Rich Eisen on How Far the Houston Texans Can Ride Their “Championship Defense”

Rich Eisen on How Far the Houston Texans Can Ride Their “Championship Defense”

Houston Texans are um back in the mix. They are in the mix. They are six and five. They’ve won their last three games since CJ Strad went out with a concussion. Davis Mills, just like M. Jones in San Francisco, who from where Deco Ryan’s hails as a coach, he’s kept this season afloat. He has single-handedly with his defense, I guess that’s not single-handedly, but he has in his starts at 3-0 erased the 0 and3 deficit. And the Houston Texans are six and five. And right now sitting there with six games to go and an opportunity to win the division and make the playoffs. And I said win the division cuz next up for them is in Indianapolis, which they haven’t played yet. And that’s the team that they’re two games behind. and they can ask Kansas City for a favor and then return it in kind by going into Arrowhead and beating them. And if they do that, then the Chiefs would have another massive problem in trying to make the playoffs because they will have lost to the Bills. They will have lost to Jacksonville. They will have lost to Houston. That would be massive. And Houston can deliver it. And once they’re done with that two-game road trip that will either make or break their season, Arizona at home, Vegas at home, they visit the Chargers and have a shot at again the AFC South against Indianapolis, the team that they have to go and track down. They have yet to play. They play them twice and they trail them right now by three losses, potentially only two. Kansas City again does them a favor to go six and five. That would make a massive week 13 Thanksgiving Sunday game between two perennial division winners at 6 and five. Right. Ravens should be six and five as well because they take on the Jets at home this weekend. And what the Texans have is a championship defense that can change the fate of a quarterback’s night and potentially season. You know, Woody Marx and Chub, not a bad one-two combination running a football. An offensive line that is improved, wouldn’t you say? I mean, the offensive line, it’s not like CJ Strad was standing back there and he was sacked eight times. And that’s the reason why he was concussed. He was hit, running, sliding, hit late. Bad news. And Demo Ryan is like, “Let’s start Davis Mills again. Let’s start the Stanford kid or guy one more time. Let’s get CJ Strad back for those two big games on the road and use the mini buy to our benefit.” They said on the broadcast last night that uh had the game played been played on Sunday, he’d have made it, right? But too soon to get out of the concussion protocol for this one and it worked out. I don’t think I’m overstating the fact that the Texans can make the playoffs and win their division. They can do it. Yeah, I don’t I don’t think so either. I I think we’re now in a situation where the AFC South is is going to get two playoff teams at least, whereas most of the year, first half of the year, it was like, oh, the Colts and everybody else, that’s cute. But I think I think they’re real contenders. Well, the Colts can single-handedly you just went higher register. The Colts just, you know, um again, the Jaguars are are are the team that’s better positioned to be that second team right now. Sure. And man, this Texans win streak, this Texans win streak started with that comeback on the Jaguars. Jaguars had a chance to sweep the season series from Houston and basically bury them. And Houston came back, massive comeback, took care of business in Tennessee in a hard-fought slugfest, shortw week comeback, beat the Bills because they just inundated Josh Allen one after another after another. Overcame a kickoff being hit uh for return for a touchdown. So, they’re resilient, I guess, not just in the games against Jacksonville and Buffalo, but also on the season at large. They went from 0 and3 to being above 500, man. And um give it up to Demo Ryan keeping this ship afloat. Davis Mills 3 and 0 and he’s already tied his careerh high for quarterback wins in a season when he went 310 and one in 2022. Chris, this is way supposed to work. Christian Kirk supposed to be healthy and scoring touchdowns. Yep. Oh, that looks like they hit on Jaden Higgins. They did, right? He looks like he can make some plays. Woody marks. Collins has really had an off year. He has, honestly. Yeah. You know, if you drafted him in fantasy in the second round where most of everyone who has Nico Collins, you’re waiting for that big game. Yep. Well, it can come. It’s got to It’s got to come in the next two weeks then. I mean, going into Indianapolis, into Kansas City. Those two teams play each other this week. Houston would like Kansas City to beat Indianapolis. Maybe Indianapolis beat Kansas City up enough so they tenderize them. Houston coming off the mini buy going to Arrowhead and it’s a big twoe stretch for Kansas City and we’re going to talk about twoe stretches for those Thanksgiving teams coming up in a moment. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen weighs in on the Texans’ formidable defense and their 8 sacks of Josh Allen in Week 12, and why it makes Houston a dangerous team if they make the playoffs.

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