Official Texans @ Raiders Game Thread, 11/21/2016

[HPF Bob]

Well, Oakland was a 6.5-pt favorite and - shazzam! - Oakland wins by 7. That's all I needed to know.

Perhaps the chain gang was using the Metric system.

www.footballzebras.com has no comment yet on their blog which is disappointing. You can't have a night like last night and say nothing about it.

I thought this was Osweiler's best game to date. He was finally using both wideouts and tight ends, was converting third downs, etc. That's not to confuse this with Peyton Manning 1999-2013 but it was better than watching Hoyer-to-Shorts.

Dumb coaching decisions, let's start with passing up the field goal try to take the 4th-quarter lead after watching the refs blow the spot on third down? In the end, the Texans' defense wore down in the altitude and Oakland got a TD anyway but Coaching 101 says you take the sure lead late in the game anytime it's offered.

At least the Texans didn't roll over and play dead like they did in Foxboro and Minnesota. I'd rather bitch about a close loss than a no-show loss.

Oh, and we're still in first place plus Luck can't play Thursday against the Steelers so we still have a solid division lead. Still three games left in our division where we ought to win at least two.

Eyes on the prize folks.