B Scott Thoughts: No Excuses For The Cold Weather

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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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