The OG John Lopez Has Passing Thoughts On Texans' Loss To Titans

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We do it every week. It's the OG John Lopez with his passing thoughts following the Texans' game, this one a 32-27 loss to the Titans.

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00:00How about the entire game experience from the perspective of one John Lopez?

00:04Let's do a little OG's Passing Thoughts.

00:06Let's do it.

00:07Experiences.

00:08Wisdoms to opinions.

00:10Barbecue sauce.

00:12Our guy Lopez has it all and shares it with you.

00:15I used to go into the clubhouse and I just sh**.

00:19It's time for the OG's Passing Thoughts.

00:23Tell me a story, OG.

00:24Did the Texans go in the clubhouse with you?

00:28They did. They did.

00:29I felt like they was there too.

00:31Yeah, that definitely did feel like a little bit of excrement, didn't it?

00:33It definitely did, which leads to the Passing Thoughts.

00:36This is the first Passing Thought.

00:38Of course, it's all, you know, stream of consciousness as the game goes on.

00:43This was the healthiest the Texans have been,

00:46offensively and defensively, since week one.

00:50Keep in mind, Bears game is when Mixon went down with the hip drop tackle.

00:56We've had multiple injuries since then on the offense or defense,

00:59whether it's Nikko Collins or Will Anderson.

01:04Daniko Autry had a suspension.

01:07We had some injuries.

01:09Like, you're only real starter this in this,

01:12if we're not counting Christian Harris, which by the way, Figgy.

01:15Is that a real person?

01:17Hey, I'll let y'all know when we get the update.

01:22Thank you from the Stiggy News.

01:23Kenny Green was going to get benched anyway, so he's outside.

01:25Was he? He should have been benched.

01:27I can't say definitively that he would have, but yeah.

01:30It's Fuller Rochelle Fatsukase. He was the only one.

01:33He's the only one.

01:33Okay.

01:34This is the healthiest they've been since week one,

01:37and that actually makes it even less encouraging,

01:42you know, because that was a thought I had as the game was starting.

01:44I said, all right, they're healthy on both sides of the ball.

01:47Let's see them cook.

01:48Well, that led to my—

01:50They put raisins in it.

01:52That was what they did.

01:52They put raisins in it, didn't they, Fig?

01:54Too much cinnamon.

01:55Yeah, they put raisins in the potato salad.

01:58Yeah.

01:58Unbelievable.

01:59And that led to my passing thought number two,

02:02and that is I thought it was a bad omen early on.

02:05I thought there was a really bad omen early on.

02:08You could not have had a better start.

02:10I mean, you could not have had a better start to the game.

02:11What's scoring on the first play?

02:12You defer, and then you get the ball.

02:16Wait, before we even get there, big-time return, huh?

02:20That's what I'm saying.

02:20You get the ball instead of—so you defer.

02:23Oh, my bad.

02:24Damien Pierce goes—how far was it?

02:28Well, it was a 19-yard touchdown, so I guess he went 7—well, whatever it was.

02:32I think it was 80 yards, right?

02:3481 yards, something like that.

02:36But anyway, so Damien Pierce has the big kickoff return, and then you have—

02:4180 yards.

02:4280 yards.

02:42And then you have a one-play drive for a touchdown.

02:45You couldn't have started any better.

02:47And then, right after that, the Titans go into the field,

02:52but they go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

02:53Big plays after big play.

02:57I thought that was a bad omen.

02:58You should have run them off the field.

03:00You should have taken that, stuffed them, and then just play pile-on, you know?

03:04Sure.

03:05There's a lot of shouldas in this one, though.

03:07Well—

03:07There's a lot of shouldas in this one.

03:10Well, they shoulda, coulda.

03:11Yeah.

03:11The Titans scored on their first three drives.

03:13Field goal, touchdown, touchdown.

03:15Yeah, yeah.

03:16And that led to bad omen number two,

03:18and I was sitting up there with you at this point in the press box—

03:21Don't put this on me.

03:22Well, I am gonna put it on you.

03:23What?

03:24The Titans were running the ball the way Reggie wants the Texans to run the ball.

03:28That is correct.

03:29They were going 5, 7, 6, 9.

03:33There was no—

03:34The longest play until late in the third quarter, I believe,

03:36maybe it was early in the fourth, when Pollard busted a 27-yarder,

03:39was 17 yards.

03:41That was it.

03:41Their longest rush was 17 yards,

03:43and yet they were averaging 6.8 yards a carry.

03:48That's why I was talking about, you know,

03:51and now for something completely different,

03:52the defense was just getting gashed.

03:55It looked like they didn't have a—

03:58It looked like they didn't have an appropriate amount of pride,

04:02and that was disconcerting.

04:04It could have been pride.

04:05I'm not gonna disagree.

04:06It could have been overconfidence.

04:08It's always really concerning.

04:10Like, I try not to get into these places

04:12where you question people's, like, you know, like, intentions or whatever.

04:15Overconfidence is what I'll call it.

04:16They just—

04:17Whatever you attribute it to.

04:19I'll say it like this.

04:21The effort and energy early on,

04:24and honestly, for the most part throughout the game,

04:26was not there in the right way,

04:27as evidenced by the fact that the tackling was poor.

04:29When did you see Swarm?

04:32It was individual brilliance.

04:33I heard Swarm.

04:34You know how they do the, you know, they have the crowd chant.

04:37When did you see Swarm?

04:40Like, Will Anderson was on another level, by the way.

04:42I'll pass on that answer.

04:43I'll get to that in a minute, but speaking of Reggie,

04:45I got one more for Reggie here as a passing thought.

04:47This is your passing thoughts.

04:49I'm all in it.

04:50Because it's my passing thoughts, and I was thinking of you.

04:54Guess what Reggie said as we're finishing up the first quarter, Figgy?

04:58What'd he say?

05:00You know, that was a really fast first quarter,

05:02and I'm like, what the heck are you doing?

05:03Why did you say that?

05:06I was acknowledging a thing that was there, right?

05:08I was just remarking—

05:10That was a really fast first quarter.

05:11It was!

05:12Second quarter went 52 minutes.

05:15I don't have—

05:16That's on you.

05:16What are you implying?

05:17Are you implying that I have power?

05:19Are you implying that I have power to make things happen?

05:21Because I feel like if I had power to make things happen,

05:24a 32-27 final wouldn't have been what happened.

05:27Right?

05:29Fair?

05:2952 minutes.

05:30I feel like if I had a power to make something happen,

05:32we wouldn't still see tosses.

05:34We wouldn't still see, you know, toss right, toss left.

05:37If I had that.

05:39The 52-minute second quarter was maybe not the outcome.

05:42You know, that's a really fast first quarter.

05:43Oh, shut up.

05:44Don't say that.

05:45Don't ever say that.

05:46It went fast.

05:48I blame the alcohol.

05:48It was a lot of it.

05:49Another passing thought here.

05:50Okay, remember before the season,

05:53when you saw the Texans' home schedule,

05:55and you had quarterbacks like Caleb Williams,

05:57Josh Allen, Jared Goff, Trevor Lawrence for what it's worth,

06:01Anthony Richardson for what it's worth.

06:04What would—

06:05What were the odds—

06:06And by the way, you still have Lamar Jackson and two of them coming up.

06:11What are the odds that Will Levis would have the most passing yards,

06:17the two longest plays in your building, a 63 and a 70-yarder,

06:21and as many TDs passing as any of those guys?

06:27Actual odds?

06:29I'm not good at being an odds maker.

06:30Will Levis.

06:31I would have put it at pretty low percentage-wise.

06:34Owns NRG.

06:36All right, calm down.

06:38I don't like the way you said that.

06:39Okay, I just gave you the numbers.

06:41All those quarterbacks?

06:42You are technically correct, and I don't like it.

06:44Josh Allen, Jared Goff?

06:46Will Levis has had a better game in NRG than them.

06:49I hate it.

06:50Any other quarterback that has come into NRG this year?

06:52Will Levis has had a better game in NRG.

06:54I hate it here.

06:55I hate it here.

06:56I hate it here.

06:57Oh, my gosh.

06:59Here's another one, and this might be a little unfair, but I don't think so.

07:04Jimmy Ward had the pick six that should have turned the game.

07:07You know, it should have been a wrap after that.

07:09You should have gone ahead and just stick a fork in him.

07:12But safety play was bad.

07:15Yeah, man.

07:16This is where the deep play issues that you speaking about some of those other

07:22quarterbacks that, you know, did not play out that well.

07:25It's this entire season for the Texans, especially defensively, as I've come

07:31along, I've come around to the idea of, oh, man, this team is really good

07:34defensively, but early on, we were getting to that place where we're like,

07:37hey, look at the results.

07:38And I was like, okay, but like, how about all those missed passes or

07:41opportunities that have been available over the top that teams had not taken

07:44advantage of?

07:45This is one of those instances where it was like, hey, that came home to roost

07:49in some ways because those deep shots that felt like they were available,

07:53especially early on in the season, they were available again.

07:56And then you had Will Levis capable of actually taking advantage of those to

08:00Calvin Ridley and to Westbrook Aquinae, who oddly enough just seems to do this

08:04a whole bunch, right?

08:05I think he had a 98 yarder, was that two weeks ago?

08:07As well as the big play that you have there, you have Okonkwo having the big

08:12play in space because dudes are just in the wrong place.

08:15That felt like that was something that another one of those threads that was

08:21there to be pulled.

08:22And for some reason, the Titans were the ones to actually come and pull it.

08:24Look, Eric Murray got smoked.

08:27Eric Murray did not cover himself with glory in this one.

08:30And I was looking into your general social media space being like, oh, okay,

08:34there are people evoking that name.

08:37What name?

08:37Do you know the name?

08:38Of who?

08:39Justice Simmons.

08:41Like this goes back to that conversation that was had in the offseason and

08:45we thought that, hey, no, no, you've gotten good enough safety play.

08:48That popped up again because Eric Murray had that kind of game.

08:51On the touchdown to Nick Westbrook Aquinae, smoked.

08:55On the touchdown, Okonkwo, 70 yarder, missed tackle.

08:59Eric Murray, both of those.

09:00And Jimmy Ward, big play, congratulations.

09:03It was very big in the moment, but he whiffed on a couple and

09:06got picked on when Jalen Petrie went out.

09:09Early, yeah, immediately when he had to step into that Jalen Petrie role,

09:12that's very distinct.

09:13Yeah, he wasn't handling it quite well.

09:16He eventually got to a place where he was like, all right, this is,

09:18I think this is fine.

09:19Especially like, he's knifing in and diving in for tackle for

09:22loss in the same way that Jalen Petrie would.

09:24I do wonder, like losing Petrie in that game, Petrie ends up being one of the

09:28dudes that brings some of the swarm.

09:30At least with some of the, he played with the physicality.

09:33It feels like it is exactly the level that D'Amico Rynes would call for.

09:37And when you watch this game and you maybe saw a lack of physicality or

09:42a lesser physicality than was desired, it's easy to look up and be like,

09:45huh, Jalen Petrie wasn't on the field, huh?

09:48One more for you here.

09:49I thought, I mean, this is just sort of a personal feeling.

09:52When you get performances like you did out of Daniel Hunter and

09:55Will Anderson, you got to win that game 10 out of 10 times.

09:58They had five sacks combined, five more quarterback hits,

10:03seven tackles for losses.

10:05You got to win that game 10 out of 10.

10:07We talked about swarm, this was an individual brilliance kind of

10:10defensive performance by just those two dudes.

10:12Correct.

10:14I think one of the questions I wanted to ask during this program,

10:19were there any Texans that escaped your ire?

10:22Those two dudes.

10:22Those were the two that immediately came to mind and I was like,

10:26are there any possibles?

10:27Yeah, and we got any Spades players, right?

10:28I got two.

10:29Do you got any possibles in here?

10:31Two in the possible.

10:31Right, like do you have any possibles?

10:33Because those are the ones that came to mind immediately that I was like, yes.

10:36And then I was like, I don't know.

10:37Are there any more?

10:38So keep that in mind.

10:39We might run that through and have that conversation or you know,

10:42might as well text in on the 5-Hour Energy fan line, 713-572-4610.

10:46Let me know.

10:46Were there any other players in this game that escaped your ire, escaped

10:50your anger as it felt like it was pretty even across the board, which

10:55just speaks to how problematic it is.

10:58In fact, what you're talking about, your final passive thought there,

11:00the idea that you have eight sacks, you have performances from your

11:03edges, your pass rushers at that level, and you don't get a win is

11:07because you had so flatly across the board, so many, you know, failure,

11:12big or small from all sorts of guys across this team that didn't allow

11:15you to get a win against a team that you probably should.

11:18I mean, D'Amico said it and we'll play it at some point.

11:21One of the most frustrating things about this game is that with all

11:24of the things that you did not accomplish or that you did not play

11:28up to the standard of in this game, you still had a chance to win.

11:31Yeah.

11:32Frustrating.

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