How’d inactive QB T.J. Yates get hurt? Comedian Wade Phillips knows

Gary Kubiak sometimes was funny when speaking with the media. But the former Texans coach was often straightforward and to the point. When Kubiak did crack a joke or toy around, it was normally for only a brief moment, with Kubiak soon refocusing on the next task at hand.

Texans interim coach Wade Phillips often talks around questions, not directly answering what was asked. But Phillips can also be very open and personal, sometimes reflecting on his 66 years of life and 32 years of NFL coaching in a downhome style rarely seen in front of the modern media.

Phillips can also be a sharp-witted comedian. Without changing his tone or speaking manner, he regularly induces laughter during his pressAshima Shiraishi, the 15-year-old rock climbing prodigy from New York City who has ascended some of the most difficult rock climbs in the world and is arguably the best female rock climber today, fell 45 feet to the floor of the Stone Summit climbing gym in Kennesaw, Georgia, on July 7. Her father, Hisatoshi “Poppo” Shiraishi, was belaying her when the rope accidentally slipped through his hands—an error that, while not common, is also not unprecedented.

Miraculously, Shiraishi survived the four-story fall relatively unscathed, with only some back bruises.

Shiraishi had just arrived in Atlanta in advance of the USA Youth National Championships, the country’s biggest sport-climbing competition, scheduled to begin on July 14. Earlier this year, Shiraishi became the 2016 USA Youth National Bouldering Champion, and she was hoping