Official Texans vs. Redskins Game Thread, 9/7/2014

[Keith]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Fitzpatrick is like the Scott Feldman of NFL quarterbacks. He's a .500 pitcher that is largely a game manager not a game winner. But we knew that. He's good enough to beat the teams in the NFC East and the AFC South (excluding Indianapolis) and a couple others but he'll be overmatched when we play good teams.

Agreed, but what is fascinating is how poor the Texans 2014 opponents seem to be as a group, especially now after week 1 in how overrated the NFC East seems to be, I mean they're more-than-normal overrated this season. There's maybe a bit of a tough stretch in October-ish schedule for the Texans, but there's nine wins on this slate for a team that has no business winning even six.

Believe me, I am not getting over-excited after a 1-0 start over a 3-14 team... the two touchdowns the Texans scored (the punt block and the one deep ball to Hopkins) could be chalked up to flukes. Take away those two plays and maybe the team loses 6-3, ick.

But this team has a run game and a defense, and maybe some hope for a positive turnover margin. And teams have done good things when it has those three things in its favor.