Texans interview Jerrod Johnson for offensive coordinator

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The search is on for the next Texans offensive coordinator. They interviewed quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson this week.

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00:00this uh reports Aaron Wilson, Clint Texans interviewing their current quarterbacks coach

00:07Gerard Johnson early this week for the offensive coordinator position.

00:12He has been instrumental in CJ Stroud's growth also in the report but he uh he is he is most

00:20definitely not a surprise. We had James Palmer on on Friday and he said he is a very serious

00:28candidate and as serious as such we hear he is getting interviewed for it not a surprise there.

00:34Um so that is that is taking place this is getting serious. Do you think there's a

00:40situation in which like he could really blow them away and and and this is this could be the next

00:46OC? Yeah look yeah absolutely I think there's there's a chance that that that he could get in

00:50a meeting room uh and and now now everything shifts right it's not about it's not about

00:56you know being a former player and playing the quarterback position at a high level and being

01:00able to communicate at a high level and knowing CJ Stroud now it switches to from an overall

01:07play design game plan play calling you know can you kick next level higher level do you feel like

01:15that between your experience with him and the conversations you're having with him now do you

01:20feel like that is the right direction is this a guy because I I do believe and I pray and I hope

01:27that this is super important to D'Amico Rhines and Nick Casario and I use Laramie Tunsell because

01:33if we all know Laramie's all know the the ripple effect that a guy like Laramie has on the offensive

01:41like whoever this guy is needs to have the ability to command more from Laramie Tunsell on down

01:52do you does does is a guy that's been in the building that's that's young in the profession

01:59does he have that ability as well right I mean so there's a lot of there's a lot of of of factors

02:06here with this offensive coordinator hire that I think when you go with a guy that's never done it

02:12you better be sure fire about a couple of other things right and and it's it's more so about

02:18again being able to coach the position an individual drill and being able to coach the

02:22position in a meeting room and and being really close to CJ Stroud that is all great for an

02:28offensive for a quarterback coach means absolutely nothing as an offensive coordinator in fact I can

02:35argue at this point in time that they they need to distance themselves a little bit from CJ Stroud

02:40see that's like the CJ Stroud it runs everything and CJ Stroud is the head coach's buddy and CJ

02:47Stroud like you you can argue that hey man what this offense needs is somebody that's a little

02:52less buddy buddy with everybody well that's what I was gonna I was gonna say to you what would it

02:55signal to you like if it like straight up what would it signal to you if Gerard Johnson got the

03:03job and to me I could be dead wrong not not that he's not qualified for it because I could see him

03:11getting a job with the Jets hell he's as qualified as Bobby Slowick was

03:16hell even also passing in corner so like but the the number one thing that I can't help for

03:23what it would signal to me is CJ really wants him like that like to me if he got if it were

03:32Gerard Johnson to this it would be like CJ really really wants him now in some ways like for some

03:39people I think people hear that and say okay yeah CJ shows she CJ should have some some some real say

03:46so in it but that's the part to me where I don't like I don't know if it should be a like a CJ

03:53really wants him I I like I kind of agree with you I think it should almost think it should be

03:57somebody that neither one of them D'Amico or CJ have a relationship with so that person can come

04:03in and feel very comfortable implementing what it is that they want to implement and say and do what

04:08they want to do agree wholeheartedly Ron you you can argue that with the the Texans offensive

04:16coordinator search high up on the priority list should be I'm gonna rule with an iron fist and

04:24I don't want to be anybody's friend I don't want to be Laramie Tunstall's friend I don't want to be

04:28lenient on Laramie Tunstall I don't want to be CJ Stroud's buddy I don't want to be lenient to CJ

04:34Stroud I I don't want to be anybody's buddy I'm coming in here and I'm putting my foot down we're

04:39going to demand perfection across the board whether we're talking route running or we're

04:44talking about the the footwork the mechanics and techniques associated with executing certain

04:49blocks in the pass game and the run game you're talking about chips with the tight ends and being

04:54more physical just to the funnel right I don't want to be nobody's buddy this is how the Texans

04:59offense is going to operate and if you don't agree if you don't want to operate if you don't want to

05:04fall in line and you don't want to show up and show out and show these this level of physicality

05:08this level of technique work this level of commitment then you can be a great player

05:14like D'Amico said many a times it just ain't here you can move on and be a great player in the NFL

05:20it's just not here if you're not going to do things this way on the offensive side of the

05:25football I believe that high up if not number one extremely high up on the priority list

05:32that's what the Texans need an offensive coordinator not another guy that's that is

05:37just familiar and close to CJ the only the only way it would make sense and they and they're the

05:41only ones who know is if Clint this was just simply a deal where Bobby Slowick was just going

05:50rogue and he was just he was just like nah man I'm I'm I'd to hell with any of anybody else I'm

05:58rolling on my own and it was clearly a deal of nah like everybody else wanted to play ball and do

06:04do what was needed except for except for him and that's just got to be the change that that's the

06:10only one but we won't ever know that they they're the ones who know that but well that's if that's

06:15the case the offensive line coach got a raw deal well and and to me the reason why I don't know

06:20that I that I lean so much on that is Clint if that was the case that you would have made the

06:24move on Bobby Slowick right you know you would you would have moved on him during the season

06:30if that was if that was it like instead of just letting it continue to to go so I don't know

06:37we'll see the other part on this Clint is Jonathan Jones CBS yesterday during the pregame show

06:44talked about Chip Kelly and said Ohio State's offensive coordinator Chip Kelly

06:49Chip Kelly is a top candidate for this job listen I tips a little out there he's a little different

06:57chips success has come more in college than it did with the Eagles or the Niners in the NFL

07:04but I think he does fit the

07:09yeah he's a guy that comes in that I I don't think we'll have any issue ruling and running

07:16this thing he's an experience has been he's been more been a head coach on the college level the

07:21NFL level he's a guy that can run the show yeah look I've I've flipped on on my my opinion last

07:28week of Chip Kelly it was kind of thrown out there you threw it out there to kind of caught

07:31me by surprise and I was like ah you know I haven't heard a lot of guys that really like

07:34Chip Kelly so I don't know if I'd go the Chip Kelly route right um I'm still up in here with

07:39it by the way I know I flipped on it look I I think that is I think it's as I just said I think

07:44it's more necessary that you get a guy in here that don't take no crap right you just fall in

07:50line get it he will not take crap from any players anywhere no matter how good you have been or how

07:55good you are at this point in time so I I've I've done a 180 on on Chip Kelly I would have no

08:01problem at all I could get completely in on Chip I'm not the biggest Chip Kelly fan but I could

08:06definitely get in on Chip Kelly being the offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans all he's got to

08:11do is handle the offense and he can handle that offense with that iron fist that we're talking

08:14about it can demand can demand physicality of these guys Ron that's one thing he brought to

08:19the table even back in his Oregon days my man's gonna put a run game together I mean they're

08:23gonna they're gonna put a a a dynamic run game together he believes in being physical and

08:31apparently he rules with an iron fist man I I would have no problem with with Chip Kelly being

08:36in here and him being the offensive coordinator so um yeah that that would be that'd be solid yeah

08:43I yeah I don't I don't know um I think that the one the one thing that does help is

08:51he clearly we didn't hear any rumbles or issues with Ryan Day now it's one year yeah we didn't

08:56hear any rumbles he's got his ass up out of here he lost his D coordinator got up out of there

09:00came to the league yeah yeah so I you know that that's that's good he showed he could work like

09:06he could work with it right and I think this is this but to me this is what is what is D'Amico

09:12looking for does D'Amico want to have some say so in it because this is a big move for D'Amico

09:19right like it this one's got to be right right and and does he want more say so or does he

09:24legit want this thing to be like Sean McVay and Sean McVay said here I'm hiring Wade Phillips

09:30and Wade it's yours or or does he or does he want a little bit more input yeah yeah look the the

09:36D'Amico input thing is is is interesting I would imagine he he wants to make the decision him damn

09:41self at this point in time the the the other interesting thing Ron uh about the Texans

09:47offensive coordinator search to me is and and the fact that Chip Kelly is being brought up and I

09:52don't know how credible it is or not but but just bringing up the chip can do believe that the

09:57Texans offensive coordinator search or their next hire I do believe it needs to be go hire the best

10:05guy that is willing to take the leap if that's stealing somebody else's offensive coordinator

10:10whether it's somebody in the league or somebody that just won a national championship at the

10:13college level I do think that this search needs to be wider than just the same retreads that were

10:20just fired for underperforming somewhere else or the inexperienced guys in the house the Texans

10:26are at a spot where it is it is we're going to go from divisional round to competing for a Super Bowl

10:31and I think this is one place this is the one place where I think major change could occur

10:36in the right hire could immediately push them into that conversation that that would that would

10:42necessitate the the the or that would facilitate the necessary change on offense that I believe

10:49could put them in the serious talks about truly contending but you got to go take somebody's

10:55offensive coordinator you can't just settle for somebody in-house or settle for somebody

10:58that's available in the streets.

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