Speaker 1: I had the Texans like going eleven and six, losing
all the games they should lose to, which is Baltimore
and Kansas City, and winning all the games they should
which put them at five and two.
Speaker 2: The rest of the way.
Speaker 1: You think four and three, you're think in one of
those five could be a slip ups. That seems fair.
I mean, I'm being a little presumptuous by saying that
they're gonna win every one of the games they should win.
Ce NFL Jaguars were a stupid penalty away from possibly
beating the vikings of all teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Well, the Titans weren't really close to the Chargers and
they got destroyed by the Lions.
Speaker 2: They did beat the Patriots. Eh.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this team, this team is not
good enough to the level where I can say I
can guarantee wins against bad teams because they've been be
squeaking it out against bad teams.
Speaker 2: Take your first sentence and stop right there. They're not
good enough.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you is how do you, in
the towards the back half of the season become good enough.
You become good enough by protecting better, getting more This
offensive line you've got one game. But with him, is
it schematics or is it physicality? It's getting beat I
think it's mostly schematics. It was a lot of physicality
with Kenyon Green unfortunately, I mean in Shaq Mason unfortunately,
what's the name of that defensive tackle for the Lions
is really really good.
Speaker 2: He was beating up on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he can get beat by tough uh Campbell to
the linebacker Allen McNeil.
Speaker 2: Aleen McNeil was, I mean, Lee McNeil is a monster.
Speaker 1: I mean he's one of the better defensive interior players
and all football.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he was playing d line for them too.
Speaker 1: You gonna give a lot of problem, yeah, DJ Reader,
a little bit Texan great, Texan's legend. DJ Reader, you've
also gotten beat up by DeForest Buckner.
Speaker 2: I mean you're you're But you're.
Speaker 1: Also going to play teams with good interior players in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So it is what it is.
Speaker 1: So they do have to get better, I would say,
the communication and the schematics, and without like looking back
and watching the whole game over again or anything, it
seemed better yesterday certainly than it was. I mean, the
bar was extremely low, right with a Jets game. They
were all over the place. There was constant pressure and
just blowing blocks and bad communication and unfortunately Kenyon Green
getting destroyed. I think that can get better. I think
getting Nico Collins back makes you better, makes you better.
But also this team is teetering on an edge to me,
where if you do lose Nico Collins again, if you
do lose Joe Mixon at any point. Obviously CJ Stroud
is a given, we don't even need to talk about that.
But I think those two players this team falls apart
to where you just cannot afford those losses because you've
already lost digs, You've already lost too much. Pro Football
Focus thoes are grades for Tuesday, correct typically generally Yes.
I wonder how Patterson and Scruggs did in their new
respective position.
Speaker 2: I'm curious as well.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Arlington and talk to Roger on The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Our time is twelve fifty
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Speaker 3: How you doing, guys? Love your show, Matt thank you. Hey,
you know, I'm a big Texan Diehart fan. I'm gonna
be in Dallas watching that game out there. I think
we're gonna feast on the team. And it's true, we're
gonna see McCarty get fired after that beatdown.
Speaker 2: But here's my question.
Speaker 3: I saw you know, does all this go on the
players as far as as far as you know CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud and all this Because it's a scheme game.
Speaker 3: You have to build a scheme to win games, correct,
which are your coaches?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that makes sense. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So yesterday I saw a play. I don't know
who made the decision. I'm pretty sure that it had
to do with our coach. It was a fourth and
nine or a fourth and four which was laid into
the game, and then they put.
Speaker 2: Our fairborne out there to make the field goal.
Speaker 1: Correct, well, it was it was too yeah to get
the lead on a long field goal attempt that probably
the Texans, not probably the Texans went conservative offensively, knowing
that our guy can kick sixty yard field goals or
thereabouts pretty easily.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly. But I'm not a coach, thank god, Because
there's a lot of pressure right now.
Speaker 2: But as as I.
Speaker 3: Was looking into the game, uh, we were throwing a
lot of short outlets and they had the defense stacked.
Speaker 2: So my thing is, I think they should have.
Speaker 3: Gone knowing that Fairborne had already missed a field goal.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Try that one more time, fairburn
had already missed a field goal.
Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, I think they should have gone for it
there and then.
Speaker 2: And stealed the game.
Speaker 1: The only kick he missed was the last one. No, no, no, yeah,
he made everything else he made. Plus, he made a
fifty yarder before the earlier in the game six yarder. Yeah,
ron No, you're you're you knew that Kami has made
those before in the past. I mean he's had a
plethora of fifty yard field goals. Matter of fact, he's bailed.
The text is not on multiple cages because he hit plus.
So I understand I know how they set it up.
They set it up for him to kick the long one.
He's eleven of fourteen this year fifty plus pretty good.
Unfortunately he missed that one. It's a fifty eight yarder.
Their guy made the fifty eight yarder and a fifty
two yarder.
Speaker 2: To win the game. Your guy missed his fifty eight yarder.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, It's obviously more complicated than that, but that that's
one of the ways to look at it, and why
you took the l Yeah. To me, anything beyond fifty
five placing a tremendous amount of blaming the kicker is
fool's gold on that. I think in the NFL world today,
fifty five in should be made. Sounds crazy to say that,
because when I was growing up, fifty was like, oh
my god, no. But today's kickers are bigger, stronger, they're
more athletic. They don't have beer guts except for Randy
Bullock obviously, but they're supposed to make those. But fifty
five plus, I don't know the how weather was conducive
for it, but that doesn't really matter. That that's a
that's a kick that he that he's made a lot
so far in his Texans career, but to assume that
he can make it every single time is tough. But
then that damn Tomball storyline kicked in?
Speaker 2: Did it not? Late in the game. I don't want
to talk about it. You want to hear about it? No,
I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: Next seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
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or not at one fifty.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from you guys. I need to
hear and you Lenny's as well. Tell me.
Speaker 1: Expectations, have you finally tempered them? And if somebody texted
me earlier today? A very simple question, sports Harvey. Is
the Texans honeymoon over? Honeymoon still on the thought of
a long vacation in perhaps New Orleans on Super Sunday
or you on one two three CanCon in early January?
Or are we bickering about who forgot to bring the
sunscreen seven one three two one two five seven Hunty?
Speaker 2: Is the Texans honeymoon over?