From Super Bowl 50 Champion to H-Town Coach: The Impact of James Ferentz
The former lineman brings championship grit and elite "Iowa Advantage" mechanics back to Houston, bridging the gap between trench power and offensive precision to elevate the Texans' scheme.
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Yeah.
I mean, just like from the overall depth, and the depth is underrated.
I mean, a lot of our issues wasn't necessarily because of talent at certain spots, it was just the depth.
You know, if one person went down, like in the Patriots game, Trent Brown went down, and that was the linchpin that kinda threw it all to hell.
So I mean, that's a good point there.
And then, you know, I've thought about Blake Fisher as well, like, you know, they definitely value tackle depth, but you have three starting caliber tackles outside of him.
But yeah, I think you're right.
Like, if they were, they would probably wanna have their due diligence done in the event that they were to trade him to maybe kinda have something in line.
And you know, you look at him, you know, he's underperforming, but there's still upside, and if you know you're not gonna extend him, that- that's a great combo there.
But, but- Blake Fisher's still what?
Under 25 years old?
Yeah, he's still very young.
Still- Still very young.
Yeah, so you can make, you can make an argument that could be used for either side, but I, I like that conversation.
That's a good thought there.
Um- 23 but over He's 23, and he has Does he have one year left on his deal, or is he going into his third year?
This is his third year.
I'm blanking.
So it's this year- Okay, yeah next year.
Yeah, so someone would get some value on that.
So I, I That would be interesting to watch.
But yeah, just moving to the defensive side of the ball, I mean, obviously, you know, we know what it is over there.
You know, how are you thinking the defense will be this year?
Do you think that they can repeat the season that they had last year again this year?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Y- the thing about this defense is like, and we've heard it throughout the year, schematically they don't do anything magical.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
A- and I don't think, this is why I kinda want the offense to step up, I don't think they've been afforded the luxury to get exotic because- Yep y- when you, when you play exotic defensively, you kinda gotta prepare for miscues to happen, right?
And how many of those games were one-score games?
All of them.
So they, they, they hadn't got the opportunity to get cute yet.
A- and I say that to say this, they were the best defense in the league last year, Houston and Seattle, but they just lined up and punched you in the mouth first.
Insane, dude.
That's it.
It was, it was, it was, i- it was, it was, it was like a Floyd Mayweather jab.
You know it's coming, it's coming.
It's like a Roy- Roy Jones, you know it's coming.
It's nothing, nothing cute about it.
You know it's happening, and you couldn't stop it.
Will and Denil, you couldn't stop those guys, whoever they put inside of them, because they're so great.
Y- you couldn't really stop those D tackles, especially w- when, when the outside guys were going in.
So I think they have opportunity to repeat themselves as the best defense, this upcoming year.
