Texans Circle of Swarm ahead of regular season finale against Colts

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00:00Texans a ten and a half point favorite.

00:02They're going against a rookie quarterback making his first start.

00:06Last week, I think unquestionably, one of the two or three biggest wins of the year.

00:11The Chiefs win was big, I think, just for the Texans' psyche.

00:16The Buffalo win on Thursday was really, I thought, the one that kind of,

00:19at least with the defense, kind of raised the consciousness level

00:22of what this Texans' defense is capable of.

00:25That Chargers win, on the road, short week, holiday week,

00:29going against a team that was still in the mix for the number one seed in the AFC.

00:33And the Texans executed the formula that you and I just talked about

00:36ten minutes ago perfectly.

00:38Get a lead.

00:40It would be nice if they didn't go through these huge lulls in the game

00:43where they're, you know, three and out, three and out, punting all the time.

00:45But this is a formula that has worked for this football team,

00:49and that was a big win over the Chargers,

00:51who the Texans are now ahead of in the standing.

00:53So we've got to pick a circle of swarm here, my friend.

00:56Are you ready to go?

00:57I'm ready.

00:57Ready to pick?

00:58I think this is a tough one.

00:59You always go first.

01:00There's some guys that, boy, there's a guy I'm considering putting on here

01:04who didn't even actually show up in the box score defensively, I think.

01:08We'll get to that later.

01:09Ooh, that's interesting.

01:10Yeah.

01:10Okay.

01:11I'm going to go to my issue of,

01:15do I go with Daniel Hunter or Will Anderson?

01:18Mm-hmm.

01:19Hmm.

01:20So Will Anderson and Daniel both had sacks in this game.

01:23Will had a halfsy.

01:24Oh, that's right.

01:25It was a half sack with Sheldon Rankins, which is another tough one that I'm having between,

01:29because Sheldon Rankins had a bunch of pressures in this game too.

01:32Yep.

01:32And a half sack.

01:33Yep.

01:35There's a lot to like on the defensive side of the ball in this game.

01:38I'm going to go with,

01:39I'm going to go with Will Anderson.

01:42Will Anderson Jr.

01:43Okay.

01:43There you go.

01:44So Will Anderson, Seth Vicks, Will Anderson.

01:46I mean, you can almost pick him every week.

01:48Yeah.

01:48He's just so good.

01:49He's almost at the, he's at the LeBron MVP.

01:54Yeah.

01:55Yeah.

01:55You get tired of voting for him.

01:56Every year.

01:57Yeah.

01:58Will Anderson, by the way, just expanded his lead in the number of circles of swarm that

02:04he's, he's been, he's, he's been on the most.

02:06I think this is his 10th.

02:07I'll, I'll look after we're done.

02:09Um, my first one is going to be Henry Toa Toa.

02:12Got a lot of love from a lot of people for his performance in that game.

02:15Yeah.

02:15Leading tackler in the game.

02:16That can be deceptive.

02:18Sometimes he was, he showed up, he was on screen a lot in that game.

02:23Yeah.

02:23And he followed, this is what I liked about Toa Toa is he might've had his worst game

02:27of the year the week before.

02:28And even D'Amico was acknowledging that, that Toa Toa did not play well in that Raiders.

02:33No, no, no.

02:33Yeah.

02:34D'Amico, D'Amico really taught.

02:36He talked about the conversation he had with Henry Toa Toa about how, Hey, your bad plays

02:40don't define you that you're a good player.

02:43Yeah.

02:44And he really rebounded.

02:45Now, part of this was schematically.

02:47They were able to play with three linebackers on the field a lot more.

02:51They didn't play with three linebackers at all against the Raiders.

02:55With Al Shire back in, Toa Toa could just, he didn't have the green dot.

02:58He wasn't the signal caller, all of that.

03:01So he could just go.

03:02Yes.

03:02And he came up big.

03:04He came up big.

03:05With a couple of very good, boring, but secured form tackles at the end of the game that really

03:12mattered.

03:13Yep.

03:13No question.

03:14In the open field, no less.

03:15In the open field.

03:16Yeah.

03:16That's, it's nice to see, man.

03:18That is nice to see.

03:19All right.

03:20Who's your next one?

03:20Oh, okay.

03:21So this is one I was having a hard time with because I don't think he showed up in the

03:24defensive box score, but as D'Amico talked about this week, the presence of Danico Autry.

03:35Oh no.

03:35Yeah.

03:35Danico had a sack.

03:36He had a sack.

03:37He had a sack.

03:37Yeah.

03:38Okay.

03:38This is easy then.

03:39Yeah.

03:39The presence of Danico.

03:40Should've had two, but he got called for a ratchet tripping call.

03:42Yeah.

03:43I can't believe I forgot the sack.

03:45Yeah.

03:46Yeah.

03:46Danico Autry, because it's, it's not random dumb chance.

03:50That the Texans have seen more missed extra points and more missed field goals.

03:55And just about everybody in the NFL, the presence of Danico Autry, and who's blocked

04:00over a dozen kicks in his career messes up the operation, the, from the center to the

04:06holder, to the kicker, they know that this is a different squad they're facing.

04:09And that's why so many teams have missed extra points and field goals versus the Texans.

04:14They're the top ranked team in terms of opposing field goal percentage and opposing extra

04:18point percentage.

04:19Yeah.

04:19And a lot of it is because of the presence of Danico Autry.

04:22And he had, he had one and a possible second sack in this game.

04:26Yes.

04:27Yeah.

04:28Yeah.

04:28And the chiefs, the chargers missed two kicks in that game.

04:32I think it's a great one.

04:32That's a really good one.

04:35I did it last year.

04:36I omitted this guy when he shouldn't have been omitted.

04:39He's my neighbor.

04:40I'm not going to let it happen again.

04:41Cause I don't want him to come up to me in the building and say, Hey man, how about leaving

04:46me out of the circle of swarm one more time?

04:48Yeah.

04:49I'm not going to do that to Derek Barnett.

04:50Oh, good.

04:51Good.

04:52Two sacks in a row into back to back plays, two sacks, which he earned beat his guy.

04:59It wasn't one of the, we weren't coverage sacks where the quarterback just has to get

05:02brought down by somebody.

05:03The second one was a beautiful spin move.

05:06And they came in a pretty crucial juncture in the game early in the second half.

05:09The Texans first possession, you know, the, the chargers went three and out.

05:13I think the Texans went three and out still 14 to three.

05:17You know, if the chargers get something going there, but no, no, no, you're going three and

05:20out again.

05:21There's two sacks circle of swarm.

05:23We talked earlier about how the Texans seem to have this knack for getting the best version

05:26of a defensive lineman.

05:27Let's remember that when the Texans picked up Derek Barnett, he was on the scrap heap

05:31from the waved.

05:32Yeah.

05:33The Eagles thought like, ah, no, this guy's, he's seen better days.

05:36We're done with them.

05:37It was way.

05:38Yeah.

05:38So, uh, and they've gotten some really good performances out of him on the team for,

05:42he'll, I mean, that was in 2023.

05:44He does.

05:45He has a silky smooth spin move.

05:46I've got multiple times.

05:48I've messed up and thought that it was Daniel Hunter because I just, without being able to

05:51see the number, I'm like, Ooh, nice spin move by Daniel.

05:54Yeah.

05:54Like, Oh, Nope.

05:55Nope.

05:55His spin move is as elegant as Daniel's.

05:57He's a former first round pick.

05:59I mean, his, uh, his credited sack was the one where he punched out the ball.

06:01Right.

06:02Who are we talking about?

06:03Danico, uh, Danico Autry.

06:04Sorry.

06:05I was thinking about when I was going back to Danico Autry.

06:07Oh, yeah.

06:07Prop.

06:08He punched out the ball and because Rich Eisen seemed kind of surprised that it was called

06:12a sack.

06:13Yeah.

06:13That's the way it works for quarterback pulls the ball.

06:16That's a sack.

06:17That's a, and we know this isn't on a pass play.

06:19You know, this isn't your first game doing play by play.

06:21Yeah.

06:21Because we've lamented all the other ones.

06:23Those are the rules of football.

06:25Yeah.

06:25Oh, and they, they ruled that a sack.

06:27Yeah.

06:28The quarterback fumbled.

06:29Uh, who's your last one?

06:31Oh, all right.

06:32So offensively.

06:34Oh boy.

06:36I'm going to, you know what?

06:37If you don't get an offensive person in here, I probably will just to, I'm going to give,

06:41um, despite, despite the fact that the two awesome plays went to Jaden Higgins and Jalen

06:47Knoll, the fact that the presence of Nico Collins is what fueled the coverage errors.

06:54Acknowledged by both of those guys.

06:55Yeah.

06:56Yeah.

06:56That Nico, Nico very much, uh, was the cause of those guys having those opportunities.

07:02Yep.

07:03So, uh, Nico Collins and Nico had a big catch on that last, uh, the last drive to get them

07:09kind of towards midfield, which is, uh, that's been kind of becoming a regular thing in the

07:14fourth quarter.

07:15It doesn't have to be a touchdown.

07:16It doesn't have to be the game winning play.

07:19It has to be the game preserving play.

07:20That's right.

07:21And, uh, that's where Nico really becomes the go-to guy closer, no doubt about it.

07:26Um, all right.

07:27Oh, good.

07:27So the last one here.

07:28Okay.

07:29I'm got a few of them in mind, got a couple on offense, got one on defense.

07:35I am going to go with, Hmm, I'm going to go.

07:42It's going to be a rookie.

07:44Jaden Higgins, Jalen Knoll, both had big touchdowns early in this game.

07:49But man, Woody Marks closing the deal at the end of the game, Woody Marks with a 19 yard

07:53run to get out of the post this game.

07:56Yeah.

07:57Those are big marks.

07:58And you know, there too, the week before, uh, without even, I'm not throwing shade at

08:03Jowar Jordan or anything, but just there's some things physically, I think that Jowar

08:06Jordan's not going to be able to do because of his size.

08:09And that's grinding out some of the extra yardage, which 205 pound Woody Marks can do.

08:15Yeah.

08:15Woody plays his butt off, man.

08:17You just talked me into it.

08:18He's 205 pounds and he's dragging linebackers over the line to game at critical moments

08:24in the game.

08:25Woody Marks.

08:26Yeah.

08:26Woody Marks is going in because it hit because it's the stuff he was doing was swarmy or

08:30two, you know, like he's playing with physicality.

08:33No disrespect to Jalen Knoll and Jaden Higgins, two massive plays, but Woody Marks, especially

08:38at the end, man, first and 10, eight yard run, two yard run game over when everybody knows

08:43you're running the football.

08:44That Jalen Knoll touchdown, the, the field level view of that on the TV copy.

08:50When you see him look, turn on the jets.

08:54Yeah.

08:54Just when he stood, when he started, when he starts crossing the middle of the field.

08:59Oh my gosh.

08:59He's fast.

09:00He's, he's the one I'm, we still have a post season to get to here, but if we were to start

09:05to look ahead and say, who are some of the guys you're most excited about for 2026?

09:08Yeah.

09:09He's, he is very much at or near the top of the list for me.

09:14Cause I don't think, I don't think this team is, I know they're not going to bring Christian

09:17Kirk back on a $16 million deal.

09:20Yeah.

09:20Um, you know, it feels like Kirk was brought here to be sort of a holdover to be that.

09:24Well, he was kind of like the veteran guy that at the time they, you know, the guy that

09:29can be a mentor for a younger draft pick and do all those, those nuance.

09:35It doesn't feel Kirk has been ingrained into this offense as much as you'd like.

09:39No, I'm super excited about Noel next year, but we still got Sunday and we got the playoffs

09:44to get to.

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