00:00Some of the games this weekend, too.
00:02How about a game that I'm looking at, this Bengals and Texans game?
00:05Boy, I'll tell you what.
00:06I like the way the Bengals played against the Buccaneers in the opener.
00:10The Texans gave it up.
00:12Now, again, you mentioned it earlier.
00:14Hey, dude, it's Josh Allen.
00:15So, I mean, Superman wears 17 and not an S anymore.
00:19I'm not expecting that Texans team to give up another 30, a 30-burger here,
00:24but this could be an interesting ballgame here.
00:27To me, it gets interesting if this hamstring injury is really a thing for Nico Collins.
00:32If he sits, can this offense score with Cincinnati's, even though we think that the defense is elite?
00:38I think they're a lot better than they were in Week 1, and I think we see that.
00:42But you can only keep Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and T. Higgins, Chase Brown, Mike Isiki, for that matter.
00:48You can only keep those guys in check for so long.
00:50So, if they're going to score 23, 26 points, if this offense doesn't have Nico Collins,
00:56I'm not 100% sure they can get there.
00:58They're laying two and a half points at home right now.
01:00As we kind of get closer to injury reveal and things like that with Collins,
01:05you could sell me on the underdog here in Cincinnati getting a win.
01:09Are you a C.J. Stroud fan?
01:11You know, they kind of kicked the can down the road here with his contract extension.
01:15You think he's the future of that football team?
01:18I don't because I don't think they do.
01:20When you kick the can down the road at the quarterback position,
01:24that kind of tells me all I need to know, right?
01:27I mean, we see quarterbacks.
01:28We see this in the NBA.
01:29You see it all over sports where we want to be early than late.
01:32We want to extend these guys sooner than later so we can kind of get ahead of the market.
01:36Every new quarterback is the next highest paid quarterback.
01:39So you want to get ahead of that when you're even reasonably confident in your dude.
01:43But I don't think Houston is that right now.
01:45C.J. Stroud, the rookie of the year when he came into the league,
01:48but it's been a lot of meh sense.
01:50We'll see what he's got.
01:51But if Nico Collins isn't there,
01:54I'm not told that he's anything better than like the 19th best quarterback in football right now.
01:59Collins, you know, can mask a lot of those flaws.
02:01And we would see that this weekend if the hamstring isn't holding him back.
02:05But for right now, I don't think Nico Collins is a franchise guy.
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