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Texans offensive lineman have praised new o-line coach Cole Popovich. Should it matter?
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2/6/2025
Does it matter to you that Texans offensive linemen have good things to say about their new offensive line coach Cole Popovich? Payne and Pendergast discuss it here.
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Jonathan Alexander has a mailbag in the Houston Chronicle, Seth, where he talks
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about some of the aspects of the Texans coaching search. He said this in the
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mailbag. He said he talked to a couple of offensive linemen on the Texans after
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the season and they like newly promoted offensive line coach Cole Popovich.
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Yeah. Cole Copovich. Boy, that was almost really bad. He talked to a couple of
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offensive linemen who like him and thought he did a good job. Here's my
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thing with this. If he's talking to a couple of offensive linemen, then
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almost by sheer math, he talked to at least one that was not. Laramie Tunsil
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was the only one who I could say was good at his job last year.
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Yeah. So by definition, he talked to a couple. He talked to at least one who was
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below par. Well, I'd say Titus was okay. Like as far as,
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Titus didn't live up to his contract, but he was okay. I'd say two guys
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that were acceptable offensive linemen. I'm on record as saying
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I'm tired of Titus's opinions on almost anything right now. So my whole
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thing with this is there's a chance you talk to a couple of people who weren't
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very good at their job. I don't care what bad offensive linemen think,
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how good they think he is. Only Jonathan would know this is okay.
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Is this a guy who consistently dimes people out? Or is he a guy that's polite
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and says nice things about people? What kind of guy is he? And yeah, is he just
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declining an opportunity to talk smack about somebody? It also says in this
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mailbag he's responsible for the run block. That's what I... Really? Well,
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okay. So this is how I process that. Okay. Help me out here. Well, because
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I saw a couple people turn that into run game coordinator, which he was
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not. They didn't have one. If he focused more on the run blocking side
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of things and the... What's his name? The offensive line coach. Strauster.
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Strauster. Thank you. If Strauster was more on the pass blocking side of
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things, a lot of the issues with the run blocking, it was more systemic.
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And in trying to figure out exactly how they were even coached to handle
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some of the D-line movement and some of the things that linebackers were
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doing, because I would talk to offensive linemen about it, and they
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would say, that's not really the way guys that had played in Kubiak's
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system, when it comes to outside zone, that's not really the way I've seen
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it handled. So I don't know how much of that falls back on Bobby Slowick.
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And the way that they were trying to run things systemically, and that's why
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even with Strauster, I always try to give the O-line coach a break because
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a lot of times, offensive line coaches are trying to follow the wishes of an
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offensive coordinator who genuinely doesn't understand the challenges of the
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offensive line coach. So, watching Demiko Dimitrovic demoralize the way things operated last year,
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they must have seen something in Popovich that they liked, or that they
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don't blame him for. So, that's my cautious optimism about that part of it.
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Yeah, I don't think Demiko and Nick are dumb, you know? I don't think they're just doing it to
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give an attaboy to a guy, and here's your new offensive line coach.
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Especially when it comes to scheming up the run game, and coaching the run game,
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and everything, I'd lean on Demiko's evaluation of it.
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It's interesting that they took a week to fire Bobby Slowick after the season,
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because I wondered, I just, it's interesting to think about Demiko
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breaking it down and trying to figure out, and maybe detach his loyalty to
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Bobby Slowick and all that, and figure out, okay, why, where did this all
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go wrong? Why were we not able to adjust more quickly? And am I sure that it was
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Bobby's fault? And at some point, yeah, it was, he blames Bobby, or at least
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whoever, unless he was getting direction from on high.
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The other nugget that was interesting to me is that the team did have informal
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conversations with Chip Kelly, and it sounds like the Texans were not
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interested in paying six million dollars. They had at least a couple phone calls
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with Chip Kelly. There was a mutual interest, but yeah, I think
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they just went out the door at six million dollars. Yeah, I can't even, I can't get
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angry about that. Well, and Nick Caley had interviewed for the offensive
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coordinator job in 2023, and you wonder, man, Casario probably really,
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he already knew Caley, he liked him, was intrigued by him, and I don't know
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if Casario would have deferred to Demiko, or with the conversations they had about
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it. If you want to know what Nick Caley is as an offensive coordinator,
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they just hired him in the first year. Right, right, right, yeah, back in 2023.
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Now, at the same time, in that two years, Caley has had time with Sean McVay, where
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Sean McVay was overhauling his system. For people who are worried about, oh,
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you're just bringing in another Shanahan acolyte, no. McVay, for one, when
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he first got to the Rams, he changed his system up a lot based on their
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personnel, and then they've moved way away from all the outside zone run stuff
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over the last few years, and Caley was a part of that process. It's like you sent
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him to like study abroad at this offensive mecca called Sean McVay, and
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then you brought him back. Now we feel like he's better equipped to be our
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OCS. Well, he's schooled in various philosophies and schemes and everything
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else, and he's been in coaching a long time. He was a college coach for ten
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years before that. He coached in air raid schemes. To think that a guy, I always
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just think it's a vast insult to a human being to think that, like, yep, this guy
05:30
is a carbon, gonna try to be a carbon copy of the guy he spent the last two
05:34
years with. We just don't know exactly how he's gonna operate.
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