D'Amico Ryan's is indeed back to 2006 Defensive Rookie of
the Year returns to Houston the H2 as the head coach. I have
a feeling. Am I getting my year wrong? 2006 was the year. They
drafted
Mario Williams. That would be something if D'Amico Ryan's was
the defensive rookie of the year. The year that they
drafted Mario Williams. We're going to have to, we're going
to have to
research that and make sure I'm not getting the year wrong but
he was Defensive Rookie of the Year like you're right though
in his rookie year, he was drafted 06 so that is a hell of
an accomplishment. Mario Williams. The first overall
pick in the draft was not the Defensive Rookie of the Year.
His teammate who was drafted later. By
the Texans in that same draft was the Defensive Rookie of
the Year, went on to be a great player and now a great coach
and head coach
of the Houston Texans.
He says that's his dream job. It's a six-year deal. That's
one of those. Hey, world were not dysfunctional any more
contracts. Like the one Kyle Shanahan initially. Got right?
Six years ago in San Francisco after they
did the Jim tomsula one year out Kelly one year out,
we got to create the impression
that we know what we're doing and we almost have to protect
ourselves from ourselves. Let's sign this guy too, so long of
a contract, the buyout would be so much. We dare not firearm
after one year, but I really even without a six-year
contract, I doubt
they're going to fire
D'Amico Ryan's after one year, he's going to get a chance to
turn this thing around. It's going to be fun to watch. Yeah,
I love the six-year deal. First off, I'm in the, you know, as
you know, right, we all know
Six-year deal. I mean at least Asher's you three years,
that would kind of be my estimation there, right? Mike.
I mean, maybe even a fourth really, it's just so that's
the positive thing and then D'Amico Ryan of course had done a good
enough job with the 49ers where he could demand that kind of
deal.
And then I think when you add on top of that that
you know he loves to Houston Texans
that was a place. I think he wanted to be had his eye on
this job throughout the process and then he's Hello Houston to
your point
and they can finally
get a guy that it seems real.
That's the biggest thing. It seems like it's the first real
higher here. The last two guys, David collie and Lovie Smith
just made, you feel like, well, they got something working or
something on the back burner.
This doesn't seem to be the long-term fixture of
the organization, D'Amico Ryan's does. So now we got a little
bit of a,
you know, a path as far as what we think this team will be.
I think it's a great. Combination with Nick Kazarian
again, the Texans team has a lot of, you know, solid and
good on it
now. Hopefully, they can get some Sizzle players that we
talked about with these great teams and difference makers on
their football team. But man, I think this is
awesome for D'Amico Ryan's. And I think that, you know, finally
the Texans really got it right in this situation and got their
guy here for a while.
Job number one, fix the quarterback position. They've
got the second overall pick in the draft and offensive
coordinator is going to become key and that's one of
the caveats that I've mentioned from time to time. If you hire
defensive coach, you get an offensive coordinator,
you join the offensive coordinator at the hip with
your Young quarterback. And you want that Young quarterback to
develop and the danger is
if that offense of coordinator does to, well of a job. What
happens offensive coordinator leaves become a head coach
somewhere else. Got to find somebody else.
To continue the development of the Young quarterback, that's
the problem. I thought the Chargers were getting into with
Brandon Staley and Joe Lombardi. The only problem
there is Lombardi got fired. He didn't get hired somewhere
else, but if you get it working right,
you become a head, coaching candidate. And that's going to
be one of the realities for D'Amico Ryan's as a head coach
with a defensive pedigree. But even then
I think the Texans
got the guy they need right now.
They've got to turn this team around. They've got to turn
the purse. Reception around, they got to turn the culture around,
they got to turn the attitude around, they've got to turn
the talent around and he's shown,
he's shutting out. Now, remember there's a jump that
he's going to have to make the leadership the ability to take
over the locker room, the ability to communicate with
the players individually to get the most out of
them. But
we are gleaning from what we've seen from D'Amico, Ryan's that
he has that. That's right. And I do have the chance to prove
it in Houston. Yeah. And came from a place that has it right?
I think.
The other thing, too. I mean, we're
Roberts. Allah has it. As far as communicating connecting
with the players and Mike McDaniel,
okay? Be a little different, but has it, right? And then
that's the big thing. There's obviously a culture there with
the 49ers that Shanahan has put in place to where these guys
knows how to talk to players communicate and get, you know,
their, their,
their main point across to the football team and the players
that way, that's where D'Amico Ryan's special and yeah, The
offensive coordinator thing, it's going to be huge, right?
I think there's already discussion and talking to
the 49ers quarterback passing
game coordinator.
So that makes sense.
I get that and my get up with you because you've talked about
this a lot and I do think this is a it's an interesting
subject
with deep with that offensive head coach who calls plays. He
fires a defensive coordinator, okay?
And sometimes that demons according to does a great job
and leaves but you know more times than not somebody's
I've been groomed behind the scenes a little bit to take
over Allah D'Amico, Ryan's Roberts, Allah, and the 49ers
defense, for whatever reason, that doesn't seem to go down
with defense a head coaches on the offensive side of the ball
and that's one thing that I would
throw out to my coach friends or if D'Amico Ryan ever asked
me. Yeah, get a guy from the 49ers
that make him the offensive coordinator, but make sure
there's guys in place that are learning that system just like
the defensive guys. Due to wear,
okay, if this quarterback coach, now offensive
coordinator leaves in the Year to you know, we got something
in place here for the guy. That's, you know, can can
follow that that charge right there
for some reason with defensive coaches. That doesn't seem to
go down all the time and I just kind of find it peculiar and
maybe D'Amico Ryan can find the right formula.
And one of the examples of that we saw play out this year, for
the Buffalo Bills. Brian De ball leaves, to become
the head, coach of the Giants. Ken Dorsey takes over as
the offensive coordinator and
there seemed to be a regression. Even though
they tried to sell us on the idea that Dorsey had kind of
been groomed. Yeah, right. And kind of prepared because they
assumed at some point, a ball was going to become a head
coach but you want that transition to be seamless
and you want that relationship between
quarterback?
And member of the staff most responsible for the quarterback
to be as close and as productive as possible, gets
back to the whole,
Sean, Payton Drew Brees now. Sean, Payton Russell Wilson,
you're never going to have to worry about in Denver,
the relationship being anything other than Sean, Payton Russell
Wilson, unless Sean Payton decides whenever the salary cap
ramifications would permit it that Russell Wilson really
doesn't have it anymore. And I'm going to go find my next
Drew Brees out there
somewhere, but when you have that offense of head coach,
who's a quarterback Guru, True.
That's the guy who forms the bond with the quarterback and
you never have to worry about that. That's a point. I was
going to make earlier, I wrote about this last night and it's
something I feel very strongly about that I hadn't thought
about until someone explained it to
me. A lot of stuff. I don't really think of until someone
explains it to me and then it's like, hey, that's a pretty damn
good idea
when you have a good coach when you have a great coach, if
things aren't going well,
you never have to worry that. Maybe it's the coach. You can
take confidence in the fact that it's something else.
When your coach is a little shaky and you're not quite sure
and things aren't going well, you're like well is it
the coaches down Liars, right? That yeah, when you've got a great
coach, you never have to worry that the coach is the problem
if you're dealing with some sort of adversity with your
team and that is
based upon the vibe. I got from the person who explained it to
me, who's, in a position to live. This, that is very
liberating. When you're a member of a front office
that has to keep this thing as finely tuned as possible.
If you know, just like a car right?
Well, something's wrong with the car. It's not the engine.
We know we got a damn good engine.
We got the best engine. You could find,
it's got to be something else
that that's that's the reality
for the Saints now and are the Saints, the Broncos. Now it was
the reality for the Saints and it may be the reality for
the Texans. If it D'Amico Ryan's
proves to be a great head coach, when things go wrong for
the Texans, it's no longer the coach the past few years,
the questions been, is that the coach? And look what they've
done. Bill O'Brien fired.
David collie fired
Lovie Smith fire? Yeah, that's right now. Hopefully they can
spend some money in free agency
to give D'Amico Ryan, some pliers that make sense, right?
I got no doubt that he's going to get the defense right. And
the defense, you know, it was not as bad as it's this to
statistically look last year, anyways. And I think their
offense contributed to that, but
again, I think the defense is going to be better under
D'Amico Ryan's, and his creativity, and how he coaches
and that style of play. In the scheme.
And then the other part of this of course, is kind of
you kind of brought it up to start.
Hey, they got to get the quarterback thing right?
You know they've been playing with a backup quarterback. The
last two years Davis Mills again, respect just
he's not a starting quarterback in the NFL,
not in my opinion, high-end backup Bridge type quarterback.
Sure. But the guy that holds it down, as your franchise know,
they got pick two
and pick 12 and this year's draft.
So they have a chance here
to really Get some Marquee players that can kind of change
the direction of their football team. Quarterbacks got to be
one of those two picks for sure
and hopefully they can get that right? But
things are finally looking the right way with the Houston
Texans, I think that's the positive thing and
I just think it's all kind of a match made in heaven, there
D'Amico Ryan's wanted to be there, of course, being
drafted. There being a guy that's from the south
just made too much sense there and good for the Texans, good
for D'Amico, right? Ian.
Yeah, it will be an interesting time now and those other teams
in the AFC South that had been looking at the Texans and
regarding them as a team not to really worry about now, we're
going to have to worry about the Texans, is they try to turn
this thing around. Let's go ahead and take a break when we
return. There are two
vacancies left, the Cardinals and
the Colts, who will they hire will try to figure that out
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