Official Texans @ Titans Game Thread, 10/26/2014

[nunusguy]

Texans win, now 4-4, hey how come more people show up here for a loss than a win ?

[Arky]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

Texans win, now 4-4, hey how come more people show up here for a loss than a win ?

Because we humans love to complain when things aren't going well.

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Good job by LB Mike Mohamed who led the team with 10 tackles.

No turnovers. Captain Obvious says, "Don't turn the ball over and you greatly improve your chances of winning".

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Big test next week. Philly can be a juggernaut when they get it going.....

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Pittsburgh currently making the Colts look bad 21-3, early 2nd quarter....

[HPF Bob]

Clowney didn't make much of an impact but that will change. Mohamed stepped up in Cushing's absence. It was pretty obvious what the gameplan was with Mettenberger - force into throwing then make him hurry his throws. Worked for most of the game until the Texans turned more into Prevent mode.

Foster chewed up clock and yards and Blue gave him good breathers when needed. It's no surprise that when the Texans win, it's usually because Foster had a good game.

Kick return units - UGH. They let TEN get a FG off that first long punt return. K-Mart misplayed a punt that rolled for another 20-30 yards needlessly.

Why did we not get one of the backups in at QB when we had the game in hand? Is O'Brien waiting until we lose badly to give them reps?

There was a Xavier Su'a-Filo sighting at LG for a good part of the first half but he got beat a couple of times and we went back to Ben Jones in the second half.

Overall, still looking at 6-7 wins on the year.

[Arky]

Early line has the Eagles as a 1 to 2.5 pt favorite over the Texans.... So, given the 3 pts for home field, this line would be Eagles by 7 to 8.5 if the game were held in Philly. IMO, sounds about right....

[barrett]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Clowney didn't make much of an impact but that will change. Mohamed stepped up in Cushing's absence. It was pretty obvious what the gameplan was with Mettenberger - force into throwing then make him hurry his throws. Worked for most of the game until the Texans turned more into Prevent mode.

Foster chewed up clock and yards and Blue gave him good breathers when needed. It's no surprise that when the Texans win, it's usually because Foster had a good game.

Kick return units - UGH. They let TEN get a FG off that first long punt return. K-Mart misplayed a punt that rolled for another 20-30 yards needlessly.

Why did we not get one of the backups in at QB when we had the game in hand? Is O'Brien waiting until we lose badly to give them reps?

There was a Xavier Su'a-Filo sighting at LG for a good part of the first half but he got beat a couple of times and we went back to Ben Jones in the second half.

Overall, still looking at 6-7 wins on the year.

Even though we still have the Titans at home and the Jags twice? We have a pathetically easy schedule this year. It is a true shame we can't take advantage of it.

[WMH]

Originally Posted by barrett

Even though we still have the Titans at home and the Jags twice? We have a pathetically easy schedule this year. It is a true shame we can't take advantage of it.

Based on what?
The only teams with a losing records outside of our division is Washington and Oakland.

IMO, that's hardly a easy schedule.

[HPF Bob]

We may be 4-4 and we may be second in our division (a game behind the Colts) but we have the fifth-worst record in the conference.

Tennessee (2-6), Jacksonville (1-7), NY Jets (1-7) and Oakland (0-7) are the only sub-.500 teams in the AFC.

By contrast 9 teams in the NFC are sub-.500.

So, yes, we have Tennessee once and the Jaguars twice but among the rest of the opponents, Cleveland might be the only other opponent where we could be considered a favorite and that might be a stretch.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

We may be 4-4 and we may be second in our division (a game behind the Colts) but we have the fifth-worst record in the conference.

Tennessee (2-6), Jacksonville (1-7), NY Jets (1-7) and Oakland (0-7) are the only sub-.500 teams in the AFC.

By contrast 9 teams in the NFC are sub-.500.

So, yes, we have Tennessee once and the Jaguars twice but among the rest of the opponents, Cleveland might be the only other opponent where we could be considered a favorite and that might be a stretch.

I agree with all of that. I just think we play in the worst division in football and the two teams below us are jokes.

Or look at it this way, if I set the over/under on 6.5 based on your prediction, what would you bet?

[barrett]

Originally Posted by WMH

Based on what?
The only teams with a losing records outside of our division is Washington and Oakland.

IMO, that's hardly a easy schedule.

The NYG also have a losing record. The combined record of our 2014 schedule is 55-65-1. But even with that, I have to admit you are right. The competence of Cleveland and Buffalo, combined with Pittsburgh's huge win yesterday tells me this schedule has turned out to be harder than I thought.

[chuck]

If the Texans could eliminate the bone crushingly stupid things they do sometimes there's not a team on the schedule that they can't or even shouldn't beat. They don't play either of the two teams that the Texans effectively can't beat, the Broncos or the Patriots. I haven't seen a single game that I thought the Texans had no chance to win and doubt that I will. Although you can go ahead and use ink when you write in the game in Indy as a loss.

[WMH]

Originally Posted by barrett

The NYG also have a losing record. The combined record of our 2014 schedule is 55-65-1. But even with that, I have to admit you are right. The competence of Cleveland and Buffalo, combined with Pittsburgh's huge win yesterday tells me this schedule has turned out to be harder than I thought.

Yep, forgot about the GMen. Looking at the schedule before the first whistle blew had me somewhat optimistic about a false showing, IE beating up on the scrap heap for a 8-8/9-7 record. Now that they're actually playing, its definitely turned in to a more competitive schedule than is typically placed on the last place team. The parity of the NFL is real, and certainly makes it more entertaining.

If the Texans could eliminate the bone crushingly stupid things they do sometimes there's not a team on the schedule that they can't or even shouldn't beat. They don't play either of the two teams that the Texans effectively can't beat, the Broncos or the Patriots. I haven't seen a single game that I thought the Texans had no chance to win and doubt that I will. Although you can go ahead and use ink when you write in the game in Indy as a loss.

Wow, a semi postive thought from Chuck that I actually agree with. Definitely need to bookmark this page.

[Nconroe]

The nice thing is we have remaining 5 home games and three away games.

Philly, Bengals and Ravens are good teams we play at NRG stadium .

Colts and Cleveland away.

If we play with few turnovers and few penalties, like yesterday, could be we maybe win atleast four or five more games. Probably that exceeds my expectations when the year started.

It is a tough choice of trying to win vs see your possible future QB?

And Foster is great again, keep him several more years at this pace.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by WMH

Based on what?
The only teams with a losing records outside of our division is Washington and Oakland.

IMO, that's hardly a easy schedule.

I know I came around to your thinking that our schedule was harder than it first looked, but our remaining schedule is the 3rd easiest in the NFL.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nf...n-the-numbers/

[Nconroe]

just looking at schedule seems maybe to contradict that we have 3rd easiest schedule for remaining seven games.

sometimes win-loss or point differential can give misleading results. how did he decide we had easiest, based on last year?

we play 4 teams with a winning record and 3 with a loosing record

4 winning teams now are @ 11/16Cleveland, 11/23Cincinnatti, @12/14Colts, 12/21Ravens

3 teams with loosing records are @12/7Jaguars, 11/30Titans, and 12/28Jaguars.

So Mallet will face Cleveland, Cincinnatti, Titans , and Jaguars, two away games and two home games. A fair schedule.

Last three games are Colts, Ravens, and Jaguars, one away and two home, also a fair schedule.