Official Texans @ Redskins Game Thread, 9/19/2010

[cadams]

the distance issue is not surprise. when the "competition" was going on it was no secret that the big difference between rackers and brown was brown's range. having someone who can hit from 50+ yards over 50% of the time would be fantastic, but that isn't rackers, so they will have to play the game accordingly.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by cadams

the distance issue is not surprise. when the "competition" was going on it was no secret that the big difference between rackers and brown was brown's range. having someone who can hit from 50+ yards over 50% of the time would be fantastic, but that isn't rackers, so they will have to play the game accordingly.

Unless I'm mistaken, I thought the talk was that even though Brown had more accuracy on longer range FGs, Rackers had greater distance on KOs ? Confusing ?

[Bigtinylittle]

Historically, Rackers is not as long on kickoffs. Apparently either he was doing a little better this year in camp or Brown was doing worse.

I think Brown's fascitis was an issue last year. I think the fascitis this year in the other foot was a part of why they let him go. But mainly, Brown just missed too many very easy kicks last year and the Texans felt that if Rackers looked as good or almost as good in camp, then the plan was to go with Rackers. There were times last year when Brown was horrible.

[Nconroe]

can see a replay of the game with Washington on NFL network at 8:15 PM CST tonight in case you missed it, wanna see it again, watch without all the breaks.