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Host 2
All right, so Seth, if you had heard, if you had heard this in a like coming out of a courtroom late last week before the news that the Texans actually worked out Terry and Arnold, that Nicole Lynn. Terry and Arnold. Terry and Arnold, just to reset, is the now former Lions cornerback, former first round pick a couple of years ago in the same draft where the Texans took Kamari Lassiter 42nd. The Lions drafted Terry and Arnold, cornerback out of Alabama, 24th overall in that draft. And he's been he in the two years there. Forget about all the, the, the alleged crime aside, he's been a disappointment as a player. He's not been a very good player. Now he gets into some, some hot water here with four felony kidnapping charges, four robbery charges, all centered around a scheme for him to try to get back some things that were stolen from him. Turns out that he and his cronies got the wrong two guys.
Host 1
They weren't even trying to shake down the correct guy.
Host 2
Shaking down the wrong guy, as evidenced
Host 1
by the fact that those guys went to the police. Yeah, like if you're, if they were the actual criminals, they probably wouldn't have gone to the police with it.
Host 2
Y so they so, so the, the, the in the six cohorts that he had with this whole scheme to try to get their stuff back had all been arrested at various times the previous few months. Terry and Arnold finally arrested within the last week or two. He, he gets, he gets granted bond. He's out on a million dollar bond. No ankle bracelet or anything like that. That was all determined sometime late. Not last week, but the week before. Well, the Lions cut him anyways, so the Lions just didn't want any more of the Terry and Arnold business. Whatever the outcome of this legal situation is, it's not the Lions problem anymore. But he is a free agent now with obviously pending legal issues. If I had told you that four teams, according to Nicole Lynn, his agent, that and she's also the agent for Will Anderson Jr. And a handful of other Houston Texans that Nicole Lynn said four teams had shown interest in Terry and Arnold, would you have guessed that the Texans were one of just four teams to show interest in?
Host 1
I would have thought there was a possibility. Yeah. Like, I guess. I don't know. Would I have guessed? I don't know. But like, it doesn't surprise me. Yeah. The part of it is just that I brought this up earlier and I didn't explain it properly. Tom Brady was on the Kel Travis and Jason Kelsey's podcast and he, and he said something interesting. I'd never really thought about it this way. He said, you don't see, you don't see cornerbacks who aren't fast, good cornerbacks who aren't fast. Which, of course that sounds like a nut. No duh moment. But like, his point was there are receivers who get by and make it work without being all that fast because there's different things you can do to make up for it. You know, reading coverages, route running, all of that. But for defensive backs, like, you generally have to have a certain kind of rare set of athletic traits, and there's not that many of those guys out there. The Texans have shown in the past, like with Jeff Okuda and C.J. henderson. Those two were two former top 10 picks at cornerback. And it hadn't worked out for them at all on the field. But Casaria wanted to bring him in and see if. All right. It's hard to find guys that have these, this physical skill set. Let's see if we can actually get something out of them where other teams have failed.
Host 2
Yeah.
Host 1
And they weren't able to, but it was no big deal because they were on small contracts.
Host 2
Yep.
Host 1
So I think that anytime there's somebody with those physical traits, regardless of what's going on with them currently, I think Nick's going to want to take a look at them. And, and I also think that because the Texans, you know, they've had, they've had good luck. They've had a good experience working with Alabama. D' Ameco went to Alabama. I'm guessing they trust Nick Saban's word a lot. People in Alabama just absolutely gushed about Terry and Arnold.
Host 2
Yeah.
Host 1
In terms of the character side of things. So whatever the hell's going on with him, and he's still innocent until proven guilty, but whatever the hell's going on with him, I think there's a good chance that. All right, this, somehow this kid may have gotten his head twisted around, but we know that there's a, there's a good citizen in there.
Host 2
Yeah.
Host 1
And that it's worth thinking about the upside for this. And without knowing exactly what's going on on the legal side of things, just don't, don't be afraid that, don't be afraid to work a guy out without ever to sign him or have him be a part of your 53 man roster or anything like that. Just let's have a look, see and see what's going on and maybe have a chance to talk to him about what's going on.
Host 2
Four teams have shown interest. One of them obviously the Texans, because they've worked him out and put him through a physical. The other three teams are the jets, the Colts and the Seahawks. So if you told me, Seth, beforehand blindly, that four teams showed interest, if interest means just calling Nicole in, maybe making a phone call and that one team worked him out, I would have said not surprised at all. The Texans are one of the four teams that showed interest. Cause I think Nick Casario will call anybody about anything. I don't think he leaves any stone unturned. So that doesn't surprise me at all. I guess I'd be mildly surprised if they were the one team that's actually brought him in, worked him out. I know I do. I will say this though, and I think you bring up a great point. It's almost like an Anakin Skywalker thing with Darth Vader. Like there's still good in him. I feel it, you know, like that kind of thing.
Host 1
Yeah.
Host 2
If there is one ecosystem or environment that I think can, you know, bring back the old Terry and Arnold, if there is such a thing, it would be one where d' Ameco Ryan's is the head coach. He's got some former Alabama teammates in the building. And I think this is viewed around the league. I don't think it's anything that's the Texans are touting with anybody pushing back on it at this point. It's viewed as one of the better cultures around the league right now. Yeah, you know, they've got so much leadership in there, and I've said this many times is that sometimes people have this misconception that, wow, we've got all this leadership and we got this great locker room boy. We don't want to bring in anything that'll upset the apple card like. No, when you have this kind of leadership, when you have the Will Andersons and the Aziz Al Shairs and the Kamari Lasseters and Jalen Petrie and whoever else you want to throw into that mix, when you have guys like that, this gives you the latitude that if you do the proper vetting of a guy that you can bring him in and guess what? If it's not going well, you cut him after three games like C.J. gardner, Johnson.
Host 1
That's by far the biggest part of it is that you just got to be willing to cut ties as soon as possible. And they are, as soon as it's necessary. And you know, Damon Arnett. Damon Arnett had a much more speckled past when they brought him in. Now, they didn't give him. They gave him a, you know, near minimum contract or whatever it was. So there was very little financial downside to it. And I don't, as far as I can tell, it wasn't anything off field or anything that led them to not continue in the Damon Arnett experiment. Because he was with the team, you didn't hear anything about him. So I think likewise here, at the very least just exploring the possibilities. And then the other side of it is we brought this up with the Lyle Collins. When headed into the draft, Lyle Collins was supposed to be a first round pick. All of a sudden right before the draft, there's a murder in Louisiana and Lyle Collins is a person of interest and that's all anybody knows. And then all of a sudden it becomes like, oh, okay, well, teams don't want that bad PR or anything and drafting this guy without know what's going on. But he's getting down, you know, he falls out of the first round. And I don't. I was just left wondering what's the downside here From a PR standpoint? Drafting a guy isn't the same as having him on your football team. He doesn't even ever have to become an employee if it turns out bad. And lo and behold the Cowboys end up getting him in.
Host 2
Undrafted.
Host 1
Undrafted. That's right. And they pick him up like if somebody had spent a fifth round pick on him.
Host 2
I thought the Texans should. I said that on the draft show that day.
Host 1
Now his. Okay. That was the story his agent basically told teams don't bother drafting us past the third round or something. And because we're not going to sign. Which he then said later on was a bluff. Gone with it. Right. Like that's the biggest.
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Host 1
We don't know if he's guilty or not. Why the hell am I worried about any kind of blowback or anything when I've got. Especially at draft time. You've got from. You've got five months before you have to make a decision on whether this guy plays football or not. Yes. And you've got a potential of getting a first round guy. So the biggest thing that gives me pause here, aside from the actual allegations and the fact that the. The police department seems pretty convicted on what they think happened aside from all of that I think it just becomes a question of all right. At this stage in the process, why did the Lions cut bait that quickly? And he's. Because he had. He wasn't. He was a disappointment. But he did show signs of promise and then he was injured and banged up this year. So that you know that that gets added to the mix. The fact that the Lions cut ties so quickly makes me wonder all right. What do they know? And. And how has he been operating on the team and in the facility? That's pretty different from what we thought we had heard about him pre draft
Host 2
on the team and in the facility is interesting. You're right about that. Because the only thing that we know is that we know in terms of how he is operating outside of the facility is are the details in this article in the Athletic chronicling his crime weekend in Largo, Florida. He is in just. I'll give you the quick version of this and then I'll tell you the part that pissed me off the most. More than any of the other chicanery going on. He had 250,000. He will let me back up. Terry and Arnold rented an Airbnb in a nice neighborhood in Largo, Florida to basically party in Largo, Florida for the weekend. It's in the Tampa area. And so they were going to party. He had 200. He had people coming in and out of this place apparently all weekend long. Like there was a guy in the neighborhood that they talked to for this article and said there were lots of people, 20 or so coming in and out of the place, constant cloud of weed smoke, lots of noise, spotted stripper
Host 1
on the kitchen counter at one point visible through the window, dancing.
Host 2
And this does not sound like that kind of neighborhood at all.
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Host 2
So there was a lot of stuff going on here. Terry and Arnold and the people that were with him, friends of his presumably had $250,000 worth of stuff stolen from the Airbnb, including, I don't know why, the $80,000 chain that he had with his initials on it. Why people wear $80,000 around their neck, I have no idea. But whatever. A bunch of Louis Vuitton stuff. And then Terry and Arnold said, quote, the most important thing, his Bible, end quote. So he also had $100,000 in cash stolen.
Host 1
We were wondering about the Bible part of it, and I'm guessing it's. It was in the duffel bag with the cash or something. Because I have a hard time thinking that any thief, no matter how, no matter how like you might feel about anything, you're not going to specifically say, oh, and I'm taking the Bible.
Host 2
Steal the Bible so you can read some verses while you look at your, you know, you're the kitty that you got in the back.
Host 1
Hey, imagine in the getaway car. Hey, hey, guys, wait a second. Yeah, I've been reading through this thing.
Host 2
We may have made a mistake it's
Host 1
like one of the main rules. Yeah.
Host 2
That I shouldn't feel this ecclesiastes right here. So apparently one of the young ladies involved in this caper, this ariana Delval, is 18 years old and she was
Host 1
Terry and Arnold's girlfriend. Girl that he was dating for the last few weeks.
Host 2
A few weeks before that. And she'd been dating. So she was, she was the one that sent the text to what they thought, what Terry and Arnold and his crew thought were the two guys that stole stuff from them to lure them to her apartment. Um, so th. This is the biggest red flag for me though, Seth, with all the stuff that got stolen. Why do you have all this cash in the place? There's all kinds of weed smoke. And then obviously the alleged crimes that were committed where they lure what they thought were the two perps stealing all this stuff to Ariana Del Val's apartment.
Host 1
Yeah.
Host 2
Under the guise of, hey, we got chicks here, that kind of thing. And then two of Terry and Arnold's crew jump out of a closet and start pistol whipping them and things like that.
Host 1
Putting up, putting a gun in one of their mouths and all. Yeah.
Host 2
The biggest red flag on me, Terry and arnold. It took three cleaners seven hours and 20 trash bags to clean up the Airbnb. Screw that kid, man.
Host 1
Yeah.
Host 2
You trash an Airbnb to where the people need to hire three cleaners and it takes a full day to clean the place.
Host 1
Yeah.
Host 2
That's the biggest red flag for me.
Host 1
Including a notebook that the cleaner thinks was used to record drugs.
Host 2
Yeah. Log narcotic sales. Yeah.
Host 1
I'm curious about this notebook though. Now I want to see this. I want to see how. I want to see this. Just to see if the cleaner knew what he was talking about or if he just watches a bunch of Netflix himself. I think this whole tragedy could have been averted just simply by not people not watching so much damn Netflix.
Host 2
Yeah.
Host 1
It gets in, it gets into your brain somehow. They're like, oh, yeah, this is how you operate when somebody steals from you. Because you've watched, you've watched so many, you've been to watch so many damn scenarios where this is exactly how you handle it. And it does. It undoes a good childhood and upbringing. It undoes everything Nick Saban has ever taught you. Just because you've got. Because you've got all these streaming subscriptions,
Host 2
people may be wondering, like, how did they get the wrong guys? Like, don't they have security footage maybe of guys stealing their stuff? No, this was their this is how they connected the dots. Terry and Arnold and his crew of sleuthers.
Host 1
Yeah.
Host 2
Is that Terry and Arnold? So there were a couple kids, were there? One was a chauffeur, one was a
Host 1
19 year old driver and 18 year old barber.
Host 2
18 year old barber. They were there at the whole party, the shindig and things like that. And I think they, they, Terry and Arnold used those two guys for those services. At one point the chauffeur, the 19 year old chauffeur mentioned to Arnold that I got this gig in Miami later on this week and I'm taking a rapper down. Rapper in Miami? Yeah. And the day after everything got stolen, Terry and Arnold's sister calls him and says, hey, why are you in Miami? And he says I'm not. She says, well your phone is.
Host 1
Yeah.
Host 2
And so Terry and Arnold's like, well it's got to be as if thieves wouldn't run to Miami that weren't these two.
Host 1
As if a guy who has apparently at least two phones might not have just left one of his phones in the car. Yeah, that the driver was driving around in.
Host 2
There's that too. So they, they immediately connected Arnold and his crew, connected the chauffeur and they threw the barber in there for good measure. And they couldn't tell if the barber
Host 1
had been in Miami with the driver or something. I don't know what the barber was,
Host 2
but he got lured back to the place and he got pistol whipped just like the rest of them did.
Host 1
So but Terry and Arnold, according to the story, is that he stayed out in the car while his friends went in and roughed up the two. The two mistakenly identified thieves.
Host 2
He was not in the room. Now he allegedly, they were FaceTiming him out in the car, showing him what they were doing to the kids. And the people that are accusing Terry and Arnold of these crimes are saying he was directing everything via Facebook, but
Host 1
he's not in any of the text messages, organized everything.
Host 2
They had a group chat for everybody that was doing the thing.
Host 1
But he'd been in the car earlier that day with the guys that ended up doing the roughing up and everything.
Host 2
Dude, if you're trying to, if his legal team is trying to tell me he didn't know anything about this, then they're gonna have a tough case here.
Host 1
Well, like you pointed out, the girlfriend at one point said, hey, Tyrion wants me to do this, etc, etc.
Host 2
Terry Arnold had texted his 18 year old girlfriend to say, hey, get these, lure these two guys that we think Stole our stuff. Well, to your apartment.
Host 1
That's what. See, that's what she says in a text. But they don't have a text of him actually saying that.
Host 2
No, but if. But I guess it'd be easy to find, right, if there were a text.
Host 1
And yet I don't that. That's what's unclear to me is I don't think they have that. So, like, he must have verbally told her that. If he told her that maybe.
Host 2
Yeah, yeah. Now that could be. You're right. You're right.
Host 1
All right.
Host 2
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Host 1
His representation is saying there's none of these texts are linked to him at all.
Host 2
Yeah, it'd be interesting, man. And I'm very interested to see if the Texans do anything with him.
Host 1
I'm guessing. So they can probably. Though I wonder, can they pull up the GPS data from his phone and everything to show he was where he was during all that?
Host 2
This is where technology works against him, I think.
Host 1
But you also have certain privacy rights with your phone that, like, I don't. It keeps me from committing crime anymore. I just never know exactly. Can dig into my phone.
Host 2
It's too complicated to commit all these crimes. That's why I stopped. All right, Pain and Pendergast with you here on a Monday. All right, coming up next. Okay, one other thing that I saw while I was on vacation that made me angry also in an article, and it has to do with Sean. Two things, actually. One to do with Sean Payton, the other to do with the Texans. And I will have that for you coming up next.
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Date: July 13, 2026
Hosts: Seth Payne & Sean Pendergast
This episode dives into the surprising news that the Houston Texans worked out Terrion Arnold, the recently-released Detroit Lions cornerback who is facing multiple serious felony charges. Hosts Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast break down why the Texans would even entertain looking at Arnold despite his disappointing NFL performance, the legal cloud surrounding him, and the colorful (and troubling) details leading to his arrest. The discussion expands to the challenges and rationale in working out high-risk, high-talent players, the nature of player redemption, and how Houston’s team culture makes such risk-taking possible.
[01:21-03:34]
Host 2 (Sean): “He gets into some hot water here with four felony kidnapping charges, four robbery charges, all centered around a scheme for him to try to get back some things that were stolen from him. Turns out that he and his cronies got the wrong two guys.” ([01:54])
[03:34-05:54]
Host 1 (Seth): “Anytime there’s somebody with those physical traits, regardless of what’s going on with them currently, I think Nick’s going to want to take a look at them.” ([04:48])
[05:54-07:36]
Host 2 (Sean): “There’s still good in him. I feel it...If there is one ecosystem or environment that can bring back the old Terrion Arnold, if there is such a thing, it would be one where DeMeco Ryans is the head coach. He’s got some former Alabama teammates in the building.” ([06:42])
[07:36-09:23]
Host 1 (Seth): “The biggest thing that gives me pause here... why did the Lions cut bait that quickly?... That makes me wonder, alright, what do they know? And how has he been operating on the team and in the facility?” ([10:05])
[10:28-17:17]
Host 2 (Sean): "The biggest red flag on me, Terrion Arnold—it took three cleaners seven hours and 20 trash bags to clean up the Airbnb. Screw that kid, man.” ([14:42])
Host 1 (Seth): “This whole tragedy could have been averted just simply by not people not watching so much damn Netflix." ([15:10])
[17:17–18:31]
Host 2 (Sean): “It'd be interesting, man. And I'm very interested to see if the Texans do anything with him.” ([18:26])
“You don't see cornerbacks who aren't fast, good cornerbacks who aren't fast.” – Host 1 referencing Tom Brady on the Kelce podcast ([03:49])
“When you have this kind of leadership...this gives you the latitude that if you do the proper vetting of a guy that you can bring him in and guess what? If it's not going well, you cut him after three games like C.J. Gardner-Johnson.” – Host 2 ([07:04])
“Screw that kid, man...you trash an Airbnb to where the people need to hire three cleaners and it takes a full day to clean the place.” – Host 2 ([14:42])
“This whole tragedy could have been averted just simply by not people not watching so much damn Netflix.” – Host 1 ([15:10])
Seth and Sean’s trademark blend of sharp analysis, skepticism, dark humor, and honest curiosity pervade the entire discussion. They balance frank acknowledgment of the disturbing details with a focus on football operations, while poking fun at the absurdities (“Netflix did this!”) and expressing both concern and professional interest in the case’s conclusion.
For listeners: If you missed the episode, you’re fully caught up on why Terrion Arnold’s name is in the Texans rumor mill, the true nature of the legal mess he’s in, how NFL teams actually approach such scenarios behind the scenes, and why Houston’s unique locker room gives them cover—though even Payne and Pendergast admit, if the Texans sign Arnold, it’ll be with a very short leash.