00:00But Tyler, Tyler is back, and it feels like that beard is really coming in.
00:04Yes, sir. How we doing, boys?
00:06There is no way Megan has not said anything now about that.
00:09Really?
00:10She hasn't.
00:11I think she's changed her heart then. I think she likes it.
00:14You just came back from a little four-day vacay, man.
00:16Yeah, I think the...
00:17Tickled her a bit, man. That's, uh...
00:19I mean, you got the go-ahead, man.
00:22I think the frequent barber trips to keep it, you know, shaped up and everything,
00:26cleaned up as I grow it out, I think that's distracting her.
00:29But she hasn't said anything.
00:31Yeah, it's coming in thick now.
00:33I mean, there is...
00:34It's coming.
00:35Tyler, there is... I'm going to be honest, I'm looking at you right now.
00:38I've told you this before.
00:41I've always viewed your beard as more on the lumberjack side.
00:45That's fair.
00:46And what you got going on right now with that thing cleaned up,
00:49I could see where your beautiful wife would either not realize that you're not lumberjacking,
00:57or she would just actually lean into it and like it.
01:00It's lined up well.
01:01It's cleaned up.
01:02The neck's cleaned up.
01:02That's nice.
01:03That's a good look, man.
01:03Thank you, sir.
01:05It's a good look.
01:05It's starting to take that shape on that little point on the chin, too.
01:08Starting to get long enough on the chin.
01:09I just want him to come and, like, fade it down a little bit right here.
01:11It's coming.
01:12It's coming.
01:13It's coming.
01:13Not take out, but just fade it down.
01:15He keeps a Dirty Bay fade now.
01:17He's going to fade.
01:19He'll turn it down.
01:20He'll turn it down once he gets it rolling.
01:22Yeah, trying to get the length right now on the beard,
01:24and then we'll work in the rest of the beauty of it.
01:28You got that good dark hair with that light skin, too.
01:32The lineup is going to show.
01:35I'm jealous.
01:36It's a journey.
01:36I'm jealous.
01:37The red and gray on my pale skin doesn't really show the line like that does.
01:41That dark hair is a nice line, real nice line.
01:44I got to enjoy it while I can.
01:45It's going white quick.
01:46That's all right.
01:47You sprinkle a little.
01:47Ron's got a little sprinkle of gray in there.
01:49Oh, yeah.
01:50I'm just letting it ride, baby.
01:52I was trying to zoom in on a picture from this weekend of Ron's golf game,
01:55and I was trying to follow a ball he hit via the picture because we never found it,
02:00and I was zooming in.
02:02When I swiped it over a little bit, I got zoomed in right on Ron's chin.
02:06Got some grays in there, bub.
02:07Oh, I know it.
02:08I'm going to let it ride, baby.
02:09Yeah, I like it.
02:10I'm not dying.
02:11A little salt in that pepper.
02:12I like it.
02:13I'm not dying at all.
02:14Yeah, I like it coming in.
02:15Yeah.
02:18Yeah, I like it.
02:19Yeah, I like it.
02:19All right.
02:20The Drive is live, and we are back in full force.
02:23Shout out to Mid-Sea, a.k.a. Old Sea Bass.
02:27We enjoyed Colin coming in, holding it down.
02:30Oh, Shelter Sea.
02:31Shelter Sea, man.
02:33We found out that he has never flown commercial, Clint.
02:39Or, I mean, Tyler, he's never flown.
02:41Never been on a plane?
02:42Well, he's been on a plane with Sam Houston State Charter, but he has never.
02:47Really?
02:47Yeah.
02:48That's interesting.
02:49Mm-hmm.
02:50Huh.
02:51Yep.
02:53Yep, that's Shelter Sea, but we enjoyed it.
02:55We held it down, but good to have our guy back, T-Mill, from vacation.
02:59And, look, OTA started today.
03:05We heard from a lot of the big guns, including C.J. Stroud.
03:12You'll hear from some D'Amico, too, but C.J. Stroud had several things to say.
03:18Several things to say, especially the end of his pressure really jumped out big time, Clint.
03:26Here is C.J. Stroud speaking today at the pressure.
03:30Yeah, I mean, I let my agent handle it, you know, and, you know, if it's time to do it,
03:34then it is.
03:35If it's not, my job is football, so that's what I focus on is just getting better.
03:39And I think I've held my bargain up on that edge, so, you know, whatever happens, happens.
03:45You know, I'm excited to be a Texan this year and, you know, go from there.
03:49So, he was hit with Clint.
03:51Hey, Will Anderson got a new deal.
03:55We're seeing Nico got, you know, new money, Aziz, a lot of guys got new deals.
03:59You're up for the contract to get a new deal after year three.
04:03Is that something that's front of mind?
04:05And my man said, let the agent handle it.
04:10And if it's time to go, it's time to go.
04:12I play football.
04:13But he said, I feel like I've held up my end of the bargain.
04:17I think that's what he meant to say.
04:18That's what he was trying to say.
04:19That's what he meant to say, but we got it.
04:21I held up my end of the bargain, and I'm excited to be a Texan this year, and we'll go
04:27from there.
04:29See, Clint, I was under the understanding because he was showing up to everything, and he seemed to be in.
04:36And, hell, even at practice today before we heard from him, he's dancing around with D'Amico and stuff.
04:42Him and Graham Mertz, for some reason, got a handshake.
04:44Like, he seems to be all in, and maybe he is.
04:49But, Clint, that didn't sound like they were on an understanding of, yeah, man, I'm not getting paid this year.
04:56Now, that sounded like when it has to happen, it has to happen.
05:00And so I had assumed, fellas, that this had been kind of squashed and not a non-story.
05:08And it still very well may have nothing to come of it, but it is clear.
05:13C.J. Stroud believes he has done what he needs to do, and I'm with him, to get a contract
05:21extension like everybody else did.
05:24And he didn't just say, oh, no, I shut the door.
05:26Like, he said, I'm excited to be a Texan this year, and we'll let my agent handle it.
05:32And his agent is aggressive.
05:34And so that was something that really jumped out.
05:38Well done, C.J. Stroud.
05:40Well done.
05:41Oh, you like it?
05:41I absolutely love it.
05:43I mean, the whole thing, the entire press conference from C.J. Stroud, I thought, was spot on.
05:50And I'll tell you this.
05:51I thought he bowed his neck in a professional manner.
05:54I thought he had a spine in a professional manner.
05:58I thought that, you know, I thought the messaging was really clear of where he stands and kind of how
06:11he views the future.
06:13And he did it all in an extremely professional manner.
06:16That was the dismount, which I thought was beautifully done.
06:20To your point, my man simply says, look, I feel like I held up my end of the bargain.
06:24I'm going to let my agent work this thing out.
06:26And then he took the play out of Nick Casario's playbook, right?
06:31He took the call out of Nick Casario's playbook and said, look, I'm looking forward to being a Texans quarterback
06:37this season and walked off.
06:40I thought it was so well done.
06:41He did.
06:42He dropped the mic on that, didn't he?
06:44Absolutely.
06:44He left it.
06:45Absolutely.
06:45I thought it was so well done.
06:47You could tell him and David Mulageta obviously have discussed how they're going, which makes perfect sense.
06:55They've discussed how they're going to handle this in the media.
06:58And I think you have options at this point in time, given the position that he's been put in.
07:04I think the quarterback has options.
07:05I think when you're wired the way C.J. Stroud is, I expected him to be more good soldier and
07:13just avoid it and kind of be uncomfortable with it and not really address it.
07:19I thought it was great.
07:21I thought it was big backbone.
07:23I thought it was, I know who I am.
07:26And we'll see after this season what happens.
07:29I thought it was so well done.
07:31I can be a big fan of this cat now.
07:34This C.J. Stroud, it starts with that haircut and that bald cap, clean, boy, clean.
07:38I like it.
07:39And then the way he handled that, come on, man.
07:42That was big time.
07:43Do you, and obviously you like the way he handled it.
07:48Because I would say going into today, before his press conference thought, all right, man, the Texans and C.J.
07:57have an understanding.
07:58And, you know, people have, Lopez has asked us this.
08:03Multiple people have, do you think there's going to be any issue with the contract-wise?
08:07I was like, no, they seem to have an understanding.
08:09Does this change your thought process, hearing the way, because the way he described that, like, it is not clear
08:18that he is accepting of, I am not, it's not my time to get a contract.
08:24No, he believes he has done what he's, do you sense at all that this could be something?
08:30This could be.
08:31I think it's transparent.
08:33I think it's obvious.
08:35I mean, yeah, there's been a conversation.
08:36I don't know if it was a conversation, but there has been a, you know, a reason given to why
08:43he doesn't have a contract yet.
08:46And I think in that meeting or in that conversation or in that communication, however it took place, I think
08:53it's very clear that D'Amico, and probably more so Nick than D'Amico, but definitely Nick, has said, you
09:02know, we're going to get through this season.
09:05You're going to be the quarterback for one more season.
09:06You know, like, they've made it a point, and I think he's reiterating the point that they've made to him
09:10is, hey, man, we're going to do this thing for one more year for sure, and we'll see what happens
09:13beyond that.
09:14I think that message has been relayed very clearly.
09:18Now, did it come from David Mulageta, or did it come from the Texans, or did it, like, what is
09:25the, you know, who initiated the conversation, who's steering the ship?
09:29I don't know, but I just, I just love, there's something beautiful, Ron, about not being an asshole.
09:38Oh, I can't say that?
09:41No, you can't say it.
09:42Oh, I can't say the H part of that.
09:44There's something about.
09:45Did I beat you?
09:46I got there.
09:47I don't know, but.
09:49There's something about not being, not being an a-hole.
09:52How about that?
09:52Is that better?
09:52There you go.
09:53Um, and not being a child, right, and not being, not being deflective.
10:01There's something about standing up there with your chest, acknowledging that this is a difficult question, and it's going to
10:06be a difficult topic that's discussed, and he's probably going to be asked to repeat it over and over again.
10:11There's something about standing up there and confidently knowing what you're going to say, communicating that message, and not worrying
10:18about what Nick thinks or what D'Amico thinks or what.
10:21No, this is just the reality, and there's something about that to me, that's kind of the piece for me
10:26that CJ's been missing.
10:27Not necessarily, and this is obviously a one-off, but just in general, that's the piece that I think CJ
10:33is missing, is just the ability to just confidently communicate, hey, man, if y'all want me for one more
10:43year, you don't want to commit to me long-term, cool, we'll see what happens in a year.
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