QOTD: What should we call this Texans defense?

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QOTD: What should we call this defense?

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00:00Question of the day. Elite defenses usually have nicknames. What would be the nickname that you would have for the Texans team? 713-572-4610.

00:08The Death Star has potential, but I think you'd have some copyright infringement problems.

00:15If you were going to do Death Star, you need to put a spin on it so it's identifiable, right?

00:19The Great Wall of Dallas, right? But it's like, oh, that reminds you of something, but it's specific there, right?

00:27Purple People Eaters. It's reminiscent of something else, but you know exactly where to go.

00:32If you go, oh, yeah, the Death Star defense, people go, oh.

00:36But you want to have something that specifically ties you to the team, I imagine.

00:39I like the Legion of Swarm. I like...

00:42Too derivative. We already, like Legion of Boom. I like Swarm City.

00:47Swarm City?

00:48Yeah, I think I heard one of the players actually say, I forgot who, it was somebody that got drafted or signed.

00:53He said, Swarm City, let's go.

00:55Yeah.

00:55And that kind of stuck with me. I look at this as like, you coming in to NRG, Swarm City.

01:01I like the ones that are, I hope not too serious, the Bayou Body Dumpers, someone said.

01:06Okay. All right, man.

01:08I feel like we got to turn this car around now.

01:10Yeah.

01:10Yep. Going back home.

01:12Yeah, that one feels a little rough. I feel like Swarm, it feels like it should be there,

01:15but I also wonder if that might be a little too on the nose and then if that's also not really local.

01:21What about Red Swarm?

01:22Red Swarm, I saw.

01:24Yeah.

01:24I found that to be interesting. The only problem was they don't wear red enough.

01:28Always wear red.

01:29Someone was, although the way that they played, like Hellhounds, which honestly, Hellhounds of Houston came to mind.

01:35And I was like, this might be a little too cheesy.

01:37I guess I will turn it over to our cheesy expert, John Lopez. Is Hellhounds of Houston too cheesy?

01:44That's a little bit too much alliteration.

01:46Okay.

01:46Right, right, right.

01:47Well, I just, because like they are dogged in their attack on the pass rush.

01:51Like, that red, very much hellacious. All of that came to mind. So I was like, that was one that came to mind for me.

02:00Are there any other thoughts for you? Raging Bulls, Bull Rush comes in on the text line. Fig, where are you at?

02:06Yeah, I'm still at Swarm City to be honest, man.

02:09I can see it all on the walls, NRG and all that stuff. Swarm City.

02:14It kind of reminds me of like the jungle. When you go to Cincinnati, the jungle.

02:19Or House of Pain back in the Oilers days.

02:21Yeah, yeah.

02:22That was House of Pain. I got Swarm City.

02:24We had Swarm City.

02:25I feel like Swarm City is really good. I just need one more thing on the, like in my mind, it's like the Swarm City something.

02:32What? Yeah, yeah.

02:32Like it feels like there needs to be a look, because Swarm City almost feels like Clutch City.

02:35Yeah, yeah.

02:36Right?

02:37Yeah.

02:37But it feels like, you know, if you're naming the defense.

02:39Which might be a check mark.

02:40Yeah, I mean, it's Houston.

02:42Yeah, it's Houston.

02:43Yeah, that might be a House of Pain 2.0. Nah, that's Tennessee, man. Leave that in Tennessee.

02:49That's a little bit of too much. Man, we're getting a lot of them in there.

02:51There's a lot of them. H-Town Hive. I did think of like something that is Swarm related.

02:57Like something that, you know, like somebody went Killer Bees, which of course you've already had, but something that feels Swarmy.

03:02It got to be Swarmy. Even like, I was telling somebody how the third down chant, the Swarm.

03:08Yeah.

03:09Like, I loved it. That felt good last night.

03:13And hearing that with a full crowd.

03:15And they were feeling it. Yeah.

03:16Because of how well they were playing and everything else.

03:18Jackson, Swarm.

03:20Yep.

03:20They were feeling it.

03:21It got to be something with Swarm or Swarm related.

03:25Just a, by the way, just an incredible atmosphere.

03:28No, it was good.

03:29It was loud in there too, man.

03:31Those night games, it's like a temperature of the day, you know, eat a little more, drink a little more, yell a little more.

03:40No, what's funny is, you know, usually we always talk about how empty it is at the very beginning.

03:46But for some reason, when kickoff happened, it was kind of full.

03:49Yeah.

03:49I'm like, okay, everybody in here.

03:52The Swarm hole? I don't know about that.

03:55That sounds kind of loud.

03:57Like, this is one of those things that's funny enough.

03:59Is that the play on the black hole?

04:00I don't know.

04:01The dogs of war defense.

04:02Okay.

04:03Houston hellhounds, not hellhounds of Houston.

04:05Okay.

04:05I like what you're doing there to tidy that up.

04:08This is the thing.

04:08The editorial process is necessary.

04:10One of the things I always find amazing or interesting about any of these nicknames,

04:14it's usually not something that's like, it's usually something that one person comes up with,

04:18somebody on, you know, at the paper or like a broadcaster that comes up and then it just kind of latches on.

04:25Yeah.

04:26So it feels like, it'd be like a newspaper man like yourself would have some insight into it.

04:32And yet you gave us Legion of Swarm.

04:34Strong.

04:35Strong to very strong.

04:36I like this one from the A32.

04:38I don't know why.

04:38It didn't, it just kind of hits me good.

04:41Pitbulls.

04:42That's it?

04:43The Pitbulls.

04:44Okay.

04:44That's the pit.

04:45That's the pit.

04:46Who calls it the pit?

04:47I don't know.

04:48We will.

04:48Oh, okay.

04:48I was like, I feel like that's too generic.

04:51Yeah.

04:51You know, one of the things I also was trying to work off of as I was thinking about this,

04:55they are really big on hunting.

04:57They talk about this, hey, no, go hunt.

04:59And that was, honestly, Will Anderson Jr. talked about that in this game.

05:02And I appreciated this from D'Amico that his message was, just empty the tank.

05:07You're going to have a mini bye.

05:08It's going to be 10 days or so until you get Indy.

05:11Empty the tank.

05:12And those dudes did that.

05:13They sure did.

05:15It was the first iteration of either getting to him, touching to him, moving him off his

05:19spot was not what did it.

05:21It was the secondary continuing to hunt.

05:23And so I was like, is there something in Huntsman?

05:26Also, is all of this too forward focused?

05:28Do we need something that also incorporates the backside?

05:31Where I was like, is hunter-gatherers too, is that too kitschy?

05:35You had me at first.

05:36Is it too kitschy?

05:37Because you got the guys up front are huntering and the backside, we're just going to grab

05:40all these footballs.

05:42I'm with you.

05:42That's why I didn't do sack whatever and all that.

05:45Because it's really the backside.

05:47That's why I kind of came up with Legion.

05:49Although I do kind of like this one.

05:52Where is it?

05:53They're coming in so fast.

05:54Sons of Swarm is kind of nasty.

05:55I like that one.

05:56I kind of like that.

05:57I like that one.

05:57I like this one.

05:58Swarm Troopers.

06:00Swarm Troopers?

06:00Ooh.

06:01Swarm Troopers.

06:02I'm not mad at that.

06:03We get Swarm.

06:04Yeah.

06:04We get the Death Star kind of an evil empire kind of thing that I feel.

06:08I kind of like what we're doing there.

06:09I kind of like that one, 936.

06:10I kind of like what we're doing there.

06:12Swarm Troopers.

06:13Swarm-nificent.

06:14That way it's not just the front four or seven or whatever.

06:17Bull Rush.

06:18Okay.

06:19Very Soldiers of Swarm.

06:20Yeah.

06:20Texas City, Texans Swarm City.

06:24Okay.

06:25Swarm Stampede.

06:26A lot of people were trying to get a Stampede in here, which feels like it could work.

06:29Are they still rolling with the Stampede stuff?

06:32Like heavy?

06:32Yeah.

06:33I don't know.

06:33Because it seemed like they kind of, I think they got away from the Bull Rush.

06:39Well, I think that.

06:40The Bulls on Parade thing?

06:40Yeah.

06:41I think they kind of got away from that.

06:42They got away from that.

06:44That's interesting.

06:44Somebody said you're not getting any better than Bulls on Parade.

06:46And it might not be.

06:47Like, are they going to be just the Bulls on Parade Part 2?

06:51Mm-hmm.

06:512.0?

06:52Either way.

06:55I think the interesting thing when it comes to this defense is just that they are playing

06:59at that level where, I mean, you have everybody, because that was the beauty of an island game.

07:03Everybody watching Thursday Night Football.

07:05One, also because it was an actual Thursday Night Football game worth watching.

07:09Yeah.

07:09And everybody, everybody in football is gushing over your defense.

07:12So get ready.

07:13You're in the limelight.

07:14And they have an opportunity to continue to bask in that limelight.

07:17Next few games are going to be in that same vein against the Colts, against the Chiefs.

07:21The league is watching.

07:22And, of course, the defense is ready to answer.

07:24Department of Sworn.

07:25Department of Sworn.

07:26Mm-hmm.

07:26Okay.

07:27I like that.

07:27I think we're getting somewhere.

07:29We are getting somewhere.

07:30We're close.

07:31Let's send this over to Doug Vossett.

07:32I can feel it.

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