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00:00From the very, very start, D'Amico Ryans and company have talked about you need to be tough.
00:07You know, you need to have discipline, the do-your-job.
00:12Yesterday, he talked about willpower.
00:14You know, he was specifically talking about the red zone, but you've got to have willpower and, quote, displacing guys.
00:21And what I'm intrigued and confused about with all that is I'm not – I don't think they didn't have that.
00:27I should say I think they had that.
00:30I think this line, by and large, we're in the right spots.
00:34By and large, they are tough guys.
00:37They are, quote, unquote, doing their job, by and large.
00:41Obviously, we're going to talk about some things where they didn't, but I think it's just as simple as this.
00:46They're just not good.
00:48You know, and that's the resignation, and that's the intrigue.
00:51He went on the podium yesterday, he being D'Amico Ryans, and said the same thing.
00:55It's just about being tough guys, about willpower, about displacing guys, about, you know, do-your-job.
01:02I don't think they were awful when it came to doing the things that they ask.
01:08They're just not good enough.
01:11And I think he's kind of confusing.
01:14It's frustrating along those lines with that, but I kind of want to raise – I just want to raise a question to the general audience.
01:20What do you think lost the Texans this game if you had to try and isolate a single thing?
01:24And I think that the exercise will probably get us to a point where we look up and we go, oh, there's a lot of little things.
01:30It's a lot – because you're right, you talk about the idea of, you know, just doing your job or, you know, the thing that kind of got to me in the audio with D'Amico or with, you know, when he steps to the podium after the game is it's the same – it's a similar refrain, and it's not even just the idea that it's the same refrain.
01:48It's that it makes me – so much of it is just we just need to – we need to do better.
01:52We need to execute better.
01:53We need – we just need to – and it's like the margins are so thin in ways that at what point do we not get to a place where you're kind of banging your head up against the wall and you look and you go, hey, this is not the strong suit of this team.
02:06Let's do something different.
02:07If I had to answer my own question that I put forward as to what lost this team in the game, it's the red zone.
02:12Oh, sure.
02:13Absolutely.
02:13It is a supreme inability to get two yards when two yards are there.
02:18Shout-out to Texans Cap, because I saw he posted this morning.
02:21And he went and kind of isolated for touchdowns scored within two yards of the goal line for any team in the NFL.
02:2931 teams have scored within two yards – scored at least a touchdown when they've been within two yards of an end zone.
02:36Do you know who has not scored?
02:37I'm pretty sure I do.
02:38Are you sure?
02:39I'm pretty sure I do.
02:40I don't know.
02:42Figgy, you might be able to know the NFL team that through nine weeks has not scored a touchdown when they're within two yards.
02:48Do you know what it is?
02:49I don't know.
02:50It's the Houston Texans.
02:54There's something to the idea that D'Amico Reyes – in fact, you know what?
02:57Let's hear it, because I don't want to keep saying it.
02:59This is D'Amico Reyes' cut 11.
03:00This is him asked about getting turned around with the offense and, you know, what it takes in the red zone.
03:06For us offensively, again, it all goes back to it's in the red zone.
03:10We've got to do a better job of finding a way to get in the end zone.
03:14Like, if we can't get in the end zone, score points is going to be hard.
03:17Okay, so I agree with you.
03:19That, to me, if I had to say one thing, it would be that.
03:21But I think that speaks to my point, my intrigue and confusion.
03:26Like, I don't think they necessarily – there wasn't a lot of blown assignments in the red zone.
03:32Nobody went the wrong direction.
03:34They were just flat out, they got their ass kicked.
03:39Yeah.
03:40Like, that to me is the – and he's up there saying, you know, got to have the willpower.
03:46They had the willpower, man.
03:47To some degree.
03:48I think that there's instances where, like –
03:50No, I think, too.
03:51I think completely they did.
03:52Like, Jake Andrews was in the right spot and got put on his ass.
03:58Jake Andrews is a tough guy.
04:00He earned this job because he's one of those tough guys that does everything right and has the willpower and all that.
04:06We've heard them talk.
04:07We've heard their offensive line talk about it.
04:08D'Amico Ryan's talk about it.
04:09Nick Caley's talk about it.
04:10I think they're just not good enough.
04:13Well, I don't disagree with you there, right?
04:16But I will point down to, like, obviously you end up with a penalty that pulls you off of that.
04:20Well, that's separate.
04:21Yeah, yeah.
04:21But I don't think that's separate.
04:22I think that's part of it.
04:23No, no.
04:24What I'm saying is on the plays that they ran cleanly inside the two-yard line, they were all doing the right job.
04:30They were all going to the right spots.
04:34They were all –
04:34Yes, I mean, but you're separating out some data points where you're not executing clearly in those places.
04:40Again, we're talking about two different things.
04:42I think that those are the same thing, man.
04:44Making sure that you're clean in those instances.
04:45They're not the same thing.
04:46What you're talking about is a penalty that pushed them back.
04:48What I'm talking about, the plays they got off.
04:50I'm with you on the plays that they got off.
04:51I don't think you can ignore the instances, but I don't think we need to go back and forth on that because I think we're aligned close enough on the idea of when they have lined up, there was a play where you have, you know, you have Lake and Tomlinson there at left guard where, you know, a player is going to slide in and be able to stop a play.
05:07That happens from time to time with any team, right, whether you're good on the offensive line or not.
05:12The one play where I think about the most on the goal line, of the six, mind you, when you're right there under the shadow of your own goal or, you know, right there almost at Pater, whatever, was you have British Brooks running into a gap that has been created by your offensive line all blocking the right way.
05:29And it's just Drake Greenlaw beating you to a spot.
05:31In fact, you even have on that play, because it's I formation, British Brooks is at the fullback.
05:35I believe it's Woody Marks as your tailback who is motioning to the left.
05:40That actually gets Drake Greenlaw to move.
05:41Like, you get everything that you want on that play, except Drake Greenlaw is able to put his foot in the dirt, trigger, get to the meet him, meet rather British Brooks in the hole.
05:48And he's just better.
05:49Like, Drake Greenlaw is at some point all pro lover player.
05:53And he got British Brooks running into that gap.
05:55Like, you're right.
05:55I think that some of this is also an acknowledgement that, you know, this this team, it just does not have the talent offensively.
06:01However, and before I even get to the however, and this has been a team that is all season, all the way from the offseason is like, we don't need to have the best talent.
06:10We just need to overcome that talent.
06:14The Reds did feel like it showed that that is a far fetched idea, the idea you're going to overcome with talent.
06:20But I also want to meet that with when you do not have an advantage or even maybe at a disadvantage with talent.
06:25That's where I hope that coaching overcomes some of that.
06:28Yeah.
06:28And seeing, I mean, I got to be honest.
06:32Something in me died watching a goal line, goal line stand or an opportunity there where you just run into the muck four times in a row.
06:41Right.
06:41Or another time in time, especially when you consider that this is also a start deviation from the other times a few weeks ago when you were in that circumstance.
06:50And you throw, you know, three times in a row and are not able to get in.
06:54And one, that does speak to the idea that you're just not good enough in those spaces.
06:57But then two, it feels like this is the best that we have to offer in this circumstance that is so crucial, turning, you know, seven into three,
07:05which then ultimately bites you in the ass on the back end of this game because your coordinator is not able to not even just like give you an innovative play on that goal line.
07:14It's already tough enough.
07:15We see red zone being a really tough circumstance for a lot of teams in the National Football League.
07:19Not that I'm creating excuses, but understanding in context.
07:22You can't even give me a mix of run pass?
07:24No, exactly.
07:25But, and I'm glad you create, you talked, you mentioned the, you know, the way that they have been calling plays as well.
07:33But I think it comes down to, they've created, they believe in an illusion and it's become a delusion.
07:41Yeah.
07:41And nothing illustrates that more than their own final drive with a minute left.
07:48D'Amico had seen, he had seen what was happening.
07:51He had seen that they, the guards in second half, they weren't able to do anything.
07:56And, and then they, and then they, you know, they go back and give the Broncos the opportunity to win the game.
08:03And, and that's a delusion.
08:05They were delusional there, but they've created this illusion with, we're tough, we're strong.
08:10You know, all these things that I've said, willpower and all that.
08:13They actually, I don't know what's worse, them believe in it or expecting us to believe it.
08:17This is D'Amico talking about it.
08:18Had a thought there, we wanted to get some quick passes to get us, get us moving.
08:22We're trying to drive down and, of course, you know, try to get in field goal range to, but to have a couple quick incompletions is, it was not the plan at all for us.
08:32It was not the plan, but it was what was happening.
08:35Like I said, they, they, they, they, the best way I can put it is they, they've created this illusion and it's become a delusion.
08:41That was delusional to believe that you could get the ball in that situation at that, was it 13 yard line, something like that, at that place in the field and go, hey, let's get some quick passes.
08:51Let's move it on down the field.
08:52No, man, no, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's not how it should have gone.
08:56Hey, John, I feel like I found myself in debt.
08:58Um, this, you know, just in my lifetime because making less than a million dollars a year was not in my plan.
09:04No, I mean, this is the circumstances.
09:07You have to be able to be adaptable and understand what's happening.
09:10And I was very frustrated by that.
09:11Just like, I think you were, would you like to play a game here where we go, you know, go by drive by drive for this Texans team in this game.
09:19And just look at what the, even just the second half, because the second half is like the most obvious one.
09:25Like we have not, we've gotten 12 minutes in the show.
09:27We haven't mentioned that, you know, obviously CJ Stroud is, you know, concussed and is lost early on.
09:33One of the second quarter has to come in.
09:35I acknowledge that any, any NFL team that has to go to their backup, and especially without the, the benefit of preparation of a week going into the week.
09:43Right.
09:44That's a tough proposition.
09:45I don't want to ignore that, but that's also should factor in to your, into your play game plan.
09:50So you have that.
09:51All right.
09:51Second quarter.
09:52Maybe I can even give you some grace there.
09:54Let's get to the second half for your Houston Texans.
09:56We begin in the second half drive.
09:59Number one field goal.
10:00Hey, putting points on the board.
10:02Great.
10:04Punt, punt.
10:05That's the end of the third quarter or third quarter.
10:07We go to the fourth quarter.
10:08Punt, punt, punt game.
10:12Yeah.
10:12Right.
10:13And mind you, that is, let me take that back to the top.
10:16After you get that field goal, three and out punt, three and out punt, start the fourth quarter, five and out punt, four and out punt, because you had a penalty in there.
10:25And then three and out punt, three and out punt.
10:27Right.
10:27You had established a pretty solid trend in that game that your offense was not, was not moving the football.
10:32And so I think I understand the idea.
10:35Oh, we want to throw the football.
10:36And then it's just, you need to be realistic and understand this offense has not been able to get it done as currently constituted with the circumstances of not having,
10:42CJ and having Davis in, right?
10:44You would not have been able to move the football.
10:46You get that ball with one minute and 24 seconds.
10:49Me personally, and this isn't even the benefit of foresight, forethought, whatever you want to see.
10:55Or hindsight is what I'm thinking about in that instance.
10:57We're sitting up there in the press box and saying, okay, look, you're going to run this out, try and get to, you know, go get to overtime so that you can give.
11:04Like, I understand, you're going to still need to go score a touchdown, right?
11:07Or go score some points.
11:08Anything, yeah.
11:09But if you get to, if you get to overtime, maybe you get a good return.
11:14If you're deep on the field first, maybe you can get a turnover, right?
11:17Maybe, maybe you have just more time to possibly matriculate down your, your, your offense down the field.
11:23124 with the way that this offense was, was working.
11:26That was an additional defender that was playing against you.
11:29And you decided we're going to try and do the thing that has not been working.
11:31I understand running the football probably wouldn't have got you anywhere.
11:34I think I was very much convinced that I had no belief in this offense.
11:37But why are you not playing, you know, let's get to overtime.
11:39You have a whole quarter.
11:40Maybe there's a break.
11:41You get better field position, all that.
11:43And that, that goes back to my initial takeaway here.
11:47I'm more confused because they're fooling themselves.
11:51It's like, all right, so let's say Figgy, you, you know, every time you walk out your back door,
11:56there's a little, there's a little dog that bites your, bites your ankle.
12:00You walk out the door.
12:01How many was it?
12:02Eight, seven drives, seven drives in the second half.
12:05One of them is a field goal.
12:06The remaining four, six are punts.
12:08You walk out your back door six times and that dog bites your ankle.
12:11You think you're going to walk out the seventh and it's not.
12:14That's what they're doing.
12:15That's what they're saying.
12:16Like, look, willpower, you know, doing your job, discipline, being tough.
12:21I don't doubt any of those things, but it doesn't matter when you can't.
12:25You ain't going to outpower the Denver Broncos defense.
12:27It's like willpower is not going to get you out of that situation.
12:30In fact, willpower and your belief and fooling yourself into thinking that it's different
12:34lost you the game, especially because again, I think that that was a moment in which you
12:39had an opportunity for game planning or maybe not game plan.
12:43That's not the right word, but like game management to possibly give you a chance to give you a
12:48chance or maybe pull back closer.
12:50The difference in that game, it's not like the Broncos, right?
12:55I think that there was an opportunity for you to try and make up the difference of what
12:58you lost by CJ Stroud getting down by having your coaching make some really good decisions
13:03there.
13:03And then you gave him life.
13:04That was left.
13:05That was left on the table.
13:06Then you gave him life.
13:07You gave him field position.
13:08Bo Nix decides to do what Bo Nix has been prone to do in the fourth quarter and boom,
13:13you lose the game.
13:14They're fooling themselves.
13:16I had to just funnel it down into one thing.
13:18They're fooling themselves.
13:20They are tough.
13:21They are all these things, but they're fooling themselves to think that that's what's going
13:25to win a game.
13:26The talent is going to win the game when you, when you've got tough guys and they don't
13:29have it.
13:30And then on top of that, right, you talk about the talent, when you a game, how about one
13:34of the best talents that we've seen thus far this year?
13:36One of the few guys that you can look at from Nick Haley or Nick Casario rather in his
13:39off season and go, wow, good acquisition.
13:42Jalen Noel got 11 offensive snaps in this game.
13:4411.
13:45Christian Kirk got 41.
13:47And I'm not even sure that that buried you per se, but again, what lost you this game?
13:51It's a lot of these little things.
13:53I would say specifically not being able to score a touchdown in the red zone.
13:56Obviously, this is a three-point game.
13:57And if you can give yourself four additional points in one of those circumstances, boom,
14:01you're in a different place.
14:02But it's the little things.
14:04I think you're right.
14:05Probably the actual answer is just a level of delusion from this team thinking that we're
14:11just going to tough it out.
14:12We're just going to thug it out.
14:13We're just going to want it more to get ourselves to victories.
14:15And now you're three and five, looking up at a lot of teams in the AFC, a lot of teams
14:19that seem to be going pretty well in the AFC.
14:22And I don't know how good I can feel about this team at this moment.
14:25Man, being tough and all that stuff, it's so important.
14:28But you've got to have the talent.
14:29That's the, you know, these kinds of things that they're talking about that I've mentioned
14:34multiple.
14:35What might you in a game in high school or division three or whatever, you know, being
14:39a good, tough, physical, you know, all things being equal, all of that team is the NFL.
14:44You're not good enough.
14:46You're going to lose.
14:46And they weren't good enough.
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