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00:00It's Sturdy's Daily.
00:02Before we get to that boner.
00:03On The Drive with Sterner and Hughley.
00:07Boners and boots, y'all.
00:09It's rodeo season, baby.
00:10It is rodeo season.
00:12I may have to break out my pythons.
00:14I may have to, and I'm talking about, well, hey, you know what, Ron?
00:18I mean, do you know what I'm referring to?
00:21Huh?
00:23Hey, hey, Tyler.
00:24Your boots or your...
00:25Boners and boots.
00:27I may have to break out my python.
00:28Would have thought barbecue or maybe beer, but yeah.
00:32No, baby, this Dirty's Daily.
00:34We're talking about that other thing.
00:35But I'm talking about my boots, you dirty-minded rascals.
00:39You dirty-minded rascals.
00:41It's rodeo season.
00:42Everybody out there, you listen.
00:43Hey, stay plugged in now.
00:44We just gave away a four-pack of tickets to Chris Stapleton.
00:48And we'll do it again in the 5 o'clock hour.
00:50Is that right, Ron?
00:51That's right.
00:515 o'clock, baby.
00:52It is...
00:53John T.
00:54It's the winner.
00:54Yeah, John T.
00:56Where's he from?
00:57Did we get a hometown from John?
01:01I just assume Humble.
01:02I just assume Humble.
01:03You like Humble?
01:04Okay.
01:04I like probably Rosenberg.
01:07Okay.
01:07I like Rosenberg.
01:08I like Victoria, southwest side, I believe.
01:10Looked at three houses out there when I moved out here, yeah.
01:13Really?
01:13Boy, we was trying to make the commute I was trying to make, or what?
01:15I mean, good Lord.
01:16Rodeo season, baby.
01:17We're giving away tickets.
01:18Giving it back to the people.
01:19Make sure you stay plugged in.
01:20Today is a Chris Stapleton day, so you may want to call you folks and tell them to plug on
01:24in.
01:24Next two hours, baby, we'll be giving away them tickets.
01:27It is Dirty's Daily, 4 o'clock every day, and today's Dirty's Daily is powered by Baylor Medicine.
01:32Here's why.
01:33I don't know if they want to be attached to me or not, but here's the deal.
01:37I had scheduled an appointment, boys.
01:39I had scheduled an appointment.
01:41And I'm going to tell you, Baylor Medicine is giving Chick-fil-A a run for their money.
01:47You know how when you go through a Chick-fil-A and how efficient they are, all of a sudden,
01:54you start looking around and wondering, like, how come all these other songbugs ain't figured
01:57this out yet?
01:58Right?
01:59Like, I did that forever in Baytown at Chick-fil-A, and at a Whataburger next to them,
02:04boy, I could never figure it out, man.
02:05I'd sit there, Chick-fil-A had run 40 cars through that line before Whataburger had run
02:09four.
02:10And then all of a sudden, I drove by there one day, guess what Whataburger had?
02:14They had them old folks out there in the morning.
02:15They had them out there.
02:16Out there.
02:17Now, look, they didn't have them Mr. Fans in them tents like Chick-fil-A got.
02:21They was out there in that heat now.
02:23Two lanes.
02:24But Whataburger said, hell, if they can do it, I can do it.
02:26Let me get out there.
02:26So they added the extra lane, and they put some folks outside.
02:29But you know how Chick-fil-A puts real pressure on folks.
02:32Puts real pressure on folks.
02:33Maybe not even those, just those in the fast food industry.
02:37But Baylor Medicine's doing it big, man.
02:40I don't know if y'all, have y'all scheduled any doctor's appointments lately?
02:44No.
02:45Doctor, no.
02:47Well, I scheduled up a doctor's appointment here, and it's a little over a month out.
02:53And I like to schedule things and get them done.
02:56You know, unfortunately, doctors, especially the good ones, they typically are scheduled
03:00out a couple months.
03:02But they said, well, would you like us to put you on a waiting list?
03:06I said, well, yeah.
03:07Go ahead and put me on.
03:07You know, I scheduled my appointment for early April.
03:11And they said, we'll put you on a waiting list.
03:12If anybody cancels, we'll hit you up and get you in.
03:16I said, well, you know, I do radio.
03:17I don't know if you know, but I do radio for a living, and I can't do afternoons.
03:20It's got to be morning, you know.
03:21Let them know.
03:22And she said, oh, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
03:24Well, here's what they do, man.
03:27Within literally 24 hours, I've already had one text.
03:31They text you, would you like to take this appointment in time instead of the one you
03:37have now?
03:38Oh.
03:38I could have got in a month earlier.
03:41Now, it was a 2.30 appointment.
03:42Couldn't do no good with the drive starting at 2 o'clock.
03:44I couldn't get in there.
03:45But I thought, I mean, how efficient is this?
03:49It's not a person blowing me up.
03:51It's a text message.
03:53And it's simple.
03:54Hit one if you want to change your appointment to March the 6th at 2.30.
03:58Hit two if you want to get out of this system.
04:01Hit three if you want to keep your original appointment.
04:03Boom.
04:04I hit three, keep my original appointment, keep it moving.
04:06That's how you do it, Baylor Medicine.
04:08That's how you do it.
04:09I mean, you just, I mean.
04:10Houston Methodist is pretty good with that, too.
04:12I got to believe the medical world, most of the, I guess the ones that have been around
04:19long enough, the big outfits probably do that.
04:22But I just, I don't, I mean, that is really, really good.
04:25I mean, from my dentist and a couple of them, I'll get one of those, hey, here's your reminder.
04:30Thursday this week, you got an appointment at 9.30.
04:32But this joker's hitting me.
04:33They're ready.
04:34I mean, they're giving me opportunity after opportunity to get in quicker, to be more efficient,
04:37to live my life, you know, a little bit quicker without a lot of just, I don't need anybody
04:43to help me procrastinate, Ron.
04:45Because you can do it all good.
04:46Oh, I can put some stuff off now.
04:48I can put some stuff off.
04:49I don't need nobody to help me procrastinate.
04:51I don't need any help.
04:53So, I appreciate Baylor Medicine, Ron.
04:55Shout out to Baylor.
04:56I tell you, somebody else that ain't procrastinating is that damn D'Amico Rines.
05:01Well, he's going through that offensive staff left and right, ain't he?
05:03He's not playing.
05:04I don't know if anybody's heard.
05:06You think he's going through it?
05:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:07Oh, ain't no doubt about it.
05:08I mean, he's either coaching it or allowing it, one of the two.
05:11There ain't no doubt about it.
05:12I don't know if you've heard, but the news coming out of NRG Stadium with the Houston Texans
05:17today, yesterday was the Toro District.
05:20Great job.
05:20Today it is.
05:21Gerard Johnson, quarterback coach, is out in Houston.
05:26And the word on the street is, is old Jerry Szaplinski.
05:29Big J.
05:31Is probably going to assume the quarterback title moving forward.
05:36And I got, I got thoughts on this with Gerard Johnson being out.
05:41And I, I think it's in no particular order, but, but I do think it's worth noting because
05:47I'm going to strain my lat trying to pat myself on the back.
05:51I told y'all when you hire a defensive mind to head coach, he's got to get the offensive
05:55play caller, right?
05:56He's got to get the, and if I'd have took it a step further, I'd have said he's got to
06:00get the damn quarterback coach, right?
06:01All right.
06:02When you look at the fact that the quarterback is regressed, the offense is regressed, you're
06:13on play caller number two, you're on quarterback coach number two.
06:17You, you have somehow taken a rookie of the year quarterback that put a season together.
06:25Like I've never seen from anybody, much less a rookie quarterback and allowed that to regress.
06:31And along the way, the folks that were most responsible for it, not named CJ Stroud, the
06:36folks that were most responsible for the best offense that you put on the field are no longer
06:40here.
06:42D'Amico's done a lot of, a lot of really good things, obviously.
06:45I mean, my man's, my man's won 32 games in three years, been in the second round of
06:49playoffs twice, done some really good things, obviously, but boy, has he missed on this
06:54offensive side of the ball.
06:55Boy, I mean, look, and let's be honest, the jury's still out on that quarterback that we
06:59were, that we were so surefire on a couple of years back.
07:02The jury's still out on that.
07:03Has he missed or is it just gradually become a miss?
07:06No, no, he missed.
07:07Look, look, when, hell, I mean, I, I, I'd argue that, that he, he's,
07:12he's missed, he's missed during, and somehow one, one, you know, in spite of it, he's,
07:19he's somehow, somehow missed to the point where he can win 10 games and it's still not
07:24the right guy.
07:26Right?
07:26So, I mean, look, D'Amico, again, if this team's going to have a chance, this defense
07:32is tremendous.
07:33They, they're, they're better than I thought they were ever going to be, to be completely
07:35honest with you.
07:36This defense is absolutely ridiculously good.
07:40Superbowl caliber.
07:41Good.
07:42He's missed so bad on the offensive side of the football with the main, I'll argue the
07:46most important figures in the organization from a football perspective, other than the
07:53head coach he's missed on.
07:54And I'm not real.
07:55We're not real sure about CJ Stroud at this point in time.
07:57So, D'Amico has really struggled filling the two most important spots with the Houston
08:03Texans beyond the head coach.
08:05And I, I think this team's paying for it.
08:08Uh, now the move itself.
08:12All right.
08:13Bobby's out last year.
08:15Gerard Johnson's out this year.
08:17There ain't too many more folks that we can blame for the regression of the quarterback.
08:20At some point in time, the fingers all got to point back at number seven.
08:23I think they've cleared the cupboard.
08:24I definitely think that's where people are going to place the blame.
08:28There's no doubt about it.
08:29The guy, the, the regression happened and the two positions most responsible for the
08:33quarterback have been let, relieved of their duties in back-to-back years.
08:36At some point in time, if there's some kind of riff, if there's some kind of, we, we're
08:41not, we don't talk, we don't communicate.
08:43There's a communication problem.
08:44Well, you've been through two of them so far.
08:47You've been through an offensive coordinator.
08:48You've been through a quarterback coach.
08:50Um, at some point in time, it's got to be about seven.
08:52And so I'm not saying it is seven.
08:53I'm saying that we're at a point right now with the other two personalities being replaced
08:57that I don't know how much longer we're going to be able to keep firing and replacing guys
09:01before we got to look at seven.
09:03All right.
09:04The, the, the, the next thing here, Ron, and I, I think this is, this is fascinating.
09:09This is fascinating.
09:10Cause I, this kind of came to my mind when we were talking, having this conversation a
09:14little earlier in the show.
09:18There was a time.
09:19In fact, when D'Amico runs was, was hired where I think Nick Casario was probably at
09:25his weakest, if you will, maybe from a state, from a staying power perspective, he had definitely
09:32lost favor, like some, some power.
09:34Yeah.
09:35The, the, the, the owners go out and hired D'Amico Ryan's and you think, okay, the ownership's
09:40out here making these decisions that the general manager typically would make.
09:43And now, okay.
09:44The, the head coach comes in and it's clearly the head coach's show.
09:49And I think at that point in time, I remember having a discussion about, here's what you
09:54got to look out for is right now.
09:56This is a D'Amico show.
09:57He hires Bobby Sloick, hires Gerard Johnson.
10:00He does his thing out of the, out of the, the, the Shanahan tree and, and out of the,
10:04you know, even Gerard had spent some time in the Kevin O'Connell tree in Minnesota, uh,
10:08that kind of deal.
10:10And over time, he and Nick become tighter and tighter and more attached at the hip and
10:19what has happened in Houston.
10:22I believe it's a direct reflection of that relationship growing stronger.
10:27D'Amico Ryan's essentially turning over the reins, Nick Casario gaining back some of the
10:32power that he originally had when he was hired and Nick Casario putting a new end.
10:39New England offensive staff together in a way that a hell, I don't even know that Bill
10:46O'Brien was able to do.
10:47Uh, yeah, not even, not even Easterby could pull off.
10:51I mean, yeah, they couldn't even pull it off.
10:53And so anybody out there that thought that Nick Casario is not hiring this, this, uh,
10:56this offensive staff, man, you better think again, these are John Carroll guys.
11:00These are new England guys.
11:01It looks like Jerry Szaplinski is going to be named the quarterback coach.
11:05Um, and, and he's got ties to new England.
11:07The new tight ends coach, they just hired played at new England.
11:11And I believe was a, was a, a, an assistant at new England.
11:14Um, I mean, this is, this is new England of the South.
11:18This is the, the Patriots 3.0 in Houston on the offensive side of the football.
11:22And this is, I'll be honest with you.
11:25I don't know if it's going to work or not.
11:26I'm just not, I'm just not a big fan of the system.
11:29Uh, I don't know if it's going to work or not.
11:31I'm just not a big fan, a big believer in this group, uh, in this approach, making it
11:38work.
11:39Um, and so we'll see, we'll see how it all, how it all unfolds.
11:43But I think Nick Casario's got his ultimate wish, which I think when he took the job, when
11:46things got right, he wanted to fill this up with new England partners and they've done
11:50it on the offensive side of the ball.
11:51Um, when you look at, at, at replacing Gerard Johnson with Shaplinsky is, I think both guys
12:02bring value to the table.
12:04I don't think this is just a Nick Casario, John Carroll, new England Patriot, Nick Kaley
12:10tie that I'm going to put at the quarterback position.
12:12I believe that the value in Shaplinsky is he's been in his system, knows this system, like
12:18the back of his hand is wholeheartedly committed to the system is wholeheartedly committed to
12:23the, the, the offensive play caller.
12:24He's his guy.
12:25He brought him over with the Rams.
12:27So I would think there's going to be some level of continuity there that didn't exist
12:30with guys that were just put together last year by Nick Casario.
12:35I got to believe that Jerry Shaplinsky coming over with Nick Kaley, probably this was always
12:41the plan and Gerard Johnson just got stuck in the middle, but I got to make the move.
12:45Why don't they just make the move?
12:48It's again, it's that crossover.
12:49It's just D'Amico's guy that D'Amico hired that, that you feel like you, you got to give
12:53the shot to, and you didn't want to let, you didn't want to, you didn't want to kick him
12:56out the door with, uh, with Bobby Sloick.
12:58So now I think it's come to fruition.
13:00You've got your guy at the quarterback position at the quarterback coach position.
13:03It looks like now the value there, I'm not going to undermine this.
13:06I think it's big.
13:08The guy that's coaching your quarterback on a daily basis is very well versed in this offense
13:14and very tight with the offensive play caller.
13:17Um, I, I believe there's value in that now.
13:21Is that more, obviously to them it is, is that more valuable than what Gerard Johnson brought
13:27to the table of, Hey man, I've known CJ and coach CJ for 10 years.
13:31Hey, I played the position at an extremely high level.
13:33I bring a different, a different perspective to the game.
13:37Um, I spent some time around some really good coaches, Shane Steichen and, and, uh, not
13:43Shane Steichen.
13:43It was, uh, Eagles when he was at the Colts.
13:47Oh, um, Nick Sirianni and Kevin O'Connell and all these guys, you know, is, is, is that
13:53being more well-versed in multiple offenses, more valuable than Shaplinsky in this offense?
13:59And, and, and so there's, there, I think there's a little give and take there.
14:02I don't at all want to present this like it's, Oh boy, this guy's just a new England guy.
14:06No, there, there's some, there's some value.
14:07And if this is a system, they're going to run, bringing a guy in that's well-versed
14:11in that system is, is, is definitely valuable.
14:13Now the question, the big question here, Ron is, is, is it going to be enough?
14:18Is this the move that really turns you on in Houston to get CJ Stroud rolling?
14:23And my thoughts is, I felt like there needed to be a significant change connected with the,
14:27with the quarterback.
14:28Okay.
14:29Whether they, whether that would be a quarterback change, um, not something that I agreed
14:35with, whether that would be a play caller, a new offense, which I think that would have
14:39been the number one thing to me, a new offense that, uh, or, or a coach that probably had
14:44a better shot at getting the best out of CJ, because I don't know that, that Nick Haley
14:48can do that.
14:49And then if that, if not that, at least the quarterback coach change, I just felt like
14:55running it back again with just everybody like that when we're seeing like one, whatever
15:01voice is in there, there's some sort of disconnect where seven doesn't feel comfortable in the
15:06offense or believe it, or the way that it's being communicated, something didn't, didn't
15:12mesh the last couple of years, but even this year.
15:15And something had to change.
15:17I just like running it back.
15:19But now when you see old Jerry is the answer, if that's the answer, then I don't, I don't
15:24like there, there's not like there's, there's nothing unless he's just a far better communicator
15:31than Gerard and that can get him to be more comfortable.
15:34Like if I'm CJ and it's Jerry Slapinski, what is it?
15:38Jerry's?
15:38Szaplinski.
15:40Szaplinski.
15:41Whatever, Tyler, whatever it is.
15:42Szaplinski.
15:44Szaplinski, if it's Jerry, Jerry, yes.
15:47But no, Jerry, if it's Jerry, like if I'm CJ, like how different is this going to be?
15:54Like, or, or how, how is, yeah, I mean, we're digging deeper into the, it's, I mean, it's
15:59a, it's a real run it back situation.
16:01And so, I mean, we'll, we'll see.
16:02Now I tell you this, I will say this.
16:05I know Gerard and I tell you, I want to, I want to wish him the best.
16:10I said this two, three months ago, if I was Gerard Johnson, I'd get the hell up out of
16:14there.
16:16Well, he is.
16:17I mean, it now, I mean, I would rather him have done it on his own accord.
16:19I would rather him have done it going to get an offensive coordinator job somewhere.
16:22But, but I mean, this is just one of them deals where, I mean, you, you can see how they're
16:26operating on the offensive side of the football and, I mean, and you can see you're the odd
16:29man out.
16:30I mean, you, you, you, you're tied to CJ Stroud and CJ Stroud is going to regress, not even
16:35play bad.
16:36Like he did in the playoffs.
16:37He's going to regress.
16:38You know, it's going to be tied to you.
16:41And clearly there's some kind of riff there with offensive coaches as, as they keep rolling
16:45through the ones that are closest to the quarterback.
16:48And, and, and truth be told, Gerard Johnson, I mean, his system is, is Kevin O'Connell.
16:52I mean, his, his system is, is, you know, he's got experience and I think he's got stroke in,
16:59in the, the most popular system in the NFL.
17:02I mean, go, go get in one of those systems where you can, you can get underneath an offensive
17:06play caller and, and, and do some things and make some progress, man.
17:11So I, I wish Gerard the best.
17:14I think this is a great change for him.
17:15Now it sucks because he's got a, he's got a baby girl and a wife and I think they're all
17:19from this area.
17:20And so, I mean, it's, it's tough that you're going to have to end up moving away from family,
17:23but.
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