Texans Give Scary Update... (This Has Major Implications)

The Houston Texans just gave a scary update as the injury report has officially dropped with multiple notable names being on the list. How does this team adjust following these updates and what does Houston need to do as we approach a big week three matchup? What's up ladies and gentlemen welcome back to Texans Digest. I am your host as always Isaac Estrada. Man that injury report just came out today. We got some new updates on it as well following practice happening right now for the Houston Texans when this is being recorded. We're going to dive into all that and more today here on Texans Digest. How does this affect the team? But before we dive into all that man about 90% of you guys still not subscribed. So do your boy a favor hit that subscribe button. You're going to be getting daily updates here on Texans Digest. We are very fastly growing. We just surpassed 2,500 subscribers yesterday. I wasn't even able to talk about it before we already surpassed 2,600. So thank you guys so much for the support. We are quickly growing into one of the bigger Houston Texans pages so I do appreciate that. But we're going to dive right into all that man. So as you know this Sunday we have the game against the Indianapolis Colts. Right now Houston Texans are favorited about 54%. We all know that the odds don't really you know they're not end-all be-all. We've seen teams come up with huge upsets when they're predicted to have less than a 30% chance. But something that really did stand out to me was the fact that the Houston Texans when this first came out 59% chance then 57%. Yesterday it dropped to 54% and I kept asking myself what is going on? Why does this keep dropping? Again it's not end-all be-all but is it because we're playing away? We're playing an away game. People are seeing that we're not really the team that we claim to be, Super Bowl contenders. What is going on? I took a look at the injury report today and that kind of gave me the news that I didn't really want to hear. Let's put this on the big screen right now. So we're going to take a look here. Again as you're going to see it's not showing it for Friday but I am going to show a report later regarding the players who are missing Friday and the players who are officially listed as doubtful for this Sunday's game. So Jadeveon Clowney we all knew he was having the knee issues. Obviously we know he's not the same player that we got back in 2014 that originally came to the Houston Texans. But because of how good this defense is, because of guys like Will Anderson Jr. and Daniil Hunter flying all around the field, we knew coming into this like hey it's not even the fact that we need him to you know go out there and get us seven or eight sacks a season. We just need him to be consistent. We just need him to take the pressure to take the top off of those boys especially with an already great defense. I think he was able to do just that. He's had a sack so far but he will miss this game. Nico Collins. Man every single time I bring up the name Nico Collins I feel like a lot of people a part of this channel that are in this channel's community literally like groan and start being like oh my gosh just trade this dude off of the team. And I understand kind of you guys are saying that. I said it once and I'll say it again. When available Nico Collins is a by far a top 10 wide receiver in the league. The only issue is and the reason why I say I can agree with you guys. Nico Collins is rarely ever healthy for an entire season. Actually never. I'm gonna scratch that. Never. He has never been healthy for an entire season in his NFL career. And I think it was last Wednesday he sustained that grade one hamstring injury in practice. And a lot of people were like oh here we go again with Nico. Here we go again. Nico's gonna miss. He's gonna miss another month. He's gonna be placed on IR. And I was like guys calm down. It's a grade one hamstring injury. Those are usually seen as mild. Unfortunately I was wrong. Nico Collins did end up missing last Sunday. And he did not practice at all this week. Did not practice on Wednesday. Did not practice on Thursday. We're gonna get an update on whether or not he did practice today. Jacob Hummel linebacker obviously. That group is a little bit thin following Henry Toto's injury. Ed Ingram. We're gonna get an update on him as well. You hate to see it with that offensive line already struggling this season. Guys like Trent Brown I think are gonna be playing. I think Trent Brown is gonna be okay. He didn't play. I think he didn't play week one. You saw this week. Day to day. Limited practice. Excuse me. Did not play. Limited practice. I'm pretty sure he played today. Reed Blankenship is a guy who is full practice. He's all right. But a lot of people already want this guy off the team. Give it some time. I think we give it some time with Reed Blankenship. Obviously he's not the same player that we thought he was going to be. The same one from Philadelphia. But give it some time. I think Logan Hall will be all right as well. I think we'll be fine as a team. But there are three guys on this list that officially got listed as doubtful and likely are not going to play for this Sunday's game. No more talking about it. No more teasing it. Let's get right into it man. So this is from Aaron Wilson via X if you guys don't know who Aaron Wilson is. Aaron Wilson one of the reporters for the Houston Texans. He's there every single day at practice. Texans Nico Collins grade one hamstring injury. Ed Ingram growing strain. Jadavian Clowney bone bruise and knee injury. Not practicing and all slated to miss second game in a row per league sources. Man you hate to see it. Especially with that guy at the top Nico Collins. You hate to see it. I feel like it's always something with Nico right. It's always something with Nico and over the past few days we've talked a lot about the Marvin Harrison Jr trade possibilities. And one thing I talked about a little bit yesterday. I didn't talk about it enough and people in the comment sections were even asking about it. Do you trade away Nico Collins now knowing how injury prone he's been. Obviously you can't trade him away right now while he's injured. He will most definitely be healthy by the time the trade deadline rolls around. Hopefully he'll be healthy by next week. A lot of people are saying week four so probably not this Sunday but next Sunday. Is it time to start getting ready to trade Nico. Is it time to start getting him groomed into getting ready to be traded. Because a lot of people a part of this fan base are just done. They're just done with Nico Collins and these are guys we all know how great he can be. But if he's not playing it doesn't really matter does it. It doesn't matter if he has 10 targets and 7 catches in week 1. If week 2 and week 3 he's not going to play at all. Ed Ingram I think he'll be fine. The growing strain obviously you hate to see it. But and what you even hate to see even more is an offensive line that's already struggled and now loses Ed Ingram. I think he'll be fine. Jadavian Clowney bone bruised knee. I don't want to be that guy but Jadavian is kind of getting up there in age in terms of an NFL player. Not in terms of a life but in terms of like an NFL player. He's been doing it for a long time. I think this is year 12 for Jadavian Clowney. So he's been doing it for a long time. You start to see things like that as guys get older. Just start missing a game or two just because of some bruisedness some sores. Their body has taken a beating over the past 12 years especially guys like Jadavian Clowney who play such a physical position. So yeah man I think for Ed Ingram and Jadavian Clowney they're going to be fine. I think for Nico Collins we start to genuinely question what are we going to do with this guy. What are we going to do with Nico Collins now officially what is this year 5 and still injured. It's time to start asking what are we going to do with Nico. But what I want to talk about now is what does this team need to do in order to win on Sunday. Now knowing these injury reports first thing's got to happen this offense has got to get rolling man from start to finish. This offense has got to get rolling. Cole Popovich has to come in here as a different coach. Cole Popovich and Nick Kaley especially Nick Kaley are officially on the hot seat if we do not win on Sunday especially Nick Kaley. I personally think this is more of a Cole Popovich issue. I get he's not over the entire offense but what are our two biggest struggles our offensive line and that run game offensively. Cole Popovich run game coordinator offensive line coordinator. I think that's one of our biggest issues. Something we got to see we got to see this man right here and Woody Marks get involved. You cannot have David Montgomery coming off of a game where he had 80 yards and three touchdowns. Him and Woody Mark going band for band in week one. You cannot have that. In week two this guy gets six carries and Woody Marks gets eight. You cannot have that. Get David Montgomery involved more. He needs to have a bigger game. He's got to do better. He's got to do better and what we he needs to do in order to get better is give him the ball more. Him and Woody Marks both. Please give them the ball more. Last week it was like he would have a carry and it didn't really go anywhere and then they were like okay we'll just throw the ball 20 more times. No come on get this guy get his feet going hot. Some guys they just need that one big play to finally get rolling. Same thing with Woody Marks. Another thing this defense I have full confidence in this defense headed into this week. I saw some people saying hey they've given up 56 points in two weeks. Week one was 36. Week two was 20 and honestly week two I think what were we they only allowed the Bengals to have seven points at the half. You start seeing a defense when they play so well and the offense doesn't match it. All of a sudden the defense starts breaking down and they're like gosh dang offense score a touchdown please. I think that's what we saw with the Houston Texans defense. Just the offense not getting not getting going at all and it caused the Houston Texans defense to work overtime especially with that Texans offense continuously stalling out in last Sunday's game. I think this Houston Texans defense is going to be great. We need them to be great. Obviously Daniil Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. We saw a lot bigger dose of them in week two. Let's see an even bigger dose in week three. Indianapolis Colts are definitely a beatable team. Last thing I want to talk about here CJ Stroup again I talked about Woody Marks and David Montgomery. He doesn't need to be throwing the ball 55 times but he also needs to do some things like hang on to the ball. Week one a lot of people are still giving him criticism because week one he had those two fumbles one at the beginning of the game and then one at the end of the play the last offensive play for the Houston Texans when he fumbled the ball. Gotta see a better game out of CJ Stroup. I think CJ Stroup's gonna do it. A lot of people are dogging on CJ saying why would we even talk about giving him 60 M's. People are saying to trade CJ Stroup by the trade deadline. I don't think Houston's gonna do that. You're gonna let this guy play a whole season for you before you decide what you want to do. I know Houston's always gotten off to a rough start. They always start off 0-2 and get it going. This is when you need to get it going because if we lose week three this is no longer we're no longer looking at a Super Bowl contending team. We're looking at a team that we're gonna hope is gonna make the playoffs and that would be really disappointing Houston Texans fans at least I would think but CJ Stroup this is what he had to say in practice when talking to the media this week. When I look at our team we're a really good football team. I have the utmost hope and trust in our guys to get things done. We need to get fixed. We need to get fixed fixed. I don't know what that means but yeah man and what I like to see is also if you guys saw D'Amico Ryan's talking in the media earlier this week he wasn't throwing Nick Haley under the bus he was saying he thinks Nick Haley is a great offensive coordinator and a lot of us were saying how could you say that yet at the same time do you really want him to throw his offensive coordinator underneath the bus? No. This team still feels united. They still feel like a team that can make a big splash this season. It has to get going now. It absolutely positively has to get going now. We cannot go 0-3 to start off the first three weeks of the NFL season. If we do that this team is no longer Super Bowl bound. If we do that we're going to start hoping and praying that this team simply makes the playoffs and that's not a position I want to see the Houston Texans in. But thank you guys so much for watching here today on Texans Digest. Tomorrow we are going to do the official breakdown against the Indianapolis Colts and the Houston Texans. We're going to do that along with do our final score prediction. So stay tuned for that video. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have a great day. Have a blessed day. See you guys tomorrow.