00:00If if there's no Laramie Tunsil, which there's no way he's going to play Friday
00:05Without practicing in pads at all to this point. So there's no there's no Laramie Tunsil
00:10and if this injury to Titus Howard ends up being something that forces him to miss camp time and
00:17Forces him to miss Friday's game
00:19you're down your two starting tackles, you've got a
00:23Rookie and Blake Fisher's got a lot of run and then you've got a handful of journeyman tackles below him
00:29that
00:30That may or may not
00:32Make the cut only one who just arrived. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Cam Irving. Is that right?
00:37Just arrived
00:38Which he's bounced around the league
00:40I'm not sure exactly how much he started and how much quality play he has but he's bounced around the league for nine years
00:45so he clearly has a little something to him, but
00:49Ron I don't I don't think that this in any way shape or form is gonna is gonna
00:54You know impact the decision of whether CJ Stroud plays
00:59Friday or not
01:00but I do think it's something that's gonna need to be schemed around planned around and and and
01:04In CJ Stroud's head damn sure taking into account as they do go out there and get a little bit of run. Yeah
01:12To me I think it's a fair thing
01:14If there is a thought in your mind and you're a Texans fan and it is this important
01:20Which this season is this important you feel like you got a chance to go to a place
01:25You've never been the AFC championship game. Maybe the Super Bowl
01:29And your thought is hey Titus ain't playing Laramie ain't playing
01:35CJ ain't playing in preseason games. I think that's very fair and not crazy at all
01:41And then there may be people say all their wusses whatever now
01:45I can understand that if you are saying I'd I don't want a rookie in Blake Fisher who has been getting taking advantage of
01:53And struggling a bit at times facing some of the guys they're facing to potentially face
01:58You know TJ what for a couple of go-arounds or Highsmith for a couple go-arounds and even more
02:04Either a cam Irving who just arrived in practice for the first time on Monday or sharp
02:09Who is a journeyman young guy that may not make the team?
02:13I can understand if your thoughts or I don't want those guys
02:17Yeah to be the starting tackles of CJ's there. My thinking is where I would go with you Clint is
02:23Well, I think I think they're gonna probably have to be prepared for CJ to have to run into games
02:29Where he is having Blake Fisher as a tackle where they may not have Laramie where they may not have Titus Howard
02:36Especially if it's anything close to what last year they had so many injuries up front and I do think it is important
02:43For those two guys and in juice grugs and Kenyan green to get reps real reps in game reps
02:51With CJ Stroud as well
02:53so to me
02:54I if you had if your thought process was it off the top off the top like I think the Jets are
03:00That you know Aaron ain't playing
03:02That CJ wasn't playing if you thought he was gonna play. I still think you get him you get him those red
03:07Yeah, look, I don't think it's off the table. Like you said, it's not crazy
03:10I wouldn't be mad at him if they said look we're not gonna put CJ out there right now
03:13Maybe if they didn't give us a reason you got to believe that it has a lot to do with no Joe Mixon
03:18No, no Titus Howard. No Laramie Tunsell now if Titus Howard could very well be back tomorrow on this and you got Blake Fisher
03:26Opposite he's filling in for Laramie touches which has been in the case all camp, right?
03:31And so it from a standpoint of forget the fact that he's he's he's taking all the reps for Laramie Tunsell
03:36Forget the fact that he's a rookie this year
03:39Just look at the line that could potentially be in front of CJ Stroud this Friday
03:43I think everybody's going to be fairly confident in
03:48Where that where the offensive line is with the exception of Blake Fisher folks hadn't seen him
03:53Not a whole lot of reports out there
03:55There's some that he's holding his own kind of deal
03:57But but nonetheless Blake Fisher would be at your blindside
04:00Tackle would be your your one guy that may that may concern you a bit with CJ Stroud out there
04:05Here is the most recent report from Bobby Slowick the offensive coordinator on where?
04:11that swing tackle
04:14former Notre Dame
04:15Fighting Irish tackle Blake Fisher where he's at right now. He's out there competing, you know, just like the rest of the crew
04:22That's I mean, I think we say it endlessly, but I mean we really preach that to the whole group just tirelessly
04:28That's what this is about. It's about going out
04:30And every day growing and getting better than you were the day before and by the time week one rolls around
04:37We know we're gonna be we're gonna be ready
04:39But in the meantime, all we can do is get better every day and Blake has done that
04:43In pass pro. He particularly has made some some technique adjustments that have helped him for sure
04:49The rushers he's going against have helped him
04:51I know he's had a lot of conversations with them on what they're thinking what they're doing and
04:56You know talking to other alignment has obviously helped him and then the run game for us is just very different than where he came
05:02From from college, but he's been doing a good job. He's but he's bought in and really right now
05:07I'd say he's probably a little further ahead in the run game than the pass game
05:10But he's just got to put his head down keep growing
05:12Well, there's you and that's a great transition there because I do want to talk about the run game
05:16There's your report on Blake Fisher. It seems like they're happy with his growth
05:19Not not huge expectations for the rookie, but they're comfortable with him being in there
05:24Obviously look, I mean look last week the quarterback, especially Davis Mills had plenty of room to operate
05:30I think there was one blown assignment obviously where a defensive end or a linebacker came free
05:34But with it with the exception of that Davis Mills had had more than enough room to operate now
05:38Imagine you're gonna see some of the Pittsburgh Steelers starters
05:41So maybe a little different a little different chaos up front for the quarterback to deal with the offensive line to deal with but nonetheless
05:46I do believe Ron if this week
05:49Being the first time that CJ Stroud is out there
05:52Being how important it is that that that interior offensive line get some work being how important it is that we see who Damian Pearce is
06:01D'Amico Rhines was on with that thing was a good morning football guys or some NFL Network guys yesterday and boy
06:07he was he was gushing about
06:10Damian Pearson about how excited he is to see him play and this week and get some run and so
06:16regardless of what happens to tackle position
06:19I believe that there's gonna be a focus on running a football and getting downhill
06:23Running the football this week with with more starters playing. Here's
06:29Here's Bobby Slowick on on that the the running back room and I think the first three guys he talks about here is
06:35He's got the potential to really really turn me on if if things work if the stars align for this group. Here's Bobby Slowick
06:42Yeah, it's a fun group to coach, you know, Joe kind of leads the way
06:46Even though he hasn't been practicing his energy is always there. He's always around. He's he's even when we're on the field
06:52He's running around the huddle getting people hyped up, you know
06:55So he's he's the driving force for sure and then the the rest of the crew kind of feeds off that you know
07:01Damien's feeding off that he's putting his head down working
07:05He's he's made huge strides from where he was at last year and what he's grown in and what he's trying to do
07:11Cam is obviously
07:13The newest to the crew, but he's been running a lot of very similar stuff in LA for a long time
07:18And then in Minnesota they did it was pretty similar as well
07:20So it's not completely new to him and he picked it up quick
07:23You can see you can see the talent and the vision and the and the cutting ability
07:29You know, which is impressive coming off the two injuries he had so he's been fun
07:34No question Ronnie if you're a new is to the crew. Come on, man. If you're a Texans fan
07:40and look this may be a pipe dream because there's a lot of ifs here, but
07:45Clearly useless of that piece of audio right there. Clearly. They ain't done wrong with Joe mixing
07:48I mean he's running around being
07:51If it was a quad or a hip whatever it was they damn sure ain't worried about it at this point
07:55Damien Pierce, that's the second coach talking about the progress that Damien Pierce has made and and how tremendous it is
08:01And I mean they're putting their word on it and then you look at cam acres and and all of a sudden vision
08:06Make you miss ability cut ability, whatever the hell it was that Bobby said there knows the offense, man
08:12That that that running back room right there. Now, there's some other guys there, obviously
08:16I feel bad leaving Daria goomba wale out because he's been around for a while and I saw his sister just flat-out ball in
08:23the in the WNBA all-star game, but but uh
08:26nonetheless those
08:30Are you give me a serious question? I didn't know there was this absolutely. It's a system. I didn't know that. Yeah
08:35I knew I knew his sister. I knew his sister was in the league. I had no idea that I didn't I did not know
08:40There's her chief
08:42She can go but but that that running back room as a Texans fan Ron
08:45Assuming everybody can stay healthy or hell even if even if they don't you need to spell each other a little bit
08:50You got those three guys as your top three choices that they can get you good worked up. I
08:56Know it it should be better like we talked about it
09:00How are they gonna improve from?
09:03What it was with basically at the end of the year Devin Singletary and
09:10Whatever they used
09:12Damian Pierce's whatever whatever he was which was just non-use will they how much will they improve this year?
09:20and
09:21When you think about Joe mixing even though we haven't seen him if you judge by how they're talking about him
09:26He seems to be fine. And now I that's what I can't wait to see
09:30Yeah, y'all a lot of people have talked about that's what I thought was gonna see on Thursday was Damian Pierce
09:36Does he look different in it as a back? Does he seem to have picked up?
09:40Whatever he wasn't picking up more fluently and then I think we saw pretty good play from from the backs in the Hall of Fame
09:48game that did
09:49Last last week, so that should be I'll be honest. It may be one of the more improved
09:56Rooms from last year to this year. Yeah on the team if you think about it. Yeah, that's that's a that's a good point
10:03Like with mixing it and if Damian Pierce is completely well
10:09I mean what what room on this football team would even be close?
10:12I mean you look at now that you say it I hadn't thought much about it like that
10:15But Joe mixing is a clear upgrade from your number one Devin Singletary
10:18I mean, I don't know who that was a couple weeks ago
10:20So they'd rather have Singletary but then then sweat or something like that, but whatever
10:25Clear huge huge jump in the right direction with mixing if Damian Pierce who ended up was the backup last year
10:31But that version of Damian Pierce has to be completely different. Yeah. I mean look you get 2022 Damian Pierce
10:36He's better than Devin Singletary last year. I mean all sudden cam Akers you get a healthy cam Akers you get that sure
10:41That's your number three guy. Ooh, look out now. So yeah, I would say that Dari was kicking more than he was
10:47And the highlight of his year baby
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