00:00All right, the breaking news of the last, I don't know, 20, 30 minutes here
00:04is that the Houston Texans have acquired running back David Montgomery
00:09from the Detroit Lions for a package of Juice Scruggs, offensive guard,
00:16and a fourth-round pick and a seventh-round pick,
00:18which now leaves the Texans looking kind of normal, I guess, at least.
00:22They'll still have a first-round pick.
00:24They'll have Washington's second-round pick in addition to their own.
00:27A third-round pick that they acquired from the Giants,
00:29remember when they traded back, a fourth-round pick, a fifth-round pick,
00:33or two fifth-round picks, rather, and a seventh-round pick.
00:36I don't know which fourth and which seventh they ultimately still have.
00:38I said 2027, I just saw.
00:40Oh, it was a future seventh they put in there as well.
00:43Okay, so that actually, I'll need to correct that.
00:45But, yes, the Texans acquire a running back.
00:49The seventh-round pick to the Lions, according to Adam Schefter, is 2027.
00:52Okay, got you. I appreciate you keeping me clean there.
00:55But keep letting us know, how do you feel about this?
00:57What are your thoughts with this move on the base power text line, 713-572-4610?
01:03Two texts that came in, very different, which, of course, you would expect.
01:07People are going to feel differently about all sorts of different moves.
01:09One person goes, the Texans have traded for Joe Mixon 2.0.
01:13Someone else from the 2.1.0 says, it's another crappy trade by Nick,
01:19trading for another aging running back on his last leg.
01:22Well, I don't know about that.
01:23You know, these days, we understand that the 28-year-old running back
01:27is not like the 28-year-old running back of four years ago, three years ago.
01:30There have been so many people that have proved otherwise at that age.
01:34I love it.
01:35I love the pick itself.
01:36Now, I mentioned this to you during the break, and I think it's important.
01:39It's a tacit acknowledgement by Nick Casario that he can't trust himself in the draft.
01:45You know, and I think that's a good thing.
01:47I mean, you know, know your shortcomings.
01:49He's going to have to go out because you're making such a big priority on the offensive side.
01:56The priority is so high on the offensive side of the ball now.
01:58You went out and got David Montgomery.
02:00Montgomery, you traded Titus Howard, which means, I mean, you have to.
02:04Like, you have no option but to go get a top-tier free agent at tackle or center or help,
02:11even on the interior.
02:12You have to go get at least one top-tier guy.
02:14Well, if you're relying on the draft and the window is open now,
02:17which is what you were talking about a little bit with the Titus Howard thing,
02:20there is no, you know, future.
02:23You know, you can draft a guy, but you can't count on him to step in and be the starter.
02:27I mean, if you look at his drafts,
02:30his drafts of offensive linemen, most recently, we can view it as a success for now,
02:35but there are still some questions and some proving it to be done by ursery,
02:39by anti-ursery.
02:40But, yeah, you're right to some degree.
02:42I don't have any concerns.
02:44But I think there is, I mean, you know,
02:46there is still something left to prove for him a little bit.
02:50But we like that one, all right?
02:51Beyond that, you're talking about Blake Fisher.
02:54I still don't think he's going to be on this squad moving forward.
02:57I mean, right now, that is your right tackle.
03:01That's your right tackle, barring you bringing back Trent Brown and then obviously doing other things.
03:06No, it's not.
03:08At this moment.
03:09Not that you are playing at this moment, as we were saying, but yeah.
03:11No, it's not.
03:12That's a second-round pick, Blake Fisher.
03:14We know the story of Kenyon Green.
03:16That's a first-round pick.
03:18And Juice Scruggs, you know, kind of a throw-in here,
03:21and we know that he hadn't been really in their plans very much.
03:23He's still a second-round pick.
03:25That was a second-round pick, man.
03:26So you got two seconds and a first that, bye-bye, gone.
03:29And that's not to mention, you know, the other guys that you've drafted,
03:32such as Jarrett Patterson, you know, whatever you think of him,
03:36you know, Austin Dekulis, guys like that.
03:39I mean, they're acknowledging we haven't done well on the draft,
03:43ursery notwithstanding.
03:45So they're going to go free agency, and they have to.
03:47Well, I hear what you're saying there.
03:50I think that there's a little bit more context to that portion of it,
03:53but I don't want to quibble on that because they have to,
03:56if for no other reason than there's nobody,
03:59there's not really anybody there.
04:00And window open.
04:00Right?
04:01Because sense of urgency was the thing that when we saw the earlier trade
04:05that happened today, if you didn't see that, let me say that here.
04:09Titus Howard has been moved on.
04:11Apparently the Texans remain in good communication
04:13and in good standing with the Cleveland Browns somehow
04:16as the Cleveland Browns trade for Titus Howard.
04:19They send a fifth-round pick,
04:21and they have already done an extension with Titus Howard
04:23for three years and $63 million.
04:26That very much also tells me that Titus Howard was ready for an extension.
04:31Maybe the Texans weren't willing to get to the places
04:33or maybe just weren't ready for an extension as well.
04:36So he will move on to Cleveland where they needed literally
04:39all five starting offensive linemen.
04:41They didn't have any of those returning.
04:42So they have an answer there, but the Texans do not.
04:46Right?
04:46And so there's people that are looking at this move here
04:49that's corresponding with, okay, you add a David Montgomery,
04:53a dude who at very worst is part of a one-two punch with Woody Marks
04:57and eight red zone touchdowns or eight touchdowns last year.
05:01So, you know, you imagine that he will be able to punch in touchdowns
05:06in the red zone, and you'll have a little bit better opportunity at that.
05:08But how do you make that jive with the fact that you now don't have
05:12offensive linemen?
05:13You have to use that money.
05:14Have to.
05:15In free agency.
05:16I mean, there's no choice.
05:17And also still draft.
05:18I mean, we would, you know, be burning down the city, you know,
05:21if they just run it back right here.
05:23Because they need right now four offensive linemen, in my view.
05:26Depending on what you think and, you know, at the center position.
05:31But you need probably both guards and a right tackle.
05:34Maybe Ursary moves to right tackle, and you go get a big-time left tackle.
05:37Who knows?
05:37But you need four offensive linemen.
05:39It's a must.
05:40It's an absolute must.
05:42Yeah.
05:42I think that what this texter says is right.
05:45The trades are setting this team up to be aggressive in free agency.
05:48They've already shown that aggression here early.
05:50And I think it, again, it narrows the places that you need to go.
05:53I don't think that you are still, well, not even, I don't think.
05:55You're not still in a place where you need to go and shell out free agent money
06:00or a free agent contract for a running back.
06:02That is all isolated in offensive linemen, offensive linemen,
06:05offensive linemen, whether it's Tyler Lindebaum,
06:07whether it's someone like Braden Smith, right,
06:10the right tackle that played for the Indianapolis Colts,
06:13whether it's someone like that, whether it's Isaac Samalu,
06:16the guard who plays for the Steelers, right,
06:19who was a pro bowler two years ago.
06:21One of those guys, maybe multiple of those guys, I don't know.
06:24Yeah, Cade Mays, a center, right?
06:26Whether it's something like that, I think that you, this is a,
06:30this almost guarantees to me that one of those guys come home to the Texas
06:33because if they aren't, I don't understand how you do this.
06:35At least one, at least one, I think.
06:36And I want to get back to, this is Joe Mixon 2.0.
06:39I don't know if they were being complimentary or not.
06:42Yeah, let's get into it.
06:43Let's get into it.
06:44Is that a compliment or not?
06:45I don't look at that as a bad thing.
06:46Because Joe Mixon was great.
06:47That first shot was good.
06:48Yeah, Joe Mixon was great when he was on the field.
06:50But then we all know that, you know, how it ended with, you know,
06:53he might have had surgery, that famous quote from Nick Casario.
06:56Well, can I start with the question of Joe Mixon,
06:58is Joe Mixon done in these streets, in these Houston Texans?
07:00100%.
07:00No, yeah, yeah, he's gone.
07:02Yeah.
07:02He's gone.
07:03But the reason I'm kind of, let's say he was talking about the good Joe Mixon.
07:07I still think that is not accurate.
07:09Because I think this is going to be a true one-two punch.
07:13If you're talking about David Montgomery, he's going to be the next Joe Mixon.
07:16He's going to be what they wanted Nick Chubb to be, and that didn't work out.
07:20I don't think so.
07:21I don't think so.
07:22I think they like what they've seen from Woody Marks enough that they're going to say,
07:26hey, hot hand, reps, you know, this guy's going to do this,
07:30and then this guy's going to come in and be a true one-two punch.
07:32There's not going to be a true number one, I don't think.
07:34Yeah, and Joe Mixon, when he came in, I mean, they had Damian Pierce behind them.
07:39But it was Mixon.
07:40Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
07:41It was the Mixon show.
07:43And David Montgomery, he got experience with that one-two punch.
07:46I think he was the starter when they drafted Jameer Gibbs.
07:49Jameer Gibbs, he was.
07:50It was one of the reasons why, because I still vividly remember that draft.
07:52Sonic and Knuckles.
07:53Was that 22, 23?
07:55No, it was 22.
07:56Because not only did the Lions take Jameer Gibbs in the first round,
08:00they also took Jack Campbell in the first round.
08:02So they went running back linebacker in a draft where you go,
08:05those are not positions that you typically view as valuable in the first round.
08:09They hit like crazy on both of those.
08:11And that just made them, as much as we wanted on the outside to look at them
08:16and go, why?
08:16You already have a running back.
08:17Linebacker's a position that you can get later.
08:19Why did you do that?
08:19You saw the value that it provided there in that place.
08:23Yeah.
08:23And it made both of those guys better.
08:25I think that this is an acknowledgement that they want to do this as a tandem as well.
08:29I don't know that this was a move where David Montgomery comes in as running back
08:33one in such a way that there's not a 1B, right?
08:36Whether he's 1A, 1B, however that ultimately falls, that will be seen.
08:41I think that this is in some ways an acknowledgement to Woody Marks.
08:43We see you, young fella.
08:44We're not putting a dude above you.
08:46We're putting a dude with you.
08:48David Montgomery, he is a plus pass protection guy.
08:51He absolutely can help in pass protection and hold up,
08:53which is something that people have asked about.
08:54We talked about him being a downhill runner.
08:58He runs with aggression.
08:59In fact, his yards per carry, it doesn't look as big.
09:05But one of the things to take into account, he saw the fifth highest stacked box rate.
09:09I mean, people are loading up when he is in the game,
09:12and he's still producing at a certain level.
09:14So I think that that is a context that you need to look at any of his numbers with.
09:18This is a dude that's going to be able to be a big back for you.
09:20And big back not in the way of he eats crazy food,
09:24but big back in that he's going to be aggressive, he's going to be physical,
09:27and he's going to bring some of that nature and that mentality to your offense.
09:29And let's also acknowledge, because this is a remade offensive coaching staff,
09:34and approach the Casario offense, this is what they did in New England
09:39with their running backs.
09:40This is exactly what they did.
09:42I mean, I can't remember all the names, but they had Deion Lewis and LeGarrette Blount
09:46and all these other guys.
09:48I mean, they are a one-two punch kind of approach.
09:49Yeah, they rarely had like a Bill Kyle type of guy.
09:52They always had multiple running backs, even three running backs.
09:56This is what they do.
09:58But I see all this with no offensive line.
10:00Yeah, and that's the thing.
10:01It's still early, man.
10:02But what I will say is they were aggressive.
10:05They have shown aggression.
10:05In fact, I kind of want to talk about this next.
10:07Let's keep it going here because there's a lot of breaking news
10:10when it comes to your Houston Texans.
10:11If you're just catching up, Titus Howard traded to the Browns
10:14for a fifth-round pick.
10:15He already has an extension with the Browns, three years, $63 million.
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