WEBVTT - The GM Speaks: Nick Caserio in studio | Texans All Access 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:01.840 What is going on? Everybody? 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:06.080 Happy Wednesday to you, New Year's Day. My gosh, I 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.719 buried the lead. It's New Year's Day. Happy twenty twenty 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:11.879 five to all of you out there. I'm your host 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.960 for this evening, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.320 I know there are a lot of people hurting, not 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.040 only in this area, but obviously in New Orleans with 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.480 what transpired very very. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:26.360 Early this morning. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.400 So our love, thoughts and prayers go out to everybody 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:36.160 New Orleans, everybody affected. Just an incredibly horrible situation. Sugar 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.560 Bowl that was supposed to be played tonight will be 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.239 moved till tomorrow. Don't know if we played at night, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.880 but they're treating us as a terrorist situation there in 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.839 New Orleans. So Georgia and Notre Dame will end up 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:52.120 playing tomorrow as it appears right now. 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:53.880 We'll see if things change. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.240 But man, what a difficult way to wake up this 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.200 morning to see that news of what happened in New Orleans. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:06.319 And I know Sheriff Houston Sheriff's office commented about the 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.840 work that they're doing in Houston to make sure something 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.200 like that does not happen here in our area. I 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.480 just hate that it happened in New Orleans. It's a 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.880 place that I love dearly. My wife and I took 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.600 our honeymoon there when we were teachers and we weren't 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.240 making squat for money, and that place meant and means 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.839 a lot to us, and I know it means lots 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.880 of people here in the Houston area. So thoughts out 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.920 to everybody in New Orleans. Now, as we always do 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.440 on this show, we talked football. We try and take 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.320 you away from whatever and bring you into our football 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.319 world for just a little bit and talk ball, have 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.880 some fun, stay on the radio, and that's what we're 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.840 gonna do here this evening, and on a Wednesday, we 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.920 start that off as we always do with general manager 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.800 Nick Casserio. Now, when we talked with Nick this on Tuesday, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.840 you guys always know we talk with Nick on Tuesday. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.600 So this was probably up on YouTube last night. Some 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.920 of you've heard it, some of you saw it. But 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.400 if you're listening and going, wey, why aren't they talking 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.840 about what happened to Ne Orleans. That's why we definitely 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.160 would have asked Nick's thoughts on it, because I know 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.359 he probably feels the same as I. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.560 Do, but we did this on Tuesday. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.040 So this is Nick Casario, general manager your Houston Texans 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.720 on with Mark and. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.280 Myself joining us in studio now. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.519 Executive vice president and general manager, Nick Cassario. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:28.560 Nick, Happy New Year. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.119 How's it going, Jen, It's good to see you. Happy 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:30.440 New Year? 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.760 All right, here we go with a typical week. I 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.560 would say, even though you have New Year's now, but 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.919 after all the rigamar role of three games and eleven days, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.400 back to a typical work week. Probably good to have 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.320 this and then the playoffs next week. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:42.960 You know you're in. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.240 Yeah, Look, we got two weeks in front of us, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.440 so first and foremost and focus will be on Tennessee. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.120 Kind of go through a normal week, out the extra 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.200 day yesterday with the kind of the bonus Monday, if 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.720 you will. Tuesday, you know it was a normal off day, 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.160 and then we'll finish out the week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, travel, Saturday, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:58.600 play Tennessee on Sunday. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.320 Have an idea we're playing when we're playing. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.920 After the Tennessee game, so back to work, back to business, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:05.959 and that's where we are. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.080 So I know we always talk about advanced prep. So 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.680 in advanced prep, we know it's one of three teams. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.040 One of them we just played last week, or I 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:14.920 guess that's what it is. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.000 One we have played this year, the other two trying 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.399 to think we played that we played the other two. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.399 So do you do advanced prep for all three teams? Nick? 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.040 At this point? 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.880 Do you wait until Saturday night to see Rabs and 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.120 the Steelers? How do you kind of go with the 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.400 advanced prep for the playoffs? No, it's a great question. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.440 You sort of have to start some of the work 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:32.959 here a little bit, because what you want to be 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.040 able to do is after the Tennessee game, transition to 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.040 whoever the next opponent is. So number of the pro 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.400 scouts will be assigned specific teams. So of the teams 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.520 that we could potentially play, put together the advance scott 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.560 and report, and then the idea would be after the 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.440 game on Sunday, whoever we think it is or if 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.600 it's definitive, then we'll just be able to get that 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.880 information out to the staff. So then we come back 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.040 coming on Monday. We're sort of ready to go. Even 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.960 though we haven't played. We're somewhat familiar with some of 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.440 the teams, other than maybe LA that's probably the one 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.160 team that's a little bit of an X factor here. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.160 So but other than that, we do we have to 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.800 put a separate from the coaches in the playing preparation. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.320 We have to from a advanced scouting standpoint, just put 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:15.080 some work in place. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.760 Coach Ryan saded like he wanted to get back to 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.240 the basics here. Let's play some good football. Let's get 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.440 back to playing the game that we love and we 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:23.520 know how to play well. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.720 You see it that way as you face Tennessee on Sunday. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.920 Yeah, it's really a big summation of our season. We've 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.000 kind of sat here multiple weeks and we've played good 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.600 football at times. Other times we just haven't executed him. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.599 We go back and look at the Tennessee game week twelve, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.400 it's kind of some respects the synopsis of our season. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.960 Gave us some explosive plays, turn the ball over a 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.400 little bit. I think we were penalized eleven times, so 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.960 just trying to minimize some of those bad plays. Tennessee 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.360 played better than we did. We understand that this is 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.120 a challenging opponent that has a number of skilled players 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.960 in a lot of different areas. So focusing on Tennessee 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.960 trying to play a good football game, doing the things 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.960 that are conducive to winning. Put on ourselves in a 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.560 position where we can go ahead and go out there 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.680 and play good football as a team, which this time 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.040 of the year, that's the most important thing. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.600 We've had this yere nick before where week seventeen. I 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.559 don't want to use the word irrelevant, because any game 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.440 is relevant, but it's not going to change seeding. We're 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.000 into playoffs. We want to be seemingly as healthy as possible. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.719 How much does that become a part of it, Like, Hey, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.840 we want to be as healthy as possible. Yeah, we 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.839 won't play great football, but man, we got to have 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.200 the guys. We need to be able to play that 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:25.800 playoff game. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.960 Yeah, every game takes on significance whenever it is, whatever 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.320 the circumstances are. So fortunately been kind of in this 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.000 situation multiple times and the last week, you know, we've 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.520 handled it differently at different points. So I think ultimately 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.360 you have to do we have to do. Demico has 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.400 to do what you know, we feel as best for 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.600 our football team. What do we think we need understanding 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.040 of the cognizant If a player has a health issue 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.839 or concern then maybe are we better off waiting another 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.919 week or whatever the case may be. So in the end, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.440 we're gonna need our whoever we have, whoever is available 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.000 to us this week and next week, Like those are 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.200 the players that we're gonna win with. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.279 Can't worry about who we don't have. Also're gonna do 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.840 his focus on the players that we do have. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.200 So each week is going to be different, each team 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:09.520 is going to be a little bit different, and you 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.200 just have to have it, take inventory of where you 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.040 are as a team, and ultimately make the decision that 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.719 you feel makes the most sense no. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.120 Matter who you facing the postseason. This is good prep. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:18.880 I know you want to be better at stopping the 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.919 run than you were against Derek Henry. You got Tony 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.400 Pollard here, had a good game last time. He's a thousand, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.279 thousand yard backs, so it's a good test. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:26.280 Yeah, really good back. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.440 I mean ran for one hundred yards over one hundred 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.880 yards in the first games. A thousand yard rusher, and 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.440 he's really kind of a multipurpose back because he's just 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.440 not a runner. He's a very capable receiver as well, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.560 so good athlete, good with the ball in his hands, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.760 capable of making explosive plays because of his speed. So 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.479 the run game will be important, I'd say this time 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.720 of year in most games, like the ability to run 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.000 the ball, stop the run, and cover kicks like those 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.680 are the things that you're gonna have to be be 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.760 able to do in order to be a good physical 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:54.400 football team. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.200 Are you trying to sneakily steal my scoutez? 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:58.800 You got it? 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.880 Here with it, joh the gun. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.440 I'm just my last. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.520 Report because we've already but we can. Let's start in there. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.560 Week twelve, we got a chance to see these guys. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.600 We didn't see Taj Spears uh and he was part 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.280 of the mix this past couple of the past couple 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.280 of weeks and look pretty good doing it. How have 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.800 they changed from Week twelve? Nick, I know it's not 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.280 gone exceedingly well for them. There is talk about them 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.559 playing both quarterbacks Mayson Rudolf and Will Levis. What what's 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.840 changed most about the Titans in the Scotland report that 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:29.679 you see, Yeah. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.600 The big thing, it's always personnel related more than anything 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.240 else schematically, like from the start of the season until now, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.160 you know, the run game they do a really good job. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.040 Coach Coach callahan square. They both do a really good 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.000 job in a running game. They ran the ball effectively 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.360 and have two really good backs who are capable of 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.160 gaining the yards. And their ability to create explosive plays. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.120 We saw that, you know, with Chick on the big 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.680 play there in the third quarter or whatever it was. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.520 And Ridley is always a factor. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.320 So they do a good job schematically in a running 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.200 game and then creating some explosive plays as well. You know, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.120 they've turned the ball over a little bit, you know, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.920 probably more than they would like, So the ability to 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.200 take the ball away in an r N control of 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:07.840 the football or take care of the football is going 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.200 to be important. But it seems like they've kind of 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.520 solidified the offensive line, which is a little bit of 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.400 a moving part, and think Latham has kind of been 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:15.920 to one constant there from the beginning of the year. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.560 They've had a number of young rookie players who have 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.600 played well for them this year on both sides of 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.120 the ball, but they present challenges offensively because of their 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.480 skill more than anything else. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.880 All Right, what about this streak you have going on 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.960 on the road in the division, because you have to 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.240 go back to what twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.840 when the Texans last lost an AFC South game on 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.240 the road. Is there anything too that I know it 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.760 spans different coaching eras and that kind of thing, but 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.120 you've been here the whole time time. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.920 Yeah, I mean each week it's really one game at 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.760 a time, one week at a time, and just doing 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.800 enough that particular week, so you can't necessarily worry about 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.240 I mean, streaks are streaks, but all streaks are made 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.840 to be broken. It's ultimately about playing good football. So 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.319 that's what it's going to take. So can't really get 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.320 too caught up in But we've talked on this show. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.240 Everything starts with a division, so we're in a position 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.240 fortunately we continue to play football because of what we've 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:08.959 done in the division. So we think we just want 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.520 to go out there and play good football against division opponent, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.600 like he'll beat us in week twelve, So we just 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.760 want to try to play better football and make sure 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.439 we're doing the things that are conduced with the winning 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.000 This week against Titans. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.200 Nick, have you seen Tovandre get better and better each week? 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.480 I mean he's a guy obviously big. There were some 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.640 questions about conditioning. Oh, he's not going to be able 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.600 to make in the NFL because he can't play that much. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.880 It's almost as if he's got in the NFL, and 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.199 it's really not bothered him. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:34.839 I think he's played every single game. What have you 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:35.840 seen for the big fella. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.760 And how tough is he to account for just because 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.160 of sheer size and athleticism. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:41.640 No, he's played really well. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.240 So when you look at the combination of him and Jeffrey, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.840 Jeffery is a problem by himself, regardless of where he 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.080 lines up, and it's about his skill AND's about how 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:49.960 hard he plays as well. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.680 But deve Andre has done a good job. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.800 He's obviously a factor in the running game, but he's 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.120 done a decent job with some power rushes because once 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.800 he gets going vertically, it's just hard to sit down 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.120 and block a guy and fifty pounds. So you had 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.480 the fumble recovery kind of the second man strip there 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.679 a couple of weeks ago. That's stiff arm. So you're 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.480 talking about a big, strong, athletic player who presents problems 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.000 on the inside part of the defense. So sov Andre 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.800 has played well and going back to the rookies and 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.800 Brownlee has done a really good job from start to 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.040 finish at corner. Then they've had a bump them inside 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.560 a little bit and play some nickel with McCrary being out. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.960 So they have a number of good young players who 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.400 have given them a lot of good plays during the 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:25.040 course of the year. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.440 We haven't had a chance to catch up since the 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.240 back to back with Kansas City and Baltimore. And I know, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.080 two very different games, very competitive against Kansas City and Baltimore. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.839 How do you look at that one? Do you look 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:36.800 at it as well? 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:37.840 That just wasn't our day. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.800 We got to get it out of our minds because 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.880 obviously you want to correct those things, but you want 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.839 to move forward and get momentum for the postseason. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.120 And really both games we had opportunities. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.280 So going back to the Kansas City game, we kind 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.520 of had the was seventeen sixteen. You get the fourth 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.800 down stop and then we're at midfield and then we'll 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.920 go three and out, and then we just couldn't garner 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.679 enough momentum and then any end, they just made a 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.480 few more plays than we did. The same thing against 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.600 Baltimore as well. It's ten to two, we have the 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.880 ball down there in a three yard line. We went 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.320 four on fourth down, which you know, Tomico, you know, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.560 wanted to get points. Was the right decision, you know, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.959 to try to play aggressively, and you know we didn't 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.280 convert it, you know, and we weren't able to keep 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.880 him off the long field. They hit the explosive play 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.360 to Mark Andrews and then it's seventeen to two, and 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.240 then it just kind of was hard to catch up. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.560 So say, both games we had our opportunities. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.200 Which goes back to what Tomiko talked about, like this 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.640 game is just going out there playing good football, executing 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.880 from start to finish, and I think that'll be the 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.040 challenge for us here this week. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:35.280 Nig I don't know if we've had a chance to 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:40.960 talk to you since claiming Deontae Johnson, and I know 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.160 we talked about the trade deadline and one of the 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.599 things that you mentioned which was true, is that you 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.040 made a number of waiver claims. I mean, Derek Barnett 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.560 coming here was huge over the second half of the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.800 twenty twenty three season. This one was later than I 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.840 think any of the others getting him in week seventeen. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.320 As you go out to week eighteen. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.400 The expectations are different for everybody in this bill at 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.680 the thought of a guy coming in, what he can learn, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.840 what he can do. What's your thoughts about bringing in 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.079 Deontay this late in the season, and what do you 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.439 think he can provide for the team. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.040 Yeah, our philosophy is always just look to take advantage 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.199 of opportunities when they present themselves. You don't really know 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.440 when that's going to happen, whether it's week eight, week twelve, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.360 week sixteen. So we look at the waiver wire every day. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.680 Pro scouting staff does a great job and then we 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.760 have discussions about it. We talk about it as a staff. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.800 Ultimately you make a decision, well this makes sense or not. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.000 I think the situation with Tank maybe you know said, hey, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.000 he missed some opportunity for us to bring in a 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.199 good football Player's a lot of experience. So Deante's been 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.480 a productive player in this league for a number of years, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.600 a skilled player, even going back to his Toledo days. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.800 I mean, this is a player you know actually had 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.760 the opportunity to work him out and spend the day 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.280 on campus with him when he was coming out. I 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.160 think it was near him in Woodside, I think, or 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.480 around the same time. So he's got a good skill set, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.280 he's athletic, he's fast, he's got good quickness, he's been productive. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.560 So when you get a player this late, obviously you 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.959 can't teach him everything. You just want to try to 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.120 give him some small doses so he can go out 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.040 there and actually practice and then if he has an 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.360 opportunity to play, go out there and perform at a 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:08.240 you know, at a high level. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.439 It really puts a test on your wide receiver group overall, though, 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.360 the injury to Tank, and again that's not something we 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.280 talked about since the last time we got together. So 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.240 as a group, what are you thinking here moving forward? 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.160 Yeah, No, that's a group that's been taxed here at 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.360 different points. So we kind of played without and played 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.360 without Digs for a period here. I play without Tank 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.880 even Nico missed a few games there. But we've talked 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.400 about this, even going back to beginning of the year. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.240 We felt that, you know, the depth in that room 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.720 was really good. Was the strength of the team. You know, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.600 Metch has had his opportunities, he's taken advantage of them. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.680 Hutch seemingly in each game when we throw them the ball, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.199 he makes it play. So it's about other players getting opportunities. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.280 You know, jay Wayne had to be he was elevated 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.559 a couple of times. So we feel comfortable with the 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.800 players that are here at Deontae to that mix. So 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.560 we'll take four or five receivers to the game, however 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.520 it is, and then see if we can go out 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.079 there and just take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.960 We've also had injuries at this seemingly the nickel position 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.360 where Jaylen's been banged up, then Jimmy gets banged up. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.280 Nick, What can you tell us about Miles Bryant. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.520 This guy's since his days back to Washington, you always 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:11.880 felt like a guy when you watch him in the field. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.120 He might have been the smallest guy in the field, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.800 but it felt like he was a playmaker, like he 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.040 was gonna make a play no matter what. What can 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.240 you tell us about Miles and what maybe he can 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.800 bring to that nickel position when he's there. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.520 Yeah, he's a very smart, experienced, instinctive player, has position versatility. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.560 I mean, I think he played I don't know, seven 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.600 hundred and eight hundred snaps last year New England between 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.440 safety corner, slot corner, so he's taken some snaps there 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.680 inside the formation, so has a good awareness, has a 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.440 good understanding of how to play football. Here's another player 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.520 who's made the most of his opportunities in his career. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.920 Wasn't drafted, but he's a great kid, works really hard, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.000 he's very smart, he's instinctive, runs well, so he has 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.000 a good skill set. So he's gone in there. He 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.720 went into the other day against Baltimore log some snaps. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.960 So we'll kind of see what makes the most sense here. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.520 Kamari's been in there, Miles was in there. We'll just 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.680 figure out, you know, who makes the most sense. But 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.800 we've had multiple players in there, and I think we 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.560 kind of felt this was a position you're probably going 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.440 to need multiple players, and that's really kind of come 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:07.960 to fruition. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.680 Well, Kate Stover, Johnny and I have visited with him 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.520 a couple of times this year and recently as a 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.200 matter of fact, since the appendectomy recovery. He got out 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.400 there pretty quick Nick and he says he likes playing 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.800 that fullback, h back whatever it is, that extra role 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.840 because you can move around a lot. And that's a 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.840 player who spent a lot of training camp just learning 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.160 how to play tight end. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:33.920 Yeah, Kaid's a smart, tough, versatile, instinctive player. He's improved 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.640 continually as the years progressed. The more you give him, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.840 the more he can handle. And that's where you always 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.040 start with kind of a baseline of whoever the player 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.920 is and then add small doses as you go. But 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.480 Kade's ability to kind of play multiple spots enhance his 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:49.440 overall value. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:50.480 And we've talked about this. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.320 He's made some plays in the kicking game as well, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.080 and you're probably not going to find a tougher player 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:55.960 on a football team, you know than Kate's Stover. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.320 So glad he's here. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.720 He's helped us, you know, in a number of different 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.600 areas here this season. Looking forward to finishing year strong 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.920 with him and what the future holds, you know, for 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:05.720 him in our program. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.840 And if you ever want to learn more about beef production, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.080 he's the expert. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.040 Yeah, he's the expert in that. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.560 Candi absolutely, Nick, I don't know if you've ever been 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.480 completely persuaded, but thinking a kid, maybe think of I mean, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.800 obviously you had us with the Patriots where you guys 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.960 looked at players like Julian Edelman, You're like, I don't 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.360 really know what we're gonna do with him. We'll find 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.240 something that dude ends up playing nickel. He played punt 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:27.960 return to it obviously settles in to be one of 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:28.840 the best solid receivers. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.240 What best receivers we've ever seen. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.000 Have you ever been persuaded by a guy's second sport, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.520 Like you see him play football and you're not totally convinced, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.120 But do you see him play a second sport or 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.000 he's in a different sport and you're like, man, maybe 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.600 there's something there. I like the way he plays basketball, Man, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.480 he's a wrestler, or whatever the case might be. I've 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.680 ever been persuaded by a guy because he's had kind 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:49.840 of a second sport. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.440 That really you think can help him. It's interesting that 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.560 they bring that up. There's never a direct correlation. While 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.880 you see a player do this in this sport, it's 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.120 going to translate over to the NFL, because the reality 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.360 is they're all kind of starting from scratch. It's really 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.479 about their mindset and then the combination of the player 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.280 in and of itself, and then the coaching staff and 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.800 just the ability to kind of think outside the box 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.640 a little bit. Fortunately, been a part of some situations 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.960 like that. Going back to Chris Hogan, you know, cross 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.040 player ended up being a pretty good receiver for a 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.960 number of years. Steven Neil, who was a very accomplished 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.600 amateur wrestler didn't play college football, signed him in a 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.919 practice squad and then he ended up having an eight 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.800 to nine year career, you know, and he worked hard, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.080 took coaching, got better. So I think if you have 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.600 a player with the right mindset who's willing to put 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.000 the time in, you really never know how it's going 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.720 to turn out. And you're seeing multiple examples throughout the league, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.360 even looking at the Chargers using Matt Locke the defensive 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.760 tackle at fullback. Ricard has kind of made that transition 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.040 even with the Eagles and Jordan Malatta, who had a 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.240 rugby background, wasn't really a football player. Now he's become 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.879 one of the best left tackles in the league. So 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.080 it's not always going to work out all the time. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.359 But I think if you have an open mind and 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.760 then just take the individual player and just their mindset, 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.000 their thought process, how they work, how they approach it, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.600 and see if they make some progress along the way, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.119 then ultimately you just kind of let let you know, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.119 nature run its course. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:11.440 A little bit. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:12.800 You ever played lacrosse. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.679 I've played with my daughters throwing the ball, but I 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.080 never actually played lacrosse. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.280 So it's a great sport. Yeah, honestly, I wish I would. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:20.440 Have learned it. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:21.919 You're good at it. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.400 Yeah, I was too consumed by baseball, playing baseball since 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.600 I was six years old, so I didn't even know 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.440 what lacrosse was. We actually had at our high school 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:30.960 and I was trying to figure out what this sport was. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.440 But it's a great sport, honestly. Not to get into 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.760 lacrosse discussion, but I think what Paul Rabel has done 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.080 for the sport of lacrosse has been phenomenal. His impact 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.320 and the way they've grown it, both on the male 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.480 and female side. I think there's a professional women's lacrosse 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.600 team that he are, a league that like they're promoting 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.879 that he started. But his impact on the game has 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.679 been significant. So had the good fortune of you know, 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.280 meeting Paul on the way. But I mean, look, it's 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.639 a tremendous sport and a couple of our my daughters 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.320 have actually just experimented with it, and I think it's 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.320 a great sport for all young kids to try if 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.760 they have the opportunity. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.000 And Jim Brown played it at Syracuse about that I 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:07.480 was to the. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.200 Sport that we had here, because that's the sport I 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.000 would have thought about, probably in front of baseball, because 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:13.920 I mean, I love baseball too. I get to Brown, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.320 I had never seen the cross and I see some 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.639 of the lacrosse players, I'm like, whoa these guys A 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.520 lot of them played football in high school but then 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:21.600 decided to focus on the. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.720 Cross running, changed direction, hand eye coordination, coordination. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.600 It's amazing to see what those guys can do with 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.959 a stick and direct the ball, make people missing space. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.240 I mean, once I saw Hogan sign with you guys, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.600 I thought this is going to be interesting because I got. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:37.200 A feeling he's a pretty good athlete, and it turned 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.000 out he was a really good athlete. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:39.399 All right. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.280 So there's something called the scepter and it's handed out 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.119 from Good Morning Football Kyle Brandt for Angry Runs. 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:45.560 Now. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.560 Damian Pierce won Angry Run of the Year two years ago, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.359 but this week he just won another sceptor for his return. Yes, 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:57.040 this is breaking news, we saw it in the Morning show. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.720 But he had that tremendous kickoff returned go all the way, 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.879 but he knocked over several people along the way, and 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.920 it could have been a game changing play at that point. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.320 But he's found a way to If he gets his 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.280 hands on the ball, it's going to be exciting and 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.040 he's trying to make a difference even though he doesn't 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:12.880 get all the carries. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.119 No, he's shown that over the course of his career 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.040 when he gets the ball in his hand, good things 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.639 can happen. And he's worked really hard, talking about like 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.960 a skill he necessarily didn't have, but he's worked really hard. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.400 You Frank has spent a lot of time with him, 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.560 and there's some nuances that are involved and understanding how 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.639 the returns blocked and what we're trying to accomplish. But 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:33.080 once you get the ball in your hands and you 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.119 let your run instincts take over. Damien's hard to tackle. 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.920 He's got good lower body strength, he's slow center of gravity, 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:41.760 he's strong with the ball in his hands. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:42.879 And there's been multiple examples. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.000 Not only were the kickoffers in the other day, but 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.800 even going back to the touchdown run against the Patriots 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.960 and then the kickoff returned last year with the Browns. 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.840 So it's a skill that he's learned and acquired, and 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:54.840 he's embraced it and he's helped our team in that 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:55.600 particular area. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.120 Nick, we talked last week before you said, you guys 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.680 are starting your draft meetings. How does that work with 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.520 playoff games? Are you are guys at playoff games? Are 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.120 you are are you sending to certain guys to playoff games? 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.879 Are certain teams or just players that you still have 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.640 questions about? How you kind of handle the playoff situation 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:15.840 for your draft scouts. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.720 Yeah, it's interesting sometimes those games are like off limits 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.399 relatively like the normal scouting protocol. Normally during the season 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.359 you get a credentially get the sideline for the game. 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.840 You know, when they're playoff games, it takes on a 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.560 little bit of different significance. But you know, with the 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.720 Texas Bowl here and in our stadium, so it's not 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.800 definitely actually I saw I've seen LSU and Baylor play 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:36.800 a couple different points. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.520 But it's always good to get another look. 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.080 You're not necessarily looking for anything new, maybe just a 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.280 follow up from something from earlier in the year. So, 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.399 but as far as specific to the playoff games, you know, 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.679 there's probably not too much you can glean, you know, 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.360 from a live look, you're just continue to gather information. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.160 So but it's creeping up on us. 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.080 So I mean, we're going to be the Senior Bowl 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.040 before we know it, and then the middle of February 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:58.679 we're going to have our next round of draft meetings. 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.920 So the train keeps moving, there's no question about it. 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.440 Johnny was saying warm ups. Sometimes he sees scouts looking 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.960 at the players in warm ups as opposed to well 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.840 in addition to being in the game and at the combine, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.760 this comes up to you like to watch them milling 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.879 around and interacting and going through whatever they're going through 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:14.360 to get ready. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.440 No, really, you're just looking for an opportunity to observe 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.679 the player in a different environment or maybe there's something. 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.240 Pregame is usually interesting too, because you can see how 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:25.800 they approach their warm up, what are they doing, what's 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.520 their process. Maybe you haven't seen a player catch live 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:31.760 or they're doing a drill, reactually able to see something 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:33.520 a little bit different, or to go back there at 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.040 pregame and catch punts. So it's always an opportunity to 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.280 learn and gather more information, so it not necessarily earth 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.600 shattering but it's just more part of the information gathering process. 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:45.960 Okay, now we have a question here, and this is 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:50.719 a big development. Okay, well, Demiko, we gave them this 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.920 situation with the new year, New Year's resolutions. 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.480 He asked me about New Year's resolutions, because I've never 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:57.120 really had any. 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:59.520 We must say, all four hang on a second, Okay, 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.560 all right, I had to give my hypothetical here. He 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.360 has to give up one thing, one of these four 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:08.360 barbecue text mes, pasta, or fish, and he took barbecue, 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:10.920 and we couldn't help but thinking this is your influence 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.480 on him. Maybe Nick, I don't know. So he said 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.399 he needs to work out. He could beat my ass. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.520 So like whatever he says, like he's b. 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:19.560 Because he was trying to like, all right, I'm trying 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.280 to watch myself. We we both said pasta. We know 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:23.439 you can't give up pasta. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:27.040 There's no way, not a big pasta consumer necessarily. 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:28.760 I have it maybe once or twice a week, so 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:29.679 our kids love it. 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:31.200 Carbs and things like that. 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:32.800 You're just a little bit of variation. 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.440 You're not giving up fish, so forget about that stand. 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:36.960 So I have to give up one of those. 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:42.000 Yeah, yeah, for you this is easy, but probably would give. 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.520 Up the text mechs even though I don't eat text mes. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:50.400 That's easy. I'll give it up. Quit smoking, I don't 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:53.159 stop drinking. You stop drinking on. 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:56.440 Actually, when we go out to dinner and that ridge, 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.040 she loves ribs. So it's great. They all have different. 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:02.080 Thanks a lot of good luck this week. 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:02.480 Thanks fellas. 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:04.879 I love our interviews. I love Scott and Rport. 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:08.520 I love just getting to know some of the BTS stuff, 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:12.160 behind the scenes stuff. I love with preparation. But when 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:16.400 we ask Nick things about food, things you would take 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.359 out of your Christmas meal, all that kind of stuff. 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:20.600 I just love where that discussion ends up going. We 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.159 always have a blast with him. Now, a guy that 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.600 we have not had in studio often. I think we 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:29.240 had him back in May or June. Could play a 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.760 big role on Sunday against the Titans. That is former 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:40.720 Washington Husky, former New England Patriot Miles Bryant Nickel safety corner, 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:41.960 defensive back. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:45.280 Yeah, Miles Bryant plays them all and he's on with us. Next. 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:47.520 Right, you're in Texas All Access. Yes, sir, you heard 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:51.240 the man. It's Texans All Access. John Harris Foot playing 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:55.000 all the sideline reporter still trying to kind of calm 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.560 myself down after watching one of the greatest college football 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.639 games I've ever seen, Texas and Arizona State. If you 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:06.160 missed it, my god, you missed a great one. An 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.800 incredible comeback by Arizona State. The little engine that could 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.119 just kept fighting back camp Scatabo Heisman finalists. 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:14.680 Was an absolute you. 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:16.919 Know, he wasn't a Heisman finalist, should have been a 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:22.399 Heisman finalist, was an absolute dude. He threw a touchdown, 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.160 he ran I think he ran for two. He caught 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:28.679 a huge pass to the fourth quarter. So Arizona State's 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:31.480 down by sixteen. It is twenty four to eight. They 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:34.040 tie it at twenty four. Texas comes down, kick afield. 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:37.560 What's gonna be over right? He misses the field goal, 0:25:37.720 --> 0:25:40.520 so Arizona State now has a chance, and on third 0:25:40.560 --> 0:25:42.480 and ten, sever. 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:44.000 Catches the ball in Arizona State across the middle. 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.480 It is definitely targeting. Definitely Texas fans, you could miss 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:48.720 me with it. Whatever you're gonna say that, it is 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.199 definitely target It's the definition of targeting. He got the ball, 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:53.040 he's defensives receiver and hit him in the head. That's 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:56.800 the definition of targeting. Go read the rule book, and 0:25:56.840 --> 0:25:59.280 they didn't call it. They said it was no targeting. 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:02.000 That would have been a first down. Arizona State could 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:06.360 have kept the drive together but didn't. Texas couldn't score. 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:09.879 They went in overtime. Arizona State scores first thirty one 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:14.080 to twenty four, lead, fourth and thirteen. Quinn Ewers throws 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.320 a touchdown in Matthew Golden kicked extra points ty to 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:20.360 thirty one. You flip it the other way, Gunnerhilm first 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:23.960 play of the drive, touchdown, then yours to Golden for 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:26.680 the two. Thirty nine thirty one, and then Sam Levit's 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:29.920 pass quarterback for Averzonla State is picked off by Andrew 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:34.800 micaba At, an Austin native. Austin Micabo who usually played 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:38.080 who played for Clemson and transferred back home to Austin. 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:41.920 Had a great ball game that would steal it. Longhorns 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:46.560 win thirty nine thirty one, and now the Longhorns play 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:49.719 in the Cotton Bowl and they will play the winner 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:52.840 of the Rose Bowl Oregon v Ohio State. So you're 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.680 gonna get Oregon Texas or you're gonna get Ohio State. 0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:59.800 Texas in the Cotton Bowl. That is tremendous. And Texas 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:03.200 has been to a Cotton Bowl since two thousand and three. 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:05.919 I think it's two thousand and three season they played LSU. 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:08.960 Roy Williams was a receiver for Texas. I remember that, 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:12.520 but things have changed since then. So Texas gonna play 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:17.359 the winner of Oregon Ohio State from the Rose Bowl 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:21.720 in the Cotton Bowl. Congratulations to Sark didn't have the 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:25.440 greatest game. Texas was a two touchdown favorite and Arizona State 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:27.119 played its guts out. I mean, that was one of 0:27:27.160 --> 0:27:30.320 the greatest college games I have ever seen. Now, our 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:33.719 next guest played in the playoff. Our next guest played 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:38.160 in a playoff game. He played in the Rose Bowl. 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.600 That is going on with Oregon Ohio State as a 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:46.399 member of the Washington Huskies. Miles Bryant, defensive back, was 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:48.200 a freshman. He played in the playoff and I asked 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:51.080 him about that. Here we talk about his time in Houston, 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:53.600 what he thinks about playing the Titans on Sunday. Here's 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:57.040 Miles Bryant one on two with Mark and. 0:27:57.000 --> 0:28:00.640 Myself in studio with us. Now, Miles Bryant, Texas defensive 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:01.760 back Miles, how's it going? 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:03.920 Happy New Year, Good, Happy New Year. 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:07.280 All right, here we go training, getting ready, practicing for 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.520 the Tennessee Titans regular season finale. What's it like to 0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:12.440 get ready for a game where you know you're already 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:14.800 in the playoffs and this doesn't really affect seating, but 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:17.120 you want to play well. You want to show up, 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:19.840 do a good job. How's it going for you getting 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:20.639 ready for this one? 0:28:21.400 --> 0:28:23.840 It's going well. I'm excited for it. 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:26.200 You know, opportunity to go out there and play, and 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:29.359 like you said, you want to go out there perform well. 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:32.520 I think even though, like you said, there's no kind 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:36.520 of consequence with winning or losing in terms of seating, 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:38.120 I think at this point of the year, you want 0:28:38.160 --> 0:28:41.080 to roll into the playoffs with good momentum. 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:43.600 You want to, you know, play some of your best ball. 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:45.600 Are your best ball at this time of the year, 0:28:45.640 --> 0:28:47.880 so it's very important, Miles. 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.880 Most players will have a designation offensive tackle, wide receiver. 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:57.120 For you, it's this dB Nickel safety corner. I mean, 0:28:57.120 --> 0:29:00.920 you've played them all throughout your career. Watching you from 0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:03.320 your days in Washington till now, it feels like you're 0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:06.320 most comfortable at the nickel position, and it feels like 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.400 that's a position where you got to take all of 0:29:08.440 --> 0:29:11.400 those defensive back assets and kind of put them into 0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:13.600 play at that position. What's it like kind of playing 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:16.360 inside the formation at that spot as opposed to maybe 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:18.920 playing deeper at safety or playing outside of corner. 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.120 Yeah, I think it's kind of like you said, taking 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:24.000 all those qualities and then I think you also. 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:25.160 Got to add in the linebacker. 0:29:25.400 --> 0:29:29.880 That's that's certain things that you know, our defense may 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:32.080 ask you to where you got to get in there 0:29:32.160 --> 0:29:32.760 play the run. 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.280 So I mean it's a lot of fun. You get 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:37.520 in there. You know, you're always around the action. 0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:41.040 You know, a lot of offenses they like to attack 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:43.280 the middle of the field, right, So the nickel plays. 0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:46.560 Sometimes you play corner, you might not have a target 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:49.600 at that game. Sometimes you play safety. You might just 0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:51.360 you know, be in the deep part of the field. 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:53.600 And that's why you're doing guests all you're doing. 0:29:53.680 --> 0:29:56.400 So, I mean in the nickel, at the nickel spot, 0:29:56.400 --> 0:29:58.360 you're always around the action, You're always at the point 0:29:58.360 --> 0:29:59.160 of attack. 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:00.800 So I think it's a lot of fun. Yep. 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:04.840 Well, and in the situation the team is now Jelen petreout, 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:07.640 Jimmy Ward out. What's happen like for you to see 0:30:07.640 --> 0:30:09.720 those guys go out and now you're gonna get more 0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:11.360 playing time in all likelihood, I know they're going to 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:14.200 movie around and everything. And how is that for you 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:16.840 to approach that and practice and in games? 0:30:17.200 --> 0:30:20.480 Yeah, I mean it was tough losing those guys, but 0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:22.400 I think I learned a lot from them. I mean, 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:25.680 even you know, Jalen being younger than me, I just 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:27.800 sat back and then you know, we would be in 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:29.560 the meeting room out of ask him what he saw 0:30:29.600 --> 0:30:32.440 here or what he thought here, you know, how he 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:34.600 made that play or what he could have done better. 0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:35.880 And then same with Jimmy. 0:30:35.960 --> 0:30:38.600 So I mean it's an opportunity to go out there 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:41.120 and you know, just play the game. I love go 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:43.600 out there and just perform and you know, try to 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:44.880 get a win against Tennessee. 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:47.520 You feel like you want to lobby for blitzes because 0:30:47.520 --> 0:30:49.520 I would think, if I'm playing that position, coach, come on, 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:51.120 let me go get the quarterback, let me let me 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:53.160 go to the backfield, hand off or whatever. I want 0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:55.160 to go attack the backfield. How is that? 0:30:55.480 --> 0:30:55.680 Yeah? 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:56.680 I mean it's a lot of fun. 0:30:56.720 --> 0:30:59.840 You know, getting being able to you know, get penetration 0:30:59.920 --> 0:31:02.640 in the backfield or you know they want you to 0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:05.040 cover a guy in the slot. I think, no matter 0:31:05.080 --> 0:31:07.000 the opportunity, I think it's a lot of fun. 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:11.440 Last week it's Derrick Henry, I mean Derrick Henry. This 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:14.520 week it might not be a guy's size like Derrick Henry. 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.920 Uh with Tennessee and don't know whether the two backs 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:18.280 they have. 0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:19.320 Are going to play or not. 0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:22.000 What's kind of your scattering report thus far, Miles and 0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:24.240 what you see from Tennessee, especially the running backs. 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:26.520 Let's start about, you know, stopping the run, because that's 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:26.800 one of. 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:29.120 The first parts you've got to do playing that role, 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:31.000 playing the running backs, playing the run. 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:33.200 Game for Tennessee. What's the key against those guys this week? 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:35.880 I think it's just having everybody at the point of attack, 0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:38.640 you know, no matter who's you know, carrying the ball 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:41.479 for them, just you know, making sure guys are you know, 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:43.760 in the right gaps. And then once we're in the gap, 0:31:44.000 --> 0:31:46.560 you take care of what you gotta do, whether that's 0:31:46.560 --> 0:31:49.600 getting off a block or you know, just setting the 0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:52.400 edge and doing that, and then you know, just coming 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:54.360 off and making attackle so I think it's just you know, 0:31:54.400 --> 0:31:56.080 having guys swarm to the ball. 0:31:56.840 --> 0:31:59.840 So, Miles, you are undrafted, do you feel like when 0:31:59.840 --> 0:32:03.360 you're undrafted it's a different mindset and you're fighting to 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:06.360 make the team. You're on practice squad sometimes sometimes not 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:09.440 on the active roster. What is the approach and how 0:32:09.440 --> 0:32:12.040 does that affect the way you go about your business? 0:32:12.360 --> 0:32:15.320 Yeah, I think initially coming into the league, it was 0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:19.800 kind of like felt like the the odds were against 0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:22.040 me in a sense, and then once you get into 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:24.960 the league, you kind of see, you know, how things happen. 0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:27.720 And I think it's a very week to week league. 0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:29.600 So I mean, for me, just. 0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:32.120 Coming in since day one, I just tried to make 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:35.080 sure I was prepared whether I was playing that week 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:37.400 or whether I was just you know, helping out on 0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:40.000 the scout team. And I think that's been my mindset, 0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:42.400 you know, the past five years, just whether I was 0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:45.320 starting that week, you know, just trying to be prepared 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:47.360 to go help the team win. 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:50.680 So, Miles, did you have that moment earlier career where 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:52.880 you're like, yeah, I wasn't drafted, but man I could 0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:55.160 play with these dudes. Like did you have that kind 0:32:55.160 --> 0:32:57.640 of moment, whether it's earlier, your first training camp or 0:32:57.720 --> 0:32:59.880 a preseason game or whatever the case might be, where 0:32:59.920 --> 0:33:02.520 you're like, I can't play with these guys, man, Yeah, 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:03.680 I deserve to be here. 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:05.360 Did you ever have kind of that moment early in 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:05.720 your career? 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:08.479 Yeah, I think it was the first play of my 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:10.959 training my rookie training camp. I ended up getting an 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:13.960 interception and seven or seven. Yeah, so I was like, 0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:16.720 you got kind of yeah, that kind of could show 0:33:16.760 --> 0:33:18.520 them that I could play. And then from there, just 0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:22.560 you know, each day, each moment, you know, each rep, 0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:24.200 just try to get better, no matter who I was 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:26.960 going against, whether I was on scout team going against 0:33:27.040 --> 0:33:30.160 Julian Edelman at the time, or I was on the 0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:33.440 defensive team and I had a scout receiver going against me, 0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:35.760 just you know, trying to get better, trying to you know, 0:33:36.120 --> 0:33:37.000 sharpen the craft. 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:40.600 Miles Bryant with us, we talk about swarm. What a 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:43.720 swarm mean to you? What's the message to the players 0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:46.520 about swarm? 0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:50.760 I mean special work ethic, relentless mindset. I think just 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:54.480 going out there and you know, just playing fast, playing 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:58.360 physical and just trying to trying to everybody coming together 0:33:58.560 --> 0:34:01.120 to you know, get get the gold done. 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:02.320 Very good. 0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:05.360 So you're from Pasadena if I remember crack right, yep, 0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:09.560 But you go to University Washington and while you're at Washington, 0:34:10.320 --> 0:34:13.120 you guys ended up playing in the playoff while you 0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:14.320 were there, right, was that correct? 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:16.439 Yeah? That was my freshman that was your freshman year. 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:17.279 What was that like? 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:19.879 Because we got the playoff going on on New Year's Day? 0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:22.680 You know, they played Boise State and Penn State. What 0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:23.120 was that like? 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:25.319 Because Washington at that point had not been in the 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.200 playoff mix and all of a sudden, you guys have 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:31.319 this tremendous year and you make that run and I 0:34:31.360 --> 0:34:33.560 know you ran into Alabama, which is a really good 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:34.280 team at that point. 0:34:34.320 --> 0:34:36.880 But what was it like being in that college football playoff? Miles? 0:34:37.320 --> 0:34:37.480 Man? 0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:39.920 The atmosphere was crazy. I think. 0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:44.480 We played in Atlanta, Yeah, and the what was it 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:46.200 the Georgia doing with Georgia Dome? 0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:48.000 I think it might have been the last game there. 0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:51.560 But the atmosphere was crazy, just you know, going out 0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:54.719 there and kind of felt like it was all Alabama 0:34:54.880 --> 0:34:59.200 versus US. Ye granted the location, yeah yeah, yeah, so, 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:02.960 but no, it was crazy. I think the atmosphere was 0:35:03.040 --> 0:35:06.839 like second to none. And then I think you look 0:35:06.920 --> 0:35:09.440 back at that game and then you see all the 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:13.720 NFL players from both sides, both sides of the game side, Yeah, 0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:17.360 and it's just like it's ridiculous. Yeah, I don't know 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:21.480 from their side, like Jalen Hurts, Marlon Humphrey, Minka Fitzpatrick. 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:26.800 I think Jonathan Allen, Deron payin like a bunch of guys. 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:29.239 So there was that was a load. That was a 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:29.879 loaded team. 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:30.520 Yeah. 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:34.080 That twenty sixteen team was Ruben Foster linebacker. I mean, 0:35:34.080 --> 0:35:35.840 that dude was scary. I mean, that was That was 0:35:35.840 --> 0:35:37.839 an incredible team. But that was such a great run 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:40.279 by Washington. What was it like kind of going through 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:42.800 that season and at that time, there's only four teams 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:45.800 in the playoffs, right, so there's no guarantee. 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:47.759 Now you got twelve, you guys probably would have gotten in. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:49.560 But what was it like kind of going through that 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:52.600 at Washington where you guys are trying to build a 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:54.400 program back up where. 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:54.880 It needed to be. 0:35:55.640 --> 0:35:57.840 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I mean for me, 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:01.799 it was my freshman year. I actually walked on that 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:04.840 year and I was able to get you know, a 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:07.120 lot of plays, a lot of snaps because we were 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:09.279 beating teams bad, so I was able to get in 0:36:09.320 --> 0:36:11.279 that late third quarter and get some reps in. 0:36:12.000 --> 0:36:13.120 But no, it was a lot of fun. 0:36:13.160 --> 0:36:15.720 I think the guys that were before me, like Buddha Baker, 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:20.960 Kevin King, Sidney Jones, just learning from those guys, seeing 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:24.520 how they practice, seeing how they prepared, and then I 0:36:24.520 --> 0:36:26.279 mean each each game day it was a lot of 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:28.160 fun because I mean we knew we were going to 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:31.960 beat the other team across from us, and I mean 0:36:32.000 --> 0:36:35.440 each week, I feel like it was I don't know, 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:37.480 I feel like every every game we had like a 0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:39.640 collective one. It wasn't like it was just one guy, 0:36:40.719 --> 0:36:43.960 you know, John Ross, Dante Pettis, Miles Gasking, our big 0:36:44.040 --> 0:36:47.880 special teams play just yeah, guys, guys just making plays. 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:49.160 It was a lot of fun. 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:52.880 Miles Bryant with us. You left college football before COVID, 0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:55.560 So now when you look at college football and all 0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:58.680 the craziness, the NIL stuff, the portal, the way it's 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:01.080 all set up right now, what's your action to the 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:02.920 state of college football today. 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.399 It's kind of tough. I feel like for. 0:37:09.600 --> 0:37:11.960 I don't know, fans and players, it's kind of it's 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:15.200 kind of hard to necessarily. I mean, you have your 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:19.520 team if you if you're an Arkansas fan or Missouri 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:23.160 Michigan State fan, like that's your team. But it's kind 0:37:23.160 --> 0:37:26.160 of like you don't become enamored with the players how 0:37:26.480 --> 0:37:27.919 we once, did you know what I mean? 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:30.200 Like you had a guy for four years? 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:32.319 Yeah, you had a guy three four years to where 0:37:32.320 --> 0:37:34.720 it's like, all right, I grew up like even Robert 0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:37.759 Woods when I was in high school and Woods at 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.600 s S, so like I got to see him grow 0:37:40.760 --> 0:37:43.839 and become you know who he was at SC. So 0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.520 I think I think you lose that kind of aspect 0:37:46.560 --> 0:37:49.319 of it, which I kind of don't like. And then 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:52.919 you also got the business aspect of it to where 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:55.839 the nil people you know might stay at an extra year. 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:59.439 I saw quinn Ewers got offered six million dollars from 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:02.799 whatever school to stay next year. So I mean it's 0:38:02.880 --> 0:38:05.399 kind of I don't know, I feel like it's kind 0:38:05.400 --> 0:38:09.040 of tough to follow just guys moving year to year now, 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:13.200 But I don't know, it's it's the current state. You 0:38:13.400 --> 0:38:16.560 gotta you just gotta weather as a player, coach, a fan. 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:19.840 So you're talking about Robert and obviously from Pasadena, California 0:38:19.840 --> 0:38:23.759 where the Rose Bowl being played, Oregon, Ohio State. Who 0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:26.440 did you grow up watching? Who were your guys growing up? 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:28.640 Was there like somebody you looked at and thought, Okay, 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:30.399 I want to be like him, I want to play 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:33.359 like him. Was there anybody that that you really love, 0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:37.640 that that was a guy you whatere, offense, defense, whatever 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:39.120 it might be, but it's the guy that you just 0:38:39.200 --> 0:38:41.160 loved watching and that was your guy growing up. 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:47.080 Yeah, I think it's mostly offensive guys. But growing up, 0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:52.000 you know USC had that run, Yeah, Carrol Lendale, Lionert Brendale. 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:54.919 So I think mainly it was Reggie Bush. Everybody wanted 0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:55.960 to be Reggie Bust. 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:57.840 Why you wore the five? Uh? 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:01.080 In college? I wore it because it was the best available. 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:03.840 But when I was when I was in Pop Warner, 0:39:03.880 --> 0:39:06.279 I ended up wearing five because of Reggie Bush. 0:39:06.760 --> 0:39:09.400 So I think Reggie Bush was like the pinnacle. He 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:11.759 was like the main one. And then I mean it 0:39:11.840 --> 0:39:12.480 was mainly. 0:39:12.239 --> 0:39:20.320 Guys from USC, like Woods was one, Marquise Lee, Nelson, Aguilore, 0:39:20.600 --> 0:39:23.600 Dwayne Jarrett, Mike Williams. 0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:25.600 Oh yeah, we're bringing up some names now. 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:29.799 Yeah, I think teams were ridiculous too. Yeah, I mean, 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:32.200 let's not get it twisted. I mean, Vince Young beat 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:35.399 them by himself, but that was it. Other than that 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:40.000 Lendale and Reggie, I mean that those teams were unbelievably good. 0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:43.120 Thunder and lightening, those two. Yeah. 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:45.640 Matt Leoner was a Texan for a few minutes back 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:48.759 in twenty eleven, so Myles Bryant. A couple more forty 0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:52.200 quick ones. Houston. What do you think You grew up 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:55.560 in southern California, you went to you dubbed, you spent 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:58.520 four years with the New England Patriots Organization? What do 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:01.799 you think of being in Houston? I love it as 0:40:01.800 --> 0:40:02.560 a place to live. 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:07.520 Yeah, I love the food. Everybody always asking me about it. 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:09.960 I'm like, the food is second or nothing you could 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:14.279 just it's ridiculous. Whatever you want can't go wrong. I 0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:16.320 think when I first got here the weather was tough. 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:18.239 It was like a little warm than. 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:22.680 May May June, and then going into camp it was hot, 0:40:22.760 --> 0:40:25.560 like right when you step outside, just walking to the car, 0:40:25.640 --> 0:40:26.160 you sweat. 0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:29.120 But coming from New England, it makes me. 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:33.239 Appreciate Like today I was out there practicing just a 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:36.399 T shirt on, no long sleeve or hoodie. This time 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:39.319 here you got to layer up out there. So I mean, 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:40.520 I'm loving Houston. 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:43.080 It's like you put the deposits in in the summer 0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:45.120 and then you get to reap the benefits of it 0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:47.319 in December. You know, all that interest comes back to 0:40:47.320 --> 0:40:49.719 You're like, yeah, check it out, shorts, a T shirt. Meanwhile, 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:51.920 they've got blizzards and snow and all that kind of 0:40:51.960 --> 0:40:55.719 stuff going on. So yeah, weatherwise, you get through the 0:40:55.760 --> 0:41:00.360 tough part of well basically what may through September. 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:03.279 Even longer this year, maybe longer. Yeah, you're golden at 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:05.799 that point. It's awesome. It's awesome after that, I mean, 0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:06.600 that's why you live here. 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.600 But then in August it's one oh five, and you're like, 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:10.719 oh my gosh, how am I gonna make through? When 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:13.239 you've got that long practice in pads, the first one. 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:15.359 I always feel for you guys when you go through 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:18.040 that first one in pads, I'm like, how are they 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:19.520 gonna make it through? 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:19.920 Today? 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:21.719 There's no way to make it through to I mean, 0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:22.600 I don't know how you do it. 0:41:22.800 --> 0:41:24.680 No, I just take it to play at the play 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:25.120 at a time. 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:26.439 That's true. Time. 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.440 One more, what's your excitement level for the postseason, because 0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:32.000 no matter what happens on Sunday, you're in next week 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:34.560 at this time we'll be talking about playoff game and 0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:36.640 the opportunity to move on. 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:37.560 What do you think? 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:39.440 Very excited. 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:42.759 I've been to the This will be my second out 0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:45.759 of my five years going to the postseason, so it's 0:41:45.800 --> 0:41:49.200 been for me like a two year drought, and I 0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:52.120 mean that's one of the reasons I came here because 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:54.440 we have a competitive team and we got a you know, 0:41:55.040 --> 0:41:57.440 chance to go far in this thing. So I mean, 0:41:57.520 --> 0:42:00.600 I'm very excited just to go out there and you know, compete, 0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:03.799 compete in January and hopefully feverbrwhere outstanding. 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:04.960 Miles, thanks a lot for joining us. 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:06.520 Good luck, I'm proud, thanks for having me. 0:42:07.120 --> 0:42:10.120 Yeah, when you saw guys at the age of Miles 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:12.479 Bryant from LA we're number five. 0:42:12.760 --> 0:42:16.240 It was all about Reggie Bush, who was supposed. 0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:17.640 To be the first round pick of the Texans in 0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:20.840 two thousand and six, but it didn't turn out that way. 0:42:21.120 --> 0:42:24.120 So there you go. All right, injury report is out. 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.439 What does it tell us anything at all? 0:42:27.520 --> 0:42:30.520 Can we glean from this injury report that came out 0:42:30.560 --> 0:42:32.480 this afternoon. We'll talk about that next right here in 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:35.880 Texans All Access. Welcome back Wednesday edition of Texans All 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:39.680 Access with me John Harris, football Analyst sideline report for 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:43.759 your Houston Texans. We are getting ready for the Tennessee 0:42:44.280 --> 0:42:46.680 Titans on Sunday. 0:42:46.840 --> 0:42:47.880 Kick is at noon. 0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:51.040 I know they had to wait until Sunday night to 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:53.319 be able to put all that news out, but we're 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:57.839 playing at noon on Sunday. There's no consequence either way. 0:42:57.880 --> 0:43:01.279 The only consequence of this game really is well, I 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:02.840 know a lot of you might have over nine and 0:43:02.880 --> 0:43:06.880 a half, so there's that, but it doesn't affect the 0:43:06.880 --> 0:43:07.560 Texans seed. 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:09.839 You heard Miles talk about it. This game has nothing 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:10.480 to do with seeding. 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:12.320 But you want to play well, There's no question you 0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:13.960 want to play well anytime you go out and it's 0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:16.000 against the Titans, a team that beat you earlier in 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:19.560 the year. Now, they only consequence really is that Tennessee wins, 0:43:20.600 --> 0:43:23.640 they might drop as many as six to seven spots 0:43:24.600 --> 0:43:28.680 in the draft, and that's massive in this draft, absolutely massive, 0:43:28.719 --> 0:43:32.359 especially if you're looking for a quarterback, which it might be. Now, 0:43:32.400 --> 0:43:34.160 the first piece of news as it pertains to this 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:39.120 game pertaining to the quarterbacks is that Brian Callahan isn't 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:43.040 totally convinced of his quarterback rotation yet. They're both getting 0:43:43.040 --> 0:43:45.640 first team reps in practice. With Mason Rudolph we started 0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:50.600 last week and Will Levis. There's talk about, well, you know, 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:52.040 we still want to see what Levis can do. We 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:53.719 still want to see this, We still want to see that. 0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:56.480 I gotta think their mind is made up and their 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.200 mind is telling them we don't have a quarterback for 0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:02.560 the future because Mason Rudolph is a really good backup. 0:44:02.600 --> 0:44:05.279 He's not a great starter. Will Levis is really kind 0:44:05.320 --> 0:44:09.120 of neither of those. He's a really good athlete. And 0:44:09.360 --> 0:44:11.719 the Levis career has kind of gone exactly like I 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:13.000 said it was going to go a couple. 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:14.440 Of years ago. So pat me on the back. How 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:14.759 about that? 0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:18.200 No, I'm kidding, but we're probably gonna see about them, 0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:20.920 Brian Callian said, Now a guy we may not see. 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:22.840 It's ta J Spears. 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:25.840 Now we missed Spears the first time. I want to 0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:28.200 say he was dealing with a concussion then too, but 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:30.960 he was not. He did not participate in practice today, 0:44:31.760 --> 0:44:35.440 as it appears he's still in a concussion protocol now. 0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:39.759 With Tony Pollard, we did see him. He's dealing with 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:43.319 the ankle issue. He's limited, but kind of just number 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:46.799 of people I follow from Tennessee, there's not a whole 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:50.840 lot of positive feelings about either one of them playing. 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:52.560 And I mean not about them being good or bad, 0:44:52.680 --> 0:44:55.160 just they're not thinking either one of them is going 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:58.040 to play. So we could maybe not see Spears and Pollard. 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:01.719 We might see Julius Chestnut for the Titans this Week 0:45:01.760 --> 0:45:02.640 eighteen game. 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:06.200 And obviously back a few years ago this Week seventeen. 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:08.680 I'll then forget when we went to Indianapolis at the 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:12.760 end of the twenty seventeen season and there were guys 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:15.239 starting in that game on both sides, and it was like, 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:19.960 who are these guys that could be the Titans lineup. 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:21.680 I don't think Texas line up because we all know 0:45:21.719 --> 0:45:25.000 the Texans, but it could be the Titans lineup on Sunday. 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:29.319 So for the Texans, I don't know if I'm gonna 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:32.680 get too hot mothered about guys that didn't practice on 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:35.120 Wednesday for this one. Danika Autry's been dealing with a 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:37.959 knee for Anish for a while. Fully fought Acossi dealing 0:45:37.920 --> 0:45:42.680 with ankle still, Kamari Lasser with a quad and Shaq 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:44.560 Mason's been dealing with that knee issue since he got 0:45:44.600 --> 0:45:49.360 hurt against Kansas City. So I, in all honesty, I 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:50.759 don't know that I want to see any of those 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:53.960 four on Sunday anyways. But again, you still got to 0:45:53.960 --> 0:45:58.400 fill out a forty eight man roster. Nico Joe Laramie. 0:45:58.800 --> 0:46:02.240 Those are all rest days for the veterans. Christian was limited. 0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:04.520 They were all limited. Christian Harris limited with the ankle, 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:09.759 Jeff Acuda limited with a concussion. Juice Scruggs. Nice to 0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:12.399 see him back at practice for a bit. He's dealing 0:46:12.400 --> 0:46:14.440 with that foot issue. He missed a couple of games. 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:16.759 He missed three games, Yeah, because he got hurt in 0:46:16.760 --> 0:46:19.440 the Jacksonville game, so he missed Miami, Kansas City, Baltimore. 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:19.879 Good Seed. 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:23.560 Juice at least back at practice, limited capacity, full participant, 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:25.719 Will Anderson Junior, Nick Broker, both of them dealing with 0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:29.759 hand issues now on the Titan side, a couple of 0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:32.799 these guys, I mean they sit out this game. I'm 0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:35.359 okay with it, Tyja Spears being one of them. Arden 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:38.160 Key outside linebacker edge rusher deal a hand issue. He 0:46:38.160 --> 0:46:41.839 did not participate at the walkthrough that the Titans had today. 0:46:41.920 --> 0:46:46.279 Nick Folk the kicker deal with the abdomen issue, Tyler Boyd. 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:48.799 Whider she were dealing with the foot. Tony Polter was a. 0:46:48.760 --> 0:46:52.799 Limited participant in practice dealing with an ankle issue, and 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:55.680 a couple of linemen were back Jalen Duncan and Dylan Raidns. 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:59.920 But I'd like to see, like Jeffrey Simmons did not participate, 0:47:00.719 --> 0:47:02.600 reason doesn't want to play on Sunday, and I'd be 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:05.520 okay with that, but that's that's not gonna happen. Jeffer 0:47:05.520 --> 0:47:08.120 Simmons gonna play against the Texans. He loves to play 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:11.439 against the Texans. He'll have an opportunity on Sunday. So yeah, 0:47:11.480 --> 0:47:14.360 both teams a little banged up. It's interesting from the 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:18.520 Titans side, all the talk there from their media, you 0:47:18.640 --> 0:47:21.719 gotta lose this game because if you win it, you 0:47:21.760 --> 0:47:23.880 could drop from one or two in a draft all 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:25.440 the way down to eight or nine, and that's a 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:26.240 big drop. 0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:28.080 But you know, the Titans are gonna want to win 0:47:28.080 --> 0:47:29.279 this game. They're gonna want to beat us. 0:47:29.280 --> 0:47:33.720 But we'll see, depends on how healthy are certain guys. 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:36.920 Can they get some out of this guy and then 0:47:36.920 --> 0:47:38.840 maybe some down for I don't know, it's gonna be 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:41.719 an interesting play on Sunday, to say the least. Now, 0:47:41.719 --> 0:47:44.160 the guy calling the action for the Titans on Sunday 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:47.080 is our good friend Mike Keith coming up. It's men 0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:49.920 behind the mics, Mark Vannermier the Voice of the Texans 0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:53.120 with Mike Keith, the voice, the longtime voice of the 0:47:53.120 --> 0:47:53.840 Tennessee Titans. 0:47:53.880 --> 0:47:55.319 That's next to Texans Auxis. 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:57.600 We got one hour in a book, says We start 0:47:57.640 --> 0:48:02.600 twenty twenty five Texas All Access shows and we will 0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:04.920 take you all the way through the Texans seasons. 0:48:04.920 --> 0:48:06.040 Where are All Access shows? 0:48:06.040 --> 0:48:10.080 Are Texans Monday Shows Texans All Access Matchup Edition. So 0:48:10.480 --> 0:48:13.040 we'll take you all the way through for however long 0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:16.560 the Texans play, and we know it's longer than this week. 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:19.160 We just don't know the opponent as we get into 0:48:19.200 --> 0:48:23.759 the playoffs. We do know this week it's the Tennessee Titans. 0:48:23.920 --> 0:48:27.799 And since the Titans have been in Tennessee, there has 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:31.640 been one voice for that organization, and that is the 0:48:31.760 --> 0:48:35.440 Voice of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Keith. We always have 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:37.239 a blast talk with Mike. He's become a good friend 0:48:37.239 --> 0:48:40.160 over the years. I love his voice. I love listening 0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:43.120 to him well when the Titans aren't playing so good, 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:45.759 because yeah, it's better when they're not played so good 0:48:45.760 --> 0:48:50.120 when they were great with Derrick Henry and Ryan Tannehill. 0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:55.160 But I love Mike. He is a fantastic broadcaster, fantastic dude. 0:48:55.160 --> 0:48:58.480 And he sat down with Mark to discuss this matchup 0:48:58.880 --> 0:48:59.600 on Sunday. 0:48:59.640 --> 0:49:02.480 Titans Texans joining us now in Texans Radio. It's the 0:49:02.560 --> 0:49:05.239 voice of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Keith, and we just 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:07.760 caught up a few weeks ago. Mike, and that game 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:10.720 that we preview did not go well for the Houston Texans. 0:49:10.960 --> 0:49:13.799 It went extremely well for the Tennessee Titans. And I 0:49:13.840 --> 0:49:16.719 know not every other game has, but what went well 0:49:16.760 --> 0:49:19.759 in that game that you feel like can be duplicated 0:49:19.760 --> 0:49:21.480 for the Titans. I know there's only one game left 0:49:21.480 --> 0:49:24.560 in this season, but they've done some things well despite 0:49:24.600 --> 0:49:25.120 the record. 0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:28.520 You know what was interesting about that game, Mark, is 0:49:28.640 --> 0:49:32.799 that was the Titans' best performance of the year, and 0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:37.040 yet they still had a turnover that resulted in a 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:40.440 touchdown for the other team. They still had a turnover 0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:44.800 on their way into scoring on the fumble that happened 0:49:44.880 --> 0:49:49.040 with Levis and Pollard. They still gave up a bunch 0:49:49.080 --> 0:49:52.560 of sacks in the ballgame. They still had a lot 0:49:52.560 --> 0:49:54.759 of the problems they've had all year, but they made 0:49:54.800 --> 0:49:57.760 so many big plays during the course of the ballgame 0:49:57.880 --> 0:50:02.520 they overcame the mistakes, and that's what it would take 0:50:02.560 --> 0:50:05.640 to win again this week. This team has thirty three 0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:11.400 turnovers on the season, so an average of two per games. 0:50:11.560 --> 0:50:16.440 They're minus sixteen in turnover ratio. And what's really fascinating 0:50:16.480 --> 0:50:18.640 when you break down numbers is if you take the 0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:22.840 Titans and the Texans, the Texans are plus ten in 0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:29.319 turnover ratio eighteen turnovers. The Titans are minus sixteen in 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:33.600 turnover ratio thirty three turnovers. If you look at all 0:50:33.600 --> 0:50:37.640 the numbers between the two teams, there's not an appreciable 0:50:37.960 --> 0:50:42.440 difference in a lot of areas, particularly total offense, total defense, 0:50:42.600 --> 0:50:47.120 things of that sort. But that's the appreciable difference is 0:50:47.320 --> 0:50:50.200 the turnovers. That's the difference in being a nine win 0:50:50.280 --> 0:50:52.799 team and on your way to the playoffs and being 0:50:52.800 --> 0:50:55.239 a three way team whose season is going to be 0:50:55.280 --> 0:50:59.040 over at three point fifteen on Sunday, and I think 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:01.840 that's what they would have to find a way to overcome. 0:51:01.920 --> 0:51:07.600 December has been just disastrous for this team, and in 0:51:07.680 --> 0:51:12.279 so many different ways it has happened. At moments for 0:51:12.360 --> 0:51:15.440 this ball club. They'll be playing well and then all 0:51:15.480 --> 0:51:18.480 of a sudden, the bottom will fall out in run defense, 0:51:18.680 --> 0:51:23.319 or suddenly penalties crush any chance they have, or red 0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:27.160 zone mistakes. I've never seen a season quite like this 0:51:27.800 --> 0:51:31.200 that a ball club has not been able to get 0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:35.280 in any sort of rhythm at all because in large 0:51:35.320 --> 0:51:39.560 part of penalties, turnovers, and unfortunately for the Titans quarterback play, 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:42.719 You're just not going to win with twenty one touchdowns 0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:45.360 and twenty one interceptions. It's just not going to happen. 0:51:45.719 --> 0:51:48.800 So Brian Callahan has said that Will Levis and Mason 0:51:48.880 --> 0:51:51.320 Rudolph would both play in this game. 0:51:51.640 --> 0:51:52.720 What about Levis? 0:51:53.000 --> 0:51:55.080 What do you need to see from Levis in a 0:51:55.200 --> 0:51:58.000 half a player, whatever he gets to make you feel 0:51:58.040 --> 0:52:01.760 better about the offseason, and just talk about him in general, 0:52:01.800 --> 0:52:05.040 Mike and his progress or lack thereof, or whatever you're 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:08.200 seeing this year out of Will Levis in his second season, it's. 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:10.160 Just been up and down. Mark, I mean That's what 0:52:10.280 --> 0:52:14.200 it comes down to. It's been up and down. Everything 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:18.239 about what's happened with Will Levis has been all over 0:52:18.280 --> 0:52:21.440 the road. And early in the season he made some 0:52:21.520 --> 0:52:26.200 horrific mistakes. He came back after an injury and started 0:52:26.200 --> 0:52:30.280 to play better, and then in the first Jacksonville game 0:52:30.760 --> 0:52:33.440 he missed two open receivers in the end zone and 0:52:33.520 --> 0:52:36.959 a ten to six loss had been the following week, 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:41.080 he just had a disastrous stretch and a performance against 0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:44.520 Cincinnati and you know, four turnovers. They had to take 0:52:44.560 --> 0:52:47.320 him out of the game. And so Mason Rudolph's played 0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:52.200 and Mason's been okay. But the thing is Will is 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:55.239 a much more spectacular talent. I mean, you saw in 0:52:55.320 --> 0:52:58.160 the game in Houston. He can throw it now, I 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:02.319 mean he can flat wing when he's on, he's really on. 0:53:03.680 --> 0:53:06.720 But then he'll throw the interception, He'll make the mistake, 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:13.120 he makes an incorrect read at an inopportune moment. My 0:53:13.200 --> 0:53:17.520 feeling on Will is that Will is not done. That 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:20.200 Will could be a real candidate to be one of 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:23.640 those quarterbacks who continues to develop through the course of 0:53:23.640 --> 0:53:27.880 his career and becomes a more stable player as he 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:30.880 goes That you can count on. Remember this too about 0:53:30.920 --> 0:53:34.520 will Will's under contract for two more years and Mark 0:53:34.600 --> 0:53:37.560 because he was a second round pick, he doesn't cost 0:53:37.560 --> 0:53:41.280 that much money. I mean, he's not a thirty million 0:53:41.320 --> 0:53:44.080 dollar player. I think there's a very good chance Will 0:53:44.160 --> 0:53:47.640 Levis is back on this roster next year. So what 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:50.520 will it be like for Will Levis for the first 0:53:50.560 --> 0:53:54.920 time in five years to potentially be playing in the 0:53:55.040 --> 0:53:59.080 exact same system two years in a row. His last 0:53:59.080 --> 0:54:02.239 two years, it can touch it didn't happen, and it's 0:54:02.239 --> 0:54:05.399 certainly coming from Penn State to Kentucky had made a change, 0:54:05.440 --> 0:54:07.640 So you can go back even further, and then it's 0:54:07.640 --> 0:54:10.960 two years in the NFL. It's been something different in 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:14.359 two seasons. So what would it be like for him 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:17.960 to have this opportunity. The Titans have to fix the 0:54:18.040 --> 0:54:21.680 quarterback position. Will Levis is not going to do anything 0:54:21.760 --> 0:54:25.879 on Sunday to make them decide that he's the guy 0:54:25.960 --> 0:54:29.400 for twenty twenty five, but he could certainly give himself 0:54:29.440 --> 0:54:32.839 some confidence. He could give them a little more confidence, 0:54:32.880 --> 0:54:35.600 and he could put himself in the mix to compete 0:54:36.800 --> 0:54:39.080 going into the twenty twenty five offseason. 0:54:40.320 --> 0:54:43.400 On the bright side, Tony Pollard the pickup. I know 0:54:43.440 --> 0:54:46.040 he's fumbled a couple of times, but thousand yard season, 0:54:46.120 --> 0:54:48.120 four point three per carry, had a good game against 0:54:48.120 --> 0:54:50.400 the Texans last time. This looks like a pretty good pickup. 0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:53.800 I know he's not Derek Henry, but it's not his fault, 0:54:53.920 --> 0:54:55.960 so to speak, that things aren't going as well as 0:54:55.960 --> 0:54:58.600 you want them to. He's had a pretty nice campaign. 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:02.920 He really had. He really really has a good pick up. 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:05.560 He's from Memphis and so he's got a lot of 0:55:05.600 --> 0:55:09.560 following here, much like the you know, the guys from 0:55:09.560 --> 0:55:12.279 the state of Texas are popular with the Texans, guys 0:55:12.280 --> 0:55:15.120 from the state of Tennessee are popular with the Titans 0:55:15.160 --> 0:55:18.359 fan base. So people really really were pulling for him 0:55:18.360 --> 0:55:21.200 to do well. And then he's done that on a 0:55:21.280 --> 0:55:26.239 bad team. He has been a bright spot and he's 0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:30.200 played with a painful ankle injury for the second half 0:55:30.280 --> 0:55:32.880 of the season, and last week they just had to 0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:36.439 tell him, you're not gonna play. We just can't play. 0:55:36.840 --> 0:55:41.440 You're gonna have to sit down. Otherwise I think probably 0:55:41.440 --> 0:55:44.319 what would have happened Mark and he may play this week, 0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:48.279 we don't know yet, but his numbers probably would have 0:55:48.440 --> 0:55:53.360 equaled Derrick Henry's numbers with US a year ago, and 0:55:54.440 --> 0:55:56.920 you know, that's a pretty good standard. Last year the 0:55:56.960 --> 0:55:59.600 Titans won six games, and this year they're going to 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:02.920 win either three or four. And to have him put 0:56:02.960 --> 0:56:06.400 up those kind of numbers on a football team that 0:56:06.560 --> 0:56:11.400 has not been that good would be really, really impressive, 0:56:11.480 --> 0:56:14.200 because you know, the issue with the run game when 0:56:14.239 --> 0:56:18.080 you're losing is how many times do you have to 0:56:18.160 --> 0:56:21.160 go away from it in the second half or how 0:56:21.160 --> 0:56:23.400 many times do you have to go away from it 0:56:23.480 --> 0:56:27.439 when you fall behind in the first half. So if 0:56:27.480 --> 0:56:30.560 this is a football team that's got eight or nine wins, 0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:33.080 I think you're probably talking about a guy who's a 0:56:33.239 --> 0:56:37.080 thirteen hundred and fourteen hundred yard rusher and probably a 0:56:37.120 --> 0:56:43.560 Pro Bowl caliber selection. Tony's Tony's been a highlight. I 0:56:43.560 --> 0:56:45.840 think if you made the case he was the Titans 0:56:46.000 --> 0:56:49.200 offensive MVP for this season, I think that would be 0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:52.000 a very fair case to make. But you know, and 0:56:52.040 --> 0:56:54.200 there have been several of those free agents who have 0:56:54.280 --> 0:56:58.160 certainly not been disappointments on this ball club. He would 0:56:58.160 --> 0:57:00.399 be at the top of the list of a free 0:57:00.400 --> 0:57:02.840 agent signing who has been a plus for the Titans 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:03.279 this year. 0:57:03.440 --> 0:57:05.759 Well, and it seems like Ridley, if he's healthy, he's 0:57:05.800 --> 0:57:08.920 a thousand yard guy and he's just about there with 0:57:09.040 --> 0:57:11.359 a game to go. And he's been a pretty good 0:57:11.360 --> 0:57:13.520 pick up as well. I mean, he gets solid numbers. 0:57:14.239 --> 0:57:14.759 I know that. 0:57:15.160 --> 0:57:17.360 Again, it hasn't been the passing attack you hope for 0:57:17.680 --> 0:57:20.440 with the turnovers, but Ridley has done some good things. 0:57:21.160 --> 0:57:25.320 Yeah, Ridley's really good play. He's explosive and the Titans 0:57:25.320 --> 0:57:28.400 had not had that since the trade of AJ Brown 0:57:28.800 --> 0:57:33.200 and so to get an explosive player in that mix, 0:57:34.080 --> 0:57:37.840 and to do it that way with Calvin being able 0:57:37.920 --> 0:57:41.760 to run the way he can, he's a guy another 0:57:41.800 --> 0:57:44.640 good pre agent pickup. I think they'll try to get 0:57:44.680 --> 0:57:47.560 him the ball enough to Sunday or on Sunday to 0:57:47.640 --> 0:57:50.480 get him to one thousand yards. Got off to a 0:57:50.520 --> 0:57:54.840 really rough start and decided to kind of bear down 0:57:55.280 --> 0:57:58.600 and do things the right way and do the extra 0:57:59.120 --> 0:58:01.600 and he's been a really good player over the last 0:58:01.640 --> 0:58:06.680 ten games. So I think from from that standpoint, you've 0:58:06.720 --> 0:58:09.240 got ian We're talking about Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley. 0:58:09.280 --> 0:58:11.680 They're both going to be back next year, and so 0:58:11.840 --> 0:58:15.080 I think you've got some good building blocks there. Now 0:58:15.200 --> 0:58:19.920 the Titans need another explosive receiver, They need another player 0:58:19.960 --> 0:58:23.880 who can really make things happen. But to have him 0:58:23.960 --> 0:58:26.959 already on board and doing the job that he has, Yeah, 0:58:27.000 --> 0:58:29.320 he's been what they hoped he would be, no doubt. 0:58:29.640 --> 0:58:30.000 All right. 0:58:30.040 --> 0:58:33.080 So defensively, Landry has the eight sacks. He had the 0:58:33.120 --> 0:58:36.720 sack on CJ. Stroud late in the last game. Simmons 0:58:36.720 --> 0:58:39.400 is Simmons, you have a lot of pieces to work 0:58:39.440 --> 0:58:41.480 with moving forward. Who are some of the players you're 0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:45.120 excited about, not necessarily Sunday, but moving into the future 0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:46.320 twenty twenty five and beyond. 0:58:47.040 --> 0:58:49.600 That's Andandre Sweat is where you have to start. He's 0:58:49.720 --> 0:58:53.520 been more than anybody could have hoped. You know. The 0:58:53.640 --> 0:58:56.880 reputation was that he was out of shape and that 0:58:57.560 --> 0:59:00.200 you know, he'd be hard to motivate, and he's than 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:02.880 none of that. He's played really good football for the 0:59:02.920 --> 0:59:08.200 Tennessee Titans. And at three hundred and seventy pounds, he's 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:11.880 an amazing talent. And so knowing that they have he 0:59:11.960 --> 0:59:16.200 and Jeffery going together in the future is very exciting. 0:59:16.280 --> 0:59:19.200 On that interior, Harold Landry just I mean, he's just 0:59:19.240 --> 0:59:23.440 a workmanlike player, Harold is probably not ever going to 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:27.240 be a fifteen sacked guy, but if he gets double 0:59:27.280 --> 0:59:30.240 digit sacks, if he gets two sacks on Sunday, then 0:59:30.280 --> 0:59:33.920 he will have double digit sacks in his last three 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:37.600 complete seasons. Of course, he did not play in twenty 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:40.400 twenty two because he tore an ACL and training camp, 0:59:41.040 --> 0:59:43.560 so he's done a lot of good things. He plays 0:59:43.600 --> 0:59:48.160 the run too, and so he's that complete guy. You 0:59:48.200 --> 0:59:50.640 can use him as a defensive end, you can use 0:59:50.720 --> 0:59:54.720 him as an outside linebacker. Taydan's big question is they're 0:59:54.760 --> 0:59:57.080 going to have to figure out what they're going to 0:59:57.160 --> 1:00:00.920 do at linebacker because they're very thin, and there's a 1:00:00.960 --> 1:00:04.760 real possibility that they'll use their seventh different combination at 1:00:04.800 --> 1:00:10.880 inside linebacker this week. Very possible that happens. Safety having 1:00:10.920 --> 1:00:12.880 to figure out a lot of things about what they're 1:00:12.920 --> 1:00:16.160 going to do there going forward with a Moni Hooker, 1:00:16.760 --> 1:00:19.040 Money's going to be there, but who's going to be 1:00:19.120 --> 1:00:21.600 with him at the other spot. And some of the 1:00:21.640 --> 1:00:24.800 young corners have come on. Brown Lee has come on, 1:00:25.000 --> 1:00:28.080 Darryl Baker has come on, but guess what, they're young 1:00:28.120 --> 1:00:33.640 corners and so Chido Owouse need more from him going 1:00:33.680 --> 1:00:36.160 down the stretch here, and they got a little more 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:39.880 last week and then hopefully get la Jerious Snead back 1:00:39.960 --> 1:00:43.120 next year because they just got very little out of 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:46.360 him due to an injury that turned out to be really, 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:47.120 really bizarre. 1:00:47.560 --> 1:00:49.200 Mike Keith, Voice of the Titans with us. 1:00:49.200 --> 1:00:51.440 All right, let me reach back for a moment, because 1:00:51.680 --> 1:00:53.920 I don't know if you saw the Steve McNair show 1:00:54.000 --> 1:00:56.600 on Netflix. I want to know what the reaction was 1:00:56.640 --> 1:01:00.720 in the city about watching that. See a lot of 1:01:00.760 --> 1:01:04.680 disturbing stuff there, but I'd like reliving some of the 1:01:04.720 --> 1:01:06.520 good stuff with Steve McNair. I wish we had a 1:01:06.560 --> 1:01:08.840 little bit more of that, but it was what it was. 1:01:09.080 --> 1:01:11.920 What was the reaction in Nashville when people watch that. 1:01:12.640 --> 1:01:15.360 Well, I think you get into a lot of the 1:01:15.400 --> 1:01:19.120 things that people are interested in as far as documentary 1:01:19.200 --> 1:01:22.360 style things and podcasts and people like all the true 1:01:22.360 --> 1:01:25.440 crime stuff. You know, so you knew you were going 1:01:25.480 --> 1:01:28.680 to get a lot of that. There was nothing in 1:01:28.840 --> 1:01:33.560 that that people here didn't know, So I think it 1:01:33.640 --> 1:01:38.280 was designed a great deal more for the broader audience 1:01:39.320 --> 1:01:42.840 that you know. You if you didn't know the Steve 1:01:42.920 --> 1:01:46.400 McNair story from fifteen years ago, which most people around 1:01:46.440 --> 1:01:50.720 the country didn't. Then I get where it was probably 1:01:51.040 --> 1:01:56.439 very very interesting. But from here and having lived through 1:01:56.480 --> 1:02:00.680 it and lived through the subsequent investigations and the people 1:02:00.720 --> 1:02:04.600 who have conspiracy theories about all of it, which quite 1:02:04.640 --> 1:02:08.800 frankly have been debunked, and you know, all of it, 1:02:08.800 --> 1:02:13.840 it's just still incredibly sad. And Steve was a different guy, 1:02:14.080 --> 1:02:17.120 you know. He was a different guy from the standpoint 1:02:17.160 --> 1:02:20.120 that he grew up so poor, and I think there 1:02:20.160 --> 1:02:22.439 was a little bit of a Mickey mantle to him 1:02:23.240 --> 1:02:26.440 that he didn't know that he was going to probably 1:02:26.880 --> 1:02:30.360 be around until he was seventy, so he didn't always 1:02:30.400 --> 1:02:33.840 make the best choices about his life. And yet when 1:02:33.840 --> 1:02:37.000 he came back here after his couple of seasons in Baltimore, 1:02:37.760 --> 1:02:40.520 I had a conversation with him that was easily the 1:02:40.560 --> 1:02:43.760 deepest conversation I had ever had with him, And it 1:02:43.840 --> 1:02:46.040 was like, you know, two grown ups. It wasn't like 1:02:46.320 --> 1:02:48.479 a broadcaster and a player. It was like two guys 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:51.800 who were dads. And I really enjoyed it, and I 1:02:51.840 --> 1:02:55.080 thought to myself, Man, I really looked forward to seeing 1:02:55.160 --> 1:02:58.320 him around over the next few years and watching his 1:02:58.440 --> 1:03:01.320 boys grow up and all of these things, and just 1:03:01.360 --> 1:03:04.520 a few months later he was gone. And it's a tragedy, 1:03:05.160 --> 1:03:08.240 I mean, the whole thing in so many different ways, 1:03:08.880 --> 1:03:14.840 a tragedy about a guy who was very complicated but 1:03:15.120 --> 1:03:20.480 is still the guy who is seen as this franchise, 1:03:20.560 --> 1:03:26.640 at least this incarnation of the franchise's fates, and Eddie 1:03:26.840 --> 1:03:29.960 George has taken over a lot of that because he 1:03:30.080 --> 1:03:32.320 knew he needed to. He knew it was he and Steve, 1:03:32.480 --> 1:03:35.960 But once Steve was gone, Eddie really felt like he 1:03:36.040 --> 1:03:39.280 needed to be that face and that voice at critical moments. 1:03:39.280 --> 1:03:41.760 But I think Eddie would tell you that to the 1:03:41.800 --> 1:03:45.800 fan base, it was Steve because of how he played 1:03:45.920 --> 1:03:48.640 and how tough he was, and you know, kind of 1:03:48.680 --> 1:03:53.440 everything that went with him. He's what people probably in 1:03:53.600 --> 1:03:57.840 thirty two NFL cities would want their guy to be. 1:03:58.680 --> 1:04:01.920 You know, he had so much of that for people, 1:04:02.040 --> 1:04:06.640 So wrong answer your question, but you know, it's been 1:04:06.680 --> 1:04:09.520 fifteen and a half years and we still haven't recovered 1:04:09.520 --> 1:04:10.920 from the loss of statement there. 1:04:11.280 --> 1:04:14.439 Well, it's been even longer since losing the Super Bowl. 1:04:14.440 --> 1:04:16.360 I wanted you to weigh in on this. 1:04:16.320 --> 1:04:18.640 Debate we were having, and I don't know what it's 1:04:18.680 --> 1:04:22.080 like to do either one. But Charlie Casly always said 1:04:22.440 --> 1:04:25.200 it's worse to lose the Super Bowl than any other game, 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:27.240 and I would figure it's got to be worse to 1:04:27.240 --> 1:04:29.400 lose the championship game because at least you go to 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:31.040 the Super Bowl. Now you went to one of the 1:04:31.080 --> 1:04:34.760 most dramatic Super Bowls ever, Tennessee Titans versus the Rams. 1:04:34.760 --> 1:04:35.800 You'll lose by a yard. 1:04:36.000 --> 1:04:38.880 It's an incredible ending, really, and I got to imagine 1:04:38.920 --> 1:04:40.720 the feeling in the moment was awful. 1:04:41.240 --> 1:04:42.400 But what do you think of that? 1:04:42.440 --> 1:04:45.360 Would you rather lose in the AFC Championship Game or 1:04:45.480 --> 1:04:47.280 go to the Super Bowl and lose it. 1:04:48.160 --> 1:04:52.600 So the twenty two days that we had from the 1:04:52.720 --> 1:04:57.000 Music City Miracle game to the Super Bowl. It's the 1:04:57.040 --> 1:04:59.320 twenty fifth anniversary of that, by the way, which is 1:04:59.320 --> 1:05:03.520 hard to believe. So January January will be the twenty 1:05:03.520 --> 1:05:07.280 fifth anniversary of the Music City Miracle. And moving forward 1:05:07.280 --> 1:05:10.880 to Super Bowl thirty four, winning a game in Indianapolis 1:05:10.920 --> 1:05:14.600 that everybody picks you to lose, beating Jacksonville for the 1:05:14.720 --> 1:05:18.800 third time in Jacksonville in a season where they lost 1:05:18.840 --> 1:05:21.440 to nobody else, and then going to the Super Bowl 1:05:21.480 --> 1:05:25.120 without a week off. I mean, we went almost straight 1:05:25.160 --> 1:05:29.120 from Jacksonville to Atlanta. There's a massive ice storm that week, 1:05:29.200 --> 1:05:34.480 and so for what we do, it's crazy. It's the 1:05:34.520 --> 1:05:38.880 greatest twenty two days of my life. And if I could, 1:05:39.000 --> 1:05:42.680 if I could give that as a gift to every broadcaster, 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:46.280 that's the gift I would give them. So I disagree 1:05:46.320 --> 1:05:53.000 with Charlie Cashery wholeheartedly. He's a much more refined football 1:05:53.080 --> 1:05:55.560 man than I will ever be. I'm just a broadcaster. 1:05:56.280 --> 1:06:02.320 But as a broadcaster, that experience was life changing. It 1:06:02.400 --> 1:06:06.960 was you had everything. I will say this, I have 1:06:07.120 --> 1:06:11.280 never felt after a loss ever back when I was 1:06:11.320 --> 1:06:15.680 a player in high school, covering college, being involved with 1:06:15.760 --> 1:06:18.959 the NFL, I have never felt the way I did 1:06:19.120 --> 1:06:23.560 after losing a Super Bowl. I'm almost ashamed to say 1:06:23.600 --> 1:06:26.640 how crushed I was after losing that Super Bowl because 1:06:27.000 --> 1:06:29.080 it is just a game, right, you know, it's just 1:06:29.120 --> 1:06:32.680 a football game. But you literally do want to cry. 1:06:33.680 --> 1:06:35.560 And I don't know how much of it was that 1:06:35.840 --> 1:06:40.600 game or just the fact that that ride was ending. 1:06:40.840 --> 1:06:43.680 You know, we had a parade here, We had a 1:06:43.760 --> 1:06:49.080 parade here two days after the Super Bowl, right, you 1:06:49.160 --> 1:06:51.840 think about that, despite I mean, have you ever heard 1:06:51.920 --> 1:06:56.640 of that ever? I mean, so that whole experience was 1:06:56.760 --> 1:07:01.160 just fantastic. And again, if I can hand that off 1:07:02.000 --> 1:07:04.600 to the people that I love in this business, I 1:07:04.640 --> 1:07:10.800 would so do it because it's it had everything in it. 1:07:10.800 --> 1:07:16.840 It was the ultimate story of what you never expected 1:07:16.920 --> 1:07:18.320 in every way shaping. 1:07:18.000 --> 1:07:22.360 Form well said, and I always thought that I'd love 1:07:22.400 --> 1:07:24.600 to go, love to be there, want to win it, 1:07:24.640 --> 1:07:26.440 of course, but would love to be able to have 1:07:26.480 --> 1:07:28.720 that opportunity. And I love what you said about giving 1:07:28.760 --> 1:07:31.280 a gift to the other broadcasters. I wish you could 1:07:31.320 --> 1:07:33.120 do that, but we can't. We just have to see 1:07:33.120 --> 1:07:34.280 how it plays out on the field. 1:07:34.480 --> 1:07:34.680 Mike. 1:07:34.720 --> 1:07:37.160 It's always so enjoyable to visit. And we want to 1:07:37.200 --> 1:07:38.000 thank you for the time. 1:07:38.520 --> 1:07:40.000 Mark, thank you so much for the time. 1:07:40.600 --> 1:07:43.439 I can't tell you the number of times now Mark 1:07:43.520 --> 1:07:46.000 Vannery and I have sat in this studio or the 1:07:46.000 --> 1:07:47.920 one next door since I got this building at twenty 1:07:47.920 --> 1:07:51.120 fourteen and talked about that what will it be like 1:07:51.200 --> 1:07:52.320 to go to Super Bowl? 1:07:52.720 --> 1:07:55.720 What would it be like? What would this town do? 1:07:55.880 --> 1:07:58.840 I Mike makes a great point there, talks about a 1:07:58.880 --> 1:08:01.720 parade two days after or the Titans ended up losing. 1:08:01.880 --> 1:08:04.240 I think that would happen in Houston. I think there 1:08:04.280 --> 1:08:07.240 would be a parade for us going to the super Bowl. 1:08:07.360 --> 1:08:09.640 I think there would be a parade for us regardless 1:08:09.680 --> 1:08:12.480 of the outcome after the super Bowl. That's how much 1:08:12.520 --> 1:08:15.280 I think this town, this city wants to go to 1:08:15.360 --> 1:08:17.600 a super Bowl no matter what. I don't want to 1:08:17.600 --> 1:08:20.240 go there and lose forty nine to two. But I 1:08:20.240 --> 1:08:23.120 wouldn't think that would happen because I think this team, 1:08:23.160 --> 1:08:25.120 no matter what, can compete with anybody. 1:08:25.720 --> 1:08:27.360 You gotta bring your a game to do it, and 1:08:27.400 --> 1:08:28.080 it would be tough. 1:08:28.080 --> 1:08:32.120 But that said, just getting to the super Bowl and 1:08:32.360 --> 1:08:37.400 experiencing that, seeing your guys on NFL Network, everybody at 1:08:37.439 --> 1:08:39.880 podiums talking about the season, I mean, it would just 1:08:39.920 --> 1:08:43.280 be It would be fantastic. But it's got taking one 1:08:43.320 --> 1:08:46.240 at a time. And this week it's the Tennessee Titans, 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:49.960 who are voiced by and all their games voiced by 1:08:50.080 --> 1:08:52.880 Mike Keith. So it's good to catch up with Mike. 1:08:52.920 --> 1:08:55.760 Can appreciate he stepping up to Mike with Mark. When 1:08:55.760 --> 1:08:59.200 we get back, Drew Doherty joins me as we go 1:08:59.479 --> 1:09:02.679 in the lab. We get a little geeky with this one. 1:09:02.840 --> 1:09:04.960 Of course, and who are gonna be our cream of 1:09:05.000 --> 1:09:08.360 the crop players now Drew and I recorded are in 1:09:08.439 --> 1:09:12.040 a lab earlier on Wednesday before the injury. 1:09:11.680 --> 1:09:15.040 Report came out. So my guy was listed on the 1:09:15.040 --> 1:09:17.160 injury report. It's a killer. 1:09:17.200 --> 1:09:19.360 But you'll hear who I have to say if he plays, 1:09:19.840 --> 1:09:21.800 because he has been fantastic as a rookie for this 1:09:21.840 --> 1:09:22.360 team this year. 1:09:22.360 --> 1:09:23.800 That's next up, Texas Axas. 1:09:24.000 --> 1:09:30.080 It is time for the SLB stats Challenge. I'll give 1:09:30.120 --> 1:09:36.920 you the number. The number is ten now twenty twenty one, 1:09:37.120 --> 1:09:43.240 stick with me two, twenty twenty two, three, twenty twenty three, three, 1:09:43.760 --> 1:09:48.200 twenty twenty four two two three three two adds up 1:09:48.200 --> 1:09:54.639 to ten. That's ten straight wins over the AFC South 1:09:54.960 --> 1:09:58.599 on the road. That is an incredible number. I wonder 1:09:58.600 --> 1:10:00.560 if Peyton Manning and the Colts did that back in 1:10:00.600 --> 1:10:04.880 the day. Maybe, but they're looking for win number eleven 1:10:05.680 --> 1:10:06.720 on the road in a. 1:10:06.720 --> 1:10:09.160 Row against the Vision opponents. 1:10:09.560 --> 1:10:13.599 It's incredible to have won that many games, especially when 1:10:13.600 --> 1:10:15.479 you had two teams at twenty twenty one to twenty 1:10:15.479 --> 1:10:19.599 twenty two that want to combine four and three makes seven. 1:10:20.400 --> 1:10:22.880 He won seven. Five of those were in the division 1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:27.000 over those two years. So that is your stats challenge. 1:10:27.000 --> 1:10:29.439 Go to Houston Texans dot com to learn more about 1:10:29.520 --> 1:10:33.680 the SLB Stats Challenge. Now, if we want to get 1:10:34.000 --> 1:10:38.160 even more geeky on this show, staper Drew Doherty nine 1:10:38.200 --> 1:10:39.960 to go in the lab. 1:10:40.120 --> 1:10:41.120 Take a listen. 1:10:41.800 --> 1:10:43.080 Happy New Year, John, How you doing? 1:10:43.280 --> 1:10:48.200 Oh? Happy New Year twenty twenty five to everybody out there. Man, 1:10:48.360 --> 1:10:52.400 twenty twenty five, it seems so longer. I remember my 1:10:52.479 --> 1:10:54.120 son was born in two thousand. 1:10:54.600 --> 1:10:56.799 It's like, man, that's twenty five years ago as. 1:10:56.680 --> 1:10:57.519 Twenty five years ago. 1:10:57.600 --> 1:10:59.439 Yeah, I ho was hear twenty five and January eleventh, 1:11:00.080 --> 1:11:03.240 it was just like, where did the time go? 1:11:03.800 --> 1:11:05.800 Where did time go? I know you feel that way too, 1:11:05.840 --> 1:11:06.599 because I. 1:11:06.560 --> 1:11:09.960 Remember when I remember seeing your twins my first summer, 1:11:10.200 --> 1:11:12.240 first training camp with the Texans. They were in a 1:11:12.800 --> 1:11:15.479 two twins, they were in a twin troller, and now 1:11:15.479 --> 1:11:16.879 they're just out and about living. 1:11:16.680 --> 1:11:21.599 Like k the aircraft carrier. Yeah, exactly, we need to turn. 1:11:23.160 --> 1:11:25.080 I think was enormous, but it had to be yet. 1:11:25.160 --> 1:11:27.480 Yeah, get two kids in there, a sweethearts. 1:11:27.560 --> 1:11:28.000 Yeah they are. 1:11:28.000 --> 1:11:30.640 They're eleven now and they'll be amazing twelve at the 1:11:30.720 --> 1:11:33.599 end of May, happy near to you, Happy near to you. 1:11:33.680 --> 1:11:36.840 Watching listening the three of us, John, Me and you. 1:11:37.520 --> 1:11:39.719 We're gonna have a nice little time here today because 1:11:41.640 --> 1:11:44.519 the end of the regular season is here. You have 1:11:44.720 --> 1:11:46.760 at least two more football games to go, and if 1:11:46.880 --> 1:11:51.160 things go your way, you're gonna play much deeper into January, 1:11:51.240 --> 1:11:56.960 maybe even February. So rest is on the docket. Whether 1:11:57.000 --> 1:12:00.920 it's a full game, a half game, a quarter game, 1:12:00.960 --> 1:12:03.800 doesn't matter. You've gotten more rest because you play it 1:12:03.840 --> 1:12:09.280 on a Wednesday and you've had those extra three four 1:12:09.360 --> 1:12:12.840 days to get some time for you. So that's been 1:12:12.840 --> 1:12:15.120 a good thing. I think that's gonna help help things out. 1:12:15.160 --> 1:12:16.960 But by the way, this is in the lab presented 1:12:16.960 --> 1:12:20.599 by Exfinity in case you're wondering anyways the value of 1:12:20.880 --> 1:12:24.080 a mini buy. We say that mini by term usually 1:12:24.120 --> 1:12:26.400 when you're playing on a Thursday and you get that 1:12:26.439 --> 1:12:27.040 weekend off. 1:12:27.080 --> 1:12:28.080 Oh, it's like a mini bye. 1:12:28.080 --> 1:12:30.719 We've said it many many times over the last decade, 1:12:30.760 --> 1:12:33.400 really longer than that, even But what do you think 1:12:33.439 --> 1:12:35.400 the benefit of that mini buye might be? 1:12:35.920 --> 1:12:36.080 Now? 1:12:36.080 --> 1:12:39.320 It coincides with the holidays, but I imagine some self 1:12:39.320 --> 1:12:41.320 scouting has continued to go on and you get a 1:12:41.360 --> 1:12:43.720 little bit more time to do that. Some scouting for 1:12:43.760 --> 1:12:47.360 who your potential playoff opponents might be has happened as well. 1:12:47.360 --> 1:12:49.920 Could be the Steelers, could be the Chargers, the Broncos. 1:12:49.960 --> 1:12:53.560 Maybe we don't know, but those are the likely candidates, 1:12:53.680 --> 1:12:57.080 likely suspects. But self scouting over this many by, because 1:12:57.080 --> 1:12:58.639 there's a lot of things you can fix, John, there's 1:12:58.680 --> 1:12:59.559 a lot of things you can get better. 1:12:59.600 --> 1:13:00.800 Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. 1:13:00.800 --> 1:13:03.240 I mean you should be self scouting all the way 1:13:03.280 --> 1:13:05.960 to the super Bowl. And I think the biggest thing 1:13:06.000 --> 1:13:08.679 for the players drew at this point of the year. 1:13:08.840 --> 1:13:10.880 And you and I have talked about this at times 1:13:10.920 --> 1:13:15.440 over the years. You're in this building in week fifteen, 1:13:15.840 --> 1:13:20.160 on week fourteen on stand on a service level. When 1:13:20.200 --> 1:13:22.280 the offensive line and defensive line are getting out of 1:13:22.280 --> 1:13:25.320 their meetings and walking to the locker room, they are 1:13:25.680 --> 1:13:28.920 barely able to get down a hallway like it is. 1:13:29.800 --> 1:13:32.360 I mean, they've got to think to take a step. 1:13:32.479 --> 1:13:34.639 I mean it's they're beat up that much. I'll never 1:13:34.680 --> 1:13:38.800 forget seeing DJ Reader in his second year. So his 1:13:38.800 --> 1:13:42.360 second year was twenty sixteen, and he and will Folk 1:13:42.439 --> 1:13:46.439 were playing together. But now DJ was a true starter 1:13:46.560 --> 1:13:48.800 and he was staying on the field for probably eighty 1:13:48.880 --> 1:13:52.040 eighty five percent of snaps, and he was getting double 1:13:52.080 --> 1:13:54.920 team down almost every snap. And I just remember seeing him. 1:13:54.960 --> 1:13:56.880 He had slides on. He was going on a hallway 1:13:57.840 --> 1:14:00.479 and it was taking him. I was all the way 1:14:00.520 --> 1:14:02.880 down by the radio studio. He was a way by 1:14:03.520 --> 1:14:07.200 the auditorium team auditorium. Yeah, And there wasn't much room 1:14:07.240 --> 1:14:09.920 from the team auditorium to the cafeteria. There's a little 1:14:09.960 --> 1:14:12.200 distance from here to cafeteria. I nearly beat him to 1:14:12.280 --> 1:14:14.280 the cafeteria. I could see him, so I kind of 1:14:14.280 --> 1:14:15.599 picked up my walk a little bit so I could 1:14:15.640 --> 1:14:16.240 say hey to him. 1:14:17.200 --> 1:14:18.679 And I got near him. 1:14:18.520 --> 1:14:22.479 And I was just like, man, you're beat up. He's like, yeah, 1:14:22.760 --> 1:14:24.320 but I'm playing on Sunday, Like he just he was 1:14:24.320 --> 1:14:24.880 gonna play. 1:14:25.000 --> 1:14:27.040 I was respected him for that. But those guys are 1:14:27.080 --> 1:14:27.720 so beat up. 1:14:27.760 --> 1:14:32.000 So if you give them three extra days of rest, yeah, 1:14:32.200 --> 1:14:35.320 I mean that's enormous to even get your body back 1:14:35.400 --> 1:14:40.400 to just some sense of normalcy. I mean, even getting 1:14:40.400 --> 1:14:41.679 to get back to eighty five. 1:14:41.520 --> 1:14:44.120 Percent down from sixty five percent, I think is big. 1:14:44.200 --> 1:14:48.120 So for the players, I think there's definitely that rest 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:49.280 aspect for the coach. 1:14:49.400 --> 1:14:50.879 I think it's a mental break. 1:14:51.479 --> 1:14:53.760 Coaches need to have that mental break when you have 1:14:54.479 --> 1:14:56.920 when you've had the games that Texas have had, the 1:14:57.000 --> 1:15:00.160 close finishes against good teams and the intense game in 1:15:00.320 --> 1:15:03.880 short weeks and primetime games, you need a mental break 1:15:03.880 --> 1:15:04.639 for a couple of days. 1:15:04.640 --> 1:15:05.639 You need to check out. 1:15:06.080 --> 1:15:11.280 And I know what, and I mean not even not 1:15:11.320 --> 1:15:13.839 even coaching or playing, but just being around the team. 1:15:14.000 --> 1:15:15.160 When we had that weekend. 1:15:16.200 --> 1:15:19.400 Last weekend was the first weekend for me that I 1:15:19.439 --> 1:15:23.719 had Saturday and Sunday off. There had been probably seventy 1:15:23.720 --> 1:15:25.920 five percent of the weekends this fall where I worked 1:15:25.920 --> 1:15:28.680 both Saturday and Sunday with a college game that I 1:15:28.720 --> 1:15:31.800 was calling and then our game or try to have 1:15:32.200 --> 1:15:34.439 or I was moving, you know, And that was always 1:15:34.479 --> 1:15:37.360 tough because that was obviously self inflicted when we traveled 1:15:37.439 --> 1:15:40.040 to Way games. But last week was the first time 1:15:40.080 --> 1:15:42.680 I had a Saturday and Sunday and I literally I 1:15:42.760 --> 1:15:45.120 just checked out. I just I watched Red Zone, I 1:15:45.160 --> 1:15:48.439 watched NFL games, I went and got went to my 1:15:48.439 --> 1:15:50.800 favorite bakery and got my Sardo breett. I mean, I 1:15:50.800 --> 1:15:53.519 did all those kind of things that I just just 1:15:53.600 --> 1:15:56.679 checked out and there's a part of me that would 1:15:56.720 --> 1:15:58.080 love for this team to just check out for a 1:15:58.080 --> 1:16:01.840 couple of days, and how much you feel refreshed from 1:16:01.880 --> 1:16:04.280 that to charge into the last part of this season. 1:16:05.880 --> 1:16:08.400 You took us off in a tangent, and I'm gonna 1:16:08.400 --> 1:16:11.040 go tangent off of that tangent because you brought up 1:16:11.040 --> 1:16:15.000 Grave Dave DJ Reader, my favorite Texans ever. Yes, he's 1:16:15.040 --> 1:16:18.240 now a Detroit line an important part of that defense, and. 1:16:19.760 --> 1:16:22.280 They're they're coming along. Man, they're really really good. 1:16:22.320 --> 1:16:24.519 But anyways, before they the game that they played here, 1:16:24.600 --> 1:16:25.720 which Texans. 1:16:27.720 --> 1:16:28.559 Had so much. 1:16:28.600 --> 1:16:32.240 They were so much that game, but pregame, but pregame, 1:16:32.880 --> 1:16:36.080 I'm on our sideline, the Texans sideline round about the twenty, 1:16:36.800 --> 1:16:38.840 and I see him come out to stretch and he's 1:16:38.880 --> 1:16:41.479 doing the high legs and I just kind of get 1:16:41.560 --> 1:16:43.360 in a spot where I know, like I can see 1:16:43.439 --> 1:16:45.400 him and he can see me. And when I see 1:16:45.720 --> 1:16:47.960 him kind of scan the crowd to see I just 1:16:48.000 --> 1:16:51.280 go like a nice four scump type of wave and 1:16:51.320 --> 1:16:54.800 he kind of smiles and stop and does this yeah, 1:16:55.000 --> 1:16:57.439 And so it was nice to see DJ. And then 1:16:58.680 --> 1:17:01.200 I got a video from deep our old pal Dp 1:17:01.320 --> 1:17:05.400 city about two days later because they come towards that 1:17:05.520 --> 1:17:07.800 end zone and I was like, Okay, I'll get over 1:17:07.800 --> 1:17:09.120 there and maybe i'll you know, we'll get. 1:17:08.960 --> 1:17:11.000 A bro hug or whatever. 1:17:11.520 --> 1:17:13.760 And I get kind of close and they're doing these 1:17:13.760 --> 1:17:16.519 one on one drills with their coach, and off to 1:17:16.560 --> 1:17:22.160 the side, Melissa Stark is interviewing. So she was interviewing somebody, 1:17:22.360 --> 1:17:26.400 and I'm like looking like this looks like I'm looking 1:17:26.400 --> 1:17:29.000 at Melissa Stark like total creep. 1:17:29.080 --> 1:17:30.639 And hey, she's very good at what she does. She's 1:17:30.680 --> 1:17:31.120 very pretty. 1:17:31.280 --> 1:17:33.599 Yeah, but I was just trying to get a uh 1:17:33.960 --> 1:17:37.360 like a bro hug from DJ Reader. But she, she shaid, 1:17:37.560 --> 1:17:40.880 deeply clipped this video that somebody else had taken and 1:17:40.920 --> 1:17:43.360 then like zoomed in on the corner where I was, 1:17:43.680 --> 1:17:46.800 and it's like the leering Drew Doherty looks. 1:17:47.439 --> 1:17:49.160 We used to say that about our friend Billy Ucci. 1:17:49.160 --> 1:17:51.000 You're lurking, leering, lurking. 1:17:52.160 --> 1:17:53.680 But it was all for DJ Reader because I'm a 1:17:53.680 --> 1:17:55.320 bit because I you and I both saw him in 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:57.760 Cincinnati a year ago when Texans won that one and 1:17:57.800 --> 1:18:00.439 got to say hello to him. Then, so ingrats to 1:18:00.520 --> 1:18:02.760 DJ Hope you go all the way to the Super 1:18:02.760 --> 1:18:05.160 Bowl and you lose to the Texans in the Super Bowl. 1:18:06.120 --> 1:18:09.320 But yeah, second time around, Yeah, that's a game. 1:18:10.600 --> 1:18:13.280 You know, I feel like that Detroit game is one 1:18:13.320 --> 1:18:18.760 that left the stain that hasn't completely it's gone. You know, 1:18:18.840 --> 1:18:21.519 you think about what that could have meant. Probably you 1:18:21.560 --> 1:18:24.760 win that game. You're definitely not losing to Tennessee. Yeah, 1:18:25.840 --> 1:18:27.519 you're you know, you're probably going a little bit of 1:18:27.560 --> 1:18:30.280 a little bit of a run maybe and see where 1:18:30.280 --> 1:18:31.920 you are at that point. But you know what you 1:18:31.960 --> 1:18:34.120 are what you are right now, You're nine to seven 1:18:34.400 --> 1:18:37.479 and you've got the division wrapped up, and now you 1:18:37.600 --> 1:18:41.479 play the Tennessee Titans who beat you in your building. 1:18:41.840 --> 1:18:46.080 You've got this road division streak going on that has 1:18:46.120 --> 1:18:50.240 been phenomenal, and you have no idea who's. 1:18:49.960 --> 1:18:51.439 Gonna play in that game. 1:18:51.600 --> 1:18:55.040 Yeah, you think everybody, But are there guys that are 1:18:55.080 --> 1:18:58.559 are just are playing through nicks and bumps and bruises 1:18:58.560 --> 1:19:02.960 that could use a week and off. Probably could every 1:19:03.000 --> 1:19:06.360 guy use the weekend off? Probably, But you gotta fill 1:19:06.400 --> 1:19:08.360 out a forty eight man game day roster. So it's 1:19:08.360 --> 1:19:09.880 gonna be interesting on Sunday. 1:19:09.640 --> 1:19:10.000 Yes it is. 1:19:10.000 --> 1:19:11.680 We're gonna talk about Sunda we're gonna get into our 1:19:11.680 --> 1:19:13.920 Cream of the Crop award winners who we think will 1:19:13.920 --> 1:19:15.240 be a Cream of the Crop award winner. 1:19:15.240 --> 1:19:16.840 But before we do, John, we got to raise a glass. 1:19:16.840 --> 1:19:18.800 So let's raise the medelo to. 1:19:18.840 --> 1:19:23.599 A new year, new beginnings, and the promise of many, 1:19:23.640 --> 1:19:26.000 many good things. We don't know where this year is 1:19:26.000 --> 1:19:29.160 gonna take us, where this postseason is gonna take us, 1:19:29.200 --> 1:19:31.599 but it's good to be in the postseason because you 1:19:31.640 --> 1:19:35.120 and I and Texans fans for many, many years, most 1:19:35.160 --> 1:19:38.160 recently twenty twenty one, twenty two didn't get to worry 1:19:38.200 --> 1:19:39.280 about January football. 1:19:39.360 --> 1:19:42.760 That's right, So I'm all for it. I'm raising a 1:19:42.760 --> 1:19:43.280 glass of that. 1:19:43.400 --> 1:19:46.639 Now let's move on, our good pal, Randy macho Man, 1:19:46.680 --> 1:19:50.720 Savage the crop. Thank you, macho Man. Yes, it is 1:19:50.840 --> 1:19:53.120 time for that Cream of the Crop award winner. And 1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:56.080 you know, interestingly enough, we took a break for Christmas 1:19:56.160 --> 1:19:59.200 last week and there was no Cream of the Crop 1:19:59.200 --> 1:20:01.880 award winner because didn't do it, and maybe that's why 1:20:01.920 --> 1:20:05.439 the Texans lost. So we can get the mojo back, John, 1:20:05.720 --> 1:20:11.200 and this week cream of the Crop my choice will 1:20:11.240 --> 1:20:17.639 be the interior offensive line. You've made that choice many 1:20:17.680 --> 1:20:20.400 times this season and they've got to come up big 1:20:20.439 --> 1:20:23.760 because you are facing a pair of monsters if they 1:20:23.800 --> 1:20:27.479 do play in. Jeffrey Simmons and Devandre Sweat, those guys 1:20:28.040 --> 1:20:30.880 wrecked you in this last game that they played here. 1:20:30.920 --> 1:20:33.400 The Titans beat the Texans. They beat them up, and 1:20:33.400 --> 1:20:36.720 it was bad. Those two were key reasons why. So 1:20:36.800 --> 1:20:40.080 you got to keep them free and clear of CJ. 1:20:40.160 --> 1:20:40.519 Stroud. 1:20:40.520 --> 1:20:42.120 You got to keep them free and clear of your 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:44.800 run game because you want to generate some run game, 1:20:45.080 --> 1:20:47.280 get that thing going as you get into the playoffs, 1:20:47.280 --> 1:20:49.920 because I would imagine Bobby Slok wants to show some 1:20:50.040 --> 1:20:53.679 things that are different to opposing defenses and maybe hold 1:20:53.720 --> 1:20:55.680 some things back as well. But you got to get 1:20:55.680 --> 1:20:58.679 things going forward in a forward direction, and that doesn't 1:20:58.720 --> 1:21:02.400 happen without your guys guard center guard, whoever they may be. 1:21:02.920 --> 1:21:06.680 Like we mentioned resting, starting and so on and so forth. 1:21:06.520 --> 1:21:07.200 Whoever they may be. 1:21:07.280 --> 1:21:09.840 You gotta play really, really well there to get things 1:21:10.000 --> 1:21:12.120 cracking for twenty twenty five. 1:21:12.520 --> 1:21:15.000 You are on it. You know how, I you know how. 1:21:15.040 --> 1:21:17.519 I think we've been around each other to know enough 1:21:17.560 --> 1:21:20.280 to know that Jeffrey Simmons and Devandre Sweat have been 1:21:21.360 --> 1:21:27.479 absolutely awesome. Awesome together, awesome individually, and they're a tough uh. 1:21:27.960 --> 1:21:28.639 They're tough out. 1:21:28.680 --> 1:21:30.760 So no matter who's playing in there, those two have 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:34.960 got to be controlled. And the crazy thing was they 1:21:35.040 --> 1:21:37.840 really weren't getting loose on you in the game against 1:21:37.880 --> 1:21:42.439 the Titans until the fourth quarter. Yeah, and then they 1:21:42.800 --> 1:21:47.320 started doing things inside and reckon your pass rush and 1:21:47.880 --> 1:21:49.720 sack and CJ and then the whole thing kind of 1:21:49.720 --> 1:21:50.320 fell apart. 1:21:50.600 --> 1:21:53.080 I'm gonna go with the guy that if we did. 1:21:54.479 --> 1:21:54.599 So. 1:21:54.640 --> 1:21:58.120 After the game against the ravens Omar Majub who came 1:21:58.320 --> 1:22:02.160 who's our pr superstar came over and was like he 1:22:02.200 --> 1:22:03.760 looked at me and always going to play. After the game, 1:22:03.800 --> 1:22:05.559 he knew that he looked at me and he was 1:22:05.600 --> 1:22:09.720 like Townsend, Yeah. I was like, nah, don't worry about 1:22:09.720 --> 1:22:11.360 it's not gonna have one. Because it was that kind 1:22:11.400 --> 1:22:14.200 of game. The only two points were scored by the 1:22:14.240 --> 1:22:17.320 guy that I am making my Creamy the cropper this 1:22:17.360 --> 1:22:21.040 week and as Kamara last ye and I think Kamara Laster. 1:22:21.680 --> 1:22:24.439 I just remember back the draft night and I remember 1:22:24.439 --> 1:22:28.120 they said his name, and I just I got excited 1:22:28.120 --> 1:22:31.840 about what he could do in this defense. I thought 1:22:31.880 --> 1:22:34.960 eventually I thought he'd played the nickel and Corey Onunlin 1:22:35.360 --> 1:22:38.599 defense pass game coordinator sat in with me and Mark 1:22:39.080 --> 1:22:41.120 two weeks ago, I think, and we were asking abou Kamara, 1:22:41.200 --> 1:22:43.880 and I asked him, I said, was the plan basically 1:22:44.120 --> 1:22:46.120 got to the point of was the plan originally put 1:22:46.160 --> 1:22:48.760 Kamara at the nickel and then let him play there 1:22:48.840 --> 1:22:51.719 and then eventually he might go out the perimeter corner 1:22:51.920 --> 1:22:54.080 or maybe leave at the nickel. He says that was 1:22:54.120 --> 1:22:56.880 a plan, and then he just was like, we had 1:22:56.880 --> 1:22:59.439 to have him on the field every single play, and 1:22:59.479 --> 1:23:01.880 so then we moved into the perimeter corner and obviously 1:23:01.920 --> 1:23:04.800 the rest is history. But he's played some nickel as 1:23:04.840 --> 1:23:07.800 they've kind of moved some things around, and he does 1:23:07.840 --> 1:23:10.120 a hell of a job because he's a tremendous cover 1:23:10.200 --> 1:23:14.040 corner and he is really really physical, Like he he's 1:23:14.080 --> 1:23:20.759 the prototype Nickel in this defense because he blitzes pretty well, 1:23:20.880 --> 1:23:23.880 He tackles exceptionally well. He can cover man and man 1:23:23.960 --> 1:23:26.519 on guys inside where which is where you think you 1:23:26.720 --> 1:23:31.880 lose with a kind of linebacker mentality like Nickel, but 1:23:32.080 --> 1:23:35.639 he tackles well and covers well. So there's a part 1:23:35.640 --> 1:23:38.120 of me that thinks you know, maybe this offseason Texans 1:23:38.160 --> 1:23:41.519 look at a guy that can play the perimeter corner 1:23:42.240 --> 1:23:45.360 they feel comfortable with, and they just leave Kamara at 1:23:45.360 --> 1:23:48.000 the nickel, or they get Jalen Petrie back healthy, Camara 1:23:48.000 --> 1:23:50.400 can stay outside. Either way, I think they've got some options. 1:23:50.439 --> 1:23:52.639 Wants to get everybody healthy. But for me, Kamara Laster 1:23:52.760 --> 1:23:54.280 is gonna be that guy. He's got to help on 1:23:54.320 --> 1:23:58.160 the run game. You know, covering Calvin Ridley is always 1:23:58.200 --> 1:24:01.000 a challenge, and we go back to I don't know 1:24:01.000 --> 1:24:02.840 how many guys are gonna rest, how many guys you 1:24:02.880 --> 1:24:05.920 want to rest. You know, Derek Stingley has played. I 1:24:06.000 --> 1:24:08.479 think I think Sting's played every single game. You know, 1:24:08.520 --> 1:24:10.680 maybe sting sits a half well, that puts you know, 1:24:10.760 --> 1:24:12.880 Kamari on in the field for the full game with 1:24:13.120 --> 1:24:14.200 Jeffacuda or whomever. 1:24:14.280 --> 1:24:17.120 So I'm going with Kamara Laster. I think it's a 1:24:17.120 --> 1:24:17.559 good one. 1:24:17.560 --> 1:24:20.920 These rookies have played extremely well this year, probably better 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:23.880 than anybody. Imagine the fact that you've got for your 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:27.400 top four draft picks end up being starters basically on 1:24:27.439 --> 1:24:30.000 your team, and not the starters, but can retribute ralid 1:24:30.280 --> 1:24:33.880 impact contributors. So I'm gonna go Kamara Laster for this one. 1:24:33.960 --> 1:24:36.280 John, I wish you could measure I wish there was 1:24:36.320 --> 1:24:39.400 a unit of measurement you could use for confidence. There's not, 1:24:39.840 --> 1:24:43.920 you know, but before the season started, had a chance 1:24:43.960 --> 1:24:45.880 to I think it was I think it was during 1:24:46.360 --> 1:24:49.519 OTA's had a chance to interview Kamari one on one. 1:24:49.800 --> 1:24:51.920 I wasn't at the draft and he wasn't. He wasn't 1:24:51.920 --> 1:24:53.360 really at the draft either, because he was not a 1:24:53.439 --> 1:24:56.680 Day one pick, but I just remember being struck by 1:24:56.680 --> 1:24:59.160 his confidence and a lot of times, look, you don't 1:24:59.200 --> 1:25:01.680 get to the NFL if you're not confident. Every guy 1:25:01.720 --> 1:25:04.640 we've ever talked to has got confidence in abundance, but 1:25:05.200 --> 1:25:08.160 his is different and his is not any false bravado either. 1:25:08.760 --> 1:25:11.040 I can't remember what the question was, but it was 1:25:11.880 --> 1:25:13.760 something along lines of when did you know that you 1:25:13.880 --> 1:25:17.920 belonged and you could play in the NFL? And he 1:25:18.360 --> 1:25:20.680 he was not being cocky when he said these, but 1:25:20.840 --> 1:25:24.240 he said probably my freshman year when I got to campus, 1:25:24.479 --> 1:25:28.320 at my first practice at Georgia. Because I looked around 1:25:28.360 --> 1:25:32.200 and I was starting and everybody else around me, I 1:25:32.280 --> 1:25:35.000 knew would be playing in the NFL and probably be in. 1:25:34.920 --> 1:25:35.479 A pro bowler. 1:25:35.520 --> 1:25:39.080 I'm paraphrasing what he said, but basically, he's known since then, 1:25:40.280 --> 1:25:42.759 and he thought he was good going in. But that's 1:25:42.800 --> 1:25:45.240 cemented and solidified because think about who he. 1:25:45.120 --> 1:25:46.439 Was playing with back in the day. 1:25:46.600 --> 1:25:47.240 I mean that the. 1:25:47.200 --> 1:25:50.439 First time across that rock. 1:25:52.080 --> 1:25:54.559 Stars, but he was holding his own with those guys, 1:25:54.600 --> 1:25:57.400 holding his own against those guys. And I just remember 1:25:57.439 --> 1:25:59.880 when he walked out of that meeting, I don't know 1:26:00.040 --> 1:26:01.719 he's gonna do on the field. I had no idea, 1:26:01.880 --> 1:26:05.439 but I thought that guy's really confident guy. I mean, 1:26:05.439 --> 1:26:08.320 I've seen confident guys, but not like that. Yeah, it 1:26:08.400 --> 1:26:10.559 was it was herts and I wish you could quantify 1:26:10.680 --> 1:26:15.040 like he's got ninety eight rampules of you know, confident. 1:26:15.080 --> 1:26:16.240 I mean you can't. 1:26:16.360 --> 1:26:19.240 But whoever, if you, if you had to put everybody 1:26:19.320 --> 1:26:21.519 side by side, he's probably up at the tippy top 1:26:21.720 --> 1:26:23.680 on the Texans as far as confidence. 1:26:23.840 --> 1:26:25.799 What's funny you say. 1:26:25.640 --> 1:26:28.320 About that is I remember talking to him felt. 1:26:28.120 --> 1:26:28.719 The same way. 1:26:29.600 --> 1:26:33.639 Then we talked to Kaylen Bullock when Kaylen was drafted. 1:26:33.680 --> 1:26:36.280 I believe it's block block. He pronounced it block. 1:26:36.520 --> 1:26:40.280 He did pronounced it block thought block. Yeah, So Kalyn 1:26:40.320 --> 1:26:41.559 Bock Kaylen Block. 1:26:43.000 --> 1:26:45.920 Anyways, Kaylene is drafted, and I remember talking to him 1:26:47.280 --> 1:26:50.280 and I asked him about being in Houston meeting. What 1:26:50.360 --> 1:26:51.880 was it like all that kind of stuff, and you 1:26:52.000 --> 1:26:54.280 did you get on the board drops some places? Oh yes, sir, 1:26:54.360 --> 1:26:56.120 man I killed that. I mean like I was like 1:26:56.160 --> 1:26:58.479 a boy. He is supremely confident. 1:26:58.600 --> 1:27:02.240 Yeah, and then it's sort of way like hello. 1:27:02.560 --> 1:27:04.400 It wasn't like, yeah, you know, hey, I'm gonna be 1:27:04.439 --> 1:27:07.120 in the Pro Bowl nine times, think six years. It was, 1:27:07.479 --> 1:27:10.960 you know, just but very self assured. And then I 1:27:10.960 --> 1:27:13.400 thought about Kamario. I was like, that could be kind 1:27:13.439 --> 1:27:16.720 of fun. And those two are Kareem and Jjo like 1:27:17.040 --> 1:27:20.720 they travel everywhere together, the two of them together, best 1:27:20.760 --> 1:27:21.080 of friends. 1:27:21.080 --> 1:27:22.840 That's really when I was walking in today it's New 1:27:22.880 --> 1:27:25.840 Year's Day. I was walking in running thirty is sure 1:27:25.880 --> 1:27:28.160 and I'm not flexing like I'm some hard you know 1:27:28.280 --> 1:27:30.679 lunch paale worker. Anyways, when I was walking in down 1:27:30.680 --> 1:27:33.160 the hall, those two were walking in the locker room together. 1:27:33.280 --> 1:27:35.559 Kimer what they're saying, but they're just they're with each other, 1:27:35.840 --> 1:27:36.400 hanging out. 1:27:36.280 --> 1:27:36.840 All the time. 1:27:37.240 --> 1:27:39.840 Yeah, I'll leave where you see four you see twenty 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:40.760 one and vice versas. 1:27:40.800 --> 1:27:42.720 It was like the same thing with Kareem and j Joe. 1:27:42.960 --> 1:27:45.639 Wherever you saw twenty five, you saw twenty four all 1:27:45.960 --> 1:27:47.719 the time for years. 1:27:47.960 --> 1:27:49.840 What a nice young secondary those two. 1:27:50.080 --> 1:27:50.360 Yep. 1:27:50.400 --> 1:27:55.080 Petree Stingley, cooking scot and still gotta keep everybody healthy. 1:27:55.200 --> 1:27:55.559 Amen. 1:27:55.760 --> 1:27:58.640 All right, so those are our cream of the croppers Tennessee. 1:27:59.479 --> 1:28:01.600 Gonna be a fun trips. Close out the season with 1:28:01.640 --> 1:28:05.599 a bang. Lots of Texans seasons have and regular seasons 1:28:05.600 --> 1:28:10.799 have ended in Nashville. This one will end in Nashville 1:28:10.880 --> 1:28:15.240 regular season wise. Let's end on a high note. And yeah, 1:28:15.400 --> 1:28:18.240 let's get twenty twenty five started the right way. Hey, 1:28:18.680 --> 1:28:20.519 always love doing this with you, John, I always love 1:28:20.600 --> 1:28:22.679 doing this with you. Thank you for listening and for watching. 1:28:22.800 --> 1:28:26.759 We appreciate it. Couldn't do without you yourself. So until 1:28:26.840 --> 1:28:28.960 next time. We're talking about a playoff game next week. 1:28:29.040 --> 1:28:31.920 But until then, so long, and this is in the 1:28:32.000 --> 1:28:33.760 Lab presented by Exfinity. 1:28:34.439 --> 1:28:35.599 All right, we get back. 1:28:35.720 --> 1:28:40.559 We will go around the world of football, American football. 1:28:40.560 --> 1:28:44.400 Of course, a lot of things going on, news about 1:28:44.439 --> 1:28:48.760 the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, all of that, and 1:28:48.800 --> 1:28:50.960 what's going on in the NFL. Next right here in 1:28:51.000 --> 1:28:53.439 Texans All Access. We got one final segment of this 1:28:53.600 --> 1:28:57.240 edition of Texans All Access from London, Texans Radio Studio. 1:28:57.400 --> 1:29:00.839 I am your host, John Harris, football analyst, side line reporter, 1:29:01.600 --> 1:29:03.919 and then we'll turn it over to you. Area forty 1:29:04.160 --> 1:29:08.719 five coming up after me, and I always hesitate, who's 1:29:08.720 --> 1:29:11.400 going to be honest, No, it's Area forty five. I 1:29:11.439 --> 1:29:15.360 know that on the holidays you just never know who's 1:29:15.360 --> 1:29:18.080 stepping in what's going on. But either way, Area forty 1:29:18.080 --> 1:29:22.360 five will be on Sports Radio six ' ten coming up. Okay, 1:29:22.680 --> 1:29:25.639 around the world of football in the NFL, I'll bring 1:29:25.760 --> 1:29:29.720 say the world of football because college football. I'm kind 1:29:29.720 --> 1:29:34.719 of taking a stage on January first, as it typically does. 1:29:34.800 --> 1:29:35.040 Now. 1:29:35.280 --> 1:29:38.080 There was supposed to be three games today, but because 1:29:38.120 --> 1:29:41.760 of the tragedy that occurred on Bourbon Street, Bourbon and 1:29:41.800 --> 1:29:46.720 Canal last night and early this morning, fifteen. 1:29:46.240 --> 1:29:47.280 People have died. 1:29:47.439 --> 1:29:50.920 At this particular moment, that game the Superdome is just 1:29:51.479 --> 1:29:55.720 literally a driver in, you know, three wood away from 1:29:55.720 --> 1:29:59.960 where that took place. And because of the incident being 1:30:00.160 --> 1:30:04.719 considered a terrorist incident, the game tonight will get moved 1:30:04.720 --> 1:30:08.200 the Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Georgia will move 1:30:08.320 --> 1:30:11.519 to tomorrow. Now there's been talk about whether that game 1:30:11.560 --> 1:30:15.160 will move up in time. I think there's one of 1:30:15.200 --> 1:30:17.160 the I think the Gator Bowl is tomorrow as well. 1:30:17.280 --> 1:30:20.880 So there has been some push from ESPN, Georgia and 1:30:20.920 --> 1:30:23.840 Notre Dame to move that game up earlier because now 1:30:23.880 --> 1:30:26.200 you're losing a day of prep if you win the game, 1:30:26.560 --> 1:30:29.120 because the winner of that will play Penn State in 1:30:29.200 --> 1:30:34.000 the Orange Bowl. So they want to move that thing up. 1:30:34.520 --> 1:30:36.479 Sounds like everybody wants to do it now, it's just 1:30:36.479 --> 1:30:41.160 a matter of can they get the clearance from FBI 1:30:41.320 --> 1:30:44.320 local officials to be able to do that. But the 1:30:44.360 --> 1:30:48.840 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans postponed until tomorrow night, and 1:30:48.880 --> 1:30:52.600 again thoughts of prayers go go out to the families impacted. 1:30:52.760 --> 1:30:55.479 So many were there for the Georgia Notre Dame game. 1:30:55.560 --> 1:30:58.040 So many people go to New Orleans for New Year's Eve. 1:30:59.439 --> 1:31:02.639 Just an absolute It's one of those things you wake 1:31:02.720 --> 1:31:03.640 up to you and see it. 1:31:03.640 --> 1:31:04.439 It's one of those. 1:31:04.320 --> 1:31:06.639 Notifications on my phone at seven o'clock in the morning 1:31:06.640 --> 1:31:08.920 and you just, I mean, I literally started. 1:31:08.680 --> 1:31:11.320 Crying because I love that city. I love New Orleans. 1:31:11.360 --> 1:31:13.320 Of other people that city. I love the people that 1:31:13.360 --> 1:31:15.200 go down there and visit, spend their money there. I 1:31:15.320 --> 1:31:19.719 just everything about it and just gut punch of gut punches. 1:31:20.200 --> 1:31:24.080 Now on the field with the playoff game today, Texas 1:31:24.080 --> 1:31:26.920 beats Arizona State Mark and I actually watched that game 1:31:27.200 --> 1:31:29.439 all the way to its conclusion, and what a game 1:31:29.560 --> 1:31:32.080 it was. Texas was a thirteen and a half point 1:31:32.160 --> 1:31:35.760 favorite against Arizona and Camps Campscataboo. And if you haven't 1:31:35.800 --> 1:31:38.200 seen Camp Scataboo, shame on you, because that dude is 1:31:38.240 --> 1:31:40.639 an absolute baller. He should have been a Heisman finalist. 1:31:40.960 --> 1:31:42.800 I said it at the time. I'd say it again. 1:31:43.400 --> 1:31:45.840 On my ballot, it would have been Ashton Genty, who 1:31:45.880 --> 1:31:48.880 was fantastic. Literally, Travis Hunter been in Campscatterbury. Those have 1:31:48.880 --> 1:31:53.040 been my three. They Academy was fantastic in the game, 1:31:53.840 --> 1:31:57.120 didn't get much early, was thrown up on the sideline, 1:31:57.280 --> 1:32:00.640 was caught on video saying, you know, I'm done with this. 1:32:00.680 --> 1:32:02.120 I mean, come on, we gotta be better. I mean 1:32:02.120 --> 1:32:04.280 he's just really kind of going off. Well. They were 1:32:04.280 --> 1:32:06.600 down sixteen in the second half, missed a. 1:32:06.600 --> 1:32:10.120 Couple of field goals, got stopped at the two yard line, 1:32:10.600 --> 1:32:12.800 but then they got a safety, kind of got back 1:32:12.840 --> 1:32:14.679 in it. Texas scored to make it twenty four to eight. 1:32:15.760 --> 1:32:20.000 Then Skataboo on fourth and two through about forty yard 1:32:20.040 --> 1:32:22.720 touchdown on a half back pass. They scored the two, 1:32:23.479 --> 1:32:27.639 got the ball back. Then Scataboo catches the ball down, 1:32:27.640 --> 1:32:30.080 the field goes in his scores. Then he scores the two. 1:32:30.360 --> 1:32:34.000 They tied at twenty four. Texas misses the field goal. 1:32:34.640 --> 1:32:37.799 Arizona State can't do anything with it. Controversial non targeting 1:32:37.880 --> 1:32:41.960 call by Texas should have been targeting. Texas fans, you can, 1:32:42.040 --> 1:32:43.519 like I said earlier, you can miss me with all that. 1:32:43.520 --> 1:32:46.240 That's targeting. That's the definition of targeting. Was missed. 1:32:46.560 --> 1:32:50.799 Don't know why, but the game goes in overtime. Arizona 1:32:50.840 --> 1:32:53.439 State scores looks like they may have the game. It's 1:32:53.479 --> 1:32:57.040 fourth and thirteen for Texas. Quinny Ewers drops a bomb 1:32:57.040 --> 1:32:58.439 on Matthew Golden touchdown. 1:32:58.439 --> 1:32:58.800 Tied up. 1:32:58.840 --> 1:33:03.000 Goes the second overtime Gunnerhelm touchdown from Ewers. Matthew Golden 1:33:03.040 --> 1:33:05.960 two point conversion from Ewers. They go out thirty nine 1:33:06.000 --> 1:33:09.120 to thirty one. Arizona State gets the ball down inside 1:33:09.640 --> 1:33:12.439 the twelve yard line. Tried to round a wheel route, 1:33:12.479 --> 1:33:16.439 gets picked off by Austin native and Clemson transfer Andrew maccaba, 1:33:17.000 --> 1:33:17.439 and that's it. 1:33:17.640 --> 1:33:19.840 One of the greatest college football games I've ever seen. 1:33:20.200 --> 1:33:21.320 Is unbelievable. 1:33:21.520 --> 1:33:23.760 Texas will now go to the Cotton Bowl for the 1:33:23.760 --> 1:33:26.439 first time to two thousand and three when they played LSU. 1:33:26.720 --> 1:33:29.080 Roy Williams was a wide receiver at Texas and that 1:33:29.160 --> 1:33:30.760 was in the old Cotton Bowl. So they go to 1:33:30.840 --> 1:33:33.720 the Cotton Bowl to take on the winner of the 1:33:33.760 --> 1:33:37.120 Rose Bowl, Oregon in Ohio State and Manas Ohio State 1:33:37.160 --> 1:33:39.280 look good. So you get Texas, Ohio State, Texas, Oregon 1:33:39.280 --> 1:33:40.720 in the Cotton Bowl. That's as good as it gets. 1:33:40.920 --> 1:33:43.280 You'll get Penn State Notre Dame or Penn State Georgia 1:33:43.840 --> 1:33:47.599 in the Orange Bowl in the semifinals. Like I said, 1:33:47.600 --> 1:33:51.240 Georgia and Notre Dame will play tomorrow as the game 1:33:51.479 --> 1:33:55.360 has been postponed until then. Let's go to the NFL. 1:33:55.800 --> 1:34:02.200 The Chiefs will start Carson Wentz on on Sunday against 1:34:02.240 --> 1:34:06.240 the Denver Broncos. Makes a ton of sense that he 1:34:06.280 --> 1:34:10.479 would start. You're gonna rest guys, well, Patrick Mahomes' first 1:34:10.520 --> 1:34:13.480 and foremost, especially dealing with that ankle issue. 1:34:13.600 --> 1:34:16.080 So Mahomes will. 1:34:15.880 --> 1:34:20.519 Rest on Sunday against the Denver Broncos. Expected that. Now 1:34:21.160 --> 1:34:27.000 the math on this, let's do it together. They've last 1:34:27.000 --> 1:34:29.840 played Christmas Day, that was when we played, so the 1:34:29.920 --> 1:34:33.960 twenty fifth, and they get to buy so they'll rest 1:34:34.240 --> 1:34:37.200 this weekend, then they get the bye week, and then 1:34:37.240 --> 1:34:40.000 they'll play in the divisional round. It's about three and 1:34:40.040 --> 1:34:43.160 a half weeks that Mahomes and company will get a 1:34:43.280 --> 1:34:46.760 chance to rest for the divisional playoff round game. And 1:34:47.080 --> 1:34:51.040 if the Texans were to win there the wildcard round game, 1:34:51.600 --> 1:34:55.760 more than likely they would play those rested Chiefs at Arrowhead. 1:34:56.000 --> 1:34:58.400 My goodness, all right, that's gonna do it for tonight's show. 1:34:58.720 --> 1:35:03.960 Appreciate everybody for being here with me, Mark Drew, Nick, 1:35:04.160 --> 1:35:06.760 Miles Bryant, Mike Keith, all on the show. 1:35:06.840 --> 1:35:09.840 Appreciate it you guys listening. Happy New Year to everybody. 1:35:10.160 --> 1:35:12.400 Thoughts and prayers to everybody in New Orleans and those 1:35:12.479 --> 1:35:16.120 impacted by everything that took place in New Orleans New 1:35:16.160 --> 1:35:18.400 Year's Day, early early morning. 1:35:18.720 --> 1:35:20.960 Love you guys so much. We'll see tomorrow and as always, 1:35:20.960 --> 1:35:21.559 go Texans.