QOTD: What makes you believe this team just may do it?

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QOTD: What makes you believe this team just might do it — or why are you still skeptical?

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00:00Question of the day. Let's get right to it. What makes you believe that this team just might do it?

00:04And if you're not there, fair enough, let us know. Why are you still skeptical?

00:09Again, still can't get it. 713-572-4610. That is the number to text.

00:14After last game, when they beat the Bills and everybody's fawning over this Texas team,

00:19the question that I wanted to ask to start the show was, do you believe?

00:24And now, another step.

00:25Do you? What would make you believe?

00:28And what would make you believe? So, Lopez, for you, what makes you believe that this team just might do it?

00:34The obvious answer, we're all going to say. This defense. Championship-level defense.

00:38Let's maybe, I mean, you can say it, but let's maybe go beyond that.

00:42Because we know the defense is a championship defense.

00:45Correct.

00:45Period. No one can argue that, right? No one.

00:49You got yourself a running back. You got yourself a running back.

00:53But, Woody Marks is, and you know how you know that Woody Marks is the guy?

00:58They put him back out there on one leg rather than really relying on Nick Chubb.

01:02That's a fantastic point.

01:03They put him out on one leg.

01:05And this is a team that usually operates with a level of caution.

01:08Yeah.

01:09With injuries and things of that nature.

01:11Although, to be fair, they have let dudes thug it out if they so choose.

01:15Shout out to a running back?

01:16Dalton Schultz.

01:17Dalton Schultz has been clutching his clavicle and his knee for the past five weeks.

01:22And then out there catching football.

01:23They kind of needed him, though, man.

01:25What other tight end he was going to go to?

01:27Right.

01:28But, I mean, they let Woody Marks continue to be out there.

01:32Even though they've kind of tempered it with, in passing situations,

01:36let's put in a little bit of Dare Gumbawale here.

01:38And they did use a little chubb.

01:41Who hasn't?

01:41You did that on purpose.

01:42So, I thought we were being serious.

01:47I thought we were doing a lot of Reaction Monday stuff.

01:50Can I give a confession?

01:51That was a total accident.

01:53Going to get the Woody joke out, too.

01:55No, that was a total accident.

01:57Somebody said, I'd rather have a Woody than a chubb.

01:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:00I see you.

02:01I thought we left that in training camp.

02:04Yeah, I thought we got that out of our system.

02:06I did.

02:06Apparently not.

02:07Everybody did.

02:08But, as the words came out of my mouth, I went, okay, that didn't land the way I thought it would.

02:13They did utilize Nick Chubb a bit, you know, to be fair.

02:17Let me put it that way.

02:18They did.

02:18You are correct.

02:20I believe that he had nine.

02:21Woody Marks is the guy.

02:22He had nine carries compared to Woody Marks' 19.

02:24And I probably need to just check the snap at all.

02:26Yeah.

02:27Because Woody Marks was out there a good amount of the time, which, hey, they have not deviated.

02:32Once they got to that place, we were wondering if they would do the step back that they had done at some times during the season.

02:36No, they are leaning all the way in.

02:38Injuries be damned.

02:40And they were rewarded for that because Woody Marks has demonstrated that he can run between the tackles with power.

02:45He can run outside the tackles with some finesse, good patience, picks up some pretty good blood.

02:49He met some dudes.

02:50He met Zyre Franklin in the hole a couple of times where I was like, ooh, okay, dog.

02:55I see you there.

02:56He's been fantastic in what he's doing.

02:58So what makes you believe that this team just may do it?

03:01Or are you skeptical?

03:02I'm starting to believe, man.

03:04In some of this, I got to bring it to our favorite offense coordinator, Nick Haley.

03:09I think that there's still very much room for improvement.

03:14The way that the end of the first half ends, I don't think it's entirely on him because I think you got to bring that to D'Amico Ryans

03:21and ask what the overall vision is, which, of course, is the head coach's domain.

03:26Offense coordinator probably needs to be better at getting in plays in some of those instances.

03:29But the play designs of some of these, there were some really good play designs.

03:33Nico Collins running into the end zone, that is a good play design.

03:36There's some good pin and pull.

03:37Not just design.

03:38It was a good feel for him.

03:40Yes.

03:40It was a perfect, like, this is what we've wanted to see in the red zone, right?

03:43There's been some good pin and pull type stuff.

03:46Even in instances in the red zone, there was a couple of plays in which, like, one of them early on where CJ's trying to go for,

03:52I don't know if it was Dalton Schultz or Nico Collins, and the reason why I don't know is because both of them were in the same area.

03:57I don't know if that was a design thing or if that was getting hung up on the route.

04:01And even then, I still think that CJ had an opportunity to find an open route underneath to know.

04:05I think that I'm seeing more and more opportunities for this offense to be effective enough.

04:11And as you know, tied with the fact that this defense is all world, if this offense can be effective enough,

04:17both running the football enough and passing the football well enough in situations, yeah, man,

04:23that gives me enough to believe that they could do something special,

04:26especially now that they have negated the 0-3 standing that they had started on.

04:31Yes, my obvious answer for believe is the defense.

04:35Yes, but I'm a little – I mean, I know Reggie just laid out a good argument about the offense and all that stuff.

04:42I'm still a little skeptical about the offense, especially when it comes to, like,

04:48if they make the playoffs and all that stuff, man, because I know that old cliche defense win championships,

04:55and I think that's somewhat true, but I still feel like you got to have a better offense

05:01than what the Texans kind of been doing lately, man.

05:04Unless they – I feel like maybe they could improve and maybe be more consistent,

05:09but I'm still a little skeptical about the offense.

05:12I'm going to be honest.

05:13When I thought about this question, I tried to talk myself out of believing that they could do it

05:19because, you know, it's just this – we know Houston football, Houston professional football,

05:24has broken our hearts before.

05:26Or I can't talk myself out of believing that they can do this.

05:31And by do this, I mean certainly make the playoffs and then make some noise,

05:34and we'll see about what happens after that.

05:35Oh, you were talking full Super Bowl.

05:37No, I'm saying –

05:38That was actually going to be my question.

05:40Like, what is – can they do it mean?

05:42They can do something.

05:42No, can they make the playoffs?

05:44Yes.

05:45Yes, and I think they can make a lot of noise in the postseason.

05:47Is that AFC championship game?

05:49I think they have it in them.

05:50I think that's a fair do it.

05:51I think they have it in them.

05:52And I keep trying to talk myself out of it, but I can't because of –

05:56and one of the reasons is Woody Marks.

05:58Another is, dude, they started the same offensive line two weeks in a row

06:03for the first time ever, ever this season.

06:06And it's good.

06:06And it looked good.

06:08It looked – no, it looked more – it looked good enough.

06:10Yeah, it's as good as I think you're getting with what you have, right?

06:14I think there's still going to be some concerns.

06:16But ultimately, I mean, they protected fairly well.

06:20I think there was an instance where –

06:22how many sacks were there actually in this game?

06:24I need to make sure that I see this.

06:25There were two sacks for CJ.

06:27At least one of them – I know CJ created it on his own.

06:30At least one of them.

06:31And the other one was a loss by Ed Ingram.

06:33So, yeah, I think that there's folks that are, like,

06:36still looking at funeral arrangements for the Chiefs.

06:38I see the 2-1-4.

06:39Someone else is, like, the idea of the Chiefs being in the Super Bowl.

06:42I think one of the things that's beautiful about this is you have an opportunity

06:44to exercise those demons.

06:46But even if you don't, you're good.

06:48Like, there's a path –

06:49It's been a wacky NFL season to walk your way into the playoffs

06:52even without getting that done against the Chiefs.

06:56Somebody said they think CJ should get all the snaps between the 20s

06:59and Davis get the red zone.

07:01I guess you can feel comfortable that you feel like you can have that take.

07:05Get Wildcat.

07:06Put Davis in there.

07:07Glad to see you can remember how to catch.

07:10Hey, man, that's another reason why they have a short-down opportunity

07:14or a thing that they can throw out there that is relatively useful.

07:18We'll talk more about that as we go.

07:19But let us know.

07:20What are the things that give you confidence in this team

07:22that they might do it and make a good run in the playoffs

07:23or why you're still skeptical?

07:25That's the question of the day.

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