Official Texans @ Saints Game Thread, 8/21/2010

[nunusguy]

Until last night I didn't know Reggie Bush could run inside the tackles on an NFL defense, but the Texans starting D made him look like Bronko Nagurski ? And they made Chase Daniel look like Jon Elway.
And this year we get to play a bunch of teams that have Saints-level talent instead of the Rams, Seahawks, etc in last years schedule. So how many of you fell off of the 2010 Ten-wins Texans' playoff-bandwagon after their Saturday adeventures in NOLA ?

[Bigtinylittle]

Frankly, with the tougher schedule, I was never predicting ten.

About last night, the Saints are a very solid team, better than the Texans, but I honestly think the Saints watched us all week and game-planned to take advantage of our weaknesses, while we went out and ran a basic offense and defense just to evaluate our personnel. If that's true, then they were doing us a big favor.

I'm thinking Barwin should not be in the game in running situations and don't expect him to be during the regular season.

Slaton looks like a considerable upgrade over Davis at Kick Returner.

Orlovsky has a LOT of rough edges. I'm wondering whether he will ever smooth them out.

Our running game looks a bit better than last year's. I love the feel Foster seems to have for the cutback.

Our defensive backfield seems more solid than last year's.

I'm still very skeptical of our pass russ. After two games, looks about the same as last year's.

I was glad to see Graham make a few plays. He looked pretty good.

If Kubiak gets fired after this year, I hope we draft some o-linemen in the first three rounds, because there's no way our Centers and Guards can play anthing but zone blocking, and zone is the first thing the new head coach will dump. If Kubiak stays, he should dump it too but I doubt he will.

[NBT]

I definitely have to agree with BTL. If we play the rest of the schedule the way we played NOLA Sat. nt., we are in deep kimshee. Blocking and tackling, Kubiak - that is still the name of the game in the NFL.

[Fonz the Boss]

We shouldn't panic unless we start the season 1-2... which is very possible.

[Arky]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

So how many of you fell off of the 2010 Ten-wins Texans' playoff-bandwagon after their Saturday adeventures in NOLA ?

It's been almost a year (last year's Jet's opener) since the Texans really got pwned in a game. Let's let the preseason play out and then someone can start a "prediction" thread. Right now, I'm still leaning for 9-10 wins....