Nick Chubb is a Texan | Texans All Access

Published Jun 10, 2025, 1:08 AM
The Texans Radio Crew shared their insight on running back Nick Chubb signing with Houston, and linebacker Jake Hansen also joined the show to talk about OTA's, minicamp...and his wedding.

TEP. Everybody.

Happy Monday out there to everybody. It's happy media Days to everybody inside the building. John Harrismart vandam here with you, and we have had one long, exhausting day and yet one of the most fruitful and fun days we have had in a while.

Mark, how you doing. I feel I'm doing great, Johnny.

I feel like you know, we're on vapors a little bit at this point of the day because we interviewed. I haven't counted it. I think it's forty guys. It's thirty eight or forty players today. This is a record, and I know one right after the other media members listening.

This is not Media Day for everybody, you know.

Yeah, I think if I'm a media member, I hear there were media days or Media Day today, people.

Are gonna say what what I wasn't invited? But it's internal.

This is the day that the Texans take all the videos of the guys on the video board, like come on, stand.

Up, good headshots for CBS, Yeah, network, all the networks.

So we tend to talk to a bunch of guys. It's like they're waiting to do other things. And many years ago we decided this would be good to interview some players that should give them something to do while they're waiting to do that, and a lot of the guys that maybe don't get the airtime. So you're gonna be hearing these interviews from now until training camp. Basically that we were able to get done today and we did research. And the other thing it does, Johnny, is it enables us to just spend time and meet some of these guys, especially some of the new players. You know, I met meeting Jake Andrews today center. Yeah, getting to know him. That's just one example. Players like that. And then some old friends, old faces, old faces, young faces, but uh, people we've known a while here in the building. Really great to visit with them and see what they're up to. How about Tremont Smith Seeing Trey again? Oh that was cool.

I was just so cool, Like he was so excited to be back in here, you know, fully fought of Cassi. We had a great time talking to Foley and Mario Edwards. Mario Edwards, I mean the guys we talked to. Okay, so there was one theme that stood out to me mostly and one of the groups of players that we talked to, I want to get your thought, okay, because I feel like I heard something over and over again as we talked to the offensive line. Yeah, one theme. Do you know what it is? Well, I thought competition. Competition was definitely that was definitely part of and physical condition. Yeah, there you go, ding ding, ding ding ding. I don't have the ding, but give Mark a ding because that. I don't know how many offensive line when we talked to today, I mean ten, I mean, just off the top of my head, Jalen Thomas, Jarrett Patterson, those two, Jake Andrews, I mean Jack Thomas, Ladarius Henderson, Darius Henderson, Lake and Thomlinson was that was a fun one. Lake and Thomlinson was a fun one, I'm telling you. When we asked kind of a common thread question kind of amongst those guys, just you know, I'll give us a thought on the office line, almost every single guy was like, we're gonna be in shape yep. And that stood out to me like, huh, okay, which you don't really think. You know, Oh, you know, we're gonna be good at gap blocking. You know, we're gonna be good down blocks, We're gonna be good in pass protection. You know, we're gonna be physical either hand, but no, it was we're gonna be in shape.

Yeah.

Well, one of the conversations and you'll be hearing this one soon enough with Zach Thomas produced this thought, and look, this is an obvious thing, but maybe it doesn't get brought up enough. The old lineman, five guys out there the whole time. The D line, it's hockey line to change, right, they change bodies all the time. And I know that one requires something different than the other because the old line, it's the old they know where they're going. The D line, they're not sure where the ball is going, which way it's headed, and they're trying to wreck something. The old Lion's trying to execute a play that was called. I know they execute calls on defense. But the point is got to be in great shape to perform at the highest level in this league. And not that they weren't in great shape before, but they want to be in the best shape possible than they were.

The fact that they almost to a man, all pointed it out made me think that that was a focal point amongst discussion with the offensive line going forward, like you're gonna you're gonna be in the right shape, You're gonna be both aerobic and anaerobic. You're gonna be in shape, and you Zach put it. When I heard Zach say, was like, well, yeah, that makes sense. You know you're going against waves of defensive linemen at a time, but you I just got the feeling that in talking with these offensive linemen that the cardio the conditioning had to be at a higher level, and I thought that was that was telling. I thought another couple of things, especially when we talked to Lake and Tomlinson. I say this to you a when we have new players that come through here and we get to interview him for the first time or whatever the case might be, I'll look at you and go, oh, I don't get this one.

Most of the time, I say to you, I get it.

Look, I get why they went out and got that guy. I get why they went out and resigned Trey Montsmith. I totally get why they signed Lake and Tomlinson.

Yeah, totally.

You just listen to him speak, and you listen to how he describes the way he goes about his business and how he interacted with us, and I'm like, I get it.

This guy's been in the league ten years.

Like it makes total, complete and total sense that they would want to go on the offensive line that thinks and talks and acts like he does.

I think that it also speaks to this comparison. Sometimes in baseball you say, oh, that guy's a professional hitter.

He's a professional hitter.

I felt like we're talking to a professional guard.

That's what Laken Tomlinson is. He knows what he's doing.

You know you're going to get a certain level of performance out of him that you can rely on.

And I believe that.

Look, I cannot automatically say that he's the man that they're going to have in there for the next five ten years. I can't say that necessarily, but you can rely on him. You can go to battle with Lake and Tomlinson and feel good. Now, they also have other players who could step in and beat them out. You never know, right, and I hate to word it like that, but you have opportunities here for young individuals to make some noise at those guard spots, at all spots in the offensive line. And that's how they set this thing up with lots of competition. And when you look at wide receiver you see that too. Really all position groups they have talked about it. They want competition. Well, they're living it. Let's get some competition and hear all these position groups. We want to get to another level. And that's how you do it, because we talk to a bunch of a linemen today and you could write a story, a projected story on a number of different players rising up to a level that we've never seen before from their particular game and they reached that and they find a way to get into the game that by the way to get into the lineup.

I mean talking to Jared Patterson. I remember back when you know Jared's six round pick. I don't know her name yet. He's starting in Game one against the Baltimore Ravens, and you'll hear that conversation and he talked about what that was like, and he said, being drafted in six round I almost did him a favor because he's like, Yo, what expectations are on me?

Are the ones I set for myself.

But one other thing he said, and I think sometimes this kind of gets lost in the wash a little bit. I said, what what kind of do you have plan going into the to the off season? And then what are you excited about the offseason and getting ready for training camp, and he said, well, this really is the first time that I'm not rehabbing something.

That's huge and huge. I thought about that.

I was like, man, and he kind of rewound back. Like the last four years, he's like his last couple of years in Notre Name, he was dealing with something, you know, in the training camp in twenty twenty three he had tweaked his hamstring, and then in last year he was coming back from his writ you know, the injury he had that ended his rookie season against Carolina. So it's like, Man, instead of rehabbing, you get to start stacking days and start putting together what it is that you want to be as an offensive lineman. So we got some great stuff on the offensive line. We got great stuff and everybody, I'll tell you one of my favorite discussions because it was very it was very football ly and I know when a certain section of our listeners here's this, They're gonna be like, no, no, no, no, no no. When you talk about Braxton Barrios, you have talked about Alex Earl. We talked to Braxton Barrios and we did ask about Alex.

We felt like we had way and he understood. But we talked football.

He talked football the way, you know, just he describing running routes and seeing coverages and what coverages he was seeing and.

What that man I was, I was.

I had a blast talking to Braxton Barrios just because we were talking you know, in depth ball, which I thought was really really fun. On top of you know, just you know where he's from and how he got here and all that kind of stuff, but just talking ball about playing slot receiver, returning punts, those kind of things. I mean, it was it was really fun talking to him about that.

We could have talked to him for forty five minutes about alex Earl and social media and stuff. We wanted to talk ball. This is our first meeting with him. Yeah, didn't want it to be all about her, right. In doing research for today's interviews, I did peruse a few alex Earl and Marios videos, right, And you know, in doing this you're gonna see some Alex Earl, you know, doing stuff by herself videos.

And I did want to ask.

Him a lot of this, but I mean, I got she's got like millions, yeah, I mean, she's millions of followers. Somebody told me, and I didn't check all the views on each video, but the one that he's in do really well. They do a lot better than some of the ones where she's going over different products that she uses or clothing, clothing lines or whatever. So that says something about the chemistry they have and people want to see them together.

But look, this is a football show.

I know we do lifestyle stuff, of course, but our first meeting with Braxton, we wanted to be football, but we did ask him some things about her and I just thought there were so many great conversations Johnny, and one thing that came up also, oh, by the way, back to the old line for a moment. It's funny with a lot of these competition situations that you have on the football team, when we're talking to Patterson, I'm like, oh, he's the starting center on this football team. We talked to Jake Andrews, and I'm thinking he's the starting center of this football team because the command that Andrews has, the smarts, the confidence, and I know it's not like you're talking to Dwight Stevenson over here, or you know, you're not talking to a ten year veteran who's done it. But you feel like he could probably do the job. But you know Patterson can do the job, and you've won big games with Jared Patterson, so why not him. Now, we didn't talk to Jews today. We didn't talk to a number of people. We didn't talk to Cam Robertson.

Now.

We had to light out the door at one point. And we like to spend at least five, six, seven minutes at least with these guys, and we want to keep it under ten because again there's a line and somebody's got all of them. We could spend more time with some of them.

Were thinking you could spend three hours with this guy, Yakub Johnson from Germany.

Yakab Johnson was fantastic, fantastic. We just we didn't even scratch the surface in talking with the Yakam Johnson and it was it was great, it was great, It was phenomenal. And just how did he get to the NFL? Yep, it's really fascinating wild how he.

Got to the NFL.

I'll tell you this though, I'll say this, I've told him this to his face.

I've told anybody that I.

That I've talked to over the years, one of my five favorite Texans that have ever walked into this building is Daria Gumbwale. Yeah, I just unlike he's I love that guy.

I love him.

He's good on the mic, He's very thoughtful with his answers. He obviously plays football very well. You pointed out early in the interview about how many clutch plays he's made the last couple of years.

And I didn't even go over the field goal against the Bucks. I was just talking about last year, last year, and then I'm sure that Danny Barrett, if he were here, he would tell you, well, look at these past pro plays where a would be sacker was about to derail the entire operation, but Dari picked him up right and maybe not getting the credit, but that's just the way football is. It's eleven on eleven. A lot of guys have to make plays for them to be successful, plays within the play, and he does all that too. And as you talked to and I wrote about this on Houston Texans dot com, it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough for a Woody Marks to replaced Daria good Balwally. If that's in his plans, it's gonna be really difficult. He is a seasoned pro, knows what he's doing. Year nine for him or something like that. Year nine, yeah, amazing, and started here in seventeen. Don't be surprised if we're not talking to him next year year ten. One of the things that he brought up, I thought was, I gotta ask this question. I asked his question many years ago about Kevin Johnson. Texans drafted Kevin Johnson, a corner out of Wake Forest in twenty fifteen. Kevin had a really solid twenty fifteen, was off to a bang up start in twenty sixteen, and he broke his foot against the Indianapolis Colts on the Sunday night win and he didn't play again at twenty sixteen, and Kevin never really got his confidence back. And so I asked Daria the question, what would nine year veteran Daria Gumbwalle tell rookie Darya Gumbwalle, And I asked that question that a lot of the guys, you know, what would be that piece of advice you'd give your you know, like you'd go back and tell you your rookie self question, you know what what advice would you give? And Dari thought about you know, it's a really good question. He goes, you know that I'm good enough, And I asked him, I said, followed that up with after he gave a great thoftl answer, I said, how often have you seen guys lose a job or get you know, taken off a roster or whatever the case might be, just because they've lost confidence but not lost talent?

He goes man way more than you know. And that's what made me think about Kevin Johnson, because I felt like Kevin's lost confidence after, you know, coming back from the foot injury.

He just never got his confidence back.

And I think that was one of the things that that really kind of held him back. And I just hear it from Darry don't forget how good you are. I knew how good I was, and just hearing him talk through that, and then the guys he learned from. Obviously, one of the guys he learned from was in Tampa, guy named Quiz Rogers who played the Mark Consolidated, whose uncle is a good friend of mine. And so I've known Quiz for for a long time. And Quiz doesn't say whole lot, just did his job, did the best of his ability.

Was a great pass protector.

He said, that's where Darry sort of learned how to pass protect and followed quiz and watch quiz.

He watched Carlos Hyde when he's in Jacksonville.

And so it was just really interesting the introspection you got from Dara, and when you think about him getting here in twenty one and you have these years in twenty one, twenty two, they're you're tough, but you make it through and you get to twenty three and twenty four and you're such a part of some great wins, make some clutch plays. The Jacksonville game in Week four, I mean the Buffalo game that like just little reception right before Kaimi's game winning kick, the fake pun against Miami. You can go through and remember all these plays about Dara and the impact he's made with them, and you realize that's why he's still here and for many years. I mean, the fans something that, oh, that guy would replaced Daria. Now what he's going to replace Dari?

And it's like, man, I don't know about that, don't want that to happen.

Look at Dary's path. That didn't happen for him right away, and he has a role. He plays it well. Now along these lines, and by the way, as we're talking about all these interviews we did, you're gonna be hearing them that we're going to unroll them, roll them out over the coming weeks. This is kind of like one of those coming up this season. Whatever the show is, right, they give it a prequel, the little preview.

Show of the entire season and scenes to come.

Uh.

Damian Pierce had a chance to sit down with him as well, and you know he really wants to fire out of the gate here.

Obviously it's year four for him.

This is a contract year if you will do something big, and we know that he knows that. Look, there's always people trying to take your spot, you know what he Mark's coming in here, hey, and not that he's going to take a spot, but you know, the more running backs you have in the room, the more at any position group, the less opportunity you have, right right, So you have to rise up, Like I said, competition. Nick Chubb reportedly comes in. Those reports started coming out what yesterday over the weekend. Yeah, and then today Rappaport says it's done, or Dina Rassini, I should say that he passed the physical because they haven't announced anything yet, but that would be really interesting. You get that added to the equation. We all know mixing hasn't participated in OTAs and we'll see about mini camp with Damien and such. But this is gonna be, I think, a really good thing for this football team. Add another potentially great player. He is a great player, but can he be great again coming off back to back injury riddled seasons. Four time Pro Bowler, total stud your thoughts.

Well, Building off of what we were talking about the running as, we talked with every running back I think today. I think we talked with every running back today other than Joe. And obviously, you know, Joe's coming back from something. I think it's been reported. You know, he came back from something at the ankle from the offseason. I mean out of the ankle was bothering him the last half of the year and he still played through it. I mean, Joe's a warrior. But I saw the news yesterday and I thought, oh okay, and immediately, you know, your mind goes to you know, Nick Chubb at his best, and you're like, whoa. You realize, Okay, he's coming off I gotta I gotta make sure. I don't like overseell this. But in my mind, he's coming off a couple of years injuries. It was a pretty catastrophic knee injury that he had in twenty twenty three. He came back and he had a foot injury last year. He's not the Nick Chubb that we remember from the glory days of the Browns where he's pounded out fifteen hundred yard years where it felt like every other year. He's not the not the Nick Chubb I saw in the wild Weather of twenty twenty, the COVID year where he went out of bounds the five yard line and he just destroyed us in that game. We can't tackle him. That's he were five years removed from that. However, I don't think he has to be that guy. I think he just has to be. And I know a lot of people have mentioned this, and you maybe alluded to this as Cam Akers from last year. You know, Cam was coming off a season where he had torn his achilles again. It was the second time he had done that. Everybody thought, what's this guy got left? Well, you take a one year flyer on him and you realize you get him in a camp and you're like, holy God, he's got something left. Yeah, you end up turning out around for some draft capital. So you know, camp can go back to Minnesota and have an opportunity with the Vikings at that point, because we were kind of you know, jammed up with Joe with Damien, it was hard to get reps for everybody there at running back. I think with Chubb coming in, I think in a lot of ways to look at it. Number one, how healthy, How healthy is Joe? What what's the status? What's the prognosis for Joe? My gut tell me that Joe isn't gonna miss anything. He has been durables. I'll get out and outside of the five games he missed last year with Dankele, before that, it was seven, sixteen, seventeen.

Games a year.

But you just just never know. And when you you know, when a guy is not at OTAs or you don't see him or he's not in mini camp and you know he's coming back from something, Hey, you wonder, Okay, we think he's going to be back. We hope he's going to be back, but you know, just in case, And so I feel like Nick Chubb ends up being maybe insurance for any and all of it. Best case, he ends up being just another iron that goes in the fire that you can go to and give seven to eight carries the game when you need it, and power the football and run the football and just take heat off everybody else. So if it is Nick Chubb and it is official, I'm only pretty excited about it, I think partially just because it's Nick Chubb and I think a lot of people remember him as Nick Chubb. I hope they're not disappointed when they see that, Yeah, this is a guy that's been impacted by injuries, but he still can offer something to this offense in the run game that I love.

And if it ends up being insurance.

Great, It's one year, it's probably not a massive contract. Apparently it's an incentive laden contract, which is probably the right way to have done it. But I'm pumped about it, to be honest, I think there's some good football still left in him, and I hope that he can provide it for this team.

What are your thoughts?

Well, I just think it adds to the pile, right yep. And it's pretty good looking right now. You get mixing back healthy and who knows what the situation is. But I pointed out previously, you don't play a game for three months. In three months, you play your first meaningful football game almost exactly right. So three months you're good to go with Joe, I would hope, but if not, maybe Chubb Damian Pierce. Like we said, Damien wants to play really well this year. And the last time we saw him carrying the rock was against Tennessee and he was awesome and this was an outstanding run defense and I know, last game of the season, but they were trying to get that one, and then you look at whatever else could happen wild card wise at this position.

Juwar Jordan, we talked to him today. You mentioned it. Yeah, you're right.

We did talk to just about every running back except Joe. I don't know JJ Taylor can still do some things for this football team. We mentioned dare so add to the mix like they do with other position groups. I don't know how it's all going to play out. Like last year, I didn't know how Acres would play out. But Acres in camp looked like the best back on the field for the Houston Texans for a while, and then you said it, you end up getting draft camp for him, and at one point you felt like maybe we shouldn't have given up cam Akers because they got thin and running back with injuries.

So no, I like it. Pick him up.

It's not going to kill you financially, and the upside is very high.

It's very high. Johnny.

You could imagine everybody healthy and Shub back to his old form, potentially at least for a while. What if it's for a playoff run. He's like a hot goalie in the NHL and you're riding Nick Chubb. What if he's John Riggins after he's done with the Jets, etc. And ends up with Washington and goes on that run. Look, that's best case. That's the best case scenario with other things happening where Joe can't play or whatever. And I don't want to say that's any kind of good scenario, but anyway, the point is this.

It's a great insurance policy, right, it really is. It's worth it. I'm glad to see it.

One of the things that Shawn Seth were talking about this this morning, and one of the things that probably hit me maybe more than anything else, was that Browns fans didn't want to lose Nick Chubb, not Nick Chubb, running back, not star running back, not fantasy football legend.

They didn't want to lose Nick Chubb, the player, the person, the guy.

Yeah.

And when I think about that, I'm like, ooh, you add another swarmy veteran to the mix that has seen some things, that has been there, that has been through the rough times, that has gone through injuries and rebounded. That's the kind of guy that you want.

Now.

I don't from what I remember, Nick doesn't say a whole heck of a lot. But when you have Browns fans just mad they're losing that guy, I'm like, let's go the swarmier the better.

You got an AFC North reunion in the running back room with Joe Mixon and Nick Chubb, exactly, all we need is Najie Harris here and JK Dobbins.

Let's go baby, JK Dobbins, you know, yeah, yeah, Because there was a lot of talk about JK Dobbins, Yeah in the Texans And so I remember seeing that back a month or so ago.

I didn't.

I just saw it kind of thrown out there and it really didn't have any kind of legs to it. It didn't seem but I thought, yeah, that wouldn't be a bad move. You know, same kind of thing guy's been. He's deubled injuries, had I thought a solid bounce back year.

Were the Chargers year. We saw him in a playoff game.

I don't think he got much blocking and he's running against our defense and so there wasn't a whole lot there for him.

But I thought, yeah, JK.

Dobbins, And then I remember thinking, wait, Nick Chubb is still not signed right, Well, I think either one of those would end up being a good fit in our running back room, because I don't think that especially Chubb not a diva.

Just come in, put his head down.

Go to work, be a nice solid veteran addition, and that affords you a lot of different things. I mean, look, Joe doesn't have to be back for the first day of training camp. He doesn't have to be back for the first day of training camp. He can come along at his pace and be one hundred percent healthy to dive into the season once he's ready to go. Look, I hope he's ready to go day one, but that may not be the case. So now you've got insurance to see what you've got with Chubb see where Damian Pierce is. Get your rookies and your young guys involved along with Dara and see what this running back room could be. I just think it's more positive than it is anything else. Now, speaking of the AFC North, one other one that you have not had a chance to comment on. Actually I did a comment on it a little bit the other day, but I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time with it. The Pittsburgh Steelers have a new quarterback, and it's a guy that's been rumored. It felt like he'd already been there, but they made it official going into mini camp Aaron Rodgers one year about thirteen million dollars, Maybe the opportunity to get a little bit more your thoughts for Rogers, the Steelers, the AFC North. Are they a bigger threat now with Rogers than they were without?

We won't know it until we see it.

But the vibe I get is, Okay, it'll be better than it was going to be with say Will Howard, Yeah, Mason Rudolph. Of course, you know it's going to be better than that. But how much better? How much better will it be? We don't know what Rogers is going to do. After missing the entire offseason basically, and I know Rogers doesn't need OTAs, what come on, it has to have some sort of effect. Now, maybe you save on the wear and tear there, but let's just move it forward into the season. I don't think it puts the Steelers, and look, maybe it does, but I don't think it puts the Steelers in any kind.

Of AFC contender situation.

It does make them stronger, and what I like about it is it makes them more able to put dents in the Baltimore Ravens in whatever the Cincinnati Bengals are able to produce. It does help them be more competitive in that division against them.

We do not play the Steelers this year, that's right. Good.

Who's their AFC South the ponent, Johnny, It's not gonna.

Be were they were second? Right, you were second?

Yeah, Ravens won Steelers two, Bengals three, Browns four.

So they'll play the.

Colts Colts, yeah, good, make them stronger against the Colts.

And speaking of the Colts.

To the Colts, your guy Anthony Richardson shoulder situation.

Right again, I think that I would rather have Anthony Richardson available from a Texans perspective, because I want those two quarterbacks to, you know, make the coach's head spin around and wonder what to do. And Richardson made one of those amazing plays and look at the upside and oh my gosh, I don't know.

I can't figure it out.

Now that they know they have certainty that it's Daniel Jones at least for most of the season. Yeah, and if he's going good, there's no way they're going to take him out Now that they know this, doesn't it help them to have that certainty? Now you could also argue, well, they have nowhere else to go, you know, Sam Ellinger, I don't think it's gonna happen. So you could argue the upside is not really that high. How high is the ceiling with Daniel Jones. I venture to say the ceiling's reasonably high, because with healthy Jonathan Taylor running the ball, you can imagine a do of Barkley against Minnesota and the playoffs in twenty twenty three, No, twenty twenty two. Rather yeah, and I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but look, if Taylor's running the ball really well, in Jones is somehow not turning the ball over somehow that could be really special for them.

Does it hurt them more? Does it?

I guess I'm asking the question, does it help them more than it hurts them? Because they're certainty now at the quarterback position. Certainly as far as who you're gonna start week one, okay, not oh my gosh, we got our guy for the next ten years, because it's certainly.

Not the case there now. I wish you were playing a Colts a week one.

I'd rather see Daniel Jones in Week one than I would after a few weeks of getting his feet underneath him. And it's I don't really know how to say this, but I feel like the Colts can be better with Daniel Jones.

But Richardson at quarterback scares me way, yeah.

Sure, because he can make two plays in one game that'll kill you and keep them in a ball.

Exactly they should have been in that game.

And he throws that thing fading away off his back foot. I got to thinking about this. Have you bright way of saying this? Anthony Richardson, God bless him. Was never good in high school, was really never good at Florida, and has not been good in the NFL.

It's all spec, it's all ceiling, it's all potential.

Yeah, it was all based on potential, and it was like he never reached any of that potential at any three levels of football.

It's like buying stock in an app that is not yet fully developed, but it could do this. It could, you know, be able to hologram you over to I don't know whatever kind of metaphor high tech wise you want to produce. Yeah, there was never any physical evidence that he could do it over a long period of time, and there.

At any level like usually, I mean they're in some bust in the NFL. Mike Ryan Leaf is one is thought to be one of the great NFL bus. Ryan Leaf was a really freaking good college quarterback. There's a reason why I was drafted, really really good.

Richison was drafted number four just on pure speculators spec.

Yeah, pure spec. So it's unbelievable. This could take down the entire Cults operation. By the way, because now you have it's not CGI, it's c IG right in charge. She's in charge.

And look they're gonna have to take everybody out if this doesn't work right this, I would.

Think, so, I would think, so we'll see what ends up? What was happening all right?

Anthony Richardson from Florida. Jake Hanson also from Florida. He had a big, big weekend, but he's back for Mini Camp. What happened this weekend and why is he excited about Mini Camp. We'll talk to Jake Hanson next right here in Texans All Access.

Welcome back this.

Monday issue of Texans All Access from London, Texans A Radio studio, John Harrison, Mark vander Meer here also with us, Jake Hanson.

We had a blast catching up with Jake.

He got married this weekend and got back from Mini Caamp.

How about that? Take a listen me Mark and.

Jake newly married Jake Hanson and guess what this is your honeymoon. You just got married and I'm sure this is what you had in mind to spend your honeymoon with us because it was this weekend, right, Jake?

It was It was Saturday Texans Radio for honeymoon.

Yeah, okay, So I want to know how this went over, Like your your wedding planning A how much were you involved in wedding planning? And B why now coming back from Mini Caamp? Why did you wait another week and then just go straight from honeymoon there too complex the situation or just get out unfolded.

So one I wish we could have done it like that. That was I mean, that would have been ideal. But the booking venues and everything in downtown Chicago, everyone wants to get married in the summer. Yeah, so you have to have the church line up in the hotel and the event space lined up. And not everyone does the church, but we we did it. We wanted to have a church involved, and uh yeah, so it's hard to get everything lined up on the exact date and everything's booked a year out a year plus now with all the summertime weddings in Chicago. So that was this is a opportunity.

And I knew that.

Usually Monday's media day, so I you know, we have a few extra days to Yeah.

Yeah, this is a is this a tough day? This is kind of a chill day media day.

Right, Yeah.

Yeah, it's not not a super not physically taxing. So after your stay up late, you know, you get tired. So it's a it's a really fun weekend.

Okay, well we buried the lead.

Congratulations, Well thank you.

First you know we were you know, congratulations tell us. I mean, how long you guys been going on? How long you guys known each other? Is she from here? Is she from back home? Where's she from?

So she's from the North suburbs Chicago, Lake Forest. We met at the University of Illinois, Okay, and we've been dating for about four and a half years. Yeah, so just just under five years we've known each other. And yeah, we got engaged about a year ago.

And yeah, no married, right, So just a couple of other things.

On the wedding, everything goes smoothly, No wild crazy stories, you know, Uncle fly pets running down the aisle or anything like that.

Nothing, nothing too crazy. Everything really went.

There's a I mean, I think everyone realized on their wedding day is a small couple of things that don't go exactly how you wanted to go. But I mean we had a blast after after I said I do, it was a blur and we just had so much fun and get to see so many people we love and care about.

So it was it was it was a lot of fun.

So with next week, you guys, well this week being mini camp, you guys are out of here.

What are the honeymoon plants. What are you guys planning doing.

We're going to Cabo for three days.

So we've done a lot of travel this offseason, so we didn't want to do like some like ten day yeah, European tour.

Like we just let's go to me.

Let's go somewhere tropical, sit on the beach for three days and enjoy being. Ota is done and our wedding, Uh, all the wedding planning is over, so it'd be great.

Great idea. All right, so let's talk some ball here. Every year is different. He got some new faces, EJ Speed. For me, this is very strange to see a former cult as a tech seg. Now, so what's it like with him some of the other new faces this year's defense so far?

What are you seeing?

I think?

I mean, EJ's picking up the defense great, and he's a he's a hell of an athlete and a great player. It's a it's fun to kind of watch his game because we were always watching each other.

And same division.

You said, they run a similar defense to us, and so we watch a ton of Colts tape and watch it, Uh, just scouting in general the opponent. But it's been really fun to learn, like what his thought processes and play with him and build some chemistry with him throughout OTAs.

So you're five, your four you're four four four still, I mean, it's man, it feels like you've been here for longer, and yet it feels like you just got here. What's kind of been your focus going into this year where this is the third year in this system we're hearing I'd imagine a lot of the same things. You can just go out there and kind of muscle memory things at times because you've.

Seen it before and heard it before.

What's that kind of been like for you, Jay, going through this offseason and now your third year.

Well, I I mean, I think it it gives you a lot of confidence one to when when every time you step on the grass, you've done that, done everything, done the process for two years and you just know what uh Demko's looking for and what's expected around here. So that's knowing knowing what you're going into every single season is very, very helpful. And with the same head coach, it's a it's all it's been great.

Jake Hanson with us.

Okay, everybody wants to know about the new offense and so I want you to reveal everything right now, but everything it's early OTA's mini camp.

But what do you see in so far?

What are some of the elements that you could share with the fans about what this might look like come September.

I think coach coach Nick Kyley is doing a great job of like putting guys, using guys to their attributes and getting them in space and getting them good one on one, good matchups every single every single time there's a snap. So we'll use Kirk and they use his skills their best way. He us Nico great like all those offensive weapons. I see them him emphasizing all their talents.

So yeah, he's doing a great job with that.

Jake, are you Are you one of those players that will pay attention to the schedule when it comes out as far as who are playing when night games all that? Or does that not even hit you at all? If it is something that you kind of pay attention to. Are there any kind of games that you point out, like, oh man, primetime game here, this game? There anything you kind of look at the schedule home over Tampa Bay, right.

I've heard folks, Yeah, No, I've heard about I've heard about the Tampa Bay game just from family. I personally, I don't look at it super closely. I notice, well, I'm gonna play some buddies, Like there's some I have a close friend on the Broncos, and I know I circle that game you get to suit up against. Anytime you get to suit up against someone like you went to high school. Yeah, yeah, it's a cool opportunity. I would just say those the games where I know someone or those type of games.

So that's what I look forward to during the season.

Before we know it, training camp will be here. How will you handle training camp differently as you advance in your career, if at all? Is it the same to you or is it a little bit different. It's such a grind you got to get through it. Last year was seven weeks. It was crazy. It was We'll see what this year brings. I know you have at least joint practices with the Panthers. I believe maybe more. But what do you think?

I think.

I would say going into the biggest difference for me is going into your forest. Don't make training camp bigger than what it is. Right like every day, I think my rookie.

Year I was.

I hated out as I thought it was big, scary training camp, and it's I mean, it's a it's a grind, it's hard, but I mean I've done training camp. My whole feels like my whole life now. So don't make it bigger than it is. Take one practice at a time, and you know it's a just if you look. My dad always talks about taking every when things like life gets hard, you take everything like hour by hour. So don't think too much ahead, like just get next thing you do is this meeting. Stay in the present for this meeting, Stay in the present for practic don't think.

About man, we got four more weeks until.

Like that'll make training camp feel like it's six months long.

So, you know, Jake, a lot of the coaches say, hey, you want to do things right, look at a guy like Will Anderson.

Right, yeah, I look to a guy like you though.

As an inspiration for a lot of young players, because you know, you come in here love, he brings you in and and Johnny was saying, watch out for this guy.

This guy's gonna be here.

And you've been here a while now, So what's the key to you and what's something you could share for young players? Coming into the league trying to make their way.

I would say, I think that's you just have to stick your head down until I mean, it's really just stick your head down and go to work right, and there's no ego. Uh, don't have an ego when you come in here and be coachable.

And be likable to everyone in the building.

I try and do my best to be likable around here and work hard for the coaches. So be the same person every single day, Like they know what they're gonna get out of me every single day. And I take pride in in them knowing that about me. So that's that's what That's what I would say the young players trying to make it.

Last year, we had seven weeks of a training camp because played the Hall of Fame game. And you'll see where I'm going with this. You had a memorable Hall of Fame game for a particular reason. And it was at that point and I'm standing maybe ten yards away, you make that tackle, and I thought this kickoff thing ain't gonna fly because that collision happened so fast, like you got off your block and bang, like you hit the returner right on a spot.

And I thought, if this is the way it's gonna be. This isn't what they want from me. Yeah, But as the.

Year wore on, how did you kind of like the new kickoff rule when you were on special teams?

And do you think do you like it the way it is?

Would you like to get I know it won't go back, but did you like the old way better?

Did you get adapted to the new way? And how do you think it might adapt as we go forward.

I think initially I did not like it. I was it was kind of an anytime you have changed in football, I felt like it was it's bad. I felt like it was bad for the game initially, But after after a season with it, I think every one of my.

Special teams tackles came down kickoff off, so it was I was like, dang, I kind of like this.

I like this new kickoff.

Found a way to be productive on kickoff. So it's it was a It's grown on me a lot, and after a year doing it, it's you're starting I'm starting to get a better feel for kickoff return as well and kickoff. So I think people always say like good players have to adapt. So if you're gonna be a good player in this league. I got to adapt to the new rules, and I think as far as it like evolving, I think you're kind of seeing it evolve right now with the new change, right Like, we'll probably see another rule change the next year. Like if I don't know, there's we're going to have a lot more kick kicks in play this year. It seems like that's what everyone's prediction is, right because of the the ball going to the thirty five with touchback. So I think you'll see it continuously evolve and become I think it's making special teams. The thing cool thing about it is it's making special teams players more valuable. So that's the way I'm looking at it, and that's a I think that's the way everyone else should.

Look at outstanding. Jake, thanks so much for joining us. Congratulations on getting married.

Thank you. Great break after mini camp, but we'll see you soon enough.

It's always a pleasure with you guys. Thank you.

Likewise, thanks all.

Right, great stuff from Jake Hanson. We had a blast catching up with the fourth year veteran. My goodness, time flies, all right. We're going around the league. Nick Chubb, it appears as past as physical. He is a Texan and Anthony Richardson still injured. We'll talk about that next right here. Going around the NFL and Texas All Access, we go on final segment this Money edition to Texas All Access coming at you, John Harris, Martin, vandermir Mark News Around the NFL.

We talked about Nick Chubb to the Texans.

Apparently he has signed or passes physical yep, and he will be a Texan.

Your thoughts in ten seconds, let's go. I thought, oh my thoughts? Yeah, your thought Nick Chubb. I'm excited.

I said it before. I'm excited that he's in the mix. You add depth to the running back room at his peak obviously amazing. I don't know if you're gonna get that out of him, but if you get eighty percent of that, that's a lot. Obviously, Mixon is going to be one to watch here. He has not participated so far this offseason. A lot of reports about injury. Whatever. You don't play a game for three months, but guess what, not on the field is not on the field. So you add depth to the running back room, get them all out there, see what you got, and you have many camp tomorrow. Can't wait to report tomorrow. Night on what we see in Indianapolis.

Anthony Richardson to miss Colts Mini caamp with a shoulder injury. Also, Carly Ersay Gordon to serve as Indianapolis Colts principal owner following the death of her father, Jim Ersay. Her official title, effective immediately, will be team owner and CEO. Erse's other two daughters, Casey Foyt and Kayln Jackson, will serve in leadership duties for the team as part of ownership.

Boy, they've got some decisions to make very very quickly.

Yeah they do. If this season goes sideways for them, Yeah they do.

Oh my god, they do.

And who knows how they're going to handle it. And this wasn't like Ersay had years.

It wasn't like Bob McNair and Cal McNair, where Cal clearly had the succession plan. I mean Bob had the succession plan and many conversations with Cal on how to do things and what's important to Bob anyway and what could be important to the franchise in the NFL. Not that Ersa hasn't had these conversations with Cig and his daughters, and obviously they've been involved, but I think the suddenness of it does make things very interesting here, and you know, best.

Of luck to them, And I mean that, Johnny. You know how I feel about the horseship. I know, but I know it's a really rough situation. And they lose their father and they're running this franchise. It's so difficult to win in any way in the NFL, especially this way, and they're in the midst of this.

Are we late in this ballad?

Shane Stike in regime, Stike it on purpose, diking with the.

Richardson injury for injury, Like we said, it does.

Point two, Hey, Daniel Jones gives us short term certainty as to who the quarterback is, right, Hey, maybe they go shopping.

Who knows, Maybe they're super aggressive. I don't know. Cousins, Baby's gonna watch Cincinatti.

Bengals released their linebacker Jermaine Pratt one hundred and forty three tackles last year, but he requested a trade from the Bengals earlier this offseason, and he will he didn't get his trade, but he got.

Released and in Green Bay.

Speaking of released Pro Bowl corner Giere Alexander released after seven seasons. I know if you're thinking about, Oh man, he'd be a great third corner with the Texans. Uh, He's gonna cost a lot, a lot of money, so don't even think about that, because if Texas thought they could have taken him in, they would have made a trade for him to make sure that they got him and didn't have to negotiate for him. All Right, that's around the NFL, and that is the show. Big thanks to Jake Hansen for being here Tomork, obviously to all of you for listening. We'll see you tomorrow and as always, go Texans.