00:00Are the Texans a better football team now?
00:03I think they're a better football team now than they were at the beginning of free agency.
00:07How much better are they?
00:08Like, how many positions do you feel like?
00:10We took a step back.
00:11If we took a step back and just looked at the depth chart,
00:15how many positions have they actually improved right now?
00:18Okay, and I'm glad you said that because we could also make an argument
00:21that they've gotten weaker at some positions now at this stage in free agency.
00:25Okay.
00:25But the positions that they've improved, I mean,
00:30it's easy to just point to basically the biggest additions.
00:33And I think that the thing I feel most solid about would be strong safety
00:40and running back because those guys are filling a void completely.
00:44You didn't have a real starting running back.
00:47I like Woody Marks a lot.
00:49And maybe if he'd been able to stay healthy in the second half of the season,
00:52I would have felt better about a smaller guy maybe transitioning into that role
00:57of full-time running back.
00:58I think that now, whether you want to call David Montgomery the starter
01:02or at the very least one of your two starting running backs that's going to be working in tandem,
01:06that's a lot better.
01:07At strong safety, you just didn't have anybody.
01:10You had a rotating cast of tryout guys.
01:13And I feel 100% better about that.
01:16Then I would go to offensive line.
01:18And the biggest β I just hesitate sometimes to think, oh, okay, well,
01:23because you've got a couple of veterans that you brought in,
01:26then you're definitively going to be better.
01:28The part that I have to caution myself is that you just swapped out Titus Howard for Baden Smith.
01:34Yep.
01:34And then you're bringing in Wyatt Teller.
01:36But he's an older guard who's had injury issues.
01:38I like him a lot.
01:40But if I'm being completely honest with myself and as objective as possible,
01:43it's not always a slam dunk that a 31-year-old who's probably going to be switching back to left
01:49guard
01:49is going to have an easy transition of that.
01:52But that's β I still feel pretty good about it.
01:54So that would be my third most definitively β
01:57I almost look at left guard the way you just framed strong safety and running back.
02:01Yeah.
02:01Oh, yeah.
02:01You know what I mean?
02:02Like it was such a mess last year that there's not really a starter there.
02:07And so Wyatt Teller is going to be a major step up over anything that you trotted out,
02:12including Titus Howard, if I'm being honest, at left guard the last year.
02:15You know what you just did there?
02:16What's that?
02:16You just won a debate before you even realized it was a debate.
02:20You're exactly right.
02:21You're 100% right.
02:22But using my own logic, you defeated me.
02:24I grabbed your gun.
02:26You duck-faced bastard.
02:28I duck-faced β I grabbed your gun, I duck-faced,
02:30and then I fired it right in the middle of your chest.
02:34Whenever I hear duck-faced, I think of when Elmer Fudd shot β was it Daffy Duck?
02:41No, it was Daffy Duck.
02:43Oh, no, no, no.
02:44No, it was Daffy Duck.
02:44Yeah, Donald Duck is the Disney one.
02:46It was Daffy Duck.
02:47Yeah, so he shot Donald Duck.
02:48And his bill went backwards.
02:49And his bill would spin around.
02:51You can't find that in the Disney catalog these days.
02:54Oh, I'll tell you what.
02:54You can't find β
02:55They're very sensitive about the β
02:56You can't flip the channels all day, kids.
02:57You ain't finding humor like that on the grid these days.
03:01Cartoons like that led to a rash of cartoon interspecies violence back in the day.
03:07Okay, you said something interesting.
03:08You said that there were areas you thought that the team may have not improved
03:14or got worse at this offseason.
03:15Well, you know, I think honestly at defensive end, there's still some holes to be filled.
03:23I think that β
03:24Behind the guys, yeah.
03:25Yeah, in terms of depth.
03:27Yeah, I didn't expect them to go out and find an improvement for Will Anderson or anything.
03:30But that's what I was really hoping for.
03:32That's what I gave him to ask in my free agency.
03:35You couldn't go out and trade Will Anderson for Max Crosby in his papier-mΓ’chΓ© knee?
03:40That's right.
03:41What the hell's wrong with you?
03:43No, but I think that, you know, those guys β Danico Autry wasn't as available,
03:48but I think he served a really good role.
03:51He was good when he got out there, man.
03:52Yeah, and just β why am I blanking on that?
03:56Derek Barnett?
03:58Derek Barnett.
03:59Yeah.
03:59I almost said Patricia Arquette.
04:00Derek Barnett.
04:03No, it's not so easy to replace those guys.
04:06Yeah.
04:06They're veteran, solid players that came up huge at times.
04:09I think β I like Logan Hall coming in,
04:12and I think he's going to play a lot more defensive tackle than defensive end,
04:15even though he's capable of both.
04:18So I like him, but you are losing Tim Settle as well,
04:21as well as Mario Edwards and Foley Fadikasi.
04:27So, like, the overall strength and depth of the defensive tackle position,
04:31I think that β because they'll play four or five guys.
04:35Over the course of a few weeks, you're going to β one of the five guys is going
04:38to be injured, so you're going to get at least, like,
04:40four or five different defensive tackles playing.
04:42I don't know if they're as strong, but I really do like Logan Hall.
04:46But in terms of overall depth and strength,
04:48I think the defensive line still has to get either guys like Solomon Bird to come
04:52along and Dylan Horton to come along and improve,
04:55and then also perhaps bolster still through free agency or in the draft.
04:59The draft, yeah, for sure.
05:01Do you think β I know they're different players, different style players,
05:04and I know the guy I'm about to name β I'm going to compare potentially Logan Hall
05:09to is strictly an interior guy.
05:10But do you think Logan Hall can have a Tim Settle type effect?
05:14Can he elevate his game to where we're like, wow, this is a guy they β
05:17they might lose him after this two-year deal.
05:20Like, they lost Settle this year.
05:21No, no, no, 100%.
05:22I think his upside might be higher.
05:23And I also think, though, too, he can serve the Danico Autry role, too,
05:27where Danico is that guy that sometimes when they wanted to load up and stop the run
05:31and you put five defensive linemen on the field, he can line up.
05:36I mean, what Logan Hall has been doing in large part the last few years has been lining up on
05:41β
05:41instead of what the Texans do where it's a whole lot of cocked-out wide,
05:44he'll line up head up on an offensive tackle or on a tight end
05:48and can be an asset in that regard.
05:50So he's kind of an in-between, can play defensive tackle,
05:54can play defensive end in certain situations better than some of the other guys.
05:58So, yeah, it's a combination of those two things.
06:01I think he's got more versatility than β he's got more versatility than either of those guys.
06:06Yeah.
06:06You know, Tim Settle looks like a big run stuffer,
06:10but he actually was pretty quick and could get upfield.
06:13Yep.
06:14Danico Autry was a defensive end who could come down and play inside at times.
06:18Yeah.
06:18Logan Hall's kind of in-between both those guys.
06:20All right.
06:20So we'll hear from Wyatt Teller in the next segment.
06:24Wyatt Teller was in the building.
06:26We'll hear actually from folks talking about that acquisition.
06:29People are pretty pumped up about that, the follow of the Texans.
06:33Rockets are back in action this weekend.
06:35We're just kind of jumping around here early in the show.
06:37They play Atlanta and Miami.
06:39Miami, at least, is a team, and both of them are kind of in that play-in.
06:43They're not tanking teams, but they're not playoff-caliber contender teams.
06:48You're getting both of them at home.
06:50I mean, win these games.
06:53You can hold Bam Adebayo to fewer than 70 points.
06:55Yes.
06:56That would be great.
06:57That would be great.
06:58Don't give up 70 to Bam Adebayo.
07:01We are on the lookout, Houston, for somebody that may have lost the second Laker game
07:05for the Rockets the other night.
07:06This was Richard Jefferson, who was doing the game on ESPN.
07:10Early in the game, if you recall, Luka Doncic got fouled on a three
07:13and missed all three free throws.
07:15You don't see that a lot.
07:16There's a lot of ball don't lie going on.
07:18Apparently, there was some dude in the crowd at Toyota Center
07:21that was just trash-talking and agitating Luka all night long
07:26on a night where Luka went on to score 40 points.
07:29This is Richard Jefferson recounting it.
07:32Look at Luka put on a shot.
07:33Oh, my God.
07:34What Luka was doing last night, bro?
07:36He was bowling.
07:38Bro, it was belt to ass.
07:40What did they say, belt?
07:41No.
07:41Some idiot.
07:42Some idiot.
07:43I promise you.
07:44Some idiot.
07:45Luka misses three free throws at the start of the game, right?
07:48Luka's, you know, OGs, they kind of get warmed up.
07:51When you average 30, your first three, four shots are just warm-up shots.
07:56They're not like you trying to make them.
07:57You're just like, let me see it.
07:59Let me feel how I'm feeling tonight.
08:01Some dude to the left of us, like, eight rows back.
08:05You guys called it out right away.
08:06Right away.
08:07Because I was like, Luka, like, when he hit the shot at the far end,
08:12he walked to half court and was looking at people like, what the hell?
08:15Then he gets the steal.
08:16Luka gets the steal, and it looks inside.
08:19He's like, yeah, mother, this is all y'all.
08:21And I'm like, he literally was looking at them as he's getting the steal.
08:25Hits the three.
08:26The whole game, he talked to whoever that was the whole game.
08:32We need to find this man, and we need to ban this man from Toyota Center.
08:36You know what his response is going to be?
08:37What do you think?
08:38I'm scared.
08:39And this is the problem.
08:40The guy in the crowd.
08:41Yeah, this is the problem.
08:42This is the problem.
08:43It's true.
08:43Like, what am I, scared of Luka?
08:44This is the problem.
08:45You're not the one fighting the battle.
08:46That's right.
08:47When you decide to really zero in on a great player,
08:53let's call him, because that guy probably doesn't think Luka's a great player,
08:56a top-tier player in the NBA.
08:58He'd be wrong.
08:58The vast majority of times, it can only go in a bad direction for you.
09:04Yep.
09:04Two things will happen.
09:06Either the guy is unaffected by it,
09:07or he just uses that as his fuel for that evening.
09:11Yeah.
09:12And he goes off because of it.
09:13So you think you're helping your own team out.
09:16Listen, I don't care how good a trash talker you are,
09:18you're not going to get into that guy's head.
09:21These guys live their entire lives here in a level of trash talk that we can only guess at.
09:27It's just not, you're not going to do it.
09:29You're only hurting your own team.
09:31You're hurting the own player, your own, the players that you would claim to support and love,
09:36you're actually damaging.
09:38You're an abusive fan.
09:39Show yourself.
09:40You're an abusive fan.
09:41That's what your problem is.
09:43If you were at the game the other night, you know who this guy is.
09:45He needs to be ratted out and banned from Toyota Center.
09:47He lost the game the other night.
09:49It was that, that play, and we're up against it.
09:51The play that, that Jefferson was talking about there, where Lucas stole the ball and was looked,
09:56that showed up on social media yesterday.
09:58Lucas steals the ball and is dribbling to the other end.
10:00And isn't even looking at the other basket.
10:02He's looking in the crowd while dribbling, yelling at that guy.
10:05It was pretty awesome.
10:06It's pretty awesome.
10:07β There's two things.δΉΎζ―.
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