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B Scott Thoughts: Texans/Bills Edition.
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00:00So I want to go back to this concept of do you believe, because I think it goes in line with the game.
00:08Okay, last night's game against the Bills was the game where I was finally able to shift the way that I look, view, discuss the Texans.
00:17Like, in terms of taking them seriously, which, to be fair, I think I was doing early on in the season, even when they were 0-1, 0-2.
00:25I think I kind of got off a little bit after the 0-3, like that game against Jacksonville really kind of let me down in a way where I was like, okay, this isn't a serious outfit right now.
00:34We cannot take them seriously.
00:36And ever since then, win or lose, I've struggled to take the team seriously until now.
00:43Like, last night was the blueprint for how this team can be successful, how this team can beat other good teams.
00:49That was also a criticism, right?
00:51Like, they would only beat either bad teams, teams you didn't believe in, or teams that were incredibly injured, right?
00:57In the case of the Ravens, of course, the 49ers, who look like they're a decent team, and play well injured, but didn't play well injured against the Texans.
01:04So you always could do the yeah, but, right?
01:07You did this to start the show, right?
01:09Can we stop with the yeah, but?
01:11Well, they gave us the opportunity to.
01:13Well, let me oblige you, Lopez.
01:15Yes, I can.
01:15After last night, I can stop with the yeah, but, and I'll even go further, and allow me to play a little bit of semantics with you a little bit with your yeah, but, and kind of even disagree a little bit and say the other way.
01:26They're the opposite of the yeah, but, at least last night they were.
01:29Like, they could, they were the yeah, but, I would say.
01:33So you give up a 45-yard James Cook run.
01:38Yeah, but you know what?
01:39We can respond, and we'll trade field goals, and then we'll go down there, and we'll take the lead eventually, all right?
01:44You can give up a nine, and say, you know, yeah, but we'll go down there and engineer our own two-minute drive and take the lead going into halftime, and we're still good.
01:55Somewhere within that, you can have two Davis Mills underthrows, where he hits the defensive back in the numbers because he didn't get the ball where it was supposed to be.
02:03Yeah, but we got more plays.
02:05We got players that can execute those plays, right?
02:09And then you get into the second half.
02:10Let's just fast forward to late in the game.
02:12You give up a fourth and forever.
02:14Yeah.
02:14A fourth and forever.
02:1527 to be specific, kids.
02:17Yeah.
02:17Fourth and more than a quarter of the football field.
02:19Yeah, I mean, anything past, like, fourth and 10, fourth and 15, I feel like is inexcusable at that point.
02:24That's what on the broadcast they would call fourth and a mile.
02:26And to be fair, it was a hook and ladder, and okay, we get it, right?
02:30They clearly weren't ready.
02:32Like, they just weren't ready for the play.
02:33Maybe you don't excuse them for not being ready for the play.
02:36They were ready for the play.
02:37No, no, no.
02:37Well, Derek Stingley wasn't.
02:38Derek Stingley made a bad play.
02:40We can say this.
02:41Well, but that's football.
02:42He's an all-pro.
02:43All it takes is one guy.
02:44All-pro Sting.
02:44To screw up a play.
02:45When the passes were actually in his general vicinity, there was no catches on him.
02:49However, that was a bad play by Stingley.
02:51We can say that, and I'll be okay.
02:52And even still, yeah, but.
02:54Yeah.
02:54They were able to overcome it, able to come up with the defensive plays at the end.
02:58Obviously, the Kalen Bullock interception, his second of the night, pretty much seals the deal for the Texans.
03:04And so that was my main takeaway from the game was like, they are the yeah, but.
03:09Something back, and I would say this earlier in the season, like, I want to see when we can get past the point with this Texans team where it's like, got to be right down in distance and got to stay on schedule and you can't have penalties and everything's got to be perfect.
03:22Everything's got to be right.
03:23No, the good teams can overcome these out of mistakes, mental errors, 97-yard kickoff return.
03:32Like, good teams can overcome these types of things against other good teams, and that's exactly what the Texans did last night.
03:38Not that we're always here to deliver a message.
03:40You know, the message I want you to take from this, but it really.
03:43I mean, I got a sermon.
03:44Yeah, for me.
03:45Turn to your neighbor and say.
03:47For me, anyone listening to us, that's why I came out, as you mentioned in the first segment, no more conditions, man.
03:55Yeah.
03:55There's always been, we've been battered and bruised as fans in this town far too often.
04:00But with this team, don't put any more conditions with this team because they can win any game they play.
04:08Literally any game.
04:09Yeah, and to whatever degree there are conditions, right?
04:12Like, you do the yeah, but, oh, it's a historically great defense.
04:15Yeah, but the offense is kind of mid.
04:17You don't have to do that anymore.
04:17Well, but you can do the opposite.
04:19Yeah.
04:19It's a mid to emerging sort of offense because it is better now than it was before.
04:26I think there's no argument against that.
04:28It's an improving offense with a historic, yeah, but it's got a historically great defense, right?
04:33Like, you can, I think you can make that argument in the opposite way now based off of how they're playing recently.
04:38Yeah, I'm a little, put it, I'm a little uneasy with just the, you know, no more equivocating because I'm an equivocating dude at times.
04:47But also, like, I think that those conditions were there.
04:51But where I will absolutely agree with you is now that they have gotten themselves back to level footing, in fact, above level footing, six and five, the equivocating in an excuse manner is now gone.
05:01Like, you've gotten yourself, you've dug yourself out of a hole, which is something that you've got to credit them.
05:07Now, the expectations that you started the year with, they're not exactly the same, but the expectations are here.
05:12Yeah, so my thoughts are full of yeah, but, but they're a positive yeah, but.
05:16So I'm going the opposite direction here, you know.
05:18I'm not doing the thing that Lopez, you're speaking against.
05:20I'm going in a whole nother direction.
05:22How about the yeah, but of Jaden Higgins, right?
05:25Because earlier it was, hey, feed Nico, feed Nico.
05:28Y'all need to feed Nico even more.
05:29And a lot of that was the greatness of Nico, but it was also what you were lacking elsewhere, not having a whole lot of confidence in what you had outside of Nico.
05:36And, of course, Dalton Schultz has had a really good season, but that's not really enough.
05:40Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz is not really enough.
05:42Maybe against the Titans, maybe against a hurt Ravens team, you know, maybe against the Jaguars at a time or two, but that's not really enough, right?
05:51Well, if Jaden Higgins, and I keep, I keep going back to the Titans game.
05:56And so the previous game, we're on the broadcast, there's a mention, I think Mark Schlerf mentions that Davis Mills called Jaden Higgins a Nico Collins clone, which is something that we've kind of talked about or talked around since he was drafted.
06:08And I didn't think it was an exact science or like an exact comparison.
06:11They're the same height.
06:12And they are the same height, but he's not a clone.
06:16He's not.
06:17He's not a clone at all.
06:18But what he is is a really good big body receiver.
06:22And, you know, to that degree, if you want to call him a clone.
06:25But I looked at it just a little bit beyond like the literal sense and more of the figurative sense.
06:29Like if they like him that much, if they think he's that good, if they think he's that much worth throwing the football to, if you will,
06:37which they clearly did because they targeted him quite a bit in this game.
06:40Five times, nine targets, only four catches within that.
06:42Yeah.
06:43Well, and a couple of those were misses.
06:44Yes, a couple of those were misses.
06:48I saw this in real time.
06:50You can ask Sean Pendergast.
06:51You can ask Patrick Creighton because those are the dudes that were next to me that I was annoying with my thoughts.
06:55This felt like a manufactured Jaden Higgins sink or swim game.
07:00Yeah.
07:00Like they were like, and to some degree, Davis Mills in talking about it on the podium after the game was saying they were shading that safety to Nico's side.
07:08So if that's the case, you go where the opportunity is to Higgins.
07:11But I think in some ways, this was also sink or swim.
07:12We're going to throw you to football.
07:14We're going to see if you make plays.
07:16Early on, don't get the foot down.
07:18All right, young fella.
07:18Yes, I know that that was a tough grab.
07:21Drag your toe instead of trying to get that second step.
07:23Yep.
07:23Right?
07:24Exactly right.
07:24You mentioned the Davis Mills, you know, throwing those passes short.
07:28One of those was to Dalton Schultz on that scene that he just couldn't get it over the defender.
07:33That's a problem.
07:33Davis, you need to do better.
07:34The other one was a corner route to Higgins, and he also needs to do better there.
07:38I think that that was Higgins' rookie nature.
07:41If Higgins has a year or two more, I think what Higgins does is stop and play through that defender and pick up the DPI.
07:49In that instance, he just kind of ran his route.
07:51The ball was short.
07:52You get nothing as opposed to if you try and play to that ball.
07:54And so I think that this game was very much a we're going to throw you into the water.
07:58You're either going to sink as a dude who gets this kind of volume or you're going to swim.
08:02And I think that we saw him as you've – I'm sure your babies know how to swim, right?
08:06You don't throw them in the pool.
08:07Yeah, of course, of course.
08:07You've seen him paddle a little bit, and for a moment you're like, well, are they going to do it?
08:10And it felt like in that game he kind of stabilized himself.
08:13So I'm interested in seeing him be what you're kind of talking about, see if he is like a spiritual clone in that can you handle that kind of attention.
08:22In the red zone, it was just like it's all you.
08:23Yeah.
08:24It was all the red zone looks were Higgins.
08:25Yeah, and it's really similar to the yeah, but because it's like, oh, you know what, sink or swim, you didn't make that catch.
08:35You just barely didn't make that play on one of them.
08:37He's got to catch one of those where his tail – I said, man, they're literally assed out because his tail hit the white line out of bounds before his foot hit inbounds, right?
08:48And that's right.
08:49If you get the foot down before his ass, then it works, you know, the opposite, right?
08:51Because we know, as we know, one cheek equals two feet.
08:54Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly, right.
08:56So it's the yeah, but you know what, we're going to still go to you.
08:58We're going to still go to you, and that's because we're viewing you as that guy who can help us with that coverage dictating, right?
09:07So Nico Collins dictates the coverage.
09:10Okay, we still got somewhere to go with the football.
09:12We still trust somebody that's one-on-one.
09:14It's similar to the Tank Dale effect.
09:16He's not a similar player to Tank Dale, obviously.
09:19And just to mention, they obviously missed the Tank Dale, take the top off of the defense.
09:24But what Jaden Higgins can provide that Tank Dale provides is that hesitation to shade to the other side, that hesitation to double up on another receiver, because this guy can beat pretty much anybody else that you have on your defense one-on-one.
09:37That's what I was going to mention, because Reggie was talking about the red zone.
09:41I think he does compare to Tank Dale in terms of third and long.
09:45You got to have it.
09:46Red zone.
09:47You've got an option now.
09:48To your point, you got an option now that is a legitimate option.
09:51There was no real, maybe Dalton Schultz, but there was no real option to Nico for the defense to focus on or for you to try to take advantage.
10:00Yeah, yeah.
10:00And this is my last thought, okay?
10:03Can we give a little bit of love, a little bit of advantage for what we're seeing?
10:09Like, if we're going to be this excited on a football Friday, on a reaction, victory, football Friday, it's everything.
10:14This Friday is everything.
10:16Can we give a little bit of credit to, like, on the offensive side, right?
10:20You're able to scheme up Christian Kirk wide open in some plays where Christian Kirk doesn't seem nearly as explosive as he used to be.
10:27Like, I feel like you deserve credit for that.
10:29We can even go back weeks ago to the Blake Fisher addition to the offense, that extra blocker and how that's helped them get downhill.
10:38The gumbo.
10:39Yeah, I feel like coaching staff deserve some level of credit for that.
10:42The offensive line.
10:43May we not ever have another conversation this season about who's going to play.
10:47We can talk about the offensive line.
10:48Please.
10:49And how they play or how they don't, good or bad.
10:51We have five.
10:52We got the five.
10:52But can we not have another discussion on this radio station, on the internet, or anywhere in public about who's playing on the offensive line on a given week?
10:59Would you agree?
11:00Finally.
11:01Let's go.
11:01That's the five until barring injury.
11:03I agree.
11:03And I want to give them credit for finally finding it, even though it took 11 weeks to do so.
11:08Okay?
11:08So there is that.
11:09And then on the defensive side, you got Matt Burke calling plays for the first time with the best defense in the league.
11:15And you can see, like, some of his fingerprints, I think, all over it as well, in addition to, obviously, it's made in D'Amico Ryan's image.
11:22But I think all of these guys deserve some credit, man.
11:24Without question.
11:25Without question.
11:26I'm glad that you brought that up.
11:27It's one of the reasons why we love having B. Scott's thoughts.
11:30And, man, we might need to do some more B. Scott's thoughts after games.
11:32This is fun.
11:33Yeah, man.
11:33I like that.
11:34I like it, too.
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