What's going on? Everybody.
Welcome into a Friday issue that Texans All Access from the Texans Radio Studio.
I am your host, John Harris.
Football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. Very excited to be with you as always on a Friday.
We have plenty for you.
We're gonna have Trap Jay Travis Johnson on a little bit later in the show, just hitting all kinds of football stuff his career before he became a Texan, talking about those Florida State teams and that was such a great era with Florida State and Miami and Florida and it's great to get his perspective on that and being part of the Texans Legends community.
So we'll have that a little bit later for you in the show.
But schedule release was this week and Drew Doherty and I just due to scheduling conflicts, we really didn't get a chance to do in the lab until today, and so here it is in the Lab with Drew Doherty and me John Harris.
We talked about the.
Schedule, including the weird sort of happenstance that this is only the third time in Texans history that we will go to Seattle to play the Seahawks up in the pack northwest.
Here we go in lap Drew and John right here.
Hey, the Texans have a schedule, and I have you to talk with and I have you the third member of us to listen and watch and kind of take part. And so that's kind of fun. It's a good day. It's Friday. We're shooting this on a Friday. Friday, as we know, is the best day of the week because of the promise that it holds for the weekend ahead. And I'm pumped. Man. This is a pretty I think in terms of schedules, I don't see a whole lot that daunts me or that frightens me or anything. I don't see any Blizzard games on the horizon. Maybe it'll be cold in Kansas City in December, maybe, but it's still kind of early in December. The hottest it'll get is that probably Jacksonville game. But by then you're it's on the first day of fall technically, but can't be too too bad. And then you've got some you got a three banger there in November. But what was your first what was the first thing that stood out to you when you saw the schedule a couple days ago.
Well, you know, knowing who we're playing and where they're playing, I already knew that there were only five outdoor games. Yeahs, Yeah, so I always checked that. That's that's you know, that's just being down the sidelights. That's one of the things I always check. You know, which games could I get, you know in Kansas City, Baltimore, you never know where those get put.
You know, you could have that. You know Baltimore very well and.
Ought to be pretty nice when when you're there in October.
Yah, yeah, that that could be pretty nice. I always worry about Jacksonville if they do put it in September, because September, you know, he said it technically it's the first day of fall.
But it's it's on.
The same latitude line as Houston. It is a little bit different. But I've I've played, I've coached many a game in Jacksonville at that time time of the year.
Yeah, it can be hot, but by then, like the edge, the edge is off the awful you know, like hot, but it won't be awful, awful, awful hot.
I hope. Now.
We were there week three in twenty three and that was the day that things got turned around. And I remember we went to dinner the night before with you know, my my good friends, you know, guys that I coached from I was, you know, younger, and I just remember like, hey man, you got Kansas City and you know, jackson you guys take it easy on us, man, like rozero and two. We didn't look good against Indianapolis. You know, CJ did throw it well in that second half, and I just remember them kind of like, yeah, well, you know, we'll take it easy on you.
On Sunday, it was Decade.
And they were getting and then they got booed into the halftime they were yeah, the home fans were nothing.
Yeah, And things just turned around at that moment for this franchise. I mean from that point, you know, that made them one to two. But the next week it was the Steelers. They got two and two, and you thought, man, call, did we have something with this football team, with this organization that we've been lacking? And so you know, Jacksonville week three. But I think the one thing that stuck to me, Drew was early by week four primetime games in that Monday night game at Seattle, like.
Oh my god.
But all that.
Being said, I felt like there was fairness in the schedule.
I didn't feel like last year.
Like I looked at last year, like three primetime games, damn, thirteen games in a row, damn to start the season.
Oh and we're going to Canton.
Oh god, So you know you had all that going on, and this year it's like we're gonna start camp at the regular time. It's an early buy yep. But the the long travel games are spread out. Yeah, so you've got one in week one, one week seven, one in week seventeen. So like if you weren't gonna put them together, so you could do like one big road trip to spread them out, that's the most exactly I'm doing.
I thought there was a chance the two LA games you might or the or in La Seattle combo, right and you stay up in San Francisco or wherever. Yeah right, yeah, and do do something like that. But it didn't work out that way. And yeah, I saw. What I really stood out to me was the first seven weeks, you're only home two games. You have four roadies those two in the bye, but you got the buy mixed in there. So it kind of lessons that I just remember the Gauntlet of twenty twenty where.
You had all those.
Teams right and legend and had a coaching change in large part because of that that start to that season. Uh. And then I remember two years ago getting schedule and it's all noon games, which was funny, and that worked out well, that worked out really well.
For that team, you know. Yeah, so it was it was, it was all good.
But let's just I think that that I think the toughest stretch of that schedule, Drew is gonna be that you know, that includes.
I think a trip to Indy and then home for the Bills.
Yeah, and then at Kansas City on Sunday night. Now you get the mini buy in between the Bills and the Chiefs, but the man to play the Bills and the Chiefs back to back. I mean, we did that last year playing the Chiefs and the Ravens, but we did that within five days. Now at least we've got, like, you know, a week and a half between.
The Bills and the Chiefs.
But, man's that's a tough stretch.
But to finish with three out.
Of four at home, yeah, and to have three in a row after the Seattle trip, boy, that's when you really could start making some headway of not traveling, just getting in a routine and winning those games before you go back out.
On the road.
And I want to say, when we go back out on the road after those three, I think it's to go to Tennessee. Which, look, I think Tennessee's going to be better, but we haven't. You know, we've had success at in Tennessee lately. I think I'm trying to remember last time we lost I think was the COVID year at twenty twenty.
But from twenty nineteen on.
I mean, that's the only game, you know, with a full relatively full stadium, we've only we've won every game just that COVID year that we lost that game in twenty twenty, and that was a tremendous That's one of the more underrated great games I've ever been to in my life.
That was incredible that day.
But we've had success in Tennessee.
So you follow up those three at home, like, Okay, let's knock these three out. Good opponents, but let's knock these three out. You should be favored in all three games at home. Let's knock them out. And then instead of going on the road to Baltimore or going on the road to Kansas City. You're going to Tennessee, a place where you've won a lot of ball games and a division opponents. So you know, I feel like this this schedule overall was equitable.
I just know that's going to be one long trip to Seattle.
But once you get done with that, you have I have some you know, some breathing room to get back on track.
Let's rewind too, Okay, that Seattle game in twenty seventeen, you're going You've basically almost gone three thousand days in between trips to Seattle last time you went there. Yeah, in fact, the exact number is I just had it pulled up, and the exact number of days in between you're twenty seventeen, which was October twenty ninth of twenty seventeen, trip then to Seattle to now which is October twentieth this year. Two thousand, nine hundred eleven days. And that was a memorable week because of all the stuff that went on.
Oh yeah, Dwayne, and then on top of.
All that, Dwayne Brown had held out comes back just and that's his last game he plays as a Houston Texan. Played well enough to protect and have led to Sean and the Boys put up on a amazing offensive output, and you know, the Texans offense walked off the field with the lead in that game, and then Seahawks drive and win it and we get on the plane and the Astros and the Dodgers the World Series. It's game five here at it was at the Juice Box dik In Park, and that's one of the epic games in franchise history. I think probably the top five Houston Astros franchise just Donnybrook man, I mean, back and forth, back and forth, and the plane that we're riding on, You're hearing all these oh's people following it. Like Shane Leckler, I think was.
Had a t V jersey on as we walk on a plane. We walked by he had a two V jersey on. I contend that had we held on in that game in some way, shape or form the way the game was played and the Astros won, that would have been one of the greatest days in Houston sports history. I mean it was as it was because that's arguably the greatest World Series game of all time. Yeah, and I'm that game was unbelievable, and I I think what's fascinating about it, Drew, is this trip to Seattle.
So we've been in the league.
This is gonna be year twenty three. Yeah, it's been there.
It's only a third time we've been there.
Something goofy happened. It was my first year of the team in nine. You went to Arizona and you went to Saint Louis.
They flipped. They flipped Arizona and Seattle for some reason. I guess because they did something would travel.
Yeah, yeah, I think it's like it would have been a punnet. I don't know, but yeah, you didn't have to make that trip for some reason.
Right, and so we didn't go there five to seventeen, it was twelve years between visits and then eight years you know since seventeen. So it's only been up there three times and you've beaten the Seahawks, but you've never beaten him up there in Seattle.
So maybe that's another, you know, check mark of things.
That lost lots of first you can accomplish if you do that. So that would be one. If you were to win in balt More, You've never done that. You've only beaten them twice here, but I've won in Baltimore so that's Yeah, those are two pretty notable things that you could accomplish.
You want to beat Lamar Jackson. Never beaten Lamar Jackson anywhere? Yeah, anywhere at the point in time. Boys on six', ten we're talking about.
That seth And Sean penry ass so, yeah almost Called Sean. Payne my, APOLOGIES i know that you both.
Are, yeah those guys are.
Funny they are.
Funny, well uh, listen, Man i'm.
PUMPED i can't wait to talk a little bit more about it with you here in the weeks to. Come but The texans have their schedule AND i think it's a good. ONE i think it's a very advantageous one and if they do what they can and what we think they can, do fun times coming up, right sound good to?
You sounds good to?
Me, Man this is.
Awesome all, Right, hey have a good weekend and we'll see you v in very very. Soon this has been in the lab presented By. Exfinity have was a good.
One, yeah that was such an incredible.
DAY i remember thinking as we were flying out to see and there was so much that was going on with the team at that, time AND i meant a ton That saturday. NIGHT i remember we went out to, dinner AND i know the team was having like all these meetings about what they were gonna do On, sunday where they gonna, play where they're not gonna, play and then it ended up being one of the most incredible football Games i've ever seen in an incredible. Environment And drew brought up At Dwayne brown. Situation he played in that, game flew To, seattle played in that, game came.
BACK i saw him on that.
Money we chatted for a little bit because we'd see each other for a, while and literally the next day he's off The seattle to play for The seahawks after that. Trade so there was a lot of kind of craziness for that, week but had we been able to hang. ON i just remember getting on a plane and the way we had to get in a. Plane we had to actually walked through the players to get to our spot in the. Back AND i just remember Seeing lekler on the plane in nol Two, Bay, jersey and we were getting. Updates we would kind of Get Wi fi spotty on the, plane but stuff to kind of, refresh and the score kept going back and, forth and we're, like, man what is going on AND i remember being on a bus is the one thing we didn't.
Say we were on a bus.
Coming back from the airport and we were going right by formerly minute made Now dyke And, park right as The ashers were scoring a game winning. GROWING i was watching a game on my phone as we were going Past dyke And park and they scored to win the game as right as we were going.
By it was absolute. Madness had The texas one that.
Day it might have been one of the, greatest maybe the greatest sports day in the city Of houston until The texas win A Super bowl and that would be the. Greatest but it's up, there. Man that game five was. Incredible That Texas seahawks game was. Unbelievable just couldn't pull off the. Wind but hopefully we'll be able to do that On monday night up In. Seattle will do that. Now guy joining us next Is Travis. Johnson he is From, california but he is A houstonian at, heart continues to reside In. Houston we had part one of our conversation with Trap jay the other. Day here's part two coming up. Next we dive into a lot of different. Things that's next To Texas All. Access what's happened? Everybody welcome back to A friday edition Of Texas All ACT. Sss we just got through talking to schedule with My man And Drew. DOHERTY i Am John, harris your Host drew And john in The lap. Podcast make sure you check it. Out one team we didn't talk about was The samprus of forty Nine. Ers it'll be exciting to see the forty nine ers and their newly rich, Quarterback Brock party agreed to terms on a five, year two hundred and sixty five million dollars. Contract he gets one hundred and eighty one million to total. Guarantees that includes one hundred and sixty five million in the first three new years of a.
Deal that runs through twenty.
Thirty so the forty Nine ers take Mister irrelevant turn him into one of the highest paid quarterbacks in THE. Nfl congratulations Of Rock, Party, man it's. UNBELIEVABLE i remember back in twenty two we were playing them in a preseason game And party came in the second.
HALF i remember we were talking about on.
A broadcast Like, man of all the quarterbacks that we've seen, tonight this this guy looks the best but we knew they were gonna go With Trey.
Lance that was the way they were gonna.
Go ended up put it being put in the hands Of Rock party and got him to the Super bowl one, year got him to The Dems championship another.
Year last year was.
Injuries we'll see what this year brings for the forty nine ers With. Texans we'll see the newly minted quarterback of the forty nine, Ers Brock, party mister irrelevant just twenty twenty, two just three years, ago and now he is a rich man two hundred and sixty five million over five.
Years great stuff For rock pretty well more around.
THE, nfl and our final segment because we got to get to our, Man Travis. Johnson Trap jay joins us with a thought on so many different things and With mark who has connections to The, Hurricanes me who lived In florida and just loved college, football And trap who played At Florida. State we obviously talk a lot Of Florida State, florida but we started off asking him about being kind of one of the go to guys in The texas legend community and how much pride he takes.
In that joining us now our good Frid Texans Legend Travis johnson And, Travis i'm gonna start right here BECAUSE i think that you are THE mvp of The legends. Community AND i don't think there's any discussion. Here we have great legends in The Houston, texans great, legends But, travis you are the. Man you're at all the big, Events you're the host with the, Most you're great with all the, partners, sponsors season ticket, members all of. It SO i just thought i'd pay you that compliment as we begin.
HERE i appreciate, that. MAN i enjoy doing What i'm. Doing, man you, know being a people person is WHAT i, am you know WHAT i? Mean AND i love, people love the, sponsors love The, texans love The, meconnaires you, know and what they've done for me and being a part of this, franchise AND i mean HOPEFULLY i can do what time old, man you know WHAT i.
Mean, LIKE i just really truly enjoy.
IT i think it adds to the mystique. Too the older you, get you know the stories of.
It so Try i'm ask you.
This you grew Up, california play college ball In, florida you did play your pro ball.
Here why was it here that you made this year.
Home, WELL i mean, one.
It was the, taxes of, COURSE i MEAN i mean, no, no, no real taxes and true and let's let's let's not be. Fool property taxes kind of even itself out when it come to you, know not living In california per. Se but, uh you know this is WHERE i made, BREAD i made my, names per, se whether infamous or. Not, uh this is where all my friends, were you, know our like our our team here were very tight knit group of. People and even THOUGH i went out and played for The, chargers my closest friends were all still.
Here you.
Know when you talk About, andre you're talking about you Know, vante who's you, know no longer. Here but, uh the whole group was still, here and it was something THAT i wanted to be a part. Of AND i wanted to, be of course a part of this organization you know going, forward and you know Between andre and mcnaire's and, helped you, know help make that. Happen and you, KNOW i couldn't be happier to be. Here my brother in law also you know who played, Here Bear. Smith uh he's one hundred yards from. Me so my wife wouldn't didn't want to leave his, brother her, brother you know WHAT i.
Mean and she's.
FAMILY i mean to have family that close TO i, mean SO i mean that that helps of.
Course oh.
Yeah and then my parents finally moved, here probably right Before. Harvey my parents moved. Here we built them a house here down the street from.
Us.
Uh it, was you, know because my kids were all, here and my mother was, like all my grandkids are In.
Texas i'm coming To.
Texas and it's kind of sad BECAUSE i really wanted to send my kids back to live with my parents for high school to go to my high. School and you, know they kind of negated everything BECAUSE i can't send them back, Now, yeah send them.
Back, NO i.
WAS i was. Ready, wait, wait what's your kid? Inventory, yeah.
SO'S i had five kids too in college right. Now one in The university Of. Tuskegee she's, uh she's engineering and computer.
Engineering.
Mage one's At university Of, alabama Roll. Tide she's a law and sociology. MAJOR i got a junior in high. School there's gonna be a senior At. EPISCOPAL i got a sophomore in high school at e Piscol and THEN i got, uh a seventh.
Grader, okay, WOW.
I know in my Timeline i'll See it'll just pop.
Up it'll be a huddle video AND i see number twenty, three And i'm, like, yeah, like, MAN i.
Try to see the. RESEMBLANCE i don't see it just.
Yet he's not he's not.
Me he's a different he's a different lighter than. You he's a.
Lighter he's he's he plays middle linebacker and. Outside he kind of put him outside because he always played d line because he was kind of pudgy.
Kid. Yeah, uh his game has changed a whole. Lot he's a stand.
Up he'll play middle linebacker in, college probably mid major.
Schools.
Uh he can really play, ball, Man he's, smart HIS iq levels.
Up he can rush the pass when you need him.
Too and you, know it's kind of hard being at the private school because nobody really respects, it you. Know AND i kind of took him there to kind of get opportunity to grow without any real true expectations. Early now that he's become a player THAT i think is a recruitable and a damn good, player and he's grown in the damn good. PLAYER i see what he can, do AND i MEAN i just hope everybody else sees. It but it's just hard because you, KNOW i went to school Like, episcopal but on The West, coast our private schools are our big, dogs you know What i'm.
Saying we carry the, ball we carry the big sticks over, there you know WHAT i. Mean and HERE.
Uil has kind of done a disservice to the private school and as a whole by forcing the private schools if you want to play ul you gotta be SIX a, WELL i, mean got eight hundred students, there there's no reason why you play SIX a. Ball they would be able to compete three four or maybe some little smaller FIVE a, Programs but you can't force the school to play six a. Ball but they use Excusive oh but they get to, Recruit, no not, really because end of the, day you got to get into, school right and they're not giving you fifty scholarships and intuition forty thousand dollars a, year you know WHAT i.
Mean so they're not gonna do.
That so there's a lot of stuff THAT i think they use it excuse to kind of keep the private schools.
Down florida is the same. Way florida's the exact same.
Way WHEN i got, there it was it was, like wait a, second because here private doesn't mess with. Public how's It florida private? Public like we'd played two private, schools we played two public. Schools we're all the same. District i'm, like what is? This it was just it was kind of. Bizarre but they've had those same issues for. Years but there would be some private schools that were exceptionally, good of.
COURSE i mean you go To shamanad In. Florida you're talking About bulls And, jackson Say thomas. Going all of those schools have a lot of. Respect but THAT'S i, mean it is not the, same LIKE i said In, cali like It's Notre, dame It's Modern.
Day it's Saying John, bosco It's.
LOYOLA i, Mean loyola has three thousand boys on, campus you know What i'm.
Saying like the same thing with Day La, sile you know WHAT i?
Mean like those are, big huge programs and our private but we all in the same league though we play each, other you, know until it COMES i guess even in the, playoffs LIKE i Played Modern, day but we could have Played Long beach, probably Which Long beach probably is a is a public school and it's been a public school.
Forever it's it's it's a bunch of different.
Schools BUT i wish it was like, that AND i wish it was designed differently BECAUSE i think high school here would be so much better one if you play traditional high school ball or playing extra home, Field like there's no reason for all these municipal stadiums to look great and. Grandios but you don't get the same high School friday night lights THAT i got.
With you, know you're playing against on your.
Campus you're smelling the try tip over there in the, corner you're hearing the.
Band you got wooden.
Bleachers you, know it's like it's not a super stadium you're playing in until the. Playoffs but here's, like does anybody ever truly have a home field? Advantage if you if you're playing In alvin or you're playing At Fort, ben you played the same two places all season, long and that's.
Terrible and you're the home game sometimes you're the. Visitors smoke, exactly depend on which game you are, exactly so Like Mercer, Stadium mercer, Exactly Big. Stadium, yeah these. Places alvin's. Amazing oh were the visitors tonight you're the home.
Team, YEAH i.
Guess, look they want it to be what it, is a huge. Event every game is like a bowl. Game so it's a different. VIBE i get to what you're, Saying, well.
Is it that or is it?
THAT i, mean one thing we, know you know because you were in, coaching you know everybody your family's been in coaching is The texas a high school coach association literally has like a monopoly slash mob style. Organization and not just, that but these school districts truly are taking all the. Money you know WHAT i mean when you think about, CONCESSIONS i, mean, like you don't own the, place so why WOULD i give you? Concession you know What i'm, Saying, yeah you might work. It i'll give you a piece of. It but if it's at your, CAMPUS i get. EVERYTHING i go to, Costco Sam's, club buy all my, snacks get all my, burgers sell it like a stadium and truly make. Money OR i hosted that this event center slash you call a municipal. Stadium then now it's like, okay, yeah y'all get maybe your ticket sales on gofan or, whatever but we're gonna get everything, else you know WHAT i, mean it's kind of you, know to. ME i think it does a disserviance because you don't truly get the high school.
Feeling, man Those costco hot dogs are, good by the. Way just a side note, There Travis johnson JOINING. Us so you're playing high school. Ball when do you THINK? Nfl or does that not enter your mind right?
Away is?
IT i just want to play big time college.
Football Hopefully i'll get to do that out of this.
Experience, WELL i think my freshman sophomore year in high school were.
MINE i just, knew you, know as an eighth.
GRADER i MEAN i Was i've been to tall since eighth, grade thirteen years.
Old at, TEN i was five, ten one.
Hundred eighty five pounds PLAYING o, LINE d, line and then my freshman YEAR i played tailback middle linebacker at my first high. School but it was a smaller high, school eight hundred, kids and we played smaller.
Football BUT i was the dominant.
GUY i, Mean i'm bigger than her tire offensive line six four two twenty. FIVE i run like the, wind cut up like a, turkey AND i was, like you know what this is is not big enough for, me you know WHAT i, mean played varsity over half the season until my mother was, like, listen these guys are gonna get you. Hurt she going good PLAY jv BECAUSE i, mean it was like we were getting our butts whipped every, week you know WHAT i. Mean AND i transferred To Shermano's Notre dame to play with one of my best, friends one of the other guy fathers my, kids Is Justin. Fargus so we go out there play with far BECAUSE i Knew fargus is the number one tail back in the. Country and at the, TIME i had two offers after my freshman YEAR ucla AND. Byu you know WHAT i. Mean i'm, Like i'm not going TO. BYU i, MEAN i like women too, much you know What i'm. Maying and SO i was, like, dude IF i go, there they're gonna come watch, Him they're gonna see, me AND i Know i'm the, best you know WHAT i. Mean and we played the first ever national televised high school game On Fox sports WAS us Versus alamane And Ksey closson was a starting quarterback VERSUS us at our place IN uh that opening game of that, season AND i knew from that point. ON i THINK i had four sacks in that, game AND i knew from that that point, on it was Like i'm going to be the. MAN i, Know i'm playing big time college, ball AND i know there's nobody better than. Me and IF i can stay this way through my entire, time because if you're not better than me as a, sophomore AND i, MEAN i was a baseball. PLAYER i never played football until sixth, grade you know WHAT i. Mean LIKE i was played, baseball, catcher first base, picture you, know like that's WHAT i.
Did and it was like my parents didn't know anything about.
FOOTBALL i wasn't taught how TO i, mean the guy who taught me how to play football was my, godsend you know WHAT i, Mean like he just.
Was he was everything for.
Me AND.
I knew at that, Point i'm, like IF i could stay right, HERE i can be all. Right and that's WHY i, mean, really that's WHY i red shirted my FRESHMAN i. PLAYED i started one game as a freshman against who do we?
Play number? TWO i think second game was N.
No two, Thousand SO i meant, so but my everybody was hurt after even after that national championship, game So, Me dockett And Jeff wombo started.
AGAINST i missed the.
THE byu, game which we played in The Eddie Robinson classic or The Pig Skin. Class excuse, me they Played they played in The Pig Skin. Classic THEN i played AGAINST i want to Say carolina Or Georgia tech was our second game. Started those games, played all those, snaps made a lot of, plays but we were all freshman and, SOPHOMORES a red shirt fresh red shirt, freshman, freshman. Sophomores And i'm, like you know, What i'm the best in this. Class but IF i red, shirt there's nobody behind me better than, me you know WHAT i. Mean so when it comes in and, Done i'll be a first round pick when it's all over. With and that's WHY i was, like all, right well let me fake this. Injury let's let's get, this get his red.
SHIRT i love. This and that was the hell of a.
Team oh, yeah, no it was a.
Thousand could have would have should have, won could have.
Beat, oklahoma should have Beat, oklahoma should.
Have Beaten oklahoma because THEN i would have another national championship that.
Year split, Championship oh, wow because they beat?
Us but who wasn't the game down in The. Orange boy forgot who won that?
Game miami Went.
Miami, okay, yeah that.
Game was PROBABLY i don't know if you, remember, well of course you, remember you remember, everything but it was it probably was the hottest, game OH i ever experienced in my.
LIFE i Remember mark telling me about. THIS i was watching at, home And i'm like.
Miserable they ran the water band was in the stands with with in undershirts and white, beaters and you, know he was like our team chaplain and Coach, bobby and Coach bobby had to get an ivy at, halftime our team. Chaplain he used. To so he was a bigger. Guy he's like like a love.
See you know WHAT i.
Mean and and so he uh he used to grab the sandwiches at like pregame meal and like storm in his jacket like for, later and so be. Prepared oh, yeah because he's, like, yeah you're gonna eat. It halftime he comes in And i'm sitting. There i'm just you, Know i'm watching. People we're in we're in a, dogfight like it's it's a hell of a. Game and he's like sweating down through his, draws like and he has he's you, know he has a regular the regular. Coaches you, Know khaki's on sweats almost down to his. Knees and he sits down and he pulls out this sandwich and it's dripping, wet and it's wrapping saran. Wrap And i'm thinking, myself, boy if he take a bite of this, Sandwich i'm gonna throw, up.
Y'all And i'm glad.
Cause it took it took so much out of him to SAY i gotta throw this. Away but like it was so you, know you remember it rained the entire weekend and up to an hour. Before like when we pulled up to The Orange bowl to, day it was still raining and we put up two hours for the. Game before we walked on the, field it's stop bringing in The Orange bowl where we come out was still dripping with. Water and then the sun is just out there and before you, know like you can see from one side.
On the, other the steam is coming.
Off one of Those florida. Days.
Man we have mere To houston, too but it's just it's a little. Different but beyond, that so it's that, temperature it's that, humidity and then it's those two teams and they WERE i can tell there are very few games over the life of college football twenty NINETEEN Lsu alabama is one of.
Them Miami florida and That Sugar.
Bowl that game has as, many if not MORE nfl prospects in it playing and not, playing but on the roster on both. Sides then maybe ever two, THOUSAND.
I think the two thousand and one, GAME i think between those two, TEAMS i think The old one game probably for, SURE i think had thirty six. GUYS i, THINK i want to, say between the two teams that played On, sunday you know What i'm, Saying AND i, THINK i think AND i think that's AND i think those are just draft, picks including to the guys we played played like IF i remember, correctly AND i think it might be a low, estimate but it. Was it was between that game and The old one game against, them it was like some of the best. Football LIKE i said, there got in an argument With LINDA. L white the other, day and you, know he's like and he's talking about his old four, team And i'm, like, DUDE i, like. LISTEN i got a unique perspective when it comes to that because the ENTIRE usc, TEAM i grew up with those, guys played against, them played with them all through high, school all our entire. Life, WELL i played against oh One. MIAMI i played against two Thousand, miami AND i know what those guys had and when the best running back on the team didn't play for years In Frank gore and literally caused two guys to leave school, early Like Clip porters ain't supposed to leave to be a second round. Pick but he knows IF i come back to, SCHOOL i might not. Play If frank gets on the, Field willis blows his knee, out doesn't have a ligament. LEFT i gotta go to the. Draft why because IF i come, Back i'll never see the field. Again not to mention the son of the greatest running back of all, time it's never even mentioned in the category because he just disappears for five years because he can't get on the. Field Jared, peyton with all of the talent that's in that, room you know WHAT i. Mean and we're talking ABOUT i tell him like, DUE i, Said, man, now y'all have, Linebackers, OKAY i forgot to Cush, clay Little, clay and you Know Mala luga and Uh keith And. RIVERS i forgot those guys were coming in of age at the. Time But i'm, Like miami had three tight, Ends, yeah three tight, ends two of them when the first.
Round who's who's Gonna who's gonna cover them?
Guys then they had all all world Including hall of famers at the receiver, position hall Of, fame return, man hall Of fame if he doesn't get if he doesn't die at, safety and really would have had two of them Because ed was on on that team as. Well you're talking about The i'm, like AND i tried to explain to, them like then we. Not we haven't even addressed their front, four WHICH i, love, Y'all but y'all offensive lines where you even have lost the? GAME i, Said and the offense was the best part of your team was just y'all. Group the only place y'all truly beat them in talent wise is at the quarterback, position because if you flop, quarterbacks you know WHAT i, Mean if you flop quarterbacks and they Take Matt lioner and you take and you Take Ken, dorsey they never lose a college game in four.
Years Matt lioner on The miami on The.
Miami Dah, god you see What i'm. Saying so And i'm, like, dude so you beat them at? Quarterback say the running back rooms a? Wash you, know let's say the running back rooms of? Wash which is that is a BIG i, mean which is it's?
Not but it's.
Not But i'm like just to just to give, you you know what you were as a, talent What reggie was as a. Talent, Okay i'll give you. That i'll, say you know, what that's a Concession i'll give you and, say y'all would be a wash.
In the receivers no, way no way receiving receivers, corners because two thousand you still Have Reggie wade And Santana Moss Andre johnson you still HAVE i, mean how about?
That like what are we talking about? Here?
So, trap which game did you get up?
For?
More Facing miami or Facing?
Florida? UH i Hated.
FLORIDA i truly had a like everybody Hated, florida and.
LIKE i truly had a true disdain For.
Florida like you, know my mom always say you shouldn't say you hate, people you, know BUT i Hated. Florida my cousin was there playing left tackle there at the Time Max, starks AND i, was, UH i love playing against, him BUT i never you, know after my true freshm, year theydn't let me play deepens in after the first three. Weeks they knew what was going on. Anyway and but the guys THAT i got to play against on the, INSIDE i couldn't. Stand like every one dude more, MIXTURE i think his name or, whatever like dirty is dirty is is some seven day old, draws you.
KNOW i mean like he just was like AND i used to love just killing him. GUYS i used.
To BUT i used to enjoy Playing miami BECAUSE i felt like we were the same. Time AND i think in Any florida, Say god take the same. Thing we felt like we got the best out of each other because we were the same bunch just happened to be ones in the panandle ones at the bottom of the, map you. Know and But florida they always thought they Were they thought they didn't they, stuff didn't. Thing they thought they were betting everybody, else and we whooped them every. TIME i mean outside of. Now granted that old One florida team were pretty, good but they. Weren't they weren't anything like. THAT i mean we whooping them guys all the.
Time, Yeah nicks beat him with that deep ball in their stadium And rix in three, yeah WHICH i couldn't Stand. RIX i, mean that's. Here that's probably his story for a DIFFERENT i, mean it's my story every, day you, know me and, Me and to Keep wanky on those, teams you probably win another.
Chance and not Even.
Winky IF i don't, know you Remember Jared, Johnson, Yeah Jared johnson From Walla, Walla, washington who would. Played he Played Major league baseball and it came. Back he's a little, older But jared after That national Champions jared pops. Positive it was a year they banned a federal and that so he pops positive was his third, strike and you know What i'm, saying but it was just but the technically it was his third strike for, him you know WHAT i. Mean but it was like it was in the weight loss stuff or, whatever and so it was his third strike for popping positive or. Something but he was three hundred pounds at at at like uh during The National championship, Week so he said there and put him on weight loss stuff and they had them all doing all types of stuff all.
Week we, possibly but that's his third.
Time he had, that caught getting drunk and winning the wrong apartment cook hot dogs one day and then he had another. Issue but if we Have jared, there we win a national, championship you know What i'm, saying because now IN o, one we necessarily gonna, lose and he's also our. Quarterback IN o two and where we had a phenomenal team where we went up TO i THINK o two we ranked three or. Four when we go To clemson and lose To clemson in, overtime you know where they throw out three guys in the. Game, uh And chris was, FOURTH i mean, One don't get me, Wrong me And christ be. FOREVER i got Beat chris up at the national championship.
Game but, uh.
If he's not forced to play as a red shirt, FRESHMAN i think he's a lot better of a quarterback because he was a damn good, athlete you know what.
Athlete but the problem was is he just Was he was.
Undisciplined he had no leadership skills because technically he had no leader for all that. Time and even if If adrian McPherson doesn't get kicked out Of. No, two we might push for a national. Championship if Wy sex is not snorton. Coke, well they talk about he was had had uh what he called he had limes. Disease And i'm, like we all ate the same deer. Meat how he got nobody else.
Got, it you know WHAT i?
Mean so it just was it was a.
It was ah an interesting time because our kickers couldn't make. Kicks that was part of what wide right, three wide, left one and.
Two like he just.
Was it was A i mean we lost six, times like one year we lost him twice AND i think combined scoring we lost him like six points for something crazy.
Place kicking In florida state history or, subject no doubt about. It traps jobs with. Us all, right let's. Zoom it had five draft going into. It you, know your first round, pick you just don't know where you're, going, Right what was your level of surprise ending up with The Houston Texans because The texans dropped down a little bit and they got.
You so WHEN i came on my visit, here the way they talked to, ME i was, like IF i fall To, houston they're gonna take. ME i KNEW i could go as high as four as low as seventeen is what was told to me by all of the. People AND i KNEW i wouldn't go for it BECAUSE i skipped The Senior. Bowl my achilles was acting up And i'm, Like i'm not gonna get pushed down by one of these guys From directional.
School and lose, month you know WHAT i.
Mean and my roommates calling me, like, man these people want you BECAUSE i, Mean i've KNOWN i Knew, MARINELLI i Know Rob mannelli SAYS i was in high school And maryonelli loved me like my whole, life and he's, like, MAN i need, YOU i need.
You and not go To Senior.
Bowl WAS i Wish i'd have been healthy enough to go BECAUSE i THINK i would have had a great. Week and then leading up to the, draft The texans were talking about taking me or another one of my great, Friends Alex. Baron you know who was the left Tackle alex WAS i want to. Say alix was two hours late for a pre draft meeting In. Tallahassee, yeah he was two hours later pre draft meeting In, tallassie which caused caused him to drop you know WHAT i, mean and two hours Al alix would be late to his own, funeral like he'll always be like he's and that's just him going into. IT i, Mean i'm on the. PHONE i mean we talked about these prank. CALLS i mean we we didn't get the prank calls at the. TIME i remember how the girl called me one time on my phone and she's, like, yeah you see what you're doing in the middle of the, draft like get the like what are we talking?
About stopped talking to her. Forever nine was the first phone, call which Was.
Minnesota but the crazy party is like they were on the phone with like three of, us and it just so happened that two of us were text messaging And i'm, like, yeah this's not gonna, happen you know WHAT i, Mean and it was like hold, on you, Know i'm, like all, right.
Is that the year Also minnesota screwed?
Up and earlier that was the year before that When minnesota screwed up on the draft pick.
Stuff, yeah where they didn't make a pick on time and somebody started rushing in before they got there.
Exactly THEN i got to call eleven And i'm, LIKE i know they WANTED i know they was going all.
Defense they told US i took a.
Visit so on my visit To, dallas it was me Lights Sean, merriman it Was De marcus where it was a bunch of us, there SO i knew we were pretty interested to ourselves talking about.
It, well they took The.
Marcus THEN i, said, okay well The saints are going to take a, tackle you, know like The saints are sitting at, sixteen and Righty saints is taking a, tackle you know WHAT i. Mean so when they traded, Up i'm Guessing alex is about to go and think About alex barn and instead it Took Jamal, brown you know What i'm.
Saying and So i'm, like, well, damn all, right look Like i'm.
Sinking but WHEN i KNEW i would go To houston was when they traded in front of The, bengals traded to when they traded. Back and now we're sitting at sixteen in front of The bengals to. Seventeen because IF i fall to, seventeen The bengals are going to take, me you know What i'm, saying WHICH i mean in the grand scheme of, it thinking about it, NOW i, mean don't get me, WRONG i love being, here BUT i kind of WISH i to feel one more pick to go To bengals because they PLAY i.
Mean the history of The, bengals you would have had the perfect pick power, five very productive in, college like you're the Perfect bengals.
Pick, yeah because they also play the four or three WHERE i get to get off the, BALL i get to call be. DISRUPTIVE i get to be that guy THAT i was in college and said coming here and being a three to four catch and catch reading read, guy WHICH i don't know how to. Do i'm not big enough to. Do you know What i'm. Saying and in the grand scheme of it is like you, know you kind of you, know as a, player you get to blame for so much when it comes oh you're not productive, enough.
But, like hold on what part of you?
Know like when are we going to give it to the scouts and the gms and the and the pro personnel, guys and, saying y'all watched the film on this guy and everything he did on tape showed me one.
Thing BUT i, said you know, WHAT i THINK i can draft and do something.
Else you know WHAT i mean exactly like and that's WHY i love it is so, important, man it is it's.
All that's the only thing that's.
Important you, know when you're talking about, guys when they come out and you see what they, are don't try to put a square peg in a round, hole you know What i'm, Saying like it's just not gonna, work you know WHAT i? Mean and when you look at certain when you look at certain, Teams that's WHY i love our organization, now especially the Way Tom goo And nick and then have really went through the draft and done it so much.
Homework it's not reaching for.
Guys and, YES i should have went WHERE i, went you know What i'm, Saying Like i'm A i was right there and to go WHERE i was supposed to. Go IF i don't go, THERE i go TO. MINNISO i, MEAN i go to to The bengals to fit into a. System or you, KNOW i would have loved to go to The, coats or love to go To tampa and play that four three and get off the, ball be like, sad play ten twelve years and continue to do WHAT i always did in. College but it's always a situational day to where if you put if you, drafted got to be who you think he's gonna. Be he can be legendary for you or like we Use Jason babin for an. Example Jason babman played for seven teams in seven. Years he goes To. Philly philly puts him in a different situation than a true stand up outside linebacker that where we had like he was a bust.
Here everybody's.
SCREAMING i, mean we traded back into the first round to Get Jason babman Withn bamin goes to Three Pro bowls and He's All pro and he's second in the.
ELITE i think he tied for the sack lead at the time with.
Twenty sacks in a fourth three in a fourth three playing in why Nine and you're, like, well why wasn't babmin like that In.
Houston, well that's not what we're asking him to.
Do, man that was great.
Stuff if you missed part one of the conversation With, trap we got that up ON i think it Was monday of last, Week monday Or friday last.
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Uh you got obviously all of Our Texans All access pages as, Well so go check that, out all. RIGHT i mentioned the beginning of the segment Brock perdy got paid from the forty nine. Ers what are the news is going on around THE? Nfl will hit that next right here On Texans All. Access welcome back to the final segment This, friday the issue Of Texans All access From, Monday Texans Ridio. Studio John harris here with you on This friday. Evening hopefully guys are doing. GREAT i mentioned in the previous segment news out Of Santa, CLAIR i Mean San, FRANCISCO i mean wherever they. Play the forty nine ers have signed their, quarterback finalizing a contract For Brock party at.
Fifty three million dollars per year.
Basis that makes him one, two, three, four five six seventh amongst. Quarterbacks Dak prescott the most at sixty, Million Joe burrow at fifty, Five Josh, Allen Jordan, Love Trevor, lawrence those four all at fifty. Five, Burrow, Allan, Love lawrence all fifty five per. Year at fifty three point one million per, Year Rock party is then tied With Jared goff at fifty three million dollars a.
Year so Stupid Brock party does with that.
Going.
Forward but that is some, big big.
News now there's going to be another.
Owners meeting coming up very very.
Soon in one of the things that has been brought up and put on the docket is a resolution about the not only The olympics for playing flag football The Summer, olympics but also the playoff. Format there's been a lot of discussion about this and two things about. It, one there is the push to whatever the seeding is by, record that's what it. Is so The texans last year would have gone To Los, angeles Played, chargers and so the other way. Around the second part is a reseeding after the first. Round, now it's always been that the lower seed when you go through the first three, games the lowest seed plays the one, seed the other two play in the division. Round they would recede after that first. Round it probably gets you back to the same place. Anyways but that's on the docket as. Well so those two things are gonna be, considered which is gonna be very interesting to watch coming up in these meetings how they change the.
Playoffs and that could be for this. Year that is gonna be fascinating to.
Watch All, right the show hopefully was fascinating to listen to appreciate Trap Jay mark is Always drew My man for joining me on in the, lab and all you for.
Listening we'll see next time and as, always Go.
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