Seth and Sean talk about Danielle Hunter being named AFC Defensive Player of the Week and their concerns that next week's short week could mean Stroud doesn't play vs the Bills.
00:00Texans, Daniil Hunter, the complete polar opposite of 2007 Sean Pendergast in every way, shape, and form.
00:07Defensive player of the week yesterday, three and a half sacks, four TFLs, whole bunch of havoc that he wreaked.
00:12Here was Matt Burke yesterday. Coordinators went yesterday at the podium. Here was Matt Burke on Daniil Hunter.
00:19I think, honestly, in both phases, I think probably underrated a little bit of just how he set the edges and playing the run.
00:24I mean, obviously the sack production was there. I really just felt like his getoff and his surge in the rush was just very consistent.
00:33Like, man, he wasn't wasting any movement. Just really had some real efficient, really elite rushes.
00:39And then just the way he set the edges and the running game, I mean, obviously the TFL numbers and stuff really helped us snuff up.
00:47Deservingly awarded that honor and hopefully we can keep that going.
00:51Sometimes we joke, you know, he had, I think, four games where he hadn't had a sack.
00:56So sometimes you've got to see the ball go in the net and then it opens up.
00:59So hopefully he can keep that momentum going.
01:01Yeah, he'd been quiet on the sack front before.
01:03Yeah, and he ends up, the biggest thing about that in the fourth quarter and the really cool thing to see when we talk about the Texans defense closing a game out,
01:11two things happened. One, they got a little bit of help from the offense.
01:14Two, well, they got a little help from penalties as well.
01:18Three, they made the big plays on the final drives of the game and got some help from the offense.
01:24They only had to be out there three times in the fourth quarter instead of five times in the fourth quarter
01:29because the offense in previous games would keep punting.
01:33But Daniil Hunter ends up having a tackle for a loss and two sacks.
01:38Was it two and a half sacks in the fourth quarter?
01:40Yeah.
01:40Yeah, it was two and a half sacks.
01:41Henry Toa Toa got in on one of them.
01:43Yeah, the last sack was the split sack with Toa Toa.
01:46And then Will Anderson with the final sack of the game, which I'm happy for Will that it looks like they're going to let that stand as a sack.
01:54I kind of felt like it should have been an interception.
01:56But just don't go – nobody go end up – you know what, you help with that.
02:02Sometimes a team will ask the sports bureau, Elias, to review it.
02:06Revisit it, yeah.
02:07Yeah, but they're not going to – the Jaguars aren't going to be like, hey, that should actually be a Trevor Lawrence interception.
02:12Give Trevor Lawrence an interception.
02:13They should.
02:14They should to punish him.
02:16That's what they should do.
02:16And the Texans, meanwhile, aren't going to say, hey, we want to be sure Mario Edwards gets an interception instead of a fumble recovery.
02:23Oh, right.
02:25Jenkins.
02:26Yeah.
02:26Jenkins.
02:26Yeah.
02:26But I have a hard time keeping all the defensive tackles straight.
02:30They rotate so many in.
02:31They rotate and they're all just sort of – they're all high-energy journeymen.
02:35You know, they're all kind of cut from the same cloth.
02:37And I don't say that disparagingly at all.
02:39I'm a big admirer of the interior D-line for the Texans.
02:43That was – that was the first touchdown scored by a 300-plus-pound Texan.
02:51Oh, yeah?
02:52Which surprised me.
02:53How much does Derek Barnett weigh?
02:55Derek Barnett must be 290 or something.
02:57Yeah, he's a big dude.
02:59J.J. Watt, obviously.
03:00I wonder with J.J., I'm going to have to ask him if maybe – because a couple of his touchdowns would have come after Thanksgiving.
03:06And J.J. was always like right there at 295.
03:08Yeah.
03:09I bet he was 300-plus on a couple of those.
03:11I bet if he stepped on the scale he was.
03:12He's been like in the program, he was probably 290.
03:15Yeah, and on game day, you're all bloated with Gatorade and everything.
03:17That's right.
03:18You're super hydrated and carbo-loaded.
03:21Yep.
03:22Okay, the important question now is we congratulate Daniel Hunter on his Defensive Player of the Week award
03:28and congratulate me on my extensive weight loss for the last 20 years.
03:32C.J. Stroud, not feeling good.
03:34I don't know how C.J.'s feeling.
03:36I'm not feeling good about C.J. playing this weekend, Seth.
03:39Not at practice.
03:40No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:41Back in the building, which is progress, reportedly, and that was, I think, according to either Aaron Wilson,
03:49Jonathan Alexander, somebody on the beat.
03:51My apologies.
03:52Yeah.
03:52But C.J. not at practice yesterday, and he has to, the rules are, among many rules with the concussion protocol,
03:59is that you have to go through two practices symptom-free before you're allowed to return.
04:06Today, that ain't happening.
04:08And that, Derek Barnett's only 260, by the way.
04:10He looks bigger than that, doesn't he?
04:12Definitely looks bigger than that, yeah.
04:13So, this is where, I'm guilty of this, you know, obviously I was aware that the Bills game is a Thursday night game,
04:21and I was kind of thinking about it in terms of C.J. Stroud coming back, and it's, but I had forgotten about this dynamic.
04:30After the Sunday game, you don't even have two full practices.
04:35They'll be out on the field a couple times, but one's a glorified walkthrough, and they're really both glorified walkthroughs.
04:42On a Monday and Tuesday, as you try to recover from the game, or they might do Tuesday and then Wednesday morning
04:47and then leave for the game, that C.J. can get out there and technically make it through the concussion protocol,
04:54but he's really not going to have a whole lot of time to work with full-speed timing and reps and everything with the offense.
05:00Yeah.
05:00You don't have actual practices those weeks before a Thursday game.
05:04Okay, so that's an interesting point.
05:06So if he's available, let's say he doesn't practice this week, but he continues to recover over the weekend,
05:13and he recovers to the point where if it were a normal week, he would get real practices.
05:18As you point out, next week, nobody's getting real practices next week.
05:22Does that affect your decision to start C.J. Stroud versus Davis Mills?
05:25It might. I think it depends on how much he gets done this week, I suppose.
05:28Okay.
05:29And then I guess how he looks.
05:31I think, boy, you have to get creative in how you handle it.
05:34So, everybody, think about if you play a Sunday game and then you've got a Sunday game the next week,
05:39usually what will happen is you come in on Monday, do your recoveries, correction, walkthroughs,
05:44all of those things in your weight room workout.
05:48Tuesday's off, and then Wednesday and Thursday are your highest activity practices.
05:54And then you kind of start tapering down Friday and Saturday.
05:57You don't do as much because you want to get recovered for the rest, you know, fresh for the game.
06:02Sure.
06:02So, on a Thursday night game, you have the game on Sunday, you come in, you've got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
06:09to compress all of that rest and recovery, plus get some work in, but then also be sure you're rested for the game.
06:16It ends up being a lot of jog through kind of three-quarter speed type stuff.
06:21It's just tough to get a lot of really high-speed work in.
06:24I'll be honest with you.
06:25My biggest concern was do you even have enough practice?
06:27Like, you barely, I think you just kind of made this point, like, this week, every, on a normal week,
06:32there's three practices every week.
06:34I know Friday is light walkthrough stuff, but it counts as a practice.
06:37In this case with CJ, we're literally talking about you have to do something that counts as a practice twice.
06:43I don't care what you're doing.
06:44I think it would count as a practice because you're out there with the team doing whatever the team is doing.
06:48Sure.
06:49As far as I understand it.
06:50Right.
06:50But on a normal week, you get three of those.
06:52On a short week, do you even get two days like that?
06:55Yeah, because you do, like, you're out there with the team at least a couple times.
06:58Okay, okay.
06:59So, whatever the football activities you're doing are, he can do that.
07:03Yeah.
07:04That's what I'm more worried about the runway than I am what...
07:07No, because we've seen it before.
07:07We've seen people in a concussion get a concussion on Sunday and still play that Thursday night.
07:12Yeah.
07:12So, I mean, it's definitely possible.
07:13Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
07:14That was my big concern is just, man, you're running out on a compressed week.
07:19Do you have enough practices for him to be able to check those two boxes?
07:22Yeah, because, yeah, people have done it.
07:26I remember, I can't remember who it was, but I know there was a quarterback where I kind
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