QOTD: Which player or moment etched itself into Texans lore yesterday?

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00:00Which players and or moments will etch themselves in Texans' lore

00:05after a big 36-29 comeback victory?

00:08That's the question of the day.

00:09Let us know what your answers are, what you're thinking on the text line,

00:12713-572-4610.

00:15I mean, I'll state the obvious one.

00:17I know there's a bunch, and I know you guys have some,

00:19but that Davis, those games where you're just going to be able to say 29-10.

00:26You know, 10 years from now, 15 years from now, remember that 29-10?

00:32You know, Texans were losing, and you won't have to say anything else.

00:36Like, to me, that's part of the lore, is just 29-10.

00:40Yeah, when you can shorthand it.

00:42Yeah.

00:42And you know, actually, what will be the, I mean, it's going to be the Davis-Mills game.

00:47Well, that, I'm going to say, that's what I was going to say.

00:48Right, I was like, I'll be the captain obvious here.

00:50Yeah, 29-10 is there, but we're just going to say the Davis-Mills game.

00:53The Mills run.

00:54The Mills run, I mean, that's the stuff of legend.

00:57And I'm not trying to, you know, go in all kinds of weird places.

01:00Davis-Mills this, Davis-Mills that.

01:01Oh, could CJ have done that?

01:05I mean, I've heard that already.

01:06Texas needed to start Davis-Mills for the rest of the season.

01:09I'm not saying that.

01:10We'll get there.

01:10What I am saying.

01:12It's a conversation that probably needs to be had.

01:14It will be had at some point.

01:16Maybe not today.

01:17Maybe not tomorrow, but someday we'll have that.

01:19But, that run, that run was legendary.

01:25Absolutely legendary.

01:26Yeah.

01:27I know that Trent Brown was talking in, he was talking in the locker room.

01:32And for him, he was like, it was almost telepathic that he was like, run Davis.

01:38Sacrifice your body.

01:39And Davis went and did it.

01:41Put his head down.

01:42I think we all, Texan, 713-572-416, where were you, like, mentally in that moment when you're looking up?

01:49Because I'm seeing there's time, but nothing is coming open.

01:53Right.

01:53And I'm just like, what is he going to do?

01:54All right, step up.

01:55And then he steps up.

01:56And then he's stepping up, not looking like he's still trying to find somewhere to go.

02:00He's running.

02:00I'm like, all right, cool.

02:03Yeah.

02:03Go, get big fella.

02:05Yeah.

02:05Go, giraffe.

02:06It was just like a skyscraper running.

02:08That's what it looked like to me.

02:09Did you see the smiles on the sideline afterward?

02:11They were just like, Davis, you did it.

02:14I can't believe you did it.

02:15Just laughing and giggling and slapping him on the back and everything.

02:18I'm curious.

02:19There were a lot of moments in this that are going to be remembered.

02:22I'm curious what you guys are thinking.

02:23Give me, what's tough is like, it's like a collection of moments, but it's just all of the red zone.

02:31It's all of the, like, touchdowns in the fourth quarter where you go, Higgins, jump ball.

02:36You get Schultz, jump ball.

02:38Actually, I say all the touchdowns.

02:40Don't forget the two-point conversion of Nico Collins give you a one-handed catch.

02:45Is the Stingley interception also in here?

02:48It's on my list.

02:50Talk about ball skills?

02:52Like, scooping it underneath, rolling, catching it at the same time.

02:58I think that's one of the moments.

02:59I think that's one of the moments that is going to etch itself into the fabric of this game.

03:03But also, it's going to be one of the highlights.

03:07When we recap Derek Stingley's career, that play is going to be shown.

03:11And the funny thing about that interception, interestingly enough, is I think that that was probably quietly a super important play.

03:19Because that's, like, near the end of the second quarter.

03:23I believe there's, like, a minute left in the first half.

03:25And as we've talked about, Cam Little can knock it down from a faraway way.

03:31Now to put them right about field goal range.

03:33Actually, no.

03:33They were right about probably the furthest extents of his field goal range.

03:37And then if they get that probably, what is that, like a seven-yard pass or whatever, they're probably not nice in and out there.

03:44And 23-10 is a little different than 20-10 at the half.

03:48I'm not trying to make the claim that this would have been absolutely insurmountable.

03:53But that absolutely colors the conversation just a little bit.

03:57That's a huge interception to keep this kind of in.

04:01Keep them tethered.

04:02Keep them kind of close.

04:03Yeah.

04:04Figured, do you have any moments that just immediately stood out?

04:06I think the one I thought about was the highlight that we came in with the Neil Hunter.

04:11Just three sacks because it's like, man, this is what they brought him in to do.

04:15Yep.

04:15And I know he didn't have – I think that was his first three-sack game as a Texan, I want to say.

04:21Yes, yes.

04:22But that's the type of production we was looking for, man.

04:25I think Will Anderson had an okay game, too.

04:27But, man, that's the Neil Hunter from Minnesota.

04:32That's the one that comes to my mind.

04:35In a weird way, it was kind of a – I mean, he's been here for a while and made incredible plays.

04:40But wasn't it also kind of like a sort of a coming-out moment for Daniil?

04:47Even though he's been here and made a bunch of plays?

04:49I think so.

04:50It's tough, too, because, you know, the Houston Texans kind of had a hard time getting at the quarterback

04:55in the last couple years.

04:56But, nah, this was that – oh, that's why y'all signed.

05:01Yes.

05:01Okay, this is what y'all get.

05:03Well, I mean, it's just – it was his podium moment.

05:07It was his stepping-to-the-spotline moment.

05:09He's been one of the best pass rushers this season.

05:13But he went from four sacks to seven-and-a-half sacks.

05:15He went from down there on the rankings of sacks.

05:19I think he's tied for second most sacks just off-ranked of that game.

05:25And as evidenced by what I'm talking about, four sacks in those previous how many games,

05:30eight games, he had had some quiet times over the last few games.

05:34Like, it had felt like – I know that in conversation – I know I've talked with Cody Stooks

05:39where he's like, hey, man, it'd be nice if they both show up together because it felt like it was all

05:43the Will Anderson games happening a whole bunch.

05:46And Daniil, like, stepping into the four and being like, no, I am going to be the guy that makes

05:50all of these plays.

05:52I am going to be the boogeyman for Trevor Lawrence in this game.

05:55That was absolutely massive.

05:57Yeah, the three-and-a-half sack game for Daniil Hunter is going to loom large in particular

06:02because he's a guy that kind of is fairly quiet in his production.

06:05It was cool to see it be really, really loud in this moment.

06:08I have another couple that were, I think, especially the second one, if I were a Jags fan,

06:13I would be livid about.

06:15But the first one, I mean, the Rankins return.

06:18The Rankins return, big man scoring a touchdown.

06:20You're going to be able to see – if you were at the game especially,

06:22you're going to be able to relive just how giddy, you know,

06:25as he's rumbling down the field, you were.

06:28It's over, Texans win, big man scores a touchdown.

06:31Here's the one that obviously it's not necessarily etched in Texans lore.

06:36I mean, maybe it is.

06:38But that pass interference down the right sideline against the Jags,

06:42I thought that was just two players, you know, kind of hand-fighting as the ball's about to –

06:50I think it set up the Texans about the two or three yards.

06:52Yeah, that one was a real light call.

06:55I thought there were some bad calls in this game.

06:56And, of course, I say that even still, understanding that the Texans won.

07:00I thought that one was a bad call.

07:01I thought the Henry pass interference that ultimately gave them a new set of downs

07:06close to the end zone was a bad call.

07:11But, yeah, like I'm with you there.

07:13That was the Christian Kirk wheel route that you were talking about.

07:15That's what it was, yeah.

07:16Where the ball was behind them.

07:18They were just kind of –

07:19Just a little hand-fighting, but he did have –

07:21The defender did have the arm down, but it was like, yeah, I'm with you there.

07:24Can we talk about –

07:25Yes, I see you 7-1-3.

07:26I see you 8-3-2.

07:27How about one big man Trent Brown?

07:30Dude, I didn't know he was going to be able to finish the game.

07:33I didn't either.

07:35But he did.

07:35He did, and he was – boy, Davis Mills, especially – which touchdown was it?

07:42Was it the – I forget which one.

07:44I mean, all day.

07:46Yeah.

07:46All day to stand back.

07:47I think that one is probably the Schultz touchdown that you're talking about.

07:50Yeah, I was going to say Schultz, so I think it must have been that one.

07:52Yeah.

07:53Absolutely fantastic job.

07:54There's only one play that he was visibly, like, really bad on in my memory,

07:58and I think that was he was trying to cut block Trayvon Walker,

08:01and Trayvon Walker just skirts past him, and then I think that's the one

08:05that Dalton Schultz is capable of getting the ball away,

08:08if memory serves, and might not be.

08:10There was another one where Trayvon Walker goes entirely unblocked,

08:13but that one felt like it was just a bad numbers situation on the front.

08:16Yeah.

08:16He was really good, and remember, he's how many months coming off

08:20of a patellar tendon tear?

08:21Mm-hmm.

08:22One of those things that a decade ago would have ended your career straight like that.

08:25Yeah.

08:25He's made his way back at an advanced age coming off of, you know,

08:29really, he hadn't done much, stepping in and immediately being of great import

08:33to this team and stepping in.

08:34I didn't even know he was going to start.

08:36Yeah.

08:36I thought they'd start Blake Fisher.

08:37Well, we'll talk more about that, because there's more questions

08:41with the offensive line.

08:43But he stepped up and really, really made a big deal,

08:47or, you know, handled things really well.

08:48All right, so this may not be lore, but I think in a few years,

08:51we might look back at this game and point to it for this guy.

08:56Did Tay Ersery lock up left tackle?

08:58I mean, Tay Ersery already had left tackle locked up.

09:00But, I mean, in terms of confidence level and he's, you know, growth

09:03and all, because we would still have some times when we would go,

09:08I don't know, but, I mean.

09:09The tough thing about it is, forecasting forward,

09:12I think he's got a really, really good future in front of him,

09:14so the idea of, like, in Texans lore is tough for me to see.

09:18However, he had a fantastic game, if for no other reason,

09:21which, of course, there are a lot of other reasons.

09:23That big boy rumbling is fun winning the big number 79.

09:26There was a nice little pin pull.

09:27I think that was actually the touchdown that Woody Marks scores on the left side

09:30on that little toss, little pin pull.

09:32Hey, he get outside and it just, I feel bad for all them small boys

09:36and cornerbacks and safeties that's out there,

09:38because big number 79, not only is he out there and he's capable of blocking,

09:41he runs.

09:42He moves, and Josh Hines-Allen didn't do a damn thing in this game.

09:46No!

09:47In fact, you know, just sort of rubbernecking and looking,

09:51taking pleasure in the Jaguars' misery, I was watching,

09:54I was watching some, or listening to some audio from the Jaguars' perspective,

09:59where they were torching him.

10:01They were like, where's 41?

10:03I mean, just absolutely blistering him.

10:06Can I give, and of course, we'll have opportunity to have more love

10:09for all these guys.

10:10I don't know if this is a lore type thing,

10:12but this did feel like a little bit of a takeover point for Woody Marks.

10:16Oh, yes.

10:17Woody Marks, he's the number one running back now, isn't he?

10:20It feels like it.

10:21I mean, if you look at the snap count, of course,

10:24in the context of Davis Mills running for a touchdown,

10:27on that play, I immediately look up and I go, oh, Woody Marks deserves a lot of credit.

10:31Great block.

10:31You talk about the block, but even just the wherewithal as a rookie to go,

10:35this defender is running with me, I see my guy going,

10:37rather than just trying to block him, just run him off the field.

10:40He will follow you because he's not looking back for that quarterback.

10:43They didn't have a thought in their mind that Davis Mills would run.

10:46Just keep running, he'll run with you, and then he turns around,

10:48boxes him out, touchdown, baby.

10:50And a big victory for the Houston Texans.

10:53A lot of credit, but of course, I think the real winner here is clearly

10:56the Davis Mills game, right?

10:57Davis Mills.

10:58This one, when you talk about lore, the lore is going to be there

11:01in the history of the Texans as Davis Mills going to win in a big-time game.

11:06All right.

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