Official Texans vs. Bears Game Thread, 9/11/2016

[Arky]

Bears bring the ensuing kickoff back to their 25. Bear's ball.

Flat pass to Royal gets 6.

Pass to Royal is broken up by Bouye, inc. Brings up 3rd and 4.

Cutler sacked by Simon! Bears will have to punt.

Ervin bring the punt back to the Texan 38 but holding backs it up 10 yards. Texan's ball at their 28.

[Arky]

4:45 left in the game.

Taunting penalty on the previous punt places the ball at the Texan 24.

L Miller for 2. 2nd and 8 coming up.

Timeout Texans (one left).

L Miller for 2 more. Brings up 3rd and 6. Bears use a timeout (one left). 4 minutes left in the game.

Pass to Griffin good for the 1st down at the Texan 41.

Texans use their final timeout.

L Miller for maybe 2. Bears use their last timeout. 2nd and 8 coming up.

L Miller for almost 3.

On 3rd and 8, deep pass to Fuller too long, inc. Texans to punt with 2:06 left in the game.

Bears fair catch the punt at their 21 yard line. Bear's ball.

[Big Texas]

Brock has missed Fuller now on 2 deep balls...I'm not trippin just pointing out there is major potential here.

[Arky]

Pass to White good for a 1st down.

Cutler sacked by Bouye. 2nd and 16 coming up.

Dumpoff to Langford gets a few. 3rd and 15 coming up. 1:02 left in the game.

Pass to White goes to the Bear 45, 1st down.

Cutler pressured by Watt but still gets it out for an incompletion.

On 2nd and 10, Cutler pressured again and throws it away, inc. 23 seconds left in the game.

Cutler's pass over the middle sails inc. 4th and 10 coming up.

Cutler's deep pass nearly INT'ed by JJo but inc.

Texans will sit on it with 10 seconds left in the game.

Final score:

Texans 23, Bears 14

Well, OK. Won a game they shoulda won....

[Arky]

Originally Posted by barrett

Osweiller sure throws a great deep ball. He has been average on everything else, but the deep ball is beautiful. Too bad for him Fuller and Hopkins have dropped TDs.

Fuller is definitely a stud though. The speed is a real weapon. He runs by guys without moves. The YAC is something I didn't expect though. I can put up with occasional drops if he is that big a weapon.

Now they just need to close it out.

I was going to say the same thing until I saw your post.... The moves after the catch, are a pleasant surprise. He's got good moves....wasn't expecting that... Him knifing through the secondary on the screen pass TD was slick....

I will say a lot of young receivers come into the league with the dropsies... some get over it, some don't. I guess we'll see which one he becomes.....

Texans might end the day in 1st place in the AFC South....

[HPF Bob]

For the first time in a few years, I'm working on Sunday afternoons so I can't comment until that night or the next day. The browser will let me read your comments at work but won't let me reply

The early game looked like the same Texan nightmare we see in our sleep - pass interference on Kareem, offensive holding on everyone, extending their drives and killing ours. Now we add the deep ball drop by Jacoby Jones, er, I mean Will Fuller.

Sucks that Cushing is hurt yet again (and will probably be joining Duane Brown on the waiver wire next spring for cap reasons). But the pass rush does look sweet when we get J.J., Clowney and Mercilus on the field at the same time. I could see the Bears didn't know who to double-team.

Ozzie's corkscrew delivery looked scary. Seemed to put the ball right on the money though - just with no touch. Good thing Beanie and Cecil (aka Nate Washington and Cecil Shorts III) aren't around to drop those passes, leaving more for our TEs and Fuller to drop.

But the Bears are sort of like the NFC's version of the Bills - a team you ought to beat if you don't beat yourself and that's eventually what happened.

1-0 and alone in first (thanks, NFC North) is just the right way to start the season. Now to get our revenge on the Chiefs.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

For the first time in a few years, I'm working on Sunday afternoons so I can't comment until that night or the next day. The browser will let me read your comments at work but won't let me reply

The early game looked like the same Texan nightmare we see in our sleep - pass interference on Kareem, offensive holding on everyone, extending their drives and killing ours. Now we add the deep ball drop by Jacoby Jones, er, I mean Will Fuller.

Sucks that Cushing is hurt yet again (and will probably be joining Duane Brown on the waiver wire next spring for cap reasons). But the pass rush does look sweet when we get J.J., Clowney and Mercilus on the field at the same time. I could see the Bears didn't know who to double-team.

Ozzie's corkscrew delivery looked scary. Seemed to put the ball right on the money though - just with no touch. Good thing Beanie and Cecil (aka Nate Washington and Cecil Shorts III) aren't around to drop those passes, leaving more for our TEs and Fuller to drop.

But the Bears are sort of like the NFC's version of the Bills - a team you ought to beat if you don't beat yourself and that's eventually what happened.

1-0 and alone in first (thanks, NFC North) is just the right way to start the season. Now to get our revenge on the Chiefs.

Only Bob could watch that game yesterday and make two digs at Fuller and say nothing positive about him.

[nunusguy]

Looks like JD Clowney may be back to his college position as a DE with hand on the ground when at South Carolina as that's where he played exclusively yesterday. I might be mistaken but I don't think he took any snaps standing up as an outside LB.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

The browser will let me read your comments at work but won't let me reply

Keith is finally heeding my suggestions.

[Arky]

Early line for next week vs. Kansas City says the Texans are 1 to 2 pt favorites....

Don't think the Texans will be allowed to get away with any sloppy play in this one.... Like I said a few months ago, sure would be nice to head to New England 2-0 for the TNF prime time game....

[Keith]

Fuller can drop if he also catches 100+ yds and a score every week.

In fact, that was the problem with the offense in the first half against the Bears. It's like Godsey/O'Brien/Osweiler or some combination thereof just turtled once the early interception was thrown (or really just stripped from DeAndre's hands).

Everything about the offense seemed to be meant to stretch the field wide and not deep. It opened some running lanes for Lamar Miller in the first half - he had some nice gaps between the tackles - but it played right into the Bears gameplan to take away the Texans deep speed for which they obviously had no answer. The Bears were ready for the off-tackle rushes.

Here's hoping Godsey and O'Brien allow the offense to stretch downfield in spite of the occasional drop. Should they keep doing this out of a 3-wide set, L Miller will still find room with 7 in the box.