Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access dpcdo with you once again
Speaker 1: along with Mark Vandermuir and Drew Doherty.
Speaker 2: Just wrapped up Texans Huddle.
Speaker 1: I know you guys walked in as Travis Johnson and
Speaker 1: Indie Kalu we're leaving.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a fun show, you guys.
Speaker 3: Well, they could have stayed and done Texans All Access
Speaker 3: tex that show. He had the entire night shift on
Speaker 3: Sports Radio six ' ten and never stop because that's
Speaker 3: how they are.
Speaker 2: They could have just taken us up to game week.
Speaker 1: I mean they had stories for days and then we finished,
Speaker 1: and then as they're leaving, they were just more and
Speaker 1: more stories. So unfortunately, Travis Johnson not gonna be on
Speaker 1: every week. Maybe we'll bring him back another week, but
Speaker 1: we'll have a player every single week.
Speaker 3: Listen, every time I hear him, I think maybe he
Speaker 3: needs to be on every week, right, And he used
Speaker 3: to be on Mondays and twenty thirteen Monday nights. He
Speaker 3: did that six to seven hour with me all the
Speaker 3: time during a very difficult season. I'll always be grateful
Speaker 3: for Travis Johnson for that. He did an amazing job
Speaker 3: and it was a tough season and he was awesome
Speaker 3: to work with all year long.
Speaker 1: Well now we get into Texans All Access, although I
Speaker 1: gotta say only thirteen season you did that with Travis
Speaker 1: and then on Tuesdays we had the Player Show from
Speaker 1: Texans Grill with Antonio Smith, my all time favorite and
Speaker 1: I think he's my all time favorite because it was
Speaker 1: such a tough season.
Speaker 2: He's we laughed so hard.
Speaker 4: He is a gem. What a gem? I mean total
Speaker 4: jem people. There's a lot of folks.
Speaker 5: In this building right now who have no idea who
Speaker 5: he is, noa the turnover, and it's been a decade now.
Speaker 3: Well a lot of those guys and you know, they
Speaker 3: don't know what they don't know. A lot of people
Speaker 3: in our media department, digital media, social media when they
Speaker 3: see the old stuff like on the Nose or the
Speaker 3: Ninja Assassin or whatever, they don't know and they're thinking, wow,
Speaker 3: you guys had all that we did and there was
Speaker 3: a lot of success on the field and hoping to
Speaker 3: get it back to that level. I think the personalities
Speaker 3: in place right now are really cool with this version
Speaker 3: of the Houston Texans, and they will flourish, they will develop,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's a process going to develop on
Speaker 3: the field, off the field, all of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think ten years from now will be
Speaker 1: talking about some of the guys on this team now
Speaker 1: on the personalities that we have. Damian Pierce was a
Speaker 1: season premiere, which was the big fundraiser for the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans Foundation.
Speaker 2: We did it here on the stadium floor. Mark was
Speaker 2: the MC.
Speaker 1: I was doing some stuff on the red carpet, and
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce was the player reporter. I think we'll have
Speaker 1: a recap video coming up very soon. If not, it's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be on Texans three sixty Saturday night, eleven
Speaker 1: PM on ABC thirteen. I've clearly worked with Mark long
Speaker 1: enough to know how to pub my show, promote my shows.
Speaker 1: But Damian Pierce is on the red carpet and he
Speaker 1: was interviewing all the guys and asking them about their
Speaker 1: fashion and everything.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 4: He's, you know, just a natural. He's just such a micah.
Speaker 1: Although I did say, you don't see me lining up
Speaker 1: in the backfield trying to take your job, like here
Speaker 1: you are with a microphone trying to take mine.
Speaker 2: But he was fantastic. He's always so much fun.
Speaker 3: SOP DP and DP DPTV.
Speaker 1: We get dent Tel Perryman into because they'll do it.
Speaker 1: We're a lot of dps now and everyone's a talker.
Speaker 1: So all right, so you guys are not here for
Speaker 1: all of huddle, But we were talking about the Ravens game,
Speaker 1: obviously the big game coming up this week, So let's
Speaker 1: just start there with Texans all access the big headlines
Speaker 1: for the week.
Speaker 2: Where should we start.
Speaker 3: I think the fact that they opened the season it's
Speaker 3: such a difficult place. That's what pops out to me.
Speaker 3: It's not just the opener, it's not just CJ. Stroud
Speaker 3: and numerous Texans making their debut, young and a little
Speaker 3: bit more seasoned, but it's where you're going. It's playing
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson, the former MVP in his house. All that
Speaker 3: the Ravens have accomplished, I think in some ways, I
Speaker 3: don't want to call them overrated, but their accomplishments over
Speaker 3: the last decade. Look, they've won one playoff game since
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. But in the regular season they are dynamite.
Speaker 3: They are really tough to deal with at their place,
Speaker 3: and they're going to be a tough team to beat
Speaker 3: for everybody, and especially for this young team.
Speaker 5: Now you bring up the last decade. Texans have never
Speaker 5: won there in their history. So we're going back twenty
Speaker 5: some years. They've never won in Baltimore. You've only beaten
Speaker 5: that franchise twice. That was here in twelve and then
Speaker 5: again fourteen. But there was a guy, two guys really
Speaker 5: here in fourteen that are here again in John Weeks
Speaker 5: in case Keenum, Case Keenum did not throw a touchdown
Speaker 5: pass in that game. You got a touchdown pass from
Speaker 5: Arian Foster to CJ. Fedorowitz, but it was that and
Speaker 5: a bunch of Randy bullockfield goals. You got a mighty,
Speaker 5: mighty task in front. And I know you're gonna get
Speaker 5: into this. We're gonna get into this a little later.
Speaker 5: But it's a matchup of unknowns on both sides because
Speaker 5: you don't know much about this new offense that's getting
Speaker 5: rave reviews and rave question marks with the Ravens. But
Speaker 5: then again, they don't know really what film to study
Speaker 5: defensively of the Texans, And it's to a lesser degree certainly,
Speaker 5: but yeah, there's a lot of it's a matchup of unknowns,
Speaker 5: and that's certainly the case in Week one, no matter what.
Speaker 5: But it's even more amplified because of the changes that
Speaker 5: they've both made franchise wide that.
Speaker 1: Playing up in that stadium in Baltimore. I was listening
Speaker 1: to Nick Cassario this morning on with Sean Pennergast and
Speaker 1: Seth Payne and Drew and I. We used to love
Speaker 1: going into these press boxes and doing our own little
Speaker 1: critique of the location.
Speaker 5: And the story four hours before the game because there's
Speaker 5: nobody there except for a few attendants and we walk
Speaker 5: in and we just basically it's like an HGTV show. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 5: I like the spaciousness of this one.
Speaker 2: Chairs are a little low.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Drew and I would do that, and I
Speaker 1: love I love the location that press box because it's.
Speaker 2: Like fifty yard line. You're not that high up.
Speaker 1: You're in the lower level. Like they could sell that
Speaker 1: for a premium if those were seats. But Nick Casara
Speaker 1: was talking about it this morning and how he from
Speaker 1: the coaches vantage point, how that those seats you're really
Speaker 1: low to the ground and all the fans can turn
Speaker 1: around and mock you during the game. We talked about
Speaker 1: taking a beating a few times, as you know, when
Speaker 1: he was with the Patriots and now not having super
Speaker 1: fun memories and how the fans would sort of turn
Speaker 1: around and mock them while they were in the press.
Speaker 3: They know they're there too, the New England. It happens
Speaker 3: with the broadcast both, and you know they look back
Speaker 3: at us and like, you don't have Tom Riady on
Speaker 3: your team. He's the best quarterback ever and you're hearing
Speaker 3: it from those fans all game long. And the Ravens
Speaker 3: the broadcast booth, I guess it's the same level because
Speaker 3: it feels low as I recall it at BALTI feel like.
Speaker 2: It's probably a few doors down, but in the same level.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 3: It's a nice booth. I mean, I got to say,
Speaker 3: it's a huge boot. They take good care of us.
Speaker 3: But you're right, never won there. That's tough.
Speaker 5: Phenomenal food in that press box. Phenomenal food, crabcake, crabcakes.
Speaker 2: I was like, it was something delicious, like one of.
Speaker 3: Those Ross Tucker reviews of the press box food.
Speaker 1: We could Drew and I could totally do a blog
Speaker 1: because we literally critique everything. But if if you do
Speaker 1: talk to Nick, you have to tell him that I
Speaker 1: spoke with the Baltimore Ravens team reporter.
Speaker 2: They're moving the press box the next year.
Speaker 3: Not Now, what are they going to do? They're it's
Speaker 3: going to be.
Speaker 1: All like Tampa Bay. Do you remember in Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: in the corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the bananas Foster speaking of press box food.
Speaker 2: That's a huge spread.
Speaker 3: Normal. See that just stinks because you need to tell Nick.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get on my soapbox now. But all right,
Speaker 3: I know the radio announcer for the Ravens whose name
Speaker 3: is unfortunately Jerry Sandusky Jerry with a G, and he'll
Speaker 3: be on later this week with us. But he is
Speaker 3: a radio activist, so he's going to be complaining. I
Speaker 3: was going to use another word about them moving the
Speaker 3: broadcast boots and the press box radio.
Speaker 4: Look, why when you move.
Speaker 3: TV, why don't you move TV, mister NFL team person, Well,
Speaker 3: the TV people need to be there. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: don't the radio people need to see it too? No,
Speaker 3: we don't need to see it. We can be in
Speaker 3: the corner because it's just radio. No, we need to
Speaker 3: actually see it too. How about that? I would say
Speaker 3: that the writers need to see it less than the
Speaker 3: broadcast people, because we are actually describing the action as
Speaker 3: it occurs. But don't get me started.
Speaker 2: Do you still need your binoculars?
Speaker 3: I always need my binoculars. I always use them no
Speaker 3: matter what the situation is because I feel like I
Speaker 3: want to get right in there. There's very few spots,
Speaker 3: you know. One of them, though, I went to a
Speaker 3: game at Aggie Land. We can talk about this later.
Speaker 3: I went to my first Aggie game in years, and
Speaker 3: it was really cool to be there, and I thought
Speaker 3: I had really good seats Aggie Land. Everybody's right on
Speaker 3: top of the field.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm still in an upper deck in a club level
Speaker 3: on the shady side, thank goodness. But I felt like
Speaker 3: I could still see it, like I could actually call
Speaker 3: that game without binoculars. But an answer to your question,
Speaker 3: I always use binoculars.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well next year you're definitely gonna have to
Speaker 1: use binoculars.
Speaker 5: Because one of my favorite press box experiences all time
Speaker 5: with a fan was in the playoff game at Baltimore.
Speaker 5: Didn't end up great, but right before the playoff game started,
Speaker 5: one of my friends who I was a sports anchor
Speaker 5: at the Fox affiliate in Lubbock. This guy was a
Speaker 5: sports anchor at the ABC affiliate in Lubbock and he
Speaker 5: has since gone on to CNN. His name is Andy Schulz.
Speaker 5: He does a sports at CNN and but he's from Houston,
Speaker 5: massive Houston Texans fan. He was a Rockets ball boy
Speaker 5: back in the day, but pregame, he knows being in
Speaker 5: the media, knows where the press box is. He has
Speaker 5: on a jacket and there was a cold day in
Speaker 5: one of those stocking caps and he he saw me
Speaker 5: in the press box before I saw him. And he
Speaker 5: gets right up against the glass, bangs on the glass, opens.
Speaker 4: Up his jerty's jacket. He's got a battle red.
Speaker 5: Andre Johnson jersey on and he's like yelling, going and
Speaker 5: it's like you can't hear anything. You'd share the ding
Speaker 5: tink on the glass and he's probably going at like
Speaker 5: four thousand decibels, but it's just like sound perfect and
Speaker 5: he's going bananas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's fun.
Speaker 3: Do you guys like being reporters when they don't open
Speaker 3: the windows? They don't know open the windows here of
Speaker 3: the press box either right, you can't or they don't.
Speaker 3: I think they can, but they don't.
Speaker 2: They can't. But now they're TVs, they're TV's installed by
Speaker 2: the way the windows, so I think you can't. I
Speaker 2: don't think. I think since they've opened him last.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't mind it being open because it's kind nice.
Speaker 5: When the Saints in the Saints game the other day,
Speaker 5: you know, there's some fun plays and I could go.
Speaker 2: Whoa, but it didn't know, nobody would hear you if.
Speaker 4: The windows have been closed.
Speaker 3: Right for fans who don't know, most press box windows
Speaker 3: are closed, and you're not supposed to cheer in the
Speaker 3: press box.
Speaker 4: And I wasn't cheering, but right, but if.
Speaker 3: The Texans make a big play, you're not supposed to
Speaker 3: say yes, no way, right, even.
Speaker 4: The nicest but.
Speaker 1: That press box though, I could have all I could say,
Speaker 1: talk to you. We'd be right next to each other,
Speaker 1: and I can't hear you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it gets really loud. Yeah, when the windows are open,
Speaker 2: you can't even hear yourself.
Speaker 5: In the regular it was okay that they didn't have
Speaker 5: it was regular season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't hear it.
Speaker 2: We played Week.
Speaker 1: One there right after and yeah, and Kenny stills the
Speaker 1: game speaking of Laramie Tunsil. One of the headlines, obviously
Speaker 1: the old line for the Texas Sunday's game. What's going
Speaker 1: to happen? I guess we shall find out. But Titus
Speaker 1: Howard day to day, according to the head coach Tamiko
Speaker 1: Ryan's yesterday, he was out at practice, not really sure
Speaker 1: what his status is going to be for Sunday's game.
Speaker 2: But if he comes back, where would he play?
Speaker 4: When he right?
Speaker 2: But what do you play guard? Where would he? Where
Speaker 2: would he go?
Speaker 3: This is important to to regulate and calibrate. Really, calibrate
Speaker 3: is a better word. The Demico Ryan's injury translator. Right, Oh,
Speaker 3: we don't know his terminology yet, you don't we knew
Speaker 3: the koobiak one. He's got a foot, he's got an ankle,
Speaker 3: he's he's okay. Well, Bill O'Brien, for instance, he's gonna
Speaker 3: miss some time. If that's missed sometime comes out that
Speaker 3: that's a that's a long it's weeks, right, miss sometime.
Speaker 3: But O'Brien saying it's not life threatening might be a
Speaker 3: week or less possible if he says it's not life threatening,
Speaker 3: that's what he would say. For Demiico to say, day
Speaker 3: to day, I'm curious. I'm gonna see how Titus ends up,
Speaker 3: and if Titus plays, I'm gonna know what day to
Speaker 3: day means. Day to day now we're all day to day, right,
Speaker 3: so it could have a lot of latitude there, but
Speaker 3: I'm monitoring and I will have updates weekly on the
Speaker 3: Demico Ryan's injury translator.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we
Speaker 1: might see him in week one, just because in camp
Speaker 1: a lot of times Mik o'ryans would say he's making progress,
Speaker 1: he's headed in the right direction. Yeah, So I feel like,
Speaker 1: but unless it's regular season now and now it's a
Speaker 1: whole new translator and we don't want to give out.
Speaker 3: Anything, I think it could be.
Speaker 5: I just thought it was a big deal a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks ago when Titus Howard had pads on and
Speaker 5: was out there of practice, because that was a bit
Speaker 5: of a surprise to some folks seeing that. So I
Speaker 5: think weeks ago seeing that kind of bodes well for
Speaker 5: him playing. And then just to add on to y'allost
Speaker 5: Bill O'Brien aspect of things, my favorite part of Bill
Speaker 5: O'Brien and injuries was when a reporter would say X
Speaker 5: player said that my player is actually doing pretty well,
Speaker 5: And a lot of times that X player was either
Speaker 5: Jadeveon Clowney or DJ Swerringer, which you knew it like
Speaker 5: on the inside was immolating, Yeah, just furious, and he
Speaker 5: would respond with something like, oh well, doctor Swerringer said
Speaker 5: that I loved it when he called a player doctor
Speaker 5: that that meant clown you just you, You've you've got
Speaker 5: a gold plated doghouse that you're in with h O'Brien and.
Speaker 1: That well, speaking of dog plated gold houses or gold
Speaker 1: plated doghouses, a dog.
Speaker 3: Plated gold well, it could be the same thing.
Speaker 1: And doctor Clowney will be facing him or the textans I.
Speaker 3: Can't believe we're going to see doctor Clowney.
Speaker 2: Doctor Clowney.
Speaker 3: I don't like this at all.
Speaker 5: Still a Houstonian lives in the city, but he's uh
Speaker 5: playing for the Ravens.
Speaker 3: I am looking forward to that injury report on Wednesday
Speaker 3: as much as I've looked forward to a lot of
Speaker 3: things in my life. I really want to see who's
Speaker 3: got what what they're listed as. And I know a
Speaker 3: lot of it's questionable and you're not going to know anyway,
Speaker 3: but both teams. I want to see this because I've
Speaker 3: got a feeling the Ravens have some things up their sleeve,
Speaker 3: meaning secrets up their sleeve and not good ones. They're
Speaker 3: they're kind of holding things back from the media, and
Speaker 3: that injury report has to be It's not always a
Speaker 3: direct revelation of things, but it does give you some ideas.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you google doctor Clowney, you get
Speaker 3: a lot of doctor Clowney's in the country. There are
Speaker 3: doctor Clowns and not Jadevion.
Speaker 2: The picture of Jadevion with scraps.
Speaker 1: Now, well, you know, we started off talking about the
Speaker 1: O line, but I think for speaking of your injury report,
Speaker 1: I think it'll be interesting to see the Ravens their
Speaker 1: cornerback situation. Yeah, no, Moreland Humphrey, you had a foot injury,
Speaker 1: is gonna be out for a few games. But they've
Speaker 1: just had a lot of injuries there, So I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Does that bode well for the Texans
Speaker 1: wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Can we read into that.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have Lamar Jackson retire than any of that.
Speaker 2: I don't care about the cars.
Speaker 3: I'll take whatever I can get as far as Ravens
Speaker 3: injuries here to make life a little bit easier for
Speaker 3: this Houston offense. Because the Texans offensive line is the
Speaker 3: thing that we have to be concerned about here. Let's
Speaker 3: say Titus can go. If Titus can go, you have
Speaker 3: shack Titus Laramie good. Okay, And we don't know how
Speaker 3: they're going to put together center and guard apart from
Speaker 3: those three. But maybe Patterson, who played a bunch against
Speaker 3: the Saints, maybe they do something else. Maybe they bring
Speaker 3: up Deeter, May they bring up Peter to play guard.
Speaker 3: I don't know how they're gonna hand.
Speaker 4: Maybe Josh Jones gets slid in there line.
Speaker 3: I would think he's got a shot to do it.
Speaker 3: He's capable of it. And they have to put their
Speaker 3: best five on the field. No matter how they set
Speaker 3: it up. You can't afford to get well. Titus has
Speaker 3: to play tackle because he's a tackle. If you think
Speaker 3: Josh Jones is going to be better at tackle than guard,
Speaker 3: but Titus can handle guard, you might have to make
Speaker 3: that move right here if Titus is available. I'm just
Speaker 3: assuming that for this conversation. I was joking last week
Speaker 3: you could do a contest guess the Texans offensive line
Speaker 3: starters and maybe get insurance on that deal and give
Speaker 3: away a nice prize because it's gonna be tough for
Speaker 3: a lot of people to guess what the Texans offensive
Speaker 3: line is going to be come Sunday at noon.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a really good chance that you're
Speaker 1: gonna have some starters that have not suited up in
Speaker 1: a Texans uniform yet through preseason. Oh yeah, at all, right,
Speaker 1: Like Josh Jones, obviously he was at it right, traded
Speaker 1: for here in camp.
Speaker 2: Did not did he play? He has not played.
Speaker 3: No, Titus hasn't played, Josh Jones. What about Titus has
Speaker 3: he Did he play against New England?
Speaker 4: No? Out?
Speaker 5: Remember, Okay, Titus was gone within that first week of
Speaker 5: training camp.
Speaker 4: It was early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm.
Speaker 2: Talking about guys that have not been with the Texans.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, new players, new faces. We saw Dieter against
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, which is that was kind of
Speaker 1: the beginning of the end for Kenyon Green when you
Speaker 1: saw him come in with the ones and then Kenyon
Speaker 1: backing him up, and then obviously Kenyon we know he's
Speaker 1: now done for the year.
Speaker 3: I mean, if Kenyan had played well in that game
Speaker 3: and didn't aggravate something his shoulder because he grabbed his
Speaker 3: shoulder clearly after that.
Speaker 2: He was also playing with the twos, which was a
Speaker 2: bit worse I mean, that.
Speaker 3: Was definitely a sign of things perhaps, but man, I
Speaker 3: would welcome him playing well in that game and just
Speaker 3: rising back up through the depth chart. He's got the
Speaker 3: ability to do it. But he's on IR now after
Speaker 3: the season, and you want him to get healed up
Speaker 3: and ready as possible for twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Four and then at the center position.
Speaker 1: So j scrugs ir, Yeah, obviously, Scott question and Mary, ir,
Speaker 1: what happens there?
Speaker 2: Do you bring up Jimmy Morrissey, I think the squad.
Speaker 3: Dieter Morrissey, Patterson. You could go, I think Patterson's the likeliest,
Speaker 3: but you could also say Kendrick Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: He played a bunch against the Saints, and maybe that's
Speaker 3: just the way they go. Maybe they don't like it.
Speaker 3: Maybe they go Kendrick Green who did it in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: But he's only been here for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: So how do you handle that? This is this is
Speaker 3: a mystery. That's why I say you could run a
Speaker 3: contest here. Who's going to start on the offensive line.
Speaker 3: I can give you Laramie and Shack for sure, and
Speaker 3: Titus I'm hoping. But after the other two spots, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of mystery and if it, if Titus is there,
Speaker 3: then it's just just those two, just forty percent of
Speaker 3: your own line. But I think that they can work
Speaker 3: this out. You do have prep, you have practice, You
Speaker 3: can get ready for it. You get ready for the
Speaker 3: noise as best you can. C. J. Stroud, Captain Stroud
Speaker 3: has to be ready for anything against the.
Speaker 4: Regle of your memories.
Speaker 5: How do you feel going into week one with this
Speaker 5: offensive line and the question marks versus how you felt
Speaker 5: going into week one one twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen with
Speaker 5: those offensive lines. Keep in mind, in twenty seventeen, Dwayne
Speaker 5: Brown was holding out, Yeah, and you had the rest
Speaker 5: of that crew, and then in twenty eighteen Dwayne was gone.
Speaker 3: In twenty seventeen, I underestimated Jacksonville. I thought, oh, it's Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: You should be okay. On opening day, you're starting Tom Savage,
Speaker 3: you should be all right. Twenty eighteen set the stage
Speaker 3: for me O line wise.
Speaker 4: In twenty eighteen when like Julian Davenport.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you didn't have Laramie yet. The next year
Speaker 3: you didn't have Dwayne anymore obviously, So yeah, twenty eighteen
Speaker 3: and I was thinking of the twenty eighteen opener the
Speaker 3: other day for this reason. Remember the first was it
Speaker 3: the first snap where they fumbled? Were the first? I
Speaker 3: think it was at New England and you fumble and
Speaker 3: you give Tom Brady the ball at the twenty basically ouch.
Speaker 3: You know, you have to avoid colossal mistakes early in
Speaker 3: the at any time in this game. But if you
Speaker 3: can get the operations smooth, get it to Pierce, let's Stroud,
Speaker 3: make some easy ish easy for me to say, throws Schultz, Pierce,
Speaker 3: you know, Niko over the middle, get a little bit
Speaker 3: of that going, play some good d Look that's the
Speaker 3: recipe here, and you got to find a way to
Speaker 3: generate takeaways.
Speaker 2: Yeah, CJ.
Speaker 1: Stratt, We were talking about this on the Players show
Speaker 1: Who They Who?
Speaker 2: Did? Travis and Indie.
Speaker 1: Think we're gonna be the sort of the weapons to
Speaker 1: stand up where they show one.
Speaker 2: So Travis is really excited about Tank Dell has gotta.
Speaker 4: Be, Yeah, gotta be.
Speaker 1: They were asking me and then and and Indy wanted
Speaker 1: to know, aside from from Tank, who else I was
Speaker 1: excited about because and we both sort of talked about
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz for that reason.
Speaker 2: He's sort of the veteran guy.
Speaker 1: I think Stroud even talked about how he's someone that
Speaker 1: he's been able to really lean on and build some chemistry.
Speaker 2: I think they worked out in the off season together
Speaker 2: out in l A. Noah Brown is interesting, is.
Speaker 1: Interesting as an option because we saw him make some catches,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you think of Nico and and and Damian Pierce.
Speaker 1: I mean, are we gonna are we gonna run the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit more with Damien Because you say.
Speaker 5: We're listening off all these pass catchers, I think you
Speaker 5: gotta be excited about just run game as al. You
Speaker 5: saw what Pierce was able to do last year, and
Speaker 5: you presume that this offensive system is better on the whole,
Speaker 5: and it's going to be better running the ball well,
Speaker 5: that bodes really well for a guy who was kind
Speaker 5: of having to make a lot of his yards by
Speaker 5: himself last year.
Speaker 4: That's exciting.
Speaker 5: And then you mix in Singletary, maybe even you sprinkle
Speaker 5: in a little bit of Mike Boone, who man, he
Speaker 5: looked good in the preseason. He could and he's done
Speaker 5: some nice things in his career with Denver catches the ball,
Speaker 5: well runs the ball. I mean, I think you got
Speaker 5: a factor in the run game as a big X factor,
Speaker 5: as a big thing that you want to look for, because, hey,
Speaker 5: you're going to live and die without with this run game.
Speaker 5: If this run game isn't going, you're in trouble. And
Speaker 5: I think it's not going to be. I think it's
Speaker 5: going to be much much better than what we've seen
Speaker 5: around here in a long time.
Speaker 3: You still need some balance, obviously, and I know you're
Speaker 3: not saying you don't, because if I'm Baltimore, I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: just overwhelm the line of scrimmage, right, make Stroud beat you.
Speaker 3: He's a rookie, he's in a hostile environment. They're going
Speaker 3: to try to make Stroud eat them some way, somehow.
Speaker 3: They're going to load up against Pierce. Pierces the You know,
Speaker 3: Laramie is probably the best offensive player. Pierce is right
Speaker 3: there with him as far as the threat goes. Obviously,
Speaker 3: different position and different impact, but Pierce can have a
Speaker 3: lot of impact if he's able to get some yak here,
Speaker 3: get a little crack of daylight, get him going. All right,
Speaker 3: there's your recipe. You're starting to move the ball a
Speaker 3: little bit on the ground. Pierce Straut makes a good thrower.
Speaker 3: Two maybe a big play to tank or two or
Speaker 3: more and then you're off and running. You know, you
Speaker 3: got to play clean though the times the Texans have
Speaker 3: lost up there, I mean, I think about the playoff
Speaker 3: game with the four turnovers. I think about earlier that
Speaker 3: season with just a sloppy game. And didn't the Ninja
Speaker 3: we were just talking about him earlier. Didn't you have
Speaker 3: like I think, two fifteen yard penalties in that twenty
Speaker 3: eleven regular season game up.
Speaker 5: There against the goal line, like the Texans were backed
Speaker 5: up against their own goal line. Yeah, Vonte Leach was
Speaker 5: giving the ball I think on consecutive plays because it
Speaker 5: was his first game against his old team and the
Speaker 5: text and they stonewalled. They didn't the didn't let Leach in.
Speaker 5: But Antonio Smith had a couple of those fifteen yard
Speaker 5: personal fouls.
Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen pick sixth Matt shab also. Didn't they have
Speaker 3: a return for a touchdown or something in that game?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Maybe I'm misremembering that. Maybe I remember
Speaker 3: pick six. It was just a sloppy, not a good game,
Speaker 3: let's just put it.
Speaker 4: Not a blowout, but not you were never close either.
Speaker 3: I was talking about it. In fact, we're going to
Speaker 3: have it on matchup tonight with Johnny five. Even I
Speaker 3: remember that disastrous season, You're right in it. Kyle Bowler
Speaker 3: hits three passes in a row to get him in
Speaker 3: a field goal range and they win the game like that.
Speaker 3: And they weren't having a good year either at the time.
Speaker 3: So it's been a house of horrors to an extent
Speaker 3: for the Houston Texans, and as you mentioned, Drew never
Speaker 3: having one up there. But look, you rip off the
Speaker 3: band aid and then get ready for a Week two
Speaker 3: no matter what happens, win or lose.
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of nice to face Baltimore in
Speaker 2: Week one.
Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar Jackson has not played all preseason, missed
Speaker 1: the end of last year with injury. Then you get him,
Speaker 1: you've got a bunch of new weapons. While good, they've
Speaker 1: not played any of their starters in the preseason. Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews has been sort of banged up. I think he
Speaker 1: returned back to practice today or this week. But they
Speaker 1: don't really have that chemistry. You know they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a good team, you know they're gonna have a firepower offense,
Speaker 1: but maybe you.
Speaker 2: Get them early before they've really started.
Speaker 1: Clicking, and you just hope that with a heavy dose
Speaker 1: of Damian Pierce on the ground, you can control the
Speaker 1: time of position, so you don't give the ball to
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and you protect, you protect the ball, don't
Speaker 1: turn it over as well. So I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that if you're gonna play them, I'd rather play them
Speaker 1: now than say December. Not that you know playing them
Speaker 1: is going to be easy by any stretch of the means,
Speaker 1: but that both Travis and Dy had a lot to
Speaker 1: say about this Texans defense going up against Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: So let's take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, let's talk about this Texans defense,
Speaker 1: Undardmiko Ryans. We got more previewing the Baltimore Ravens, and
Speaker 1: then of course later on we're gonna go around the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's all coming up on Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Texans All Access. Texans up at ball to more.
Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans makes his debut as head coach.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 1: Strad Will Anderson all playing their first NFL games. And
Speaker 1: you know, we were talking with the guys earlier, Travis
Speaker 1: and Indy, they're both super excited about this D line
Speaker 1: going against Lamar Jackson. They love this attack, pin your
Speaker 1: ears back style of defense. They feel like there can
Speaker 1: be a lot of pressure on Lamar Jackson, not giving
Speaker 1: him a lot of time, and they can sort of
Speaker 1: contain him so that he's not able to scramble or
Speaker 1: make plays and you'll have to.
Speaker 2: Get the ball out quick.
Speaker 1: But they really like this style of defense, and they
Speaker 1: feel like if you can get a guy like Will
Speaker 1: Anderson on Lamar that that could be really effective in
Speaker 1: containing him.
Speaker 2: On Sunday, I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3: I think it's part of the mix. You need a
Speaker 3: lot of guys, right, yeah, I mean, well, love Anderson
Speaker 3: just devour Lamar Jackson time and time again. I think
Speaker 3: Grenard's gonna have to get in the mix. I think
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to send extra people. You're gonna have
Speaker 3: to send Petrie into the backfield occasionally trip up that
Speaker 3: running game with Dobbins and Edwards and all that gang.
Speaker 3: Because these guys, I believe they'll look at the Texans
Speaker 3: and say, let's run the ball. Let's try to run
Speaker 3: the ball. Look at them last year. I know they
Speaker 3: have different players, but every team wants to do it. It
Speaker 3: makes life easy, makes life easier on Lamar Jackson as well.
Speaker 3: We don't want to see Lamar Jackson run it that
Speaker 3: much if we don't have to, because that's risky. Right,
Speaker 3: He's gotten hurt a bunch, so let's try to run
Speaker 3: the ball and soften them up for the pass plays
Speaker 3: that it'll hit to Mark Andrews and OBJ and all
Speaker 3: of that other stuff. It's going to be really interesting
Speaker 3: to see what kind of Lamar Jackson you get. Is
Speaker 3: there any rust at all? He hasn't played in the preseason. Obviously,
Speaker 3: he's practiced, got hurt down the stretch last year year
Speaker 3: before as well. This is a real big moment for him.
Speaker 3: A lot of eyes on him to see how he
Speaker 3: responds signing the big contract. Here he is in front
Speaker 3: of the home fans.
Speaker 5: I can't wait. I'm keeping my eyes on Willie Anderson Junior.
Speaker 5: And when I say keeping my eyes on that's usually
Speaker 5: it's like a throwaway line. It's just like, yeah, that
Speaker 5: guy's good. Literally starting her out mid to December of
Speaker 5: twenty eleven. JJ Watt was a guy when the Texans
Speaker 5: were on defense, you would just sort of look at
Speaker 5: what he was doing, and he was always whipping, you know,
Speaker 5: his man in front of him, and that was the
Speaker 5: case for the next seven eight years while he was here.
Speaker 4: In the same fashion.
Speaker 5: It's been fun in the preseason when Willy Anderson has
Speaker 5: played to keep your eyes on what he does, and
Speaker 5: to keep your eyes on him in practice because he's
Speaker 5: it's like a hand grenade goes off. I mean, just
Speaker 5: all sorts of havoc is reeked when he's out there.
Speaker 5: You said it perfectly, Mark. After one practice there was
Speaker 5: a practice where Anderson kind of got a day's rest
Speaker 5: and he wasn't out there. Well, the Texans offense looked
Speaker 5: really really good that day, looked really really improved that
Speaker 5: day because he wasn't in the backfield, Cavin in the
Speaker 5: offensive line all practice long. So when I say I'm
Speaker 5: going to keep my eyes on him, I'm literally going
Speaker 5: to lockdown and I'm making binocular motions.
Speaker 4: With my hands right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah three, I'm literally gonna watch what he does against
Speaker 5: the guy or guys who are blocking him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, Tamiko, Ryan's the challenge of him coaching this
Speaker 3: defense along with Matt Burke against Lamar Jackson. Whatever they
Speaker 3: have planned, it's got to be something special, right, But
Speaker 3: maybe they just play their system. I don't know. They
Speaker 3: just have to be ready for it because he is
Speaker 3: what I call a one man draw play when you
Speaker 3: or maybe one man play action is a better way
Speaker 3: to put it, Lamar Jackson. The linebackers have to respect
Speaker 3: the run, so when he goes back to pass, it's
Speaker 3: are you gonna run it or not? And then you know,
Speaker 3: before you know it, Andrews is beating you and he
Speaker 3: has an easy layup kind of passed to Andrews. The
Speaker 3: year that Texans got blown out up there with Deshaun
Speaker 3: Watson twenty nineteen, it was a thirty four point loss.
Speaker 3: I mean, Jackson threw four touchdown passes. He ran it
Speaker 3: for seventy something as well. It was a nightmare to
Speaker 3: deal with. And that was a pretty good Texans team
Speaker 3: that eventually would have a lead in a divisional playoff game.
Speaker 3: But we don't have to get into that right now. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: too soon?
Speaker 1: Hey that the Ravens season didn't end all that great
Speaker 1: either of that year. No, it didn't the last time
Speaker 1: they had this level of excitement, I think because they
Speaker 1: lost in.
Speaker 2: The wildcard round.
Speaker 1: They were going to host, they were rolling.
Speaker 2: The top seed, they were in a top seed they
Speaker 2: lose to the time.
Speaker 3: They lost it to the divisional round because they had
Speaker 3: to buy and then the Titans were coming off the
Speaker 3: win over New England, went into Baltimore and won. There
Speaker 3: was a hell of a post.
Speaker 5: Ravens type going forward on fourth down in that game.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think they had like four failed fourth
Speaker 5: down conversions or more.
Speaker 3: Maybe they couldn't believe it. They couldn't believe it. So
Speaker 3: the Tennessee d was playing really well, but that offensive
Speaker 3: formula of Derrick Henry and Tannehill play action was working.
Speaker 3: Wonders can you get that going with Pierce? Can you
Speaker 3: find a way to hold out of the ball finish drives? Look,
Speaker 3: I'd rather have sevens and threes every day of the week,
Speaker 3: but look, connect on a field goal or two. Just
Speaker 3: keep going, keep the ball away from him if you
Speaker 3: possibly can. Can't wait.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So since then, the Ravens had have one in
Speaker 1: the wild card against the Titans in twenty twenty, and
Speaker 1: then they lost the Bills, and then last year they
Speaker 1: lost to the Bengals. So not a lot of success
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: So the only playoff win they have since twenty fourteen
Speaker 3: is that victory over the Titans in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: In twenty fourteen, they also beat the Steelers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was the last time they won a
Speaker 3: playoff game until twenty twenty. So since twenty fourteen, the
Speaker 3: Texans have won how many playoff games? One? Two or two?
Speaker 3: That's it. But the Ravens have only won once. And
Speaker 3: it's a weird thing. That's why. Look, I'm never gonna
Speaker 3: call them overrated back, but postseason success has failed. It
Speaker 3: just hasn't worked out for them. You know, Lamar's rookie
Speaker 3: year was what it was. They were struggling with Flacco.
Speaker 3: They put in Lamar in twenty eighteen, they make the playoffs,
Speaker 3: they lose to the Chargers at home. They're not perfect, right,
Speaker 3: and being a new mix with the new offensive coordinator
Speaker 3: and Jackson coming back, maybe you can take advantage of
Speaker 3: the element of surprise and spring something on them that
Speaker 3: they're not expecting. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think also o'dill Beckham Junior. I'm very curious to
Speaker 1: see what he looks like. He hasn't played since he
Speaker 1: tore his knee up in that Super Bowl when he
Speaker 1: was with the Rams.
Speaker 2: Yea, like everyone thought he wasn't even going to come back.
Speaker 5: The rookies a Flowers too. I mean they're very very
Speaker 5: high on that guy, very high they'll be at Those
Speaker 5: two will be a nice test for Derrick Stingly and
Speaker 5: Stephen Nelson. You know how much does each of those
Speaker 5: corners get the other guys switched around a bunch? Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's that's a fascinating matchup as well.
Speaker 2: And and the safeties as well, just keeping their eye
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Well captains too, how about that Jimmy Warred and Jalen
Speaker 1: Treat That is cool.
Speaker 3: That is cool. It's cool that Stroud gets elected captain.
Speaker 3: Now Will Anderson's not a captain, but someday he will be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you know, like, okay on the captains.
Speaker 1: Since the captains came out yesterday, I was thinking about this.
Speaker 1: In the past few years, it's always felt like whoever
Speaker 1: the captains are will of course season with.
Speaker 2: The captains are the leaders of your team.
Speaker 1: But this year I felt like there were so many
Speaker 1: other players that actually could.
Speaker 4: Have been It's a really good point.
Speaker 2: Like Damian Pierce, I feel like he could why he
Speaker 2: could have been a captain. John Weeks could have been
Speaker 2: a captain.
Speaker 5: And think about this too. These captains haven't been captains
Speaker 5: for a long time. Tunsel had it for half of
Speaker 5: a season last.
Speaker 2: Year because Brandon Cook's.
Speaker 5: Jimmy Lord was a captain for the last two seasons
Speaker 5: in San Francisco and then the rookies and never been
Speaker 5: a captain obviously, and petrees this first time to be
Speaker 5: a captain. So it's it's inexperienced captaincies. Not that that matters,
Speaker 5: but it's just kind of new blood in that regard.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good sign.
Speaker 1: It means that you've got your young players are leaders
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. So I am excited
Speaker 1: that C. J. Stroud is a captain. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that was because he was the quarterback and he
Speaker 1: was here in the starting job.
Speaker 3: It was elected by the players, right, so this is
Speaker 3: the coaches just get a vote to This is high praise.
Speaker 5: Remember last year, boy, And if you read the Jonathan
Speaker 5: Alexander Houston Chronicle story about Straw that came out today,
Speaker 5: Holy moly.
Speaker 4: That's a whopper.
Speaker 3: I haven't read it yet.
Speaker 5: T job by Alexander. Heck of a job, heck of
Speaker 5: a story about see. I mean, it's really really impressive
Speaker 5: what he's been through and overcome and how he's flourished.
Speaker 4: You can see why.
Speaker 5: Okay, based on a lot of the things he details
Speaker 5: in that article, you can see why they elected this guy.
Speaker 5: He's he's wise beyond his years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been through so much, just with his dad,
Speaker 1: overcoming adversity than going to Ohio State all the attention
Speaker 1: that was on him there. It seems like no stage
Speaker 1: is too big for him, which I think you like
Speaker 1: to see in a quarterback.
Speaker 2: You don't want anyone to feel overwhelmed at that spot.
Speaker 3: I like what Nick said about it this morning, and
Speaker 3: I know he's going to do this tomorrow with us
Speaker 3: as well. If you're a competitor, you want this, you
Speaker 3: want Baltimore. You want that challenge of playing a high octane,
Speaker 3: highly regarded team, a team that's a quiet I'll use
Speaker 3: that word carefully, super Bowl contender, because why not that right?
Speaker 3: Why not the Ravens out of that division? Bengals, I
Speaker 3: don't know, they might slow down a little bit.
Speaker 5: Steelers quarterback who's been a league MVP, you've got a
Speaker 5: shot it at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a defense that's always in the top ten,
Speaker 3: if not the top five. Twenty four years of football.
Speaker 3: The last twenty four years, they've been out of the
Speaker 3: top ten just seven times, and they've been close. When
Speaker 3: they haven't been in the top ten, they have a cup.
Speaker 3: They have like one in the twenties, but that was it.
Speaker 3: It was an aberration. And they have a lot of
Speaker 3: top fours, top threes, top fives in there as well.
Speaker 3: This is a defensive franchise, no doubt, and they're going
Speaker 3: to be that again.
Speaker 1: Well on the offensive side of the ball, both of
Speaker 1: these teams new offensive coordinators. Not really sure what we're
Speaker 1: going to see with the preseason, both teams sort of
Speaker 1: held back the big guns, But like, what are we
Speaker 1: expecting to see, both from the Texans and the Ravens.
Speaker 4: Lots of play action.
Speaker 5: I think you're gonna see lots of bootlegs and stuff
Speaker 5: when the Texans do throw it. I can't wait to see,
Speaker 5: you know, like the I'm just gonna be for the yes, yes,
Speaker 5: the old day.
Speaker 3: Well, I want to see some plays that we haven't seen, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to be surprised. Yeah, I think we will.
Speaker 3: We'll be surprised. They've been working on some stuff that
Speaker 3: they don't want the world to see, and they got
Speaker 3: to have some special, easy short stuff with a lot
Speaker 3: of yak potential for CJ. Stroud, you know, get it
Speaker 3: to Robert Woods and he can take off and run
Speaker 3: with it. Same thing with Nico obviously, get it down
Speaker 3: field to Dell. On occasion, I want to see one
Speaker 3: of those bootleg playfakes and Dell is wide open with an.
Speaker 5: Acre lots and lots of Shenanigans cooked up for Tank Dell,
Speaker 5: I really do. I mean, I think there's we didn't
Speaker 5: see him against the Saints. You saw him on the
Speaker 5: punt return and that was it. I think, Yeah, I
Speaker 5: think there's a lot that Tank Dell's gonna do this
Speaker 5: season that that's been specially designed for him, because he
Speaker 5: is He is just a different dude.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about wise beyond your years. He
Speaker 3: just has this old soul air about him right that
Speaker 3: he's a pro. He comes in as a prof professional.
Speaker 3: And I stopped talking about his size weeks ago because
Speaker 3: I said, this guy's a moon, a FID receiver, playmaker.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I want him to stay healthy. That's
Speaker 3: that's all I'm thinking about here, because I think if
Speaker 3: he's healthy, he's going to make a ton of plays
Speaker 3: in this League.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Travis and Dy both were talking about
Speaker 1: they can't believe that size is still an issue when
Speaker 1: it comes to receivers, when some of the best receivers
Speaker 1: in the NFL have been undersized because that's what makes
Speaker 1: them so quick.
Speaker 2: And shifty, is the fact that they are smaller.
Speaker 1: But I think with Tank, you bring up a good
Speaker 1: point is just being going the Juco route, being undersized,
Speaker 1: having to prove himself time and time again. He's got
Speaker 1: that chip on his shoulder like CJ, but coming from
Speaker 1: a different coming from a totally different program.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know it's it's interesting before the Patriots
Speaker 5: game in the preseason this year, Mark and I were
Speaker 5: in the production meeting the day before the game and
Speaker 5: Case Keenum was in there, and at one point I asked, Case, Hey,
Speaker 5: you're obviously a Cougar. Tank Dell is a Cougar decade
Speaker 5: a part or so. But you've kept your tabs on him.
Speaker 5: What do you think about what he did there versus
Speaker 5: what you've seen him do in training camp and in
Speaker 5: OTAs In Case, remember that he paused and he kind
Speaker 5: of collected his thought and he said he was making
Speaker 5: plays in college. And I know people talk about the
Speaker 5: AAC and the level of competition, but trust me, there's
Speaker 5: really good players in that conference. And he was he
Speaker 5: was doing that and making plays. Well, he's doing the
Speaker 5: same thing against a really good NFL secondary right now.
Speaker 5: And Case was kind of very diplomatically saying he was
Speaker 5: doing it against college competition, and hey, it's one thing
Speaker 5: to do it there, but he's actually doing it against
Speaker 5: a pretty darn good NFL secondary too. So yeah, it
Speaker 5: was it was cool hearing him say it. He won't
Speaker 5: being a homer about it. It was very a detached,
Speaker 5: analytical view of things, and just that's another selling point,
Speaker 5: another tick mark on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy's legit.
Speaker 3: Can they sign Case keen him to a lifetime contract?
Speaker 3: I want to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Demico Ryans miked up at camp. How
Speaker 1: Case keeps camp fun, Show the rookies how it's done.
Speaker 2: It keeps it fun.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 2: He's got fun.
Speaker 3: He's got this great disposition and I think it's infectious.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's get take a break and then
Speaker 1: we've got one more segment of Texans All Access. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go around the NFL some news about the Texans
Speaker 1: Week two opponent, plus a familiar face is going to
Speaker 1: make his debut on NFL network.
Speaker 2: That's all coming up. Final segment of Texans All Access.
Speaker 2: Final segment of Texans All Access coming your way.
Speaker 1: I've got Mark, I've got Drew, It's myself DP. We're
Speaker 1: going to go around the NFL as we head into
Speaker 1: week one. And all right, guys, I Mark, I just
Speaker 1: I know Mark loves when it comes to bad news
Speaker 1: with the Colts.
Speaker 2: So shall we start there.
Speaker 3: I really feel bad about how I'm going to feel
Speaker 3: right now, Go ahead, tell me what it is, all right?
Speaker 1: So Jonathan Taylor obviously going to miss the first four
Speaker 1: weeks is such a shame of it.
Speaker 2: So disappointed. There is no starting running back in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: That's a shame, and there.
Speaker 1: May not be in week two either, because Shane Steigen
Speaker 1: says they're gonna go running back by committee. They've got
Speaker 1: Zach Moss and Dean Jackson and Evan Hall and they're
Speaker 1: just gonna put all through of those guys out there
Speaker 1: they played play.
Speaker 5: With, they get to play with thirteen guys. If it's
Speaker 5: the committee gets to run or is it, yeah.
Speaker 2: The committee?
Speaker 3: Somebody that's got a gavel, listen, I think Zach Moss
Speaker 3: is a pretty good player, and I was thinking during
Speaker 3: the postseason that Buffalo was wishing they still had Zach Moss.
Speaker 3: I know Nahim Hines did some good things for them,
Speaker 3: especially in that return from DeMar Hamlin game.
Speaker 1: From the Probably game, they probably wish they still had him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Zach Moss can be dangerous. He's a heavy runner.
Speaker 3: I just think the leading rusher is going to be
Speaker 3: Anthony rich Richardson more often than not in the early going,
Speaker 3: especially before they get Taylor back, and maybe they didn't never,
Speaker 3: maybe they never get Taylor back. But as long as
Speaker 3: they have Richardson, he can make plays by himself, things
Speaker 3: break down. He's gonna run. I think Stroud's gonna run
Speaker 3: a little bit too on Sunday as well. I think
Speaker 3: that's gonna enter the repertoire of what he what he does.
Speaker 3: We've seen it at practice from time to time, and
Speaker 3: during the game they're gonna talk to him slide, don't
Speaker 3: risk anything, but they're gonna be yards to be had
Speaker 3: with his legs. And I think Stroud's gonna do that
Speaker 3: now with Richardson, you know he's going to do that
Speaker 3: just part of what he does right, It's part of
Speaker 3: his mix. So I like that they say running back
Speaker 3: by committee because it's kind of like, if you have
Speaker 3: two quarterbacks, you have none. If you have running back
Speaker 3: by committee, you do you really have one running back.
Speaker 3: But there's still Look, it's still the Colds. I don't
Speaker 3: care who they put out there. The Cults are always
Speaker 3: going to be a tough team for the Texans to beat.
Speaker 3: You know this, I will talk about that next week.
Speaker 5: I know we're clicking our fingers together like mister Burns
Speaker 5: from the Simpsons.
Speaker 4: But man, the.
Speaker 5: Doom and gloom in me worries that none of that's
Speaker 5: gonna matter. And Richardson's just gonna ball out and throw
Speaker 5: for seven touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna do that.
Speaker 4: He's just gonna look like fantastic week two.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe maybe it's the season per they.
Speaker 5: Wait on that on being excited about them not having
Speaker 5: a running back.
Speaker 3: They're hosting the Jags this weekend. I'm not even gonna
Speaker 3: look at the line. I know the Jags are favored.
Speaker 3: What do you think you think that the Jags win
Speaker 3: that one? I think so definitely picking the jack Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think how surprised would you be if the Colts
Speaker 3: pull off it upset at home opening day. I got
Speaker 3: the Jags team that's not perfect.
Speaker 1: Not at all, But I do think that not surprise
Speaker 1: only because it's hard to prepare for a team that
Speaker 1: you've never seen.
Speaker 2: You don't know, how do you prepare against Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: I mean you just really can't.
Speaker 3: But I think overwhelmed the line of scrimmage, you can.
Speaker 1: But I mean he doesn't have like at least you've
Speaker 1: got DJ Stroud and we've talk we just got to
Speaker 1: talk about how important Damian Pierce is going to be
Speaker 1: for CJ. Stroud and Anthony Richardson doesn't have that. You
Speaker 1: can run all he wants, but it is still nice
Speaker 1: to have a running back that you can hand the
Speaker 1: ball off too. Now and then you don't want him
Speaker 1: to do all the work.
Speaker 3: In week one, they'll hand off, I mean they will.
Speaker 1: Jacks was banged up in camp, which is why I
Speaker 1: think they did not name him the start Dean Jackson.
Speaker 3: This is they're not a little like here.
Speaker 1: But Jonathan, I mean Jonathan Taylor, Like, yes, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a that's a heavy hand to replace right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's Derek Henry league. You know, either
Speaker 3: are different types of runners, but he's in that league
Speaker 3: with Derek Henry of among the best in the NFL,
Speaker 3: and he's not available right now, and it's such a shame. Also,
Speaker 3: the Titans are going to be at New Orleans. Hmm, okay,
Speaker 3: what kind of chance? What kind of snowballs chance do
Speaker 3: you give them at New Orleans? I mean, I think
Speaker 3: New Orleans wins this game. But the Titans could shockingly
Speaker 3: be better than a lot of people expect. I know
Speaker 3: they have replacements to nurture on the O line, but
Speaker 3: they should still have plenty of defense to play. They
Speaker 3: still have Dereck Henry and Hopkins, and maybe it all
Speaker 3: comes together for them enough to beat the Saints in
Speaker 3: more teams than you think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we've seen what DeAndre Hopkins can do
Speaker 5: for a quarterback around here. Yes, you know, pre Deshaun
Speaker 5: Watson during the show, he's he's going to help them out.
Speaker 5: But man, I still think the Saints are going to
Speaker 5: be much much better than they were last year. I
Speaker 5: think Derek Carr adds just a new element to that team.
Speaker 5: I got some friends who are Saints fans, and they're
Speaker 5: pretty jacked up. They're excited about.
Speaker 3: The see Kamara with Car with their other weapons, and
Speaker 3: Car being a steadying force and not turning it over
Speaker 3: as much as Winston would. I like James because he
Speaker 3: goes for the big play, but he gets turned over
Speaker 3: a lot, right, so Car for Car's sake, I hope
Speaker 3: he doesn't do that as much until he comes here,
Speaker 3: of course, and we'll see how that goes. But I'll
Speaker 3: be rooty for the Saints this weekend when they entertained
Speaker 3: the title.
Speaker 1: The Saints are ranked, so the power rankings already out
Speaker 1: in a film dot COM's got power rankings.
Speaker 2: Saints. Guess where they come in the Saints.
Speaker 3: I bet they're No, they're not that high.
Speaker 1: They're fourteenth, sixteenth, dead in the middle. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so we'll see, we'll see, and then the Titans are
Speaker 1: blow them.
Speaker 2: Jags are the highest the AFC South.
Speaker 3: They're probably the Jags ranked thirteenth nine.
Speaker 1: They're nine, Yeah, top ten, that's what I meant. They're
Speaker 1: cracking top ten. Jacksonville, guess where the Texans are.
Speaker 3: I think the jack are rated a bit too. I
Speaker 3: don't want to say overrated. I think their paper is
Speaker 3: graded a bit too high. Where the Texans. Look, Come on,
Speaker 3: if you're doing one of these things, where are you
Speaker 3: going to put the Texans?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put them higher than they are right now?
Speaker 3: Twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: They're thirty first? What above the and how about this
Speaker 1: above them? The Colts at twenty ninth?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't get that. You can understand that you
Speaker 3: tied them and beat them, and you have a better
Speaker 3: quarterback than they do, at least on paper.
Speaker 2: And their best player is off the field.
Speaker 3: And you have, Yeah, you have more going for you
Speaker 3: than they do going into the opening weekend. That's wrong
Speaker 3: that the Colts are ranked ahead of the Texans.
Speaker 1: I think somebody tweeted that NFL Power rankings are here
Speaker 1: to make everybody angry about where they're doing.
Speaker 4: It's true, they get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got me because I'm arguing about who should
Speaker 3: be twenty ninth? Really really, this is what we do here?
Speaker 1: No so meaningless? Kansas City is number one and Chris Jones.
Speaker 2: Is even play.
Speaker 3: Well, where would you put them?
Speaker 2: I'm putting them number one and at the Eagles at
Speaker 2: number two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds good to me. I'm still complaining that the
Speaker 3: opening game is the Lions at the Chiefs. I went
Speaker 3: on a rant about this last week on the air
Speaker 3: because I said, they have games on their schedule that
Speaker 3: are way better than this. They have the Dolphins at home,
Speaker 3: they have the Eagles at home. They have a Super
Speaker 3: Bowl rematch at home, and they're not putting it on
Speaker 3: Thursday night, kickoff night. They're not doing it. They've got
Speaker 3: the Chargers, of course, they have a variety of places
Speaker 3: they can go. They have the Bengals at home. They
Speaker 3: could have done that as well. No, we're going to
Speaker 3: do the Lions because they're everybody's favorite team. No, they're
Speaker 3: going to do the Lions because they're good enough and
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna be watching anyway. We're gonna save those big
Speaker 3: games for CBS and Fox later on NBC, flexing potential,
Speaker 3: whatever else.
Speaker 2: Marc is turning his back on his favorite guy, Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 3: I love AG, but come on, I'm sure AG would rather.
Speaker 1: The Lions are ranked eleventh this Power rankings, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what that's I'm sure this is gonna be
Speaker 1: totally shuffled around next week, all right before we go
Speaker 1: around the NFL. NFL Network added six new analysts ahead
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty three, season one six, and one
Speaker 1: of them none other than former Texans offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton.
Speaker 3: You're kidding, now, I knew good. Pep was doing a
Speaker 3: bunch of training camp stuff with them, So I'm hoping
Speaker 3: that this really turns out well for him. I think
Speaker 3: he's got the aptitude to do it. Some of the
Speaker 3: training camp stuff that's really clunky and tough. You know,
Speaker 3: you're in the hot weather, you're sitting there with a microphone.
Speaker 3: You don't know where they're going. They're trying to fill
Speaker 3: time or whatever they're doing. This is a little bit
Speaker 3: more of a controlled environment. I want to see how
Speaker 3: this turns out for.
Speaker 2: Studio shows, including NFL Game Day Lives.
Speaker 3: Does he ride his bike to the studio? Maybe he
Speaker 3: left it here because well, Dandy Barrett's still here with
Speaker 3: the bike.
Speaker 4: Ride the bike, I think, yeah, I think he's the
Speaker 4: only one right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah started the bike.
Speaker 3: It was Pep and Danny Barrett riding the bikes, and
Speaker 3: I think that was really smart. I'm surprised that has
Speaker 3: caught on with the players. We had the segues a decade.
Speaker 4: Ago right in then Energy Stadium.
Speaker 3: Why don't we have bikes now? Could you imagine a
Speaker 3: massive player bike parking lot in the always.
Speaker 1: Any of Demico's not riding a bike, nobody's riding a bike.
Speaker 1: If he can, If he can walk, everyone else can walk.
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