00:00so the texans yesterday uh signed braden smith so if the texans had to play a game today if they
00:07had to go into nrg stadium and welcome an nfl team to town seth how would you feel about left
00:13to right this offensive line ariante ursuri left tackle braden smith left guard jake andrews at
00:21center ed ingram at right guard yeah and then trent brown playing right tackle how you feeling
00:26about that o-line right now i'm i'm still not i'm not feeling incredible about it that's that
00:32nobody would if you're being honest with yourself you shouldn't feel like oh wow well now we're off
00:38to the race no but you feel way better about left guard than you did that's not saying braden smith
00:44is will shields or anything like that but he's a real guy i just don't want to fall into that
00:48trap
00:49of oh my head feels so much better since i stopped banging it ahead against the wall yes you know
00:54all right it still doesn't feel great i'm just not actively banging my head against a cinder block
01:01i've been smoking this linder bong i'm banging my head on the wall um that's the five right now
01:09probably if you had to go by you could you could maybe theoretically be better than you were last
01:14year right just by having some stability there but and remember it's still a projection
01:20of braden smith playing guard too right i think that i don't want to just slide past that because
01:26there's a lot of scuttlebutt that it makes sense that the texans would play him at guard
01:30because he played it in college because a lot of there's things physiologically about him that might
01:35be better at guard but he's well look he he's made his living as a right tackle so i don't
01:38think it's
01:39as simple as oh you just slap him down to left guard i i need more because i also know
01:44that
01:44if what you're one injury away from feeling exactly like we did 24 hours ago okay about the
01:50offensive line totally totally okay so we know braden smith's been a right tackle not a left tackle
01:55we know to make the move i'm about to say guard yeah and a left guard yeah and a left
01:59guard but but
02:00i'm going somewhere with tackle is why i said that uh oh gotcha the the we does this take the
02:07texans out
02:08of the trent williams business oh it probably should if we're being rational and responsible
02:15i think that i i'd be really i would have been really surprised if the texans tried to trade for
02:21trent williams um just for all the reasons you know we had the one texter yesterday basically it
02:26was named to an extreme degree he was calling us names that were really aggressive yeah not in a
02:32fun way either called us imbeciles uh and also called us deceitful deceit called me deceitful
02:38called you deceitful um i'd like no realistically that's a pipe dream it's a classic kind of thing
02:44that no they shouldn't but if they did it i'd be into it i think oh hell yeah this is
02:49the best thing
02:49ever that would seem like definitely braden smith is playing left guard for you that's where i was
02:54going with yeah but he can also go out and play right tackle i think that no matter what this
02:59is the
02:59thing it's a reach or at least right now it's just speculation that he'll play left guard at all
03:05yeah but then also you're still on the interior offensive line not in great shape you don't feel
03:11awesome about jake andrews and you don't feel good about your depth they don't have a they don't have
03:15a swing interior offensive lineman that you feel all right with right now so it's a very precarious
03:21position yep i'd i'd like two more signings on the offensive line of braden smith type guys reasonably
03:27priced a wyatt teller or even a joel batonio or somebody i don't even care how old they are if
03:34they're a viable offensive lineman that yes this guy can go in and play for you either as a starter
03:40as a backup then great then be aggressive in the draft but i i'm going to be greedy about the
03:45o-line
03:45yeah that's we're in a position where we have to be greedy greedy the mortgage is due we're three
03:50months behind on our mortgage i can't afford to just kind of you know to not take any extra
03:56overtime and i think they're in good shape the texans if they choose to pursue these if they are
04:01and they're obviously you know nicks on the phone as we speak probably if they are choosing to still
04:07pursue some of the guys on the interior none of the guys that we named yesterday when we were doing
04:13that exercise okay here's all the guards that are left to my to to the best of my research here
04:18none of them moved yesterday it was a pretty it was honestly the max crosby trade getting scuttled
04:23was the biggest news yesterday there was not a ton of activity on the free agency front yesterday
04:28i kind of wondered if the linderbaum contract threw everything into a little bit of a stalemate with
04:36some of the negotiations if some agents out there are thinking hey this is the new bar for interior
04:41offensive linemen yeah and this is where we're so maybe perhaps i think i think most teams are going
04:49to say to agents look we're not even factoring that linderbaum contract in the deshaun watson of
04:55center contract yeah look the raiders were were going hog wild and spending what you know any amount
05:01that it took to get in viable free agents and that's we're not going to use that and i've been
05:07agents
05:07obviously aren't going to be like oh okay i didn't realize that's the way you were looking at it
05:11fine okay we'll take 12 million sorry sorry okay i'm sorry i even suggested it sir you know agents are
05:23yeah i love how they all sound like john mara now i just i just want to have a good
05:27reasonable price
05:28what's the deal what's the deal with linderbaum what's the latest what's the latest can wyatt teller
05:34get 27 million dollars a year but oh no okay um the texans the texans extended kymie fairbairn
05:44yesterday boom they two two years 13 million boy the brandon aubry is going to drive up the price
05:50of kickers eventually here it's a fair boom it's a fair yeah no i look it's a fair boom yeah
05:56y'all
05:56sipping for y'all smoking that fair bong still um so two years 13 million he that's the highest
06:04contract for a kicker in the nfl nick ain't afraid to reset a market man he ain't afraid to go
06:09out
06:09there and reset a market well and then you look at it and you see hey derek stingley's contract now
06:14is already he's already the fifth or sixth highest paid cornerback on an average per year after he was
06:20number one a year ago right and by the end of whatever trades or anything else happened this well
06:25no that was even before um trent mcduffie had gotten his new contract right right so yeah he's even
06:30lower than that likely now right because mcduffie's is higher than mcduffie's higher than stingley's yes
06:35yeah definitely so i i think that yeah nick doesn't mess around with that and i kind of appreciate that
06:40i think that uh it's he knows where the market's going on these guys he's going where he isn't
06:45knowing that this is the key with all of that if you do that you got to be sure that
06:49you've got a
06:50team full of guys who aren't going to be agitating for a new deal every damn year when they get
06:54a
06:54renegotiation they understand that all right look if i keep if i keep my end of the bargain i'm going
06:59to
06:59be underpaid remember jj watt said that yep about his contract yeah your goal the goal is when you
07:05get a deal like that that you want to hold up your end of the bargain which means that you're
07:09going to
07:09be underpaid in a few years and that you know you get it when you're a year out from free
07:14agency maybe
07:15you do a new deal but don't be a don't be all dramatic about it no and i've along those
07:19lines
07:20seth i think the thing that we are as of this afternoon what is it the league year officially begins
07:25at like three o'clock this afternoon something like that um we're officially on will anderson
07:29watch i think yeah you know the the stingley deal got done this time a year ago it was like
07:36a week
07:36into the league year that stingley got his new market setting extension and will anderson's been
07:42a better player than derrick stingley jr you know than than he was will anderson has been a better
07:48player at edge for the course of three years than stingley had been yeah stingley just was unavailable
07:54for half that time over those three years he was outstanding in the year leading into his new
07:59deal but will will anderson is the will anderson's extension is the biggest no-brainer for the tech
08:04maybe the biggest no-brainer this offseason for any team right now is to give will anderson
08:08a huge contract extension so that's something to keep an eye out for
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