Speaker 1: This is a young team. We're on the cuffs where
Speaker 1: we gotta ask some pieces of what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Pierce running, Rice pinvill Carrolls. We've played out of the
Speaker 1: forty one yard line. You want to run five piers.
Speaker 1: The type of players that we're looking for is players
Speaker 1: who are looking the swarms that are stop that. Christian Harris.
Speaker 1: Game day is every day pissed off by Stanley Patrede.
Speaker 1: Texans have the ball on the pit. The takeaway train
Speaker 1: is rolling. Man, if you want it, you gotta go
Speaker 1: work it. No, it's Texans, all Exus. Hell out, Texans.
Speaker 1: We're back and Damiko Rans is in the open. Pitch me,
Speaker 1: Johnny and I Mark Vandermaron, John Harris with you. By
Speaker 1: the way, Christendo producing, this is a Texans production. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've been in an isolation retreat. Not really, I
Speaker 1: joked about that on Twitter. By the way, we'll give
Speaker 1: away an hib gift card in the next twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, I'm supposed to remind you to give
Speaker 1: it away. Yeah, please do because I'll forget in the
Speaker 1: next twenty five minutes. But since we last got together
Speaker 1: in our brief five week off season, following the final
Speaker 1: Texans Monday, following the Texans victory over Indianapolis. Wasn't that
Speaker 1: a long time ago? Oh? The Texans have hired to
Speaker 1: meet Goo Ryan's to be their head coach, and a
Speaker 1: lot of reports about who else might be on the staff.
Speaker 1: And I hope they make announcements soon enough and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens there. But that happened a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and numerous playoff games have occurred as well. And we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it all tonight, Johnny. We got an hour tonight,
Speaker 1: but we're on every night from now until the end
Speaker 1: of time or until the end of the next Texans season,
Speaker 1: six o'clock Monday through Friday. Set your calendar to it,
Speaker 1: put it on your outlook so you don't miss it.
Speaker 1: It'll also be on the Texans app and we'll put
Speaker 1: this show up on the app later. Ye'll do it all. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean that's when we get back doing the show
Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl. Like, yeah, man, we six to
Speaker 1: seven from now on. I was talking with Figgian and
Speaker 1: Rocket on Jim's Juice podcast. I got invited. How about that?
Speaker 1: What you've got invited? Figgy? Yeah, Figgy has not had
Speaker 1: me on that pod yet and I will talk about
Speaker 1: everything probably but the Texans on that pod because he
Speaker 1: talks about a lot of different things. Yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about a lot of things, but we we stayed with
Speaker 1: the Texans. And so I was talking about, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we start on Monday and then we go and do forever,
Speaker 1: we go all the way through the season, and I said,
Speaker 1: one of these times, and hopefully it's more than once,
Speaker 1: but I'd like to go all the way through that
Speaker 1: we don't go dark because this day we would be
Speaker 1: doing radio of us after a Super Bowl appearance on
Speaker 1: No Sleep Sleep Daro Sleep would be fantastic. Yeah, absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: I know Landry did this thing last night. He did
Speaker 1: that Landry what is it the locker room? He does
Speaker 1: a pod thing and it's it's really cool. He did
Speaker 1: it during the game, actually in the fourth quarter, I believe,
Speaker 1: but he was talking about the best Super Bowls through
Speaker 1: Texans goggles. Results you wanted? Did he ask you about this?
Speaker 1: By the text to me about it? And I was
Speaker 1: trying to think, did you have one? Not a result
Speaker 1: you really wanted? Because either you like the opponent for
Speaker 1: a certain reason, or you dislike who you want to
Speaker 1: lose for a certain reason. Like my number one was
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine season Colts losing to the Saints
Speaker 1: because that Colts team had a chance to go undefeated.
Speaker 1: They pulled starters against the Jets second to last week
Speaker 1: of the season. They lost that game. A victory by
Speaker 1: the Colts would have enabled the Texans to make the
Speaker 1: playoffs for the first time, And I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: if you have a chance to go and defeated and
Speaker 1: it's the second to last week of the season, you
Speaker 1: go for it. I'm sorry, unless people are really banged up,
Speaker 1: you have a Mahome situation, he's playing on a bad wheel. Whatever,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pull a guy because he's a little shaky. No,
Speaker 1: you go for history right there, especially since you already
Speaker 1: won one a few years previous. So that one was
Speaker 1: my all time super Bowl through Texans goggles. Last night,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't really feel the Texans goggles
Speaker 1: other than I don't like the Chiefs because they've taken
Speaker 1: over as the Evil Empire the AFC from the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Now it's definitely them. Hello, here they are
Speaker 1: with Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid, who I was hoping
Speaker 1: would retire today. But that didn't happen. No, it didn't.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing, And this is my fear.
Speaker 1: And I told you my fear earlier, and I'll say it.
Speaker 1: I'll say it out in the open. Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: getting better, and Patrick Mahomes is getting smarter. Ye, And
Speaker 1: it's he's always been smart, but I think it takes
Speaker 1: some time for every quarterback to understand what teams are
Speaker 1: doing to you, what they're doing to you, what they're
Speaker 1: doing in the secondary. And I felt like the first
Speaker 1: couple of years he was just God's given ability man,
Speaker 1: and he knew there was plenty of bleep it tyreeks
Speaker 1: down there sort of stuff. Yeah, just chuck it, he'll
Speaker 1: find it. Kind of like what Hurts did with A J. Brown, Right,
Speaker 1: Mahomes has gone to a different level. He is content.
Speaker 1: He's content beating you with a thousand paper cuts. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whereas he was going for the big shot earlier in
Speaker 1: his career that was sexy, he's not. He finds a
Speaker 1: guy he wants, He finds a guy open, boom, take it,
Speaker 1: let's move it, let's go. They got rid of arguably
Speaker 1: a top three wide receiver, and they were better? Why
Speaker 1: how because that guy? Yeah, that guy is scary. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you another one though, And how do you
Speaker 1: beat him? Now? How do you beat him? Now? We
Speaker 1: could do three shows on this. And I know everybody's
Speaker 1: been talking about this today, but I think Pacheco was
Speaker 1: huge for them, not just in that game, but this
Speaker 1: season with Edwards Hilaire not being what they wanted him
Speaker 1: to be. Pacheco comes in as a rookie and does
Speaker 1: all this. That's a big addition for them to make
Speaker 1: enough plays. Now it's all a balanced thing right now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know what you mentioned, looking for Tyree killer chuck
Speaker 1: it and he's down there somewhere with Kelsey. I sometimes
Speaker 1: have the feeling, Listen, I'm looking for Kelsey. If he's
Speaker 1: not there, I'm gonna scramble around and find somebody else.
Speaker 1: He does that sometimes. What do I always say about
Speaker 1: Mahomes though, Johnny, What do I always say? He's a
Speaker 1: runner more than you think he is? Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: obviously an excellent passer, maybe the best in the league. Maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, we can argue about that all day. But
Speaker 1: on the winning drive, the big play was the longest
Speaker 1: play of that drive. And it was a mahome scramble
Speaker 1: for twenty six yards on a bad wheel. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: does it again. Just what do you think you have
Speaker 1: him bottled up? He kills you with his legs somehow,
Speaker 1: And I don't think he gets talked about enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think back to the playoff game that we played
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. That was his second year as a starter,
Speaker 1: his third year in the league, but his second year
Speaker 1: as a starter. He killed us with that all game.
Speaker 1: It was like we had a defensive end that just
Speaker 1: no matter who was, they would rush the high side
Speaker 1: and he would sneak underneath, he'd get out and then
Speaker 1: he make a decision do I want to scramble or
Speaker 1: do I want to get out there and throw? Well,
Speaker 1: as a linebacker or safety year, you're like, well, what
Speaker 1: do I do with this? How do I how do
Speaker 1: I do this? Last night it was he escaped up
Speaker 1: the middle and he caught him a man coverage. And
Speaker 1: with man coverage, you know, there's not gonna be any
Speaker 1: help if he gets through that first gap, forget it.
Speaker 1: Even with a bum ankle, he's gonna be able to do.
Speaker 1: But he's also doing it intelligently. He's not just willy nilly,
Speaker 1: just taken off and like, oh, I see he's doing
Speaker 1: it intelligently. He can beat you from the pocket now,
Speaker 1: well he always had, but now he can. He can
Speaker 1: just slice you to pieces. He'll take the cross or
Speaker 1: he'll take the shallow. He'll get it to his guys.
Speaker 1: But the mix of players they had. And I told
Speaker 1: the story last night at super Bowl party I was at,
Speaker 1: which I don't like super Bowl parties too much, so
Speaker 1: it was a small demand. John Harris was at a
Speaker 1: super Bowl party. I would think you really would be
Speaker 1: at an isolation retreat for a super Bowl party. I
Speaker 1: was invited and it's a good friend of mine, you know, Don,
Speaker 1: and so Don invite me over. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: So I was telling a story. It's probably about six
Speaker 1: seven people there. Nope, not big at all. But I
Speaker 1: remember in the playoff game, there was a moment the
Speaker 1: playoff game where Kelsey ran a route and Justin Reid
Speaker 1: anticipated it perfectly. He anticipated perfectly, and he jumped to
Speaker 1: that spot and then all of a sudden, Kelsey, just
Speaker 1: knowing that Reid was there, Kelsey went the other way.
Speaker 1: But that was not where the route was supposed to go,
Speaker 1: but Mahomes threw it before Kelsey even turned, Like, how
Speaker 1: do you beat that? And then Kelsey turned all the
Speaker 1: balls there, how do you beat that? Like, what do
Speaker 1: you do? There's such the same way with those two.
Speaker 1: And really was surprising was in the second half Kelsey
Speaker 1: didn't hurt him, Kelsey didn't hurt the Eagles, right, it
Speaker 1: was it was everybody else. Juju had a great second
Speaker 1: half and then of course it came down to and
Speaker 1: Eric BN we talked about this after the game. They
Speaker 1: they saw the Jaguars use a particular concept and then
Speaker 1: they mastered it like Jaguars used it for a touchdown
Speaker 1: back in week four, when did we play the Jags?
Speaker 1: Will you talk about guys in motion all night long?
Speaker 1: Then all this is short not going in motion? I'm
Speaker 1: going back out station. Yeah, start motion, go back to
Speaker 1: the way the Jags did that for a touchdown against them.
Speaker 1: And the enemy said back in week four and they
Speaker 1: put a f film, They're like, I think we can
Speaker 1: do that, and they sat on that, and they sat
Speaker 1: on that, and they sat on that until the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and then bang bang, same play opposite sides balla
Speaker 1: so well brilliant, it's brilliant. All right, can we get
Speaker 1: something out of the way very quickly? Here the whining
Speaker 1: about the call. Stop it, everybody, just stop it, all right,
Speaker 1: just stop it again. I always say this, if you
Speaker 1: put your hands on the receiver in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form, you invite the official to make a call.
Speaker 1: You're saying, hey, look at this, mister official, you're gonna
Speaker 1: call this. And we all expect the official to have
Speaker 1: this internal debate over the course of point zero zero
Speaker 1: zero one seconds and decide whether to throw a flag
Speaker 1: or not. If he sees something. More often than not,
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw the flag. I don't care about the situation.
Speaker 1: He's not weighing the options and thinking NFL films and
Speaker 1: slow motion and oh my goodness. Now, I wish there
Speaker 1: was some recourse. I wish you could have evaluate post call,
Speaker 1: but you can't. They did away with that. I was
Speaker 1: okay with evaluating those instances that nobody else was, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna live with it now. That wouldn't have been reviewable, though,
Speaker 1: because it was holding yea, oh, I see, so you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to review Johnny, I almost think
Speaker 1: everything should be reviewable with a challenge flag I mean,
Speaker 1: we already have the automatic reviewers to be there for
Speaker 1: eight hours for a game. It's it's not going to
Speaker 1: be as bad as the NBA. Okay, oh it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. Wait, what was the game with the Rockets
Speaker 1: last week? Oh? With the Sacramento Kings. Review after review
Speaker 1: after review, and then you can't review the no foul
Speaker 1: by Eric Gordon has since been traded. The no foul
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. But we called it
Speaker 1: and we can't change it. It's crazy. We can review
Speaker 1: everything but that, and we're gonna take all this time
Speaker 1: to review everything else, but we can't review the one
Speaker 1: that really mattered. Yeah, I don't know. Look, we could
Speaker 1: talk all day about that. We have all offseason and
Speaker 1: talking about stop just stop. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: You have one hundred and forty plays in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you gave up two touchdowns? And there's not an
Speaker 1: ego in the area code about this though. Hello, they
Speaker 1: score and you go three and out. Look, we've seen
Speaker 1: the Chiefs plenty of times to know you can't go
Speaker 1: three and out against Kansas City. You're the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: KICKO three and out. You've got to look even if
Speaker 1: you took it to the fifty and punted. Okay, hopefully
Speaker 1: you don't give up a big return like you did.
Speaker 1: They go three and out and then give up what
Speaker 1: was it, a sixty five yard return after going three
Speaker 1: and out, you can't win after that. But they tied
Speaker 1: the game after that, mark, Yes they did. But when
Speaker 1: the Chiefs got the ball with five plus to go,
Speaker 1: I looked at my kids said, we've all said game over.
Speaker 1: Mahomes got the balls over or whatever. I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's gonna happen, but it's gonna end that way.
Speaker 1: You've got to get to stop immediately if they get
Speaker 1: a first down or two your cook yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: then Pacheco hit that run on third and whatever that was.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody tweet this today. It was brilliant. It
Speaker 1: was like the Giants playing chestnut checkers. They traded toe
Speaker 1: he did the Chiefs. They let Bradberry go to the
Speaker 1: Eagles just to see the Eagles from winning a chip.
Speaker 1: It's I like that. I was like, that was that
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Um, well, let's get the important things
Speaker 1: out of the way. Okay, uh Rihanna halftime show thoughts,
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I'd like I like a lot of
Speaker 1: her songs. I wasn't a big fan of that particular show.
Speaker 1: I'll just put it that way. I like her, I
Speaker 1: just didn't think that was that great. I know some
Speaker 1: people liked it also pregnant, so that's that. I mean,
Speaker 1: we are great good for her. I just think that
Speaker 1: we've seen better halftime shows. I'm just gonna put it
Speaker 1: that way. That they put a lot into that that
Speaker 1: prints down in Miami and the rain. So I mean
Speaker 1: it's been a Look, you could list twenty better halftime
Speaker 1: what's the best, top of your head, Prince is the
Speaker 1: best one. I like Prince a lot. That's a great one.
Speaker 1: You know, it all depends on what you enjoy too.
Speaker 1: I like you too, an awful lot. I kind of
Speaker 1: like it when they got a lot of different performers.
Speaker 1: Thought last year in LA was pretty cool. That was
Speaker 1: all right, wait, who's that again? It was a it
Speaker 1: was a when was jay Loo Shakira? Two years to go?
Speaker 1: That was? That was that last year? I don't know
Speaker 1: that And a lot of people didn't like that one.
Speaker 1: But you know, I like the last super Bowl before
Speaker 1: COVID that was having fun. Yeah, I mean, I haven't
Speaker 1: like Paul McCartney for a while. They went they they
Speaker 1: they counter balanced the Janet Jackson thing with Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not letting him off the hook.
Speaker 1: This is pure sexism to blame her for that and
Speaker 1: not because he pulled the thing off. Come on, it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen without Marian Janet Jackson. I can't remember what
Speaker 1: what service. It's phenomenal. They should come full circle, have
Speaker 1: her back, yes, and it would bring the house down, totally,
Speaker 1: totally improperly blamed for that, totally completely. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say something and he got off the hooks Scott free
Speaker 1: for that. But that was actually that was an interesting
Speaker 1: halftime show because they had kid rocked in a lot
Speaker 1: of different performers and it was right here in this
Speaker 1: building that we are originating this program from. All right.
Speaker 1: The other thing is commercials. We saw a ton of them.
Speaker 1: Some people thought they all were hard hole. I thought, look,
Speaker 1: I'm very entertained by these things. I don't know how
Speaker 1: effective they are for the particular product. I think there's
Speaker 1: two ways to evaluate these things. One is it entertaining,
Speaker 1: and this is in no particular order. Is it entertaining? Two?
Speaker 1: Is it effective for the product. Did they get the
Speaker 1: pop they needed out of the expense, the investment in
Speaker 1: a million dollars for a thirty for a thirty second spot.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. So they did the So Sirio Williams did
Speaker 1: the any given Sunday speech. Yeah, it's awesome. I'm like,
Speaker 1: whoa cool. They get to the end and it's like
Speaker 1: a liquor. I'm like, what I know it? Yeah? Where
Speaker 1: was that going? But it was cool that she did it.
Speaker 1: I know it's great she did it, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: where's this going? And then they do Caddyshack Man No,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wait, Who's Who's Bill Murray Tony Romo? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I thought caddy Shack. I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's pretty good. The only one where I
Speaker 1: laughed out loud that I can remember. We all know
Speaker 1: the younger generation doesn't get the joke though with the Caddyshecks. No,
Speaker 1: they don't get they don't. They don't get it. Um
Speaker 1: the key mercial, the Binkie that was good. That was
Speaker 1: because if you haven't, every single parent was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I've been there, absolutely every single one. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: The chocolate chip muffins. We didn't bring him off. Every
Speaker 1: single day Jack had to have these package of chocolate
Speaker 1: chip muffins that start as this or you forget it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's yeah, you have to have that kid.
Speaker 1: One had a binky. We didn't call it that from
Speaker 1: Texas Women's right. I couldn't find it anywhere at the time.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find it anywhere. We lost it. I had
Speaker 1: to literally go back. This is like three months after
Speaker 1: he's born. What are you doing here? I forgot my kid?
Speaker 1: Do you have one of those passifiers? Please? Because it's
Speaker 1: the only kind he will take, the only kind to
Speaker 1: pacify him. All Right, we got a lot to get to.
Speaker 1: Uh So, anyway, we got into the Super Bowl conversation
Speaker 1: because of the Texans goggles thing that Landry brought up
Speaker 1: last night. Johnny, it's it's almost surreal to me still
Speaker 1: to this day, to this day, because it's been so
Speaker 1: long and hasn't in that law. But that Demco Rhymes
Speaker 1: is the head coach of this football team. I said,
Speaker 1: pinch me, because this is it's really a dream come true.
Speaker 1: You know, entering this process after the season, I thought,
Speaker 1: are they going to be able to pull this off?
Speaker 1: And I just got a credit cal McNair, Hannah McNair,
Speaker 1: Nick as Sarrio, and Demko himself for pulling this thing off,
Speaker 1: for just pulling together and getting Demco home and leading
Speaker 1: this team. This is really cool stuff to see him
Speaker 1: do it his press conference. I know it's well covered
Speaker 1: material by now, but I, like everybody else, was blown away.
Speaker 1: I felt the vibe in the room that day, the
Speaker 1: former players, Texans legends in the house, the current players.
Speaker 1: I tweeted out a pick promoting this show of him
Speaker 1: standing on the stage with the current players who were
Speaker 1: there in attendance. And it's only a matter of time
Speaker 1: before you get everybody back in the building for conditioning
Speaker 1: and Demco Ryan's heading up the operation on the field.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. I told people both, you know, on
Speaker 1: podcasts or interviews, I said that, you know, you and
Speaker 1: I would would come in here and we just talk.
Speaker 1: We're not on the air, so we were just sitting
Speaker 1: in the studio and we would just talk about what
Speaker 1: was going on, and you know, we're going through a
Speaker 1: coaching search for the third third year, like dang it man, okay,
Speaker 1: and we both were like, okay, we both know we
Speaker 1: want the Miko okay, but what if it's not. Like
Speaker 1: we would talk about plan B and Plan C and
Speaker 1: Plan D, and I don't know that I ever was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be to Miko. It wasn't until
Speaker 1: the last couple of days and I'm on my way
Speaker 1: to Mobile and it was that Friday. Friday. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, this can happen. But we would talk about
Speaker 1: it as okay, but what if it's not. Kind of
Speaker 1: what's what's the what's the backup plan? That was the
Speaker 1: way that you and I were talking about it, And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it's like, wait, no, we
Speaker 1: don't have to go to backup plan bleep the backup plan.
Speaker 1: The real plan is gonna work. Uh. And I've told
Speaker 1: this to a few people when we went down to Mobile.
Speaker 1: When I'm going down to Mobile the last past few years,
Speaker 1: I always run my Texans gear. But even last year,
Speaker 1: I remember walking into Hancock Whitney and I heard these two,
Speaker 1: you know, these two idiots behind me that I heard
Speaker 1: him say Texans and then I heard him kind of
Speaker 1: chuckle and say and I was like, man, what a
Speaker 1: bunch of jerks. And I just was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I can't you know, And so I could just feel
Speaker 1: the eyes considering how things have been going this year.
Speaker 1: I walked in and I would see people, oh man, Demiko,
Speaker 1: and it was Tuesday, so it was not changing, it
Speaker 1: was not done, but they're like, oh, Demiko, this is awesome.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, it's not quite done yet.
Speaker 1: I kept saying it's not quite done yet. And then
Speaker 1: there I am watching Olindlon drills and I get the
Speaker 1: text it's official, and I'm like yeah, and then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: Matt bergierun I was pretty good from Syracuse, and I
Speaker 1: just had to kind of keep it all together. And
Speaker 1: I got to the car and I just I grabbed
Speaker 1: the steering one. I just was like shaking a car,
Speaker 1: like oh my god, this happened. And then of course
Speaker 1: I was upset because I wasn't here to see new
Speaker 1: to Miko. I wasn't ever for the press conference because
Speaker 1: I was their momobile trying to find players. But the
Speaker 1: point with what has happened the last few years to
Speaker 1: have somebody, to have somebody say I want this is
Speaker 1: my dream job. I want to be here, I want
Speaker 1: to be this guy, and I want to take on
Speaker 1: the responsibility of turning this background was refresh. Everybody started
Speaker 1: purring what he said that. Yeah, everybody just smiled internally
Speaker 1: externally you were so happy to hear him. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, we're gonna give away an HVB one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars gift card. You need a Twitter account to win
Speaker 1: it all. I'm just gonna say that upfront, or you can,
Speaker 1: you know, make your own Twitter account right now if
Speaker 1: you don't have one yet, and we'll do that when
Speaker 1: we get back. Also, what the staff reports, what it's
Speaker 1: gonna look like, what the schemes might look like. And
Speaker 1: Johnny was at the Senior Bowl, has has his opinion
Speaker 1: of the top players in this draft changed. We'll have
Speaker 1: that topic for the next seventy two days. Now, we'll
Speaker 1: go over it though in some detail today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio Radio. The drive continues. Well, that was
Speaker 1: the deep voice guy announcing that not us, those coordinator
Speaker 1: alleged hires. No announcement from the Texans yet, that was
Speaker 1: formal announcement has happened. And that wasn't a Texans deep
Speaker 1: voice guy. That was the fourth radio sixtend deep voice guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it, but I would expect announcements to take place,
Speaker 1: I don't know, later this week, early next week, something
Speaker 1: like that, and looking forward to meeting and talking with
Speaker 1: all of these guys. Hib gift card one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: gift card to HB. Here's the question. You have to
Speaker 1: respond to the tweet that promoted tonight's show at Texans
Speaker 1: Voice from my Twitter account. I promoted tonight's show mentioning
Speaker 1: that Johnny and I are coming back to host Texans
Speaker 1: All Access this evening. So reply to the tweet with
Speaker 1: the answer to this question. Damko Ryans of course played
Speaker 1: at Bama. Who was the coach when he left? Who
Speaker 1: is the coach his last year there, last couple of
Speaker 1: years there? Who was it? Name him right correctly? First?
Speaker 1: I guess first, I should say, you know, I'll randomly
Speaker 1: pick now the first one I see, the first one
Speaker 1: I see as a reply on my Twitter account, the
Speaker 1: first correct one. Yeah. On the tweet promoting tonight's show
Speaker 1: wins that one hundred dollars h GB gift card. Damiko
Speaker 1: Ryan's college college head coach? Okay, Johnny the staff Deep
Speaker 1: Voice guy from Sports Radio six ten mentioned it. Think
Speaker 1: about this. Bobby Slowick from San Francisco. What do you
Speaker 1: expect here? I think that obviously from the system, okay,
Speaker 1: from the Kubiakian Shanahanian system, and whatever wrinkles he wants
Speaker 1: to personally put in, that'll be interesting. You talk about Burke,
Speaker 1: I think this is really interesting because you don't know
Speaker 1: what he's gonna do, right, he might have some different
Speaker 1: ideas based on all these spirits of different things that
Speaker 1: he's done in this league. He's coordinated, but this could
Speaker 1: be a mix of things. So I'm eager to see
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball how it plays out, like
Speaker 1: we all are, but it's very it's gonna be very
Speaker 1: interesting to see, particularly on defense, how Demiko handles the
Speaker 1: play calling issues aspects of it. And on offense, of
Speaker 1: course we're always engaged with the offense. Yeah, what's interesting
Speaker 1: to me is when a new staff comes together, who
Speaker 1: handles what responsibility, And especially with Demiko. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: he got his job because I mean he's a leader
Speaker 1: of man. There's a lot of reasons he got his job,
Speaker 1: but because he was pretty successful as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: You don't want to lose that. But if you're a
Speaker 1: head coach, especially the first time, I think Brian Dable
Speaker 1: is an excellent one to look at. Brian Dable one
Speaker 1: up to New York. He'd been on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. He had, i think, coached every position
Speaker 1: but offensive line, and he'd been offensive coordinator Buffalo. That
Speaker 1: helped him get that job and Buffalo, the first thing
Speaker 1: he does is, no, I'm coming into the head coach.
Speaker 1: Mike Calfa is coming into the defensive coordinators can call
Speaker 1: plays and away we go. And I thought, boy, that's
Speaker 1: I like that because I don't think that coaches truly
Speaker 1: understand what it is to become the head coach, like whoa.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on that maybe stepping away from
Speaker 1: the play calling can help you, maybe initially, but you
Speaker 1: can still be involved in it. So I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see what Timiko ends up doing, whether he wants to
Speaker 1: call the defensive ball plays, whether Matt Burke will end
Speaker 1: up calling those ball plays, whether they have whether they
Speaker 1: do it together, how they go about doing it. The
Speaker 1: thing is, as we've learned over the years, every coaching
Speaker 1: staff's going to do it differently. There are some years
Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak called the place, some years Kyle Shannion called
Speaker 1: the place. There were some years when Gary called the place,
Speaker 1: but he had Rico as his offensive coordinator to help him. Hey,
Speaker 1: what three runs should we run here? There are all
Speaker 1: different kind of ways to put this together. But when
Speaker 1: you put some smart, smart, competitive people together all the
Speaker 1: same goal, you end up getting where you want to go.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the point bring in. Demiko's bringing
Speaker 1: in not just people he knows. I don't know what
Speaker 1: his connection to Matt Burke is. I know Burke, there's
Speaker 1: some kind of separation. There's Robert Salo there if he
Speaker 1: worked for him last year in twenty one, so there's that.
Speaker 1: There's some there's some connection. He knows someone's phone number.
Speaker 1: He could ask him, like, what's this guy like? Right?
Speaker 1: But if you never worked with the guy, maybe you've
Speaker 1: never worked with the guy, you've never been around. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a you know, so you're gonna do it. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna. I don't know how
Speaker 1: Demiko is gonna put it together. Obviously I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't think Demiko is gonna confensive ball plays. But maybe
Speaker 1: he calls defense. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe when we get
Speaker 1: ready to play an opponent, like you play Arizona. Matt
Speaker 1: Burke's gonna know Arizona seemingly well, no, it's personnel, but
Speaker 1: Arizona is gonna change. Arizona's having a head coach? Chet
Speaker 1: do they unless they got one today? I know Jonathan
Speaker 1: Gannon was sticking around to do an interview in Arizona.
Speaker 1: So played the game right. He didn't even have didn't
Speaker 1: have to fly anywhere. It just stays there. Can I
Speaker 1: have that hotel room from one more night? I'm sorry
Speaker 1: the Cardinals build, they don't even charter back till the
Speaker 1: next day from the sea. The Chiefs are chartering back today,
Speaker 1: But what about the Eagles. I get out of Dodge.
Speaker 1: If you'll lose the Super Bowl, I don't want to
Speaker 1: stay in the hotel again and moping around. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get back home. But then you're all alone in the
Speaker 1: offseason beginning. I don't know. I don't know how they
Speaker 1: handle it. It's too much. But yeah, Gannon was set
Speaker 1: to interview there. Obviously Stike in with the Colts, and
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's going to handle it. I
Speaker 1: don't know how Demiko is going to handle it. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, bringing in Nick Cray, chief of staff.
Speaker 1: That helps because Demiko, there's a reason why he didn't
Speaker 1: heavily pursue the Vikings thing. While he pursued it to
Speaker 1: a degree and then backed away whatever last last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because well, all right, let's do another year as a
Speaker 1: coordinator and look nineteen forty six, that's when the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers began as a franchise. They had never had
Speaker 1: the top defense in scoring and yardage. Yet Demiko did
Speaker 1: that with them this past season. That was super strong stuff.
Speaker 1: And he's already Demiko's combined with the on field proof
Speaker 1: of performance, and now you have him becoming a head coach.
Speaker 1: He knows, He's talked to enough people. He's super smart,
Speaker 1: he's aware. He set himself up well here. He's also
Speaker 1: got Nick to help him. This is a really good
Speaker 1: situation for him. He knows it. Now. Look, you have
Speaker 1: to win games. You gotta get players. We all know
Speaker 1: we played the open for you. He's talking about getting
Speaker 1: players going to work. You know, they need a talent infusion.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get one of the draft and free agency.
Speaker 1: We'll see where they take it. On true Siamon Demiko. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to know did he think that the Texas
Speaker 1: job would come open at some point in the next
Speaker 1: couple of years that he then would be ready to
Speaker 1: take You now, I don't know, I mean, and who's
Speaker 1: to say. And it's funny because I always think of
Speaker 1: I go to basketball for this one. But back in
Speaker 1: the late late nineties, Bill Guthrie was retiring from North
Speaker 1: Carolina University of North Carolina, and the thought was that
Speaker 1: Roy Williams is gonna take that job. Roy Williams is
Speaker 1: gonna come from Kansas and gonna take that job. It
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. It was a dutt and then it didn't.
Speaker 1: They ended up going Brad Doherty, not Brad dohrty Matt Doherty,
Speaker 1: and Williams ended up staying at Kansas. And I always
Speaker 1: the North Carolina job was Roy Williams dream job. That
Speaker 1: was his dream, and he like it didn't happen. I'm like, man.
Speaker 1: A couple years later, Doherty flames out, They call Roy again.
Speaker 1: Roy takes the job. He ends up being there for
Speaker 1: a couple of decades. By the way, you're you're at Kansas,
Speaker 1: you stay at Kansas, but it's you're all a moderate place.
Speaker 1: You know, you grew up with Dean, so he always
Speaker 1: wanted to be That's my that's my point. If you
Speaker 1: want to be somewhere, you want to have that job,
Speaker 1: maybe you let things play out a little, right, But
Speaker 1: it's a very different situation. Tamiko is not a head coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: until he gets this job, I understand. But if you're
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable in San Francisco, you're going Look, I know
Speaker 1: things can changing coaching overnight, but I'm curious to think.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know whether, yeah, did you think maybe
Speaker 1: you would come open? Options open? I don't know. Well, look,
Speaker 1: if love he wins six seven games this past year,
Speaker 1: probably doesn't come open, and then who knows what happens
Speaker 1: next year, and maybe you maybe at that point you
Speaker 1: take head coaching job. But either way, we'll never We'll
Speaker 1: never know that, right. But I just find it interesting
Speaker 1: because he use the words dream job, and I thought
Speaker 1: that was interesting. And I know that some people will
Speaker 1: maybe hold that against him or whatever, But why would
Speaker 1: they hold that against I don't know, But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying this his NFL alma mater, Right, That's that's my point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you're going to you just made my point
Speaker 1: for me, I don't like the Roy Williams example. You
Speaker 1: don't like No, I don't like him, and I don't
Speaker 1: like there because he was at Kansas, and I don't
Speaker 1: even like Kansas. But I respect Kansas and I respect
Speaker 1: Allen Fieldhouse. My point about that was, if you're a
Speaker 1: Kansas his dream job eventually opened up. He did not
Speaker 1: say Kansas as his dream dream job. But it's Kansas.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Doesn't mean it's your dream job, all right,
Speaker 1: So that the Brown University might be my dream was.
Speaker 1: But O'Brien was here, and a lot of people thought, well,
Speaker 1: if the Patriots job ever opened, so if he's gonna
Speaker 1: pursue that, well, wait a minute, he's already got an
Speaker 1: NFL job, And if he's still here at that point,
Speaker 1: that means he's doing well and he's gonna go to
Speaker 1: another job. Now. I know Parcels bounced around in Belichick,
Speaker 1: but that was different because they had the conflict between
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Patriots and all that druma. You
Speaker 1: can create, You can create your dream job out of
Speaker 1: where you are. Absolutely, I think you can definitely coach.
Speaker 1: Once told me, don't coach at your alma mater. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I absolutely always want favors. I want it for free,
Speaker 1: that were stuff for free. Never. I would never take
Speaker 1: the job Brown University. Never. I want to remember my
Speaker 1: college years is college years because eventually I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to Brown University and get fired, and that's one of
Speaker 1: them to remember about my alma mater. I don't want that.
Speaker 1: John Bunting did that at North Carolina. He was there
Speaker 1: for five years. What's a bowl game? The next year
Speaker 1: he gets fired. I'm like, well, this is weird. Now
Speaker 1: the alumni department calls me for money. I'm like that,
Speaker 1: that's purely a college thing. I want Demiko to be
Speaker 1: here for forty years, okay, and we'll see how it goes, obviously,
Speaker 1: But you know, he said, dream job, Johnny. It's interesting
Speaker 1: how the universe plays out here because two years ago
Speaker 1: you were looking for a head coach, hired David Culley,
Speaker 1: but Demiko wasn't even a coordinator yet. Salad just got
Speaker 1: out of the Jets. You know, he steps up to
Speaker 1: become coordinator from linebackers coach. So at that point it
Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen. And then last year, obviously it
Speaker 1: didn't happen. But this year it happens and he's got
Speaker 1: two years under his belt as a top notch coordinator,
Speaker 1: number one candidate on the market, and you get debate
Speaker 1: well with Sean Payton, Mark, Well, all right, I get it,
Speaker 1: But that was a whole other ball of wax, because
Speaker 1: ball of yarns something, a ball of something. Because you
Speaker 1: had to make a trade with the Saints. You had
Speaker 1: to pay Peyton a GNP of a South American country
Speaker 1: and bring him in and you know, give him control
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. What I've learned things change
Speaker 1: very quickly in this league. You can go from Matt
Speaker 1: Nage and twenty eighteen with the Chicago Bears. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: I mean the talk of the league, right, I mean
Speaker 1: deeping and I would talk about it all the time.
Speaker 1: They had that club club win one out and they
Speaker 1: had something where they would have disco ball. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: the Bears of the Talccer League double dooined a couple
Speaker 1: of fel field goal at the end, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, a couple years later, Matt Nage is persona
Speaker 1: on grot in Chicago. I mean it changed like that,
Speaker 1: and that's that's why you just strike when the iron
Speaker 1: is hot and in certain cases, and you take whatever
Speaker 1: job that you end up with and you make it
Speaker 1: your dream job. And hopefully that's what Demiko is gonna do.
Speaker 1: And his wife is from Houston. Correct, Yes, he met
Speaker 1: her here, I believe. So. Yeah, well, during the press cons,
Speaker 1: during the whole process, and the and the home they
Speaker 1: have for kids that they get Angleton instituted during the pandemic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome stuff. You know that fantast They weren't even
Speaker 1: here yet. They weren't I mean, I mean, they weren't
Speaker 1: even living here. I mean it might have been. I
Speaker 1: wanted to say they were making Houston there forever home,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. But the point is, but they're
Speaker 1: never now. He never lost the connection with the area,
Speaker 1: so it was always on his it was always on
Speaker 1: his mind. I'm not gonna sing like Willie. Uh Frank Ross,
Speaker 1: that is such happy news. When I saw that report,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Frank, because during this postseason process here
Speaker 1: watching some of these playoff games, I'm thinking, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: the DiCaprio meme pointing to the TV like, hey, Texan
Speaker 1: special teams wouldn't do that. Texan special teams wouldn't give
Speaker 1: a sixty five yard return in the fourth quarter. Texas
Speaker 1: special teams don't do that. They're elite special teams, one league,
Speaker 1: one area. That's elite on this football team at the
Speaker 1: very least other than the radio broadcast heat. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Frank Ross's Frank and I don't want
Speaker 1: to forget Sean Baker Ross and Frank Ross and Baked
Speaker 1: They've been incredible what they've been able to get, and
Speaker 1: you got it back out of this special teams getting
Speaker 1: them back to me. I mean, look off its corridor,
Speaker 1: defensive cordaor Yes, you had to be able to keep
Speaker 1: Frank Ross here. You had to the mentality he's created
Speaker 1: on special teams. Those guys, I watched him every time
Speaker 1: there's a kickoff and nice, you know, before the game,
Speaker 1: he's his energies just at a different level and it's
Speaker 1: infectious and it's it's it's awesome. I Mean we were
Speaker 1: talking one day and he said, man, he couldn't sleep
Speaker 1: one night before a game, so he just got out
Speaker 1: the next week's got a report and started going through it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I would love to have that energy
Speaker 1: and we gotta by the way. We didn't go see
Speaker 1: Frank for haircuts. All cuts. My dream is still alive. Yes,
Speaker 1: Frank's cuts from this special teams coordinator. That might happen.
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, Johnny Harris, let's talk quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this year's draft, just for the fun of him. Just hypotheticals.
Speaker 1: My goodness. Johnny was at the Senior Bowl. He saw
Speaker 1: some guys there. He's been watching hours and hours of video.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the top guys. Next, it's Texans Radio. We
Speaker 1: returned to Texans all excess. Oh yeah, we do. Chris
Speaker 1: Santiago producing tonight, Mark Vandermayer and John Harris with you
Speaker 1: live from the Hyunday Texans Radio studio. We have an
Speaker 1: answer to our question. It's Mike Shula. He was the
Speaker 1: head coach of Bama when Demico was there. And I've
Speaker 1: given away the HB gift card to Matt Weeks. Matt, congratulations,
Speaker 1: you're a winner. We'll get in touch with you. I
Speaker 1: might give away one or two more just to be friendly.
Speaker 1: Here to some other people who answered it correctly, I
Speaker 1: did get a Dennis Franconi, which is the proper pronunciation
Speaker 1: of his name. That's incorrect. Joe Kines, I got him,
Speaker 1: I got I got Bear Bryant. No, I didn't get
Speaker 1: a Bear Bryan, not Price. He's getting Nick Sabans thinking,
Speaker 1: oh no, no. But I'm surprised. Actually, I thought you would.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna get one wrong, you would think it
Speaker 1: would be saving. He wasn't a saving guy. He was
Speaker 1: there before. And Shula, by the way, is in Buffalo
Speaker 1: as a senior offensive assistant. And I kid about this
Speaker 1: every once in a while. If you look at the
Speaker 1: NFL coaching rosters around the league, I always say, it's
Speaker 1: like the Federal Witness Protection program. That's where that guy went.
Speaker 1: That's where Mike Shula is in Buffalo. Now, he worked
Speaker 1: with Ken Dorsey and Carolina, so maybe that's the connection.
Speaker 1: And he's there in Buffalo. Obviously, the son of Don Shula.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering, David Shula was the head coach of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati once upon a time. He left to run the
Speaker 1: steakhouses Shula Steakhouse, and he did that for a while.
Speaker 1: But I think they sold them off. I don't see
Speaker 1: them around anymore because they used to. There used to
Speaker 1: be one in India, at the West End, and they've
Speaker 1: been around the country. Yeah, there might be one or
Speaker 1: two in South Florida. I don't know, but for a
Speaker 1: while they had it going on. Did they have any
Speaker 1: in Oh, yeah, they did have one. Is it still
Speaker 1: around in Houston? I think so. In one of the
Speaker 1: hotels it's um I want to say it's the Hyatt.
Speaker 1: It's still there. Yeah, rock and roll. They usually it
Speaker 1: would say closed, but no, it's all time winning his
Speaker 1: coach in the history of this league, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Don Shula and Bill Belichick's gonna pass him, just like Lebron.
Speaker 1: I remember a few years before this year, I thought
Speaker 1: there's no way Lebron passed his Korean right, but he
Speaker 1: just did it so good. And Belichick's gonna pass Don Shulo,
Speaker 1: all time winning coach. Well, now he's got an offensive coordinator. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get into that right now, are we?
Speaker 1: Johnny quickly here because I don't want to run out
Speaker 1: of show. But here the Texas out of the number
Speaker 1: two pick. We don't know what they're gonna do. We
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna bring in a quarterback, a
Speaker 1: veteran draft a quarterback later, maybe not draft a quarterback
Speaker 1: as soon as you think. Maybe they draft a quarterback high.
Speaker 1: Maybe they draft a quarterback second. We don't know, and
Speaker 1: there's no freaking way Nick Kissario is gonna give you
Speaker 1: one hint as to what he's thinking, but especially you
Speaker 1: will get, especially Johnny, but you will get a hint
Speaker 1: in free agency, perhaps based on what they do acquisition
Speaker 1: wise at that position. Even to me Go said in
Speaker 1: the press conference, we have one quarterback on the roster,
Speaker 1: meaning Jeff Driscoll's not a Texan currents right the contracts
Speaker 1: runs out. Kyle Allen, you have Davis Mills still there
Speaker 1: year three, third round pick, so we'll see where they go.
Speaker 1: But you tell me you watched some quarterbacks, you watched
Speaker 1: a lot on video, You saw some guys at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. In your opinion, is Bryce still number one?
Speaker 1: Stroud number two? Yeah, Stroud's number one, Strouds number one. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bryce's number one. It's kind of a one
Speaker 1: a one bat to me. I kind of thought that
Speaker 1: going into the season that as the season wore on,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I think Bryce has moved
Speaker 1: ahead the way that Stroud closed though against Georgia. He
Speaker 1: showed a lot of things that that you wanted to see.
Speaker 1: You saw him making throws off platform. His ball placement
Speaker 1: was incredible. That night he went against at Georgia defense,
Speaker 1: and I mean he ripped them to shreds. They Georgie's
Speaker 1: defense had no answers, no answers. I've only seen it
Speaker 1: happen once SEC Championship twenty twenty one and that was
Speaker 1: Bryce Young. So Bryce Young and uh CJ. Stroud up
Speaker 1: in the only two that have really kind of riddled
Speaker 1: a Georgia defense. But I spent today watching one Will
Speaker 1: Levis go against Georgia defense, and I get I get
Speaker 1: really confused with Levis because you see something You're like, yo,
Speaker 1: I don't care younger Stroud and they're not making that
Speaker 1: throw he can wow. But then a little while later
Speaker 1: you're like, what was that had three feet? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? So it's kind of maddening. And I think
Speaker 1: Levis for me is gonna end up in the twenties
Speaker 1: or so. In my Harris one hundred and I think
Speaker 1: the UM and my mock draft that I did, I had,
Speaker 1: I had Texans moving up to number one, making a
Speaker 1: deal to make sure that they could get that quarterback
Speaker 1: they wanted, and I picked Bryce Show at number one,
Speaker 1: at number twelve, and we talk about quarterbacks a lot,
Speaker 1: but number twelve and talking about the offense number twelve
Speaker 1: and going, I'm telling you right now, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the hottest name. Get ready for it. It's coming because
Speaker 1: six four, two and eighty pounds. I look like this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm Georgia Tech. Keyon White, absolute superstar edge player. Think
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker, okay from the Jags. Yeah, not as athletic,
Speaker 1: not the freaky things like Traymon Walker was two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five with four to five in the forty.
Speaker 1: I don't think Keyon's gonna rung like that, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna run well. So key On White. I saw the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl in person and he is incredibly impressive, and
Speaker 1: watched two or three games while I was in Mobile
Speaker 1: because I saw him up close. He was one of
Speaker 1: the guys that wanted to see if close. So I
Speaker 1: number twelve. I had him, and I had Texas with
Speaker 1: a third first round draft pick. Oh, you had them
Speaker 1: trading back up into the first round. Trading back up,
Speaker 1: anything's possible. Yeah, but with what picks. If you had
Speaker 1: the moving from two to one, what does it cost
Speaker 1: to move from two to one? And well, I did
Speaker 1: the math on it, and I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: the one that always kind of throws me is what's
Speaker 1: next year's what are next year's picks worth? So I
Speaker 1: just applied kind of the old school point value, the
Speaker 1: jim chart. Yeah, the Jimmy chart. And I had to
Speaker 1: trade seventy three, which is Cleveland third rounder that we
Speaker 1: have seventy three overall, which the third rounder and a
Speaker 1: third rounder next year to move up one spot one.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad deal at all. It's not horrible.
Speaker 1: Do you think that gets it done? I don't know,
Speaker 1: because here's the question. This is why I have to say.
Speaker 1: I've said this to people about this. The Bears in
Speaker 1: that trade, it's, oh, they're gonna have so many different options.
Speaker 1: Not really. The Bears have to stay within the top
Speaker 1: four or five to get their defensive stuff. They have
Speaker 1: to get a defensive stud And to me, the defensive
Speaker 1: demarcation line is Jalen Carter, Willie Anderson and whatever do
Speaker 1: you like? Right now? I have Anderson or Carter, but
Speaker 1: you can convince me they're both super studs after that
Speaker 1: big drop off, so they have to with all these machinations.
Speaker 1: They can get players and a bunch of draft picks
Speaker 1: and that's all cool, but you better get difference makers,
Speaker 1: and they can't go. If they go beyond four, there's
Speaker 1: there's a there's a chance they may not get that guy.
Speaker 1: So to get the trade they want, they've got to
Speaker 1: stay within the top four. So I think they're limited
Speaker 1: with some of the trades that could potentially happen. So
Speaker 1: I do think that you could kind of stoke the
Speaker 1: trade embers and offer them that. See if they take it,
Speaker 1: but then nothing's to stop them from moving down again.
Speaker 1: Because that's what I did in my mock. I had
Speaker 1: him traded twice with us. Yeah, then they moved to two.
Speaker 1: Then they trade with the Contents, then they go to
Speaker 1: Indie and say, all right, you want one of these
Speaker 1: top two guys. Exactly. See everyone not everyone, a lot
Speaker 1: of people, you know, fans, whatever, media, they speculate about
Speaker 1: the Colts wanted to move from four to one, right
Speaker 1: to get their quarterback? What is that going to cost
Speaker 1: that lot? Do they really love somebody that much that
Speaker 1: they have to do it right there? And can they
Speaker 1: stay and still get the guy. Because let's say the Bears.
Speaker 1: Let's say nobody deals with the Bears, They'll take one
Speaker 1: of the defensive guys in all likelihood Texans, let's just
Speaker 1: hypothesize they take a quarterback. Third Arizona, Right, they're not
Speaker 1: taking a quarterback. No, that's a defensive guy. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then fourth, you get your quarterback. If you're Indie, you
Speaker 1: get at least one of the top two guys. Is Yeah. Theoretically, Now,
Speaker 1: it doesn't assure you of that because somebody could deal
Speaker 1: with Arizona and had to jump up and oh, here
Speaker 1: you go. Who who jumped up to third? Third with Arizona,
Speaker 1: the Raid the Raids, No, Derek Carr. We don't like
Speaker 1: Stidham that much. We're moving up. Yeah, the Raiders went up.
Speaker 1: I gave Will Levis to the Cult two, and then
Speaker 1: I went with C. J. Strout to the Raiders at three.
Speaker 1: And if that happens, the Raiders gotta mean they gotta
Speaker 1: feel good. I mean, no, they have to give up
Speaker 1: a little bit. But Arizona moved down to seven and
Speaker 1: then moved back up in the top five and with
Speaker 1: another trade, I work, gosh, I had four trades to
Speaker 1: top five. All right, I don't think anybody was in
Speaker 1: the same spot. So I had some fun. But I
Speaker 1: mean the trades all make sense. I mean I used
Speaker 1: to chart. I tried to. I tried to think about
Speaker 1: trades that have happened in the past. I didn't just
Speaker 1: willy nilly like, all, I give you five first rounders. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that. Yeah, um so I had like four
Speaker 1: at four trades. But in the end it was US
Speaker 1: at one with Bryce at two. It was Indianapolis Will Levis.
Speaker 1: Three was eventually the Raiders with CJ. Strout at four
Speaker 1: ended up being the Bears, and they took Jalen Carter
Speaker 1: and then five was Arizona and they got they got
Speaker 1: will Anderson Junior. So the Cardinals come out of there.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals come out of there with like Willy Anderston.
Speaker 1: They took number three overall and turn it into Will
Speaker 1: Anderson Junior a second and a third and like a
Speaker 1: second and third next year. If they feel like they
Speaker 1: could still get a player like that, they might do it. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of trades. I'm not so sure that's
Speaker 1: gonna work out. We shall see s up a little bit. Either,
Speaker 1: go no trades or a lot of trade. Is Levis
Speaker 1: the third best quarterback in this draft right now? In
Speaker 1: your opinion? I'll allow you to change that opinion. Yeah
Speaker 1: he is. I think he's third, Richardson's I'm putting Richardson fourth.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've gone back and forth those the four
Speaker 1: guys being drafted in the first round. Is there anybody
Speaker 1: else who could sneak into the first round at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position and give you a name from Tennessee Henned Hooker? Okay,
Speaker 1: because he's depending on where the rehab is, all right,
Speaker 1: but he's twenty five years old. You're gonna probably rested him. Resting,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna sen him anyways. Right, So maybe a
Speaker 1: team in the back in the first round is like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we want a guy we can develop, right,
Speaker 1: and we're not. We got an older guy. I don't
Speaker 1: know who that would be, but it's the thought. I
Speaker 1: still think there's gonna be too much out there for
Speaker 1: teams to cash in on immediately. And then he drops
Speaker 1: a little bit more, we'll see. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about, and your free agency quarterback action that's gonna
Speaker 1: change all of this too. In two weeks We'll be
Speaker 1: at the Combine for the show's Tuesday through Friday. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to that Tomorrow back on at six more draft talk, etc.
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