00:02Matt Burke, what challenges do the Titans pose to your defense?
00:07Yeah, I think they have good players, and I think they've done a really good job of,
00:11I would say, starting our game and kind of moving forward,
00:15just trying to put the quarterback in position to make plays.
00:18He's got a live arm.
00:20He's really, really, really talented outside the pocket and throwing on the move.
00:25And so I think they're just trying to play to his strengths some.
00:28You know, we didn't face Tajik Spears in our first game,
00:35who was a different element in the running game from an explosive standpoint.
00:38They've got some linemen back from our first game.
00:41You know, I think they've got two rookie receivers that they're playing
00:44that have obviously had some more experience that are starting to show up.
00:4717 and 5 have gotten better.
00:49So I think they've just done a good job of trying to continue to put the quarterback
00:53in spots to be successful.
00:55And he's made a lot, a lot of flash plays that, you know, he can rip the ball down the field.
01:00So we've got to be really good and make sure that we're not giving those explosive opportunities.
01:03And that's a good job by Matt Burke right there to take the, what is it,
01:09try to make it sound like there's a few things that threaten the Texans in this game.
01:15Yeah, they're dead last in points per game offensively.
01:18They score 14.4 points per game.
01:21Woo!
01:22Yeah.
01:23Woo, doggy!
01:24Just to put it in perspective, Houston, the Texans are 19th in scoring right now,
01:29and they're at 22.7 points per game.
01:30It's an aerial circus.
01:32I don't know if you were watching on Sunday.
01:3522.7 points per game ain't great.
01:38You know, you're at like the bottom part of the middle third.
01:42But that's 22 points per game, and the Titans are down at 14.4 points per game.
01:47It sounds like you've got the rankings in front of you.
01:49Who's leading the league in scoring right now?
01:51Colts at 32.1.
01:52Oh, yeah.
01:53Lions at 31.4.
01:55Okay.
01:57Seahawks at 30.6.
01:59Feels about right.
01:59Oh, the Texans held them below their average.
02:02Look at that.
02:02Yeah, they feel so much better about that game now.
02:0527, yeah.
02:07Dallas and then the Rams.
02:08I mean, the Texans face – if the Texans' defense can come out of this season
02:14as the number one scoring defense, they'll have faced the Colts twice.
02:18They've got the highest scoring offense.
02:21They'll have faced the Seahawks.
02:23They'll have faced the Rams.
02:24They'll have faced the Bills, who are the sixth highest scoring offense right now,
02:28despite having so many issues.
02:31Everybody's pissed at them.
02:32They've got so many issues.
02:35Credit Josh Allen.
02:36I mean, there comes a point where I just got to acknowledge that, man,
02:40there's something about just having Josh Allen back there that can make things go.
02:45He's rare.
02:45And he can be the engine that just drives so many things.
02:47He is rare.
02:50Yeah.
02:51There they are as the sixth highest scoring offense in the league right now.
02:54Dead last – back to the Titans.
02:57Dead last in third down conversion.
02:59Yeah.
02:59And the Texans' defense is third best in allowing third down conversions.
03:05Their third down conversion rate, yeah.
03:06Yep.
03:07So, the Titans are dead last at 28% of third downs converted.
03:12Just to put that in perspective, the Texans are third best on defense, and they're at 34%.
03:17Yep.
03:17So, like, the Titans are performing on average, like, in any given week.
03:23They're worse.
03:24They might as well be facing the best – one of the best defenses in the league every single
03:28week.
03:29They're basically what the Texans are doing every week defensively on third down, yeah.
03:33And I think that the biggest things to me in terms of just the complete chasm in between
03:38these two teams is, one, Texans allow the lowest passer rating in the NFL.
03:44That matches up.
03:44You've got a good pass rush in an elite secondary.
03:47And the Titans, Cam Ward, has the 32nd best passer rating individually.
03:53So, that's – you're talking about opposite ends of the spectrum.
03:55And then this is the very basic one, which I know you love, Seth, because it's just all
03:58about points scored.
04:00Yeah.
04:00The Titans, as you just noted, are the worst scoring team in football at 14.4 points per
04:06game.
04:06We know the Texans have led all season long in points allowed, and they still lead in
04:11least amount of points allowed.
04:14The last 16 times that that has happened were those two teams, the best scoring defense
04:19versus the worst scoring offense.
04:21The last 16 times that that has occurred in the NFL, the best scoring defense has won
04:26those games, and it's been by an average of nearly 20.
04:30Tradition here, if the trend is holding up, the Texans – the Texans should do what they
04:35did to the Titans in week four, which is beat them 26 to nothing or something like that.
04:39It'd be an extreme disappointment if somehow they had this letdown.
04:42And they – it doesn't look – there's a pretty good chance they don't have Jalen
04:45Petrie in this game.
04:46The Titans don't really have the receivers that can threaten the Texans the way that
04:52you might fear, no matter what Matt Burke said as he was reciting players by their numbers
04:56instead of their names.
04:57Yeah.
04:57The – and even going into next week versus the Bills, because it's a short week, these
05:05concussions like CJ and Jalen Petrie's concussions become that much dicier because it's – they
05:11don't have almost enough practices to even demonstrate that they can go through the concussion
05:16protocol.
05:17If they don't have Jalen Petrie next week, it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as it
05:22will when they start facing the teams with really good receiving rooms.
05:25The Bills – one of the Bills' weaknesses is they only have Khalil Shakir and then nobody
05:29else in the wide receiving core.
05:30No, they don't.
05:31But the Colts – that's a deep room, man.
05:34And you add Tyler Warren to that as well as a pass-catching threat, the tight end.
05:38Yeah, like Tremont Smith matched up against Alec Pierce makes me nervous.
05:41That's an issue, yeah.
05:42Or Michael Pittman or Josh Downs for that matter.
05:45I mean, they all make plays.
05:47So, yeah.
05:49Daniil Hunter won Defensive Player of the Week for this past week.
05:53Third time in his career.
05:55First time as a Texan that he's won it.
05:57Here was Matt Burke on the week that Daniil Hunter had.
05:59I think, honestly, in both phases, I think probably underrated a little bit of just how we set
06:04the edges and play in the run.
06:05I mean, obviously, the sack production was there.
06:10Really just often his, like, surge in the rush was just very consistent.
06:13Like, man, wasn't wasting any movement.
06:16Just really had some just real efficient, like, really elite rushes.
06:20And then just the way he set edge in the run game.
06:22I mean, obviously, the TFL numbers and stuff really helped us snuff out a couple things on the perimeter.
06:26So, deservingly awarded that honor.
06:31And hopefully he can keep that going.
06:32Sometimes you got to, we joke, you know, he had, I think, four games where he hadn't had a sack.
06:36So, sometimes you got to see the ball go in the net and then it opens up.
06:39So, hopefully, he can keep that momentum going.
06:42One of three players this season to have three sacks and a forced fumble in a game.
06:48The thing about Daniil that's cool is that how much people that just really are connoisseurs of pass rushers
06:55love watching Daniil Hunter film.
06:57The Euro step, man.
06:59Yeah.
07:00His, he does, he does that thing of taking huge, giant steps better than anybody else.
07:07Because it doesn't even look like he's trying to take huge steps or anything.
07:10But he covers so much ground and he puts offensive tackles into such a bind.
07:13He just, he put on a clinic in that game.
07:16He did it with a power rush at times.
07:18He did it with a Euro step.
07:20We didn't see any of his vintage spin move like he put on Panay Sewell last year or anything.
07:26But it's really fun to watch him work when he's really hitting it.
07:31And he'll have some good opportunities in this game.
07:34He will have good opportunities.
07:35It had to be cool for J.J. Watt to be doing that game last week with the game that Daniil had.
07:40Because J.J.'s been a guy who has been trumpeting the virtues of Daniil Hunter as a pass rusher.
07:46I think even before he was a Houston Texan, he was saying.
07:50He was, last year, I remember it was either in January or before free agency.
07:56I mean, two years ago, before free agency.
07:58Yeah.
07:59J.J. was talking about how underrated Daniil Hunter was.
08:01So, yeah, that was long before, as Jaguars fans will tell you, J.J. became an extreme homer broadcaster for the Texans.
08:09They were not happy at all.
08:11J.J. slipped once in that game and said us.
08:13He said us.
08:13We're talking about the Texans.
08:14Yeah, he slipped.
08:15Yeah, and they are not letting that go in Jacksonville.
08:18They are furious about that.
08:20I thought, by and large, he called it down the middle.
08:23I think that I read Richard Deitch's column in The Athletic, and he's usually pretty brutally honest about color commentators.
08:30And he said he thought, other than that one slip-up, he did a pretty good job of not sounding biased one way or the other.
08:35I think J.J. does a really good job.
08:37We have a texter that says, Sean, is it just me, or does Ross Tucker, do Ross Tucker and J.J. Watt have the exact same voice during the broadcast?
08:47Oh, I don't think, not even close.
08:48You don't think not even close?
08:50No.
08:50Ross sounds, Ross sounds drunk, you know, in a very fun way.
08:56Yeah.
08:56Not in a way that makes it feel like, oh, we're having fun here.
09:00That's just the way, his cadence and the way, his delivery, he just always sounds a little bit drunk.
09:05I don't think J.J. sounds drunk.
09:06I think when J.J. gets excited, there's a little bit of Ross Tucker there for me.
09:12But I'm with you.
09:13I can tell the difference between the two.
09:15You know, if you just plunk me in a room, I'd know J.J. Watt from Ross Tucker.
09:18I think they're both really good.
09:19I think I like, I kind of like not having a quarterback on the game.
09:22You know, I kind of like having the, you know, I like having the lineman's perspective.
09:25Plus, they're both big, fun-loving dudes, man.
09:27That's what Richard Deitch's article was about, was the,
09:34the lack of defensive guys in color commentary roles and that so much of it is focused on the offense
09:41and guys talking about the offense that you don't sometimes get the defensive perspective.
09:45So it's refreshing when you get a defensive guy in there.
09:48I wonder about that in terms of the average, I think the average fan cares more about offense.
09:54Oh, no question.
09:54You know, so that I wonder about just, I don't think it's going to be a trend all of a sudden
09:59that it's going to be all these defensive guys as color commentators.
10:02Yeah, and J.J.'s not on there because he's, you know, he's on there because he's J.J. Watt.
10:05You know, that's it.
10:06But I think you're right.
10:08Like, one of the byproducts of that, it is a different perspective.
10:11I like it.
10:11If Daniil Hunter gets six more Defensive Player of the Week awards,
10:16he'll tie J.J. Watt for the most in Texans history.
10:18He just needs six more.
10:20J.J.'s got seven of them.
10:21As a Texan or in total?
10:23He needs four more in total.
10:24He needs six more to tie J.J. Watt for Texan Defensive Players of the Week.
10:28Did you, sorry if you don't know this off the top of your head,
10:31did J.J. get all of his Defensive Players of the Week when he was with Houston?
10:35He had seven with Houston.
10:36I don't know if he got any with Arizona.
10:38Yeah, I'm just saying, like, Daniil's got one as a Texan.
10:40J.J. has seven.
10:41He had one really big game in Arizona, if I recall, like a three-sack game or something.
10:46Probably did.
10:46I mean, he had double-digit sacks his last year,
10:48so he probably had a big game in there somewhere.
10:5114th Texan to win Defensive Player of the Week honors.
10:53They give the list.
10:55On the press release, they give the list of everybody to ever do it.
10:58And some of the random names are my favorite.
11:00Like, Tavier Thomas is one of the 14 Texans to win Defensive Player of the Week.
11:05Oh, yeah.
11:06Tavier Thomas, man.
11:07If you had ever to do a game, it would be the one that would get.
11:12Who was the skinny little defensive end that had a bunch of sacks the year
11:15after they traded away Jadeveon Clowney?
11:18Jacob Martin?
11:19Yeah, Jacob Martin.
11:20Yeah.
11:21That was an annoying one for me because people were saying,
11:23Look, Jacob Martin's got as much production as Jadeveon Clowney.
11:28He's just as good.
11:29Jacob Martin would come in exclusively when it was third and ten plus.
11:33Because he weighed 230 pounds.
11:35I think we know who you're quoting here.
11:36To try to act like Jacob Martin's production or value was remotely the same as Jadeveon Clowney.
11:43It drove me insane.
11:44How did they say it, Seth?
11:46How did they?
11:47Jacob Martin's been every bit as productive as Jadeveon Clowney.
11:51Oh, gotcha.
11:52Okay, yeah.
11:53It's clearly Brandon Scott saying that right there.
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