WEBVTT - Deshaun Watson, Brennan Scarlett, Week 1 Predictions 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.000 What is up? Everybody? Welcome into a Friday edition of 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:10.160 Texans All Access and we are just one short weekend away, Saturday, 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:15.640 Sunday Monday night, New Orleans Saints in the Superdome. Let's 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.279 get it on. Welcome to the show, everybody. I am 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.720 John Harris Football and a Southern reporter in the Honday 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.920 Texans Radio studio with another two hours for you on 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.600 Texans football. And boy do we have a lot for you. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.199 We've got my keys to the game. We've got Mark 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.400 Vandemir stopping by to talk about this battle with New Orleans. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.880 I've got all of my NFL predictions or fourteen games 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.599 this weekend, not counting to Texans. I will never pick 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:45.959 those games. Hart and Head can't battle. I don't want 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.680 that to happen. So I pick all fourteen games against 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.239 spread straight up. I'll have that for you. We are 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.800 also going to have John the chasier of Saints dot 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.360 Com Dpcity will go behind enemy sidelines with John and 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.400 get the skinny on the same and then our final 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.640 segment we will have devoted to our players. I devote 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.639 that last segment to the players, which means a little 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.600 player reporter. How about b Scar TV. You like that 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.120 B SCAR Is that Cajack TV? But b Scar TV? Interesting? 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.520 Oh and d W four it's gonna be on with 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.319 Drew with the last word. How about that? Boy? We 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:27.759 got plenty plenty to do tonight, and we're gonna start 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.120 with some hot reads. Hot reads brought to you by 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.880 Geico fifteen minutes because save you fifteen percent or more 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:37.360 on car In shirts. And our first hot read tonight, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.800 as it is each and every Friday, is the headball 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.119 coach Bill O'Brien stepped into studio today spend a few 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.360 minutes with Mark Vandemir, coach. How is preparation for this one? 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.600 Getting ready to play in the super dumb tough building. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.320 Yeah it was. It was good week. These guys, Uh 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.880 practice hard. They got better as the week went on, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.600 and uh, you know we we piped into noise. You know, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.840 it's never gonna really be actually like it will be 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.080 Monday night, but these guys put it, put in a 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.920 lot of effort, good preparation and uh, two good football teams, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.760 so it'll be a fun night. And also getting the 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.519 new guys acclimated to playing in your system for this 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.639 open er. Yeah, that was that was a process, and 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.720 I think we have a really good process. You know, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.000 we call it an onboarding process. And it started right 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.280 away the day they got here. And then uh, relative 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.880 to our assistant coaches and the guys that we we 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.040 we acquired in trades and things like that. You know, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.720 our assistant coaches worked very hard. There were some carryover, 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.920 like with with LT and Kenny, those guys had, uh, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.440 they were familiar with some of the things that we 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.519 do here relative to what they were doing in Miami. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.320 So it was it was a good week. Drew Brees, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.600 it seems like he's been playing since the beginning of time. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.720 So how is he different at all? I mean, he 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.799 just gets better and better. I mean, these guys like 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.519 Drew and Tom and uh, you know, these guys that 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.760 are playing when they're forty years old, it's remarkable. I mean, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.040 to be able to uh, you know, take care of 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.240 their bodies that way, prepare for each and every game, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.600 the intensity of the week, the intense of the game, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.160 and to be able to do that at forty years 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.280 of age, it is just it's incredible, you know. And 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.919 they've they've been fortunate because especially Tom, but also Drew, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.840 they've been in the same system for for several several years, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.840 and that's big when you have continuity of system and 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.359 you're not changing systems every couple of years, you know, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.760 when you're when you're letting coaches go and things like that, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.200 you know you're in the same system and that helps too. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.840 But these guys, Drew's a Hall of Fame player and 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.799 it's gonna be a big challenge for us. Everybody talks 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.240 about them throwing to Camara and everything, but how tough 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.399 is the running game to stop for the Saints. Yeah, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.160 they have a little bit of everything. I mean, they 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.480 throw the ball to Camara, they run the ball well, 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.320 they have a good offensive line that you know, good 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.880 screen game. You know, they have a lot of weapons. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.280 And Drew's you know, he's the he's the conductor back there. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.800 You know. He gets them going at a good pace. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.680 And we've got to get lined up and really our 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.600 focus is to be fundamentally sound and do our jobs. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.200 I think that's the big thing for us this week. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.040 What about defensively, They've really ramped up the last couple 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.720 of years in that department. Yeah, I would say the 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.920 last half of last year they really they really did 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.400 a good job. They they were. They played a big 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.560 part in that team going thirteen and three and getting 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.040 to where they got to in the in the NFC 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.840 Championship game. That the defense played really well. They're good 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.880 on the back end. Cam Jordan, you know he can 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.160 he can ruin a game by himself upfront, So we've 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.200 got to do a good job of controlling that. And uh, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.720 we got to try to stay balanced and do the 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.200 best we can to convert on third downs. And that's 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:19.719 gonna be big to try to stay on the field. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.600 What about the special teams part of it? Special teams 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.440 is important. We feel really good about where we are 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.960 with our special teams units. Our coverage units have played 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.640 really well this preseason and practiced well, and we got 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.039 a lot of guys to take a lot of pride 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.359 in it. So you know those guys, they'll show up 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.480 Monday night and give great effort and and uh go 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.159 out there and try to make plays for us. All. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.480 I know, you want to play clean, but biggest factors 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.480 and pulling out the victoria. I think in the first 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.960 game Vandy, it's always about tackling, you know, being able 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.800 to tackle well. You know, you haven't really live tackled 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.880 that much relative to the starters and things like that. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.760 I think that's a big deal. I think penalties are 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.720 a big deal. I think turnovers. I think when you 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.840 look at the green Bay Chicago game, the first game 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.160 of the year, I mean, that's really what it came 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.120 down to. It was turnovers, it was miss tackles, it 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.960 was penalties. And I think that's that's something that the 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.560 team that does the league makes the least amount of 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.120 mistakes is the team that's gonna win. Coach, thanks a lot, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.120 good luck, Thank you, Annie. Not that any NFL team 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.279 is easier to prepare for than any other, but man, 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.240 preparing for the Saints right out of the shoot, that's 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.640 that's a tough one. And on Monday night and in 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.640 their building when it's gonna be loud and rocks, I mean, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.719 it's gonna be tough. There's no doubt. I don't end 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.000 the coach for having to prepare for this one. But 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.600 he's got some help. Let's get to our next hot 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:38.560 read and that means a little tex Let's write Texans 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.120 audio two box baby all right. On Thursday, Romeo Crennell 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.760 went to the podium and he was asked about a 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.680 guy that I think is one of the best players 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.280 in the league, and that is Alvin Camara. Here's rack 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.599 on Camaro. He's fast, he can run inside, you can 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.320 run outside, he can run routes, he can catch the ball, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.800 he can outrun people. He's one of those that you 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.320 might have to consider putting two guys on. Yeah, and 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.480 I think I think rax on is something putting two 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:15.440 guys on or putting somebody different on. Like you wouldn't 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.880 think to put a cornerback on a running back, would you. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.360 And you know what, that actually might not be a 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.840 bad idea because when Camara's out wide, if you have 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.279 a corner on him. A lot of times when running 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.640 backs out wide and there's a corner lined up opposite him, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.400 teams know, okay, that's that zone because the big receivers 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.840 inside of his man and the corner will go with 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.960 the receiver in a linebacker more like we go to 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.680 the running back. But if you treat Camara like a receiver, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.000 then maybe they're not going to be able to figure 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.080 it out. Corner on him that might mean zona might 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.240 mean mean that actually might play to your advantage in 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.640 all honesty, so that that could actually help you. Now, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.839 the last time the Texans played the New Orleans Saints, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.000 the Texas had a lot of success, and Rack talked 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.960 about why they were able to have that success against 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:10.680 Drew Brees and twenty. You know, sometimes there were one 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:15.000 or two unconventional calls that normally you didn't didn't expect 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.720 us to be playing that particular coverage on that particular 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.720 downing distance. And I think that that made a difference. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.880 Plus we had a guy I think ninety nine was 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.720 going after him pretty good, and so I think that 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.800 helped as well. Yeah, I think it helps. Two sacks, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:41.960 eight quarterback hurries, eight quarterback hurries. That's how good ninety 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.520 nine was. Like how coaches trying to downplay that a 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.320 little bit, like, yeah, you know, it's ninety nine was 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:52.000 pretty darn good. Uh, yeah, he was very good. Now, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.840 when you play your first game of the year, that 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.920 can be tough, really really tough. You haven't seen the 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.120 Saints offense on films that show much in the preseason. Now, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.000 at least with the Saints, you have something to go on. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.800 But Rack said, that's still still tough. You better be 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.600 able to adjust on the fly. If a team has 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.520 been in place for a while, you kind of know 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.640 what their bread and butter is, all right, But then 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.920 there are other things that they might throw at you 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.360 just to try to confuse you, get to catch you 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.280 off balance. You don't know what those things are going 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.000 to be, and so early on it's hard to try 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.600 to figure those out. And so what you end up 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.080 doing is have to make adjustments on the sideline when 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.280 they show you something that you weren't expecting. And that 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.000 I think is the magic of football. As a coach, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.079 can you adjust on the fly? Guys injured? How do 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.000 you change They're doing something you haven't seen. How do 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.880 you adjust? That's the part of coaching that I actually 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.840 I liked. I liked a lot. I mean, you didn't 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.120 love to have one of your players hurt or see 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.840 something different. But I love the fact that, okay, how 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.560 do we adjust this? How do we play chess? How 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.480 do we play chess to their move? What do we do? 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:02.560 I love that. I absolutely love that. Now. Romeo talked 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.880 about Brendan Scarlett and we're gonna hear from b Scart 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.600 later on AKA B Star TV, and he said about Brennan, 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.160 here's his goal, this is what he wants from Brennan 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.559 this year twenty nineteen. I expect for him to be 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.800 a consistent performer, you know, and do what we ask 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.320 him to do and do it on a consistent basis, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.679 you know. And that's the biggest thing, because I think 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.280 he knows the system and understands what we're looking for. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.000 Now it's just a matter of doing it on the 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.599 field when you have a different ability level across from you, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.600 and how you handle that and and the discipline that's 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.640 involved in doing what we ask and those kind of things, 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.160 and so you know, you have to put him in 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.280 the game and find out. Absolutely that's what you do. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.040 You have to find out And that's a I know 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.679 you hear that last part. Will you have to find out? 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.040 I think coaches a lot of times they see things 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.080 in practice and they're like, oh, man, I'm just not sure. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.640 I'm just not sure. But then you put a guy 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.160 in the field and you're like, man, I didn't really 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.959 know he could do that until I saw him do it. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.240 He wasn't doing in practice. There weren't opportunities to see 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.599 him do in practice. So maybe there's something like a 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.800 guy like brand Scarlett might do that we haven't seen 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.640 in practice because maybe he wasn't asked to do it, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.760 or that situation didn't arise. I would say, I say 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.360 this all the time, just because you haven't seen a 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.120 guy to do it doesn't mean you can't do it. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.920 And I think Brand's gonna be given an opportunity. I'm 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.800 money not looking forward to it all right. Next one 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:35.360 to jukebox is offensive coordinator Tim Kelly. Out of the shoot. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.800 Everybody wants to know about new players. My offense has 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.160 got plenty of new players, and Tim said, you know what, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.720 Kenny Stills Duke Johnson pretty impressive with how they've learned 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.280 our system thus far. In time, you get players that 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.080 can run like those two and definitely helps the cost. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.200 You know, the thing that's been impressive is that Kenny 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.160 and Duke could both come in and really tried to 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.080 learn the offense. So you know, their ability to run, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.040 their ability and make plays pair with everybody else on 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.360 the offense. You know, it's a good thing right now. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.520 Earlier this week I did a telestrator on the growth 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.240 of Deshaun Watson and how far he's come in his 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.360 three years. At two and a half years, pretty much 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.160 as the starting quarterback for your Houston Texans, and coach 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.920 Kelly described what he's seen in the development in Deshaun 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.000 Watson's game with his experience in the offense coming in, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.400 being able to command everybody, not just his position now, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.480 but being able to understand what everybody's doing on the field. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.200 Really working towards understanding what all twenty two were doing 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.800 has really helped his leadership grow. So, you know, as 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.360 rookie yeary's worried about what he was doing, but now 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.840 he's able to go out there and really firmly command 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.360 the huddle, knowing falling well what everybody's supposed to be 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.600 doing on every single play. If there's one key point 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.040 in development of a quarterback, it's that last thing, he said, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.640 knowing what everybody has to do, what everybody has to do, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.360 including the left tackle. Now the new left tackle, Leremie 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.600 Tunzel is learning what he needs to do. But coach 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.160 Kelly said that he's been impressed thus far and with 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.439 his ability and he has a welcome addition for this 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.000 offensive line. He's good, he's tough, he's smart, and he's 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.240 depending on Again, just like all those guys. If you 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.040 look at the guys that have come in come in 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.080 the building, especially during training camp. They've all come out 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.120 with the right mindset, trying to trying to learn the 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.240 offense and trying to help the team win. No doubt, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.520 Larrymy Tunsilo has definitely done that. How about Carlos Hide. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.920 He's a guy maybe overlooked in all of this because 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.400 of Duke Johnson's addition and Larry Ye Tunsel and Kenny Steals, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.319 but Carlos Hide traded for Martinez Rankin, has come in 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.719 and Tim said, like what I've seen from the guy 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.000 so far, Carlos has come in. He's done a good 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.960 job with Danny trying to learn the offense and trying 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.720 to catch up, because that's a tough thing right now. Right, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.719 So he's coming in working every day, being a good 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.839 pro and doing a good job. Yeah, and that's what 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.160 you want from a guy. It's not gonna be your 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.920 top guy. Wouldn't think as running back. Maybe we'll develop 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.520 that way, but I'd imagine that Duke Johnson being the 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.280 first guy I would get the majority of the touches. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.560 But if Carlos High gives you something downhill running game, boy, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.600 you absolutely gotta love that. Now, one of the new 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.439 guys we talked about is Duke Johnson. Coach emphasized, for 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.160 as much as we all talk about boy, Duke can 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.719 go on the slot, he can do all these things. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.079 Duke is a running back. Get that through your thick 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:20.719 skulls Now. He didn't say that, I'm saying that, but 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.959 here's what coach said about it. Duke has some very 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.839 unique skill sets. But again, I wouldn't consider him to 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.800 be a wide receiver. And thing's a running back. He's 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.839 who like all of them, like Taiwan Carlos, you know, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.360 they offer a wide variety of skills in that role. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.800 And that's what you want from a modern day running back. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.480 The ability to do different things. I just think would 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.120 Duke Johnson. He has such good receiving skills that sometimes 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.000 you forget. Oh yeah like guys running back. Yeah, he 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.480 can run through. I think he can run. I think 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.679 he's gonna be given the opportunity to run it and 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.600 I think he's gonna show. Yeah, I could. I could 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.839 tote the rock, Baby, give me the rock. I'll handle it. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:05.440 So there you go, there well us And of course 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.880 that was Hot Reads brought to you by Geico. Again, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.360 fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.199 car insurance. All right, this game against the Saints. From 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.480 the day the schedule was announced until now, we have 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.880 all been building up to this. Oh man, it's gonna 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.160 be so exciting. So now that we're here, how do 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.760 you beat the Saints? What are the keys to the game. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.200 We'll have your FCCU first Glanced Keys to the Game 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.000 next right here on Texans Access. We might have to 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.760 wait an extra day in some change for this Monday 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.840 night opener against the New Orleans Saints, but it's very, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.880 very close. I think seeing the Packers and Bears on 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.480 Thursday night play real football, and some would argue it 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.920 was real football, but I get it that, yes, the 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.840 season is here, so maybe that makes us a little 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.920 bit more anxious. But either way, Monday night six, a 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:00.320 little after six o'clock, Texans kickoff against the New Orleans Saints. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.640 So it's time for my keys to the game. This 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.720 week's first Glance Keys to the Game brought to you 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.400 by First Community Credit Union FCCU, the official credit union 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:16.120 of the Houston Texans. Now each and every Friday, as 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.200 long as there's a game, sometimes we'll have a Friday 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.160 show when there's a bye week all that we won't 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.800 do it then, but as long as we're doing a 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.880 Friday show, we I will always do my keys to 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.960 the game, always offense, defense, and if the special teams 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.160 make sense, then I'm gonna do special teams as well. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.120 Special team is pretty easy. Put them down deep, don't 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.120 make any mistakes, don't give up any blocks like you 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.840 did against the Dallas game. Gonna tackle guys to the ball, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.040 give him a drive, start inside of twenty five yard line, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.680 and don't make a massive mistake. And if you can 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.760 do that, that's pretty easy. And I think I mentioned 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.200 don't make a massive mistake a few times. So special 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.600 teams in this one. I know that's not what Brad 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.640 Seely's telling us. Guys. That's gonna be a little more involved. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.920 But you get the point. So let's jump in. Let's 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.560 start with the Texans defense and what the Texans defense 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.040 needs to do to get a win against the New 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:11.880 Orleans Saint started. Number one, you've got to figure out 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.400 the right way to stop the Album Camara option route. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.440 Now here's what I mean by that. In the NFC 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:23.200 Championship game, Camara was used primarily as a receiver, but 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.840 it was clear that game that he was the focus 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.680 of the offensive game plan. Now they want to throw 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.840 the ball to Michael Thomas, there's no question about that. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.480 But Camara is the straw sturn a drink. Camara is 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.000 the Saints offense. And in that MC Championship game, they 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.600 would manipulate the Rams by taking Camara, starting him out wide, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.040 motioning him into a stack, and that would get him 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.000 matched up on a linebacker one on one. So did 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.000 a matter where they were playing zone or man behind it, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.160 it was essentially man and man. The way that the 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.360 Saints were using their formations and the way the Rams 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.920 were scheming up against him, it was one on one 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.760 for Camara the entire time. And it's an option route. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.840 I mean what he's got an option out or in 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.600 or out. And the first time they ran this, Mark 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.480 Baron kind of just faced him up and Camara's like, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.880 I'm gonna take him inside, jabbed out, Baron went with him. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.880 He ran inside wide open, breeze hit him. Next time, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.359 Baron's like, no, no, you're not going inside, So he 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.440 jumped inside and Camara just went right to the flat 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.320 completion easy and they did that throughout the first two 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.399 and a half three quarters and killing the Rams with it, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.439 but they couldn't put the Rams away. And then finally 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.719 in the fourth quarter over time they got some heat 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.760 un Drew Breeze, they took that away and they had success. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.399 The Texas have got to find a way to do it. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.480 I don't exactly know what that's gonna be. Whether it's 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.800 Zach Cuttingham, whether it's double team, whether it's in and 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.879 out where it's brackets, whether it's with the slot corner 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.480 on Kamara, not even putting a linebacker, putting a slat 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.240 corner him, maybe putting in a corner on him. I 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.680 don't know. Maybe Camaro's is a good enough receiver that 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.680 you put Bradley Roby on him. I don't know. But 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.520 you've got to slow that down. You have to. Number two, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.800 the Saints and Drew Brees have had a number of 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.480 different tight ends, a lot of them you don't even 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.840 know by name. But the last one he had that 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.879 you knew the name of was Jimmy Graham, and Jimmy 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.120 was a nightmare for teams to stop. Well, now he's 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.960 got Jared Cook, not quite Jimmy Graham, but still a 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.560 tremendous weapon. Early in training camp when I was reading 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.040 about the Saints, that was the one pitch catch combination 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.840 that they talked about. It wasn't breezing Thomas, wasn't breezing Kamara. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.280 It was breezing Jared Cook. Got to slow down. Jared Cook. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.080 To Sean Gibson, his history has slowed down tight ends. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.720 Can he do it against Jared Cook? That is a 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.440 must win situation for the Texas defense and Sean Gibson 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.119 number three. A lot of people don't know this about 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.760 the Saints, but last year the Saints were sixth in 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.480 the NFL, sixth in the NFL in what in rushing 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:57.440 yards per game? So stopping the run is important, no doubt. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:02.840 But how being discipline gap discipline against the Saints is 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.959 a must. You know, JD and JJ could make up 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.560 for some of the things by making flashy plays, jumping 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.399 around a guard, drop around tackle, go making plays in 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.320 the backfield. I think this group is gonna be a 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.080 little bit more discipline, So they might give up a 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.280 two yard gain, a three yard gain, but they're not 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.240 gonna give up the fifteen eighteen yard gains much because 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.440 they'll be more gap discipline, and they've got to be 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.960 to stop the Saints offense. Number four, Drew Brees is 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.760 a legit six feet if not a shade under You've 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.120 got to push the pocket at his feet and make 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.639 him throw over that. That screws up his vision. It 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.879 forces him to have to work on his mechanics and 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.600 adjust his mechanics to get over. They've got to get 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.080 rushed at his feet. If you get rushed from the edge, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.080 that's great, but he just steps up in the pocket 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.320 him throws if you don't get anything at his feet. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.600 There are some quarterbacks you want to get at their feet. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.040 All quarterbacks you want to get at their feet, but 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.719