Official Texans @ Saints Fake Game Thread, 08/26/2017

[Arky]

While the weather channel is forecasting catastrophe, the Texans are in New Orleans to take on the Saints Saturday night. Should be one of the more interesting of the preseason games as this is the "dress rehearsal" game for opening day - at least the first half should be...

Will Savage stay solid? Will Watson have a better showing? The Texans will have the final preseason game on Thursday and then the turk strikes hard cutting from ~90 to 53. Last chances for some of the bubble candidates to show what they got....

[Keith]

Hope everyone is still safe and dry along the coast. And hopefully satellite and cable is still functioning tonight. I'm actually at the Falcons game tonight as they open their new stadium, so for those able to see the game, thanks in advance from those who cannot.

[Arky]

Back and forth. Saints score first with a FG.

Saints 3, Texans 0

4:20 left in the 1st qtr.

[barrett]

Spencer Tillman is the worst. I swear he tries his hardest to fit as many words as possible in.

In general the biggest advantage TV football has over other TV sports is no local homer announcers. But preseason football combines local homers with part time quality. It's brutal.

[chuck]

It astounds me that you guys don't listen exclusively to the radio broadcast. Spencer Tillman is excruciating and the network guys spend so much time talking about bullshit that sometimes I forget there's a game going on.

The radio guys talk about the game and they talk about the Texans. It's indispensable as fas as I'm concerned.

And speaking of concern, this offense is terrible.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

It astounds me that you guys don't listen exclusively to the radio broadcast. Spencer Tillman is excruciating and the network guys spend so much time talking about bullshit that sometimes I forget there's a game going on.

The radio guys talk about the game and they talk about the Texans. It's indispensable as fas as I'm concerned.

And speaking of concern, this offense is terrible.

I probably should, but honestly during the regular season the network guys are neutral and boring. They are just drab enough I don't care to find and setup the radio. But preseason is something else entirely.

And yes, our offense is brutal. If Tom Savage plays QB we may complete 75% of our passes while scoring single digits per game. He makes Matt Leinhart look like a downfield gunslinger.

[barrett]

The very best running play with Watson the backside DE doesn't close down the line and instead gets depth to account for the QB. And Ervin immediately has our best run of the night. All the running plays become 10 on 10 instead of 10 on 11 as soon as he's on the field.