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Speaker 2: welcome in brother, Happy holidays. We'll get you before Christmas time. Anyway,
Speaker 2: big three game stretch after the bye. We don't want
Speaker 2: to discuss last year's by. We know what happened to
Speaker 2: them in Carolina coming out of the by a hopefully
Speaker 2: different result. But let's start on the defensive side. How
Speaker 2: big is no pe Tree and no Alshai here, not
Speaker 2: only for the stretch, but this week against the team
Speaker 2: who's got phenomenal team speed.
Speaker 1: It hurts and you're losing to athletic guys. There's to
Speaker 1: your better tacklers. Who the better tacklers in the NFL,
Speaker 1: especially p Tree the amount of pop he has, a
Speaker 1: really sound tackler, very talented at that. And Al Sayer
Speaker 1: is your best cover linebacker, your leader, your team captain,
Speaker 1: and not have him because of the suspensions and oh
Speaker 1: on we discussed this a little bit, right kidding. It's very,
Speaker 1: very harmful to a defense, but they do have depth.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward has done a good job as a nickel
Speaker 1: Fannian for Jalens like this is a surprise Jalen as
Speaker 1: our report first the barshoot Taurus pectoral and then decided,
Speaker 1: after a lot of sex Paians to have the surgery
Speaker 1: with I'll Shire. It's a little different how they'll fill
Speaker 1: in this time because they have another option. They have
Speaker 1: Christian Harris to work in tandem with Devin White and
Speaker 1: with Henry to Tow and w Ewett, so they've got
Speaker 1: depth at that position. It's not quite the same, but
Speaker 1: they have some linebackers that are capable, and they held
Speaker 1: it down when he was injured earlier this season, missed
Speaker 1: three games with a knee injury, So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they can handle it. The Dolphins haven't been running the
Speaker 1: ball particularly well lately, but it's other games that might
Speaker 1: be more problematic. But this is the game, like Joel
Speaker 1: Mixon said, we're desperate too. Dextually need this one. They
Speaker 1: could cleanse the divisions if they win and the Colts
Speaker 1: flus to the Broncos and.
Speaker 2: Colt sluzing to the Broncos is his big time in
Speaker 2: play with the way the Broncos defense plays, all right,
Speaker 2: what is the biggest in your opinion or from you
Speaker 2: know being around them the last handful of days. What
Speaker 2: is their biggest trigger? Meaning the defense and Demiko Ryans
Speaker 2: trigger stress level from the Dolphins offense. If there's one
Speaker 2: thing they say, this can't happen, that their offense can't
Speaker 2: do this to us, or we're in trouble, what is it?
Speaker 1: Big plays to Tyreek Hill Jaylen Waddle have to be
Speaker 1: good at not just covering them, but also tackling these
Speaker 1: guys after the catch. They're releteagerous after the catch. They're
Speaker 1: good runners. That's a great runners, especially in the chief
Speaker 1: of Hill. You look at that. That's probably the biggest
Speaker 1: issue with tow till you have to affect the Pockety
Speaker 1: does get the football very quickly and he leaves the
Speaker 1: NFL and some police precent he's over seventy percent. So
Speaker 1: he's a three consecutive three her yard passing games and
Speaker 1: they have been a different football team since he returns,
Speaker 1: and he's galvanizer season. This is a like a playoff
Speaker 1: game for the Dolphins because if they lose, their playoff
Speaker 1: hopes are pretty much done. They have a tiny bit
Speaker 1: of hope and Texans can stamp out that hope.
Speaker 2: Aaron Wilson get him at KPRC Channel two, on Twitter
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Speaker 2: a long time. Look forward to on Friday conversations. All right,
Speaker 2: if we had to put one thing, and injuries don't count,
Speaker 2: we had to put one reason, the Texans offense, in
Speaker 2: particular the second half. But quite frankly, it just hasn't
Speaker 2: looked the same this year.
Speaker 1: What is it? I would say the other team is
Speaker 1: at a better job of halftime adjustments. I would say
Speaker 1: that they've had flat energy in the second half. Kind
Speaker 1: of a combination of those two kind of Franklin the tie.
Speaker 2: But but why whenever, and you make such a great point,
Speaker 2: but why how do you have flat energy when you're
Speaker 2: when you're considered a super Bowl team or a late
Speaker 2: playoff team coming into the season?
Speaker 1: World?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how does how do you and I understand one
Speaker 2: game or if you're playing a bunch of now, if
Speaker 2: they have flat energy during the season, how how in
Speaker 2: the world are they not going to be a flat
Speaker 2: energy with three games in ten or eleven days.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's inexplicable. Yeah, they're a tired football team.
Speaker 1: They had a long training campus or some factors. I
Speaker 1: think they've had some injuries. Everybody has injuries. They've had
Speaker 1: a lot of no big injuries, you know, Miko Conosis,
Speaker 1: five games, stuff on BIGS tour at ACL. They've lost
Speaker 1: some personnel for long stretch of the season that they
Speaker 1: were really relying on. Why they're flat in the second half,
Speaker 1: with the exception of Jacksonville game, they were had some
Speaker 1: life couldn't tell you. I mean, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: an intangible thing. It's really hard to put a beat
Speaker 1: on it. And I've asked a lot of questions about it.
Speaker 1: There's no real great answer about that. It's just no
Speaker 1: one can really explain it for you. But it's a
Speaker 1: feeling and it's a vibe, and it's a performance thing
Speaker 1: and we see it. It's evident and it's an Achilles
Speaker 1: hill for this team. Maybe they've righted a ship. But
Speaker 1: you know, there were problems even last week or whatever.
Speaker 1: In the win over Jacksonville the week before they allowed
Speaker 1: mac doones after Trevor Lawrence gets knocked out by as
Speaker 1: Zash Sire. They have problems stopping him. They have problems
Speaker 1: with Brian Thomas Jr. They're allowing a lot of explosive plays.
Speaker 1: They's too good a defense, the too talented and the
Speaker 1: secondary and then the rush to have that happened.
Speaker 2: Do you believe, Aaron, this is a disciplined football team.
Speaker 1: They've become better disciplined than where they were. They had
Speaker 1: a penalty bug that was as bad as anybody or
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They did eventually that problem. Remember that
Speaker 1: was like all we could talk about in September. It
Speaker 1: got better, they did. You know, it took a lot
Speaker 1: of coaching. I think that's discipline. You know, if you
Speaker 1: have a problem and you work on it, you get better.
Speaker 1: I said, it's disciplined. They're not out of control. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can say they're undisciplined. I think
Speaker 1: they listened to Nika Ryans and the coaching they gave
Speaker 1: and they tried to execute it. Are they perfect? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, like every football team makes mistakes. They're no difference.
Speaker 1: But they have made improvements past protection. It was a crisis,
Speaker 1: right you know, three four games ago, and then it solidified.
Speaker 1: It did finally stabilize the last couple of weeks. So
Speaker 1: I call that coaching. I call that discipline.
Speaker 2: Is this a playoff offensive line?
Speaker 1: Well not really, I mean it's uh, it's very retentible.
Speaker 1: He certainly is. He's ready for that.
Speaker 2: Post snap, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Other guys haven't always played to that level. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been ups and downs and then they're shuffling again
Speaker 1: this week because you Scruggs is out two three weeks.
Speaker 1: He's got a foot injury. Paint a plan tar uh
Speaker 1: kind of collapse on him in there. He doesn't need surgery.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to heal and he can be back this season.
Speaker 1: For this week, they've split snaps with Kenyan Green, who
Speaker 1: obviously is a store point. You know, he's a first
Speaker 1: out draft pick to have some struggles. He has worked
Speaker 1: very hard to get in better shape, had his moments
Speaker 1: as a run blocker, probably their best run blocking guard
Speaker 1: that they've got, uh pass protection, you know, stats are
Speaker 1: what they are, they're very good. But he in the
Speaker 1: mix to get his job back. Him or Zach Thomas.
Speaker 1: They have split the reps this week. Exactly a former
Speaker 1: Patriots player and he's a converted tackle to the I
Speaker 1: think twenty one guard snaps. Ever, so he's a very
Speaker 1: inexperienced guard, but he's a fundamentally sound, you know, smart
Speaker 1: player and stays in front of you. Not that much
Speaker 1: different from Lady Jared Patterson's style kind of on you.
Speaker 1: Maybe not physically dominant, but he's he's definitely i'd say,
Speaker 1: moved his feet well and you know that technique. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's their options and if I make a decision on
Speaker 1: that today on what they're doing at left guard.
Speaker 2: Aaron Wilson for a couple more minutes here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven to ninety. Aaron is the CJ. Stroud stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, I in the off season when people would
Speaker 2: ask me, I'm sure you got asked a million times
Speaker 2: two about are we worried about a sophomore slump? I
Speaker 2: don't look that. Some guys, you know, defenses get better,
Speaker 2: you go through and there's there's people go through slumps.
Speaker 2: People go through game slumps, season slumps, maybe don't play
Speaker 2: as well. And I don't know if I'd put it
Speaker 2: that way, because we know the guy can still play,
Speaker 2: but he hasn't played as well, so how much of them?
Speaker 2: And because he set the expectation so high he's a
Speaker 2: second year player, we still take that in consideration even
Speaker 2: though he spoiled us, how much of the offensive woes
Speaker 2: Let's put him in slowk in the same categories and
Speaker 2: say we're in it, and how much of the offensive
Speaker 2: woes are on him and them?
Speaker 1: Well, highly culpable, you know, Bobby, it's his playbook. I
Speaker 1: think they needed to simplifie it, and they have lately.
Speaker 1: In terms of CJ. He wasn't a comfortable quarterback. He
Speaker 1: wasn't from the first time. He's facing signific in adversity
Speaker 1: and pass protection is shoe where he's not in the
Speaker 1: clean pocket, so it affected him. He was throwing off
Speaker 1: his back foot. He wasn't fundamentally the same quarterback. He
Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of nice things happen if you
Speaker 1: consider how many sacks a could have been. I thought
Speaker 1: he ran out of a lot of trouble and still
Speaker 1: tried to make some plays. But the league, they watch you,
Speaker 1: they get a little of a book on you. They get,
Speaker 1: you know, comfortable with what are your strengths, what are
Speaker 1: your weaknesses? And I don't think he has anything glaring.
Speaker 1: It's just when he saw some flashes of this last
Speaker 1: week when the pocket was clean, and he you know,
Speaker 1: has regained some time in chemistry with Nico Collins. It
Speaker 1: looked a little bit like last year in moments. It's
Speaker 1: just about sustaining that. I think that he's not someone
Speaker 1: that's proment interceptions, that he generally makes good decisions. But
Speaker 1: everybody's thinking about pressure, and definitely he's affected by it.
Speaker 1: And he's not impervious to anything, but all quarterbacks are.
Speaker 1: If you hit Tom Brady enough, it does affect his game.
Speaker 1: And I've seen it. I've covered a lot of games.
Speaker 1: People think Brady's perfect. No, he certainly wasn't covered a
Speaker 1: bunch of games in Baltimore and Terrell Suggs, those guys
Speaker 1: are all over him, and he was rendered ordinary. A
Speaker 1: one can be affected if you're hit enough.
Speaker 2: And you know what Aaron about that too, is I
Speaker 2: think the thing that sticks out for me, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get your score prediction real quick, but the thing
Speaker 2: that sticks out for me is he's missed some simple throws.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's a that's the collateral damage of the
Speaker 2: earlier pressures. Throws that he'd normally make, like a deep
Speaker 2: over where the guy's open. He's missed the ordinary throw
Speaker 2: at least that he's made look ordinary as a rookie.
Speaker 2: This stuff that he normally makes, he's missed some of those,
Speaker 2: which isn't normally, which hasn't been his mo since he's been.
Speaker 1: In the league, right, And he did lose a I
Speaker 1: think they just weren't able to really replace Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: and shows the value of Giggs. Diggs was a big
Speaker 1: part of this football team. He was a team captain
Speaker 1: and he was having a hunderd catch season in one
Speaker 1: thousand yards. He's gonna pick for all those things, and
Speaker 1: I believe he would have gotten those things, just like
Speaker 1: you know, Nico Collins doesn't miss five games, yep, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have like fifteen sixteen hundred yards and probably
Speaker 1: about one hundred catches too, they were gonna have. He
Speaker 1: gen't really underscore enough how significant injuries to those two
Speaker 1: players affected everything.
Speaker 2: A full season of those two, Yeah, a full season
Speaker 2: those two may give you one of the best one
Speaker 2: to two punches in the league.
Speaker 1: And we're not and we'rever a different conversation up strap.
Speaker 1: We're talking about possibly hey Pro Bowl, you know not
Speaker 1: alternate Pro Bowl? Is he need go to it in? Maybe? Yeah,
Speaker 1: those things will have happened they have to get him
Speaker 1: more helpful wide receiver. In the offseason, they gotta have
Speaker 1: offensive lines. Some tough, tough conversations about the line. But
Speaker 1: meanwhile they're in the season and you gotta salvage that.
Speaker 1: You gotta adapt, you gotta figure out a way. They
Speaker 1: have an opportunity here to still do some things. Once
Speaker 1: till parcels and once you're in the tournament, anything can happen.
Speaker 1: They have a good chance to be a playoff team
Speaker 1: and have a season that you know could be like
Speaker 1: last years is they're see if they could take another step.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody really thinks like they're gonna make
Speaker 1: a loud noise in the playoffs. I'm sure that would
Speaker 1: be a rallying car for them, just like as the
Speaker 1: Vasha there's still said about that. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: there's in that locker room that have a problem with
Speaker 1: what happened, the djunication of that. Maybe this rallies then,
Speaker 1: maybe that's the emotion lift they need because they're upset
Speaker 1: about it. But I know Joe Mixon certainly is. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, by the way, Joe has been
Speaker 1: a real breath of pressure. Great to talk to him,
Speaker 1: one of the best interviews in that locker room every week.
Speaker 1: Brings it, and just a very insightful guy and also
Speaker 1: having an outstanding season.
Speaker 2: I mean he's offensive MVP. He's the offensive MVP, and
Speaker 2: I don't think ye all right, whole heart of it, yep,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. And one of the best five
Speaker 2: off season pickups in the entire league.
Speaker 1: All right, with that, make concern a good job of that.
Speaker 2: There is no doubt about it. Huge pickup, all right,
Speaker 2: give me a score. Who wins.
Speaker 1: Texans thirty Dolphins twenty four? Wow?
Speaker 2: And a better chance of going one and two or
Speaker 2: two in one the next three games?
Speaker 1: One two, I'm not that glass half four. I think
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs and the Ravens are a problem there
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: And Miami if there are ye, And if Miami's playing
Speaker 2: in space and getting the ball out on time with
Speaker 2: to his accuracy, that could be a problem as well.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great game to watch. Can't wait
Speaker 2: to see it take the over in the game, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Hey, great stuff, Aaron. We'll talk to you
Speaker 2: next week. Always appreciate you and your great insight brother.
Speaker 2: Thanks Thanks Sean.
Speaker 1: Great week.
Speaker 2: YouTube brother, thank you. We'll come back and discuss likes,
Speaker 2: the likes the Texans in this game and according to
Speaker 2: his score, that's the over. I think we're all there,
Speaker 2: so let's go. Me and Brian Olim will be back.
Speaker 2: He's whacked out. We're gonna get him some psychological help
Speaker 2: and that's okay. We'll do it right here on Sports
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