What Do You Feel Best About With The Texans' Victory Over Colts?

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00:00What do you feel best about a day later after the Texans got a 29-27 victory in Indy versus

00:06the Colts, 7-1-3-5-7-2-4-6-10, because Lopez, you feel very strongly that there is one correct

00:13answer about this.

00:14Yeah, there is a question.

00:15The way I put it on the dock with you guys this morning is, what do you feel best about

00:19a day later and why is it the interior offensive line?

00:22Yeah.

00:23It is.

00:24I didn't go full Reggie, full Seth Payne and scour the all-22, but I did re-watch the

00:31game yesterday.

00:32Okay.

00:33And I was old-school, guy that texts in occasionally, figure that says, it's all about the line.

00:38You got to watch the line.

00:40It starts in the trenches.

00:41It starts in the trenches.

00:42It starts up front.

00:43Hand in the dirt.

00:44The game, in its essence, is about blocking and tackling, baby.

00:47I was that guy.

00:48I re-watched, and I was going through it pretty quickly just play-by-play.

00:51Watched the offensive line, because we all know what Joe Mixon did.

00:55We all know how good Joe Mixon looked.

00:56Man, they did a good job.

00:58So well.

00:59Man, they did a good job.

01:00It's about the offensive line.

01:01Dude, I'm telling you.

01:02I was that guy, and I'm proud to say it, because I think it did a few things for me.

01:09Juice Grugs, who I've been kind of high on since training camp, looked outstanding.

01:14I mentioned Kenyon Green yesterday.

01:16D'Amico Ryans was over the top with Kenyon Green, and so I was kind of watching it.

01:24These guys were mauling.

01:26Like they were flat mauling, and it just got me thinking, like, you don't have to have

01:31a running back go for, what'd it go, 159?

01:34That is correct.

01:35That number is going to be etched in my brain.

01:36You don't have to have a guy go for 159 all the time, but as I mentioned yesterday, if

01:41you have an offensive line that, let's say he's run for 78 yards on 16 carries, and you

01:47go into the fourth quarter, and he can run for 30 and move the chains, or 40 and move

01:52the chains in the fourth quarter, if you have a line that can instill their will,

01:57like I said yesterday.

01:58Just imposing.

01:59Yes.

02:00Grown-ass man football.

02:01Then that's something that can carry this team to places that it's frankly never been

02:06before.

02:07Absolutely.

02:08I'm 100% there, and it really is for the reasons that you've laid out, and that we've talked

02:11about all up and down here on 610 is the idea of, hey man, when they know what you have

02:16to do, and you know what you have to do, and you were able to go and just beat them, right?

02:20That's competition, man.

02:22That's the essence of competition, and that's where you prove that you are the best, right?

02:25There's ways in which you can deceive and scheme, and in some ways, you want to do that

02:29as much as possible to give yourself the best chance, but the real instances in any sport

02:35where we're like, oh, this dude is tough, this dude is a dog, as Laramie Tunsil and

02:40others would like to mention, right?

02:41Basketball, 1v1, right?

02:42Football, let's go on one-on-ones, wide receiver, cornerback, who got it, right?

02:48Penalty kicks in some ways, although that's kind of, but you end up in one-on-ones, right?

02:53In live play, there's all of these instances where it's like, you have one goal that you're

02:57trying to achieve, I know exactly what you're trying to achieve, and I'm trying to stop

03:00you.

03:01Those are the real essence of competition, and running the football in some of those

03:04moments where you're trying to close out the game are those, and in test number one, the

03:09Texans proved not just to pass, but also be incredibly capable of doing it, and in large

03:14part that was because Drew Scruggs, Shaq Mason, and maybe most importantly, Kenya Green were

03:20on their grind on Sunday.

03:23It also shows you, what's that term you use occasionally, truth of cause, or what is it?

03:28A proof of concept.

03:29A proof of concept.

03:30Proof of concept.

03:31Proof of concept.

03:32To me, I might steal that occasionally.

03:33Oh, please do.

03:34It's one of my favorites.

03:35I like that.

03:36Big six.

03:37Because the proof of concept here is, like, let's say if the Colts, when the Colts are

03:42really good and can beat you, it's going to be almost, not one-off, but kind of like

03:48one-off plays, like Anthony Richardson goes nuts.

03:52Anthony Richardson throws the ball deep four times and completes three of them for touchdown.

03:57The concept here is, how do you know the Texans can be great?

04:01Because that's not a one-off when you're just boom, boom, boom, boom.

04:05That's not a freak occurrence that you're proving you're better.

04:09It's not a one-play.

04:10Over and over and over again.

04:11Yes.

04:12It's a one-off play thing.

04:13Yeah.

04:14And D'Amico Ryan's, you know, he was talking about this, actually, on the Coach's Show

04:18last night.

04:19Got to listen to all the Texans' radio problems.

04:21Well, and shout out to our guys that put it out there.

04:25That's how I listen to it and cut it up.

04:27But listen to him just, frankly, giddy about it.

04:30Yeah, the key, I think, it starts, like you said, with the interior guys.

04:33Start with Juice, right?

04:34And Juice, and he had a big matchup going against Grover at that two-high position.

04:40He did a great job of flattening him.

04:42So once Joe was getting the ball, we had such great lateral movement that there were these

04:47creases on the backside that we were able to hit.

04:50And that starts with, you know, the guards in the center being able to move, and they

04:53did a really good job.

04:55And when you run outside zone, it goes back to the backside blocks.

04:59And we had one that was a very teach-tape-worthy block of LT and KG.

05:04They were able to get a backside block on Buckner.

05:07Joe cuts back, and it's huge land.

05:09And like you talked about, I said the O-line, but I got to give credit to everyone.

05:13When you run the ball that well, our tight ends, the way they stepped up and blocked

05:18on the edge.

05:19I mean, K, Brevin, and Dalton did a really nice job getting the hat on the hat in the

05:24run game.

05:25And also our receivers.

05:26We talk about Nikko and the big plays that he made down the field, the third and 11.

05:31But in the run game, Nikko is blocking, right?

05:34Robert Woods steps in, he probably had about 12 snaps in the game.

05:37Clinic, teach-tape, wide receiver blocking with physicality.

05:42It was outstanding by all of our guys on the perimeter as well as our offensive line.

05:48I do love, you can tell when a coach is giddy, when they're like, I would put this on film

05:52and show it to other people to teach them.

05:53Teach-tape.

05:54Especially when you talk about D'Amico.

05:55D'Amico was a teacher.

05:56A clinic.

05:57He used the word a clinic.

05:58Right, he's like, this is how you do it.

06:01This is what I was hoping for, this is what I envisioned when I told y'all, this is what

06:04I wanted.

06:05I mean, absolutely those guys on the perimeter deserve credit because that's some of the

06:08things we were talking about when we were scheming up runs, making sure you have hats

06:11on hats.

06:12And you definitely saw that.

06:13I just love some of the language that we used with the offensive line when you went just

06:18flat.

06:19Hat on hat.

06:20Flattened him.

06:21He flattened him.

06:22I imagined cartoon steamrollers just like mowing folks down.

06:26And that's kind of what it looked like.

06:28The stats looked cartoonish, right?

06:29I was showing you the breakdown of where Joe Mixon picked up a lot of his yards and touchdown.

06:35Wide left, right?

06:37Behind the likes of Laramie Tunsell and Kenyon Green and they did a fantastic job.

06:41Absolutely this is something that I am super excited about.

06:43If no other reason then, obviously they were really good, but also the delta from where

06:49the expectation was and where they performed last season to this week one performance.

06:54Not saying that this is the end all be all, but that change in start to finish is so great

06:59that it deserves the plaudits and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

07:03And that's why, you know, one day later what I feel best about is the line, but specifically

07:09the interior line because that's where the biggest questions were.

07:13And it's not, like I said, it's not a one-off.

07:16It's not a, oh, they hit a big play.

07:19No, it's they crammed it down our throat in the fourth quarter.

07:22That's a big difference between a team that can be great and a great team.

07:27And I think there's a big difference there.

07:29It's not just Jeff on the YouTube that said, you know, it's coming.

07:31Look at what happened last night with the Niners in their running game, right?

07:34It's definitely something that was picked up.

07:36And honestly, like those offenses are similar, right?

07:38That's the Bobby Sloak inspiration in some ways.

07:41And so yeah, you can see, I think that's also another thing that's fun is like you see the

07:45ways in which the legacy of running back says the Niners seem to be carrying that on, right?

07:49Where you can look at the likes of Mostert and you look at McCaffrey and now even you

07:53see, I mean, even Debo you can put in there and then you also put in a Jordan, yeah, Jordan

07:58Mason.

07:59Running the football is paramount to what they do in addition to being able to throw

08:02the ball.

08:03And in that Shanahan type system, the Texans are doing that this year.

08:08That's really fun.

08:09And anything that you think is going to be like, you feel best about a day later?

08:14To me, I think it's the interior line because we know what we're getting in CJ Stroud and

08:17we'll talk about that later.

08:18We know what we're getting in Joe Mixon now, you know, he's proving himself there.

08:23But to be able to say those guys in the middle against a really good defensive line and especially

08:28a really good interior defensive line by the Colts, I could not feel better about anything

08:33other than that.

08:34That's right.

08:35In the Loop, Sports Radio.

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