Albert Breer @AlbertBreer Bills G Richie Incognito on containing JJ Watt: "This is probably the most in-depth gameplan I've ever seen (to deal with) one player." Retweeted by sportywineguy
What we learned from the Texans’ loss at Buffalo By Randy Harvey on December 6, 2015 at 4:10 PM Observations from the Texans’ loss to the Bills on Sunday. The Texans are what we thought they were. Bill O’Brien says you are what your record says you are and, despite the four-game winning streak before Sunday’s loss at Buffalo, the Texans are 6-6. Average. The Texans need to win three of their last four. If they had beaten the Bills, maybe they could have gotten to the playoffs with two more wins. With Tennessee and Jacksonville on the schedule, that would have been very doable. Now they need either a win at NRG Stadium next Sunday night against New England or a victory the following Sunday at Indianapolis. The defense isn’t as special as we thought. The Texans have drawn raves in recent weeks for their play on defense. But the Bills showed that if an offense can contain J.J. Watt, then it can contain the Texans. The players who were supposed to dominate when Watt doesn’t didn’t on Sunday. O’Brien remains an enigma. Give him and offensive coordinator George Godsey high marks for remaining creative in their play calling, taking pressure off Brian Hoyer in an offense without Arian Foster and a banged-up line, but their clock management at the end of the first half, when they didn’t use their timeouts and wasted a potential opportunity to score, was inexplicable. CBS is cruel. As soon as the Texans’ game was over, the network switched in time for us to see Ryan Fitzpatrick lead the Jets to an overtime victory over the Giants.
Damn! Wish we played New England this week. They are vulnerable. They are about to lose today and will be pissed off against us next week.
Exactly. Hate to see them getting blown out today because they will more than likely be very focused next week. Texans coming off of a disappointing loss should motivate them as well but they just don't have as much talent on the offensive end to possibly offset an angry Tom Brady. Should be interesting.
Losing to Denver, a quality team on the road, is not like losing to the struggling Eagles at home after they got destroyed on Thanksgiving to a bad Detroit team.
True, it's not the same - it was worse because they were undefeated and blew a big 4th quarter lead. Last week at this time, everyone was thankful the Texans wouldn't have to play a pissed off Brady this week.
We will have to agree to disagree. Losing to Eagles at home is worse then losing to a quality Broncos team on the road. Looks like Pats are trying to come back. Hoping they can complete the comeback. Texans need all the advantages they can take.
You don't see many "pissed off team" games in the NFL... not with a week in between games, gameplans that are specifically designed to target weaknesses, day-to-day injuries, and the overall parity that exists.
Jerome Solomon @JeromeSolomon The Patriots might lose two in a row? The last time Pats lost 3 in a row, Facebook was a year and a half from launching. #goodluckTexans
Like I said, Texans need all the advantages they can get. I'll take my chances against a Pats team coming off a win instead of a Pats team coming off of 2 straight losses.
