00:00All right, let's get to D'Amico Ryans.
00:01Here was his update on the injured players from over the weekend.
00:06For the guys who got injured in the game on yesterday,
00:11there's still an evaluation process that has to go testing to see where the guys are.
00:16And we'll just have to see how the week plays out.
00:20And for the guys that did not suit up in the game, it was injury-related.
00:25You know, we're not – I don't look at us in a position to arrest guys, just arrest them.
00:30Every game is important.
00:33Those guys – so you hope that we're able to get back to full health
00:39and be at full strength for this game.
00:40This is a huge game coming up for us on this Saturday
00:43versus a really talented Chargers team.
00:46And we're excited to go against them.
00:48So hopefully we have, you know, everybody available, everybody ready to roll.
00:52It's kind of good that this comes up as we're naming who the Pro Bowlers were for the Texans, Seth,
00:57because one of those guys – D'Amico didn't refer to them by name,
01:00but Woody Marks and Aziz Alshair, the two big ones,
01:03that didn't play in last week's win over the Raiders.
01:06Yeah.
01:07Where – especially Aziz, where the impact was felt.
01:10The fact that we just had news within the last ten minutes that his peers, coaches,
01:15probably less so fans, I would imagine, probably more the coaches and players,
01:19naming Aziz to the Pro Bowl, I think hammers home just how much he was missed on Sunday against the Raiders.
01:25Yeah, no, he really wasn't, especially when you're banged up at defensive tackle
01:29where there were times where just the defense – and this is the thing.
01:34They still have, you know, two of their starters,
01:37and Togiai and Sheldon Rankins are good players.
01:42Rankins isn't as stout versus the run as, say, a Tim Settle or a Mario Edwards
01:46or a Foley Fadakasi or a Kurt Heinish, like all those –
01:51the four guys that are already on the injured reserve for the defensive tackles.
01:57And I think that's where – that's where things might get a little bit dodgy,
02:01especially with Aziz Alshair out.
02:03But even when Aziz Alshair back in, they're just probably not going to be
02:09as stout up the middle as they had been in the first two thirds of the season.
02:14It wasn't their calling card necessarily.
02:16They were better than people expected them to be based on the names on the depth chart
02:20at defensive tackle.
02:22But it's not like that's the strength of your team.
02:24So we saw the Raiders take advantage of that a little bit.
02:29Aziz being back out there makes a big difference because as a defensive tackle, look,
02:33you've got to anchor and take on double teams, yes.
02:35Good linebackers, good physical linebackers like Aziz, they make it easier
02:40because they come up and they knock some of those guys off.
02:42You're getting double teamed and a guy like Aziz comes up
02:46and blasts one of those guys off of you.
02:48So there's kind of a symbiotic relationship there.
02:51And that was a little bit softer than I'm used to seeing.
02:55So Aziz being back in helps those new pickups.
03:00There's any number of one of four different guys that could play defensive tackle
03:04for the Texans versus the Chargers.
03:06Yes, yeah.
03:07Aside from Togi Eye and Sheldon Rankin.
03:09That's right, that's right.
03:10It's going to be interesting.
03:11Just spin the wheel, man.
03:12For those who missed it, they picked up Leckie Fosu, a defensive tackle, yesterday,
03:16put him on the practice squad.
03:19He was most recently with the Raiders.
03:21Here's D'Amico Ryans on Justin Herbert.
03:24Watching the film, Justin is definitely one of the toughest quarterbacks in our league.
03:28You see him be able to stand in the pocket, deliver passes.
03:34He takes shots.
03:36He's able to just play tough and physical in the pocket.
03:39You don't see that much from a lot of quarterbacks.
03:40He does a really good job.
03:42He's more athletic than you would think.
03:44He can gut you on some run plays as well.
03:47So he's a truly smart guy, makes good decisions, good process job, finding the open guys.
03:56They have a lot of talented guys at the receiver position that he can get the ball to.
03:59And I think they've helped him out a ton, you know, getting Hampton back.
04:03Hampton is a really good back.
04:04Young back has done a good job as well.
04:06This is a tough thing is you'd love to go into this game and say, well, look at the Chargers.
04:11Their offensive line is horrible.
04:13And the Texans have one of the best, you know, edge rushing duos in the league that, yeah, everybody turns into all pro pass rushers versus the Chargers.
04:21But Justin Herbert has figured out a way to, with bubble gum and bailing wire to figure out how to still make plays.
04:29To make the Pro Bowl.
04:30He's getting hit like crazy.
04:32You know, there's just, everything's breaking down around him all the time, but much like his forebear, Phillip Rivers, back when he was with the Chargers, he, because Phillip Rivers never had good offensive lines either, but he figured out ways to get it done.
04:46And that's what Justin Herbert's doing.
04:47He definitely is.
04:48If, so if Ariante Urshari and Trent Brown can't go for the Texans on Saturday, what do you think the starting offensive line is?
04:58I think they probably would move Titus Howard back out to right tackle and then have Jarrett Patterson at left guard and Blake Fisher at left, at left tackle.
05:08And then, then it's a question of his juice Scruggs, your sixth offensive lineman, or I don't know.
05:14I don't, I feel like they would go with the jumbo package a lot more, which they already go with a lot.
05:20Yeah.
05:20Yeah.
05:20The, the, well, the Kingston, the kid who's been inactive for the last several weeks, probably gets active.
05:28For the first time this season, I forget his first name, but he's an offensive line.
05:34That's the thing.
05:34Jumbo package.
05:35I mean, Blake Fisher has been your jumbo tackle.
05:38So they, you know, if you've got a jumbo package in there, I don't like, I'm, I'm, I got to start digging on the depth chart here.
05:43You're so, I mean, the missing two tackles is a huge deal.
05:47Yeah.
05:47It's a huge deal.
05:48Yeah.
05:49No, and like that, that sixth offensive lineman doesn't, I mean, it doesn't have to be an offensive tackle.
05:54Um, but it is, but you are, you do end up playing like, as if you're an offensive tackle outside in pass protection and everything.
06:02Yeah.
06:03Um, I don't know.
06:04They might, they might get funky with it and just use multiple different guys.
06:07Is that, is that sixth offensive lineman?
06:10Yeah.
06:10Depending on whether they want to run the ball or not.
06:12Or maybe scrap it.
06:13I mean, they've got their full compliment of tight ends back now.
06:15Well, okay.
06:16This is the problem with scrapping.
06:17It is the reason they do it is because their offensive line isn't actually all that good.
06:21Yeah.
06:21So when your offense is even worse, I feel like that that's even more reason to use the six O line package.
06:28Yeah.
06:28It's not like, like, it's not like they've been lighting the world on fire with six offensive linemen.
06:33And it's that usually, I mean, there's advantages as to using six offensive linemen, but by and large, when teams are doing it, they do it because they, they really, it's not just because they don't think their tight ends can block.
06:47It's that they also just don't trust their offensive line in general.
06:50They want to be able to double team defensive tackles like Chris Jones at times because they don't trust that those guys inside can get it done.
06:57And that doesn't, it's not like all of a sudden they're going to feel better about the offensive line with, with two starters out.
07:02I say this every week, going to be a big injury report today, big injury report today for the Texans, these two tackles.
07:10One person we will not see in the game on the other side is habitual line stepper and Texans legend Denzel Perryman, who has been a good player for the Chargers this year as their inside linebacker.
07:25He is suspended for the final two games for basically just repeatedly violating safety rules.
07:31Yeah, he got, uh, it looked like it was at a legal, uh, legal use of the helmet this time around.
07:37Uh, we, we know that he was suspended in 2023 and he was one of the original installers of swarm.
07:44Right, right, right.
07:45He was a guy that was just going to come up and let you know that you were playing the Houston Texans.
07:50And we appreciated him for that.
07:52That was a year in which I remember there were, there were a total of, if I remember correctly, I think there were a total of six suspensions for either unnecessary roughness or illegal use of the helmet.
08:02Around the league, you mean?
08:03Around the league in that season.
08:05Three of those suspensions were served by guys who would play for the Texans that year.
08:10Okay.
08:10Because Kareem Jackson got suspended twice when he was in Denver for, uh, unnecessary roughness type things.
08:18He ended up on the Texans late that year.
08:20So he didn't get this, but he was that type of guy that we went on that won on this team.
08:24Yeah.
08:24And then Denzel Perryman was one of the guys for illegal use of the helmet.
08:28Okay.
08:29And it, uh, and it hit, was it versus the Colts or the chiefs?
08:31I can't remember what it was, but it was, uh, there's somebody, uh, he had a running back who's, uh, I thought it was, I thought it was bogus.
08:38That was one of the more Kareem, Kareem becoming Kareem, becoming a target of the league office while being a Denver Bronco was a weird thing for me as a Texan thing.
08:48Cause he was never that type of player here.
08:50Like he never, he was never suspended or.
08:54And he was always a physical tackler, but he didn't have as many opportunities.
08:59Every now and then they would try to move him to safety.
09:01Yeah.
09:01And somebody would get injured and you have to move back out to cornerback.
09:04Yeah.
09:04He went to Denver and he was a full-time safety and that's where he really came into his own as a, as a, as a, as a, a destroyer of world.
09:13I guess if you're playing in the middle of the field, you're, you're, you've got more opportunities to.
09:18Yeah.
09:19To hospital ball people.
09:20And the nature of playing safety too, is that you're keeping things in front of you and you come up and you, that, yeah, you just have more opportunities as a safety.
09:28Yep.
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