Weeks 16 & 17 scheduling for 2016, playoffs

[painekiller]

I have to admit, I lost faith. Time for some koolaid!

[Arky]

Originally Posted by painekiller

I have to admit, I lost faith. Time for some koolaid!

Well, there is something going on:

Exhibit A: Week 14 @ Indianapolis - Andrew Luck and the Colts are driving for a go ahead score. In the red zone. Clowney strips sacks Luck, the Texans recover and it changes the whole complexion of the game. Texans go on to win 22-17.

Exhibit B: Week 15 @ NRG - Oz gets benched after throwing 2 picks. Texans are losing 13-0. Savage comes in with 8:32 left in the 2nd qtr and leads the Texans to a come from behind 21-20 win. Had the change occurred at halftime or later, the Texans might not have won....

Exhibit C: Week 16 @ NRG - After nerfing the offense for two quarters, OB lets it loose a bit and the Texans score a few points. The Bengals put together a heroic end of game drive only to miss the game winning 43-yard FG as time expires. Game was way closer than it had to be.

Any of the above could've easily gone the other way. Flirting with disaster (Molly Hatchet?). Yet, they're still kicking. Not sure they can keep doing this.... One would think it'll bite them in the butt eventually....

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The only Kool-Aid I have left is with Tom Savage. It's still early in his "debut" and we don't know yet if he can be The One.....

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So, it looks like the Texans will probably play Oakland or KC at home in the first round of the playoffs. Sure would like to see them silence some of the critics (lookin' at you, Rodney Harrison) and win a round or two....

[HPF Bob]

If the Texans are an example of playoff-caliber division-winning NFL football, no wonder the league's ratings are tanking. It's hard to watch the Texans week after week win games they really ought to lose.

Then I think about this same defense with Watt and Johnson back and I think "this team could really go somewhere with a few tweaks and a new offensive line."

[chuck]

No one in the NFC is worth a shit. Hell, Green Bay may win the conference. In the AFC it's as usual the Patriots and everyone else. With average qb play the Texans would be battling the Patriots for home field. And, as you point out, that's with a defense far from full strength.

The Chiefs are starting to look pretty interesting.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

No one in the NFC is worth a shit. Hell, Green Bay may win the conference. In the AFC it's as usual the Patriots and everyone else. With average qb play the Texans would be battling the Patriots for home field. And, as you point out, that's with a defense far from full strength.

The Chiefs are starting to look pretty interesting.

Aside from getting beat by the Titans last week. The Chiefs are little different from us. Granted the little is they usually get average QB play, but when you are not good on offense you can lose to anyone. The Chiefs are now 5-0 against the AFC West and 6-4 against the rest of the league (including 2-2 against the AFC South).

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by barrett

Aside from getting beat by the Titans last week. The Chiefs are little different from us. Granted the little is they usually get average QB play, but when you are not good on offense you can lose to anyone. The Chiefs are now 5-0 against the AFC West and 6-4 against the rest of the league (including 2-2 against the AFC South).

The Chiefs were missing several key players when we beat them early in the year so this is a different team than what we faced in NRG very early in
the season. Even way back then there was reason to be optimistic about Oswieler.
I can't understand how they lose at home to a Titans team that the very next week gets beat by 3 TDs to the Jags ?
But that Chiefs team last night was very impressive vs the Broncos.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

The Chiefs were missing several key players when we beat them early in the year so this is a different team than what we faced in NRG very early in
the season. Even way back then there was reason to be optimistic about Oswieler.
I can't understand how they lose at home to a Titans team that the very next week gets beat by 3 TDs to the Jags ?
But that Chiefs team last night was very impressive vs the Broncos.

They remind me of the peak Matt Schaub Texans. They can't reliably score big points on offense, but if you allow them to control the game and play from ahead, they are very tough. They jumped out early on the Broncos so they didn't have to do anything other than rush the passer (what they're best at). Alex Smith was awful on anything not to Kelce, but he didn't need to be any more than that, because the Broncos are a mirror image who can't play from behind (a Kubiak team).