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realize that the county can protect a couple of dates for events other than football. There are other considerations. Remember last year, was it last year? The year before you had Taylor Swift or Beyonce or two years ago you had that Beyonce deal. Last year was the Prime Minister of India last year? I think, yeah, last year? Yes, that I mean, those kinds of things are no joke, you know, and not just all right, you can't play at home that weekend, But how you get the team in and out of the stadium just to travel on those occasions. There's so much that you take into consideration. That's just here. They have thirty two teams that they have to figure out. Uh, you know, what's a good time of year for this good? I always complain when we go to Indy because every time I go to India, there seems to be some massive convention or two taking place, and I'm like, can't you guys schedule or around these things. I think the city loves it though. They fill up all the restaurants and it's just great for the economy and everything. We'll see how that goes this year. That kind of thing. But and here's another thing, Johnny, before we get into other beefs about this, Like this is a prebeef show. You. I don't want to see Monday night on the road followed by another road game. Don't want to see that. But here's the other thing. The league knows what's going on, all right. And I was just on a huge league call today with over four hundred people who work in the NFL, and they know, and they're gonna take every measure to do things the right way, the safest possible way. They didn't say exactly how that's gonna go down, because we don't really know what's going to happen in three months. Because it's over three months from now you'd play your first preseason game. The world might look different, maybe it looks worse, maybe you can't do it. Who knows, but they're gonna put it out there. And I love setting the mark. You know, this is Hey, let's get ready for this, let's go. And I just think it brings a lot of hope to people. People need the diversion, distraction, entertainment, etc. And let's hope we can do it and do it in the safest possible way. That's the goal. All right, all right, I'll give you another one here Thursday night games. Look this. You can't complain to the league about this, although I will. We all know what happened when you went to Foxboro week three of twenty sixteen. That's kind of thing cannot happen again. What's the longest road trip this year, Johnny? Is it Chicago Detroit? You don't have any really big long one, yeah, because like you don't go west, you don't go west. You don't go east. Really, you don't go that far east. Pittsburgh is not that bad relatively, so you know, if you happen to go on the road to play one of those teams this year, it's not as bad as going to say, New England. But I still don't want to see that. If you have to be on the road for a Thursday, please make it somewhere close. I look, I'd hate to play Kansas City other than the proximity part of it, on a Thursday, because they're just too good. You don't want a short week to get ready for them. You know, that's a road game. But if a Division All opponent, you know, I'd take the Jags on a Thursday. We've done that before in twenty thirteen that wasn't good. Or the Titans on a Thursday. That's a huge game. I don't know if I want to see that on a Thursday. But and usually the Jags and Titans, it's like this annual NFL invitational of those two teams on a Thursday night, that's usually the Jags Thursday Night contest. But what do you make of the Thursday night ideal and how that might play out. You know, the New England wont was just brutal because first of all, you got your longest flight and you're flying into it. And I want to say that year, which is twenty sixteen, we flew into Providence, Yes we did. And even if we had flown into Logan, had we flown into Logan, it would have been the same, just going the other way. We got there with our normal time, which is usually you know, three thirty or so on the day before the game. Well that put us right in the middle of rush hour traffic and it took forever. And then it was a Thursday night and we're trying to get from our hotel to Foxborough and there was just no good way to do that, no way on atain, none, no good way to do that. It's never a good way to do it. It's stay. It was just the worst trip of the league, not just because he had to face Brady. By the way, we know, these are tree problems, these are real life problems. These are just NFL team problems. Okay, So before you start, well, you guys are looking. We understand this, we say it all the time. We're blessed. Okay, continue, Yeah, that's the one the other one to me, boy, as much as I and I love the Sunday night games, but Sunday night on the road, now, I was trying to remember. I was like, wow, okay, have we played Sunday night on the road, because last year our Sunday night game was New England was at home. Year before that it was Dallas that was at home. They've done it before in history. I mean San Francisco was a Sunday night game in twenty thirteen. Didn't go well, not good. Didn't like that one at all. But I just have a feeling that we're going to end up with a Sunday Sunday night road game, which makes Monday morning radio. Yeah, these are our problems really hard. Well, I think it's tough on the team anytime you have to fly back from a prime time road game, anytime you have to fly back from My kid is just yelling at me. I mean, he understands, he knows. He doesn't want a Sunday night road game either. Yeah, he doesn't want and he wants he doesn't want that thing outside. It's like geez okay, uh, that's that's probably mine is that I'm I agree with you that My biggest beef has has always been from that first year. I remember going to Pittsburgh the Monday night and then turning around playing the road Sunday m Thursday night games. You know we've played I want to say the majority of them at home

other than sixteen and seventeen. That was New England one year and then Cincinnati the next. And Cincinnati was manageable because, oh yeah, we stayed close to We stayed near the stadium. You could fly into Cincinnati. Actually I think he flew into Kentucky maybe, but it was not the travel was The travel was not that bad at all. Um, so you really didn't have to deal with that aspect. And you know when you just tack on, you know, a bus ride before the game of an hour and twenty five minutes like we had going to New England, that's that's an excusable. I mean that that that can't happen. But then Cincinnati, it was like fifteen minutes and it was just enough time to see Deshaan starting his first time that night. I still that that's one of my favorite That's one of my favorite stories of all time is DeShawn on his birthday starting that game against Cincinnati, and we still didn't know. We still had no idea before the game. It was not made official before the game that Deshan was gonna start. But we're on the What is that true? Yes, this is true. He never never Brian never announced it. We never announced it would happen. We just assumed it was gonna happen. And then I think maybe right before the game, I think maybe you said it was gonna happen. Um. But we get on the bus and you go on a later bus. Me DP and Drew, we usually go on earlier buses. So we're on bus two, and Bus two is a mishmash of like everybody and some rookies. So it's like medical staff, it's us, uh, it's are We're all on the second bus. Well, the rookies getting that bus. So the bus is packed at this point, and all of a sudden, de Sean walks on the bus, velvet suit, bow tie, just got his bow's headphones on, and he's looking for a spot and he just sees a bus is packed, and somebody goes, hey, Deshan is a spot right here, is right behind the driver. And so we pull out and I'm like this dude's about to start his first NFL game in his life, and you just see him just staring straight ahead and then very now and again you just see his head kind of goes side to side with his music. And it was like that dude he did not have a car and where he was just like, I'm going to play ball Thursday night. No big deal. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. I would have been probably peeing my pants sitting on that bus, but it was. It was just the cool and the calm. And then he goes out there at night and I'll never forget. On the first down play of the drive, he has the long run, he gets hit by Geno Atkins and Gino nearly flew. I thought he. I thought he just punched his heart through his back. And then two plays later, on third and fifteen, Acres tries to sack him, you stiff stiff arms him and then runs fifty some odd yards for a touchdown. We're like, okay, this could be different. That broke different. That was this seal career. Yeah, that that was That was phenomenal stuff as far. All right, so this year, this past year, you had no primetime road games. You didn't have any and I loved that. Yeah,

am I right about that? Other than maybe, I mean, you can't call a national television audience for the Tampa Bay game, but it wasn't a primetime road game. Um So I think it's two years in road mark because in eighteen we played Tennessee and on Monday night, we played Dallas on a Sunday night. Our Thursday night game was against Miami. So we played all of our prime time games in eighteen at home as well, which makes me think, and we're going on the road to play We're so due to go on the road in the primetime at least once or twice. So and I'm curious to see how many they get, you know, how many of the Houston Texans get. There's so many compelling matchups around the league, you know, you you look at about twelve to fourteen teams that are really interesting teams, and especially when they match up together. Even a team like early on Arizona with Kyler Murray in a second year will be an interesting team to watch in a Thursday night or or something like that. I bet they get one. That NFC West is just always filled with drama, and you know, high rolling offenses and everything. So there's just gonna be a lot of good stuff there. It's interesting though, how the travel is limited to the middle of the country. You're going up and down the middle of the country. You got the Division games. You do have the Jags on the East coast, but you know it's Florida. It's it's North Florida, which is more like just you call that the southeast. That's like SEC country really, uh. And then and then that's it. You mentioned at Pittsburgh Cleveland. I mean, these are teams in the Eastern time zone, but you don't feel like you're on the East Coast when you're playing teams like that. Here's another one, the thanks Giving thing. Now we're gonna find out forty eight hours from now, we're gonna find out whether they go to Detroit on Thanksgiving or not. That gonna be interesting as well. Well. I know how the Harris family will react. It's not gonna be good. It's not gonna it's not gonna be great. However, however, however, you'll be just a late night Thanksgiving dinner. It's just that's good. That's how you do it. Yeah, just make it a midnight snack. Everybody will get over it, and it's just part of the gig. You know, I want to spend a Thanksgiving. We were at U Masks. We were doing the Great Alaska Shootout, which I want to say North Carolina and Vince Carter were there with Brian Cardinal. There was a loaded tournament and we did that tournament and we had Thanksgiving dinner in Anchorage, Alaska. Just you know, that's part of sports, and it's very cool to be part of those moments and and those are unforgettable. All right. Coming up next, gut reaction. Oh quarterbacks in the news today, New England with a new one and another one that was highly touted by some, including maybe me in a certain area, got cut today. We'll talk about those things and other things as Texans All Access continues. 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a football player, I mean, you're always taking risks. But I understand, like people have their personal feelings and opinions, and you know, I just wish the data out there was more conclusive. But we have what we have, and we have to make whatever interpretations we can. Yeah, I think that's that's the key point, is just I mean, leaning on whatever data we can that's reliable. And I've said long time ago, even though I've stayed a holiday, and I'm sure at some point in my life the medical aspect, I mean when I when I was coaching and training, were coming and say hey, such such has got this, such as such has got that. I'm like, okay, fine, Like you make the decision, Like I'm not gonna sit down. I don't I don't know, uh medically, like, yeah, I can figure out a sprained ankle all that kind of stuff, but you're talking, we're talking about something that is just so above and beyond anything that we've ever faced before. So but you're right. I mean, do you ever have one hundred percent peer safety? Every time you go on a field. You just would like to hope that you're being as safe as humanly possible for the people that are coming to the games, that are coming to watch. And the NFL has been looking at this. We as an organization, I've been looking at this. We just posted today and it may have been last night, but I saw a post of the day the first in the NFL the Facility Hygiene Coordinator YEP, which was fantastic. And I hope that we're a league leader in that deb Other teams are like, whoa, we got to do that too. We have we have to do that. And whether that's just enough to give people the confidence said, Hey, when they walk at Energy Stadium and they come to see a ball game, they know that it's being taken care of, and they know that it's being taken care of by people that know what they're doing and looking out for their safety. The thing is when you walk into Energy Stadium, even before this, that's what the Houston Texans, you know, obviously, they want to you know, create raving fans and memories for people to take for a lifetime. But it was always and it has always been about safety. And the Texans in the NFL will do the right thing and make sure that fans enjoy the games when fans are able to be at the games. And hopefully, like we've talked about, there's gonna be an NFL season in twenty twenty, and hopefully we can all be part of that and enjoying that, and and it'll be nice when the Texans win a Super Bowl in twenty Let's do it. Let's do it, okay, Johnny gut reaction. Now, I know usually you usually throw these at me. I do, but we'll take turns. We're gonna play tennis here, which is a decent I guess, social distancing sport tennis, although you have to touch the tennis ball. I don't know. It's just who knows. Soccer is pretty good because you're just kicking your hands. Yeah you're yeah, you don't use your hands. And if you're just kicking the ball, what's the big deal, right, That's what I say, seemingly. Yes, all right, so we'll kick the ball back and forth here. I'm going first, my gut reaction. College football, you could see some schools playing some schools not putting a real premium on quick scheduling and televising these games. And I don't know how they're going to organize this. But what's your gut reaction to this story that came down in the last twenty four hours about college football and the conference is handling things separately and you might just do it a whole different way. Gut reaction. Yeah, when Mark, when I was coaching, I mentioned coaching earlier, the one thing that we always had to do was cent our schedule for the next year, like years over. Okay, calling at your games. You had your district games that you had to play, but then you had to call around and find your other games to fit your schedule. So you call around and go, okay, I got week eight open. Who's got Week eight open? Well, okay, these two schools over here at week eight open, Like, I don't know if I can. I don't really want to play them. We're kind of a step above them, or maybe we're their their way above us. Okay, let's keep looking, all right, Well, maybe hey, let me call us other team. We'll move from week eight to week seven or from seven to eight and then opens up week seven so I can match up with you guys. We had to do all that scheduling on our own. So seeing the colleges have to go through and schedule the season now or schedule what's I think it's fascinating And honestly, I think it's the right thing to do all this. Hey we're gonna play you guys twelve years in the future. Well, when you do that, you end up getting matchups like you think you're gonna get a matchup of Hey, Utah State was really good in twenty eighteen, We'll play them fourteen years down the road. And Utah State, Oh, they might be two and ten. But this way, you at least look at it and go, Okay, we're playing Clemson this year, or we're playing uh, I don't let me give you a we're playing I'm trying to We'll play Wisconsin this year. Uh, you know what, you have a feeling of what Wisconsin's going to be, so you know when you match up with them, Okay, you know what kind of game it's gonna be. As opposed to, Hey, we schedule this game ten years ago, and now all of a sudden, the school that we thought we were gonna see ten years later, is there one so schedule it more recently so that we end up getting better overall matchup? Well, how about Oklahoma? U h remember? Yeah? Well yeah absolutely, I mean yeah, I do remember that. Uh so yeah, because like you just don't know, a school could go in the tubes, down the tubes. I was gonna say another word, uh school could a school could really blossom and become a power. But anyway, yeah, I mean it's a larger Can you imagine if you had a schedule. Let's say you called Boise State and you schedule them in two thousand and three, and you scheduled to play them eight or ten years into the future, and you're playing them in twenty two thousand and eleven. We you schedule Boise

State thinking, yeah, you know, tough little you know, tough little whack team. At the time is Western Athletic Conference. Ten years later, you're talking about one of the tough five teams in the country. You're like, WHOA, what's going on here? How did I number these guys? But if you get a little bit more recent scheduling, I think you can end up with better matchups overall. Well, I think that's a bigger picture thing. I think for this year, this is bizarre. I mean, here we well, yeah, it's like you said, though they scheduled so far in advance. Did I see something about Rhode Island playing Temple. I don't know why this flashed on my screen. Rhode Island and Temple agree to play in twenty twenty six. I'm like, congratulations for getting that done today. Guys. That was so important. I mean, I get I get it that you're filling out schedules. That's the way the game is played. But this, this is like what I was talking about in yesterday's show, where during World War Two with the British soccer leagues, where they had to reform reconfigure is a better word, and they had a fifty mile travel limit and they played in smaller venues or they had smaller capacity limits and all of that stuff because that's the way they needed to get it done in World War Two. We are in that situation right now. They might have to put stuff together sort of on the fly for lack of a better way of putting it. All. Right, that's my first gut reaction. You go, well, I don't mind that. To be honest with you, I wouldn't I mean college football gets a little bit of a you know, the draft got kind of a kick in the backside doing something different this year, and maybe there are there are some best practices to take out of that, and maybe that's what happens with college football too. Kind of give it a little you know, kick over the you know, kick over the murder hornets nest and see what happens. Which actually, okay, here's one. Yeah, Frank Gore, after a stint with the Miami Dolphins, Ye, after a stint with the Buffalo Bills, takes his third trip through the AFC East. He now joins the New York Jets. Your gut reaction to a Frank Gore is a Jet to be Frank Gore still playing football and Frank or is still playing football is ridiculous. I mean this, he's the thirty seven cane left from the years I was there, and he was a freshman my last year there. Oh one, I remember he fumbled in that famous game at Boston College. It was you know, look, it wasn't a game changing fumble. I just remember that for some reason. Yeah, what you're prevailing Frank Gore Hurricane memory when you were there him fumbling against Boston College. I hate to say that, because I mean, frank Or is a Hall of Famer. Where's his top three all time right on the rushing list. Frank Or is ridiculous us. He's a freak of nature, but he's not a jet. This is very weird to me. And Greg Williams is there, right, So that's bizarro world because you read the PFT story they brought back how Greg Williams and Bounty gave the whole thing. So anyway, that's kind of interesting to me, and I just think we all have to appreciate what we have here. One of these guys who can seemingly play forever at that position, which is I don't want to call it a disposable position in this league, but it tends to be more than a lot of others. Really good players don't last very long at that spot, and he has, so I get him a ton of credit. Yeah, this is a great story that he's still going Mark. What's fascinating about him is we talk about this all the time in the draft. We talk about it all the time during the season, the availability of a player, the health of a player. Frank Gore at the University of Miami. Actually, before he got to Miami he had had an ACL tear. Then I think it happened twice at Miami before he even got the NFL. I mean, he had the tag of well, yeah, if he could just stay healthy, if he could just stay healthy, if you just stay healthy. Well he did, and now he's playing longer than all those guys that stay completely healthy in college for how many ever years and how many ever carries, and he with those three ACL tears is still going. Yeah, it's fascinating. Well, how about McGahee and what happened to him at the University of Miami and he had a nice career. And Naja Davenport. I'm not talking about the closet incident here. Naj Davenport had a knee injury and was able to have an NFL career as well. Jeez, every time I bring up his name, you guys think about this stuff, meaning me about this stuff. Okay, I know, all right, gut reaction, Johnny. The Patriots signed a quarterback Jamar Smith from Louisiana Tech. Now the other guy from Michigan State that they signed as an undrafted free agent, Brian l Work, Is that, yeah, all right, So do either of these guys. First of all, gut reaction to Smith's signing couldn't just be a camp arm. But you never know. Once upon a time they drafted Tom Brady in the sixth round and look at him. Either these guys have a shot to unseat Stidham and or a Hoyer who's still on the roster present. So now they have four quarterbacks on the roster. I wouldn't think so. Now, if you asked me that a few years ago, Brian le Work, I would have said, Hey, l Work, he's got an opportunity. But the last couple of years were just dreadful at Michigan State. Now, part of that was the offense that l Work he ran, and part of that was the offensive line in front of him. I mean it was. It was kind of a mess in twenty eighteen in particular, and that's really when his confidence went down. Went down to toilet Smith from Louisiana Tech not a how do I put this? Um A can do some things out of the pocket, can throw from the pocket, doesn't do anything extremely well. See something in him? But yeah, there's exactly I would think la Work would be a guy that they would think would give them something more so than Smith would. But then again, you know, we've seen things over the years of seeing quarterbacks that you don't think much of and all of a sudden, may where

did this guy come from? But Smith's played a lot of football Louisiana Tech and going up with the Patriots. Look, he doesn't have to start right away. Maybe gett the practice squad. Maybe he's a camp arm, but I think we'll work. He's a guy that he's got some tools. Now he's got some tools. But I don't know if the last two years at Michigan State just just shot him to you know what, um, But that's our guy. Tyler Marcott's dude. That's our He's dude. He's a big spartan and he loves him some Brian lework. I gotta talk to Marcott about going to Central Michigan and ready for Michigan State. Yeah, it's tough, Okay, Okay, I got one for your quarterbacks speaking of the Patriots, because it didn't happen with the Patriots, and I think people were a little surprised. The Dallas Cowboys. I was gonna ask you this last night. We ran out of time. Signed Andy Dalton. Did you talk about this? We did not talk about this. She We did not even discuss this. Cowboy. Yeah, it's and he lives well, he went to TCU, right, so it's not a stretch to say he would live in the DFW area. So good for him that he's a cowboy. Is this leverage for the Dak Prescott negotiations? That's what I want to know. Look, you could do a lot worse than Andy Dalton as a quarterback in this league when you put a good system around him, good people around him. Now, does Dallas qualify for that? All right? I need my drum roll here. I think so. Yeah, I would think so. Better situation than what you've been dealing within Cincinnati in the last few years. So that's good. You know he did. Look a lot has been said and written about him since he's been released, and you know, five straight playoff appearances. He won a lot of games there. Now, he didn't win playoff games, but he won a lot of games, and so you have to give him his due for that. Look, I just think it's interesting how Jerry decides to do this when you're having these negotiations with DAK, and Dak wants a ton of money, and I'm not you know, I just don't know where it's all going. Good for them though. He's a good backup, and yeah, we did think maybe New England was gonna be a lily pad for him to land on. Didn't work out that way, so all right, let's see how it plays out. I think that's one of those in season stories or maybe preseason stories certainly worth watching. Look preseason game with Andy Dalton playing quarterback for the Cowboys, coming in in the second quarter or whatever. I'll watch that. I want to see how he does. Yeah, I mean seeing guys, seeing guys in different jerseys always yeah, you know, it kind of takes a second like, m okay, uh, he's in the Cowboys jersey. Like that's a little weird. And then you watch and look, Andy Dalton did some really good things in Cincinnati. There's a ceiling on what he can do. But if you if that goes down and they're like, well, looks like we gotta go to Andy Dalton, you gotta feel a whole lot better than having to go to Cooper Rush. Oh god, well, he who is no longer with the Cowboys by

the way, right, he's not a giant. I saw that. Oh I just saw an entertainment note that kind of caught my aisles. I'll share it with you later. All right, is it my turn now? Yes, let's stick with quarterbacks here to Sean Kaiser, this is a trip of a question for you and a gut reaction in his situation. He got cut by the Raiders. What did I say? He did very well in and he was the best guy in the draft at once. He won, He won the Combine interview. He won the Combine interview, won the comb Yeah, by him at the Combine. I thought he was good. I thought he was good up there at the podium. Those podiums they set up that are kind of like NFL Super Bowl Media day podiums. If people need a visual here. And I did cruise around and uh, you know Mahomes and Watson and I saw Kaiser. I said, I think he won the press conference today. Now that's further proof that winning the press conference does it mean squad? Does it mean anything? I mean it's nice, it's nice, but you know, winning games this justin winning games is the key thing more than winning the press conference. And he did that day. But he was in that draft second round pick, right second round pick, second round pick, further proof the draft is a total crap shoot. I mean, you just don't know. He's a second round pick. I'm sure the value was there. Second round. He can't drop any low or maybe third whatever. And now he's in need of a job, and look, a lot of the jobs have been scooped up. This is a late cut for the Raiders letting him go right now. Yeah, I mean it is, but there's still there's still an opportunity for him at some point. But it just never it just never came together for him for whatever reason, whether it was the timing, whether it was where he you know, started his career in Cletely, just none of it came together for Deshauan Kaiser. And the thing was is, if Zayre Smith actually stays healthy at Notre Dame, there's the thought that maybe Kaiser doesn't even get on the field, especially in that twenty fifteen season when he actually did and he obviously came back in twenty sixteen, he didn't have will Fuller anymore, and then things started to really start kind of going down at that particular moment. But that would have been his only years I Er Smiths days healthy. Then I think a lot of people would maybe have only seen Kaiser for that one year and not then like okay, he's a good quarter. They would look what people did was well, look what he did in twenty fifteen. You know, Nick Martin's protecting him up front. You know, he's got Quentin Nelson up front, He's got all these guys up for Ronnie Stanley, all these guys in front him. He's got Will Follers throwing it to look at him, Look how good he is. Look when you protect him and you do all. But then the next year you saw what turned out to be the real Deshauan. Kaiser was a guy that had to lean heavily on the talent around him, and he didn't have that talent around him, and I think it ended up showing in the way that he played that year and then what ended up happening in the NFL. All right, so next up, okay, job, well hang on, yeah, but you throw that one at me and a couple of other Don Shula notes because we didn't give it, We didn't do it justice last night, I mean, the career, so many interesting notes have come out about him, including one that blew me away today that you know, if you look deeply or even not that deep, you're gonna come up with it. But it was pretty cool and something you had to deal with that was kind of unique. And a few other things before the close of business, including then I tell you the schedule comes out Thursday at seven, but we're gonna have it for you right here at six thirty on Thursday. It's Texans All Access Touchdown. Texans Radio continues in a moment. 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Sometimes nothing beats a classic Miller Light the original light beer proved with great taste and only ninety six calories available for delivery. Celebrate responsively. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ninety six calories three point two cars for twelve ounces. Listen to J J. Watt and you're listening to Texas right. That'd be great to hear that again soon. Let's hope schedule comes out Thursday night at seven, but we have it at six thirty for you right here, six thirty, right here, let's meet. We'll go over to games together. Mark Vandermer and John Harris with you. Johnny, I just saw this tweet. It kind of like jarred me a little bit because those of us were a little more seasoned and actually watched MTV when it played music videos. Remember the news updates with Kurt Loader and when I saw him trending I thought, did he darn please know? But he's seventy five years old today, Kurt Loader is seventy five, which is just I don't like this at all. But anyway, good for him, me away because I remember because the first thing I thought it was okay, like, oh, how long ago were those news updates? Those are probably the late eighties early nineties. Hold would he have been Yeah, man, he was in his mid forties when he was doing those heart Yeah, so he was a little long in the tooth, so to speak for that network then perhaps. And by the way, all those old VJs, not all of them, but some of them are on Sirius Sex Sam and some of them don't sound like they used to, okay, like yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard her. I've heard her anyway, I just sound like Rod Stewart now now I'm just kidding. God bless her. She hasn't I know, I mean, and she who knows what she's been through. I hate making those kinds of comments, but yeah, it uh, I will say. Hearing them, it does there is a sense of nostalgia when you. Uh. When I'm listening and all of a sudden she pops on, I was like, hey, let's do the best from nineteen eighty two, and I'm like, ooh, there is that sense of nostalgia, like, oh, music videos, I remember those. Well, some of those they should have MTV channel, you know, and I don't think they do, and they should because like that whole early eight like the first half of the eighties was just so hot on MTV. And I used to sell advertising on MTV locally in the Boston area. I mean, I was one of the first jobs I had, and um, and it was so cool to be able to do that. And I'd have to look for like nightclubs and you know, trade schools, and I'd look everywhere for advertising prospects. All right, anyway, let's get to this. Now, throw your gut reaction to me, and then I'll give you the shoolas stuff. Go, Okay, this is twofold number part Well, it's the same news, but I'll throw it at you this way, Logan Ryan said via Instagram, because that's the way we do things now that he will not return to the Titans. So a impact on your gut reaction, the impact on the Titans, b would you as the Texans, Well, Johnny to me and you know better than me. He plays a role where like he can hit and he's kind of like a safety corner, right, He's kind of like one of these guys who can come up and run support and do some things. If you are relying on him to protect that sideline and cover deep, right, that's that's not a good idea at this point in his career. It's interesting, how boy I've said interesting too many times to night look for a synonym. So it's notable how Logan Ryan and Malcolm Butler go to Tennessee. I looked at a great year last year, so I gives them a ton of credit for that. But it just didn't feel the same way as it did in New England? Did it? No super bowls, et cetera. No Brady, I get it. But Logan Ryan on the market, I think that he could be one of those guys who steps in somewhere where they just feel like they're a little thin, you know, and he could possibly make the team. He could possibly make a difference, but you cannot count on that happening. So he'll be available to whoever has a need at a reasonable price. So that's good for him. You're right, I don't think I mean I think he is. You're right, I think he is purely a

safety nickel, not even like you won't even I don't think you'd even play him outside. But I think about Mike Adams. Now, Logan Ryan's not as old as Mike Adams, but Mike Adams came in for us and gave us some good play when we needed it, especially in that Buffalo playoff game. We needed Mike Adams out on the field, and Mike gave us some good stuff. And Romeo Crenells, even the coordinator at the time, did not put Mike in a position where he was going to feel vulnerable and that he was gonna have to cover Cole Beasley in the slot one on one. They could, I let's say, protect him, but they sort of could. I think you have to do that with Logan Ryan. I think there's some good football left in him, but I do think you have to protect him. In last year, they were just the Titans couldn't protect him at all times, especially when we put three receivers with hop Stills and Fuller out in the field. They had to put Logan Ryan on Kenny Stills. And that's just the mismatch one on one now, But I do think Logan Ryan's got some good football in him. But I just think with what the Texans did in bringing him Michael Thomas, along with Eric Murray, along with Jalen Watkins, bringing back Vernon Hargraves, drafting John Reid, I think they found some guys that can play that nickel role, the interior passing game and play that. So I don't think Logan Ryan has anything really for the Texans, but do you think he's got some football left? And I'd be glad to see him go. He always played pretty well for the Titans. I didn't think he was superb, but always felt like he played pretty well, especially especially when he would blitz that corner. He got really good at blitz in the edge, which was a problem for us, especially in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. Okay, a couple of minutes left, cheese, we're running out of time. We need a longer show. Darn it. Stuff he coached against George Hallis and Bill Belichick. Did you see this one today? Yeah? You know that. That's a great note right there. My goodness, wow, who would would that? There's nobody else that would even come close to that, because he faced Belichick in in the early nineties obviously, and then he coached against Hollis when Hallis was with the Bears. It would have been the mid to late sixties when when Chula was with the Colts. I'd have to, you know, the way to do it is the bridge. See when Hollis's last years were, and just see who last long enough to hit, you know, to match up with Belichick in Cleveland. That's just that's it. But I he's the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I should have looked this up, and I apologize. The other one that I found interesting was Florio brought up the fact that Zonka and Kick you know, they went to the WUFL, and that was that was tough on the Dolphins. You know, so free agency obviously wasn't a thing, but that was a thing the WUFL, which had. By the way, my favorite note on the WUFL is there was a Houston Texans team that didn't even last a season, but there

was a Houston Texans in the WUFL. I remember going into an office of one of the executives at the Texans and there was an old media guide there that said Houston Texans. I said, what is this Because I knew a little bit about the WUFL in the seventies. That was like a USFL in the seventies, folks, but they played up against the NFL and it just never never panned out. Obviously. Well, my favorite is my favorite WFL story was there was a receiver and I alreadycall his name, but he didn't trust his hands all that well, so he decided that he was going to you've seen receivers now, this is obviously before the tacrifice took him. No, he took thumb tacks and he shaped them down and he taped them to his fingers and he said he never got caught. And he said one referee looked at him one time. Is near the end of the year. He caught a ball and he caught the back end of the ball and the ref guy looked at him, and I was like a first down and just that that was the WFL. Everybody just just looked the other way. You can't get the ball off your hands, like you're shaking it like busted. Yeah that is beautiful, Yeah you could do that. One of the damn Marino was on today. I don't remember. I think he was on PFT and he said, he said, my first memory was of Shula was coming for mini camp. He said, first time I met him, I walked in his office. The funny part was before the draft, I never talked to Coach Shula, none of the scouts or anything, because I didn't think they thought I was gonna be available for them to draft me. So the first time I really talked to Coach Shula besides on the phone draft day when he said how'd you like to be a Dolphin, was in his office coming to mini camp. Can you imagine that going through this the whole time and people don't understand how much of a legend he was. I mean, he was like on the Mount rushmore of the NFL coaches and then Marinos should still be by the way it should be absolutely. Marino then said that Shula said to him, I believe in you. I want you to work that way so you can come in and compete and actually feel like you're going to be the starting quarterback. And then Marino said that just gave me a lot of confidence raft the bat. That was my first meeting with coach. Can you imagine that going through a whole draft process, especially them back then in the eighties, and you don't meet Don Shula and all a sudden he calls you on draft day like, hey, Danny, how do you want to be a dolphin? I mean, that just would have been so surreal for a guy like Shula, that would have been Well, they had David Woodley. They definitely needed some help. All right, Johnny, that's it for today. Thanks so much, got it, of course, and thank you John back in the studio for producing. Don't forget schedule out Thursday. We'll have it for you right here first at six thirty sharp Thursday nights, schedule comes out. Let's do this together. 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