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Seth and Sean take a look at an early mock draft and assess if Nick Caserio would actually do what they have him doing in the 2nd round, and if they'd be on board for it.
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00:00Have you started looking at mock drafts at all and come across your timeline?
00:03Just randomly a little bit.
00:04I kind of figured I'd wait until after the Super Bowl so I could start watching some of these guys.
00:08I know a lot of people obviously were paying attention to the Senior Bowl last week.
00:11Yeah, yeah, and it sounded like there were some interesting performances at the Senior Bowl.
00:17The Athletic did a two-round mock draft that I looked at on the flight here.
00:21I'm like, ooh, two-round mockaroo that has some stuff that I would approve of for the Texans in here.
00:27The first thing is I think a lot of Texan fans have an appetite for a running back in the draft,
00:35maybe even drafted highly in the draft.
00:38Jeremiah Love of Notre Dame, who is maybe the best player in the country,
00:42but he doesn't play a premium position.
00:44He's running back, Heisman finalist.
00:46He drops all the way to 18 to Minnesota.
00:49And, you know, I've had at least one player every year, Seth, that I'm like,
00:52well, if that guy gets within shooting range, you know, they got an extra two.
00:57You know, and the Texans are 28th.
01:00Supposedly the –
01:00So it's an extra two to get you up ten spots to get a running back.
01:02Nick said that they were trying to trade up around about the teens last year.
01:06Last year, yeah, yeah.
01:07Yeah, and that's when there were, you know, Gray Zabel would be playing in the Super Bowl.
01:12He was available as well as still – there are still offensive linemen and wide receivers there.
01:16That's right.
01:17Kind of – who knows who they were trying to trade up for, but that looked about right.
01:20Yep, yep.
01:21So if Jeremiah – my feeling now, if Jeremiah Love started to get in that range right there,
01:25boy, I would hope Nick's picking up the phone trying to move up.
01:27I know – I'm curious how people on the Tex line feel about that
01:30because I know there's a lot of people that feel like I wouldn't touch a running back
01:34in the first two rounds.
01:35Yeah.
01:35Go get him day three and day –
01:37The Texans are at that point where they've entered that category of teams
01:40where I'm cool with them drafting a running back in the first round.
01:44That – like your offensive line – offensive line or running back.
01:48This year it was offensive line or wide receiver.
01:50However, more likely than not, the Texans aren't going to even be drafting in the first round
01:55because that's the way it goes for them.
01:57Oh, they'll trade out, you're saying?
01:58He'll trade out, yeah.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Because he'll see more value in doing that.
02:02I mean, like he's done it the last two years.
02:03That's his history, right?
02:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:06Well, I'll tell you who they've got.
02:07They don't have him trading out.
02:09Hey, Ben, if you have the sounder, let's –
02:11Oh, yeah, Ben had it.
02:12He was ready to go.
02:14Ben's a pro.
02:14So, with the 28th pick, the Texans take Anthony Hill, linebacker from the University of Texas.
02:20Aaron Raybald, our engineer on site, is – he's acting like they just took him.
02:25He got the – he did the two fists, like folding your arms fist pump
02:29and got a big, ooh, smile on his face.
02:32This is what they say.
02:34Hill could be a bit of a wild card, but his blend of size, 6'3", 238,
02:39and athleticism is ideal for an NFL stack linebacker.
02:42Can he continue to grow in terms of processing the run game in the NFL?
02:46Hill's a tempting talent, but his landing spot likely will depend on how he interviews.
02:50I just – this was a confusing one to me because, for one,
02:53taking an off-ball linebacker in the first round is always a dicey proposition,
02:57and then especially when you feel good about your top two linebackers you have right now
03:01in Aziz Elshire and Henry Toa Toa.
03:04I do think that they're – and the Texans –
03:08the Texans will play with three linebackers on the field at times,
03:11but they run nickel when you've only got two linebackers on the field
03:14at one of the highest rates in the league.
03:18And it's just always a question of, all right, is that because, you know,
03:20that's specifically what they want to do,
03:23or is it because they just don't trust those linebackers in coverage situations necessarily?
03:28I think that's very possible.
03:29So, like, if you could get to a point where they could be more versatile in their scheme,
03:35that would be enticing, I think.
03:37But I still just – I don't have an appetite for taking an off-ball linebacker in the first round.
03:42Okay.
03:43This is where it starts to get – this is where I think Texan fans may start to roll their eyes a little bit
03:49if this were to happen.
03:51You and I just got done talking about running backs.
03:53So, let's do pick number 30 – there we go.
03:59Pick number 38.
04:00Give it to me, Ben.
04:02With the 38th pick, the Houston Texans select Jadarian Price, running back Notre Dame.
04:09Okay.
04:09Who, if he weren't on the same team as Jeremiah Love,
04:12would probably have had 1,700 yards of his own this year.
04:16Yeah.
04:16He was really good.
04:17He's a really good kick returner.
04:19He's a really good back.
04:20Like, he might be the second-best running back in the country.
04:23It just so happens he's on the same team as the first-best running back in the country.
04:27I would love that if they drafted Jadarian Price.
04:30In fact, that may be – because the Texans won too many games to get Jeremiah Love,
04:34that might be the player I start agitating Nick about.
04:36There's a part of me with Jadarian Price where I just wonder, all right,
04:41like, he's not a bigger guy either.
04:44Yeah.
04:44You've already got your smaller guy in Woody Marks that can be a receiving threat,
04:48and they didn't actually get to use him as a receiver as much once he had to become
04:52the main dude last year, that I've just got – I've got an appetite for a hoss of some sort.
04:57Okay.
04:57You know?
04:58He's not a squatty, like, 210, is he?
05:00He's like a long and lean 210.
05:02Who, Jadarian Price?
05:03Yeah.
05:03He's kind of a tightly wound package.
05:05He's 5'11".
05:07Yeah.
05:07That's basically – that's like – that's like Wilt Chamberlain is a running back.
05:10Yeah.
05:10Okay.
05:11So, I would be okay with it.
05:14I'd be okay with taking a running back.
05:15Maybe we differ on the style of running back.
05:17This is where I think the athletic goes off the rails a little bit here
05:21because the Texans have another second-round pick.
05:23Yeah.
05:24They got their own pick.
05:25That was the pick they got in the Laramie Tunsil trade where they just took Price.
05:28With the 59th pick, the Houston Texans select Jonah Coleman, running back, Washington.
05:35See, Jonah Coleman is a hoss, though.
05:37Right.
05:38He's a – he's a – he's 228 pounds, 5'9".
05:43That is a bowling ball, man.
05:45So, is this – that is a – that's a Maurice Jones-Drew sack of punch you in the jaw.
05:49This is Nick satisfying both of us.
05:51This makes more sense.
05:52Yeah.
05:52This gives you a one-two punch.
05:54Like, I'll do this.
05:54Some versatility.
05:56Get Sean off my back.
05:57You got an all-purpose back, but then you've also got Woody Marks who can be used in different ways.
06:01Yes.
06:01I'm telling you.
06:01I like that a lot.
06:02What do you think –
06:02I don't want – no, no, no.
06:03They can't draft two running backs in the second round.
06:05That's my question.
06:06Like, this – this – this – I was enjoying this mock draft when I got to Price, and I'm like,
06:10are you kidding me?
06:10No, there's a problem that if they'd already drafted a running back, Nick would be trading
06:14all around to try to get to a position that they want to draft.
06:16No team trade – no team drafts two running backs in the second round.
06:20Yeah.
06:21Not at that – I mean, it's just – it's a position where you can go find guys.
06:24To be – unless they say, like, well, we're really not going to plan on improving the offensive
06:28line again this year.
06:29So, we need as many running backs as possible.
06:31Can you imagine –
06:31That's when these guys inevitably get slaughtered in the backfield.
06:34Can you imagine if they took a linebacker and two running backs?
06:37Yeah.
06:37That's right.
06:38This whole draft would be a linebacker and two running backs.
06:40Two running backs.
06:40That feels – because that feels like a kind of a cherry on top type of thing, draft that
06:45you do when you already have a really good roster.
06:47Yes.
06:47But the offense right now is not that – they're not at that level.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Yeah.
06:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:52So, this is all – I think the big difference will be, all right, what do they do in free
06:55agency at offensive line and running back?
06:57Like, if they get super aggressive somehow and you actually, after free agency, feel
07:04like, okay, you know what, this is kind of rounding out some of the rough edges of the
07:08roster, I might – could be okay with this, but I'm highly skeptical.
07:11People weighing in on this on the text page, this is Nick Casario, not Sonny Weaver.
07:16Yeah.
07:16That's Kevin Costner's character in Draft Day who does some wild stuff in that movie.
07:22Hell, yeah, I would move up 10 to get a running back like Jeremiah Love.
07:26I would, too.
07:26Love is clearly the top prospect, just having even looked at any of the prospects, let
07:31alone running back, for this drive.
07:32I got to watch more of these kids because everybody knows what my standard philosophy
07:36is on this.
07:37They all suck, and I hate all of them.
07:39Every single one of them.
07:40So, they need to learn – they all start with an F.
07:41Yeah, they generally suck.
07:43Most of them will end up sucking.
07:45Even the ones who are going to end up being good will suck at first.
07:49So, I'm always very skeptical of –
07:50I'm totally amped for the draft now.
07:51And, Sean, this is how most GMs feel as well, too.
07:54That is true.
07:54They – like, guys, any GM that's actually got any hint of self-awareness or has been
08:00in the business for a while knows that, yeah, I'm going to be wrong on some of these
08:03guys that I like, and I'm going to be – I'm going to be wrong on some of the guys
08:05that I don't like.
08:06GM Bill O'Brien took it to the next level.
08:08Not only – most of the GMs think that they all suck until they draft them, and then they
08:12maybe feel in their minds like, but I got the ones that didn't suck.
08:14Yeah.
08:15O'Brien's like, his rookies suck.
08:16Yeah, they do.
08:17What do you mean?
08:17You just took them.
08:18His problem was he didn't realize that he could do something about it.
08:21We're like, yes, they do.
08:22When they show up, they're awful.
08:23And then your job as a coach is to get them better to the point where – you see all these
08:28other rookies on other teams that don't look like they suck?
08:30That's true.
08:31Yeah, those guys sucked when they first got in the building, and then they got coached.
08:34If you blindly just had to go by position for those three picks, no names attached.
08:38Yeah.
08:39If you had to go by position, what would you take with those three picks?
08:41I would take – okay, if it was appropriate and where they were and everything.
08:47Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:48I'm all offensive line at this point.
08:49All offensive line.
08:50Yeah.
08:51All three – 28, 38, 59.
08:54I want offensive linemen.
08:55Okay.
08:56I want as many as possible competing for you.
08:57I think there's people that agree with you.
08:58Yeah, it's just –
09:00No, realistically, two offensive linemen and one running back.
09:04That's what I would say.
09:05I would feel good if you have three picks in the first two rounds, if the Texans ended up getting an offensive line – two offensive linemen and a running back, I'd be excited about that.
09:14I would say offensive line, running back, I would be fine if they took another offensive lineman, but if I wanted to – if it had to be three different positions, I'd go O-line, running back, and then defensive tackle.
09:24Oh.
09:26I'm kind of – I've kind of given up on using a high draft pick as a defensive tackle.
09:31They haven't done it yet.
09:32I know, but – and I feel like that's what D'Amico in his heart of hearts would want most is a defensive tackle.
09:38But they've done such a good job with these journeyman types who come in and end up playing way above what their expectations are.
09:44I'd just like to see what he would do with one that's a first or a second round pick.
09:47Yeah, yeah.
09:48Oh, no, no, no.
09:48And I think D'Amico definitely –
09:50Yeah.
09:50I think that's – it's weird that they haven't actually gone swung big on either a free agent or in the draft.
09:58It just hasn't worked out that way.
09:59Yep.
09:59But, like, by and large, though, you had one of the best defenses in the league.
10:03And, look, defensive tackle is something that people were really concerned about going into last offseason.
10:07It ended up being the guys they had were just fine.
10:09They just all got injured.
10:11And it got to the point where you had to dig into your depth.
10:13Two guys that weren't even on the roster at the midpoint of the season ended up playing serious snaps for you in the playoffs.
10:20And it still wasn't the issue necessarily with the defense.
10:24They would have been better with the guys who were the starters in there.
10:27For me, it's all offense.
10:28If they pick nothing but offensive players this draft, I'd be cool with it.
10:32Поэтому and if there's a pool with it coming up with it.
10:34You guys start now withッmined with it.
10:35And that's what we're saying.
10:36But guys, they're on the road and they're trying to dilate them in this bucket.
10:37So we're not going to go with it anyway.
10:39There's going to be a tough battle for now.
10:40And we're going to be able to open it.
10:41Do you want to place a battle here?
10:42And then it's going to come out there.
10:43And with it, ś
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