad if my numbers are correct as thirteen.
Speaker 3: But it's Clill Davis Deculus. I saw him in a
Speaker 3: building today, so I figured that was what it was.
Speaker 1: Kobe Francis, Ali Gay, Brandon Hill who's been banged up,
Speaker 1: the rookie had a pitch, Johnny Johnson dunk Keene, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Morrissey Derrek Rivers went from the roster to practice squad.
Speaker 1: Dio who's the international pathway player. So that does give
Speaker 1: you an extra one with him being an international pathway player.
Speaker 1: Steven Simms recently put on practice squad Garrett Wallow and
Speaker 1: then Ty Zantner, who punted coming back on a practice squad.
Speaker 3: So yes, because you can also have him as a
Speaker 3: standard elevent two.
Speaker 1: If Cam's not completely ready now Cam was, I thought,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't see any special teams today,
Speaker 1: so I saw Cam out there, but I don't know
Speaker 1: what if he was doing, or what if he's ready
Speaker 1: to go or what.
Speaker 3: But Tipe on it pretty well the other day.
Speaker 1: So if you've got to have him as a standard
Speaker 1: or as an elevation on game day from the practice squad,
Speaker 1: then and then okay, great.
Speaker 3: So it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: I was feeling really good about how the roster is
Speaker 1: coming together, Mark, and then the offensive line injuries happened,
Speaker 1: you know juices against the Saints, you know Titus obviously earlier.
Speaker 3: Uh you know those two.
Speaker 1: I mean when forty percent of your line is down
Speaker 1: and you're you're questionable essentially going into Baltimore like man,
Speaker 1: that's a kick in the she canuts.
Speaker 2: So this is interesting because when Scotty went down, I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: because you know what I always say, it tends to
Speaker 2: be a position group that gets the injury bug.
Speaker 3: It's like a virus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and injuries go through a position crew and tight
Speaker 2: end was kind of it during camp. But they seem
Speaker 2: to be together now. Brevin Jordan was at practice today, right,
Speaker 2: So that's a really positive thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, he was.
Speaker 2: I was really hoping that he was in one of
Speaker 2: those guys who'd end up on IR and day two
Speaker 2: of the initial fifty three and all that. But he's
Speaker 2: part of the fifty three. Good, so let's see what
Speaker 2: he can do. We talked about him last night. But
Speaker 2: when Scotty went down, that was early in camp relatively,
Speaker 2: and I thought, let's not do this, let's not do
Speaker 2: this on the line, and a lot of people were saying, well, Juice,
Speaker 2: Scrug's going to start anyway. I'm not so sure about that.
Speaker 2: I think Juice was eventually going to start, but right away.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe they liked Scotty in this system, you know, doing
Speaker 2: this zone blocking and all the other elements they have
Speaker 2: in this Kubiaki and Shanahanian system with Bobby slowan coach
Speaker 2: and the O. So maybe they like Scotty. And I
Speaker 2: know one thing, injuries are not good.
Speaker 5: This just in breaking news. You mentioned the Ravens. You're
Speaker 5: going up there.
Speaker 2: There's a defensive ethic in this organization that's been around
Speaker 2: for a long time. What's the Super Bowl year two thousand,
Speaker 2: twenty four years of football, right. They've been out of
Speaker 2: the top ten in defense in those twenty four years
Speaker 2: only seven times. And listen, I'm not gonna read all
Speaker 2: the numbers to you. I'm not gonna bog you down
Speaker 2: with these numbers. But there are a lot of ones, twos,
Speaker 2: and threes in there, a lot of top five finishes
Speaker 2: in defense throughout those years. Last year there were ninth
Speaker 2: in yards, third in points per game allowed.
Speaker 5: And I know year to year things changed.
Speaker 2: Two years ago they were actually pretty horrible, but that
Speaker 2: was just an abnormal situation for them. They're usually a
Speaker 2: top ten type defense, whether it be yards or points
Speaker 2: or both.
Speaker 5: And this year we'll see.
Speaker 2: But you're opening up there when supposedly everybody's fresh, but
Speaker 2: the Texans are not fresh on the old line.
Speaker 5: They gotta find a way to put it together.
Speaker 2: Help is on the way eventually, because you're gonna get
Speaker 2: Charlie Heck back. You're not gonna get Kenyan greenback this year.
Speaker 2: But as guys get healthier, as the acquisitions they've made
Speaker 2: get acclimated, that'll be good as well. But you are
Speaker 2: where you are right now. You got to try to
Speaker 2: put it together, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Two guys that ended up being cut have found new homes.
Speaker 1: Drew Dordy and I talked about those two players that
Speaker 1: were cut, what they meant to this organization.
Speaker 3: That's next on Texans All Access.
Speaker 4: More Texans Radio is on the way. Texans Radio is back.
Speaker 1: This is John Harris Football, ANAMALS sideline reporter for your
Speaker 1: Texans with you this evening and each and every Tuesday Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Drew Dordy and I sit down and do a little
Speaker 1: in the Lab podcast. We did this one talking about
Speaker 1: the cuts and two major ones. Two guys have found
Speaker 1: jobs in the NFL at this point, but we discussed them.
Speaker 1: Desmond King, who is going to sign with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and then Christian Kirksey, who is going to sign with
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills practice squad. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: practice squad rules have changed that it allows veterans of
Speaker 1: any experience level to be on a practice squad and
Speaker 1: given the opportunity to kind of work themselves into shape
Speaker 1: or learn the system or whatever. So it looks like
Speaker 1: Christian's gonna have that opportunity up in Buffalo. But we
Speaker 1: talked about that right here on in the Lab.
Speaker 3: Chris hit it. Let's go.
Speaker 7: This is a big day, cutdown day. We've seen names
Speaker 7: already trickle out about who's not going to be on
Speaker 7: the roster, who might be back in a little bit,
Speaker 7: some other big names around the league, some former Texans,
Speaker 7: some notable names. But I thought Demico Ryans put it
Speaker 7: perfectly on Monday in his press conference at Energy Stadium,
Speaker 7: is the day after the Saints preseason game. He said,
Speaker 7: it's a delicate day, it's a sensitive day, it's tough,
Speaker 7: and it's one of those days he went through as
Speaker 7: a player. He was in the NFL for ten years.
Speaker 7: I don't know that he was really ever on the
Speaker 7: bubble until maybe the end, and I can't remember exactly
Speaker 7: how his the end of his career went. Twenty fourteen
Speaker 7: was the last season with the Eagles, but I know
Speaker 7: he was never in jeopardy here. He just got traded,
Speaker 7: you know, but salary can use salary cap casualty kind of.
Speaker 7: But he at least has been around enough to see it.
Speaker 7: You spend a decade playing, you spend some time as
Speaker 7: an assistant, getting close to guys that you want to keep,
Speaker 7: but you know, just aren't all the way there. Tough day,
Speaker 7: and it's never one of the fun ones, certainly in
Speaker 7: this building or any NFL building for that matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. And you know, I've talked to
Speaker 1: some of the NFL people around the league, from scouts
Speaker 1: to players to coaches, and you have to Drew and
Speaker 1: this is a day that everybody. Everybody hates. The fans
Speaker 1: love it in some sense because they get to see
Speaker 1: what the fifty three is going to be at the
Speaker 1: start of the season, or at least on two years.
Speaker 6: Crystallizes things a little bit, right.
Speaker 1: And so you as a as a fan, you start
Speaker 1: thinking about starting the season. Let's go, it's week one.
Speaker 1: We're get excited about regular season Football's training camp. Nonsense,
Speaker 1: it's just behind us. Let's go, let's do it. But man,
Speaker 1: there's so much that goes into it. And ninety guys
Speaker 1: in a in a locker room, every single one of
Speaker 1: them is at a different stage, and they're all thinking
Speaker 1: about this day in a different way. You know. The
Speaker 1: Damian Pearces and Jalen Petries are like, yo, let's just
Speaker 1: get the Baltimore Larimy Tunzel is you know, just all right,
Speaker 1: when when's practice, we gotta get ready for Baltimore. I
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for David Ajabo and o'defeoway. So then
Speaker 1: you've got players at bottom of the roster going, man,
Speaker 1: I'm on the roster. I think if I'm not, where
Speaker 1: do I go? What do I do? And then you
Speaker 1: got some near the bottom of the bottom of the
Speaker 1: roster that are like, Okay, where's my next opportunity? Is
Speaker 1: my next opportunity in the NFL? Maybe it's not even
Speaker 1: in the NFL, maybe it's XFL. Do I need to
Speaker 1: be thinking about getting a job on Tuesday? All those
Speaker 1: emotions are kind of floating through the locker room, and
Speaker 1: your coaches are kind of as you mentioned, Dimika Ryans.
Speaker 1: Coaches are dealing with that too because they got to
Speaker 1: have hard discussions, and the hardest discussions are coming from
Speaker 1: Nick Cassariodika Ryans. But Dimko said something pretty interesting to us,
Speaker 1: Drue that I thought about a lot. He said, I
Speaker 1: want all ninety of these guys to have their careers
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I want them to all be on
Speaker 1: NFL roster in some way, shape or form, sure in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and beyond. And I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard a coach say that.
Speaker 1: Now they might have thought it, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: have ever heard any one of them say it out loud.
Speaker 1: And I just think that speaks to to Tamiko. I
Speaker 1: know Nick feels that way too.
Speaker 7: Been through it and seeing friends get cut and he
Speaker 7: got traded. I mean that had to be a just
Speaker 7: a bombshell to him. So yeah, he's got that human element.
Speaker 1: To it, right, no doubt. And so it makes us
Speaker 1: its day. And you know, for you and I and
Speaker 1: we get to know these players. We interview them out
Speaker 1: to practice, we talked to them, We get to know
Speaker 1: them a little bit. And then some of them, you know,
Speaker 1: some rookies we don't get to know. But some guys
Speaker 1: they've been around here, you know, the Desmond Kings, the
Speaker 1: Christian Kirkseyes, the World Lopez. I mean those guys you
Speaker 1: know we've gotten over the last three years. And you
Speaker 1: look up and Okay, well they're not in the locker
Speaker 1: room anymore. And you know, you've been there since two
Speaker 1: thousand and I've been there since twenty fourteen. You know,
Speaker 1: you get used to it, but just because you get
Speaker 1: used to something doesn't mean you like it. And you
Speaker 1: hate seeing those players. I mean, de Dez has a
Speaker 1: brother that has Aspergers. He's on the spectrum as well.
Speaker 1: So Dez and I've talked about that because my son
Speaker 1: has the same and so we've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: that about family. So I wish them all well. I
Speaker 1: hate it because it feels like, Okay, you got to
Speaker 1: get ready for the Ravens and we got to start preparing,
Speaker 1: you know, even our stuff for the Ravens. But you
Speaker 1: just hate that, you know, guys that you like as
Speaker 1: people and as football players have got to go start
Speaker 1: something different end up in a different location. I always
Speaker 1: find it fascinating at the end of games, Drew when
Speaker 1: players meet at midfield and they're shaking hands and you're like, O, hey,
Speaker 1: those two didn't go to the same college. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they were in this rookie class with this team, and
Speaker 1: now they've you know, gone these their separate ways and
Speaker 1: now they're meeting again. So it's it's the biggest smallest
Speaker 1: fraternity on the planet in some sense. So it's a
Speaker 1: tough day, but it's necessary. It's necessary. Ninety guys get
Speaker 1: a shot, you get down to fifty three, and then
Speaker 1: of course you got waiver claims. You got all kinds
Speaker 1: of ways to build your roster. So I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see what Nick and Miko are going to do. Having
Speaker 1: the number two priority spot on the waiver wire is
Speaker 1: going to be really interesting. My guess is there will
Speaker 1: be at least two that come in through that waiver process.
Speaker 7: One more thing on this just kind of as a whole,
Speaker 7: all ninety guys in the locker room were unless with
Speaker 7: the rarest of exceptions, all ninety of those guys, each
Speaker 7: one of them, when they were in little league basketball
Speaker 7: or little league football they played, or baseball or track
Speaker 7: or whatever soccer, they were the kid that everyone in
Speaker 7: the league was like.
Speaker 6: Dude, that guy's really good.
Speaker 1: Scared of ye.
Speaker 6: Every single one of them, you know.
Speaker 7: It was just like an absolute stud, clearly head and
Speaker 7: shoulders better than everybody in there. And some of them,
Speaker 7: like half of them are getting cut. Half of them
Speaker 7: are getting cut. So it's something I kind of think
Speaker 7: about every single time, you know, because I help coach,
Speaker 7: you know, I've got little kids. Every time I'm out
Speaker 7: at something and I see some kid that's good, I
Speaker 7: automatically think to myself, he's.
Speaker 6: Probably not going to do anything beyond college at.
Speaker 7: Most if that, And so it's just that's how rare
Speaker 7: these guys are. That's just something that it's like a
Speaker 7: good perspective.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh my son, he had a triple. Well, you
Speaker 6: know what, it's probably might not even play.
Speaker 7: After junior so youth sports or anything.
Speaker 6: But it's kind of more to magnify.
Speaker 7: Yes, these guys are getting cut, but they are not bums.
Speaker 6: They are they were.
Speaker 7: Studs of studs back in the day, and it's just
Speaker 7: something that that's got to be tough to take for
Speaker 7: them in that regard, knowing that they've been pretty much
Speaker 7: the best. They were the best in college I mean,
Speaker 7: think about your your favorite college football team. If it
Speaker 7: was a really really good one, maybe eight or nine
Speaker 7: went to the NFL from it. I mean then that's
Speaker 7: like they might have won a national title if that happened.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean we talked about the two thousand
Speaker 1: and one Miami Hurricanes and I think I think it
Speaker 1: was forty five guys were drafted. Greatest college football team
Speaker 1: of all time. There's a pole that ended up on Twitter,
Speaker 1: so I think it was Fox Sports put up a
Speaker 1: pole and they put five teams they didn't put they
Speaker 1: put greatest tower, most talented college football teams of all time.
Speaker 1: They didn't put the two thousand and one Miami Hurricanes,
Speaker 1: and like you dope oversight, forty five players from that
Speaker 1: two thousand and one team ended up being drafted. And
Speaker 1: we talked about that that is talented team. That's forty
Speaker 1: five of eighty five scholarship players. So I mean there
Speaker 1: were forty that ended up not being drafted or not
Speaker 1: going to the NFL. So it's, you know it every
Speaker 1: level filters it out as you go through, and you know,
Speaker 1: you're right. I'm glad you brought it up because you're
Speaker 1: going to hear a lot of this, Oh that guy's
Speaker 1: a bomb, he can't play, and you know with some
Speaker 1: guys sitting at a keyboard that's never you know, played
Speaker 1: a day of football in his life. And so there's
Speaker 1: that perspective that gets lost for sure. And I understand
Speaker 1: it because you know, fans are you know short, you know,
Speaker 1: short for fanatics, So I get it. I understand it
Speaker 1: to a degree. But the truth of it is, there
Speaker 1: are going to be some really talented dudes that were
Speaker 1: all Americans, that were you know, award winners. Desmond King
Speaker 1: was a I think he was a Jim Thorpe award
Speaker 1: winner back in Iowa. So there are a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys that are going to be looking for opportunities.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there are no bums at all, not in
Speaker 1: that locker room and not in the NFL for sure.
Speaker 7: That's right. Okay, let's move on to this. CJ Stroud
Speaker 7: looked good. We've talked a lot about what we saw
Speaker 7: from him the other night. The ball placement outstanding, which
Speaker 7: is something that gets talked about over and over and
Speaker 7: over again, justifiably so through the touchdown pass. Zipped it
Speaker 7: in there at an Eco, loved it. Damian Pierce was
Speaker 7: money on that drive as well to help set it up.
Speaker 7: Four runs for twenty seven yards and then Stroud throws
Speaker 7: the thirteen yard or on third down to Schultzen, then
Speaker 7: the touchdown to Nico Collins. Bing, bang baba boom. You're
Speaker 7: done for the preseason. I like in between now and then, John,
Speaker 7: this is the Twitter question of the day. In between
Speaker 7: now and Sunday at noon Central time, Week one at Baltimore,
Speaker 7: What must CJ Stroud do?
Speaker 1: The basic premise that I or the basic thing that
Speaker 1: I would like to see from CJ is when he
Speaker 1: walks up to the line, how many of her times
Speaker 1: that he walks up to the line of scrimmage, that
Speaker 1: he's able to look across at that Ravens defense and
Speaker 1: have an idea of what he's going to see. And
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about Oh, there's a Jabo, there's
Speaker 1: oh Way, and there's Matabique and oh Roque. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the personnel per se, and it's good personnel.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Okay, I'm seeing them in. There's Nickel.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no model on Humphrey. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play in this one. This is the personnel
Speaker 1: grouping they have typically out of this group in the past,
Speaker 1: they like to play this coverage or they're this front.
Speaker 1: I want him to be able to get up to
Speaker 1: the line. Script a couple of things. Get out of
Speaker 1: the huddle with at least twenty to twenty five seconds left,
Speaker 1: Get them to the line scrimmage because Bobby slow It
Speaker 1: can help him in those five to ten seconds, because
Speaker 1: Bobby can sit there and tell them, Okay, here's the play,
Speaker 1: get the play out, get everybody to the line scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and Bobby can say, hey, they're in this coverage. He
Speaker 1: can he can help him with that up until there's
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds left, right, So if but CJ's got to
Speaker 1: have an idea of what he's going to see. Is
Speaker 1: it's gonna be cover three? Is this cover four? Is
Speaker 1: this Man is It? Man matches It? Lurk is Robert?
Speaker 1: All these different kind of coverages that you know that
Speaker 1: the Ravens will play. What are some of their giveaways?
Speaker 1: So live in that film room. Get to a point
Speaker 1: where you have a process down. Now he's got two
Speaker 1: weeks now, but get your process down for how you
Speaker 1: prepare for a team. What are the things that you
Speaker 1: want to know? What's the you know? What are their
Speaker 1: sub packaged groupings they like? You know? Are they have
Speaker 1: blitz team? Are they are they a zone team? Are
Speaker 1: they a man match team? They like play a lot
Speaker 1: of man they like fire zones? What are the things
Speaker 1: that I know? Mike McDonald, the coordinator for the Ravens,
Speaker 1: gonna show CJ some things he hasn't seen. But at
Speaker 1: least if he has a pretty solid understanding of their
Speaker 1: base schemes and a lot of the things their their
Speaker 1: pet plays, then you're then CJ is gonna be better
Speaker 1: off because there's gonna be something he sees in that
Speaker 1: game that's new for sure, absolutely new for sure. And
Speaker 1: so there's gonna be some time he's gonna go over
Speaker 1: to Bobby and go, I don't know, Bobby, we didn't
Speaker 1: see I haven't seen that it's gonna happen. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if he can have a basic understanding that doesn't happen
Speaker 1: too often, then I think the Texans offense will be Okay.
Speaker 1: What will slow it down will be you know what,
Speaker 1: there's an unblocked guy because they thought it was so
Speaker 1: they had seen it before and they weren't, or you
Speaker 1: know how the rules, you know, a protection were supposed
Speaker 1: to apply, and then CJ gets hit fumble and you
Speaker 1: know the way you go. I think the biggest thing, though,
Speaker 1: is if he can get some help from Bobby during
Speaker 1: that game. But the biggest thing to me is just
Speaker 1: being mentally prepared physically. You mentioned it drew. His ballplacement's
Speaker 1: on point. I mean, you know, you and I have
Speaker 1: been talking about that since you know, May of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, going into his last year.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's one of the most accurate college football
Speaker 7: quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's his ballplace was incredible and so
Speaker 1: you want to give him time to be able to
Speaker 1: do that. So the game is gonna feel really really fast.
Speaker 1: But I think the best thing for CJ was going
Speaker 1: against that Dolphins defense. That was really good for his confidence.
Speaker 1: This is how fast it's gonna be, and probably even faster.
Speaker 1: So they got to put together a game plan that
Speaker 1: allows that to flourish. I think it is gonna sound crazy,
Speaker 1: but they gotta lets CJ on cork one long deep early,
Speaker 1: get some of that angst out. Maybe you hit it,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't, but just put the Ravens unnoticed that
Speaker 1: you're gonna send them all down the field a little bit.
Speaker 7: And and really I kind of think, don't you think
Speaker 7: from what we saw on that first series, the one
Speaker 7: that the Texan did not score, don't you think of
Speaker 7: showing that in the preseason?
Speaker 6: And I know, hey, it's preseason table.
Speaker 7: Whatever, but don't you think that is maybe in part
Speaker 7: a little bit of a message like, hey, this this
Speaker 7: club is in the bag, NFL just just be ready,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, absolutely, And the reason I talk about.
Speaker 7: Not gonna be able to stack the box like you
Speaker 7: did last year against Pierce.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, honestly, I'm I'm not even really concerned about that, Dre.
Speaker 1: I think I think what happens in a game is
Speaker 1: players get so amped up in a game, especially quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, as a quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: coaches are like, hey, let's run this play, and you
Speaker 1: think it's an easy throw, but it's not because the
Speaker 1: quarterback is so amped up. The easiest throw that you
Speaker 1: can make as a quarterback is to take three steps
Speaker 1: and haul off and throw as far as you can
Speaker 1: because you get all that if you think about just
Speaker 1: throwing deep and you get all that anks kind of
Speaker 1: out of your body. I mean, even if you throw
Speaker 1: it ten yards over, you now have just like let
Speaker 1: all that stress and everything go, and now you can
Speaker 1: loosen up and start to make those throws. So I
Speaker 1: think it has kind of a three pronged approach. Really,
Speaker 1: you put the ravens on blast you, then maybe you
Speaker 1: hit it, maybe you don't, which would be great if
Speaker 1: you did. And then thirdly, you get all that ankst
Speaker 1: out as a quarterback, and now you can settle in
Speaker 1: and now you can make those throws. Sometimes when you
Speaker 1: ask the quarterback to make the first third down throw
Speaker 1: in third and eight. And now you're asking to throw
Speaker 1: into three guys, and a guy that's all amped up
Speaker 1: and juiced up is gonna throw it one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour probably high could be intercepted, but maybe you
Speaker 1: throw it deep, could be intercepted. You know, it's happened before.
Speaker 1: But really, what you're doing. If the guy does pick
Speaker 1: it off, it's a long punt. I guess it's kind
Speaker 1: of the worst thing that could happen. But the good
Speaker 1: kind of out weighs the bad for everybody involved in
Speaker 1: that to see them kind of open it up, and
Speaker 1: they did the other day, and I think that helps.
Speaker 1: CJ dropped it right in a damn bucket, so I
Speaker 1: do think that. But it's just the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: just knowing what you're looking at on the other side
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage, having an idea of what
Speaker 1: you could see, because post snap you might see some
Speaker 1: crazy stuff, but trust your eyes after the snap. Know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna see. Trust your eyes after the snap.
Speaker 1: So there's gotta be a lot of mental work that
Speaker 1: he's got to do between now and then, and then
Speaker 1: take that process and apply it sixteen more times throughout
Speaker 1: the year and that's gonna be tough as a rookie
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a lot of things he sees,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, he walks over to the sidelines as
Speaker 1: he goes drawed, Bobby, I've never seen that before. So
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to come to grips with that, and
Speaker 1: hopefully he does it pretty quickly. Yep, hoping that CJ
Speaker 1: does that very quickly. All Right, we get back. We
Speaker 1: will go around the NFL. Plenty of things happening.
Speaker 3: Around the NFL.
Speaker 1: The Colts apparently made a trade request from the Dolphins
Speaker 1: that had everybody up in arms. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: next on Texans All Access.
Speaker 4: Chickson's radio continues in a moment back to the show
Speaker 4: that keeps you plugged in with the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we got a few minutes left here on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.
Speaker 3: Will be back on tomorrow night with the General.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got a lot to say with everything
Speaker 1: that has been going on and probably shares our our.
Speaker 3: Our concerned about it.
Speaker 1: Not so much concerned, but just how is this offensive
Speaker 1: line gonna come together? Kind Of got fingers crossed about
Speaker 1: juice Scruggs and Titus Howard.
Speaker 3: My gut tells me Titus yes. My gut tells me
Speaker 3: Titus yes.
Speaker 1: For Baltimore, and I hope I'm right, Juice, my gut
Speaker 1: tells me no. Just seeing him go off the field
Speaker 1: and limping that boy man, especially if it's a hamstring,
Speaker 1: and I could tell from experience with hamstrings they suck
Speaker 1: and they never never feel good in the year that
Speaker 1: you heard it. In fact, it bothers you the year
Speaker 1: after you heard it as well. A couple of things
Speaker 1: around the league that you know pretty interesting. A couple
Speaker 1: of Texans ended up, as you heard Drew and I
Speaker 1: talk about in the Lab, Desmid King, Christian kirkshy cup
Speaker 1: by the Texans. Kirk Gooh is going to end up
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills practice squad, and Desmond King has
Speaker 1: added to the Pittsburgh Stealers fifty three man roster. A
Speaker 1: few other Texans ended up on practice squads. Mario Rodgers,
Speaker 1: who was released probably halfway through camp, he ended up
Speaker 1: in the Colts practice squad, amongst others. I like to
Speaker 1: see in Christian Covington he got back with the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Even the Chargers practice squad if you remember Cove from
Speaker 1: Rice and also early in the well the mid.
Speaker 3: Twenty tens, he was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Bailey Zappi is going to go back to the Patriots
Speaker 1: on the practice squad.
Speaker 3: He cleared waivers.
Speaker 1: So if you're worried, not like I was about Bailey
Speaker 1: Zappi and the Patriots only had one quarterback, well then
Speaker 1: now they've got two. It's just Bailey's on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: and you might have a practice squad elevation and we'll
Speaker 1: see what the Patriots do.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, you don't want talking about the
Speaker 3: Patriots anymore.
Speaker 1: Apparently the second team in on the Jonathan Taylor trade.
Speaker 1: Sweet steaks if you will, the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3: I had to when I heard that, I wha wait
Speaker 3: a second. They already got Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon.
Speaker 1: Now, look, Jonathan Taylor is better than those two, not
Speaker 1: by much over Aaron Jones. Aaron he and Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: are just different backs. But you have Jonathan Taylor and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. You could send AJ Dillon to the Colts
Speaker 1: and just let him be a hammer for them. And
Speaker 1: you have Aaron Jones and Jonathan Taylor and Green Bay
Speaker 1: to go on with Jordan Love and Holy smokes, but
Speaker 1: that didn't come to fruition. Now, the Colts apparently went
Speaker 1: on the offensive, which I don't blame them. Well, in Miami,
Speaker 1: Dolphins called and made some exploratory uh talks with the
Speaker 1: Colts about trading for Jonathan Taylor. The Colts are like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll make a deal, throw Jalen Waddle in that deal.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins are like, wrong number who this. They
Speaker 1: immediately got off the phone and said at that point,
Speaker 1: you know, look, the Colts are not serious about this.
Speaker 3: They're asking for Jaylen Wattle.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, and I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: have kind of lampooned that today. If I'm the Colts,
Speaker 1: I probably did the same thing. If you're gonna trade
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, you need to get something back in return,
Speaker 1: so ask for Jalen Waddle. What the Colts did, though,
Speaker 1: is bought themselves time. And this is what worries me.
Speaker 1: If they bought themselves time. And at that point, if
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard has time, and I've known Chris for a
Speaker 1: long time, and Chris went to Wisconsin, and so Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: and so there's a connection there I think Jim Ersay
Speaker 1: being involved complicates things. But if they could somehow nudge
Speaker 1: Ersay out of it and just let Ballard deal with Taylor,
Speaker 1: they may be able to come to some sort of agreement. Now,
Speaker 1: the thing about it is Chris is not one to
Speaker 1: throw a lot of money at positions that aren't in
Speaker 1: the front seven or on the offensive line. He's gonna
Speaker 1: pay trenches guys, There's no question that's where he puts
Speaker 1: his money. But can he repair the relationship enough to
Speaker 1: get Taylor back after week four? Now, we won't play
Speaker 1: them until week eighteen, after week two, so we're not
Speaker 1: gonna see in week two. Yay, So they can figure
Speaker 1: it out between now and then. But apparently the Packers
Speaker 1: we went under Joha Taylor trade sweepstakes, and the Colts
Speaker 1: asked the Dolphins for Jayalen Waddle.
Speaker 3: Crazy stuff going on in the NFL.
Speaker 1: As we move on to week number one, coming up
Speaker 1: very well, we're eight days away from the opener, Lions
Speaker 1: at Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Eight days.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't get here fast enough. A
Speaker 1: big thanks to Chris Santiago. That dude kicks ass. He
Speaker 1: is awesome. I love that guy and what he does
Speaker 1: for us, to Mark for being here, for Drew, for
Speaker 1: all of you for listening.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next time, everybody, and as always, go Texans.