December 18, 2024 • 10 mins
Inching closer and closer to the postseason, the Texans have now arrived at their most highly anticipated games of the season for them and for fans. Rolling into the final weeks of the season, this week, the Texans get ready to take on the reigning two time Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. Kicking off in a Saturday showdown for their Week 16 game and noting a few players a bit unsure if they'll play Saturday like Joe Mixon and Pat Mahomes, many anticipate the big game this weekend followed with the chance to make a huge statement right before the postseason kicks off. Considering the Chiefs offense hasn't played to the expectation that they normally uphold, their defense on the other hand has played a vital role in a bit of their success this season. Prepping for Saturday's afternoon kickoff, can the Texans offense withstand the battle the Chiefs defense has been upholding all year?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And with the Shawn Salisbury Show continued.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Allowed the second fewest pressures on the season versus the Dolphins.
It was just nine in Week thirteen, they allowed eight.
In Week fifteen they allowed nine against those Dolphins, and
then Week four against the Jags was twelve. Week thirteen
and fifteen are the only games the line has allowed
single digit pressures all season. The line allowed twenty nine
(00:29):
percent pressure rate versus the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's the third best this season.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The offensive line has allowed under thirty percent pressure rate
the last two weeks for the first time this season.
They've done it just three times total all season long.
Those statistics coming from a Will Councle Fox twenty six
sports director. There were some, you know, a little bit
of movement on the offensive line. You moved Titus Howard
over to the left guard, You got Larry Tunzel still
(00:55):
left tackle. You inserted Blake Fisher over to right tackle,
Shack Mason playing right guard, so there was some little
bit of movement, and Jared Patterson playing center. Juice Scruggs
out Kenyan Green was practicing last week but was not
ready to go for the game coming off of injury,
and the defense for the Kansas City Chiefs statistically one
(01:18):
of the best in the NFL along with the Texans.
Of course, Spagnolo is a hell of a defensive coordinator,
so just looking at the defensive leaders in the NFL.
Of course, let's go to points per game. The best
defense according to points per game would be the Denver Broncos,
then the Chargers, the Eagles, the Vikings, and then they're
(01:38):
the Kansas City Chiefs coming in at number five.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
The Texans.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Are number nine in the league twenty one point four
points a game, the Kansas City Chiefs allowing just eighteen
point five rushing yards per game. Let's look at those
Kansas City Chiefs third sean. They allow just ninety one
point nine rushing yards a game.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Their interior defensive fronts as good as not the best
in the league. Chris Jones as a monster, You're gonna
have to spend a lot of time. They'll move him around.
This defense is what's carry I'm telling you, the defense
has carried this team. The Chiefs they just have They'll
make some plays on offense because they are really good,
and they got a great quarterback and some weapons. But
when you look up and down, the Chiefs offense has
been as inconsistent as they've ever been as far as
(02:23):
explosiveness this year going into this game. Guess what I'm
not worried about right now. With matter of fact, I'm
not so sure that this Texans defense can't give the
Chiefs offense all they can handle. I honestly believe they can.
I'm concerned the other way. Can the Texans offense be
aggressive enough, but smart enough and consistent enough to move
(02:45):
the ball consistently against a really, really really good defense,
and if detective, the Chiefs win the Super Bowl this year,
the defense and Steve Spagnola will be a main reason
for it, kind of like last year.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, it was just like that last year.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So sure that this defense this year. I think even
this offense is even more consistent or inconsistent this year
than it was last year. Yeah, and I'm sure numbers
bear that out. But I'm just saying watching them, I
don't go into a game right now mahomes threat. I
always know they have the ball, last is a good
chance they're going to score. That's just who they are.
But it's not like I wake up like they're hanging.
(03:21):
I'm more afraid of Cincinnati's offense I'm more afraid of
Detroit's offense. The Packers offense.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I'm more afraid.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I have far more you can roll up and down.
I'm hell, I'm not so sure. I'm not more afraid
of Pittsburgh's offense at times too. But Pittsburgh and can't
see similar well. They both have the ability to explode.
Both of their defenses are what's going to make it
really miserable Baltimore, same way you don't want. I mean
their offense and the level at which Lamar Jackson's playing
(03:48):
the Kansas City Chiefs offense, while the player and the
parts of it put a lot of fear in you,
but the sum right now, I'm more concerned with the
sum of their defense if I'm an offensive team, than
i am worried about their offense hanging.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Forty on me.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So the weakness for the Kansas City Chiefs when you
look at their defense, is they are a middle of
the road defense.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
When it comes to passing yards.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They stop the run, don't even average over one hundred yards,
but when it comes to passing they give up on average.
They're fifteenth in the league, so literally quite literally middle
of the road. So if you're the offensive line for
the Texans, and if you're Bobby slowk Sean, it's probably
going to be a struggle to run the football. But
(04:29):
if you can protect against that really good defensive line
for Kansas City, you probably got to go to a
pass first offense this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I you know, for me, I would like to
try to get the ball on the quick game screens
and slants outside the perimeter. Quick you don't want to
hold the ball along, but I would. I would like
to get it out and let those guys work and
do work in space because if for me, if you
try to a lot of times eagle gets in the way,
you do not want to attack their strength because then
you're gonna be in a second and seven, second, name eight,
(05:00):
third and nine, and that does not bode well for
an offensive team that's been extremely inconsistent this year or two,
meaning the Texans. So you can't get caught up and
now you're not gonna get rid of the run game.
But I'm gonna try to tack their weaknesses, get on
the edge a little bit more. And the way you
can do that you can spread people out and throw
the quick hitch game, the screen game, the bubble screen.
(05:20):
You can throw that smoke screen that we get. I
just think you have to get the ball in people's
hands quickly and get it out around the edge and
make them chase, as opposed to you're running right out
of them. Inside you're gonna get zone run Blitzer. You're
gonna get run Blitzer, and you're gonna get passed Blitz.
This Spagnolo is a brilliant, brilliant play caller, and I
(05:41):
think he's the equivalent of Ben Johnson on the defensive
side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You talked about the Kansas City offense being inconsistent. The
Kansas City offense, along with the Houston Texans, they are
damn near identical. Both middle of the road offense is
averaging almost the same yardage per game through the air,
the Texans two hundred and twelve point eight yards, Kansas
City Chiefs two hundred and twenty four yards. When it
comes to points per game, Kansas City Chiefs twenty three
(06:06):
and a half Texans twenty three point four rushing yards
one hundred and eleven for the Texans Kansasity Chiefs one
hundred and twelve. I mean, you look at all these
different numbers and they're damn near identical.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, and but what's the one that you've put on
both of them? Inconsistent this year? Yes, for both teams offensively,
and this is gonna be one hell of a defensive game.
And the truth comes down to it, if you get
to twenty four points, you may be the winner. He
scored three texowns in a field goal. That may be
enough in this game.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Total yards this season for both offenses Kansas City Chiefs
forty seven oh eight, Texans forty five to thirty nine,
So just a couple hundred yards in between each other.
Total yards per game on average for the Chiefs three
thirty six Texans three twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's incredible how they mirror each other.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's, oh, my, only difference to the one that they've got,
you know, some Andy Reid and they got Patrick Patrick
Mahomes and they got rings on their finger. Offensively, though
they've they've not been a they haven't put the fear
in anybody other than Mahomes is capable of doing that
because he's so good. But when they got the ball last, damn,
(07:13):
you gotta chalk it up, they're gonna find a way
to go down to score and win. So hence why
they keep doing it. We'll find out if this week
how that works for them.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Can you name the top five offenses right now in
the league according to points per game?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I would I'll take a guess. I don't know. Detroit's
at the top of the list. They are number one.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Buffalo's in there. They are number two. Uh, the Cincinnati
Bengals in there. They are number five. Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That's number three. Can you guess number four? Guess number four?
Green Bay? No Packers, that's the packers of Vikings. I
would have thought maybe, but.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Packing packer, packing packers are pass packers are let's see
five sticks of there's seven and Vikings are eight. Commanders
are six. Number four?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, is AFC or NFC, NFC, NFC number four.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'm gonna get this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Let's see NFC, NFC West Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Who is it? Tampa Bay Bucket? The Bucks? Yeah, yeah,
he's got him playing. Just made raypail quiety having a
hell of a season.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And they are in position now with Michael Pennix now
taking over for Cousins. You just can't keep playing like that.
And Cousins is the last five games has been awful.
He's awful. They are making the switch, and you know what,
a lot of times when you make this switch, especially
just late in the season and you're still in a
playoff hunt. Yeah, the kirk Cousins starting, unless something goes
(08:45):
wrong with Pennis. They're not just going to give it
to him for a half and say hopefully doesn' They're
gonna let him play through this. And this is why
you drafted him, but you did not want to play
him this soon. And here you go, what the eighth
pick of the draft, and Kirk Cousins will be the
most expensive backup quarter back in the league right now.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Baker Mayfield top five QB in the league right now. Yeah, guys,
played great football, man. He's got a completion percentage of
seventy one all season. He's got three six and seventeen yards.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's gonna throw for over four thousand and complete seventy
percent of his passes.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And Cleveland would do anything to have him back considering
their situation. And they're benching Jamis Winston to play to
play DKR or DKR, right.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, right, Thompson, Yeah, no, dr that's right. DKR is
over in Austin, So that that's what you're gonna get him. Hey,
that that's been done because jamis once again explosive arm
turns the ball over too much, careless with the football. Yep,
that's his That's why he's played for three years. You know,
a handful of teams now because he's he's like man
(09:47):
great arm skill, but armtown. But he makes some poor decisions.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Tow is the wrong guy, and they're gonna go with
the young guy, and they'll probably let him play it
out through the season too. So h But Baker Mayfield
keeps plodding along. And they've had three quarterbacks now well
four considering the flaccol last year, and none of them well,
they all look like unfortunately what Cleveland's gone through quarterback wise,
and Mayfield is blown by all of that. Right, did
(10:11):
you ever see that we'd be saying, and I like
Baker Mayfield, but when their career started at Baker Mayfield,
that you would take him over Deshaun Watson every day
and twice on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
No, but give me Baker Mayfield all day.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And then.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Gino Smith also having a really good year seventy percent
completion percentage, three thy six hundred and twenty three yards.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well he's been doing that since he got to Seattle.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Really good for him. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
All right, let's continue talking about the NFL. We'll look
across the league. Some interesting matchups this weekend. Let's talk
about it next on Sports Talk seven ninety
And with the Shawn Salisbury Show continued.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Allowed the second fewest pressures on the season versus the Dolphins.
It was just nine in Week thirteen, they allowed eight.
In Week fifteen they allowed nine against those Dolphins, and
then Week four against the Jags was twelve. Week thirteen
and fifteen are the only games the line has allowed
single digit pressures all season. The line allowed twenty nine
(00:29):
percent pressure rate versus the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's the third best this season.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The offensive line has allowed under thirty percent pressure rate
the last two weeks for the first time this season.
They've done it just three times total all season long.
Those statistics coming from a Will Councle Fox twenty six
sports director. There were some, you know, a little bit
of movement on the offensive line. You moved Titus Howard
over to the left guard, You got Larry Tunzel still
(00:55):
left tackle. You inserted Blake Fisher over to right tackle,
Shack Mason playing right guard, so there was some little
bit of movement, and Jared Patterson playing center. Juice Scruggs
out Kenyan Green was practicing last week but was not
ready to go for the game coming off of injury,
and the defense for the Kansas City Chiefs statistically one
(01:18):
of the best in the NFL along with the Texans.
Of course, Spagnolo is a hell of a defensive coordinator,
so just looking at the defensive leaders in the NFL.
Of course, let's go to points per game. The best
defense according to points per game would be the Denver Broncos,
then the Chargers, the Eagles, the Vikings, and then they're
(01:38):
the Kansas City Chiefs coming in at number five.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
The Texans.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Are number nine in the league twenty one point four
points a game, the Kansas City Chiefs allowing just eighteen
point five rushing yards per game. Let's look at those
Kansas City Chiefs third sean. They allow just ninety one
point nine rushing yards a game.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Their interior defensive fronts as good as not the best
in the league. Chris Jones as a monster, You're gonna
have to spend a lot of time. They'll move him around.
This defense is what's carry I'm telling you, the defense
has carried this team. The Chiefs they just have They'll
make some plays on offense because they are really good,
and they got a great quarterback and some weapons. But
when you look up and down, the Chiefs offense has
been as inconsistent as they've ever been as far as
(02:23):
explosiveness this year going into this game. Guess what I'm
not worried about right now. With matter of fact, I'm
not so sure that this Texans defense can't give the
Chiefs offense all they can handle. I honestly believe they can.
I'm concerned the other way. Can the Texans offense be
aggressive enough, but smart enough and consistent enough to move
(02:45):
the ball consistently against a really, really really good defense,
and if detective, the Chiefs win the Super Bowl this year,
the defense and Steve Spagnola will be a main reason
for it, kind of like last year.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, it was just like that last year.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So sure that this defense this year. I think even
this offense is even more consistent or inconsistent this year
than it was last year. Yeah, and I'm sure numbers
bear that out. But I'm just saying watching them, I
don't go into a game right now mahomes threat. I
always know they have the ball, last is a good
chance they're going to score. That's just who they are.
But it's not like I wake up like they're hanging.
(03:21):
I'm more afraid of Cincinnati's offense I'm more afraid of
Detroit's offense. The Packers offense.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I'm more afraid.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I have far more you can roll up and down.
I'm hell, I'm not so sure. I'm not more afraid
of Pittsburgh's offense at times too. But Pittsburgh and can't
see similar well. They both have the ability to explode.
Both of their defenses are what's going to make it
really miserable Baltimore, same way you don't want. I mean
their offense and the level at which Lamar Jackson's playing
(03:48):
the Kansas City Chiefs offense, while the player and the
parts of it put a lot of fear in you,
but the sum right now, I'm more concerned with the
sum of their defense if I'm an offensive team, than
i am worried about their offense hanging.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Forty on me.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So the weakness for the Kansas City Chiefs when you
look at their defense, is they are a middle of
the road defense.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
When it comes to passing yards.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They stop the run, don't even average over one hundred yards,
but when it comes to passing they give up on average.
They're fifteenth in the league, so literally quite literally middle
of the road. So if you're the offensive line for
the Texans, and if you're Bobby slowk Sean, it's probably
going to be a struggle to run the football. But
(04:29):
if you can protect against that really good defensive line
for Kansas City, you probably got to go to a
pass first offense this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I you know, for me, I would like to
try to get the ball on the quick game screens
and slants outside the perimeter. Quick you don't want to
hold the ball along, but I would. I would like
to get it out and let those guys work and
do work in space because if for me, if you
try to a lot of times eagle gets in the way,
you do not want to attack their strength because then
you're gonna be in a second and seven, second, name eight,
(05:00):
third and nine, and that does not bode well for
an offensive team that's been extremely inconsistent this year or two,
meaning the Texans. So you can't get caught up and
now you're not gonna get rid of the run game.
But I'm gonna try to tack their weaknesses, get on
the edge a little bit more. And the way you
can do that you can spread people out and throw
the quick hitch game, the screen game, the bubble screen.
(05:20):
You can throw that smoke screen that we get. I
just think you have to get the ball in people's
hands quickly and get it out around the edge and
make them chase, as opposed to you're running right out
of them. Inside you're gonna get zone run Blitzer. You're
gonna get run Blitzer, and you're gonna get passed Blitz.
This Spagnolo is a brilliant, brilliant play caller, and I
(05:41):
think he's the equivalent of Ben Johnson on the defensive
side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You talked about the Kansas City offense being inconsistent. The
Kansas City offense, along with the Houston Texans, they are
damn near identical. Both middle of the road offense is
averaging almost the same yardage per game through the air,
the Texans two hundred and twelve point eight yards, Kansas
City Chiefs two hundred and twenty four yards. When it
comes to points per game, Kansas City Chiefs twenty three
(06:06):
and a half Texans twenty three point four rushing yards
one hundred and eleven for the Texans Kansasity Chiefs one
hundred and twelve. I mean, you look at all these
different numbers and they're damn near identical.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, and but what's the one that you've put on
both of them? Inconsistent this year? Yes, for both teams offensively,
and this is gonna be one hell of a defensive game.
And the truth comes down to it, if you get
to twenty four points, you may be the winner. He
scored three texowns in a field goal. That may be
enough in this game.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Total yards this season for both offenses Kansas City Chiefs
forty seven oh eight, Texans forty five to thirty nine,
So just a couple hundred yards in between each other.
Total yards per game on average for the Chiefs three
thirty six Texans three twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's incredible how they mirror each other.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's, oh, my, only difference to the one that they've got,
you know, some Andy Reid and they got Patrick Patrick
Mahomes and they got rings on their finger. Offensively, though
they've they've not been a they haven't put the fear
in anybody other than Mahomes is capable of doing that
because he's so good. But when they got the ball last, damn,
(07:13):
you gotta chalk it up, they're gonna find a way
to go down to score and win. So hence why
they keep doing it. We'll find out if this week
how that works for them.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Can you name the top five offenses right now in
the league according to points per game?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I would I'll take a guess. I don't know. Detroit's
at the top of the list. They are number one.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Buffalo's in there. They are number two. Uh, the Cincinnati
Bengals in there. They are number five. Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That's number three. Can you guess number four? Guess number four?
Green Bay? No Packers, that's the packers of Vikings. I
would have thought maybe, but.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Packing packer, packing packers are pass packers are let's see
five sticks of there's seven and Vikings are eight. Commanders
are six. Number four?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, is AFC or NFC, NFC, NFC number four.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'm gonna get this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Let's see NFC, NFC West Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Who is it? Tampa Bay Bucket? The Bucks? Yeah, yeah,
he's got him playing. Just made raypail quiety having a
hell of a season.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And they are in position now with Michael Pennix now
taking over for Cousins. You just can't keep playing like that.
And Cousins is the last five games has been awful.
He's awful. They are making the switch, and you know what,
a lot of times when you make this switch, especially
just late in the season and you're still in a
playoff hunt. Yeah, the kirk Cousins starting, unless something goes
(08:45):
wrong with Pennis. They're not just going to give it
to him for a half and say hopefully doesn' They're
gonna let him play through this. And this is why
you drafted him, but you did not want to play
him this soon. And here you go, what the eighth
pick of the draft, and Kirk Cousins will be the
most expensive backup quarter back in the league right now.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Baker Mayfield top five QB in the league right now. Yeah, guys,
played great football, man. He's got a completion percentage of
seventy one all season. He's got three six and seventeen yards.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's gonna throw for over four thousand and complete seventy
percent of his passes.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And Cleveland would do anything to have him back considering
their situation. And they're benching Jamis Winston to play to
play DKR or DKR, right.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, right, Thompson, Yeah, no, dr that's right. DKR is
over in Austin, So that that's what you're gonna get him. Hey,
that that's been done because jamis once again explosive arm
turns the ball over too much, careless with the football. Yep,
that's his That's why he's played for three years. You know,
a handful of teams now because he's he's like man
(09:47):
great arm skill, but armtown. But he makes some poor decisions.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Tow is the wrong guy, and they're gonna go with
the young guy, and they'll probably let him play it
out through the season too. So h But Baker Mayfield
keeps plodding along. And they've had three quarterbacks now well
four considering the flaccol last year, and none of them well,
they all look like unfortunately what Cleveland's gone through quarterback wise,
and Mayfield is blown by all of that. Right, did
(10:11):
you ever see that we'd be saying, and I like
Baker Mayfield, but when their career started at Baker Mayfield,
that you would take him over Deshaun Watson every day
and twice on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
No, but give me Baker Mayfield all day.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And then.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Gino Smith also having a really good year seventy percent
completion percentage, three thy six hundred and twenty three yards.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well he's been doing that since he got to Seattle.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Really good for him. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
All right, let's continue talking about the NFL. We'll look
across the league. Some interesting matchups this weekend. Let's talk
about it next on Sports Talk seven ninety
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