Now that Nick Caley has been officially introduced as the Texans' new offensive coordinator, what's your confidence level in DeMeco Ryans' decision to hire him? The Drive's Clint Stoerner and Ron Hughley discuss that here.
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00:00D'Amico Ryan's you heard that that promo there is is we as we jumped out of the break said hey, man, Nick Nick Kaley
00:09Said uh, this guy has the ability to tailor the offense towards the players and
00:14Get a get us over as he said, uh-huh
00:18and I
00:21Do I do wonder where fans are?
00:247 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 10 those of you on the Jim Adler the Texas hammer text line
00:29Those are on YouTube and twitch. I see you kick rocks
00:32And it's Sally in the building everybody over there
00:38Now that we've seen D'Amico's D'Amico
00:40We like we know and I'm taking before his word right as he said, this is his hire, man
00:45He made this decision. It was a tough decision. He wouldn't make this decision. He made the Nick Kaley decision
00:50He also made the Bobby Slowick decision, right? That was that was his guy
00:54He brought with him from San Francisco and I and clearly year one. It was a home run decision, right based off
01:03What happened with CJ Stroud what happened with the offense and this guy getting head coaching?
01:10opportunities
01:12At least once a year want a home run
01:15obviously last year
01:17He felt he had to make the tough decision to make the change on Bobby Slowick
01:22How are you feeling now that we're already here year two?
01:25And it's a second selection here and based off what he brought in and like I said here from the people as well
01:32How are you feeling in?
01:34your
01:35Confidence that D'Amico can pick the guy that this offense need. Well, look I not not good
01:42I mean the confidence level is low
01:44It's it's when we hired D'Amico Ryan's a defensive minded head coach
01:48I immediately said the fear is is that you get a turnstile in the wrong direction at the offensive coordinator position
01:53Even if the guy wins he moves on you got to find the next replacement and it could be in a year like this year
01:58Where you find yourself without an offensive coordinator and there's nobody out there the old heads that are on the streets
02:03They want to take the year off and Mike McCarthy Doug Peterson doesn't want to coach
02:07You know all these a couple of other guys got you know, Chip Kelly's making too much money, right?
02:12So it's one of those scenarios where you look up and you fire a guy and you go well damn
02:15What what am I gonna do now, right? This is precisely why?
02:19The defensive minded head coach from jump scared the hell out of me
02:24And now that we're two years into this thing
02:26Everybody out there all the listeners out there that that that called me every name in the book when I said it
02:31This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not sitting here telling you that I don't like to hire D'Amico Ryan's
02:36I'm just telling you this is life with the defensive minded head coach is you're constantly trying to get the most important the most important piece
02:44The best support you can which is your quarterback. You found the quarterback and now
02:49unfortunately, you can't find the
02:52plate caller right and when
02:55D'Amico you in D'Amico we trust he hires his first guy. It's his it's his homeboy again. Not some established older
03:03pelts on the wall
03:06Coaches with an iron fist my way or the highway type off. It's a coordinator
03:09He hires a guy from the system that he's been locked at the hip with in San Francisco
03:13And we all just got to sit here and trust right one good year one bad year
03:18D'Amico boom boots him out the door and here we are hiring another guy from that Shanahan McVeigh
03:25Kubiak understudy
03:27You know up-and-coming type of type of guy
03:30And now we just supposed to hear and trust again. Yeah, I don't I don't have confident
03:35I don't have much confidence at all to be honest with you
03:36Whether it's in D'Amico or it's in Nick or it's in Nick Kaley
03:40I don't the confidence is not real high that this is gonna show that this is gonna bear much fruit in in the in
03:48the sense of
03:49Improved production offensively because yeah, there is a wait-and-see element, which I think we're squarely in but sometimes the weight
03:57It's the only option you have but sometimes it is made different if you feel like alright
04:01I got I've got a I've got a real good. I got a good feel that
04:07Based off history or whatever the direction they're going to go is going to yeah, it's going to work out
04:13Yeah, yeah, and I tell you you talked about the confidence in D'Amico. I look I I don't I
04:18Don't know any of the details
04:22But right now if if I had to bet on kind of you know a 30,000 foot view of what's going on
04:29The first time
04:34You got it hire your guy
04:37He hires his guy and it's Bobby slow it and this time it's hard it's hard for me to not go
04:45Nick Casario
04:47Let's collab on this thing a little bit more. Let's go your route. Who do you got?
04:51Well, we got the old New England good buddy of mine knew him John Carroll guy from New England old line coach
04:56This is making that we already got an assistant. Let's make him to
04:59the the the old line coach
05:02Let's go get this guy. It's been a hot. He's been hot lately in a time by the way
05:06Let's let me let's let's not let's make sure we're we we include all the context
05:13Yes, he's been hot he's he's there's he's turned down some interviews I get it
05:17But we're living in an era where where anybody and everybody that knows Nick Casario gets it gets an interview
05:22I'm not shooting at Nick. I'm just saying generally speaking like if you know if you have a connection to an organization
05:28We got guys out here that have no business getting head jobs that ain't even coached in the league getting interviews, right?
05:34So let's not let's not oversell a guy being a hot candidate at the head coach position
05:39We're interviewing anybody and everybody under the Sun in today's NFL. So
05:44You know
05:45but but it looks to me like
05:47This is Nick's turn to go out and get his guys in here and do it his way do it the New England way because
05:52The San Francisco way didn't work out. There's too many dots. The stars align in that direction
05:57You can't tell me that Nick Casario didn't have a very very very strong all of a sudden
06:03You know a guy in D'Amico and Nick that that the first thing they do every time they speak is man
06:07We work together. We do things together now all of a sudden Nick
06:12Nowhere to be fucked. Yeah, it's like I don't care what anybody says
06:16It's hard for me to not go to a place where it's turn to make the it's Nick's turn to make the decision and
06:21And see if he can't get the off. I definitely think this is a
06:24much more collaborative effort in
06:28figuring out who the
06:29Coaches and and I'll be I don't have a problem with it, right like no
06:33I mean after it's it's slow wick and that didn't work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know
06:38Maybe maybe we and he talked about it talked to other coaches. I'm certain he's got a relationship with Sean McVeigh
06:44Certain he's probably talked to his his mentor and Kyle
06:48Shanahan, I'm serious. He's talked to multiple guys. I listen I I trust
06:55That D'Amico for the most part
06:59Like can identify good coaches
07:03Like I feel like he's been around enough of them so much from who be act Andy
07:09You know, Chip Kelly even in Philly and and and then obviously with Kyle in San Francisco
07:16To me and and and still we have not seen everything
07:21Shake out. We don't with we don't know if the staff will completely stay the same right now
07:26we have only heard of the one change and
07:29it's not really that much of a change because he was on the staff last year outside of Kaylee is I
07:38It does feel like it does feel like there has to be more change
07:45And that or or at least has to be a guy as he said his leadership
07:52There a little bit of guys saying
07:54All right, I'm gonna be the OC
07:57But I do need to bring some
08:00Somebody or some people that I feel good about there is like there is no way to me
08:07that Nick Kaylee can come in here and say
08:11Yes, that's the tidy coach I'm a role
08:15But if you were a tight end coach your whole life and you
08:19Watch on film and you saw what you saw from tidy like no disrespect brother
08:24I gotta get I gotta get my my guy in absolutely, right like to me. There is something to the thought of
08:32Hey
08:33And sure, maybe there's a connection. But hey man for we even higher
08:38You as the OC we're gonna hire your offensive line coach and that is clearly
08:44That's the number one thing. He was it was questioned about
08:48Nick Kaylee that was coming more than anything in the presser
08:52and that like there's something to the fact of it does feel like
08:58He's bringing in a coach that
09:01That he has made a lot of decisions for him and you just come in here and well, it's
09:08Only thing that makes me check up. Nobody. Nobody wants CJ put in a system
09:14You want to build a system around CJ, but do you want to stick Nick Kaylee in a system?
09:19Yeah
09:20It's a it's okay for Casario and D'Amico to just keep all these pieces around there and just plug Nick Kaylee and go
09:25Hey, man, go good luck. Go get this go do work with this group
09:28But it's it's but but CJ
09:32CJ it's interesting man that Nick and D'Amico got an interesting way of hiring
09:37It works in the defense side of football because D'Amico is running all the obviously D'Amico is a is a is a leak
09:42Elite alpha leader of men and a great play caller
09:46but finding that elite alpha leader of men great play call on the offensive side of the football seems to be a
09:54I've had a tough go at it so far. We'll see if we'll see if
09:57If Nick Kaylee can can rise to the challenge
10:00yeah, and they think highly of him and I cannot wait to watch and see what
10:08What things he brings at the table and how this thing looks and I do like I said, I think D'Amico can identify
10:15good coaches in and I think it's just a bit of the
10:20Right the process of it. Like when you think about good coaches the other part that comes to mind is
10:27Well, yeah, man. I'm like, I'm a bring guys and I feel
10:32but here's the deal like it's like I agree with you D'Amico and Nick are I mean I
10:39Would say on the elite side of hiring guys that cleats in the turf sweat my ass off leaving it all in the field coaching
10:46Like I think that part of his thing that's part of the reason why the Texans are gonna win his division
10:50They're gonna be a nine or ten win football team until D'Amico decides to hang it up, right?
10:55But
10:57Again the interesting thing is is is
11:01You've got to have more than that in a play caller
11:05Like he's got to demand the respect of Bill Lazor and Gerard Johnson and Ben McDaniels and all these guys. He's got
11:12at a demand time and even even when you can't get the protection right your quarterback smoke like you got to demand the respect of
11:18Those guys and it's clear Bobby may have been a damn rocket scientist when with play
11:24He may be the genius with the playbook
11:26But if you don't demand respect in them adverse times everybody's gonna turn on you and it's gonna be it
11:31It's gonna get uglier and uglier and uglier and that's obviously what happened with Bobby