{"id":681498,"date":"2026-01-16T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681498\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:00:22","slug":"patriots-wide-receiver-labels-texans-defense-not-too-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681498\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Wide Receiver Labels Texans Defense &#8216;Not Too Complicated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texans safety Calen Bullock said on Monday night following the team\u2019s wild-card round victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/texans-safety-touts-what-the-whole-world-knows-before-divisional-round-vs-patriots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the whole world knows<\/a>\u201d that Houston has the best defense.<\/p>\n<p>New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte discussed the team\u2019s AFC Divisional Round opponent on Thursday and while he admitted that Bullock and company are \u201ca good unit,\u201d he said he was confident in his offense.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QCQJTMAGKFAUTOEIB5S7WXU2AY\">\u201cNumber one ranked defense, whatever you want to say. But I mean, we\u2019re a good offense too,\u201d the pass-catcher said, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/2026\/01\/patriots-playmaker-isnt-intimidated-by-no-1-ranked-houston-texans-defense.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MassLive\u2019s Chris Mason<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to discredit ourselves. Just keep doing the same things we\u2019ve been doing, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per Mason\u2019s report, Boutte was also asked if he thought the Texans were one of the most difficult defenses he\u2019s had to prepare for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say one of the toughest. At the end of the day, we know we\u2019re going to get man coverage,\u201d Boutte said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotta beat it. It\u2019s that simple. \u2026 They\u2019re not too complicated on defense. Not too many different looks. We get a good tell at what they\u2019re doing. But just being us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p id=\"ADAOZKDMKRFXVPXMW2VHBZX7HI\">The LSU product had a game-high four receptions for 66 yards in New England\u2019s wild-card win against the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Boutte also finished second on the team in touchdown receptions (six) and third in receiving yards (551) during the regular season despite missing three games.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans safety Calen Bullock said on Monday night following the team\u2019s wild-card round victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,6306,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-681498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kayshon-boutte","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115904210576652039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}