Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
The Drive Reacts To Texans Extending Derek Stingley Jr.
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
Follow
3/19/2025
The Drive's Clint Stoerner and Ron Hughley react to the Texans signing All-Pro cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. to a three-year, $90 million extension.
Category
🥇
Sports
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
Derrick Stingley Jr., again, not surprised, and I said this yesterday, I like the way,
00:07
especially in moments like this, the Texans are doing business,
00:12
comparative, let's say, like teams like the Cowboys, who, when they get a player that you
00:18
know your ass is going to sign, like you know you're going to sign, and they, the Texans,
00:24
they get out in front of it, I mean quick. The minute they can sign them, they do it.
00:29
Your thoughts on Derrick Stingley Jr. being the highest paid corner in NFL history?
00:35
Love it. No surprise whatsoever. Absolutely love it. Love the decision.
00:40
Now I think it's, I don't know if it's changing with time or what, but I think it's,
00:48
it's a little, the conversation around the dollars is a little bit blown out of proportion. Based on
00:52
what I've heard, I know it's a 30 million dollar a year deal, but if you tack it on to the two
00:58
years that are remaining, and what you get Derrick Stingley's service at over the next five years,
01:04
is a hair above what J.C. Horn got in Carolina. If you, it's not five million dollars a year more.
01:12
J.C. Horn signed a four-year deal with one year left on his contract, and if you average it out,
01:16
it's 20 some odd million, and then if you look at, if you look at the way Derrick Stingley's
01:21
unfolds here, it's slightly more, maybe a million, million and a half more per year.
01:25
It's not five million more per year. So a little bit, when I first saw it, I was like, whoa, what
01:30
the hell is this? But then when you start doing the math, you start seeing kind of how these,
01:34
I guess the new age deals are coming so early. It really averages out, the player gets his
01:40
guaranteed money, and overall the team spreads it over five years. It's a win-win.
01:48
So I love it. I've always been a fan of Derrick Stingley, the player. The injuries were a concern.
01:56
He appears to have nipped that in the bud for the most part, which put him in a position for this,
02:01
and then on the back side of that, I'm gonna tell you, like I was, I was blown away with
02:07
Derrick Stingley when we had him in a post-game press conference this year. We had him, me, him,
02:12
me and Sean had him one-on-one immediately following the game, and Ron, it was immediately
02:21
clear how cerebral of a player he is. Like this is not the most physically demanding position,
02:31
what I believe in sports. You're chasing around four, three to four, five, four, six guys, and
02:37
you have no idea where they're going, and you're tasked to follow them, and backpedal half the
02:42
time. It is the most physically demanding position in all of sports, I believe. He's not only great
02:49
at that, when he lines up inside, when he's talking about leverage, when he's talking about
02:56
quarterback tendencies, when he's talking about wide receiver tendencies, it's clear this guy
03:02
is not just next level physically, this guy's next level mentally as well, and other than the
03:09
day that he cold-cocked Dalton Schultz in spring training, he is a level-headed dude that is even
03:17
keel, that you can depend on, and has a knack for making big plays in the biggest moments of games,
03:23
and so this is, if anybody's ever going to get a top-of-the-market deal, to me, this one right
03:29
here is as blatantly obvious as you're going to get. Yeah, no, the only thing here of late was
03:38
the injuries. I said yesterday, there was some earliness, maybe you could really look at it now
03:47
that we've seen him play more, of like Luffy putting him in just situations that just didn't
03:52
really show his skill set as much, but in the last year and a half, there is an argument and
04:03
a discussion that he's been the best corner in the game, won the defensive player of the year
04:12
award at the same position, but I think there's an argument that Derek Stingley has been that, and
04:19
and now I think the best part about it is, you know, sometimes, and we did this last year and
04:27
I thought it was fair, like, all right, hey, Nico, are we really sure that Nico is a guy that is a
04:37
top-10 receiver? Are we really sure that? Now, some of you will say, oh, I think it was a fair
04:44
thing. I wonder after a year, like, will we really see that? And we got to see that. The
04:52
great thing about this for Texans fans is this is a deal of, it's just if he stays healthy,
05:00
like this isn't a situation of, hey, man, you know, are we sure we have the goods? Are we sure
05:07
we have a great player? Or boy, you need him to really take a huge step to really meet this.
05:15
No, like, you know what, you know what you have, like, you have a great player and the only thing
05:24
that prevents him right now to be a great player is his health. And as you said, that hasn't been
05:30
a problem. He went this full year without having, you know, any issues, which was an issue before.
05:36
So I think that's a, that's a thing that, that was, you said, no brainer makes it easy if
05:43
like, yeah, you, you, you know what you had. Yeah. It's a, to me though, I do want to go back to,
05:51
to what I said earlier about the, the, the cerebral aspect of this thing, the mental aspect
05:55
of this thing. And just from the organization's perspective, right. Is, you know, you gotta,
06:00
you gotta take a snapshot of, of the moment that we're talking about when he's asked against the
06:05
Miami Dolphins to, to shadow, let's go back to when he was asked after, after Amari Cooper went
06:11
for 200 plus right here at NRG stadium one week. And then two weeks later, you play him in the
06:15
playoffs and he shadows him and you keep, you, you keep them out of the box score. Right. And
06:20
then you look to Tyreek Hill this year against the Miami Dolphins. And the ability to shadow
06:26
is one thing, the ability to shadow and say, Hey, my man is as good as yours physically is one thing,
06:31
but I'm thinking from the coach's perspective and the organization's perspective. Now, when you,
06:35
when you now have a player that has the, the ability, the mental capacity to go over and
06:40
know the quarterback's tendencies to is not going to throw the ball deep over, you know, deep down
06:45
down the field to a slot receiver. When I'm looking at Tyreek Hill, his, his tendencies are based on
06:51
tape and percentages that he's going to run an out route. Once he gets beyond once, if he outside
06:56
releases and he, and he gets to 16, 18 yards, he's going to run an out route. If he's not looking
07:01
back for the ball, it's not a go route. He's going to run an out route. And then you jump it
07:04
and pick it like the ability to process all of that. Uh, in, in that, in that moment, I'm not
07:09
saying there's none of the guys in the league that can do it, but I will tell you, there's not many
07:13
that can, um, that have that level of, uh, that's physical skillset along with that mental capability.
07:19
I just, if you're the organization, it's one of them like, Hey man, the, the risk that is
07:24
the injuries that early on in the career, because of what this guy can do in these particular
07:31
situations. So, um, yeah, Ron, look, I'm, I'm a okay with it. Love it. Um, it's, it's, uh,
07:39
it's a sweet deal. It's a sweet treat to be honest with you. It's a sweet deal for the Texans as well
07:43
to be able to spread money over five years. Um, right. I mean, that that's the, that's the sweet
07:48
part of this is you get, he gets his guaranteed money, which is, which is really all the players
07:53
looking for. And that second contract is just a huge amount of guaranteed money. He gets that
07:58
he gets it early, right. They have to play the fourth and fifth year with no guarantees,
08:02
playing a fourth and fifth year with a backend guarantee that's through the roof.
08:05
And then the team gets the luxury of spreading it out over those five years.
08:09
You think, you think this is how the Texans are going to do business with their guys?
08:13
Or do you think this is just Nico and Stingley have just been certain cases? Like, do you expect
08:20
as soon as will is able to get rolling, he gets a deal. As soon as CJ is able to get a deal,
08:26
he gets a deal as soon as, as you know, Petrie is somebody that's another.
08:31
Yeah, no, I think we'll does. Um, I think we'll does a hundred percent. I think it depends on
08:39
how CJ plays this year. Um, and I don't, uh, Petrie's I don't know if Petrie's even on that
08:45
level, but, but like you said, Petrie would be more of a guy that comes along. It has a really
08:48
good year this year. Then he's on that Nico level of like, Oh, you got one really, really
08:52
bang up good year. Do you want to give him that extension? They even did it with Titus, right?
08:59
Which I get it. It's like, Hey man, because what they've done now is you don't have to
09:05
worry about having to go over sauce Gardner, uh, Trent McDuffie or having to go over whoever,
09:13
right. Those guys haven't been signed yet. Right. They go ahead and knock that thing out.
09:18
I wonder, is that, is that their plan of attack on how they do business versus just certain,
09:24
certain guys. So it's definitely the polar opposite of what Jerry's doing in Dallas,
09:28
which is a good thing. I don't have time to have a bad time.
09:34
He said, he go, we go wait till, uh, Oh, uh, Oh, Hendrickson gets his deal first. So he go,
09:39
he go, let's go. He's going to let them all get it. I mean, Michael Parsons. Yeah,
09:44
my God has shut the hell up. Right. And you sit there and say, Hey, no, Jerry. Hey,
09:48
take your time, Jerry. Well, she wasn't there. Take your time pods. I could probably lost his
09:53
mind when he went out there and saw that. Oh yeah. Jamar get that thing. Chase.
Recommended
8:44
|
Up next
The Key For Texans Maximizing Derek Stingley Jr.
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
8/7/2024
16:03
The Drive Reaction To Texans Signing LT Cam Robinson
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/21/2025
10:28
Texans Agree To Extension With Derek Stingley Jr.
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/17/2025
18:46
The Drive Reacts To Texans' 29-27 Win Over Colts
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
9/10/2024
19:01
The Drive Reacts To Texans' Loss To Titans
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
11/26/2024
8:01
What The Texans Signing Trent Brown Means
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/24/2025
15:26
Stoerner: Texans Have Some Dogfights On Their Schedule
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
5/17/2025
10:25
Texans trade for WR Christian Kirk
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/6/2025
3:48
The Drive: Should The Texans Go Get Cooper Kupp?
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/13/2025
12:49
The Biggest Worry With How Texans Ended Preseason
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
8/26/2024
9:22
3 Things Texans Offensive Line Moves Have Accomplished: Stoerner
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/26/2025
10:15
Ron "The Show" Hughley Thinks Texans Should Stay Away From This Draft Pick
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
4/23/2025
11:12
Texans Sideline Reporter John Harris Joins The Drive Live From Practice In Ohio
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
8/7/2024
13:05
Dolphins WRs Are Biggest Test For Texans Defense This Season
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
12/11/2024
15:54
The Drive reacts to Texans firing offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
1/25/2025
16:30
Taking Clues From Texans' Extension With Derek Stingley Jr.
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/18/2025
13:28
Texans Re-Sign Veteran Edge Rusher Jerry Hughes
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
7/9/2024
1:56
Texans Sign EJ Speed
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/31/2025
9:25
Texans 2025 Schedule: Likes & Concers
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
5/17/2025
16:57
Stoerner: Feel better about Texans from a year ago
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
1/22/2025
6:52
1 Texans Rookie Is Impressing Early At Minicamp
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
6/9/2024
5:31
The Next Step For Texans QB C.J. Stroud
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
6/11/2024
13:34
Reaction Texans Trading Laremy Tunsil
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
3/10/2025
11:14
B.Scott Reacting To Nico Collins Extension On The Drive
Audacy
5/31/2024
11:57
B.Scott's Thoughts Ahead of Texans-Colts Season Opener
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
9/5/2024