March 11, 2025 • 46 mins
If you thought Monday would be it for big deals in Houston, you were wrong. The Texans Radio Crew broke down MORE reported deals made by the Texans on Tuesday, as the club continues to re-shape itself in free agency.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello Texans, welcome to the show. We are pumped up.
Free agency frenzy continues, and we were live yesterday, live
today here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio, which is
located at the moment in the Sports Radio six ten studios.
Because we like being here with the guys. We're here
with Chris Santiago behind the glass and when we have
breaking either Texans or prominent NFL free agent news, he'll
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hit that six to ten sounder because.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We like it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And you never know during the show something might break.
But plenty of stuff happened today. Mark Vandermin and John
Harris with you. We're live on YouTube. Also you can
consume the program in a variety of ways. And yesterday
we reacted to a lot of different Texans news like
Larry me Tunzel being traded. But let's react to what
went down today, Johnny, because the biggest news of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Gardner Johnson's safety was acquired in a trade for Kenyon
Green and a pick swap in twenty twenty six with
lower round picks, so CJ. Gardner Johnson bolsters the secondary.
Kenyon Green not a factor on the old line anymore.
First round pick along with Derek Stingley Junior in twenty
twenty two, the year before they got CJ and Will
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And I love this because Kenyon might have been great
depth piece. Maybe he worked his way back into the
starting lineup, if we could have projected forward.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Maybe, but maybe not.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And now for a guy who might have been on
the pine, you get a front line demon in the
secondary to go along with Calen Bullock and Jimmy Ward
and Jalen Petrie.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I gotta say I like it. M J Stewart coming
back to is gonna be good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
MJ has meant a lot to disorganization, personal protector and
punt team, Core four, special team. Or he resigns today
and you add him to the mix. Here's the thought
Kamarian Sting. They don't talk for they don't talk, like
Sting says, maybe five words in a game talk.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Receivers have said, I tried to count. He doesn't talk. CJ.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Gardner, Johnson, Jalen Petree and Jimmy Ward will talk enough
for the entire secondary, and then some they will talk trash.
They are roofless. They will knock you in the next week.
I kind of like it. I like the intimidation factor.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
CJ's a guy that just riles it up, and I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Use the word demon. I like that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's a good one. He plays relentlessly. He feels very swarmy.
So like if you think about like a chicken sandwich,
like a chicken sandwich is like, there's a spicy chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think you recently had a chicken sandwich. That's why
you're no.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I had nuggets, okay, but you got like a you
got like a regular chicken sandwich, then you got a
spicy chicken sandwich, and then you got Nashville Hot chicken sandwich.
So like if you had him kind of like that,
you just got the Nashville Hot chicken sandwich with with CJ.
Gardner Johnson, because that dude is on fire all time,
like all the time. He is not back off. He
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was battling Swifties after the Super Bowl. He was He
is that kind of guy. Chance again this year. He
stirs it up. He gets after it. He's physical. He
was one of my favorite players coming out of the draft.
The year he came out and I want to say
it was nineteen. Maybe I have to go back. I've
got his scouting report, and I know I love I
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loved him, loved him. Now, is he gonna snatch a
chain off with some wide receiver at some point?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Might he get a fifteen yard penalty at some point
taking a little shot on the sideline. Maybe, But he's
gonna produce. And I think he had six interceptions this year.
So if you take CJ six, Kaylin's five, and Derek
Stingley junior, Derrick singlely had five, Mari had four, that
sounds right.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a lot of interceptions. Yeah, I think that's twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
If my Matt there, there is a very very good
chance second.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So Murray's gone. Murray is a Jaguar. Eric Murray's gone.
You upgraded there, and I like Eric Murray, but come on,
you got CJ. Gardner Johnson instead of Eric Murray and
Murray had the pick six. It's funny how each of
the last two years you get guys with pick sixes
in playoff wins and they're gone, like Steven Nelson in
twenty twenty threes postseason, twenty twenty fourth postseason, Eric Murray whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But C J.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Gardner Johnson comes in to replace Murray, set the lineup
for me because Jimmy Ward, Jalen Petree, CJ. Gardner, Johnson Klin. Well,
you know that's I can't start all those guys. I
still have Derek, and I got Kamari on the corners.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know, Steve Kamari starting. You know that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Uh you know, hang on one second, Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Breaking news from sports benl Smarter bets start with Ben cl.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Will Oh, I see this one. Okay, you see this one.
I see what it is. Chris, you got all right?
So Jordan Schultz just breaking news. The Ravens are signing
five time All Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to a
one year, six million dollar deal.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Okay, It's funny because last night we were talking about
this after the show. We told Chris Are like, okay,
look it's Texans news. Yeah, or it's like big NFL
news and right off the right off the bat six
oh six.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm like, okay, Chris, we're gonna see if you apply
the rules. Na man, you knocked that up. Part good one.
This is definitely one. DeAndre Hopkins going to the Ravens
one year, five million dollar deal up to six million.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He goes to the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't think it's big NFL news. I think it's
big Texans news because it's a former Texan.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean, DeAndre is still a name that people recognize.
It is, it is, it's a big one. It's a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But yeah, his game is not what it was correct.
Well for the Ravens, he can help them, and good
for him. He goes, except I don't like this. Can
you please leave the AFC? Can you please go back
to the NFC. When you left here it was the Cardinals.
Obviously that's where they end.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The NFC and bring us back David Johnson and all
is good. Yeah, I don't can do that. Do that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't think that's a good thing that's gonna happen. No,
I'm not gonna happen. You're not gonna be happy with
that trade. No, not gonna bet at all.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, then at second round and a pick number forty,
don't you're not gonna be happy with that? And why
in the hell where John and Reggie and Figgie? The
question today was what Bob moments that you remember like
they started going down all the moments and I'm literally
driving shaking my head, like I lived that, we.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Lived that, We live that You and I lived that.
We lived that, and now today I'm looking at it going.
Nick traded a guy that more than likely was not It.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Was a fifty to fifty shot to make the roster
much less start, and you got Chauncey Gardner, CJ.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah what Yeah, that's a great deal. And the pictures. Yeah, Nick,
Nick does what Nick does, and you know, they needed
a lignement. And it's a good place for Kenyon to be,
you know, get out of your hometown somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I am a huge proponent of that.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and maybe you can resurrect your career that way.
So good for him. All right, other things that have
happened today, and we'll get to the hop thing and
all the other teams. But Nick Neeman signs with the Texans.
That's more like Neville HEWITTT. Yeah, and that's what I thought.
I asked you that I thought sounds like nevill Hewitt
to me, and nevill Hewitt still out there. I think
maybe it comes back to who knows, but Nick Nemon
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is gonna automatically help special teams can play. Yesterday, after
we got off the air, Jake Hanson street the terms.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Mario Edwards back on the d line. Very nice two
year deal. So Mario starting defensive tackle. You've got him back.
So you've got Rankins who played for you in twenty
twenty three, Edwards who played for you last year. Bang,
bang starting. If it's not settle rotation, all of that, right,
they'll all rotate rotating in there as well. Togyi is
still the property of still on the roster. Yeahh andgned him.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah. I was tremendous last half of the year.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, toky I. I bet they're thinking in the room,
we got toki I.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And we everybody knows that I'm in I'm in your
ear during the game, and I would I don't know
how many times I would just say Togii. And at
first I was like I just want to say his name,
but then it was like he's making all the play,
He's all over the place, making place. Now here's the
one thing we don't have. What we don't have. Size,
We don't have side No. Tim, Tim's a big broad dude,
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about three point fifteen ish. We don't have I don't know.
I mean, like Foley was athletic, agile size at like
three twenty So maybe there's a thought he comes back,
but that's where a guy like Kenneth Grant would come
and play. But all you know, it's funny because you
kind of have ideas going into free agency and then
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you're watching free agency and you're like, man, I have
kept I kept thinking that interior defensive line would be
a spot that they would highlight potentially at twenty five
in the draft.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And now I look at it and go, man, they got.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
A preloaded or pretty full roster at interior defensive tackle.
I mean when you when you bring in like like
we just said, you got Mario Edwards coming back, Uh
settles already here. You know you said how you're gonna
handle it. It's gonna be a rotation like it always is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And then Denko can play in there, Dene Rogery can
play in there on pass rush down.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
So man, you like, okay, I still.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Feel like in a draft that is loaded with them,
maybe you don't even go for a second third round.
Maybe you end up getting a Day three defensive lineman
because that dude in previous drafts from a future draft
would be a Day two pick because it's that loaded
at defensive tackle.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would luck cracking the starting lineup. If you're drafted
on this team, on the D line, I would luck
with that, or linebacker or anywhere in the secondary. You're
not cracking it in all likelihood, and if you do,
maybe it's because of injuries or you're that good. Okay,
But me think Kenneth Grant maybe because he's that big
and you mentioned size and first down player and all that,
then you come right out of the game because they're
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in the second and long preferably I mean, and then
you're going after the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I still think Grant's gonna be able to push the pocket.
To me, I think Kenneth's Grant is is like DJ
Reader in that sense, like I think he's gonna get
better and better and better, but he's.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Got I don't think he's gonna be there twenty five.
I don't think he's gonna be there twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But my thought is, as I've done all this mock
simulator stuff just to kind of get an idea.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's not perfect, but it just gives me an idea.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And what I kept finding was that when I took
defensive lineman early in the draft, I realized by the
time I got to day three, where there was now
kind of a dearth of interior offensive lineman. I found
a ton of defensive tackles I liked. I'm like, well,
wait a second, why don't I get Why don't I
get the interior offensive lineman first, and then work on
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round three, round four looking at defensive tackles because there's
still gonna be some there. There's gonna be a ton
of good ones there. Now, if there are particular ones,
like a Kenneth Grant I love, maybe a Tiler Williams,
maybe I do that, But I just think you can
get a really good I think you get a really
good defensive line prospect a little bit later in the draft.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And I always say this, do.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I want Do I want the number one or number
two interior offensive lineman and defensive lineman number nine or ten,
Versus having defensive lineman number one or two and having
interior offensive lineman number three who really is not anywhere
near as good as a defensive tackle who's eighth or
ninth on a list. I would want the really good
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interior offensive lineman and take my chances with interior defensive
lineman that's a little bit down the list, because that
dude is gonna be a player, the interier offensive lineman
I get in round four. It's gonna be dicey like man.
There's just not There's not much. So it's gonna be
interesting how this whole draft thing pans out. But you
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talked about Kenny Green and being moved, So Kenyan Green
off the Philly CJ. Garters. It comes in Lake and Tomlinson.
Yeah all right, So let's talk about that Pro Bowl
guard with the Niners. Right, he was acquired today today.
Now you can feel the team up front.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You can do it. You can feel an offensive line
do it. This is all right.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
They called the Texans. You know what, we gotta play Sunday.
I just found this out about my flag football team.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
We're playing Sunday. I didn't even playing Sunday. So the
Texans have to play Sunday. So Nick Demico, Nick Careley,
they get together, Povich, they all sit down and say,
what's the offensive what's the offensive line. It's Titus Howard
and left tackle, Lake Fisher, right tackle at center. I'm
gonna go Patterson because I gotta play Sunday. Yeah, so
I'm gonna go Juice Scruggs at right guard and at
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left guard. I'll go Lake and Tomlinson, or I'll flip
those two guys. But I just acquired Laken Tomlinson. You
tell me you said it out loud. You said it
out loud. How do you feel about it? I mean,
if I gotta play Sunday, I feel okay. But I
know more is coming and no draft. I know, probably
another free agent acquisition or possibly two. Now if Laken
Tomlinson doesn't move the needle and lead sportscentter, I get it. Yeah, however,
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for this team, he could be a big plus. You
tell me what they're getting in Laken Tomlins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, after, well after we agreed to terms.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Again, signings won't become official until the past physical physicals
can't happen till the start of the new league year.
That happens at three o'clock tomorrow. So the Tunsoil and
the Kenyan Green trades will become official tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Alright.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So that said, I ended up watching Thomlinson today, and
I mean great body, like put together, very well, strong, sturdy.
The one thing that I saw that I thought he
did pretty well in the game. I watched the Vikings
game and ironically it was Sam Donald against the Seahawks. Anyways,
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I didn't watch that part of it. But Tomlinson handled
stunts very well. That was something we couldn't do to
save our lives for the longest time. This year, he
handled stunts very very well. Now got beat a couple
of times, can be a little a little stiff, you know,
trying to handle some moves.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
But he handled the stunts.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Really well, kept his eyes where they needed to be,
and that's and work together with his tackle.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Sometimes he worked together with the center.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I thought as I watched it, the more I was like, okay,
because you know when he was with the Niners, I
was you know, he started off with the Lions.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It did not go well. He was traded after two years.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
So then he goes out to San Francisco, kind of
finds his way playing guard for San Francisco. And then
because he had had some success with San Francisco, he
then takes money in a free agency which should capitalize
on it, went to the Jets. We know the Jets
were a mess. You know, he went to the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Last year.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I thought he did some good things with the Seahawks
last year. I still think he's got some good football ahead.
And like you said, if you got to play today,
I would feel very good about Laken Tomlinson there.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I just have a good feeling about him, the football character,
how hard he plays.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You know, he's got some athleticism, like watching him get
up to the second level.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
In his own game, like whoa, he can move. So
I like all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And when you think about some of the things that
I think that ailed the offensive line last year, stunts
in particular, movement, being in shape.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I just didn't think they were in shape last year.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So you start with Tomlinson, You look at him and go, okay,
that's that's a stout dude. You could see it on film,
like just he's put together, not like alignment, more like
a linebacker, like a big linebacker. But he's three hundred
and twenty pounds, so he's gonna he's gonna bring a
little something to that line that I like. He didn't
break the bank for him. It's a one year, like
four and a half five million dollars deal. It's not
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much in grand scheme of things, which I know can
worry some people. Well wait a second, Will Fryes got
X from the Vikings. We only paid this for Tomlinson.
That means that Fries is that much better than Thomlinson.
Not quite, let's not let's not go to that that level.
But am I gonna sit here and tell you it's
Quentin Nelson. No, But I think it's a guy that
can work well. He knows to Miko, or should know
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him from the years in San Francisco, So he has
some familiarity with the Miko and I think that helps.
And more importantly, Demko has got experience with him. He's
gonna know the Miko is gonna know is that a
swarmy dude or not? And when they're resetting, you could say,
blowing this whole thing up. It's not as if he's
gonna bring back in guys that he thought were maybe
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part of the swarm problem. He's gonna bring in guys
that he knows, without a shadow of a doubt, are
gonna be not only ask kickers, but they're gonna get
in that meeting room and they're gonna start thinking like
the unit that they need to be. And I think
Seth said it said it best. I can't remember if
he uses term for somebody else. I was talking to
talked about glass eaters. I like that term glass eater
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like that. We can't remember who that was.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Campbell.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, in a sense. Yeah, and and look, that's what
you want. You want that mentality.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You want you want that mentality.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And you when when you and I talk, people ask us,
they say, what's the best offensive line the Texans have
ever had?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
What's the best one I've ever had? Twenty twenty twelve?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And I think the dude you had up there. Yeah,
the guys that just they would rip your arm off
to get air in five yards.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
They also got along. It was a group that was
so cohesive. They were tight. They were the five fingers
in a glove. We talked about this a bit last night.
They played together so well, that's what you're looking for,
you look at to create that. We talked about it
this season. Rod Wright Nate Oli is now the old
line coach in Atlanta. They coached this D line and
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it felt like an offensive line. It felt like they
were that tight.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The D line usually isn't like that, right. I mean
it can be, but usually that mentality lives in your
offensive lines room and in your D line room. It
might be there, but It almost doesn't even have to
be there as much as it has to be there
in your old line room to be a successful offensive
line by line obviously their exceptions. So they want to
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create that. They've been talking about it. These are the
kind of guys we want in there. They're more moves
to be made, folks. I mean we saw Kenyon Green
go today. That was a big one. Think about this.
What's your starting line on opening day against the Colts?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, where you're about to go last year, Laramie, Kenyon, Juice,
Shack Titus.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Right, So three guys are gone. Three guys today you.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Voluntarily It's not like, oh they hit free agency and
hit the market, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You voluntarily traded two of them, released one.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, and look, different contracts, different factors, different situations, each
particular one. But that's three starters from opening day, a
victory over the Colts where you ran the ball. Okay,
against the Colts, you ran out the clock late, remember that.
But there's a higher level to achieve, and they blew
it up and they're starting. That's blown up your line
right there. Three Yeah, that's blowing it up. They walked
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in and just demoed.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, they were like a ship on fixer uppers and
just who we're taking it all down and it's it's
it's been interesting to watch Nick and Demico build this
team because there is no woosy footing around like they're
not half step in. They are like, we got a
problem with the offensive line, all right, let's go, we
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got we got it. We need a receiver, all right,
it's trade for Diggs.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
They want the standard to be super Bowl, right, not
win the division, which is great. I mean that you
want that to be your basic foundation standard. You gotta
win this division every year. I'll stand on a table
and say that. But their aspirations are championship and in
order to do that, you gotta break eggs to make
the omelet. That's what they're doing here. Does it work?
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Stay tuned, we'll all be watching together. And we've got
the programming right here on Sports Radio six to ten
with Texans Radio all year long. So the nasty has
to be there for the old line, the defense, and
to make the point, to emphasize it even more, they
got even nastier on defense.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
They've got some nasty. Last year, you know, they had guys.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Who would eat glass like you say, but hey, we
need more of that. Let's get CJ. Gardner Johnson in
here a lot with disease along with Denico Autry. These
are guys who are gonna hurt people in legal NFL
style way away.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I mean, Mark, think about it.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
On the d line, they added Darryl Taylor on the outside,
a really young and up and coming rusher on the
outside to go with Daniel and Will, which you already had,
and Denico Autry. You bring Barnett, you bring back and Barnett.
Your top four rushers are Darryl Taylor, Derek Barnett, behind
Will Anderson, Denil Hunter.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And that it doesn't even mentioned Dylan.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Horton, who they have for yeah, who is going into
a year when he can not beat cancer, he can
actually go get his body right for a football season.
So you throw Dylan Horton into the mix. On the
defensive line, Bring back Marrio Edwards. You re signed highness,
so you bring back those two linebackers.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean they're gonna have to figure out.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You already got the Niko to play outside. Inside, you
got Tim Settle, you got Sheldon Rankins.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And Rankins Rankets, so you're loaded up front.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So that's why I said, good luck trying to crack
the starting lineup. Now, starting lineup, we all know what
that means. Yeah, you're playing two snaps, you're out of
the game, third and long, we're brushing, we're rotating, you're
playing half the snaps roughly, whatever it turns out to
be because game situations dictate that. But let's do linebacker now,
Christian Harris, Aziz al Shire and Henry Toatoa the team's
leading tackler last year.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You haven't even hit the draft yet.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Jake Hansen comes back, good solid player for you, demon
will replace the Neville Hewitt factor. Maybe Nevill's back after all,
after all this, and you never know. Secondary, we were
talking about it earlier. You got elite on the edges
on the corners with Kamari and Derek Stingley Junior. And
then we talked about safety with CJ. Gardner Johnson going two.
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CJ's just it's gonna drive me nuts, But yeah, cjfensive offensive, CJ. Yeah,
there's yeah, right right, we're gonna have to work it
out like that. And Petree and Jimmy Ward and it
goes on and I MJ. Stewart is back Kalin Bullock,
who's question got options galore now, injuries factory and I
get it all that, But where we sit right now,
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this is we're sitting here day two of free agency.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And you're stacked on defense.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So let me ask you this right now, there are
six picks in the draft right now. What if the
Texans spent all six picks offensive on the offense?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, based on all this, but you know what, don't
fall into Well, they're still improving things because you know CJ.
Gardner Johnson isn't is definitely an upgrade to me and
and an infusion, Yeah, is a better way to put it.
Maybe for this particular context. I know where you're going,
but you still got to develop. I mean, I wouldn't
you guys young buck.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You still gotta follow your board and you're still It's
funny in the end, you got to replace guys, you like,
we're going into years three and four, not replace them,
but have possibilities to replace them already. You have to
completely build through that draft constantly.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
What did the Colts say after the year, we didn't
breed enough competition on our roster, guys got comfortable. I
think that was probably an issue I think it was
probably an issue. There are a few other issues, like
guys with podcasts and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You know, by the way, the quarterback was not that good.
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
A little, Las twelve, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
But I think the level of competition that you create
in your building, like, to me, that's the epitome of
swarm that you create competition Like, Okay Lake and Tomlinson,
you just we brought you over here, and on March eleventh,
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it looks like you're the rock solid right or left guard.
You pick your position, and then all of a sudden,
you go in the draft and you get grayz Abele
and you get Jared Wilson, the center from Georgia, And
now you're like kind of going, maybe it's not yah
a fit of complete that you're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Now you got to compete for that job.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And I know the summer of twenty twenty three, the
biggest thing was why will Demico not name CJ. Stroud
the quarterback? Why will he not name him? And Carolina
they did, they handed him the job. They one, why
will they not? And Demiko said, because they're gonna compete
for it, Yeah, and what did it do? It brought
the level of play of Davis Mills up for sure,
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It brought the play of CJ Stroud up. And eventually, yes,
he was gonna go to CJ. But Demko said, I'm
gonna make him compete. Well, ultimately he did.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And that's what this whole thing about swarm has gotta
be about. You come into.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Compete, competition, Yes, what was the best thing for Bryce
Young to compete? Andy Dalton takes the job, then he
gets a car accident. I get it, But sitting for
a while, being in a competition, being able to hold
the job and keep Dalton away once Dalton gets healthy.
That was huge for Bryce Young because he was handed
the job. Now he's got to compete for his job,
and the narrative changes, and they're making acquisitions that make
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them feel better. But who cares about them? You know
what I do care about the rest of the division,
the Horseshoe.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
What did they do today?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
How did we react to their big, huge move of
the day. And are there any quarterbacks in Tennessee there's
at least one. We'll examine that situation and in the
context of how the Texans are going to work it
with the rest of the division and the AFC as well.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's Texans Radio. Oh, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Mark Vandermere and John Harris in the Sports Radio six
to ten studios where we have moved the Hundai Texans
Radio studio for the first few days of free agency
in the National Football League, as the Texans big move
of the day, CJ. Gardner Johnson reportedly acquired in a
trade for Kenyan Green and with the Philadelphia Eagles and
a pickswap twenty twenty six, a fifth for a sixth,
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Texans getting the sixth. So that's twenty twenty six. Don't
worry about that. Don't worry about a fifth and a
sixth in twenty twenty six. Nickel do something with that.
I mean, it's so hard to keep track of his
we have on Houston Texans dot com. And we can't
do this yet because these trades aren't official, right, but
we'll take We'll have a story up. These are the
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picks we have, and that thing is the most red
story you have to even though the first one came
out in April, right after the draft or May whatever,
because these are the picks for the twenty twenty five
draft because everyone that hits the SEO the search engines
I mean Google, okay, because you don't know if the
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second biggest search engine in the world YouTube, Oh, and
they own it, so they own the top two. How
about that? Business is good with the big tech companies usually.
All right, let's do this. Texans winning the division paramount,
the Colts still the closest competition.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is that what we're thinking? They made the big move today,
Anthony Richardson. They need competit.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Addition, they're gonna go with Daniel Jones as the competition
to Anthony Richardson, which I think actually makes sense on paper.
You weren't gonna bring in a big name guy to
be quote competition. You're bringing a big name guy and
I'll put Sam Darnold in the big name guy arena
for this year, for this year.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Is he a big name guy?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
But right now he kind of is because he's the
top free agent quarterback on the market. With Rogers, who's better.
Darnald had the better year, So Donald no, Seattle Rogers no,
because they're going with Daniel Jones. If they had brought
in Rogers, Rogers has to start. But Daniel Jones will
battle with Richardson thoughts HM, I mean, who's starting day
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one for them? If Richardson is healthy, he Richardson beats
him out, Yeah, because he looks better than these preseason games.
He's running around making plays.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, they I mean if they Taylor of the offense.
Here's the thing about Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones is a
really good runner.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He can run.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I went back and I was looking at my twenty
nineteen because they were guys that signed in the twenty
nineteen draft class. I happened to stumble on Jones and
I remember I had him he went I think he
was number six. I had him in the forties, and
I remember saying about him like, I don't really love
him as a quarterback, but he's tough and he can run.
Like I watched the game against Clemson where he got
the absolute hell beat out of him, and he kept
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getting up, kept getting up. So what I did is
I pulled up the schedule. Now we don't know when
we're playing these teams, so we had no idea, but
I wanted to. I was thinking about which quarterbacks are
we gonna face? Yep, and so we're gonna face Lamar
Jackson obviously Colts, I say Richardson. So I say Richardson, Jaguars, Trevor, Titans,
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probably cam Ward, probably Bo, Nicks, Raiders, Gino, Cardinals, Kyler,
forty nine, Ers, Perty, Josh Allen, the Bills, Baker again,
you have no idea what the Colts Richardson, I guess
trav her Mahomes, Herbert, Stafford, Darnold, and then probably cam Ward.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Again, Gosh, I don't like any of this.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You know what, Now we've played a tougher quarterback schedule
that we have, But.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
These guys are solid. Gino in solid Vegas looks like
a pretty solid move for that. It's not great, but
Gino played pretty well for Seattle. Gino surprised a lot
of people.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
As I told you, I watched Laken Tomlinson today, so
you saw Geno.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So I was watching Gino Gino. He dotted some throws and.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You go back and I saw somebody tweeting about this
and maybe me and come, she's a big Seattle Seahawks fan,
and she was talking about how Gino had one of
the one of the best, if not the best accuracy
numbers in the league and watching him throw the football
dang like Wow, that's really good. Now will you get
time to throw in Las Vegas? Is a Las Vegas
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offensive line gonna protect him? You know, we'll see. But
you know, Pete believes in him. I think it's a
good spot. They're trying to work out a long term deal.
But guys are solid. But here's the thing that you know,
if you're gonna stay as a top team in the division,
what does that mean you get every year? Josh Patrick maar,
you get those three every year, and.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
We get Hopkins every year because he was with the Chiefs.
Now he's with the Ravens, So that's us.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That was the big news earlier in the show.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Giants Daniel Jones when he was there. Obviously they abandoned
ship on him during the year this year, but even
during this season, eight touchdown, seven picks, sixty three percent
completion rate. Those numbers are not impressive, no, but sixty
three percent. If Richardson was completing sixty three percent of
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his past, my god, they'd throw a parade for him.
They would throw a parade on Market Street or whatever
the big street is in Indy. The two years prior
to that, twenty twenty two, which was a great year,
for Jones and the Giants and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Sixty seven percent, sixty seven percent? How about that? Yeah?
About that? Well, so think about it? Is the last
the only time we faced him. What do you do
to us? Killed us? He beat us. He made a
couple of key throws.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I remember Jalen Petrie blitzing him and he somehow gets
off of throw of Darius Slayton.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And by the way, this was pre Demico defense right.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Right right on the DL. The Giants have done a
pretty good job. They signed Shavad holland they re signed Slayton.
They've done a really nice job. Kind of very quietly.
Who's the quarterback? That's sixty four million dollar question?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, that's better. Hope it's not your door. But that's
the problem.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And you know, when I talk to my budd, John
Schmolke with the Giants at the Senior Bowl, I said, well,
would you guys? I said, it doesn't make a who
lot of sense for you guys to think about going
to one.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We were right the next field about the combine. Did
you not say high? Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, we talked.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
We talked a lot actually, and at the Senior Bowl
he was like, there's no way, we're moving with the three.
We'll sit there and we'll take whoever one of cam
Ward Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter will take one of those
three and be happy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh no, you the Giants, all right, So let's go
there in the division, the Titans. Let's go Giants, Titans,
let's do this draft. If you're not picking up a
quarterback right here during this week, you better have a
freaking good plan. Okay, wait for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Better class.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, but wait for twenty twenty six. So I'm gonna
suck and be top five, but I know that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Brian Dable and Joe Shane are gonna sit there and go.
We don't like that because if we go five and
twelve again, we're fired.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And that's true. Let me ask you this, and Deon
Sanders comes in and coaches shador.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I don't think nic will ever tell us, but the
Lovey Year Nick Lovey Davis Mills is gonna start look
pretty good. At the end of the previous year with Kully,
they I don't want to say easily, but they could
have won seven games that sure and been out of
the derby for a starting quarterback. But if Mills plays
well enough where you're winning seven games, you're okay, we're
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gonna go with Mill.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You're gonna go with Davis. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, And maybe Lovey's still there, maybe he's not. Maybe
you never get to Miko.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
History changes.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
But the plan was not let's torpee this thing and
sink to the bottom of the ocean and get the
top one of the top two picks.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
What I what I had said going back there was
at least you had the Davis Mills option to do
that here, and it was not. It's already been proven
that two that twenty twenty two draft right sucked for quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Is Kenny Pickett? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
That that that's what you had now, Kenny Pickett. That's right,
all right. You could argue that this draft is kind
of similar, that there's cam Ward and then you know, but.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
He's got cam Warred's gonna go number one. Let's go there.
I would think he is.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, so they think with what Tennessee's doing right now,
unless somehow Aaron Rodgers didn't about face and said I'm
going to Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'll play for a dollar. I just don't think it's
gonna happen. What other option does he have though? Who
Rogers Steelers? Oh, that's right, there're talking to him.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Giants could be one if I'm Rogers, dying to go
to the Steelers because they're winning team.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
They're a good team and Georgie in each of the
last two years, I know they didn't win, but they
went there in a very tough division. They went to
the playoffs each of the last two years, once with
Russell Wilson and once with Rudolph.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
At the end when PICKTT melted down, Steelers.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Giants, Titans, you've got Russell Wilson still out there, Aaron
Rodgers still out there, and then you got draft pick
cam Ward. Those those three spots will be filled by
I believe those three quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
What do you think this is? Like, Peter King? What
do you think they're thinking in Nashville? Are they thinking,
screw it? We don't want Aaron Rodgers here this I
don't want the whole thing going on. This is such
a band aid and we're not that good a team.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
If I'm drafting, I don't want any part of him. Okay,
So cam Ward, Yeah, I mean it's got you have
that number one.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Pick in the draft, you have a situation. You got
to roll the dice on cam Ward.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Paul Karski said later on last night that the Russell
Wilson and to Nashville, the Tennessee thing that was, there
was nothing to that.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
What about Russell Wilson? So Rogers to the Steelers. But
I was also reading if that doesn't work out, maybe
Russell Wilson comes back. Yeah, Russell Wilson's plan being Pittsburgh.
They cannot feel good about that. No, they gotta get
You asked me about Tennessee. What's Tennessee thinking?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
You better be absolutely locked in on cam Ward being
that guy because I I just for the life of me,
I can't see.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Shtore Sanders being there. But whatever, you gotta be locked in.
Does he drop the way a lot of people think,
and well.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Cleveland doesn't take him at two? I think there could
be some some dropage. Okay, there could be and that
would be a fascinating draft storyline. Oh yeah, fascinating. Coach
Prime takes the Twitter after pick number two. These NFL
teams don't know what they're doing, come out to Colorado
and play for Coach Prime out Uh, yeah, So I
I do think I think Cam wore. I think Tennessee
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needs a shot at cam Ward. Cam's exciting, there's there,
there's fun to his game. And it's not an exciting
uh like that's the right way of saying it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
It's not gonna be Will Levis type of exciting, Like you.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Don't know when the interception is gonna happen, but it's
gonna happen maybe a couple of them. Cam's gonna throw
an interception, I promise you that. But Cam's also gonna
make five throws where you're like, yo, you see that.
Holy smokes. Now they lost Nick Westbrook Keene Yep, that's
actually a bigger blow than people think he's going on
to Miami. So they I mean, I know they got
Calvin Ridley, but I don't love that receiving core for
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them for their sake, But I think cam Ward makes
the most sense at one unless and this is and
who want Whenever something happens where you like you passed
on something, yeah that you know you should have done,
the next time it comes up, you're like, oh, I
am doing that no matter what. That's the way Joe
Shane's got to feel because Joe Shane, Well, should I
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trade up and go get Jaden out? There's no telling
that the commanders would have traded right till a lot
of the giants go up there. But he didn't even
kind of pursue the opportunity, right, So I would imagine
he's definitely pursuing the opportunity to go up if they
absolutely believe in cam Ward.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Now, if they feel like, get Aaron Rodgers. Here's the
thing for them.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
If they don't get Aaron Rodgers and they can't get
a trade done with Tennessee, because it sounds like Tennessee
is said on cam Ward, what the hell do giants do?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Tommy DeVito, Tommy coming back? Tommy.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, he's not, no way, no, no way. He would
have to play. He would have hit the gonna go
Russell Wilson. I think that's not a bad option for them, actually,
you know, considering what's all Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
If I'm the Giant, go Russell Wilson. And then at
pick number three, take Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter, one of
the other. Yeah, if cam Ward goes one, take you
might have the opportunity for Abduel Carter, Travis Hunter, you're
gonna get one of them sitting at three. If cam
Ward goes to one, draft Travis Hunter, and then the
second round try and take the next best quarterback that's available.
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I think that there's gonna end up being, uh, three
quarterbacks taken the first round. Does think deserve it, but
I think three of them are gonna go.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
A lot of people want to match Dart with Pittsburgh.
Could be interesting.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yeah, that I mean, it's I could see it. I
could absolutely see it. Pick number twenty one, Jackson Dart. Dude,
his talent, he loves the game. I think he's everything
that Tomalo would want.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
He's better.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
He's a better thrower of the ball than Roethlisberger was.
And Roethlisberger came out whoa Roethlisberger? Roethlisberger was kind of
I mean, he got better. How do you how do
you explain Roethlisberger because like he would run, but it's
like he wasn't a runner.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, he was just make a throw. But he wasn't
like Dan Marino, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But he had made did he got better as as
a pro, And that's what people do. They went fifteen,
fifteen and one as a rookie. I know in his
rookies he needed to do a ton, but he didn't
know a ton. The next year, tools and all that kind.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Of stuff, but he found a way to just make
a play.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
The next year he did even better. Yeah, and he
was off and running. Okay, next segment, let's talk about
what else might be done before the league year begins
three o'clock Central tomorrow. When we got off the air
last night, Jake Hansen was re signed by the Texans.
What might happen tonight and tomorrow they could really help
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this football team who's still out there. And a little
recap of today as well here on Texans All Access.
So you know the draft coming up late April. It's
seven rounds, but it's really not. It's eight rounds. I'm
here to tell you it's really eight rounds because you
have thirty five comp picks being doled out. Thirty five compicks.
That means it's another round plus of the draft. I
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know we don't deem it that way, right, but it's
really eight rounds of picks.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Because all the comppicks come in thirty would you say
thirty five thirty five? Yeah, it's another round plus three.
It really is it really is eight rounds?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, it's eight rounds. I mean Gary Kubiak was drafted
in the eighth round. What's upon a time? What nineteen
eighty three when the.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Star Wars drafted in the seventeenth round. Yeah, how about that.
That's a lot of rounds. It was like baseball back then. Yeah,
but they only had like eight teams or something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
And Drew Brees was drafted in the second round, but
it was pick number thirty two, so today would be
a first rounder, but it's still a second round pick.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Sorry, still a secondround pick. Because the league is thirty
one team.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
So there's right Texan pick the youngest franchise of a
thirty second team and the thirty second team.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
What are they going to do here, Johnny?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Because we went over some of the moves today, Lake
and Tomlinson on the old line, D line, Mario Edwards
really good stuff. Darryl Taylor they got him yesterday, pass
rusher and Derek Barnett's back as well on the D line,
and we talked about the need for more nasty on
offense on the old line. Three of your five starters
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from opening day twenty twenty four at the Colts of
Victory are gone. They're gone. The team voluntarily got rid
of them. It's not like they hit the market and
got out bid. They voluntarily got rid of them because
they want to revamp the whole thing. It's like, the
house looks pretty good, it's only a twenty five thirty
year old house, but we want to remodel it. Sure,
we want a new kitchen, we want a new bathroom,
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we want knew this, knew that to do the outside
with the landscaping. Now, I'm taking the analogy too far
because on defense they're strengthening a strength. On offense, they're
taking something down that wasn't strong enough and trying to
build it up into something even better. And again, we'll
see how it goes because we won't know it till
we see it. But there's clearly a plan here in
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Tomlinson was item number one today. We mentioned if you
had to field a five today up front, it would
be left to right, Titus Howard, probably Lake and Tomlinson,
Jared Patterson, Juice Scrugs and Titus and Blake Fisher right tackle.
That would be your five. But that's not it. There's
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more moves on the horizon, and maybe on the very
immediate horizon, Zeitler's still out there. There's some players still
out there free agents.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
See. Of course this is just the first couple of days.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
You know, Nick's gonna keep working it because there are
guys that are not household names that can contribute. Plus,
of course soft.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I'm asking this question.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Yeah, so based on what they do the next few
days and inquiring, say they say they acquire a tackle, Yeah,
you think that tells us something about what they're thinking
about Titus. Like if they go on and get Zeitler, right,
it's pretty it's a I don't want to say it's
a lock. It's pretty much a lock. Titus is gonna
go back out to tackle, right.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, you would think, you.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Would think, But if they get a tackle, then you
think maybe Titus stays at guard.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Honestly, and look, we do what we do.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
But I'm gonna say this, honestly, I don't know what
they're gonna do, and nothing would really surprise me at
this point because they could trade Titus at this point
and who knows.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I mean, that's what we're talking about. I get it.
I get a text to the guard from Seth.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
I've been driving in and so I get this text
and I'm like, what is this referring to?
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And then Seth like they traded Kenyon Green. I'm like,
oh man, oh wow. And then I see we get CJ. Gardner.
Johnson is like, wait, what do we just do? Yeah? Boy,
being that Shaq gone. And think about it this way.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Which guys were draft picks of Nick Cassario? It was
Jared Patterson, Jew Scruggs, Milake Fisher.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, you know you think those are the guys also
draft and Kenyon?
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Yeah, so got rid of Kenyon, got rid of Shaq,
got rid of Laramie through trades or releases.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
You can't be afraid to make these big moves. No,
that's the whole point, you know. But but.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Titus can still play, sure hard tackle. Titus can still play.
And I think if you sat down with Titus. I
think if nickod Debico sat down with Titus and Cole's there,
took Popovich, Nick Keyley, they set the five of them
sat in the room and they said, Titus A, we
need you to be the leader of this group. We
need you to be the leader. Whether you want to
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or not, you have to be the leader and do
it a positive way. Secondly, you're coming back to play tackle.
We need you to get your body in tackle shape,
not in guard shape. You need to be you need
to when you walk in. We need we need to
go like Gabriel in Glaciers like damn like we need
to look at you and think that's guard shape because
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you gotta hold up at that tackle position, left or right.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
That's what we need from you.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
We need you the longest tenured member of this team
that's not a kicker. We need you to be that
guy for this offense, for this team. I think tightus
hearing all of that, I think you would see a
different Titus in twenty five.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Okay, I do think you would see one because he
would be.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
That there's some yes, he would embrace that, there's some
motivation there. And think about it from Titus's angle too.
If they do end up saying to him, hey, Titus,
he'll go out to left tackle. Maybe he doesn't get
a layer of me like on track, but maybe they
like what they see and they give him another contractor
this one runs.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Out because he's paid like a high paid right tackle. Right,
that's right, right, that's right playing guard, but paid like
a right tackle, that's right, which they make some money
right right tackles. But a left tackle on the horizon, big, big, big,
So that's another happen. Definitely left tackle with the guys
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on the roster, Titus over Blake Fisher, I would, but
not out of the question to go the other way
that you go the other way?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
You say, you know, Blake, I think you could do it.
I mean, Blake started his first year at Notre Dame
doing that.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
He was over on the left side, and then when
Joe came in, Joel went to left, he went the right.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
So I think you could do it.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
But I just I know Titus has never played over
there other than the game he played against the Chargers,
and he was just so comfortable.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
He looked really good in that spot.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
That's why I'm saying I think he would embrace the
challenge and think about it.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Titus came up playing right tackle.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Ash the position he loves and enjoys, to go play
left guard and.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Played pretty well when this team need it the most.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
I think, Titus, you guys appreciate me, all right, I'm
gonna return that favorite to you and I'm gonna bust
my ass.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
So that's the way. I like this. I like that.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Very positive, Johnny, very positive. Okay, coming up, it's Area
forty five. They're gonna talk about all this stuff and
a bunch of other stuff. So for all that stuff,
you stay tuned right here. Shot and Seth in the
morning recapping what happened overnight and setting you up for
your day in the loop. All of that will be
live tomorrow at six as well. Jonathan Alexander from the
Chronicle will join us at about six thirty tomorrow to
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recap the first three days as the league year starts
at three pm Central tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
But that doesn't mean free agency is over. It lives
on and on and on. You know.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Nick Cassario is never done. That's gonna do it for
this program, which will be up in podcast for him
soon enough. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you
Chris for producing. Have a great night, Go Texans.
Hello Texans, welcome to the show. We are pumped up.
Free agency frenzy continues, and we were live yesterday, live
today here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio, which is
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Because we like being here with the guys. We're here
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
We like it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And you never know during the show something might break.
But plenty of stuff happened today. Mark Vandermin and John
Harris with you. We're live on YouTube. Also you can
consume the program in a variety of ways. And yesterday
we reacted to a lot of different Texans news like
Larry me Tunzel being traded. But let's react to what
went down today, Johnny, because the biggest news of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Gardner Johnson's safety was acquired in a trade for Kenyon
Green and a pick swap in twenty twenty six with
lower round picks, so CJ. Gardner Johnson bolsters the secondary.
Kenyon Green not a factor on the old line anymore.
First round pick along with Derek Stingley Junior in twenty
twenty two, the year before they got CJ and Will
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And I love this because Kenyon might have been great
depth piece. Maybe he worked his way back into the
starting lineup, if we could have projected forward.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Maybe, but maybe not.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And now for a guy who might have been on
the pine, you get a front line demon in the
secondary to go along with Calen Bullock and Jimmy Ward
and Jalen Petrie.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I gotta say I like it. M J Stewart coming
back to is gonna be good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
MJ has meant a lot to disorganization, personal protector and
punt team, Core four, special team. Or he resigns today
and you add him to the mix. Here's the thought
Kamarian Sting. They don't talk for they don't talk, like
Sting says, maybe five words in a game talk.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Receivers have said, I tried to count. He doesn't talk. CJ.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Gardner, Johnson, Jalen Petree and Jimmy Ward will talk enough
for the entire secondary, and then some they will talk trash.
They are roofless. They will knock you in the next week.
I kind of like it. I like the intimidation factor.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
CJ's a guy that just riles it up, and I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Use the word demon. I like that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's a good one. He plays relentlessly. He feels very swarmy.
So like if you think about like a chicken sandwich,
like a chicken sandwich is like, there's a spicy chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think you recently had a chicken sandwich. That's why
you're no.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I had nuggets, okay, but you got like a you
got like a regular chicken sandwich, then you got a
spicy chicken sandwich, and then you got Nashville Hot chicken sandwich.
So like if you had him kind of like that,
you just got the Nashville Hot chicken sandwich with with CJ.
Gardner Johnson, because that dude is on fire all time,
like all the time. He is not back off. He
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was battling Swifties after the Super Bowl. He was He
is that kind of guy. Chance again this year. He
stirs it up. He gets after it. He's physical. He
was one of my favorite players coming out of the draft.
The year he came out and I want to say
it was nineteen. Maybe I have to go back. I've
got his scouting report, and I know I love I
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loved him, loved him. Now, is he gonna snatch a
chain off with some wide receiver at some point?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Might he get a fifteen yard penalty at some point
taking a little shot on the sideline. Maybe, But he's
gonna produce. And I think he had six interceptions this year.
So if you take CJ six, Kaylin's five, and Derek
Stingley junior, Derrick singlely had five, Mari had four, that
sounds right.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a lot of interceptions. Yeah, I think that's twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
If my Matt there, there is a very very good
chance second.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So Murray's gone. Murray is a Jaguar. Eric Murray's gone.
You upgraded there, and I like Eric Murray, but come on,
you got CJ. Gardner Johnson instead of Eric Murray and
Murray had the pick six. It's funny how each of
the last two years you get guys with pick sixes
in playoff wins and they're gone, like Steven Nelson in
twenty twenty threes postseason, twenty twenty fourth postseason, Eric Murray whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But C J.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Gardner Johnson comes in to replace Murray, set the lineup
for me because Jimmy Ward, Jalen Petree, CJ. Gardner, Johnson Klin. Well,
you know that's I can't start all those guys. I
still have Derek, and I got Kamari on the corners.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know, Steve Kamari starting. You know that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Uh you know, hang on one second, Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Breaking news from sports benl Smarter bets start with Ben cl.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Will Oh, I see this one. Okay, you see this one.
I see what it is. Chris, you got all right?
So Jordan Schultz just breaking news. The Ravens are signing
five time All Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to a
one year, six million dollar deal.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Okay, It's funny because last night we were talking about
this after the show. We told Chris Are like, okay,
look it's Texans news. Yeah, or it's like big NFL
news and right off the right off the bat six
oh six.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm like, okay, Chris, we're gonna see if you apply
the rules. Na man, you knocked that up. Part good one.
This is definitely one. DeAndre Hopkins going to the Ravens
one year, five million dollar deal up to six million.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He goes to the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't think it's big NFL news. I think it's
big Texans news because it's a former Texan.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean, DeAndre is still a name that people recognize.
It is, it is, it's a big one. It's a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But yeah, his game is not what it was correct.
Well for the Ravens, he can help them, and good
for him. He goes, except I don't like this. Can
you please leave the AFC? Can you please go back
to the NFC. When you left here it was the Cardinals.
Obviously that's where they end.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The NFC and bring us back David Johnson and all
is good. Yeah, I don't can do that. Do that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't think that's a good thing that's gonna happen. No,
I'm not gonna happen. You're not gonna be happy with
that trade. No, not gonna bet at all.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, then at second round and a pick number forty,
don't you're not gonna be happy with that? And why
in the hell where John and Reggie and Figgie? The
question today was what Bob moments that you remember like
they started going down all the moments and I'm literally
driving shaking my head, like I lived that, we.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Lived that, We live that You and I lived that.
We lived that, and now today I'm looking at it going.
Nick traded a guy that more than likely was not It.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Was a fifty to fifty shot to make the roster
much less start, and you got Chauncey Gardner, CJ.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah what Yeah, that's a great deal. And the pictures. Yeah, Nick,
Nick does what Nick does, and you know, they needed
a lignement. And it's a good place for Kenyon to be,
you know, get out of your hometown somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I am a huge proponent of that.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and maybe you can resurrect your career that way.
So good for him. All right, other things that have
happened today, and we'll get to the hop thing and
all the other teams. But Nick Neeman signs with the Texans.
That's more like Neville HEWITTT. Yeah, and that's what I thought.
I asked you that I thought sounds like nevill Hewitt
to me, and nevill Hewitt still out there. I think
maybe it comes back to who knows, but Nick Nemon
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is gonna automatically help special teams can play. Yesterday, after
we got off the air, Jake Hanson street the terms.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Mario Edwards back on the d line. Very nice two
year deal. So Mario starting defensive tackle. You've got him back.
So you've got Rankins who played for you in twenty
twenty three, Edwards who played for you last year. Bang,
bang starting. If it's not settle rotation, all of that, right,
they'll all rotate rotating in there as well. Togyi is
still the property of still on the roster. Yeahh andgned him.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah. I was tremendous last half of the year.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, toky I. I bet they're thinking in the room,
we got toki I.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And we everybody knows that I'm in I'm in your
ear during the game, and I would I don't know
how many times I would just say Togii. And at
first I was like I just want to say his name,
but then it was like he's making all the play,
He's all over the place, making place. Now here's the
one thing we don't have. What we don't have. Size,
We don't have side No. Tim, Tim's a big broad dude,
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about three point fifteen ish. We don't have I don't know.
I mean, like Foley was athletic, agile size at like
three twenty So maybe there's a thought he comes back,
but that's where a guy like Kenneth Grant would come
and play. But all you know, it's funny because you
kind of have ideas going into free agency and then
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you're watching free agency and you're like, man, I have
kept I kept thinking that interior defensive line would be
a spot that they would highlight potentially at twenty five
in the draft.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And now I look at it and go, man, they got.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
A preloaded or pretty full roster at interior defensive tackle.
I mean when you when you bring in like like
we just said, you got Mario Edwards coming back, Uh
settles already here. You know you said how you're gonna
handle it. It's gonna be a rotation like it always is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And then Denko can play in there, Dene Rogery can
play in there on pass rush down.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
So man, you like, okay, I still.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Feel like in a draft that is loaded with them,
maybe you don't even go for a second third round.
Maybe you end up getting a Day three defensive lineman
because that dude in previous drafts from a future draft
would be a Day two pick because it's that loaded
at defensive tackle.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would luck cracking the starting lineup. If you're drafted
on this team, on the D line, I would luck
with that, or linebacker or anywhere in the secondary. You're
not cracking it in all likelihood, and if you do,
maybe it's because of injuries or you're that good. Okay,
But me think Kenneth Grant maybe because he's that big
and you mentioned size and first down player and all that,
then you come right out of the game because they're
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in the second and long preferably I mean, and then
you're going after the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I still think Grant's gonna be able to push the pocket.
To me, I think Kenneth's Grant is is like DJ
Reader in that sense, like I think he's gonna get
better and better and better, but he's.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Got I don't think he's gonna be there twenty five.
I don't think he's gonna be there twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But my thought is, as I've done all this mock
simulator stuff just to kind of get an idea.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's not perfect, but it just gives me an idea.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And what I kept finding was that when I took
defensive lineman early in the draft, I realized by the
time I got to day three, where there was now
kind of a dearth of interior offensive lineman. I found
a ton of defensive tackles I liked. I'm like, well,
wait a second, why don't I get Why don't I
get the interior offensive lineman first, and then work on
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round three, round four looking at defensive tackles because there's
still gonna be some there. There's gonna be a ton
of good ones there. Now, if there are particular ones,
like a Kenneth Grant I love, maybe a Tiler Williams,
maybe I do that, But I just think you can
get a really good I think you get a really
good defensive line prospect a little bit later in the draft.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And I always say this, do.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I want Do I want the number one or number
two interior offensive lineman and defensive lineman number nine or ten,
Versus having defensive lineman number one or two and having
interior offensive lineman number three who really is not anywhere
near as good as a defensive tackle who's eighth or
ninth on a list. I would want the really good
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interior offensive lineman and take my chances with interior defensive
lineman that's a little bit down the list, because that
dude is gonna be a player, the interier offensive lineman
I get in round four. It's gonna be dicey like man.
There's just not There's not much. So it's gonna be
interesting how this whole draft thing pans out. But you
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talked about Kenny Green and being moved, So Kenyan Green
off the Philly CJ. Garters. It comes in Lake and Tomlinson.
Yeah all right, So let's talk about that Pro Bowl
guard with the Niners. Right, he was acquired today today.
Now you can feel the team up front.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You can do it. You can feel an offensive line
do it. This is all right.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
They called the Texans. You know what, we gotta play Sunday.
I just found this out about my flag football team.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
We're playing Sunday. I didn't even playing Sunday. So the
Texans have to play Sunday. So Nick Demico, Nick Careley,
they get together, Povich, they all sit down and say,
what's the offensive what's the offensive line. It's Titus Howard
and left tackle, Lake Fisher, right tackle at center. I'm
gonna go Patterson because I gotta play Sunday. Yeah, so
I'm gonna go Juice Scruggs at right guard and at
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left guard. I'll go Lake and Tomlinson, or I'll flip
those two guys. But I just acquired Laken Tomlinson. You
tell me you said it out loud. You said it
out loud. How do you feel about it? I mean,
if I gotta play Sunday, I feel okay. But I
know more is coming and no draft. I know, probably
another free agent acquisition or possibly two. Now if Laken
Tomlinson doesn't move the needle and lead sportscentter, I get it. Yeah, however,
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for this team, he could be a big plus. You
tell me what they're getting in Laken Tomlins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, after, well after we agreed to terms.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Again, signings won't become official until the past physical physicals
can't happen till the start of the new league year.
That happens at three o'clock tomorrow. So the Tunsoil and
the Kenyan Green trades will become official tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Alright.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So that said, I ended up watching Thomlinson today, and
I mean great body, like put together, very well, strong, sturdy.
The one thing that I saw that I thought he
did pretty well in the game. I watched the Vikings
game and ironically it was Sam Donald against the Seahawks. Anyways,
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I didn't watch that part of it. But Tomlinson handled
stunts very well. That was something we couldn't do to
save our lives for the longest time. This year, he
handled stunts very very well. Now got beat a couple
of times, can be a little a little stiff, you know,
trying to handle some moves.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
But he handled the stunts.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Really well, kept his eyes where they needed to be,
and that's and work together with his tackle.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Sometimes he worked together with the center.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I thought as I watched it, the more I was like, okay,
because you know when he was with the Niners, I
was you know, he started off with the Lions.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It did not go well. He was traded after two years.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
So then he goes out to San Francisco, kind of
finds his way playing guard for San Francisco. And then
because he had had some success with San Francisco, he
then takes money in a free agency which should capitalize
on it, went to the Jets. We know the Jets
were a mess. You know, he went to the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Last year.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I thought he did some good things with the Seahawks
last year. I still think he's got some good football ahead.
And like you said, if you got to play today,
I would feel very good about Laken Tomlinson there.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I just have a good feeling about him, the football character,
how hard he plays.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You know, he's got some athleticism, like watching him get
up to the second level.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
In his own game, like whoa, he can move. So
I like all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And when you think about some of the things that
I think that ailed the offensive line last year, stunts
in particular, movement, being in shape.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I just didn't think they were in shape last year.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So you start with Tomlinson, You look at him and go, okay,
that's that's a stout dude. You could see it on film,
like just he's put together, not like alignment, more like
a linebacker, like a big linebacker. But he's three hundred
and twenty pounds, so he's gonna he's gonna bring a
little something to that line that I like. He didn't
break the bank for him. It's a one year, like
four and a half five million dollars deal. It's not
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much in grand scheme of things, which I know can
worry some people. Well wait a second, Will Fryes got
X from the Vikings. We only paid this for Tomlinson.
That means that Fries is that much better than Thomlinson.
Not quite, let's not let's not go to that that level.
But am I gonna sit here and tell you it's
Quentin Nelson. No, But I think it's a guy that
can work well. He knows to Miko, or should know
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him from the years in San Francisco, So he has
some familiarity with the Miko and I think that helps.
And more importantly, Demko has got experience with him. He's
gonna know the Miko is gonna know is that a
swarmy dude or not? And when they're resetting, you could say,
blowing this whole thing up. It's not as if he's
gonna bring back in guys that he thought were maybe
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part of the swarm problem. He's gonna bring in guys
that he knows, without a shadow of a doubt, are
gonna be not only ask kickers, but they're gonna get
in that meeting room and they're gonna start thinking like
the unit that they need to be. And I think
Seth said it said it best. I can't remember if
he uses term for somebody else. I was talking to
talked about glass eaters. I like that term glass eater
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like that. We can't remember who that was.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Campbell.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, in a sense. Yeah, and and look, that's what
you want. You want that mentality.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You want you want that mentality.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And you when when you and I talk, people ask us,
they say, what's the best offensive line the Texans have
ever had?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
What's the best one I've ever had? Twenty twenty twelve?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And I think the dude you had up there. Yeah,
the guys that just they would rip your arm off
to get air in five yards.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
They also got along. It was a group that was
so cohesive. They were tight. They were the five fingers
in a glove. We talked about this a bit last night.
They played together so well, that's what you're looking for,
you look at to create that. We talked about it
this season. Rod Wright Nate Oli is now the old
line coach in Atlanta. They coached this D line and
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it felt like an offensive line. It felt like they
were that tight.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The D line usually isn't like that, right. I mean
it can be, but usually that mentality lives in your
offensive lines room and in your D line room. It
might be there, but It almost doesn't even have to
be there as much as it has to be there
in your old line room to be a successful offensive
line by line obviously their exceptions. So they want to
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create that. They've been talking about it. These are the
kind of guys we want in there. They're more moves
to be made, folks. I mean we saw Kenyon Green
go today. That was a big one. Think about this.
What's your starting line on opening day against the Colts?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, where you're about to go last year, Laramie, Kenyon, Juice,
Shack Titus.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Right, So three guys are gone. Three guys today you.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Voluntarily It's not like, oh they hit free agency and
hit the market, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You voluntarily traded two of them, released one.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, and look, different contracts, different factors, different situations, each
particular one. But that's three starters from opening day, a
victory over the Colts where you ran the ball. Okay,
against the Colts, you ran out the clock late, remember that.
But there's a higher level to achieve, and they blew
it up and they're starting. That's blown up your line
right there. Three Yeah, that's blowing it up. They walked
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in and just demoed.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, they were like a ship on fixer uppers and
just who we're taking it all down and it's it's
it's been interesting to watch Nick and Demico build this
team because there is no woosy footing around like they're
not half step in. They are like, we got a
problem with the offensive line, all right, let's go, we
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got we got it. We need a receiver, all right,
it's trade for Diggs.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
They want the standard to be super Bowl, right, not
win the division, which is great. I mean that you
want that to be your basic foundation standard. You gotta
win this division every year. I'll stand on a table
and say that. But their aspirations are championship and in
order to do that, you gotta break eggs to make
the omelet. That's what they're doing here. Does it work?
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Stay tuned, we'll all be watching together. And we've got
the programming right here on Sports Radio six to ten
with Texans Radio all year long. So the nasty has
to be there for the old line, the defense, and
to make the point, to emphasize it even more, they
got even nastier on defense.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
They've got some nasty. Last year, you know, they had guys.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Who would eat glass like you say, but hey, we
need more of that. Let's get CJ. Gardner Johnson in
here a lot with disease along with Denico Autry. These
are guys who are gonna hurt people in legal NFL
style way away.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I mean, Mark, think about it.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
On the d line, they added Darryl Taylor on the outside,
a really young and up and coming rusher on the
outside to go with Daniel and Will, which you already had,
and Denico Autry. You bring Barnett, you bring back and Barnett.
Your top four rushers are Darryl Taylor, Derek Barnett, behind
Will Anderson, Denil Hunter.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And that it doesn't even mentioned Dylan.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Horton, who they have for yeah, who is going into
a year when he can not beat cancer, he can
actually go get his body right for a football season.
So you throw Dylan Horton into the mix. On the
defensive line, Bring back Marrio Edwards. You re signed highness,
so you bring back those two linebackers.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean they're gonna have to figure out.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You already got the Niko to play outside. Inside, you
got Tim Settle, you got Sheldon Rankins.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And Rankins Rankets, so you're loaded up front.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So that's why I said, good luck trying to crack
the starting lineup. Now, starting lineup, we all know what
that means. Yeah, you're playing two snaps, you're out of
the game, third and long, we're brushing, we're rotating, you're
playing half the snaps roughly, whatever it turns out to
be because game situations dictate that. But let's do linebacker now,
Christian Harris, Aziz al Shire and Henry Toatoa the team's
leading tackler last year.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You haven't even hit the draft yet.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Jake Hansen comes back, good solid player for you, demon
will replace the Neville Hewitt factor. Maybe Nevill's back after all,
after all this, and you never know. Secondary, we were
talking about it earlier. You got elite on the edges
on the corners with Kamari and Derek Stingley Junior. And
then we talked about safety with CJ. Gardner Johnson going two.
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CJ's just it's gonna drive me nuts, But yeah, cjfensive offensive, CJ. Yeah,
there's yeah, right right, we're gonna have to work it
out like that. And Petree and Jimmy Ward and it
goes on and I MJ. Stewart is back Kalin Bullock,
who's question got options galore now, injuries factory and I
get it all that, But where we sit right now,
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this is we're sitting here day two of free agency.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And you're stacked on defense.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So let me ask you this right now, there are
six picks in the draft right now. What if the
Texans spent all six picks offensive on the offense?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, based on all this, but you know what, don't
fall into Well, they're still improving things because you know CJ.
Gardner Johnson isn't is definitely an upgrade to me and
and an infusion, Yeah, is a better way to put it.
Maybe for this particular context. I know where you're going,
but you still got to develop. I mean, I wouldn't
you guys young buck.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You still gotta follow your board and you're still It's
funny in the end, you got to replace guys, you like,
we're going into years three and four, not replace them,
but have possibilities to replace them already. You have to
completely build through that draft constantly.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
What did the Colts say after the year, we didn't
breed enough competition on our roster, guys got comfortable. I
think that was probably an issue I think it was
probably an issue. There are a few other issues, like
guys with podcasts and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You know, by the way, the quarterback was not that good.
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
A little, Las twelve, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
But I think the level of competition that you create
in your building, like, to me, that's the epitome of
swarm that you create competition Like, Okay Lake and Tomlinson,
you just we brought you over here, and on March eleventh,
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it looks like you're the rock solid right or left guard.
You pick your position, and then all of a sudden,
you go in the draft and you get grayz Abele
and you get Jared Wilson, the center from Georgia, And
now you're like kind of going, maybe it's not yah
a fit of complete that you're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Now you got to compete for that job.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And I know the summer of twenty twenty three, the
biggest thing was why will Demico not name CJ. Stroud
the quarterback? Why will he not name him? And Carolina
they did, they handed him the job. They one, why
will they not? And Demiko said, because they're gonna compete
for it, Yeah, and what did it do? It brought
the level of play of Davis Mills up for sure,
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It brought the play of CJ Stroud up. And eventually, yes,
he was gonna go to CJ. But Demko said, I'm
gonna make him compete. Well, ultimately he did.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And that's what this whole thing about swarm has gotta
be about. You come into.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Compete, competition, Yes, what was the best thing for Bryce
Young to compete? Andy Dalton takes the job, then he
gets a car accident. I get it, But sitting for
a while, being in a competition, being able to hold
the job and keep Dalton away once Dalton gets healthy.
That was huge for Bryce Young because he was handed
the job. Now he's got to compete for his job,
and the narrative changes, and they're making acquisitions that make
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them feel better. But who cares about them? You know
what I do care about the rest of the division,
the Horseshoe.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
What did they do today?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
How did we react to their big, huge move of
the day. And are there any quarterbacks in Tennessee there's
at least one. We'll examine that situation and in the
context of how the Texans are going to work it
with the rest of the division and the AFC as well.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's Texans Radio. Oh, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Mark Vandermere and John Harris in the Sports Radio six
to ten studios where we have moved the Hundai Texans
Radio studio for the first few days of free agency
in the National Football League, as the Texans big move
of the day, CJ. Gardner Johnson reportedly acquired in a
trade for Kenyan Green and with the Philadelphia Eagles and
a pickswap twenty twenty six, a fifth for a sixth,
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Texans getting the sixth. So that's twenty twenty six. Don't
worry about that. Don't worry about a fifth and a
sixth in twenty twenty six. Nickel do something with that.
I mean, it's so hard to keep track of his
we have on Houston Texans dot com. And we can't
do this yet because these trades aren't official, right, but
we'll take We'll have a story up. These are the
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picks we have, and that thing is the most red
story you have to even though the first one came
out in April, right after the draft or May whatever,
because these are the picks for the twenty twenty five
draft because everyone that hits the SEO the search engines
I mean Google, okay, because you don't know if the
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second biggest search engine in the world YouTube, Oh, and
they own it, so they own the top two. How
about that? Business is good with the big tech companies usually.
All right, let's do this. Texans winning the division paramount,
the Colts still the closest competition.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is that what we're thinking? They made the big move today,
Anthony Richardson. They need competit.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Addition, they're gonna go with Daniel Jones as the competition
to Anthony Richardson, which I think actually makes sense on paper.
You weren't gonna bring in a big name guy to
be quote competition. You're bringing a big name guy and
I'll put Sam Darnold in the big name guy arena
for this year, for this year.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Is he a big name guy?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
But right now he kind of is because he's the
top free agent quarterback on the market. With Rogers, who's better.
Darnald had the better year, So Donald no, Seattle Rogers no,
because they're going with Daniel Jones. If they had brought
in Rogers, Rogers has to start. But Daniel Jones will
battle with Richardson thoughts HM, I mean, who's starting day
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one for them? If Richardson is healthy, he Richardson beats
him out, Yeah, because he looks better than these preseason games.
He's running around making plays.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, they I mean if they Taylor of the offense.
Here's the thing about Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones is a
really good runner.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He can run.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I went back and I was looking at my twenty
nineteen because they were guys that signed in the twenty
nineteen draft class. I happened to stumble on Jones and
I remember I had him he went I think he
was number six. I had him in the forties, and
I remember saying about him like, I don't really love
him as a quarterback, but he's tough and he can run.
Like I watched the game against Clemson where he got
the absolute hell beat out of him, and he kept
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getting up, kept getting up. So what I did is
I pulled up the schedule. Now we don't know when
we're playing these teams, so we had no idea, but
I wanted to. I was thinking about which quarterbacks are
we gonna face? Yep, and so we're gonna face Lamar
Jackson obviously Colts, I say Richardson. So I say Richardson, Jaguars, Trevor, Titans,
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probably cam Ward, probably Bo, Nicks, Raiders, Gino, Cardinals, Kyler,
forty nine, Ers, Perty, Josh Allen, the Bills, Baker again,
you have no idea what the Colts Richardson, I guess
trav her Mahomes, Herbert, Stafford, Darnold, and then probably cam Ward.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Again, Gosh, I don't like any of this.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You know what, Now we've played a tougher quarterback schedule
that we have, But.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
These guys are solid. Gino in solid Vegas looks like
a pretty solid move for that. It's not great, but
Gino played pretty well for Seattle. Gino surprised a lot
of people.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
As I told you, I watched Laken Tomlinson today, so
you saw Geno.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So I was watching Gino Gino. He dotted some throws and.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You go back and I saw somebody tweeting about this
and maybe me and come, she's a big Seattle Seahawks fan,
and she was talking about how Gino had one of
the one of the best, if not the best accuracy
numbers in the league and watching him throw the football
dang like Wow, that's really good. Now will you get
time to throw in Las Vegas? Is a Las Vegas
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offensive line gonna protect him? You know, we'll see. But
you know, Pete believes in him. I think it's a
good spot. They're trying to work out a long term deal.
But guys are solid. But here's the thing that you know,
if you're gonna stay as a top team in the division,
what does that mean you get every year? Josh Patrick maar,
you get those three every year, and.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
We get Hopkins every year because he was with the Chiefs.
Now he's with the Ravens, So that's us.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That was the big news earlier in the show.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Giants Daniel Jones when he was there. Obviously they abandoned
ship on him during the year this year, but even
during this season, eight touchdown, seven picks, sixty three percent
completion rate. Those numbers are not impressive, no, but sixty
three percent. If Richardson was completing sixty three percent of
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his past, my god, they'd throw a parade for him.
They would throw a parade on Market Street or whatever
the big street is in Indy. The two years prior
to that, twenty twenty two, which was a great year,
for Jones and the Giants and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Sixty seven percent, sixty seven percent? How about that? Yeah?
About that? Well, so think about it? Is the last
the only time we faced him. What do you do
to us? Killed us? He beat us. He made a
couple of key throws.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I remember Jalen Petrie blitzing him and he somehow gets
off of throw of Darius Slayton.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And by the way, this was pre Demico defense right.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Right right on the DL. The Giants have done a
pretty good job. They signed Shavad holland they re signed Slayton.
They've done a really nice job. Kind of very quietly.
Who's the quarterback? That's sixty four million dollar question?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, that's better. Hope it's not your door. But that's
the problem.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And you know, when I talk to my budd, John
Schmolke with the Giants at the Senior Bowl, I said, well,
would you guys? I said, it doesn't make a who
lot of sense for you guys to think about going
to one.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We were right the next field about the combine. Did
you not say high? Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, we talked.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
We talked a lot actually, and at the Senior Bowl
he was like, there's no way, we're moving with the three.
We'll sit there and we'll take whoever one of cam
Ward Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter will take one of those
three and be happy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh no, you the Giants, all right, So let's go
there in the division, the Titans. Let's go Giants, Titans,
let's do this draft. If you're not picking up a
quarterback right here during this week, you better have a
freaking good plan. Okay, wait for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Better class.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, but wait for twenty twenty six. So I'm gonna
suck and be top five, but I know that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Brian Dable and Joe Shane are gonna sit there and go.
We don't like that because if we go five and
twelve again, we're fired.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And that's true. Let me ask you this, and Deon
Sanders comes in and coaches shador.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I don't think nic will ever tell us, but the
Lovey Year Nick Lovey Davis Mills is gonna start look
pretty good. At the end of the previous year with Kully,
they I don't want to say easily, but they could
have won seven games that sure and been out of
the derby for a starting quarterback. But if Mills plays
well enough where you're winning seven games, you're okay, we're
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gonna go with Mill.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You're gonna go with Davis. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, And maybe Lovey's still there, maybe he's not. Maybe
you never get to Miko.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
History changes.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
But the plan was not let's torpee this thing and
sink to the bottom of the ocean and get the
top one of the top two picks.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
What I what I had said going back there was
at least you had the Davis Mills option to do
that here, and it was not. It's already been proven
that two that twenty twenty two draft right sucked for quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Is Kenny Pickett? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
That that that's what you had now, Kenny Pickett. That's right,
all right. You could argue that this draft is kind
of similar, that there's cam Ward and then you know, but.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
He's got cam Warred's gonna go number one. Let's go there.
I would think he is.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, so they think with what Tennessee's doing right now,
unless somehow Aaron Rodgers didn't about face and said I'm
going to Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'll play for a dollar. I just don't think it's
gonna happen. What other option does he have though? Who
Rogers Steelers? Oh, that's right, there're talking to him.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Giants could be one if I'm Rogers, dying to go
to the Steelers because they're winning team.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
They're a good team and Georgie in each of the
last two years, I know they didn't win, but they
went there in a very tough division. They went to
the playoffs each of the last two years, once with
Russell Wilson and once with Rudolph.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
At the end when PICKTT melted down, Steelers.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Giants, Titans, you've got Russell Wilson still out there, Aaron
Rodgers still out there, and then you got draft pick
cam Ward. Those those three spots will be filled by
I believe those three quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
What do you think this is? Like, Peter King? What
do you think they're thinking in Nashville? Are they thinking,
screw it? We don't want Aaron Rodgers here this I
don't want the whole thing going on. This is such
a band aid and we're not that good a team.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
If I'm drafting, I don't want any part of him. Okay,
So cam Ward, Yeah, I mean it's got you have
that number one.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Pick in the draft, you have a situation. You got
to roll the dice on cam Ward.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Paul Karski said later on last night that the Russell
Wilson and to Nashville, the Tennessee thing that was, there
was nothing to that.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
What about Russell Wilson? So Rogers to the Steelers. But
I was also reading if that doesn't work out, maybe
Russell Wilson comes back. Yeah, Russell Wilson's plan being Pittsburgh.
They cannot feel good about that. No, they gotta get
You asked me about Tennessee. What's Tennessee thinking?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
You better be absolutely locked in on cam Ward being
that guy because I I just for the life of me,
I can't see.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Shtore Sanders being there. But whatever, you gotta be locked in.
Does he drop the way a lot of people think,
and well.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Cleveland doesn't take him at two? I think there could
be some some dropage. Okay, there could be and that
would be a fascinating draft storyline. Oh yeah, fascinating. Coach
Prime takes the Twitter after pick number two. These NFL
teams don't know what they're doing, come out to Colorado
and play for Coach Prime out Uh, yeah, So I
I do think I think Cam wore. I think Tennessee
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needs a shot at cam Ward. Cam's exciting, there's there,
there's fun to his game. And it's not an exciting
uh like that's the right way of saying it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
It's not gonna be Will Levis type of exciting, Like you.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Don't know when the interception is gonna happen, but it's
gonna happen maybe a couple of them. Cam's gonna throw
an interception, I promise you that. But Cam's also gonna
make five throws where you're like, yo, you see that.
Holy smokes. Now they lost Nick Westbrook Keene Yep, that's
actually a bigger blow than people think he's going on
to Miami. So they I mean, I know they got
Calvin Ridley, but I don't love that receiving core for
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them for their sake, But I think cam Ward makes
the most sense at one unless and this is and
who want Whenever something happens where you like you passed
on something, yeah that you know you should have done,
the next time it comes up, you're like, oh, I
am doing that no matter what. That's the way Joe
Shane's got to feel because Joe Shane, Well, should I
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trade up and go get Jaden out? There's no telling
that the commanders would have traded right till a lot
of the giants go up there. But he didn't even
kind of pursue the opportunity, right, So I would imagine
he's definitely pursuing the opportunity to go up if they
absolutely believe in cam Ward.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Now, if they feel like, get Aaron Rodgers. Here's the
thing for them.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
If they don't get Aaron Rodgers and they can't get
a trade done with Tennessee, because it sounds like Tennessee
is said on cam Ward, what the hell do giants do?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Tommy DeVito, Tommy coming back? Tommy.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, he's not, no way, no, no way. He would
have to play. He would have hit the gonna go
Russell Wilson. I think that's not a bad option for them, actually,
you know, considering what's all Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
If I'm the Giant, go Russell Wilson. And then at
pick number three, take Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter, one of
the other. Yeah, if cam Ward goes one, take you
might have the opportunity for Abduel Carter, Travis Hunter, you're
gonna get one of them sitting at three. If cam
Ward goes to one, draft Travis Hunter, and then the
second round try and take the next best quarterback that's available.
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I think that there's gonna end up being, uh, three
quarterbacks taken the first round. Does think deserve it, but
I think three of them are gonna go.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
A lot of people want to match Dart with Pittsburgh.
Could be interesting.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yeah, that I mean, it's I could see it. I
could absolutely see it. Pick number twenty one, Jackson Dart. Dude,
his talent, he loves the game. I think he's everything
that Tomalo would want.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
He's better.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
He's a better thrower of the ball than Roethlisberger was.
And Roethlisberger came out whoa Roethlisberger? Roethlisberger was kind of
I mean, he got better. How do you how do
you explain Roethlisberger because like he would run, but it's
like he wasn't a runner.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, he was just make a throw. But he wasn't
like Dan Marino, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But he had made did he got better as as
a pro, And that's what people do. They went fifteen,
fifteen and one as a rookie. I know in his
rookies he needed to do a ton, but he didn't
know a ton. The next year, tools and all that kind.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Of stuff, but he found a way to just make
a play.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
The next year he did even better. Yeah, and he
was off and running. Okay, next segment, let's talk about
what else might be done before the league year begins
three o'clock Central tomorrow. When we got off the air
last night, Jake Hansen was re signed by the Texans.
What might happen tonight and tomorrow they could really help
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this football team who's still out there. And a little
recap of today as well here on Texans All Access.
So you know the draft coming up late April. It's
seven rounds, but it's really not. It's eight rounds. I'm
here to tell you it's really eight rounds because you
have thirty five comp picks being doled out. Thirty five compicks.
That means it's another round plus of the draft. I
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know we don't deem it that way, right, but it's
really eight rounds of picks.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Because all the comppicks come in thirty would you say
thirty five thirty five? Yeah, it's another round plus three.
It really is it really is eight rounds?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, it's eight rounds. I mean Gary Kubiak was drafted
in the eighth round. What's upon a time? What nineteen
eighty three when the.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Star Wars drafted in the seventeenth round. Yeah, how about that.
That's a lot of rounds. It was like baseball back then. Yeah,
but they only had like eight teams or something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
And Drew Brees was drafted in the second round, but
it was pick number thirty two, so today would be
a first rounder, but it's still a second round pick.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Sorry, still a secondround pick. Because the league is thirty
one team.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
So there's right Texan pick the youngest franchise of a
thirty second team and the thirty second team.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
What are they going to do here, Johnny?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Because we went over some of the moves today, Lake
and Tomlinson on the old line, D line, Mario Edwards
really good stuff. Darryl Taylor they got him yesterday, pass
rusher and Derek Barnett's back as well on the D line,
and we talked about the need for more nasty on
offense on the old line. Three of your five starters
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from opening day twenty twenty four at the Colts of
Victory are gone. They're gone. The team voluntarily got rid
of them. It's not like they hit the market and
got out bid. They voluntarily got rid of them because
they want to revamp the whole thing. It's like, the
house looks pretty good, it's only a twenty five thirty
year old house, but we want to remodel it. Sure,
we want a new kitchen, we want a new bathroom,
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we want knew this, knew that to do the outside
with the landscaping. Now, I'm taking the analogy too far
because on defense they're strengthening a strength. On offense, they're
taking something down that wasn't strong enough and trying to
build it up into something even better. And again, we'll
see how it goes because we won't know it till
we see it. But there's clearly a plan here in
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Tomlinson was item number one today. We mentioned if you
had to field a five today up front, it would
be left to right, Titus Howard, probably Lake and Tomlinson,
Jared Patterson, Juice Scrugs and Titus and Blake Fisher right tackle.
That would be your five. But that's not it. There's
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more moves on the horizon, and maybe on the very
immediate horizon, Zeitler's still out there. There's some players still
out there free agents.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
See. Of course this is just the first couple of days.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
You know, Nick's gonna keep working it because there are
guys that are not household names that can contribute. Plus,
of course soft.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I'm asking this question.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Yeah, so based on what they do the next few
days and inquiring, say they say they acquire a tackle, Yeah,
you think that tells us something about what they're thinking
about Titus. Like if they go on and get Zeitler, right,
it's pretty it's a I don't want to say it's
a lock. It's pretty much a lock. Titus is gonna
go back out to tackle, right.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, you would think, you.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Would think, But if they get a tackle, then you
think maybe Titus stays at guard.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Honestly, and look, we do what we do.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
But I'm gonna say this, honestly, I don't know what
they're gonna do, and nothing would really surprise me at
this point because they could trade Titus at this point
and who knows.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I mean, that's what we're talking about. I get it.
I get a text to the guard from Seth.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
I've been driving in and so I get this text
and I'm like, what is this referring to?
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And then Seth like they traded Kenyon Green. I'm like,
oh man, oh wow. And then I see we get CJ. Gardner.
Johnson is like, wait, what do we just do? Yeah? Boy,
being that Shaq gone. And think about it this way.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Which guys were draft picks of Nick Cassario? It was
Jared Patterson, Jew Scruggs, Milake Fisher.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, you know you think those are the guys also
draft and Kenyon?
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Yeah, so got rid of Kenyon, got rid of Shaq,
got rid of Laramie through trades or releases.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
You can't be afraid to make these big moves. No,
that's the whole point, you know. But but.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Titus can still play, sure hard tackle. Titus can still play.
And I think if you sat down with Titus. I
think if nickod Debico sat down with Titus and Cole's there,
took Popovich, Nick Keyley, they set the five of them
sat in the room and they said, Titus A, we
need you to be the leader of this group. We
need you to be the leader. Whether you want to
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or not, you have to be the leader and do
it a positive way. Secondly, you're coming back to play tackle.
We need you to get your body in tackle shape,
not in guard shape. You need to be you need
to when you walk in. We need we need to
go like Gabriel in Glaciers like damn like we need
to look at you and think that's guard shape because
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you gotta hold up at that tackle position, left or right.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
That's what we need from you.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
We need you the longest tenured member of this team
that's not a kicker. We need you to be that
guy for this offense, for this team. I think tightus
hearing all of that, I think you would see a
different Titus in twenty five.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Okay, I do think you would see one because he
would be.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
That there's some yes, he would embrace that, there's some
motivation there. And think about it from Titus's angle too.
If they do end up saying to him, hey, Titus,
he'll go out to left tackle. Maybe he doesn't get
a layer of me like on track, but maybe they
like what they see and they give him another contractor
this one runs.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Out because he's paid like a high paid right tackle. Right,
that's right, right, that's right playing guard, but paid like
a right tackle, that's right, which they make some money
right right tackles. But a left tackle on the horizon, big, big, big,
So that's another happen. Definitely left tackle with the guys
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on the roster, Titus over Blake Fisher, I would, but
not out of the question to go the other way
that you go the other way?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
You say, you know, Blake, I think you could do it.
I mean, Blake started his first year at Notre Dame
doing that.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
He was over on the left side, and then when
Joe came in, Joel went to left, he went the right.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
So I think you could do it.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
But I just I know Titus has never played over
there other than the game he played against the Chargers,
and he was just so comfortable.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
He looked really good in that spot.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
That's why I'm saying I think he would embrace the
challenge and think about it.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Titus came up playing right tackle.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Ash the position he loves and enjoys, to go play
left guard and.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Played pretty well when this team need it the most.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
I think, Titus, you guys appreciate me, all right, I'm
gonna return that favorite to you and I'm gonna bust
my ass.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
So that's the way. I like this. I like that.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Very positive, Johnny, very positive. Okay, coming up, it's Area
forty five. They're gonna talk about all this stuff and
a bunch of other stuff. So for all that stuff,
you stay tuned right here. Shot and Seth in the
morning recapping what happened overnight and setting you up for
your day in the loop. All of that will be
live tomorrow at six as well. Jonathan Alexander from the
Chronicle will join us at about six thirty tomorrow to
(46:33):
recap the first three days as the league year starts
at three pm Central tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
But that doesn't mean free agency is over. It lives
on and on and on. You know.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Nick Cassario is never done. That's gonna do it for
this program, which will be up in podcast for him
soon enough. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you
Chris for producing. Have a great night, Go Texans.
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