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January 16, 2025 • 11 mins
Inching closer and closer to Saturday's highly anticipated kickoff, the Texans have now made it back-to-back seasons to the divisional round now. Never quiet able to make it to the Conference Championship as the organization has zero appearances, OC Bobby Slowik in his small tenure here in Houston has amplified things for this Texans organization and has raised a few eyes in the process. While preparing for their Divisional Round matchup against the Chiefs on Saturday, Slowik is set to interview with the Jets for their HC vacancy today. Prior to what could be the biggest game of his career this weekend a few believe Slowik interviewing mid-week following the intensity of Saturday's game to be a distraction. Sean and Brian take a moment with listeners in discussion of rather or not should Bobby have waited until roughly the conclusion of the postseason to take interviews and could this possibly be a distraction for the Texans rolling into Saturday?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we're the Sewn Salisbury Show, continued to say, real
quick before we get back out to the phone lines.
A seven one three, two two five seven ninety Texans
offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik is gonna interview today with the
Jets for their head coaching vacancy. Good luck, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby,

(00:23):
let's go, Good luck, Robert. Okay, I have a Rob Slovak, Bob,
Bob Slovak. Yeah, even though it's slowk. We like to
put a V in there.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Right, for some reason we do. Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Is it a distraction when you're interviewing for the biggest
game of your life, for the biggest job of your life.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I don't think so, don't you That is a distraction.
I'm just asking so. This one's a I mean, first,
I don't care if its zoom or not. Yeah, it's
a zoom meaning yeah, I'm not saying it is. I'm
asking you.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
If a player today spent three hours, it's a Thursday.
Uh huh, spent three hours talking to Madison Avenue on
a couple indorsements they wanted to do, and they were
talking to companies and how they're going to would you
be concerned at all about the player on Sunday or
Saturday that they're calling it.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's a big deal. It's Thursday practice. They already had practice.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I don't know when these interviewed, and I'm assuming after practice.
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't think it is just because of today being Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, so that's what I was going to lead into, Well,
who's the player right? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Like, what how do they handle their business? New in
the new in the NFL? They want year one, year two,
year three, they have veteran they've been doing this a while.
What's their practice or you know, how do they practice?
How do they handle their business inside the building so
that we're not privy to I wouldn't. I think it depends.
I think it's a case by case basis.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Agree and I'm not saying any do it. I just
want to broach the subject because people will.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, because you know what, every year you've you've had
the defensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders. They asked him
yesterday because he's he's gonna interview for I forgot which
head coaching position, but they asked him and he said
he said, I would be doing a disservice to my
the men in that locker room if I focused on
anything but our upcoming game in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Is there validity to that?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I think there is. But I also think
it goes back into what we just individual to the individual.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, so that defensive coordinators like I couldn't handle the
guilt of feeling that I wasn't especially if.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
It didn't work out. If you are prepared, right.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
The only reason I bring this up because I am listen.
You get an opportunity, you take advantage of your opportunities.
But we ask everybody to be all in. I don't
like the way the NFL schedules it. I almost wish
and I know you wouldn't. I almost wish that once
the playoffs started, if you're a playoff team or any team,
because playoff teams are usually looking for head coaches, they're

(02:59):
looking for assist since to be their head coach that
didn't make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
What if we.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Allowed you to interview that the first round of interviews
for coaches couldn't happen until after the championship weekend. In
that two week period. Oh, that'd be everybody. Everybody has
an even playing field. So it's like the free agent
frenzy midnight at boom. It kicks in and you just
start mad dashing, start interviewing people. Getting then it'll tell

(03:25):
the It'll force the organizations to get a tight list yep,
and it'll force them be focused and it'll be forced
them not to just be we're interviewing twenty guys. Just
interview twenty guys. Yeah, and then everybody has a fair
playing field. You're not asking somebody who's been an assistant
that's devoted everything that you're asking to play.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
We're not listen. CJ.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Stroud ain't going out to interview with another NFL team
during the week because they may want to offer him
more when he's a free agent. I know it's different,
but you get my point right, hyperbolic. I'm not saying
Bobby shouldn't under the rules. He should, but it does
beg the question, what does every assistant coach want.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
They want to be a head coach. They want to
win for their guys, Yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
They want to be at the end of the day,
they want to get themselves in as society.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
For this presentation. Can you just show up to a
zoom call?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
And I know he's put believe me, on his off
season time, he's had a plan together for if he
was getting interviewed from last year. But in just can
you be fully into a game plan thinking that if
my interview doesn't go well, I won't get the Jets job. Well,
I believe if it does go Is there part of
you that think about the effort it takes you want

(04:34):
to be You're telling me he doesn't want to be
a very best for this interview. Oh, absolutely, because he
may get the Jets job. Yeah, but then he also
doesn't want to go out and lay an egg against
Kansas City, right, So because he may affect the Jets job.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
So then I'm going to relate it back to what
you and I do here on the radio station. One
of the first things that you told me when I
did a fill in show with you, one of the
biggest things that you learned and you were giving me advice.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Was to always be prepared. Prepare prepare doesn't prepare prepare prepare? Right?
What is it?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Proper proper preparation. Preparation prevents piss poor performance?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
So I think this goes into what we're discussing here.
How do you prepare if you are Bobby Slow, you
have to be able to compartmentalize preparing for this interview,
and then when that interview's done, you shut it off
and you get your ass right back to preparing for
the chiefs.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, so let's go back to Wednesday. I'm not saying
it happens. I'm just I'm just being the devil's advocate
on both sides, good and bad. When your agent calls
and says, Jets interviews Thursday.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
At three.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Or at lunchtime or whatever it is, it's Wednesday. You're
on the field, and then you're compartmentalizing. Are you not
thinking about it?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah? You definitely are just human human nature.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, hundred percent, you're not thinking about Yeah, your does
it take away for I mean, think about in anything
we do, you're always thinking about Yeah, because how many
everybody wants to be a head coach. It's it's such
a weird d That's why I almost feel like it's
unfair to the assistant. I think because if you're a player,
you're saying, well, they want me all in. But wait

(06:07):
a minute, you're taking through it, and you had to
prepare for that, and then you're gonna come out of
it and say, man, how'd I do?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Did I do it?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
And I know the coach You're going to say, listen,
it's here. I'm devoted to these guys. You're doing an
interview now and wants the interview's over.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
It's over, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right. But you're going to say all the right things.
I'm not even just talking about Bobby Sloake. I'm talking
about anybody you want to put up. Bobby Slope wants
to have the greatest interview of his life for the
Jets head coaching job. He also wants to put on
the greatest offensive show of his life. Is there time
for both emotionally? I'm not saying physically, well, I think
you catches don't sleep much anyway.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Right then, and then it goes into who's the individual.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Then it goes into who the individual is and how
do they handle their business? Are they a pro meaning
be a professional in whatever job you're doing.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
If they lose and the offense is not good, oh
you already know it's going to come back to well,
even if.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
It didn't have anything to do with it, people are
going to say he was sidetracked by the interview. If
they kick ass and he calls the best game of
his life. The next thought is he's going to interview
a couple more times whenever it is and he's leaving. So,
I mean, if if the word is it will he had.
The Jets love him, they're ready to offer, and they're
wait until they're either eliminate. If he takes it and

(07:17):
they don't play well offensively, you know what's going to see.
You know what the I'm just saying, there's the can
of worms. That's some if you're just a hater or
it bothers you. Even if he coaches well and had
nothing to do an interception, had nothing to do with
the play call, it will rear its.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Head absolutely, and so it did last year. How many
he had last year, It's.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's unfair to the coach because if you're the coach,
you want to take advantage of it. But the NFL,
But if you just did this the two weeks the
start of it was the two weeks between AFC Championship game,
NFC Champion Game, Super Bowl, and everybody, even the team
that's in the last place. Now you're putting all your
ducks in a row. And then the free agency for
the coaching frenzy starts, then wouldn't it be better that way?

(07:58):
So now you know that you're committed to your team,
you know your question. You're a head coach, because if
you're the head coach and guy's taking interviews, aren't you
also thinking, even though you know the guy and the personality,
aren't you thinking is this going to be He's only
a second year coordinator. This isn't like it's a regular
thirty year thing for him. So I'm hoping he can't

(08:19):
and I'm not saying it'll affect it at all. He
should interview. I think the NFL, the way it's set
to put him all on the same the last place
team the first place, give everybody a fair shot and
let them interview when you really got two or three
days off and you just it isn't a distraction. There's
a law. We're Thursday before a Saturday game. They're interviewing
him today.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
God saying it.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
It may work out where the moment's feeling great, that
feeling when everything's going well and you're like, man, I
just got this bonus. Man I'm gonna go and you
light it up, or you get paid in the offseason,
you go and you're leading the league and hitting for
the first three months to see because you're feeling it,
and maybe that'll be the case, but there's got to
be a motion that goes with it and say at
some point in time his his preparation for both is

(09:03):
getting used up by the other.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Today today, right, And if your Bobby Slow, you have
to take this interview. You can't miss out on it.
Of course, even for the experience of reviewing, you have
to take this.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
You know what to expect, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
So if you have aspirations to be a head coach,
which he does, you have to take this interview.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
You can't say no to.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's why I think the timing in the NFL needs
to change. When so and not just the playoff team.
So now you're you're punishing good coaches from getting jobs
because you're playing in the playoffs. But if you just
made it a time where it opens this day and
everybody can go interview now, we're on.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Now, now, now it's on Plus.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
And then selfishly, from a media perspective, due could you
imagine us covering that week it's a fresh frenzy that.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Are made for TV.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
It would be and radio phenomenal no question far that
we kind of blows and honest with you.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
And and that's a time when hence why they vote
for the Heisman before the playoffs are over. We want
that dead week. We got to get it going before
bowl games start the rest. So I just think I
I think he should and I love it. I just
think they should change the timing of it, because if
I'm all in, it's hard for me. I can multitask,
but it'd be hard for me to go tell my

(10:10):
right guard, Yeah, man, I got you.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
I'm all in?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Are you are you? Are you already? Have you already
got your jets? Assistants hired? Not saying already is thinking
like that? But around him people will say this. I
can promise you they will. And it may not have
anything to do with the success of the failure of
this game, but you're damn right they will.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
They will.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
He better be on his be better figured out, better
call his best games, goes away.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
You're look, I hope he kicks ass today in the
interview ipp he kicks ass. That's the ironic thing for
a head coach. You hire coaches to be head coaches.
You want him on their staff, but you hire if
you hire good ones, you know eventually they're.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Leaving you, and so you better be prepared for.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
And now Demiko's got to start to think, who's in
my Is it Gerd Johnson or is it all of
a sudden somebody else is going to rear their head
that I want to pluck a veteran coordinator. We'll see
the collateral damage, good and bad. It it rolls, manah,
it does.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
He's got it.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
He's got to compartmentalizes on Bobby. That's what he's got
to do.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Seven one three two one two five seven. And let's
get to the final segment here on a Thursday edition
of The Sean Salisbury Show, how will the Texans be
able to run the football against the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's next
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