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00:00I feel like I can say this right, Clint.
00:03I don't think anybody thought that he would make the top ten list, right?
00:07Army Swiss knife.
00:08Of running backs in the NFL.
00:10Do you have the top?
00:12Do you have the list?
00:13I do.
00:14The top ten list.
00:16If it doesn't start with Jameer Gibbs, I quit.
00:18It doesn't.
00:19I quit.
00:20B. John Robinson is who it starts with.
00:21I thought Joe was going to be back.
00:23That's fair.
00:24I'd rather have Jameer, but I get it.
00:25Brees Hall is ten, and it starts with B. John Robinson.
00:32B. John Robinson, one.
00:33Jameer Gibbs, two.
00:34Saquon Barkley, three.
00:35Christian McCaffrey, four.
00:37Jonathan Taylor, five.
00:38Derrick Henry, James Cook, A. Chan, and then Kenneth Walker and Brees Hall was ten.
00:46And then honorable mention was Josh Jacobs, Kyron Williams of the Rams,
00:51Quinshawn Judkins of the Browns, and then others receiving votes.
00:56The Bears, DeAndre Swift, Javante Williams, Chase Brown, Ashton Gentty,
01:02Trayvon Henderson, Travis Etienne, and Alvin Kamara.
01:07So that ran 20 guys, and there was no, not only in the top ten, Clint,
01:14there was no David Montgomery, there was no top 20, and I'll be honest,
01:19there's some other backs out there that could probably think that they could be
01:24in the top 20 that's not on that list.
01:26Did that hit your ears weird when you heard, all right, they've made a top 20 list
01:31and there is no David Montgomery there, and then I just read the names of the 20 names
01:37that made it in terms of the top ten honorable mention and others receiving votes.
01:41Does that hit weird for you that David Montgomery is not?
01:44No, no, it doesn't hit weird.
01:46Even though after hearing the list, you know, you could argue that he should be right there
01:52in that 19-20 range.
01:53I mean, I can argue that.
01:56But the reality of it is, is no, no, I mean, look, you're talking about a one-trick pony.
02:01I mean, we can sell.
02:02I saw an article yesterday, I think, somebody talking about him being a three-down back.
02:06Yeah, he's a three-down back if you can stay ahead of the chains.
02:09I mean, I just, I mean, he is a downhill between the tackles back.
02:14If he's catching the ball in the backfield, it's going to be checkdowns.
02:18You know, so, I mean, I think when you look at the stylistically the kind of back that he is,
02:24I think he starts, you know, the best version of him starts in the probably 12-15 range.
02:31And given that he was backing up Jameer Gibbs last year and losing, you know,
02:35reps for another back in the league, pushed him down the list.
02:37His age probably hurt him a little bit too.
02:40Yeah, I mean, look, the fact that the Texans, you know, have been pissy poor in a run game
02:44probably doesn't help him any.
02:45So, no, it doesn't hit me wrong or bother me at all that he's not in the top 20.
02:52I mean, I could probably put an argument together that he's, again, in that 19th for what?
02:57I mean, you're still talking about bottom half of the league.
03:01At least in that top 20 part of it.
03:03Yeah, he's not, I wasn't surprised, especially when you start to see the names.
03:09And as I said, maybe there may be a couple of others out there that you'd wonder,
03:13or do you say to yourself, is he?
03:15Well, them top six or seven are strong, son.
03:18Yeah, pushing Brees Hall to 10.
03:21When you say Brees Hall's 10, you're like, dang, man, if he's 10, hell, David Montgomery
03:26probably wasn't, you know, wasn't close.
03:30But he is, to me, the perfect fit for what the Texans want to do.
03:37Right, and that doesn't necessarily have to be a top 10 back, but specifically with what
03:42it seems like they want to do, which is be really, really physical and run the football
03:48and, I think, maintain possession of the ball and they don't mind going four yards, they
03:54don't mind.
03:55For what it is that they want, I think he fits perfectly.
03:59To me, the question is, off of it is, I stand by it, by the way it appears that they
04:06want
04:06to play offense.
04:09And now, the best success level this offense can have, based on how it seems like they
04:15want to play, I've said it for most of the offseason, they need to have a top 10 rushing
04:22attack.
04:23And the thing is, can you have that in your mind without a top 20 back in the league?
04:31Can it happen?
04:32Now, I will say last year it happened twice.
04:36I think they were a top 10 rushing attack.
04:39Now, they did have a running, a quarterback that can run that adds and helps as well in
04:44all kinds of ways, but they weren't, they didn't have a top 20 guy in that list.
04:48And the Giants also, now, Scadaboo was probably really coming on before he got injured, and
04:55Jackson Dart probably also adds to the running attack as well, and Tracy's not terrible.
05:01But those were the teams, two teams last year there, that were in the top 10 rushing units
05:06that did not have a guy in the top 20.
05:09That's interesting, given both of them had down, or sub 500 years, weren't they?
05:13Yep.
05:14That's interesting.
05:15Um, look, I think it's possible, I mean, I think it depends on when you, when you talk
05:21about a top 10 run game, like, what does that look like?
05:24Is that, is that, you know, yards per carry?
05:26Is that, is that overall rushing total yards?
05:29Is that...
05:29This was based on yards per game.
05:31Yards per game.
05:32Yeah, look, I don't think, look, no, the answer to that question is no.
05:35I don't think David Montgomery's going to lead the league in rushing.
05:38I don't, I don't think he's even going to be a factor in terms of leading the league in
05:41rushing.
05:41Um, you know, I, I think there's a chance that he can, he can be a guy that the, the,
05:46the, the carries, the total carries is, is up there.
05:50Can this offensive line...
05:51That's what it would have to be, is the commitment.
05:53If they are a, if they are one of the top 10 teams that has, you know, top 10 in
05:59rushing
05:59yards per game, I don't, obviously it won't just be David.
06:02You know, obviously it'll be David Montgomery.
06:04Henry, it will be, um, Woody Marks, Woody Marks as well.
06:09I think it'll be maybe commitment to running it.
06:12Do they try, like, they have a goal of trying to hand the ball off 30 times and run football.
06:18And I think that's the route that they can get in, which it, it feels like that's probably
06:23what the Giants and the, and the commanders did.
06:26Although they have quarterbacks that, that threaten you running the football too, that
06:32that kind of helps maybe not having a top 20 guy back there.
06:36Yeah.
06:36I look, I just, I just don't, I just don't see it.
06:39I like David Montgomery.
06:40I like David Montgomery as an ad, uh, to this team, uh, from a personality standpoint.
06:46Uh, I, I just, I think the overall approach to offensive football, as I've said multiple
06:51times, I think this offense is, is one of the easiest in the league to defend.
06:55And I, and I don't think that bodes well for David Montgomery, you know, I mean, I, like
07:00it just, it, it, it's just one of those where you look at it and you go, okay, you know,
07:05we're
07:06going to, we're going to cut our, we're going to cut our splits, you know, and, and, and
07:09just try to try to try to get our receivers involved in a run game and we'll run everything
07:13downhill and try to just stay ahead of the chains.
07:16There's nothing exotic about the run game.
07:18There's, there's no inside outside, um, you know, combos where they're, where they're,
07:23they're, they're, they had the ability to hit you and turn the corner.
07:25Unless it's by accident.
07:27Um, so I, I just, I, I don't know how schematically they, they can get there.
07:33That, that would be tough.
07:34Can they, can they accomplish what they're set out to accomplish, which is just a quality
07:37run game that you can stay ahead of the chains?
07:40Um, yeah.
07:41Yeah.
07:41I think they could, they could possibly do that depending on how well CJ Stroud plays, but
07:45I think they could possibly do that.
07:47Uh, but, but lead the league in Russian, be a top 10 Russian offense.
07:51I don't think that's going to happen.
07:51Um, I think it's, yeah, I think the offense, it feels like to me, that's where they need
08:00to be trending.
08:01Yeah.
08:02That, that, that needs to be trending because that, to me, I think it's the best thing.
08:06Their offensive line appears that they will be able to do is, is run block.
08:11And, and, and especially if they can, if they can control, you know, when they want to pass
08:18and not have to pass the football without, and they're going to have to, that, that's
08:22why it's so important and not to get off in the weeds here on it, Ron, but we talk about
08:26this offensive line.
08:27Like, I don't think people understand what, what we're talking about.
08:31Like, I, I don't think like they're going to have to absolutely dominate the line of
08:40scrimmage in the box.
08:41This, this isn't a, this isn't a, you got a guy like they've built a group that can do
08:45that.
08:45Well, I mean, hell I, I mean, I hope they feel like they had, they're the ones that
08:48built it.
08:49Um, but, but you, you know, you, like you, you don't have a guy and I don't even know
08:53that really, to be honest with you.
08:54I mean, I think, I think the Woody, I like Woody Marks.
08:56I think Woody Marks has probably been a little bit overrated here because he was
09:00our guy and he jumped on the scene last year.
09:02Like you, you, you don't have a guy on this offense that can make a defense pay for
09:10giving you a crease.
09:10And I mean, hit you in on a goalpost type of pay, right?
09:13So, and I only say that I'm not beating them, beating on them.
09:16I'm just saying like, I only say that to say, if that's the case, then your production
09:22is going to have to be, we're going to out scheme these guys, right?
09:25We're going to out, we're going to go get three or four yards because we got a hat on
09:29a hat every single damn time.
09:31Making somebody miss is not going to be our forte, our forte, right?
09:36Forcing an empty off the roof and make CJ's life a little bit more, more enjoyable, right?
09:44You're going to have to, it's not going to be about hitting a crease.
09:46It's not going to be about bouncing around outside and going to get in the corner.
09:49It's going to be, you have to absolutely, because their defenses are going to put the Texans
09:54in a place where you're going to have the numbers.
09:57You're going to be able to line up in whatever formation and you're going to have a hat for
10:01a hat.
10:02They're going to keep two on the roof and just say, CJ and Nico ain't going to beat us.
10:06We're not going to let the big play over the top beat us.
10:08We're going to force you to go 13 plays and score.
10:11You're going to have a hat on a hat and inside, and it's going to come down to, can you
10:17move
10:17those guys, can you absolutely dominate those guys, and while I think you got better, I
10:24don't know if you can dominate your way beyond the second round of the playoffs.
10:28That's the key in this run game is better, yes.
10:32Can you run it well enough to force a safety off the roof so that now CJ Stroud and Nico
10:37and Jaden Higgins and all these guys can cook?
10:40That's a big step.
10:41They'll be able to force things about it.
10:42That's a big step.
10:43Yeah, so there it is.
10:46No David Montgomery in the top 20 of backs here that executive, coaches, general managers
10:54have put together.
10:55By the way, they also did the top rosters, Texans at nine in the top 10.
11:03Leave the at least best projected starting lineups.
11:07The arrows pointed up.
11:08In the top 10, and I think their defense can carry that.
11:13Like, their defensive starting, they are not at all.
11:18Well, on the heels of the conversation that we just had, Ron, biggest strength, obviously
11:23edge defense, right?
11:24Maybe even corner, they said also they're good.
11:26Right.
11:26On the heels of what we just said, in this article, biggest weakness, offensive line,
11:32this group is perhaps the NFL's shakiest starting five.
11:34That should not be the case.
11:36Yeah.
11:37Especially for how they want to.
11:39That can't be.
11:39Yes, yes.
11:40Based on how you want to play offense, and you're telling the whole league that you've
11:44got to run it better, and you've got to improve your run game, but yet people that cover the
11:48league look at it and go, yep, biggest weakness still, and five up front.
11:51I would have felt more comfortable if they'd have said, the group with a lot of questions.
11:56Because that's how I feel.
11:57I feel like it's a group that has kind of questions.
12:01I don't know about Shaky, Shaky feels a little rough.
12:04I feel like it's almost, for me, questions in terms of wait and see how it looks.
12:10Because I do think this, on paper, the offensive line looks better, especially from a physicality
12:17standpoint.
12:18When you put in, when you talk about Braden Smith, you're talking about Teller, you're
12:23talking about potentially Rutledge in there, and to go along with the guys you had last
12:28year, that feels like a physical group, a much more physical group.
12:33You used a first round pick and signed three free agents, like had your pick, three free
12:40agent veterans, and it's still like just blatantly obvious, like nationally, like yeah, that
12:45offensive line is still the weakness.
12:47Whole roster.
12:48You can pick any position you want, man.
12:52EJ Speed got hurt.
12:55I mean, you got, hell, you got two rookies, I mean, you got two second years, you got one
13:01of those other spots.
13:03Those position groups, yeah.
13:04I mean, you got, but you, I mean, tight ends, hell, beyond Dalton Schultz, you don't know
13:07what the hell we got.
13:10Wide receiver, beyond Nico Collins, we think we like Jaden Higgs, we think Jalen Knowles
13:13got a chance, we really don't know what the hell we got.
13:16Beyond David Montgomery, look, I like Woody Marsh, but we really don't know exactly where,
13:19how he fits in this thing.
13:20I mean, you could pick any, but you just go with the one position where they just.
13:24That's the one, that's the position that they did the most work in in the offseason.
13:28Woo, that's painful, that's painful to read.
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