Seth and Sean take a trip behind enemy lines to hear what Colts Head Coach Shane Steichen had to say about their QB's fibula injury and what he's seen from the Texans' defense.
00:00Here was Shane Steichen, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts,
00:04asked about an injury that Daniel Jones is currently dealing with.
00:08All I got for you is he's got a fibula, and that's it.
00:10Is there any light you can shed on that?
00:13I've got to be honest.
00:14When you say fibula, that's a bone, and it sounds bad.
00:18I'm not saying it is.
00:19Yeah, I'm not going to get into the specifics, but he's out there.
00:22He's playing.
00:23He's practicing, and he's good to go.
00:27It's kind of a bone.
00:29Yeah.
00:30It's just floating around there.
00:32It's not your shin bone.
00:33That's the lesser of those two bones.
00:35Oh, the tibia is the shin bone, and the fibula is just along for the ride?
00:39Is that what you're saying?
00:40Just floating alongside the tibia, just getting a free ride.
00:44Yeah.
00:44Okay.
00:45You can play through, as I understand it at least.
00:48Look, you can play through all kinds of fibula injuries, and it sucks, and it's painful,
00:52but it's not necessarily something that affects your motion and everything.
00:58It just kind of sucks.
00:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:00I mean, within reason, obviously.
01:01Would it make you more inclined to?
01:02If it's sticking through the skin or something, then that's a whole other deal.
01:04Yeah, that sounds like it might hurt if it's sticking through the skin.
01:08Well, Stike has asked, does it affect your play calling at all?
01:11Yeah, there's no limitations with them right now, so we go through our weekly game plan process,
01:16and we go from there.
01:17Okay.
01:18So he's just as likely to throw an interception with or without this fibula thingy going on.
01:23When I searched, can you play football with a broken, what do you think the first autofill
01:28was?
01:29Uh, leg.
01:31Uh, nose was, uh, yeah.
01:33Really?
01:34Yeah.
01:34Yeah.
01:34Um, now, uh, Google says, no, you should not play football with a broken fibula.
01:40What a, you're so soft, Google.
01:42Yeah, man.
01:43It's crucial to allow the bone to heal to avoid further injury and ensure long-term health.
01:48ChatGPT says rub some dirt on it.
01:51It says it's, uh, it says it's vital for ankle stability, I guess.
01:54Okay.
01:54So this, this all tells me that the Texans defense needs to swarm the hell out of Daniel Jones's
02:00lower leg.
02:02Yes.
02:03Swarm the shins and the fibulas and the ankles.
02:06The ankle stability.
02:07Now the ankle, as much as I was downplaying the importance of the fibula, ankle's kind of
02:11important.
02:12So if, uh, yes, it is doctor, you know, the one ankle bone.
02:18The, uh, yes, people have played football with a broken fibula.
02:22And this is where, again, Google gets so annoying, like it's your mom or something, though it
02:25is dangerous.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Oh, you need to know that it's dangerous.
02:29Wags its finger at you.
02:30NFL players like Jones and Alex Mack have played in major games with a fibula fracture.
02:34We don't know that it's a fracture.
02:36Okay.
02:36But I, when I hear that there's a fibula injury or something that it sounds like maybe
02:40he's got a hairline fracture or something, that's pure speculation by now that we've made
02:44the distinction though for Terrell Owens.
02:46Cause one of the things on Terrell Owens, you know, career bio plaque in Canton, I would
02:53imagine is played in super bowl, whatever it was the one in 2005, uh, with a broken leg.
02:59Do we, if it's a fibula, do we kind of downplay it now?
03:02Like, oh yeah.
03:03Wake me up when it's a tibia or a femur.
03:06Well, what did young blood have?
03:07Young blood had a broken, uh, I don't know.
03:09It's just the broken leg is all we heard.
03:11But if it's a fibula, that really cast Jack young blood in a different light.
03:15I got to rethink everything.
03:16I cannot stress enough what my annoying mother, Google has told me, which is it is very dangerous.
03:24Okay.
03:25Hey, you know what else is dangerous, Seth?
03:27Football.
03:28Football is dangerous.
03:30He played with a broken fibula.
03:31Yeah.
03:31Jack young blood.
03:32It was a broken fibula.
03:33He was fitted with a plastic brace and played every defensive snap.
03:37He's, he's at the super bowl a lot.
03:39Isn't he?
03:39Jack?
03:39Yeah.
03:39He's awesome.
03:40We, I interviewed him a couple of times.
03:41I love it.
03:42He's awesome.
03:43He's, you can tell he's, you know, he is a bad-ass and he's tough, but he's also a good
03:47looking guy.
03:48And you could just envision him back in the, back in the Los Angeles in the 1970s, what
03:53life must have been like for Jack blood.
03:55Not to mention his name is young blood.
03:57Okay.
03:58Yeah.
03:58That's pretty good.
03:59No, it's all well and good.
04:00It's all well and good.
04:01Prepare for your string of lovey-dovey interviews with him to end at this super bowl.
04:04Cause I'm calling him out on it being the wussy shin bone that he had.
04:09You're going to get beat up by an 81 year old.
04:12Bring it on.
04:12I'll kick you in the fibula, the old man.
04:17You're going to get your ass beat down by a much older man.
04:21Let's go.
04:22You're right.
04:23He still looks like he can go.
04:24He looks good.
04:25Here's another one from Shane Steichen.
04:27This is the most fun part about hearing from the opposing coaches every week is all of
04:31them talking about how amazing the Texans defense is.
04:34Well, I know they got a really freaking good pass rush.
04:37Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson, you know, as good as they get right now on the edge.
04:41And I think they're, you know, they're number one in total defense or number one and fewest
04:45points allowed.
04:46So it'll be hell of a challenge for us.
04:47We're looking forward to that opportunity to, you know, get back to work this week and go
04:51through our process and go through our preparation to get ready for Sunday.
04:54You know, being back home will be huge for us.
04:56Division games are huge.
04:57They're different.
04:57They hit harder, obviously, because it is huge.
05:00You want to win your division, but you got to do it, you know, one week at a time, one
05:04day at a time to get that done and prepare the right way.
05:07Can you handle the swarm, Daniel Jones?
05:10Yeah.
05:10Yeah.
05:10With your fibula injury?
05:13Or as Shane Steichen said, the fibula that you do possess.
05:16Mm-hmm.
05:17He's got a fibula.
05:18Just like the rest of us.
05:20Confirmed.
05:20Confirmed, too.
05:21Except for those of you who lack fibulas.
05:22Yeah.
05:22I don't mean to be insensitive to your fibula plight, but for the rest of us who have fibulas,
05:29we're no different than Daniel Jones.
05:31Someone says, after watching the Colts and Chiefs, this is on the text page, I will now
05:36be disappointed if the Texans lose to either of those unimpressive teams.
05:42Yes.
05:43Yes.
05:43No.
05:44You got to remember, you're facing them on the road.
05:46Yeah.
05:46And when you say they're unimpressive, I think that you got to frame that a little bit.
05:52It's not like they're not good football teams.
05:55It's that they don't look like the peak, scariest version of the Kansas City Chiefs or
06:01the Indianapolis Colts.
06:02And I don't think, the Chiefs haven't looked like the peak version of themselves for a couple
06:06years now, and they've managed to whoop up on the Texans at times.
06:09And they still make Super Bowls.
06:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:11The Colts, it was only this brief spell in the first part of the season where the offense
06:17looked damn near unstoppable.
06:19Over the last three weeks, they've averaged 23 points per game.
06:23Early in the season, the first half of the season, they were averaging 33 points per game.
06:26Yeah, yeah.
06:27Dude, we would see.
06:28I mean, Daniel Jones had two fibulas during that performance as well.
06:32Somehow now, the existence of a fibula seems to be perhaps part of the problem.
06:37Yeah.
06:38It's the Colts team.
06:40The best thing I can say about them early in the season, you and I don't get too much
06:44attention to other games.
06:45Yeah.
06:46While we're watching the Texans games, particularly the home games, because we're all up there
06:49chatting and eating and watching the game and whatnot.
06:52But the Colts, the scores of their games the first eight weeks of the season cut through
06:58just the us watching and the conversation up there.
07:01Like, damn, the Colts scored again.
07:04Like, they would just score and score and score.
07:07And it'd be like, look at what's the score now?
07:0924-0, 30-0, whatever it was.
07:11They were a machine to start the year, an absolute machine.
07:16And they're still good, but they've slowed down.
07:19And Daniel Jones has slowed down a little bit.
07:21The most impressive thing they did was probably put up 29 points versus Denver in week two.
07:26Yeah.
07:27You know, they did also rack up a whole lot.
07:29And the Rams, they lost to the Rams.
07:31They only scored 20 in that game.
07:33They should have 27, though, if Adonai Mitchell would have just held on to the damn football.
07:37That's right.
07:37That's right.
07:38So, they hypothetically scored 27 points.
07:41This will be a test, obviously.
07:44Like, they haven't faced a defense like the Texans' defense in a while.
07:48And they might be coming back down to earth a little bit.
07:53This would be a great changing of the guard in terms of the 2025 season if the Texans are coming off of an impressive performance versus the Bills.
08:02And then they really just slammed the door shut on all of this promise that the Colts showed early in the season offensively.
08:09Yeah, dude.
08:09You win this against the Colts.
08:12And now you're looking more at the Jags.
08:16I mean, you don't play the Jags again.
08:18But the Colts will have lost, what, three out of their last four if the Texans beat them.
08:25They were 7-1 at one point.
08:26They're 8-3 now.
08:27And the Jags, who, they play the Titans this weekend.
08:31I mean, the Jags have such an easy schedule down the stretch here.
08:35They play the Titans twice and the Jets as three of their games.
08:39They're going to have to, I mean, the Jags are going to have to wet the bed to not win 10 games.
08:44Yeah.
08:45They're perfectly capable of doing it.
08:46They almost did against the Cardinals.
08:48Trevor Lawrence is atrocious.
08:49Yes.
08:50He's so bad.
08:51He's atrocious.
08:52He had a good performance a couple weeks ago, and people are acting like, oh, he's probably going to make all pro this year.
08:58He will, yeah.
08:59Who are the more annoying quarterback stands on Twitter or on social media?
09:06Shadour or Trevor Lawrence?
09:08Trevor Lawrence because they're just so far in denial.
09:10Shadour still has his entire NFL career, however long or short it might be, ahead of him.
09:15Where Trevor Lawrence, people are still saying, I see Dan Orlovsky saying, man, you look at his good plays, and if he could just be more consistent, boy, he's in his fifth year.
09:25When is this magical consistency going to show up?
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