Why the 2024 Texans Offense Will Be Even More Explosive Than Previous
Texans tight end Dalton Schultz spoke on why this offense in 2024 could be even more explosive than in 2023.
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00:00You probably won't see the ones, but you'll get to see some of this offense that looks
00:05like it's going to be one of the best in the league.
00:08A lot of people, both locally and at the national level, have high expectations for the Texans
00:16offense.
00:17Here's Dalton Schultz talking about why he thinks this offense could be even more explosive
00:26than it was last year.
00:28Whenever you have vertical threats, teams drop deeper.
00:33Linebackers, now their hook drops are 12 yards instead of 8.
00:37It affects everything.
00:39When they feel that vertical push, the guys are trying to stay on top.
00:43When you've got two burners, when you add Nico to that mix, the three guys can stretch
00:47the field, man.
00:49It opens up stuff underneath sometimes in certain coverages.
00:52Honestly, it creates space for us in the backs.
00:56I love having it because playing our defense is hard in practice because they're in your
01:01hip all the time, whether they're zone or man.
01:03It's frustrating.
01:05You get to some games, and teams are just spot drop, and you feel that space.
01:10It's very beneficial, for sure.
01:12Why did that get you so football-horned?
01:18Because it's real.
01:19It's spot on.
01:20It's from a player that's inside the locker room that knows the playbook like the back
01:24of his hand, and is a very, very good pass-catching tight end.
01:28First of all, the source, I think, makes it real.
01:31It just confirms a lot of what, hell, we talked about yesterday, to be honest, where your
01:34team's defenses won't be able to suffocate this offense the way that they did at times
01:38last year.
01:39You can think back to the Atlanta game and how they treated this offense and ended up
01:43winning that ballgame.
01:44Nonetheless, the source, I think, is huge.
01:48It confirms some of the conversations that we've had over the last couple of days.
01:52I think if you ... We've talked a lot about Diggs.
01:56We've talked a lot about Laramie Tunsil.
01:57We've talked a lot about C.J. Stroud.
01:59We've talked a lot about Joe Mixon, and all these pieces that they're adding.
02:02It really doesn't mean a damn thing.
02:06You look at the team as a whole, the offense as a whole, and what happens because you added
02:12those players, in particular, we're talking about Diggs, and the emergence of Tank Dell
02:16and Nico Collins.
02:17What happens?
02:18What does it mean?
02:20What does it mean?
02:21We can sit here and talk about, well, defenses don't have the ability to suffocate the Texans
02:25the way that they did last year.
02:26What does that mean?
02:27Dalton Schultz just told you.
02:30Not only did Dalton Schultz just tell you that the threat of those three guys and how
02:34explosive they are is going to force not only safeties back, defensive coordinators to plan
02:40and keep safeties back, but you're middle of the road to bad teams in this league are
02:47literally going to do what he said and spot drop at 12 yards instead of eight and just
02:51give Dalton Schultz those underneath catches.
02:55The other reason is because we as fans can watch the games and we can see exactly what
02:59Dalton Schultz is talking about.
03:01From the Hall of Fame game against the Bears, all the way up to this last preseason game
03:07against the Giants, the tight ends have absolutely ate with that first unit.
03:13Him and Brevin.
03:14Tegan Quattoriano, remember Tegan and what's my Kate Stover, Kate Stover, I mean, all those
03:19guys were just like, and these are preseason games.
03:22So like I said, the Hall of Fame game was very vanilla, but the point is very, very
03:27valid.
03:28And I just think when it's coming from inside the walls from a player that's actually executing
03:33it all, I think it's big, man.
03:38It's really big.
03:39That is what all the conversations about the added weapons and yada, yada, yada, all the
03:44year two in Bobby Slowick's offense.
03:46What does it mean?
03:47What does it matter is exactly what he just said.
03:50There is so much space underneath for the tight end.
03:53You're either going to take a ton of risk and put these put DBS on an island with either
03:57Nico tank or, or, or digs, or you're going to play soft as hell and just give them like
04:03just play catch underneath with, with, with your, your tight ends, your running backs
04:07and your underneath receivers.
04:08And so it's just the real of it.
04:11And the source of it, Ron is big.
04:14Well, as we know, and I think the league knows that CJ also he's big play.
04:21Like he'll take, he'll take what he needs to take, but he is also not afraid of going
04:25for the big play.
04:27And with that threat of the guys on the outside and his willingness to go downfield and, and,
04:34and try to get the big play opens up all of that space in the, in the middle of the field.
04:41And it is because, you know, teams are going to go into this saying, I'm gonna, all right,
04:47we're just not going to let you get big plays on us.
04:49Like we're, we're, we're not going to get you where you, you're going to kill us.
04:53You're going to have to, you're going to have to methodically work yourself down the field.
04:56We're not going to just give up big, big plays.
05:00And I think CJ is a key to that one.
05:02He is, he, he will damn sure threatened the ball down the field, but to CJ ain't forcing
05:10it.
05:11At least that's what we've seen in his first year.
05:13He will certainly take all of that stuff and, and Dalton Schultz can eat, but in particular
05:19with Brevin Jordan, he's, he's one, he's one move from being out the gates and that like,
05:27yeah, he's getting, he's getting some, some cushion.
05:31We saw it last year.
05:32I mean, he's, he's, I'm not saying he's going to go for 70, but he is a big play away waiting
05:37to happen with all of that extra space that he has.
05:40So you think about Joe Mixon too, is really good in the past game.
05:43I mean, we've seen cam acres be effective in the past game.
05:46Brevin Jordan, you mentioned Dalton Schultz.
05:48You mentioned, I mean, Cade Stover has been really, really good.
05:50So I mean, it's just one of those deals, man, where when you look at it, it's, it's just
05:55so simple, but that's, that's the beauty of football, man.
05:59If you get the, if you get guys that are that explosive and you've got a quarterback that'll
06:03just be patient and commit to taking that, what he calls boring stuff, man, it can be
06:08powerful.
06:09Now there's another conversation to be had.
06:10I know right now is not the time.
06:11There's another, another conversation to be had off of, uh, off adult and Schultz comments.
06:16Uh, if it, if it opens it up that much for the underneath tight ends and running back,
06:20it was like, this is a conversation we've been kind of having about that run game, right?
06:24I mean, it's, it's proof and it's, and it's, uh, like real substance to say, well, this
06:30offensive line that you've invested so much money in should have, should, should, should,
06:34should benefit from that same thing that the tight ends and the underneath routes do.
06:37So, um, well, we, that, that, that needs to be had as well.