00:00All right, welcome into the drive. Clint is out today. B. Scott is here with us. Tyler is with us.
00:05Phone lines are open. 713-572-4610.
00:08All right, I want to hear, because Tyler, you're not comfortable, are you? Like when you think they've got four
00:13spots to fill.
00:15No, four spots to fill in five years trying to do it. Hell no.
00:18You said five years trying to do it.
00:20Hell no.
00:21Brandon's not going to. I'm serious. I swear to God, I want to, because I see some people texting. I
00:26want to hear in your mouth.
00:27I believe some of you are bots texting. The same people that tweet me. Or just trolling in a major
00:34way.
00:35Blind faith, man. I think it's the blind faith of the fan. This is a hopeful time in the offseason,
00:41right?
00:41It just got started. Free agency ain't even really got started. It hadn't even really got cracking yet.
00:46And so I think people are just trying to convince themselves that it's all going to be okay.
00:51That it's going to work out.
00:52And Nick and Domingo's got it.
00:53But people that are following it closely and are just being realistic about it have to at least be a
01:01little nervous or concerned.
01:03A little.
01:04Even if they want to be hopeful. Even though hopeful people have to be nervous and concerned.
01:07As I said yesterday, if they were having to fill the defensive line, they're going to nail this.
01:15Right.
01:15If they were having to fill the secondary, oh, hell, if they had to fill four in the secondary, Tyler,
01:21oh, they're going to kill this.
01:23They're going to crush this.
01:24That offensive line thing, somebody texted and said Domingo wasn't here for all those regimes.
01:28No, he's been here for the last three, Jack.
01:31They've completely revamped it.
01:32They've traded their best offensive lineman back-to-back years.
01:35Yeah.
01:36And they have drafted exactly one good one.
01:39But I love here from the text line.
01:42Acquired one good one.
01:43Acquired one.
01:44And now he's a free agent.
01:46Base power text line 713-5724-610.
01:49I love these two thoughts.
01:52You are just drama queens.
01:54And then, thank you show.
01:56The drive is the voice of the people and is speaking hard facts.
02:00Last year, Nick traded Tunzel and our answer to replace him was Tomlinson and Robinson.
02:05You're going to get hard.
02:06I love it.
02:07That's what it's about.
02:08People are going to different spots.
02:10Listen, though.
02:11I got long hair, but I got way too big of an Adam's apple to be a queen.
02:16Way too much bass on my voice to be a queen.
02:18Check yourself now.
02:19Hold on.
02:20All right, Eddie, kick us off, man.
02:21Eddie, how nervous?
02:24Are you concerned?
02:24Are you nervous about how they're going to fill this offensive lineup?
02:29I'm super nervous.
02:30I'm super concerned.
02:31And anyone who's not is an idiot.
02:33You got 80% of your offensive line to, you know, get in here to replace.
02:42And I will say one thing, though.
02:45B. Scott, when you talked about Linda Baum coming here and you said, you know, well, if the Texans just
02:51happen to look into him, you can't really give him that credit.
02:53Yeah, you can.
02:55If we get Linda Baum.
02:56I'll give it to him.
02:57Nick is the one who's committing the resources.
03:00So you can't just say, well, how much credit?
03:03I might have actually misspoke because I don't even really care about the credit.
03:07You know what I mean?
03:07Like, I don't care if you give them credit or don't give them credit.
03:10If they just, if they get Tyler Linda Baum, if you want to call it luck, credit, or whatever, that'll
03:15be good.
03:15Like, I don't even care about who gets the credit or how, like, just get it done, you know?
03:21So I think that's more of the long lines of what I've meant.
03:24But I do agree with you.
03:26Right, yeah.
03:26I mean, Nick should get the credit if we get Linda Baum.
03:29But the thing of it is, Nick's the one that needs to be nervous because anyone who says right now
03:33Nick's not on the hot seat is also an idiot.
03:36Because if we go through this next season coming up in 26 and the same thing happens to CJ that
03:41happened last year where his stats erode and he gets another concussion.
03:45Say we go through a third concussion in three years.
03:48Oh, man, come on now.
03:49What's going to happen?
03:50What's going to happen is Muliguera and CJ, even if they sign a new deal, it doesn't matter.
03:54What they're going to look at and say they either – they're going to want to trade or they're going
04:01to sort of behind-the-scenes demand that Nick goes.
04:04Because he's not going to come back again for 27 if he's had three concussions three years in a row.
04:09Something's got to change.
04:10So this is Nick's year.
04:12Nick is on the block.
04:13All right.
04:14Hey, Eddie, great call.
04:16I appreciate it.
04:17I agree with him.
04:18In theory, I do.
04:20I thought Nick was going to be – I thought it was going to be a problem for Nick a
04:23couple years ago.
04:24When they came out there and he put together that top eight MVP finish season and that offensive lineup,
04:31and then they came back and did what they did the next year,
04:33and then their season ended with eight sacks in Kansas City,
04:37and then the response is they came back in here and they were playing musical chairs at guard.
04:40Wow.
04:43I thought maybe – like, I don't know.
04:46They win another 10, 11 games and make the playoffs.
04:49I hear you.
04:50I agree with you, Eddie, but I don't know that that necessarily – that's the space that McNair's are in.
04:56I think it's okay for him to at least say, though, that it should be, though.
05:01Whether they are or not is going to be up to it.
05:04I mean, there's nothing we can really say, do, or think of.
05:07But it's – head should – his overall point is that head should roll.
05:11Agree.
05:11And C.J. Stroud and his agent and his camp would rightfully think that way.
05:15All right, Jay, what's up, baby?
05:17Thank you for calling the drive, baby.
05:19You concerned about how they're going to put together this O-line?
05:24Man, show, beast guy, I'm disappointed in you guys.
05:28You guys, you don't remember when Nick Casario worked and what year was that,
05:34when he made all those trades on defense?
05:36So, here's the thing.
05:38Before, in the past, the defense and the offensive side of the ball needed work.
05:44Now, since Casario's gotten the defense to where they're the best in the league,
05:49pretty much, you can focus all your attention and all your resources to the offense.
05:54Jay, Jay, you do not believe this.
05:57Jay, Jay, hold on, Jay.
05:59You don't believe this.
06:00You think he ain't been trying to fix the offense?
06:02You ain't been trying to fix the offense a lot?
06:04Yeah, but he's been throwing pennies.
06:05He's been throwing pennies at it.
06:07No, I literally just said, Jay, come on now.
06:10Resources, they had the most expensive offensive line in football just two years ago.
06:16Just two years ago.
06:18And even last year, we didn't mention this in the last segment,
06:21but Cam Robinson cost them something like $12 to $14 million last year,
06:26and he was gone before the season even really got cracking.
06:30Like, they put resources into it.
06:33Only because you really didn't have anything in free agency those years.
06:39But now, like I said, since the defense is taken care of, you can bring guys in here.
06:45The market is better.
06:47Plus, we've seen this guy cook before.
06:49So, you got to sit back and let him work.
06:52He did it.
06:53I've seen it on the defensive side of the ball.
06:55Jay, Jay, let me, Jay.
06:55I'm not worried at all.
06:57Are you at all?
06:58No.
06:59Hey, good for Jay.
07:00Now, good for you, Jay.
07:01No, no, no.
07:01Shout out to you, man.
07:02It's not good for you, Jay.
07:03We ain't all got to feel the same.
07:04Let me ask you a couple questions, Jay.
07:06He's an optimist.
07:06Let me ask you a couple questions, Jay.
07:08What round was Kenyon Green taking?
07:11It's going to all be okay.
07:13I mean, that.
07:14First.
07:14That shouldn't matter.
07:15That shouldn't matter.
07:16How about Juice Scruggs?
07:18How about Juice Scruggs?
07:25Gave up picks to get to the second round.
07:28Blake Fisher, second round.
07:29Ariante Urshry, second round.
07:32Paid Laramie Tunzel twice as the highest paid lineman in the sport.
07:36Shaq Mason extension.
07:37New contract to Titus Howard.
07:39What you mean he ain't been doing none on the offensive line, Jay?
07:42I get it.
07:43But you had to put money in it, but the talent didn't make the money.
07:49I get that.
07:51But this year, it's a different game because you got talent out there.
07:55In free agency and in the draft.
07:57I agree.
07:57But see, this was my point about the opportunity, right?
08:00Like, whether you want to give him credit.
08:01Like, the previous caller was like, if they get Tyler Linderbaum,
08:04then you got to give Nick Casario credit.
08:07I would say that he's fortunate to just be in an offseason
08:09where he absolutely needs a center.
08:11And Tyler Linderbaum, who rarely is a center of that quality available
08:15in free agency, is able to go get him.
08:17So, yeah, that'll be great, Jay.
08:19But based off of the track record, man, and the offensive line specifically,
08:23not the defense, but the O-line, it's been rough, man.
08:26Hey, Jay, I don't know where the hell you've been.
08:27Before I hang up, I'm just going to tell you guys, watch Nick Cook.
08:31Him and D'Amico, they're going to cook.
08:34I'm going to call back into this radio station.
08:36Please.
08:36I can't wait until you're working again.
08:39You guys are together.
08:40I'm going to call back, and I'm going to put it over your head
08:45because I think they're going to cook.
08:48I appreciate it, Jay.
08:49Hey, Jay, don't be a stranger.
08:50That was fun, man.
08:51Thanks, guys, appreciate it.
08:53Come on.
08:54All right, Jay.
08:55But my thing is, Jay, though.
08:57Eternal optimism.
08:58Are you also going to call back when he cooks the way he's been cooking
09:03that offensive line for the last five years?
09:05No, man, he's going to sign Tyler Linderbaum.
09:06I believe you, Jay.
09:06I believe you will.
09:07He's going to trade for Trent Williams.
09:09My man Jay said, my man said, hey, put some money into it, Tyler.
09:12But he ain't.
09:13But now he's going to get serious this year.
09:15Yeah.
09:15He's going to get serious this year.
09:16This is the year when it all comes together.
09:18Not when CJ's ass was laying on the ground eight times in Arrowhead.
09:22No, this year.
09:23In the playoffs.
09:24This year, damn it.
09:25He's going to get serious.
09:26I hope so, Nick.
09:28Woo.
09:28Got me sweating in here, Jay.
09:31This is the year.
09:33Hold on, Joe.
09:34Coming up.
09:34So thank you.
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