December 12, 2025 • 10 mins
Following Houston's recent weeks taking down the AFC's top competitors in the Bills, Colts, and the Chiefs, the Texans' matchup against Jacoby Brissett and the Arizona Cardinals this Sunday. Big favorites ahead of Sunday's kickoff, and looking at some things to be mindful of regarding injuries and some key matchups, Texans' Insider Aaron Wilson joins the guys with a bit of a warning for the Texans not to stroll into Sunday too comfortably, as the postseason is still not for certain for Houston quite yet.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Texans back home. God, it seems like they have been
home in forever. They're gonna be taking on the Cardinals
over at in RG Stadium. We'll talk that much more
with our Texans insider here at Sports Talk seven to
ninety so Wealth as well as with KPRC too. He's
Aaron Wilson and Aaron it seems like every single week
when I lead us off here, we asked the injury questions.
So Cole is of the belief that we're going to
(00:21):
see the exact same thing out of Kamari last year.
He'll practice again the day he'll give it a go
on Sunday. All is good, But are you feeling the
same way and do we have anybody else that we
believe might be a question mark for Sunday?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Right on the Kamari front, we're gonna be over there
at practice for a little bit and if we see
him even on the field, I'm expecting him to play.
I've heard nothing behind the scenes that indicated they were
going to do some sort of week off or anything
like that. Obviously there's some logic if they wanted to
do that, but he didn't have a setback with the foot,
so if it was good enough to play against the Chiefs,
(00:56):
and you're in the thick of the playoff hunt, looking
to win your six game in a row. Why would
you have one of your best football players, regardless of position,
missed the game. So I don't anticipate in sitting out.
I'll report as soon as I see, you know, in
the next hour and a half. Is he going to
be out there? But we've heard no indication of him
(01:18):
being held out of the game. But do I think
he's healthy enough and could play, Yes, I do, And
we are concerned in the sense that you know, I
think Nick Chubb I was at a good veteran presence
this year complimenting what he Marx will miss the game,
and that's one of the reasons why they added Cody Schrader,
(01:38):
And they have Dariga Bwale, who I think is going
to be the second back behind Wood he marks. The
good news is what he returned to practice looked fine,
he said. He's just a little sore, nothing like structurally
wrong with his knees, just at the soreness he deals with.
And I think every week we're getting used to that, right,
kind of accustomed to what do you get dinged? But
(02:00):
he's gonna go back in the game and then he's
gonna play the following week. So he's a tough guy.
He's just not the biggest running back in the world
and they're asking him to have a pretty heavy workload
for a younger player that's not like a big time
power back.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And look, I'm not going to fight back and say
that the Texans don't need to play starters out there,
but this is one of those games and next week
two against the two win Las Vegas Raiders team that
if they're limited or you don't want to rush them back,
you don't really have to utilize them to their full capacity.
You need them for the final two games, not these two.
And that kind of goes the same thing when it
comes to like prolonged starters. Nico Collins, Daniel Hunter or
(02:38):
Will Anderson Aaron in your opinion, who's the guy that
you're looking forward to see this week that maybe could
have a bigger role when it comes time for the postseason.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean, looking at the defensive imposition, kind of
a quieter game than we thought they'd have against the
Chiefs because of their depleted offensive line. Got to give
them credit, they did a good job of those backups
against two blue chip guys in Will Anderson Junior and
Daniel Hunter. So I think this is kind of the
the you know, Paris Johnson's injured. This is a game
(03:09):
where I think those guys can put up some numbers
and I look for those guys to maybe get back
to business on Sunday in a home game that was
some bit of a frustrating game beyond the win for
two elite pass rushers.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Again. Aaron Wilson, our Sports Talk seven to ninety Texans insider,
also does some work with KPRC two. You can find
him on Twitter, Aaron Underscore Wilson NFL and Aaron c J. Stroud.
Third quarter last week not great, but able to make
some adjustments and finish off the game strong with a
good fourth quarter. What do these next couple of weeks
mean for him going up against these two defenses.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's a term to fine tune some things. I mean,
you know, he said it, and so did Nick Kyley.
Nick Caley's got to get the play in sooner. You know,
you heard Mimika Rance talk about the urgency and the incity,
and then for CJ. I think that his accuracy is fine,
but they've got to protect it better. And there have
been some overthrows by him, yes, but overall, you know,
(04:11):
I'm saying at quarterback that can make the plays. You know,
he can scramble, but there should be some easier plays
for them. I mean, it's a really high degree of
difficulty for the Texans. And you know CJ said it
quite well. The pressure is not going to stop coming.
It's going to keep coming until they show they can
defend that. You know, they can block these guys, and
(04:33):
you know, the offensive lines made a lot of strives
this year, but you know there's some times where they
just get dominated. I think some of that is just
Chris Jones taking over the football game in that third corps.
I think he actually tired himself out with the experview's making.
But overall, yeah, there's some things to clean up on
this offense. I mean, you know, you get into a
(04:53):
playoff game and maybe what if the defense can't save
the day every time. This is the kind of things
that can injure. I mean, this really is the obvious
achilles heel of the football team. Even when you're in
a five game winning streak, there are problems and they're
kind of winning in spite of the offense, not because
of the offense.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Aaron, I'm gonna put you on the spot. I do
not believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars whatsoever. I think the
Texans eventually will overtake the division. And now you've got
Philip Rivers playing quarterback for the Colts. You'll be said,
do you still believe that Trevor Lawrence and that Liam
Cohen are going to be able to rattle off four
straight wins and finished the year thirteen and four.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No, I just don't believe in them either. I mean,
I think you'd make it a great point because the
fact is, Lawrence has lots of turnovers. There are really
if you look at their team, there's not a lot
of special like who's their best football player overall? Did
Josh heinz Allen? Probably Rusher, pretty consistent guy, real efficient,
(05:54):
But you know, there's no like real standout. This isn't
a great team. I just think that they play well together.
I think Liam is a promising young coach. I mean,
this is his rookie season. He's done a good job.
But you know, Lawrence, I just have never seen Lawrence
be that consistent and I think he overthinks it. He
(06:16):
doesn't take care of the football well enough. I think
everyone thinks they're going to lose to the Broncos. So
I think there's an L there. And I mean, who knows.
I mean Philip Rivers, I guess it's going to be
out there. You know, he's done it before. He probably
can't move really well, but he can still side on
grow pretty well. I mean, I'm sure they'll take care
(06:38):
of business against the Jets, That's one thing I think
they will do. I'd be mildly surprised if they lose
to the Jets, and I'd be shocked if they lose
the season finale to the Titans. I just don't see
that one. But Broncos, I'm putting it down as an L.
And I think Colts they're vulnerable in that game too.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The Texans have been able to avoid the absolute letdown
loss this year, and we've been talking about the last
couple of weeks in anticipation of this in the Raider game,
where a couple of years ago you had the Carolina loss.
Last year the Tennessee loss at home. Do they need
to be on guard these next couple of weeks. I mean,
you know, could you envision a you know, reaction Monday
(07:20):
where we're talking about, how the hell did they lose
either of these games?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You can't rule that out. I mean, you know, for
a lot of the reasons that we were just talking
about about the offense, how can you just say, you know,
we can count on this. There could be turnovers, there
could be short fields, there could be things like that
that come up, and it's like the offense is awful,
but they are a bottom half of the league formerly.
At this point of the season, they're very similar statistically
(07:47):
to last year, with the exception of not having a
Joe Mixon and him having a thousand yard season. Obviously,
we've had a thousand yard season collectively between Marks and
so I'm sharing the football. But yeah, I look at
it and I think, wow, you know, who are you
afraid of On the offense. You know, there's one really
(08:07):
dangerous playmaker in Nico Collins, but a lot of the
other guys are just complimentary pieces. There's not really like
a great chess piece that you can utilize. They get
good efforts out of Marks. They occasionally, you know, Jayden Higgins,
I think he's still improving in you know, growing in
his game, and that's like what I've seen from him.
(08:28):
But there's nothing real dominance, right, There's nothing about this
offense that should scare another defense. And that's just the reality.
I'm not bagging on them and being harsh. I'm just
being honest and those are the facts. So what does
it mean they if this is the best they can do,
just kind of game managing and taking care of the football.
(08:49):
Teams have won this way before. Remember the two thousand
Ravens with Trent Dilfer, and they had Shannon Sharp, they
had Jamal Lewis, they had a running back, but they
had a lead defense like this one led by Ray Lewis,
and that's how they got it done. I mean, for
this team, the only gonna go as far as our
defense can take them. I think that, honestly, this is
(09:10):
the Texans. You got to kind of accept that, Yes,
they have four weeks to find tunant, but the adds
of a team dramatically changing and finding lightning in a
bottle here late in the season. I haven't seen that
hacken head often. I mean I saw when Jim Colwell
became the offensive coordinator for the Ravens. They fired Cam Cameron.
They caught fire with Joe Flacco. They had this great playoff,
(09:32):
but I mean that rarely happens, and they're not going
to be a change like that here. You know, Nick
Haley is the guy and he's still learning on the jobs.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Aaron, I'll get you out of here on this. When
you look at the Texans in years past, they found
a way to lose to a team with a basically
good shot at not the best shot of winning the
number one overall pick. That happens again, does that show
that their store is some faults of this team for
being an actual playoff contender or is that just anepotence
showing on up on a random sun.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I think it would just be randomly overall. You know,
we've seen and I think there's some reason for faith
in the program they're building. Yeah, it has them been
anything pretty, but the Texans, you know, they have good
leadership with Jamiko Rans. These guys play very hard. I
just don't see them not showing up. I think that,
you know, it's the obvious, right that that could happen.
(10:25):
People worry about this sort of thing, but I just
I'm not that worried about it. I don't think the Cardinals.
You know, they're missing a lot of guys. I mean,
did Jacobe were set back? To? What? Is he five
and one against these guys? I think it'll be five
and two when he leaves at ourg Stadium.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There you go, Aaron Wilson again our Sports Talk seven
ninety Texans Insider as well as with KPRC two. He
joins us every single Friday at this time. Aaron, appreciate it. Man.
We'll both see you up in the press box on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Look forward to it. See you guys, have a great weekend.
Texans back home. God, it seems like they have been
home in forever. They're gonna be taking on the Cardinals
over at in RG Stadium. We'll talk that much more
with our Texans insider here at Sports Talk seven to
ninety so Wealth as well as with KPRC too. He's
Aaron Wilson and Aaron it seems like every single week
when I lead us off here, we asked the injury questions.
So Cole is of the belief that we're going to
(00:21):
see the exact same thing out of Kamari last year.
He'll practice again the day he'll give it a go
on Sunday. All is good, But are you feeling the
same way and do we have anybody else that we
believe might be a question mark for Sunday?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Right on the Kamari front, we're gonna be over there
at practice for a little bit and if we see
him even on the field, I'm expecting him to play.
I've heard nothing behind the scenes that indicated they were
going to do some sort of week off or anything
like that. Obviously there's some logic if they wanted to
do that, but he didn't have a setback with the foot,
so if it was good enough to play against the Chiefs,
(00:56):
and you're in the thick of the playoff hunt, looking
to win your six game in a row. Why would
you have one of your best football players, regardless of position,
missed the game. So I don't anticipate in sitting out.
I'll report as soon as I see, you know, in
the next hour and a half. Is he going to
be out there? But we've heard no indication of him
(01:18):
being held out of the game. But do I think
he's healthy enough and could play, Yes, I do, And
we are concerned in the sense that you know, I
think Nick Chubb I was at a good veteran presence
this year complimenting what he Marx will miss the game,
and that's one of the reasons why they added Cody Schrader,
(01:38):
And they have Dariga Bwale, who I think is going
to be the second back behind Wood he marks. The
good news is what he returned to practice looked fine,
he said. He's just a little sore, nothing like structurally
wrong with his knees, just at the soreness he deals with.
And I think every week we're getting used to that, right,
kind of accustomed to what do you get dinged? But
(02:00):
he's gonna go back in the game and then he's
gonna play the following week. So he's a tough guy.
He's just not the biggest running back in the world
and they're asking him to have a pretty heavy workload
for a younger player that's not like a big time
power back.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And look, I'm not going to fight back and say
that the Texans don't need to play starters out there,
but this is one of those games and next week
two against the two win Las Vegas Raiders team that
if they're limited or you don't want to rush them back,
you don't really have to utilize them to their full capacity.
You need them for the final two games, not these two.
And that kind of goes the same thing when it
comes to like prolonged starters. Nico Collins, Daniel Hunter or
(02:38):
Will Anderson Aaron in your opinion, who's the guy that
you're looking forward to see this week that maybe could
have a bigger role when it comes time for the postseason.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean, looking at the defensive imposition, kind of
a quieter game than we thought they'd have against the
Chiefs because of their depleted offensive line. Got to give
them credit, they did a good job of those backups
against two blue chip guys in Will Anderson Junior and
Daniel Hunter. So I think this is kind of the
the you know, Paris Johnson's injured. This is a game
(03:09):
where I think those guys can put up some numbers
and I look for those guys to maybe get back
to business on Sunday in a home game that was
some bit of a frustrating game beyond the win for
two elite pass rushers.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Again. Aaron Wilson, our Sports Talk seven to ninety Texans insider,
also does some work with KPRC two. You can find
him on Twitter, Aaron Underscore Wilson NFL and Aaron c J. Stroud.
Third quarter last week not great, but able to make
some adjustments and finish off the game strong with a
good fourth quarter. What do these next couple of weeks
mean for him going up against these two defenses.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's a term to fine tune some things. I mean,
you know, he said it, and so did Nick Kyley.
Nick Caley's got to get the play in sooner. You know,
you heard Mimika Rance talk about the urgency and the incity,
and then for CJ. I think that his accuracy is fine,
but they've got to protect it better. And there have
been some overthrows by him, yes, but overall, you know,
(04:11):
I'm saying at quarterback that can make the plays. You know,
he can scramble, but there should be some easier plays
for them. I mean, it's a really high degree of
difficulty for the Texans. And you know CJ said it
quite well. The pressure is not going to stop coming.
It's going to keep coming until they show they can
defend that. You know, they can block these guys, and
(04:33):
you know, the offensive lines made a lot of strives
this year, but you know there's some times where they
just get dominated. I think some of that is just
Chris Jones taking over the football game in that third corps.
I think he actually tired himself out with the experview's making.
But overall, yeah, there's some things to clean up on
this offense. I mean, you know, you get into a
(04:53):
playoff game and maybe what if the defense can't save
the day every time. This is the kind of things
that can injure. I mean, this really is the obvious
achilles heel of the football team. Even when you're in
a five game winning streak, there are problems and they're
kind of winning in spite of the offense, not because
of the offense.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Aaron, I'm gonna put you on the spot. I do
not believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars whatsoever. I think the
Texans eventually will overtake the division. And now you've got
Philip Rivers playing quarterback for the Colts. You'll be said,
do you still believe that Trevor Lawrence and that Liam
Cohen are going to be able to rattle off four
straight wins and finished the year thirteen and four.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No, I just don't believe in them either. I mean,
I think you'd make it a great point because the
fact is, Lawrence has lots of turnovers. There are really
if you look at their team, there's not a lot
of special like who's their best football player overall? Did
Josh heinz Allen? Probably Rusher, pretty consistent guy, real efficient,
(05:54):
But you know, there's no like real standout. This isn't
a great team. I just think that they play well together.
I think Liam is a promising young coach. I mean,
this is his rookie season. He's done a good job.
But you know, Lawrence, I just have never seen Lawrence
be that consistent and I think he overthinks it. He
(06:16):
doesn't take care of the football well enough. I think
everyone thinks they're going to lose to the Broncos. So
I think there's an L there. And I mean, who knows.
I mean Philip Rivers, I guess it's going to be
out there. You know, he's done it before. He probably
can't move really well, but he can still side on
grow pretty well. I mean, I'm sure they'll take care
(06:38):
of business against the Jets, That's one thing I think
they will do. I'd be mildly surprised if they lose
to the Jets, and I'd be shocked if they lose
the season finale to the Titans. I just don't see
that one. But Broncos, I'm putting it down as an L.
And I think Colts they're vulnerable in that game too.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The Texans have been able to avoid the absolute letdown
loss this year, and we've been talking about the last
couple of weeks in anticipation of this in the Raider game,
where a couple of years ago you had the Carolina loss.
Last year the Tennessee loss at home. Do they need
to be on guard these next couple of weeks. I mean,
you know, could you envision a you know, reaction Monday
(07:20):
where we're talking about, how the hell did they lose
either of these games?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You can't rule that out. I mean, you know, for
a lot of the reasons that we were just talking
about about the offense, how can you just say, you know,
we can count on this. There could be turnovers, there
could be short fields, there could be things like that
that come up, and it's like the offense is awful,
but they are a bottom half of the league formerly.
At this point of the season, they're very similar statistically
(07:47):
to last year, with the exception of not having a
Joe Mixon and him having a thousand yard season. Obviously,
we've had a thousand yard season collectively between Marks and
so I'm sharing the football. But yeah, I look at
it and I think, wow, you know, who are you
afraid of On the offense. You know, there's one really
(08:07):
dangerous playmaker in Nico Collins, but a lot of the
other guys are just complimentary pieces. There's not really like
a great chess piece that you can utilize. They get
good efforts out of Marks. They occasionally, you know, Jayden Higgins,
I think he's still improving in you know, growing in
his game, and that's like what I've seen from him.
(08:28):
But there's nothing real dominance, right, There's nothing about this
offense that should scare another defense. And that's just the reality.
I'm not bagging on them and being harsh. I'm just
being honest and those are the facts. So what does
it mean they if this is the best they can do,
just kind of game managing and taking care of the football.
(08:49):
Teams have won this way before. Remember the two thousand
Ravens with Trent Dilfer, and they had Shannon Sharp, they
had Jamal Lewis, they had a running back, but they
had a lead defense like this one led by Ray Lewis,
and that's how they got it done. I mean, for
this team, the only gonna go as far as our
defense can take them. I think that, honestly, this is
(09:10):
the Texans. You got to kind of accept that, Yes,
they have four weeks to find tunant, but the adds
of a team dramatically changing and finding lightning in a
bottle here late in the season. I haven't seen that
hacken head often. I mean I saw when Jim Colwell
became the offensive coordinator for the Ravens. They fired Cam Cameron.
They caught fire with Joe Flacco. They had this great playoff,
(09:32):
but I mean that rarely happens, and they're not going
to be a change like that here. You know, Nick
Haley is the guy and he's still learning on the jobs.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Aaron, I'll get you out of here on this. When
you look at the Texans in years past, they found
a way to lose to a team with a basically
good shot at not the best shot of winning the
number one overall pick. That happens again, does that show
that their store is some faults of this team for
being an actual playoff contender or is that just anepotence
showing on up on a random sun.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I think it would just be randomly overall. You know,
we've seen and I think there's some reason for faith
in the program they're building. Yeah, it has them been
anything pretty, but the Texans, you know, they have good
leadership with Jamiko Rans. These guys play very hard. I
just don't see them not showing up. I think that,
you know, it's the obvious, right that that could happen.
(10:25):
People worry about this sort of thing, but I just
I'm not that worried about it. I don't think the Cardinals.
You know, they're missing a lot of guys. I mean,
did Jacobe were set back? To? What? Is he five
and one against these guys? I think it'll be five
and two when he leaves at ourg Stadium.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There you go, Aaron Wilson again our Sports Talk seven
ninety Texans Insider as well as with KPRC two. He
joins us every single Friday at this time. Aaron, appreciate it. Man.
We'll both see you up in the press box on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Look forward to it. See you guys, have a great weekend.
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