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Seth and Sean each pick 3 Texans players who embodied the SWARM mentality vs the Jaguars that they expect to continue the trend in Tennessee this Sunday.
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00:00Seth, the honor is yours, my friend. Go ahead.
00:02I am going to go with an offensive player first.
00:09I've got a lot of offensive players in my pool right now, man.
00:11Yeah, that player is one Woodrow Marks.
00:16Okay, I'm going to cross that one off. He was on my list.
00:20As much for some of his impressive blocking plays as well as for his running performance
00:26and the fact that he was featured heavily in this game,
00:31Kaylee and D'Amico and everybody else finally said,
00:34all right, let's get these rookies cooking.
00:37And also by virtue of his work as a receiver,
00:40the rookies ended up providing about a third of the targets in this game,
00:45Jaden Higgins, Jalen Knoll, and Woody Marks.
00:47It was very much a – it felt like a coming out party for the rookies last week.
00:51They all made plays. They all made important plays in the game,
00:54and Woody Marks, chief among them, got into the end zone on a touchdown,
00:57had a big third and three conversion.
01:00He was on the field for 60 snaps.
01:01Yeah, his best play might have been, I think what you were alluding to,
01:05his blitz pickup he had on one of those plays where he –
01:08the line of scrimmage was like the 15- or 20-yard line for the Texans,
01:12and he rode the guy practically into the end zone.
01:14It was awesome.
01:15Yeah, I mean, you were talking about – I mean, they claimed –
01:17I think Nick Haley said something about how he used him as fully as they did.
01:22It just worked out that way.
01:24Maybe that's the case.
01:25I mean, D'Amico in the pregame interview said that they were going to get
01:28Woody Marks more involved.
01:30Yeah.
01:30And he had 60 snaps in the game.
01:33The highest he'd had before that was 48 snaps.
01:37And other than that – against Seattle.
01:38And other than that, he was usually at 35 snaps or so max.
01:43Yeah.
01:43So that was by far his heaviest usage in terms of just being on the field all season long.
01:49How many snaps – do you have the snap count in front of you for the team or just him?
01:51Not for the team.
01:52Okay, gotcha.
01:53I was just curious because I thought –
01:55Oh, yeah, actually I do.
01:56Who do you want?
01:57Just Chubb.
01:58I was just curious how many snaps.
01:58Chubb was on the field for 10 snaps.
02:01Yeah, for 10 snaps.
02:02And I think it feels like a lot of them were in the second half of the game
02:06where they might have looked at the Jags and said,
02:08this looks like a boxer who's all punched out, you know, who's tired.
02:12That looked like a tired defense.
02:14Maybe they've stumbled into something here, Seth,
02:16with making Woody Mark the feature back and using Nick Chubb
02:20as sort of a combo closer type of back.
02:23Is he – Nick Chubb looked like he had way more juice
02:26than anybody playing defense for the Jaguars on Sunday.
02:29Yeah.
02:29Only five carries, but for 47 yards in that game.
02:32Nick Chubb – Woody Marks can kind of pepper the opponent with skillful boxing
02:38and then Nick Chubb comes in to land an overhead right.
02:41Hell yeah, hell yeah.
02:42Overhand right, excuse me.
02:43Yep.
02:43Or overhead, whatever.
02:44Either one.
02:46All right, my first pick is Davis Mills.
02:50He – you know, look, he engineered the comeback.
02:52Yeah.
02:53He was – he played tough.
02:55There were a few plays – there were a few plays in that game where –
02:58you know, the ability to make the first guy miss in the pocket
03:04was displayed a few times.
03:06I don't feel like we'd seen that a lot with Davis before
03:08where a guy comes free and he's able to either spin out of the pocket
03:12or he stiff-armed a guy one time.
03:14So I thought he – I thought he was strong in the pocket.
03:18Obviously, he made all the plays that needed to be made.
03:21He made some massive throws in this game.
03:23There's just no other way to put it.
03:24But he – all three of the offensive touchdowns in the fourth quarter
03:28of this game were on third down.
03:31You know, they were on third down.
03:33They would have gone for it on fourth down, I'm sure.
03:35But they were on third down.
03:36He hit a big fourth and two to Jalen Knoll.
03:38The third and ten to Dalton Schultz.
03:41Just standing in there and just putting the ball right where it needed to be.
03:45It was Davis Mills' best and most important performance for this team.
03:49And it's not even close.
03:51Yeah.
03:51Now, and go back to this last – so as Davis Mills plays this week
03:55versus the Titans, you go back to the first Titans game,
03:59and that was one of those classic games where early on we were a little bit
04:04worried about C.J. Stroud and his accuracy because he had two errant throws
04:07that were pretty bad errant throws.
04:10One – it was one to Nico, and then there was the misfire where Dalton Schultz
04:15was wide open and would have had the touchdown.
04:17Yeah.
04:18But he ended up 22 for 26 on the day.
04:21Right.
04:21Like, he was – he did not actually have accuracy issues.
04:24They just had issues in the red zone.
04:26Yep.
04:27And, like, it's been for most of the season with the Texans,
04:30they couldn't punch it into the red zone.
04:32Last week they go four for five in the red zone.
04:35Davis Mills is a big part of it.
04:37Huge.
04:37And a driving force behind a lot of it with his arm.
04:40And with his – yeah, his – well, all he needs to do this week is just dial back
04:46on the risky throws a little bit.
04:48Yeah, you don't need to be risking it for the biscuit this week.
04:51He's playing a little bit like Jameis Winston.
04:53Yep.
04:53Which is – sometimes it's a blast, and sometimes it's a nightmare.
04:58Just – this is the Titans.
04:59Your defense should – your defense is capable of shutting this team out,
05:03as they've shown.
05:04You don't – you don't have to make the hero plays in this game.
05:07No, you don't.
05:08All right, who's your second swarmer?
05:11Demeal Hunter.
05:12Demeal Hunter.
05:12Yeah, who probably should have been the first selection, but in terms of just
05:15how clutch he was in the fourth quarter especially, he almost single-handedly
05:21caused the three and out because he had a tackle for a loss followed by a sack
05:26on back-to-back plays on that second-to-last series.
05:29Three and a half sacks on the day, a tackle for a loss,
05:32and just an overall dominant performance.
05:35And lifting him up to basically now being pretty much identical to Will Anderson
05:40on just about every stat.
05:41It's really wild how identical the back of their football cards are right now.
05:46Yeah, and Demeal, I think last time – did he have two sacks versus the Titans?
05:50He did.
05:51He had two sacks in week four.
05:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:54So maybe a little bit of a prelude to him having another big statistical day.
05:57Yeah, man, that's what the good ones do.
05:58They beef up and get multiple sacks against the bad teams.
06:01Last time versus the Titans as the Texans shut the Titans out,
06:05combined, Demeal Hunter and Will Anderson had 12 pressures and two sacks.
06:10Okay.
06:11The two sacks going to Demeal Hunter.
06:12But they were very much a menace in that game.
06:15Okay, Demeal Hunter's a good one.
06:17I'm going to go with Dalton Schultz for my next one.
06:22He is playing through some injuries right now, which I admire that.
06:26I know everybody's dealing with something.
06:28But Dalton is dealing with stuff that's on the injury report.
06:30He made two of the biggest plays of the season in that game.
06:36The touchdown, the toe-tapper touchdown at the back of the end zone on third and three,
06:40I think it was.
06:41And then the third and ten on the subsequent possession,
06:44the final possession of the game for the Texans, the game-winning drive.
06:48That drive doesn't get out of first gear if Dalton doesn't get that catch on third and ten.
06:53He was targeted 11 or 12 times in the game,
06:55so there is a connection there with Davis Mills.
06:59And I like this too, Seth, that he's going back.
07:03And we'll relive this at 8 o'clock today.
07:05The last time the Texans went to Tennessee with a backup quarterback and won,
07:11we'll relive that game and the highlights of it at the top of the hour at 8 o'clock.
07:14But one of those highlights was Dalton Schultz possibly saving the Texans' season
07:18back in 2023 on that catch that he had where he just ripped it away from the defender.
07:23And it kept the Texans' drive alive, and they went on to score the game-tying touchdown.
07:28They went in overtime.
07:29A big force of will moment.
07:30Big time.
07:31That kind of stuff D'Amico really loves.
07:33Loves it.
07:34Like when he's running up into the gut six times in a row trying to score from the one-yard line.
07:39That's that force of will that sometimes it's nice if you marry it up with actual physical talent.
07:45Right, right, right.
07:45We like the ones that work better than the ones that don't work.
07:48But, yeah, D'Amico loves those.
07:49All right, so you have Woody Marks and Daniil Hunter.
07:53We're doing the Circle of Swarm.
07:54I have Davis Mills and Dalton Schultz.
07:56Who is your third and final pick for you?
07:59Ooh.
08:01Oh, this is my last pick.
08:02Make it count.
08:03There's so many guys I want.
08:06Because I want Daniil or I want Derek Stingley on there.
08:10Mm-hmm.
08:11I also, I kind of want to put Jaden Higgins on there.
08:14Okay.
08:14But not as much as I want to put Ariante Ursary on there.
08:18Uh-huh.
08:19I'm going to go with, because, look.
08:23Wait, we don't have Nico on there yet, do we?
08:24We don't have Nico on there either, man.
08:26Oh, son of a...
08:27Oh.
08:27We don't have Nico on there.
08:28Okay, this is tough.
08:29Here's what I'll say.
08:30I'll help you out with Nico.
08:32Yeah.
08:32The reason I don't have Nico on my...
08:34I have him in my pool, but the reason I won't take him, 54 of his yards came on that Hail
08:40Mary play at the end of the half.
08:42Yeah.
08:42Yeah.
08:42He still would have had six catches for, like, 80 yards.
08:45Yeah.
08:45But it's...
08:46That just...
08:47And boy, some really...
08:48Boy, now I'm talking myself into it.
08:49Some really swarmy catches over the middle.
08:51Yeah.
08:52Yeah.
08:52He turned some of those swarms...
08:53I'm backing away from the mic.
08:54You do.
08:54You make your...
08:55Okay, okay, okay.
08:55All right.
08:57Derek Stingley had one of the most incredible interceptions we've ever had.
09:02Ever seen.
09:03Yeah.
09:03In the history of not just the NFL.
09:07Yes.
09:08Yeah.
09:08Yes.
09:08Ever since the forward pass was permitted, there's been very few catches as good as this.
09:14I haven't watched exhaustively all of the film from 1937 yet, but...
09:19I like how seriously you're taking this, right?
09:22And I...
09:23Yeah, I'm going to give it to Derek Stingley based on this as well.
09:26I've been having so much fun watching Jacksonville people argue about Trevor Lawrence all week.
09:31Yeah.
09:31And a lot of people in Jacksonville say, look, yeah, there are a lot of wide receiver drops,
09:36but part of that is because Trevor Lawrence has no touch and throws an erratic ball all the time.
09:43And so I think there is something to Trevor Lawrence just not throwing a catchable ball.
09:47He's the opposite of Tua.
09:48And Derek Stingley couldn't catch one of his potential interceptions in that game because Derek Stingley, who has some of the most incredible ball skills we've ever seen in a game where he made an interception that very few people on earth could have made.
10:04And he also dropped one, I think, because Trevor Lawrence doesn't throw a catchable ball.
10:08Derek Stingley, circle of swarm.
10:09Circle of swarm.
10:10That would be an amazing...
10:11Stingley doesn't have this in him because he's not a taunter.
10:14That would be an amazing taunt by a defensive back, though, like to be running back to their huddle and yelling at the opposing quarterback to throw a more catchable ball.
10:22Well, hey, look at...
10:23D'Amico thought that his interception that closed out the Dolphins game was more impressive just because of the situation than his interception in this game.
10:32Let's remember who was throwing that.
10:34Tua.
10:34Tua.
10:35Catchable ball.
10:35Very catchable ball, yeah.
10:36He was catchable twice for Stingley in that Dolphins game.
10:39It was, man.
10:40It was.
10:40Trevor Lawrence...
10:41If Trevor Lawrence is that quarterback, Stingley might have only had one interception in that game.
10:44Be better, Trevor Lawrence, all right?
10:46Be better.
10:46There's got to be...
10:47How are there not more advanced stats about spin rate and everything and catchability?
10:50Now that they have a little computer chip in the football, I would think that we'd have stats on that by now.
10:55That's a good question.
10:55There will be at some point.
10:56There will be.
10:57All right, so we're down...
10:58That's going to be a real quick side note.
11:00That'll be interesting with Jacoby Myers because Jacoby Myers has the lowest drop rate in football over the course of the last five years.
11:06If Jacoby Myers starts dropping footballs a lot...
11:09Trevor Lawrence?
11:09That's Trevor Lawrence, man.
11:11Oh, yeah.
11:11That's all Trevor Lawrence because it's not like Jacoby Myers has been playing with nothing but the cream of the crop at quarterback in his career.
11:18It's the poor man's version...
11:20...of Brock's...
11:22Osweiler was the only quarterback who couldn't be like the best version of himself when throwing to DeAndre Hopkins.
11:29The only force in the NFL that could shut down prime DeAndre Hopkins was Brock Osweiler.
11:33The only guy that couldn't figure it out.
11:35All you have to do is loft it in his general direction and he's coming down with it.
11:39Dude, it was so funny.
11:40I'll pick my last player here in a second, but as long as I'm bringing up Brock...
11:43He was on the call for the BC-Notre Dame game a couple of weeks ago, which is really funny because that means he was in a production meeting with Bill O'Brien at one point.
11:52Oh, yeah.
11:52Yeah.
11:53So I'm curious how that went.
11:54I wonder if he falsely imprisoned him.
11:55I'm curious.
11:57Brock, you're not.
11:57I got more to say, Brock.
11:58But it was funny because Notre Dame ran a fake punt in that game that Brock Osweiler called out before the play.
12:08He's like, look out for the fake right here.
12:10Yeah.
12:10And they ran a fake.
12:11And I'm like, man, I don't know who the special teams coach is for Notre Dame.
12:14And ultimately, it's Marcus Freeman's decision probably.
12:17But I'm like, if you're running things that Brock Osweiler is diagnosing before the play, you need a little bit more secrecy.
12:24Well, but it sounds like...
12:25Did Boston College shut it down?
12:27They did.
12:28Yeah, they stopped it.
12:28Yeah, sorry.
12:29I should have included that.
12:30Yeah, they tackled Jeremiah Love in the backfield.
12:32I'm guessing that's something that they might have snuck Brock Osweiler in the production meeting.
12:37You know?
12:37Well, then he's...
12:38Yeah, maybe.
12:39Yeah.
12:39Yeah, they do that all the time.
12:40Yeah.
12:41Yeah, because Romo will get caught doing it sometimes.
12:43Yeah.
12:43Like, when he's still trying to act like he knows what's coming and everything, he'll bring up something that, you know, like the coach clearly told him in the production meeting.
12:52Because he'll be like, I don't know.
12:53I think they're going to probably try to run a...
12:55Yeah, and Brock would do that.
12:57Even if they're like, hey, man, don't say this on the broadcast, but we got...
13:02Oh, yeah.
13:03Well, no, no, no.
13:03They can say it.
13:04I know.
13:04They'd say it specifically to...
13:06Yeah, anyway.
13:07Yeah, I know.
13:07I was just saying if they told him not to say it, Brock is somebody who would say it probably.
13:12Ariante Urssery.
13:13That's the last one.
13:14Oh, there we go.
13:14Yeah, sorry.
13:15Ariante Urssery.
13:16He's the last one in the circle of Swarm.
13:20All right, Payton Pendergast.
13:21There we go.
13:22Woody Marks, Davis Mills, Daniil Hunter, Dalton Schultz, Derek Stingley, Ariante Urssery.
13:28That's a good...
13:29Dude, four offensive players in the circle of Swarm.
13:32I don't think that's ever happened.
13:34I'm pretty sure that's...
13:35Not since we've been doing Cirque du Swarm, because we started off, what, two years ago
13:40or just last year?
13:40Last year, week three.
13:42Oh, yeah, yeah.
13:43Yeah.
13:43It's been...
13:45You'll have to go through your records here during one of the breaks, and we'll see if this
13:48has been the greatest circle of Swarm for the offense.
13:52I don't have the week-to-week.
13:54I only have the totals.
13:56Oh, okay.
13:56Yeah, so I'm just...
13:57It just feels like this is a rarity.
13:59It is a rarity, obviously.
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