This is a win. Andre Johnson will have his first 100 yd game of season, maybe even a TD Garrett Graham will be featured prominently with 6+ catches Arian 100+ yds 2TD The D will get to Hoyer early and often; 5+ sacks HOU 34 CLE 17
You're missing the point that Cleveland is at the top of their division.... Minnesota and the Bears are going no where this year. More playoff implications with the Cleveland vs Houston game (for Cleveland).
It's a lateral matchup... That involves a bigger media market. Also, let's not pretend that Harlan and Gannon get nothing but great matchups. They're CBS' D team at best.
Harlan/Gannon is CBS' #3 team, behind Nantz/Simms (getting Sunday off) and Gumble/Green. After Harlan/Gannon, there's Dedes/Wilcots and then these guys are the F team, usually reserved for dog games (like Vikings/Bears). Not to mention, they put their #3 team (technically #2 this week) on an NFC game featuring teams the network doesn't cover over a (if the season ended today) AFC division winner. Just weird.
I have a hard time predicting a win with Mallett as the QB, but with Clowney back on the field alongside Watt and hopefully our DB depth getting healthy, we have a shot.
U forgot eagle/fouts. They are CBS' #2 team. Harlan/dedes/Catalona all take turns getting the dog games now...and again Chicago gets preference for being a big market. Rule of thumb is that the good announcers either cover big market games or games involving at least one likely playoff team. And lastly, nobody is buying the Browns. If the Texans win this weekend, I'd equate the win to slightly above beating the Redskins at home.
All indications are yes. That's a misrepresentation. I don't "love" Fitz any more than I "loved" Schaub last year. Mallett is an inaccurate statue of a QB, I doubt good things will come of that given that our O line hasn't been doing their job at all when it comes to pass blocking. Pointing out that a backup QB is not good isn't showing "love" for the starter. I pointed out that Schaub turning things around was our only hope last season, that didn't make me a Schaub fan, it was just the obvious truth. He didn't turn it around so we had no hope. I hope that Mallett beats the odds and turns out to be a good QB, but I'm not going to fool myself into thinking it's likely.
There are any number of maladies that could befall him in the next 93.5 hours. Sprained kidney, lacerated funny bone, a grand piano could fall on his head, feline leukemia, bruised vagina or someone could tell him a scary bedtime story that makes him scared to leave his house. Don't count your chickens just yet!
That's my biggest concern. That Mallett will have a few good games then get locked in long term only to flop. Mallett is a BOB guy just like Schaub was a Kubiak guy.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>O'Brien calls Arian " Foster definitely" day to day. Seemed less optimistic than with Clowney/Cushing. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Texans?src=hash">#Texans</a></p>— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) <a href="https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/status/532638039773044737">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
How in the world can this offense score 34 points? Mallet has 1 completion and 1 interception in his career.
