Official Texans vs. Bengals Wild Card Playoff Game Thread, 1/07/2012

[Arky]

Pass to Gresham goes for 7.

Pass by Dalton is INT'ed by Manning! Texans ball! 7:01 left in the game. Ball at the Bengal 44.

[Arky]

Foster spins for about 2. 2nd and 8 coming up.

Foster slips for about 2. 3rd and 7 coming up.

Foster sweeps right and runs it in for the TD! 42 yards!

Texans 31, Bengals 10

5:15 left in the game.

[Arky]

Rackers kickoff is downed in the endzone. Bengals ball at their 20.

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Screen to Leonard gets 10 and a 1st down.

Pass to Simpson good for 9. 2nd and 1 coming up.

Dump to Leonard only gets about 1. Nice tackle Cush but a 1st down.

Draw play to Leonard goes for another 1st down. Under 4 minutes left.

Pass to Gresham gets 9.

Pass to Gresham gets 3. 1st down at the Texans 30.

Dump pass to Scott is dropped. 3:13 left in the game. 2nd and 10 coming up.

Pass to Green goes for 5. 3rd and 5 coming up.

Dump off to Scott goes for 11 and the 1st down.

Dalton's pass goes out of the endzone, inc. 2nd and 10 coming up at the Texan 14.

Flags presnap. Offside Texans -5. Makes it 2nd and 5 coming up.

Pass over the middle to Hawkins is broken up by McCain, inc. 3rd and 5 coming up.

Dalton's pass is batted down at the LOS by Mitchell. Makes it 4th and 5. Bengals to go for it.

Dalton uses the last timeout cause the formation is wrong.... 2:28 left in the game.

[Arky]

On 4th and 5, pass is batted down by JJo! Texans takeover on downs. Ball at their 9 yard line.

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Tate for about 3. 2nd and 7 coming up.

2 minute warning.

[Arky]

Tate for about 6. 3rd and 1 coming up. Clock is under 1.5 minutes....

Tate rambles for about 7, 1st down.

Texans kneeling it out.

Final score:

Texans 31, Bengals 10

Awesome. On to Baltimore.......

[Nconroe]

Wow. Texans win. Looking good all phases, lots of big plays everywhere. No turnovers, few penalties, great game.

Maybe just me, but even Kareem Jackson did ok to day.

[idymoe]

I am so happy for everyone who comes to this board. What a great game. Team effort. Big play after big play. I think next week will be a good, tough game, regardless of the outcome. Enjoy it everyone.

[chuck]

The team played a shaky first half and a great second half. They'll need two great halves to win next week. I know they have it in them.

Time to go to Baltimore and get Omar on them, oh indeed.

[nunusguy]

OK now, anybody still got a problem with extending Kubiaks contract ?

[barrett]

Great game. The defense was asleep for the first 20 minutes. No pressure on Dalton early. But From the sack to knock them back out of FG range on, our front 3 dominated like I've never seen from a 34 DL. No running game for cincy and Watt, Smith, and Mitchell living in the backfield. Not to mention Watt snatching a fastball from 2 yards away. Great day to be a Texans fan.

[Arky]

Early line for Texans vs. Ravens: Ravens by 7.5

[Keith]

Man, could not get any connection with either Sprint or Verizon inside the stadium today.

You know, I thought people were batsh*& when they thought it would be better for the Texans to miss out on that first round bye... especially since it meant losing a home game for the Divisional round. But... that 1st qtr and halfway or so into the 2nd qtr is evidence that this team needed to shake off both some rust and jitters before settling in.

They could get away with it against the Bengals. Not sure they would have been able to against a better team like the Steelers/Ravens/Pats in their first playoff game.

Having Andre back, even at less than 100%, really helped to open things up a little for Arian too. Whole offense just works better when he is on the field.

The lack of pass rush in the first half had me thinking about missing Mario for the first time in awhile.