00:00You got Houston at Cleveland.
00:02Deshaun Watson's former team versus current team.
00:04How about that?
00:06The Jaguars at the Tennessee Titans.
00:09And you have, listen, this might be the game of the week, guys.
00:12It might be the game of the year.
00:14Dolphins at Colts.
00:15Anybody up for that one?
00:17No?
00:18Nobody?
00:19Malik Willis out now, John, your boy?
00:22No?
00:22What did they ask me to do?
00:23Throw the first pitch at the Marlins game again?
00:27He's on IR with an abdomen injury, John.
00:30That's your guy.
00:33So I want to ask you guys about some of these.
00:35First of all, let's go to Houston-Cleveland.
00:38Because it is kind of intriguing.
00:41Houston's 3-5.
00:42I feel like Houston kind of flying under the radar right now.
00:45Houston's kind of gotten it together a little bit.
00:48Now, I wouldn't say that they've fully gotten it back together.
00:50But they're starting to look more like the team that we thought that we were going to get this year.
00:54And, John, I'll go to you first.
00:56Do you think that this team can kind of get it together in time?
01:00I feel like there's not really much time left for them to get to.
01:03They're 3-5 right now.
01:04I feel like they ran out of time.
01:07I think they bungled too many wins to start the season.
01:10Too many close losses.
01:12Not being able to find their way.
01:14CJ Stroud had such a slow start to the season.
01:16It was only at.
01:17And then the defense never really responded like they did last year.
01:20It's really feeling like now in modern-day NFL,
01:23the defense doesn't translate from year to year.
01:25So you might have a defense pop-up this year,
01:27then another defense pop-up this year.
01:29But you can't get the same defense on consecutive years.
01:31And I think that's what we're seeing with the Houston Texans.
01:34I wish I could tell you I don't like them in this game.
01:38But I do.
01:39Because I really don't believe, after what should do or put up,
01:43that the Browns are still going to go back to Deshaun Watson.
01:46So I think that team has something internal going on.
01:50And I just think that you are right about the Texans.
01:53They are trying.
01:54They are finding their way.
01:55And I think they will accumulate wins, including this game.
01:58I just don't think they'll have enough by the end of the year.
02:00And, David, I think both of these teams,
02:02you can make the case that they're both kind of falling into place
02:05into where we kind of thought that they would be
02:07at the beginning of the season.
02:09Cleveland's lost some games here after that awesome start that they had.
02:14They're still 5-4.
02:14I'm not ruling them out in any case.
02:16But Houston's 3-5.
02:18What do you think about this game?
02:20Because it could be an intriguing game.
02:22And Houston is obviously favored by 4-1⁄2.
02:25But Houston, so many questions for me at this point.
02:29So many questions.
02:30Both teams really need this game at this point in their seasons.
02:34Cleveland can't afford to start dropping games
02:37if they want any delusion of being competitive.
02:41And Houston has a team.
02:43They've got guys on offense.
02:45They've got tank back.
02:46They've got a defense.
02:47But they can't keep dropping these games
02:50because they're not winning that division.
02:52And their hope is a wild card that if they can sneak in there,
02:56their defense can win them one.
02:57But they need this game.
03:00And Cleveland, I don't get the Deshaun Watson thing.
03:03You're a bad team with an expensive aging quarterback
03:08when you could have a second-year quarterback
03:10who showed some promise last year go at it.
03:13I don't get it.
03:14What are you trying to accomplish?
03:15Hell, last year?
03:16Last week?
03:17Last week?
03:18What, do you want to win?
03:20You want to get a worse draft pick?
03:22You think you're going to go all the way with Deshaun Watson?
03:24What is this for?
03:26They probably did, unfortunately.
03:28They probably did.
03:29They might have.
03:30They watched some old Texans tape and thought,
03:33this is the guy.
03:35What, I don't get it.
03:37And I think for Cleveland,
03:39they're kind of in this weird middle ground
03:41that Houston has to take advantage of now.
03:44Or they're going to be looking at three and six,
03:47and their season is going to be on the line,
03:50and they don't have it any easier in that division.
03:53I mean, besides for the other two.
03:55But if they want even a chance to win that division,
03:58they cannot drop games where they should, on paper,
04:02destroy the other team.
04:03Houston is 0-4 at home.
04:06Explain that.
04:07Explain that to me.
04:08I can't.
04:09And they play indoors pretty much if they want to.
04:14But this is why I feel like they're not going to be able
04:17to make up the ground that they need to.
04:19They're winless at home,
04:21and they've only got, excuse me, three wins.
04:25They're 3-5 with no home victory.
04:29So at least if they were 4-0 at home
04:34and struggling everywhere else,
04:35I would have more faith in them
04:36to be able to take that on the road a couple of times.
04:39You're winless at home.
