October 24, 2024 • 10 mins
Gearing to roll into Week 8 of the season, the Texans back track to Week 1 as they take on the Indianapolis Colts again this Sunday in what seems to be a rematch from the seasons opener. Following the teams loss last Sunday to the Packers, puts the team at a 5-2 standing now with many wondering how confident to be rolling further into the season. Some have raised question as to rather this standing is a comfortable 5-2 or a soft standing. Noting how the teams production hasn't maximized fully just yet, many challenge that the Texans standing shouldn't have them too comfortable as they have still yet to play a complete game regarding all sides and dimensions of the ball. Can the Texans 5-2 start be considered a strong one or a padded cushion in the rankings for the time being?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
Sean Salisbury.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
There to usc true, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Bryanlalima, go Lobos. This is the Sean Salisbury Show, Sean,
Bryn and Tripoli. You can also listen to us on
the iHeartRadio app. Rockets lose to the Charlotte Hornets last night.
It was the home opener, season opener. They were up
(01:09):
eighteen points at one point, fall one fifteen ten.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
They're back in action tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
He got Thursday Night Football to Night Rams and Vikings
talking about the Texans matchup this coming weekend against the Colts.
Anthony Richardson back in a quarterback. He was banged up
for a while. Joe Flacco came in and did a
pretty decent job for the Colts. Of course, Joey just
sitting on his couch and then gets a backup role
last year with the Browns and he comes in, makes
(01:38):
it rain Texans beat them in the playoffs, and then
Joe Flacco finds himself as the backup for the Colts
started a couple of games. But it's Richardson's team once again.
We know what he brings to the table. How much
running is he going to try to do compared to
throwing his completion percentages.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
He's gonna run. He's gonna run when the opportunity is there.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Okay, his percentage this year so far sean forty eight
point five percent completion percentage.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Yeah, he's not good. He's right now. Better hope it's
the a big, a big body of water, because he'll
make a spectacular play. But if he's out there in
the middle of the ocean, he probably the ball in
landing accurately in it right now.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, you asked me if I thought, you know,
are we taking this for granted? Team? For granted? Do
you think the you think we're taking it for granted?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
No, I just want to know it's maybe it's just
the fact that the loss last week and all the
offensive line talk did I feel And it's hard to
get the pulse of it when you're in your own
living room or we're sitting here in the studio. We
get that from the fans. I I kind of wonder
where the fans are treading to.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Do.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I feel like there's not a ton of buzz, That's
what I'm And it could be just perception. It's early
in the morning, who knows, but throughout the week, I
mean it's Thursday. I'm just wondering, are at five and
two you comfortable that this is a I'm in a team,
or at five and two you concerned that it's not.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I think I think you said it perfectly earlier in
the show that it's a soft five and two.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I think it's a Saw five and two.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
And I'll take five. I'd rather be Saw five and
two than two and five. But a Saw five and
two not meaning the players are soft, but they're they're
they're they're they're beating teams are supposed to and their
defense is flying around. But I always judge the toughness
of my team a lot of times, how the guys
up as an offensive player even though defense you know,
sets a tone. I get it, But I judge my
(03:27):
offense if I'm playing by how good the guys up
front are and how they dominate you in the run
and the pass game. And right now, it's a soft
five and two. You can say it, how have you
And it doesn't mean they're not talented. It's a soft
five and two and there's a lot of potential. And
put it this way, there's a ton of room to
grow for a five and two team. So I just
wonder if the buzz is that we're taking it. This
(03:48):
is a cults, We're kicking their ass. Anthony Richardson's not accurate.
I mean forty plus percent is awful. Yeah, I mean
that's that's that's missed. That's missing simple ordinary plays that
everybody should make. Now, like I said, you get him
in the open field. You saw the spectacular plays. He
made a couple of great throws, but then missed a
couple of wide open throws in the first game they played.
(04:09):
So I just wonder if it's, of course we're beating
the Colts, if we're to that stage as a confident
city in the team, or if we're treading a little
lightly saying they're good, but I'm not comfortable with him.
So Mike, for me, it's are you comfortable is it
a five and two team that you think is dominant
or is it a five and two team that you
think needs to be far more dominant?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I think it's the latter.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I wonder if Jonathan Taylor will be back in the lineup.
He's been out for like the last three weeks.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
And it's constantly happening too. I mean, unfortunately for Jonathan Taylor,
it's every year now, the last couple of years where
he's been out, and it's a bummer because he is
the true he's the one that makes that offense go.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Looks like he will he's set to return. It looks
like he was set to return to practice yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
They're gonna need him against it.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
If you've got a quarterback that's completing less than fifty
percent and he's a little banged up, and you got
your best running back not playing or carrying it, which
is really your best offensive football.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Player, good luck.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Shane Steiken, head coach of the Colts, said, quote, We'll
see how the week goes, but we feel really good
about it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
End quote.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I'm sure well, yeah, and then they they they better
that better be you know, they're manifesting. Please let Jonathan
Taylor play because I can tell you this, No, forty
percent completion percentage, guy should beat you in your building.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Forty eight percent completion percentage.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Unfortunately. Uh, I don't care what that's. That's just inexcusable football.
That's telling you. That's because that's those aren't always missing
tough throws. No, no, no, that is telling you you're missing throws
that everybody should make.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
You're missing the simple that's exactly right, making the ordinary
throws look extraordinariary. Yeah, oh dude, it's it's been bad,
no doubt. I mean it's been really bad. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Kenneth, what you
got on this O line for the Texans?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, excuse me, Well, I was looking at what this
guy was. He was a former lineman, and what he did.
He showed a diagram and what he was seeing, and
I agree that it was a lot of miss assignments
rather than a kind of like a skill. Said problem
(06:14):
and uh and and then we had this call the biscuit.
He said something made a lot of senses that they
was they was allowing the UH the U A green
Bayer to run the formation because they didn't spread theirs out.
They allowed everything to come.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
In bye by type formations. Instead of spreading out, you
got defenders into the box.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, and and b would you know I could have
got in there and and and and and shot a
straight in through an ALB slide up in there. You
know they wasn't spread that. I didn't do a damn
thing to compensate for it, you know. And you know
I ain't a blame point. But come on, man, you
know what I'm asking you, not Sean you looking at
(07:01):
over this here. You got to play coming in and
I know, like what Dan Marino used to do, and
he get it. He'll turn around, he would he would
call the time he turned around and say, hey man,
what kind of games you playing? You know? Sometimes you
know I understand, you know CJ. You know he was
just his second year and everybody's seeing his frustration. Man,
(07:24):
And you know, you know, I just got a call
like I see it. I don't really blame the lion
that much. The lineman per se. I believe on what's being.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Called fair enough. Keinneth, thank you appreciate you man, good point.
A couple of things. I think part of it's that.
And remember Bobby Sloan isn't putting protections in. That's the
offensive line coach. They talk about him. You implement him
in certain fronts and defenses. What's best against this look
and what gives us the best chance? We zoning it,
we turning it back, we play you know? Is it
we were man on? What are you doing with our back?
(07:55):
We free released him? Is he chipping on his way out?
What do all those things and max protected in certain situations?
Is I think it's more than one fold. I think
it's a couple real quick and Kenneth great point. One
is biscuits right, you spread the formation out wide. It's
gonna show it cleaner what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Boom.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
But you also want to have the ability to still
run it, and you can. You can go four wide
and still run mixing, especially if you're taking a body
out of the box. It's all you're doing is eliminating
bodies and letting go five on five or five on six,
and you run away from the sixth guy if you
got five to block them and you're you're in one
back in four wides. The other side of it is
though I actually from my vantage point now i'd have
(08:34):
to go in there and watch their cutups and meeting room,
but I watch the game twice each week. Is to
my vantage point, it is assignment related. Not that they're
getting Now at times they're getting physically pushed back and
moved and the other team's going to make plays. But
to me, it's it's simple protections that they're that they're
not sound on, which is weird. Is it what they're teaching?
(08:55):
Are they not picking it up? Is it too is
it too convoluted? Is it too complex? You wouldn't think so.
And the third part, so you got to get us.
And it's crazy, but I hear it all the time
with seventh grade. When you're coaching guys in high school. Assignment.
It's alignment and assignment. Know your alignment where you're supposed
to align. That's why Kansas City's defense, or you've watched
(09:16):
the way Minnesot's defense, but they're not out of position,
and this defense has been in positions. You know, they
give a few big plays in early in the season,
they're making sure they're in the right position. If you're
in the right position. That's about eighty percent of the deal.
Then you got to go finish. So alignment and assignment.
It's the same on offense. Are they are there? Is
they do they understand who they're supposed to get? And
if they don't, then you got to fix that and
(09:38):
find a way to simplify it if that's what it takes.
Or is it combination protections and not being it's not
being received the way it needs to or are they
just getting out of their stands late?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Are they overthinking things?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Are they are they being confused because they're walking for
up and dropping a guy out. So the assignment, the
alignment and assignment's important. And I am a big guy
on my quarter back having the opportunity to change a
play and there are times when you just got to
know it well enough to say better to beg forgiveness
and ask permission.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What are they gonna do? Not start him? If C. J.
Stroud gets to a point where he.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Says, you know what, here's what I saw and here's
why I checked to this play and it sound I'm
not gonna question him. He got the ball in his hand.
He's the one making those decisions. So if they don't
you better expand that? Because my quarterback should be allowed
to go with what he sees as long as it's
not something that's not sound right, it's got to be sound.
If it is, then he's got an explanation for why
(10:33):
check to a play. I'm all in as this coordinator.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
How much has the offensive line struggled with blitz rates
during this season?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
We'll talk about it next
Kd E Houston, k t V E h D two Houston,
an iHeart radio station.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
They as a Rocket.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, your home for your
home team.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Here and right now, you're shot at one thousand dollars
on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Just enter this nationwide keyword at Sports seven ninety dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Cash c A s H Cash.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Enter it now at Sports seven ninety dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Saulisbury, Oh right, Salisbury, Houston. Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Sean Salisbury.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
There to usc true, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Bryanlalima, go Lobos. This is the Sean Salisbury Show, Sean,
Bryn and Tripoli. You can also listen to us on
the iHeartRadio app. Rockets lose to the Charlotte Hornets last night.
It was the home opener, season opener. They were up
(01:09):
eighteen points at one point, fall one fifteen ten.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
They're back in action tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
He got Thursday Night Football to Night Rams and Vikings
talking about the Texans matchup this coming weekend against the Colts.
Anthony Richardson back in a quarterback. He was banged up
for a while. Joe Flacco came in and did a
pretty decent job for the Colts. Of course, Joey just
sitting on his couch and then gets a backup role
last year with the Browns and he comes in, makes
(01:38):
it rain Texans beat them in the playoffs, and then
Joe Flacco finds himself as the backup for the Colts
started a couple of games. But it's Richardson's team once again.
We know what he brings to the table. How much
running is he going to try to do compared to
throwing his completion percentages.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
He's gonna run. He's gonna run when the opportunity is there.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Okay, his percentage this year so far sean forty eight
point five percent completion percentage.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Yeah, he's not good. He's right now. Better hope it's
the a big, a big body of water, because he'll
make a spectacular play. But if he's out there in
the middle of the ocean, he probably the ball in
landing accurately in it right now.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, you asked me if I thought, you know,
are we taking this for granted? Team? For granted? Do
you think the you think we're taking it for granted?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
No, I just want to know it's maybe it's just
the fact that the loss last week and all the
offensive line talk did I feel And it's hard to
get the pulse of it when you're in your own
living room or we're sitting here in the studio. We
get that from the fans. I I kind of wonder
where the fans are treading to.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Do.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I feel like there's not a ton of buzz, That's
what I'm And it could be just perception. It's early
in the morning, who knows, but throughout the week, I
mean it's Thursday. I'm just wondering, are at five and
two you comfortable that this is a I'm in a team,
or at five and two you concerned that it's not.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I think I think you said it perfectly earlier in
the show that it's a soft five and two.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I think it's a Saw five and two.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
And I'll take five. I'd rather be Saw five and
two than two and five. But a Saw five and
two not meaning the players are soft, but they're they're
they're they're they're beating teams are supposed to and their
defense is flying around. But I always judge the toughness
of my team a lot of times, how the guys
up as an offensive player even though defense you know,
sets a tone. I get it, But I judge my
(03:27):
offense if I'm playing by how good the guys up
front are and how they dominate you in the run
and the pass game. And right now, it's a soft
five and two. You can say it, how have you
And it doesn't mean they're not talented. It's a soft
five and two and there's a lot of potential. And
put it this way, there's a ton of room to
grow for a five and two team. So I just
wonder if the buzz is that we're taking it. This
(03:48):
is a cults, We're kicking their ass. Anthony Richardson's not accurate.
I mean forty plus percent is awful. Yeah, I mean
that's that's that's missed. That's missing simple ordinary plays that
everybody should make. Now, like I said, you get him
in the open field. You saw the spectacular plays. He
made a couple of great throws, but then missed a
couple of wide open throws in the first game they played.
(04:09):
So I just wonder if it's, of course we're beating
the Colts, if we're to that stage as a confident
city in the team, or if we're treading a little
lightly saying they're good, but I'm not comfortable with him.
So Mike, for me, it's are you comfortable is it
a five and two team that you think is dominant
or is it a five and two team that you
think needs to be far more dominant?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I think it's the latter.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I wonder if Jonathan Taylor will be back in the lineup.
He's been out for like the last three weeks.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
And it's constantly happening too. I mean, unfortunately for Jonathan Taylor,
it's every year now, the last couple of years where
he's been out, and it's a bummer because he is
the true he's the one that makes that offense go.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Looks like he will he's set to return. It looks
like he was set to return to practice yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
They're gonna need him against it.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
If you've got a quarterback that's completing less than fifty
percent and he's a little banged up, and you got
your best running back not playing or carrying it, which
is really your best offensive football.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Player, good luck.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Shane Steiken, head coach of the Colts, said, quote, We'll
see how the week goes, but we feel really good
about it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
End quote.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I'm sure well, yeah, and then they they they better
that better be you know, they're manifesting. Please let Jonathan
Taylor play because I can tell you this, No, forty
percent completion percentage, guy should beat you in your building.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Forty eight percent completion percentage.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Unfortunately. Uh, I don't care what that's. That's just inexcusable football.
That's telling you. That's because that's those aren't always missing
tough throws. No, no, no, that is telling you you're missing throws
that everybody should make.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
You're missing the simple that's exactly right, making the ordinary
throws look extraordinariary. Yeah, oh dude, it's it's been bad,
no doubt. I mean it's been really bad. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Kenneth, what you
got on this O line for the Texans?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, excuse me, Well, I was looking at what this
guy was. He was a former lineman, and what he did.
He showed a diagram and what he was seeing, and
I agree that it was a lot of miss assignments
rather than a kind of like a skill. Said problem
(06:14):
and uh and and then we had this call the biscuit.
He said something made a lot of senses that they
was they was allowing the UH the U A green
Bayer to run the formation because they didn't spread theirs out.
They allowed everything to come.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
In bye by type formations. Instead of spreading out, you
got defenders into the box.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, and and b would you know I could have
got in there and and and and and shot a
straight in through an ALB slide up in there. You
know they wasn't spread that. I didn't do a damn
thing to compensate for it, you know. And you know
I ain't a blame point. But come on, man, you
know what I'm asking you, not Sean you looking at
(07:01):
over this here. You got to play coming in and
I know, like what Dan Marino used to do, and
he get it. He'll turn around, he would he would
call the time he turned around and say, hey man,
what kind of games you playing? You know? Sometimes you
know I understand, you know CJ. You know he was
just his second year and everybody's seeing his frustration. Man,
(07:24):
And you know, you know, I just got a call
like I see it. I don't really blame the lion
that much. The lineman per se. I believe on what's being.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Called fair enough. Keinneth, thank you appreciate you man, good point.
A couple of things. I think part of it's that.
And remember Bobby Sloan isn't putting protections in. That's the
offensive line coach. They talk about him. You implement him
in certain fronts and defenses. What's best against this look
and what gives us the best chance? We zoning it,
we turning it back, we play you know? Is it
we were man on? What are you doing with our back?
(07:55):
We free released him? Is he chipping on his way out?
What do all those things and max protected in certain situations?
Is I think it's more than one fold. I think
it's a couple real quick and Kenneth great point. One
is biscuits right, you spread the formation out wide. It's
gonna show it cleaner what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Boom.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
But you also want to have the ability to still
run it, and you can. You can go four wide
and still run mixing, especially if you're taking a body
out of the box. It's all you're doing is eliminating
bodies and letting go five on five or five on six,
and you run away from the sixth guy if you
got five to block them and you're you're in one
back in four wides. The other side of it is
though I actually from my vantage point now i'd have
(08:34):
to go in there and watch their cutups and meeting room,
but I watch the game twice each week. Is to
my vantage point, it is assignment related. Not that they're
getting Now at times they're getting physically pushed back and
moved and the other team's going to make plays. But
to me, it's it's simple protections that they're that they're
not sound on, which is weird. Is it what they're teaching?
(08:55):
Are they not picking it up? Is it too is
it too convoluted? Is it too complex? You wouldn't think so.
And the third part, so you got to get us.
And it's crazy, but I hear it all the time
with seventh grade. When you're coaching guys in high school. Assignment.
It's alignment and assignment. Know your alignment where you're supposed
to align. That's why Kansas City's defense, or you've watched
(09:16):
the way Minnesot's defense, but they're not out of position,
and this defense has been in positions. You know, they
give a few big plays in early in the season,
they're making sure they're in the right position. If you're
in the right position. That's about eighty percent of the deal.
Then you got to go finish. So alignment and assignment.
It's the same on offense. Are they are there? Is
they do they understand who they're supposed to get? And
if they don't, then you got to fix that and
(09:38):
find a way to simplify it if that's what it takes.
Or is it combination protections and not being it's not
being received the way it needs to or are they
just getting out of their stands late?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Are they overthinking things?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Are they are they being confused because they're walking for
up and dropping a guy out. So the assignment, the
alignment and assignment's important. And I am a big guy
on my quarter back having the opportunity to change a
play and there are times when you just got to
know it well enough to say better to beg forgiveness
and ask permission.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What are they gonna do? Not start him? If C. J.
Stroud gets to a point where he.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Says, you know what, here's what I saw and here's
why I checked to this play and it sound I'm
not gonna question him. He got the ball in his hand.
He's the one making those decisions. So if they don't
you better expand that? Because my quarterback should be allowed
to go with what he sees as long as it's
not something that's not sound right, it's got to be sound.
If it is, then he's got an explanation for why
(10:33):
check to a play. I'm all in as this coordinator.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
How much has the offensive line struggled with blitz rates
during this season?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
We'll talk about it next
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