Texans Annihilate Ravens 44-10: Stroud's 4-TD Frenzy Leaves Ravens in Ashes

With Week 5 in the NFL set to conclude today following Monday Night Football tonight, the Texans roll into Baltimore with a bit of a chip on their shoulder against their AFC competitors. Favored to win and with the Ravens missing their starting quarterback, Lamar Jackson, the Texans do not disappoint, going on to shut out Baltimore with a final score of 44-10. Writing some history, Houston claims the organization's first victory at M&T Bank Stadium, having previously been 0-8 on the road until yesterday. Regarding C.J. Stroud's dominating performance and noting the absence of Lamar, Sean and Dan take a moment to evaluate yesterday's much-needed victory and what mentality the Texans should have going in and coming out of their BYE Week following this week's huge victory.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Texans go to Baltimore, a player they never won,
and they take it forty four to ten over the Ravens.
Love to see it. Love to see everything that the
Texans were able to do in that game. I mean,
you wanted offense. You just heard Iron Eagle tell you
right there. You got offense. You want a defense, Like
you're saying to yourself, Hey, this team hasn't really caused

(00:23):
too many turnovers this year. Oh you got that too.
And then you wanted to stop Derrick Henry from being
able to beat you in this game. Yeah, you did
that too. At fifteen carries thirty three yards as long
as carrying the game with seven yards. So I mean,
just every single way and every single fashion imaginable. You

(00:44):
just absolutely took it to Baltimore yesterday. But I know
that some people out there are going to say, we'll
look at all the Baltimore injuries. Well, I mean, let's
just go back a few weeks ago with the Astros.
You think that the Mariners looked at him and said,
now there's no yord On Alvarez, So this is kind
of cheapened. I mean, al twov is not really having
a great year. No, They didn't care. They came in

(01:04):
here and they handled business. And that's exactly what the
Texans were able to do yesterday. So you go into
the bye week before next week you take on Seattle
in Seattle, and I mean, you know, you just completely
think about the way that the season looks now and
I mean Sean, you know, two and three, you go
into that and now probably I would say about five

(01:28):
and what a quarter of quarters this offense has looked capable.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, and well, people are gonna say injuries an injuries
did play a factor, Make no mistake, they played a factor.
They're not beating the Baltimore Ravens like that if they're healthy.
But nobody feels sorry for him. Nobody cares. Correct, it
was impressive. So you look at the good things. I mean,
they didn't do anything poorly yesterday. I thought the offensive
line looked better than they've looked in a year and

(01:54):
a half. I Uh, they still there's still some things
they got to get sorted out out on. You know,
who was it when they there was a blitz or
just a simple pass rush and they both went after
the two guys came and the back I think it
was Marx maybe it might have been Chubb went after
the wrong, wrong alignment and they got to the quarterback.

(02:18):
But Stroud's feet moved a great job on the run.
Man covers people's backs are turning, you go and keep
and chase down their heels. I was just I was
impressed with most importantly aggressiveness early throwing the football and
play calling and a great mix, a great mix of
play calling in the run game the pass game. And
what you see with what he marks is a continued

(02:40):
expansion of those two he and Chubb, of having your
inside outside guy who can expand the offense. They got
a lot of people involved and it looked like a
football team. I already know their defense is really good,
but offensive they look like a football team. Best rhythm
they've had, and when you can do that, injuries are
not put it this way. If the Bravens were healthy

(03:00):
and the Texans operated like that, had that aggressiveness they
would have, that would have been a hell of a
football game. But they just mantled them early. Another way
you go about it. You go into their buildings, shut
them up. The crowd had nothing to do it, and
they're they're not good. They are. That's as bad as
a raven's t hell. When you watch right now watching
the Jets, I know Lamar's not there offensively, but just

(03:21):
the overall, you watch teams like the Jets Saints played
good yesterday, but the teams that just aren't good. If
you didn't know Baltimore's history, you would throw them in
that category. With the way they've played this year, especially defensively,
there's no physicality for that team. So but hey, listen,
they show up on the schedule. The injuries, it don't matter.

(03:43):
There's attrition, there's all that. You still got to play.
You line up with you know, eleven guys on both sides.
So I was impressive. It was impressive for a lot
of different reasons, and the fact that you needed it
because the team, you know, the Colts are playing really
good football. It's a it's a pretty damns more edited
division than we thought. Jacksonville's played good football too, So

(04:03):
a big win and people will make excuse, wow, they
got to do this better. You only play what's on
the schedule, and the only play you only play the
eleven that are lined up opposite. And they kicked their
ass yesterday physically. And it's a long time running when
I've said that offense is more physical than somebody's defense,
and they were. They absolutely were. You see physicality where

(04:26):
you rear its head through Saturday and Sunday in college football.
In the NFL, good quarterback play, tackle on defense, and
control the line scrummage, we win a lot of games.
And the Texans did that yesterday