Could the Texans Finally Do Something They Haven’t Done in Years?

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ITL digs into how that foundation has quietly shaped this team and whether it could lead to the Texans doing something they haven’t done in a long time.

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00:00You have a game versus the Raiders on Sunday at NRG Stadium.

00:04Apparently, it's the holiday game.

00:05Did you realize that?

00:06Yeah.

00:06Hey, they're going to have the toddler races at halftime.

00:09Did you see that?

00:09Oh, man.

00:10Who doesn't love a good toddler race?

00:12I love it.

00:13You talk about the Instagram feed and what it feeds you or whatever,

00:16your TikTok feed or whatever.

00:18Anytime I see like a baby race or something.

00:21I'm going to see if they need like a standby.

00:23My grandbaby can pick them up and put them down, man.

00:26Yeah.

00:27She's taller, too.

00:27No, no, the baby.

00:28Oh, the baby baby.

00:29The boy, yeah.

00:30Oh, J.J.

00:30Yeah, yeah, J.J., he's a crawling fool right now.

00:34I don't know why that saying it that way makes you crack up.

00:39But, yes, okay, yeah, see if you can get a baby boy in there.

00:42That'd be fantastic.

00:43A question I've just been sitting with pursuant to this football game

00:46versus the Las Vegas Raiders.

00:48Is it possible that the Texans do something they haven't done in a while

00:51or depending on how you view it?

00:52Open the roof?

00:53In a while.

00:53Well, I don't even know.

00:56They're not doing that, right?

00:57No, God, no.

00:57We're talking about.

00:58God, no.

00:59We're talking about weather in the, what, 60s?

01:0260s.

01:02Perfect weather to open the roof.

01:03I guess.

01:04I didn't mean to hijack it.

01:06No, I was like, hey, it's a conversation always.

01:09No, the thought is, could you effectively end a career Sunday?

01:13Mm-hmm.

01:13Explain.

01:13Geno Smith, the quarterback of the Raiders.

01:16It does seem like he will play this week after missing last week

01:19dealing with injuries.

01:19Kenny Pickett went for them.

01:22But he is 35 years of age, if memory serves.

01:26And this has been a rough season after him returning to form as a bona fide

01:31starter in the National Football League.

01:33Remember him with the Seahawks under Pete Carroll.

01:36And he looked very good.

01:38He looked like one of the best deep passers in the league.

01:41And on paper, coming into the season with him, you know, him not necessarily

01:44finding what he wanted with Seattle, I thought that this was going to be a

01:47great opportunity for him to be maybe the half step back and where the people

01:51may have thought he was before as like a stopgap type quarterback.

01:54And it just hasn't looked very good for them.

01:58Now, a good amount of that, or some of that at the very least, is that offensive

02:01line for the Raiders is M-A-L-O bad.

02:04It's one of the, if not the worst in the league, especially on the interior,

02:08it is very bad.

02:09But he himself has not looked like the best version of himself to the point where

02:12he's getting mad at all the criticism coming at him, talking about, oh man,

02:16if anything goes wrong in your life, just blame it on Geno.

02:18Is it possible that this could be the one that, like this could be a game where,

02:24especially considering the way that this defense is as a whole, but this defense

02:27in front in particular is, that could just make it so that the Geno thing, even with

02:32them having, you know, him under contract for the next couple of years, it's just

02:35like, hey, they have to do something different.

02:36Yeah, the final straw.

02:38Yeah, well, basically in essence, what happened to Tua.

02:41You know, I don't expect Geno to be having conversations with Derek Stingley after the

02:47game on the field, you know, yucking it up like Tua, that was a bad look for him.

02:51But yeah, kind of like what happened to him.

02:54I absolutely could see it.

02:56I was sitting here trying to think of have the Texans, who the Texans have done that

03:00to maybe this year or with this defense in previous years, but no, I could absolutely

03:05see that happening.

03:06Yeah, that's one of the things that I'm looking, because I'm, you know, we're trying

03:09to get our heads around what this football game could look like.

03:12And this one feels kind of like last week where you come in and you're like, all right,

03:15there's some things that that team has.

03:17It's an NFL team.

03:18You talk about Brock Bowers.

03:20You talk about Ashton Jensey as a runner.

03:23You talk about Max Crosby.

03:25But as a team, collectively, not talking about individuals, there's not a lot of things I'm

03:30afraid of.

03:30So it's like, all right, what could this Texas team do to them?

03:33And this is one of the very early things is like, they could just finish this Geno thing

03:37up.

03:38Like this could be effectively the place where we look up and we go, yeah, that Geno thing

03:41is like completely done.

03:43Because I don't know where the Raiders are staying in the moment.

03:46I think it's, he's still a viable option.

03:49He's under contract next year.

03:50Maybe they're continuing to actually put their mind in a real development state as opposed

03:54to last year where they thought that they could jumpstart this, but it might be entirely

03:58untenable if the Texans do to him what I think is possible.

04:01Well, I think is probable, you know, the, probably you say, yeah, I think it's probable.

04:05You're not, you're not, he's already on thin ice.

04:07You're not worried at all about the last few times that we're like, oh, this is the time

04:11where the Texans have 10 sacks and then it ends up not looking that way.

04:14No, I'm really not because the offensive line is so bad for the Raiders and Geno is, his

04:20head is spinning and they have literally the worst offense in the NFL DFL.

04:26I mean, is Geno playing for sure?

04:28Not for sure, but it's looking that way.

04:30It's looking that way.

04:31Well, I don't, I saw the Texans injury report.

04:33I didn't see theirs, what he was listed, but he's, it's looking as if he will play.

04:38Hell, either or.

04:39Yeah.

04:40The Texans are going to eat.

04:41Mm-hmm.

04:42When you talk about, maybe what was the last time that the Texans might have done that?

04:46Would you consider Anthony Richardson when he had, when he had to tap his helmet like,

04:51hey man, I need a break.

04:51Yeah.

04:52I need to, I need to sit down for a moment.

04:54That was a big story.

04:55That was their final straw.

04:56So, uh, I, I don't know if he started the next week, but it was soon thereafter.

05:01It was, he was, he was effectively done.

05:03Yeah.

05:03I think there's been people making the case that, especially with the news of the Wituataloa,

05:08and I didn't say this on air, is not only not going to start, he's the third quarterback.

05:13All right.

05:14So it's, uh, it's Quinn Ewers as the starter.

05:17And then they're going to have, was it Zach Wilson as the, as the backup?

05:20Yeah.

05:20I forgot he was there.

05:21Yeah.

05:22Buddy.

05:22Well, his mom's going to make an, his mom's going to reappear in shape.

05:25All right.

05:26No, she is very good.

05:28I surprised, I surprised Quinn Ewers passed up Zach, um, Zach Wilson like that.

05:32Um, but Tua talking about Loa, you talk about, you know, seeing the, the, the entire fall off.

05:39He had been viable as a starter, which I don't want us to be, you know, do revisionist history

05:44in the larger NFL context of, oh man, Tua was just flat out bad.

05:49He'd been viable at times within the circumstances and the offense that Mike McDaniel built for him.

05:53And then teams figured out, oh, we could take that away.

05:57And there was just no adjustment for, you know, the limitations that he has.

06:00Well, when you talk about teams figuring out, it was the Texans that really showed that in

06:04a big way that, oh, this is, this is DUN done.

06:07Yeah.

06:07Here.

06:08Yeah.

06:08No, it absolutely wasn't.

06:10And I, and I feel, but Gino, it, the writing's on the wall.

06:13I think the writing's on the wall for Pete Carroll.

06:15I think they're going to find a soft landing for him.

06:17And you think so?

06:17Yeah.

06:17And just completely, uh, change.

06:20They're not going to like necessarily fire him unless they have to, but I think there's

06:24going to be a soft exit, you know, a comfortable exit, so to speak, uh, for Pete Carroll and

06:29they're just going to redo everything.

06:30And the Texans could go a long way toward doing that on Sunday.

06:33Yeah.

06:34I'm, I'm excited for that portion of it.

06:36But, uh, anything within you, cause we just got a text in from the 713, uh, making note

06:41of the fact that the Texans haven't had quote, our annual mid to below average quarterback

06:45go off on us game, uh, which I guess fair, is there any, is there any possibility in

06:53your mind that either this one is that game for you or that any of the final three, well,

06:58I guess, I don't know how you view, uh, Justin Herbert.

07:00I'm thinking, no, that would be the one, uh, one of those games, not that he, I mean, he's

07:03a good quarterback.

07:04He's better than what the texter said, but I could see where that would be the one where

07:07maybe Herbert goes off.

07:09Uh, and, and that would, and it's in LA and they have been, you know, they've been playing

07:13okay, Texans feeling pretty good about the playoffs.

07:17I could see where that would be the one.

07:18Yeah.

07:18This has been, this has been a, uh, a season of exercise and demons.

07:21That could be one that you get off of your back a little bit.

07:24The idea that every year you're going to have somebody play above their play above their,

07:28uh, head against the Texans.

07:30Maybe not this year.

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