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subscribing to the ESPN New York YouTube channel. It's time to go around the league.

It's like we're playing with matches at a gas station here.

I'm running around.

We're near the pumps.

We're running around with a lighter.

There lies the problem.

Let's see how long we can hold this firework before it blows off our head.

Oh, all righty.

Sunday, 1 o'clock. I had something to say it. I didn't say it. You're a loser. It's incurable. Sunday, 1 o'clock. A lot of games Sunday, 1 o'clock. Yeah, sure are. Broncos are 6 and 2. they visit the three and four Texans

off that big win over the Niners.

Denver going to be without Pat's or Tan.

Start. Yeah, sure are. Broncos are six and two. They visit the three and four Texans off that big win over the Niners. Denver going to be without pads or ten starting this week. He's going to be out a while. You know, for a team that plays a lot of man-to-man coverage, the Broncos are the only team that plays at least 60% of coverage in men. They're missing the league's best coverage player, and that's going to be significant in this game.

The Broncos lead the NFL in Sacks over 36, while the Texans offense and their offensive lines specifically ranks 28th in pass block win rate.

Having said all that, Houston favored by one and a half.

Yeah, this is one of these I don't really understand.

I was telling Rick yesterday, Denver leads a league in sacks and leads a league in amount of sacks allowed. I think they've only allowed eight sacks so far this season. But that Houston defense is really good. They're coming off their best game of the season. It sounds like Nico Collins is going to play. Their home. RJ, if you do what you say you're going to do, I would imagine you're taking Houston in this game a little bit later.

It would fit the criteria, but there's other games I like more, but it was on the list. Okay. It sounds like Christian Kirk's going to play also. Yes. So you get Collins and Kirk. So to the point you just made, the Broncos are the first team in NFL history to have 35 or more sacks and allow 10 or fewer in the first eight weeks of a season. So it's never been done before. I mean, there's a reason they're sitting here at 6 and 2. Yeah, I mean, the next closest team than sackwise is I think the Rams, and they got 26. They get 10 more sacks than the Rams. Yeah, I don't really understand this number either. I know that Houston's offense looked looked,

looked, more sacks than the Rams. Yeah, I don't really understand this number either. I know that Houston's offense, you know, looked good last week.

It did.

I mean, that was C.J. Stroud's best game of the season, and that was Nico Collins.

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