Breno Giacomini is 32 years old and in his 10th NFL season, so he has perspective, and that’s important to understand when he says what he felt in his very first team meeting as a Texan, back in April.
“Right when I got here, the way coach wants this team to be, we want to be the toughest team, we want to work the hardest—from Day One I could tell this team was going to be a little bit different,” Giacomini said. “Just the way Coach [Bill O’Brien] approaches it, the way he is, the way we reflect him on the field, and just the way these guys go to work, it’s something different here.