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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Texans cut J.J. Watt + Urban Meyer's failed hire | 2/15 #1

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Simms is off this week, so Peter King joins Florio to break down the weekend's news. The Texans and J.J. Watt mutually parted ways on Friday. Why didn't Houston try to trade him? What is his most likely landing spot? The Chris Doyle era in Jacksonville lasted a day. What does his controversial hire and subsequent resignation tell us about Urban Meyer's ability to handle the NFL spotlight? Trevor Lawrence's workout Friday went well. Is there any chance he isn't the Jaguars pick at #1 overall?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You can't go out there and you can't work out.

0:02.9

You can't show up on time.

0:04.3

You can't practice.

0:22.1

You can't want to go out there and win. You shouldn't be here. Because this is a privilege. It's the greatest job in the world. You get to go out and play a game. And if you can't care enough, even in week 17, even when you're trash, when you're 4 and 11, And if you can't care enough to go out there and give everything you've got and try your hardest,

0:23.2

that's bullshit.

0:36.2

Impressive speech from JJ Watt after one of the many Houston Texans losses in 2020,

0:41.3

as expected his final season with the Houston Texans. News that broke Friday morning, Peter, just after we wrapped up, not long after that,

0:46.4

first it was the Pouncy Twins retiring, and then they got to enjoy the spotlight for, I don't

0:51.7

know, 45 minutes. JJ Watt announces that he is out in Houston.

0:57.3

Good morning. Welcome back. Chris Sims off this week. I tried to explain to him last week. All we do is sit

1:03.4

and talk about football. It's not like you need some time off, but he apparently needed a break from me.

1:07.3

So, Peter, you have to deal with me today. Good morning. How are you?

1:11.4

Good morning, Mike. You know, when I saw the Watt news, last week, I wrote my column, this would

1:18.1

have been now eight days ago. I wrote my column that, you know, just listening to some chatter

1:25.2

at the Super Bowl, reading the tea leaves, I thought that JJ Watt was going to try to

1:32.1

talk his way out of Houston. And, you know, it turns out that as I wrote that, it was already

1:41.3

happening. And on Friday, I really think what happened here, Mike,

1:47.0

and as I wrote my column today,

1:49.8

I think it's probably pretty likely that Nick Casario,

1:54.1

the general manager of the Texans, said,

1:56.5

whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute,

1:58.6

we can probably get something for this guy.

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