January 23, 2025 • 5 mins
Following the conclusion of their 2025 season, the Texans finish first in the AFC South with a standing record of 10-7 but fall short to the two time Super Bowl champions in their divisional round game. Now with back to back seasons making the playoffs but not quite able to get over the Divisional Round hump the Texans roll into this offseason with a few lingering questions in regards to players and staff. With production across the team a bit unreliable in some instances, many believe tampering in regards to the coaching staff may come into play this offseason. Looking back this season into specifics, many argue that outside of player production being an issue coaching has been a vital one as well. With the struggles of the offensive line throughout the seasons entirety and with Bobby Slowik interviewing for the Jets HC vacancy amid their last game of the season Sean and Brian pose the question, could the Texans coaching staff look a bit different rolling into next season?
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
There.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sewn Salisbury Show continued, continuing to garner interest throughout
the league with a couple of teams excuse me for
head coach like the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tamiko Ryan said
on either Sunday or Monday of this past or of
(00:23):
this week that he was going to take a week
and then he was going to start to look at
personnel decisions, roster things like that with Nick Cassario. Do
you think Sean that if he's doing that, do you
think that there could be some moves made? Because I
feel like if he knew what he was going to do,
he would just say our staff's going to be the same,
or we're not going to make any moves or something
(00:44):
like that. Taking a week maybe just to get away
from football a little bit after the tough loss.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't know. Oh yeah, so you're not making emotional
We got beat the emotional decisions that like when you're
walking out the field you're pissed or you're frustrated, to
take a step back. There's no rush and to evaluate.
Put it this way, he's going to do what every
coach is supposed to do in general manager personnel, and
part of that personnel is anybody that he gets to make.
(01:10):
He and Nick Casseo get to make the decision on
their careers, whether they're part of it or not. Players
and coaches, good coaches coach their coaches, and they're going
to evaluate them just as hard as you would you
right tackle, and I think you will. I think it
also sends a message to the staff at times that
I am evaluating you, so don't get comfortable. You know
what I mean. I'm evaluating you, so don't get too comfortable.
(01:32):
I mean, I want everybody to feel secure. But like
a player, we got to put a grade by it,
and if that grade is not sufficient, then we got
to look elsewhere. I don't think the staff is going
to be exactly the same, and do you damn well
know the players aren't. Probably they'll be twenty player turnover
on the roster. They just will the attrition that happens
(01:53):
every year from a lot, some more than others. But
and so the MO take time off, get away from
football for a week, don't blame him, and then come
back and start your evaluation of players and coaches. The
first thing he's got to do is set his staff
up so he knows which direction they're headed, so they
can start to put a game, you know, their off
season plan together, and then you start worrying about who
you're going to get under con that's Nick Cassaria's job.
(02:15):
If Demico says, don't sign that guy again, he didn't
help our football team, then you move on. But if
Nick says, listen, we still need him and blood, they'll
go over and do their back and forth agree on
a lot of it, I'm sure, and disagree on some
of it, which is okay, But I don't the reason
why Dimiko did not say that. And I think you're
right now. I know our staff's good, We're going to
be fine. Yeah, but a lot of coaches will say, hey,
(02:37):
we're going to look at it, take some time off
and evaluate like we do every day and like we
do every year. So but I think that the naked
eye tells you that you have to at least look
into just like you do the players, because I don't
know did they maximize Do the coaching staff maximize the
players this year? I don't know, And that's the Demiko ryans.
(02:57):
In a certain places, the offensive line, they didn't, whether
it's the coach or whether it's the player or both
that that position. They did not maximize that position this year,
so you have to evaluate it. If you don't, then
you're doing a disservice to the rest of the team.
If you are Demiko Rans and Nick Cassara.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you think Bobby Slowe comes back.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I think Bobby Sloa's back if he's not a head coach,
I would unless now now you're going to it's gonna
be a major tell if he comes back and gets
rid of Bobby Slope, and Bobby slok is not leaving
to be a head coach because if he gets hired
by somebody else, he'd have to be offensive coordinator, assistant
head coach. He would have to get another tie can
(03:37):
not a lateral move under contract. So if if if
Demiko were to get rid of him before he took
on any gig another gig, that's a tell on how
he felt about offense this year. You know, just make
it on one decision that's a cumulative and don't you
don't You don't hire a fire coach or move on
from a coach after one game. You look at the
whole body of work for two years. Do we get
(03:59):
better from last? This year? Is he doing the things
that need to be done and detail wise and all that,
so they will look at it. I my gut tells
me that he's got another year with slowk on the
on the three years is enough for me to find
out who who the guy is. But if he moves
on from him, it'll tell you that there's more to
(04:21):
the offensive play calling than even we saw.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do you think at any point Dimiko's looking at how
for the most part, well his defense played, and then
he's looking at the offense going up and down, inconsistent,
can't block, running game was non existent in some some games,
and he's thinking, damn, I need an offense that can
match my defense. Of course, maybe it's not with Bobby
and he's.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, he's got a defensive coordinator label wise, but he's
still calling place. Yeah, So with that in mind, you're
the head coach, aren't you saying, well, our defense. As
a head coach, I got more out of my defense
than my coordinator did out of my offense. If that's
the case, now, I'm sure there's going to be some
hard discussions between those two and any other coach during
(05:05):
this time where you go in there and have your
exit interview if you're a player and then go in
and have your okay, come to Jesus to work on
the things. And you know, in slow this has done
some really really nice things that I don't think he
called a bad game in the loss of Kansas City.
I think that there were some other problems there, but
the cumulative part of it in the body of work
will be something they judge. So do I think that
(05:25):
at times the head coach is saying, they got to
match my defense's intensity and nastiness. If he's not, then
Damiko Ryans isn't who we thought he is. Yeah, and
I think we know that he is a guy who
has still player mentality, even though he's got to separate
himself from that as a coach.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Talking about the offensive line, they need help on that
offensive line. There's a veteran name that is coming up
that could potentially be a good fit for the Texans.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Who is it that's next
There.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sewn Salisbury Show continued, continuing to garner interest throughout
the league with a couple of teams excuse me for
head coach like the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tamiko Ryan said
on either Sunday or Monday of this past or of
(00:23):
this week that he was going to take a week
and then he was going to start to look at
personnel decisions, roster things like that with Nick Cassario. Do
you think Sean that if he's doing that, do you
think that there could be some moves made? Because I
feel like if he knew what he was going to do,
he would just say our staff's going to be the same,
or we're not going to make any moves or something
(00:44):
like that. Taking a week maybe just to get away
from football a little bit after the tough loss.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't know. Oh yeah, so you're not making emotional
We got beat the emotional decisions that like when you're
walking out the field you're pissed or you're frustrated, to
take a step back. There's no rush and to evaluate.
Put it this way, he's going to do what every
coach is supposed to do in general manager personnel, and
part of that personnel is anybody that he gets to make.
(01:10):
He and Nick Casseo get to make the decision on
their careers, whether they're part of it or not. Players
and coaches, good coaches coach their coaches, and they're going
to evaluate them just as hard as you would you
right tackle, and I think you will. I think it
also sends a message to the staff at times that
I am evaluating you, so don't get comfortable. You know
what I mean. I'm evaluating you, so don't get too comfortable.
(01:32):
I mean, I want everybody to feel secure. But like
a player, we got to put a grade by it,
and if that grade is not sufficient, then we got
to look elsewhere. I don't think the staff is going
to be exactly the same, and do you damn well
know the players aren't. Probably they'll be twenty player turnover
on the roster. They just will the attrition that happens
(01:53):
every year from a lot, some more than others. But
and so the MO take time off, get away from
football for a week, don't blame him, and then come
back and start your evaluation of players and coaches. The
first thing he's got to do is set his staff
up so he knows which direction they're headed, so they
can start to put a game, you know, their off
season plan together, and then you start worrying about who
you're going to get under con that's Nick Cassaria's job.
(02:15):
If Demico says, don't sign that guy again, he didn't
help our football team, then you move on. But if
Nick says, listen, we still need him and blood, they'll
go over and do their back and forth agree on
a lot of it, I'm sure, and disagree on some
of it, which is okay, But I don't the reason
why Dimiko did not say that. And I think you're
right now. I know our staff's good, We're going to
be fine. Yeah, but a lot of coaches will say, hey,
(02:37):
we're going to look at it, take some time off
and evaluate like we do every day and like we
do every year. So but I think that the naked
eye tells you that you have to at least look
into just like you do the players, because I don't
know did they maximize Do the coaching staff maximize the
players this year? I don't know, And that's the Demiko ryans.
(02:57):
In a certain places, the offensive line, they didn't, whether
it's the coach or whether it's the player or both
that that position. They did not maximize that position this year,
so you have to evaluate it. If you don't, then
you're doing a disservice to the rest of the team.
If you are Demiko Rans and Nick Cassara.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you think Bobby Slowe comes back.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I think Bobby Sloa's back if he's not a head coach,
I would unless now now you're going to it's gonna
be a major tell if he comes back and gets
rid of Bobby Slope, and Bobby slok is not leaving
to be a head coach because if he gets hired
by somebody else, he'd have to be offensive coordinator, assistant
head coach. He would have to get another tie can
(03:37):
not a lateral move under contract. So if if if
Demiko were to get rid of him before he took
on any gig another gig, that's a tell on how
he felt about offense this year. You know, just make
it on one decision that's a cumulative and don't you
don't You don't hire a fire coach or move on
from a coach after one game. You look at the
whole body of work for two years. Do we get
(03:59):
better from last? This year? Is he doing the things
that need to be done and detail wise and all that,
so they will look at it. I my gut tells
me that he's got another year with slowk on the
on the three years is enough for me to find
out who who the guy is. But if he moves
on from him, it'll tell you that there's more to
(04:21):
the offensive play calling than even we saw.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do you think at any point Dimiko's looking at how
for the most part, well his defense played, and then
he's looking at the offense going up and down, inconsistent,
can't block, running game was non existent in some some games,
and he's thinking, damn, I need an offense that can
match my defense. Of course, maybe it's not with Bobby
and he's.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, he's got a defensive coordinator label wise, but he's
still calling place. Yeah, So with that in mind, you're
the head coach, aren't you saying, well, our defense. As
a head coach, I got more out of my defense
than my coordinator did out of my offense. If that's
the case, now, I'm sure there's going to be some
hard discussions between those two and any other coach during
(05:05):
this time where you go in there and have your
exit interview if you're a player and then go in
and have your okay, come to Jesus to work on
the things. And you know, in slow this has done
some really really nice things that I don't think he
called a bad game in the loss of Kansas City.
I think that there were some other problems there, but
the cumulative part of it in the body of work
will be something they judge. So do I think that
(05:25):
at times the head coach is saying, they got to
match my defense's intensity and nastiness. If he's not, then
Damiko Ryans isn't who we thought he is. Yeah, and
I think we know that he is a guy who
has still player mentality, even though he's got to separate
himself from that as a coach.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Talking about the offensive line, they need help on that
offensive line. There's a veteran name that is coming up
that could potentially be a good fit for the Texans.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Who is it that's next
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