00:00all right clint you were talking about the offensive line and i would just say to me the
00:04reason why i would think it is it is i think of major importance to to that you you are
00:12active
00:12and really prioritizing getting better is i i hear you with everything you're saying i just think
00:21the way that they want to play and i personally do not see that the texans have what have you
00:29been saying since i since i i started working with you i don't think they've got uh the polos on
00:37the
00:37sideline or guys offensively that are that are difference makers for them like i i don't think
00:43that they have an advantage on the sideline with with with their offensive staff that that's going
00:50to give them an advantage or be able to work i don't think that so i do think they need
00:56a great
00:57offensive line to really be able to run this offense the way they like last year to me they
01:02were okay right we kind of talked about it a little bit yesterday i like i don't think they were
01:06great
01:06they were a lot better from where they were the year before where they seem to struggle with with
01:11very you know elementary things but i think they need to have a really good offensive line to help
01:18support all the stuff around them and help their play caller and help their design to me that that's
01:25why i think is extremely important yeah look i i don't i mean here's here's the deal is is
01:32we saw a guy last year and this is my point is is if you could go get five new
01:37offensive linemen
01:38and all of a sudden change the culture in that room then then yeah and if you believe that nick
01:44kaylee was was and and and what's my my o-line guy's name i forgot oh uh cole popovich like
01:51if
01:51you feel like those guys are just gonna breed physicality the way they just talk it a lot
01:55then okay maybe that's maybe that's the part that i'm i'm down like i don't believe you you signed a
02:02guy this year in ed ingram that was one of the one of his specialty if he had one was
02:07run blocking
02:08and he exceeded expectations significantly i mean he was one of the best guards in football
02:14throughout a good chunk of the season right trent brown there was a from a physicality standpoint
02:20there was a noticeable difference when he was in the game and pass protection and run game
02:24right and you still had this offensive line that everybody feels like needs to be
02:29needs to be upgraded and needs to be um completely overhauled if you will that's my my point is is
02:36you're
02:37not going to plug one guy in or two guys in and all of a sudden across the board all
02:44five guys are
02:45man movers all of a sudden popovich and nick kaylee's offense they're just full of rate road graders and
02:51they're getting it done like that i just that i hope like hell i'm wrong but i just don't i
02:57don't
02:57think that the run game is going to drastically change because you replace titus howard or ed ingram with
03:05another guard yeah no i i think it's i think you've got to start to build towards that and i
03:12think
03:12you've got to add the pieces towards that because yeah maybe it's let's say you add two new pieces
03:17that are closer to what what this offense may need and what they may want and then hopefully ursery is
03:26somebody that is trending towards that and so now maybe you have three guys up there that three or
03:31four guys up there and you continue to grow and grow towards that i just i just think that they
03:37when you look at their offense and their play caller and what they want to do i think they have
03:43to have
03:43a a an above average offensive line for this offensive unit to be able to to work i don't think
03:50nick kaylee does a great job working around well issues up front but but no i agree with your point
03:56but this is my point ron you you are right now you got to have a right tackle so here's
04:03here's what
04:04what based on what you just said you've got to go out and sign a better right tackle than you
04:09had last
04:09year you got to go out and sign a better as good or better right guard as you had last
04:14year you got
04:15to go out and sign a much better center than you had last year right figure out what's going to
04:20do
04:20with titus he could take the the initial comment i made about the tackle he could take and if he
04:24does
04:24then you got to figure out what you're going to do i mean those are you're talking about three or
04:27four moves right if you're going to do that your your swing tackle has to be a guy that's better
04:33than blake fisher getting his ass whooped half the time when he's the sixth offensive lineman out there
04:37like i just don't i'm looking at it for the through that lens of like hey man this is not
04:42going to be a
04:43an often the houston texans offensive line next year is not going to be a well above average offensive line
04:50well the the odds are they probably won't but they got to start building towards that right now
04:54yeah well i i can agree with that i can agree with i gotta i can agree with the let's
04:59start building
04:59towards something i just can't like everybody i hear talking about it is like boy fix the offensive
05:04line the texans are gonna be man like define fix and then what do we like what do you like
05:11i think
05:11you could you could say you could go get you could shock the world and get tyler lindenbaum
05:17and i still think you're gonna you're gonna now he's gonna communicate significantly better he's
05:21gonna set the tone in the room and the guys are gonna be better you're still not gonna be an
05:24above
05:25average physical but that's why i look at very similar what the bears did and we talked about
05:29that sure they kept their tackles they draft they had young tackles and they drafted their tackles and
05:34then they went and brought a new identity of three guys in the middle that did it 100 percent change
05:41them into the lions or or the eagles from a couple years ago no but it but it completely
05:47shifted how they how they played and they just got better up front right there and they were able to
05:52run the football the way closer to the way that ben wants to run it and do things that way
05:56so i i think
05:58that's kind of an example of last year of of how hey they just said we gotta we gotta fix
06:05this yeah
06:05yeah and maybe we can't fix it all and maybe these guys that we drafted the the young kid they
06:11drafted from tennessee to beat their tackle but maybe that but we gotta fix this right here and
06:15to me like if titus and urseri were your tackles and then you found three guys right there
06:23that i i think that could i think that can change your offensive line like if that no i agree
06:29with that
06:29and you can and to me you like what you want to do you you i think this offense needs
06:35to have that
06:36i i think they need to have that to do what it is that they want to do i i
06:42don't i don't disagree
06:43with your point that three interior offensive linemen that are difference makers would change the game
06:47i don't disagree that they need that hell i need it i'd like to have it too i i think
06:52the odds of that
06:53happening are slim to none i i i think that if you if you we've seen them they went out
06:58and got a
06:58joe mixon and all of a sudden oh yeah one player makes up for the weaknesses of guys up front
07:03i just
07:04think you're more likely to run the ball effectively and run at a better per carry clip focusing on other
07:10positions instead of just a o-line o-line o-line o-line that's that's where i'm at like the
07:15the big guys
07:15get piled on the guys that were there last year get piled on constantly and in reality i mean they
07:21earned some of it but in reality hey man nick and domiko left a lot to be desired putting things
07:27together around that damn around that damn o-line too no i hear you i i don't think it just
07:31needs to
07:32stop the o-line either i think i think you can get a new a back too especially if joe
07:36mixon can't roll
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