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ITL debates what Houston absolutely cannot afford to get wrong on draft night.
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00:00our countdown to the draft we have a few questions uh for today tomorrow and uh and sunday and so
00:06let's get into some of those let's start with the one uh for today which is what's the biggest draft
00:10mistake that the texans must avoid seven one three five seven two four six ten so you remember
00:14yesterday we we argued about uh in a good way uh argue y'all was moving furniture
00:22throwing hands um you know we argued about you know the the offensive line and the first
00:29round pick and you know 60 versus uh you know just just how oh whether them fulfilling what
00:35they've done has changed yeah they're yeah okay gotcha i i feel the biggest mistake the texans
00:40can make in this draft is to believe that that that's why i was so adamant about it you know
00:45to
00:46say hey we signed a bunch of guys i think it was based off the quote of what we did
00:51in free agency
00:52will have no bearing on what we did what we do in the draft yes and my point is in
00:59what
00:59world what piece of evidence is there that them signing offensive linemen in free agency
01:07has proved to them that they can say we're good none they i think their biggest mistake is to think
01:15that they have answered all the questions uh on the offensive line sure you know no i could see that
01:21i think that they have a better chance because everything we're talking about is probability sure
01:25i think it's it's rare that you have something that is 100 percent um full proof or infallible
01:32uh i think that this is definitely and we've talked about this obviously all through free agency and
01:37uh you know in the in the uh intervening times afterwards which is hey go out and get dudes who
01:44have done the job more recently as opposed to getting some of the guys who you go hey we project
01:50to
01:50maybe be able to do the job or have done the job in the past but it's a little bit
01:53far removed
01:54right when they were good at doing the job which it feels like they did with uh brayton smith and
01:58um and wyatt teller however it's fair to say there's possibilities there's people that have
02:05questioned like are these guys on the downside of their careers right what what does it actually
02:09look like and also how long do you have them for this these are the places where you take that
02:13luxury of we have someone and you go hey now we can get something that someone that has a little
02:18maybe has a little bit of a runway to being that player but let's get some lead time out to
02:23a
02:23player that can hold down this position for a longer period of time then i think is reasonable
02:27expect uh reasonably expectable for a wyatt teller or brayton smith who feel like they're more of
02:31couple of year type dudes to hold down that and to be fair right now i do feel good about
02:36their free
02:36agencies you know i i think it was a better you know just just a better run at better playing
02:43but
02:44you know better players on the offensive line my thing is they can't be sitting there thinking
02:48hey you know what we can pass on this guy and get an edge rusher which again we might love
02:53the edge
02:54rusher i'm just saying to to sit there and think after the last two three years of not getting it
02:59right on the offensive line to sit there and think i think we're good big mistake no that's true yeah
03:04are you like i understand that part but i'm still kind of worried about them just picking
03:09offensive linemen in the draft like that man like i know they got tay ursory and he looked like he's
03:14probably going to be the right cornerstone but i ain't forget about kenyan green so your question
03:19is just trusting yeah trusting their own evaluation like are you going to get another kenyan green
03:24are you going to get another juice grugs are you going to get another uh that's a good question
03:29yeah i'm just to me i'm still worried about that in the back of my mind yeah no i think
03:34that's fair
03:35and honestly interestingly enough i wonder if you would also put this as a maybe not the biggest mistake
03:39that they must avoid but a mistake they must avoid is uh falling in love with their own guys
03:46to some degree ariante ursory looks really good if you i mean of course i don't know that i view
03:50this
03:51draft this way but if there is somebody that you go hey this guy could be even better the ariante
03:55ursory left tackle how would you feel about the texans either drafting or not drafting that guy right
03:59on either side of that coin because that would that would be that i think you feel a little bit
04:03more
04:03strong about that and why receiver turns don't let the prospect of what jane higgins can do stop you
04:07from getting a guy who could do that job as well no 100 absolutely and i and i feel well
04:12what's
04:13yours so interestingly enough i think that this is more of a generic general nfl draft this year
04:19uh mistake to avoid but i do think that it might apply to the texans considering who nick casario is
04:25and his willingness to move and shake and that is do not allow uh the right now the immediacy and
04:33the
04:33excitement of right now to force you to pay in drafts where i think that moving or those picks
04:38are more valuable right i think that a trade up from 28 sounds really good but i feel like you
04:44you make sure that you use draft picks from this year don't use future draft picks for to move up
04:49for draft picks of this year because that might be trading the opportunity at better players for guys
04:54right now yeah in the immediacy especially in a year that you don't necessarily you don't have
04:58glaring knees right in my mind if you're like hey we need to jump up really high and we'll give
05:03you a second round pick next year i think that as of right now and of course we do this
05:07every time we
05:08go well look at next year's draft we get to next year's draft maybe it's not as good as we
05:11had
05:12foreseen but as of right now it does feel like the 2027 draft looks like it'll be a better draft
05:17than
05:17what this draft currently exists as yeah so i would not be happy if they gave up future capital to
05:23move up
05:23in this draft where even the high end of it does not see seem uh very high i think that's
05:29fair this
05:29is widely regarded as as a weaker type glass uh class of uh prospects overall yeah i think so so
05:36that that'd be the only one and that feels very generic in that sense uh how about this one let's
05:40get another uh question in as we do continue our countdown to the draft which round matters most for
05:45the houston texans this year well for me this is the easiest question of all the ones we've been doing
05:49in the lead up to the draft it's the second round and it's not close you have two picks in
05:54the second
05:54round those are premium picks you can use them to to to get one guy if you want to move
05:59up a little
05:59higher uh you can you you can use both of those on your own to get starting caliber players and
06:06you
06:06can use them as figgy pointed out yesterday to get a running back a second round running back is a
06:11starter second running back in the nfl these days is a starting running back to me second round not even
06:17close yeah and this is probably also valid validated by the way that this draft is set up
06:21there are some positions where it's not that deep and that is around that day two uh range where second
06:27and third round is about the range where there's a fall off that happens obviously running back might
06:31be the most aggressive of those where you got three and a possible before you get to dudes with
06:36all due respect to the remaining dudes right so if you were making and because you also have two
06:42picks in there possibly you could get more in that second round depending on how you how you
06:46operate seeing as you have a you know 28 that people are talking about maybe there's a trade
06:50up for ty simpson or something you could end up with two three picks in the second round it could
06:55be just the quality the quantity of picks and the potential quality that we're talking about of
07:00this is where there's a there you know that top 40 is where there's a lot of guys that maybe
07:04you
07:04look at offensive linemen that could be really offensive line right right yeah uh defensive line
07:09although i think that tracks a lot more through the through the draft you mentioned um obviously running
07:13back uh i think that there's arguments for some other positions like linebacker and stuff that
07:18where you can be you could find some interesting value in that range there um maybe second round's
07:23a little high for linebacker but you get what i'm saying like that feels like that's the sweet spot for
07:26a lot of the yeah a lot of the uh draft picks in this particular year so yeah it's it's
07:30going to be
07:30important i might stretch that also to like the first round of day three round four where i think that
07:36that's another place because in order to obviously just give no variety and answer i think the centers
07:41that's where a lot of the centers are being placed right now and that's a position that feels like
07:45it's important in what you're doing here that also feels like a place where you might get your
07:49tight end right especially another tight end to add to this room that they've been fairly clear about
07:53that they seem to want to upgrade still so yeah i think that those that round as well could be
07:58an
07:58interesting one because that's about a place where i think that you start to get into hey how do you
08:03how do you address some of these other positions that feel like they're available to you yeah
08:06uh somebody said reggie said don't let your girlfriend stop you from finding your wife in this
08:10particular circumstance actually you know what if if she's still your girlfriend and she's not your
08:15wife yet i mean i mean yeah maybe you look at that all right you want to you want to
08:21drop into jump
08:22into this one this last one real quick yeah all right uh what's one prospect that you would sprint
08:26the card in for right now uh i think a top tier wide receiver dropping to you uh you know
08:33how i feel
08:33about that position right now even if it's at 28 even if one of the high high prospects drops to
08:40you at 28 even there you mean like someone like a jordan tyson falls yeah something like that i'm
08:45thinking more along the lines of 38 that's their second round first second round pick right 38 yes
08:5038 would be that the first pick someone drops you know to 38 a wide receiver casey conception uh the
08:57casey conception would it would really pain me i know what you're going for like everything about
09:01the way that he like runs routes and everything is really intriguing the fact that he has so many
09:05drops is really disconcerting i think that's overstated but but or another receiver just one
09:11of those that's in that class with him that could maybe fall a little bit uh what's the kid here
09:16it
09:17is right here chris brazell uh out of tennessee someone along those lines uh wide receiver drops into
09:23your into your bucket scoop it interesting scoop it interesting and so are we still thinking like
09:29first round guys is that what you're like only if something else outrageous happens yeah the guy
09:34that you run it oh man this is tough you have one figgy i don't you've been good on your
09:39first round
09:39picks with the texas yeah i have yeah i have no clue what they plan on doing right here the
09:44only answer
09:45i have just feels like there's no way in hell well you never know vangione i penn state guard i
09:52wouldn't
09:52be i love that dude i love that dude man would you be shocked if he failed yes he's i
09:58don't know if i'd be
09:58shocked he's the only guard i'd be surprised he he is the only guard in this draft that i go
10:03bingo
10:04yes go ahead and let's do this right now yeah that dude throws dudes out the club yeah i love
10:09it
10:09like when we talk about moving dudes off their spot that dude moves dudes off their spot no uh
10:15long-term nfl starter like maybe you can get him to be in like pro bowl type player as well
10:19i think
10:20that especially in a like a draft class where this interior any of your offensive linemen aren't
10:27really uh don't really have that same like high level yeah he'll definitely end up being an all
10:31pro type that's the one guy that gets closest in my mind so if he ends up if he ends
10:36up falling to
10:37you buddy go get him yesterday it might happen yes you don't know that i'd be surprised but i
10:42wouldn't be shocked you think if he do fall right there and they draft him you think he could
10:46come right in and start buddy he's taking jobs he's taking somebody's job like i love the way that
10:51this dude plays yeah man yeah for sure all right um yeah you're in the loop right here on sports
10:55radio
10:556281 said no soft ass texas a&m aggies all right all right uh oh yeah somebody said no to
11:02a first
11:03round wide receiver resource allocation because you know deep deeper deeper uh pools of potential
11:09players i see you i feel you on that obviously everybody reasonable mind can disagree and honestly
11:14that's what makes uh the draft so interesting is that there's a lot of people opining on uh something
11:18that will ultimately get a definitive answer on how these players are selected and eventually over time
11:23how they perform hopefully the texans select well and get good performance uh towards a future
11:28super bowl that'd be really cool all right coming yeah i mean nice i think we'd all enjoy that a
11:33little
11:33bit right
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