00:00the texans have basically told them we're not negotiating with you during the season
00:05well tom it's this season uh and the numbers we're hearing that cj stroud's people think
00:11he's worth versus apparently what the uh what the houston texans think he's worth
00:17is it this it is it has he done enough to warrant him being the franchise quarterback
00:23in houston in your mind no i mean that's that's the simple answer right great first couple seasons
00:31for him and it's just been slowly regressing now there's a case to be made that it's not entirely
00:36his fault the offensive line has been atrocious and that is putting it nicely terrible defense is
00:43great defense is great we we know that but if cj stroud wants whatever amount of money amount of
00:49money that he wants he can't be playing like he has over the past few seasons so i don't think
00:54he's done enough but joe we're also going to get to the point where what are the other options for
01:00the texans right well they made their their hand may be forced where they may have to pay him 70
01:05million is a crazy map they're and obviously they can't just say oh we'll give you 25 because of
01:10course he's not going to take right but they they need to find a solution quickly or they or he
01:16really
01:16just needs to elevate his game and be worth 45 million dollars a year because i'm not sure
01:20either of those things can happen like what other quarterback could they go out on and get in free
01:24agency or trade for i well that's the whole thing i mean is that a reason to pay somebody is
01:30like
01:30well because i think that's pretty much what baker mayfield's argument was right like yeah what
01:36choice do you have tampa and basically tampa agreed and said oh something is better than nothing here
01:41but if he does win a playoff game and i guess is that the big thing with with the texans
01:48i mean
01:48i don't know why they let this hang around as long as they did is davis mills the answer or
01:54do they
01:55think they're going to be bad enough at some point to get one in the draft i don't you know
01:59i think they
02:00made their bed with this and it's too free agency i i don't know what do they think they're going
02:05to get
02:07like what's a what's a better outcome if cj stroud has the exact same year as he did last year
02:12and they go to the playoffs and win a game and he can say i win that or he's like
02:17legitimately better
02:19this year but they just don't win the game of the place like what happens if like they just
02:22something something fluky happens in that playoff game but he's like legitimately good this year
02:27like what's the better outcome they say oh he still hasn't won a playoff game he can't get it done
02:30when it matters most or we pay him or it's like oh we got some playoffs he won a game
02:33but then we lost
02:34we should pay him but he actually wasn't good like that is these are the two things i think are
02:39going to happen they'll get to the players because their defense and they may win but if he's still
02:43not good do you did you just pay him that's the whole thing to me here tom too and by
02:49the way he's
02:50not great early in the season either i think in his career as the starter he's is the own four
02:56own
02:56six something along he doesn't he doesn't win games early in the season here it takes him forever to
03:00get going but i just find it fascinating that the organization was like we don't want to hear it
03:06you're under contract and we're not negotiating with you during the season so if i'm cj stroud
03:13great opportunity man to double your price you come through with a couple of wins and big games
03:19and we're having i mean do you remember how terrible that patriots game was it was how bad
03:25that was four turnovers and drake may did every the patriots did everything in their power to lose
03:33that game and cj stroud kept going hold my beer not just yet here and i think that the ownership
03:40is
03:40looking at that and going i listen he's fine for now but we got to see it before we actually
03:46pay for
03:47it and pay 70 million dollars unbelievable that that's even the kind of price that we're talking
03:52about with him
