C.J. Stroud is not throwing at Texans OTAs. Should fans be worried?

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00:00There's more stuff happening at OTAs at practice for the Texans

00:03and some things that we're already getting out of it

00:06that feel really interesting.

00:08All right, so we're going to play a little choose-your-own-adventure here,

00:10John Lopez.

00:11Are you good with that?

00:11I am.

00:12All right, so there – yes, it's a French-ass name, Yvonne.

00:16But, yeah, do you want to go O-line or do you want to go quarterback?

00:20Well, we said it quarterback, right?

00:23We ain't got to worry about quarterback, right?

00:24The old newsman in me says –

00:28If it bleeds, it leads.

00:29We got our franchise quarterback.

00:30What do we need to worry about that for?

00:32What's the headline?

00:33He ain't hurt.

00:33What's the headline?

00:34What do they want to talk about at the old water cooler,

00:36which nobody ever really does, I don't think, but maybe a little bit.

00:39Do we still got water coolers like for real for real?

00:41That's the thing.

00:42Yeah, there's not a whole lot.

00:42Hanging out at the water cooler.

00:44Yeah.

00:44How do people waste time at work nowadays?

00:46Yeah.

00:47They're on their phones.

00:49Yeah, just in a stall on your phone?

00:51Yeah, they're on their phones.

00:52You got to lead with the quarterback.

00:53All right, so –

00:54You got to lead with that.

00:55That's the headline.

00:55We're getting video and dispatches from OTAs there in the bubble at NRG Park.

01:07And it's whoever –

01:09Actually, he's not wearing a helmet, but he is holding his helmet,

01:11as he did on Wednesday.

01:12Yeah.

01:12And it does not appear that he will throw much, if at all, today.

01:17I think that's the way that Jonathan M. Alexander of The Chronicle has described it.

01:23And so we're trying to see if he throws.

01:25Somebody said CJ didn't throw yesterday.

01:27I'm freaking out.

01:27We actually don't know.

01:28We don't know.

01:29And I'll be interested to see if somebody asks Nick Haley,

01:32who I know is going to be available for the media.

01:34In fact, you'll hear that at 11 here on Sports Radio 610.

01:37And I'm very interested because we know he didn't throw on Wednesday.

01:41We don't know whether he threw or not yesterday, which was Thursday.

01:44Maybe we get some insight.

01:46But at this point, that little nugget, that little mustard seed of what's happening there?

01:52Yeah.

01:53It's growing a little bit now, ain't it?

01:54You're not sounding any alarms.

01:55Or are you, Figgy?

01:56Are you sounding alarms?

01:57I don't know.

01:58Nah, I'm not.

01:59You're not sounding –

02:00I'm not.

02:01I'm confident he will be on the field week one.

02:04Okay.

02:04I'm at that point.

02:05I am too, DJ Biennemi.

02:09CJ Stroud is all caps, not throwing today at OTAs.

02:13So –

02:14Okay, but the response that was given to us by head coach Nico Ryans

02:18when he was asked about this after OTAs, after practice on Wednesday,

02:23was people just have –

02:25You know, people just have, you know, different –

02:27Their own timeline.

02:27Different timelines, different regimens was kind of the way that he –

02:30like different schedules and regimens, which felt like, okay,

02:32is this like a day off versus a day on?

02:35Like, is that kind of thing?

02:36And it does not feel like it's that.

02:38What then is –

02:39How do you feel about his response there now that we have the additional data

02:44point of –

02:46I feel a little bit more like I did on Wednesday.

02:50And that's not like –

02:51I'm with Figgy.

02:52You know, I'm not sounding any alarms.

02:53I think he will be –

02:55Hell, first preseason game.

02:57You know, he'll be out there.

02:58I think, at minimum, when you say everybody's on their own timeline,

03:04these are all guys that they're monitoring something or another.

03:08Not just –

03:08It can't be just his arm is tired.

03:11This is the first two days, three days of –

03:13since the offseason.

03:14So his arm can't be tired, but they're monitoring something.

03:19Yes.

03:20I mean, you know.

03:20Yeah, exactly.

03:21How could his arm possibly be –

03:22Did he play baseball in the offseason?

03:24Well, we have no idea what he did in the offseason.

03:26He kept it real quiet, which shout out to the man.

03:28But I guess, in a way, maybe this is where we did enjoy

03:32and appreciate him being pretty visible in the offseason

03:36and kind of could make some assumptions based off of the places

03:39that we did indeed see.

03:41Yeah, man, I don't know what to do with this, to be completely honest.

03:43Right, that's a better way to put it.

03:45I think more than anything, I just keep looking up and I go,

03:48ooh, okay, what could be there, right?

03:50What could be –

03:52And obviously, I think it'd be kind of absurd to think

03:54the guys that played this sport in particular

03:56come into every season feeling legitimately 100%.

04:00And then we know that during the season,

04:02the only time that you could even possibly be 100%

04:05is at the start of it.

04:06Like, we understand all of that.

04:07I think, for me, that's the part that gets a little interesting

04:09because you are still wondering if the offensive line

04:12is going to get to the place that you need it to be

04:14to be sufficient, talk less of maybe even good to great.

04:16Yeah.

04:17And C.J. Stroud is going –

04:19like, I don't –

04:20Look, knock on wood, but C.J. Stroud has had to evade in the past

04:23and I don't think –

04:24There is some underlying thing.

04:28Is it something that can be exacerbated at some point during the season?

04:31And maybe that's what they're doing.

04:32You know, that's why they're monitoring.

04:33But they're monitoring something.

04:35And then there's the narrative, the knuckleheads like us talking about it.

04:39Knuckleheads is probably right, to be fair.

04:41The fans, I won't call them knuckleheads,

04:44but the fans who are like, oh, no, you know, or whatever.

04:48If – I'll go back to this, and I said this on Monday,

04:50and I feel a little stronger this way.

04:51If you know those narratives and discussions are out there,

04:55and you were okay, you know, and I'm not saying he's injured,

04:58but, you know, you were good to go.

04:59Wouldn't you go just to kind of shut everybody up?

05:03I mean, he might want to.

05:04Yeah.

05:05Like this might be – because that's also another part of this is how –

05:08the way that he is standing is I become real reckless pseudo body language reader.

05:15The way that he is standing, close to the action, helmet in his hands,

05:19almost as if at the first syllable of a sign to go and throw,

05:24he would be in there.

05:25Yeah.

05:25I think he wants to be in that circumstance.

05:27Like knowing who CJ is, seeming – the enjoyment that he seems to gain from doing this,

05:32the love that he seems to have for the game,

05:35I don't think that this is a him holding himself out.

05:38Like this seems like this is an abundance of caution,

05:40which we know this organization seems to take.

05:42I think all of that makes me feel like it's probably not as big of a thing.

05:46However, that little – like I said, that little mustard seed of a question of a doubt.

05:50And yes, Joseph, I guess in theory that is a reference to like the biblical faith,

05:54the size of a mustard seed, but ultimately that is pointing to just the smallest little molecule in there.

05:59And that's – it really is just a small little molecule of a –

06:03what's happening there?

06:06It's a –

06:07That's not what that means.

06:08I don't actually know what it means, but I don't think it's that.

06:11I'm going to use it however I feel.

06:13Okay.

06:13Actually, I think that's fair.

06:14That sounds good.

06:14I'm just going to sprinkle in some eclaircies small all throughout the program.

06:18All right.

06:18So we mentioned that, and we spent a lot of time talking about that.

06:21Another thing that it seemed like is already being mentioned and noticed out there at practice.

06:26Shout out to Cody Stoops for this one, who I've seen it from at first.

06:31It seems like Ariante Urshari got the first crack at left tackle before Cam Robinson,

06:38who I think we have largely looked at as the first look left tackle.

06:44That's exactly how I think we felt seeing him be out there first on Wednesday.

06:50But on top of that, Jalen Thomas, who had played right guard on Wednesday, also has been at left guard.

06:56So that's another one of the depth when it comes to the 17 offensive linemen that this team has.

07:01But also, interestingly enough, Juice Scruggs, who took no center snaps on Wednesday, snapped at center after Jake Andrews.

07:09So I guess Jake Andrews still was the first guy out there at center.

07:12Maybe, like, do we read into that?

07:13And then also, Juice is still in the running here.

07:15So that's at least, what, four guys that you have rotating in at center?

07:19When you go Andrews, Patterson, Scruggs, and then remember Eli Cox, who is the UDFA, that's in there as well, right?

07:27There's a lot of real—they're dedicated.

07:31They're true to this.

07:31We're going to shuffle this around.

07:32And I'm very intrigued to how much that actually worked.

07:35Talk about a little bit of doubt.

07:36I don't know exactly how that ultimately ends up.

07:39It's not spitballing, but it's just a little bit of everything at now every position.

07:47Ursary at left tackle is more like, hey, let's give him some reps there.

07:51I think Cam Robinson is still pretty much the left tackle in their view, but give him some reps at both sides.

07:58The Scruggs thing is very interesting.

07:59I think Jake Andrews, if I had to guess right now, is still probably penciled in.

08:04But they like Scruggs.

08:06They've said it, remember?

08:07They do.

08:07At center, so I think they're giving him some reps there.

08:09And I'm still interested because it feels like the size that he has, or at least had,

08:14and I still have not had, obviously, an opportunity myself to get a look at him,

08:17feels like it profiles more to center.

08:20And that's, like you mentioned, they've had a lot of love and respect for him.

08:23Very intrigued to see how that all comes together.

08:25And from the 281 here on the text line, remember, you can always get involved with the program

08:28by texting in 713-572-4610.

08:32But from the 281, do y'all think the way that the Astros handle injuries cloud our view

08:37on the way that the Texans handle injuries.

08:39We might be a little scarred.

08:41I think so.

08:42But also, the Texans have their own stuff in their own right.

08:44Like, if I just were to throw up one thing, Christian Harris.

08:47Right?

08:47Like, last year, the way that Christian Harris was handled gave us enough scars in and of itself.

08:51Right?

08:51To then have some level of questions as to what is happening behind the scenes.

08:57Even if they're handling it possibly the right way, we just don't have the information on the outside

09:02to be able to evaluate that.

09:03And maybe that's ultimately the point.

09:04As the 281 says, what in the air, Clay, she's small, is going on with CJ?

09:09I have no idea.

09:10I have no idea.

09:10But it feels like we're starting to stumble on the idea that he might be dealing with some level of hurt.

09:16I don't know if injured, because, you know, football players like making the distinction between hurt and injured,

09:20might have some little bit of hurt.

09:22What does that ultimately mean?

09:23I think we can only really make reasonable assumptions from that.

09:30I think right now the reasonable assumption is there's probably a little something there,

09:34but I don't know how big of a deal to make.

09:36Would it make y'all feel better if they did come out and say,

09:40yeah, it has some soreness throughout the offseason, but I'd be good if we want?

09:44Actually, yes.

09:44You want the real answer or you want the answer that I probably should give?

09:47No, it would for me.

09:48Because the probably shouldn't give answer is along with you where, yeah, it makes you feel better.

09:51The real answer is, no, I feel like I'd become a little bit of,

09:55the neuroses would set it in a different place where I'd be like, oh, no.

09:59I feel like we're freaking out because they're not saying anything.

10:02Yes.

10:02But if they did come out and say that and they say, yeah, it's just something a little minor,

10:08but he'd be good week one.

10:10For sure, ain't nothing to worry about.

10:11Then I'd probably feel better.

10:13Yeah, we'll see what it looks like.

10:14But again, just another small data point in this.

10:17Did not throw Wednesday.

10:17Don't know.

10:18Like, there's just, we have to remember, is they don't know, not necessarily.

10:21They did not throw yesterday, but is not throwing on this Friday OTA.

10:25CJ Stroud, the quarterback of this Texans team.

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