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Seth and Sean discuss the most noteworthy thing they've heard from each of the Texans who have spoken to the media during OTAs.
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00:00Let's relive the magic of some of the media sessions here with some of the Texans players.
00:05The most noteworthy thing said by each player thus far at OTAs.
00:08The most noteworthy thing for C.J. Stroud was the answer about his contract,
00:12but I feel like we've beaten that one into the ground.
00:14We haven't played much else with C.J.
00:15So instead, I'll go with the all-important topic, his new look, his haircut.
00:20C.J., how about it?
00:22I honestly didn't see the reactions.
00:23I mean, I was told that people thought I was, like, depressed or, like, that I was, like,
00:27I wasn't.
00:28I was doing okay.
00:29But I've been thinking about cutting my hair for a long time,
00:32and I was actually going to do it much prior,
00:35but I just didn't know how my helmet was going to fit.
00:37So nothing really too serious.
00:39I mean, I'm kind of used to this haircut.
00:40It's how I grew up.
00:41The dreads were kind of a new thing.
00:42So, but, you know, I hate everything in my life.
00:45It's so public, but, and people just have narratives, but it's the chosen.
00:50So it's all good.
00:51But, yeah, I like my haircut.
00:52The team, like, people who've met me in the recent, like, three to four years,
00:55like, yeah, they're like, dang, you look different.
00:57But my brothers, my sisters, my mom, my dad, my, you know, my close friends from home,
01:03they're all like, oh, it looks like you.
01:05Everybody says I look younger, so I hope that's true.
01:07So I try to grow a beard.
01:09So it's a little scruffy, but I'm getting right.
01:12We should do them dirty and just edit that to where it just, the part where he says,
01:16I hate my life.
01:18Yeah, Ben, make that a hot key.
01:19Every time I hear that clip, I hear, I hate my life.
01:23I'm like, whoa.
01:26I hate everything in my life.
01:27It's so public.
01:28No, no, you got to, not in the so public, just I hate my life.
01:31I hate everything in my life.
01:37This guy's a baby, man.
01:40Oh, I hate my million.
01:42Ben, play that again.
01:43I hate everything in my life.
01:46You're the one that threw the four interceptions, okay?
01:50I hate everything in my life.
01:53People, people, people say I was depressed.
01:56No.
01:57No.
01:57I just hate everything in my life.
01:59I wasn't depressed.
02:00I just.
02:01I hate everything in my life.
02:02That's right.
02:03That's right.
02:05So that was the most significant thing.
02:08As we pointed out, he hates that everything in his life is so public.
02:12I mean, you did let your barber put that on his Instagram.
02:15So there's that.
02:16That's true.
02:17Good point.
02:18Now, even if he had gotten the haircut, people were going to notice it when he showed up
02:21without that.
02:22Yeah.
02:23It's a much better look for him.
02:24I agree.
02:24If there's anything, I know he stays away from social media as much as he can, but you
02:30just always have to remember, man, the number of people who prefer this look compared to
02:36people who preferred him wearing the locks, I would say is about, it's like 100 to 0.
02:41Yeah.
02:41100% to 0% are in favor of the new hair.
02:46I think he just looks more upbeat.
02:48He looks healthier, I think.
02:49Just the whole thing.
02:50You know what I mean?
02:50It was a bad look for him.
02:52Some people have, like, you've got to have your haircut match your face.
02:56And it just didn't, that haircut did not, that hair did not match his face.
03:00This one, this matches his face better.
03:03He looks more like, he looks more like a leader.
03:06And it doesn't matter at the end of the day, no.
03:08But the part about him saying, people were saying he was depressed.
03:11I think, look, this is the danger sometimes of when you do stay away from social media,
03:16but then you only get what filters into you.
03:18And I don't know.
03:20It's not like the consensus opinion was that, oh, he must have been depressed.
03:24Yeah.
03:24I think my opinion, and I didn't know for sure whether this was the case or not, is that
03:28very often when people really try to make a change in their life for the positive, they
03:33do cut their hair.
03:34Yeah.
03:35And it's one of those things, it's kind of, it's self-affirming, too, when you look in
03:39the mirror and you're like, oh, yeah, that's right, it's the new me.
03:41Yeah.
03:41I did, I told you the story, I did it in my senior year in college after I had a
03:45game
03:46that I felt wasn't up to my standards, I shaved my head balls.
03:49And I, and it was definitely related to a bad performance in football.
03:53And I feel like that was, it's not the thing that made me back into being a better player
03:59and everything, but I definitely was just like, I got to turn into too much of a fancy
04:03land.
04:03What am I doing?
04:04Yep.
04:05Get back to your roots.
04:06That's right.
04:06That's right.
04:07Here's Willie Anderson.
04:09A shape, you know, the skinhead roots.
04:11Yeah.
04:12Yeah.
04:12Okay.
04:13It wasn't bald, it was a buzz cut.
04:15It was a buzz cut.
04:15Yep.
04:16Yep.
04:16Here's Willie Anderson Jr. on wrecking the, the notion that he wrecks practice every day.
04:22I believe in the process and preparation.
04:25Anytime I step on the field, it's an opportunity to get better.
04:27And like you said, no matter if it's OTAs, training camp, walk through, jog through, I'm
04:32learning how to be a pro still.
04:33I'm like, I can't do jog through because I ain't going to lie.
04:34You got to, I'm going to be on the sideline or I'm going full speed, but that's me training
04:39my body to be in these positions that I'm going to be in in the game.
04:41Training my hands, training my footwork, turning the corner, throwing by, setting edges, everything
04:46like that.
04:46So for me, it's like, I've only been wired one way and that's to go full speed.
04:50Yeah.
04:51And for me, you know, I know that, I know that the afternoon show is down on Will Anderson
04:56for practicing so hard.
04:58From my perspective, when I watch him practice and no pads, it's really not, it's, he's not
05:04practicing hard in a dirty way, which in, in no pads practice, that's where you'd be
05:09bull rushing people.
05:10You'd be putting people on the ground.
05:12You'd be hitting the quarterback, all that stuff.
05:14He's just a really, really good football player who's not taking it easy at all.
05:18And like, I think some of the wrecking practice stuff is more just of a joke than it is anything
05:23else.
05:24But that's, it's, look, look, you know who else wrecks practices?
05:28Kamari Lassiter and, and Derek Stingley.
05:32Yep.
05:32Should they start going three quarter speed and not competing just to be sure that guys
05:37have a little bit of a success?
05:38I, I disagree.
05:39I agree with you on that one.
05:41Along those lines, here was Jalen Petrie.
05:44We're playing the noteworthy thing said by each player that's done the podium so far.
05:49This is a follow-up on what Will Anderson Jr. was just saying.
05:54Petrie has asked about Will Anderson Jr. wrecking things.
05:56Yeah, Will is Will.
05:57He's going to wreck practices, wreck games, wreck meetings.
06:00He's going to wreck everything.
06:01You know, that's what, you know, that's why he's the best.
06:04Because he, he shows up every day, ready to work, ready to push others, inspire others.
06:08And, you know, he's a, he's a great leader for this team, a great player for this team.
06:12And, you know, he's definitely already, like you said, wrecking havoc out there in t-shirt
06:15and shorts, you know.
06:16Coach is always on a tipping point of like, do I slow him down?
06:19It's like, that's just Will.
06:21Like, you can't really slow him down.
06:22Yeah, I like what you said.
06:23If he was doing things that were in a untoward or dirty OTA fashion, they would stop him from
06:29doing those things.
06:30The stuff that gets people hurt.
06:31Right.
06:31Yeah, that would actually be like, that would be one of the things that D'Amico might actually
06:35yell about is when you're doing out, you're out there doing stuff that gets people hurt.
06:39He doesn't, he doesn't do that.
06:40Yep.
06:41Here's Nico Collins, as we go through the most noteworthy thing said by players at OTAs
06:45this year, was asked about his contract, the raise that he got from the Texans.
06:50Got 17 million over a couple of years tacked onto his deal.
06:54Was this contract needed for you to stay a Texan longer?
06:58Something that I needed?
07:00I mean, yeah, of course, you know, you want to set your family up, you know, for long
07:03term.
07:04You know, we know it's a business, it's a business at the end of the day.
07:07It's definitely something that you work hard for.
07:09You know, you come into this league to get extended, you know, get contracts, you know.
07:13So it's definitely a blessing.
07:15It's definitely motivation for me and this team to continue to continue to chop wood,
07:18continue to keep going.
07:19But at the end of the day, I'm definitely blessed for that.
07:21You know, a lot of people don't get that first, second contract, that third contract,
07:24you know, so it's definitely rare, definitely a blessing.
07:28It's definitely a great situation for my family long term and I just got to continue to be
07:32myself, you know, not making the situation bigger than what it is.
07:35It's a blessing for sure.
07:36And I got to use that as motivation.
07:37The other tell, Seth, so you pointed this out earlier when we played Nick Casario on
07:42our show yesterday talking about Nico Collins and called it a resolution that they came
07:48to, which would indicate that when you're resolving something, you're resolving an issue
07:52and that would indicate that this is something that Nico and his camp came to the Texans and
07:58said, hey, we need an adjustment to the contract.
08:01The other tell that that might have been the case was Nico Collins himself saying, at the
08:06end of the day, it's a business.
08:07It's usually the person who says this is its business is the one that's pushing the issue
08:12of something.
08:13That's a good point.
08:13Yeah.
08:14And then if you even want to go into more breadcrumbs, the fact that there was any, that this was
08:18randomly brought up in the media sometime a month or so ago where somebody suggested
08:24that, boy, Nico Collins might want a contract adjustment.
08:26All right.
08:27His agents drew Rosenhaus.
08:29He knows how to get a, he knows how to get a little bit of a nugget out there at
08:33some
08:33point.
08:33We'd have to go back and see who the first person to say that was.
08:37And see if we can connect the dots to, oh, okay.
08:39This is a guy that Florida, like I think Rosenhaus is, has leaked some information or given him
08:44a little nugget before.
08:45I was thinking the same thing you were, cause I think it was Jordan Schultz.
08:49And I thought that I thought, man, I need to go check today and see if Jordan Schultz,
08:52if the guys he he's tweeting about our Rosenhaus guys, you know, and see Jordan Schultz, the
08:58one that got into it or like a verbally assailed Ian Rappaport at a Starbucks.
09:03Yes.
09:04Yeah.
09:04At the combine.
09:05Yes.
09:06Yeah.
09:06Yeah.
09:06Cause the irony of that is Schultz, his old man is the former Starbucks.
09:10Yeah.
09:11So he had like the home coffee shop advantage.
09:14Yeah.
09:14His dojo.
09:15Probably went up to all the employees beforehand.
09:17It was like, Hey, listen, don't break this up.
09:19Right.
09:19Unless it gets bad for me.
09:20Unless it gets bad.
09:21Then you got my back, right?
09:23You got some barista named Cindy.
09:26Some barista that can't give up her health, her health insurance benefits.
09:29It's like, oh crap.
09:30I guess so, sir.
09:31I got to jump in.
09:33Little King Joffrey here wants me to back him up in a fight.
09:37All right.
09:38Here was Kamari Lasseter as we go through most noteworthy things said by each player at OTAs.
09:42We haven't played much Kamari from his press conference.
09:44What makes this secondary special?
09:46I feel like on the field, we're all dogs.
09:49So I think that comes with itself.
09:51But off the field, like we just mesh and gel so well together.
09:55I feel like if we, whenever we hang out off the field, it's like we've been knowing each
09:58other since we were kids.
09:59We joke, we laugh, we play.
10:01But whenever it's time to work, we push each other until we know that we can't be pushed
10:05anymore.
10:06And I feel like that's what helps us play such a high level.
10:08And we all want each other to win.
10:10And I get just excited whenever Sting, Petrie, CB, anybody in the secondary makes a play.
10:16And whenever they make a play, I get just as excited as when I make a play.
10:18So I feel like just having that love and that bond is really critical.
10:21It is.
10:22It is a great.
10:22I said this last week, Seth, and I still feel this way.
10:26I actually kind of went back and looked in Texans history.
10:28I think this Texans secondary is the best position group in the history of the team, in the history
10:35of the Texans.
10:36They're that good.
10:37And I love the stuff that Kamari's talking about there, about the camaraderie.
10:40Like everything you've heard is re-blankenship has blended right in with the group since
10:44getting here.
10:45That's a fun room.
10:47And they're all so good.
10:49They're all so good at what they do, man.
10:51I was looking through.
10:53I'm going to have to send this to Ben later.
10:55I was looking through for some audio in my files.
10:58And I've got one that's titled Kamari Lasseter Got Fake Newsed.
11:02And I have no memory of what that is at all from earlier this offseason.
11:06Do you remember that at all?
11:07No.
11:07Okay.
11:08No.
11:08Okay.
11:09Let's see what it is.
11:11That's a tease.
11:12Yeah, that's a tease.
11:13To myself as well as to the audience.
11:15Absolutely.
11:15I have zero memory of it.
11:18One of the other notable bites that he had in his press conference last week, I thought,
11:22was just the whole notion of, man, nobody wants to be the guy that screws it up.
11:26And it feels very much like that type of a culture on the defensive side of the ball.
11:32One of my favorite coaches of all time, Frank Gantz Sr., who is a former Annapolis guy,
11:38naval veteran and all of that.
11:39So he would talk a lot about military stuff.
11:41He would show us special forces training videos and things, or special operations training videos.
11:47But one of his big, big things always, his themes was always don't let the other guy down.
11:51You know, like, just be desperate to not let the other guy down.
11:55You don't want to be the guy that lets his buddy down.
11:57And it starts with really caring about your teammates and getting to know them and everything.
12:02And I feel like they've got that part on the defense.
12:04They're all very much wired the same way.
12:06And you get that sense that they really just don't want to let the other guy down.
12:10It's as well put together a unit.
12:13You know, I'm not just saying the secondary, but that applies also.
12:16But just the defense.
12:17This defense is so well put together.
12:20It's remarkable.
12:21Do you know that's the biggest, like, that dynamic of don't let the other guy down?
12:25Yeah.
12:25I've told you this before, but I'm going to bring it up again.
12:28Because I was watching about some of the military training,
12:34where they're talking about if you're alone and walking down a trail,
12:39and you're, like, you've got your buddy is back, like, we're, like, a mile behind you or something,
12:44but you're on the trail by yourself.
12:46And if you come across two enemy combatants, you don't try to kill both of them because you're going to
12:52lose,
12:53and then those two are going to go kill your buddy.
12:55Yeah.
12:55So what you do is you kill one of them.
12:59Yep.
12:59You kill one of those guys knowing that you're probably going to get killed.
13:03Yep.
13:03But then that gets your buddy in a one-on-one dynamic.
13:07You have told that story.
13:08Later on, which is, like, that's a, that's when you tell it comes to, like, wrapping your head around, okay,
13:13like, the level of, the level of sacrifice that soldiers and everything are willing to go through.
13:18Yeah.
13:18It's, uh, I always try to think about that with you.
13:21Yep.
13:23I always try to think about with this, is this where, should I try to.
13:25Do I want to know the conclusion?
13:27Should I eat both these donuts, or should I leave one for Sean?
13:31Well, I know the answer.
13:32I mean, one donut's going to kill me, but two might actually kill me.
13:36Yeah.
13:37Nah, I eat both donuts every time.
13:38Every time.
13:40That's why I never, that's why, that's why they rolled me out of a Navy SEAL training show.
13:43That's all the donuts that you ate.
13:46Last one, last one here.
13:47I failed the written portion of the SEAL.
13:53Jayden Higgins, difference in OTAs this year versus last year?
13:57I think, um, you know, I think pretty early we realized that the starting point where we started last year
14:03was a lot farther behind than where we started this year, of course.
14:07I mean, obviously because everyone is very, um, with the plays and everything of that sort.
14:12But, you know, really just, I think it comes down to, you know, Nick giving us confidence, um,
14:17and just trusting us to be up, be able to go out there and execute those plays.
14:21He's, he is a crucial X factor for this team this year, Jayden Higgins.
14:25They, they need, you know, when we, when we were kind of going through the hypothetical of what,
14:29what would a Nico Collins trade look like if it had come to that with Nico?
14:33Yeah.
14:34And then envisioning this team without Nico Collins out there?
14:36I mean, you don't have to envision it.
14:38You just go back and watch the new England playoff game without Nico Collins.
14:41It's, they need another playmaker in that wide receiver room to step up.
14:45No, no.
14:45And, um, I think Jayden Higgins, uh, he's kind of flown under the radar and I think, look,
14:50it's not like he put up gaudy numbers or anything, um, that first time, uh, in his first season,
14:56but he showed a lot of improvement in that aspect of knowing where he fits in the offense,
15:02the timing of plays, knowing how crisp and precise he needs to be with his routes.
15:07And, and you could see that CJ started to trust him more.
15:10And I think the underrated part of him is just that he is a, he is a big guy who
15:16gets,
15:17is able to get down really low and in and out of his cuts, um, and does a lot of
15:23the things that,
15:24that make Nico Collins really special.
15:26It took Nico a while to become this guy who he is.
15:29And, uh, and, you know, D'Amico saying that Higgins got bigger and stronger and everything.
15:34Yeah.
15:34That's intriguing too.
15:35Cause Higgins showed a lot of want to on the run after the catch, but he doesn't have the
15:39same size and power that Nico Collins does, but he very much has that swarm mentality of
15:44wanting to grind out extra yard.
15:46Yeah.
15:46Yeah.
15:47And a big frame, you know, big frame too.
15:49Maybe he can put, so we'll see how it goes.
15:52All right.
15:52Um, so that was the most interesting, most noteworthy thing said by each of the guys who have gone
15:57to the podium.
15:57I'll text Omar and find out who's doing press conferences today.
16:01The OTAs today are open to the media.
16:03So we'll have eyes on the Texans today.
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