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It was outside but they are done I think.
Savage and Weeden are competing for the #2 spot. Also, this could well be Savages final season as a Texans. Even though his contract is through 2017, if Weeden proves a capable backup and is willing to accept this role, it might be advantageous to see if we can trade Savage next year. Otherwise he is gone after next year with minimal compensation (compensory pick in the
I have a real problem with that philosophy in that the refs are not ignoring push offs these days, the way they were in Irvin's day.
Nothing like in Irvin's day.
Don't know why, but the video stops with a granular black and white screen just a couple of minutes in every time I try viewing it. Will try again later.
It’s pretty hot here
HOUSTON — I landed at the Houston airport late Saturday afternoon and got in a rental car. The temperature gauge on the dashboard was 99. It was 100 on Sunday. Forecast highs for the week, beginning today: 99, 99, 99, 100, 100.
Heat index (combining heat and humidity) on the field Sunday for the 9 a.m. practice: 120.
Photo: Bob Levey/Getty Images
The one constant at camp for the Texans? Oppressive heat.
The medical staff here does proactive IVs. Before Sunday’s training-camp practice (2 hours, 35 minutes) on the fields across the street from the Texans’ stadium and locker room, team medics gave out 35 IVs to players, including DeAndre Hopkins. “Before I got here, I thought you got an IV when you had surgery and that was about it. Now we get them all the time.”
Coach Bill O’Brien works the team out two-thirds of the time outside, and one-third inside the Texans’ practice bubble, where it’s 72 degrees. That’s where the team will work this morning. “I think you make it through by determination,” said Hopkins. “I think it keeps guys true. You better treat your body right. Like, you can’t go out and do whatever at night, then expect to come in here the next day and practice outside and practice well. Your body will be dead.”
The Texans have equipment guys lugging those eight-packs of small bottles of Gatorade, not just squirts of water; Sunday, some players just grabbed a bottle on the sideline, wrestled it from its plastic coupling and inhaled it. It’s just incredible to stand out in such heat for two-plus hours and imagine players who have to try to make a football team in the oppressive conditions.
Other Houston notes:
• Re the strange story in New Jersey, where Darrelle Revis and Brandon Marshall fought at practice Friday, with Marshall reportedly taunting the great corner for getting burned by Hopkins (five catches, 118 yards, two touchdowns, including a 61-yard TD bomb) last season: “I was shocked when I heard,” Hopkins told me. “I guess it means I’m doing my job. I knew I’d beat him that day, because no one can cover me man-to-man. I think he’s a great corner. But he has trouble with quick guys and length.”
• Sunday was punter Shane Lechler’s 40th birthday. On Sunday night, O’Brien and players Vince Wilfork, Brian Cushing and Johnathan Joseph called Lechler to the front of the team auditorium, gave him a cake shaped like the number 40, and also got him a walker, some Rogaine, and those Steph Curry sneakers people think look old-fashioned. Then the teams sang him Happy Birthday. He’s coming off a season in which he avearged 47.3 yard per punt, fifth in the league, and no one here is trying to nudge him into retirement. In 16 seasons, the 47.3-yard average is better than any of his first six NFL seasons, and just two-tenths of a yard off his career average. Here’s how long he’s been around: Lechler’s had beers with Ken Stabler. “I’m not in any mood to start growing up,” he said.
• Too early to tell if J.J. Watt will play the opener. He’s 18 days out from back-disc surgery that is probably a seven-week rehab. “I wouldn’t bet against him,” O’Brien said, “but he’s not going to play ’til he’s ready. He knows that too, and he’s okay with it.”
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Houston: Devon Still, defensive tackle. Still and his daughter, Leah, were an inspirational story in Cincinnati, with Leah beating cancer when her dad played for the Bengals. And here he is trying to prolong his NFL career. For now, Still is spelling the great J.J. Watt on the Houston defensive line, and if he has a good August, he’s expected to make the team as depth on a solid group.
Estadio Azteca Stadium actually hosted a 1994 game between the Oilers and the Cowboys, and a 2005 game between the 49ers and the Cardinals.......both on the stadium's native grass. I would think that nothing will change with the Texans/Raiders game.
Why not go to Wisconsin for TC like the KC Chiefs did for many years in the past. It's not just hot and humid in Houston during August, it's utterly jungle conditions. Since we don't play in any games in any kind of weather conditions conditions that approach this except when it's a September game in Jacksonville or Miami, what's the point ? There's no coditioning advantage to be gained and yet it probably makes injuries more likley, just as it is in extremely cold conditions.
This is the biggest over reaction since Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
If only a VPN service could make it look like you were in another country where game pass allowed you to view games live...
Goodness gracious...really? I hope you are correct but why? Cushing, McKinney and Bullough and ? In 5 years Dent has only two good seasons and with the Falcons in 2012 and '13. He turns 29 in few weeks and his "salad days" appear over..if ever were. He did play last season with hamstring issues so hopefully he is better than what I saw. I was hoping Smith would use Dent's cap $2 m to go after a vet in off season. Everyone needs toilet paper but he is not Charmin. He is not on my roster.
REST OF THE STORY23 observations from Monday at #TexansCamp
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John Harris Texans Analyst
With temperatures due to be in the 100s on Monday, the Texans got a bit of a respite from Mother Nature, going inside for practice.
Thankfully.
It started as a relatively normal Monday morning practice, but the competition ratcheted up a notch or four throughout the day. Here are my observations from practice this morning.
1. Okay, so my stretching/music playlist theory went up in smoke today when running back
Akeem Huntstarted getting his groove going to some country music. Not a country music fan myself, I can’t tell you who was singing what, but it didn’t matter to Hunt, who let loose as the team broke to individual periods.
2. Inside linebacker Akeem Dent
3. The only back to stunt Dent’s progress to the quarterback (and by quarterback I mean a big, tall red dummy) was Alfred Blue
4. Speaking of Blue, we talked with general manager Rick Smith today (which we do daily on Texans Training Camp Live at 8:45 am on SportsRadio 610) and he mentioned the work that Blue did to get himself ready for the 2016 season. The end to the 2015 season showed that Blue had the potential to be a fit for this team for a while. He can do the dirty work things that most running backs won’t do or can’t do...for example, blitz pickup. I think he’s going to surprise fans when they get to see him this preseason.
5. I can only imagine what it’s like to run smack dab into fullback Jay Prosch
Goodness gracious...really? I hope you are correct but why? Cushing, McKinney and Bullough and ? In 5 years Dent has only two good seasons and with the Falcons in 2012 and '13. He turns 29 in few weeks and his "salad days" appear over..if ever were. He did play last season with hamstring issues so hopefully he is better than what I saw. I was hoping Smith would use Dent's cap $2 m to go after a vet in off season. Everyone needs toilet paper but he is not Charmin. He is not on my roster.
