January 20, 2025 • 13 mins
Rolling into the Divisional Round slate on Saturday in there afternoon kickoff, the Texans took on Pat Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in a chance to make their first ever AFC Conference Championship appearance. With a final score of 23-14 the Texans happen to fall short, now making it back to back seasons enduring a loss in the Divisional Round. Following predictions and forecasts made all week prior to Saturday's kickoff, many foresaw the obstacles the Texans would have to overcome to claim a victory over Kansas City. From self inflicted plays to missing scoring opportunities to the referees officiating, the Texans battled their greatest adversity in Saturday's game but still could not get over the Divisional Round hump. Assessing their season and postseason in conclusion, Sean and Brian discuss the Texans Divisional Round loss to the Chiefs along with a few pointers to note going into next season that looked appealing in their last game of the 2025 season.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulsbury. Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury, the USC Truth, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Brian Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salsbury Show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Commanders beat the Lions, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Rams,
and the Buffalo Bills take down the Baltimore Ravens. The
NFC and NFC championships are set. Shawn Tripleie, what's happening?
Good morning? We got a winter storm barren down on us,
(00:45):
cook it up boards, a six seven inches of snow
in the next day.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What's happening this morning? Good morning, good, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh yeah, the weather's gonna take a turn for the
chilber the cold red air.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But that's all right.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I would imagine across the country they're feeling the same way,
a lot of different places, but doing great. Man. But uh,
weekend of football, the text in the game. A lot
on my mind, man, A lot on my mind, A
lot of passion in my soul this morning, trying to
(01:21):
I thought we had four really good games of football,
though I did, and whether you like the results or not,
but there was I mean, the shocking part of Baltimore
and Buffalo and Baltimore and Detroit. Should I say is
how careless they were with the football?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Five turnovers for the Lions is insane. Yeah, and I'm
sure handed Mark Andrews that just doesn't happen. He laid
to fumble down on the ground and dropped a two
point conversion. These games had everything, and Jade Daniels is
a freaking star, and it's just I mean, they had
everything that Rams had a chance to go down and
win it in the end after a grading the hell
(01:58):
of a comeback by them. It was a It was
an impressive weekend and I know we got a lot
to talk about when it comes to the Texans. Let
me get this elephant out of the room first. Is
everything that you had to have. When I say the
things that we that we last on Monday and Tuesday
of last week said cannot happen, happened one to start,
(02:24):
get this one out there first. It's a loser's lament
to blame the loss on referees.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It just is.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But it'd be you'd be obviously naive to think that
they didn't impact the game, especially in the situational and
the Texans problem is they don't play great situational football
at times. If you look at the stat lining you
don't watch the games. They quite frankly, for the most part,
kick Kansas City's ass. They physically, I mean they they
(02:53):
handled them most of the time. But it's the same
thing on a team when you play between the twenties
but can't score in the red zone. As a team,
we all say, man, they dominated the stat book, but man,
they just couldn't get the end the kickfield goals, set score, touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
They couln't get the in zone.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's the same thing whether you look at the stat
lines individually and the way they took care of their business.
They kicked their ass, they did, but the situational football,
a third down here, a missed field go there, and
a make for them. The situational football, the Texans did
not do well enough to win.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The calls.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
A couple of them were I understand by the letter
of the law on the one when he was standing up,
but there was a couple of calls that they had
no business making. And yes it does impact the game,
but that's not the reason they lost.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But when Peter Ah, if we don't get those two calls,
because eventually there was there's calls that will even out
those didn't we knew going in. We said it, you
better be prepared for the officials are going to play,
are going to I saw something today said, well, right now,
Buffalo has already been charged with a personal foul penalty
against Kansaity Chiefs and Patrick.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Mahomes already we started yet.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So for me, it's it's the people are gonna want
to play just on the refs, don't I mean, if
you want to have at it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Did they impact it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Do they favor all that is obvious and blatant to
the point of actually integrity and utter embarrassment. That's not
the reason Mahomes is good. Mahomes just does not. He's
the best winner in sports right now. There's no bigger
winner in team sports right now than that guy, and
he just finds to get it done. But the referees
did impact the game, and it's embarrassing. So they're gonna
(04:27):
have to fix that. But let's real quickly go over
what happened. Said you couldn't give Kelsey free reign. But
let me back up a second. The game plan of
the Texans on defense, and I actually thought Bobby Slow
called a hell of a game too. I thought both coordinator.
I thought they did a good job the game plan
other than one situation. Defensively, their defense, I'm telling you,
(04:49):
over the next few years this continues to go are
going to be lights out.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They already are. And even Mahomes didn't even have a
great game.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And that's four phenomenal four or five quarterbacks that they've
played really well against. So their defensive game plan I
thought was really good except one, and they did exactly
what I said you can't do. Kelsey had free run
off the line of scrims the whole time. And how
the biggest weapon on the team not named Patrick Mahomes
gets free run like that is beyond me.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You can't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So that's a big reason why they lost. Kelsey had
well a Hall of Fame game, seven perception, one hundred
and seventeen yards in a touchdown and catching them on
in space and giving him free run of it. That's one.
Two is this offensive line is is not fit for
(05:41):
NFL football right now. Overall, I know that's harsh, It's
just a fact. Whatever it is. Whether it's your pissed
and you don't and you have it, you've had enough,
and you fight and scratch, hold personal fouls, whatever it's
gonna take when it comes to just manning up and
kick an ass when it matters single elimination.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
They are.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Double a baseball at best, right it is. It's unacceptable
the way they play football. Sometimes in past protection perfect
example another reason why they lost, and I talked about
situational in details near the end of the game, when
they go at uh A gap blitz left guardist who
(06:27):
Titus Howard right, Yeah, they walk a guy and mug
him up in the A gap they obviously call Mike
Wright or whatever they call it, Roger or Rita, whatever
they call it, to move the line right because the
center stepped right. You walk a guy up, You mug
a guy in the A gap, and the defensive tackles
got his hand in dirt over you on outside shade
on Titus Howard left shoulder looking from the quarterbacks vantage point,
(06:50):
and I mean he widened. At no time since you
were in the fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, has
anybody ever taught you to block the outside guy before
the most dangerous man if run. We're all in sports
on defense, hit somebody in the opposite color jersey and
on offense, on an offensive line, no matter what you
do in blitz pickup, you make sure that the most
(07:13):
dangerous men to my quarterback are stopped first. So that
means you work inside out because it's a shorter path.
Guy walks up, mugs in the AG gap. Mug means
he's right there. You know, he's standing there kind of
sugaring in and out. Ciner, I mean you're you're here
in lack of center. Steps right, you have got to
step down and punch and keep a guy of the
AG gap. He steps and opens all runs right through
(07:34):
the ag gap.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now we are in that. That would be game.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They want a playoff game, so this would be game
what nineteen that they played in yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yes, game nineteen seventeen seas How can that happen? How
can I have?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And they once again proved exactly why with eight sacks
and a bunch more pressures.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And since CJ.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Stroud's feet were really good in this game, I thought CJ.
Stroud got better.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
C J. Stroud showed me toughness. I think he.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Elevated play another level. I do after all this up
and down this year, I thought c J. Stroud made
some incredible throws under duress, but little things like that
to become a big thing and give up all those sacks,
you just can't do it nineteen games into a season
and you don't. You're gonna tightest hard when he was
when he was sucking on a pacifier and then he
(08:21):
played his first game around football. Unless it's not being
taught right during the week, then you better address that
guy too to be.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Able to step down.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It's the in a fistfight, if you're protecting your family
or your kid or your animal, or are you gonna
Are you gonna get the coyote that's forty feet away or.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
The one that's two feet away? You have the two
feet sure you are?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, since thame, I mean, God forbid any coyotes or
anybody's yard. You get my point. You got the quickest path.
That quarterback is your family. You block most dangerous man
come and you got you know what, punch one and
grab the other.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't care. You don't give him free run to
the quarterback. You just don't. And they did.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
There's that Kelsey free rate and how that guy runs
offensive line. Those kinds of sacks, it is that they
were They are a detriment right now to this football team.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sadly enough, it's not personal. It's just a fact. Can't
keep doing. They've gotten better at times.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But in that single elimination on the road, and you
know the coordinator you're playing is the best big game
coordinator on defense in this league. And you know what
they're gonna do. And what I tell you about Chris Jones,
they weren't just gonna put him over tunsl or keep
him inside. They walked him to the other side. And
he runs right by the right tackle without even being touched,
like he's in a like he's playing in space. It's
like seven on seven. There's no line in the block.
(09:34):
You barely even get a hand on him. And Chris
Jones ain't small, no, And why you wouldn't mug up
on Kelsey And he's a big body. He's easier to
hit than a guy like Tank Dell because he's easy
to find. It's like, come on, a bigger strike zone.
There's that, and then your special teams, well, this special
teams coach can't say's the best beecial teams coach in
(09:54):
this league. It has been for a while. They got
their ass handed to them. On special teams from the
opening kick and then whatever's Boyd's doing, I have zero
idea great effort to strip with the fumble. It almost
felt like the guy was in a different strategy, like
he was in space after the play, running over there,
helmet off, pushing his coach. He's lucky he didn't running
(10:15):
the wrong coach. I mean another I mean at first
I thought, well, this is this guy doing this for enthusias.
It was talking about bad optic. You know, a coach
will come up and we'll push each other, like what
a great play. Yeah, but to take your helmet off,
and so I don't know was the arguing over the
great play?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Was he arguing?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Was he mad because he got criticized for forcing of
all the stuff that was going on my mind during
the game, but the discipline part of that and how
you let that happen.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He wouldn't have seen in the roofield the rest of
the day.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
They got their ass kicked on special teams. That was
a utter choke job on special teams. And I told
you the weather, I told you number I know you said,
what's your number one priority? I said, you lose the
special team's battle. You're in trouble in a game like this,
he said, After all, I said, one thing nobody's talking
about a special team.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
That was the question I asked you, what's the one
thing that no one's talking about that's going to be
a massive key in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They're watching this offseason because of the three things you
can't do, keep your quarterback standing up right, let Kelsey
take over a game, and get your friggin' ass handed
to you. On special teams. And you know the sad
thing about this, if they just sew up eight to
ten plays, they win, That's right, they win. If they
(11:23):
just referees obviously didn't help. They're not the reason you lost.
They were part of it. All these other things are
the reason you lost. And they still had a chance,
still had a chance. So for me, and the crazy
thing about it is, those are the things you couldn't do.
They flat ass choked on the special teams. They did,
(11:44):
and they got out. Coach now played on special teams
from the first kickoff.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Eight to ten play.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Dude, It's almost like we wrote the script and they
decided to read it last week. And I'm not patting
us on them. I'm just saying they were so obvious
and then special teams. I just I've been in these
playoff games and just it's those things, and it was
almost as if that was uh and this team's a
usually a really good special teams team. They were out coaching,
out executing that and those things on the road against
(12:14):
the best team in football who doesn't lose divisional playoff games,
and you and you hand a gift to them offensive
line wise, Kelsey, free run and special teams, and then
a referee didn't help other than I'm just telling you, man,
I thought the defense was was awesome, and I thought
Bobby Slow called a really good game. They got it
(12:34):
going mixed in pass run, and then they had some
guys Nico Collins to be they made some great plays.
But as always, that team over there just does not lose.
They don't beat themselves, and they didn't. That's half the battle,
So I could go on. It's just the frustration of
me wanting to go off. I it's it is how
(12:58):
this the little thing? How do you not lock a
guy in the a gap will let him run free
to the quarterback. I just I don't understand at this stage.
We all make physical I can handle a physical to
say that's just a dumb mental error. The Texans, with
the way they performed in those big areas, did not
deserve to win. You can't perform poorly in those areas
(13:19):
on the road against the best team of football, home
field advantage and think you're gonna win. And yet they
were still around and played well enough to win because
they dominated otherwise they did.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, I got some statistics here that backs up that domination.
The Texans yardage wise, win the game against the Chiefs,
but it doesn't equate to points. Let's talk about the
red zone inefficiency for the Houston Texans. Will also take
your calls all morning long. Seven point three, two point
two five, seven ninety got a lot of breakdown with
(13:47):
this Texans loss to the Chiefs. Will continue to roll
right here on seven ninety
Saulsbury. Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury, the USC Truth, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Brian Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salsbury Show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Commanders beat the Lions, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Rams,
and the Buffalo Bills take down the Baltimore Ravens. The
NFC and NFC championships are set. Shawn Tripleie, what's happening?
Good morning? We got a winter storm barren down on us,
(00:45):
cook it up boards, a six seven inches of snow
in the next day.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What's happening this morning? Good morning, good, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh yeah, the weather's gonna take a turn for the
chilber the cold red air.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But that's all right.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I would imagine across the country they're feeling the same way,
a lot of different places, but doing great. Man. But uh,
weekend of football, the text in the game. A lot
on my mind, man, A lot on my mind, A
lot of passion in my soul this morning, trying to
(01:21):
I thought we had four really good games of football,
though I did, and whether you like the results or not,
but there was I mean, the shocking part of Baltimore
and Buffalo and Baltimore and Detroit. Should I say is
how careless they were with the football?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Five turnovers for the Lions is insane. Yeah, and I'm
sure handed Mark Andrews that just doesn't happen. He laid
to fumble down on the ground and dropped a two
point conversion. These games had everything, and Jade Daniels is
a freaking star, and it's just I mean, they had
everything that Rams had a chance to go down and
win it in the end after a grading the hell
(01:58):
of a comeback by them. It was a It was
an impressive weekend and I know we got a lot
to talk about when it comes to the Texans. Let
me get this elephant out of the room first. Is
everything that you had to have. When I say the
things that we that we last on Monday and Tuesday
of last week said cannot happen, happened one to start,
(02:24):
get this one out there first. It's a loser's lament
to blame the loss on referees.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It just is.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But it'd be you'd be obviously naive to think that
they didn't impact the game, especially in the situational and
the Texans problem is they don't play great situational football
at times. If you look at the stat lining you
don't watch the games. They quite frankly, for the most part,
kick Kansas City's ass. They physically, I mean they they
(02:53):
handled them most of the time. But it's the same
thing on a team when you play between the twenties
but can't score in the red zone. As a team,
we all say, man, they dominated the stat book, but man,
they just couldn't get the end the kickfield goals, set score, touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
They couln't get the in zone.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's the same thing whether you look at the stat
lines individually and the way they took care of their business.
They kicked their ass, they did, but the situational football,
a third down here, a missed field go there, and
a make for them. The situational football, the Texans did
not do well enough to win.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The calls.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
A couple of them were I understand by the letter
of the law on the one when he was standing up,
but there was a couple of calls that they had
no business making. And yes it does impact the game,
but that's not the reason they lost.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But when Peter Ah, if we don't get those two calls,
because eventually there was there's calls that will even out
those didn't we knew going in. We said it, you
better be prepared for the officials are going to play,
are going to I saw something today said, well, right now,
Buffalo has already been charged with a personal foul penalty
against Kansaity Chiefs and Patrick.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Mahomes already we started yet.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So for me, it's it's the people are gonna want
to play just on the refs, don't I mean, if
you want to have at it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Did they impact it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Do they favor all that is obvious and blatant to
the point of actually integrity and utter embarrassment. That's not
the reason Mahomes is good. Mahomes just does not. He's
the best winner in sports right now. There's no bigger
winner in team sports right now than that guy, and
he just finds to get it done. But the referees
did impact the game, and it's embarrassing. So they're gonna
(04:27):
have to fix that. But let's real quickly go over
what happened. Said you couldn't give Kelsey free reign. But
let me back up a second. The game plan of
the Texans on defense, and I actually thought Bobby Slow
called a hell of a game too. I thought both coordinator.
I thought they did a good job the game plan
other than one situation. Defensively, their defense, I'm telling you,
(04:49):
over the next few years this continues to go are
going to be lights out.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They already are. And even Mahomes didn't even have a
great game.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And that's four phenomenal four or five quarterbacks that they've
played really well against. So their defensive game plan I
thought was really good except one, and they did exactly
what I said you can't do. Kelsey had free run
off the line of scrims the whole time. And how
the biggest weapon on the team not named Patrick Mahomes
gets free run like that is beyond me.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You can't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So that's a big reason why they lost. Kelsey had
well a Hall of Fame game, seven perception, one hundred
and seventeen yards in a touchdown and catching them on
in space and giving him free run of it. That's one.
Two is this offensive line is is not fit for
(05:41):
NFL football right now. Overall, I know that's harsh, It's
just a fact. Whatever it is. Whether it's your pissed
and you don't and you have it, you've had enough,
and you fight and scratch, hold personal fouls, whatever it's
gonna take when it comes to just manning up and
kick an ass when it matters single elimination.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
They are.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Double a baseball at best, right it is. It's unacceptable
the way they play football. Sometimes in past protection perfect
example another reason why they lost, and I talked about
situational in details near the end of the game, when
they go at uh A gap blitz left guardist who
(06:27):
Titus Howard right, Yeah, they walk a guy and mug
him up in the A gap they obviously call Mike
Wright or whatever they call it, Roger or Rita, whatever
they call it, to move the line right because the
center stepped right. You walk a guy up, You mug
a guy in the A gap, and the defensive tackles
got his hand in dirt over you on outside shade
on Titus Howard left shoulder looking from the quarterbacks vantage point,
(06:50):
and I mean he widened. At no time since you
were in the fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, has
anybody ever taught you to block the outside guy before
the most dangerous man if run. We're all in sports
on defense, hit somebody in the opposite color jersey and
on offense, on an offensive line, no matter what you
do in blitz pickup, you make sure that the most
(07:13):
dangerous men to my quarterback are stopped first. So that
means you work inside out because it's a shorter path.
Guy walks up, mugs in the AG gap. Mug means
he's right there. You know, he's standing there kind of
sugaring in and out. Ciner, I mean you're you're here
in lack of center. Steps right, you have got to
step down and punch and keep a guy of the
AG gap. He steps and opens all runs right through
(07:34):
the ag gap.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now we are in that. That would be game.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They want a playoff game, so this would be game
what nineteen that they played in yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yes, game nineteen seventeen seas How can that happen? How
can I have?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And they once again proved exactly why with eight sacks
and a bunch more pressures.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And since CJ.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Stroud's feet were really good in this game, I thought CJ.
Stroud got better.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
C J. Stroud showed me toughness. I think he.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Elevated play another level. I do after all this up
and down this year, I thought c J. Stroud made
some incredible throws under duress, but little things like that
to become a big thing and give up all those sacks,
you just can't do it nineteen games into a season
and you don't. You're gonna tightest hard when he was
when he was sucking on a pacifier and then he
(08:21):
played his first game around football. Unless it's not being
taught right during the week, then you better address that
guy too to be.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Able to step down.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It's the in a fistfight, if you're protecting your family
or your kid or your animal, or are you gonna
Are you gonna get the coyote that's forty feet away or.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
The one that's two feet away? You have the two
feet sure you are?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, since thame, I mean, God forbid any coyotes or
anybody's yard. You get my point. You got the quickest path.
That quarterback is your family. You block most dangerous man
come and you got you know what, punch one and
grab the other.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't care. You don't give him free run to
the quarterback. You just don't. And they did.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
There's that Kelsey free rate and how that guy runs
offensive line. Those kinds of sacks, it is that they
were They are a detriment right now to this football team.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sadly enough, it's not personal. It's just a fact. Can't
keep doing. They've gotten better at times.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But in that single elimination on the road, and you
know the coordinator you're playing is the best big game
coordinator on defense in this league. And you know what
they're gonna do. And what I tell you about Chris Jones,
they weren't just gonna put him over tunsl or keep
him inside. They walked him to the other side. And
he runs right by the right tackle without even being touched,
like he's in a like he's playing in space. It's
like seven on seven. There's no line in the block.
(09:34):
You barely even get a hand on him. And Chris
Jones ain't small, no, And why you wouldn't mug up
on Kelsey And he's a big body. He's easier to
hit than a guy like Tank Dell because he's easy
to find. It's like, come on, a bigger strike zone.
There's that, and then your special teams, well, this special
teams coach can't say's the best beecial teams coach in
(09:54):
this league. It has been for a while. They got
their ass handed to them. On special teams from the
opening kick and then whatever's Boyd's doing, I have zero
idea great effort to strip with the fumble. It almost
felt like the guy was in a different strategy, like
he was in space after the play, running over there,
helmet off, pushing his coach. He's lucky he didn't running
(10:15):
the wrong coach. I mean another I mean at first
I thought, well, this is this guy doing this for enthusias.
It was talking about bad optic. You know, a coach
will come up and we'll push each other, like what
a great play. Yeah, but to take your helmet off,
and so I don't know was the arguing over the
great play?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Was he arguing?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Was he mad because he got criticized for forcing of
all the stuff that was going on my mind during
the game, but the discipline part of that and how
you let that happen.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He wouldn't have seen in the roofield the rest of
the day.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
They got their ass kicked on special teams. That was
a utter choke job on special teams. And I told
you the weather, I told you number I know you said,
what's your number one priority? I said, you lose the
special team's battle. You're in trouble in a game like this,
he said, After all, I said, one thing nobody's talking
about a special team.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
That was the question I asked you, what's the one
thing that no one's talking about that's going to be
a massive key in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They're watching this offseason because of the three things you
can't do, keep your quarterback standing up right, let Kelsey
take over a game, and get your friggin' ass handed
to you. On special teams. And you know the sad
thing about this, if they just sew up eight to
ten plays, they win, That's right, they win. If they
(11:23):
just referees obviously didn't help. They're not the reason you lost.
They were part of it. All these other things are
the reason you lost. And they still had a chance,
still had a chance. So for me, and the crazy
thing about it is, those are the things you couldn't do.
They flat ass choked on the special teams. They did,
(11:44):
and they got out. Coach now played on special teams
from the first kickoff.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Eight to ten play.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Dude, It's almost like we wrote the script and they
decided to read it last week. And I'm not patting
us on them. I'm just saying they were so obvious
and then special teams. I just I've been in these
playoff games and just it's those things, and it was
almost as if that was uh and this team's a
usually a really good special teams team. They were out coaching,
out executing that and those things on the road against
(12:14):
the best team in football who doesn't lose divisional playoff games,
and you and you hand a gift to them offensive
line wise, Kelsey, free run and special teams, and then
a referee didn't help other than I'm just telling you, man,
I thought the defense was was awesome, and I thought
Bobby Slow called a really good game. They got it
(12:34):
going mixed in pass run, and then they had some
guys Nico Collins to be they made some great plays.
But as always, that team over there just does not lose.
They don't beat themselves, and they didn't. That's half the battle,
So I could go on. It's just the frustration of
me wanting to go off. I it's it is how
(12:58):
this the little thing? How do you not lock a
guy in the a gap will let him run free
to the quarterback. I just I don't understand at this stage.
We all make physical I can handle a physical to
say that's just a dumb mental error. The Texans, with
the way they performed in those big areas, did not
deserve to win. You can't perform poorly in those areas
(13:19):
on the road against the best team of football, home
field advantage and think you're gonna win. And yet they
were still around and played well enough to win because
they dominated otherwise they did.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, I got some statistics here that backs up that domination.
The Texans yardage wise, win the game against the Chiefs,
but it doesn't equate to points. Let's talk about the
red zone inefficiency for the Houston Texans. Will also take
your calls all morning long. Seven point three, two point
two five, seven ninety got a lot of breakdown with
(13:47):
this Texans loss to the Chiefs. Will continue to roll
right here on seven ninety
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