00:00Should the Texans seriously listen to teams interested in, and by the way, when I say listen, I also mean
00:08make some phone calls to also listen to the people on the receiving end of their phone calls.
00:14Should they listen to these kinds of individuals? Anybody costing the Texans serious money and or are on expiring contracts,
00:26and that might mean some really uncomfortable names to mention, like David Montgomery, who you just got, like Daniil Hunter,
00:34who you're paying $40 million to, I think.
00:36And you know what? This one's going to pierce the heart. This one's going to grab you by the, and
00:42it might suck a little bit. No pun intended.
00:46Nico Collins, should you be listening, should you start conversations in what very well could be a lost season?
00:54Now, Texans ain't going to come straight out on a microphone or a TV camera and say, yep, this season's
01:00foobar, we're done for.
01:02They ain't going to do that. No, we hope, we think, we're doing all the right things, blah, blah, blah.
01:06Everything you've heard the last 48 to 72 hours from D'Amico Rines and Nick Casario, that's the usual.
01:13Hey, you're 25-year veterans of this Houston Texans franchise. You know the drill. You know the drill.
01:19We've been disappointed before. We've had expectation before. Never as high as this.
01:23And we've been disappointed beyond belief before. Should the Houston Texans be seriously considering
01:30parting ways with some fan favorites, some guys that make us really happy when they're healthy
01:37and playing good football on a good football team? Should they be entertaining this, PC?
01:43I think you need to hedge your bets. Once again, they're on life support at 2-5.
01:50You were 0-4. You were on life support. You win two games in a row. Things are going in
01:55the right direction.
01:56And then somehow, in your own building yet again, your offensive line can't block a paper bag.
02:03Your defense has it run right down their damn throats, parting like the Red Sea.
02:09Good thing they wore the red uniforms, so like the visual was perfect.
02:14And hold on a second. I think the Jetsons just got called for another penalty.
02:19It was embarrassing. What do they have, 14 flags?
02:2410 accepted.
02:25Yeah, but accepted. I think they had like 14 flags thrown on them.
02:29Yeah.
02:31It's week seven. What the hell? How is that even possible?
02:37And what happened to the Texans' run defense?
02:41What happened to the Texans' physicality?
02:43What happened to the swarm mentality?
02:46Those guys got shoved all over the field, offensively, defensively.
02:53The offensive line was a damn joke.
02:58This was an embarrassing performance on damn near every front.
03:04It really was. It was embarrassing.
03:07And now they find themselves right back where they were three weeks ago, which is clinging to life by a
03:14single string.
03:17And you get the bye week, then you get the Chargers game in LA, and then two days after the
03:24Chargers game is the deadline.
03:27If you don't win the Chargers game, you're selling because you're not coming back from two and six.
03:34And I don't think there's any reason to think you could come back from two and six.
03:37They literally have a bye week here to get their heads out of their asses, especially on defense.
03:45You know, before the season started, you had asked me, hey, one of these units goes back, offense, defense, which
03:51one could you more withstand?
03:53Yeah.
03:54Clearly the answer is not defense.
03:56And that was our answer.
03:58That was our answer.
03:59That was everybody's answer, right?
04:01Like, my question was, is like, if there was a facet of this team, like one of the three, offense,
04:10defense, special teams, or even within a unit, receiver core, offensive line, like linebackers, D-line,
04:18if this team could withstand a regression at one of those levels, in one of those facets, what could it
04:26be?
04:27I think we all said defense.
04:30I think we all said defense.
04:32Like, hey, man, you were the number one NFL defense last season.
04:35In dominating fashion, you took what you always thought was yours.
04:40They took the ball away almost at will.
04:42They generated takeaways more than any other team in the league.
04:46And they played more physical than you.
04:49They were nastier than you.
04:50Hell, they didn't play to the line.
04:52They crossed that line.
04:53We saw it a number of times, right?
04:55They literally played on the edge.
04:58And I loved, I loved the reputation that D'Amico Ryan's and this defense was building.
05:04And now it is a defense that is getting flexed on in their own building in overtime.
05:11Like, the Giants are so confident that they win the toss and they say, yeah, you can have
05:19the ball first and try to score on us bitches.
05:22And they go three and out.
05:24Seriously?
05:25And then, what was it, three plays for them that they score on the Houston Texans?
05:29Maybe four.
05:29I don't know what the hell it was.
05:31It was too damn quick on the ground with a dude that just got benched.
05:35The dude that, you know, damn near tore his hamstring.
05:39Probably would have scored if he wouldn't have, you know, tweaked the hammy or whatever the
05:43case may be.
05:44I'm surprised it even slowed him up.
05:46That guy's so damn psycho.
05:47You figured he'd just run right off the thing.
05:49The thing would just fall off the bone and he's still going.
05:52You know, just picks up his left leg and he's going to bring it with him as he hops down
05:55the field.
05:56It's psycho.
05:57So, that's where we are.
06:00And so, games like that, when, and you've been through the gamut, the seven weeks in,
06:06you're two and five.
06:07Not every time, but a lot of the time, you've experienced these things.
06:11You've either been outcoached.
06:12You've been outschemed.
06:14You've been outphysicaled.
06:15You've been outtalented.
06:17You've been beat by a quarterback that may never play quarterback for anybody ever again,
06:23Daniel Jones.
06:24Oh, my gosh.
06:26Oh, my gosh.
06:27Like, so, sometimes when those things happen, it creates, you know, fractures.
06:34It creates compound fractures.
06:37And what I'm getting at is, hey, man, you've said it PC to me and we know it to exist
06:42to
06:42it to be true because that's what we've been told and that's what we've witnessed.
06:46But if this is a 50-50 partnership, like we believe it is between D'Amico Ryans and Nick
06:51Asario, then it's times like these where those working relationships, those business
06:58relationships, they can fracture.
07:00They can break because one or the other, if not both, are trying to save their own ass
07:05or trying to save the team or trying to save the season or trying to pivot for their next
07:08job because, you know, theoretically, they're still young in the business and they've got
07:13to look out for themselves.
07:15And so I'm wondering now if we can trust D'Amico Ryans and Nick Asario to approach this buy
07:24week with the necessary aggression, whatever that means, to approach this trade deadline
07:32with the appropriate aggression, again, whatever that means for them to make the most sense
07:38for this season and beyond and beyond, like, can we trust them to continue to work as a
07:46tandem, but not to do the same damn thing?
07:49Because at this point in time, it calls into question, do you need to pivot?
07:54Is there a different course of action you've got to take to get back to what this team we
08:00all thought was capable of doing?
08:02And that is contending for a Super Bowl.
08:04Now, for those of us like me, and I have to speak for all of us in this room because
08:09your money's on that ticket to PC, dumbasses.
08:12We look like damn fools for thinking that because of the product that they've shown on
08:18the field.
08:19Yeah.
08:20You know what?
08:20I've thrown money away on worse things.
08:22Fair.
08:23But, uh...
08:24I can think like it was...
08:25I know, like it was yesterday, the worst thing I've ever spent $250 on in my life.
08:30More on that later.
08:30You know, we've, uh...
08:32There was a lot of hope and a lot of excitement coming into this season.
08:36And, man, so far, they've spit the bit.
08:39You know what?
08:41I don't want to hear about fire Nick Casario because your quarterback isn't the problem.
08:48Your...
08:49Even your skill position players aren't the problem.
08:51Your blocking scheme is a problem.
08:53That seems to be a problem all the time.
08:55All right, I got tired of seeing Lakin Tomlinson starting for the Green Bay Packers.
09:00That guy got ran out of here so fast he thought he stole City Hall.
09:03Is he really starting?
09:04He was starting for the Packers.
09:06Is Juice Scruggs still starting for the Lions?
09:08Starting for the Lions.
09:10If you tell me Kenyon Green is starting for somebody, I will be very upset.
09:15I can't answer that question off the top of my head.
09:16Okay.
09:18Kenyon Green, I believe, is out of the league because he had hurt his shoulder and never really overcame that
09:23injury.
09:24Yeah, yeah.
09:24But it's amazing how many guys that weren't even going to make this roster are starting for better teams right
09:33now.
09:33Yeah.
09:34All right.
