LIVE: The Houston Texans address the media

LIVE: The Houston Texans address the media

with K Lasser, he has this real knack for being able to find the ball. Not everybody can run with the guy and also locate the ball then get the ball. What do you see from him in terms of when it’s up there that he’s going to go get it? And Kamari is doing a great job of really uh really working his technique right in coverage of being able to, you know, not just find the ball, but be on the receiver, find a way to look up for the football and come down with it. That’s a really nice play he’s made here in our stadium. Uh two times this year he’s been tried down the sideline. He went up and made the play. So really proud of just his growth and development. He’s doing a great job for us. Demo, where is uh Nico Collins at in the concussion protocol? Yeah, we’ll see how he go how he progresses throughout the week with his with the concussion protocol. What is it about the the defense that has made it effective this season? I mean, I think the defense uh first and foremost, the guys are they’re swarming to the football. They play fast. They play physical. That’s the that’s the first first thing that allows you to play good defense. And, you know, we’re getting off the field on third down. I think that’s really been the key uh to limit drives that offense is trying to do, trying to drive the ball down, but defense is doing a great job getting off on third down, causing havoc up front and guys doing a good job when the coverage is right and guys are where we’re supposed to be. It’s really tough, all right, to make a play on us. How beneficial was the offense for the defense yesterday kind of sustaining those drives? And I mean, we all played collectively together as a team, offense, defense, everybody fed off of each other, and that’s how it should look. Offense did a good job of controlling the game. Again, meant winning third down, allowing them to stay on the field, ran the football effectively. Uh, made great decisions with the football from quarterback position, just played really efficient offense. Of the younger players have mentioned the word confidence and how they feel like their confidence is growing. Xavier Hutchinson was one of them. Where do you typically see confidence manifest itself outside of game day? Are there moments in meetings or or practice where you could see a guy’s confidence growing? And confidence just comes from right doing your job the right way, executing it on the practice field, doing it, seeing the success from doing it the proper way, doing it the way your coaches are asking you to do it, and you show up in the game and you perform that technique the exact same way. and you take the coaching points that your coach has given you and you do it in the game and you make plays. I think that that’s what gives guys confidence. Where do you see the opportunities to improve in red zone efficiency? Uh get in the end zone. Uh we we got down in the red zone a few times. Uh and we kind of stalled stalled out, right? Couple negative plays. Um but we can do a better job of just, you know, keeping our foot on the gas and being more productive. a great job of getting in the red zone and Emy did a great job of really finishing those drive with points, but we want to finish those drives with seven if possible. Looked like when you guys ran the traps, you did um the draws, things that naturally really effective against um the Niners defense. What just kind of went into making those plays effectively? I think our offense offensive guys did a great job of as game planning and putting our guys in position to uh have successful plays and the players did a good job executing those plays. On a big play like the one that CJ throws to Woody in the flat, how how much are you looking at it making sure that the guys out front did their job to turn it from a 20 30 yard play into a 50 yard play? The most exciting part about that play and CJ made a great decision. Woody catches the ball, you know, in the flat. But to see our receivers finishing downfield, finishing their block, straining, that’s the most exciting part of that play for me. Uh, and that’s what it that’s what it looks like, right? You have to take advantage when the defenses, they dropped the they dropped the back in coverage and we made them pay. That’s what football is all about, right? Making guys pay when they do make a mistake. We did that and we came up with an explosive play there to Woody. That play is unfolding, I assume, basically right in front of you. Are you immediately looking ahead to see who’s out front and doing their job? Uh, no. That you can feel I can feel those guys. I see Woody coming at me and I can feel the guys feel the receivers working. It was Hutch and uh Hutch and Higgins. They were down there just straining to try to finish their blocks. What are the challenges for a coach when pushing away outside noise? I know that was a topic yesterday. What are the challenges and is there a balance between like positive outside noise and negative outside noise? No, it really doesn’t matter. I mean, here you can see it’s a lot of negative talk about us. We get it. I hear people try to give it to me all the time. I get it, right? It’s like, but it really doesn’t matter, right? And I again, I talk about it. Everybody wants to write a hot story and most of the time it’s negative stuff that people want to talk about, right? Nobody wants to talk about the positive stuff that happens. And again, if you feed off of that and you’re riding the pendulum of, oh, we’re great because we won. Oh, we suck because we lost fight. Like that’s our business. I get it. And but that’s what that’s the nature of it. We keep moving forward. Really, it doesn’t drive anything. It it means nothing. Literally nothing to what we’re about. Like it does nothing to drive our team. We just got to go out and play good football. You don’t You don’t think you’ve gotten any positive stuff? Yeah, I was about to say that. Like the first You don’t You don’t think you’ve gotten any praise at all? Yeah. It’s What What’s your question? I’m just saying like everybody says negative. I didn’t I said I said that’s what people thrive on is the negative stuff. Yeah. Says negative. You don’t think you’ve gotten any positive? It I said people thrive on the negative. You guys are good. You guys must be the ne ones with the negative stuff. We’re playing football. You talk about outside noise. I say it again. It doesn’t matter. Good, bad. It doesn’t change how we prepare. It doesn’t change our week of preparation. We’re going to work. We’re going to work our best and game plan our best and go out and play good football. Well, but for your first couple years and a half, like you’ve gotten nothing but positive coverage for the majority of the time. So, when you say everybody wants to focus on the negative and not right about the positive, I I don’t know if that’s how is that accurate when you’ve been here for a couple years, you got a lot of positive coverage. You guys good? Do you pay much attention to your record when you’re messaging with your team at all? No, the messaging doesn’t matter. It the the messaging from the outside. It does it doesn’t matter us. It’s not about the record. It’s about that week. And we truly focus on one week at a time, one day at a time. And that’s how that’s how we operate. Do you have a projection for like Kate Stove? Is it close on him? K’s doing a good job. He’s working his way back. He’s doing a good job. We’ll see where he where he uh ends up, but he’s doing a good job here working out with our our guys on the side. He’s doing a good job. You know, when you go again, what makes um playing in the red zone difficult? And as a defense, when you go against a good red zone team, what do those teams have? What do they possess? Uh good red zone teams, you’re just sound in the red zone, right? You’re not allowing right guys to be wide open. You’re challenging routes. you have really good, you mix up the coverages, mix up the looks, and that’s what makes it tough when you’re playing a good red zone defense. And to do that for offense, you just got to find those those plays as you’ve seen on tape, how you’re attacking those coverages, catch them in the right one. Like we were able to catch uh Higgins right in the cover two, and we were able to it was good, great play design by the offensive guys, and it put us right there in the end zone. CJ made a nice throw. Hig made a nice catch there. So, it’s always a true chess match when you get in the red zone because that’s where teams mix up their game plan. They mix up their strategies a lot week to week. Dalton Schultz, a player that sometimes serves as like a guy that kind of checks other guys on the offense. He’s talked before a lot of times about experience in offense and and making sure some other guys are in good spots, helping CJ different times. Is he kind of a a guy that goes and helps kind of implement and make sure everybody’s executing? Yeah, Dog’s been a really good leader for us. Uh and he leads first just by how he’s playing. Like you talk about playing tough, finishing, playing through a lot of different nicks and pains. Like he’s doing that this year, right? He’s doing a really nice job. So I think it starts there. You lead by example of what you’re doing. He’s doing that. and when he needs to be vocal, he can be vocal and get guys on the same page, get guys moving in the right direction as well. Any thoughts on Bo Nicks and what you see from him? I have not started on the Broncos yet, so I’ll get there this afternoon. See where they are. I know they’re a good team, good record, uh good defense, uh young quarterback. Seen couple highlights where he’s made a lot of a lot of plays. So, we’ll see what that challenge presents for us as we move forward. quarterback for a first time. Can it be a advantage as well for for you going against a quarterback for the first time? What are the challenges that that possesses? Each guy possesses different challenge. I would have to look at him and study him more to see what those challenges are. Let me go. I think about uh a few weeks ago, Nick Cerio said that you all would have a better idea on Joe Mixon. Do you have an update? I know he was at the game yesterday. Do you have an update on where he is? I do not. Does Dalton have a unique way that maybe he kind of keeps some of the guys accountable that’s different from some of the other other players? Dalton is himself and that’s the cool part about our team. Like everybody has a chance to exhibit them their own personality in their own way, their own unique way. Everybody is different in that regard. And it’s that’s the cool part about the team. It’s whatever you have to say, however you say it, however you get it done, it it’s it’s perfectly fine here. So Dalton has done a great job with that all year. All right. Good.

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