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Seth and Sean dive into what Texans EDGE Danielle Hunter's offseason has been like, and Seth draws a remarkable comparison to Danielle Hunter. He's your favorite edge rusher's favorite edge rusher.
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00:00What's Daniil Hunter been up to lately? Luis Ortiz of KHOU caught up with him and said this
00:05is what's been going on for him this offseason. Man, the biggest thing about me ever since I had
00:10my surgery back in 2020, I just always focus on my body every offseason. I feel like that's the
00:16biggest thing. As soon as the season ends, I take time off, I go see the world, and then when
00:21I come
00:21back, I just start rebuilding my body by inch, muscle by muscle, and by part by part. I feel
00:28like that's the biggest thing, and I just started that this past week, so it's off to a good start,
00:34and as the weeks go by, as the months go by, I just focus on just getting my body right
00:39and just
00:39preparing myself for the next season. Yeah, Daniil Hunter, this has been one of the best
00:45free agency marriages for both sides that I can think of. Daniil Hunter was a really good player
00:50up in Minnesota. J.J. Watt would bring this up, though. About Daniil Hunter specifically,
00:56Daniil Hunter has been criminally underrated for years, and oddly enough, a team that has
01:03not experienced as much success as the Vikings have over the last decade, the Texans, it feels
01:08like to me, and maybe it's because we're around Daniil on virtually a daily basis during the season
01:15kind of thing, it feels like his star has risen here in Houston, and maybe it's because he's playing
01:21for a defense that's getting a ton of love right now, and he himself has unlocked a lot of things
01:26for that defense, but this has been a free agency marriage, because these free agency marriages more
01:32often than not don't work out, especially with an older player. You know, I think the thing with
01:36Daniil is, it's kind of like, it's a weird comparison here. There's some comedians that are
01:42kind of, they're known as comedians, comedians, where they don't necessarily achieve the huge mass
01:47appeal, but comedians really respect the way they operate. That's a good analogy, man. Yeah, yeah.
01:52Because they're just like, they're very, like, they're just incredibly creative and intelligent
01:57and everything, and they do everything the way that a lot of comedians would want to operate,
02:00but they don't necessarily have mass appeal. Yeah. I feel like that's how Daniil Hunter is
02:04with edge rushers. He's an edge rushers, edge rusher. Yeah, J.J. Watt and guys like them have
02:11always really appreciated just how incredibly skilled he is, but part of it, too, is that in
02:17Minnesota, he was playing on defense a lot of times where they might be real blitz heavy, and
02:22it's easier for people to kind of dismiss some of that as saying, like, well, they're blitzing a lot,
02:26so he gets a lot of one-on-ones and everything, so I think when it comes to Houston, he
02:30gets a little
02:31bit more respect in general just because this is a defense that's driven by getting a four-man
02:36pass rush, and the guys on the edge just getting it done on their own, and those two guys kind
02:42of
02:42complement each other, Will Anderson and him, but he is still, in terms of popularity or fame or
02:49anything like that, all the attention is put on Will Anderson. Yeah. Because he's homegrown,
02:53he's the young guy, he's, I mean, he's awesome, obviously, but yeah, it still feels like a weird
03:02situation where he had the second most sacks in his career last year, and he still feels a little
03:07bit underrated and under-respected in the league at large. Well, he didn't get, he wasn't even an
03:11alternate for the Pro Bowl. Right. He's second team All-Pro, but not even making alternate Pro
03:16Bowl. Yeah, so I mean, look, maybe I'm arguing against myself. I just got, I just sat here and
03:20said, I mean, and second team All-Pro obviously is huge, but the fact that his own peers and fans,
03:28I mean, the Pro- And coaches. And coaches, like the Pro Bowl is the one thing that incorporates all
03:32of
03:33those elements, that he wasn't even a Pro Bowl alternate. Maybe his star hasn't risen in the eyes
03:37of some people as much as it feels like. I blame Bryce Popp, because Bryce Popp got defensive
03:42player of the year one year where Bruce Smith was obviously the straw that stirred the drink on
03:48that defense. And Bryce Popp was the beneficiary of just getting nothing but single blocks,
03:53being blocked by tight ends and everything. Yeah. And I think people after that thought,
03:57all right, we got to be careful about just heaping too many accolades on a guy who's rushing opposite
04:01of another great pass rusher. This is a different situation. Daniel Hunter is a better pass rusher
04:05than Bryce Popp was. Yes, yes, absolutely. Here, don't put your pop on me. That's right.
04:10All right. Here's Daniel Hunter on the offseason the Texans have been having so far.
04:15You know, I like what I see so far. You know, a lot of good guys, a lot of good
04:18leaders,
04:18you know, a lot of good, a lot of good players on offense and defense. And I feel like that's
04:24going to be a plus for us because it's a whole bunch of veterans. You know, it's a good mixture
04:28of veterans and younger guys. And when that happens, you know, the team could be, the sky's
04:32the limit for the team. They're at a volleyball tournament of some sort.
04:36Is that where they're okay? I hear the whistles. I know he's at some sort of sporting event.
04:39Yeah. I think it was a volleyball tournament. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. He's, uh, you know,
04:44Daniel, Daniel Hunter makes his home here. So he's like pretty much every Texans. Uh, one
04:49of my former teammates has a six foot tall girl. Who's a awesome volleyball. Yeah. Yeah.
04:54It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's got two girls in college and yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep.
04:59Good genes for sure. Um, yeah, they've had a, they've had a really nice off season. You know,
05:03they really haven't done much on the defensive side other than re blank and ship. It's been
05:09all the resources have been thrown at the offensive side. And I think appropriately. So
05:14there wasn't a lot of work to do on that defense, the little bit of work there was to do,
05:17they
05:17addressed it. So thumbs up on the off season so far from Daniel Hunter. Um, final question
05:22here with Daniel Hunter from Luis Ortiz was about the way the season ended in that playoff loss
05:28to new England. From season end, I did. I mean, it is, it is, it happened. Um, the biggest
05:34thing is to learn from it and just build off of it. You know, next season we'll find all
05:38the right pieces that we need. And when it comes time for a game like that, again, we'll
05:43be ready. Yeah, I think, uh, the, you know, nothing earth shattering there and what he says
05:48there, but I, I think the questions always come back to CJ. Um, like everything leads to
05:55CJ in some way or another. When people start discussing everything they did in the
05:58off season and I've sent zero apprehension or cynicism from players or anybody else about
06:06CJ Stroud himself. I don't think there's any worry right now that CJ has somehow lost the
06:12locker room or anything because of those playoff games. Um, and, uh, you know, that, that doesn't
06:17mean that you, the listener have to, you know, you know, have 100% faith in CJ, but like, I
06:24don't foresee that being an issue moving forward. No, I don't either. They've got to take care
06:29of their business in the regular season. I I've, I've said this for, for years and especially
06:33the last couple of years is that they, in some respects, Seth, they're losing these divisional
06:39round playoff games in the regular season by losing games. They're not supposed to lose
06:44that. That is one thing, even at 12 and five last year and, uh, and including a nine game
06:50winning streak to close out the regular season 10, when you add on the Pittsburgh game, um,
06:55the, the losses, especially the beginning of the year, there were some inexcusable things
06:59happening in those losses. You know, the inability to make a tackle on a fourth down against Baker
07:04Mayfield, you win that game, you're 13 and four, not 12 and five. You know, you, you, they had three
07:09turnovers in the fourth quarter of that game against the Jags in week three last year, inexcusable
07:15turnovers. And then, then allow the huge touch or the huge plate, uh, Thomas jr.
07:20That led to a touchdown. That's exactly right. Conceded touchdown. Yes. Yeah. So that that's
07:24so there it's you lose games. I get it. It's the NFL, but they lose games and they've been
07:29doing this now for a couple of, they've been doing it really since D'Amico D'Amico's done
07:33a great job. So this is not me saying fire D'Amico or anything like that, but the first couple
07:38of years he was here, they would lose games against teams. They had no business losing to now
07:43there's no crime in losing to the Rams, the bucks, the Jags last year. But when you're
07:49losing the game, they're not winning the game when they're, when you're making it easier
07:53on them, you're going to be in the divisional round. If you're a one or a two seed, that's
07:56what, that's to me, this team needs to be at home in the playoffs for me to feel good
08:00about them getting to the new heights that D'Amico. Yeah. And that is, um, you know, whether
08:06you believe that last year was a perfect opportunity and it was a weekend day FC or what have
08:10you, we'll see, we'll see how this year plays out. But yeah, in any given year, I, when you,
08:16if take any year before that, you will play out last year, except with the chiefs at the peak of
08:20their powers or the Ravens at the peak of their powers, et cetera, et cetera. It's, it's going to
08:26be really, really hard to go on the road and win versus those teams. A lot of cold weather teams
08:30to get at the very least, you don't want to have to win twice on the road or three times
08:35on the road.
08:35Yep. And that would have been a path to the Superbowl. That was, you would have had to win
08:38three road playoff games as an indoor team. And that's a, and that's, that's a, whether you want
08:45to believe it or not, I like you're an indoor team, you know, it doesn't matter. You're a warm
08:50weather team, cold weather team, anything like that. You're an indoor team that has to go on
08:54the road in cold environments. And for your quarterback so far in cold weather on the road
08:59late in the year, it hasn't been good. It has not. Um, someone saying on the text page,
09:04the way the kids say it these days, Seth is he's your favorite edge rushers, favorite
09:08edge rusher. Oh yeah. That's how the kids say it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he's like your favorite
09:14rappers, favorite rapper. Right, right, right, right, right. You know, like Norm Macdonald was
09:18like that as a comedian because like Norm Macdonald is, you know, remains incredibly popular, but
09:24he was more of like a, a cult favorite. Yeah. He was never, he was never one of the huge
09:28big
09:28time comedians, but comedians themselves just loved the way he wrote and structured his jokes.
09:33Yeah. Yeah. He's very smart. So Daniel Hunter, the Norm Macdonald of past rushers.
09:39I like it. I like it. That's what I think of. Um, it might so speaking of rappers,
09:47this is funny. Someone saying it might sound ludicrous to bring in a top 30 visit to ask
09:52questions about someone else, but it might make sense. If you have the number one overall pick
09:56or in some other situations, this goes back to a topic from a couple of segments ago about
10:00when we were doing the mock draft injection about someone asked, do you think teams actually
10:05schedule guys for visits to the facility to ask questions about their teammates? The funny thing
10:11about that text is ludicrous was spelled like the rapper. Yeah. I have no, I don't think it's,
10:18I don't think it's ludicrous at all. I think that the, and, and so I, the way I interpreted the
10:22question was, would they bring in a guy specifically just to ask about somebody else? And I had said,
10:27I think for quarterbacks for sure. And yeah, for maybe if you've got a top five pick or something
10:31that if, if, if you're going to, if you're thinking about, let's say, well, you know what,
10:36we'll have to go back and see who the top 30 visits were when they'd ended up drafting CJ Stroud.
10:41Yep. And if they did have a way more offensive lineman than they typically do, or way more like
10:47guys from Ohio state that might not be the classic guys that they might be interested in or bring in
10:52for that. Yeah. Makes sense. You just want to pump them for information. Text message. Seth asked
10:57the question last segment about Jose Altuve. Has there ever been a stretch in his career of 10
11:03games where he showed this much plate discipline? Text message, Seth, 10 straight games. Altuve
11:10hasn't shown this plate discipline in 10 straight at bats before. Go Altuve. I don't think I'm not even
11:16going to, you know what, I'm going to claim that I went back and did the research without even doing
11:19it. I feel like I feel, I feel pretty confident. State it as fact, man. Just sound confident and
11:25state it as fact. I'm going to turn it in like a paper plagiarized in 1973. Yep. Before they had
11:30any way of actually fact checking whether you, whether you plagiarize this paper or not. Yeah.
11:35Dude, I had a dream last night that I, I have this dream and this is the kids. This is
11:41the curse of
11:41skipping a lot of class in college is you wind up about once every two months as an adult having
11:48a dream
11:48that you're sitting in the final exam of a class that you had never had never attended
11:53at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did that. I did that a couple of times. I told you I had
11:58that one 0.3
11:59semester things were, I had a lot of, I had a lot of stuff going on. I went to the
12:03finals just in
12:04case. Yeah. I was like, yeah, maybe I read a book or something that can help me here. And I
12:07would,
12:07I was, so I was in this, but one of them was, one of them was like a chemistry class
12:13and I just
12:14hadn't gone and it wasn't, I can't remember which chemistry it was, but it was one of the hard
12:18ones for, for my standards. Yeah. And I remember it was, so it's one of these tests. It takes like
12:23two and a half hours to complete. And about 20 minutes into it, I stood up and walked out and
12:28the look on those kids faces is the most pride I ever felt as a student. Cause I think they
12:32all
12:33thought I was a super genius. Like I was like, I had, I had walked in. It was one of
12:40those huge
12:41classes. It was, uh, it was, uh, it was whatever one of the pre-med chemistries is. And, uh, so
12:47it's
12:47like, even if you're really smart, you got to sit there and you got, it takes a long time to
12:51go
12:51through. And I stood up and I walked out with all the confidence of somebody who had just nailed it.
12:56Yeah. That's really funny. Was your 0.3 semester at a point in your life where you knew you were
13:01going to
13:01the NFL? Oh God. I never knew I was going to the NFL. No, no, no, no. This was going
13:06to do
13:06irreparable damage to my future career. Got you. Okay. At this point. Okay. Got you. Got you. I had
13:11a lot going on. I had a situation going on. You've, you've, you've explained. God bless the professor
13:17who gave me a D, uh, might've been a D minus to get that 0.3 football fan. He was
13:23actually. Yeah.
13:24That makes sense. Makes sense.
13:26Makes sense.
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