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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had lived that there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The Shawn Salisbury Show continued as we welcome in NFL
Insider for KPRC channel to Aaron Wilson. Yeah, and Aaron
Wilson on Twitter. You get him right here at Sports
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as well as anybody. Great to have him on. I
guess this will be the last time we could say
Happy New Year, since I haven't talked to you since
the New Year started. Great to have you on, brother.
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This game bed one of those inconsistent yet still ten
win seasons and you can take a step back and
not play as well but still have a good record.
So they're in the tournament. So with that, if I said, Aaron,
we're putting a game plan in or our biggest concern
that our team should have this week is what if
you're the Houston Texans, I.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Would say pass protection is probably that they have concerned.
That's when the achilles heel of the team all year,
and while they did block the Tennessee Titans, I just
can't say the Titans probably a lot of motivation. The
other trink at the top overall pick play on the
string there they're you know, firing their general manager. It
just didn't feel like you were seeing the Titans a game.
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You know, I didn't see the same type of performance
in Devandre Sweat and Jeffrey Simmons. That's it. You know,
you're looking at a different type of matchup. Look at
all of the rushers they have. They've got Joey Bulson,
They've got Khalil Mack, They've got by Dupree, They've got
usc they have a lot of guys, and so you
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know they're vulnerable. I think Blake Fisher, the rookie tackle
and uh, writing my head later today, he faces a
really difficult challenge in his first career playoff game. I
don't worried about Larry tuns Full. You know, he'll hold
his own over there. He'll do his thing. But there
is a chance that you know, they're gonna have to
do some tilting and max protecting in times. See how
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that goes. Uh, you know how the Charger are getting
off the ball every weeks different. But yeah, I worry
about the past checks.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
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eight thirty. All right with that, do you expect a
Jim Harbaugh team I call him Michigan with a different rapper.
They want to be physical upfront, they want to run
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the ball, They're going to use play action, but they
have a quarterback like McCarthy who's efficient, protects the ball
and has the ability to kill you with this arm
and his feet depending. So with this in mind, coming
into this game, is Jim Harper Do you expect a
bunch of gimmicks or a bunch of a bunch of
game plan changes or is this just going to be
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this is who we are. We expect to win twenty
four to twenty type games and you're going to get
Harbaugh at his finest, which means run it, play solid, defense,
keep it close, and finish.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah. Knowing him and watching a lot of and cover
a lot of his football games over the years, including
the Super Bowl when he was with the forty nine
ers against the Ravens, I would say that big game, Jim.
He might have one wrinkle or so, but he generally
does stick with what's got in there, and I don't
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anticipate a watershed chain from Jim Marble. They are very tough, y,
very physical. There's things that he believes in kind of
the bed rock foundation of what he thinks football should be.
Stuff he learned from the bush Embeckler's and his dad
and with his brother John. You know that they talk
about all growing up. There have actually been to the
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house before. I've been at Armor when he was up there.
I think you look at everything about him and it's
about not making mistakes. And to me, other than the
passport issue, that's the thing. It's key to the game
if they play their normal sound game and the Texans
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stay true to form and have the maybe that one
Kerdel player and that's the the side this football game,
and we'll go to the Texans away. Texans have to
play and match the Chargers of efficiency and how they
do things.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Aaron, I'm curious for fans are listening because I think
the buzz in the city they want to win. There'll
be a lot of people there, but I think the buzz,
judging from excuse me this week, is while fans support them,
there's this feeling of maybe uneasy or treading lightly because
they don't trust it. Right now that you're going to
get four quarters of I think the defense is going
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to fly around and keep them in the game. Four
quarters are really good offensive football. So I think there's
a there the cautious approach as a fan base. So
tell the fans whether it's good or bad. You tell
us why that we should believe that all of a sudden,
after seventeen games, we're going to get four quarters of
consistency against a defense that gives up very few chunk
explosive plays, one of the best in the league, and
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it will dial up safety. Blitzer is, it's going to
put a lot of pressure on you with the jesse
mentor defense. Why should fans believe aside from every game's
open because you're in the playoffs, you got a chance. Well,
why they should believe they're going to see something different
offensively this week?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean it's hard to tell something that maybe isn't there.
I think you have to be very realistic. You know,
Nico Collins, we've been watching. Yeah, they can throw an ECO.
The only real difference could be, you know, do they
increase the involvement Deontare Johnson. You had a couple of catches,
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you know, the mix few plays. It doesn't like he's
gonna be a real game changer, you know, the running game.
Maybe what happened last week is the blueprint. I then
mostly it was you know, Damian Pierce. But maybe Joe
Mixon with more carries, maybe he gets back to where
he is. You know, if he have a big, hundred
yard type of game, it's a different type of ballgame, right,
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I could see that. Maybe that's the edge is Shoe Mixon,
who's very fired up and talking about making this run,
and he's saying all the right things. He's pretty inspiring
to his teammates. Oh maybe it's a mixing kind of game.
That's what I think they really need. That and a
lot of Nico you like, they're saying the music business,
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you know, play your hits. I think that's probably what
they've got to do.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Aaron Wilson KPRC Channel two, you see him postgame and
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Aaron Wilson. All Right, I contend that while it may
not be the focus of a game plan, that Justin
Herbert's feet are dangerous and more dangerous than we think,
and they will become a possible problem in this game.
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Yes or no?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh yeah, you know, while they're certainly fast enough to
the defense to cut down space, no, unscramble. You're trying
to rush him, You're trying to cover. You've got lat
McConkie out there, You've got Quinn Johnson. It's like when
feels all that well, it looks like you play. You
are doing all that, and sometimes that can create lanes
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for Justin Herbert. And for a big guy, he can
really run. You see that forty one yard run he
had as a scamper. They have to account for his feet,
you know, maybe not as much as his arm and
his accuracy. You know he's going to throw in a
couple of picks this year. He's really good at that
controlling football. I think you've got to respect his ability
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to scramble an ad lib.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What is the biggest weakness in your mind that can
be exploited that's on the charges either side of the ball.
What's their biggest the chance that the Texans to exploit it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think possibly running the ball, And I think I
look at you know the d they got drown James
back there, but this isn't an all star squad of
the secondary. I think they're going to be matchups for Meko.
I think you can do some things with him in
single coverage that they don't really have that stud to
stop it. And I think he's, you know, another potential
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edge for the Texans. He's a matchup nightmare. He's also
very clutch in the playoffs. You were last year, how
you played yep. I think that's something to watch. Getting
the ball a turn.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now? Does the we know and the Chargers aren't dumb
real quick, and I'll let you go after your pick
after this. The Chargers aren't dumb. It's like anything they
know going in that you don't want to let Nico
Collins or Mixing for the most part beat you. But
you're always going to defend the run first, which is important.
So with that in mind, if I can the Chargers,
I mean, can the Texans win the game if the
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passing games average but Mixing has one of those games
that put him in the Pro Bowl. Do they have
to be two dimensional? Baltimore can win this week not
being two dimensional. They can with the with Lamar's feet
and and Derek Henry and their defense and the way
Pittsburgh's offense is planned. The Texans with an average explosives
in the passing game, but a very very efficient and
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quite frankly game breaking type of guy. Joe Mixon has
one of those games. Are they good enough to win
a game like that?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I don't see it. I think when you a game
that comes back to mind, you think about how Joe
Mix ran for one hundred and fifty in the first
game of the season against the Colts, right, you know,
if something like that, but they're not you know, if
there's one pick or if there's anything like that. I
think they gotta have real clean, clean game. They need
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CJ to play the way he did that opening script
against the Titans, you know, the six for six fifty
r kind of CJ. TJ is capable of this. CJ
is someone that you know, it's been a little bit Rockies,
had smokes, some downs, a lot of the reasons for that,
but you know, you need CJ to rise to the occasion.
I think true leaders like him usually do, and I
got confidence in him. I think that that could happen.
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So I think maybe he's someone where that people are
sleeping on a little bit no playoff CJ. So we're
gonna see what he's like in this playoff game against
a good defense. Yeah, I think you know, last year,
like he said, nobody thought they were gonna beat the Browns.
You know, they're not picked to beat them by a
lot of people. They wound up blowing them out. So
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they need that kind of bold, accurate playmaking CJ. We'll see,
We'll see what the offense looks like and what slower
stiles up. But there's definitely a lot of pressure on
this offense.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A lot of aggressiveness would be nice. Play to win,
not to play, not to lose, should be interesting. Who
you like in the game, my man, I.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Think that while it wouldn't surprise me of the Texans
one then advance the Division round. I just think the
Chargers are a very sound football team. I don't see
them just all of a sudden unraveling and making these mistakes.
So yeah, I'll take the Chargers by field. What another
too and a half point favorite, so if they were
by three, they would cover. But yeah, I'm not a
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betting guy. I just think that the Chargers overallhim Harble's
big game experience. He's no Winter National championship in this building.
Last year with Michigan, I just could see them winning.
And it wouldn't surprise me if they came in and
played the way they normally play. They're the team that
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really you got to make crack. It's not the you know,
the Texans doing something crazy. It's just you get the
Chargers to play a little bit different to try to
knock them off.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Great point, great stuff is always great. New Year and
epic twenty twenty five ahead and your works Yeoman as
always brother, you kill it and we're grateful to have
you on and hopefully, well we'll talk to you next
week one way or the other to wrap it up
or continue through the playoffs, but hopefully we'll be talking
about the Texans one more week. Should be a great challenge.
Appreciate you, my man, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Thanks guys, that's great. That's great.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Aaron Wilson, we'll come back and we will discuss the keys.
I'm with him. I don't think you can be and
just like the other I don't think you can be
one dimensional throwing it and if you cut the run
game down I think you're playing right into the Chargers' hands.
They're going to have to have their best two dimensional
game in a while against a good team and a
really good team. Sports Talk seven ninety