00:00No, good conversation.
00:01Good conversation about the wide receiver thing there for most people.
00:07I see some people on the text line, as someone said here,
00:11you can't teach speed.
00:12Ross was just small and skinny.
00:17If it were about the fastest, if it was all about speed,
00:20the Raiders would be looking for their 20th Super Bowl.
00:25Nobody said it's all about speed.
00:27I said as this offensive roster is constructed right now,
00:31there's a lack of it.
00:32That's it.
00:33That's all I'm saying.
00:37Not all about speed, just recognizing a need here in Houston,
00:40and speed is absolutely one of them.
00:44Look, here's the other deal.
00:46When we're talking about first-round picks,
00:48and particularly the first-round picks that a lot of people want to point at
00:52as it pertains to speed, the fastest receivers or whatever,
00:57look, a lot of times those guys are drafted by dysfunctional organizations,
01:01and just like quarterbacks, they're drafted by dysfunctional organizations,
01:05and they're never put in position to have success.
01:08They're never supported and surrounded.
01:10A lot of them have piss-poor quarterback play.
01:13And so, I mean, there's several guys you can point at,
01:17at the running back position, tight end position, wide receiver position.
01:20That speed was predominantly a huge plus for them, and they've done well.
01:25There's a lot of them that didn't make it, just like there's big ones.
01:28There's big receivers that everybody thought,
01:29boy, this guy's going to be the best thing since sliced bread,
01:31and didn't piss a drop.
01:33You know, there's great route runners that, you know, didn't piss a drop.
01:36There's guys that had a ton of twitch, you know, kind of deal.
01:40Well, I understand that it's not always a perfect science,
01:44and it doesn't always work.
01:45I'm just telling you there's a lack of speed on the Houston Texans
01:48offensive side of the football, and in my opinion,
01:51they could use it desperately.
01:52And if you are a Houston Texans fan,
01:55and you watch the way that the offense has struggled
01:59in the more critical times of the season, which is in the playoffs,
02:04you know, some speed could have been – would have been welcomed.
02:08Yeah.
02:08Now, I know a lot of that had to do with injuries.
02:11You can just see the makeup of the team right now.
02:14Yeah.
02:14Like, they need that.
02:16Yeah, I mean, when we start talking about speed,
02:17if you've got to lean into Justin Watson and –
02:21I don't know where else you'd go with it.
02:23I guess –
02:24No, that's the other part of it.
02:26Tell me how good of a return guy Damian Pierce is.
02:29And, like, I don't know.
02:30I just – I think it's pretty obvious that there's a need for speed.
02:34Yeah.
02:35Good thing is you can find it.
02:38Reality is you can find it in all – in health throughout the draft,
02:43up and down the draft.
02:44Yeah.
02:44And I think they will do that.
02:47I don't know.
02:47I could see, though, with his makeup – because the culture thing is big for him.
02:55With his makeup and his relationship with the most important person in the organization
03:05and locker room right now, C.J. Stratton, I could see that being a potential match.
03:11I could see that.
03:12Yep.
03:12Yep, no doubt.
03:13And it may be great.
03:14It may work out great.
03:15I just – I've got an opinion, and it's pretty strong about speed
03:19and the need of it here.
03:21I wanted to play this from C.J.
03:25He said this – he said this the other day,
03:28and in particular what he said about his O.C. Nick Caley stuck out to me.
03:34That kind of is what I'm used to.
03:36You know, a little more pre-snap, you know, having tools to put my guys in the best position.
03:42And that's, you know, something that we really didn't work on these last two years.
03:46But, you know, being able to, you know, just get better and learn from, you know, what he did, you know,
03:52New England and L.A. would definitely help me because I feel, you know,
03:55those are two schemes that I'm, you know, taking full ownership and running the show,
03:59and that's what I want.
04:00So, you know, I'm going to get what I want, and that's really been really cool just to see
04:04that he's, like, bought into me and he doesn't really know me well yet.
04:07So, you know, he talked about today having blind trust, and I have a lot of trust in him already.
04:11Just how he talks and, you know, how he presents in the room and things like that is really cool to see.
04:16What, how, as somebody who played, and you've been coached by all type of coaches,
04:24from Bill Parcells to Houston Nut, Dave Campo, Mark Trestman,
04:30you've been coached by a lot of different guys, type of styles.
04:33What do you think when you hear CJ say to the tuna, I'm glad that he put all,
04:41and understanding where CJ is in his career, where he put all of that blind faith in me
04:47and trust in me to hand me the reins, and he hasn't even really met me.
04:53Well, I think he was hired based on that, but that's what I think.
04:57He was hired to be the exact opposite of what I'm guessing, but what it seems like,
05:04is Bobby Slowick was a guy that allowed very little input,
05:10wanted CJ Stroud to just do what he's teaching him and do it to the best of his ability,
05:14and Nick Kaley is a guy that was hired to do this,
05:21but I believe Nick Kaley is a guy that is stroking CJ the same way that D'Amico Rines
05:26and Nick and everybody stroked CJ every time they talk about him,
05:29they stroke the hell out of him.
05:30I would imagine that is the same approach from Nick Kaley,
05:34and I could see where that would feel really good for Gerard Johnson and CJ Stroud
05:42to experience the opposite of Bobby Slowick, and not even that Bobby Slowick,
05:47I don't know how bad it was, but Bobby wouldn't have had to be just this tyrant
05:51running around the building.
05:56I've been with offensive coordinators that just were to themselves.
05:59They were introverted.
06:00They didn't want input.
06:01They didn't allow input.
06:02They didn't encourage an open-door policy.
06:05They wanted you to just do what they coach and do it well
06:08and don't ask questions and shut the hell up and let's move on.
06:11And, you know, some guys have been very successful with that.
06:15When you have that and then you jump into what it seems like Nick Kaley
06:19has been hired to do, which is, you know, allow more of a collective effort
06:25than just be your way or the highway, I would see where CJ Stroud would welcome that.
06:31And I, for one, I think that's the way it should be.
06:35I think when you find – now, unless your offensive play caller is the head coach
06:38that has pelts on the wall that, hey, man, this is how we do things
06:42and we win championships.
06:43Like, you can go in and Andy Reid doesn't need a ton of input,
06:45even though he – I mean, he is – there are a ton of stories out there
06:48where he took Pat's game into consideration and still does with how he creates.
06:53But, you know, when you've got a first-time play, got a third-year quarterback
06:59and a third-year quarterback coach, you've got a lot of youth in the building,
07:01I would think that the collective effort is probably –
07:04I do think – with that example, I think he did – it was more than two years
07:07before he was just like, all right, man, you got it.
07:09You're talking about Andy and Pat?
07:11Yeah.
07:11Yeah.
07:12That's just – that's the part that is – it's like, yeah, before even really us sit down
07:16and meeting and talking and going over stuff, like he's had blind trust in me.
07:21What a little ruski, dude.
07:23It's wild, but I think that's where they're at.
07:24It's unusual, yeah.
07:25The thing is, is that, like, when you look at a guy in Andy Reid
07:29that's had his system for so long and you bring a guy like Pat Mahomes in,
07:34you know exactly what part of your offense is going to be a perfect fit for this kid.
07:40And then when this kid – when you watch this kid's film or you watch –
07:43or you talk to Pat and Pat goes, this is what I like to do,
07:45Andy Reid knows immediately then how to go get the plays in his playbook that do that
07:50and apply it.
07:51So it's a much more efficient process with a guy like Andy Reid.
07:54Nick Kaley, we'll see.
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