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This has massive implications for the Dallas Cowboys as with a one and two start now looking at a potential one and three start as they head to Houston we look to the ways they can avoid that even with a injured Texans team getting healthy at the right time and an injured Cowboys team seemingly getting worse by the second. Welcome to Cowboys Digest everybody I'm Jace Andrews and today got a special guest our host of our Houston's Digest channel Isaac Estrada. I appreciate you Isaac for joining us here today and getting us a little bit more insight on the Texans but obviously we'll get into general thoughts here in a moment but I feel like this is kind of an interesting game knowing the way that the Cowboys injuries have gone now the healthiness of kind of the Texans getting back in a good spot and well we all know what the Cowboys are known for one and two now it just seems like the oh and three team would beat them especially in an in-state rivalry. Yeah absolutely I think kind of like you hit it on the head Jace the Dallas Cowboys are starting to falter at the perfect time for the Houston Texans we'll have to do it a little bit later but I'm sure all Cowboys fans know at this point that defense is very beat up that defense has been through what seems like hell and back in terms of injury and the Houston Texans at the perfect time are starting to become healthy starting to get back on track there's a few updates that we have to dive into it today and Jace and I'm so excited to do that. Well let's start first with the Cowboys news and the big things that have come out today from John Machado lots of different updates that we've gotten the first is that safety Jalen Thompson will likely go on injured reserve that was something we kind of knew that was something that was pretty much expected at this point PJ Locke also placed on injured reserve last week so that's two safeties now that you're out without Jonathan Bullard who was hurt in this past week's game versus the Ravens he will probably be out for a few weeks as well Siobhan Rebel we saw that he avoided major injury but we don't exactly know if he's going to be ruled out for this Sunday yet Willie Cooker is doing well but we don't know if he's able to return then you still have Kobe Durant who probably is not going to return to play a Sunday and of course tomorrow I was shown who finally looks like he could be back to form still waiting for the left guard Tyler Smith as he cannot come back until week five against the Buccaneers but definitely progressing well but the list of injuries is long for the Dallas Cowboys and it really does in my mind put the Texans in a pretty big disadvantage a pretty big advantage should I say with especially and they're you know they're in a lot of ways the way that they are going to play in their their their newer they're not new receiver but they're Nico Collins coming back I should say right yeah absolutely and I think you kind of hit oh I was gonna say you hit it on the head Nico Collins coming back at the perfect time I think I was kind of looking at the Dallas Cowboys injury report for this week and it was it was very much almost look like everyone was beaten up you had kind of told me before we started like Isaac we don't even have a defense going right now in terms of healthiness so I think at the perfect time it's starting to work out for the Houston Texans but as a team that's been oh and three and as you know a team that offensively has not been able to get going in the past two weeks that's still going to be something that we hit I talked about it on Texan's Digest a little bit but you know Nico Collins is not going to solve all of our problems we're not going to go from scoring six points or ten points a game to all of a sudden scoring 35 again so that's what I think is going to be the most interesting part about this game well there's a lot of injuries that I want to get to and kind of you know start kind of looking at that before we get into kind of the keys to the game but kind of talk us through here obviously you've got Nico Collins coming back but then Ed Ingram seems like he's going to be back as well and then some updates looks like Jadavion Clowney is not going to play this game and then any updates on Aziz Alshayer who got injured last week yeah absolutely so I've already talked about enough Nico Collins we're excited to have him back that offensive line however has been one of the worst in the NFL we know last season they were absolutely terrible as well this season you know we obviously upgraded it a little bit obviously you'd love to see Ed Ingram coming back because that offensive line has struggled I had talked to you about it on my show but David Montgomery and Woody Marks have had a rough season so far running the ball have not been able to do much and it's because that offensive line has been just not very good at all so seeing Ed Ingram come back seeing a leader on this offensive line come back that's going to be amazing Jadavion Clowney obviously dealing with some knee injuries something I have talked about a lot is Jadavion Clowney's been doing this for 12 years now you know he's up there in age he's starting to do it it's getting to the point where you know it's just it's not so much as you know a terrible injury but just you know let the old man have a little bit of rest before he comes back stronger than ever I think is what we're looking at with him Aziz Alshayer you obviously hate to see that a defense that really needs to step up is going to lose him uh correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it was a growing injury that he's suffering right now so obviously you hate to see that but the good news about those kind of injuries is you would expect them to be back sooner rather than later so hoping to see him back soon yeah and we'll find out today with our first injury reports but with all the injuries in mind do you want to take a couple look at some keys to the game early on here and the first for the Cowboys is definitely going to be slowing down the pass rush that the Texans have I mean obviously you've got to look towards Will Anderson first but it's no scrubbing Daniel Hunter as well who's been performing to a really top tier level I mean you think about what he's done this season three games seven tackles but the one and a half stack stacks stand out and that goes alongside Will Anderson right now looks like he's poised to go out there and win defensive player of the year uh four sacks already on the season through just three games is just insane not to mention a forced fumble he got the big contract and he just seemed like he got better what do you feel as though I mean the Cowboys offensive line is really solid but you know Dak Prescott he's got to stay healthy he's got to have time in the pocket to throw to his receivers um what what's kind of the intel on how you know how good this defensive line is actually being you know even Cowboys fans know a lot about given what we saw with him from last year yeah absolutely so you kind of hit the nail on the head Will Anderson jr absolutely a phenomenal year that's something that a lot of Texans fans are saying is like hey we're 0-3 but Will Anderson jr is probably going to win defensive player of the year we're going right now so that's obviously something to hit your high hat on I think we saw it a lot with Joe Burrow two weeks ago obviously this past week he was phenomenal as well but Joe Burrow there was multiple times we've been seeing it since Will Anderson's rookie year where even if he's not getting a sack on the plate that constant pressure is having quarterbacks fear for their lives we saw with Joe Burrow in week two against the Bengals we saw it against Indianapolis at the same thing and something I love about that is it opens up that pressure for Daniil Hunter to make a play as well Daniil Hunter great defensive lineman he's been great uh I think Micah Parson said it last season but he's one of the most underrated defensive ends in the NFL of all time so I think having Will Anderson jr go straight ahead at a quarterback and taking that pressure off of Daniil Hunter coming off the it's a perfect duo it's a perfect duo Jason I would love to see more of it I think Dak Prescott is a great quarterback when it comes to being able to evade those but when there's two separate guys coming at you from both angles that's where I think it's going to get very interesting yeah it's definitely going to be tough and the defensive line obviously it's just one part of it but you also got to think on the offensive side for the Texans and what the Cowboys can do to try and negate the offense from getting going against them and that's for CJ Shroud to make mistakes I mean he has been a guy who has actually you know I'm not going to say he's been the reason they've lost this these three games in general at all I think he's actually been relatively solid in fact you go look at the statistics and he's playing pretty well obviously looking at you know a lot better statistic than what those are but he is feeling like more of a I guess mature version I think is the best thing he declined the money to try and you know put himself in a good spot and he's a big turnover guy but yes this year he doesn't have a turnover yet like that's something that's this kind of big thing on him and that in his career he's got 31 interceptions and nine that's literally almost every game he has a turnover 0.72 turnovers per game and he hasn't had one so it feels like the Cowboys defense for as bad as it's been for as banged up as it is if they're able to go out there and potentially force a turnover on CJ Shroud that that feels like it flips the game yeah absolutely and something that CJ Shroud we've talked about it a lot on Texans Digest we think something that's holding this offense back is not CJ Shroud as much but the offensive coordinator Nick Caley there's been multiple times where you see CJ Shroud stretching out the field and the plays just are not drawn up to help him succeed he's dropping it off to the backup tight end in Foster Monroe that's something that our head coach Mika Ryan's had talked about it a lot this week that we are going to open that playbook a lot more for CJ Shroud that's where he succeeded and when you look at the 0.72 turnovers per game obviously CJ Shroud he has a higher turnover rate but he's always thrived more when you open up that playbook so obviously he's bound to make some mistakes obviously you love to see not a single interception this year when it comes to those fumbles it's been a little rough obviously week against the Buffalo Bills here that costly fumble in the first quarter and then in the fourth quarter game on the line CJ Shroud pumped the ball again I was one of the ones saying you know that's not if the offensive line doesn't do much you know what do you expect out of the guy but that's something that we kind of got to strengthen up on a little bit is the fumbles but in terms of just not being a turnover machine you love to see that as CJ Shroud but it has to equate to points you know he cannot be a turnover machine he can have the perfect 20 pass 20 pass attempts for 20 completions but you know if we're not getting points on the board like we've seen the past two weeks it's you know what does it really mean Jason well that's kind of thing about the Cowboys is the points on the board have been something that have well been tough to get and that's where the third key to the game comes out of get the running game going it has been a struggle bus for Gervonta Williams here early we saw a little bit of flash last week versus the Ravens felt like it finally kind of ticked up a little bit but still 169 yards on 43 carries just a 3.9 average for him not exactly what you want to see he looks better last week he still has two touchdowns but when you think about the defensive line that it's going to be poised to you know really attack the run game of the Cowboys and on top of which you have Gervonta struggling it really doesn't look like it's a great time for that to be in a good spot especially for you know what the Cowboys team is looking for in you know I think that offensive spark in some ways even as good as the offense have been but just trying to get something going maybe even in just a team yeah absolutely and that's something that our run game has struggled with as well our two running backs have not been very good in David Montgomery and Woody Marks so that's going to be interesting to see how both teams approach the running game kind of like you had said about Gervonta Williams something we had talked about is your offensive line has been doing the work but Gervonta Williams has not been putting up the numbers to do that it's going to be very interesting to see how both of these teams respond in terms of the run games just not being the strongest in the world it's going to be easy to see if both of these teams try to go into a shootout like we saw in week one with the Houston Texans and the Buffalo Bills or if they just rely on their guys and keep running the rock yeah I would not be surprised if this turns to a shootout I think that it's you know a very potential option especially given how the defense of the Cowboys is looking and how good the offense of the Cowboys is looking the big thing that I don't like is in a shootout you've got to like keep scoring keep scoring I believe if it's short at the the C-District probably go and keep scoring I don't know if the Texans defense is going to allow for us to keep scoring consistently so that being said get a little early prediction going here obviously got a couple days before the game got our first injury report today but still wanted to pop up our injury or rather score predictions for the game Isaac's got the Texans winning this one at 24 20 I've got the Cowboys winning this one at 31 30 to 21 you get in the comments you predict your score but I guess for the last moment here Isaac why do you why do you feel like the Texans are going to win this game yeah absolutely kind of like you had said we had talked about that Nico Collins is coming back we got Ed Ingram coming back as well two of our biggest struggles have been being able to get that pass going and also the offensive line struggling and I don't think Ed Ingram and Nico Collins are going to solve all of our problems I'm not going to sit here and say oh yeah you know what this means 35 point offensive performance by the Houston Texans I understand that but at the same time judge we had kind of talked about it off the record yesterday to ourselves you got to be a little bit delusional about your team sometimes you got to be a little bit delusional and understand that you got to wish the best for him so that's what I'm hoping with the Houston Texans I do think this offense is going to be a much better this game Nico Collins has always been CJ Shroud's favorite target I think that defense is going to do great that's why I said Texans defense is going to hold the Dallas Cowboys offense to 20 points it's because obviously some guys like Reed Blankenship are still picking up the playbook but I think it's going to be a great defensive performance by the Houston Texans yeah the Buffalo Bills defense definitely better than the Cowboys but that's why I think I have them winning 30 to 21 because that's like probably closest comparable to the Cowboys that the Texans have played up until this point is the Bills just with the offense is going which it's great to say the closest comparable is the 3-0 team but I'm delusional what can I say we just talked about it so let us know your score down in the comment section and if you're watching this and you're a Texans fan or you want to go check out the Texans content go check out my boy Isaac on Texans Digest and subscribe there for now guys we appreciate you watching and we'll see you next time guys peace out