October 3, 2025 • 11 mins
Standing at 1-3 now following their victory over the Titans last Sunday, the Texans now roll up to Baltimore, set to take on the Ravens in a Sunday noon kickoff. With both teams enduring some offensive struggles early in the start of the season, the Texans head on to Baltimore as the favorite ahead of Sunday's kickoff. Weighing the possibility of Ravens' starting quarterback Lamar Jackson possibly inactive for Sunday's game, Aaron shares a few gems the Texans must execute effectively in all aspects of the ball against their division rival if they intend to push on to 2-3 at a chance for better hopes of making the postseason.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nine o'clock hour, Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.
We're talking Texans right now because they're getting ready for
the Ravens on Sunday. Uh Texas Tech going to be
taking on each other tomorrow night TDECU Stadium. Listen to
at KPRC nine fifty. The Horns and Gators also going
to be right here on Sports Talk seven ninety starting
at one thirty tomorrow. But as I mentioned, we're talking
(00:22):
Texans right now, that means we go to our good buddy,
Aaron Wilson, Texans insider for us here at Sports Talk
seven ninety KPRC two. Doing great work there, Aaron. We
saw Derek Stingley on the field yesterday some limited work.
Is there a chance that we see him back in
the starting lineup on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, I expect him the starting lineup on Sunday. I
think that he looked like he normally does at practice
and they're just managing the injury. If you look at
some of the language. I'm a big studier of Jamiko
Ryans verbiage to all his press conferences. You just read
(01:02):
between the lines and then you fill it in with
the lengths and look at the information. It's the same
thing they did last week, with the exception of it's
better where there was some doubt whether he'll play, at
least because he did practice for two days, but this
time practicing on a Thursday and then in about an
hour and a half inside the Texans practice facility. We're
(01:25):
expecting him to practice again and I don't know if
they'll list them as questionable, if they'll do anything like
that like they did last week. But I don't think
he was really a true questionable. He felt pretty good
once he tested it out last Friday, and he didn't
have any setbacks, I'm told, in the game, so he
had an interception. It looks good for him to be
(01:47):
active and start and line up against Nay Flowers.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They prepare, they said they preparing for Lamar Jackson. Are
they and should they?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, yes, and no, he's not playing. I've heard that
is one hundred one thousand percent. He cannot play this week,
so it's going to be Cooper Rush. I think that
they prepared for some possibility. I think that they've also
spent a ton of time with Cooper Rush. I don't
think it daything to detract from their overall preparation. Jackson
(02:23):
is just a unique player that requires a lot of
different rush lanes, controlled rush, disciplined rush. Whereas with rush
it's actually simpler. You just tee off and try to
attack the pocket. He's not going anywhere. He's just gonna
have to stand in there and take the hits, kind
of like you know, you saw Mac Jones last night
(02:44):
and real gritty, tough performance by Mac, but there was
nowhere he could go. Cooper is maybe a little bit
more nimble than that. It's not banged up, but it
is a pocket past that they'll prepare for and they
know what's going on. I mean players know, people in
the building know. Yeah, I mean we're doesn't stay in Baltimore.
(03:07):
It moves around Eric. No, he can't play this week.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, with that is human nature. I know it sets
in for all of us. But is it setting in
with them. Just do you get this feel yes or no?
About headed to Baltimore that they're banged up on defense,
People are questioning their physicality, they're not very good. You're
getting a backup quarterback even though you're one to three.
Is there any is there any part of all we're
(03:32):
getting getting Baltimore at the right time. Yes, but we're
getting them and we're going to win this game, or
taking them for granted because of no Lamar and the
injuries on defense.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think it's a little bit different. It's a lack
of cockiness because they have already lost three games first three.
Just coming off of one win over a team that's
own four.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I'm not sensing a lot of strutting around like, oh,
we got this one. I think that they still have
a lot of respect for the Ravens and they feel
like they owe the Ravens one. Oh a bunch. Actually,
you know it's thirteen and two is the all time
record against Baltimore. They've never won a game in Baltimore.
I think they're just fired up to play and try
to get a win. I don't think it's a lot
(04:15):
of extras like they embarrassed. No one really has when
I've asked that question, really play jumps on that and
run with it. To me, Nico Collins was the closest
to it, saying, you know, they embarrassed us. We got killed.
It was on Netflix. I think it's a normal approach
to it in terms of they don't have a lot
(04:37):
to be cocky about and Baltimore's beating you a bunch
of times, and you still can't just be like, oh,
well the Ravens are depleted, We're going to start counting
who's not playing. It's still the Ravens. There's still a
team that's in the playoffs, that beat in the playoffs
just a couple of years ago. I mean, this is
a very one sided operation. Also, it's Derrick Henry and
(04:59):
just run from Warriards against the Texans and more second
most touchdowns other than the Jaguars. But he's averaged like
almost six yards per Kerry for his career against the
Texans traditionally, So I don't think you can take them lightly.
He'll be out there, Dave Flowers will be out there,
Mark Andrews will be out there. So I just don't
(05:19):
think you can take them lightly. And I don't think
they are again.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Aaron Wilson our Sports Talk seven to ninety Texans insider
also with KPRC two. Find him on Twitter at Aaron
Wilson Underscore NFL. And let's continue that thought because I
mean we played the audio from dan Orlowski earlier talking
about how they don't really use a ton of Henry
and running the football on first and second down. But
when they do, they're incredibly successful. I mean, is that
(05:44):
the Texans defensive game plan tomorrow is you can be
fine being pleasantly surprised by Cooper Rush, but not by
Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Right. The idea is that this has been their philosophy.
There was a game where they did defend him very well.
It was a really cold game when he was playing
for the Titans a couple of years back. It was
Damika Ryant's first year. And what they did was they
run blitzed against him. And Christian Harris in particular had
a great game that day and he tackled him before
(06:12):
he could get his feet moving. The guy's about six
two pounds of bad news and you don't let it
get started. To me, he's like a runaway truck. But
you just like most backs, if you're you know, hitting
him in the backfield as he just got the ball,
then you have a chance to tackle him. He's not
like he's you know, he's just he's a human beings.
(06:35):
He's King Henry. He's a great running back, but every
running back can be tackled. Jamal Lewis got tackled. Jim
Brown got tackled. I mean, all these guys get tackled.
Barry Standers got tackled. I think that, you know, they
don't build them up to be more than he is,
but they respect him a bunch, and a lot of
guys have been, you know, stiff armed by Derek. He's
(06:55):
just he's a good running back. I know this. John
Harball was upset that they didn't run the ball more
last week, so I didn't expect him to get the ball.
I think they're going to try to run the ball
against the Texans, and you know, Bucky Erming ran the
ball very well against this defense an the top ranked
scoring defense for They're twelve against the run. Yeah, I
(07:18):
mean if i'm I'm not a play caller, but if
I was the Ravens, certainly I would try.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh football, I'm not gonna try him leaning on him,
and I'm the ball ain't heavy. You may have to
get thirty five or forty of them to give us
a chance this week.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
With that, he can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, you damn righty can Aaron? I I trust the
defense here. They're they're really really good, and I think
that's pretty Captain obvious, but even after the fourth quarter
last week, will improvements were made against Tennessee. I don't
think this offense is close yet. I don't what say you.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I think they took a step in the right direction,
but they're far from a finished product. What I did
see was, Okay, they still have communication issues within the
offensive line on them. They alert, the prime example being CG.
Stroud does an alert, then the sinner doesn't communicate the alert,
and a couple of the linemen Titus Tired and ed Ingram,
they run into each other and you have the fastest
(08:10):
sack in the NFL by a great player, Jeffrey Simmons.
But it was mostly because just no one blocked him. Okay,
that's some of the fixs the fourth quarter that looked good,
including CJ. Stroud wheeling and dealing and doing a check
and going to Jayden and Higgins seeing a matchup he liked,
and that looked like good football to me. But they're
(08:32):
still I mean, they were stagnant for so many quarters.
They weren't finishing, they were settling for field goals. They've
got to play like they did in the fourth quarter.
They do that all the time, and they're going to be,
you know, a team that people are worried about again,
but if they can't play it, if they can't bottle
that up. But you know, I would say this just
talking to Kaylee yesterday. I don't know if you saw
(08:53):
the interviews. Different energy around Kaylee is very seem very
stressed earlier after some of these losses, but this time,
you know, feeling good about himself but feeling good about
the offense. I saw a lot of positivity. I was
just kind of like reading tea leaves here and I'm like, Okay,
I think he's feeling good that the guys are listening
(09:14):
and buying into his system. And I think we all me.
I think most folks underestimated how much time it would
take for these guys to get comfortable in his system,
which is completely different from the slower system, so that
there's just not a lot of overlap. But I think
that's caused some of the problems they've had, in addition
(09:35):
to personnel issues they still have on offense. But I
think that's been a factor in this bad start. Is
how close figure it out?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
How close is the verbage? I know, different schemes, but
how close is the verbage? I would think that off
season part of it that you try to keep it
as close as you had, being that come from a
similar system with the Shanahan and McVeigh. So how close
is the verbage from what they were learned?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
A great question. I have not asked that question. That's
a good question for me to find out the answer
to Sean, I want to find out that information for you.
I don't know if it's I think there's some things
that are commonality for all play calls, but I think
there was something that they had to pick up too.
It's just different and it's less McVeigh and more New England.
(10:20):
And I mean Todd Bowles. I trust what Todd saw
and a lot of the guys have said this is
New England. Players are telling me we're watching old New
England tabe of Tom Brady and Julian Edelman, Randy Moss
and Wes Welker. So this is what he has his
background in. That's his training more so than his McVeigh time.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Again, He's Aaron Wilson, our Sports Sox seven to ninety
Texans insider, as well as work he does with KPRC two.
Find him on Twitter at Aaron Wilson underscore NFL. Hey
ub appreciate it, so we'll catch up with you next
week and hopefully we're talking about a two win Texans
team next week.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Thanks guys, great week after that Adam in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The road gets harder appreciated, Aaron
Nine o'clock hour, Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.
We're talking Texans right now because they're getting ready for
the Ravens on Sunday. Uh Texas Tech going to be
taking on each other tomorrow night TDECU Stadium. Listen to
at KPRC nine fifty. The Horns and Gators also going
to be right here on Sports Talk seven ninety starting
at one thirty tomorrow. But as I mentioned, we're talking
(00:22):
Texans right now, that means we go to our good buddy,
Aaron Wilson, Texans insider for us here at Sports Talk
seven ninety KPRC two. Doing great work there, Aaron. We
saw Derek Stingley on the field yesterday some limited work.
Is there a chance that we see him back in
the starting lineup on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, I expect him the starting lineup on Sunday. I
think that he looked like he normally does at practice
and they're just managing the injury. If you look at
some of the language. I'm a big studier of Jamiko
Ryans verbiage to all his press conferences. You just read
(01:02):
between the lines and then you fill it in with
the lengths and look at the information. It's the same
thing they did last week, with the exception of it's
better where there was some doubt whether he'll play, at
least because he did practice for two days, but this
time practicing on a Thursday and then in about an
hour and a half inside the Texans practice facility. We're
(01:25):
expecting him to practice again and I don't know if
they'll list them as questionable, if they'll do anything like
that like they did last week. But I don't think
he was really a true questionable. He felt pretty good
once he tested it out last Friday, and he didn't
have any setbacks, I'm told, in the game, so he
had an interception. It looks good for him to be
(01:47):
active and start and line up against Nay Flowers.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They prepare, they said they preparing for Lamar Jackson. Are
they and should they?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, yes, and no, he's not playing. I've heard that
is one hundred one thousand percent. He cannot play this week,
so it's going to be Cooper Rush. I think that
they prepared for some possibility. I think that they've also
spent a ton of time with Cooper Rush. I don't
think it daything to detract from their overall preparation. Jackson
(02:23):
is just a unique player that requires a lot of
different rush lanes, controlled rush, disciplined rush. Whereas with rush
it's actually simpler. You just tee off and try to
attack the pocket. He's not going anywhere. He's just gonna
have to stand in there and take the hits, kind
of like you know, you saw Mac Jones last night
(02:44):
and real gritty, tough performance by Mac, but there was
nowhere he could go. Cooper is maybe a little bit
more nimble than that. It's not banged up, but it
is a pocket past that they'll prepare for and they
know what's going on. I mean players know, people in
the building know. Yeah, I mean we're doesn't stay in Baltimore.
(03:07):
It moves around Eric. No, he can't play this week.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, with that is human nature. I know it sets
in for all of us. But is it setting in
with them. Just do you get this feel yes or no?
About headed to Baltimore that they're banged up on defense,
People are questioning their physicality, they're not very good. You're
getting a backup quarterback even though you're one to three.
Is there any is there any part of all we're
(03:32):
getting getting Baltimore at the right time. Yes, but we're
getting them and we're going to win this game, or
taking them for granted because of no Lamar and the
injuries on defense.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think it's a little bit different. It's a lack
of cockiness because they have already lost three games first three.
Just coming off of one win over a team that's
own four.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I'm not sensing a lot of strutting around like, oh,
we got this one. I think that they still have
a lot of respect for the Ravens and they feel
like they owe the Ravens one. Oh a bunch. Actually,
you know it's thirteen and two is the all time
record against Baltimore. They've never won a game in Baltimore.
I think they're just fired up to play and try
to get a win. I don't think it's a lot
(04:15):
of extras like they embarrassed. No one really has when
I've asked that question, really play jumps on that and
run with it. To me, Nico Collins was the closest
to it, saying, you know, they embarrassed us. We got killed.
It was on Netflix. I think it's a normal approach
to it in terms of they don't have a lot
(04:37):
to be cocky about and Baltimore's beating you a bunch
of times, and you still can't just be like, oh,
well the Ravens are depleted, We're going to start counting
who's not playing. It's still the Ravens. There's still a
team that's in the playoffs, that beat in the playoffs
just a couple of years ago. I mean, this is
a very one sided operation. Also, it's Derrick Henry and
(04:59):
just run from Warriards against the Texans and more second
most touchdowns other than the Jaguars. But he's averaged like
almost six yards per Kerry for his career against the
Texans traditionally, So I don't think you can take them lightly.
He'll be out there, Dave Flowers will be out there,
Mark Andrews will be out there. So I just don't
(05:19):
think you can take them lightly. And I don't think
they are again.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Aaron Wilson our Sports Talk seven to ninety Texans insider
also with KPRC two. Find him on Twitter at Aaron
Wilson Underscore NFL. And let's continue that thought because I
mean we played the audio from dan Orlowski earlier talking
about how they don't really use a ton of Henry
and running the football on first and second down. But
when they do, they're incredibly successful. I mean, is that
(05:44):
the Texans defensive game plan tomorrow is you can be
fine being pleasantly surprised by Cooper Rush, but not by
Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Right. The idea is that this has been their philosophy.
There was a game where they did defend him very well.
It was a really cold game when he was playing
for the Titans a couple of years back. It was
Damika Ryant's first year. And what they did was they
run blitzed against him. And Christian Harris in particular had
a great game that day and he tackled him before
(06:12):
he could get his feet moving. The guy's about six
two pounds of bad news and you don't let it
get started. To me, he's like a runaway truck. But
you just like most backs, if you're you know, hitting
him in the backfield as he just got the ball,
then you have a chance to tackle him. He's not
like he's you know, he's just he's a human beings.
(06:35):
He's King Henry. He's a great running back, but every
running back can be tackled. Jamal Lewis got tackled. Jim
Brown got tackled. I mean, all these guys get tackled.
Barry Standers got tackled. I think that, you know, they
don't build them up to be more than he is,
but they respect him a bunch, and a lot of
guys have been, you know, stiff armed by Derek. He's
(06:55):
just he's a good running back. I know this. John
Harball was upset that they didn't run the ball more
last week, so I didn't expect him to get the ball.
I think they're going to try to run the ball
against the Texans, and you know, Bucky Erming ran the
ball very well against this defense an the top ranked
scoring defense for They're twelve against the run. Yeah, I
(07:18):
mean if i'm I'm not a play caller, but if
I was the Ravens, certainly I would try.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh football, I'm not gonna try him leaning on him,
and I'm the ball ain't heavy. You may have to
get thirty five or forty of them to give us
a chance this week.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
With that, he can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, you damn righty can Aaron? I I trust the
defense here. They're they're really really good, and I think
that's pretty Captain obvious, but even after the fourth quarter
last week, will improvements were made against Tennessee. I don't
think this offense is close yet. I don't what say you.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I think they took a step in the right direction,
but they're far from a finished product. What I did
see was, Okay, they still have communication issues within the
offensive line on them. They alert, the prime example being CG.
Stroud does an alert, then the sinner doesn't communicate the alert,
and a couple of the linemen Titus Tired and ed Ingram,
they run into each other and you have the fastest
(08:10):
sack in the NFL by a great player, Jeffrey Simmons.
But it was mostly because just no one blocked him. Okay,
that's some of the fixs the fourth quarter that looked good,
including CJ. Stroud wheeling and dealing and doing a check
and going to Jayden and Higgins seeing a matchup he liked,
and that looked like good football to me. But they're
(08:32):
still I mean, they were stagnant for so many quarters.
They weren't finishing, they were settling for field goals. They've
got to play like they did in the fourth quarter.
They do that all the time, and they're going to be,
you know, a team that people are worried about again,
but if they can't play it, if they can't bottle
that up. But you know, I would say this just
talking to Kaylee yesterday. I don't know if you saw
(08:53):
the interviews. Different energy around Kaylee is very seem very
stressed earlier after some of these losses, but this time,
you know, feeling good about himself but feeling good about
the offense. I saw a lot of positivity. I was
just kind of like reading tea leaves here and I'm like, Okay,
I think he's feeling good that the guys are listening
(09:14):
and buying into his system. And I think we all me.
I think most folks underestimated how much time it would
take for these guys to get comfortable in his system,
which is completely different from the slower system, so that
there's just not a lot of overlap. But I think
that's caused some of the problems they've had, in addition
(09:35):
to personnel issues they still have on offense. But I
think that's been a factor in this bad start. Is
how close figure it out?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
How close is the verbage? I know, different schemes, but
how close is the verbage? I would think that off
season part of it that you try to keep it
as close as you had, being that come from a
similar system with the Shanahan and McVeigh. So how close
is the verbage from what they were learned?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
A great question. I have not asked that question. That's
a good question for me to find out the answer
to Sean, I want to find out that information for you.
I don't know if it's I think there's some things
that are commonality for all play calls, but I think
there was something that they had to pick up too.
It's just different and it's less McVeigh and more New England.
(10:20):
And I mean Todd Bowles. I trust what Todd saw
and a lot of the guys have said this is
New England. Players are telling me we're watching old New
England tabe of Tom Brady and Julian Edelman, Randy Moss
and Wes Welker. So this is what he has his
background in. That's his training more so than his McVeigh time.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Again, He's Aaron Wilson, our Sports Sox seven to ninety
Texans insider, as well as work he does with KPRC two.
Find him on Twitter at Aaron Wilson underscore NFL. Hey
ub appreciate it, so we'll catch up with you next
week and hopefully we're talking about a two win Texans
team next week.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Thanks guys, great week after that Adam in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The road gets harder appreciated, Aaron
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