June 18, 2025 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sapping everybody. Happy Wednesday to all of you out theres.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We inch ever so closely to the start of Texan's
training camp. We welcome you into this show, John Harris
alongside the voice Mark Vandermuir. Mark, each and every day
we get a little closer. It's not it's a little
over a month. We don't know the exact dates of everything.
It's a little over a month before the Texans kickoff
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training camp.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
How does that make you feel? Well? It makes how
do you feel crat? You know?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
When you began like that, we inch closer. I'm still
I'm still looking at mini camp in the rear view mirror.
You know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Leaving, Yeah, the location I was at.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, And I got a long drive until training camp
is on the horizon. Here until I can see training
camp on the horizon. Although we're busy preparing a lot
of things, broadcast things, got preseason TV travel arrangements, all
the stuff that we do to get ready for the
twenty twenty five season or any season very much underway,
and a lot of people taking time off, you know,
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things I do depend on other people to do things
as well, and a lot of these people take time
off I've taken a few days off here and there.
You might take some days off here and there, so
you have to navigate all that. But it's all wonderful
because it means we're in the little gap here and
then we get football and when we see them next
on the field, it's go time. It is ramp up
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time to the season. There's no all dressed up and
no place to go like mini camp. No, they are
preparing to play actual games and there we go into
the campaign. I can't wait for it because, like we
said last night, I feel like they're gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It doesn't mean you're gonna win every game, doesn't mean
you execute, because they have to execute. But I think
they've got a lot of tools here to work with,
and we're all excited to see how they put the
whole thing together.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, and that's what makes me excited.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But I understand, as I say, we inch ever so closely,
that isn't I mean, it's exciting, but the flip side
of it is there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Of work to do before now and then.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, and I like to get it all done so
that once we hit training camp and we hit our
shows from Texas training camp Live eight to ten, like, okay,
it's all Texans and everything goes with it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So yeah, so I did a little summer scouting today.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Garrett nus Meyer was on the docket from LSU to
quarterback Melsue and you seem scot report of a football
taker dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So this is for next year?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, colleagues ready for twenty twenty six. So I've already
done three. I've done three of the highly rated quarterbacks.
Oh boy, Lenoris Sellers South Carolina, Cake Klubnick from Clemson,
and Garrett nuss Meyer from LSU's.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The top rated quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
If the draft was today, Who's getting drafted first out
of the class of twenty six?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
To me?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Everybody declares Lenoris Sellers. Okay, And my comp for the
Norris Sellers is Andrew Luck. That's a pretty good comp. Yeah,
it's a good comp. It really is, because there are
a lot of reasons why it's a comp to to
Andrew Luck. That's what I ended up going with because
now Sellers is one hell of runner, so is Andrew.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
When Andrew took off run, it was scary and.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Andrew I hated to see when Luck took off front
of it was not It was not good, not good
at all.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
The memory for me is always well despite being haunted
by him.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah constantly in the day. Was how big he is?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, well remember meeting him up close and personal, thinking
he's a big dude, bigger than he looks on TV.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
For some reason, it's just one of those guys that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Brady you know, is big. Yeah, you stand next to
Andrew Luck. Oh, he's big six.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's what Leonora Sellers just posted the exact same heightweight
of Leonora Sellers. Sellers is a little faster, runs really well,
throws a very catchable ball. I think he's gonna catch
a lot of steam. He's by QB one right now
and then Club Nick and nus Meyer. I finished today.
So I've been doing some summer scouting football take over
dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Go check it out. Oh, Caleb Downs.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I've also done Josh Downs brother Josh Downs who plays
slot receiver for the for the Colts. His brother, Caleb
Downs might be the best prospect in the draft. He's incredible.
He transfered from Alaby's are at Alabam for years. Saber retired.
He went to Ohio State, got a big nil deal,
but it really didn't matter. At that point. He goes
into Ohio State, they won a championship there. He's back
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first third year. So I've got all those scouting reports up.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Position rankings for the summer. Now I know the question is, well,
what about Arch. Look, Arch is throwing about ninety three
times his career, so we don't know. And by the way,
none of the Mannings, and I know it's different, but
none of the Mannings ever left early. They all stayed.
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Eli Payton stayed. Now, I don't think Arch is gonna
stay all the way through. I think he's got three
years eligibility. I think three that much. Yeah, I don't
think he's staying for all three. Okay, but I also
think that we don't know a lot about Arch if
we're being honest. So when I do my quarterback rankings,
I will I will have an asterisk. I will put
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Arch up at the top and just say, hey, we
don't know much about him. Be my God tells me
that he's not coming out after this year.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Less they win the championship, get close to winning a championship,
or at least go very deep. And he looks amazing
in the process, and you think, you know, there's nothing
else for him to do.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There's nothing else for him going back.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah I could. I could, and and.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The Colts or the Saints end up with a top pick. No,
I've told you, this is the nightmare for years. Saints
is good. I like the Saints for the nightmare. It
didn't work. Marv Harrison ended up Mark Harrison Junior ended
up going with the Cardinals. Yeah, we're good with him
down in the over in the West. That's that's fine.
We didn't want Marvin Harrison Junior catching passes from March Manning.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That was gonna be Dallas Clark a kid or Dwight Freeney.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Dallas Cark. Clark's got a kid. His name is Tyler Warren.
That's his baby. The kind of onlone, kind of one
and the same, if you will, a little bit of
news about your Texans. The Texas made his signing. I
don't know if this has been made official. I haven't
seen that yet or not. I haven't been scouring my
email for report reports say, and I think it was
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first reported by Aaron Wilson, so definitely give him credit.
David Arnett, former first round draft pick of the at
the time. What yeah, he was Las Vegas Raiders, drafted
by the Las Vegas Raiders in the first round. Had
some issues out in Las Vegas. There was there were
a few issues, but really from that he's gotten it
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back together. Played well with the Roughnecks in the XFL
XL UFL. Always forget with their UFL, I always forget
what it's called now XFL and USFL merged to become
the UFL. Played pretty well for the Roughnecks. Had to
try out with the Texans just recently and apparently he
is signing with the Texans.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Now what does it mean? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You got sting when you got Lassiter. You bringing guy
to and you see what he's got. He played Ohio State,
so he's played some big ball in his career. Like
I said, he had some issues off the field when
he went to the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Hopefully those are beyond and.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Look and I I don't know that I could say
it any better than our guy, Cody Steets said.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And I saw his tweet.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Basically Student's tweet was, you don't create a locker room
with culture and not take a chance on a guy
that's got some talent. You know, like basically saying, hey, yeah,
he's had some issues, but you got a locker room
that is all about this culture. Bring him in, see
if you can't surround him and make it better. And
he gets even better, as you know, as a Texan
than he was a Roughneck. As he's coming back from
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whatever issues failed him with the Raiders. So Damon Arnette
joins the Texteder and will join the Texans when we
start training camp. So seemingly kind of all your news.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I was listening this morning Mark as I was driving
in and Sean and Seth was talking about and I
always love doing this. I feel like they stole it
from me, but that's okay. Pete Prisco's top one hundred
players I find very interesting. First of all, Pete doesn't
follow the normal convention. He just Pete does Pete.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Thanks, Yeah, we know that, we know Pete. He's like ten.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
People can say, oh, this guy's the greatest, and Pete
can like, no, I think he doesn't throw it this
way like we've we've had we've had discussions on the
air about draft prospects. He would like certain guys like
I don't like those guys as much like these guys,
and so he's great about it, and I think it's
what made it fun was that he would defend his guy.
I would defend my guy, and it was like, okay, cool,
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you know, we just he sees it differently than a
lot of people that are out there, and I appreciate
that with them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So he did his top one hundred players.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
How many Texans do you think got in his top
one hundred?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I think at least six.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
At least six? Yeah, okay, name them? Who do you
think six belong in there? One hundred top one hundred
players in the league.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
No particular order, yeah, no particular Go with the two
defensive ends, all right, Daniel and Will, I'll go with Mixing,
I'll go with Nico, okay, and I'll go with the quarterback,
and I'll go with Stingley.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
How many am I at? Yeah? That's six.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That's six.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's six.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I think that does it. Those are the guys who belong.
Mixon is a top one hundred player in this league.
Not according to Pete.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Not according to Pete Prisco. What about the quarterback? CJ?
According to Pete prist is not a top one hundred player.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Four. I can't wait to find out what Jags are
on this list. Okay, I cannot wait to find out.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The one you're thinking might be on the list is
not on the list.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So that no, no, I know he's I know he
wouldn't put him on the list. He's not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Highest ranked Texan is one Derek Stingley Junior.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Okay, he is at number twenty three, and right behind
him one spot after him is in New.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
York Jet is Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Sauce Gardner twenty three and twenty four Derek Stingley and
Sauce Gardner. So sting is the highest rated Texan on
the list. Next Texan.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Daniel Hunter. He comes in a number forty seven.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Geez, forty seven, And I'm like, okay, kind of, I
just I feel like it's a continuation of Danil just
not getting enough credit for how good he actually is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
There are some players that go ahead of him. I'm
coming to Daneil Hunter played in New York.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh if Daniil Hunter played for even the Rams, Yeah,
I know, well, Mark the Rams of the number two market,
but they're the rams La teams. They're not there yet.
It's not even though the Rams have been to two
Super Bowls since moving back to LA and one one
of them. Yep, there's still not what I would consider
a premier NFL franchise, marquee value or otherwise. Now otherwise
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they probably are. I mean, this is a good, really
good NFL franchise, good NFL team, great coach, all of
that stuff, but I don't think they get the credit
for that. So probably a bad example. But let's go
with New York. If he played for Chicago, Chicago, you know,
but he's played in Minnesota all those years. Now he's here, Oh, Dallas, forget.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
About I get about going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Here are the defensive ends. Slash pass rushers ahead at
Daniel all right, Miles Garrett caught him up.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Miles Garrett, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Uh, Micah Parsons, Yeah, TJ Watt, Aiden Hutchinson.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Got him at fifteen. Not Chris Jones, Chris Jomes. They
have listened a defensive end, miss.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
That's not really him. They have this is a defensive end,
which technically he is. But there, Trey Hendrickson, Max Crosby.
I mean, those are all names that I think you
would expect. Now this one, I don't know that I
totally agree with, but maybe it was because the forty
nine ers are out side out of mind. Nick Bosa
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is another one. I think he's the last.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
One ahead before Daniel, before Daniel so.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And again it's the teams that we kind of I
want you to hold on that RAMS thought in a second.
But he was thirty five, He was number thirty five
last year and he held at forty seven.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I do what happened. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's why I felt like he played better here than
he was playing in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Is he forecasting an age decline or something like that?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Maybe it's what he had to say.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Hunter at twelve sacks in his first season with the Texans,
giving him three straight double digit sax seasons, the five
straight in seasons where he played.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
At least nine sixteen games.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He has a force off the edge team of guill
Anderson Junior to give the Texans a nice combo.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So a nice combo. This is a hell of a combo,
A nice comboce.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
This is nice.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Certainly one of the top three four combos in the
NFL at the outside.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, okay, go on, next, Will Anderson Jr. Where does
he put him fifty six.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Okay, but I'm gonna read something to you.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know this.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
In his second season, Anderson Junior had a at thirteen
and a half sacks for the Texans, Right, thirteen and
a half. Number fifty four in this list is Jared Verse,
who plays four the Rams. At fifty four, Verse had
four and a half sacks.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He's as high on him. He's high on him, Johnny.
So here's what he follows with. Okay, but the pressure
numbers show how dominant he can be as an edge rusher. Okay,
can be can Key, can can be.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Will Anderson had three times as many sacks and these
two spots below Jared first.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And it's not all about sacks, we know that, but
Will affects the game greatly.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
How many teams have multiple defensive ends pass rushers outside
the linebacker types in a three to four Possibly, that's
a good question.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Let me see if I can find it out real fast.
That are ahead of these two? Oh? None, ahead of
these two?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
None? All right, there you go. Because I went through
all the defensive ends. Nobody's got a combo.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, nobody's got a combo. Nobody's got comb But it's
a nice combo. Nice combo. Come on, Pete, nice combo.
It's a hell raising yes, one for the ages type
of combo.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, it is absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Will Anderston at fifty six and finally at sixty seven.
The fourth Texan on here, man by the name of
Nico Collins bothered by injuries, is Pete bothered by injuries.
Collins played in just twelve games last season, as the
Texans offense took a step back. When he was on
the field, he was still a big play threat with
sixty eight catches and seven touchdowns. He averaged nearly fifteen
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yards per catch, which was down from.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The year before.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know if I like, Okay, I do think
that last sentence is important because it just shows that
after he got hurt, they just went really away from
the deep game, like taking deep shots was almost just
out of the calculation in some sense.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And maybe that was protection.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And deep threats and didn't didn't want to get Nico
hurt again.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You know who's to say, Well, Plus, it helps when
you have Tank or somebody else out there to take
some attention away and you run those those routes today.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Tank, by the way, it's good to see Tank around
the building. I'll tell you what you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Inching toward mini camp and I know we're still on
this thing, but there are guys here, and we talked
about the guys who were here before offseason conditioning began.
We're right back in that mode where tons of guys
are coming into work out every day at a time
of year where I don't remember seeing that many guys
working out, not.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Not this many.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I was in the studio this morning or around lunchtime
or so, and I'm just, you know, kind of going
through my Nustmeyer and also i hear boom, boom, boom,
and I'm like, oh, I mean, you know the sound.
It's medicine balls up against the wall out in the hallway,
and not just one of them. It's like a cacophony
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of just.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it's the mediciony of and hitting the center block walls.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And it's beautiful. It is a beautiful it is a
beautiful sound.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It was a great sight to see because they're setting
up for the Morgan Whaling concert now after Metallica was
here last week, crazy and you got the guys working
out among that amidst the.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Midst that you mentioned two guys that are not on
this list.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I probably overinflated the Joe Mixon projection here because he
was fifteenth in the league in rushing last year.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But I think he was putting miss in that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
But I mean, if you if you did it by
rush yards per game, I think you maybe you.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Think ninth and yards per game, yards per cary, yards
per carry was great. That's not great.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But you know, is Joe better than Bucky Irving? Who
Pete has it ninety four?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Geez? Could be?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I mean Bucky Ivery had a good year, don't get
me wrong, But I don't know if you had your
opportunity to go into this year, would take Bucky Irving
or Joe Mixon. I think it wouldn't have been a
tough decision.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, and for some they had injuries on wide receiver also,
and managed the Bucks Yeah, and managed to make the postseason.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, the Bucks got a number of guys on here.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So how many guys do you think made it inside
the division that aren't Texans.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Let's see, Simmons will make it, Taylor will make it,
Quentin Nelson will make it. Maybe Buckner or Stuart and
or Stuart. No, you got enough Colts. I missed one team.
I'm missing the Jags. Who's making it from the Jacks?
Trayvon Walker's making it?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, the other one, Josh hens Allen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Oh, Josh Heines Allen makes it over Trayvon Walker at
a good year.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I know, Josh times Allen, he's got and from the
Jags rookie wide receiver Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It makes the top one hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, you want to get even more upset, okay, Brian
Thomas Junior comes in at number No.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Forty four.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He's ahead of Nico twenty three spots ahead of me.
All Right, so this is the Jags blood, the teal
blood of Pete Prisco coming through. But in fairness to Pete,
you know, he was kind of the McLean of Tony
Boselli trying to get Bisselli into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't know if he has a vote or anything,
but he's loud. Pete will be heard, and he was
standing on a table for a long time saying Baselli
deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Besseli finally
gets into the Hall of Fame. I'm not going to
give Pete full credit here, but I'm just pointing that out.
So he's often right about his Jags support because the
Jags do need somebody to support them, They need somebody
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to trumpet their cause because they're the Jags.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They're in North Florida. It's a small market.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's been said to us many times, how their potential
fan base, the potential that they have is so far
less than virtually any other NFL market. You cannot include
the Packers in this because they're a national brand.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, that's the Yeah, it's a different one. You know.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's like a premier league team that has more fans
out of the market than in the market. That's kind
of thing. That's the Packers.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's true, very true.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So Thomas in seventeen games, let's just try and keep
this as best we possibly can't.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
How a littable for the radio listening audience.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Thomas averaged five point one receiver receptions per game per
seventy five point four yards per game, Nico five point
seven receptions per game, eighty four yards per game. Catch
percentage for Nico sixty nine percent for Brian Thomas sixty
five percent, and basically all the first down catches in
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seventeen games. Yeah, in seventeen games, Thomas had fifty three,
so basically three of his receptions per game went for
a first down.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, if I did that right, Nico.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Forty eight of his sixty eight went for first downs
nice a much higher percentage. That's four first down catches.
So every receiving metric went in the way of Nico
Collins and obviously that's why Nico ended up being a
Pro bowler in twenty twenty four and second team All Proun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Let's do quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Who's the lowest rated quarterback in Prisco's top one hundred?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You ready for this?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Am you sure? You want to know this?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm gonna be upset, aren't I? Because I heard the
guys this morning talking about Chris Simms top quarterback ratings
and Stroud was seventh?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Was he seventh or eightnth? Yeah? Seventh?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, Chris seven seventh? Wow, so the eleventh. He's got
eleven quarterbacks on here.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
In the top one hundred, and the top one hundred
at number ninety two is his lowest rank quarterback.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
We faced him last year.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He beat US.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
He threw three interceptions against US, but led a game
winning field goal.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Drive Golf No. Two five against US.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Oh, that's right. There was five game winning field goal
drive at Jordan Love. Jordan Love after his breakout season
three picked off Love three times, we picked off picked
off Golf five times, picked off Herbert four times. Yeah, jeez, yeah,
you're sensing something here.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Good couldn't pick off my Homes?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How many? None?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
None? None? But he had run Mahomes had a run
of not throwing interceptions.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I know this is good.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Look, this is part of mahomes greatness.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, to not throw the pick it is, it really is,
And I know it didn't work out in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Who was his number one quarterback and.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Who was number one overall on this list, Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
No, Patrick Mahomes. Oh really he has Mahomes at number one,
number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
See a lot of people have soured. I'll put that
out of their quotes. Yeah, Mahomes being the top player
in the league, right, and even the top quarterback. But
you have to give it to them. Yeah, until further notice. Now,
I know the Super Bowl, and I do think Hurts
doesn't get enough credit even though Mahomes at a bad
super Bowl. Look, you and I were just watching the
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highlights today of the twenty eight to three game. But
the Patriots the Super Bowl pick six in that game,
I mean, they are not looking good, not at all,
and they turned it around clearly, whereas the Chiefs couldn't
do it in their last time.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's a point. I'm happy about it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
There was a point I made to you about that
game and the super Bowl two years before that. Oh
that was a good point, and even super bowls before that,
even twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
This plays into what I want to see out of
Joe Mason in that Super Bowl. Who led in the
Super Bowl was year twenty eight to three?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Who led the Patriots in receiving Seth and Sean, I
want you to listen to this because you guys have
talked about this, but you haven't given the numbers, and
it proves your point.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And basically the point was.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That Brady Stroud Paris and all that kind of stuff
that's been brought up. If there's one thing that Brady
did better than any quarterback ever, it was take profit. Yeah,
and then keep investing in it, and you're gonna get
more profit. In the Super Bowl here, James White had
fourteen catches. He played running back fourteen fourteen two years
prior tied for the leading receptions in that game against
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the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Shane Vereen.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Shane Vereen current text work play Yeah works for Texans
in the twenty eighteen Super Bowl. They ain't really throw
it all that well, but it was an Edelman game.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Edelman.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It was all short stuff to Edelman. He ends up
being the MVP because of that. But that had thirty
five throws of that game, sixteen were targeted for running backs.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, Brady doesn't care about yards per attempt. No, he
just wants to win and move the sticks and matriculate
the ball down the field. He'd love to throw big
play passes all the time, but he realizes it's not possible.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
His backs are open. Hit them the ball and let
them do something.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Hit the open man.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
They're down twenty eight to three, and James White has
fourteen catches. Yeah, fourteen catches. I was key huge.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, So on the list, Jordan loves at ninety two,
This one might make you gag a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And number ninety Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Oh, come on, he's just doing this for clicks now,
and he's smart. Pete Prisco is smart. If I put
Dak Prescott as one of the top eleven quarterbacks in
this league.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'm gonna get get some attention, good and bad.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, and I need my list to pop and act
as clickbait.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He even recognizes that here he says, a year after
leading the league with thirty six touchdown passes, Prescott was
limited to eight games because injury. Even before the injury,
he wasn't as sharp as the year before, when just
eleven touchdown passes and eight picks eight And then he
finishes up and he says, but I think he's closer
to the twenty three Prescott again.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All right, so this is all a projections.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, It's like it's equal parts looking back and projection
all at the same time. At number seventy seven, who
is the man you said we intercepted five times.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
That would be Jared Goff.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Jared Goff, He's at number seventy seven. Baker Mayfield is
at number fifty seven, ranks higher than golf. Yes, and
I think you should be well, we know what happened. Yeah, yeah,
number seven quarterback Jalen Hurts, number fifty two. I still
think Jalen is criminally underrated. But that's you know, number
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forty nine. Justin Herbert over the final four games, he
threw nine touchdown passes and no picks. He's another who
needs to win in the playoff.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That would be regular season games, yes, Pete, and look
at the playoff performances. Okay, good first half against Jacksonville.
Since halftime at the Jacksonville game, not so much gone well?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And were we not gone well?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
We ran on.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Our YouTube channel we posted the drive. It's funny because
you guys were talking about you guys, you and what
player did we have in here? Because we interviewed forty
of them last week, So I'm a little foggy on
this one. But you were talking about the drive of
the season might have been running the ball well against
the Chiefs in the playoffs and punching it in. Yeah, okay,
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and that video is up on YouTube right now. By
the way, Jared Patterson really cool. We had him on
the show earlier. But where was I going with this?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That drive?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
In the Charger playoff game, we're in our own end.
Deep got to come out. It's six nothing Chargers, so
they weren't doing anything on offense either, but we had
a gooseg on the board. It's getting late in the
first half, and that's when Stroud eventually has the ball
go through his hands, recovers, runs to the right side,
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throws down field, hits X. The drive concludes with a
touchdown pass Denico Collins. That is the drive of the
and as far as a winning drive right and turn
the whole thing around in that game. The next drive
they get it, they get a field goal out of
it before the break.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Ten to six at the break, completely different situation.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Herbert melts down in second half. Herbert just evaporated.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So that makes halftime in the Jacksonville playoff game in
twenty twenty two, Oh gosh, Herbert. Three bad halves of
football in the postseason. And look, I'm not gonna indict
him completely for that. It happens to people. And they
had a good regular season. They won eleven games. We're
talking about teams that are sort of underestimated coming into
the campaign.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, it might be them, It might be them, But
are you going to believe in Are you gonna believe
in them?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Thing?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
What twelve and five is, is anybody gonna believe? Well, Okay, Herbert, let'
see what you do.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I'm just talking about they can make a lot of
people miserable in the regular season and we're gonna play
out there as well later in the year. I agree
with that, so that that can be the kind of
thing where this is the year because look how different
it is, and now those are the narratives that get
going during the regular season. Guys start playing better. Oh
this team's fore yep, you know it's midway through the year.
You have a great start. Those conversations occur, you know,
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and then in one afternoon in the postseason, I'll never mind.
But that's one of the don nature of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It is h Jane Daniels at number thirty three. Wow,
Then it jumps to Joe Burrow at seven, Lamar Jackson
at six, Josh Allen at four, and then at number one,
he's got Patrick Mahomes his top five. Patrick Mahomes won,
Miles Garrett two, Saquon Barkley three, Josh Allen four, Justin
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Jefferson five.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's just top five.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
As far as what have you done for me lately,
it's hard to argue, right.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't know about Miles at two. Garrett, Yeah,
that's kind of a projection.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I mean, he had fourteen sacks and he was a
good year. Here's what Pete says. Garrett fourteen sacks to
finished second in the league, but his impact was much
more obvious than that number. He is an E League
game wrecker as he turns thirty this year. I don't
disagree with that, but I don't think. I don't think
I would have put Miles. I would have put Miles
in the front of Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Would you if you could guarantee that both people or
everybody's gonna stay healthy, who's your top defensive end you're
gonna pick for one season?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Would you pick Hutchinson? Would you pick Garrett?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I probably picked Miles, Okay, he's such a freaking nature
for one season and I know he's staying healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, I probably. I probably picked Miles. Okay, I'll tell
you the guy.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That I've always loved, and I think that it's really
clicking for him and as long as he stays healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He didn't finish the year healthy Max Crosby t Raiders.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, I was gonna mention Crosby. He's so long, he's
so related about healthy. TJ Watt seventeen games of healthy.
TJ Watt felt like, and this.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Is hard because you try and you try and assess,
is it a little bit of age showing is he
playing through some stuff? And I know TJ is playing
through some stuff and he does, but it looked like
he had lost a little bit at the end of
the year. So when TJ's fully healthy, my god. I
remember we were leading up to the twenty seventeen draft.
I remember Drew coming into my office and we just
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kind of sat and chatted. He goes, hey, do you
think that we might think about taking JJ Watt and
putting him or taking TJ Watt and putting him with JJ?
And I just remember my wheels start turning, like, holy cow,
could you imagine? And of course things changed. Could we
want up and got the quarterback and that was a
smart thing to do. And then then he fell all
the way at thirty and went to the perfect place
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for him with the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
But I mean, it's tough.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I watched Michaeh Parsons, as much as I love Mikeah,
I watched Titus basically shut him down. Titus just basically
took his big old right arm and just stuck it
underneath Parsons chin all night. And Parsons wouldn't adapt and
wouldn't adjust he kept taking every holding penalty. Yeah, the
Money Night game, he just shut him down. And I
love Mike. I think he's he's a guy would think
about a conversation.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
But Miles, I think there was a motivational issue all
PROBA time.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Absolutely. I mean you and I talked about it. Yesterday.
He said, run.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They're signing autographs and taking pictures warming up for the game.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I got a feeling if they were undefeated, he might
not be doing that. Maybe just a hunch. We'll see
what happens against Watt is thirty years old already. Where
does the time go?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I it's my mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But that's Pete Prisco's top one hundred and the name
that we didn't discuss that wasn't in here was c J.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Stroud not in the top one hundred players.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I will say this just given kind of how Pete
looks at it, I'm not surprised. And I think one
of the things that I'm not surprised about is just nationally,
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There was this there, the disappointment.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
They were disappointed with the year, in large part because
people those same people had high expectations for this team
after everything that was done and It's not CJ's fault.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
It just happened, right.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
The quarterback numbers aren't as good as everyone wanted them
to be. The performance wasn't there. And again, no fault
of Seed. Well maybe it is whatever, whoever's fault it is.
National media Dissi pointed.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And pointed at him and said, it's look, his numbers
are down. They're gonna put the game against Green Bank.
There were games he had no chance to even be successful.
What NFL GM's thirty two gms. You could draft Jordan
Love right now? Ok, we're CJ. Stroud right now. Make
all things equal. Yeah, line receivers everything right. There's no contest,
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there's no content, no contest, and I like I like
Jordan Love.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
No contest. I just know what's feeling. There's a lot
more there.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
C J.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Stroud is twenty three years old as we speak. God,
think about that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's reminduless. The age is my daughter. It just makes me,
oh my gosh. My daughter's burd turned twenty three in
a week. So uh, there we go. Okay, Mark and
I had an opportunity to sit down with one of
our favorite Texans. He's got a great event going on
in New York this offseason. He'll be there this weekend
for it fully Foughtakasi so glad he's a Texan. He
joins us next right here in Texans All Access.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
What's happen everybody?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Walking back to Wednesday ed issue of Texans All Access
for on the Hyundai Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I am John Harris football and a sideline reporter.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
You'll hear and see me on our preseason games, kicking
it off against the Minnesota Vikings August ninth. I believe
the date is important. Date came out today, so that's
on Pro Football Talk Texans rookies will report for training
camp July twenty second. July twenty second the rookies. It
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says here on Pro Football Talks articles article that the
Texans rookies will report in July twenty second. The rest
of the league, it's all over the place, some reporting
as early as a week prior. San Francisco, Seattle, they're
all reporting earlier. Giants reporting earlier, Miami reporting earlier. So
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either way, Texans reporting on the twenty second, So keep
that date in mind. So that means training camp is
gonna be starting somewhere around then a day or two
later we'll find out, but at least we know that
rookies are reporting on the twenty second. A guy who
is not a rookie, a very vital piece of this
defenses run defense. We love him, We absolutely adore this guy.
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And when he walks in studio, our our faces light up,
his face lights up. Fully fodder Kosi. Great event he's
got going on this weekend. Back home in New York.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Check this out. Fully fought of Costi with Mark.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And myself in the Hyundai Texans radio studio with us.
I was so happy home and it was announced that
fully thought of Cassi was going to be back with
your Texans on the D line. Welcome back. Well he
never really left, but welcome.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Appreciate you fellas is always is always going to.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Talking to you guys, I mean technically left, but coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
How tough a decision was that for you?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Was?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It wasn't a tough decision? Did you want to be
back here? How happy you have to be back here?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Definitely wanted to be back here, and honestly, just to
answer you a question, and fool like, it wasn't a
tough decision to come back. So yeah, once the doors
open yup. It was easy to walk through it.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah. Yeah, So a lot of guys are really happy
to see you and Rankins is back from the twenty
three season, and to have you and him and everybody
else saw it again. Mario, we were talking with him,
he's back too. It's got to feel good because you know,
the culture is great in that room. An even it's
an even better culture this year.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
No, it is man to have all the guys back.
So me and rank we played together in New York
and we have a great working relationship and we have
a great off the field relationship as well. So and
obviously you know I played with Rio in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yep, Yo.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
The room is great. It's great. It's a great room.
The guys are excited. It's definitely gonna be a fun season.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, we're watching last year.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
There was such a difference when you were on the
field and you could just see it. There were so
many times flexings like he's making plays out there in
the field when you're out there. We talked to him,
Mario as soon as we brought up your name, Mario,
that's my dude, And you got the sense that playing
next to him, the combination you guys had. How you
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played off one another was really special to him and
how he saw it. How do you kind of look
at that relationship. I know that a lot of times
you're depending on scheme and whatever else you might be
out there mixed up with another guy, but it felt
like when you two were on the field, it was
just making plays between you two. What was that relationship
like together and learning in this defense which is different
than some of the others you may have played in.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Man, awesome question. It was amazing to get to work
with Rio right as soon as we got in together.
One we already have been familiar with each other playing
in Jacksonville, but actually having to take you know, live
reps with one another, it was like, honestly like bread
and butter. Yeah, I mean, we were able to really
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work off of each other. And one thing that I
really enjoyed about, you know, working with Rio along with
the rest of the room, is we were always crafting
what we can do to kind of cut the edge,
to make our play a little better. So he would
always see something about my game and it'd be like,
folio you could do this, I'd be like, all you think, So,
I don't know if I may have that, and he'll
steady just be encouraging, you know, I mean to try
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something new and vice versa. So, but that's just not
the relationship between you know, Rio and I. That's the
relationship between all of the guys in the room. So
Kurt Hiness is another one. He will see something about
my game and he'll bring it to me and I'll
and I'll work at it, you know what I mean,
to get better. So now that Sheldon's back in the room,
me and Sheldon already have that relationship. So and he's
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I think he's a lot more talented than certain parts
in the game than I am. So I'm I definitely
looked at him to grow in a lot of areas.
So that relationship that me and Real have cultivated, it's
across the board, allow the room.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, you guys rotate a lot. So how is that determined?
Is it?
Speaker 3 (37:48):
You? Sometimes you meaning any one of you defensive tackles
saying all right, you know three is enough, three snaps
or whatever, get the other guy in here. I know
doubt a distance plays into this as well, But how
does all that go down? Because sometimes like hockey line change,
I mean, you guys are coming in and out of
the game, and we have enough guys to do it
and still play at a high level.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
All right, there's a lot of variables, you know, flow, momentum,
how you're feeling, you know, situations and so on and
so forth. There's a lot of variables. I guess it
would just really just depend on flow of drive, how
you're playing in those flow drives, how you feel in
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those flow drives, and getting the next guy in so
it makes so he also gets flow the game as well.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
So it really just depends so fully. I've asked a
fore you guys about this. This is year ten for you?
What your existent league?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
God, thank god, you're prophesying over my life. You know
this is your eight you're eight. Okay, you're eight.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
It'll be at least tag.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, it'll be more than that, your eight fully fought
of COSTI can walk back in time to rookie year
fully fought to COSTI and give him one piece of
advice that he can carry forward for the rest of
his career.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
What would it be.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Remain a student? It really learn from everybody. You can
learn from every situation. Remain a student and truly understand
what's best for you. So you can be a high
performance love it, be a student. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
But again I feel like you've done that, right.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah I haven't. I'm not allowed. It's what brought me
this far. So yeah, I'm praying that it can bring
me a little further.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
So being a student, how different is this defense that
you're in now for it versus what you've been in
in the past.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
The aggression, the amount of aggression that you're allowed to,
you know, play with.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Now, if this is my own personal opinion, it was
a little similar to when I when I played under
Greg Williams and yeah, yeah, yeah, Greg Williams obviously he
was known for being an aggressive decordinator. But you know,
coming back into this, you know this system as well,
being allowed to literally just pin your airs back and
just go uh. I think it's a little different. I
think there is an adjustment period to get back to it.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
That's how it's going to get to you.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
You know, there is. But once you kind of like
take the governor off a bit, it's like, all right,
you're you're ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Yeah, okay, queens you going back. You got something going
on later this month, right.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, so I'm going back going back to New York.
I have a nonprofit organization with an amazing team, and
we've been able to put together like a weekend event,
you know, one that we do every year. In a
new addition this month, on June twentieth, we have a
Friday Night Lights game with our youth football team, the
far Rockaway Ravens versus the Brooklyn Titans. That game will
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be happening at six thirty on June twentieth. And then
June twenty first is our Rock to Block Funday, where
the entire community elected officials, organizations and you know, children,
families and so on and so forth gets to come
out as a community as a collective and just pretty
much enjoy the day with you know, food, fundraising, shows, performances,
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bounce houses, painting, whatever have you.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Back where you're from.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
And I had to bring that up because people watching
this see wearing a Yankee hat.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
It's because it's from New York.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Okay, but you But and this is what I've always
found it interesting with the NFL folio is people in
houstould love you.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I mean, Mark, and I like you walk on water,
I mean you're incredible.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Like I hate the Yankees, I can't stand the Yankees
at all, yet we can love you in Houston. You're
part of the Texans organization, part of Texans family. But
yet back home still means that much to you to
be able to put on the events back home for
kids that you know are from the area of where
you're from. And I think that's always so cool that
you have the opportunity to do that and then wherewithal
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to be able to do it and then pull it
off for those kids, I mean a lot too.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
No, it's definitely a blessing. It's definitely a eye opener.
But first and foremost, let me not even take any credit.
I have an amazing team. Yeah, and we all grew
up in the neighborhood. We all went to school there,
we were born and bred there, and they are just
some amazing people you know that really really do the
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groundwork and and get all the connections together.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
So you know, a huge shout out to the team.
You know, they're they're they're amazing. And to be able
to see the product at the end of it, yeah,
you know, and see the smiles and see how it's
impacted the community in a positive way. It inspires you
and it definitely puts a better year back to to
do more.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Doubt fully, great to catch up, Great to see you
looking forward to the season. Thank you, No appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Fellis the absolute best.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
And I'm telling you right now, when I saw his
PFF great from last year, I about throw I about
threw up.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
I'm like, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
This guy was an important to our run defense, huge
vital cog in the middle. Look, he'll tell you it
wasn't perfect last year, but it was pretty darn good
when ninety one was on the field, and I can't
wait to have him back on the field.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
All his guys, and it was interesting you're.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Talking to them during our media days, but they all
played together at other stops, which was really interesting between
Mario Edward, Sheldon Rankins, fully fought of Cassi, Tim Settle,
they all kind of each other, played next to one another,
and then obviously they had last year and now rank
gets thrown back into the fall, which I think is
absolutely awesome. So great stuff, fully fought Acosi. Okay, we
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get back. There's a lot of news happening in sports.
We'll hit the NFL news. Will remind you of the
two news items we had today going on with the Texans,
and then there's news in sports that two huge sales
of a basketball team and a baseball team. Holy smokes,
(43:30):
the difference in price is pretty amazing. But either way,
two of them sold. I'll get you that news as well.
We'll do that on the other side. Right here in
Texas All Access we go one final segment this Wednesday,
Nation of Texans All Access from the Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I'm John Harris Football and a sideline reporter for your
Houston Texans. A couple pieces of Texans news.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Gordon's sources Aaron Wilson the first one to report this,
I believe, so give him credit.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
KPRC two.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Damon Arnett, former first round pick of the Las Vegas Raiders,
fell in some hard times with the Raiders, some things
that he is still recovering from in some sense, but
signed out with the Houston Roughnecks in the XFL. Played
very well, got to try out. Texans signed him. They
were bringing former first round pick in former Ohio State
(44:20):
Buckeye All American Damon Arnett back to the fold in
the NFL. You get something out of Damon, My goodness,
it's it's found money.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
It's twenty dollars in your pocket. If not, you move on.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
And you give a guy an opportunity to compete, especially
the guy's turned his life around. And I think a
man coach student's put it best paraphrase, and essentially he said,
you've got his locker room in the culture, and you
preach the culture. Well, this is the opportunity to emphasize
what the culture can do for a guy that's had
some issues but has seemingly turned his life around. So
Damon Arnett is going to be a Houston Texan and
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that is great stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
NFL dot com Pro Football where I saw this, they
have reporting dates for all thirty two NFL teams. Texans,
rookies and veterans going to report on July twenty second.
July twenty second, Texans at Houston mephis training center reporting
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for training camps. So that puts us a month and
four days away. Holy crap, Holy crabits, get here a
whole lot faster than maybe any of us want to realize.
News in the NFL, JayR. Alexander is a raven, Yes,
(45:38):
a raven, good God. He signed after being released in
Green Bay couldn't find a trade partner, Jay Alexander Lamar
Jackson teammates. So yesterday when Lamar was meeting with the media,
he made a plea seemingly laughing about about Eric Takasagama
the Ravens going on getting Jaire Alexander. He did one
year at four million, up to six two millions and
(45:59):
cent incentives. He can get Jaire Alexander is a Raven
Holy cow. Nate Wiggins, Marlon Humphrey, JayR Alexander, Kyle Hamilton,
Malachi Starks. The only secondary in the league, well there's two,
but really the only one that gets close is Derek Stingley, Kamara, Lassiter,
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Jalen Peatree, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson and Klen Block. Eagles is good,
Red Blanket Ship Cooper dejen Quenyon Mitchell. Trying to think
who will play that other corner spot for the Eagles
off the top of my head, I can't. I can't
think of who it is. But the Eagles secondary is
gonna be pretty good. But after that, man, I don't
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know that you get close anywhere in the league. So
Ravens Texans, They're gonna have two the better secondaries in
the league, all right, sports news. The Los Angeles Lakers
have sold Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Dodgers,
is in green to purchase a majority steak in the Lakers,
per Shams Chanrea, ten billion dollars, ten billion dollars. Jerry
(47:13):
Buss bought the Lakers for sixty seven million, sixty seven
and a half billion dollars in nineteen seventy nine, sold
by his daughter Jenie Buss ten billion dollars. Now show
you how things are a little different. The Tampa bay
Rays apparently are being sold to a Jacksonville businessman, and
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that got me thinking, like, man, could the Tampa bay
Rays move up to Jacksonville? That would be kind of interesting.
Keep mine on that one. That'll be kind of fun.
But looks like the Tampa bay Rays are also going
to be sold. One point seven billion for the Rays,
ten billion for the Lakers. And yes, I know, different sports,
but different valuations. The Lakers a temp pole franchise.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
In the in the NBA rais not so much Major
League Baseball, but still two franchises being sold today. It's
kind of wild to think about. All Right, it's gonna
do it for the show. Appreciate you guys being here,
we'll see you tomorrow and as always, go Texans.
Sapping everybody. Happy Wednesday to all of you out theres.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We inch ever so closely to the start of Texan's
training camp. We welcome you into this show, John Harris
alongside the voice Mark Vandermuir. Mark, each and every day
we get a little closer. It's not it's a little
over a month. We don't know the exact dates of everything.
It's a little over a month before the Texans kickoff
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training camp.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
How does that make you feel? Well? It makes how
do you feel crat? You know?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
When you began like that, we inch closer. I'm still
I'm still looking at mini camp in the rear view mirror.
You know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Leaving, Yeah, the location I was at.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, And I got a long drive until training camp
is on the horizon. Here until I can see training
camp on the horizon. Although we're busy preparing a lot
of things, broadcast things, got preseason TV travel arrangements, all
the stuff that we do to get ready for the
twenty twenty five season or any season very much underway,
and a lot of people taking time off, you know,
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things I do depend on other people to do things
as well, and a lot of these people take time
off I've taken a few days off here and there.
You might take some days off here and there, so
you have to navigate all that. But it's all wonderful
because it means we're in the little gap here and
then we get football and when we see them next
on the field, it's go time. It is ramp up
(01:22):
time to the season. There's no all dressed up and
no place to go like mini camp. No, they are
preparing to play actual games and there we go into
the campaign. I can't wait for it because, like we
said last night, I feel like they're gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It doesn't mean you're gonna win every game, doesn't mean
you execute, because they have to execute. But I think
they've got a lot of tools here to work with,
and we're all excited to see how they put the
whole thing together.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, and that's what makes me excited.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But I understand, as I say, we inch ever so closely,
that isn't I mean, it's exciting, but the flip side
of it is there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Of work to do before now and then.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, and I like to get it all done so
that once we hit training camp and we hit our
shows from Texas training camp Live eight to ten, like, okay,
it's all Texans and everything goes with it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So yeah, so I did a little summer scouting today.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Garrett nus Meyer was on the docket from LSU to
quarterback Melsue and you seem scot report of a football
taker dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So this is for next year?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, colleagues ready for twenty twenty six. So I've already
done three. I've done three of the highly rated quarterbacks.
Oh boy, Lenoris Sellers South Carolina, Cake Klubnick from Clemson,
and Garrett nuss Meyer from LSU's.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The top rated quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
If the draft was today, Who's getting drafted first out
of the class of twenty six?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
To me?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Everybody declares Lenoris Sellers. Okay, And my comp for the
Norris Sellers is Andrew Luck. That's a pretty good comp. Yeah,
it's a good comp. It really is, because there are
a lot of reasons why it's a comp to to
Andrew Luck. That's what I ended up going with because
now Sellers is one hell of runner, so is Andrew.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
When Andrew took off run, it was scary and.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Andrew I hated to see when Luck took off front
of it was not It was not good, not good
at all.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
The memory for me is always well despite being haunted
by him.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah constantly in the day. Was how big he is?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, well remember meeting him up close and personal, thinking
he's a big dude, bigger than he looks on TV.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
For some reason, it's just one of those guys that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Brady you know, is big. Yeah, you stand next to
Andrew Luck. Oh, he's big six.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's what Leonora Sellers just posted the exact same heightweight
of Leonora Sellers. Sellers is a little faster, runs really well,
throws a very catchable ball. I think he's gonna catch
a lot of steam. He's by QB one right now
and then Club Nick and nus Meyer. I finished today.
So I've been doing some summer scouting football take over
dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Go check it out. Oh, Caleb Downs.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I've also done Josh Downs brother Josh Downs who plays
slot receiver for the for the Colts. His brother, Caleb
Downs might be the best prospect in the draft. He's incredible.
He transfered from Alaby's are at Alabam for years. Saber retired.
He went to Ohio State, got a big nil deal,
but it really didn't matter. At that point. He goes
into Ohio State, they won a championship there. He's back
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first third year. So I've got all those scouting reports up.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Position rankings for the summer. Now I know the question is, well,
what about Arch. Look, Arch is throwing about ninety three
times his career, so we don't know. And by the way,
none of the Mannings, and I know it's different, but
none of the Mannings ever left early. They all stayed.
(04:41):
Eli Payton stayed. Now, I don't think Arch is gonna
stay all the way through. I think he's got three
years eligibility. I think three that much. Yeah, I don't
think he's staying for all three. Okay, but I also
think that we don't know a lot about Arch if
we're being honest. So when I do my quarterback rankings,
I will I will have an asterisk. I will put
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Arch up at the top and just say, hey, we
don't know much about him. Be my God tells me
that he's not coming out after this year.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Less they win the championship, get close to winning a championship,
or at least go very deep. And he looks amazing
in the process, and you think, you know, there's nothing
else for him to do.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There's nothing else for him going back.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah I could. I could, and and.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The Colts or the Saints end up with a top pick. No,
I've told you, this is the nightmare for years. Saints
is good. I like the Saints for the nightmare. It
didn't work. Marv Harrison ended up Mark Harrison Junior ended
up going with the Cardinals. Yeah, we're good with him
down in the over in the West. That's that's fine.
We didn't want Marvin Harrison Junior catching passes from March Manning.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That was gonna be Dallas Clark a kid or Dwight Freeney.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Dallas Cark. Clark's got a kid. His name is Tyler Warren.
That's his baby. The kind of onlone, kind of one
and the same, if you will, a little bit of
news about your Texans. The Texas made his signing. I
don't know if this has been made official. I haven't
seen that yet or not. I haven't been scouring my
email for report reports say, and I think it was
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first reported by Aaron Wilson, so definitely give him credit.
David Arnett, former first round draft pick of the at
the time. What yeah, he was Las Vegas Raiders, drafted
by the Las Vegas Raiders in the first round. Had
some issues out in Las Vegas. There was there were
a few issues, but really from that he's gotten it
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back together. Played well with the Roughnecks in the XFL
XL UFL. Always forget with their UFL, I always forget
what it's called now XFL and USFL merged to become
the UFL. Played pretty well for the Roughnecks. Had to
try out with the Texans just recently and apparently he
is signing with the Texans.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Now what does it mean? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You got sting when you got Lassiter. You bringing guy
to and you see what he's got. He played Ohio State,
so he's played some big ball in his career. Like
I said, he had some issues off the field when
he went to the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Hopefully those are beyond and.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Look and I I don't know that I could say
it any better than our guy, Cody Steets said.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And I saw his tweet.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Basically Student's tweet was, you don't create a locker room
with culture and not take a chance on a guy
that's got some talent. You know, like basically saying, hey, yeah,
he's had some issues, but you got a locker room
that is all about this culture. Bring him in, see
if you can't surround him and make it better. And
he gets even better, as you know, as a Texan
than he was a Roughneck. As he's coming back from
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whatever issues failed him with the Raiders. So Damon Arnette
joins the Texteder and will join the Texans when we
start training camp. So seemingly kind of all your news.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I was listening this morning Mark as I was driving
in and Sean and Seth was talking about and I
always love doing this. I feel like they stole it
from me, but that's okay. Pete Prisco's top one hundred
players I find very interesting. First of all, Pete doesn't
follow the normal convention. He just Pete does Pete.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Thanks, Yeah, we know that, we know Pete. He's like ten.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
People can say, oh, this guy's the greatest, and Pete
can like, no, I think he doesn't throw it this
way like we've we've had we've had discussions on the
air about draft prospects. He would like certain guys like
I don't like those guys as much like these guys,
and so he's great about it, and I think it's
what made it fun was that he would defend his guy.
I would defend my guy, and it was like, okay, cool,
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you know, we just he sees it differently than a
lot of people that are out there, and I appreciate
that with them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So he did his top one hundred players.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
How many Texans do you think got in his top
one hundred?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I think at least six.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
At least six? Yeah, okay, name them? Who do you
think six belong in there? One hundred top one hundred
players in the league.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
No particular order, yeah, no particular Go with the two
defensive ends, all right, Daniel and Will, I'll go with Mixing,
I'll go with Nico, okay, and I'll go with the quarterback,
and I'll go with Stingley.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
How many am I at? Yeah? That's six.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That's six.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's six.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I think that does it. Those are the guys who belong.
Mixon is a top one hundred player in this league.
Not according to Pete.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Not according to Pete Prisco. What about the quarterback? CJ?
According to Pete prist is not a top one hundred player.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Four. I can't wait to find out what Jags are
on this list. Okay, I cannot wait to find out.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The one you're thinking might be on the list is
not on the list.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So that no, no, I know he's I know he
wouldn't put him on the list. He's not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Highest ranked Texan is one Derek Stingley Junior.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Okay, he is at number twenty three, and right behind
him one spot after him is in New.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
York Jet is Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Sauce Gardner twenty three and twenty four Derek Stingley and
Sauce Gardner. So sting is the highest rated Texan on
the list. Next Texan.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Daniel Hunter. He comes in a number forty seven.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Geez, forty seven, And I'm like, okay, kind of, I
just I feel like it's a continuation of Danil just
not getting enough credit for how good he actually is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
There are some players that go ahead of him. I'm
coming to Daneil Hunter played in New York.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh if Daniil Hunter played for even the Rams, Yeah,
I know, well, Mark the Rams of the number two market,
but they're the rams La teams. They're not there yet.
It's not even though the Rams have been to two
Super Bowls since moving back to LA and one one
of them. Yep, there's still not what I would consider
a premier NFL franchise, marquee value or otherwise. Now otherwise
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they probably are. I mean, this is a good, really
good NFL franchise, good NFL team, great coach, all of
that stuff, but I don't think they get the credit
for that. So probably a bad example. But let's go
with New York. If he played for Chicago, Chicago, you know,
but he's played in Minnesota all those years. Now he's here, Oh, Dallas, forget.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
About I get about going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Here are the defensive ends. Slash pass rushers ahead at
Daniel all right, Miles Garrett caught him up.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Miles Garrett, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Uh, Micah Parsons, Yeah, TJ Watt, Aiden Hutchinson.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Got him at fifteen. Not Chris Jones, Chris Jomes. They
have listened a defensive end, miss.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
That's not really him. They have this is a defensive end,
which technically he is. But there, Trey Hendrickson, Max Crosby.
I mean, those are all names that I think you
would expect. Now this one, I don't know that I
totally agree with, but maybe it was because the forty
nine ers are out side out of mind. Nick Bosa
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is another one. I think he's the last.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
One ahead before Daniel, before Daniel so.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And again it's the teams that we kind of I
want you to hold on that RAMS thought in a second.
But he was thirty five, He was number thirty five
last year and he held at forty seven.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I do what happened. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's why I felt like he played better here than
he was playing in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Is he forecasting an age decline or something like that?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Maybe it's what he had to say.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Hunter at twelve sacks in his first season with the Texans,
giving him three straight double digit sax seasons, the five
straight in seasons where he played.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
At least nine sixteen games.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He has a force off the edge team of guill
Anderson Junior to give the Texans a nice combo.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So a nice combo. This is a hell of a combo,
A nice comboce.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
This is nice.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Certainly one of the top three four combos in the
NFL at the outside.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, okay, go on, next, Will Anderson Jr. Where does
he put him fifty six.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Okay, but I'm gonna read something to you.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know this.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
In his second season, Anderson Junior had a at thirteen
and a half sacks for the Texans, Right, thirteen and
a half. Number fifty four in this list is Jared Verse,
who plays four the Rams. At fifty four, Verse had
four and a half sacks.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He's as high on him. He's high on him, Johnny.
So here's what he follows with. Okay, but the pressure
numbers show how dominant he can be as an edge rusher. Okay,
can be can Key, can can be.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Will Anderson had three times as many sacks and these
two spots below Jared first.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And it's not all about sacks, we know that, but
Will affects the game greatly.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
How many teams have multiple defensive ends pass rushers outside
the linebacker types in a three to four Possibly, that's
a good question.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Let me see if I can find it out real fast.
That are ahead of these two? Oh? None, ahead of
these two?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
None? All right, there you go. Because I went through
all the defensive ends. Nobody's got a combo.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, nobody's got a combo. Nobody's got comb But it's
a nice combo. Nice combo. Come on, Pete, nice combo.
It's a hell raising yes, one for the ages type
of combo.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, it is absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Will Anderston at fifty six and finally at sixty seven.
The fourth Texan on here, man by the name of
Nico Collins bothered by injuries, is Pete bothered by injuries.
Collins played in just twelve games last season, as the
Texans offense took a step back. When he was on
the field, he was still a big play threat with
sixty eight catches and seven touchdowns. He averaged nearly fifteen
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yards per catch, which was down from.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The year before.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know if I like, Okay, I do think
that last sentence is important because it just shows that
after he got hurt, they just went really away from
the deep game, like taking deep shots was almost just
out of the calculation in some sense.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And maybe that was protection.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And deep threats and didn't didn't want to get Nico
hurt again.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You know who's to say, Well, Plus, it helps when
you have Tank or somebody else out there to take
some attention away and you run those those routes today.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Tank, by the way, it's good to see Tank around
the building. I'll tell you what you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Inching toward mini camp and I know we're still on
this thing, but there are guys here, and we talked
about the guys who were here before offseason conditioning began.
We're right back in that mode where tons of guys
are coming into work out every day at a time
of year where I don't remember seeing that many guys
working out, not.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Not this many.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I was in the studio this morning or around lunchtime
or so, and I'm just, you know, kind of going
through my Nustmeyer and also i hear boom, boom, boom,
and I'm like, oh, I mean, you know the sound.
It's medicine balls up against the wall out in the hallway,
and not just one of them. It's like a cacophony
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of just.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it's the mediciony of and hitting the center block walls.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And it's beautiful. It is a beautiful it is a
beautiful sound.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It was a great sight to see because they're setting
up for the Morgan Whaling concert now after Metallica was
here last week, crazy and you got the guys working
out among that amidst the.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Midst that you mentioned two guys that are not on
this list.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I probably overinflated the Joe Mixon projection here because he
was fifteenth in the league in rushing last year.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But I think he was putting miss in that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
But I mean, if you if you did it by
rush yards per game, I think you maybe you.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Think ninth and yards per game, yards per cary, yards
per carry was great. That's not great.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But you know, is Joe better than Bucky Irving? Who
Pete has it ninety four?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Geez? Could be?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I mean Bucky Ivery had a good year, don't get
me wrong, But I don't know if you had your
opportunity to go into this year, would take Bucky Irving
or Joe Mixon. I think it wouldn't have been a
tough decision.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, and for some they had injuries on wide receiver also,
and managed the Bucks Yeah, and managed to make the postseason.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, the Bucks got a number of guys on here.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So how many guys do you think made it inside
the division that aren't Texans.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Let's see, Simmons will make it, Taylor will make it,
Quentin Nelson will make it. Maybe Buckner or Stuart and
or Stuart. No, you got enough Colts. I missed one team.
I'm missing the Jags. Who's making it from the Jacks?
Trayvon Walker's making it?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, the other one, Josh hens Allen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Oh, Josh Heines Allen makes it over Trayvon Walker at
a good year.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I know, Josh times Allen, he's got and from the
Jags rookie wide receiver Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It makes the top one hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, you want to get even more upset, okay, Brian
Thomas Junior comes in at number No.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Forty four.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He's ahead of Nico twenty three spots ahead of me.
All Right, so this is the Jags blood, the teal
blood of Pete Prisco coming through. But in fairness to Pete,
you know, he was kind of the McLean of Tony
Boselli trying to get Bisselli into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't know if he has a vote or anything,
but he's loud. Pete will be heard, and he was
standing on a table for a long time saying Baselli
deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Besseli finally
gets into the Hall of Fame. I'm not going to
give Pete full credit here, but I'm just pointing that out.
So he's often right about his Jags support because the
Jags do need somebody to support them, They need somebody
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to trumpet their cause because they're the Jags.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They're in North Florida. It's a small market.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's been said to us many times, how their potential
fan base, the potential that they have is so far
less than virtually any other NFL market. You cannot include
the Packers in this because they're a national brand.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, that's the Yeah, it's a different one. You know.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's like a premier league team that has more fans
out of the market than in the market. That's kind
of thing. That's the Packers.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's true, very true.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So Thomas in seventeen games, let's just try and keep
this as best we possibly can't.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
How a littable for the radio listening audience.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Thomas averaged five point one receiver receptions per game per
seventy five point four yards per game, Nico five point
seven receptions per game, eighty four yards per game. Catch
percentage for Nico sixty nine percent for Brian Thomas sixty
five percent, and basically all the first down catches in
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seventeen games. Yeah, in seventeen games, Thomas had fifty three,
so basically three of his receptions per game went for
a first down.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, if I did that right, Nico.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Forty eight of his sixty eight went for first downs
nice a much higher percentage. That's four first down catches.
So every receiving metric went in the way of Nico
Collins and obviously that's why Nico ended up being a
Pro bowler in twenty twenty four and second team All Proun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Let's do quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Who's the lowest rated quarterback in Prisco's top one hundred?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You ready for this?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Am you sure? You want to know this?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm gonna be upset, aren't I? Because I heard the
guys this morning talking about Chris Simms top quarterback ratings
and Stroud was seventh?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Was he seventh or eightnth? Yeah? Seventh?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, Chris seven seventh? Wow, so the eleventh. He's got
eleven quarterbacks on here.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
In the top one hundred, and the top one hundred
at number ninety two is his lowest rank quarterback.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
We faced him last year.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He beat US.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
He threw three interceptions against US, but led a game
winning field goal.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Drive Golf No. Two five against US.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Oh, that's right. There was five game winning field goal
drive at Jordan Love. Jordan Love after his breakout season
three picked off Love three times, we picked off picked
off Golf five times, picked off Herbert four times. Yeah, jeez, yeah,
you're sensing something here.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Good couldn't pick off my Homes?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How many? None?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
None? None? But he had run Mahomes had a run
of not throwing interceptions.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I know this is good.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Look, this is part of mahomes greatness.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, to not throw the pick it is, it really is,
And I know it didn't work out in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Who was his number one quarterback and.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Who was number one overall on this list, Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
No, Patrick Mahomes. Oh really he has Mahomes at number one,
number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
See a lot of people have soured. I'll put that
out of their quotes. Yeah, Mahomes being the top player
in the league, right, and even the top quarterback. But
you have to give it to them. Yeah, until further notice. Now,
I know the Super Bowl, and I do think Hurts
doesn't get enough credit even though Mahomes at a bad
super Bowl. Look, you and I were just watching the
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highlights today of the twenty eight to three game. But
the Patriots the Super Bowl pick six in that game,
I mean, they are not looking good, not at all,
and they turned it around clearly, whereas the Chiefs couldn't
do it in their last time.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's a point. I'm happy about it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
There was a point I made to you about that
game and the super Bowl two years before that. Oh
that was a good point, and even super bowls before that,
even twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
This plays into what I want to see out of
Joe Mason in that Super Bowl. Who led in the
Super Bowl was year twenty eight to three?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Who led the Patriots in receiving Seth and Sean, I
want you to listen to this because you guys have
talked about this, but you haven't given the numbers, and
it proves your point.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And basically the point was.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That Brady Stroud Paris and all that kind of stuff
that's been brought up. If there's one thing that Brady
did better than any quarterback ever, it was take profit. Yeah,
and then keep investing in it, and you're gonna get
more profit. In the Super Bowl here, James White had
fourteen catches. He played running back fourteen fourteen two years
prior tied for the leading receptions in that game against
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the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Shane Vereen.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Shane Vereen current text work play Yeah works for Texans
in the twenty eighteen Super Bowl. They ain't really throw
it all that well, but it was an Edelman game.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Edelman.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It was all short stuff to Edelman. He ends up
being the MVP because of that. But that had thirty
five throws of that game, sixteen were targeted for running backs.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, Brady doesn't care about yards per attempt. No, he
just wants to win and move the sticks and matriculate
the ball down the field. He'd love to throw big
play passes all the time, but he realizes it's not possible.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
His backs are open. Hit them the ball and let
them do something.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Hit the open man.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
They're down twenty eight to three, and James White has
fourteen catches. Yeah, fourteen catches. I was key huge.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, So on the list, Jordan loves at ninety two,
This one might make you gag a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And number ninety Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Oh, come on, he's just doing this for clicks now,
and he's smart. Pete Prisco is smart. If I put
Dak Prescott as one of the top eleven quarterbacks in
this league.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'm gonna get get some attention, good and bad.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, and I need my list to pop and act
as clickbait.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He even recognizes that here he says, a year after
leading the league with thirty six touchdown passes, Prescott was
limited to eight games because injury. Even before the injury,
he wasn't as sharp as the year before, when just
eleven touchdown passes and eight picks eight And then he
finishes up and he says, but I think he's closer
to the twenty three Prescott again.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All right, so this is all a projections.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, It's like it's equal parts looking back and projection
all at the same time. At number seventy seven, who
is the man you said we intercepted five times.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
That would be Jared Goff.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Jared Goff, He's at number seventy seven. Baker Mayfield is
at number fifty seven, ranks higher than golf. Yes, and
I think you should be well, we know what happened. Yeah, yeah,
number seven quarterback Jalen Hurts, number fifty two. I still
think Jalen is criminally underrated. But that's you know, number
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forty nine. Justin Herbert over the final four games, he
threw nine touchdown passes and no picks. He's another who
needs to win in the playoff.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That would be regular season games, yes, Pete, and look
at the playoff performances. Okay, good first half against Jacksonville.
Since halftime at the Jacksonville game, not so much gone well?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And were we not gone well?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
We ran on.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Our YouTube channel we posted the drive. It's funny because
you guys were talking about you guys, you and what
player did we have in here? Because we interviewed forty
of them last week, So I'm a little foggy on
this one. But you were talking about the drive of
the season might have been running the ball well against
the Chiefs in the playoffs and punching it in. Yeah, okay,
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and that video is up on YouTube right now. By
the way, Jared Patterson really cool. We had him on
the show earlier. But where was I going with this?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That drive?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
In the Charger playoff game, we're in our own end.
Deep got to come out. It's six nothing Chargers, so
they weren't doing anything on offense either, but we had
a gooseg on the board. It's getting late in the
first half, and that's when Stroud eventually has the ball
go through his hands, recovers, runs to the right side,
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throws down field, hits X. The drive concludes with a
touchdown pass Denico Collins. That is the drive of the
and as far as a winning drive right and turn
the whole thing around in that game. The next drive
they get it, they get a field goal out of
it before the break.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Ten to six at the break, completely different situation.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Herbert melts down in second half. Herbert just evaporated.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So that makes halftime in the Jacksonville playoff game in
twenty twenty two, Oh gosh, Herbert. Three bad halves of
football in the postseason. And look, I'm not gonna indict
him completely for that. It happens to people. And they
had a good regular season. They won eleven games. We're
talking about teams that are sort of underestimated coming into
the campaign.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, it might be them, It might be them, But
are you going to believe in Are you gonna believe
in them?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Thing?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
What twelve and five is, is anybody gonna believe? Well, Okay, Herbert, let'
see what you do.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I'm just talking about they can make a lot of
people miserable in the regular season and we're gonna play
out there as well later in the year. I agree
with that, so that that can be the kind of
thing where this is the year because look how different
it is, and now those are the narratives that get
going during the regular season. Guys start playing better. Oh
this team's fore yep, you know it's midway through the year.
You have a great start. Those conversations occur, you know,
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and then in one afternoon in the postseason, I'll never mind.
But that's one of the don nature of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It is h Jane Daniels at number thirty three. Wow,
Then it jumps to Joe Burrow at seven, Lamar Jackson
at six, Josh Allen at four, and then at number one,
he's got Patrick Mahomes his top five. Patrick Mahomes won,
Miles Garrett two, Saquon Barkley three, Josh Allen four, Justin
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Jefferson five.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's just top five.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
As far as what have you done for me lately,
it's hard to argue, right.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't know about Miles at two. Garrett, Yeah,
that's kind of a projection.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I mean, he had fourteen sacks and he was a
good year. Here's what Pete says. Garrett fourteen sacks to
finished second in the league, but his impact was much
more obvious than that number. He is an E League
game wrecker as he turns thirty this year. I don't
disagree with that, but I don't think. I don't think
I would have put Miles. I would have put Miles
in the front of Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Would you if you could guarantee that both people or
everybody's gonna stay healthy, who's your top defensive end you're
gonna pick for one season?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Would you pick Hutchinson? Would you pick Garrett?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I probably picked Miles, Okay, he's such a freaking nature
for one season and I know he's staying healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, I probably. I probably picked Miles. Okay, I'll tell
you the guy.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That I've always loved, and I think that it's really
clicking for him and as long as he stays healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He didn't finish the year healthy Max Crosby t Raiders.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, I was gonna mention Crosby. He's so long, he's
so related about healthy. TJ Watt seventeen games of healthy.
TJ Watt felt like, and this.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Is hard because you try and you try and assess,
is it a little bit of age showing is he
playing through some stuff? And I know TJ is playing
through some stuff and he does, but it looked like
he had lost a little bit at the end of
the year. So when TJ's fully healthy, my god. I
remember we were leading up to the twenty seventeen draft.
I remember Drew coming into my office and we just
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kind of sat and chatted. He goes, hey, do you
think that we might think about taking JJ Watt and
putting him or taking TJ Watt and putting him with JJ?
And I just remember my wheels start turning, like, holy cow,
could you imagine? And of course things changed. Could we
want up and got the quarterback and that was a
smart thing to do. And then then he fell all
the way at thirty and went to the perfect place
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for him with the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
But I mean, it's tough.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I watched Michaeh Parsons, as much as I love Mikeah,
I watched Titus basically shut him down. Titus just basically
took his big old right arm and just stuck it
underneath Parsons chin all night. And Parsons wouldn't adapt and
wouldn't adjust he kept taking every holding penalty. Yeah, the
Money Night game, he just shut him down. And I
love Mike. I think he's he's a guy would think
about a conversation.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
But Miles, I think there was a motivational issue all
PROBA time.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Absolutely. I mean you and I talked about it. Yesterday.
He said, run.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They're signing autographs and taking pictures warming up for the game.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I got a feeling if they were undefeated, he might
not be doing that. Maybe just a hunch. We'll see
what happens against Watt is thirty years old already. Where
does the time go?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I it's my mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But that's Pete Prisco's top one hundred and the name
that we didn't discuss that wasn't in here was c J.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Stroud not in the top one hundred players.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I will say this just given kind of how Pete
looks at it, I'm not surprised. And I think one
of the things that I'm not surprised about is just nationally,
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There was this there, the disappointment.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
They were disappointed with the year, in large part because
people those same people had high expectations for this team
after everything that was done and It's not CJ's fault.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
It just happened, right.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
The quarterback numbers aren't as good as everyone wanted them
to be. The performance wasn't there. And again, no fault
of Seed. Well maybe it is whatever, whoever's fault it is.
National media Dissi pointed.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And pointed at him and said, it's look, his numbers
are down. They're gonna put the game against Green Bank.
There were games he had no chance to even be successful.
What NFL GM's thirty two gms. You could draft Jordan
Love right now? Ok, we're CJ. Stroud right now. Make
all things equal. Yeah, line receivers everything right. There's no contest,
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there's no content, no contest, and I like I like
Jordan Love.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
No contest. I just know what's feeling. There's a lot
more there.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
C J.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Stroud is twenty three years old as we speak. God,
think about that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's reminduless. The age is my daughter. It just makes me,
oh my gosh. My daughter's burd turned twenty three in
a week. So uh, there we go. Okay, Mark and
I had an opportunity to sit down with one of
our favorite Texans. He's got a great event going on
in New York this offseason. He'll be there this weekend
for it fully Foughtakasi so glad he's a Texan. He
joins us next right here in Texans All Access.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
What's happen everybody?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Walking back to Wednesday ed issue of Texans All Access
for on the Hyundai Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I am John Harris football and a sideline reporter.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
You'll hear and see me on our preseason games, kicking
it off against the Minnesota Vikings August ninth. I believe
the date is important. Date came out today, so that's
on Pro Football Talk Texans rookies will report for training
camp July twenty second. July twenty second the rookies. It
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says here on Pro Football Talks articles article that the
Texans rookies will report in July twenty second. The rest
of the league, it's all over the place, some reporting
as early as a week prior. San Francisco, Seattle, they're
all reporting earlier. Giants reporting earlier, Miami reporting earlier. So
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either way, Texans reporting on the twenty second, So keep
that date in mind. So that means training camp is
gonna be starting somewhere around then a day or two
later we'll find out, but at least we know that
rookies are reporting on the twenty second. A guy who
is not a rookie, a very vital piece of this
defenses run defense. We love him, We absolutely adore this guy.
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And when he walks in studio, our our faces light up,
his face lights up. Fully fodder Kosi. Great event he's
got going on this weekend. Back home in New York.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Check this out. Fully fought of Costi with Mark.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And myself in the Hyundai Texans radio studio with us.
I was so happy home and it was announced that
fully thought of Cassi was going to be back with
your Texans on the D line. Welcome back. Well he
never really left, but welcome.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Appreciate you fellas is always is always going to.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Talking to you guys, I mean technically left, but coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
How tough a decision was that for you?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Was?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It wasn't a tough decision? Did you want to be
back here? How happy you have to be back here?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Definitely wanted to be back here, and honestly, just to
answer you a question, and fool like, it wasn't a
tough decision to come back. So yeah, once the doors
open yup. It was easy to walk through it.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah. Yeah, So a lot of guys are really happy
to see you and Rankins is back from the twenty
three season, and to have you and him and everybody
else saw it again. Mario, we were talking with him,
he's back too. It's got to feel good because you know,
the culture is great in that room. An even it's
an even better culture this year.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
No, it is man to have all the guys back.
So me and rank we played together in New York
and we have a great working relationship and we have
a great off the field relationship as well. So and
obviously you know I played with Rio in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yep, Yo.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
The room is great. It's great. It's a great room.
The guys are excited. It's definitely gonna be a fun season.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, we're watching last year.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
There was such a difference when you were on the
field and you could just see it. There were so
many times flexings like he's making plays out there in
the field when you're out there. We talked to him,
Mario as soon as we brought up your name, Mario,
that's my dude, And you got the sense that playing
next to him, the combination you guys had. How you
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played off one another was really special to him and
how he saw it. How do you kind of look
at that relationship. I know that a lot of times
you're depending on scheme and whatever else you might be
out there mixed up with another guy, but it felt
like when you two were on the field, it was
just making plays between you two. What was that relationship
like together and learning in this defense which is different
than some of the others you may have played in.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Man, awesome question. It was amazing to get to work
with Rio right as soon as we got in together.
One we already have been familiar with each other playing
in Jacksonville, but actually having to take you know, live
reps with one another, it was like, honestly like bread
and butter. Yeah, I mean, we were able to really
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work off of each other. And one thing that I
really enjoyed about, you know, working with Rio along with
the rest of the room, is we were always crafting
what we can do to kind of cut the edge,
to make our play a little better. So he would
always see something about my game and it'd be like,
folio you could do this, I'd be like, all you think, So,
I don't know if I may have that, and he'll
steady just be encouraging, you know, I mean to try
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something new and vice versa. So, but that's just not
the relationship between you know, Rio and I. That's the
relationship between all of the guys in the room. So
Kurt Hiness is another one. He will see something about
my game and he'll bring it to me and I'll
and I'll work at it, you know what I mean,
to get better. So now that Sheldon's back in the room,
me and Sheldon already have that relationship. So and he's
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I think he's a lot more talented than certain parts
in the game than I am. So I'm I definitely
looked at him to grow in a lot of areas.
So that relationship that me and Real have cultivated, it's
across the board, allow the room.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, you guys rotate a lot. So how is that determined?
Is it?
Speaker 3 (37:48):
You? Sometimes you meaning any one of you defensive tackles
saying all right, you know three is enough, three snaps
or whatever, get the other guy in here. I know
doubt a distance plays into this as well, But how
does all that go down? Because sometimes like hockey line change,
I mean, you guys are coming in and out of
the game, and we have enough guys to do it
and still play at a high level.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
All right, there's a lot of variables, you know, flow, momentum,
how you're feeling, you know, situations and so on and
so forth. There's a lot of variables. I guess it
would just really just depend on flow of drive, how
you're playing in those flow drives, how you feel in
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those flow drives, and getting the next guy in so
it makes so he also gets flow the game as well.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
So it really just depends so fully. I've asked a
fore you guys about this. This is year ten for you?
What your existent league?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
God, thank god, you're prophesying over my life. You know
this is your eight you're eight. Okay, you're eight.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
It'll be at least tag.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, it'll be more than that, your eight fully fought
of COSTI can walk back in time to rookie year
fully fought to COSTI and give him one piece of
advice that he can carry forward for the rest of
his career.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
What would it be.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Remain a student? It really learn from everybody. You can
learn from every situation. Remain a student and truly understand
what's best for you. So you can be a high
performance love it, be a student. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
But again I feel like you've done that, right.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah I haven't. I'm not allowed. It's what brought me
this far. So yeah, I'm praying that it can bring
me a little further.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
So being a student, how different is this defense that
you're in now for it versus what you've been in
in the past.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
The aggression, the amount of aggression that you're allowed to,
you know, play with.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Now, if this is my own personal opinion, it was
a little similar to when I when I played under
Greg Williams and yeah, yeah, yeah, Greg Williams obviously he
was known for being an aggressive decordinator. But you know,
coming back into this, you know this system as well,
being allowed to literally just pin your airs back and
just go uh. I think it's a little different. I
think there is an adjustment period to get back to it.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
That's how it's going to get to you.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
You know, there is. But once you kind of like
take the governor off a bit, it's like, all right,
you're you're ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Yeah, okay, queens you going back. You got something going
on later this month, right.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, so I'm going back going back to New York.
I have a nonprofit organization with an amazing team, and
we've been able to put together like a weekend event,
you know, one that we do every year. In a
new addition this month, on June twentieth, we have a
Friday Night Lights game with our youth football team, the
far Rockaway Ravens versus the Brooklyn Titans. That game will
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be happening at six thirty on June twentieth. And then
June twenty first is our Rock to Block Funday, where
the entire community elected officials, organizations and you know, children,
families and so on and so forth gets to come
out as a community as a collective and just pretty
much enjoy the day with you know, food, fundraising, shows, performances,
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bounce houses, painting, whatever have you.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Back where you're from.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
And I had to bring that up because people watching
this see wearing a Yankee hat.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
It's because it's from New York.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Okay, but you But and this is what I've always
found it interesting with the NFL folio is people in
houstould love you.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I mean, Mark, and I like you walk on water,
I mean you're incredible.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Like I hate the Yankees, I can't stand the Yankees
at all, yet we can love you in Houston. You're
part of the Texans organization, part of Texans family. But
yet back home still means that much to you to
be able to put on the events back home for
kids that you know are from the area of where
you're from. And I think that's always so cool that
you have the opportunity to do that and then wherewithal
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to be able to do it and then pull it
off for those kids, I mean a lot too.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
No, it's definitely a blessing. It's definitely a eye opener.
But first and foremost, let me not even take any credit.
I have an amazing team. Yeah, and we all grew
up in the neighborhood. We all went to school there,
we were born and bred there, and they are just
some amazing people you know that really really do the
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groundwork and and get all the connections together.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
So you know, a huge shout out to the team.
You know, they're they're they're amazing. And to be able
to see the product at the end of it, yeah,
you know, and see the smiles and see how it's
impacted the community in a positive way. It inspires you
and it definitely puts a better year back to to
do more.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Doubt fully, great to catch up, Great to see you
looking forward to the season. Thank you, No appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Fellis the absolute best.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
And I'm telling you right now, when I saw his
PFF great from last year, I about throw I about
threw up.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
I'm like, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
This guy was an important to our run defense, huge
vital cog in the middle. Look, he'll tell you it
wasn't perfect last year, but it was pretty darn good
when ninety one was on the field, and I can't
wait to have him back on the field.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
All his guys, and it was interesting you're.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Talking to them during our media days, but they all
played together at other stops, which was really interesting between
Mario Edward, Sheldon Rankins, fully fought of Cassi, Tim Settle,
they all kind of each other, played next to one another,
and then obviously they had last year and now rank
gets thrown back into the fall, which I think is
absolutely awesome. So great stuff, fully fought Acosi. Okay, we
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get back. There's a lot of news happening in sports.
We'll hit the NFL news. Will remind you of the
two news items we had today going on with the Texans,
and then there's news in sports that two huge sales
of a basketball team and a baseball team. Holy smokes,
(43:30):
the difference in price is pretty amazing. But either way,
two of them sold. I'll get you that news as well.
We'll do that on the other side. Right here in
Texas All Access we go one final segment this Wednesday,
Nation of Texans All Access from the Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I'm John Harris Football and a sideline reporter for your
Houston Texans. A couple pieces of Texans news.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Gordon's sources Aaron Wilson the first one to report this,
I believe, so give him credit.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
KPRC two.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Damon Arnett, former first round pick of the Las Vegas Raiders,
fell in some hard times with the Raiders, some things
that he is still recovering from in some sense, but
signed out with the Houston Roughnecks in the XFL. Played
very well, got to try out. Texans signed him. They
were bringing former first round pick in former Ohio State
(44:20):
Buckeye All American Damon Arnett back to the fold in
the NFL. You get something out of Damon, My goodness,
it's it's found money.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
It's twenty dollars in your pocket. If not, you move on.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
And you give a guy an opportunity to compete, especially
the guy's turned his life around. And I think a
man coach student's put it best paraphrase, and essentially he said,
you've got his locker room in the culture, and you
preach the culture. Well, this is the opportunity to emphasize
what the culture can do for a guy that's had
some issues but has seemingly turned his life around. So
Damon Arnett is going to be a Houston Texan and
(44:55):
that is great stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
NFL dot com Pro Football where I saw this, they
have reporting dates for all thirty two NFL teams. Texans,
rookies and veterans going to report on July twenty second.
July twenty second, Texans at Houston mephis training center reporting
(45:17):
for training camps. So that puts us a month and
four days away. Holy crap, Holy crabits, get here a
whole lot faster than maybe any of us want to realize.
News in the NFL, JayR. Alexander is a raven, Yes,
(45:38):
a raven, good God. He signed after being released in
Green Bay couldn't find a trade partner, Jay Alexander Lamar
Jackson teammates. So yesterday when Lamar was meeting with the media,
he made a plea seemingly laughing about about Eric Takasagama
the Ravens going on getting Jaire Alexander. He did one
year at four million, up to six two millions and
(45:59):
cent incentives. He can get Jaire Alexander is a Raven
Holy cow. Nate Wiggins, Marlon Humphrey, JayR Alexander, Kyle Hamilton,
Malachi Starks. The only secondary in the league, well there's two,
but really the only one that gets close is Derek Stingley, Kamara, Lassiter,
(46:22):
Jalen Peatree, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson and Klen Block. Eagles is good,
Red Blanket Ship Cooper dejen Quenyon Mitchell. Trying to think
who will play that other corner spot for the Eagles
off the top of my head, I can't. I can't
think of who it is. But the Eagles secondary is
gonna be pretty good. But after that, man, I don't
(46:43):
know that you get close anywhere in the league. So
Ravens Texans, They're gonna have two the better secondaries in
the league, all right, sports news. The Los Angeles Lakers
have sold Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Dodgers,
is in green to purchase a majority steak in the Lakers,
per Shams Chanrea, ten billion dollars, ten billion dollars. Jerry
(47:13):
Buss bought the Lakers for sixty seven million, sixty seven
and a half billion dollars in nineteen seventy nine, sold
by his daughter Jenie Buss ten billion dollars. Now show
you how things are a little different. The Tampa bay
Rays apparently are being sold to a Jacksonville businessman, and
(47:33):
that got me thinking, like, man, could the Tampa bay
Rays move up to Jacksonville? That would be kind of interesting.
Keep mine on that one. That'll be kind of fun.
But looks like the Tampa bay Rays are also going
to be sold. One point seven billion for the Rays,
ten billion for the Lakers. And yes, I know, different sports,
but different valuations. The Lakers a temp pole franchise.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
In the in the NBA rais not so much Major
League Baseball, but still two franchises being sold today. It's
kind of wild to think about. All Right, it's gonna
do it for the show. Appreciate you guys being here,
we'll see you tomorrow and as always, go Texans.
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