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00:00Do we at least believe that the offense, because you could spin it and say, hey, it's year
00:07one, this is the first year in the system, there were some improvements as the year went
00:15on from some parts of the offense, so you could spin it and say, oh, it's year one and
00:21there could be growth.
00:22Do you think there needs to be significant change with this offense?
00:26Yes.
00:26Seven months.
00:27Okay.
00:28So Tyler is in the yes.
00:29Seven, one, three, five, seven, two, four, six, 10.
00:31Do you look at this?
00:32You come away from this season because yes, you can, you could say that side of the ball
00:36cost you a chance to get to a championship, cost you a chance to continue to be playing
00:44cost us a chance to be out at a Buffalo wild wings, cost us a chance to be out on a Friday
00:51for a football Friday.
00:52Stop being a dumpster.
00:53You can look at this and say the offense did that.
00:56Tyler says, yes, before it's the question is finished.
01:00Do you sense that?
01:01Do you believe there needs to be significant changes?
01:04There were significant changes last year.
01:06They redid a lot of the old line.
01:08Obviously.
01:10Change the court.
01:10I do.
01:11I do.
01:13Yeah.
01:13Yeah.
01:14I think there should be now.
01:16I, I, the, the, the caveat here is, is, um, the relationship between Nick Casario and
01:25Nick Kaley complicates the situation.
01:27And I think the relationship between D'Amico Ryan's and CJ Stroud complicates the situation.
01:32So, um, but yeah, I, I think, I think there's, I think there's enough, as I said yesterday,
01:37Ron, I just, there is never going to be a Texans offense moving forward.
01:46There's never going to be an offense.
01:48That's going to be asked to do less than the one was asked to do this year.
01:51And they failed miserably.
01:55I just, I mean, you got to look at it like it.
01:57This isn't just a normal, Hey, year one kind of, I agree with your overall point of it can
02:02be spun that way.
02:03Um, it can be spun the way of, Hey man, CJ Stroud's only been in the league three years.
02:09Nick Caley's only been calling plays one year, but the reality of it is, is the dynamic of
02:13this football team is fixing to change in a major, major way when you got to start paying
02:17guys.
02:17Yep.
02:18And will and will's about to get paid and will's going to get paid.
02:20There ain't no doubt about it.
02:21And so you start paying guys on the offensive side of the football, CJ Stroud, uh, offensive
02:27lineman that are going to cost you money instead of trying to piecemeal that thing together.
02:30If you think Nico Collins is just going to continue to sit with that deal, he's got
02:34you're, you're out of your mind and four and a half catches a game or four and a half targets
02:37again, whatever the hell it was yet.
02:38You're out of your mind.
02:39So, um, you know, the dynamic is going to change.
02:42And I, I think, I think the reality of it is the Texans have to make a big decision and
02:49they got to make that.
02:51And it is a, as I said, it is a big one.
02:53Uh, and it's an easy question for me.
02:56The question is easy right now, where you sit three years into CJ Stroud's career, are
03:04you going to ride or die with CJ Stroud or not?
03:06I, I think, I think that, that's the, that's the, the, the decision that the significant
03:13change is revolved around CJ.
03:16Yeah.
03:17I think you've got to, I think you've got to decide if you're going to ride or die with
03:20CJ Stroud.
03:21That's where it starts.
03:22And, and, and there, there's, it's obviously a fork in the road.
03:25If the answer is no, then you got to, there's no doubt about it with the conversations that
03:31are going around in the country right now in this sporting world, that the Texans are going
03:35to get calls, whether they're real or not, they're going to get calls on CJ Stroud.
03:38Are you, if the answer is you're not going to ride or die with CJ Stroud, you've got
03:43to entertain moving CJ Stroud because the value is never going to be higher right now.
03:47You've got a fourth year and a fifth year option.
03:49That's still out there.
03:50You're, you're not too far removed from year one when he was at in, in the top 10 MVP.
03:54And he was a, a rookie of the year type deal.
03:57And if, and if the answer is no, you're not going to ride or die with him.
04:01Then you've got to, at the very least entertain moving him when his value is the highest.
04:07Number one, number two, when you've got a backup quarterback under contract that you
04:11believe can, can execute this offense at a, at a much, much lower price, much, much lower
04:19cost.
04:20And if you're going to keep playing offense the way that you're playing offense, I think
04:23that's a real possibility.
04:24So are you going to ride or die with CJ Stroud moving forward?
04:28If the answer is no, I mean, some things that aren't going to be real popular.
04:32You're probably going to be, you're going to take a lot of risks.
04:34Cause if he goes somewhere else and plays well, you're going to be the dummy.
04:36If the answer is yes, right?
04:39If the answer is yes, you're going to ride or die with CJ Stroud.
04:45You got to make a change to the offensive coordinator position.
04:47And by the way, I mean, that yes, doesn't mean you got to sign him after this year, right?
04:52That does that, does that yes mean you got to sign?
04:55Oh no, no, no.
04:56Hell no, no, no.
04:57You might as well, I'm going to be honest with you, you might as well, because you're
04:59committing, you're pot committing to it.
05:01I believe you're pot committing to him.
05:02Cause I mean, he's going to be worth a lot less.
05:04If he continues down this road and doesn't play well and you regret paying him the money,
05:09then he's, then he's going to be worth significantly less with just a fifth year option after next
05:14year.
05:14So, um, to your point, I don't, I don't think you should, but if you're going to pot commit
05:19to him, you might as well.
05:20To me, the yes can, can be yes.
05:23Riding with CJ, but still also saying, not giving, like, I still want to see what the
05:28year four is going to look like.
05:29Yeah.
05:29Right.
05:30Like I still think that, that, that doesn't necessarily mean, I just want it for me to
05:34put it towards when you, if you're saying, yes, I'm going to ride with CJ, that doesn't
05:38necessarily mean I'm going to ride with CJ.
05:40So damn it.
05:40Let's go ahead and pay up.
05:41Right.
05:41No, that like, to me, there could be another scenario, which like, I am choosing to ride
05:45with CJ right now.
05:47And then if we see more of what we saw against Pittsburgh and new England, then at that point,
05:54like, all right, now I know I've got to start.
05:56Yeah.
05:56I mean, and you, but you've got to, and that's a complicated decision because you've got to
06:01decide, given the way that you're structuring this team right now, you can't pay your quarterback
06:0550 to $60 million a year and keep this defense together.
06:08So when you say, I was CJ Stroud, you're saying, I'm going to pay this guy a boatload
06:14of money.
06:15So at some point I'm going to pay him a boatload of money and it's going to force me to break
06:19up my defense in some way, shape or form.
06:21So anyway, but the point being is if you say no, you got to seriously entertain moving him
06:26right now and getting value and do it while you've got a backup quarterback you feel like
06:30can win and execute the offense the way you need to execute the way your team is built
06:34right now.
06:35If the answer is yes, you've got to make a change at the offensive coordinator position
06:40because it is, it's clear CJ Stroud and, and, and, and Nick Cayley are not a good fit
06:45for one reason or another.
06:46I don't know.
06:47I don't know what the reason is, but if you're going to pot commit to one of those guys, you
06:51have got to move the other one.
06:52And, and the reason being to me is I don't know if there's going to be another year with
06:58this many offensive coordinators on, on the market that want to come be, you got the
07:02upper hand in all these offensive coordinators that, that are, that are vying for head coach
07:06jobs.
07:06Some of them may get them and you may end up being asked out anyway, but the ones that
07:10don't get them would much rather come here with a CJ Stroud and a, and a 12 win football
07:15team than go somewhere and try to rebuild.
07:17Absolutely.
07:18Yeah.
07:18Absolute complete control.
07:20Yeah.
07:20So, I mean, you're the, the offensive coordinator market is wide open and there's going to
07:25be some real players out there.
07:26Guys, again, guys that you're not going to hire their staff.
07:30Yeah.
07:31You're looking at Cliff and Mike, you could sell, Hey man, we got CJ Stroud.
07:36We know the heights of what he can be.
07:38Tank Dale's coming back, hopefully from injury.
07:40We got Nico Collins.
07:42We've got Dalton Schultz under, under contract.
07:45We've got the young guys and Noel and, and Higgins like we've got these promising.
07:51We've got like, there are some things to be sold here compared to what like Pittsburgh
07:56or Cleveland's rolling out.
07:58Absolutely.
07:58You know, other teams are going to be looking for coordinators or, or the Titans that they
08:02just hired Robert Sala.
08:04Like you, you have some things out there, but I, I like I, what you just said though,
08:10like there's gotta be a significant change for me.
08:13Like if you're serious about trying to take the next step and win, you can't have both
08:21of those dudes here.
08:22I agree.
08:23Like if you're serious, like I don't need to see another year of growth to, to, to believe
08:30that Nick Cayley is the guy that's going to get the best out of CJ Stroud.
08:34Like I, I just like, whether it's CJ, however they arrived there, I just, I don't need to see
08:39another year in the system of growth to, to, to let me know that Nick Cayley is the guy
08:45that can get the best out of CJ Stroud.
08:48I don't, I like, I don't, I don't need it.
08:50I, I'm, I am certain I could see that.
08:52I, I, I'm, I am.
08:54So I am sure of that.
08:55I don't believe Nick Cayley can help CJ Stroud produce another season anywhere close to the
09:01one that he had his rookie year.
09:04And I would bet with you on that one.
09:06And if that is the case to me, if you're serious, if you're dead serious about this
09:11offense, getting to another level and the, the, the priority has to be, if you're rolling
09:17with CJ, the priority has to be, we have got to fix the quarterback to get him back into
09:22the ballpark of where he was two year, two seasons ago.
09:27That's got to be, if you're staying with him, like you said, if you're saying God be the number
09:32one thing to try to get him close to that space.
09:36And I don't believe Nick Cayley is the person to pull that.
09:39Well, I mean, here, here's the, here's the reality of it.
09:41I think D'Amico Ryan's has the answers to, to, to the test that we're talking about, right?
09:46Is I, I think it's, you cannot be a quarterback that is asking for more control in July when
09:57you hire this guy and talking about kind of underhanded talking about, well, I didn't have
10:02control with slow, basically what was said, right?
10:05You can't be that guy.
10:06And then 21 games later, be talking about getting out of the huddle and communicating.
10:11They just don't jive.
10:11You can't, you can't be that guy.
10:13And I say D'Amico Ryan's has D'Amico Ryan's has the answers because he knows Ron.
10:20He's sitting there right now and he's going, but, but, but he, but he, he's sitting there
10:24right now, Ron, and he's going, boy, CJ, CJ's a much better quarterback when we don't
10:29give him the freedom at the line of scrimmage, or he's sitting there going, well, Bobby Slocke
10:35was a lot better than, than this Kaylee cat cat.
10:37I mean, one of those things is true.
10:39I don't know which one, but one of those things is true.
10:41There, there, there's, there's no way that you can tell me that this is a, Hey man, we're
10:47moving in the right direction.
10:48Y'all just got to trust me behind closed doors.
10:50We see this thing being Superbowl caliber.
10:52There's somewhere, some way at the OC in a quarterback spot.
10:57But there's not a good fit there.
10:59So if you're going to ride or die with CJ Stroud, you got to find a guy that can overcome
11:05CJ shortcoming from a play caller perspective.
11:07You've got to find a guy that can put CJ's position that he's ever been in to play quarterback.
11:13Right.
11:14You, you, you've got, you've got to do those things.
11:16Um, running this thing back, Ron, I just don't see, I don't see, I think it's a major decision.
11:21And the, and the biggest part of this is it's a major decision for D'Amico Ryan's because
11:27what are they going to say about him?
11:29If he moves on to his third offensive coordinator and it don't work, it's going to fall back
11:33in the lap of D'Amico Ryan's.
11:35You don't, you don't know what the hell you're doing with this offensive.
11:36I mean, I think it should, I think we, it should be now in his lap.
11:41I can, I can agree with that.
11:42He cut, he let the play calling go.
11:44He said he was putting more, more eyes on the offense.
11:48So I think it, it could be, could be there too.
11:51Or also Casario, who I think was probably heavily involved in the Nick Casey.
11:57That's the interest.
11:58I said this before, Ron, this is the internet, this, the, the, the, the personal side of this
12:04thing.
12:05I think it's, I think it's very real.
12:07Um, like I find it hard to believe because we are, we, we were hearing Nick Caley's name
12:16through that new England brand.
12:17We, we, we've been hearing about that for two, three years.
12:20We, we've been hearing about this Nick Caley guy.
12:22Hell, I think, Oh, Oh, Easterby may even mention no Nick Caley.
12:26I mean, we've been hearing about this guy's a, I mean, he's climbing the charts, man.
12:29He's, he's a great coach.
12:30He's a play caller.
12:31He's this, he's that like, I find it hard to believe that Nick Casario is going to give
12:37him his shot at the offensive coordinator position.
12:39And then a year in after all that ranting and raving about this guy, about how great
12:43of a coach he is.
12:44And he's a, he's an up and comer.
12:47I find it hard to believe they're going to say, Hey man, two games, man.
12:5221 games.
12:53We want, we won 13 of them, but yeah, that's what I was going to say.
12:55Clint, I have never had, listen and Tyler, I want you to, I want you to grab the, play
13:00this D'Amico here in a second.
13:01I'd never thought that they would fire.
13:06I've been saying to you, man, they won 12 games.
13:08They've won nine in a row, 10 in a row.
13:10Like they're not firing Kaylee, especially with what they, you know, who brought it, who
13:15it seems like had a lot of an impact and bring them in until I heard D'Amico yesterday
13:21and I left Landry's question in it or Tyler, I asked Tyler to leave Landry's question in
13:27it.
13:27And I thought this risk, this, this question and listening to the question.
13:31And then the response was interesting to made me think a little different.
13:36Now I could be reading too much into it.
13:38That would not be the first time that maybe has happened, but here is, here is Landry asking
13:44him a question about the future with Nick Kaley.
13:47You made the tough decision to move on from Bob and make Nick O.C.
13:52Are you confident in Nick getting better?
13:55And will he have that opportunity?
13:57Yeah.
13:57With the coaching staff, with our players, you guys asking about contracts, coaches, players,
14:02like I'm evaluating everything as we go throughout the week.
14:05I mean, he just like, he, he just asked him, do you think he's got a chance to be, to be
14:13better?
14:14Will he have an opportunity?
14:15Right.
14:16And he, like, he just immediately just took it to, you know, all the stuff about coaches,
14:23players.
14:23I'm evaluating everything.
14:25I'm not, I'm not necessarily saying that, that he is like moving.
14:31And you all have listened and we have played a lot of audio this year.
14:36How would you say D'Amico is usually handled the Nick Kaley questions and, and, and, and
14:42maybe even criticisms of Nick Kaley.
14:45Full support.
14:47Full support.
14:48And now right here at the end here, Hey, what do you, Hey, do you think he's a, you think
14:52you're confident that Nick can get better and have an opportunity to, I mean, we're, we're
14:59evaluating everybody like, I didn't think there was a chance that Nick Kaley would be
15:03moving on.
15:04When I heard D'Amico say that, cause very easily he could have continued what he has
15:09always done in reference to Nick Kaley, that offense has gone and looked awful at times.
15:16And he'll come and say, I don't think it was the play call.
15:18I think it was execution technique mechanics.
15:21I just, that, that stuck out to me, his response to, to that, that was, that was for the first
15:28time I thought, Ooh, you evaluate and everything.
15:31Cause I bet you, we can ask some questions about other people.
15:33I bet we asked some questions about Matt Burke.
15:35I bet he's not saying he's evaluating Matt Burke, but he would say how good of a job Matt
15:39Burke did.
15:40Just like when they asked him about CJ and his future contract.
15:43And he, he said, I'm not talking about that right now.
15:45I believe if they asked him right now, what do you think about Will?
15:48You think Will Anders is going to be a longterm?
15:50I bet you go in there and let, you know, you'd be very clear that Will Anders is going
15:53to be longterm.
15:54What do you think?
15:56Love that money.
15:57I'm not talking about that right now.
15:58So I thought that was interesting that D'Amico, that D'Amico flat out just walked away from
16:03didn't even mention, didn't even mention his name.
16:07He's right in there with all the other players and coaches will be evaluated.
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