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Seth and Sean analyze and power rank the power rankings from various sports outlets largely based on how high they ranked the Texans.
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00:00are you ready to power rank the power rankings oh yeah yeah let's do that let's power let's uh
00:04they're so hot well some are hotter than others one is a solid eight plus yeah well yeah that's
00:12we'll start off we put we do this every week during the football season yeah uh we power rank
00:17the power rankings there's several outlets out there that power rank the 32 nfl teams we pick
00:21five of them yeah and we stack rank them in order yeah from five up to one in no particular order
00:27these are the five outlets we'll put them in an order in a second cbs usa today the athletic si.com
00:34and espn and what i can say i'm watching you usa today what i can say about whore number five
00:39si.com is they've got a hell of a personality yeah si.com is fifth on our power ranking of the power
00:46rankings they've got the texans 21st in the nfl and move them down four spots down four down four
00:54after a win yeah over the tennessee titans lets you know the america just what america thinks of
01:00the tennessee titans tell you what it wasn't an impressive win you had uh you had to have a
01:05an inspirational field goal drive in the fourth quarter
01:08beat the tennis team to nico collins yeah it's true it's it's it's true connor or is the uh is is
01:17the writer who puts these together we gonna do this for 37 minutes yeah um i admit he this is
01:25what he says about the texans um i admittedly have no idea where to put the texans who yes have won
01:32two straight games but have a horror show schedule over the next three weeks which we've pointed out
01:37multiple times today the surging whereas the surging cowboys and dolphins do not i'm guessing
01:43that's who he's got them yeah he's got he's got the dolphins ahead of the texans right now
01:47uh connor or does what the i think i think part of power rankings are i take it back he's not hot at
01:54all i think i think not a good personality yeah i was beer goggling these power rankings drunk and
02:02told connor or i think i might love him i think he says i think part of the power rankings are a
02:07snapshot of the now but part of it is a near future hedge on where you think this stock is trending all
02:13right so he's kind of he's he's changing the rules he's whatever he's moving the goalposts he is
02:17coyote ugly yeah so 21st and yes behind the dolphins and the cowboys who come in at 19th and 20th on
02:26here all right so si.com fifth and not hot no number four or solid three number four espn where are you
02:36now this will get a little college sprinter he was somebody you actually know and see on a regular
02:43basis sprinter or was he a 400 he a track guy i know yeah yeah no he was a sprinter i think around
02:48the 100 yeah yeah uh bruce are a sprinter yep uh espn.com which dj bnma writes the blurb for them
02:57has the texans at 19th down one so this is two straight power rankings set that have that have
03:04lowered the texans on the power rankings dj writes the blurb that's not his like that's not his
03:09personal power right somebody else does the rankings then they say hey dj yeah you can save your thirst
03:14trap slash football criticism tweets for somebody else but we know a few of these power rankings do a
03:20category for each of the 32 teams in the category this week i'm curious if you agree with this who's
03:26under the most pressure dj says offensive coordinator nick cayley and he says this dj does
03:34houston's defense lowers the number of points needed to get a comfortable win this season the texans have
03:39allowed more than 20 points only twice and given up the fewest points per game 16.3 so the pressure
03:46falls squarely on cayley to get a complimentary offense better than the one they currently have
03:51the texans offense is averaging 22 points a game which ranks 21st if the offense doesn't show
03:56improvement over the rest of the season the texans could be looking for their third oc in three
04:01years i agree with this i think cayley is under the most pressure and i think he's under the most
04:06pressure because he's he's in a job where it's very it's a whole lot easier to move on from nick
04:10cayley than it is some of the the players oh yeah above him on the grid yeah um i think okay lee the
04:18biggest thing where i am at with him right now is that i think the offense has improved as the
04:22younger players have gotten better and more reliable some of the issues that we saw early
04:27on with the offense especially with the spacing of wide receivers you never know whether okay is
04:33this because there's younger players trying to do this and it's a new scheme or is it the offensive
04:37coordinator himself i think it was very much about younger players and it being a new scheme because
04:42those things have improved over time and i think that the the biggest test for me right now is
04:48the offensive line over the past five weeks they've performed like an average offensive line
04:54not great not atrocious and given the actual players that he's had to use during that time i think
05:02that is that's a vote of confidence for me that nick cayley knows what he's doing it's going to take
05:06some time but they also just that i mean they're it's a constant rotating audition at left guard
05:12they've had bad injuries on the right side of their offensive line um the center is still very
05:18much a work in progress uh ariante ursory's gotten a lot better so i like that that's an indicator that
05:24the offensive coordinator is doing some things the right way the percentage chance that nick cayley is
05:29the offensive coordinator in 2026 has definitely gone up over the last few weeks i would say yeah
05:33yeah i guess the indicator being that they've performed the way they have but without they've got
05:38some serious talent deficits yeah yep yep um all right so s uh sorry espn.com number four on the
05:44power ranking of the power rankings and uh and you got kind of titillated by dj b anime when we did
05:50that yeah we'll drop this gimmick now once it got real with dj like somebody that i actually have
05:55conversations with right right right right right you don't want that to be uncomfortable all right
05:58number three the athletic who also has i don't want to have to maintain eye contact the next time i see
06:04him the athletic who also has the texans
06:08at them down one notch but as you know the athletic is always going to win out in a tie
06:16because i find their font to be very pleasant to the eye that's right yeah yeah oh that's right i
06:22like girl next door vibes i like their font yeah yeah that's right nothing that rattles you but like
06:27easy on the eyes something about this there's something about this font yeah so um the athletic
06:32uh the athletic uh the athletic has the texans at 19th and their category this week that they do
06:39for each team is as i page down to the uh to the texans i just want to make sure i got this right
06:44is a suggestion they have a suggestion for each for each team i know you put it in the rundown i was
06:50looking for something else yeah yeah you're policing me i was i was po'd everybody because i i tried to
06:56make it easier for sean i was looking for something else yeah so um a suggestion
07:00call davis mills agent is the suggestion oh the athletic texans the athletics into the weird stuff
07:07um uh looking outside the relationship here's what they say here's what they say the texans
07:12backup quarterback is on a one-year deal right now and he's proven his worth by winning the last two
07:17weeks while cj stroud is out due to a concussion nico collins has 16 catches for 228 yards in those
07:23games so he'd be all for more mills in his life well that's that's that's a little uncomfortable
07:27mojo to put out there that somehow nico prefers davis mills over cj yeah the athletics sitting
07:33here saying just a lot of assumptions you married married him did you right houston's won three of
07:38its last four to get back to 500 after starting oh and three here's the thing davis is under contract
07:43next year too yeah uh calling davis mills agent would be kind of dumb actually yeah yeah yeah i mean
07:49like with real it's just that you've already got him under control for another year yep um there's
07:55no huge urgency to lock him down to a five-year deal or anything do you think okay here's a question
08:01for you do you think davis is playing his way into being a quarterback that if a team has quarterback
08:08issues next season or is looking for a quarterback quarterback they're gonna draft a guy but they're
08:14looking for a bridge who can win games yeah is davis playing his way into being a potential asset
08:20that could get you some decent draft capital i think there's a chance that he is yeah um do you think
08:25they would move on something i don't think people are going to look at him as you know okay yeah this
08:30is the guy we're going to give him a five-year deal or anything uh but a lot of it's going to depend
08:35on from the texans perspective how does graham mertz develop and you're seeing right now okay it's
08:42it's it's not davis mills overall ability it's his overall ability plus the fact that he's a veteran
08:50quarterback who's been in this system got to take when cj was injured during otas davis mills was
08:55taking all those reps that's probably helping out a lot right now um so i think he's right now he's
09:01still more valuable to the texans than he would be to other teams yes that could change a lot if they
09:06start feeling good about graham mertz uh yeah mertz is a huge factor in it you're absolutely right
09:10right now just thinking ahead i know the trade deadline's coming on but if the offseason rolls
09:15around team offers you a third round pick for davis mills you take it i'm sitting there i'm
09:21thinking about okay it'd be i would not sure would be nice to make the playoffs this year and without
09:26davis mills that i don't think they we might not even they're oh and two with graham mertz in these
09:34last two games most likely unless graham mertz ends up being a prodigy yeah but because we just don't
09:38know i bet on owens right right most likely and that we would be doing we would actually be doing
09:42mock drafts sometime this week yep um so yeah not right now maybe i don't want a third rounder right
09:48now i'm with you on that i i don't and i i a two but even a two i gotta think about something like
09:54that um all right uh so number three on the power ranking of the power rankings is the athletic
09:59and they are right behind the carolina panthers how about that that's what i was paging down to go
10:05find the who are they right behind in these they're behind the dolphins in one of them behind
10:08the panthers you gotta step by the way okay can everybody just shut the hell up about bryce young
10:13for a minute he's been awful all year he has one good performance and all of a 448 yards i know i know
10:17i know but it was like yeah there is such a thing as the the the season stats and whatnot a lot of
10:24yards overall performance i can't go from like i don't know it's just not working out for bryce
10:29young to him having one impressive game they're like the ship is arrived i hope the panthers do
10:36i hope i hope they do i hope i hope they give him 60 million a year i'm with you on that the hell
10:42of a game by he got acknowledged he got enough he got acknowledged on monday all right number two
10:47power ranking of the power rankings cbssports.com pete prisco 18th is where he's got him hater
10:5518th holding steady i've never once found pete attractive he's the first one he's the first one
11:01that hasn't penalized them that we've done so far okay for a win i'm supposed to give him credit
11:06for that no i'm just trying too hard just pointing out he has to do just yeah right we're gonna do
11:14some weird stuff yeah pete's got super wide hips
11:19you have to do some things um here's what he says about the texans they've won two straight
11:29without cj stroud which keeps them alive in the playoff chase the defense is special
11:33no no no no pete prisco is the opposite of the guy who's going to put in the effort and do things
11:38yeah this is just his little two sentence blurb but he does say the missionary as it gets right there
11:43defense is special oh four words thanks there you go yeah that's a special okay yeah it is cool
11:49it is and yet and then he's like you got cab fare for me this is okay so right now the defense is
11:54special this this three game stretch is really honestly where they can authenticate their
11:59performance their speciality yeah yeah the they're the fact that they're facing for the first time
12:05all year this week they'll be facing a quarterback who's top 10 in qb rushing yards
12:09the next two weeks they'll do the same because both daniel jones and pat mahomes um can both hurt
12:15you with their legs mahomes is the perfect example of like knows exactly when he should run and he
12:21doesn't do it with blistering speed or anything but knows knows how to take advantage of some of
12:26some of uh your weaknesses on any given play yep and that's where the texans at times have struggled
12:31versus scrambling quarterbacks so these next three weeks they'll they'll they'll really have to
12:37address that challenge um number one on the list power ranking of the power rankings with a bullet
12:43once again is usa today and their rankings are uh are done by nate davis and we've always
12:49like the usa cheap bluesies of journalism in general they are for uh they were like the original
12:57aggregators yeah yeah you know they they spawned this whole generation of people on social media
13:02who don't actually break news they just repurpose other people's news they're the stripper with a
13:06heart of gold yeah that's what they are they are actually going to community college instead of
13:10just telling you that they're right right and eventually law school yeah yeah yeah uh they've
13:15got the texans 13th holding steady from last week so they didn't penalize them and they've got
13:20them damn near in the upper third of the league and they say this nate davis says this how good is
13:24this defense it's allowed more than 200 passing yards just twice this season it's allowed more than
13:30100 rushing yards just twice this season josh allen will test it thursday night but phew
13:36says woo woo woo doggy that defense is hot we gave usa today the vapors we usa today looks at the
13:45texans defense the way you and i look at usa today yeah yeah yeah that's uh um longing eyes hungry eyes
13:52texans are this fun young team that's how you say today looks at them yeah not that creepy james cook
13:58is i watched a good chunk of james cook the running back for the bills yesterday he's good he's fun to
14:02watch um because he's just he's classic in an outside zone scheme he knows when to cut it back
14:09he's he's he gets vertical very quickly runs bigger than his body weight i think you know he like runs
14:17with more power than you expect yeah when you look at him yeah uh and he's definitely he's a challenge
14:21this week um so usa today has the texans 13th which is far removed from where these other outlets have
14:29them the other outlets have like the cowboys and the dolphins and the panthers and i know record wise
14:36like you know the panthers are better than the texans um the usa today has them hovering around teams
14:43like tampa bay uh baltimore jacksonville do you which if there were a party with those teams at it you
14:51know you got a party over here and it's got the panthers and the dolphins and the the stealers and
14:57you got this other party over here that's got the ravens and it's got the the bucks you know better
15:02teams we know that they're not in the really really elite party you know with the lions and the eagles
15:07and teams like that which cluster do they belong more in set do you think i think the uh that bucks
15:12ravens cluster or the dolphins panthers cluster the bucks ravens uh cluster because of the defense
15:18because of the defense yeah that's the one that you can you can rely on the texans defense in a way
15:24that i think you can't necessarily rely on any of the units from the other teams yeah so um so there you
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