Are the Broncos the best team the Texans have faced so far?

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00:01Is Denver the best opponent they've played this year?

00:04If you look at it with the Texans, Denver comes in at 6-2.

00:08The Seahawks, who they last lost to on Monday night a couple of weeks ago,

00:13they're 5-2 and leading the NFC West.

00:17The Bucs are 6-2, leading the South.

00:20And the Rams are tied with the Seahawks at 5-2.

00:22Those are, I think, the three up there.

00:25We watched the 49ers.

00:27I know you watched them on the film.

00:28I'm not going to put those.

00:30I'm not going to put those teams.

00:31But would you look at this Denver team,

00:34do you think this is the best team they've faced all season?

00:39I think it is if we take all things into consideration here.

00:45And when I say take all things into consideration,

00:47I really like the Rams this year.

00:49But you literally were first rattled out of the box after Matthew Stafford,

00:54you know, whatever, took care of,

00:56Lode managed to back all of training camp and saw no action.

01:00So that was the first time he and Devontae Adams had ever worked together.

01:06And it was the first time that he had been in live action to any degree

01:09for all of training camp.

01:11And being the first rattle out of the box there,

01:13I think this team trumps the Rams team.

01:16I think you mentioned it.

01:18That's interesting.

01:18The Bucs team, I believe, did they have Mike Evans when they came in here?

01:22Yeah.

01:23Mike Evans?

01:23You sure Mike wasn't hurt?

01:24No, they had Mike.

01:25Godwin was hurt.

01:26Derrick Stingley locked him up pretty good.

01:29Okay, so that changes the thought there.

01:31But they didn't have Tristan Wirfs.

01:33They didn't have both their tackles.

01:33I knew they were missing somebody.

01:34Both their tackles.

01:35Remember their right tackle?

01:37Charlie Heck was playing tackle.

01:38They had to move their center to left tackle.

01:40There you go.

01:40So they had some injury issues across the whole line.

01:43Okay, there you go.

01:44There you go.

01:44So there's that.

01:45And then the Seahawks, I think, are probably the most complete team

01:49when you look at it bumped up against Denver.

01:53And when I look at Denver,

01:55I would say that they are the best team that the Texans have faced this year.

02:03Defensively, they're absolute monsters, even without Pat Sertain.

02:07The only team they've played this year that are both defensive, the Broncos.

02:13Oh, yeah.

02:13Yeah, total offense, they're 10.

02:15Total defense, they're 6.

02:17Yeah.

02:17But they got Bo Nix.

02:19You got a quarterback that's dual threat.

02:21You got a play caller that is as good as there is in the league.

02:24He's got – the quarterback's got targets.

02:28Defensively, like I said, it's a complete unit, kind of like Houston,

02:32to where you don't want to lose Derek Stingley Jr.,

02:34but if you lose a high-end player, their ability as a unit

02:39and as an all-11 team, you know, stays pretty solid.

02:44I mean, it doesn't just kill you.

02:45So, yeah, I would say this is the best team right now that the Texans have faced,

02:50the Denver Broncos sitting at 6-2.

02:52Yeah, I think they're, as you said, more complete when they play them.

02:58I think the caveat – because immediately my thought is the Rams, right?

03:03Like, is the Rams – I think their defense is not as good as Denver's,

03:07but I think the Rams' defense is pretty good.

03:10They're very similar to them.

03:14But then I think, you know, Matthew Stafford versus Bo Nix,

03:18there's just some throws that Matthew Stafford can make

03:21and made against the Texans, oddly enough, in that game

03:24that Bo Nix just doesn't have yet.

03:27But I like the caveat of when they played them early on, this was –

03:32I think that Rams' team is probably a different team today

03:36than they played before.

03:38But, yeah, I would say – I would say so.

03:45Although Bo Nix, I think Bo Nix is one that kind of holds effort.

03:52Or even – I would say even Sam Darnold that you're dealing with,

03:55though Sam played pretty silly in the game against the Texans.

04:00As a passer, I'll agree with you.

04:01I think the dynamic of the legs that Bo can use, I think,

04:05in particular against how we play defense in a sense of getting upfield

04:09and we like to get upfield and sometimes run past the quarterback.

04:14Well, when you've got a guy that can move with his legs,

04:16you can't always do that.

04:17So I think it alters how we have to play defense versus them

04:21given how much he can run, right?

04:23You've got to have some guys that are responsible for Bo Nix.

04:26You can't just pin your ears back and rush past the quarterback's depth

04:29because then you've got issues.

04:30But I just think also with Denver, their big strengths can be real issues

04:39for the Texans.

04:41Like the strength of their team is their front seven.

04:44Yeah.

04:45And they –

04:46Pressure on our own line.

04:47Yeah, versus the Texans' offensive line, which, you know,

04:51has been up and down with certain opponents.

04:54Like I would like in their – like the Rams' front seven,

04:57I think the Broncos are the Rams' front seven on steroids.

05:01Like similar to the Seahawks too.

05:05I think even better with the Seahawks than the Seahawks' front seven

05:08when you look at that group.

05:10So I think that's the other part for the Texans in particular,

05:13what the Broncos do up front, the Broncos' run game.

05:16I think the Broncos are the second best run game in football, right?

05:21Like they run it by average a game better than the Lions do, right?

05:26And we saw a couple of times this year the Texans' defense,

05:32the Tampa Bay game comes to mind early in the Seattle game.

05:36They struggled a bit with the Seattle run game.

05:39So just a couple of things that they do well.

05:43And I think this is – you know, Sean Payton's right up there

05:46with Sean McVay in terms of coaches they've had to run into as well

05:50to help out Bo Nix.

05:51So this is a really good football team.

05:56But again, man, they – and we'll talk about this all week.

05:59They got some weird games though, man.

06:02They got 13-11 with the Jets where it's like, what the hell?

06:06How are you down to the Giants at home 26-8 with five or six minutes left?

06:13You had that miracle win that you had to come up with, right?

06:16They fought it week one against the Titans for a while in that game.

06:20So they got some weird games.

06:22But all in all, for what they do well

06:24and what sometimes are struggles for the Texans,

06:27this is – this may be the best matchup for them.

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