00:00Let's get to Jalen Petrie here. Jalen Petrie met with the media yesterday. This was funny. He got
00:04asked about Will Anderson Jr. I wonder if Will Anderson Jr. starts to become what J.J. Watt
00:09used to be. You mentioned this yesterday, I think, about how back in the day when J.J. was winning
00:13Defensive Players of the Year, other Texans would get interviewed. And by the third question,
00:18it was like, so what's it like to play with J.J. Watt? Right. Yeah. It always came back around
00:23to
00:23J.J. somehow. So I wonder if Will Anderson Jr. will have a similar dynamic as he continues to
00:28evolve into the world wrecker that he is. D'Amico Ryan said he was wrecking practice so badly
00:33that he might have to take Will out of practice so the offense can get some things done. Tongue
00:38in cheek, I think. But here was Jalen Petrie asked about that. Yeah, Will is Will. He's
00:43going to wreck practices, wreck games, wreck meetings. He's going to wreck everything.
00:46You know, that's what, you know, that's why he's the best. Because he shows up every day
00:51ready to work, ready to push others, inspire others. And, you know, he's a great leader for
00:55his team, a great player for his team. And, you know, he's definitely already, like you
00:58said, wrecking havoc out there in t-shirt and shorts. You know, coach is always on a tipping
01:02point of like, do I slow him down? It's like, that's just Will. Like, you can't really slow
01:06him down. Well, yeah, no. And that is because there's tempo violations. There's a way to go
01:11about it where you're not, you're just going hard, but not being overly physical. And I think
01:15that's what Will does. And he's just really, really good. Yeah. So I think, like, we like to joke
01:21around how he's wrecking practice and everything. There is a thing about when you're in no pads
01:25or even in training camp, when you're in pads, like the play continues, even though there
01:28would have been a theoretical sack. Um, they, you know, they'll call out sack or whatever,
01:34but like they should at the very least keep extending to get the, to get the passing part
01:39at least for a couple more seconds. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, but CJ is good about not CJ. Isn't
01:43one of those annoying quarterbacks is a defensive player. You hate these guys that'll stand there
01:47for 10 seconds. I mean, that happened. CJ's rookie year before he learned how to practice
01:53like in the NFL. Um, plus he was coming out of a school where he did have 10 seconds of
01:59time. That's true. You know, um, it's a big adjustment to only having two seconds. Somebody's
02:03going to be open after 10 seconds, but like CJ's got a pretty good feel for how to practice
02:08now where, okay. After a few seconds, if nobody's open, you pull down and that pisses off defensive
02:13players, huh? Well, yeah. Especially if you're a defensive back, you're out there running
02:16around and it looks like you got, especially I would imagine in this day and age where
02:20stuff gets broadcast all over social media. Oh yeah. They show a highlight of Stingley
02:24getting beat, but it's not the way you don't see is that. Yeah. That was, that was after
02:29the receiver made his eighth cut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Uh, here's Jalen Petrie
02:36being asked an actual question that probably has a difficult answer. Like the defense was so
02:41good last year. What, what can the defense do to take the next step? Pure execution? Like
02:46I said, like it's been plenty of games, you know, a play here, a play there. Um, we haven't
02:52been, um, our best. So it's about like getting everything out of it, squeezing the towel dry,
02:58like doing everything we can to be 100% correct at all times. Like that's our next step and it's
03:03going to be hard, but that's what we want. We want the hard stuff because everybody can do
03:07that squeeze the towel dry, Sean squeeze the towel dry. Well, I do think back, obviously
03:12the defense was elite last year. So I go back to thinking like, okay, where's the, were
03:16there times that this defense cost the Texans and there were like, you know, the missed tackle
03:21by Henry Toa Toa in the Tampa Bay game cost them the game, right? They make a tackle there.
03:26The game is over. They win that game in week two Jaguars to Brian Thomas, uh, junior. Yeah.
03:31Yeah. The Brian Thomas junior catch and run. And there probably were one or two other plays
03:34in that game, but that was the big one. You're absolutely right. Uh, the, the letting Bo
03:38Nix escape at the end of the Bronco game is set up the game winning field goal. Yeah.
03:42You know, but that's, that just goes to show you how good this defense is. You and I are
03:46literally naming like three or four. We can remember the moments, right? Yeah. It's not
03:50this, just this tsunami. No, but that's exactly. And we've already heard from Aziz
03:54Elshire talk about that. You know, they've, the, the coaches have already talked to them
03:58about the explosive plays. Some of the breakdowns that have occurred that it's, it's that
04:02you, and you don't assume that you just step back out and you're an awesome defense and
04:06you just have to tweak these things. They got to start off at square one and a lot of things
04:09every year. Um, but I do think the, the thing that makes me optimistic about them actually
04:15potentially being even better this year is that they were, they were a young secondary
04:21last year. They still had Kamari Lasseter and Kalen Bullock as second year players. Those
04:26guys aren't true veterans yet. Um, but they were awesome. And, but there's things that
04:33you can add on to, and there's a, a higher level of play that those guys get just by becoming
04:39more experienced, more intelligent NFL players and adding in Reed Blankenship to, instead of
04:45having to kind of massage things. And remember we talked about how they just, you couldn't
04:49disguise, they didn't disguise coverages all that much. And it's kind of cool. And you can
04:52beat your chest about how, Hey, we just line up and play like over time. That really gets
04:57tested if you just line up and play all the time. But they, one of the, one of the difficulties
05:03they had last year was without a steady starter next to Kalen Bullock, there's only so much
05:09you can do pre-snap where you're not really then messing up, you know, a rookie, you got
05:15Jalen Reed starting as a rookie with very little experience. Street guys that have been on the
05:20team like wall cave on wall. Yeah. So like every little wrinkle you add pre-snap makes
05:24it that much harder to be, to be sound during the play. And I think they might be able to
05:30build on that this year and just add a few more wrinkles here and there. Does Jalen Petrie
05:33believe the Texans have the best secondary in the NFL? I definitely feel like we're the
05:38best secondary just because, you know, it's us. Like I think anybody would say that about
05:42themselves, but I think more so it's, it's the work that we put in on a daily. And then
05:46it's also the work that we put in on Sundays. Like our group is top to bottom, left to right,
05:51going to go out there and make plays on Sundays. Like you for sure going to see Sting catching
05:55the pick, Kamari catching the pick, Kalen catching, like everybody is doing something. Reed catching
06:00the pick, knocking somebody out, J. Reed, Huzz. Like I could go down the line for everybody,
06:05no matter who's in, what week it is, pre-season, post-season, practice, like everybody best in
06:11that room. And I think that that just pushes everybody like forward. Like nobody is satisfied in
06:16that room. And, and, and that's why I believe that we're the best. Yeah. I mean, look, they've
06:19got three or four pro bowl or pro bowl alternate, whatever. I mean, this is a decorated secondary.
06:25That's very, to your point, very young still like Derek Stingley Jr. and Jalen Petrie are
06:30the senior citizens in this secondary and their contract is Stingley's contract extension hasn't
06:36even kicked in yet that he signed last year. So it's a young secondary. It's obviously very
06:41talented, very decorated. Um, I would, I would submit blindly almost that this might be the
06:50best position group, like a room in football. Well, no, no, well, maybe, maybe, no, I was going
06:55to say in, in Texans history. Oh, okay. This might be, and I'm trying to think of the other ones
07:00that
07:01would be in the conversation, like the offensive line that Kubiak had in 2011, 2012 was really good.
07:06That had three pro bowlers on it with Myers and Wade, Dwayne Brown. If you think about the
07:11defensive line, when it was JJ Watt, Antonio Smith, if you include Connor, you know, Connor
07:16Barwin, technically a linebacker, but a part of the pass rush, I'm just thinking about the,
07:21the, yeah, it's still, yeah, it's kind of JJ and a bunch of other guys. They've got potentially
07:26five pro bowlers in pro bowlers to all pros in the secondary right now. Yes. If you look at it,
07:32with, you're saying with Blankenship coming in. Yeah. Yeah. The steadiness of it and the
07:37completeness of it is really, really impressive. Yeah. Like I, I, I, maybe I'll do that exercise
07:42this weekend and go back through some of the old Texans teams. So, I mean, you, like you play,
07:47the people don't, they forget because it was an expansion team because, you know, you guys didn't
07:52make the playoffs or anything like that, but you were on a really good defense that probably had some,
07:57some position groups that are in a Texans conversation like this. Yeah. Yeah. There were some really
08:02good defenses you played on, on a early there early. Yeah. Yeah. But nothing, I did nothing
08:06like, uh, nothing like these guys. Yeah. I'm just trying to ridiculously, it's very talented,
08:11impressive. I was just looking, I had been looking at some of the preseason rankings of
08:14secondaries going into last year and where were they? The Texans were, I think they were,
08:20I would see them at like fourth or fifth and a lot of them. And the couple that I've found
08:25so far
08:25this off season, again, like these are just subjective rankings by people. Um, they both had the Texans at the
08:31top. Got to be followed by the Broncos and the Seahawks. Um, I hadn't even thought about best
08:36position group in 2026 NFL, but they're in the conversation for by virtue of being number one
08:42on, on, of all secondaries in the NFL. They're at least in that conversation. Right, right, right.
08:47Yeah. I'd have to do some research on that. I will. That's the, I will. I'll get back to you
08:51and the audience on Monday. No, don't tell them just me. I'll tell you first. Then you need to tell
08:55me if it's worth telling them. I have a premium membership. $8.99 a month, baby. Yeah.
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