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Houston earned that win! Miami couldn't stop them when it mattered so they deserved to lose.....painful as it was. I have a feeling the Fish will drop in the rankings on the "Green Elevator".LOL ok your right!! 3-3
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Houston earned that win! Miami couldn't stop them when it mattered so they deserved to lose.....painful as it was. I have a feeling the Fish will drop in the rankings on the "Green Elevator".LOL ok your right!! 3-3
PM me for a link to the game. I don't know if it would be cool for me to post it here.
Solid butt kicking by the Texans today. Sure it was the Bengals, but they took care of business. Can't wait till next week when they play Minnesota.
WOOOOOO.... feels good to have a better record than:
Chargers, Raiders, Chiefs, Lions, SeaHawks, Rams, Niners
and tied with:
Browns, Jaguars, Vikings,
Finally dominated a game on both sides of the ball...at the same time. We're turning the corner baby.
Texans at 3-4
Chargers at 3-5.
By winning percentage I'm winning the bet so far. lol
Jags have a better record, as they ownm the tiebreaker.
I didnt watch the game but I heard it on the road. Sounded good and been waiting for highlights all morning.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...t/6079571.html
Commentary: Texans better than history, record shows
It is so easy to conclude that the Texans did what they were supposed to do:
Domination from start to finish — in all three phases of the game — against a weaker team.
But there is more to the Texans’ record-setting 35-6 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
This type of game should not be only what the Texans were supposed to do. It should be what they are.
Here’s the shocker: If you set aside their abysmal history (and in a way the mathematical negative of this year’s 3-4 record), you might realize that this was indeed who they are.
Yes, the Houston Texans are a pretty decent football team.
Now some of you will take this as you would information from local weathermen so affected by the warmth that they freak out over “cold fronts” that threaten to drop the temperature below 50.
That’s understandable.
But just because you had your A/C on all last week doesn’t mean the Texans are a bad football team. Those days are over.
Frigid Fall is here.
The first two games of the season cannot be expunged from the ledger, but isn’t it clear that those games are the exceptions, while the way the Texans have played the last five weeks is a better representation of what kind of team they actually are?
Did you know that Matt Schaub, who set franchise records against the Bengals with his fourth consecutive game of 250 or more passing yards and a passer rating of 144.0, has the best passer rating in the league over the last five weeks? (Schaub was out one of those weeks — a loss against the Colts — because of an illness.)
Did you know that the Texans, and their recently-booed-at-home quarterback (he is 6-2 at Reliant Stadium, by the way) have the No. 2 pass offense in the NFL over their last five games?
Did you know that the Texans have the No. 1 offense in the league over the last five weeks?
Did you know the Texans have scored more points over the last five weeks than all but three teams?
OK, there are not many positive “did ya knows” for their raggedy defense — that’s why the Texans are just a “pretty decent” football team right now — but there is reason to believe that unit will improve in the second half of the season.
For the first time in franchise history the Texans have won three straight games, and they did it by a franchise-record 29-point margin, a full touchdown and two-point conversion more than they have ever won by.
Showing promise
You have to be careful getting too excited about their dispatching the less-than-enthusiastic Bengals bunch, the NFL’s bye week equivalent, but don’t let that ruin your daydreams. The most important numbers from the game are 35-6.
“It would be different if we started the season 2-0 and fell to 3-4; I’d be upset. But to start 0-4 and get here with three straight wins, it’s a great feeling,” said cornerback Dunta Robinson, who agrees with the pretty decent assessment, though he prefers the description “pretty damn good.”
Hold on there, Dunta.
Pretty decent teams can win consecutive home games over Miami, Detroit and Cincinnati.
A pretty good team (with a good offense) can go to Minnesota — which has averaged less than 16 points a game at home — and win. A pretty good team (with a good offense) can return home against Baltimore — which has averaged just over 16 points a game on the road — and win.
Might we look up in a couple of weeks at the won-five-in-a-row Texans and try to proclaim they are a pretty good team?
Remember when you looked down on the 0-4 Texans and thought they were a pretty bad team?
“We had a horrible first month, a bad first quarter (of the season), and we’re trying to battle out of that here in the second quarter,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “We’ve had a nice month here at home. We’ve got to go play a very physical, good football team on the road next.
“We’re trying to work our way out of it, and there is a long, long way to go.”
Yeah, a long way to go and a short time to get there, if they hope to do what most say can’t be done. (Playoffs?)
The defense needs to be better. Sunday was a start, as former Patriot Eugene Wilson saw his most extensive action, combining with new starter Nick Ferguson to give the Texans quite possibly their most intelligent play from a pair of safeties in their history.
Robinson is closer to being ready to resume his role as the team’s top corner. Fred Bennett was solid and, though that nutty back-and-forth between him and DeMarcus gins — a coaching ploy to get Bennett to focus better — hasn’t hurt as much as one would have expected, enough is enough.
Could the secondary actually be decent by season’s end, too? Imagine the damage Mario Williams might do up front if receivers are actually covered for a time.
Franchise at its best
Regardless, this group of Texans is closer to being a good team than any in the history of the franchise.
Andre Johnson is there. Perhaps the best receiver in the league. Steve Slaton is in the conversation of up-and-coming young running backs.
Heck, no one has called Child Protective Services to investigate that oft-abused offensive line in over a month.
And we’ve already discussed that possible star-to-be starting quarterback, who is closer to getting there than David Carr ever dreamed about.
Face it, your Houston Texans, with one of the best offenses in the NFL, are a pretty decent team.
Will the next stop be pretty good?
I can't believe I'm in the Texans thread......
At least Matt Shaub is holdn' down my fantasy team.
LOL why not? I know your a cowboys fan but you guys dont have a reason to hate us.
I don't hate you guys....I support pretty much anything Texas.
After my Spurs, etc. lose
well.. that sucks...
It's Sage time!!!
Damn, I wish I was a Lions fan.
haha not really.
Slaton!
If the Texans had anything close to an NFL caliber defense, they would be one of the top teams in the NFL. But , they probably couldn't stop the ing Aggies.
I don't know who sucks more, gins or Reeves.
Sage sucks balls.
I actually think I feel bad for him...
him. He's pissed away two games against the Colts this season.
Fail.
Rosenfels is the MVP of the Colts. Without him, we'd be 4-6 and definitely out of the wild card chase.
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