00:00A tough one yesterday, a season which a lot of people rightfully believe that the Texans could go places they've never been before.
00:10Cut short yesterday in Foxborough as they lose to the Patriots in the divisional round.
00:17Three straight years they've made it to the playoffs, which is a great feat, especially coming off of where they were.
00:24But now three straight years, Clint, in the divisional round, they lose on the road.
00:30To a higher seed and and really, you start to look at the head coach a little bit, right?
00:35CJ is wearing the brunt of this and trust he deserves to and he deserves.
00:43Criticism that he gets, but D'Amico Ryan is his head coach as well.
00:49Clinton, those two are kind of tied, right?
00:52Those two are the two biggest reasons why Texans fans over the last three years have had the hope that they have had is because of D'Amico Ryan and CJ Stroud.
01:02And I know you said you're out on CJ Stroud being the guy to take him to the next level.
01:09Clint, how would you judge the head coach, D'Amico's performance yesterday in the biggest game of the season?
01:15I thought he was he was not as bad as CJ Stroud, but I thought he was bad.
01:20I thought he left a lot to be desired.
01:22I thought it was a bad day at the office for for D'Amico Ryan's as well on several fronts.
01:27And, you know, I think I think a lot of it is is just, you know, being in touch with who you are and and what your guys need.
01:36And and again, getting the best out of your guys and, you know, giving guys the best chance to succeed by playing them to their strengths and putting them in position.
01:45And while D'Amico Ryan's does that again on the defensive side of the football, I mean, unbelievably good, maybe as good as we've ever seen.
01:52I mean, the defense is tremendous.
01:54He's also responsible for the stuff on the offensive side of the ball, especially since he's given up play calling duties.
01:59And Matt Burke has done a tremendous job.
02:01This is a head coach.
02:02That's a CEO that oversees everything.
02:04And so everything lays at his feet more so than just he's got the head coach title.
02:10So everything I'm talking, this is a CEO that is delegated responsibilities on game day and delegated responsibilities from a preparation standpoint to oversee and, and, you know, make sure that or because they have that CEO.
02:25And I thought he was bad.
02:27I thought he left a lot to be desired.
02:28And I've got some bullets here to run down.
02:31Look, I think it starts with, uh, the, the togy, I foot, you know, at the, at fullback, uh, in the, in the, uh, on the goal line, the, the, the, the, the silly ass, you know, gimmick plays you're over to.
02:44You tried at one time, your quarterback exchange, quarterback, fullback exchange was a mess, a busted play down there.
02:50Um, and, and look, we, we can look at that particular play and I know a lot of folks, oh, you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
02:57The reality of it is it never should have been in the game plan, right?
02:59If you look at your offense, you struggle mightily down there inside the 10 yard line.
03:06The closer you get, the more difficult it is.
03:08You're missing guys, right?
03:10And not fullbacks.
03:11You're missing guys.
03:12You've got players on this team that have played running back that can carry the, that have lined up and, and understand that the quarterback's cadence is going to snap the football.
03:20You, you, you, you've got guys that are on the offense that do this, uh, day in, day out to get lined up the right way, putting these silly gimmicky plays in and having defensive linemen at the fullback position.
03:32Uh, it's, it's to me, it shouldn't be part of what they're doing offensively, given what their struggles have been.
03:39This isn't a well-oiled machine.
03:40It's just throwing a wrinkle in there every now and then that you see around the NFL.
03:44This is a, an offense that's struggling mightily to think that they think the answer is to put a D lineman at fullback, which then in turn causes a busted play one week.
03:53And then you do it in the biggest game again, and the guy does British Brooks couldn't have done that bingo.
03:58And the guy doesn't get lined up and you end up.
04:02Getting a penalty, it's down off the board in a playoff game and ends up kicking a field goal.
04:06Look, we sit here, we say as a, as a former quarterback, I know, boom, I got a personnel with a lot with a defensive lineman in the game.
04:14I'm going to make sure he said before I moved the move, the tight end.
04:17Right?
04:18So it's, it's, it's really on CJ.
04:20He screwed that up.
04:21Another one of those, like, what the hell is this is year three, man.
04:24You can't be doing that.
04:25Right?
04:25Then you go to look to Dalton Schultz and you go, Dalton Schultz, a veteran tight end.
04:29Dalton Schultz knows, Hey, I got a D line in the game.
04:31Let me check that guy.
04:32Before I move, regardless of what the quarterback says, let me check that guy before I move.
04:36So there are some guys, some other blame that you're pushing on, but it never should have been in the, in the playbook, Ryan.
04:40Never should have been in the playbook.
04:41That's what I was going to say.
04:41When I talk about the offensive, when you got three or four people who you're looking at saying, boy, this person should have, should know better.
04:48This person should know better.
04:49This person should know better.
04:51How often did we work on this?
04:52Know, know who you are.
04:54Know your problems.
04:55And bottom line is getting cute on the, in, inside the goal or near the goal line is a bad idea for this football team.
05:01All right.
05:02There is clearly nobody on that sideline that could calm CJ Stroud down and settle him in, settle him down.
05:09And he was in a bad way for the majority of the first half, missing throws, throwing interceptions, giving up on throws.
05:17I mean, it was blatantly obvious and nobody on your sideline, including yourself, who has this unbelievably close relationship with the quarterback could settle him down.
05:25That's on D'Amico, right?
05:26Whether it's him personally or somebody on the staff, bad feel for the game at the end of the half.
05:31Um, the end of the half has been a disaster for the Texans all year long.
05:36So one, it bit you in the ass again in a big moment, but two, why, what in the first half told you, let's go with this offense.
05:45You're lucky to even still be in striking distance.
05:48What told you with a rattled quarterback that is not even remotely close to being settled down.
05:53Let's go be aggressive.
05:54Again, that is a head coach call and a field call, or just an awareness call.
05:59If you're the head coach coming out of the third quarter, you get the ball coming out.
06:03That's right.
06:03Why be so aggressive at that point in time?
06:06It's been a disaster all year.
06:08Another one of those head scratchers of what what's going on, punting the ball with four minutes to go down scores that down two scores, 12 points, four minutes to go in a game.
06:18Even at fourth and 18.
06:21Absolutely.
06:23100%.
06:24It's criminal.
06:25He said he thought his defense had a better chance.
06:27No, no, I think, I think this is to be honest with you.
06:29I know everybody.
06:30I know there's several things you can pinpoint.
06:31Didn't trust CJ.
06:32Defense had a better chance.
06:33I think my man got frustrated.
06:35I think my man had seen enough.
06:36There is absolutely no excuse.
06:39Four minutes left in the game.
06:41You're down 12 points and you've got one timeout because your piss poor management beyond that had wasted all your timeout.
06:47There's no way punting.
06:49Ron, I'll argue.
06:50I'll argue that going forward and not getting it is better than punting.
06:55Now they've got a short field.
06:56They can't chew the whole clock up.
06:58You hold them to a field goal.
06:58It's a two score game.
07:00You're right back in it.
07:01There is absolutely no, no excuse to punt right there other than I quit waving the white towel.
07:07And by the way, the presser, which maybe we'll get to later in the show.
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