WEBVTT - Putting the defense in historical context | Texans All-Access 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.120 Hello, Texans, welcome to the program. 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:06.680 Can't wait for Sunday, and much going on as he's out. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.160 Shire Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee for the 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.119 Houston Texans. That means he wins the club awards, So 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.440 each club has a representative and they all go into 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.000 a big contest if you will to win Walter Payton 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.040 Man of the Year and JJ Watt won it once 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:22.880 upon a time. But there have been so many great 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.680 nominees from the Houston Texans last year, Jail and Petrea, 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.400 now Aziz al Shire and I love this because he 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.920 was disrespected last year and now he's getting some adoration. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.320 He's going to be on NFL network if he hasn't 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.240 been already. I'm sure we're going to get him on 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.920 here soon enough. So that's cool. For disease, plenty of 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.240 injury news to discuss. Some good like Will Anderson Junior 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.200 and a lot of other guys back at practice today 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.839 after being DNPS yesterday limited but back now. Kamari Lassiter 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.400 did not practice today with a foot injury. Will monitor 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.120 that very carefully heading into tomorrow's final status report. Prior 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.640 to Sunday, the sad news, bad news, Tim Settle Junior 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.880 on ir now with a foot and that's just too bad. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.840 I mean, Tim Settle Junior a big part of that 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.920 defensive tackle rotation. So it's going to affect the strategy 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.280 a bit, maybe more than a bit. Tim Settle big 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.600 part of that attack up the middle, big run stuff 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.320 or able to rush the passer as well. So we'll 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.720 find out how the Texans handle that soon enough. But 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.120 a lot to cover as we get ever so closer 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.400 to kick off Sunday night in Kansas City. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.000 That's right, Sunday night. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.520 I don't even know what I'm gonna do with myself 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.040 on Sunday all day because I'm ready to kick this 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:38.919 thing off at noon. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:39.640 Please. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.039 I could do it tonight, but they can't. So let's 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.520 do it Sunday night. I guess that's the time, Johnny, 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.040 that we have to play this thing. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:47.760 Yeah, I'm so. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.200 I'm so happy about Week fourteen for a number of reasons. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:51.720 You know. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.960 One of the reasons that bothers me about weeks five 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.200 through fourteen, what is that different teams are on buy 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.800 So the records they haven't played all the same games. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.640 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So they're like, well, they've only 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.320 played eleven games, they've played twelve. So Week fourteen is 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.480 the last buy for teams. Oh good, yeah, so that's it. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.360 So everybody, after this week we'll have thirteen games played. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.600 This is when we had the bye last year, right, yeah, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:15.839 Week fourteen we had to wait. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.800 All the way were easy and then you had an 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.240 early buy this year because that feels like a thousand 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.120 years ago where we have that weekend off it. Yeah, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.400 and here you are and the season has such ebb 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.560 and flow to it. My gosh, you know, we talk 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.760 about it in training camp. It's a long season. It's 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.240 so true this year because the different narratives that have 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.800 taken hold, right, zero to three and then oh you 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.040 want a couple and you can get back to five hundred, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.360 No you can't, and then maybe you can just know 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:42.880 you can't. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.040 Three and five, and now we have four games in 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:45.480 a row. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.840 If this thing turns, this season keeps turning the way 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.880 that we'd like it. You know, win against the Chiefs, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.880 you know, doing some good things down a stretch, getting 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.480 into playoffs, et cetera. Peep behind a curtain down on 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.280 our service level, down my locker room. The Texan have 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.560 put up they put up players of the week, they 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.720 put up a banner. If they win, they win, put 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.800 them a banner. And theny have offense, even special teams, 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.240 and they put up a picture of the guy that 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.600 is player of the week. Sometimes there's players of the week, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.400 et cetera. And so I was going by and I 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.800 was looking at it, and the very first one is 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.640 week four. If you go back to Week four, it 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.080 were up on Tennessee just six to nothing going into 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:25.880 the fourth quarter. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:27.320 That's what it was. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.400 Huh, six to nothing going into the fourth quarter. So 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.960 I look at that, and then a couple of them 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.000 down the road. There are just two. There are two 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:40.120 spots where you look to me that kind of stand 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.640 out more than anything. That's one, it's we're oh and three. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.000 We're tied for the worst record in the league. We're 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.240 only up six to nothing on the other oh to 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.600 three team, not only in our division, but in the NFL. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:58.720 Fast forward five games, we're three and five and we're 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:03.480 down twenty nine to ten against the Jacksonville Jaguars going 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:04.240 into the fourth court. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.640 I can't even think about that. I got nervous hearing that. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.200 I know we're getting out and now you have Sunday night, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.360 where you win the ballgame, you have a ninety percent 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.520 chance of making the playoffs. And even if you lose, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.920 and my obviously, you know, my hope is not to lose, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.000 but you're even a fifty three percent chance at that point. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.719 But you have an opportunity against this team that you're facing, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.960 against this quarterback, that tight end, that coach, to make 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.000 a statement, and you're not gonna have to wake up 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.839 on Monday and see the tweet of Andy Reid going, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.760 how about those chiefs in the locker room like, no, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.840 remember how we killed the outfield song? Josie was not 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.440 on a vacation very far away. We killed that two 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.400 years ago. I'd like to kill this one. I do 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.560 not want to see the tweet of the video of 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.040 Andy Reid walk in the locker room. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.560 How about those chiefs like, no, let's end it. So 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:00.479 there's a on the line. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.120 But as I was walking by this morning, those are 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.720 the two moments that stood out. And how when it's 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.360 six nothing against the Titans, just think, man, what if 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.279 you throw the ball of the flat, you trip, you fumble, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:13.920 and Jeffrey Simmons picks it up and runs it all 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.160 the way back into seven to six, Like, how does 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.880 the season change? You know what if Davis doesn't bring 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.440 you back in that fourth quarter, it's the Jags. You 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.680 know what if Matthew Wright pushes a field goal right 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.600 against the Titans and you gotta go to overtime. I 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.320 mean all these different things. Now you can go on 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.200 the other side too. You know what if you tackle 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.159 Baker Mayfield, if you don't fumble or have three turnovers 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.760 in the fourth Jags, you know all those things. So 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.440 wherever we were supposed to be, I think we are 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.320 if that makes if that makes any sense. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.000 But you just said it, these close games and you 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.720 were on the edge of a cliff and they were 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.520 able to not get pushed off. And Demiko Ryans after 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.520 the winner of the Colts the next day, clearly wanting 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:54.160 the team. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.120 To play at a higher level. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.760 Yes, there's another level that they can get to, maybe 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.600 a couple and this is fine. They love winning, but 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.799 they want to play better. They know they can play 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.279 better than that. They know they can make the game 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.599 with zero doubt in the final few minutes instead of 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.200 we're really up against it here, it's another crunch time moment. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.520 You know, fourth down, we got. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.360 To make the stop or run out the clock, whatever 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.960 the case is, because it's been all like that in 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.200 these four wins, all doubt of the wire. Now for us, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:29.400 super exciting, heart stopping. You know, I'd like a boring 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.640 one mixed in a boring win, like, Ah, you're up 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.719 three scores, let's have some fun in the booth. Nope, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.400 it's high pressure. But look, I live for this stuff. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.520 We all do. It's great. And here we are going 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.240 into the biggest game they've played in a long time. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.760 I don't know how to categorize it. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:47.279 You know. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.560 I could say that the Colts game at the end 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.440 of twenty twenty three, that's a bigger game. You're going 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.960 for the division. Ye, But there's something about this playing 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.360 the Chiefs in this context. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.640 Well what about last year? Mark? 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.600 Yeah, last year was big two, No question, you were 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.080 on the edge of things last year. There was a 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.160 time last year where I thought the wheels could come 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.400 off down the stretch, right when you lost to the 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.680 Titans and you had to beat the Jags going into 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.560 the by, and you did. But you come out of 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.840 that by, you have to beat the Dolphins because my gosh, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.800 you have the Chiefs and the Ravens coming up. And 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.240 this is a very much better version last year of 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.720 the Chiefs and the Ravens. And as I say that, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.080 you know, everyone's talking about the Chiefs and they don't 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.640 do this well, they don't do that well. Are you kidding? 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.640 They are circling the wagons big time. Kansas City. This 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.560 is it, this is the playoffs start today. That's what 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.560 they'll tell themselves, because it's true. For all these teams 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.960 that are fighting for spots. There's one big difference. Yeah, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.720 I think one big difference from this year and last year. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.320 What happened is we were driving home after beating the 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:48.160 Miami Dolphins. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.560 Do you remember driving home or driving home? There was 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.440 an afternoon game in Denver we won the division and 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.560 the Broncos beat the Colts and we won the division. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.200 Thank you. You just clarified it. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:04.120 That took a lot of pressure off what was going 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.080 to happen the rest of the season. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:07.600 In some sense. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.880 I even said at the time, I thought that the 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.480 fact that you had the division wrapped up even before 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.120 that clinching moment, you felt like we've got the division 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.280 even weeks before that, You're gonna win the AFC South 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.720 for god conclusion. Look, they'll never say that. You shouldn't 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.640 think that as a player or a coach or whatever 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.080 or anybody involved with the organization. But it was in 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.200 the wind, sure, And you're right. The pressure is not 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.600 the same as you're gonna miss it if you don't 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:32.640 play well down the stretch. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.559 Here, play really well, you're. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.760 Gonna miss and you were out of it, and now 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.600 you're in it, so stay in it and keep going. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.080 So the pressure is really on in a different way. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.640 And I thought that's why one of the reasons anyway, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.400 Now I could be wrong about this, but I thought 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.080 that was one of the reasons why they weren't achieving 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.319 at higher levels because they had the division wrapped up. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:51.600 But you got to be one of the good teams 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.560 where forget the division one seed, two seeds, let's go. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.559 We have a certain standard in the way we play. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.920 We're not going to step away from that standard, I think. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.440 And again, things can change and be different depending on 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.880 whatever happens. But I felt like we went into that 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.440 Kansas City game with not a whole lot to lose 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.440 because we had won a division. Okay, but hey, we 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.800 can beat the Chiefs, and you beat the Ravens and 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.880 may we could be looking at a one seed, two seed, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.000 three seeds, you know whatever, you know better than the 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.959 fourth seed. But that didn't happen. And then the worst 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.559 thing happened. We lost Tank. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:28.120 Yep. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.040 And when we lost Tank, it felt like the momentum 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.480 of the season just went. You could just see the 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.960 mental anguish on everybody's face and it really showed itself 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.120 visceral reaction. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.559 Yes to what at the moment, it was devastating because 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.320 of how loved and beloved he is by the players, fans, everybody. Right, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.600 it just felt like all the air went out of it. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.640 You knew it wasn't over. We already had the division, right, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.120 we just said that. But there you were at Kansas City, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.440 missed the extra point after a Tank touchdown and unable 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.800 to that was it right? You missed the missed extra 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.000 point and then you're not able to get over the 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.280 hump in that game. And now you play the Ravens 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.079 four days later on Christmas and just just never rebounded 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.560 from the Kansas City game. You lost twice. You lost 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.520 to the Chiefs twice because you lost to the Ravens. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.560 You had nothing in that game other than the Lassiter's 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.120 great hit on Derreck Henry. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.800 Yeah, the other thing that ended up happening. You mentioned 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.319 the Tennessee game. I think one of the biggest things 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.360 this season happened in that game. And we may do 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.520 but Jalen Petrie tours Peck in that Tennessee game. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:36.480 It's a big one too. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.080 And we played that Chiefs game. And in that Chiefs game, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.160 we lost Shack Mason two plays in. Even though Shack 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.360 didn't play exceptionally well, they still you're starting right guard. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.360 Then we lost Tank, and then we also lost Jimmy Ward. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.000 So on top of losing Petrie, you've now lost Jimmy Ward, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.319 and then you lose Shack in Tank and in that 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.719 Chiefs game as ease had been suspended. So if you 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.840 think back to that first chief game, we it was 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:08.120 stretched pretty thin. Yeah, and I think just having Jalen 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.480 Petrie back, you could see it Sunday against the Colts. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.960 He's blitzing, he's making plays against the run, he's not 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.040 going to pass away from Pittman. He knocked a big 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.040 third down pass away from downs that was huge in 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.480 the fourth quarter. Having Jalen Petrie on the field, there's 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.520 just some guys that you have to have on the field, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.720 and he played one hundred percent of the plays against 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:35.360 the Colts. Having Jalen Petrie on the field is so key. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.240 Somebody asked me this morning at six am pickup hoops, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.160 how many Pro Bowlers on the defense, and I thought, well, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.360 Petree missed a little time here. He's caliber though, he's 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.679 Pro Bowl caliber. Yeah, and look, I don't care if 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.280 he's Pro Bowler or not what he means to this team. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.360 To back up your point, but I would say when 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.680 you talk about caliber, obviously Stingley is all pro. But 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.360 Lassi bullot ye. I mean, come on, three guys' secondary 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.679 calliber danil will. I mean you've got one, two, three, four, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.160 five six, right, Nick, Well that's I was telling you 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.920 talker to Yeah, okay, I mean on the offense, I 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.360 think Nico's the one. And then after that, you know, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.720 there's so many great offensive players in this league, and 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.720 this team offensively is just starting to rise right now. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.000 So we'll see what happens down the stretch. But I thought, defensively, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.960 the love they're getting right now so interesting, and that 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.080 plays into something I want to talk about here, Johnny, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.840 because usually at this time we have the general. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.600 So we're gonna talk like this the rest of the show, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:38.520 but we're to. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.840 Lose our voices imitating John McLean. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:44.680 But he had a tweet yesterday. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.880 He had a tweet about this being one of the 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.800 three best defenses he's ever seen in Houston, and he 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.760 includes he says, this is the best Texans defense he's 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.720 ever seen. You can debate that, but okay, I know 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.760 he still have five games to go here, Sure finish 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.960 it off. Sure where we are right now, it's big. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.600 Where we are right now. Great, because we talked about 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.079 this before. The twenty eleven defense didn't really become bulls 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.400 on parade until the final six seven games of the year. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.800 They really solidified that. The seven sacks against Jacksonville, holding 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.679 Atlanta out of ten. That was Matt Ryams slinging it 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.160 and you'll hold them at ten points here, and what 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.600 they did at Cincinnati making the big stops when they 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.439 had to, and the rest of it. Obviously the playoff 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.720 game against Cincinnati here, But what about this, he said, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.880 the ninety three oilers and the love you Blue oilers. Right, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.720 So those are the top three defenses he's covered in 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.280 the City of Houston, And I gotta say, Johnny, statistically, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.800 right now, it's going to be hard to beat this one. Now, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.480 Love Your Blue, I mean, my gosh, hall of famers galore, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.840 and you got Bethay, and you got Curly Colp and 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.640 you got Robert Brazil. Right, You've got incredible, fire breathing 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.280 dragons on that Love You Blue defense. And in ninety 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.480 three you got the Buddy Ryan and coached team did 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.520 loaded right. But you know, statistically, when you look at 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.320 where they finished in the league, and I know that's 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.280 not everything. In ninety three, they didn't get to where 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.000 they wanted to go. In fact, in ninety three they 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.960 made that NFL documentary NFL Network Houston ninety three, which 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.520 is I highly recommend that just from a historical perspective 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.200 into Houston football and media too, and anything you like 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.160 about Houston. It really paids a time capsule picture of 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.120 the market as a sports town in that era, right 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.320 before the Rockets win their rings and all of that 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.160 early nineties and the Oilers how big they were, and 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.440 then it fades instantly after that because ninety three they 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.120 lose to Montana, then they're moving and the rest is history, 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.520 paving the way for the Houston Texans. But in ninety 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.000 two in yards third and in points ninth. In ninety 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.120 three actually better in ninety three, Okay, third in yards, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.960 fourth in points. Boy, that's pretty strong right there, and 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.040 they were able to get into the playoffs. They hosted 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.760 Joe Montana and the Chiefs and lost. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:05.680 That defense Sean Jones, William Fuller, I mean they got 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:06.200 after it. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.119 Chris Dishman is secondary. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.640 Joe used to fill in on the Jim Rome Show 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.560 and come in to Sports Radio six' ten and do 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:19.160 his spot. There he was that talented That rome would 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.160 have him fill in as a. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:25.640 Host that, DEFENSE i, mean Obviously Buddy ryan running at. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.200 Defense they were, animals AND i felt like that defense 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.880 Kept it's interesting BECAUSE i Think buddy was the wedge 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.720 on that whole, team but that defense kept them in the. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.960 Season because early in the season of ninety, three AND 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.800 i don't remember the exact, record but it started. Poorly 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.040 it started very. Poorly in, fact it might have been 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.960 about four or five games in AND i believe they 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.160 went To New england. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.520 And Warren moon got. Benched Warren moon got, benched which was. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.360 Huge, NOW i was in college at the, time but 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.400 OBVIOUSLY i, kept you, know my eyes on what was 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.840 going back. Home he gets, benched Then Commander cody gets, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.880 hurt so they got to go back To. Warren and 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.400 then the offense starts. Clicking but it was kind of 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.760 off from the, beginning but then it was like week, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.240 four week, five it started to. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.040 Click and that's the thing. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.360 We just talked about The pro bowler potential that's on. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.960 Defense that offense had hall of famers, too hall of fame, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.720 quarterback Two hall of fame offensive, lineman a wide receiver 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.480 corp that could challenge any that we've ever seen in 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.640 this town or. Others the offense was. Loaded so when 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.160 the offense started getting it, together knowing what they had With, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.280 BUDDY i think everybody, thought, oh. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.360 We're back on. Track, yeah this team is. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.840 TOUGH i think they ended up having Eleven Pro, bowlers maybe, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:49.160 more and they were wildly talented on both sides of the, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.840 ball AND i think that's what gave people a lot of, confidence, Like, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.600 okay this is the. Year and then on one afternoon 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.640 in The, dome it goes sideways and they can't Stop 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.160 Joe montana in the second, half and the offense kind 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.040 of slow and that's the thing THAT i think makes 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.880 it makes this thing great in a. Sense you could 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.800 play really really well and get to the playoffs and 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.040 then have a bad, Day you're. Gone like The lions last. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.240 Year now they were supremely banged up on the defensive, 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.200 side but they went fifteen to. Two they beat The 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.080 vikings soundly in week eighteen to win a. Division they 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.560 get a bye week and then The commanders going there 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.840 and hammer, them hammer, them put. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.600 Fifty five on, them and you're, like seed's. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.040 Over like you know The ravens in twenty, Nineteen, YEAH 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.840 i Mean Derek henry went crazy against them in one. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.560 Game that team was going To Super bowl and they 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:45.440 were gonna win it by Three. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.719 Touchdow there's nobody could play with The ravens in nineteen 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:48.959 and they're out in the division. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.800 Round you turn it over a couple of, times you 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:51.359 have a bad. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.879 Day that oiler, team by the, way one in four 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.119 one four to start you, have they win eleven in 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.720 a row and then lose To montana and The chiefs 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.040 home by. Eight, now what about the cautionary tale of 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.680 the twenty Eighteen Houston texans who started zero to, Three 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.840 the last team to start owing three and you'll become 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.159 the second in a row to make the. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.040 Playoffs if you. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.280 Do after starting going, three that team won nine in a, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.080 row franchise long winning. Streak i'd love this team to 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.360 finish off the same, way nine in a. Row if 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.120 you win, out you're nine in a. Row you tie 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.600 the winning. Streak, now the cautionary tale is this that 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.520 team kind of ran out of gas toward the end 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.399 of the. Year you lost To, philadelphia super close. GAME i, 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:34.320 mean anybody could have. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.200 Had that's one of the best football Games i've ever. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:36.720 Seen it's. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:41.199 Excruciating and that two year period between twenty seventeen and 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:45.960 twenty eighteen saw some excruciatingly close Losses New, England, Seattle, 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.520 philly those who are really tough to. Take where you 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.120 leave the field the offense does with the lead can't 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.359 hold it in all three of those GAMES i just 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.040 mentioned down the. Stretch you lose to The colts at 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.840 home in the regular, season and it kind of exposed you. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.400 Too that was the scary. Thing like they exposed. You 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.800 they were able to Find Eric, ebron couldn't cover tight. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:13.119 Ends we're getting lost in coverage and luck and that 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:14.880