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Seth and Sean assess if the dumb media night questions were a bit or legit, react to Hannah McNair when asked about how the season ended and discuss some dumb questions pointed out by listeners.
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00:00Media night last night.
00:03We need to determine, were these real questions being asked by reporters
00:07to Mike Vrabel and to Drake May?
00:11Let's start with Mike Vrabel.
00:12This is a shortcut, so you give a very cordial answer to this.
00:16Is this a must-win game, Coach?
00:19Is this a must-win game?
00:21A must-win?
00:22Yeah, I think every time we go out, it's a must-win game.
00:24I mean, it's kind of the attitude that I've always taken
00:27in the National Football League.
00:29Yeah, it's a kid just doing it, just going out and saying,
00:33like, I'm going to ask all the dumbest cliché questions.
00:35That was their bit for the night.
00:37That's your assessment?
00:39Yeah, no, 100%, because I think the next one we play,
00:41I think it's the same kid asking a cliché question to Drake May.
00:45Okay, here is a question.
00:48This sounds like a female, so it might be a different one.
00:50Oh, then the first dude sounded like a female.
00:53Oh, the first dude?
00:53Oh, okay.
00:54I thought it was a guy, the first one.
00:55I thought it was, too.
00:56Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:57No, this one coming up here, yeah.
00:59I was trying to take a shot at that guy.
01:00Oh, okay.
01:02Here's Drake May.
01:03Are we playing to win?
01:05What else were you planning to do?
01:10Yes.
01:11That's the goal of us coming out here, coming out here to win the game,
01:13and that's the number one priority, and I'm looking forward to getting a chance to have
01:17a great week with us and a chance to play in the Super Bowl.
01:19How about that?
01:21Okay.
01:21Oh, I didn't even say, I didn't realize that woman was the one asking the questions the
01:24first time we played it.
01:25Yeah, that was definitely a woman who did the, yeah, they're just asking dumb questions.
01:29Okay.
01:30It's one of the Super Bowl.
01:31What are some other questions they should ask?
01:33They, like, as far as, like, dumb questions.
01:36What are, like, the cliche dumb questions?
01:38Because I feel like those are questions that do get asked during the regular season.
01:41They do get asked about, like, is this a must-win?
01:42Is it a must-win game?
01:43Like, this is obviously, this is the final chance test.
01:45Right, it's a stupid one for the Super Bowl.
01:46It's always a stupid question.
01:47Yeah, yeah.
01:48But this one is, like, ultimately the dumbest.
01:49You get a pass in week eight for asking it, though.
01:51I guess, I mean, there's no dumb, the problem is there's really no dumb questions.
01:56It's all about what answer it elicits.
01:58Sometimes dumb questions elicit the best answers.
02:00They do.
02:00These are, like, cliche dumb questions.
02:02Text in.
02:03This is more a call to the listeners than it is to you.
02:06What are some stupid questions?
02:08I don't like the stock answer, the stock questions of, like, how does it feel to win that or how does it feel to be here?
02:15But they're fair questions.
02:16How much pressure is on?
02:19I don't like how much pressure.
02:21Because how much of anything?
02:23The answer to me is, like, oh, it's 6.8 kilo pressure.
02:27I like the way Caleb Presley does it.
02:29He's the long-haired mullet guy from Barstool that will ask, like, questions about, like, what do you say to people who claim that you're mean to orphans and stuff?
02:39Like, he just makes stuff up about things that people don't say.
02:42They don't even know.
02:43Like, they say that?
02:44Yeah.
02:44That's funny.
02:45Yeah.
02:45That's funny.
02:45That's a good bit.
02:46Yeah.
02:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:47But text in, what are some stupid, cliched questions that you'd fire at people to be funny at media days?
02:54I mean, because some of the stupid, cliched questions all depends on whether that player or coach is interested in giving an answer.
03:01Right.
03:01Because remember, because Arian used to do this.
03:02Arian would, like, Arian would get a boring question, and he would give an intentionally boring response.
03:08And people would lambaste whoever is asking the question.
03:12But then he'd be with a different reporter, and the exact same questions, Arian's giving these long, interesting answers and everything.
03:17He played favorites.
03:17And people would say, like, oh, wow, what a great interview.
03:19What a great question.
03:20Because Arian is really interesting when he feels like talking.
03:23So it wasn't about, like, the question itself.
03:25It was just, okay, is Arian interested in talking today or not?
03:27He plays favorites.
03:28So, yeah, text in, 713-572-4610.
03:32This was Hannah McNair at the Senior Showcase slash Girls Flag Football Showcase that the Texans do at their facility every year.
03:44The Senior Showcase has been going on forever.
03:46These are, like, senior in high school football players who haven't yet found a college home.
03:51So you have a lot of these D3 schools that come in.
03:54And so that's been a big thing for the Texans, and they've added Girls Flag Football to it.
03:57But Erin Wilson caught up with her, and she said she's having a hard time processing the loss to the Patriots still.
04:05It feels like just yesterday you guys were in the playoffs and in the fight, and now all of a sudden, you know, it ends.
04:12Your thoughts on the season overall and the big picture and the outlook for the team overall?
04:17You know, Erin, it's very hard to talk about because it's still, you know, wishing we were there this week.
04:25And I feel like we could have been there, and I feel like it was right there for us.
04:33You know, right now we're going to just go back and look how to improve and what we need to look at.
04:38Everybody will look at it as a team to see what we need to do.
04:41Yeah.
04:42You can tell.
04:43I think of all the people in the Texans organization that the fans feel, like, most comfortable about, like, yep,
04:50this person will chop heads off if she feels it, if this person feels it needs done, needs to be done.
04:57I feel like Hannah's the one.
04:58I think a lot of people look at Hannah as kind of, like, the backbone of the organization.
05:03Well, at the very least, she, I think she mirrors the emotions of the fans the most.
05:07You know, I don't know if that means she's going to fire 50 people because of it, but she's clearly still.
05:14I think she would fire 50 people at the drop of a hat if she saw fit.
05:17Maybe.
05:17I think.
05:18Yeah, maybe, maybe.
05:20So, I just think you can tell in her voice right there, like, she ain't over it yet.
05:24No, that was Sean McVay said that he probably won't watch the Super Bowl or might not even watch the Super Bowl.
05:29Because you get, and then the Texans weren't as close as the Rams were, but there's that element of the way you lost that game.
05:36And you can see how everybody, 21 players on the Texans stacked up really well.
05:41The 21 other players on the Patriots is just the quarterback position alone.
05:48In a day where Drake May didn't even play all that well, the quarterback play by C.J. Stroud was so abysmally bad that that was the difference.
05:55Yeah.
05:55And that's a hard one, though, too, because you'd love to say, man, look at that.
05:58They were so close.
05:59But when your quarterback plays so atrociously, you're not close at all.
06:04I mean, it's just, you're, it's like, I've got a nice turtle, but it doesn't have a head.
06:10And you're like, oh, okay, cool turtle, bro.
06:12Yeah, yeah.
06:13Like, I'm, I like, personally, I like turtles that actually have a head.
06:16They have a head, yeah.
06:17You know, walking around with my prized turtle and saying, oh, he's just shy.
06:21He's not sticking his head out right now.
06:22That's what the Texans were.
06:24They were a frightened turtle.
06:26They were, they were, they were built to endure, except that at some point, C.J.
06:30Stroud's got to stick his little head out of that, the turtle head hole, and he never did it.
06:34Yeah, the 95% of the turtle that's not the head was really intimidating.
06:37Yeah.
06:38You know, beautiful shell, claws on the legs and things like that.
06:41Where the hell's the head?
06:42It was exactly.
06:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:45People are texting in their questions.
06:47See, I, I, I don't think this is a bad one.
06:50What was going through your mind when you did dot, dot, dot, dot.
06:53Okay, see, that actually, okay, that question usually needs to be framed a little bit more specifically because that's, those are some of my favorite, those are some of my favorite answers at times.
07:03It's like, you know, like, could you take us through exactly how that play happened?
07:08You know, like, because what's going through your mind, like, sometimes I think people are, people hear that as a, as an athlete, you hear it and you think, like, I don't know, are they asking if I was scared or if I was nervous or something?
07:18But, like, and actually, like, take us through the process of the play.
07:21Sometimes you get some really interesting responses.
07:23Like, nobody asked C.J. about the, uh, the interception in the Steelers game.
07:27And, like, that's one, I almost feel like, that's, that's one that maybe C.J. would have liked to have had an opportunity to explain.
07:32Yeah, for sure.
07:33I like, I like that question, or at least that theme question, because sometimes you get a really detailed answer about, this is what I was looking at, this is what, this is the coverage we saw.
07:43I messed up, I thought it was going to be cover two, and it was something else, you know.
07:46It's the only, if you're ever interviewing Derek Stingley Jr., which you did yesterday, it's only waiting him to talk.
07:52Yeah, he loves breaking down the actual X's and O's.
07:54He had him on the postgame show after that Dolphins game last year where he had the two picks, including the one that sealed the game against Tyreek Hill.
08:00And so we had him on the postgame show, and the answer's about, hey, how's it feel to, because he, how's it feel to clinch the division?
08:06Eight-second answer.
08:07How's it feel this?
08:08How's it feel that?
08:09Take us through the interception with Tyreek Hill.
08:11Okay, well, I noticed before, like, the plays before, when he was in the slot, this is going on.
08:15So I had this leverage.
08:16He talked for a minute.
08:17Yeah.
08:18So that question usually is just better phrased as, like, is, instead of saying, yeah, just take me through it, or take us through it, or how did that happen, or whatever.
08:26Yeah.
08:27I think that's a fair enough question.
08:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:29I think that's all right.
08:30I think that's all right.
08:31My favorite cliche question, are you good on time?
08:36That's me.
08:38That's me.
08:38That's me asking Casario if he's good on time.
08:40I stopped doing that.
08:41People may not have noticed.
08:42Yeah, because he's pretty cool.
08:43Well, you know, we know beforehand that he's good for, yeah.
08:46We know the answer already.
08:47So, yeah.
08:47Sometimes there's nothing worse, though, than sometimes somebody will tell you that they need you for a 15-minute interview, and you're 23 minutes into the interview, and they show no signs of letting up.
08:56No signs of stopping.
08:57And then, you know, like, at some point, he's just like, hey, man, got to go, and then hit the end button on the show.
09:02Do you ever go back on that person's show?
09:04No.
09:04I don't either.
09:05Never.
09:06I don't either.
09:06Yeah.
09:07Happened to me on a podcast.
09:08Yeah.
09:0915 minutes.
09:09And this is at night, which is different for me and you.
09:12Because it puts you.
09:13Because we got to go to bed.
09:14Yeah, yeah.
09:15Yeah.
09:15It puts a guest in a position of just having to be the jerk.
09:18To end things.
09:19Hey, like, I got to go, all right?
09:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:21I haven't even gotten a before I cut you loose question yet.
09:24You know, that's where you know.
09:25That's why I always do that.
09:26Because then the person knows, like, all right, this thing's about to end.
09:28Yeah.
09:28You know.
09:30Good little dick.
09:31They're probably learning that tactic over at Ithaca.
09:32They call it the Pendergast method.
09:34Yep.
09:35It's in the textbooks.
09:37Yes, yes.
09:38Oh, Doug Williams.
09:39When he was at Doug Williams, the quarterback for the Redskins back in the day.
09:43What does it feel?
09:43He was asked this.
09:45What does it feel like to be a black quarterback?
09:47Oh, God.
09:48Where was he asked that?
09:49The Super Bowl, I think.
09:50Oh, my God.
09:51Because he was a Super Bowl MVP that year.
09:52Yeah.
09:53Yeah.
09:53See that.
09:54But now there's a good question in there.
09:57It's just the way that it's phrased.
09:58Yeah, yeah.
09:58You know, be a little bit more specific about, like, the challenges of being a black quarterback,
10:02especially back then, obviously.
10:03Well, and in the 80s, he was one of the only ones.
10:05Right, right.
10:05Yeah.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Hannah is the alpha of the Texans, the text line says.
10:10Yeah.
10:11No, that's a –
10:12She's an alpha.
10:12Yeah.
10:13That's right.
10:13When I'm saying she would drop 50 people to the drop of a hat, that's –
10:16Oh, you say it with admiration.
10:17That's a compliment.
10:18Yeah.
10:18I don't want any multi-billion dollar organization with somebody at the top who seems like they're
10:24reluctant to fire people.
10:26I want them to feel – I want them to be as sociopathic as possible.
10:30There you go.
10:30There you go.
10:31In a lot of regards.
10:32Yep.
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