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Seth and Sean each pick 3 Texans players who embodied the SWARM mentality vs the Chiefs that will continue the trend vs the Cardinals this week.
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00:00Circle of Swarm for this week, and there are a lot of candidates,
00:04especially on the defensive side of the football.
00:08We do this every week.
00:09We pick the swarmiest Texans from the previous game with a glance ahead,
00:13a sliver of a glance ahead to who might need to be the most swarmy
00:17to get the job done this coming Sunday.
00:19So we've got the box score open right now, Seth, I do,
00:22for the Kansas City, the win over the Kansas City Chiefs last Sunday.
00:25Seth and I each pick three.
00:27There can be more than six.
00:28I've got the scoreboard, the season scoreboard.
00:32I'll do a summary of it maybe in the next segment after we pick this week's six.
00:35But as always, the honor is yours, Your Honor.
00:38I'm going to go with the obvious choice in that game,
00:41with one of the best clean and legal hits I've ever seen in any era of football,
00:47whether it was back when you were allowed to do whatever you wanted to do,
00:49a guy, or this, Jalen Petrie.
00:53Jalen Petrie's an easy one, yes, for sure.
00:55Two of the best plays of the season for any Houston Texan in that game.
01:01That interception, go back and watch the interception, people.
01:04He tips the ball.
01:06He gets in the passing lane, tips the ball.
01:07The ball sails over the head of the receiver,
01:09and he runs around the other side to catch the ball.
01:12It was remarkable.
01:13Yeah, that was crazy.
01:14Talk about a swarmy play there.
01:16Tip of the cap to Kalen Bullock on that one, too, because he cleaned up.
01:20Who was the receiver?
01:21I forget who was targeted on that play.
01:22He cleaned him up.
01:23Yeah.
01:23He came in and destroyed him.
01:26Yep.
01:26If that ball hadn't been tipped, I still don't think it would have been a catch
01:30because Kalen Bullock really walloped him.
01:32Yep.
01:33So, Jalen Petrie's a good one.
01:34I'll go with one that is fairly obvious, just looking at the box score
01:38and watching that game, and especially when you consider that the Tex,
01:41all of a sudden, a little undermanned at defensive tackle with Tim Settle out for the year.
01:44Your leading tackler in that game was Tommy freaking Togiai, man.
01:48Yeah.
01:48When you have an interior defensive – sometimes tackle stats can be a little misleading,
01:53especially when it's a corner or a safety leading you in tackles
01:56because that means that there were either some completions or some big chunk plays.
02:00When you have an interior defensive lineman leading your team with double-digit tackles,
02:0410 tackles, that dude is getting it done, man.
02:07And he also – the biggest thing was, too, a lot of – he had – you know, depending –
02:13I mean, the pressures are such a stupid stat.
02:15I've seen some people – like, you never know.
02:17The PFF has them with four pressures in that game.
02:22The – he had some critical ones.
02:24He pressured – he was hitting Mahomes as Mahomes threw the final pass to Travis Kelsey.
02:31Then he bobbled and ended up being behind Travis Kelsey.
02:33He was hitting Pat Mahomes as Pat Mahomes threw the ball into the end zone that was broken up by Kamari Lasseter.
02:41And that ball was a little bit imperfect.
02:44It was a little bit behind him.
02:45Yep.
02:45So, the two really critical pressures that led to huge, huge either interception or incompletion.
02:55Yeah, yeah, that's a good – that's a good add-on there for sure.
02:58So, I'm putting Togiai in this week's Circle of Swarms.
03:01So, Jalen Petrie, Tommy Togiai, those are easy ones.
03:04What's your next one, Sam?
03:05Will Anderson.
03:06Okay.
03:06Will Anderson, where I – part of this is because I got so frustrated with people making comments about how –
03:11I thought this pass rush was supposed to be good.
03:13Where are all the sacks?
03:14He had a boatload of pressures in the game.
03:16And Pat Mahomes had the worst game he's ever had in his entire career.
03:21And a lot of that was because of Will Anderson.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Yep.
03:24No doubt.
03:26All right.
03:26My next one, Aziz Alshair.
03:31Obviously, you know, all over the place tackling.
03:33But Aziz – Aziz has been part of that shutdown that they've had of these tight ends these last two games.
03:40You know, Aziz has been in on a lot of coverage.
03:42He was the one that maybe Rasheed Rice was hearing some footsteps from on the incompletion on fourth down,
03:48late in the game as well.
03:49And, of course, Aziz, he had his first interception.
03:51After several opportunities to get interceptions over his one-plus seasons as a Houston Texan,
03:58Aziz finally secured one at a crucial time to seal the game.
04:04So, Aziz Alshair is my second pick.
04:06Okay.
04:08Hmm.
04:09It's getting tough now.
04:09There's a few guys that I really want in here.
04:13And I think I'm debating between Kamari Lasseter and Daniil Hunter.
04:20Okay.
04:21And Daniil gets a shaft a lot of times just because Will Anderson is homegrown and so lovable and everything.
04:28Yeah.
04:29And just – it plays a slightly more violent version of the game than Daniil Hunter.
04:34But Kamari Lasseter did some things in this game.
04:37Including one play where he was in coverage and from deep, from 10 or 15 yards past the line of scrimmage.
04:47Yeah.
04:47Yeah.
04:47His receiver was blocking – his receiver was blocking – his receiver was blocking – I think it was Daniil Hunter.
04:52Might have been.
04:52This is a tough part of it.
04:53So, Daniil Hunter has a tight end and a wide receiver blocking him.
04:57And Kamari Lasseter turns it into an add-on blitz and ended up creating a pressure on the play.
05:02And yet, it was Daniil Hunter and Will Anderson, who's already in the circle of the swarm this week,
05:07who at various times had the Chiefs using every man available on the field to try to block those guys.
05:14I'm going to go with Daniil Hunter.
05:15Daniil Hunter.
05:16Okay.
05:17Then I – I'm a choice to put Kamari Lasseter belongs in there for this week.
05:22Had the interception.
05:23Had the big pass breakup.
05:25That blitz that you talked about.
05:26He's always – he is always outstanding in either run or screen game support with tackling.
05:34I mean, Kamari – Kamari is about as perpetual or perennial a circle of swarm guy on this defense that there is.
05:42So, I'll put Lasseter.
05:43It is a – it is a defensive sweep.
05:44The only offensive player that I – that I debated with – and if you had taken Lasseter,
05:50I would have thought a little longer and harder about the sixth spot than I did would be Nico Collins,
05:54who was outstanding in the first half of the game, but then they really took him away.
05:59I mean, they took everybody away.
06:00There were only three completions for the Texans' offense in the second half of this game.
06:05It's just – you're absolutely right.
06:07When we were – when we were talking – when we were talking about the circle of swarm earlier in the show,
06:13and we were talking – we were speculating that it might be a sweep of the defense,
06:17and now that we've talked it through, obviously it is.
06:19But there needs to probably be a rule that any offense goes three and out for negative yardage for an entire quarter.
06:27Everybody's ineligible for the circle of swarm that week.
06:30That was so bad.
06:32I thought about Jaden Higgins just because, for one –
06:36Two big catches in that game.
06:37Two big catches, and he also remembered to fight for the first down on one of them.
06:42Remember, a couple weeks ago, he just ran towards the sideline instead of towards the line to gain.
06:47And he had to fight against a couple of Chiefs defenders to get a first down in that game.
06:52But you had three receptions, and I want to say all three of them were third-down conversions.
06:56It might have been.
06:56Well, one was a reviewed and unreviewed third-down conversion, remember?
07:01Oh, okay.
07:02One got taken away, but they were all on third down.
07:04The other two were –
07:05In the second half.
07:05Yeah, the other two were third down.
07:07Yeah, he had three catches for 34 yards.
07:11They were all on third down, and they were all conversions until replay assist corrected themselves.
07:16And they were all – I think all three of them, CJ had to step up in the pocket.
07:21He did.
07:21Or scramble.
07:22Yep.
07:22That was – the frustrating thing was the Texans versus the Blitz.
07:26And that's – again, it's a cautionary tale for this week is that the Cardinals aren't a good defense,
07:32but when they do do well or do good things, they do a lot of skies
07:36and a lot of things that have flummoxed the Texans this season.
07:39So that's the snake waiting in the grass there for the Texans is that it's not a good defense,
07:45but some of the things that give the Texans offense trouble, the Cardinals do.
07:49Yep.
07:49Yep, for sure.
07:51Okay, let's see how the people are reacting to our – a lot of people are reacting to the pinky thing from Big Cat.
07:57Someone suggests that – okay, I'll bet Captain Mickey knows some redneck taxidermist out there
08:04in Viter that will remove Big Cat's pinky if he needs to.
08:08You know what the – okay, you know what the myth about Ronnie Lott was?
08:11The myth was that they amputated his pinky.
08:14It was just like the – I guess it was just the very tip of the pinky.
08:17That's – yeah, yeah.
08:19So it wasn't – it wasn't – I think the myth is that it was as drastic as it was.
08:22I knew there was a procedure that was done.
08:24Yeah.
08:24Yeah, I knew there was something.
08:27Do you all think the Texans would have signed Saquon Barkley last year?
08:30The Texans offense would look any different?
08:32Someone's asking that.
08:33No.
08:33I think Saquon would have looked a lot different last year than he did in the Eagles offense.
08:38That's if he were in the Texans offense last year.
08:40That's what I think about Saquon Barkley.
08:42Yeah, no, yeah.
08:43Saquon Barkley wouldn't be – I mean, it would look more like Saquon Barkley
08:46and what he's doing for the Eagles this year.
08:49Yeah.
08:49You know, like the Eagles are struggling in a lot of respects.
08:52And that's the – Saquon Barkley isn't having an all-time Hall of Fame caliber season.
08:59All right, so the – I have the revised Circle of Swarm scoreboard here, Seth.
09:05The leader in the clubhouse now is still – it's still Will Anderson.
09:09He's been in the Circle of Swarm seven times.
09:13Daniil Hunter is second place with six times.
09:19Dalton Schultz and Jalen Petrie now tied with five.
09:22Dalton's been out of the Circle of Swarm for a few weeks now, though.
09:26He was getting in there a lot because of the injuries he was playing through for a while.
09:29Yeah, oh, that's right.
09:30Yeah, there was a – we were giving him credit for fighting through all of that.
09:34And he's now had – part of it is the emergence of Jaden Higgins
09:39and the rediscovery of Nico Collins has put Dalton Schultz less at the forefront
09:44of who we're thinking about on offense.
09:46No doubt.
09:46But he has – look, Dalton Schultz versus Trey McBride,
09:49two guys who won't face each other on the football field this week.
09:52But that's what I'd love to see is Dalton Schultz have a better day than Trey McBride.
09:58If the defense has anything to say about it, he will.
10:00Defense has held Travis Kelsey and Tyler Warren to four catches the last two weeks combined.
10:04A couple of bums.
10:04A couple of bums.
10:05Travis Kelsey is just flat-out depressed.
10:07Scrubs.
10:08Scrubs, I call him.
10:09They have to keep him on.
10:10He might need to sleep with a friend in the room.
10:12I'm worried about him.
10:13He might just go – he might just disappear, go off on a soul-searching journey,
10:18a vision quest or something.
10:20So, Will Anderson, seven.
10:22Daniil Hunter, six.
10:24Dalton Schultz, Jalen Petrie tied at five weeks in the circle of swarm.
10:28And then there's just a slew of guys tied at four, three, two, and one.
10:32The guys tied at four, Jalen Knoll, Woody Marks,
10:37who I thought about a little bit just based on 26 carries this past week.
10:41Oh, yeah.
10:41I thought about him.
10:42But at 68 yards, you've got to be a little swarmier than that.
10:45But Ed Ingram, who you love – you love putting him in the circle of swarm.
10:50I used to.
10:51It wasn't a chance in hell this week.
10:53You can't take him back.
10:54He's got four of them.
10:55Yeah.
10:56CJ Stroud, four of them.
10:58Thought about CJ a little bit, too.
10:59I thought the box score was a little deceptive about the – he played a much smarter game
11:04than he would have played maybe earlier in the year with, you know,
11:06dirting some of the blitzes and things like that as opposed to running backwards.
11:11Yeah, look, plenty of people can go out there and do the right thing.
11:13That's different than being – doing it in a swarm-like fashion.
11:16That's why I didn't put him in.
11:17Some of the plays that he did make were really good.
11:19The whole pre-snap operation of the Texans, it's – there's things right now
11:24where it's easy to blame Nick Kaley for a lot of it,
11:26but some of it is also CJ Stroud being a young quarterback.
11:29I mean, there's – I went back and watched yesterday.
11:31There's times in that game where the Texans got beat by blitz
11:33when there's 15 seconds at the snap on the left on the play clock.
11:37Some of the stuff that quarterbacks can do to diagnose blitz and everything,
11:41this offense needs to get better at.
11:42Hard counts, dummy counts, things like that.
11:45They're just – that's the next step that makes light years of difference.
11:49Yes.
11:50I get – as a former defensive lineman, I get frustrated when teams aren't good
11:53at manipulating the snap count because I don't think –
11:55I think a lot of them don't understand and realize how lethal it is
11:59and how effective it is.
12:01But if you're trying to do a lot of this exotic stuff
12:03and you're not manipulating the snap count,
12:05it's like trying to learn algebra without being really good
12:08at your multiplication tables.
12:09Yep.
12:09It gets – it's really hard to do it quickly
12:12because you've got to keep going back and just like,
12:14oh, hold on a second.
12:15Well, like you're not going to be good at it
12:17until you nail your multiplication tables.
12:19But so many coordinators are so enamored by what they see on the whiteboard
12:22that they don't realize this very basic thing of getting a quarterback
12:26in your offensive line to be able to manipulate the snap count.
12:29You're missing out on what you can do.
12:31You're missing out on what you can do.
12:32Let's do that.
12:34Let's do it.
12:35Let's do it.
12:35Let's do it.
12:35Let's do it.
12:36Let's do it.
12:36Let's do it.
12:37Let's do it.
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