I'm nervous about this game. I think the Dolphins are better than we think and I think people are severely underplaying what Manning's absence meant to the Colts.
No, I think everyone's now fully on board the "Holy crap! The Colts are terrible!" bandwagon. I watched the Dolphin game last night, and we should have a similiar offensive surge. They're not very good and are horribly coached defensively - did anyone else see the 99-yarder coming? Eight in the box against a team that can't and thus never does run? Smart. And offensively, I think the Patriots defense is pretty bad. No way Henne suddenly gets it. Marshall is a beast - but that offense has little else to scare anyone.
I'll be watching in January (assuming (but not predicting) our boys actually get it done) when the first ever "[official] Texans v {playoffteam}" thread goes up. The first one to say, "Texans will win because Peyton is out" will get much props and rep. :grin:
I don't see the game being terribly close at all. The first TD was their first drive of the season and resulted in Henne's 2nd career rushing TD...no one saw that coming. After that first drive the Phins are outscored 38-10, the Pats D settled down and more than contained Miami. If I'm not mistaken their 2nd TD was only because of the INT and the long run back, the 3rd was with the Pats up 21 with less than 5 minutes left. Game was played like the score should have been 38-10. Miami's secondary is complete garbage and OD and AJ will eat that alive all day.
Off topic, but the Lions are -9 at home against the Chiefs, no spread was that big for the first weekend.
Schaub and Andre should have a field day with that secondary. If we can create pass rush and get Heene out of his comfort zone, this could be another blowout but just not that easy to do. Texans 28 Mammals 20
