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Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. Here are your hosts, Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandermere and John Harris. Good morning from Sonny beautiful Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center. Mark Vandermar John Harris, Day two

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Speaker 1: of training camp. Great to have you, Lar, George Ariaga,

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Speaker 1: our engineer Chris Jones back in the studio producing Christopher Roots,

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Speaker 1: helping us out today and we are ready to rock

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Speaker 1: with another Texans practice after yesterday's fruitful start. And I

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Speaker 1: short game. The short game is the crucial game. Red zone,

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Speaker 1: I used to watch it. Last kik QT many thanks,

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Speaker 1: This has been the Dirty dozen. Good luck, Thank you

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, that's what I watched too when I

427
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Speaker 1: was a kid getting home from school. Exact same thing,

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Speaker 1: except I watched the ABC after school special. All right. Well,

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Speaker 1: see here's the thing, and you have realized this as

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Speaker 1: a parent. You go back and watch you're watching shows.

431
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Speaker 1: You end up watching shows you would never watch because

432
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Speaker 1: you have kids. Drake and Josh is one of those

433
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Speaker 1: for my kids too, because they loved Drake and they

434
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Speaker 1: loved Drake and Josh, so they'd be watching it. That's

435
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Speaker 1: sitting there and watch I watch a ton of Drake

436
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Speaker 1: and Josh. See. You know the whole thing, don't you.

437
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Speaker 1: I don't know the whole thing. But speaking of the

438
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Speaker 1: NYC After School special, how about this. ABC thirteen has

439
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Speaker 1: our preseason games, Okay, and that's gonna be Spencer Tillman,

440
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Speaker 1: Kevin Coogler, Drew Doherty on the sideline. You're gonna be

441
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Speaker 1: out a little bit this year. That was gonna be

442
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Speaker 1: fun and we have all this great content Bill O'Brien

443
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Speaker 1: at the half with fun and interesting telestrator segments that

444
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Speaker 1: have never been seen before that are gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you, I listen, Are you gonna reveal something? No,

446
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna revel alert. I know

447
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Speaker 1: people over the years from outside the city. You know

448
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Speaker 1: that Folly NFL. We were one of the first groups

449
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Speaker 1: to do that, and it'll be we're one of the

450
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Speaker 1: first to do the telestrator. You know, Belichick done it,

451
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Speaker 1: Um and we did it who and we fun. We

452
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Speaker 1: had a professional sense. We had a fun time doing it.

453
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Speaker 1: But we changed the format and we made it. We

454
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Speaker 1: made it more streamlined, and you can see that in

455
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Speaker 1: all the telestrators we've done. We've changed the format. We

456
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Speaker 1: shoot it now in our and our digital studio and

457
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Speaker 1: it's it's so much easier. And so I had eight plays.

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Speaker 1: We sat down and I said, Okay, look, these are

459
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Speaker 1: the ones I picked. These are these are why I

460
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Speaker 1: picked them, And I'm telling you They're as good as

461
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Speaker 1: anything that I've seen. He's so good. I mean, I

462
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Speaker 1: can't even begin to tell you how good these things are.

463
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Speaker 1: I can't wait till we unveil him because he goes

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Speaker 1: into detail on those unlike he's ever done before. And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, WHOA, I didn't know that. And I mean

466
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Speaker 1: I watched this team off everything. There were some things

467
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Speaker 1: that I learned coming out of those and you're gonna,

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Speaker 1: absolutely you do not want to miss those at preseason happen.

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Speaker 1: You do not want to miss They're gonna they're fantastic,

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Speaker 1: really really good. Every preseason game streamed on the Texans

471
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Speaker 1: app also, so check it out there, so if you're

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Speaker 1: out watching the kids at football practice because it's all

473
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Speaker 1: the teams are getting back soon. Stream it, man, watch it,

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Speaker 1: listen to it, watch it at home any which way

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Speaker 1: you can. You're gonna get your preseason games and your

476
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Speaker 1: regular season games too, by the way, you can stream those.

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Speaker 1: Watch me from those into this discussion. So one of

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Speaker 1: the plays that I wanted build a tell straight and

479
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Speaker 1: to go over was Will Fuller's touchdown against Miami seventy

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Speaker 1: three yarder against Miami right, and it's a route that

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Speaker 1: they've run for forever. Hop on one side, Fuller on

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Speaker 1: the other. It's just basically a deep scissors route. And

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Speaker 1: I wanted when when you see it, when you watch

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Speaker 1: the play, you watch you all twenty two, you see

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Speaker 1: Will run that route, and you're like, well he just

486
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Speaker 1: just runs by. The guy's just faster than him. But

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Speaker 1: I knew there was more to it, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see if if coach would would explain

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Speaker 1: a little bit further, like what went into it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: went into it? And he didn't yeah, And he didn't

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Speaker 1: exactly say, but he said, look, you've got to be

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Speaker 1: smart on this route because you have four or five

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Speaker 1: different options on this route. So you're watching it, go

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Speaker 1: wait a second, he just runs a deep route on

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Speaker 1: that one route, he has four or five will go deep, right,

496
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Speaker 1: It is Will as he's running, has got to read

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Speaker 1: what he's seeing, and if he's seeing a particular coverage,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna run this. If he sees the coverage, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna do that. If he's so he gives you that.

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Speaker 1: He didn't tell me what all those different options were, right,

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Speaker 1: but he said he's got four or five different options.

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Speaker 1: And that made me think about the progress of receivers

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Speaker 1: in this offense that once you have it down, once

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Speaker 1: you have this offense down pat and you're understanding how

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Speaker 1: to read defenses, which is gonna take a little while,

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Speaker 1: which is why kikqt will continue over the next few

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Speaker 1: years to evolved that way. But Will's been in this

508
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Speaker 1: offense is now at four year four. Hop's been in

509
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Speaker 1: this offense since twenty fourteen. They they have the answers

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Speaker 1: to the test. So you play a particular zone, you

511
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Speaker 1: play Matt zone, you play Man match, however you're gonna

512
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Speaker 1: play them. They've got the answers even on on something

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Speaker 1: as simple as that route, which just looks like a

514
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Speaker 1: deep scissors route. They've got options. So depending on how

515
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Speaker 1: you want to cover them, they've got the answers. And

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Speaker 1: when you have that speed to go with the answers,

517
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Speaker 1: you got an opportunity to do some really good things

518
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Speaker 1: to burn. I want to get the general's thoughts on

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Speaker 1: how Will looked yesterday, how Watson looked some of the

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Speaker 1: takeaways from job acclaim for the Houston Chronicle on day

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Speaker 1: one of training camp. As we are starting day two

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Speaker 1: on the field. We're taking your right here all camp long,

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Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks anyway until the preseason opener

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Speaker 1: against Green Bay, which is Can I say this now

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Speaker 1: one week from Thursday? How does that sound to you? Oh? Man, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we're in that camp. We're less than two weeks,

527
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Speaker 1: We're less than two weeks away from the open MBO field.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. It's Texans Training Camp Live, Tens

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Speaker 1: Training Camp Lives. This is Jonathan Joseph, I'm Bill O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: and you're listening to Texans Radio Radio. Texans Radio Live

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Speaker 1: on the Field affused the Methodist Training Center, Mark Finder,

532
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Speaker 1: Mayor John Harris for Texans Training Cap Texans Radio. Yes,

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Speaker 1: as John McClean is with us right now. The general

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Speaker 1: from the Houston Chronicle joins us and it's always great

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Speaker 1: to visit with him, So good morning, John. Biggest takeaway

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Speaker 1: from yesterday number one thing, number one thing that stands

537
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Speaker 1: out to you. Can I give you one on both

538
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Speaker 1: sides of the rights acceptable was a great green zone

539
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Speaker 1: pass from de Shaun Watson to Jordan Thomas right in

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Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, perfectly thrown in the

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Speaker 1: corner over the outstretched hands of the DBS. It couldn't

542
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Speaker 1: have been thrown any better. And of course those two

543
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Speaker 1: collaborate on four touchdowns last year, which was all the

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Speaker 1: touchdowns that tight end scored. I think Jordan Thomas is

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Speaker 1: going to take a huge leap this year and become

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Speaker 1: a big time weapon. So that was on offense and

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Speaker 1: on defense. A guy that they really need to play

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Speaker 1: well right off the bat at a position of that's

549
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Speaker 1: needs to get better quick was Lonnie Johnson, who was

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Speaker 1: limited in the offseason because of injury. He just looked

551
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Speaker 1: so good size wise, six two two thirteen runs and

552
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Speaker 1: four fourth made a great interception in which he took

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Speaker 1: a running leap and caught the ball held onto it

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Speaker 1: when he hit the ground. It was intended for Juster Wia,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, that's the kind of play that gets

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Speaker 1: the attention of Romeo Carnal, Bill O'Brien and secondary coach

557
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: Anthony Midget. But man, if you can you imagine, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying he's got to make those plays every game,

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Speaker 1: but if he could just be out on the field

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Speaker 1: and show progress enough, because at some point, you know,

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Speaker 1: they may need him outside opposite Jonathan Joseph and Bradley

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Speaker 1: Roby to go inside. And it was a big time

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Speaker 1: played by Lonnie Johnson, which you don't realize as if

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen Lonnie Johnson and other fans to be

565
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Speaker 1: at here next week and they can see for themselves.

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Speaker 1: He's as big as any defensive act that's ever walked

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Speaker 1: through these doors. He's long, he's big. I see him

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Speaker 1: in the hallway sometimes and I'm like, who's that linebacker,

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Speaker 1: and I realized, no, no, no, that's Lonnie. That's a corner.

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Speaker 1: So if he with that length and that size can

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Speaker 1: just improve his acumen and understanding of the defense, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna end up being a player. Speaking of players, john

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Speaker 1: what was your level of surprise if you will that

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt came off pup yesterday and was ready to

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Speaker 1: go to Day one. When I was saw him walk

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Speaker 1: out with his helmet on and pads, you know, the

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Speaker 1: shells and the gloves. Yeah, you know, he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be wearing his gloves out here, so we shouldn't be surprised.

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Speaker 1: But I wasn't expecting him. I thought it'd be a

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Speaker 1: couple of practices and courts anytime Watt's here. You guys

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Speaker 1: talked about this at the start of the show. It

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Speaker 1: picks things up on both sides of the ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a buzz when JJ's out there. It's not just

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Speaker 1: because he's a superstar. It's because of how hard he

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Speaker 1: works and he sets an example for everybody. So if

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Speaker 1: some young guy or a new guy, or a player

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Speaker 1: coming off an injury, or a guy who's a little tired,

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Speaker 1: although I don't get tired in this weather, if they

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Speaker 1: see if they think, oh man, I need to take

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Speaker 1: a breather, and they see what thirty years old busting

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Speaker 1: his butt like he's a rookie, I think that rubs off.

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Speaker 1: It's very, very contagious on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 1: John will Fuller thoughts now there's one. I was surprised.

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Speaker 1: I thought that they would take it easy on him

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Speaker 1: and not put him out there immediately. He looks great.

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Speaker 1: You know he's in. He's got a chance to make

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of money if he can stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: And thirteen touchdowns in thirteen games with Watson that is

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Speaker 1: so impressive. And he just adds that other dimension he takes.

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Speaker 1: He helps, not just DeAndre Hopkins, although he say that

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Speaker 1: how much better could Hopkin be than he is already?

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Speaker 1: But he helps the tight ends the middle of the field.

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Speaker 1: You know, they can't put one corner on him and

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Speaker 1: say turn and run with Will Fuller. So he's a

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Speaker 1: game changer. And you guys talked about the receivers. My goodness,

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Speaker 1: if the first three could stay healthy, and we know

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Speaker 1: Hopkins will since he's only missed one game in six years,

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Speaker 1: but if the other two could stay healthy instead of

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Speaker 1: miss nineteen games together, maybe miss a couple, this offense

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Speaker 1: can be great. I mean, there's so many choices on

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Speaker 1: the menu. If those three stay healthy and the tight

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Speaker 1: ends and they want to get Lamar Miller more involved.

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Speaker 1: People wonder why Miller plays. He's not great in anything,

614
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Speaker 1: but he's a good receiver who had to spend too

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Speaker 1: much time blocking last year. And he also is an

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Speaker 1: excellent blocker. And before people wonder when Deonte Foreman could

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Speaker 1: win the starting job, well he's got to be able

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Speaker 1: to do all three of those things. Well, like, they

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Speaker 1: know what they got with Miller, but they like to

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Speaker 1: get Miller the ball more. As a receiver, well, how

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do it with all those tight heads?

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Speaker 1: And if the top three receivers are healthy, Well, that's

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Speaker 1: the one thing about the receiving crew. Two. You can

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Speaker 1: hit every area on the field with those three guys.

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Speaker 1: If you feel like, hey, the game is playing out

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Speaker 1: this way, QT can work in the middle, games playing

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Speaker 1: out this way where their their shout that umbrella is

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Speaker 1: tightening down. Because the run games working, will can go

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Speaker 1: over the top. And then with DeAndre you can do

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Speaker 1: anything short routes, intermediate, deep, you can do a lot

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Speaker 1: of so you can hit every area on the field.

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Speaker 1: And if they're saying, look, we're just gonna take away

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Speaker 1: all that perimeter stuff, then you got the tight ends

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Speaker 1: throw it to them and they guy you mentioned, Deonta Foreman,

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Speaker 1: who has pillow soft hands that nobody ever knew because

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Speaker 1: Texas they were throwing the ball while he was there.

637
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: I just saw Matt Khalil walk by John the while ago.

638
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: I was surprised to see him out here because we

639
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: had not heard anything in Bads one day. He's not

640
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: interviewed him afterward, and I'm doing a story on him

641
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: for Saturday. And one of the things I asked him

642
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: about was his wife, Hailey, Sports illustrated swimsuit model for

643
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: the last Oh yeah, he's a very, very talkative She

644
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: graduated with honors and a degree in biology and psychology.

645
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: And he says that he because last year while he

646
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: was rehabbing in Carolina, she was getting all this attention.

647
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: You know, usually it's an NFL player he's in the

648
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: front and the wives in the background. But he said

649
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: he loves it. The fact that he said she's smart,

650
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: she can handle everything that's thrown on her, that those

651
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: responsive abilities, and she's as big as fan and his

652
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: biggest supporter, and how proud he is. And he also

653
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: talked about I asked him myself. You know a lot

654
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: of people have written you off. They think after missing

655
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: two of the last three years, you won't make the team,

656
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: your career be over. He said, I don't have Instagram,

657
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: and remember he got off Twitter. I saw a story

658
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: online about that over a year ago. He's at out

659
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: homes with any of that stuff. He said, I know

660
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: what my coaches and my teammates say, and that's all

661
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: that's important to me. And he talked about how much

662
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: better he feels mentally. He's got it all down and

663
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: he's a smart guy. He's thirty years old, he's former

664
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: fourth overall pick, and he's fired up about the possibilities

665
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: winning that left tackle job. John, what about this coaching

666
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: staff and the additions of the players specifically, I just

667
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: saw Brian Cushing walk by. And by the way, if

668
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: they need a spot start at linebacker, they need depth outside,

669
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: they abdy just put some pads on him. If if well, look,

670
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: this is what I always say about guys who are

671
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: advanced in age in this league. It's not that they

672
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: can't play anymore. They just can't play every week anymore. Right,

673
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he could, maybe he could give you

674
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: a game. He looks sold. He's one year older than

675
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: Watton Khalil and younger than John Weeks, and he just

676
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: looks great. So I have him. Andre Johnson, T J

677
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: Yates came that Josh Cribbs is an intern here. Coaching wise,

678
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: I just think that these guys are such great truth

679
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: tellers for Bill O'Brien to give him feedback as to

680
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: what the players are feeling and seeing and experiencing. That

681
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: there's gonna be better communication than ever before between coaching

682
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: staff and players. I love having former players on a staff,

683
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: whether it's a camp, whether it's full time like t J.

684
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: Yates working with Mike Devlin and the offensive line, Andre

685
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: of course with the receivers. And I think it came Dan.

686
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: He wasn't here as long as the others were, but

687
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: he from the moment he left, he stayed in touch

688
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: with O'Brien about wanting to become a coach, and Bill

689
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: likes that kind of enthusiasm and former players who are

690
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: interested in that. And cors Andre Johnson when he was

691
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: being inducted into Texas Sports Hall of Fame, I did

692
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: a story with him. He said he didn't he didn't

693
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: know exactly wanted to be. Thought he might want to

694
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: be a president or Gerald Andrew and the time I said, well,

695
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: Jamie Rhods and Brian Gage, they better be looking over

696
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: their shoulder and now, of course his titles have changed,

697
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: and so I told him, I said, well, one job's open,

698
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: and he's And I like the fact that he has

699
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: a lot of different things he might want to do

700
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: because he's seen it all in his career. And it's

701
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: fun to watch the players interacting, especially him and Hop,

702
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: considering where Hop was when he came into the league,

703
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: how much he relied on Andre and I just I

704
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: think it's tremendous to have them, and too bad they

705
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 1: can't suit up Josh Cribbs as the kickoff returner because

706
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: he's one of the all time best. You're exactly right.

707
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: I think people hear that and go, wait a second,

708
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: but if you had Josh Cribbs on your fantasy team,

709
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: oh boy, you remember how long? Had he was the

710
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: only thing exciting about the Browns for the longest time. Yep.

711
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: Now it's gone quite the other. It's unbelievable. It's like

712
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: it's like the Browns are Britney Spears in the late nineties.

713
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 1: It's like they can't get enough. I'm like, turn it off. General.

714
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: Well least she looked good. Yeah, Well, I don't know.

715
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, what are you looking at today? In practice.

716
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: What what's kind of going into the bubble, which I

717
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: don't like because we can't see as much, can't move

718
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: around as much. And and the players like it. They

719
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: like being indoors. They subed out that uh fielding there

720
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: and it's so much more smament better than it used

721
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: to be. Remember when Gary Kubiak would not make the

722
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: veterans like Owen Daniels Andre Johnson practice when they had

723
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: to go indoors because of the weather. Well, everything is

724
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: perfect they've made and you guys see it from behind

725
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: the scenes. But they made so many changes on everything here.

726
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: The mcnarians spent a lot of money to make it

727
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: as ideally ideal as possible to help them win, and

728
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: including in the bubble. So I'm gonna I like I

729
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: take my eyes off of Watson. The more I watch

730
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 1: him in practice, the more he reminds me of Warren Moon.

731
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: A charisma leadership, not outgoing, but players gravitate to him

732
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: when he's not throwing the ball. His passes or Chris

733
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: they're on target, they're perfect, and he just reminds me

734
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: of Moon. And I saw every practice Moon had for

735
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: ten years, and that's quite a compliment. And you hope

736
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: that Deshaun can take the Texans farther than moondhim, because

737
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: they never even got to an AFC Championship game when

738
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: Warren Moon was there, despite having a great offense. And

739
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 1: I believe, and I've said this and I'll say it again.

740
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: I've written it too. I think the Texans gonna win

741
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl with watching at quarterback. That's how much.

742
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: And I base so much of it, not just on

743
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: what I see, but when I hear, especially how he

744
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: is off the field in the meeting rooms. He's just

745
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: got the it factor that is so important two teams

746
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: that want to win big John, Since you're on the subject,

747
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: or you were of Warren Moon, let me just ask

748
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: you this. If Warren Moon doesn't go to Canada, if

749
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: he didn't have to go to Canada right after college,

750
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: where does he end up? He would have been a

751
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: defensive back? Well, no, but let's say he can play quarterbacks?

752
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: Oh where he could play? Because the reason he went

753
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: to Canada and he didn't wait for the draft, his

754
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: teams talked about him as a defensive bike, as a

755
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: safety because Warren did not have blazing speed. You know,

756
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: back then you'd see a fast black guy who's six three,

757
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: and you'd say, okay, he needs to play wide receiver,

758
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: and Moon they were talking about in the secondary. So

759
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: he and his agent, Lee Steinberg put their heads together

760
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: and Lee checked around and found a good offer from Edmonton.

761
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: Edmonton wanted him to play, and that's where he went.

762
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: He won five five great Cups for the Edmonton Eskimos

763
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: and arrest was history. But if he had come to

764
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: the NFL, I think he would have been a starter

765
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: right away. A talent eventually would have come out, but

766
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight was a bad time to be

767
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: a bad bot quarterback in the NFL. Well, I think

768
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: he would be. He's tenth on the all time passing

769
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: yards list, still forty nine thousand plus, and there are

770
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: three guys who are still play, actually five guys who

771
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: are still playing ahead of them, ahead of him, because

772
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: the rules have changed and obviously everything's opened up a

773
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: great deal. Breeze is the all time leader, But I

774
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: think Moon would have been a top five guy for sure,

775
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: because Marino put up an ungodly number at the time

776
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: to take over the top spot sixty one thousand and five,

777
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, seventy one thousand, but I think I

778
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: think Moon would be around because forty nine thousand, you

779
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: figure five years in the league, you figure thirty five

780
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 1: hundred minimum yards per year for Warren Moon, and you

781
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: know that'll that'll he wouldn't have started in Yeah, but

782
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: the talent, the cream flows to the top, right, But

783
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: there was a lot of talent there, you know. Let

784
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: me just say times were different, Well, times are different,

785
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: but would have come to the top, but not right away.

786
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: And my second all time favorite professional quarterback was did

787
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: spend some time in the league. Do you know who

788
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: that is? Who's at Well? You know my first, right,

789
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts. My second is Johnny Walton who played for

790
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: the Boston Breakers. Well, and he was a backup to

791
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 1: Ron d Rewarski in Philadelphia and he was African American.

792
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: See actually number ten for the Boston Breakers. He was

793
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: a good player. Yes, that's why I always picked number ten.

794
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: Would I have an option to pick a number? And

795
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 1: speaking of number ten, he's holding a football helmet, so

796
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: that's good news. Yeah, I don't know what that means,

797
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: but it's a helmet. It's a helmet. He didn't have

798
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: a helmet yesterday, did he tell right? I'm just saying,

799
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm just reporting. That's why yesterday on his left leg. Yeah, well,

800
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if you get those guys go about his

801
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: left leg, he didn't have that sleeve sleeve on his

802
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: left leg. Today he might have that in his helmet.

803
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: He might put that on later. Maybe that's certainly where

804
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: I'd carry his sleeve in my helmet. Since we were

805
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: talking about Warren Moon a while ago, John I saw

806
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: Rich Eyes and tweet out earlier this week that they

807
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: did they're gonna do. I think it's six episodes of

808
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: the NFL All Time Team, the all time one hundred players,

809
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: and he got Chris Collinsworth as an analyst, and he

810
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: also got Bill Belichick, which I know how people were like,

811
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: whoa Belichick. I'm not surprised by that. Because you ever

812
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 1: watched NFL films, you realize that Belichick is really really good.

813
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: What did you think when you saw that? And as

814
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: we are in the hundredth year, the hundredth anniversary of

815
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 1: the league, I think there's some pretty cool stuff coming.

816
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: But the fact that Belichick is gonna be speaking on

817
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: that NFL Top one hundred team, what do you think

818
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: of that didn't surprise me. At all, knowing how much

819
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: he loves history, not just of the NFL, but of

820
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: the world, especially World War Two. I thought I saw

821
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: a thing on PBS last year that he hosted that

822
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: he did a great job on, and I think that's tremendous.

823
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: Do I think he's gonna be good at it a personality.

824
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: He'll have great information, but he's no Peyton Manning. The

825
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: best thing coming out on the celebration is Peyton spending

826
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: all last year traveling around a country doing things about

827
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: the history of the league for ESPN Plus to get subscribers.

828
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to subscribe to it just to get that.

829
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: I want to see the Pastorini feature because he hits

830
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,919
Speaker 1: Pastorini with a baseball bat, Yeah in the ribs, because

831
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: that's also flash jacket was invented in nineteen seventy nine.

832
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: He also does a feature with J. J. Watt yep

833
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 1: watch Sack and they watched film together and inside the stadium. Yeah,

834
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: Manning does have that natural sense of humor. But Belichick

835
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: doesn't know the history of the league. And I remember

836
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: when you and Travis Johnson did that show where you

837
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: was doing Classic Yeah, Generation Gap. I took the new

838
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: and he took the old and he could do that.

839
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: Travis is great at that. He is he loves history

840
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: of movies, of music, and I was stunned. Here comes

841
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: a rookie from Florida State and grew up in LA

842
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking he didn't know jack about history and

843
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: he had studied it his whole wife because his parents

844
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: were big on it. That's awesome. Well, that was good, John.

845
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: What do you have going out on the chronicle. I

846
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: have a Matt Khalil's story for tomorrow's Sunday. I'm gonna

847
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: be writing about Bradley Roby. Today I wrote about Shaun

848
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: Watson with the lead about him and what he thought

849
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: about Russell Wesbrook. And now he's going to get front

850
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: Rows steage to watch Wesbrook. So when Aaron Wilson's got stories,

851
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 1: thank you guys for asking. Thank you General John McClain.

852
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: Every weekday at eight thirty during our first couple of

853
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: weeks of camp, here as we discuss what is going

854
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: on here at the Houston Methodist Training Center. The team

855
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: had it into the bubble and I think they're going

856
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: to stay there for the duration of practice today as

857
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: they'll stay out of the heat and it's not going

858
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: to be tremendous heat today. But this is how they're

859
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: handling camp. Remember they were at the Greenbrier for two

860
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: consecutive years now back in Houston, and they want to

861
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 1: reacclimate to heat. I mentioned it earlier that just because

862
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: camp ends at some point doesn't mean the practice and

863
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: the heat ends, So they'll have to continue to go

864
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: that way, and they want to practice. NFL teams do

865
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: this who want to practice around the time of day

866
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: that you play, So they'll have to deal with this

867
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: in September, you're playing around noon or practicing around noon

868
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: one o'clock, and they'll have to get used to the

869
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: auditions here. If they want to practice on the natural

870
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: crass field, they'll go into the bubble sometimes, but they

871
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: don't want to be in there all the time. So

872
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: let's see how they handle things moving forward here. Yeah,

873
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: and again going back to your point inside outside, inside,

874
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, make a decision. Well, really, it's it's all

875
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: about acclimating the team and getting them ready for September

876
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: nineth up in New Orleans. Look, the preseason games are

877
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: important for a lot of guys that are looking to

878
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: make the fifty three man roster. For some of the

879
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: guys just need to shake some of the rust off.

880
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it's September ninth. That's that's

881
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. Get ready for September ninth. And going

882
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,959
Speaker 1: inside helps you do that because look, we as John

883
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: just said, this is beautiful. It really is it in

884
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: comparison to what we have suffered through in the past.

885
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: But like we said, you don't play a ton of

886
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: games outside, go inside, keep everybody nice and cool, and

887
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: give the CRZ and opportunity to kind of the cooling

888
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: refrigeration zone. Is that what it's called climate refrigeration zone

889
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: something like? Yeah, Coach talked about that city's gonna know

890
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: what that acronym is and they're all gonna want one

891
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: in their backyard too. Yeah, Cal said that. I'm thinking, well,

892
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: you know, it might be it might be easier said

893
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: than done to get that accomplished. But out here there's

894
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: no Yeah, smaller version. I call it my refrigerator. All right,

895
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: they're in the bubble and we'll let you know what's happening.

896
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: John's gonna go in and have a peak and get

897
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: some observations for you. Now, next up, position group breakdown

898
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: and today, it's the defensive backs. This is a very

899
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: important area. Well, they're all important, but this is an

900
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: area of focus in the offseason. Acquisitions made, multiple acquisitions.

901
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: We'll talk about them, how they need to fit in

902
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: all of it coming up, and then a little bit

903
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: later on Drew Doherty Deep City, they'll check in. We'll

904
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: let you know what they're observing in practice. In the

905
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: first couple of days so far, we've got Jordan Thomas

906
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: to hear from DJ Reader. A whole lot of shaking

907
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 1: going on a Texans training camp Live on a Texans

908
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: Training Camp Live on a Texans Training Camp Live. Texans

909
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: Training Camp is underway. Get all the breaking news, updates,

910
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: interviews and more right now at Houston Texans dot com.

911
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: Now back to Texans Training Camp Live, presented by Academy

912
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Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors Geico and by PAMA Johns Houston. It's

913
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: such a pleasure to have you listening as we broadcast

914
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: live from the field here Houston Methodist Training Center, Mark Vandamiron,

915
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: John Harrison's Texans Training Camp Live and players, coaches, staff

916
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,959
Speaker 1: making their way into the practice bubble. Just saw Jack

917
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: Easter be walking in, Bill O'Brien walking in practice, getting

918
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: ready to fire up and in the loop. I'll be

919
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: broadcasting from out here after we're done. At ten a m.

920
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. We mentioned this earlier football helmet in hand

921
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: walking into the bubble looking like he's ready for a

922
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: day of practice. John McClean says, he's off pup. So

923
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: there we go. You got what back yesterday? Can you

924
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: even say it was back? I mean he's just on

925
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 1: a list. He never missed a beat in Mopkins day one,

926
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: little sit for the vet and I don't mind these veterans. Six.

927
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: I have no problem problem, I have no problem whatsoever.

928
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: Or so listen, this isn't This isn't the youngest team

929
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I mean like we got key vats

930
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: all over the place. I mean he just take Bernard

931
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: McKinney for instance, five, six, seven, eight nine, he's in

932
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: his fifth year. I mean it feels like he's just

933
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: got here. So this is not a it's not a

934
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: it's not a young football team. It's got young pieces.

935
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that those guys are old, but

936
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: just in terms of NFL. You know, if you think

937
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: about a tree in the rings, tell you they've got

938
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: NFL aged rings on their on their bodies. I mean

939
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: they're so hey. If they take a day off the

940
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 1: look if they take b Mac he gets a day here.

941
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: If you give Hop a day, if you give Way

942
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: a day, even given to Shaun a day, and I

943
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: understand they want to get all the reps in him,

944
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: like I get even given him a day I got.

945
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: I have no no problem with that because I know

946
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: those guys are whatever they've missed on the practice field,

947
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: they're making up for it with working out or doing

948
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: something the side field, or whatever the case might be.

949
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: They're staying sharp and whatever way humanly possible. Look at

950
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: Jjoe gets a day or two. I mean he should.

951
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean he's an NFL senior citizen going into year fourteen.

952
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, if you watch, If you

953
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: watch and you didn't know any of the names, which

954
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: there are no names in the practice jerseys, but you

955
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about this team, you wouldn't look at

956
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,479
Speaker 1: twenty four and go, yeah, this is his fourteenth training camp.

957
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: You would definitely not think that, all right. I mean

958
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: he can still run, all right. So just I'm serious,

959
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: we gotta get through all these So I want no

960
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: more than two maybe two and a half sentences on

961
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: each one. Ready, and then we'll elaborate later. I know

962
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: I had listen. I'm sure you're English teacher in elementary school.

963
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: Middle school is like be concise, Johnny, I was. You

964
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: don't talk to me. Don't give me the schematic of

965
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: how proofrock got it? No, you don't. I do that.

966
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. How many people got the proof

967
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: rock reference? Three people? Thank you? But you enjoyed it,

968
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: all right? Brad the Robi cornerback go, I thought yesterday

969
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. Made a nice play in the back

970
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone, knocking the ball away. He's

971
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: he's key to his defense. Let's just come out and say,

972
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: Bradley Roby has got to be a player for this defense.

973
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: All right. Let me go j Joe on the other side. Okay,

974
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: go oh jj on the other side. Look, he's the

975
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: veteran who knows all, He sees all. He is the

976
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: all knowing omnisction. He knows exactly what's coming at all times.

977
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 1: He reads splits a the wide receiver, he knows the routes.

978
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: He knows these guys inside. Now, who does every player

979
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: tell us they go to the sideline and talk to

980
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: first offense, defense or special teams. Who's that guy? It's

981
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph. That's how valuable he is this. You know, Johnny,

982
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 1: looking at this, you realize just how new these guys are,

983
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: how inexperienced some of them are. I mean, Robi's in

984
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: his sixth year, right, and you mentioned j Joe and

985
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: his fourteenth. Great and Colvin is not inexperience, but he

986
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: has yet to really plan a flag here with this secondary.

987
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 1: But what about him trying to make it in the slot. Well,

988
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: it was interesting watching yesterday with the condensed red zone

989
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: work that they were doing, and Colvin was in the slot.

990
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: I thought he looked as good as I've seen him. Look,

991
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: he looked sharp in the slot, because when you're trying

992
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: to work things down in a condensed red zone, I

993
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: mean that's slot, that's slot. I mean, think of the

994
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game. I mean he's on zach Ertz, and Ertz

995
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 1: is so good at running those routes. He's like big,

996
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: big bang, and he's open. So Colvin, I thought, looked

997
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: much better in that realm where they've got to be

998
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: really good this year. So I thought he looked really

999
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: good yesterday. Sopley continues that young bucks Lonnie Johnson, we

1000
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: talked about him earlier six two two thirteen. You're not

1001
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: joking either. When he was walking in today, I just

1002
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: thought has a massive corner back and you just want

1003
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: him to make it so much. He's a second round pick,

1004
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. He's got a lot to learn. But

1005
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: what do you think think about this? He's bigger than

1006
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: any safety we have, anybody safety, any safety we have. Yeah,

1007
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: so if you could look, he doesn't have to run

1008
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: for four because his length and his size help makeup

1009
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: for it, and he can be very, very physical. But

1010
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have talked about I

1011
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: heard Seth and Shaw talking about this morning about Lonnie

1012
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: Johnson with the pick yesterday, where Bill O'Brien talked to

1013
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: him to play before and then he comes up with

1014
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: the pick, which again that goes to can a guy

1015
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: be coach about in the field? That was great news

1016
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: to hear that Lonnie Johnson was getting coached up and

1017
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: then making plays right after that. If he can he

1018
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: can play an ounce man. I'm telling you how frustrating

1019
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: that is for receivers that you know, especially big receivers.

1020
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: If you can't get separation, that big dude is all

1021
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: in your grill because a lot of times the big

1022
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: receivers are taking advantage of short guys. Yeah, you're not

1023
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of a guy that's size. Get the

1024
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: ball high and away. Xavier Crawford, the other brook rap

1025
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: choice from Central Michigan. Man, I'm telling you, I saw

1026
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: him on a route yesterday, crossing route from the other side.

1027
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: Was on the left side of field, going all the

1028
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: way across to the right side of field, which is

1029
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: a monster to cover for inside guys, especially if you've

1030
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: got just a shade outside leverage, and he did. Crawford

1031
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: got in the hip pocket and was all the way

1032
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: across and I'm trying to remember. I think it was

1033
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: Stevie Mitchell. He was in his hip pocket all the

1034
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: way across the field, and whoever was I think a

1035
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: Maam and aj at quarterback had to throw it basically

1036
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: out of bounds to keep it away from Crawford and

1037
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: to give Mitchell any chance of catching it was incomplete.

1038
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, Crawford, how far was at forty

1039
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: yards basically across the few of Crawford is in the

1040
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: hit pocket of one of the fastest guys on this team.

1041
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: He's gonna be really fun to watch the preseason games.

1042
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my eyes and twenty eight. All right,

1043
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 1: a name that, hey, this guy got significant playing time

1044
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: and not in terms of volume, but in a significant game.

1045
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: Deante Burton, who played against the Eagles for this squad

1046
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 1: last year. He's six two two o five. So you

1047
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: want to talk size, He's got it and we'll see

1048
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: if he can make it. Yeah, he just needs experience.

1049
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: He was a wide receiver in college and then he

1050
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: got to the Falcons I believe it was, and they said, no, no, no, no,

1051
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: You're a corner. That's what we need you to be.

1052
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: We need you to be a corner. And you know,

1053
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: just as an aside on that note, you know, one

1054
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: of the things that you know with the Texas, I

1055
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: don't know that we've done that a whole lot, where

1056
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: we've taken a guy that played a particular offensive position

1057
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: and then we're converting him to a defensive position. But

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00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: Burton is a guy that look can argue how successful

1059
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: it is, but when you saw him at corner in

1060
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,240
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia game, he wasn't horrible. He just was an experience.

1061
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: He never played out there, so seeing him on the field,

1062
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: he's he's like lying. I mean, if you see those

1063
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: two on the field together at the same time, you're like,

1064
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: holy smokes, these guys are large. So Brian Body Calhoun,

1065
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: love him, absolutely love him. So you know, I've been

1066
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: a fan of slot outside. What is he or does

1067
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: he have to do both? He's more a slot safety

1068
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: I think than anything else. I think he could help

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00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: you at safety because I know but he's a very

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00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: good tackler. But to me, Mark, I saw Jeff Collins

1071
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: from Georgia Tech say this yesterday. He was quoted saying

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00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: depth chart does more harm than good. I think the

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00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: roster does too, because fans start thinking, because what's Titus

1074
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: Howard listed us? What's he listed us? Titus Howard? I

1075
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: believe he's listed as a tackle. Titus Howard's listened to tackle? Okay,

1076
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: what is Won Clowney listed as defensive? Been outside? Live back?

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00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: I got asked, like, what positions he played? To me?

1078
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: Front seven? Brian Body Calhoun is the perfect slot corner,

1079
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: Like that position was made for him. But you don't

1080
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: see slot corner on there. Dude, slot cover man. Yeah,

1081
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: so I mean that, you know, the nickel, the slot

1082
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: however you want to put it that that position needs

1083
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: to be on a depth chart, it needs to be

1084
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,280
Speaker 1: on a roster because that, to me is his position.

1085
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: That's what he plays. Johnson Batamosi special teams, of course,

1086
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: special teams. But I saw him out there yesterday. Look,

1087
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna go and compete, you know, you know he's

1088
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: gonna know what to do. I mean, Brendan Scarlett told

1089
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: me yesterday he's like, man, Stanford guys is like, yeah,

1090
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: you Standford guys. They know what to do. And Johnson

1091
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: is a really intelligent guy. And Johnson Battamosi U got

1092
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: me yelled at by Bill O'Brien, so I always am

1093
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: mad at him for that. But I'm glad he's here

1094
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: on our special because he picked off Brock Goss Wilder

1095
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: and Detroit game right before the half, and that got

1096
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: me yelled at by Bill because the fault it was

1097
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: all my fault. Of course, I get it, I understand completely.

1098
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: All right, breaking down the defensive backs here, let's go

1099
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: to the safety spot. Oh yeah, We've talked about Justin

1100
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 1: Reid all offseason long, entering his second year, he's on

1101
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: the NFI after the car accident, but he's gonna be

1102
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 1: okay to play. And boy, we're all eager to see

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00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: the sophomore season, the encore performance of that rookie campaign. Boy,

1104
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: he is a big time player. I mean the things

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00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: that you learn as a rookie. I remember NFL Films

1106
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 1: had had a boom mic during the I think it's

1107
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: either playoff game or the December game against the Colts

1108
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: and Anthony Midgett secondary coach. He's standing in front of

1109
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: Justin Reid and I think it was Andre Howe, and

1110
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 1: he looked at both of them. He's looking at read.

1111
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: Basically he said, look, you can't give away your disguise

1112
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: on this guy. And he's talking about it against Andrew Luck.

1113
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: He's like, if you give away your disguise too early,

1114
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: then Luck's gonna kill you. And that's just the little

1115
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: thing you start you learn as a young guy. You

1116
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: get more patient, like, hey, I know I've got deep

1117
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: third or I've got a deep path, or hey I'm

1118
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: moving into the box on motion. You know all those things,

1119
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: so you can start to kind of not play games,

1120
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: but you can start to anticipate those things. And kind

1121
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: of deal with them and show maybe some disguises that hey,

1122
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna show like this, but I know

1123
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back here. But you can be more patient.

1124
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: But you learn those things in your second, third, fourth year.

1125
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: One of my favorites is Jets Jamal Adams. That's what

1126
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: he's doing. And I think Justin Reid is gonna learn

1127
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: along those lines to kind of play the game sort

1128
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: of like him. To Shaun Gibson, they signed them away

1129
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: from the Jaguars, love it, absolutely love it. And you know,

1130
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: we talked about this yesterday. The domino effect of Jacksonville

1131
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: not taking a quarterback at seventeen or eighteen forced them

1132
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: to go spend money on Nick Foles, and because they

1133
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: spend money on Nick Foles, they had to get rid of.

1134
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: To Sean Gibson, what's take him? He covers tight ends

1135
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: extremely well. I've focused on that a little bit yesterday.

1136
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: He's so good with the tight ends. He'd never get

1137
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: bumped off. It doesn't matter who he's on. He's so

1138
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: strong in the upper body, doesn't get bumped off the route.

1139
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: I really like. I think he's bringing a lot to

1140
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: this defense. Julie'lla die. Well, No, Justin Reid Jaliale has

1141
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: been a guy that you stepped in next to to

1142
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 1: Sean Gibson yesterday. And when you can put a trusty

1143
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: veteran in there, a guy's been around and seen it,

1144
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: and a guy that how about this? In the playoff

1145
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: game gets Baltimore, the Chargers played seven defensive backs and

1146
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: guests who played inside linebacker in that game. Jolil a die.

1147
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: So you love the versatilies when you get read back,

1148
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: You've got a guy in a diet you can do

1149
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: a lot of different things with Remember the role that

1150
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: Eddie Pleasant used to play for this team. That's what

1151
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: Julie Dye can do for this team. Probably a bit

1152
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: more athletic in doing it, but that's what Julie Dye

1153
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: can do. All right. So these are the three safeties

1154
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: we've been talking about. There's no Andre Hall anymore, there's

1155
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: no Kareem Jackson option anymore, there's no Tyran Matthew. So

1156
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: who's the next guy up? A? J. Moore, who led

1157
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: the team and special team stops is an Austin expert,

1158
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 1: Chris Johnson, Who do you think is the next guy

1159
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: on that depth chart. Who can possibly help this team.

1160
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: I wrote down number thirty three at least three or

1161
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: four times yesterday in coverage in coverage, and that would

1162
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: be A J. Moore. And I was watching him a coverage.

1163
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: I just like, boy, he's covered really well today. And

1164
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: I can imagine when you look. He was a waiver

1165
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 1: claim when he got here last year. So he's learning

1166
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,800
Speaker 1: the defense all the while going around special teams and

1167
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: just killing people, I mean, just being a great player

1168
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: in special teams. So he's had the whole year to

1169
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: learn the defense, had the whole offseason to kind of

1170
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: consume it, and now he's kind of putting it together.

1171
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: I like what he looks like. I think aj can

1172
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: be a factor in one of those safety spots if

1173
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: guys get dinged up. Obviously he's learned from some key

1174
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: veterans back there with Sean Gibson and Jelilde. I think

1175
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: that's the best thing could happen for a J. Moore.

1176
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: All Right, We've got some other names, but that's all

1177
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: the time. We have to break down the defensive backs

1178
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: for this morning. Next up, Jordan Thomas. What's he up

1179
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: to after one day of action? As the second practice

1180
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: is Underway. And also we'll talk about three things we're

1181
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: watching for today, our big three of the day, Landrylocker

1182
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: with his questions of the day. It's all happening. Got

1183
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Speaker 1: Texans Training cap Live. They got Texans Training cap Live,

1184
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: They got no Jecksans Training Camp. Blood continues. We are

1185
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: on the field. He's a Methodist Training Center, Practice under

1186
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: Way Mark founder Baron John Harris with you and if

1187
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: you enjoy the position breakdown of the defensive backs, wait

1188
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 1: till we get to next week Monday, we will break down.

1189
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: You pick it, you pick it, Oh, let's do let's

1190
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: do wide receivers. Why not? Let's do the wide receivers Monday.

1191
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: Everybody's want to talk about wide receivers stuff. We talked

1192
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: a little bit about them. Look, we're talking about everybody

1193
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: every day. Basically, No, we don't always get to everybody,

1194
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: but we want to get deep dive into a position

1195
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: group every day at nine o'clock. And the defensive backs

1196
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: thing was good. We might rerun that later for you

1197
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access tonight at six joining us right

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Speaker 1: TV and Deep. He's laughing because look, you give them

1201
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Speaker 1: a lot of love, Okay, I do, And I said,

1202
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Speaker 1: I really want to be introduced as Deep Slant presented

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Speaker 1: point out by the way, Arctic man, they're taking care

1205
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Speaker 1: of me here at the at the bubble speaking up.

1206
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,320
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1207
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Speaker 1: do and our Arctic cooler. Yeah, and the one at

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00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: me on sponsors right now, I gotta get I'm gonna

1209
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: get to get to jump on you guys. DeAndre Hopkins

1210
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: is back. We all know that. Yeah, populist. He's wasted

1211
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: no time. He's already doing the one handed catches, just

1212
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: snag one inside of Stu was sick. Yeah, he's good.

1213
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: It's typical stuff. I'll tell you what. I've been around

1214
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: here a long time obviously, and watching practice yesterday. I

1215
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: was so excited about will Fuller because he just looks

1216
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: so polished and Kiki qt look great and you think, yeah,

1217
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: good receivers, and then Hopkins comes back today, all world

1218
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: best in the league, and then you're thinking this group

1219
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: is going to be insane this year. They gotta just

1220
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: stay on the field and they've got Andrew Johnson out

1221
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: there coaching them up. I mean Andrew Johnson was warming

1222
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: up with DeAndre Hopkins. Oh really online, So you've got

1223
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: a guy like that that's played at such a high level.

1224
00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: Concause markle Faint just playing. Actually, I want to bring

1225
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: up I want to bring up a point there that

1226
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: I actually Clint Storm was talking about this yesterday. I

1227
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: think it's a really good point. John Perry is wide

1228
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: receivers coach and won Hell wide receivers coach. But with

1229
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: a guy like Andre Johnson who's been there and done that,

1230
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: and clintman this point, I thought it was a good one.

1231
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: When you're in and John didn't play an NFL O.

1232
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: John was an excellent, excellent football player at UNH that

1233
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: when the young guys did, in particular run around or

1234
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: they're done, John could keep coaching the guys that are

1235
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: next in line and what's going on. The other young

1236
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: guys can stand next Andre and Drake and and say hey,

1237
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:32,919
Speaker 1: you need to do this and do that. John Perry

1238
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: is a whale of a coach. But now you're bringing

1239
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: in Andre Johnson to supplement that, and I mean it's

1240
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: just fantastic, especially for the young guys to have that.

1241
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: But also he could sit there and talk with new

1242
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: with DeAndre at such a high level and talk about

1243
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: the things that they're gonna talk about that they've seen

1244
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: in games. These young guys, it's just talking about this

1245
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: rep in practice, Whereas Andrea could talk about, hey, if

1246
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: you see this particular coverage from the Titans, because I

1247
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: know they'd like to run that, here's what I like

1248
01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: to do. That's where they can talk at that level.

1249
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: But having John and Andrew Johnson working with Sievers, I

1250
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: think it's fantastic. Andre said this a few times with us.

1251
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he saw how much Hopkins has grown since

1252
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: his rookie year in thirteen. You know, he's with him

1253
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: those two years thirteen and fourteen. Thirteen. Hopkins has eight

1254
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: hundred yards and he does it mainly off of talent

1255
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: natural ability. Because Drey said in the meeting rooms back then,

1256
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: Hopkins was like, man, why don't they just throw me

1257
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: the ball? Just throw the ball up, you know, and

1258
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: Andre was chuckling and said, well, you gotta work on

1259
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: this footwork wise, you gotta work on this handwork wise.

1260
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: And that's one of the spots you know, battling right

1261
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Speaker 1: off the line, that he's improved a lot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he looks like Bruce Lee with his hands sometimes, so

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Speaker 1: he's really polished out on it in his game, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's really impressive to see the stuff he works

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Speaker 1: on year over year over year. I talked with him

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Speaker 1: at the draft because he announced the two second round

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Speaker 1: picks did DeAndre Hopkins, and he said this offseason he

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Speaker 1: worked on getting faster and worked on getting stronger, because

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Speaker 1: he said last year, had I been a little bit faster,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't been able to catch up with me and

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Speaker 1: bring me down and hurt me in the ways that

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Speaker 1: they did. And if I'm stronger, I'm also gonna be

1273
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: able to absorb some of those those blows a little

1274
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: bit better. So if he says he's faster and he

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01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: was already fast enough and he's stronger, look out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what he did because last year,

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Speaker 1: coming into last season, he said he was working on

1278
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 1: his handwork, which I don't know, Helen the hell you

1279
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: improve your hands? After he's done? Yeah, that's it. You

1280
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: got the best keep getting better because they work at it.

1281
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: What's also going to make him better as having fifteen

1282
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Speaker 1: on the field healthy. And I was just so pleasantly

1283
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: surprised to see wolf Fuller out here yesterday doing everything.

1284
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: I know. John McLean was on earlier. He talked about

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Speaker 1: how he thought they were going to sort of ease

1286
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: will It back into things, and they didn't which and

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Speaker 1: he looked great. He looked fantastic out here running routes

1288
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: and he was taking part in team drills. But with

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Speaker 1: a healthy Wolf Fuller on the team, DeAndre isn't going

1290
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: to get as much attention as he did last year

1291
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: because guys were just beating him up towards the end

1292
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Speaker 1: of the year because all the attention was on him.

1293
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: So I can get healthy wolf Fuller out there, he'll

1294
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: still get his attention, but Willfuller is going to command

1295
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: his own too. I had a conversation with a key

1296
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: executive in the AFC South at the Senior Bowl, and

1297
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: that executive was like, I'll let anybody else catch any

1298
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 1: ball if they want, Like k QT catch a hundred

1299
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: balls in a game, I don't care. Hopkins is the

1300
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: one I gotta stop. Hopkins is the one I've got

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01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 1: stopped you. I hope that's exactly But and and that's

1302
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: the point of health. Those guys have got to be

1303
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: on the field so they can present different options to

1304
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: those teams to say, what do we stop now. I

1305
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: thought a great We didn't talk about this, but j

1306
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: JD was in the top one hundred and he was

1307
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: at number sixty three, and they've got a great sound bite.

1308
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: I think it's from the Colts game. I don't know

1309
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: which Colts game, but it was one of the Colts games,

1310
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: and JD is talking to Anthony Weaver and DJ Reader

1311
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: and he says, he says, to Weave, he says, every

1312
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: time I stand up off the ball, they're pointing at me.

1313
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: They're pointing at me and saying something. DJ Readers like, Yeah,

1314
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: they're saying something. I don't know what it means, but

1315
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 1: they're pointing at him as if Clowney is the key,

1316
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: Like he's the key guy that everybody's accounting for. And

1317
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 1: it's got to be what, you know, what Hopkins is

1318
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: to not allow them to key just on Hopkins where

1319
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: they can give help, where they can beat him up

1320
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, and I have to pay

1321
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: for it. On the other side, if will Fuller and

1322
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: QT can start to do that and have that impact,

1323
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: then who do you make the key? Which guy ends

1324
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: up being the key Because obviously the Colts realized when

1325
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: Clowney was off the ball, he was a key to

1326
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: what we were doing. On defense, they figured that part

1327
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: of it out. But on offense, we got to make

1328
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: sure that Hopkins ends up. Okay, he's publican to me

1329
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: number one, but other people have got to make them pay.

1330
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: What's amazing is the fact that Hopkins still makes those

1331
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: plays with all the attention on him. Everyone knows that

1332
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Hopkins every single game. He's the

1333
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: number one target. Bill O'Brien even talked about it. He said,

1334
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: we'd like to get him the ball more. But it's

1335
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: amazing that even despite all that, Hopkins finds a way

1336
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: to win. I mean, it's never a one on one battle.

1337
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: I feel like when Hopkins in it, you know he's

1338
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: gonna come down with it. And you know who else

1339
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: was like that, Andre Johnson. I mean, Andre Johnson got

1340
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: naked wide open when everyone knew he was the foremost

1341
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 1: you know, target, the best target in this offense, and

1342
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: he still managed to get wide open time after time

1343
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: after time. It was different because a lot of that

1344
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: was his greatness and the kind of offense they were running.

1345
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: Whereas Hopkins, he's open even when he's covered, you know,

1346
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 1: And I think that's why Watson kept going to him

1347
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 1: in the playoff game. But clearly Hopkins was so backed

1348
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: up in that playoff game he couldn't be Hopkins. So

1349
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: that was a big problem for this team. No fuller anymore.

1350
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: QT played great that day, but they ran out of gas.

1351
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: So when they get to that moment again, those moments,

1352
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: those key plays, those key games late in the season,

1353
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: they got to find a way to keep as many

1354
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: people healthy as possible. Run the football, all right, So

1355
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: what else are you seeing? What else are you seeing

1356
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: out there so far, either today or yesterday that caught

1357
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: your eyes. I was gonna say it was fun seeing

1358
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: Bradley Roby and Lonnie Johnson because we didn't see May

1359
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 1: and June. I mean, they were not out there, and

1360
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: so it was nice to see them out there. Now,

1361
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: you always take everything with a grain of salt because

1362
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: there's no pads, but it was just good to see

1363
01:05:55,920 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: him mixing it up. Yeah, he had a pick. He's

1364
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 1: he'll get hands, he looks like, but that's kind of

1365
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: what they like. He's a physical cornerback and he's got

1366
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: those long arms, he's big, he's his frame reminds kind

1367
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: of some of us body wise, what we saw out

1368
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: of Lonnie Valentine, a safety who was just a specimen

1369
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: a few years back. And now Lonnie didn't really ever play.

1370
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: Lonnie worked out a lot. Yeah, but this guy's a

1371
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: cornerback and he was taking into second round, so they

1372
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: think very highly of him. It's just good to see

1373
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: those two guys. Yeah, that was one of my three

1374
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 1: things to watch yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised to

1375
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: see him back on the field because remember, heading into

1376
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 1: that six week break, we didn't see much of him

1377
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: during the off season program. We saw a little bit

1378
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: of him in rookie mini camp and someone asked Bill O'Brien,

1379
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: what about Lonnie Johnson's villability for training camp and he said,

1380
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I thought, Oh, that's oh, I

1381
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of that. That could be good,

1382
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: that could be bad, that could be enough. Thing just

1383
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: he didn't want to talk about He didn't want to

1384
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: talk about it, but it left it sort of uncertain

1385
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: what his status would be hitting into camp, and he

1386
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: looks he looks good, and he doesn't look like he

1387
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: missed a step. Usually when guys miss a big chunk

1388
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: of the off season program, it takes them a few

1389
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,919
Speaker 1: days to get acclimated. But he was out there holding

1390
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 1: his own And I'm telling you this secondary they're going

1391
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:02,439
Speaker 1: to get up to speed really quickly with the likes

1392
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: of Hopkins, Fuller qt. I mean, they're going to get

1393
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: their work in the right What are you what are

1394
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: you working out today? I'm inter bating to Shaun Gibson

1395
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: after practice and I've actually not had a chance to

1396
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 1: talk to him. I know Drew's had a chance to

1397
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: talk to him. I'm excited to see what he thinks

1398
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: about facing this offense now in training camp, because he's

1399
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 1: obviously faced them when he was with the Jaguars. Talk

1400
01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,200
Speaker 1: to him about the secondary and how he thinks they're

1401
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 1: coming along. True, Got a dirty dozen gonna be a

1402
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 1: fun one. We did Kiki QT yesterday. Check that out

1403
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 1: some of the interesting things he had to say. So

1404
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: we'll have another one this afternoon. Oh we don't have it.

1405
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: It's a podcast and an article. So well, we don't

1406
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 1: have a player yet. Got a player? I just don't

1407
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: know who it is. We send a list before camp,

1408
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: right and then oh it'll be a surprise. I really

1409
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: enjoyed the one with QT. Thanks, thank that was cool.

1410
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: I learned some things from that one. So it's gonna

1411
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 1: train it out at Houston Texans dot com. All right,

1412
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: thanks guys. Next up Landry Locker with his questions of

1413
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: the day and three things we're looking at today as

1414
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 1: practice number two is just underway here at the Houston

1415
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: Methodist Training Center. It's Texasans Training Camp Live. Training Camp Live.

1416
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: It's Netflix, but free. Go to Houston Texans dot com

1417
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: and click listen for every episode of Our Texans Radio Shows.

1418
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: A bunch of guys working out on the side field

1419
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: this morning, including Kahala wearing his on nf I and

1420
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 1: doctor Vandermer says that I'm encouraged. Okay, that's all I'm

1421
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: gonna say. DeAndre Carter also working out. I gotta say

1422
01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys who looks fast standing still.

1423
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 1: He's just one of those guys. He just has the

1424
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: fast look. QUI certain guys he's just standing. Zille's like,

1425
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he can run, and then you see him

1426
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: on a field against fast guys, and he's still fast, ye,

1427
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:42,280
Speaker 1: still faster to that saying something, no doubt about it

1428
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: and no doubt about it being time for Landry's questions

1429
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: here with the landing in the loop, and they're gonna

1430
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: be live here at ten am, all right, so he

1431
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: um he and Lopez had a great debut yesterday from

1432
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 1: the field here in Houston. Oh by the way, yeah,

1433
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,680
Speaker 1: John Lopez walks in today. First thing he walks over

1434
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: and he goes, he goes, Hey, I need you to

1435
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: come on the air and do my laugh because we

1436
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: were worried. Yeah, we were worried yeses before you walked out.

1437
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: We were worried yesterday. Whether when Bill O'Brien's do his

1438
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: press conference, which is Jason to us literally there is

1439
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: a clear plastic screen between us, and we're like, if

1440
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: Lopez starts laughing while Landry says something while Obie's doing

1441
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: a press conference over there, it's not gonna be good.

1442
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: So I chuckled, like John. Apparently he found out. I

1443
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: don't know who his sources Georgie, but I'm just saying

1444
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: I found out. He came to me. He wasn't man.

1445
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,720
Speaker 1: We were. Joe could neither confirm nor deny being the

1446
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:42,680
Speaker 1: source of that information to John Lopez. But it was

1447
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,560
Speaker 1: effective for us. Yeah, it's fun determined whether or not

1448
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: that was going to be a factor of the press conference.

1449
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 1: It worked, all right, So Landry, what do you got today?

1450
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: All right? Guys, I want to know the most intriguing

1451
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 1: position battle in training camp, but you can't use offensive line.

1452
01:09:56,760 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: The most intriguing non offensive line position battle in training camp.

1453
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: That's a good one. How granular do you want to be?

1454
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: You can go wherever you want slot corner, Nick corner.

1455
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be one hell of that. I

1456
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: can't disagree with that. I think that is it right there,

1457
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: because well how about this? I mean, you figure Roby's

1458
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 1: gonna start opposite j Joe. However, Lonnie Johnson is does

1459
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: he have a chance to really rise quickly here and

1460
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: steal that spot? But you're right, we really don't know.

1461
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 1: You would figure it's Colvin if they're playing this weekend,

1462
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: but maybe somebody else can win that. I'll give you

1463
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:37,120
Speaker 1: another one though, but this shows you that you sort

1464
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: of have a really great luxury situation at wide receiver

1465
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: with health. Who is fourth and fifth? Now? DeAndre Carter

1466
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 1: is your return man. But he's got to get healthy

1467
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,640
Speaker 1: and get on the field before somebody else tries to

1468
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: take that spot from him. Vincent Smith, you know he

1469
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: knows that. It's not like, Hey, I'm Vincent Smith. I've

1470
01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:59,120
Speaker 1: been in this league. Oh yeah for a couple of games.

1471
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 1: So he has competition there. And these young bucks look

1472
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 1: good man, Tyrand Johnson and Johnny Dixon. I mean, they've

1473
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: got players here, and I think that's one to watch

1474
01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: because that's a position group where they can't keep everybody.

1475
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 1: And I think at least two of the guys in

1476
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 1: this camp who don't make it at that spot will

1477
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 1: end up on other teams fifty threees. That is my

1478
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: prediction right now, and we'll monitor that opening weekend. Yeah,

1479
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: I think the slot receiver position is as packed as

1480
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. It started with Kiki qt DeAndre Carter

1481
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: when he gets off a pup, Johnny Dixon, Stevie Mitchell.

1482
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: You've got a ton of guys that you can put

1483
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 1: in that slot position. And I mean years past, we

1484
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 1: took the Mayor's Johnson off the waivers, off the street

1485
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:45,679
Speaker 1: and started him in Week one against the Redskins in fourteen. Yeah,

1486
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: that's how that's how thick you are at that group

1487
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: compared to years past. That's a great example right there.

1488
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 1: So offensive line is clearly the most mysterious and important one.

1489
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:59,759
Speaker 1: You do have options, but you want the winning option

1490
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 1: to be really good, and yeah, we'll see if that happens.

1491
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: I think the most intriguing thing about the NFL is

1492
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: what we're saying right now won't be true three hundred

1493
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 1: and sixty five days from now. It's it's a parody

1494
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: driven league. Seven out of twelve new teams in the

1495
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: playoffs last year, eight the year before. And I think

1496
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: the biggest example of that is right here in the

1497
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: AFC South. Last year Jacksonville, they were one. They were

1498
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:23,720
Speaker 1: the toast of the of the AFC South. They were

1499
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: toasts of the AFC. They were supposed to maybe make

1500
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Last year. In the Indianapolis Colts, I

1501
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,280
Speaker 1: was looking up power rankings from last year, they were

1502
01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 1: commonly dead last, Yeah, thirties, dead last in the power rankings.

1503
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: Who will be the two thousan nineteen version of the

1504
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 1: Jaguars and who will be the twenty nineteen version of

1505
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 1: the Colts? And just the FC South across the across

1506
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:49,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean, I think the natural the natural

1507
01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:52,640
Speaker 1: one seemingly would be the Browns that would go the

1508
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 1: ops way. Everybody thinks they're gonna win twelve games and

1509
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: win the North and be the toast of everything. Yeah, exactly,

1510
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 1: And you know the differences, you got Baker Mayfield versus

1511
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 1: having Bordles, but you get you get a key injury,

1512
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, Obj's hamstring or Jarvis Landryen ankles, kick mild

1513
01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 1: adversity and they all stopped fighting. You has never done it,

1514
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe maybe he handles it great. Maybe

1515
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 1: Freddie is just that kind of guy. He knows how

1516
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: to bring people together, and maybe he does. You know,

1517
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: I can't look, who knew McVeigh was gonna be the

1518
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 1: boy wonder genius right when the Rams hired him. This

1519
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: guy's so young, How could this work? The Rams have

1520
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: not been good, Goff didn't have a great start under Fisher,

1521
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, whammo, we're in the playoffs

1522
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:35,640
Speaker 1: at a year later in the Super Bowl. So all right,

1523
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: here's mine in the AFC South. I'm glad you brought

1524
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: up the AFC South because you look at the year

1525
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: before and you had two teams making the playoffs from

1526
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: this division. This division's really good. You had the Jaguars

1527
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 1: and the Titans, and the Jags played in the AFC

1528
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 1: Championship game and the Titans won a game at Kansas City.

1529
01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: That was a good year for the AFC South. Wasn't

1530
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: a great year, but it's a really good year to

1531
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 1: show that the division was good. Then those two teams

1532
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs and you're placed them with the Colts

1533
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: and the tex I think the Titans could be the

1534
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: team that takes a big step down here because if

1535
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 1: you in Jacksonville, yeah, there are problems that d was

1536
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 1: top five though in scoring and yards. If Foles can

1537
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: play just a little bit better, Smith, you have a

1538
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: chance to really make some hay here. And maybe, you know,

1539
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 1: here's another question. What's the winning and this is probably

1540
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 1: for another segment. What's the winning record? Never mind the team,

1541
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: what's the winning record in the AFC South? Quick, Poul Landry,

1542
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: what's the winning record last year? I'm gonna I think

1543
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: it's ten and six. I think I think nine and

1544
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 1: seven could possibly do it. If like everybody's really healthy

1545
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: and bunched, if everybody's you think, oh, everybody's really healthy,

1546
01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: someone's gonna run away. No, no, no, if everybody's really healthy,

1547
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna beat the snot out of each other and

1548
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be very tight. Here's something to think about

1549
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 1: with the Jaguars too. You're talking about that defense. Note

1550
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: to Sean Gibson, No Bury Church, no Malik Jackson, no

1551
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith. That's four starters and in dockway holding out

1552
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: and go way holding out, jacks are last. Okay, and

1553
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm not I still think. Look, you still have Clays

1554
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: Can we still have Jamie Ramsey? Uh, you still have

1555
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: Miles jack You've got some players on that team. Ronnie

1556
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: Harrison will fill in for to Shaun Gibson. So they've

1557
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: got some muth But that defense has taken some personnel hits.

1558
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:16,759
Speaker 1: Why because they didn't draft the quarterback when they should

1559
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 1: have and they had to go spend that money on folds.

1560
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: Hey how about this Chargers? A lot of people have

1561
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: them going to the Super Bowl. Yeah, not so fast,

1562
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 1: my friend, as your buddy Lee Corso would say, I

1563
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 1: know you interviewed him and like a few weeks ago, right, yeah,

1564
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: we both did okay, good? Uh, not so fast, because

1565
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: I gotta see it to believe it. I love the Cowboys.

1566
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: They follow up great years with disappointing years. It's it's

1567
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: like it's like when you when you have a good year,

1568
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 1: then you then you followed up with a disappointment and

1569
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 1: Russell Okung oh Kong, he's uh, he's got his issue,

1570
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 1: and then Melvin Gordon holding out. There's a lot of

1571
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 1: issues there, Yeah, a ton of issues. I know. Third

1572
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 1: people outside of the league looking at us, going, you

1573
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: know we got issues with Clowney well, you know, and

1574
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: you know it was winning that AFC North Pittsburgh. They're

1575
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Colts and pitts Burg this year, thank

1576
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: you very much. I mean the Bengals I think overall

1577
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 1: are better coach. I know it's crazy to say. I

1578
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: just don't think they had the talent. I think if

1579
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: they had a few pieces of talent, I think the

1580
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 1: Bengals might be a team to watch too, because they've

1581
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:13,599
Speaker 1: got some young dudes on defense. I think could play

1582
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 1: Jesse Bates at safety. But to me, the first one

1583
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: that stands out as the Browns Matt Khalil. He returned

1584
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: to the practice field yesterday, actually was on the practice

1585
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: field after missing all of last season. He was brought

1586
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 1: in in the off season. But there was once upon

1587
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: a time when Matt Khalil was a really, really big

1588
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: deal going back to high school. He was such a

1589
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 1: big deal that the year that he passed away, Pat

1590
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:39,639
Speaker 1: summer All narrated Matt Khalil's story heading in story, heading

1591
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,920
Speaker 1: into heading into his his his first year at USC.

1592
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: So we actually have clips of it, we've played it.

1593
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, guys, who would you want

1594
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 1: to narrate your live story? Oh, Pat Sumroll, but obviously,

1595
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: oh that's not possible. Morgan Freeman, but he narrates everything.

1596
01:16:57,040 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 1: Somebody in sports is even say anybody, how about that?

1597
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 1: I forgot his name. The guy who does hard knocks,

1598
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 1: oh Lei Shriber, Lee Shriber doing that. He's pretty good.

1599
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:09,120
Speaker 1: I mean in history would be John Facenda. And then yeah,

1600
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: he came um the humid tundra of the Houston Methodist trade.

1601
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:17,040
Speaker 1: You know, I put right behind him. Who I'd want

1602
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 1: from me if he was still around? R I P.

1603
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:23,920
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson. Oh yeah, he I've always been a huge

1604
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,680
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson fan. Um, I wouldn't want one of these

1605
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 1: one offs, like when McConaughey does something or somebody like

1606
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: that guys, but you're like, yeah, it's not that good.

1607
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 1: You know who's not bad? He does? He does the

1608
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: All or Nothing show, and that's John hamm Oh he does.

1609
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: He does. He narrates the All or Nothing. Really, it's

1610
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: not bad. I mean it's you know, it's not the

1611
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 1: best in the world, but it's it's not too bad.

1612
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 1: So I would say if Keith Jackson were around, Keith

1613
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 1: Jackson would he would Keith Jackson would be my guy.

1614
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm a Musburger guy. Me and Lopez fight about it.

1615
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, he doesn't like Musburger at all. He

1616
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: hates him. Talentless. Lopez will not. It's it's it's Unbelieva

1617
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,719
Speaker 1: might think he's look, he's over the top. Dave South

1618
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,000
Speaker 1: maybe you know, well, Dave South has a great voice.

1619
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 1: He has a great voice, but yeah, deliveries a little off.

1620
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: You better script that thing. Who'd you pick? Craig Way? No,

1621
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:14,960
Speaker 1: heck no, Craig. I like, I love Craig. Craig's Craig's

1622
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: a great guy. But now he gets never mind, I'm

1623
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: not gonna too exciting, man. He wouldn't be able to

1624
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think Craig Craig would be

1625
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: able to be sad enough for me sometimes all the

1626
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: whole really, all the dreams for a young Landry Locker.

1627
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,639
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, I could, I could finish that sentence,

1628
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: but we won't do that. I think there's a statue

1629
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 1: of limitations. I need to quit reliving that Vince touchdown.

1630
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 1: Give me something nobody's talking about. We say this a

1631
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 1: lot on in the loop. Nobody's talking about give me

1632
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 1: something at Texans training camp that nobody's talking about that

1633
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: they should be m m. This is a good one,

1634
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 1: because man, we do. We talk about everything. Okay, I'll

1635
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: give you one. I'm gonna I'm gonna give you one.

1636
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 1: And it's weird because I watched yesterday, I watched I

1637
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: watched a lot of him yesterday, and it's a little

1638
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: bit random. But for years there was always talk about

1639
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Weedon and Tom Savage and all these other quarterbacks

1640
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: like backing up somebody. It's like, nob he's talking about

1641
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,599
Speaker 1: a J mccariren. I think AJ's is competent. He's as

1642
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: competent a backup quarterback as we could possibly find. So

1643
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 1: I nobody's mentioned one word about AJ McCarron and hopefully

1644
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: Deshan takes every snap. He took every snap last year

1645
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 1: minus one because he'd gone to the locker room because

1646
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:29,080
Speaker 1: that goofy officiated decree that we had for the Titans

1647
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 1: game on Monday night. It was only Snappy ended up

1648
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: missing in Miami game. I think it was so he

1649
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:37,719
Speaker 1: only missed. He took every snap Hunts. But AJ McCarron,

1650
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: to me, is a guy nobody's sorry, and I watched

1651
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: him yesterday. I think he throws it pretty well. I

1652
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,520
Speaker 1: think his arm strength is improved from his day's Alabama.

1653
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: He's played in a playoff game and should have won

1654
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: the playoff game iftest Birthfiict hadn't gone off the reservation. Ye,

1655
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: AJ McCarron. I like AJ McCarron for those reasons. He's

1656
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: still hungry to play. It's not like he's this veteran

1657
01:19:57,120 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: who knows, all right, I'm not gonna play anymore. I

1658
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: was gonna break a buyer Ryan Fitzpatrick. But that's not

1659
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: a good example because he always wants to hang out

1660
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: of the job and just stiff arm the guy that's

1661
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:07,680
Speaker 1: coming along and just take over. And he's good enough

1662
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 1: to do it. For a stretch. But McCarron, you know,

1663
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,280
Speaker 1: if all went wrong, you're in pretty good hands there

1664
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: with a guy is so hungry to prove himself and

1665
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,880
Speaker 1: does have ability. I was gonna ask you about him

1666
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:20,599
Speaker 1: earlier because I didn't even I don't think I watched

1667
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,560
Speaker 1: one McCarron snap yesterday because they separate the twos and

1668
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: the ones, and everyone's watching the ones versus the ones.

1669
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good one. And here's another one.

1670
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:30,720
Speaker 1: People talk about it, but maybe not enough. How this

1671
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:35,560
Speaker 1: team took such a gargantuan leap and completely change the

1672
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 1: narrative on special teams last year. How great they got

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01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: not good great on special teams. They are now an

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01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:46,840
Speaker 1: elite special teams unit. And it blows my mind because

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01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 1: you got a J. Moore leading them in tackles and

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01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys help it out who some of

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01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: them weren't even on the team during this time last year.

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01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:55,960
Speaker 1: And then you got DeAndre Carter to really boost the

1679
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 1: return game and he was a player get picked up

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01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: during the year. So that to me is fascinating about

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01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: the leap in that phase of the game. I think

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01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 1: not enough. They don't get enough press about it. I

1683
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 1: think it's a great one. I got I got one

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01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 1: other one to add on to this. I think the

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01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: state of Texas with its two teams, has as good

1686
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: an inside linebacker core four. Oh, then you're gonna find

1687
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 1: anywhere Jalen Smith, Layton, Vander esh Bernard, Rick McKinney. And

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01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: the guy that I would focus in that group is

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01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: Zach Cuttingham. I don't think Zach gets any credit for

1690
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 1: what he does. Man, game is seventy six and I

1691
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: wanted to puke. They have no clue how good Zach

1692
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: Cuttingham is for this defense, what he can do. I

1693
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: think year three, I think forty one is good. But man,

1694
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 1: the state of Texas inside linebackers, my goodness is it good?

1695
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,599
Speaker 1: You guys did not disappoint. You know something else nobody's

1696
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: talking about you guys mentioned a J mccairn. A J

1697
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: mccarroon might be indirectly responsible for the biggest buzz of

1698
01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: the offseason in the NFL, because if the Browns had

1699
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: actually been able to pull off that trade for a J. McCarron,

1700
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: maybe they never get Baker Mayfield. Maybe things go a

1701
01:21:57,120 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: little bit different there. Maybe the Patriots end up with

1702
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield as he thought was gonna happen. Could you

1703
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 1: imagine that Baker with Belichick, Baker with Brady. Yeah, let's

1704
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 1: go for it. I want speechless. I want them to

1705
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:15,120
Speaker 1: sign Man's out now. I want something crazy to happen

1706
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:18,679
Speaker 1: with them. We need somebody to Infiel trade. Somebody Infiel

1707
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 1: trade and take that down from the inside. Yeah, all right, Land,

1708
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for the question. All I appreciate you.

1709
01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:26,559
Speaker 1: All right in the loop coming up at ten. All right, Johnny,

1710
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:28,760
Speaker 1: three things you're looking out for today? Well, number one,

1711
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:30,680
Speaker 1: we talked about this a little bit. Uh, not just

1712
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 1: Kicky QT, but the slot receivers. I talked about the

1713
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 1: group that's there. It's a really impressive group. Man, Holy smokes,

1714
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: here's one that it's kind of an insider football thing.

1715
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: But with no Nick Martin. The first thing I think

1716
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: about when you don't have your starting center is can

1717
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: you get the center quarterback exchange? And Man's Greg Man's

1718
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 1: has done this a lot, but I didn't notice yesterday

1719
01:22:56,479 --> 01:22:58,839
Speaker 1: that there were a lot of shotgun snaps that were wayward.

1720
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: They were low. Sean's got to go down and pick

1721
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: it up now. So I want to see the center

1722
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:09,519
Speaker 1: the center snaps get a little bit better and staying

1723
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: with the center, so to speak. I'm curious how the

1724
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: offensive line combinations continue to revolve and evolve to see

1725
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: what they do. Who are they putting where I'll I'll

1726
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 1: tell you this, in almost every combination with what you

1727
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 1: would say the first group, Titus Howard was in every

1728
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:32,280
Speaker 1: single rep I think that I saw yesterday. That's a

1729
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,760
Speaker 1: good point. Every sund moving around, not always in the

1730
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:38,599
Speaker 1: same spot. Guard, a little bit tackle, left tackle, song,

1731
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 1: but they're giving him the work. And the other guy

1732
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:43,720
Speaker 1: who was also involved, and I think nearly every rep

1733
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: was Julio Damboard. Oh yeah, because they moved in to

1734
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: the right side a little bit right well, because I

1735
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 1: think I think for them, they're thinking, Okay, if you

1736
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: know whoever's gonna play left tap, it might be him,

1737
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:57,759
Speaker 1: but he's gotta If he's not gonna play left tackle,

1738
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: he's probably a swing guy, so he better be able

1739
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 1: to play right right exactly. And I don't know about Henderson,

1740
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: will see. Look, there are a lot of things. It's

1741
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: just day two of camps, so we're gonna talk about

1742
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 1: this stuff and awful lot. But to your point about

1743
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: the center snap And we've talked to Andre about this

1744
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: multiple times. You know, Andre, where I put up all

1745
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:16,599
Speaker 1: those numbers in college By the way, Andre's Heisman season.

1746
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: I did this last year. I'm quite sure I mentioned

1747
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,599
Speaker 1: it on the air that if you take those numbers,

1748
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: you think, while the numbers are just crazy now, right,

1749
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 1: so it doesn't even measure up that he would have

1750
01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: finished third last year in college football in yards and

1751
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 1: that kind of thing thirty years ago. Yeah, I mean

1752
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:37,679
Speaker 1: that's incredible. That's incredible. So it shows you how crazy,

1753
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 1: that's how crazy good that season was. And he never

1754
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: took a snap from the shotgun, and everything's from the center,

1755
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 1: and he always talks about I want to keep my

1756
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:47,639
Speaker 1: eyes on the defense. You're gonna take the snap from center.

1757
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: You don't have to look boom boom. Dan Fouts would

1758
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: say the same thing. He never took a snap from

1759
01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:54,880
Speaker 1: the shotgun. You have to be able to execute that play.

1760
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean, even in flag foot, Johnny, I don't know

1761
01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 1: anything about football, but I can tell you this. I

1762
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: coach flag football. My kid was the center and he

1763
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 1: was snapping it too high. The quarterback had to go

1764
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 1: up and catch it. I'm like, you're out until you

1765
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 1: get this right, because the quarterback cannot afford to concentrate

1766
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 1: on having to catch the football and take his mind

1767
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:15,320
Speaker 1: off what's really important for even that split second, I

1768
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: put him back in by the way because he didn't

1769
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,640
Speaker 1: get it right. So I wasn't that bad at I mean,

1770
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:24,559
Speaker 1: you have to reward, you gotta reward coachable players. All right,

1771
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for the show today. Thanks so

1772
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: much for listening in the loop. Next tonight six o'clock

1773
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: we'll have Texans All Access for you, plenty of interviews

1774
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: from day two of camp. Thank you, Jonesie Georgie, have

1775
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:38,679
Speaker 1: a great day. Go Texans. Sins, Sins,