Kamari Lassiter meets with the media after being selected by the Texans

Kamari excerpts from zoom phone press conference

Transcript

00:00Where do you anticipate playing here with the Texans, and

00:02what do you want Texans fans to know about what you're gonna bring to a really

00:05good football team?

00:07I feel like I can play anywhere in the secondary, wherever the coaching staff and

00:11the staff above needs me, I feel like I can go out and play.

00:14Somebody who's an ultimate competitor, someone who's a real life dog,

00:18someone who hates to lose, hates losing more than he loves winning.

00:21Someone who will stop at nothing to be successful.

00:24How do you feel knowing that you're gonna be playing for

00:26a defensive minded coach like D'Amico Ryans?

00:28And can you explain the chain to us?

00:31Yes, sir, but playing for Coach Ryans, I feel like it'll be great.

00:35I was best player on Coach Martin, he's a very heavily defensive minded guy, so

00:38I feel like it's gonna be a pretty good transition.

00:41But I'm excited to get in there and learn up under Coach Ryans.

00:44And the chain, I call myself the locksmith, and

00:48I pride myself on having stuff on lock.

00:50So I really wanted to get a lock, and just put the name

00:55Locksmith Flacid on there, and just kinda say, I got this on lock right now, so.

01:00With the NFL draft, you never know where you're gonna end up at.

01:03Just what was your initial thoughts to getting the phone call to the Texans,

01:06knowing that you're coming to Houston and playing with a new organization?

01:11Man, I've been saying for a long time, I was like, man,

01:13I really wanna go to Houston.

01:14And I was just saying it very slightly, not knowing that it was gonna come true.

01:19And I got the call earlier, and it was just surreal.

01:25You dream about having that call your whole life, and my phone just disconnected.

01:28I had bad service, so I hung up right in the middle of these things.

01:30But man, whenever I got a call back, and it was the fifth drive, man,

01:34it was just a wave of emotions to see my mom, my grandma, my pops,

01:38all my family here, and just seeing everybody just be so happy.

01:41It's something that I'll never forget.