The Houston Texans is a well-oiled machine according to tight end Dalton Schultz, who penned a new three-year deal.
Schultz believes the Texans have a completely different culture to the Cowboys, where he spent five years prior to his stint at the Houston team.
“This place is a well-oiled machine,” Schultz said via the Houston Chronicle. “The coaching staff — the coaching changes, I can’t speak to the previous stuff — but the strength staff is phenomenal, the training staff is unbelievable. This has been the most trainers that I’ve ever seen on a staff, and they take really amazing care of the players. The nutrition staff is phenomenal.”
The tight end told Pat McAfee that working alongside the Texans staff and quarterback CJ Stroud is one of the main reasons he upped his deal with them for a further three years.
“The focus is just football; you know what I mean?” Schultz said of playing in Houston. “I’m going back and telling some people about being around the Cowboys practice facility and game day and describing some of the interactions and stuff that you see on a day-to-day basis and it surprises a lot of people. They’re like, ‘Holy crap. That actually happens at a practice facility?’ You think it’s normal, and then you come to a place like this.”
Schultz was a 146th round pick for Dallas and spent five seasons after signing there in 2018. Talking about the Cowboys brand he said the vibe at the Texans is vastly different.
“It’s literally a zoo, dude,” Schultz said. “There’s people tapping on the glass trying to get people’s attention while they’re doing power cleans or whatever. It’s different. That’s the brand that they’ve built, that’s what (owner) Jerry Jones likes, that’s the way that they run things and there’s nothing wrong with that. You don’t realize how many eyeballs and how much that can maybe distract in the locker room, just being in the facility until you go somewhere else and you’re like, ‘Holy crap, there’s none of that.'”
