Upcoming NFL Showdown: Chargers vs. Texans Preview

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00:00Well, it's an interesting one. Kicks it off tomorrow there, 4 o'clock, 430 Eastern Time

00:05kickoff in Houston. Listen, I don't know if Houston all of a sudden can figure out the

00:12offensive line issues and protect Stroud. I have a feeling, Mike, that if they can't,

00:18we're going to get much of the same from this Houston team against the better competition,

00:23which is not a great look, especially in the second half. But it's

00:28all the strong two and a half three is what the charges are as a road favorite. Are you buying

00:33them? I am buying the chargers. I would say that whether it's over the course of a season

00:39or over the course of a game, it's very difficult to expect a team to be playing a certain way

00:46and then all of a sudden turn it around. It does happen. It shouldn't surprise us that much,

00:50and especially in a league like the NFL and with a team as talented as the Texans that

00:55could happen. But Zeno brought up something earlier that I think is really important for

01:01this week's games. There are a couple of situations where you look at the coaching

01:06matchup and you're like, I think this one team has a big advantage. Now, Zeno was referencing

01:10Sean Payton versus Sean McDermott, but I have a lot of respect for D'Amico Ryans,

01:15but is he Jim Harbaugh, who engineered a really impressive turnaround for the chargers? Not that

01:21they won 15 games, but everybody's watching the chargers knowing that they're more dangerous this

01:27year than they were under Brandon Staley or any of the previous coaches. It's just in one year,

01:32and they just protected Justin Herbert in a very interesting way, utilizing the running game and

01:37that offensive line in J.K. Dobbins, which is really the first way I would go, is that J.K.

01:43Dobbins over 59 and a half rushing yards and over 14 and a half rushing attempts I think is a way

01:48to go. I think they're going to control the clock and not let C.J. Stroud make spectacular

01:53plays like he did in last postseason.