Week 10 Showdown: Texans vs. Browns - Key Matchup Insights

You got Houston at Cleveland. Deshaun Watson's former team versus Green team. How about that? The Jaguars at the Tennessee Titans. And you have, listen, this might be the game of the week, guys. It might be the game of the year. Dolphins at Colts. Anybody? Malik Willis out now, John, your boy. What'd they ask me to do? Throw the first pitch at the Marlins game again? He's on IR with an abdomen injury, John. That's your guy. Yeah. So I want to ask you guys about some of these. First of all, let's go to Houston-Cleveland, because it is kind of intriguing. Houston's 3-5. I feel like Houston is kind of flying under the radar right now. Houston's kind of gotten it together a little bit. Now, I wouldn't say that they've fully gotten it back together, but they're starting to look more like the team that we thought that we were going to get this year. And, John, I'll go to you first. Do you think that this team can kind of get it together in time? I feel like there's not really much time left for them to get there. They're 3-5 right now. I feel like they ran out of time. I think they bungled too many wins to start the season, too many close losses, not being able to find their way. C.J. Stroud had such a slow start to the season. And then the defense never really responded like they did last year. It's really feeling like now in modern-day NFL, the defense doesn't translate from year to year. So you might have a defense pop-up this year and then another defense pop-up this year, but you can't get the same defense on consecutive years. And I think that's what we're seeing with the Houston Texans. I wish I could tell you I don't like them in this game, but I do because I really don't believe after what Jameis put up that the Browns are still going to go back to Deshaun Watson. So I think that team has something internal going on and I just think that you are right about the Texans. They are trying, they are finding their way and I think they will accumulate wins including this game. I just don't think they'll have enough by the end of the year. David, I think both of these teams, you can make the case that they're both kind of falling into place into where we kind of thought that they would be at the beginning of the season. Cleveland's lost some games here after that awesome start that they had. They're still five and four. I'm not ruling them out in any case, but Houston's three and five. What do you think about this game? Because it could be an intriguing game, and Houston is obviously favored by four and a half, but Houston, so many questions for me at this point. So many questions Both teams really need this game at this point in their season. Cleveland can't afford to start dropping games if they want any delusion of being competitive. And Houston has a team. They've got guys on offense. They've got tank back. They've got a defense. They can't keep dropping these games because they're not winning that division. And their hope is a wild card that If they can sneak in there, their defense can win them one. They need this game, and Cleveland, I don't get the Deshaun Watson thing. You're a bad team with an expensive aging quarterback when you could have a second-year quarterback who showed some promise last year go at it. I don't get it. What are you trying to accomplish? Hell, last year, last week. Last week? What, do you want to win? You want to get a worse draft pick? You think you're going to go all the way with Deshaun Watson? What is this for? They probably did, unfortunately. They probably did. They might have. They watched some old Texans tape and thought, this is the guy. What I don't get it, and I think for Cleveland, they're kind of in this weird middle ground that Houston has to take advantage of now, or they're going to be looking at three and six, and their season is going to be on the line, and they don't have it any easier in that division, I mean, besides for the other two, but if they want even a chance to win that division. They cannot drop games where they should, on paper, destroy the other team. Houston is 0-4 at home. Explain that. Explain that to me. I can't. I can't. And they play indoors pretty much. They do. If they want to. But this is why I feel like they're not going to be able to make up the ground that they need to. They're winless at home, and they've only got, excuse me, three wins. They're 3-5 with no home victory. So at least if they were 4-0 at home and struggling everywhere else, I would have more faith in them to be able to take them on the road a couple of times. You're winless at home.