Davis Mills Starting vs. Bills? Texans Rumors After Week 11 Win Over The Titans

Davis Mills Starting vs. Bills? Texans Rumors After Week 11 Win Over The Titans

[Music] Welcome into Texans today. And I know the question that’s on every single person’s mind is probably the reason why you clicked into the video. Who’s starting Thursday Night Football? We’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about who should start, who will start, and all the overreactions and rumors after the Texans 16-13 win over the Tennessee Titans. We’re on a short week. We barely have any time to talk about this win, talk about the repercussions and everything else before we got to get ready for Thursday night football up against the Bills. But let’s quickly glaze back over this NFL week 11 win from your Houston Texans. It wasn’t pretty. Um it wasn’t, you know, what we all expected against maybe maybe not what y’all expected. I I told y’all it was a trap game all week long. And the Texans once again proved me right that they are the cardiac Texans making us sweat out every single game. But at the end of the day, Davis Mills, this offense was able to drive the ball down the field. Game-winning field goal by Matthew Wright, who is kicking instead for Ka Fairbar, who is still on the injured list. We’ll talk about those injuries coming up in just a moment. But I mentioned Thursday Night Football, short week, Texans up against the Bells. The Texans will be wearing their battle red jerseys. So, be there, get loud, and get ready because I’m going to be going live 30 minutes, maybe an hour before kickoff. Maybe we go an hour before for Thursday Night Football up against the Bills. Fun fact, one of my good buddies, uh, Tyler Smith, he runs the Bills channel here at Chat Sports, and he sent me a, you know, message this morning, and I’m not going to say he was kind of rubbing it in my face the metrics from this past month, but yeah, he was this month. This is the subscribers gained between the Texans channel and the Bills channel. I’m not losing to the Buffalo Bills, not on the field, not off the field. So, I need your help. Go down and hit that subscribe button. I’m not losing to Tyler Smith and the Buffalo Bills. Help me out. Hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already. It’s free Texans videos all year long. If you’re already subscribed, send it to a friend. Send it to a family member. Any Texans fan you know. Let’s make sure we’re beating the Buffalo Bills. And if you are brand new to the channel and just subscribed, thank you so much. And this is a little insight into what we’re doing today. This is our Toro heads meter. This is how I kind of gauge rumors over reactions, everything on the channel. If I give something zero heads, fake news, it’s not happening. If I give something four Toro heads, it’s going down. Think of it kind of like a scale going from least likely to most likely with those Toro heads. So, first up, little overreaction to the Titans win. Davis Mills, is he going to start Thursday night football up against the Buffalo Bills? That’s two Toro heads. It’s it’s obviously, you know, going to be a game time decision and it’s going to be a coin flip whether or not Strad is even going to be cleared to go from concussion protocol. We’ll probably know later on in the week, Tuesday or Wednesday, leading up to this Thursday night football game, whether or not Strad will even be eligible from the NFL to return to action. Adam Sher had this right before the weekend hit, before the Sunday games. He said Texans quarterback CJ Shroud is out for Sunday’s game against the Titans. And with Houston having a short week ahead of the Thursday night game up against Buffalo, it remains uncertain whether its starting quarterback will be able to clear concussion protocol in time to play the Bills per source. Now, I mean, anybody with the brain could realize, you know, he hasn’t cleared concussion protocol yet. They play on a short week, so it’s going to be kind of difficult for him to come back on short notice. Maybe the Texans, maybe CJ Strad wanted to give him a little extra rest before this Thursday night football game. I’m not sure, but I I I don’t think that would be the case being that he has to clear the concussion protocol from, you know, the independent evaluators. We’ll see whether or not he’ll be good to go. If he’s good to go, though, if CJ Strad clears concussion protocol, who should start? Davis Mills. You think that’s the case, give me a 10 down below. You think it should be CJ Shroud, give me a seven. And I know there’s multiple arguments, you know, his health. Also, is he going to be prepared on such a short week? He hasn’t practiced in a couple weeks. Let me know your thoughts down below. Who should start on Thursday, Davis Mills or CJ Strad? For me, it’s clear and obvious. It’s CJ Stout. If CJ Stout is good to go, you put seven out there on the football field. I know Davis Mills, he has been playing his heart out. He has left everything out on the field. And I 1,000% appreciate Davis Mills as our backup quarterback and a valuable member of this team. He’s a great locker room guy. He’s somebody who when CJ’s crowd went down, he kind of steadied the ship. I know he didn’t win that Broncos game, but still the past two weeks, he’s really showed up big time in clutch moments for this Texans squad. But at the end of the day, CJ Strad’s the best quarterback you have on this roster. Davis Mills, you know, played a halfway decent game up against this Titans team. They, you know, enough to get the victory, right? you won 16-3, 26 of 41, 274 yards, a touchdown, a QB rating of 90.14 and 14 rush yards on the day up against the Titans. And you know, like I said, he played well. He played well enough to win the game, but at the end of the day, putting up 16 points up against the Tennessee Titans, I wouldn’t say is like the biggest flex. I wouldn’t say is like, you know, the biggest, you know, oh my god, look at me. I I’m doing so well. It It’s really not right. And CJ Stroud, he is your franchise quarterback. He is the franchise guy. So, if he’s good to go, you play him. It’s CJ Shroud, right? Yeah. You You should play CJ Shroud. You should be able to feel confident enough even on a short week with not a ton of practice, he’s still the starting quarterback. He knows the offense. May maybe he doesn’t like isn’t up to date with like getting some of the rust off and stuff like that, but mentally I would say CJ Shroud would be ready to go up against the Bills. Whatever they’re going to install, whatever they’re looking at in that Bills defense, I I have faith that CJ Stroud would be able to go. But like I said, it’s up to his health. And same with a lot of the guys on this Texans roster, right? It’s not just CJ Strad. These are all the inactives from this past week up against Tennessee. Jaylen Petri still in concussion protocol. He’s another guy who we got to look at because on in that defense, they’re a much different defense with and without uh Jaylen Petri. Now, they’re still a good squad, but Jaylen Pach Petri brings something else, especially against the run. That’s where you notice Jaylen Petri the most on this Texans defense is kind of on the boundaries whenever they’re defending the run. He’s somebody who great sideline to sideline tackler and not afraid to, you know, put his head in there, put his nose in there and get a great tackle. Kaimi Fairbar, who Matthew Wright, he did hit the game-winning field goal for the Houston Texans, but we remember earlier in the game, the first drive, he clanked one off the crossbar. Now, I’m not trying to, you know, not trying to, you know, rain down on his parade, but obviously, you know, with a backup kicker, you are maybe second guessing a couple of those longer kicks up against a team like the Buffalo Bills. Um, another big one at the very bottom, Ed Ingram. This caused the Texans O line shuffle because he was out. They went ahead and moved Titus Howard into guard, which a lot of y’all wanted, and put uh Trent Brown at right tackle. Then they put Jarrett Patterson at left guard, Jake Andrews at center, and obviously the rookie Aronte Ursery, who’s been manning the left tackle spot. And that leads me to this next point. We all wanted it. We got it. Is it though what we wanted? Was the grass greener on the other side whenever Trent Brown was starting at right tackle and they moved Titus Howard into right guard? I’ll talk about that in just a moment. But first, a word from our sponsors. Shout out to my friends over at Prize Pick. The hard-hitting football action is just getting going with our friends over at Prize Pix. And the weather, it might be a changing, but the feeling of being right that never gets old. 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I’m almost positive that Jaden Higgins was able to stretch into the end zone on that play where he got to the one yard line. He puts it over. You decide not to challenge that play, but you challenge the Christian Kirk catch where he drops it out of bounds. Obviously, De Mo, I if you need help with which plays to challenge, which plays to not, I’ll give you my phone number. Put me on speed dial because you seem like you need some help with those challenges and I got you covered. I’m not mad at you. I’m just disappointed, especially because it did affect my prize pick lineup. But I’ll be definitely putting in a lineup on Thursday night. And if you want to as well, well, get started today with our sponsor prize pics. Download the Prize Pix app today. Use code CLNS to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. That’s code CLNS. Get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Prize picks. It’s good to be right. Might surprise a lot of people. I’m only giving it one Toro head that Trent Brown should start at right tackle. Don’t get me wrong, he he’s played decently there, but I think the playbook is out on Trent Brown and other teams are going to notice this and they are going to exploit this because the one thing I noticed this past week up against the Titans with Trent Brown, he cannot deal with speed rushers. Ardan Key ate his lunch this past Sunday. And if Ardan Key is doing that to you, I think a lot of teams have better speed rushers than an Ardan Key. And he’s big, he helps you in the in the run game, but at the same time, I just don’t know if you can start him the rest of the year with how slow he gets off the ball sometimes. He is a mammoth of a human being. But age plus injuries plus his just sheer size has led to teams noticing, hey, if you put a smaller guy on Trent Brown, if you put somebody that gets a very quick get off on the edge, they can get past him and they can collapse the pocket. And it happened multiple times this past week with Davis Mills in the back field getting sacked where, you know, the edge rushers seem to just kind of meet in the middle. And a lot of that was based on Trent Brown just not being able to stop an Ardan Key. So if it was up to me, if Ed Ingram is healthy, I might just go back to this lineup. I know I was a proponent to say Jarrett Patterson at left guard. He uh he disappointed me a little bit this past week, especially, you know, maybe it’s maybe it’s tough to evaluate him going up against the best defense, one of the best defensive tackles in the NFL against Jeffrey Simmons. And Tavandre Sweat is a huge individual who’s also an ascending player at the defensive tackle spot. But I say you go back to Juice at left guard. You go to Ed Ingram at right guard, Titus Howard at right tackle. If you’re going to put Jarrett Patterson in, I’d put him in over Jake Andrews, but we all know that’s not going to happen because Jake Andrews and Cole Papovic, they are like this. They are two peas in a pod. Sympatico. Jake Andrews and Cole Papovic. BFFs. They have the bracelets and everything. So, um, that’s what I think the Texans should do at their offensive line going into this week. Lastly, do the Texans control their own destiny? Well, funny enough, after this win yesterday and after how the 3:00 slate kind of panned out, they’re one game away from a playoff spot. They are the eight seed. They have the tiebreaker right now up against the Kansas City Chiefs. So 100% they control their own destiny and they play basically all the teams that are ahead of them right now in that AFC playoff race. They’re playing coming up. Like look at the look at their next four weeks. They play the Bills who currently are ahead of them in the AFC playoff race. They play the Colts, the leader in in the division. They play the Chiefs who they are technically tied right now but own the tiebreaker against. They’ll definitely o own that outright tiebreaker if they go ahead and beat the Chiefs in week 14. And then you play the ar Arizona Cardinals who we we always talk about, you know, these sports cliches. And my guy Alper who’s pressing the ones and twos, he’s going to like this reference. The Cardinals are frisky. The Cardinals are frisky. You don’t know what you’re going to get. They’ll go out and and destroy the Cowboys on Monday Night Football and then they’ll kind of throw up a clunker up against the San Francisco 49ers. They are a frisky team and you don’t know which Cardinals team you’re going to get. So you might get a good Cardinals team or you might get a bad Cardinals team in week 15. Who knows? But either way, you control your own destiny. And the AFC playoff race as it stands right now, I I know it’s crazy. A couple weeks ago, y’all, you know, some people out there wanted me to do mock drafts, but look at it. The Texans are a game behind the Jags. You’ve you’ve split the series with that. You play the Chargers later on in the year. You play the Bills right now. You play the Colts twice. Like you play the teams that are ahead of you. So, I mean, obvious duh. I mean, dumb comment by me, but you got to win these games. You got to win these games coming up if you want a chance to make the playoffs. And like I said, you control your own destiny. So go ahead, go out there and beat the Buffalo Bills on Thursday and put yourself smack dab right there in the hunt because we’re going to hear this stat so many times in the next coming weeks. You know how many teams have started 0 and3 and made the playoffs since the year 2000? one 2018 Houston Texans are the only team in this decade in this century to have started 0 and3 and made the playoffs. Why not again? Because they have the track. They have the ability to do just that this season. Now, if you made it to the end of the video, I know you’re an absolute real one. And you’re not subscribed yet. What are you doing? We did something, right? You’re to the end of the video. So, if you’re to the end of this video and you’re a real one, make sure you hit that subscribe button and also spam those H’s so I know who my real ones are. And I’ll see you down in the comments section as we get ready for Texans Bills Thursday Night Football. [Music]

Houston Texans rumors after their narrow 16-13 win over the Tennessee Titans in NFL week 11 are centered around the C.J. Stroud injury update and whether or not Davis Mills should start against the Bills on Thursday Night Football. This Texans news and rumors video is brought to you by PrizePicks! Make sure to visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS and use code CLNS and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Chat Sports host Jeremy Chuggs breaks down Texans vs. Titans film and tells you his biggest overreactions heading into NFL week 12 TNF against the Buffalo Bills.

Texans Overreaction video topics:
Davis Mills should start against the Bills on TNF?
Texans should move Tytus to guard and start Trent Brown at right tackle?
Texans still in the hunt in the current AFC playoff picture?

Texans injury report going into week 11:
C.J. Stroud (QB)
Ed Ingram (OL)
Ka’imi Fairbairn (K)
Jalen Pitre (DB)
Dalton Schultz (TE)

Texans offensive line against the Tennessee Titans in Week 11:
Aireontae Ersery – LT
Jarrett Patterson – LG
Jake Andrews – C
Tytus Howard – RG
Trent Brown – RT

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Davis Mills highlights today’s video, here are his stats against the Titans:
– C/ATT: 26/41
– YDS: 274
– TD: 1
– INT: 0

Houston Texans rushing leaders against Tennessee:
– Nick Chubb: 3 CAR, 17 YDS, 0 TD, 8 LONG
– Woody Marks: 18 CAR, 44 YDS, 0 TD, 12 LONG
– Davis Mills: 2 CAR, 14 YDS, 0 TD, 10 LONG

Houston Texans receiving leaders against the Titans:
– Dalton Schultz: 6 REC, 51 YDS, 0 TD, 13 LONG
– Nico Collins: 9 REC, 92 YDS, 1 TD, 18 LONG
– Jayden Higgins: 4 REC, 55 YDS, 0 TD, 23 LONG
– Xavier Hutchinson: 3 REC, 42 YDS, 0 TD, 22 LONG
– Jaylin Noel: 1 REC, 12 YDS, 0 TD, 12 LONG

Houston Texans defensive leaders against the Titans:
– Azeez Al-Shaair: 6 TKL
– Kamari Lassiter: 2 TKL, 1 PBU
– Derek Stingley Jr.: 4 TKL, 1 PBU
– Will Anderson Jr.: 4 TKL, 2 TFL, 1 SACK
– Danielle Hunter: 4 TKL, 1.5 SACK, 1 TFL

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