WEBVTT - The lowdown with K Ka'imi Fairbairn | Texans Huddle 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.160 Welcome in, Welcome back, another episode of Texan's Huddle. I 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:07.760 am indeed here is Drew and the player of the game, 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.040 player of the week, player of the month, depending on 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.600 the position in the side of the ball. Kimie Fairbaren 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.760 is joining us here in Texan Huddle. Typically as a 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.959 former defensive lineman, we don't get a chance to really 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.079 talk to special teamers, the kickers and stuff. But man, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.520 what you've done here, what you've been doing, it is 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.319 pretty impressive. And welcome to Texans Huddle and congratulations on 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:30.880 the success. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.360 Pleasure for all that. Yeah, happy to be here this squad. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.800 I will say that I've always wanted to ask this 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.559 question to kickers. What's going through the mind? What's going 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.200 through your mind? You just came off of the game 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:46.160 winning field goal. What's the thought process before you swing 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:46.960 that leg before? 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.280 I've learned that simple thoughts are best. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.519 You know, when you try to clutter your mind with 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.040 a lot of things, it kind of makes things messy. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.640 So the routine of it, you know, building that through 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.520 pract this, through the season, through the off season, all 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:09.760 that controlling your thought and eliminating distractions, things that don't matter, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.440 you know, situation you know, the period of the game, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.160 whatever it may be, and just focusing. You know, for me, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:21.120 it's my breath and like connecting to the ground my feet. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.560 It's a lot of feel. For me, it's less about thought. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.960 More about feel and then you just let it rip, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.040 you know, just trust and know and let it rip. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.160 That's very interesting, you know, to be like one with 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.600 the ground. That sounds pretty cool. Like do you do 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.080 you practice that? You know what you're saying. Do you 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.679 practice the breathing? Do you practice the thought process during 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:44.039 the week? 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:49.040 Absolutely after a certain period, Like for me, it's less 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.600 about technique. I do practice all my technique obviously it's 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.760 important part. But after that then it becomes you know, mental. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.240 You know, kicking is one hundred percent mental to me. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.440 After you know, it's similar to the golf, like you 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.400 have your swing and now you just have to trust 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.600 your swing. So being able to connect to my breath, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.760 connect to the ground and repeat the feels of success 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.799 in my head. That's that's how I kind of try 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:15.280 to operate. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.200 Sounds like a peaceful process there for Kayami Fairbairn, and 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.320 it really is on the way up. But I was 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.360 at about the fifteen yard line on the textan sideline 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:27.359 and I had my phone out. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.120 I was focused just on you. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.720 I didn't even like follow the ball, but it was 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.000 interesting to watch, and I stayed I didn't look. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:35.440 I didn't see what was going on. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.280 You kick it, you kind of watch, and then you 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.959 sort of stroll off towards the sideline. You take off 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.840 your helmet, throw it on the ground and flex and 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.560 the place goes at least that sideline goes bananas. The 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.520 crowd goes pretty quiet there in Tennessee. What what was 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.960 the was the emotion? How good did it feel? What 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.520 do you remember after after it left your foot? 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.639 There wasn't a lot of thoughts after. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.320 It was all in that moment of the kick, and 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.200 then honestly, it was just like just emotion after that. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.880 My favorite part of that whole thing. And it's like, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.920 because I've had game winners before, but watching other kickers 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.400 and go through game winners, it's the I mean, obviously 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.200 it's the guys on the field, but the sideline, that's 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.360 what I love. I like watching that seeing how the 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.519 team like kind of just comes together, especially in a 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.360 way environment, that. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.560 Is what I love. So I wish I would have 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.120 you know, hugged Cam a little bit more. Those guys 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.840 like those guys are it's such a thankless job. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.960 Weeks and all those guys like blocking, like that's such 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.880 a thankless job. So first, you know, thank them, and 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.040 then to the sideline is just like the brothers. You know, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.320 it's you know, and the happiness that everybody had and 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.960 the relief and all that. So that's my favorite part 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.360 about hitting game winners. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.400 Yeah, how much of that joy that was in there? 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.680 How much of that was being gone for so long? 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.000 And I kind of talked about this with you after 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.200 the game in the locker room, but man, how much 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.600 did that factor into it? Because you had to watch 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.800 from the sidelines and you know, this is a fun season. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:14.920 Oh no doubt. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:16.320 We'll get till that later. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.840 Yeah, it was tough watching, but you know, when things 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.560 aren't going your way, you appreciate a little bit more 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.720 when you're out. And going back further from that, you know, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.479 our last few years haven't been easy, so you know, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.400 having these you call it stress of you know, a 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:38.000 big games and you know, meaningful games, is like you 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.360 enjoy that stress because you know what it's like to 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.159 not have that, you know, in December Games. It doesn't 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.240 mean anything. We've had those those years and it's go 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:48.120 through the motions. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.080 But now it's different and there's there's meaning behind it, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.599 and it it makes it more special for sure. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.160 When do you know it's good? 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.840 Like this last kid we'll focus on that, is that 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.400 as soon as it's off the foot, like do you 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:01.760 know like, oh that's going through? 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.960 Yeah, pretty much immediately when I when I hit it. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.159 But honestly, before that, you know, like you in those 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.480 type of situations, you can't wish the ball in. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.200 You know, you have to you have to know. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.120 And yeah, I've learned that through experience with missing and 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.240 making So it's just part of the process. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.800 So you say before are you saying, like, before you 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.200 actually make contact, you're like, I know this was going 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:25.720 in or. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.800 No, I think it's just a mental mind set. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.560 But yeah, when I hit the ball, then yeah, then 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.920 it's like that one came off good. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.480 Oh nice, and it's nice. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.520 Yeah, But before I forget because VanderMeer told me to 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.080 ask you how your golf swing or how golf helps 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:42.800 you as a kicker. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.240 Oh, you're the best golfer on the team right now. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.240 Right, I would say case probably. We haven't really had 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:56.000 a matchup. We his handicaps better than mine and he's 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.120 got a few more. Uh, he's got some cool hookups. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.240 You knows some good courses, so that was important too. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.200 So I you know he's I hope to play to 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.040 him in the offseason. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:07.640 We know we keep it light. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.640 But it's fun for my golf skin. Compared to my 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.520 kicking swing, well, the motion. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.919 Is just the same. The technique, Uh, there's. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.160 A lot more aspects of golf where you have to 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.279 be locked in, like you're trying to hit yardages in golf, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.400 where kicking you're just hitting you know. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.920 Your best ball. So that's a little bit different. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.919 But when you're getting into the game, it's like, you know, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.320 when you're on a golf course, you need to hit 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.839 a shot, You need to turn on that switch or 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:35.520 whatever it is. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.600 You need to hit a putt, a chip. That's important. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.920 It's like, how do you develop that that on switch, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.120 that focus switch. And that's what I try to do 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.960 on the golf course to practice in the offseason and 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.719 then take it to the field. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:49.640 I guess you. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.400 Grew up your hell of a soccer player growing up 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.720 in Hawaii. You pick up football there in high school, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.760 I believe when did golf come into the game into 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:58.440 the picture. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.960 I was on the golf my senior year. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:02.000 Okay, so high school. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.640 Yeah, it wasn't serious. It was just kind of you. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.280 Get out of school for the day, right exactly. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.640 And you get to hang out on a golf course 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:09.720 with the boys. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.920 After that, you know, my dad got me a set, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.120 a decent set in college, and then right when I 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.520 got into the league, I knew that was kind of 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.840 something I wanted to pursue. So I spent a lot 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.320 of money on some golf clubes, probably too much. Should 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:26.800 have got some lessons. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.120 Andy, and I have heard this from a few of 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.000 your counterparts have been on the show, that the golf 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:31.960 bug bit them, and so. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.640 You keep going absolutely bit me. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.120 And then, yeah, I spent a lot of time wildcat 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.480 over here, you know, asking certain guys on the team 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.239 who've been good, Brandon Whedon, Shane Leckler, all those guys 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.120 who've been playing for a long time, watching them ball 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:48.480 out and swing the club. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.240 It's yeah, it's just kind of been something I've continued 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:51.600 to learn. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:52.880 Did you take lessons? 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:53.880 I did? Yeah? 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.320 Do that like when you take these lessons it is 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.560 kind of similar to being coached up on out to 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.119 kick in the right form or is a completely different 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.960 because everybody who I talked to who's really into golf, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.600 I'm not because I'm horrible at it. It took me 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.440 one day to realize this isn't your thing. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:09.040 You know. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.560 They just talked about how such a different approach and 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:12.280 different sport. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.120 But yeah, to say this, like for golf, it's like. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.360 You're not naturally good at golf. No one is, or 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.040 at least I haven't met someone that is. So to me, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.000 that's my favorite part. It's like the only way to 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.920 get better is you've got to put in the time, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.080 and you do. But with a golf coach, to me, 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.640 it's like they if you don't have a golf coach, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.000 you're kind of in the dark and you're just searching 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.839 for something. And when you have a golf coach, he 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.840 kind of he shows you, brings light to certain things 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.000 of what you need to focus on, what your tendencies are. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.920 So that's helped a lot for me. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.040 I want to go back to kicking because I played 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.360 with one of the greats. I don't know if you 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.160 remember the name David Akers. He was a kicker with 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.120 me in Philadelphia, and when it was time for him 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.000 to attempt a game winning kick or any kick, we 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.200 always stayed away from Like is that something? And I 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.720 can't remember if he put it out there, but we 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.200 just knew, like, you know what, don't go say hey, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.920 you got this or we're with you no matter what, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.920 we just stayed away. Is that something that's common in 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.880 the world of kickers, or do you kind of put 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.280 it out there like, hey, y'all don't talk to me 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.000 before the kick. 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:18.640 Yeah. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.520 I've never had that conversation with anybody about stay away 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.880 from me, but I guess they probably know that by 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.080 the way things have gone, I've naturally just kind of 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.080 not isolated, but kind of got in my little. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.280 Bubble, I guess of bubble of focus. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.559 And you know, if someone did come up to me, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.520 you know, Frank or Cam or Weeks or trainer or 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.800 whatever it is, it's just, you know, you don't resist 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.679 those things. You know, whatever is happening is happening, and 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.080 then you kind of welcome whatever comes. And then if 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.280 if it distracts you come back. You know, it's it's 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.600 just whatever. I don't try to force anything that makes sense. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.439 Yeah, it makes I mean think about it, talk with 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.600 Kayami Fairbir and the Kicker of the Tech. You don't 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.960 have any teammates that do what you do. I mean 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.720 you have specialists, but Cam Johnston's job is not what 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.120 you do, and vice versa and John Weeks and you 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.840 guys hang out together. But there are other defensive linemen, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.640 there are other quarterbacks, there are other running backs. That 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.320 kind of plays into it a little bit as well. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.760 When you say yeah, yeah, I think everybody has their 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.040 own specific focus of, you know, how to be good 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.880 at their job. Minds is different than a lot of guys. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.240 But yeah, they respect my process and that's my process 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.480 and go from there. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.319 Yeah, what goes first for kickers, Like as a defensive 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.960 lineman year ten to eleven started to fill it in 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.120 my knees, Like when do kickers start to feel like, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.280 you know what, this is starting to catch up? 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:44.079 Yeah. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.960 Unfortunately, I've had my quad thing the last five weeks 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.439 and that kind of crept up on me somehow. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.280 Is kind of like a freak thing. But you know, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.960 as part of the job. I guess for kickers, I 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.480 think it's just a repeated motion over and over and over. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:10:59.199 And over again. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.120 So just maintaining balance in my body, not getting too 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:03.840 one sided. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:05.720 That's been a key for me. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.320 When you played soccer, were you the guy that would 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.240 do the corner kicks? Were you the guy that would 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.199 do the penalty kicks? Did it kind of vary? They 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:14.719 have a bunch of people doing those things, or we 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.120 would play stop or they're like kiny go or was 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:19.280 it not that way? 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.800 No, that was usually how it went. Free kicks, penalties, corners. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:24.600 I don't know how that started. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.040 I just like doing it, and I could kick the 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.280 ball well, kind of put it where I needed it to, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.760 and yeah, I think that's where it started. And then 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.920 kicking just kind of became Oh it sounds like something 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.800 I would do. And I had a good coach in 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.480 high school who kind of taught me the you know, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.199 the technique and then and then the mindset behind that. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.480 Are there more guys that you played soccer with that 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.559 also played football as kickers, because I know a lot 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.920 of kickers played soccer, but I'm actually surprised more soccer players, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:55.520 you know, don't gravitate too me. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.080 Yeah, it surprises me too. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.120 Back home in Hawaii, No, there wasn't a lot of 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.920 guys who just kind of picked it up. We everyone 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:08.360 played other positions to receiver dB whatever it is. If 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.880 you go from soccer to football and you're just the kicker, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.959 it's very different because you're just I mean, you maybe 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.400 got twenty five seconds of game time, so it's just 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.959 it's a different game, and I think that probably what 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.880 kept a lot of soccer players from doing that job. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.800 Are you a big soccer fan now? Yeah? 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:28.400 Absolutely? 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.960 MLS or the Premiere Premier League? 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:31.800 Yeah? 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:32.280 Yeah, what's your team? 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:33.320 Yeah? Who's your squad? 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.240 Arsenal Arsenal go gunners. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.280 Yeah, who's your current favorite soccer player all time? Favorite 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.160 soccer player. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.760 All time would be Tierryan Ree, no doubt. All right, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.080 all right, yeah. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.560 That's who kind of brought the love to me showing 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.840 his swag right now. I mean, you can't not love 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.800 Messi and what he's done. Who do I enjoy watching though, 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.440 that's tough. The Premier League has been great. I really 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.840 like watching Mosala Liverpool even though he's on a rival team. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.440 He's he's excellent and then City have been great. So 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.520 there's a lot of good players, a lot of good teams. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.480 Why do you think we as a country have not 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.679 embraced soccer or football as the you know. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:18.520 Like the rest of the world. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.400 That's a great question. I think it's coming. We're showing that. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.920 But I just think it's okay to be different. We 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.800 have different loves here, you know, football, baseball, basketball, and 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.040 that's okay, and you know, we we strive at that 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.280 and we excel at that, and the world. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.800 Has well we're literally the only country and my parents 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.120 are from Nigeria, so I grew up playing soccer. But 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.160 America the greatest country in the world, but it's literally 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.800 the only country that doesn't give soccer the respect to 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.200 the rest of the world. Like, what's Europe and you 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.560 played it, you excel at it. I need a better 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.400 answer than that. What's the reason why we haven't embraced 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.319 the sport of soccer like the rest of the world. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:03.880 Might be the flopping out of the soft Yeah it 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.080 annoys me too. I'm not gonna lie, but yeah, I 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.000 just love the game. It's it's the freedom of it, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.400 the creativity. You know, everyone's on the ball. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:14.880 It's cool sports. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.040 You know, speak over real quick. Speaking of the flopping, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.160 I heard this is that you played at a higher level. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.240 Maybe you'll know the answer. I heard that the reason 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.840 they flop is because there's no real time out, so 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.680 that's the only time you can get a rest. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.120 Oh, there's a lot of part of the gamesmanship of it. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.080 It's beyond just flopping. It's like stalling the game, annoying 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:39.280 the team, whatever, it is, like wasting time. Yeah, it's 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.720 it's all part of the game. I wish the rest 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.280 managed it a little bit better, like there is more 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.200 you know, consequence for flopping, and then that could probably 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.440 get it out a little bit more. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.040 But it's growing though soccer it's not. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.280 Yeah, it's not what some of the other sports are, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.080 but there is no doubt that it's growing. I mean, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.360 look at Saturday mornings, you can watch Premier League on 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.800 you know, so many different devices, basically every one of 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.480 the big league's Spain, Italy, Germany. They there's places you 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.880 can find him to watch that didn't exist fifteen years 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.720 ago in this country. I mean, that was hard to do. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.360 I'm gonna hold on, hold on. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.960 And then in addition to that, so I played soccer 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.520 here in Houston in the eighties and one of my 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.160 best friend's dads got volun told to coach it and 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.760 this guy knew how to teach hand placement, how to 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.080 block as an offensive lineman. He didn't know much about soccer. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.080 You know what we did, he said, boys, get in 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.600 a line, and so we lined up single file. He 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.720 got a soccer ball, he knelt down, he used his 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.600 foot as a tee and he said, I want you 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.640 to run and kick this ball as far as you 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.680 can and then run to the fence line and back. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.360 And that's that was our soccer. Whereas I've got boys, wow, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.240 a ten year old and eight year old, and they 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.240 went out and they played soccer pretty competitively for you know, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.440 one of the club teams and they were like six 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:01.360 teams per level of age group. And they're passing, they're 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.160 doing all that like it's super advanced. That's just one 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.360 little club in Houston. And there's many many clubs in Houston, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.480 no telling how many more are in the state, in 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.600 the country. That was not going on twenty five thirty 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.200 years ago. So it's growing, but trust me, it's just 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.200 growing a little slower than what you're accustomed to. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.920 It may be growing on the little league level because 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.480 I'm older than you and we actually had good soccer 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.920 coaches growing up but I just feel like once you 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.600 got to a certain age, it was like, Okay, I've 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.880 done soccer and now let me quote move on to 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.520 the quote unquote real sport. But the reason I asked, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.120 I actually went to a game here at NRG and 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.360 it was awesome, Like it was amazing, And the whole 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.840 time I'm there and I'm like, why isn't this bigger? 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:44.640 Why isn't it bigger? 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.080 I just feel like this didn't exist, Like people didn't 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.240 go to soccer games twenty years ago, thirty years ago 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.000 in the States in Houston. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.520 Well, they didn't have the opportunity. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.480 But I I don't see our best athletes still playing. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.600 Look at Kaymi, he said, you know what' screw soccer. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.480 I'm gonna play football. And he's a football star now. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.280 So and you know, I say. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:02.560 A great as. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.280 I actually would, but uh, and I get what you're saying, Drew, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:09.240 But it just feels like. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.920 I'm not saying We're gonna win the World Cup next summer. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.520 I'm just saying it. It is undeniable in this country. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.280 Soccer is getting more popular. I'm not saying it's overtaking anything. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.880 I'm just saying it's getting more popular and always. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.080 Say the games athletes choosing soccer over basketball. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:26.320 I think so. I think so. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.959 I'm not gonna say the best ones are necessarily, but 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.040 I here and there. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.760 I think it's growing. But anyways, I'm wrong. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.560 Man, we're er en off course because you've got Kayeni 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.800 Fairbarn here. Kaymie, You're unless something weird happens. You are 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.320 probably the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week, deservedly so. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.840 Four field goals, two of them beyond fifty the game winner. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.879 How sweet has this season been? You alluded to it earlier, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.719 and let's just kind of rewind and reset for everyone. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.199 You got here in twenty sixteen, and you saw you 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.679 sat for that year, you're you're uh, you're on injured reserve, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.880 and then you've now seeing three different quarterbacks get drafted 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.919 here and play. You were on some playoff teams, you 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.960 led the NFL and scoring in twenty eighteen, went to 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.920 the playoffs then and then you mentioned the dark times 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.800 over the last three years. How rejuvenating is twenty twenty 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:15.280 three for you? 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.360 Man? Yeah, I think you find your love when it's 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:19.280