00:00Houston, this is this is a big time big time move. This is
00:03going to be couched more than likely as a great move for the
00:07Washington commanders to get the needed much needed protection
00:10for Jaden Daniels. And that's great. That's great that let
00:13let them have that up there. I'm gonna tell you right now. For
00:18me. This is a win now move for the Houston Texans. Getting out
00:25of the Laramie Tunsil business is the biggest boldest move that
00:28Nick Asario and D'Amico Ryan's can make to show how serious
00:31they are about fixing the old line about setting a championship
00:37and about on his new, their new OC and O-line coach to do their
00:41jobs with no exceptions made baby. This is big. This is a big
00:45time move for the Texans. And we'll see how they how they end
00:49up going about shuffling the deck at the offensive line
00:53position. Luke, I know I'm not Are you concerned at all about
00:57their ability now to protect their quarterback?
01:00No, no more than I was an hour ago. Right. So this doesn't
01:05change that. And that's the funny thing. You know, stats
01:08and I'm a big stats guy, but stats are like bikinis. They
01:10show a lot, but not everything. And so everyone's saying, you
01:13know, it's like that. I've never heard that before. So, uh, you
01:18know, a lot of people right now are saying Tunsil, here's what
01:21the commanders are getting ranked second in this third in
01:23this yada, yada, yada. But for the reasons that you already
01:26laid out, Clint, you know, a lot of the numbers do look good
01:28for Tunsil. But for those that watched him consistently week in
01:31and week out, you know, a lot more of the bad as well. And
01:34that's why I think for the Texans, it is that addition by
01:37subtraction. And now moving forward, we'll see what happens
01:41with the contract who's paying what if the Texans theoretically
01:44don't have to pay anything reports are it would create $14
01:47million in cap savings. And now the Texans also have eight draft
01:51picks in this upcoming draft, which is supposed to have plenty
01:54of good offensive linemen. They'll have a couple extra draft
01:57picks in next year's draft as well. With this trade, two of
02:00the picks from from this draft trade go to this year to the
02:03next year. So they're set up to try to make some moves now to
02:07improve this offensive line, whether through these draft
02:11picks, the only one round they don't have a pick in is the sixth
02:13round, they have two picks in the third round, so they can
02:17extra salary cap space, potentially, depending on if
02:20they had to chip in money on this deal. And now you could go
02:23out and you know, try to be a little more aggressive in
02:27improving the offensive line after getting rid of guys like
02:29Shaq and tons. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you, look, the I've said
02:33this a million times, like they have, and they've said it, the
02:37Texans have said it, the Texans have repeatedly said, Hey, look,
02:40we've got to fix the past protection from the inside out.
02:44We've got to we've got to make sure that we can protect the
02:46inside. And as an old quarterback, I'm here to tell
02:48you, I don't give a damn how good my tackles are. If my guard
02:52center guard, any or all of them together are always pushed
02:56back into my lap. Now I got to retreat back, I got to retreat
02:59outside. And whether that's a defensive end peeling off of the
03:03side that I'm rolling to, or it's a defensive end that's
03:05chasing the high side. And either way it goes, I'm a
03:09sitting duck. And I know look, CJ Stroud is a good athlete.
03:12He's proven the Georgia game come out of college. He proved a
03:15couple of times this year that he's a better athlete than we
03:18give him credit for. But the reality of it is if he doesn't
03:21have anywhere to push up into the pocket, he and every other
03:24quarterback out there is going to struggle. And I don't give a
03:27damn how good you are on the edges, right? Here's the deal.
03:30You move right now the way they're the way they are set
03:32right now. You move Titus Howard to left tackle, you let Blake
03:35Fisher be your right tackle, you freed up cap space with several
03:39moves that you made restructuring deals, cutting
03:42Shaq Mason trading Laramie Tunsil. Now you've created some
03:45cap space. Now you can go out there and you can get a left
03:48guard, you can go out there and get a center, you can go out
03:51there and get a right guard, whether that's free agency, or
03:54it's the draft, guys, Jarrett Patterson, to some degree at
04:00center, you can have a healthy competition with guys like Juice
04:03Scruggs at one of the guard positions, or at center, you
04:07got not only a frontline, but you've got a you've got much
04:11better depth than you had last year. I don't know what the
04:13Texans are going to do. But I have zero concerns about the
04:17tackle position with this football team. If your offensive
04:20coordinator is worth. I mean, his worth is weight if he is
04:26just if he's just a competent NFL offensive coordinator. If
04:32you don't have top tier tackles. It is very simple and very
04:38common to have help solutions with your tackles. Where it's
04:44hard to have help solutions and your hands are really tied is
04:47when your guards and your centers aren't worth a damn.
04:50Right? Then you got to go you can't make you got to slide,
04:53you got to slide everything right? You can't. There's just
04:56fewer options of getting help inside there. And you've got to
04:59show your cards to the defense by moving the running back up
05:03in the a gap or stopping the tight end in the a gap or help
05:06both and getting those guys that help that they need inside
05:08there. Right. So firming up the interior of this offensive line
05:13is is much more possible right now. And and not only is it
05:19more possible from a cap space, but it's all it's also more
05:22possible from a coaching perspective for these guys to
05:25get it done. So for what it's worth, I have no concerns with
05:29the protection. I think you put it best Luke right there. You
05:31don't have any more concerns right now. Then you had and he
05:37had just much concern when Laramie was a Texan to when he
05:40wasn't man. It's crazy because this could be a this could be a
05:44win win for everybody involved. Right? Because I look at Larry
05:47Tunsell is a great pass protecting offensive lineman no
05:50doubt about it. Now there's penalties as you mentioned that
05:52come along with it. I don't like the offseason stuff and and and
05:56the the antics that he pulls in the offseason because when he's
05:59allowed to do that, then the other guys feel like they can
06:02act a certain way the head coach can't hold them accountable. But
06:05the reality of it is if you plug Laramie Tunsell into a system
06:09that's already got leaders, you know, that's the head coach is
06:12already, you know, establishing, you know, the culture and the
06:15physicality and all that comes with that, then Laramie is gonna
06:19be fine. The problem is in Houston, you need as in the
06:24offensive line room, you needed Laramie Tunsell to be more than
06:27just one of the best pass blocking tackles in the game,
06:31you needed more, you need more out of that money, you need more
06:34out of the captain, you need more of an impact player that
06:38can impact the guys around them, then just do their job at
06:41an elite level. That's, that's, that's where I'm at. All right,
06:45I'm Clint Sterner. Luke Morrow is in the building for Ron
06:48Uglie today. Tyler's on the ones and twos in the back. The big
06:51news, the Texans have traded Laramie Tunsell to the
06:54Washington commanders and got back a boatload of picks.
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