The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
10/23 Killer B's Interview @TexansCommenter
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Minnesota obviously was a surprise team but I think we're right where we need to be so I'm doing just fine. I want to apologize that I haven't liked your tweets since about 10 30 today. I've been locked up in solitary confinement so my apologies if you've seen me like fewer of your stuff then I usually do this because I've been in prison so I apologize. What are we blessing and stressing on so far? Well I was wondering about that I was kind of getting disengaged. I wasn't getting stressing yeah stressing with that but but yeah as far as I was stressing about that but the first topic I have is you know the most recent news are we blessing or stressing the Texans signing Devin White. I'm sure y'all been discussing this already. I love it. I love it. I'm blessing it. I think that it's high risk low I mean low risk high reward. I think that you're getting a guy that if he lives up to anything like his resume says that 26 years old still has plenty left in the tank. He might bring some ability to the table but more so than anything else you need depth at linebacker right now and what you saw at a Hanson at least him alone probably tells you you could use an upgrade credit to Nick Casario for always looking to upgrade more than just his starters to see what he has and maybe what he could get and what he could find and I like it. I'm not as high on blinkers when it comes to the reward that you can get. I think that Devin White's ceiling is pretty limited but I do think that it helps your overall roster. I think it's an upgrade to the 53. I think he's an upgrade over Jake Hanson. How they use him will be interesting but yeah there's nothing to stress here like if it doesn't work you cut him next week like so what what did you lose there like a league minimum salary that's pro rated down to one week like there's zero risk here. I agree with blankers on that front as far as like who he's going to be I don't think he you know starts for you at any point I think he might be like a rotational linebacker right for me it's more death like if there's guys that get hurt obviously you would start but yeah I'm I'm blessing this there's zero to stress. Yeah so I'm blessing and stressing the reason I'm blessing is the reasons he all said is because he's a low risk high reward kind of guy he's more of a speed linebacker and then you throw in the fact that Demico Ryan's is the linebacker whisperer he can maybe rejuvenate this guy to get him back to where he's at but the reason I'm stressing is because what this may indicate for the health of the linebacker room this has me absolutely worried about Christian Harris and Aziz al-Shaayir so it seems Aziz may be you know longer than what we thought but but really I think that this is a telltale sign that Christian Harris is injury like we've also expected maybe even worse than what we thought was worse and worse and worse so that's why I'd be stressing on that. I can't push back too much on that because that could very well be true and I know zero about the status of Christian Harris and Aziz al-Shaayir. I know that Aziz hasn't been placed on the IR so if it was something like okay we tore his ACL or you know I think he would probably we would probably know that by now so that's kind of the solace I take there the Christian Harris thing is a complete mystery to me. He's been out for two and a half months after he walked around a training camp that re-aggravated a strain calf so I don't know that. I think the Nicocery would make this move even if Christian Harris was coming back this week though I think it could be something that they saw on tape and didn't love Jake Hanson a whole lot. Not dismissing what you're saying but I still think the Caesario makes this type of move even if they knew for a fact Harris was coming back soon. I agree. Because he's always looking to upgrade the roster. He did with T.R. Tarte last year late in the year. Derek Barnett. Yeah and I think that didn't I saw some video from from practice today that I think that they had Aziz was back out on the field in total but whether they are. Toto was Harris or Aziz did not practice. Okay because I still I'm not gonna be overly concerned about that. I think the main thing that you could you have reason to stress about is the fact that I think we all are hoping that we're wrong in what we're feeling but we're all feeling like Christian Harris might be done for the season or for a way longer period of time because it might be way more severe than what anybody built it to be. Yeah it's a hundred percent speculation in my part so I hope you are correct it's just something I kind of sure that was when I read that news that was my first thought. It could be right it could be I think they're two separate things but it could be right yeah it could be right. All right well next up I got a Blesseders stress in the Texans end of game management and also challenges. You know early on I was kind of not really stressing on it thinking it was fine but you know Domingo's a young coach but it's been almost a year and a half and there's been several instances for both end of half you know before halftime and end of half for the game that kind of has me stressing as well as challenges but he's been pretty good overall but there's definitely been some like in the game against Green Bay where he didn't challenge the backwards pass which may or may not have been but to me at the very least you know our defense as a result of us trying to decide whether or not the challenge was out of place and resulting a touchdown so even stopping the clock they would have been fine but the end of game stuff kind of has me worried how conservative we are it's like we just want to drain the clock we're not aggressive so I don't know where you guys sit on that. There's an absolutely no question you should be stressing I'm stressing because of the fact that like you said we've seen it multiple times now we've seen where they either went to the end of the half or the end of a game where they didn't even get a chance to get points because you remember the debacle with the referee and trying to get that straight and of when he was going to start the clock and they didn't even get anything off and then D'Amico just kind of said that's our bad to what happened against Green Bay and all the different issues that they had there to the fact that we knew that D'Amico is the leader of men we knew that he was an upgrade over the end of the other coaches that Nick has brought in and we all felt great about D'Amico this first time as a head coach he's going to make mistakes it's going to be a work in progress where we haven't seen the need for it in a lot of different areas of head coach in the NFL this is one where there's definitely room for improvement yeah I'm uh I'm stressing this this is this is something that I noticed last year whereas D'Amico wasn't a very good like game clock manager I was hopeful that hey you know it's your one he'll he'll figure it out and you know things will be better going forward and there's still is time for that but you know the the challenge of the lateral the other day I'm not even sure they overturned that because they didn't have a great camera on it it's very difficult to call but was it worth the challenge yes and then what happened the very next play makes it even more difficult because you do the whole hindsight 2020 oh throw the challenge even if you're wrong you get your time out and you're able to align what you need to do defensively I've I'd forgotten about the Colts in week one of the first half it's a great point and then how about well two or three weeks ago I can't remember it was the bills game whenever they had the intentional grounding whenever they were already in field goal range like why are you even throwing the ball in this spot so yeah they've had some issues there in like whoa that's Bobby slowing doing it the Mikos got the power to override all of that so yeah I've been saying that yeah I think he's below average as a as a head coach you know one through 32 he's below average in game management clock management don't forget he had the starters in the game down by 27 with minutes left to play against Minnesota people are crushing Todd Bowles this week because he got Godwin hurt because he was in a 10-point game they're still still possible still a chance to win Dameko had him in down by 27 and oh no no one bets an eye about that so yeah I think he's below average clock game management I think he's I think he's elite in leadership and you know being able to build a culture and things like that yeah and it's definitely concerning to when you hear his explanations about these situations he he has a chance to say I would have done this but he kind of doubles down on some of these you know the end of game but the third and 12 call or 15 call and I don't know if that's him protecting Bobby Slough but to your point too he has the authority to be the end-all be also in my opinion is if you are the defensive-minded head coach who wants to do a certain philosophy in that situation you want to run a clock out then why isn't that relayed to Bobby Slough and say hey do not throw the ball do not stop the clock how in the same thing with the bills game no matter what do not stop the clock like all it takes is one word in the headset instead you have a hundred I assume you have a hundred percent delegation of Bobby Slough it putting trust in him to make the right decision you should have the authority to go step in right there how about the I mean CJ shroud I don't know what our philosophy was on that last draw yeah how was that excuse like I mean and I get it I get it up until the two-minute warning and the the Hutchinson catch at the sideline happened on the big side of the it happened before the two-minute warning that led you to the two-minute warning so I get not really knowing there because you're kind of like in between yes you're in field-goal range but you still wanted to keep the ball you still wanted to use clock you still wanted to score but after you converted the third and whatever it was 12 or whatever to Hutchinson to get the first down the sliding catch near the sideline that took you to the two-minute warning if I remember correctly so you have the entire team over there that's the point no one's talking about your game plan our idea and even like you could go both ways you could be like hey CJ you're the man go score a touchdown you could be like hey you know the offense you're not gonna say this but like you in the back of your mind the passing game hasn't been there so we want to run the ball hey CJ what we're trying to do here is we're trying to use up as much clock as possible take care of the football so the fact that CJ shroud didn't know that after they come together on the sideline during the two-minute warning is problematic you talk about whether it's Belichick or some of the defensive-minded head coaches in this league they don't get involved on a play-by-play situation but you damn well know that in big-time very urgent situations like this they are going to make their opinion felt they are going to make it clear and known this is what I want to do and it seems like bay and nothing's more telling than CJ's comment that there not only wasn't one guy's opinion versus the other there was probably no comment at all from either guy and that's problematic he said basically he was guessing like you take it's one second to say hey this is what we're doing yeah so that's that's got a stress and for sure next up I got are we blessed or stressing the fact or the belief that the Texans offensive line can correct this past protection issues relatively soon I think I'm gonna go in the minority and say yes I am optimistic and blessing the fact that they can correct it to me the big overarching thing for these issues is number one it's loud road environments and then as a part of that underneath that is obviously is communication you know it's being able to pick up blitzes or stunts or simulated pressures so we've played in you know two of the loudest stadiums in the games that were the worst which was Green Bay and Minnesota and then we also obviously had some issues with Indy as well but you look at the rest of the schedule too as far as the defenses we are playing as far as like EPA per quarterback basically how difficult it is for a quarterback we've played three of the top five defenses already so things will lighten up a much a lot more and then we don't really have very many strong road games besides Kansas City so I'm stressing the hell out of this because I don't believe that it's fixable by just doing little things I think that the overriding that concern that I have is based on the fact that we went from penalties we went from false starts we went from illegal procedures in the way we line up and the fact that those issues with the O line to now pass pro is awful the fact that you know you've got guys that just aren't even communicating on the line of which guys going to take the outside speed rush who's going to worry about the stunts inside and some of the moves and where the pressure's coming from to where this is going to be the bugaboo and the main theme of this team it seems like it already is for the first you know half of the season almost but it seems like it's something that it's not going to go away quickly and I don't think it's fixable we we were talking about a couple segments ago I think Kenyon Green is the first guy that's going to face the possible replacement but at the same time you can't just put it on one guy this is an overwhelming theme of the season for this these five guys I think it's important but caveats here like are they good enough to fix it relatively soon to accomplish what like do I think they can beat the Colts at home yeah I think they can beat the Colts at home and I think you're on to something to with the home road thing like their offensive line has played better at home versus on the road their offensive numbers are better at home than they are on the road I do think that there is something to that whether it's you know the crowd noise it's gotta be crowd noise more than anything else because it give me silent count they obviously don't know how to use a silent count though no like you see get mean they communicate to Kenyon Green and then hey tap the center on the side of the hip and let's snap but it's also too I don't want to interrupt you in your segment but it's also the play call getting in is Bobby getting the play call on too slow CJ calling the play too slow and then you get lined up with two seconds and now you're trying to figure out this whole puzzle and you just snap it and you're just kind of doomed you see about three or four times a road game where Stroud late the play clock is give me the ball give me the call and you still see him pointing around so they're they're not getting the call in quickly enough now you're absolutely right and I think the meat goes even alluded to that where we need to get the play call into the huddle quicker we need to get out of the huddle quicker we need to get to the line quicker that way we have more time to execute you know XYZ so we can execute you know the the right coverages and where we're gonna go in protection I Logan Farlow who used to be an intern here he does some really good breakdowns on on TikTok I was watching one today where he's looking at the offensive line and you could see them pointing the right way like you see Larametunzel point to his left you see Kenyan green point to his left you see then Kenyan green snap you know touch juice grugs hey that's a snap snap the ball and then Larametunzel goes right it's like I'm not an offensive lineman guru I'm very much just a layman but it's like it looks like their coverages are correct and then they're just not doing them CJ Stroud was talking to the media today and he said look we're in our coverages correctly most of the time it's just about execution so I don't know what's going on like a few weeks ago I was bringing up Strauser you know maybe it's not being coached all that well but it's like he coached him up pretty good last year with his patchwork offensive line now it's still going on six weeks later after we saw a questionable offensive line are they not coachable like there's a lot of factors here I think their offensive line is capable enough to win a poor division to be okay at home but them winning a tough road game you know in Baltimore at Kansas City now I don't think their offensive line gets there I don't so I'll stress it so that's exactly what I was going to say is you know it can be a band-aid and get us through the rest of the year and we can still obtain our goals but at some point the way it projects right now we will have to play a tough road game in the playoffs and at that point we will wonder if this problem will rear its ugly head again or not and I would suspect yes there's nothing to tell us otherwise yeah cuz you know you're absolutely right in the fact that we talked to the other day about from the standpoint of having a veteran center that's able to pick up a lot of coverages and pick him up quickly to CJ saying kind of what Jalen Hertz went through in the fact that when you lose a veteran center it's on the quarterback more to pick him up to but then if the play isn't in time in the huddle in time now you're you're really up against it for all three factors that are factoring in and that's not even getting to when you start figuring out when you start seeing you know the pre snap and what they're doing and how they're moving around it's a very complicated process but right now yeah I'm kind of with Jeremy in the fact that it's more on whether they're coachable or not and if they're listening or not or they're just too stubborn to change their ways and from a veteran perspective battery check brings up you know I wonder how much of this is on an offense or a sinner who's playing in the NFL as a sinner for the first year obviously you know guard is right last year you know I'm trying to pick up the clues like on who's making the cause offensively pre snap and CJ talked a little bit today like how he wants to help juice so if he's helping juice that tells me that juice is the one making the call right because if he's trying to provide aid he's trying to help him juice is the one making the call so I think that that is there is something to that I don't know the fix though like I think it's more than just one simple thing a lot of I think it is upgrades at specific positions namely left guard maybe center of juice is getting the calls wrong although you have players that are saying the calls are right they're just not executing maybe it is a different offensive line coach maybe it is a different philosophy but I think it's a variety of a bunch of different things I don't think that it's one easy quick fix what I want can you green bench for kindergarten that's a move that I would have made today but do I think that's the the a lecture that fixes it all no I don't but we could also argue to the reason that hasn't been done is because of his draft capital position first rounders he probably gets a longer leash but I think one thing too we haven't mentioned as well it's the past pros a whole it's not just the line although they have had their fair share I mean tight ends and running backs are just as guilty especially last week so I mean we basically have said those we just all listed five or six little things but collectively that becomes a big thing so I have another one or we can last one okay last one I got is are we blessing or stressing the Texans being five and two despite everything going on I'm blessing I mean you know like I mentioned earlier I get there's you know things that haven't been perfect in the frustrations from the fan base but if you look at a big picture perspective wise we're five and two I believe they have a one-game lead in the division if you beat indie this week it becomes two but the fact that it becomes a three-game lead since the tie-breaker so this is a big game coming up we're right where we want to be so despite everything that's going on and I guess you had the argument we haven't played our best ball yet and we're still in this position so I'm blessed I'm blessing it simply because of the fact that you still have a winning record you still are in a position of control as you mentioned you're not the Niners the Niners dealing with injuries are are wallowing around 500 they've lost both of their wide receivers one of them for the year you've got a guy that's out four weeks and he's ahead of schedule so I think that your best football still can be ahead of you what you're dealing with is even as bad as the offensive line might be there's still ways and there's opportunities to fix it whether be the trade deadline or to make switches or to just make sure that maybe Demico's right and they they work on different communications and things to get through some of this but they're too talented a team for me to be stressing I believe that being at five and two and still having issues like this is far better than being it full of in overlaid and with issues like this and being three and three or two and four and really having to scratch and claw the rest of the season I'm gonna be a little contrarian here now I had I'm four and three through seven games they're the fact that they're five and two they're better than I thought they would be so I'm blessing the at the the aspect that they're five and two but I really don't care about record a whole lot what he's talking about Brian I mean you need a good record to qualify for the postseason but if the Texans didn't qualify for the postseason we'd be talking about what a disaster of a year this is so the way that I've been viewing this whole year is like how far away are the Texans from being at the apex of the AFC you know what I mean and I feel like the Texans are further away from the AFC apex today than they were at the start of the year I felt like they were and maybe that was my fault maybe that was my misread of where the Texans were I guess read of where the Texans were relative to the Baltimore Ravens or the Kansas City Chiefs I can own that I was the one that was wrong there but my personal feeling even though they're five and two and I had them at four and three so blessing the aspect that they're better through seven games than I thought I think that the gap that separates them from Baltimore and Kansas City is greater than what I thought it was at the start of the year so I'm stressing that part of it that's fair and it's hard to argue that that's and that's what we want we all have my co-host never ever said well wrong with you you could you can you can you can get some guys some tension going to call me and I'll come and we should have pretty much need to be here daily we get daily all right great stuff great stuff here what are you working on this week at Houston stresses calm same stuff so actually this week I am working on a content creator directory which is also journalist so I'm basically gonna have like a directory for anyone and everyone I'll see you my information yeah with your approval of course I'll put you right at the top screw the approval sounds good but yeah so basically a directory and then still working on the discord on there and I wrote an article actually about that online discussion if you want to read on articles and build my newsletter so all the same good stuff if you want to do a little investigative journalism on why I got locked up I would I give you a quote or two if you end up doing that Garrett great stuff Houston stressons.com IG Houston stress and you can find them on tick-tock and Twitter at Texans commenter as well talk to you next week appreciate it we bless them Garrett Houston stressons.com all right so on the killer bees ESPN 97 5 there's only one feeling like knowing your banker personally like growing up with a bank you can count on like being sure what you've earned is safe secure and local there's only one feeling like knowing you're supporting your community you deserve more from a bank you deserve an institution that stood strong for generations bank of Colorado there's only one member FDIC enter at career builder.com to win a trip to jingle ball in New York City and discover your earning potential along the way career builder.com knows that your skills are superpowers and employers need you now like never before career builder.com specially designed tools to help you move up like 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