What got Lost in the Shuffle from the Texans Win?

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Seth and Sean dive into some aspects of the Texans' win over the Jaguars that was lost in the shuffle amidst all the excitement.

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00:00Lost in the shuffle in this game, in re-watching it, we didn't talk about this yesterday,

00:05the Woody Marks Achilles injury scare.

00:08It turned out to be nothing.

00:09It turned out to be nothing, but I thought in the moment, and I think people, if you

00:13watch the game, you'll remember this, Woody Marks on a play, like, you know, carries the

00:19ball, gets tackled, plays over, stands up, and then all of a sudden holds the back of

00:23his leg and sits down, which is, that is the universal sign for the Achilles tear, is the

00:29body, noticing it, like, three seconds after it happens, like, hey, it feels like a dog

00:33bit the back of my leg, oh, something's wrong here, and I started thinking, like, man, I

00:38said you gotta get a running back, it didn't have to be Brees Hall, but somebody before the

00:44trade deadline, because now, it's Nick Chubb, Daria Gumbawale, and Damian Pierce.

00:48I think, okay, so, what I thought immediately, watching that, somebody, like, tries to take

00:57a step and realizes, oh, I have no Achilles tendon, you don't think of that immediately,

01:03you think, oh, I'm falling down because there's no support there, there's speculation that that

01:08perhaps might have been a, a ruse, a gamesmanship element of just getting a, needing a play stoppage

01:17there for a bit, yeah. Okay. I, given the timing of it and his proximity to D'Amico Ryans and

01:23everything else, yeah. They went, they went full bore acting it out then, because you and I, you

01:29know, we were both watching down on the sideline, oh, there's Woody Marks doing, uh, cutting exercises

01:34with a position coach on the sideline, like, they, they did, if that was a fake injury, they went full

01:39bore into like him testing it out after. Okay. So that's what people are accusing him of. I think

01:44realistically what can happen in a situation like that, this is why when people ask, hey, how come

01:49when people, when you want to be grumpy and say, why are these guys such wimps? Why are they

01:53sitting on the ground instead of just getting up and walking off? It is, it is one of those things

01:57when you do have an injury, a lot of times they want you to, they want you to sit down because they

02:02got to make a substitution. So listen, if you got an injury, don't, don't be a hero and try to,

02:07you know, drag yourself off the field just so you don't look like a wimp. We need to be sure that

02:12we replace you. Yeah. So I, I choose to believe that's what happened. He had a cap issue and he's

02:18like, oh crap. So like, okay, hold on. Let's, let's be sure we get the right personnel on the field.

02:23It does in that moment. And then obviously all the subsequent moments where Woody Marks was one of

02:27the most valuable guys on the field. It does beg the question, like, okay, like how, how, how important

02:33is Woody Marks? Well, especially, okay. I, it sounds like Brees Hall could have been had for a third

02:41round pick. And I, I don't know whether to be impressed with the, the, the resolve or the

02:49stupidity of the jets and hanging on to Brees Hall on an expiring contract, no matter what,

02:55when like all is lost for them. He ain't coming back. No. And I, yeah, I wonder if maybe,

03:01maybe Casario is thinking the same thing. Look, it's a fourth round pick. It's a,

03:06he's, they're going to take it at some point and maybe he added a little sprinkling because

03:11somebody else was in on it. I can't remember who. Kansas city, Kansas. That's right. Yeah.

03:14Kansas city reportedly offered a fourth round pick and they said, the Jets said, no.

03:18Is the Texans fourth round pick their own fourth round pick? It is. They have two fourth round

03:22picks. I actually, they're own and they have Washington's. Yeah. So if they could outbid,

03:26you know, the chiefs with a fourth round pick, maybe they thought for sure they'll,

03:30the jets will take that. But yeah, I don't know. It's it. It's so I think in the minds of the fans,

03:37if you lose that game yesterday, they're on Sunday, but you had traded a third round pick

03:42for Brees Hall. I think that Casario is getting destroyed today. You lit a third round pick on

03:48fire. You still want to, he's demonstrated that, Hey, I think he did it. I think he hit it. He might

03:54have really hit it out of the park and drafting Ariante Ursary. You just got to draft some more

03:58offensive linemen or sign one in free agency. So, um, I, if that's the hardest part of being a GM is

04:06keeping the long-term in mind, I right now, if the Texans had spent a third rounder on Brees Hall

04:12and they had lost that game, I got to be honest. Well, and for all the, for all the criticism that

04:19Nick takes over drafting, uh, offensive linemen, you know, it's not been a good track record with the

04:24offensive linemen he's taken. He's had a good track record in the third round, not drafting

04:28offensive linemen necessarily, but Nico Collins was a third round pick tank Dell. You know,

04:32it's injuries with tank. It's not that he couldn't play in the NFL. He was a third round pick.

04:36Kalen Bullock, money mills, Kalen Bullock, money mills was a third round pick. Yeah. I mean,

04:41Kalen Bullock was a third round pick. Uh, Jalen, uh, Jalen Noel was a third round pick. He looks like

04:46he's, you know, acclimating to the NFL. So, so there's that, Hey, real quick, because we were up

04:51against it. But I, the other thing that got kind of swept under the rug in all this,

04:54the Texans lost one of their starting safeties for the season in MJ Stewart. How worried are

04:58you about that? Uh, it, it gets really interesting. I think Jimmy Ward, you know,

05:03we got an update from Aaron Wilson that Cade Stover might be on track to return. He's a tight

05:09end of course, but no update on Jimmy Ward. And, uh, that's, you know, Jalen Petrie can always move

05:15back to safety. I guess the double whammy there is if Jalen Petrie moves back to safety,

05:21then, you know, they were not like Kamari Lassner did not start off playing inside on the slot

05:28in that game. They did that when they realized they had to. And that's cool. Um, because you

05:35have on the outside, they move some Traymond Smith to the outside, but I, versus a team with

05:41better receivers, it gets real dicey. So, um, I did, uh, you can't go out and trade for a safety

05:48right now. Obviously that's, um, that's an uncomfortable situation. Yep. It is. And I,

05:53it's funny. You mentioned a list I had on the run. I'm like miles Bryant, Jalen Reed move Jalen

05:59Petrie bet. Dude, Jimmy Ward is so far off the grid for me right now. It was, uh, when miles

06:04Bryant was on the inside, he, uh, he looks boy, he's a, he had a, he had a, he had a real rough

06:11snap versus Parker Washington. And that's when they started moving Kamari Lasseter inside.

06:15Parker Washington's a good player, man. He is a really good football player. I know. I was really

06:19surprised even before the game, I looked at his stats and he didn't really have a big game this

06:23year, but man, it seems like at least once a game, when I watched the Jaguars, he's making an

06:28impressive play. I think in two, he, I checked his contract situation. He's a free agent after 2026.

06:34He's on his rookie deal. That feels like a guy who's going to sign like a reasonable deal somewhere and be a

06:38really good signing. He just, he's, and he's a great return guy.

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