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B Scott shares why he’s not here for the cold-weather excuses surrounding the Texans.
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00:00My main thought is this weather thing, okay?
00:05It's fine having the conversation because it's relevant to the game.
00:07It's going to be colder than any game that the Texans have played all year.
00:11And notably, the Texans do not play or even live and operate.
00:15You know, you play here in Houston.
00:16You don't live and operate in a cold environment.
00:20You said this earlier in the show, Lopez.
00:22It was 50-something yesterday, and we were all acting like bitches.
00:26Or a lot of us, anyway.
00:28I know I was.
00:29I pulled out the jacket with the lining on it.
00:31Oh, yeah, you had the fur lining.
00:32Hey, man, I cut some of my bad habits behind the cold.
00:36Oh, you couldn't get outside?
00:37Man, I went back inside and just said, we're going to have to deal with it.
00:41We're going to have to figure out something else to do.
00:43Let me go get a nicotine patch because outside don't work.
00:46This ain't going to be it at all.
00:48And so to that point, not to say that it's not relevant,
00:52but I just don't have a whole lot of patience for it in terms of excuse me.
00:56Again, here's how I look at it.
00:59If this team, if this iteration of the Texans is not perfectly, specifically,
01:06and uniquely built and equipped to handle the cold weather,
01:10I don't know what Texans team will be.
01:14Now, we've been having this conversation all year.
01:16Is this the best Texans defense that we've ever seen?
01:19I feel like we're there at this point.
01:21This is probably the best Texans defense we've ever seen.
01:23It's not the best overall team, I don't feel like, that we've ever seen.
01:27It's hard to say that, especially given the record.
01:29So they might have better teams at some point.
01:32They might even somehow put together a better defense.
01:35But the combination of ball control, possess the ball, line of scrimmage,
01:43let's run the ball kind of offense, and a dominant defense,
01:47the best defense in the league, that combination to me fits perfectly,
01:51especially for a warm weather city football team to be able to go out
01:56in a cold weather environment.
01:58Because if you're serious, if we're really talking about playing football
02:00beyond just the first round or trying to get to the AFC championship game
02:04for the first time, like at some point,
02:07unless you're going to do all the games at NRG Stadium,
02:09at some point you are going to have to go out there
02:12and prove that you can play in cold in these type of environments.
02:16And so to me, this is the ideally built Texan squad to go out there and do that.
02:21So I don't have a whole lot of patience for being concerned.
02:25Weather's going to affect them.
02:26Yeah, I mean, the weather's going to suck, man.
02:28Nobody likes the cold.
02:30I don't care if you're from Buffalo.
02:32I don't believe them people.
02:33They're out there, and they're going through it,
02:35and they're toughing it out.
02:36But I don't believe that they really like it.
02:38I can't believe that nobody really likes it.
02:40But you've got to go out there and at least handle business
02:42for the three hours that you're out there.
02:44And I think a team like this that's not built air raid,
02:48let's stretch the ball downfield the way we know C.J. Stroud wants to do.
02:51No, they're running the ball, dinking and dunking,
02:53and allowing their defense to take over the game.
02:55And that should be a winning formula.
02:57Especially when we're not talking about precipitation.
03:00That's the thing when we start talking about weather.
03:02Or wind.
03:02Right?
03:03Wind?
03:04I think I looked at it.
03:05It's like 10 to 15.
03:06That's nothing.
03:07Which is manageable, right?
03:08That feels pretty standard fare for any football game that's played outdoors.
03:12Right.
03:12If we're not talking about rain, snow, sleet, hail.
03:16If we're not talking about those things,
03:17when we're talking about weather and it's just cold,
03:20we got things for that, right?
03:21C.J. was talking about it, actually.
03:22He was asked specifically about it in his availability.
03:24And he was like, I mean, it's really a big thing.
03:28When you're on the field and you're playing, you're playing football,
03:31you're kind of – we've all been in that circumstance where you go outside
03:34and then once you get moving, you don't feel it as much.
03:36On the sidelines, let me tell you, if you've not been there,
03:39those benches are fantastic.
03:41So, they have the bottom portion of it.
03:43They've got, like, vents where it blows warm air.
03:45Tuck your feet in them.
03:46You can tuck your feet in them.
03:47And then those big coats that they have over them,
03:49like, it lets the warm air get in there and circulate and stay in there.
03:52Those benches themselves, when you sit down on them, are heated.
03:55Yeah.
03:55They are taken care of when they're on the sideline, when they're on the field.
03:57In fact, C.J. said the only thing that really makes you cold
04:00is when those breaks happen and you're just standing out there on the field.
04:02Yeah.
04:03And there's not going to be a ton of those.
04:04I know all about that life.
04:05Biggie, you remember when we went to the Army-Navy game a few years ago?
04:07Yeah.
04:07Oh, y'all was on the sideline?
04:08This show goes every year.
04:09Yeah.
04:10I went one year.
04:11This is in Philly.
04:11When we went to Philly, and if it had not been for those warm, heated benches,
04:16I wouldn't have made it.
04:19They are really good, too, man, because you think it's just warming your butt up,
04:23but your whole body get warm.
04:24I sat on one for 45 minutes straight.
04:2845 minutes straight.
04:29Did not get up.
04:30The camera had to move you.
04:30Yes.
04:32It literally took the Army.
04:35An Army had to come out there and get me up off them benches.
04:38So I know all about that life.
04:40I'm 100% with that.
04:41But, yeah, no, I mean, look, as y'all mentioned, no win, no precipitation,
04:46dominant defense.
04:48And then, to me specific to this game,
04:52it's special that you're going up against a Kansas City Chiefs team
04:56that's leaking oil now.
04:57Right?
04:58This is probably the worst iteration of the Chiefs that you faced,
05:01and it's the best defense.
05:03Right?
05:03So, like, when we think the Chiefs,
05:04obviously they've had great defenses over the years,
05:06helped them win the Super Bowl.
05:07But we think Patrick Mahomes, we think Andy Reid,
05:11and so how do you combat that?
05:12All right, well, this is the perfect defense to do that.
05:14And then they ain't really necessarily what they've been in previous years.
05:18So you want to call it a perfect storm, if you will.
05:21This defense, that offense not necessarily being what it is,
05:24going up there in any – if you're going to go up there and it be cold,
05:29this is the time and this is the situation to do it.
05:31But they have to be able to run the ball even just a little bit.
05:35And I think that they can.
05:36Even just a little bit.
05:38Did you hear what I was talking about with the duo?
05:40Because I was –
05:41Because they get out of their skin?
05:43Yeah.
05:44It's going to be tough.
05:44I've got to remember who it was to be able to attribute them –
05:48attribute it properly.
05:49But I saw a graphic that was pointing to the styles of –
05:53you know, the run schemes the teams are running.
05:55And I think it was Brian Burke at ESPN.
05:57And the Texans are one of probably about five teams that utilize a lot of duo.
06:01We've seen that a lot up front with them, you know,
06:02kind of having two guys block one guy on the line and getting up to the next level.
06:06So I went and I was looking at Kansas City and I was like,
06:08who have they played that maybe has run some duo that I can maybe see how they handle it?
06:12And the most – the closest that I could find was when they played the Broncos a few weeks ago.
06:16And I went and I watched all their run reps.
06:20And when they ran duo with the defense for Kansas City,
06:24they didn't get moved off their spot.
06:27Which is good for Kansas City, but they also didn't shed the blocks.
06:30Right.
06:30So if they're not moving, but they're not shedding and able to reach out and stop the run,
06:34the Broncos were able to pick up three, four, three kind of consistently.
06:39Does that not sound like what this Texas team would love to do?
06:41Just if you can get three or four just by making sure that you sustain that block at the front –
06:44at the first level, maybe get to the second level.
06:46They're not going to shed it.
06:48You can pick up three.
06:49Pick up four at a time every time you run the football.
06:50That would be success for this team.
06:52Yeah, and I would point out that the Chiefs' defensive line is notably unremarkable
06:58outside of Chris Jones, who's got a little – I'm not going to say he's got George Pickens in him.
07:02But it ain't that far off.
07:05You can ask Ron to show Hughley about this,
07:07somebody that watches every single snap of Kansas City.
07:09Chris Jones will disappear a time or two here or there.
07:12The thing is, he's been a part of Super Bowl teams and has had way bigger moments
07:17than George Pickens.
07:18And so you don't necessarily think about it like that.
07:19But specific to the game again, like – so the Texans running the ball,
07:26I think is going to be really key, obviously, in a ball control situation.
07:30But my other thought, my next thought was going to be an acknowledgement of this
07:34offensive line, like to your point about duo and how much success that they're having
07:38with that.
07:39They're a lot better in the run game and a lot due to the duo that some of these
07:44tactics that they've been using as of late.
07:47But then also the protection as well.
07:49And we don't think this is going to be one of those huge heavy passing game type
07:54of situation for the Texans.
07:56But you look over the last couple of weeks, the last few weeks since they've been
07:59rocking with this specific offensive line, I think the offensive line changes the
08:05conversation.
08:06And how they've been playing, to me, changes the conversation about the team
08:10overall.
08:10They still have some penalty issues.
08:12Of course, C.J. Stroud was sacked a couple of times this last game.
08:16But they had no sacks given up against the Bills.
08:19And then at least one of the sacks against the Colts was a C.J. Stroud thing.
08:24And we know C.J. Stroud kind of has that issue, whether it's holding on to the ball
08:28sometimes or running into a sack or running too far back or whatever the case may be.
08:32He also has some plays where he dirts the ball.
08:35I think D'Amico Ryan's talked about this on the Coaches Show earlier in the week.
08:37It kind of shows some growth in that area, but that is a little bit of a weakness in
08:41his game at times.
08:43But the point that I'm making here is that I think the offensive line is a lot
08:46better, and that's something that needs and requires acknowledgement when you start
08:50talking about this offense, the Texans offense specifically, taking that next step.
08:55And I think that they've done that.
08:57I don't know how y'all are feeling about this combination of offensive line, but I'm
09:01feeling a lot better about it.
09:02As somebody who is not a fan of moving Titus Howard from tackle to guard and hate how they
09:08yo-yo the guy throughout his entire career, it seems like this happens every year.
09:14Got to admit, it's working right now.
09:16It looks pretty good.
09:17It's the best version of what this offensive line could be, and it's the best personnel.
09:21You know, D'Amico, how often have we heard D'Amico say, just get the five best out there?
09:25I think they finally, after 11 weeks or whatever it was, 10 weeks, got their best five.
09:30And I want to give credit, because I try and make sure I give credit on the other side
09:34of maybe not being as glowing about certain things.
09:39Got to give credit to, one, the belief that's there.
09:41Shout out to the fellas of the drive.
09:43They interviewed Trent Brown yesterday, big old Trent Brown, who expressed pretty glowingly
09:49his belief in the system that I imagine is pretty mirrored by all those guys.
09:54And, you know, belief is a huge thing in getting anything done.
09:57It's the first step, but secondarily, their technique is so much better, and you've got
10:02to bring that to Cole Popovich.
10:03And I thought there was questions about, like, all right, he was already in the building.
10:06You know, how are you actually going to see a difference?
10:09The minutiae of, like, getting those technicalities right, that's showing up.
10:14You're seeing the benefits of that when they have the right dudes that have the other things
10:18that can help elevate that.
10:20And I think all those things have come together to a much more sustainable offensive line.
10:23Yeah, and I agree.
10:24Cole Popovich deserves a lot of credit, and I think where he was getting sold short when
10:28they promoted him from assistant offensive line coach to the actual offensive line coach
10:34was kind of just overlooking the fact that the assistant does not have, he gets input.
10:40They might ask his opinion, but they are not required to take it.
10:43So that is the difference.
10:45It wasn't a matter of this guy was in the building.
10:48It was a matter of this guy was not in charge of anything, and now he is, and we're seeing
10:51the fruits of that labor.
10:52After some time, it's come to be.
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