Texans Training is HERE ! Texans football is BACK

Summary

Payne & Pendergast Podcast Summary

Episode Title: Texans Training is HERE! Texans Football is BACK
Date: July 29, 2026
Hosts: Seth Payne & Sean Pendergast

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Overview

This episode marks the long-anticipated return of Houston Texans football, as Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast broadcast live from the 2026 Texans Training Camp. The hosts bring their trademark chemistry and blend of sharp analysis, insider perspective, and humor to break down the team’s storylines as camp opens. Key topics include roster news, early impressions of returning and new players, injury updates, and what they’re most eager to observe as the Texans kick off the NFL season. Astros baseball talk and some classic Houston sports banter also make their way into the mix.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Energy at Training Camp

• Hosts’ Mood: Both Seth and Sean are buzzing with excitement, capturing the sense of anticipation and optimism that comes with the start of camp.
  • [01:13] Sean: "Let's do it." Seth: "Yeah, let's do it. Training Camp 2026 is here, baby."
• Setting the Scene: Neither host can see much because it’s so early in the morning, which leads to jokes about “painting the picture” for listeners and fumbling with new graphics at camp.
  • [02:10] Seth: “See, it’s up to us to paint the picture.”

2. Player Arrivals—Body Language, Fashion & Swagger

• Player Walk-ins: The hosts humorously break down the optics and social media frenzy over how players like Kamari and C.J. Stroud arrive at camp.
  • Kamari’s Swagger: Only player seen carrying shoulder pads—dubbed “real hustle” but possibly “fake hustle” (jokingly).
  • C.J. Stroud’s Walk: Noted for his “zesty” duck-footed walk and “blocky” shoes.
    • [03:26] Seth: "He's got a zesty walk.”
    • [03:53] Seth: "My suggestion would have been wear shorter shorts. His shorts were long and down past his knees."
    • Sean notes comparisons to NFL stars (Patrick Mahomes’ “goofy walk”) and reminds listeners not to read too much into optics.

3. Texans Injury Updates & Roster Notes

• First Injury List of Camp:
  • [07:31] Sean: “Let’s get to the news first...”
  • E.J. Speed & M.J. Stewart: Both start camp on the PUP list.
  • Tank Dell: Not on the PUP list—a major positive and a source of relief for hosts and listeners.
    • [08:35] Seth: "Good news. Tank Dell not on the PUP list. So now the story with him becomes, what's he doing out here?"
  • Nick Caserio’s Prediction: Recap of an interview with the Texans GM on Tank Dell’s recovery and camp status.
    • [11:20] Caserio: “I think the goal is training camp, so we’ll kind of see if he stays on schedule... He’s chomping at the bit, and he’s certainly anxious and wants to be out there.”
  • Jalen Noel: Surprise inclusion due to a non-football injury—importance underscored, uncertainty about his status.
    • [12:52] Seth: “You know who does have an injury designation? Jalen Noel. Yeah, this surprised me.”

4. Astros Baseball—Clubhouse Urgency & Performance

• Astros have been on an “almost win streak,” with Jeremy Peña stepping up as a leader after a disappointing post-All-Star break stretch.
  • [06:03] Sean: "My favorite part of this stretch...is that Jeremy Peña, when they came back off of that after getting swept coming out of the break... gave a speech about how they needed to have more urgency.”
  • Seth jokes Peña is “playing like one of the greatest...last week he's been one of the greatest baseball players of all time.”

5. Texans Camp Position Battles & Storylines

• Wide Receiver Depth: Absences mean opportunities for rookies and lower-depth players like Louis Bond and Xavier Hutchinson.
  • [14:58] Sean: “Guys like the rookie Louis Bond... might get some more reps with the Twos as everybody moves up a little bit.”
• Offensive Line Battles:
  • [20:15] Seth: “Who's the first team offensive line? Left to right, who's... first?”
  • Early expectations: Ariante Ursary, Wyatt Teller, Keelan Rutledge, Ed Ingram, and Braden Smith (possibly Trent Brown depending on health).
  • Potential for genuine, healthy competition.

6. C.J. Stroud—Hopes, Pressure, and Expectations

• National Buzz: Quoting Dan Orlovsky’s take on Pat McAfee Show:
  • [15:22] Sean: “If you told me Houston got good quarterback play, they would be my pick out of the AFC to go to the Super Bowl.”
• Personal Stakes for Stroud: Discussion about the difference between “just good” and “special” QB play for a big contract, team ceiling, and generational legacy.
  • [17:20] Seth: “Is passable quarterback play good enough to get the next seven generations of Strouds the generational wealth that they want?”
  • Jokes about future grandchildren squandering the fortune.

7. Most Anticipated Camp Drills and Observations

• Seth's Favorite: One-on-one pass rush drills—hard to watch but fascinating.
  • [18:40] Sean: “My favorite to watch, if you ever could actually catch a glimpse of it, is the one on one pass rush."
• Sean’s Choice: Red zone 7-on-7s—tight windows, allows insight on QB timing and WR performance even without pads.
  • Both agree: Early performances by offense against a stacked secondary will be a bellwether.
  • [19:30] Sean: “Anything that the offense can do in pads or out of pads in the passing game, I'm going to get really excited about.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On CJ Stroud and expectations:
  • [16:07] Sean: “I think the bar for CJ really has almost been lowered too much... No, I want to see CJ really come into his own in this offense.”
• On Texans' Super Bowl ceiling:
  • [15:22] Dan Orlovsky (via Sean): “If the Texans get good quarterback play, they can win the Super Bowl.”
• On generational wealth for quarterbacks:
  • [17:42] Seth: “Seven generations. These are big contracts.”
  • [17:55] Sean: “That's the American dream, is that your grandchildren and future generations will be spoiled little brats.”
• On the anticipation and the fun of camp:
  • [18:15] Seth: “I always compare training camp with all the different drills to Disney World and you got all the different rides. You walk into Disney World, like what ride am I going to go on first?”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:13 - “Training Camp 2026 is here, baby.” (Opening excitement)
• 03:26 - “He's got a zesty walk.” (Describing CJ Stroud’s arrival)
• 08:35 - Tank Dell NOT on the PUP list (Major injury update)
• 11:20 - Nick Caserio on Tank Dell’s rehab and training camp forecast (audio replay)
• 12:52 - Jalen Noel’s surprise injury designation announced
• 15:22 - Dan Orlovsky’s comments on Texans’ Super Bowl window
• 19:30 - Sean on the importance of measuring offense vs. defense in camp
• 20:15 - Position battle preview: Offensive line projections

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Conclusion

This episode delivers a punchy, high-spirited launch to Texans training camp, mixing substantive news with classic Payne & Pendergast wit and a healthy dose of irreverence. From key injury updates and depth chart discussions to CJ Stroud’s pivotal role and lighthearted moments, listeners get a vivid, inside-the-ropes sense of what matters most as the season dawns. The emphasis: Houston’s potential is sky-high if their stars align, and the hosts can’t wait to break down every step as it unfolds.

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For full camp coverage and more H-Town sports banter, stay tuned to Payne & Pendergast, SportsRadio 610.

Transcript

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[Sean Pendergast]

Sports Radio 610 presents Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast. We coming to eighth time. Let's get the work in, man. Let's go.

[Seth Payne]

Great day.

[Sean Pendergast]

Great day. Oh, give me some juice, baby.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Let's do it.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, let's do it. Training Camp 2026 is here, baby. Welcome in, everybody, on a Wednesday morning here on Payne and Pendergast Sports Radio 610. The official beginning of the 2026 Houston Texans NFL season is here. It's always training camp for me when this thing gets started. And we are live at Texans training Camp. I am Sean Pendergast alongside the returning Seth C. Pain.

[Sean Pendergast]

I'm super, super excited, Sean. As you know, I'm just right now in the dark where we can't. We can't see anything because the sun's not up, you see, and there's. There's some new graphics. They've got. They've got a bunch of really cool new stuff. And I'm not trying to figure it all out. This is horrible for radio. But listen, you guys are as blind as I am. Yeah. All right. The. The medium. The medium is not the obstacle here. It's me not actually being able to

[Seth Payne]

see up to us to paint the picture.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yes. There is no picture.

[Seth Payne]

Paint the picture. Guys listening right now. I'm sure.

[Sean Pendergast]

So big day. Yesterday was. Yesterday was fun. Yesterday was a lot of fun. Just because the teams do such a great job covering everything now that even the day before camp, it feels like camp has already started. Because for the players, you watch them arrive.

[Seth Payne]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

And you watch them walk up. You watch Kamari. Kamari walk up with kind of a swagger, kind of scary looking, holding his shoulder pads. Yeah, yeah.

[Seth Payne]

He's the only one I saw carrying his shoulder pads.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's the only one that's got the requisite hustle, Sean, that he takes his shoulder pads home.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, man. Because he's got a little. Got a little Nick Martin in him.

[Sean Pendergast]

He sleeps in his shoulder pads. Yeah. Actually, some might call it fake hustle, but not to his face. No, I bet he did have it. Like, do guys. You see more guys working out in their helmets and shoulder pads. In July, footage of him doing that

[Seth Payne]

popped up on the Internet.

[Sean Pendergast]

So that is actually way more common. But CJ walking in causes a lot of attention as well. Yeah, this is what I was. This is what annoyed me about all of that. Yeah. That's the way he walks. Okay. Have you not. How is anybody. How's anybody not notice that? Yeah, he's duck footed. And he walks and he walks kind of just. It's not necessarily the most. Just as Patrick Mahomes has kind of a goofy walk too.

[Seth Payne]

He's got a zesty walk.

[Sean Pendergast]

A zesty walk. Yeah. Pama Holmes is the one guy where you would never guess by his physical appearance and the actual way he walks that you would. That he's accomplished.

[Seth Payne]

He's the greatest player of this generation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, you wouldn't guess it from his stats the last couple years either, but likewise with CJ Look. So that took the Internet by storm. Early social media. It did a lot of people saying he looked like a fourth grader who was showing up for school.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah. Not that I'm one to delve into critiquing fashion or look or anything like that, but as far as that video not doing him the best of favors, I guess my suggestion would have been wear shorter shorts. His shorts were long and down past his knees.

[Sean Pendergast]

Gave him kind of a middle school appearance.

[Seth Payne]

You just look a little slower too when you got the baggy. Baggy shorts on.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, yeah, his.

[Seth Payne]

Whatever.

[Sean Pendergast]

The baggie's back now, man. I don't know if you noticed from the videos.

[Seth Payne]

I know. But when you're duck footed, it doesn't do you any favors. His shoes that he had on.

[Sean Pendergast]

Also, he needs to wear shoes that point inward, like lean into it. Like kind of fake toes, but angle them in so that the toes are facing forward as he walks.

[Seth Payne]

His shoes that he had on were like, very blocky.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

They were very rectangular.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Payne]

That didn't do him any favors either, in my opinion. Now, the fourth grader thing came from the fact that he wore the backpack over both shoulders with a white.

[Sean Pendergast]

You know what it was? It was a little taste of our own medicine, because what were we saying about Bryce Young when he showed up for camp with that oversized backpack? That's true. You know.

[Seth Payne]

True.

[Sean Pendergast]

Looking like he had a jam sport with his. So all of his textbooks jammed in

[Seth Payne]

and now look who's in the NFL top 100 and who isn't. Bryce Young. Yeah, 98.

[Sean Pendergast]

We don't know for sure.

[Seth Payne]

We don't know for sure. We don't know for sure. But it's looking a little more. It's looking more and more bleak by the day. How you doing, my friend?

[Sean Pendergast]

I'm good. I'm good to see you. I'm sorry I abandoned you for a while. I took my.

[Seth Payne]

Brandon. Brandon did a great job while you were gone.

[Sean Pendergast]

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[Seth Payne]

That you do a great job as well. You guys are tied.

[Sean Pendergast]

No, it was I. I started to feel guilty about coming back because the Astros almost win streak, but impressive record pretty much coincides with my absence.

[Seth Payne]

You missed some crazy stuff while you were gone.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Both in the NFL. Off the field, on the roads. Hashtag Shanahan and Romo.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, we didn't. Everybody missed the Shanahan thing. That was seven weeks ago. That happened far long before my vacation.

[Seth Payne]

You missed the ninth inning of the game on Sunday. I think it was Sunday.

[Sean Pendergast]

I mean, I didn't miss it. I actually watched the game. You missed getting to talk about it.

[Seth Payne]

You missed getting to talk about it. Where The Astros sent 10 guys to the plate and got one hit. Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

My favorite part of. My favorite part of this stretch that the Astros are on right now, the almost win streak, is that Jeremy Pena, when they came back off of that after getting swept coming out of the break. You and I came in on Monday and we were talking about how we don't know these guys. Who are these guys? Where's the sense of urgency? And then you watch on the broadcast after they put a couple away, and Todd and Julia and Jeff are talking about how Pena gave a speech about how they needed to have more urgency.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, man.

[Sean Pendergast]

And I didn't even. I didn't even know if Pena was a listener.

[Seth Payne]

I didn't know if.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

I didn't know if anybody had that in them in that clubhouse to give that.

[Sean Pendergast]

I know, right? Like, who's going to be the guy? Who's going to be the The Correa? Who's going to be the Bregman?

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Who's going to be these guys? That the George Springer even?

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah, man.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Pena's got it in him. And what, I mean, it helps when he's just. He's just. He's playing like one of the greatest. The last week he's been one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

[Seth Payne]

He was player of the week, last five home runs, 13 for 10.

[Sean Pendergast]

Hell of a lot better than that bum Ted Williams, I'll tell you that much.

[Seth Payne]

You got that right. All right, Seth Payne is back and he's on fire.

[Sean Pendergast]

I've got 90 minutes of sleep.

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[Sean Pendergast]

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[Seth Payne]

a more important job.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, man. So we'll get to the Astros. They did, they did win last night, three to two. Jordan Alvarez with a ninth inning single to. To win the game for the Astros last night. So training camp starts today. Let's get to the news first because there was some interesting stuff yesterday that popped up yesterday. We got the first injury report, I guess we'll call it. Always comes out the afternoon before the first practice. Yeah, there's some newsworthy stuff on here. I'll start with the lesser newsworthy stuff. No disrespect to E.J. speed and M.J. stewart, who are both going to start camp on the PUP list. I thought that was interesting. Just because it's every report we've heard about E.J. speed is that he's done for the

[Sean Pendergast]

season, but Pup List is physically unable to perform.

[Seth Payne]

Yep. This was the interesting one. Two things. A name that wasn't on that email and a name that was on that email. The name that wasn't on that email, and Brandon Scott and I talked about this for a full segment yesterday is the question we asked was what would be the most discouraging Tank Dell thing? What could be the most discouraging Tank Dell news on the first day of training camp? Mine was if he's on the PUP list.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Because that would be indicative that there's still something going on with him or that they're being overly cautious. Good news. Tank Dell not on the PUP list. So now the story with him becomes, what's he doing out here?

[Sean Pendergast]

Right. What exactly is he doing? So it doesn't mean that he's cleared, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean that, okay, he's cleared for 11 and on 11 and we're going to see that. But in training camp, the players on the PUP list count against the 90 man roster. So if somebody's unable to practice like MJ Stewart, they'll just put him on the PUP list and then, you know, at some point if he progresses along, they can activate him to the could

[Seth Payne]

be off in two days. He could be into the start of the season.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. So the but then, so for Tank Dell, you know, if he weren't going to practice, then they might just say, okay, we'll park him on the PUP list for a little bit, but they're not going to do that. And I think based on everything everybody's been saying from including Tank Dell immediately after the season and Nick Casario at the super bowl when he talked with us, it feels like they probably could have brought him back a while ago for full participation. But they're just being as careful as possible.

[Seth Payne]

Here was this was Nick Casario. This was back on June 3rd when he was on with us and we asked him the question. This was back when on the under

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payer submits the transaction member fdic Tank and Not done anything in OTAS or minicamp yet. They were still being really cautious on the day after this cut. He was doing seven on seven stuff. But this was Nick on our show back on June 3, giving the forecast for Tank Dell at that time.

[Caller or Guest]

Yes, I would say more than likely it'll probably be in training camp. You know, we have about, I don't know, however many days left here in the spring. But there are certain things that he's able to do. He's done some things on the field, maybe separately, kind of off to the side. I think the goal is training camp, so we'll kind of see if he stays on schedule. But, I mean, nobody's worked harder. Nobody's had a better attitude, you know, talking about a player that hasn't played football in, you know, almost 18 months or however long it's been. But, you know, his attitude, his approach, he's chomping at the bit, and he's certainly anxious and wants to be out there. By the same token, we want to make sure that we're taking care of him and doing the right things and putting him in a position where he can go out there and. And be the best version of himself. So I would say training camp seems like a reasonable time frame in terms of his availability, in terms of next steps.

[Seth Payne]

And here we are. Good job, Dr. Casario. Good forecast back on June 3rd.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Here we are in training camp, and all we know is that he's not. Tank is not on the PUP list, so we have yet to see what he's going to do out here today.

[Sean Pendergast]

So I guess the risk is that why the PUP list gets super confusing.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. But teams would put a guy on the PUP list at the beginning of training camp so in case their injuries don't improve that they can put them on the PUP list at the beginning of the regular season.

[Seth Payne]

You gotta miss four games.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. And they. So they don't. They don't seemingly have that concern with.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah. Yeah. Without going too deep into it, Tankdale doesn't have an injury designation.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

And that's good news. You know who does have an injury designation? Jalen Noel. Yeah, this surprised me.

[Sean Pendergast]

This was a little bit of. I do. We do one every year. Sean, two years ago is Christian Harris.

[Seth Payne]

Yep.

[Sean Pendergast]

Which, if I recall correctly, was classified as a minor injury. That should reportedly be no big deal by the time.

[Seth Payne]

See you in week 15.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Yeah. For a little bit.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And then barely ever again.

[Seth Payne]

Yep. So last year it was Joe Mixon.

[Sean Pendergast]

Right. But there's other. There's plenty of other guys that missed the first week or so of camp with the minor injuries that do come back. But this is a surprise.

[Seth Payne]

Well, in the comparison to mixing is the designation. Yeah, it's a non football injury.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

So we don't know what that is. That could be something as minimal as he was working out with his away from the facility trainer to he was, you know, riding on a jet Ski or something like that. But that was a surprise because Jalen Noel is a very important player for this team this year.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Or it could have been working out at the facility, too. So, like E.J. speed got injured working out at the facility, but yeah, no Jaylen Noel, like, it's been that. Hey, how come the Texans aren't interested in Stefon Diggs? Well, they want to see what they have in Jalen Noel. That's the answer to that. Yeah. Kind of a big deal. And people are expecting a big leap forward. Hopefully seeing more of what we saw from him in the Chargers game, especially that. I. I'm going to feel agitated about that and I'm going to feel justified in doing it because last year, this time people were telling us you were. That you and I were just nervous Nellies because Joe Mixon wasn't out here. Remember all the people we'd be like, hey, you know, it's been a few weeks and Joe Mixon still isn't out there.

[Caller or Guest]

Huh?

[Sean Pendergast]

You guys don't know Ball. Joe Mixon never does much during training camp. Why don't you guys, people who know Ball know that Joe Mixon's gonna be just fine.

[Seth Payne]

And we would be like, no, but he's literally not out here. Like, he's not even doing things on the side.

[Sean Pendergast]

We don't know where he is.

[Seth Payne]

He's a ghost.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's like off with Dora the Explorer somewhere.

[Seth Payne]

Now, there's one, there's one, there's. There was. The only report I've seen is Aaron Wilson saying that he was reporting that. It's that. I'm paraphrasing, but it sounds. No, no, no. Jalen Noel doesn't sound like it's serious with Jalen Noel.

[Sean Pendergast]

Right, right, right. And again, that's where. We'll see. We'll see, we'll see.

[Seth Payne]

Yep, we'll see.

[Sean Pendergast]

But that's, you know, so, hey, Louis Bond, you know, like Xavier Hutchinson obviously gets some more reps. Tank Dell, I don't think Tank Dell's good. Tank Dell is not going to get any more or fewer reps based on anybody else's injury status. I think he's going to be on a very limited pitch count early on. Guys like the rookie Louis Bond, you know, he might get some more reps with the Twos as everybody moves up a little bit. All right.

[Seth Payne]

I think as far as things that I get asked about the most and you get asked about the most outside of our little sports radio bubble that we're in when we're out and about, C.J. stroud is the headliner. We'll, we'll dig more into C.J. stroud in the next segment. But just to sort of, I think, to kind of set what the tone is for both the Texans and CJ Stroud heading into this camp. I thought Dana Lofsky summed it up on the Pat McAfee show perfectly earlier this week in 30 seconds of audio when he said, basically, if the Texans get good quarterback play, they can win the Super Bowl. If you told me Houston got good quarterback play, they would be my pick out of the AFC to go to the Super Bowl. But there's a big question mark of kind of like how CJ Plays and really performs in his fourth year.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, that's. I mean, that's, you could paraphrase that. And 29 other people in the national media have said the same thing. We've all been saying that same thing. The, I mean, immediately after the playoffs, the hot take was that CJ could have just kneeled on the ball and they would have been better off, which is an exaggeration. Not in the first, but it's not too far. That's true. In the first half of that game, you're just, Kate Stover just pushed.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

I think the thing that's notable about that quote right there, it's not like that's a hot take or anything, is he just said good quarterback play. Right. He didn't even say Sam Darnold level play from last year or anything. He just said good quarterback play. So I think the bar, the bar for CJ really has almost been lowered too much, I think, for, for what people are expecting from this team. Look, do I think he has, do I think he's capable of better than what he was in the playoffs? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. Do I think he's better, capable, more capable of more than what he did in the last regular season? Yes. But I think it should be much, much better. And I'm not, I'm not just hoping for passable quarterback play this year so you can ride, you can ride your defense to Glory, it's that. No, I want to see CJ really come into his own in this offense.

[Seth Payne]

There's. I mean there's two angles to it. One is the Texans as a team, which I think just good quarterback play. I agree with Dan Orlovsky and everybody who said that it would have worked last year would have gotten them to a Super Bowl. Then there's the angle of CJ himself, which is he's looking to get a big contract. Is passable quarterback play good enough to get the next seven generations of Strouds the generational wealth that they want?

[Sean Pendergast]

Seven generations.

[Seth Payne]

These are big contracts.

[Sean Pendergast]

Can CJ's grandson basically be like Johnny Manziel? You know, trust fund kid that's spoiled and out there?

[Seth Payne]

That's the big question.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's the American dream, is that your grandchildren and future generations will be spoiled little brats.

[Seth Payne]

You do well enough so your kids can be a bunch of insolent bastards.

[Sean Pendergast]

You want to be so financially successful that you would despise your decision. Descendants. Yes, that's exactly right. Entitled little bastards.

[Seth Payne]

That's why I have such good kids. I got no money.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

What is. I always ask you this question the first day of camp. I always compare training camp with all the different drills to Disney World and you got all the different rides. You walk into Disney World, like what ride am I going to go on first?

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, that's how I always felt as a player. Especially when it was, you know.

[Seth Payne]

Cause there are a bunch of circus.

[Sean Pendergast]

If it was triple digit temperatures, I'd be like, oh, this is better than Disney World.

[Seth Payne]

We're here for our entertainment.

[Sean Pendergast]

Feel like I'm on the log ride.

[Seth Payne]

Well, now you're on this side of it. So.

[Sean Pendergast]

So you.

[Seth Payne]

Which. Which position group or drills or whatever are you most interested?

[Sean Pendergast]

My favorite to watch, if you ever could actually catch a glimpse of it is the one on one pass rush. They do such a good job of kind of sequestering that away in the far reaches of. I think they do it in Tomball. I'm not quite sure but it's barely on the premises.

[Seth Payne]

That's why I look so tired when they come back to the facility.

[Sean Pendergast]

I don't think it's covered by their insurance policy. They have to get a separate policy because they're off doing it in one of the parking lots.

[Seth Payne]

You're right. That would be a fun one to be able to.

[Sean Pendergast]

No, I think early on, especially for today because there are no pads for the first couple days. The. I like when they do goal line or Red zone, seven on seven and red zone team stuff. Because then that's where the windows are tightest. And if CJ's getting rid of the ball, you know, and playing it honest and everything, that's where you can still see some good work done, even without the physicality.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

The biggest thing really, and I said this yesterday when I was stuck at the airport in Atlanta. I just did an impromptu live stream. There's one thing I'm not going to do this year. I'm not going to say if the offense has a good day versus the defense in pads or out of pads. I'm not going to say. Well, listen, you can't read too much into it. By hell, I won't. Last year they couldn't. Last year they couldn't pee a drop. It's like they hadn't had. They hadn't had water in six weeks against the defense. This is the best secondary in the NFL now especially. They already were. And now they've got Reed Blankenship back there. Anything that the offense can do in pads or out of pads in the passing game, I'm going to get really excited about. So really, it just to overly simplify it, it's. Anytime CJ's competing against that defense.

[Seth Payne]

Yep. I got. I'll give you just a simple one that I just am very curious and anxious to see. And I'll make it real simple. Left to right, who's the first team offensive line?

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, okay.

[Seth Payne]

You know, just who, personnel wise, just who are the five guys? Left to right, I think to start out training.

[Sean Pendergast]

So the favorites in the clubhouse would be Ariante Ursary, Wyatt Teller, Keelan Rutledge, Ed Ingram, and then Braden Smith. And I think that's by and large the chalk or what people would.

[Seth Payne]

I think. So I think Braden Smith is the closest one to like a coin flipper with Trent Brown. Well, especially Smith is still coming back from injury.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's coming back from a neck injury. Didn't participate much at all in the spring.

[Seth Payne]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

But I do think that that's probably just by virtue of like they're. They want genuine competition on the offensive line this year, and I think they're capable of having it. So I think that given what Trent Brown did for the team last year and how well they played when they were in there, I think that might be a genuinely competitive.

[Seth Payne]

Deserves a shot. Yeah, it deserves a shot. All right, Baseball talk, which we mixed in like three minutes of in this segment. It's brought to you on Sports Radio 610 by Xfinity Score the most reliable Wi Fi 1 price 5 years guaranteed Xfinity. Imagine that. All right, our final question. We've done this the last 10, the last nine radio days. The final question for Texans training camp. We just touched on it a little bit in the, in the opening segment, but we'll, we'll ask it more specifically. What is the one thing you most need to see from CJ Stroud in this training camp? We'll also hear from some of CJ's new teammates about their impressions of the Texans quarterback. We'll do all of that coming up.

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