Petey Faggins Discusses Texans Locker Room [ESPN.com AFC South blog]

[Keith]

Courtesy of Kuharsky's blog:

"Right now in this locker room, it's a lot more laid back -- players, coaches, the organization. In Houston, it's a little bit tense. I don't know if that's good or bad, but being there seven years, I experienced a lot. We were just trying to get a win, make the playoffs and do things like that for the first time that had never been done. ...

I think it's harder to play tense, it's like walking on egg shells. You never know when it's going to break down on you or you're really not concentrating on what you've got to do, you're worrying too much about what a coach is going to say, if you're going to lose your position or your spot. ...

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afcsouth/...to-Texans.html

I wonder how much of this is attributable to departed DB coach Jon Hoke?

Found this extra tidbit from the blog entry interesting, too, regarding Faggins needing to improve his backpedal:

"Coming from Houston, we just always did press, no matter what the call was.