November 18, 2024 • 10 mins
Wrapping up Week 11 and anticipating since the beginning of the season, the Texans get ready to take on the Dallas Cowboys in what many make to be the state rivalry of the year. Kicking off on Monday Night Football tonight, the Texans head up to AT&T Stadium down in Arlington to take on a 3-6 Cowboys team that happens to be widely underperforming this season. Looking to add another win to the season and further their claim to the division, NFL Insider Aaron Wilson joins the guys in talks of tonight's big showdown and what to look for following the return of Nico Collins who's a very significant factor to this Texans team and what it may mean for either team moving forward following a loss after tonight.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is the Sewan Salisbury Show, as well as at
Aaron Wilson on Twitter and also just all over the
country doing his thing and for us here at sports
seven ninety dot com. Great stuff, great insight on the
Texans and all across the NFL. Aeron welcome in, Thanks
for joining us. Would it be safe to say, if
(00:23):
the Texans did not pull this off tonight, that this
is the most disappointing regular season loss the last two years?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah? I think so, especially in this area of raised
expectations to not you want to take care of business.
Never mind the state wide bragging rights, that's not important
to the Texans. It's more about just the brand and
you know, your national audience. The Jets game was embarrassing,
the Lions second half certainly embarrassing in the outcome. And
(00:53):
now you're playing a Cowboys team that is more than
on the ropes. I mean they're all but dead, and yeah,
you've got to be able to just take them down,
get a lead. You know, the ideal scenario is you
get out of here with a win. You're impressive, and
you're able to even rest guys in the play fourth quarter.
(01:15):
I think that's all possible. It's just they have to
play to their potential. And you know, talking with slow
CJ Drivet Kallians, I talk a lot about, including Demiko's
comments for CJ, cut it loose, play fast, have fun.
I think that you've seen a lot of.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Don't protective, right, I mean you get to a play
where it's like you're playing, don't be too cute, just
let a rip, right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I mean, I think Also's got to run their offense,
and I mean it's run of the football, executing play action.
Throw its thee open man. But you know, it makes
things a lot easier when you get number twelve out there,
yeah Nico Collins and throw it up till he's basically open,
even if he's not open, because he's so big and
can really body guys out of the way and get
(02:02):
the football. I think that they were very dependent on him.
That's something to happen when you have a star wide receiver.
You've seen that happy you know, you have the Kamarainy
Moss or someone of that nature. Nico Collins is their guy.
He's you know, I know stuff on Biggs most important offense.
They lost him. I can't undergate what the dependence on
(02:24):
the receivers. What it did to impact the offense. I
know they pivoted to running the ball more, but it
did affect everything. There's a trickle down effect. And I
think him missing five games, they win some of those
games if he's in the lineup, and I think they
win more games now these back in the line has has.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It been too easy on? And I think, you know,
like Bobby has mentioned it, I mentioned just subtle changes.
When you make subtle changes that they to the fans
and the media the day after the game. When you
make them and you win, it's like, oh, they did
fifty things different win. In truth, you don't. They're very
subtle adjustments and changes. It's about execution. But with that,
is it fair to say that when you get a
(03:03):
great running back and the way he's playing, the shore
mixing is having a hell of a season. Did you
become a little that you lean on the crutch that
instead of being aggressive wining doubt? But we've got Joe
Mixon back. There Has that been any part of this
process this year that you lean on him as opposed
to leaning on aggressiveness because you know, joke and bail
you out.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Well, they can't run the offense because they can't protect.
So it's they really had to try something else. It's
out of necessity and just trying to survive out there
and protect your quarterback. You know that's not practice. If
you call for fifty passes and you can't pass protect.
I mean eventually something very bad happens. And it didn't
(03:45):
happen yet, but the quarterbacks still in danger. He's taking
big hits. It's, uh, you don't want not so much
what it does a psyche. We've talked about that if
in the last week, but you know, there's a day
from getting hurt, and that's something that they have to
so many timeless en of is protecting his body and
(04:07):
protecting his health. But the lean to mixing. You know,
he's very good. He's watched the football. He was told
he'd have this kind of role. This was something that
was discussed when he joined the team, and he's been
their best weapon since Colins got out of the line up,
(04:27):
so they had to do this. I think a lot
of it was just logic. I don't think that they've
done anything wrong in terms of it's not like he's
got forty carries. I think it's been normal it's just
he's in the flow of offense. Sometimes I can tell
him to be of the game. They're just trying to
get him going and they're trying to make the defense
respect to run. So yeah, there's some limited production limb
of the New England game. He had a big game,
(04:47):
but more initially New England was stout. Eventually it breaks.
You have to do that, you have to. I don't
call him throwaway plays, but he's just got to kind
of say.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He's the offensive MVP for them in my mind, has
Joe Mixon all right? Aaron Wilson at Aaron Wilson on Twitter,
catcham at Sports seven ninety dot com, at KPRC Channel
two sports as well. Aaron, what do the Cowboys do better?
All things? But we go into a game they both
play really good. What are the Texans? I mean, what
do the Cowboys do better than the Houston Texans do
(05:22):
this year?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
When he's healthy and now he is, They've got Michael
Parsons and he's just a special Deacons play. I mean,
you're as a fourth three sixth he's six three to
forty five. He's the closest thing to LT in the
NFC East. A long time, and I think that they
do a nice job of lining them up everywhere. He's
(05:47):
the X factor in the game really and for their defense.
But you look at how they use parsons and I
think they're creative about it. You know, are there some
things that things could do even more with Sad's Neil Hunter?
You know, most of the time you just kind of
line up there as the hand of the dirt defensive end.
Should he move around more? Especially now that Will Anderson Jr.
(06:11):
Is out for at least a few more weeks with
his high ankle sprain. He is not going to be
closing into a reserve, which is good news. He will
be back within this regular season, and I think sooner
rather than later. But when you do lose a player
like that, are you doing enough to highlight Hunter? It's
time I see people do things like what they do
(06:32):
with parsons, where they got them on the move and
it's harder to get a beat on them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How are you going to block him? I mean, if
he can wreck a game, they're going to move him
around tonight trying to find whatever weakness they see. How
do you block him without having.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Protect You don't want to have the max protect. I
think he needs some quicker hitting plays. You want to
run the football away from him. He is giving pursuit.
But you know, does he always chase chase like some
of these river run those guys. Sometimes sometimes not. He
is kind of I think some of this goes back
(07:08):
to sort of you see the personality of the interviews. Boisterous,
kind of talkative, Philly kind of guy. But he's he's
serious and like locked in. Do I see that from
him every single staff? No, No, I don't, And I
think that's what you know, you know, really early, but
that's what I care about. Hall of Famer. He's still
(07:29):
a young man. He's uh, I think twenty five years old.
He's still got some more maturing to do. But what
a talent, great football player, fun to watch, and you know,
had CJ's buddy. They went to Japan for that little
ambassador thing. They were doing a little sumo wrestling, they
played some baseball, they played video games. They were in
(07:51):
the celebrity NBA All Star Game together, and yeah, that's
his friend. Uh. Big ten guys, I think, uh, you
know with CJ, you know he's he'll be aware of
him and they'll have a plan. I think you've got
to you hope that you know he's rushing against Tunsil.
But you know, if I'm the Cowboys, that's not what
(08:13):
I'm doing. The gap, yeah, and the B gap going
up the middle where most of the sacks have happened
against Shaq Mason and you scruggs against to much lesser extinct.
He just got in the lineup, But you know I'm
going after him testing Jared Patterson. That's where I think
he's coming. I don't know if he's going to be
up against Tunsle enough. I like Tunsel's chances. Tuns will
(08:36):
block anybody, but he takes five guys, five linemen. That's
not what the Texans had, that's not their reality. But
he does this to a lot of people. I mean,
he's going to get some sacks. He's going to give
in the backfield. That happens.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He's a disruptor and he's one of the more explosive
players we have in the game. All Right, I got
a minute left, but I got to get this in.
How quickly do we expect them to get the ball
in NiCl Collins hands after this time? To get him
going and feeling like he's in the flow.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And right away I think they I don't know if
the first play is like, you know, like a nine round.
I think that he's getting something immediate, probably one of
those sideline kind of routes they use so you get
a first down. And I also see them going over
the middle, because that's something that he does so well.
Most wide receivers don't like to go over the middle.
(09:24):
He loves it, he loves contact, and he a real
spring of this step. You probably saw some of the
videos were posted them from practice last week. Looks good, yep,
absolutely gready.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
What give me a score?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Texans win this game?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Twenty seven to ten? So comfortable, that'll be good and
which you'll get him to seven? Yeah, get him seven
and four and heading into just where.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
The sky stop following around. Yeah, people will calm down
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, in a division that they are going to win,
they just need to validate that with great play tonight, Aaron,
great stuff, brother. Yeah, we appreciate you and enjoy it.
We'll look forward to talking to you on Friday.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That's Aaron Wilson will come back and discuss ways that
the Texans well, were they vulnerable Michael Parsons is one
of them. How will they handle that? Tonight Sports Talk
seven ninety
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is the Sewan Salisbury Show, as well as at
Aaron Wilson on Twitter and also just all over the
country doing his thing and for us here at sports
seven ninety dot com. Great stuff, great insight on the
Texans and all across the NFL. Aeron welcome in, Thanks
for joining us. Would it be safe to say, if
(00:23):
the Texans did not pull this off tonight, that this
is the most disappointing regular season loss the last two years?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah? I think so, especially in this area of raised
expectations to not you want to take care of business.
Never mind the state wide bragging rights, that's not important
to the Texans. It's more about just the brand and
you know, your national audience. The Jets game was embarrassing,
the Lions second half certainly embarrassing in the outcome. And
(00:53):
now you're playing a Cowboys team that is more than
on the ropes. I mean they're all but dead, and yeah,
you've got to be able to just take them down,
get a lead. You know, the ideal scenario is you
get out of here with a win. You're impressive, and
you're able to even rest guys in the play fourth quarter.
(01:15):
I think that's all possible. It's just they have to
play to their potential. And you know, talking with slow
CJ Drivet Kallians, I talk a lot about, including Demiko's
comments for CJ, cut it loose, play fast, have fun.
I think that you've seen a lot of.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Don't protective, right, I mean you get to a play
where it's like you're playing, don't be too cute, just
let a rip, right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I mean, I think Also's got to run their offense,
and I mean it's run of the football, executing play action.
Throw its thee open man. But you know, it makes
things a lot easier when you get number twelve out there,
yeah Nico Collins and throw it up till he's basically open,
even if he's not open, because he's so big and
can really body guys out of the way and get
(02:02):
the football. I think that they were very dependent on him.
That's something to happen when you have a star wide receiver.
You've seen that happy you know, you have the Kamarainy
Moss or someone of that nature. Nico Collins is their guy.
He's you know, I know stuff on Biggs most important offense.
They lost him. I can't undergate what the dependence on
(02:24):
the receivers. What it did to impact the offense. I
know they pivoted to running the ball more, but it
did affect everything. There's a trickle down effect. And I
think him missing five games, they win some of those
games if he's in the lineup, and I think they
win more games now these back in the line has has.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It been too easy on? And I think, you know,
like Bobby has mentioned it, I mentioned just subtle changes.
When you make subtle changes that they to the fans
and the media the day after the game. When you
make them and you win, it's like, oh, they did
fifty things different win. In truth, you don't. They're very
subtle adjustments and changes. It's about execution. But with that,
is it fair to say that when you get a
(03:03):
great running back and the way he's playing, the shore
mixing is having a hell of a season. Did you
become a little that you lean on the crutch that
instead of being aggressive wining doubt? But we've got Joe
Mixon back. There Has that been any part of this
process this year that you lean on him as opposed
to leaning on aggressiveness because you know, joke and bail
you out.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Well, they can't run the offense because they can't protect.
So it's they really had to try something else. It's
out of necessity and just trying to survive out there
and protect your quarterback. You know that's not practice. If
you call for fifty passes and you can't pass protect.
I mean eventually something very bad happens. And it didn't
(03:45):
happen yet, but the quarterbacks still in danger. He's taking
big hits. It's, uh, you don't want not so much
what it does a psyche. We've talked about that if
in the last week, but you know, there's a day
from getting hurt, and that's something that they have to
so many timeless en of is protecting his body and
(04:07):
protecting his health. But the lean to mixing. You know,
he's very good. He's watched the football. He was told
he'd have this kind of role. This was something that
was discussed when he joined the team, and he's been
their best weapon since Colins got out of the line up,
(04:27):
so they had to do this. I think a lot
of it was just logic. I don't think that they've
done anything wrong in terms of it's not like he's
got forty carries. I think it's been normal it's just
he's in the flow of offense. Sometimes I can tell
him to be of the game. They're just trying to
get him going and they're trying to make the defense
respect to run. So yeah, there's some limited production limb
of the New England game. He had a big game,
(04:47):
but more initially New England was stout. Eventually it breaks.
You have to do that, you have to. I don't
call him throwaway plays, but he's just got to kind
of say.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He's the offensive MVP for them in my mind, has
Joe Mixon all right? Aaron Wilson at Aaron Wilson on Twitter,
catcham at Sports seven ninety dot com, at KPRC Channel
two sports as well. Aaron, what do the Cowboys do better?
All things? But we go into a game they both
play really good. What are the Texans? I mean, what
do the Cowboys do better than the Houston Texans do
(05:22):
this year?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
When he's healthy and now he is, They've got Michael
Parsons and he's just a special Deacons play. I mean,
you're as a fourth three sixth he's six three to
forty five. He's the closest thing to LT in the
NFC East. A long time, and I think that they
do a nice job of lining them up everywhere. He's
(05:47):
the X factor in the game really and for their defense.
But you look at how they use parsons and I
think they're creative about it. You know, are there some
things that things could do even more with Sad's Neil Hunter?
You know, most of the time you just kind of
line up there as the hand of the dirt defensive end.
Should he move around more? Especially now that Will Anderson Jr.
(06:11):
Is out for at least a few more weeks with
his high ankle sprain. He is not going to be
closing into a reserve, which is good news. He will
be back within this regular season, and I think sooner
rather than later. But when you do lose a player
like that, are you doing enough to highlight Hunter? It's
time I see people do things like what they do
(06:32):
with parsons, where they got them on the move and
it's harder to get a beat on them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How are you going to block him? I mean, if
he can wreck a game, they're going to move him
around tonight trying to find whatever weakness they see. How
do you block him without having.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Protect You don't want to have the max protect. I
think he needs some quicker hitting plays. You want to
run the football away from him. He is giving pursuit.
But you know, does he always chase chase like some
of these river run those guys. Sometimes sometimes not. He
is kind of I think some of this goes back
(07:08):
to sort of you see the personality of the interviews. Boisterous,
kind of talkative, Philly kind of guy. But he's he's
serious and like locked in. Do I see that from
him every single staff? No, No, I don't, And I
think that's what you know, you know, really early, but
that's what I care about. Hall of Famer. He's still
(07:29):
a young man. He's uh, I think twenty five years old.
He's still got some more maturing to do. But what
a talent, great football player, fun to watch, and you know,
had CJ's buddy. They went to Japan for that little
ambassador thing. They were doing a little sumo wrestling, they
played some baseball, they played video games. They were in
(07:51):
the celebrity NBA All Star Game together, and yeah, that's
his friend. Uh. Big ten guys, I think, uh, you
know with CJ, you know he's he'll be aware of
him and they'll have a plan. I think you've got
to you hope that you know he's rushing against Tunsil.
But you know, if I'm the Cowboys, that's not what
(08:13):
I'm doing. The gap, yeah, and the B gap going
up the middle where most of the sacks have happened
against Shaq Mason and you scruggs against to much lesser extinct.
He just got in the lineup, But you know I'm
going after him testing Jared Patterson. That's where I think
he's coming. I don't know if he's going to be
up against Tunsle enough. I like Tunsel's chances. Tuns will
(08:36):
block anybody, but he takes five guys, five linemen. That's
not what the Texans had, that's not their reality. But
he does this to a lot of people. I mean,
he's going to get some sacks. He's going to give
in the backfield. That happens.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He's a disruptor and he's one of the more explosive
players we have in the game. All Right, I got
a minute left, but I got to get this in.
How quickly do we expect them to get the ball
in NiCl Collins hands after this time? To get him
going and feeling like he's in the flow.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And right away I think they I don't know if
the first play is like, you know, like a nine round.
I think that he's getting something immediate, probably one of
those sideline kind of routes they use so you get
a first down. And I also see them going over
the middle, because that's something that he does so well.
Most wide receivers don't like to go over the middle.
(09:24):
He loves it, he loves contact, and he a real
spring of this step. You probably saw some of the
videos were posted them from practice last week. Looks good, yep,
absolutely gready.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
What give me a score?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Texans win this game?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Twenty seven to ten? So comfortable, that'll be good and
which you'll get him to seven? Yeah, get him seven
and four and heading into just where.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
The sky stop following around. Yeah, people will calm down
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, in a division that they are going to win,
they just need to validate that with great play tonight, Aaron,
great stuff, brother. Yeah, we appreciate you and enjoy it.
We'll look forward to talking to you on Friday.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That's Aaron Wilson will come back and discuss ways that
the Texans well, were they vulnerable Michael Parsons is one
of them. How will they handle that? Tonight Sports Talk
seven ninety
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