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Is It Time To Question Everything With The Texans?
KILT-AM / SportsRadio 610
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12/26/2024
After the Texans' 31-2 loss to the Ravens on Christmas Day, Payne and Pendergast wonder if it's time to question everything with this Houston team. Can you trust anything about it?
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This is the, these are not the fun ones, man, because this is where you're questioning the
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overall direction of everything right now. This is low point of the Demeco Ryan's era.
00:10
There wasn't necessarily a turning point in a game in which no points would be scored
00:14
by the Texans offense. It was more of a, I was trying to figure out when did I run out
00:18
of pep talks for myself? I think it might've been when they, when they didn't score down
00:24
from the four yard line and Greg Olson we'll play the audio later because I just, I went
00:29
back and I watched the condensed TV this morning. Cause I, and I, I'm going to go back
00:35
and watch the whole broadcast because I like Greg Olson a lot in the Netflix broadcast
00:39
to see how they did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boy, I'll relive all of this at least three
00:43
times in the next 48 hours. So the, the thing that, and I'm at, by the way, we've got John
00:49
Harrison tomorrow filling in for you and I'm excited to have John's perspective on a lot
00:53
of this. I think when they, when, after the incompletion of matchy on third down from
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the four yard line that Greg Olson said, I just, you know, I'd like to see some crossers
01:07
or some meshes here, something to help guys get open because in that situation on that
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play, they're running just a bunch of guys across the board who aren't especially great
01:17
at creating separation and man coverage and all just lined up trying to get separation
01:23
in about like a five yard area in the most condensed part of the field.
01:29
That was almost like the perfect summation, everything. Cause part of it too, not to excuse
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Bobby Sloak or anybody else, but part of it comes into because while you certainly don't
01:38
have a team that can just mash it in, you know, your play action is rendered moot because
01:44
nobody respects the Texans run game whatsoever. But, but yes, there are some things you can
01:49
do from a play calling standpoint. They just looked just inept and unable to compete yesterday.
01:54
That was where I realized, all right, there I, my pep talks are gone. The defense,
01:59
you know, we're going to talk a lot about CJ Stroud and the offense for the rest of the
02:03
season and on into the off season, especially, but the defense come out the way they did
02:09
really unaware. I was really disappointed in the defensive tackles, you know, and I probably,
02:13
I, I brother-in-law the defensive line a little too much maybe cause I've got a natural sympathy
02:19
for him, man, the Ravens credit to them for a game plan that said, Hey, these defensive linemen
02:24
play a hyper-aggressive style of football. And we're just going to exploit that. And in the
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defensive tackles obliged, they were running upfield unaware. And it's just that, Hey,
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I didn't know you could block me from that direction. It was ugly, man. It was ugly all
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around. It was bad. I, um, I guess technically I tapped out, you know, I, I do take copious notes
02:44
during the game and I, you know, I pride myself on taking notes all the way to the final gun,
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you know, just the, the, the two columns, one for each half, each possession down in distance,
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you know, the key play circle. I'm got the 31 to two on that very easy. Mark Andrews touchdown
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where literally I'm just typing touchdown coming dot, dot, dot. And then Mark Andrews,
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like you just know, like this Ravens team, you just know it's coming. And I just wrote
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about a third of the way down the second half column. Hope y'all enjoyed the Beyonce concert
03:16
because, uh, because unless something, uh, noteworthy happens, this is the end of the
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Pender notes for tonight. Thanks for ruining Thanksgiving and Christmas giving and retro
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actively. Oh, they did ruin Thanksgiving by losing to the Titans the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
03:31
Yeah. So they at home, you want to funk for four days at home. It's kind of did actually. Yeah.
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Um, they ruined Thanksgiving and Christmas this year and that's unforgivable.
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Another thing that bothers me to major eating holidays. The thing that bothers me the most
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is that this is a team that the two opportunities they've had to play on just the four days of rest
03:52
this year, the Thursday night game versus the jets and now versus the Ravens. They were just
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complete no-shows that they, they just flat out. We're not ready compared to another NFL team on
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short rest to come out and play a football game. Like I've, I feel it's hard for me not to look at
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it and just, and wonder, all right, what about the core DNA of this team is not on the same level or
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caliber of, of other NFL teams like the jets? Yeah. Well, I think it, I think it, it's a great
04:23
point. What was the season last season was noon, Sunday, noon, Sunday, noon, Sunday, noon, Sunday,
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and you get into a routine and there are certain things about last season's Texans exhilarating as
04:35
it was them going 10 and seven, making the playoffs, winning a playoff game. I'm not trying
04:39
to diminish that at all, but there is something to be said for playing a schedule where maybe the
04:43
third best quarterback you played was Baker Mayfield last year. And you played noon, Sunday,
04:49
every game until week 18, where they put you on in primetime against the Colton. You won that game
04:53
to their credit, the step up in weight class this season. And they may wind up with the same record
05:00
as they did last year, 10 and seven, but we know the truth with this team right now.
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And the truth is not in the nine and eight or 10 and seven that they will call 10 and seven.
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If they beat the Titans, the truth is not in that record. The truth is in the record over the last
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eight games, which is three and five. And the truth is big time in the record against good
05:20
teams this year, which is one in five winning teams, even though you've slugged it out with
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a couple of them, but you look totally outclassed games. No, you know, the thing is when I say
05:30
slug it out, I mean, some of those it's that you, you let it go in the fourth quarter.
05:34
That's right. It was, you slugged it out for three quarters with some of the better teams,
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but ultimately like what the good teams do is the, in the fourth quarter, the players,
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the coaches, everybody have kind of learned something from the previous three quarters
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and they go out and execute in the fourth quarter. The Texans have been the exact opposite in that
05:53
regard. And then it's like in CJ, we probably, I did this on my live stream last night. We're
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eight minutes into it. And I mean, it's a little fit in the room. It's the most obvious thing in
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the room. CJ just flat out played awful last night. There was just no excuses there. You can
06:12
take various plays and say, okay, well, there's a drop here, a drop there, just way too many easy
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passes that CJ misfired on too many times where you could just tell that the rhythm and timing
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and everything else was just a little bit off, you know, that throw to Dalton that he missed
06:26
when Dalton was wide open in the flat. He's sure he was getting hit at the time, but he also could
06:32
have, he could have made that decision a lot earlier. Just knowing what the coverage was and
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knowing where the opportunity was, Schultz would have had 30 yards on that play. There's so many,
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the misfired, Metchie missed one too, Mixon, all these short easy passes.
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The first one was he missed Nico over his head on second down and the Schultz play was the very
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next play on third down after that, you know, and obviously CJ took full accountability for it, but
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that's, and you know, and he's the, he's the head of the snake, you know, you chop off the head and
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the body fails. Like, so that's, he can't have those moments in games like that. You're a hundred
07:09
percent. Right? Like this is that, that is, that's the most worrisome thing to come out of this game
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for me that they got blown out by the Ravens. I expected that. I said, 31, 17 in my mind,
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when I made that prediction, I'm like, probably could be a lot worse. I like, I, I felt going
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into this game, a, they were running on fumes and B the Ravens are just, I feel like the Ravens
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best game is the best of any team's best game out there. Like they're the team that had bills
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included. They're the team that has the most propensity, especially because they're getting
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it together on defense now to embarrass you. And they embarrassed the Texans yesterday, but you're
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a hundred, right? The most worrisome thing to come out of this game yesterday
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is that there was nowhere else to point with the deficiencies in the passing game.
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Other than C I mean, there are plenty of places to point, but this was the first time I felt like,
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boy, the criticism I've always felt like the criticism CJ has been getting this season has
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been a little over the top. Not that he doesn't deserve some blame, but that it's been a little
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over the top based on all the stuff going on around him that I don't think is his fault.
08:10
This was his fault yesterday. I would say in the last two weeks, especially there are mistakes
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he's making that are completely independent of whether it's poor blocking or not. And that's
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when he's in situations where he, he cannot take a sack. He's taken sacks or just, there's a play
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where it's a, Hey, it's the, it's designed to get the ball out quickly and all right.
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The play doesn't work out. So the, the past protection will fail by design on those plays.
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And he's taken a sack. Like you just, you gotta get rid of the football. He didn't do that last
08:43
year. No, that was the, one of the big, that was one of the big praises of CJ Stroud last year.
08:48
Remember last year, like halfway through the season and he hadn't really hit a stride yet,
08:53
but he was playing well. Yeah. Remember we were sticking up for him. People pointing to his
08:57
completion percentage outside of Houston, people not watching the Texans while he was only completing
09:01
58% of his passes. That's because he's throwing at least five or six balls a game away. Right.
09:06
He was really sacked by, and that's what was so impressive by rookie standards. He was way
09:12
more mature in some of that game management stuff. And, and man, I hate this because it's so easy to
09:19
say. And yet sometimes the thing that's easy to say is because it's that I, they spent the entire
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off season getting pumped up by rat poison from everybody about how awesome they were going to be.
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And, and I'm glad that this happened versus the Ravens because last year at the, after the
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divisional round, I said, man, you know what? It's the best, the best thing for this team could
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have been that they, they really understood that they were out of their weight class. You know,
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they're not ready to play with the big boys yet. And then I think just because you acquire through
09:56
free agency or trade weaponry, it almost feels like, Oh, there we are. Oh, now we're over.
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That's what we needed. And, and a lot of these guys and CJ Stroud, especially didn't truly
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understand how hard it is to win in the NFL and the difficulty level just got amped up that much
10:13
higher this year because teams knew that they were a respectable team. They were somebody that
10:18
they were going to get the best effort of other teams. It not, not to the point of like a Kansas
10:23
city chiefs or anything, but they're just, they're, they are not ready for prime time.
10:27
They're not, they're not. And they got one game left to figure a few things out and it's against
10:32
the Titans. And I don't know how much you figure out against the Titans, although they did beat you
10:35
at home back in week 12.
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