Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast react to the Texans' 23-20 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
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00:00it's always, okay, here we go.
00:02Last snap of the game.
00:04This is right, it all comes down,
00:07there's a whole lot of it all comes down to this.
00:09Yeah, there is.
00:10I'm learning to embrace it.
00:11You got to.
00:12We're thinking about the future, everybody.
00:14Who knows, we might be,
00:15who knows what's gonna exist after next Tuesday.
00:18If I'm gonna believe my social media account,
00:21it's all going to pot.
00:22So enjoy it now, six and two.
00:25Six and two, three and O in the division,
00:27five and O in the conference.
00:30They've got the head-to-head over the Colts.
00:32This was a big win yesterday.
00:34We said going into this game on Sunday,
00:36this is a chance to take a stranglehold on the AFC South,
00:39and that's what they did.
00:40They're the number two seed in the AFC.
00:42This is a, record-wise,
00:44the Texans are in a fantastic spot, right?
00:46As good a spot as they've been in
00:47in the history of their franchise.
00:48Six and two overall,
00:50and they're two games up in the division
00:51with a tiebreaker,
00:53and they've got the really fun part
00:56of the schedule coming up now,
00:58with a lot of primetime games coming up.
00:59A lot of primetime games,
01:00and as you know before the season,
01:02it never shakes out quite the way it looks
01:04in the preseason rankings,
01:06and the Jets right now do not look like
01:09what they were hoping the best version
01:11of themselves would be.
01:12They've got, look,
01:14but they still have a defense that features
01:16a guy that concussed C.J. Stroud.
01:18They do.
01:19They do.
01:20And so, Quentin Williams still walks and breathes.
01:22That's, and C.J. Stroud mentioned that
01:23in the postgame.
01:24There's nothing the election is gonna do about him.
01:25They can't.
01:26You can't vote him out of office.
01:28And your incumbent left guard,
01:30he's still possibly gonna be there.
01:32We don't know.
01:33Still a problem, yeah.
01:34So, a lot to dig in this Texans game.
01:37Look ahead to the Thursday night game
01:38coming up against the New York Jets
01:40and the way the schedule shakes out for the Texans,
01:42but I said going into the season,
01:43the first eight games,
01:44I viewed that as a chunk of the schedule for the Texans.
01:47The most manageable part of the season for the Texans,
01:50and while they have sent us to the infirmary
01:53with heart trouble many, many times
01:54throughout these first eight games,
01:56they are six and two right now.
01:57This is the short-term concerns, obviously.
01:59It's a short week.
02:01You've got an offensive lineman in Jared Patterson
02:04who stepped in and looked good on a touchdown drive.
02:07And the only long touchdown drive of the day.
02:10I thought I screwed up a name or something.
02:13Jared Patterson comes in.
02:14They score a touchdown,
02:15except Jared Patterson gets a concussion.
02:17He sacrificed his brain for that touchdown.
02:20And then, immediately, a green came back in.
02:22Not Kendrick Green, but Kenyon Green
02:25went back out there,
02:26and I thought played better in the second half.
02:29They did some things to protect him a little bit,
02:30but look, last year,
02:32Drew Scruggs was playing left guard.
02:33He got bulldozed into C.J. Stroud,
02:36concussed C.J. Stroud.
02:37You still feel very uneasy about the left guard position.
02:40I don't think Patterson's gonna play.
02:42I don't know if they'd try Kendrick Green
02:44as opposed to Kenyon Green,
02:45but there's some very real,
02:48literal and metaphorical headaches
02:50going up to New York facing that defense.
02:52So, as long as we're on this topic,
02:54because, as we know,
02:55this game last season in New York
02:57was the one where C.J. Stroud
02:58got concussed by Quinnen Williams, as you pointed out.
03:01The big story for the Texans
03:03coming off of the Green Bay game
03:04was how C.J. Stroud was chased around all day long
03:06in that Green Bay game.
03:08Pass protection didn't feel great.
03:09It felt better than Green Bay,
03:10only because it couldn't have been worse
03:12than it was in Green Bay.
03:14How do you think they played?
03:16How do you feel about the way
03:18they're playing on the offensive line right now
03:19heading into Thursday?
03:20I feel like they're still botching
03:22some of the simple things.
03:24The, any kind of stunts or movement.
03:27There's just somebody being flummoxed.
03:30There's times where it's a tight,
03:31I mean, Sean, there was a play yesterday
03:33where Kate Stover,
03:34who did some really good things in the game,
03:36but Kate Stover and Teagan Catoriano
03:40are gonna double team a defensive end.
03:43Neither of them even touched him.
03:44He ran free.
03:45He just decided to run around the obstruction,
03:48which was two pretty large human beings.
03:50And like, we just still see so much of it,
03:54or too much of that.
03:55That's my biggest concern.
03:57And that's not the rail on Kate Stover or anything.
03:58He had some beautiful blocks in that game.
04:01There's just, there's more,
04:02Kenyon Green is the one who looks
04:04the most physically inept right now.
04:07The offensive line as a unit
04:09is just still too disjointed,
04:11just not moving in sync with each other,
04:14not on the same page.
04:15That's my concern versus Jets.
04:17Yeah, the Texans are getting it done with defense, man.
04:20Like, they're six and two.
04:21And all these games that have been so close at the end,
04:24the only one, the only one that I feel like
04:26was the offense kind of taking control
04:29and winning at the end
04:30was the Jacksonville game in week four.
04:32And the defense needed to get five punts
04:35in the second half of that game
04:36to get the offense the ball enough times.
04:39I don't know that I can remember two straight home games
04:42where you've had a quarterback throw
04:43for 30% completion percentage.
04:45I know.
04:46And a lot of passes.
04:47Josh Allen was nine for 30 in week five.
04:51And they come back in week eight.
04:52It's looking incredible compared to what we saw yesterday.
04:54And Anthony Richardson was 10 for 75 yards.
04:58And 69 of those yards came on one play.
05:00People have had it with Anthony Richardson.
05:02I've searched long and wide to find an Indianapolis,
05:06to find a Colts fan defending him,
05:08taking himself out of the game yesterday.
05:10So for those of you who missed it,
05:12he just took himself out of the game.
05:13He was tired.
05:14He was tired.
05:15There's a receiver that just ran a deep route.
05:17And he's like tapping.
05:17There's a guy that you can see hasn't played
05:19a whole lot of actual quarterback in his career
05:21because he's been injured so much.
05:23He played just about a dozen games in college.
05:26The quarterback took himself out of the game
05:28because he was tired.
05:29He was tired, yeah.
05:30Brought it to Joe Flacco.
05:31I was more nervous with Flacco.
05:33So Joe Flacco had to come in and hand the ball off.
05:35Hand the ball off.
05:36Right, right.
05:36On third and 15.
05:37Yeah.
05:38Okay, the other.
05:39I love that Tiki Barber's reaction to that was hilarious.
05:42I haven't seen it.
05:42He was just.
05:44It was like any middle-aged guy
05:46trying not to grumble too much.
05:48He was like, oh, well that's interesting.
05:51That's interesting.
05:53All right, I guess that's what the TikTok is about.
05:56I don't know, okay.
05:58The big story, one of the big stories
06:00coming out of this game will be,
06:03and is, Stefan Diggs' injury.
06:04Stefan Diggs leaves the game in the second half yesterday.
06:08Didn't look good.
06:09Non-contact injury.
06:10We've got no news from the team on it.
06:12The tone of the people with the team right now
06:15is not, doesn't make me optimistic.
06:17Just some of the things they're saying about it.
06:18Do you find yourself reading into CJ's statements
06:20a bit much?
06:21Like what level of prayers he's throwing out?
06:23Yeah, yeah, because we.
06:24It's like DEFCON level to his prayers.
06:26Yeah, yeah, this felt like,
06:28one is the really bad one, right, on DEFCON?
06:31DEFCON one is the worst.
06:31DEFCON one, right, yeah.
06:32This felt like a two.
06:34It was up there for me.
06:36CJ's reaction.
06:37And the CJ shout-out would be a tib-fib.
06:39Yeah.
06:40You guys have got Aiden Hutchinson.
06:41Yeah, well, tank last year, man.
06:43You know, like tanked L last year, but.
06:44Yeah, but that wasn't when he got shot
06:46or when he broke his leg?
06:47No, no, he broke his leg.
06:48Oh, okay.
06:49Yeah, I guess it could be either.
06:51He broke his leg, but it wasn't a nasty break.
06:53No.
06:54It wasn't sticking out.
06:55Nobody's really sad for Tank.
06:56That's true.
06:57So the Diggs injury here.
06:59In the short term, and even if Diggs,
07:02even if it isn't season ending,
07:03I don't anticipate seeing him on Thursday.
07:05It's hard with any Thursday night game.
07:08We've seen people come back from the concussion protocol
07:10for a Thursday night game.
07:11There was a quarterback that did a few years ago.
07:14And I'm not, I'm uneasy about it.
07:16There's nothing about me that wants to see
07:20like Patterson come back from a concussion.
07:22Yeah.
07:22Diggs, yeah, I'd be surprised.
07:24I'd be surprised.
07:25So what does this look like now?
07:26What is a, at least for one game,
07:28what is a Diggs-less, Nikko-less offense?
07:30You brought this up.
07:31I mean, that final drive before the drive,
07:34it was just a really nice drive down into the red zone
07:36before the fumble.
07:37They spread the ball around.
07:39You got multiple people involved.
07:41We saw Xavier Hutchinson and John Mechie show up.
07:43You know, Mechie's been,
07:45we're getting an increasing diet of John Mechie
07:48in the last couple of weeks.
07:49That final play against the Packers,
07:52if CJ had trusted his pass protection
07:55enough to work through his reads,
07:57he had John Mechie in the end zone.
07:59He just, by that point in the game,
08:01CJ was just trying to get rid of the ball
08:02to the open receiver.
08:04But that's, it's trite,
08:07but you gotta, everybody else gotta step up.
08:09It's the, you gotta spread the ball around.
08:11You gotta get your tight ends more involved.
08:16Was it yesterday that we were talking about coming up?
08:18Yeah.
08:19That ain't gonna die.
08:20That ain't tradition.
08:21This is what George killed.
08:22What are you talking about?
08:23Put that out there.
08:23You put that out there as a joke
08:25and people latched onto it
08:26because people like you love this.
08:28Oh, I do.
08:29Ooh, it's National Donut Day.
08:30I do, I've got a link to it at the top of our rundown.
08:32It's National Shetland Pony Day.
08:34Well, I always feel like if it's a food
08:36that you get caloric immunity on that.
08:38There's no calories that count that day.
08:39I love National Donut Day.
08:41I eat 12 of them.
08:42The American Heart Association would endorse that
08:44for the right amount.
08:44Who are they?
08:45They're the, yeah.
08:46They're the, yeah.
08:48So the Texans beat the Colts yesterday, 23-20,
08:52heading to New York on a short week.
08:53I had forgotten about this
08:54when CJ was doing his interview.
08:56Somebody asked him like,
08:57hey, so what do you think,
09:00what's your plan here for the short week?
09:02And CJ's like, I don't know.
09:03I've never had one of these before.
09:05You know what?
09:06It's weird.
09:07There's a lot about Thursday night football
09:09that's difficult.
09:10You have the short turnaround.
09:12You're out there during warmups
09:14kind of reminding yourself,
09:16all right, I'm about to play an NFL football game.
09:18There's large humans that are gonna try to hurt me.
09:20I gotta, let's get going.
09:21You gotta really talk your way into it
09:23because the process is different.
09:25But it is kind of nice because the week leading up to it,
09:27it's short, but it's all mental.
09:29You're out there, you're doing walkthroughs, jog throughs.
09:32There's very little actual exertion.
09:33And you got a little mini bye week on the end of it.
09:35Yeah, yeah, no, and they need it.
09:38Yeah, you can pay your utility bills and everything.
09:40You just, you got time.
09:41Balance your checkbook.
09:42Yeah, no, it's good stuff.