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Speaker 1: over on KPRC nine fifty. We were talking about the
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson signing yesterday by the Texans, and I mean
Speaker 1: something that you had mentioned last segment, Shawn of talking
Speaker 1: about what he means to this group now, and you
Speaker 1: feel like that this is a much better group than
Speaker 1: it was a year ago.
Speaker 2: Just take a disaster, not much. I'm not afraid to
Speaker 2: line up with this group today. It's gonna get better.
Speaker 2: I just think it's more consistent, and I think it's
Speaker 2: more versatile.
Speaker 1: Because I mean, you've got you know what you have
Speaker 1: in Titus Howard, you know what you think, you know
Speaker 1: what you have in Blake Fisher. I mean it feels
Speaker 1: like to me as we sit at this moment, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's just go left to right. I think we can
Speaker 1: agree that Cam Robinson, you bring him here, he's going
Speaker 1: to be your left tackle, left guard. Maybe you keep
Speaker 1: Titus Howard there because I mean it also starts to
Speaker 1: show how much do you believe in Blake Fisher, The
Speaker 1: question for me becomes, who's your starting center, who's your
Speaker 1: right guard? And I haven't even mentioned Lake and Tomlinson,
Speaker 1: and I also hadn't even mentioned at Ingram a couple
Speaker 1: of other guys that you brought in this offseason, and
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how they handle the center spot.
Speaker 1: Do they believe in Jarrett Patterson or I mean David
Speaker 1: Andrews is still out there, Boss is his nickname, and
Speaker 1: played for so long up there in New England. A
Speaker 1: little bit of an undersized guy, but somebody that absolutely
Speaker 1: gained the trust and had control of that offensive line
Speaker 1: and won a Super Bowl or two with the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. There is familiarity with Coole Popovich and with
Speaker 1: Nick Kayley from their time up there, and Nick Asario
Speaker 1: obviously knows him. So I mean, would that necessarily be
Speaker 1: a move that would surprise you if the Texans went
Speaker 1: that route? And I mean, it's nothing against Jarrett Patterson,
Speaker 1: it's nothing against Ju Scruggs, but it's saying we need
Speaker 1: to be able to get this thing going early and
Speaker 1: often and not have to wait on those guys to
Speaker 1: be able to get us to that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just if.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt what he may lack now after being
Speaker 2: with a decade or so in the league in David Andrews,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna get smart, solid play, and the familiarity
Speaker 2: does matter when somebody's when you're trying to bring somebody in.
Speaker 2: And I think he still wants to play. If I
Speaker 2: believe I saw that he's ready to still play, the
Speaker 2: question is where and.
Speaker 3: What value does he bring to you?
Speaker 2: And do you believe that your center's position's going to
Speaker 2: grow if the guys around him get better, are going
Speaker 2: to grow. That guy is so important and directing traffic,
Speaker 2: and you know, depending on what they're gonna let c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud Do I like my quarterback calling the front? So
Speaker 2: I just do. I want my quarterback to understand everything.
Speaker 2: I don't wanted to hear it from somebody else. I
Speaker 2: want now. If all of a sudden, the center says no, no, no,
Speaker 2: let's go Mike right, Mike Wright said to Mike left,
Speaker 2: because he feels like that. But my quarterback can see
Speaker 2: secondary blitzes. It's hard in the three point stance or
Speaker 2: sitting down a two point stance looking around for those
Speaker 2: centers to do it.
Speaker 3: But you do need one. Listen, pay Manning.
Speaker 2: Probably the most cerebral quarterback we've ever had, who understood everything,
Speaker 2: probably more than the guys he was were coaching him
Speaker 2: and defending him. But he's still at times they leaned
Speaker 2: on each other Saturday. It's good to have two as
Speaker 2: long as you don't there's not a battle of chefs
Speaker 2: in the kitchen, right But Stroud now going into year three,
Speaker 2: this is the time when he needs to take that
Speaker 2: next step of let me get I can direct it
Speaker 2: because listen, I don't if I'm in a stance, I
Speaker 2: don't know how what he's comfortable doing in hot reads
Speaker 2: and side adjustments. You want to make it as simple
Speaker 2: as you can if you're the coordinator, but you also
Speaker 2: do not want to play up hill. You want to
Speaker 2: go into a game if I got a strong safety
Speaker 2: blitz and I'm running a toss sweep into I got
Speaker 2: nobody to block him. That's hard for the senator to
Speaker 2: look and say is a strong safety on a line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage as he's seven yards off, it's easy for
Speaker 2: my quarterback. So that's another level to this. So yeah,
Speaker 2: anytime I can add depth with the player like you
Speaker 2: mentioned and Andrews. Of course I would, but you just
Speaker 2: went through a bunch of names. Now, somebody needs to
Speaker 2: convince me if they disagree with it, that today why
Speaker 2: last year's offensive line is better than the people just today?
Speaker 2: Why it's better or deeper than it was last year. Now,
Speaker 2: and you mentioned Titus Hoar and Fisher, you have to
Speaker 2: figure out if Cam rob it tells you they're not
Speaker 2: even overly comfortable with Titus Hoard being the full time
Speaker 2: left tackle, or they wouldn't have brought another guy. They
Speaker 2: bring Cam Robinson here to go to sit and watch,
Speaker 2: they expect him to play. So with that, if you're
Speaker 2: Titus Hoard, now you got to decide, all right, who
Speaker 2: gives me the best chance at right tackle. Is it
Speaker 2: a guy who's a little more veteranan Titus Hoard or
Speaker 2: is it a young player? Or who is my swing
Speaker 2: guy that is better inside and who's more comfortable in
Speaker 2: a left handed stance playing left guard? And if that's
Speaker 2: the case, then move them right now is the time
Speaker 2: you figure that out. But you know your center. You
Speaker 2: gotta find it. So in truth, there's three guys right
Speaker 2: now that three positions. You're saying, well, good, but who's
Speaker 2: It's not a matter if they can play the position.
Speaker 2: Its a matter who's better at one. You gotta get
Speaker 2: rid of the weakness. You got to bring the weakness
Speaker 2: closer to the strength. So if a guy loves playing
Speaker 2: right tackle and can't stand playing left guard although he
Speaker 2: can play it, and the other guy likes playing right tackle,
Speaker 2: but say I'm good at left guard, feels comfortable in
Speaker 2: a different type of stance because it is a different stance,
Speaker 2: one different leg back, the whole thing, then you stick
Speaker 2: him in there.
Speaker 3: So that's what they got to figure out.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think it's can they play, it's where's
Speaker 2: our best chance to win with the five guys. But
Speaker 2: you just mentioned you got three or four guys. You
Speaker 2: say versaally, can he play left guard? Does he play
Speaker 2: right tackle? And now you've got Titus Howard who can
Speaker 2: play left tackle and maybe it's his most natural position.
Speaker 2: But you also bringing a guy in who is a
Speaker 2: left tackle.
Speaker 3: So it is.
Speaker 2: All that you just said gives me a little more
Speaker 2: bandwidth on my offensive line. I think they're better, I
Speaker 2: think today, I think they're deeper than they were last year.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought up the competition, because the
Speaker 1: competition in my mind is Robinson and Titus Howard because
Speaker 1: one of those guys will not be here next season.
Speaker 1: And the moves yesterday showed you that with not only
Speaker 1: the move on the offensive line, but also Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 1: that's trying to free up as much money as possible,
Speaker 1: because yeah, the credit card bill's going to come due
Speaker 1: for number seven, it's gonna come do for number fifty one.
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to have the Caps base
Speaker 1: to sign both of those guys and try to keep
Speaker 1: this offensive.
Speaker 2: We talking about five or twenty twenty six, twenty six, Okay,
Speaker 2: so you're talking about this year.
Speaker 3: We'll go find out who steps up and the other
Speaker 3: guys there.
Speaker 1: You're taking care of me this year, Yes, no, you do.
Speaker 1: And it's also I mean you're trying to actually find
Speaker 1: names there and we do feel a little bit better,
Speaker 1: especially and you're saying to yourself, come on, Dan, one
Speaker 1: guy makes you feel that way, No, absolutely, one guy does.
Speaker 3: You brought it up.
Speaker 1: Versatile can play every single game that you need him
Speaker 1: out there. He did it in Jacksonville, he did it
Speaker 1: in Minnesota for the short time that he was with
Speaker 1: the Vikings. That's somebody that you can count on, and
Speaker 1: Titus Howard has had his injury issues, what offensive lineman doesn't.
Speaker 1: But it's also too we could be looking at the
Speaker 1: very same thing this time next year that we just
Speaker 1: looked at with Laramy Tunsel, where they say, hey, we
Speaker 1: got to free up some money and they start looking
Speaker 1: around and saying, can we sign this guy cheaper?
Speaker 3: Or do we roll with this guy? Guy walk around?
Speaker 3: Here's another thing.
Speaker 2: What happens if they trade up and go get themselves
Speaker 2: another offensive lineman in the first round and the teens
Speaker 2: with these assets, then the offensive line somebody here already,
Speaker 2: one of those guys you mentioned will not be here,
Speaker 2: whether it's an interior guy, a center, a tackle, one
Speaker 2: of them won't be here because you dra have somebody
Speaker 2: if you trade up to get an offensive lineman, because
Speaker 2: you're gonna if you want to tackle, which I don't
Speaker 2: know if they do now, or if you want to go,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have trade up to get the better ones
Speaker 2: in this draft. Now, if you're trading up to get
Speaker 2: a wide receiver, somebody else are a tight end, okay,
Speaker 2: But if you do that while you're gonna need them all,
Speaker 2: then does a guy like Todd At Titus Howard or
Speaker 2: somebody else become expendable where you say, maybe we can
Speaker 2: steal another asset. That's what is so you keep an
Speaker 2: eye on the movement. I can't fathom that they're staying
Speaker 2: where they are with these assets in this draft and
Speaker 2: you're only trading up for what if you could get
Speaker 2: a stud tight end I guess a receiver, But the
Speaker 2: truth is you're trading up to get a staple. I'll
Speaker 2: see you in ten years, offensive lineman. That's why you're
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 1: No, And that's the thing, and especially too, when you
Speaker 1: do that in the first round. That's a guy that's
Speaker 1: got to make an immediate impact. So if the Texans
Speaker 1: do that, it will tell you exactly what their plans
Speaker 1: are in the immediate and in the future. We can
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