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00:00You want to talk about audio that gets your boy right here good and football horny.
00:05There's always D'Amico.
00:09There's always some offensive mind when they get to talk in the game, the X's and O's.
00:14There's always a Will Anderson.
00:16You know, there's a handful of players that can really get me rolling.
00:22Kamari Lasseter may be at the top of that list, boys.
00:26And Kamari Lasseter's been making his media rounds.
00:29I don't know if he just decided this week to meet with some folks, but he was on Texans All
00:33Access,
00:34as well as he was on with Ross Tucker, I believe, is where I heard it and where I gathered
00:40my information here.
00:42But, Ron, just off the jump here, there's no doubt about it, right?
00:45I mean, after – and I'm going to explain why with some audio from him, but there's no doubt about
00:50it.
00:50And Kamari Lasseter's one of the top leaders, not just on the defense, but overall in the Texans' locker room.
00:55And there is no way on God's green earth, there is no way on God's green earth that a D
01:01'Amico Ryan's coach football team
01:03is ever going to let Kamari Lasseter out of this building.
01:06Definitely not after this first rookie contract.
01:08I mean, Kamari Lasseter is getting another contract.
01:11You better believe it.
01:13And I think, obviously, his play on the field shows it.
01:17I think fans, since he stepped on the field, have seen exactly what this guy brings to the table.
01:23Whether he's picking balls off out of the air or he's setting the edge on the defense
01:27or sniffing out a screen and getting a running back on the ground, the dude flashes all over the field.
01:33I think he is just one of D'Amico's guys that's not just a good player but wired the way
01:37that he wants them.
01:39But I've got to be honest, this was my worst miss.
01:45We were both very, I think, fairly at the time concerned about the speed and the ability to play outside.
01:53Well, this was my worst miss in terms of Texans.
01:57A lot of folks will bring up the Nico Collins thing.
02:00I think a lot of folks missed on Nico.
02:01We watched him for two, three years and heard people talking about what he could and couldn't do
02:05and it just wasn't coming to fruition.
02:08And then what he does is goes out there and plays like one of the most well-rounded receivers in
02:12football.
02:12That was not what everybody thought he was going to be.
02:15So I can't eat that one.
02:18I've got to take the Kamari one, boys.
02:20I've got to take Kamari last week.
02:21I'll let you have it.
02:22But Kamari talking, see, has got me thinking.
02:26Uh-uh.
02:294-6-40.
02:31When he was coming out, caused him, at least reportedly, caused him to slip in the draft a bit.
02:38Thank the Lord because the Texans were able to get their hands on him.
02:414-6-40.
02:43I don't give a damn who you are.
02:45If you know football and you draft a corner that is plug and play,
02:48you got the job the minute that the media sees the team that year,
02:52you're on the field with the starting unit.
02:53And you ran a 4-6-40, anybody that wasn't concerned is lying through their damn teeth.
03:00And then I watched a guy that appears to be stiff in the hips.
03:03And I thought, nah, this right here, this inside corner, this ain't no outside corner.
03:08Well, I was wrong.
03:09Well, I was wrong.
03:10I ate it.
03:10I took it like a man.
03:11What did Dana Brown say?
03:13Like the true professional that I am?
03:15You know, I did.
03:16I took it.
03:19Well, Kamari was asked about the 40-yard dash.
03:23That reportedly, again, made him slide in the draft a little bit.
03:27And this makes me feel better about my take here, Ron.
03:31To think that the 4-6 may have never been true.
03:33It may have all been made up.
03:35It may have all been just bull jive.
03:37They got me.
03:38They did get me.
03:39But it makes me feel better about where I was at.
03:41Here is Kamari Lasseter explaining kind of what he went through with that 40-yard dash
03:46that was reported to be a 4-6-5 that had a lot of people questioning.
03:50I don't know the truth, but I know that you've never seen me get ran by.
03:54No one's ever ran by me.
03:55No one's ever.
03:56But what 40 did you run?
03:57What did you run in the 40?
03:58What I was told, I ran the 4-4-6.
04:00Whenever I got done running my 40, I went over to my family.
04:04I hugged my parents.
04:05They were like, dang, you just ran good.
04:06You ran the 4-4-6.
04:06Now then, whenever I got done, I didn't do the workout.
04:10And I got done with a meeting or something with a team.
04:14And then I got on my phone, and there was just all this Twitter buzz about me running a 4
04:18-6-5,
04:20to be exact.
04:20And I had never ran a 4-6-5 all of training.
04:25And so I was like, okay, I didn't really care.
04:27Like, I wasn't too much tripping about it.
04:30I mean, I wanted to go first round, but I feel like God put me in the position that I'm
04:34in right now for a reason.
04:35It worked out well for you.
04:37I mean, you're talking about a blessing in disguise.
04:39But they got me.
04:41They got me.
04:43Look, if I would have heard Kamari Lasseter say, no, man, I ran a 4-4-6 or 4-4
04:48-7 or whatever it was,
04:49and then that was just one of the several clocks that may have gotten me wrong,
04:52and somebody reported it, and it took off like wildfire.
04:55Okay, well, when I hear 4-6-5, and maybe I should have done more due diligence.
04:59Maybe I should have looked a little harder.
05:02I know that that 4-6-5 wasn't dying.
05:04I know it was still around come training camp time.
05:07And then I saw a little stiffness, and I thought, hey, come on, man, this could be a problem.
05:12Well, as I've done before, I want to own that moment.
05:15I was wrong, and clearly.
05:18And Kamari Lasseter, still a tad bit stiff, but a hell of a corner.
05:22And it makes more sense to know that he ran a 4-4-6 or whatever it was.
05:27That adds up, because he is right.
05:29Ron, we've said it multiple times with Kamari Lasseter.
05:33Man, I mean, boy, just when you think he got ran by, he catches up with the guy.
05:38Or just when you think there's a guy that can run by him consistently out there,
05:41you watch four quarters of football, and it never happens.
05:44Or when it does happen, the quarterback overthrows it because he's getting hit in the chin.
05:47Right?
05:47So there's no denying that Kamari Lasseter is not a 4-6-40 guy.
05:53And that evaluation was wrong, and I was...
05:57Well, I mean, in fairness, the Texans, they were aggressive from the start with him and knew.
06:03Yeah.
06:03Like, they put him right out there.
06:05Immediately.
06:05With other guys that were higher draft picks than him in the past, they put him out their first day
06:11of camp.
06:11Yeah.
06:11Yeah, there's no doubt.
06:13And part of that, right, clearly the 40 didn't matter.
06:16But I think what you're talking about, the reason that they put him out there immediately,
06:20is because there's just a high IQ football player.
06:24There's a guy that genuinely and sincerely loves the game, loves to compete.
06:28There's a guy that is authentic, as you can imagine, as a person and as a player,
06:32which they were obviously privy to at the time.
06:34We were not because we weren't in the meetings.
06:37Right?
06:37But then there's also a level of dog.
06:39There's also...
06:39We know it now because we've watched him play.
06:41The getting up, beating his helmet, which at times I've said,
06:44hey, man, you need to chill out a little bit.
06:45We need you to be healthy instead of playing like Ray Lewis.
06:48But that dog is something I think you've responded to me asking him to settle down multiple times.
06:53Like you said, Clint, I don't think he can.
06:55Yeah, I don't think he is.
06:56Well, you're right.
06:57You're right.
06:58Here's how Kamari the dog came about, if you will.
07:03Tyler, let's start with Mama.
07:04Tyler, let's start with Mama on this because I got to Mother's Day is right around the corner.
07:08I got a relationship with my Mama like this.
07:10And to see him give his Mama a little bit of love about the kind of player that he is,
07:15not only is it a great story, but to know that's where it all originated is pretty cool.
07:20Here's Kamari Lasseter talking about where that dog came from.
07:24I grew up playing the physical brand of football, you know,
07:26so I just feel like...
07:27You're from Georgia?
07:28I'm from Georgia.
07:29Where?
07:29Savannah, Georgia.
07:30Okay.
07:30Yes, sir.
07:31So I just feel like that's just how I play.
07:33And that's how we grew up playing.
07:34That's all we know is physical football.
07:36Like my mommy used to tell me when I was a little kid, big hits all day.
07:38That's all.
07:39Like, that's what we know.
07:40Your mom told you that?
07:41What?
07:42Of course.
07:42Big hits all day?
07:43Yeah, big hits all day.
07:45Oh, my gosh.
07:46Big hits all day in a world where, and I'm not knocking anybody at all,
07:50but in a world where most mamas are worried about their little ones getting hurt,
07:54Mama Kamari is out there going, hey, man, big hits all day.
07:57Yeah.
07:57And he plays like it, doesn't he?
07:59Similar.
08:00Similar upbringing.
08:02Teresa told you, don't come home unless you knock somebody's helmet off.
08:05I will never forget Little League as I was playing for the Raytown Vikings.
08:09We were against the Raytown Dolphins.
08:12And she pulled me to the fence and said,
08:17if you don't hit somebody, I'm going to hit you.
08:21But she told me.
08:22I guess there was a running back that dove over the top,
08:28and I was playing outside at an end.
08:32Just let him dive over the top.
08:33Went down.
08:34I touched him when he came down.
08:36She was not happy.
08:37She gave it to you?
08:38She came from the stands to the fence, to the fence right there.
08:41And told me to come here.
08:43Teresa.
08:43You know, when you hear your mama calling you?
08:44Oh, yeah.
08:45Like, the hell?
08:47Yeah.
08:47I thought something was wrong.
08:49Oh, Big Earl was on the field a lot of times.
08:51He'd be like, oh, hell.
08:52Thank God the fence.
08:54Thank God the fence.
08:55But I feel it.
08:56I feel that, man.
08:58Well, he went from mama in Savannah, Georgia,
09:01to obviously a great, some may say unhealthily competitive coach in Kirby Smart.
09:08I happen to love it.
09:09Again, in a world where most coaches had to handle kids and players with kid gloves,
09:15it doesn't sound like Kirby Smart does that.
09:17But here is Kamari Lasseter, Houston Texans corner,
09:21talking about how Kirby Smart helped him come into his own as well.
09:24Have you just always been like that?
09:26Or was that, did Georgia and Kirby, they get the dog in you?
09:30No, I was always like that.
09:31But being at Georgia definitely helped me just grow as a player, as a person.
09:36Being around Kirby, he's crazy, for one.
09:38And he pushes you past what you think is your limit.
09:41And he definitely did that with me.
09:42My first two years, he was on me bad.
09:45I mean, I remember just being at practice, and I'd just be getting cussed out.
09:49And he's on the microphone.
09:49So, like, we have two or three practice fields, and you don't know where he is.
09:53And he's just cussing me out, Kamari, you need to go hard.
09:56You need to do this, do this.
09:57And I'm like, dang, like, he's just always on my back.
10:00Like, he's just always on my tail.
10:02But, man, I appreciate Kirby.
10:04So he's crazy?
10:05Tell me how he's crazy.
10:07He's just crazy.
10:07Like, he's obsessed with football.
10:10Like, he has an obsession with football, and he loves winning, you know?
10:13So, he expects his players and the people that he brings into the program to be obsessed
10:17just like he is, and which, for the most part, most of them are.
10:21But he's actually crazy.
10:22Like, you can tell.
10:24Oh, Ross Tucker's laugh right there is good, too.
10:27But, yeah, I mean, does it surprise anybody that his mama was telling him big hits all day
10:31and then Kirby Smart, obviously, if that's his mentality.
10:34Does it surprise anybody that that's the player that he helped develop,
10:38and we get to watch here in Houston?
10:41Kamari Lasseter, y'all, one of my favorite, obviously, one of my biggest misses,
10:45if not the biggest as a Texan, but quickly becoming one of my favorite Texans out there.
10:52And, again, like I said when I started the segment, I will be shocked.
10:56I will be shocked if D'Amico Ryans doesn't go to whatever expense,
11:01wherever he needs to to keep Kamari Lasseter in Houston.
11:06It's going to be a big number.
11:07It's going to be a big number.
11:08That is going to be an interesting...
11:13No, I ain't an interesting about it.
11:14It is.
11:15I mean, I'm with you.
11:16I feel like the decision is made because the way he talks,
11:20he talks just like those other guys that got all the ones that easily got deals
11:28when it was their time, Aziz, Will.
11:30But it does mean if he is here, somebody else of importance won't be.
11:39Yep.
11:41Maybe that's the other corner.
11:43Maybe that's the quarterback that's currently here.
11:46Maybe that's a receiver that's here.
11:48Boy, that's interesting.
11:49There's somebody...
11:51Somebody is not going to be here.
11:54That's interesting.
11:54That's a good point.
11:55I mean, again, I think it's the quarterback until things change.
11:59I think it's the quarterback.
12:00But it is interesting because I do think one name that most people would be scared
12:05to put on the table, you just mentioned, is the other corner.
12:09I think you're spot on.
12:13I think D'Amico Rines, if you're a defensive-minded head coach
12:16and you've got Will Anderson in your D-line room,
12:19you've got Aziz Alshair at the second level in your linebacker room,
12:22and you've got Kamari Lassiter in your defensive back room,
12:28those are not just great players.
12:29Those are identities of those individual position groups.
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