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Looking forward to the weekend. How about yourself? Doing well. Feeling better, I hope. Yeah, a little bit better. A little bit better. I'm working today. So yeah, a little bit better. Quite an eventful few hours in the Branham household. But I'll spare all of you the details. No Will Anderson, I see, huh? So it's good news. Well, I don't know if we're going to see an eco college yet. But the Texans did rule out one Will Anderson. That's tough news there, Blankers. I mean, you're going up against a really good offense. Will Anderson, the AFC player, defensive player of the month, gets hurt. And then now he's going to miss at least one game. So one and most of the Jets game with what is his third severe significant ankle injury in the last 12 months. Yeah, not good news. And, you know, we've talked about this where we go through these series of guys getting hurt in games. They try to come back. They don't. And now you're wondering how many weeks is he going to be out because of the fact that, like you said, he said multiple injuries to the ankle. You know how important he is. You hope that with Autry playing better football with getting Jerry Hughes back with having some of the other guys in the rotation that they'll be fine. But at the same time, you're playing a team that you could really capitalize on having a significant pass rush because Jared Goff does not move around. He's more like a statue than he is a running quarterback. And if you could put pressure on the Lions on the edge, it could go a long way to you being able to put some pressure on the Lions period. So not having him on the other side of Hunter is disappointing. Yeah, I hope this is not something that lingers. Like, I'm hopeful that it's just the one game and then hopefully it's fine. Obviously, like, you don't want him to miss a few games as possible for Will Anderson would be the best. I guess the good news is like, we don't think it's that severe. He's not on the IR or anything like that, which they did with Kenyon Green. The good news is that Nico Collins could be back. They activated him to return to practice that whole 21 day window, adding him to the 53, taking Kenyon Green off the 53. So that's the good news. Dow, do you think he plays on Sunday night? Yeah, I have my reservations. I have my questions. I think the first question is why it takes so long to get to a point where he finally practiced. And if it's gamesmanship, I think it's stupid because it took way too long. And even damn Campbell said early in the week, they expect him to play. I would rather have him testing that thing out all week just to see how it bounces back to kind of like a more strenuous practice schedule similar to what a game might be or getting more reps in. But at the same time, I think it's hyper important to him playing and we talked about this the other day just because I think it gives the detections a better chance to win because their offense is good. Good as the weapons are. I think they're better whenever Nico Collins is on the field. We've seen the chemistry that he and CJ have specifically when CJ goes off script and out of the pocket and starts extending plays. But even in the regular offensive game and they go back all the way to the first Indianapolis game when they iced a game with an out pattern with less than two minutes. And in the past was perfect. The catch was on target. The catch was on time. They were perfect together and they just have that kind of synergy and chemistry that you want to see that you need against good football teams. And there's no doubt you're playing a damn good football team. Yeah, I'm not sure what to think either. Like it's weird that they did this on a Friday and not yesterday. Like I felt like if he was going to play on Sunday that he would have been the return to practice designation would have been done yesterday. So that kind of confuses me other than maybe they feel like they didn't need them to practice. So I'm pretty I'm on the fence on this one. I don't really quite understand it if I'm being perfectly honest. I thought Thursday was the big day and I guess we'll see if he doesn't play on Sunday than Thursday was the big day. If he does play on Sunday, then I guess Thursday is not the big day. So we'll just have to wait and see, I guess, when it comes to that. If he does play, does he fix the woes of this offense? This offense is struggled, obviously in past protection, but that's not the only thing that's wrong with this Texans offense. They've struggled in the red zone. They can move the ball, but they're not scoring a ton. How much does Nico back fix everything that's woeing the Houston Texans? Unfortunately, there's more to fix than just adding your best receiver back to your offensive game plan when you can't block and you can't keep your quarterback from having to run for his life on most plays. So I think that it, you know, it's definitely a benefit anytime Nico's on the field and we saw that with what he did in the production he had from the time the season started. But on the flip side, you know, Nico Collins doesn't block at the offensive line and I don't need him blocking a whole lot. I need a left guard that's capable of at least holding his own. I need an offensive line that has continuity enough to try and keep some of the pressure off of CJ's rear end on every single play. And I think that's where the focus has to begin because, you know, I keep saying it's like the, you know, the neck bone connected to the collarbone. The fact is, is that the offensive line is connected to your quarterback, your receivers, your running game, everything that you're going to do. And right now, your offensive line is a joke. It's in disarray. And yeah, it starts with pointing at one position on the field, but I think it's across the board where they have to get better, regardless of Nico plays or not. Yeah, I think it helps you. It doesn't cover up every wort. It's kind of getting better than the aggregate, right? Like, okay, we know we're not going to be great in this area, but how can we pick up the slack? You know, Nico would help that, whether it's screams or giving rid of the football quicker or the defense, having to pay a lot of attention to Nico Collins. Obviously it helps. I mean, Nico Collins is one of the better receivers in the NFL. He's a top 10-ish receiver. Obviously it helps. So yeah, I think it would help the offense. I don't think it fixes everything. And for the Texans, I mean, we say the same thing over and over. For them to hit their ceiling as an offense, as a football team, they're going to have to figure out the pass protection, even though you're getting Nico Collins back. Now, this kind of, this is curious to me. I'm just looking through the injury report here in Teng Dao, limited today. He's now questionable. He's a questionable designation was fine Wednesday was fine on Thursday, limited today. It is now questionable. So I don't like that. Your top two receivers are questionable. They say why? It says back. That's the first I've heard of it. Yeah, me too. And I don't know if that's just precautionary and that's something you want to put out there, but I hope to God it's nothing more than that because as much as it's good to have Nico back, he's probably going to be on somewhat of a pitch count, but you're probably going to want to monitor him at least to some degree, whereas take Dallas, the guy you have to have on the field because of the fact that he's basically the only other guy that I think CJ knows and trust and the offense has confidence in is going to make the place. Yeah, I know. I don't feel great about that. Your top two receivers are questionable. Hopefully, maybe they both play. Maybe neither one plays. It's the, you know, the beauty of being questionable, I guess. Fully fought at the costing, he's questionable too. He did not practice all week so that the defensive line could be, you know, even a little thinner. He's got a couple of injuries growing shoulder. So that's something to keep an eye on. Jerry Hughes questionable, whatever, and they activated him. And Jeff Fukuda, is this the first time we're going to see Jeff Fukuda in a Houston Texans uniform? Could he get some actual snaps in this game? Yeah, I don't, I hope it's not on outside corner, but, you know, I think as long as Lasseter and stingley are still going to be on the field of majority of the time, I think they're going to be fine. I think that's his old team he's playing against. Maybe he's got a little extra fire in his belly for that, but I don't, I don't anticipate in seeing him a whole lot. You know, if there's one thing that you can feel good about, it's the fact that Lasseter has looked really good for the, for the time that he's been out there this season. Better than a lot of people I think anticipated or expected. And with Williams coming back for the Lions along with St. Brown and the way that they are capable of throwing the football, I would rather have stingley and Lasseter out there for the majority of the snaps. Yeah, I would be, I would be shocked if we see him at all. He, like you would only be because of injury, you know, like it's not something you want to see. Like, I would like to see the Houston Texans be a little creative with what they're doing at the nickel corner. But I don't, if I'm predicting what they do, like Jalen Petrie is just going to play that spot, whether it's for the good or for the bad. And a lot of times it's for the bad, whatever you're lining up man to man, especially with what the Lions have a receiver. So, no, I don't think we'll see a Kuda. Although if they did it, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Yeah, no, I agree with you. I think that if there's a chance for him to better your situation at the nickel, that's fantastic because as we've talked about week in week out, Petrie's really, really good around the box, around the line of scrimmage, getting into the backfield and hitting. He's not so good in coverage. And, you know, this is another team where they have a variety of different ways that they can beat you in the slot and they can beat you with Laporta and they can beat you with their three receiver sets. And they can do a ton of things to where it could be making Petrie vulnerable yet again. And that's not what you want to do to a guy that really doesn't throw many incompletions and the offense that's normally clicking on all cylinders. You're going to need your best defensive people on the on the field and they're going to have to be doing, you know, a really good job. I don't think that the first time you throw Jeff Acuda on the field, you want to throw him into the fire playing the Lions offense. That's not a good situation. I wonder what the plan would be if if I don't want to say injuring because that's just mean. But what if Jalen Petrie had a miss a few snaps like I wonder who plays the nickel. I wonder if they would go lasseter inside because Acuda is more of a boundary corner. Now we haven't seen lasseter play inside. We thought when they drafted him that he was going to play inside but they haven't done that. They have a desking on the roster practice squad. So they get to call him up before the game. So like, yeah, yeah, I don't think that that's, you know, unless you're thinking about it before the game but you wouldn't be thinking about that before the game. No. Like I wonder what their their plan B would be at nickel corner if there were. And I guess maybe you would go with one of the safeties. Maybe you go with maybe you go with Murray. Yeah, that's what I was thinking because but again Murray's not great in coverage. No, he's terrible. He excels in again, being up in the box and you know his his ability to tackle. But yeah, I don't think that it's a strong suit of his either where I would feel comfortable with him being there. But I think safety is probably the first option that they would go with unless Acuda, you know, feels like he can be comfortable enough because he gives you the best in coverage. He's not going to be great hitting and vice versa if you play Murray there. Yeah, that's that's not a situation I need to be thinking about. But it did cross my mind the minute you started. I was like, man, what if Petrie went down? You would have to. Now Jimmy Ward's coming back. So you do have that extra safety now. I wonder I wonder what the starters look like it's safety now with Ward back because before Ward was hurt. It was Ward and Eric Murray and then Bullock was kind of coming in for Eric Murray and they were kind of having the work share 50 50. But I think Bullock, I think he's like better than Eric Murray. He's more of a natural center filter than Eric Murray and Jimmy Ward quite frankly. I'm really fascinated to see what the the snap share is for the safe position. I think it's going to be Murray and Bullock and I think that they'll probably ease Jimmy Ward back in. I don't think they're just going to throw him into the fire right away. And we know he's fragile and he's been hurt a lot lately. I think that they'll probably go Murray and Bullock and then work Jimmy Ward in where necessary. He might be that he could play a little nickel. Now you wouldn't you wouldn't want to play a whole lot of man with him in the nickel. But he can certainly play the blocks. You know what I mean? Like he'd be good in that. He'd be good in that situation, but it wouldn't be great in terms of coverage, which. And I think the Texans have a good cover nickel guy. No, they don't seem to put a whole lot of value in that. And if King has played all year, then you obviously think, well, there's something he's not what he used to be and they didn't think highly of them before when they cut him and then brought him back. But you know, if he's sitting on the practice squad now and he's not been active. I think there's probably a good reason for it. Yeah, he's only active with that one game and that's whenever they had they needed him to return kicks and then he got bitch. Remember? He came in. He like returned a few pounds. He had a bobble and then like a misplay on one and then they benched him. All right. 713 780 ESP and Friday edition of the Killer Bees. We got a busy show playing for your DJ big enemy. He'll be joining us for a couple segments in the five o'clock hour. What are your top story lines ahead of Sunday? And I've been waiting all day for Sunday night. Who said it? Can the Killer Bees continue with their momentum? Continue their winning ways? Beasy money to going to hand you out some winners. 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And all I get asked about is how bad my offensive line is. Here you go, offensive line coach, you go deal with them, throw them out to the wolves. Now, I was told that Strauser was requested by some media members, and that they eventually, not right away, they eventually allowed the media to have a little sit down with Strauser. Now, you might have noticed he wasn't on camera, that was by design for whatever reason. Not exactly sure why he wasn't on camera, but we do have some recording of it. A lot of this from Big Sarge Media, so credit to Big Sarge for posting this on his YouTube channel. Post some really good stuff on there, if you're a Texans fan, good content from Big Sarge. So, here's the first thing that caught my ear, not my eye, because he wasn't on video. It caught my ear. Strauser, 'cause look, the Texans have had trouble with stunts, right? So, he was asked, obviously, about the stunts. Here was Strauser on the Texans' troubles with stunts. I mean, you know, stunts are always a challenge. I mean, there's a reason that defenses do stunt on third down because there's some challenges with it. So, to me, it all goes back to starting with just like being really good at one-on-one pass protection, 'cause you get that done, and then the next step, the next phase is to be able to handle a stunt, and a lot of what goes into handling a stunt is the same stuff that goes into being a really good one-on-one protector. So, you know, there's a lot of little things that we know that as we really studied, we had that extra three days to really kind of go back and look at some stuff, and really see some stuff that consistently has shown up as issues and stuff. Again, like I said, that I need to go back and do a better job as a coach to get these guys locked into better and find a way to drill it better and make sure when we show up on Sunday that everybody's got complete confidence in what we're doing. Thoughts? It's interesting to me because I'm with you. I saw Will Conkel start putting out there that he got Strauser for a one-on-one, and I thought, "Wow, that's crazy." And then when I realized that D'Amico put him out there with the media, it's like... To be fair, I don't think it was D'Amico. I think it was the media request, and I think the NFL rule is that if your coach gets requested, I think they're required to. Okay. But at the same time, in my head, I'm thinking, "Well, are they just going to throw him to the wolves and let him fend for himself, or, you know, what's the deal?" But when you hear this, I think it kind of lends itself to me to the fact that they still believe he knows what to do. He's intelligent as a coach. The problem is, is that there's a disconnect somewhere. And even if he explains what he just explained in that sound bite, to me is, so then where's the disconnect? Are the guys just not getting it? You say you've got to drill them a different way so that they can get better at it? Because it's not just the stunts, it's the twists. The twists have been really screwing with them. The fact that they look like they're unprepared. They stick with the twist too long. There's a gaping hole in the middle of the line for the other guy coming from the linebacker position or from the outside in, and they are just wreaking havoc all over the place when it happens. And it looks like they are inexperienced at doing what he is kind of simplifying for us to say, is a quote unquote easy fix. So I don't think that it put my mind at ease in any way shape or form hearing from him. It's just that hopefully he's right that he knows what to do to try and rectify what's been going on. But why hasn't it been rectified? That's where I'm at. That last sentence you just said, Blankers. He talks about having the extra three days. Bro, what? It's been two and a half months. These are issues you've had since week one, not just this past week. They said, oh, we've had the extra three days. You've had 10 weeks. You've had 10 weeks to try to rectify this and to figure this out. So the whole we had an extra three days, that's going to magically solve it. When it's been an issue all year long, you've played nine games. But now you're pointing to the extra three days that you have on this mini by that it's going to be the cure all. Are you kidding me? And he says a lot of the same stuff as being good at man to man is what makes you good in stunts. I'm not seeing that. I'm not seeing that. Like, I think Laramie Tunsell is a very good man on man blocker, but you throw a little stunt and most of it's on the interior. They're really mess with Laramie. But like, you know, Kenyan Green, is he telling me that Kenyan Green's not a good man to man blocker? Because he's saying it's a lot of the same stuff that you see on stunts. Well, he's struggling there. So is juice. So is Shaq Mason. So is he telling me those guys aren't good man on man? Maybe it is. Maybe he is saying that. Here's another one from Strauss are talking about how he has belief in his guys, which he has to say. Yeah, everybody in the unit for sure has the ability to play. Like they wouldn't be here if we didn't think they could play. And so yes, everybody in the unit for sure has the ability to do it. You know, there's always going to be some challenges on on third down stuff. I think across the league in terms of recognizing some of the stuff is going to come. But I think that's an area that, you know, I know that's an area that we can we can, you know, take some strides and, you know, improve on. And so we can, like I said, you know, a lot of that goes back to just what we do during a week in practice and how we get them, you know, a little bit better prepared for what we're anticipating seeing. And there's always be something that shows up game game that we didn't anticipate seeing. Forgive my chuckle, Jeremy. But the whole time once he said that said, of course we believe in them or they wouldn't be here. And I'm going, had you seen Kendrick Green? Did you see what we saw? Do you know that there's a reason why we all question why once you benched Kenyon Green, you had to put him back in the game because he really can't play. And the question was, why was he on your roster and how did you plan on backfilling that with somebody else, which you didn't do. That's crazy to me, but that's why I was jumping. Yeah, I mean, to me, that was a bunch of you have to say that as a coach. You can't throw your guys under the bus. The moment that you do that, you're going to be out of the job. I think that's the way professional sports work. So you can't throw your guy, especially the offensive line coach. Alex says he will be at a job at the season, if not sooner. That's what's weird though, is that he was solid last year. Like this patchwork offensive line a year ago was way better than this offensive line that has way more talent. So like, I don't, it's hard for me to say that Chris Strauss was a bad coach. I think he might have to have the right pieces, maybe the type of players that he needs to be successful with his scheme. But I think that the worst I could say about Strauss as a coach is maybe he's the type of guy who's not very good at adjusting with the personnel he has. Well, let me say this and see what you think about this, but the fact is, and you know, you and I have been around teams and sports for a long time now. You're only as good a coach as your players are willing to accept your coaching. So at a certain point, maybe last year when you had a couple of journeymen, when you had a couple of guys that knew that this was an important point in their career and they were performing because there was a lot more sense of urgency on a personal front as well. As from a team perspective that they were stepping up. They were dialed in. He was teaching them well. He was coaching them up and everything was going well. When you get the guys that have been taken care of and they have the money and they're set and they've been extended and everything feels good for them. Maybe there's not as much urgency. Maybe there's not attention to detail from their part of going. Yeah, you know what? I'm good. I know I'm good enough. I'm getting paid. I'm set. I'm all right. Yeah, I hear what you're saying. But everybody knows I'm good enough. I can figure this out. It just seems like maybe the difference between last year and this year is you got guys that aren't as dialed in or as open to the coaching that he did a year ago. Yeah, that would be problematic because now you're talking about unprofessionalism, which is terrifying. But I would say that the issues with this offensive line in my opinion aren't the bookends. I think that you can get by with what you've had a tackle. In fact, I think the tackle plays been good. I think Laramie's been good. I think Titus has actually been good. It's the guys in the middle. And those guys are young. You know, like Canyon Green has a lot to prove. Juice has a lot to prove. Shaq Mason does not. He's an older veteran. But yeah, I mean, that's definitely plausible. Like I wouldn't rule that out. I think there's times too, the veterans are the guys that set the standard in the room. And I think that you're right. Shaq has not been good. But if they're looking around the room and the three guys that are most decorated and the most respected in the room are the guys just kind of going through the motions. That it's like, well, at a certain point, you know, why do I have to do more or be different than what they're doing. Yeah, I'm younger, but I, you know, in the case of juice, I was a high enough draft pick. But overall, Shaq has been less than. Oh, yeah. I think Howard's been okay. I think tonsil obviously got overall the penalty issues. He's supposed to be one of the top five tackles in this league. I don't think he's played like that regardless of, you know, him playing, you know, decent. So I think that maybe as a group, it's just. Again, at a certain point, even if you're a good coach, maybe it starts falling on deaf ears or you need a different voice in the room because the delivery needs to change and maybe some of the coaching and teaching needs to change. I don't know specifically, but it does feel like there's a disconnect. That's why I like you can't say that's exactly what's going on because we don't know what's going on in those room in that room. But like, would I rule it out? No, I can't rule it out. The texture saying Laramie Tunsel's a bad captain. Yeah, the body language on the field ain't great. 9271 and I'm a body language expert. 9271, they were better last year with Fant and Green and Howard were out. They were way were. Like, there were better offensive line last year with lesser talent. Yeats has fired him now. See, I don't think that's the answer. I don't think that you can fire him now. That to me is not a positive move. I don't think that you can gain anything by that. Here's another one from Strauser. And this is where I'm going with with Strauser. Like, he might be a good offensive line coach but might not have the personnel needed for like his specific style. His specific philosophy because there's a lot of coaches that they don't budge with their style. Even if they have players that aren't great in their style. Here's Strauser talking about that. This scheme is, I believe, a proven scheme that's been used in this system for a lot of years. And so to me it always goes back to like I always come to work in the morning and know that whatever shows up on tape goes back to me. And so that's my starting point is how do I do it better and how do I get this unit to play better in all those things. Okay, the last part of that was just word salad. But the beginning, like this is a scheme, this is a proven scheme. That to me sounds like a guy who's not really willing to budge. Because like he does some complicated stuffs with this scheme. Like the West Coast offense has some pretty complicated stuff with the offensive line. Like adjusting with what you want to do on stunts can be complicated at times. I think you can dumb it down. I think you can make it easier for offensive lineman. But hearing that from Strauser, it makes me believe that he's not willing to do that. Yeah, I hear you. And I think the other thing to your point about maybe, you know, it's just not the right, he doesn't have the right kind of personnel to do things. Or to do things or he wants a different kind of personnel to do what he wants to do. You got to believe that there needs to be communication. Whether it's he and Bobby Sloak, because he's not going to have the one on one with a nick or a amico. But talking about like who do we need to have to be able to execute what we're trying to do, you know, better. And I think that when you look at the Kendrick Green situation or you look at the, you know, bringing in Zach Thomas and saying, and saying these are guys that we're going to put on our roster for a reason. Yet we don't know if they can play. In the case of Thomas, they just picked him up. In the case of, of Kendrick Green, we found out pretty quickly he wasn't very good. As an offensive line coach, it's my ass on the line. He just said that. If I'm worried, if I know my job is, you know, in jeopardy or is going to be scrutinized because of something like this, I damn well better be having the confidence to be and be comfortable enough to say, Hey, look, I think personnel wise, we might need to do this. Or I think that, you know, schematically, maybe because of the guys we have, we do this instead of that. But some, I would hope that there's that communication. I prefer the schematic side of that. Like, to me, get your best five and then figure out how they can be their best five. Like, I, I rather have a coach who can adjust what the, the personnel that he has. But if you're not capable of doing that, then you need to have courage in the bravado to do the personnel side of things. So yeah, both are on the table. I prefer the, the, the scheme adjustment before I prefer the personnel adjustment. But they're both on the table if the other one's not working. Last one from Strauser, he was asked if there's any chance of moving tight as Howard to left guard. We're almost, we're always talking personnel. I really every week, you know, good, good or bad. We've had, you know, as we know, some good weeks and we're still talking personnel because, you know, we're always trying to figure out what the best five is, what the best, best mix is. Not trying to move guys too much because it's, you know, it's a challenge at this point in the season in week to have to move guys from one spot to other. So, but, you know, really everybody that's on a roster is in play. I don't know what he said there. He said, like, hey, we don't want to do that, but we're willing to do that. Like, okay. Yeah, I think that was more like a cover your ass in the, in the, from the standpoint of, hey, look, we're not going to rule anything out, even though we all know that tight as Howard doesn't want to play left guard. And, and the fact is, is that, you know, you don't have a whole lot of viable options to play left guard. So at the same time, they want to make sure that everybody knows. Hey, nothing's, nothing's off limits. We're going to consider everything. I just, they just seem to be to be the kind of, of, of coaching staff that doesn't want to ruffle anybody's feathers like a Titus Howard when everything should be on the table at this point. Yeah, maybe, yeah, maybe it is that or it could also be the gamesmanship. Maybe they're planning on doing this Sunday and they don't want it out there. I think both of those things are on the table. Speaking of lineman, the Detroit Lions, starting left tackle is out for Sunday night's game. So a little tip for Tad on the injuries, I guess, starting left tackle out for Detroit. The AFC defensive player of the month, Will Anderson out for the Houston Texans. All right, what do you think of what Shrouser had to say? 713780 ESP and HRP listener line. My biggest takeaway is I feel like he's a good coach, whatever he has guys for his scheme, and he's kind of round peg square holding this right now with guys. You might not love in terms of fitting his personnel. 7137803776. Is this coach speak or not? Let's listen to some sound bites from coaches and general managers that spoke this week about this game coming up Sunday. And you tell us, Coach Speaker Knapp, it's the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. [MUSIC] You listening to The Killer Bees with Joel Blanket, Jeremy Branham. On ESPN 97 5 and 92 5. Broadcasting live from the Veritex community bank studios. Alexa on the twitch of Howard gets moved to let guard will he fake an injury during the game. Has he been known to do that, fake an injury? Is that a tonsil thing, or extend an injury? Maybe extend an injury. Maybe he just wants to emphasize that he's right tackle only. So if you put him left guard, he's like, well, guess I'm hurt. I've been watching the feelings are hurt. Certainly. There's no doubt about that. I've been watching that Red Sox documentary thing, whatever, the 3-0 comeback. Yeah, I think it's called the comeback. Oh, I didn't know about it. Sounds good stuff. It is pretty good. I've made it through an episode and a half. What's it on? In and out of some sleep. It's on Netflix. I'd forgotten that Nomar Garcia Parr. Remember that year that they were trying to trade for AROD? Yep. Well, Nomar got really upset about it. And he may be faked an injury during spring training. Maybe faked an injury during spring training, according to some. I'd forgotten about that. So that's what that made me think about the tightest Howard thing. And the other thing to keep in mind, I just thought about this because of what Alex said. You know how usually the reporters that are out of practice, they're only out there for X amount of time. And the team is only showing them what the team is willing to show them. And then they make them go away. Usually we see the offensive line that is working together in the first team. I didn't see that this week. It makes me wonder. Obviously they're going to have to have a change because, you know, Kenan Green's hurt. And Jared Patterson's coming back. But, you know, we are going to see a starting offensive line that's different for the first time. But usually we have a pretty good idea what the starting offensive line is going to be by this time every single week. We didn't see that this week. We haven't heard about it either. No. We assume that Patterson's just going to start at left guard, but you're right. We don't know. And they're hiding it. They're hiding it. They are. And I was going to say the extension of that is something that you and I were talking about. But, you know, knowing that every coaching staff and every front office in every sport is different. Some people are hell bent on the gamesmanship of trying to take every possible big or little. I hope it's not bad. I mean, look, I mean, I get gamesmanship at quarterback, but left guard. Yeah. They did the same thing with Nico. I mean, for all. Nico. That's what I'm saying. Overall, there's a pattern here that it seems like they're trying to, whether it works or not or has any impact or not. It seems like they're trying to keep everything so close to Nick's vest that they don't make it. They don't make anything clear until they have to. I'm not dismissing what you're saying is saying is being unrealistic for this team because I think you're right. I think you're on to the idea that they would at least consider the idea. I just think it's ridiculous. Like, I mean, the quarterback, yeah, that makes sense. I mean, maybe once, like, we saw with A&M one, you have a running quarterback, you have a pocket quarterback. That made a difference for them in a few games. And Nico, hey, you either have a deep threat or you don't. That can make a difference. A subpar left guard. I mean, I don't think that changes the way the Lions approach. They're still going to run stunts. They're still going to walk six up to the line and try to disguise pressure. It's not really going to change much for them. Yeah, but why not do it? Right. What do you, what do you give it up by, you know, showing it? You're not giving up anything. So, I mean, it's fine, but I just don't think it makes a difference. I mean, I don't think it makes a difference either, but yeah. I think it's a focus. Yeah. I think that there's organizations that think that it's a very, very, maybe to a lot of people, a very immaterial thing to like not let you know what the starting lineup is. Sure. Right for game time. And there are other coaching staff that believe, hey, every little advantage could possibly be something. We're not telling them. We're going to keep this under wraps. Don't say a word. And you do interviews with the coaching staff pregame. Don't even get into it. We're going to unleash your Patterson on you by surprise. I think you're both right. I mean, I think you're both right. I mean, in the sense that it's not really going to matter. I agree that it's not going to really change what Detroit's trying to do. But at the same time, does an organization think along those lines? I do. I do think that. And then also like, where's the harm here? Like, hey, we're not going to show the media where starting offensive line is. So what? Like you're not really like, there's no detriment there. There's no risk there. But there is. It's not again, it's the significance can still be somewhat minute. But at the same time, it's one thing to be Max point and say, Oh, yeah. Oh, look out. We're unleashing Jared Patterson. But guess what? The one where it's a little bit more significant is we're putting Titus Howard at left guard. And we're really sure. That would be a little different. So maybe that's, you know, we don't know. But maybe that is exactly why they're sitting on it. That's where my, that's where my conspiracy theorist mind was going is that it's something that's a little bit larger scale than we've thought. Like, Titus, the left guard in Fisher. Exactly. That would be significant. Exactly. Like that, like, as y'all are arguing that out, I'm sitting there thinking, okay, well, if there, if this is true and like, we're actually like sniffing this out a little bit here, and we could be way off. But like, if this is true and our theory here is correct, that it's probably something larger, like playing your best five, which was blinkers point the other day, like, play your best five and get them out there. However, you can get out there. And if you feel like Blake Fisher, a second rounder is better than Jared Patterson has been solid as a sixth rounder, let's figure out a way to make that happen. And that's your way of making that happen would be Titus Howard to play left guard. And his feelings might get heard to Alex's point. Maybe he fakes an injury, but at least you kind of call his bluff there a little bit. Hey, this is what we got to do for the best interest of our team. If you're not willing to do that, then we're going to buy you out of your contract at the end of the year, because you can get out of that deal after you're in first cut planning on doing anyway. I know. It's making more money than it's worth. And we were just respectfully, respectfully discussing that we weren't arguing it out or fighting it out. It was, it was very argumentative. Very argument. It's not that it's a bad thing. No, not at all. And argument doesn't have to have a negative connotation, but it was definitely an argument. Let's get to some coach speak or maybe GM speak Nick Casario talking about Jared golf. Where is this on the coach speak GM speak meter? For sure. Whatever reason sometimes players just need a change of scenery and Jared led the Rams of the Super Bowl when he was in, you know, LA, we played against them in whatever year that was in the Super Bowl when I was in New England. So Jared was the number one pick for a reason was a really good football player. Sometimes you have some roles. Sometimes you need to change the scenery seems to have been reinvigorated and they've done a good job of just kind of setting up the system kind of playing to his strengths. And Jared's a very smart, very efficient, very accurate quarterback that takes care of the football. And then they've married it with Ben system and he's played at a high level over the last few years. All right. Where's that on the GM speak meter there? I think he just I don't think he's wrong at all. I think that whether it's a change of scenery or not, we all knew the knock on golf, leaving the Rams that it was all McVay. McVay was doing a lot of the coaching in his in his headset up until the the mic in his in his speaker in his helmet was turned off that it was more McVay than it was golf. And then they felt like they could upgrade and that was a slap in his face and he got in the right situation and the right situation, whether it was just a, you know, a fresh start in a new organization or not, he is accurate because of the fact that he got the right offensive coordinator. He's got a ton of weapons around him. They built it around him the right way and allowed him to kind of cater to his strengths. And that's what they do. He's been incredibly successful and more successful than I thought he was going to be. So from that regard, I think he was pretty accurate. Yeah, I do too. I don't I don't think there was any GM speak there. I thought that was 100% accurate. Jared golfs like that point guard that's just super solid and never turns the ball over. But he's not like a James Harden type of point guard where he's just always turning it over. Like, yeah, he's going to put up huge numbers. You're going to win an MVP, but he's always going to turn it over and put your team in a bad spot. Like Josh Allen, I'll give him John Stockton because Stockton wasn't flashy. He wasn't above the rim. He wasn't like, you know, doing the things that make sports center. But at the end of the game, he had double digit assist. Like you said, he didn't turn it over. He made the right play at the right time. He was smart on the court. And that's exactly what Jared golf is. And he's an all star. Stockton's the Hall of Famer, though. You don't know what Jared golf turns out at the end of his career, but he's good, but not the numbers to be in the conversation if he keep doing this. If you went super bowl with the lions, he'll have a shot. He's John Stockton. Short of that, I don't think so. I think his point was more that Stockton is the guy that you can always trust. He's not going to make a bunch of turnovers. He's going to be a really solid point guard. He's not going to be this flashy point guard that wins an MVP or wins a scoring title. But you can also kind of trust him with a really good offense. I do kind of reject part of Casserio's point, though, about the change of scenery, because I mean, he was with he was with Sean McVade. I mean, arguably the best offensive mind, if not the best one top, certainly top three along with the guy he has now with Benny and Benny Johnson, and of course, Shanahan and San Francisco. So this might have been a case for golf where he just, you know, he hit a maturity, like he was obviously a younger quarterback in LA, hit a certain year in the league that saw more things, experienced more things, got more coaching and just hit a maturity level that allowed him to take a step forward. I think he could have still gotten to this point with McVade. It's not like he upgraded with his coaching, though, but he didn't upgrade with his talent. I'm going to argue that back. I'm going to push back because of the fact that if he's just discussing really not right, not respectfully discuss the fact that with him, if he stayed, he would never have gotten full credit for it. It would all conversation to me, but that's why his art was necessary, because as long as he was married to that situation with that head coach in that environment, that in the way you set it up, then he may have success. But at the end of the day, he's probably not going to get as much credit for it as McVade is in Detroit with Dan Campbell. Yes, we found out what Ben Johnson can be, but it was a total fresh start to where he could be and get credit for the quarterback that he always thought he was when he was drafted number one overall. Yeah, if you can do it in two different offenses, then I think you get more credit. Whether that's fair or not, why is that matter? If golf would have stayed with the Rams and did exactly what he's doing right now at Detroit, should he get less or more credit? I think he should get equal credit. I think that what is the bigger common denominator here is that both offenses have been very good. I don't think that Jared Goff is the type of quarterback that you could put anything around him and they're going to excel and they're going to shine, where if you've had quarterbacks in NFL history that you can do that with currently, you put Josh Allen with us and Josh Allen's going to put up numbers. Lamar Jackson with us, he's going to put up numbers. I think Peyton Manning was that way. Yes, he had really good receivers, but how many of those receivers were made by Peyton Manning? A golf needs to be a guy that's in a really good offense, but whenever he's in a really good offense, he can take that offense to another level because he's mistake free. He completes a high percentage of his passes, whereas you put those other superstar splashy type of quarterback with these types of offenses. I don't know if they're really going to click as well as the lines are currently clicking. Let's get some more of these coach speaks on the other side. 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Yeah I do I mean look they've got a lot of young talent that they hit on and it's funny because most of those players over there are all players that we really were high on to you know and so when you see that and you see some of these players you're like man that was a good one you know that was a good pick they got there and you see how hard they play in the type of football players they are and so I do think there's a lot of similarities you know and there again I think they've they've drafted well I think Demico's done a hell of a job going in there and just the style of play that they have I think the quarterbacks played well they got one there and they're like anybody else they've had to go through some injuries and stuff this year and and they're battling through it and they're you know they're still one of the top teams in this league so they're finding ways to adapt and continue to win so it'll be a challenge. Coach Big yes yes it is I think it is because I mean full I mean I don't think that he's necessarily wrong but at the same time it was more so it's almost a patting patting them on the back as well for saying we like the same players which means you know if they're good we're good too but also you know you're not going to say anything that's going to put them down so I think at a certain point you're just going to fluff them up but you are I think it was obviously complimentary and there were some good stuff in there but at the same time I just felt like it was more coach Beaky. I thought I glad you caught the parwers like yeah there are a lot of all their young players or players that we like too like a little bit of hey look at us we're really good at about any challenge. We're good too. Yeah there was a little bit of a self-gratification to that one I thought that that was funny now I don't disagree with what he said though like the Texans do have good young players. Stroud now Anderson's not playing you know Nico's really good young player so I mean yeah I mean he didn't get into any specifics so I could see like the coach Speaky side of it my favorite part was the we we really like their young players too we would have drafted them had they been there here's Bobby Slovak on how they have to be better in protection how much of this is coach Beak. Yeah we just got to be better really at every level you know up front you know it was technique some fundamental stuff some just execution of what we're doing but it goes beyond just up front you know it's really every position in the past game right now we didn't play good on Thursday and you know this is what we're talking about right now we're fired up for the challenge this week and we're ready to go full speed ahead in the regular season and address the things that have come up. All right coach Beak there. I mean I think that's the the word salad way of saying we know we've got to be better across the board you know we know that the first finger pointed is at the offensive line but we know that you know our receiver is trying to fill in for digs being out Nico being out have to be better we know that you know the tight ends have to be better as much as I'd like to say we know that he's pointing the finger at mixing he's the one guy you probably don't need to point the finger at because he's been awesome but overall I think it's just a long what winded way of saying we just know we need to be better across the board. Exactly that's that's what I heard too like I don't think it's coach Beakie I think it's just he stated the obvious yeah of course without singling guys out and you know things coaches never want to do they just it's basically his way of saying we already know what you guys are pointing at and we know we've got to be better. He was slow at addressing the second half struggles that the offensive said I bet you if you look at situational football it's going to be very much the same it's going to be in the first half we'll get a situational football in the second half we're not executing the second situational football well enough there's no you know people like to think there's some secret sauce between the first half the second half there's all these adjustments that happen everybody makes adjustments we've talked about it before you know you have you have subtle things that happen within a game there's there's not one thing a defense is doing in the second half that's different than what they do in the first half we're not doing our job as well you know and that's been an emphasis for us for three weeks and we got to keep straining on it. I was this one out of the coach speak he's full of it I mean yeah that this is one where he's annoyed because he knows that everybody knows what's been going on and you know he's he's going to say that and there's a whole lot of BS involved in that because every team makes adjustments and every team knows that the other team's going to make adjustments and and and whether they made adjustments and they didn't work or not we didn't see that but what we did see is the numbers don't lie and when you're not scoring touchdowns and you're not doing things in the second half the way you were capable of doing things in the first half there's an easy correlation there to say that the adjustments aren't being made yeah I thought this was some self-preservation really it's like okay I'm going to start listing off a bunch of reasons that you know we I can use to defend my second half struggles because like the whole this is situational type of stuff what those situations don't pop up in the first half like he decided that we're not good in red zone you're not in the red zone in the first half like what where is where is the difference there so like that that kind of that to me felt more I'm defending that I've been poor in this area yeah for sure I think that yeah that there's there's a little bit of more than a little bit of annoyance there but again let's we're not dumb enough to think that you know you're going to tell us the sky is purple and when we know it's blue I mean whether you are an analytics person or not or the numbers don't lie that what we see with the naked eye doesn't lie they're not doing a whole hell of a lot differently from half to half and other teams are yeah that that one really kind of annoyed me because he was like oh I know more than you and just because I'm minus 40 or whatever it is in the second half that that doesn't mean anything because of situational football come on man all right do these takes from national media match we're seeing from shroud and the text here's one from Greg Coasell I agree a hundred percent you know shrouds had some tough games this year some of it's been on him some of it's been on the protection you could see that he's not as comfortable as he was a year ago he's starting to rush himself and he's missing some throws routine throws because he's rushing himself you can see it you know as I said that's not an X and O point but you can just see it watching the tape that he's just playing a little too fast all right he's not wrong you see yeah he's not wrong I mean I think that at a certain point everybody's internal clock is going to speed up a little bit and and things are going to get a little bit out of sorts because of it when you're dealing with what CJ's had to deal with all year I mean when when you see the numbers and you know the pressures and you know the sacks and you know that on every play he's either running for his life or trying to slide and find a way to find just a little extra time to be able to throw the football it's going to have a negative connotation on the entire offense and the way he plays the game I don't think he's wrong no I think you nailed it Greg Coasell is really good I enjoyed Greg Coasell here's one more from Chris Sims that failure Texas quarterback Obby Slovak is not doing enough to help CJ Stradd right now CJ Stradd right now is being misused and it's a shame when CJ Stradd goes 10 for 30 there's an issue it's the most accurate quarterback in football like I said on Sunday night this is institutional this is a problem with their offense overall you just saw those last three games for CJ Stradd yeah those are basically two of his worst three games what was working last year yeah is it just that other defenses have figured it out I think so I think there's a little bit of that here's my biggest problem they're not teaching CJ Stradd anything about past protection or where he's got to go with the football that shows up because when they get tricked with certain blitzes you could tell CJ Stradd is like they said they were gonna handle all these things where's my hot route I didn't even know who we were supposed to blitz or not they blitzed five we had five offense alignment I thought we'd be okay that's kind of what they told me all weekend meetings they're doing a disservice to him nobody's really taught him about what's going on here and what happens if that guy doesn't come and this guy doesn't blitz and do all that he's back there just wait hey anybody open oh wait I think I'm protected let me look around anybody open yeah I think life is hard on him right now Oh Chris Simms uh the the windy baby second half of that I could have done without I think the first half is accurate we've talked about it the first half of the quote was about the fact that Slovak's doing him a disservice I think the from whether you want to put him in the pistol or not but moving the pocket finding ways to get him out of harm's way from the minute he gets the football to buying a little extra time so that he has that extra half second to throw the football there are ways that I don't think are being used used and implemented to give him just that little extra that he needs right now to buy some time and to be able to be more accurate and be more effective yeah I'm not going to put the second half I'm not going to give any credence to the second half of that as much because I don't think CJ is this we know he's an exes and those guy we know that he's a football junkie I don't think that he's the kind of guy that's going to sit there and go why are these guys coming at me that they didn't expect and why why can't I why wasn't I prepared for him with his little acting voice I think that that's a little far-fetched yeah I'm like 40% of what he said I don't think that they're misusing him I just think they're having a very difficult time protecting him I don't think it's misuse and I do agree with the the fact that you know I 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