Is Nico Collins a threat to the Cowboys?

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The Cowboys and the Texans face off tonight in Arlington as each team strives to end their losing streak. Nico Collins is back for the Texans which will cause a major change to their offensive play calling. Is Collins a big enough threat to the Cowboys to throw them off their game? Or have the Cowboys prepared for this change and any other weapon the Texans may have?

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00:00Well, uh, for Cowboys, Texans, the spread is seven. The over under is 41 and a half.

00:21So I know what's wrong with the Texans offense and it's bad news for the Cowboys. Uh, so

00:26we were talking last week about the fact that the Texans haven't scored a second half touchdown

00:31in like a month. It was week six against the Patriots. And we were wondering, we asked

00:35John McClain about it or, you know, saying, Hey, what's the, what's the deal with Houston's

00:38offense? What's happening in the second half of these games? The answer, uh, isn't all

00:42that remarkable and it actually makes a lot of sense when you think about what their problem

00:45is. Uh, it's the fact that Nico Collins has been out. So Nico Collins, they're blaming

00:50everything on the offensive line. The offensive line is a big part of it too, but the offensive

00:54lines kind of been bad all year. The, the thing that changed and really morphed their

00:59offense was when Nico Collins went down. So if you look at the fact that there's a couple

01:05different ways that him leaving has really sort of, sort of shape shifted their offense

01:12and changed things. And he's back tonight. He is back tonight. He is, he has finally

01:16been cleared and he, there's no injury designation, nothing. He's good to go. He is in this game

01:20and play action passing and the middle of the field are both things that'll be back

01:25and play for the Texans tonight that they haven't had for about a month. Uh, so if you

01:28haven't seen, or if the Cowboys are watching a bunch of recent games of the Texans and

01:33try to figure out how they're going to attack, they probably need to put that out of their

01:36head because that's what they lean on. Nico Collins for those things being absent are

01:41the big reasons why they have, why they've had a lot of their struggles. Bobby Sloak

01:46went and basically changed the entire design of their route combinations. When Collins

01:53went out, they just felt like they couldn't do things. So we talk about Stefan Diggs being

01:56a big loss for them and he's a really good player. They have other guys on their team

01:59that do things stylistically the same way Stefan digs does. So when digs goes down,

02:04it's okay, you step in, you start taking this route concept, you do this over here. When

02:08Collins went down, they have nobody who runs the routes and does the things that Collins

02:13does.

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