00:00How are you feeling about free agency right now
00:03and how the Texans have handled free agency?
00:05Obviously, it's still early.
00:07We're just in day two.
00:09But there are a lot of players that are off the board
00:12and a lot of teams scooping up guys.
00:15And the Texans, they've made some moves, right?
00:17It even starts with the trade of Titus Howard being out of here
00:21and then that same day the trade for David Montgomery as the new back,
00:25making the move to bring back Ed Ingram,
00:28making the move to bring in Reed Blankenship yesterday,
00:32making the move now to bring in Braden Smith,
00:35who they're bringing in today would appear to play right tackle.
00:41How do you feel like this thing is going, by the way, Ron?
00:44Stop. Braden is way nastier than Titus.
00:48Okay, well, he may be.
00:51I hope for the Texans that he's a better player.
00:54I would say the league doesn't believe that.
00:57Well, the Texans, I mean, the Texans paid three years ago,
01:00played Titus Howard 20-plus a year.
01:02The Texans, you're right.
01:03I mean, Braden just got, what do you got,
01:05two-year, 20 million with some incentives?
01:0613-and-a-half guaranteed.
01:08Titus got about 37.
01:09Yeah, so I think the contract, the league is telling you.
01:12Now, I'm sure it has a lot of age as well.
01:14Yeah.
01:14But, but nonetheless.
01:17Titus is 29, so.
01:20That's a good point.
01:22This is his third contract, so it's not, that's much age.
01:25Not too far, Fitz.
01:26Not too far out of whack.
01:27I think they actually might be in the right, right in the same range.
01:30Yeah.
01:30Yeah.
01:31To answer your question, Ron, about, you know,
01:33how do you feel about the Texans right now,
01:36how they've handled free agency?
01:37How they've handled free agency.
01:38I mean, so far I feel good about it.
01:42I mean, so far I feel like, you know, the keeping their,
01:47as many of their guys, at least the guys that they wanted to keep,
01:50they've re-signed a chunk of guys.
01:52Look, I think the, I think the Braden Smith
01:57and the Blankenship at safety yesterday,
02:00I think those are two really solid gifts that were need positions.
02:06I think, I think, again, talking about taking care of your own guys,
02:08the Sheldon Rankin sign was really good.
02:10The Ed Ingram sign was really good.
02:13So, I think they're off to a good start.
02:16I think it's, I think it's respectable.
02:18I think it's solid.
02:19I think I'm still banking on D'Amico Ryan's here.
02:24You know, I'm banking on D'Amico Ryan stepping in at some point
02:28and somebody coming on his radar and him saying,
02:32hey, man, this is a guy that puts us over the top.
02:34I'm waiting on that.
02:36You know, I think, again, I think Nick Casario's driving the ship
02:40on the offensive side of the ball from a personnel standpoint.
02:42And so, I expect more solid.
02:45I expect more spread the cap out, spread the money that's allocated
02:48to the offensive side of the ball, spread it out.
02:50But I'm waiting on D'Amico Ryan's to step in and say,
02:54no, this is a guy right here that's going to change the game for us
02:56and we're going to spend some money.
02:57You don't feel like you've seen that.
02:58I don't feel like I'm going to see it, but I'm banking on D'Amico Ryan's
03:02being the guy that does it.
03:03I think we're going to continue to see solid across the board,
03:05which I'm not opposed to, by the way.
03:07I mean, I know the text line may be complaining about something,
03:11like something's wrong with solid.
03:12No, no, no, no.
03:13I'm fine with solid.
03:14I don't think solid kicks the AFC Championship Super Bowl door in.
03:19I think it gives you a better chance to be who you have been
03:21for the last three years.
03:21Which is the goal, right?
03:22Yeah, yeah.
03:23For me, it would be.
03:24I mean, for me, I'm looking.
03:25It's a goal for them, too.
03:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:26They're putting a ring on something.
03:27Yeah, putting a ring on something, either a bull or a bull or a ring.
03:31I don't know exactly.
03:32Something's happening with the ring and a bull.
03:34Yes, those together.
03:36Hopefully something happens.
03:37That's what.
03:38But, yeah, look, I hope, I mean, I think, I hope D'Amico Ryan's, you know,
03:43I think D'Amico Ryan's had a lot to do with year two with Bobby Slowik.
03:48And I'm hoping he sees something in somebody, whether it's a trade or a free agent move.
03:54Or, again, we talked about yesterday, the A-chain.
03:55We talked about Trent Williams.
03:57We talked about a couple of different moves that I think would be stop traffic on TV.
04:02And we've got to talk about this breaking news on TV.
04:05I think we can spend a good hour on it.
04:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:07I mean, if that happens, I think it's going to come via D'Amico Ryan's.
04:12I don't think it's going to come via the group that's running this offense right now.
04:16Yeah.
04:16Yeah.
04:17Coming in on the text line, I am tired of, I'm so tired of Nick shopping at Dollar General
04:23for our O-line.
04:27Ed Ingram and Braden Smith are not Dollar General offensive linemen.
04:30They're at least, what, Tyler, what would that be?
04:33They're at least Randall's.
04:36Yeah, yeah, Albertson's.
04:38Randall's Albertson.
04:40Yeah.
04:40A cut above Walmart, maybe?
04:43Not Target, though.
04:44We're not Target.
04:45What are you guys talking about?
04:46Target would be elite.
04:47I'm just trying to figure out if they're not Dollar General, and I agree.
04:50I mean, this is right in line.
04:51You've got four holes in your offense.
04:53Three holes in one place to upgrade.
04:56We talked about it from the jump.
04:58Expect solid across the board.
04:59They're not going to go out there and sign a bunch of road-grading, surefire offensive linemen.
05:04Aldi?
05:04This is on brand.
05:06That's it.
05:06Is it Aldi?
05:07It's Aldi.
05:08I think Braden's higher than Aldi.
05:09No recall, sir.
05:10I ain't got Aldi.
05:11I got it, but I ain't never been there.
05:13My mom loves the fruit at Aldi's.
05:14Also coming in, Texans have one of the best rosters in the NFL that's on both sides of
05:20the football.
05:20Well, no, that's not true.
05:22I can't read the rest.
05:24Like, my mouth won't let me.
05:26I think it does have one of the better rosters in football, but it is heavily slanted towards
05:32the defensive side of the ball.
05:34All right, I'll try.
05:34Offensive line aside, I think we have enough to reach an AFC championship as constructed.
05:40Well, I mean, you just, you eliminated half of the offense.
05:43Five of 11.
05:45Wow.
05:46That was like, that was like John.
05:48Yeah.
05:49John Harris from yesterday.
05:52I think you need, I think you're going to need another tight end that's worth a damn.
05:55I think you're going to need another wide receiver that's worth a damn, and you're damn sure
05:57going to need a left guard.
05:59And a really good left guard.
06:00I want, I want to do this, and I want to hear, because our, our, our Victor, who is
06:05one of our, like, I mean, we know, we always know Victor's with us, and I want to take a
06:11break, but I want you to think this through, because I do want to get to some Joe, a spot
06:14up audio that is going to get Clint going.
06:17I saw some of the Astros.
06:18I really like to, I'll talk about that forward, but yeah.
06:20I don't think Clint, I don't, I don't know if Clint should believe him, but he said, can
06:24y'all please tell me who is the player that D'Amico needs to bring in offensively?
06:30That he needs to bring in.
06:31We'll, we'll, we'll take a break.
06:32Cool.
06:33Cool.
06:33Cool.
06:34Cool.
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