Texans have a vice grip on the division currently 2-0 within it. Titans are worst then garbage and colts dug themselves to deep a hole and already lost to the Texans. 7-9 is all that will be needed to win the AFC South and the Texans will finish 9-7
How are the Colts coming on strong? They just lost at home to the Chiefs last week and beat a listless Packers team with the help of some special teams. Yes, they should have won the game against the Texans.... but that's what mediocre/bad teams do (lose games consistently that they should have won). Also, everybody says the Texans should have blown out the Titans and Lions... thus they weren't quality wins... yet those teams continue to look "impressive" against the rest of the league, and are supposedly now dark-horses to win their divisions. But still, the narrative is that the Texans haven't beaten anybody. There's basically a ton of "every team is better than us no matter what... despite what has actually happened when they play head-to-head or play common opponents!!"
Colts beating the packers at their own place really shows the packers are vulnerable. Of course, when we go there next month, how much do you want to bet that we get absolutely CURB STOMPED and the game will be over by halftime?
Of course... in a league of parity, any team can beat anybody. The Texans beat the Chiefs, Colts, Lions, Titans. The Colts beat the Chargers, Packers, Titans. The Titans have really only beaten the Lions... but I guess them looking impressive in their close losses has enough people ready to give them the division.
Huh? I know the NFL is down and just about everybody is in the playoff picture but Texans are in no way getting a bye week in the playoffs. raiders good team, prime time game and high powered offense. If they get the lead early I just can't see the Texans coming back to win it. At colt mostly based on history Chargers they look like on the up swing and have a high powered offense plus a RB that can exploit the Texans run D Packers just can't consider them done or a bad team but extremely winnable Or the bengals best the Texans are due for a let down
I hope you are wrong about us getting curb stomped. Who knows really, because it could go either way. Aaron loves to scramble, so we need Clowney and company to bring the sacks. He also loves to sling that ball, and our secondary need to be on their A game, and be ready to snatch some turnovers. This is one away game we can win, but not if the turnovers come from us. Our offense can't give this game away!!!!!
They'd be favored agains the Chargers at home... so not sure how that game would be seen as a loss "easily". Certainly, like I said above, any team can beat anybody.... but realistically, if the Texans win the games they're supposed to win, they should finish no worse than 10-6.
Mexico city is the big wild card here. Could help either team, TBH. Which history? Recent or remote? Like I said above, they'll be underdogs against the Raiders and Packers. They'll be favored against the Chargers. And depending on how those games go, they could actually end up being favored at Indy.
Yeah, I get all that. Just saying it would be very un-Texan-like to go up to GB and come back with a win. Yes, even though they won last time they were there. Texans have to show me they can win....hell, compete in a road game before I'm willing to pick them against anyone besides jacksonville and tennessee.
Doubt they are favored and come game time the game will be a pick'em. It is just a bad matchup for the Texans
Sure... and that mindset is going to be there when the only road games they've played thus far were against three (at the time) STELLAR teams. Yes, Minnesota has taken a turn for the worse, but that was a team that at the time was the vegas favorite to be the NFC representative in the SB. I'm just not sure why people are hung up on the Packers game at all. Its a non-conference road game against an extremely inconsistent team that has now lost home games to Dallas and Indy, and barely beat Detroit/Jacksonville,
The Texans were favored (and covered) against the Colts, Lions, and Titans... but you think the Chargers game will be a pick'em? Certainly, I'm also figuring out a couple of other scenarios prior to this (namely the Texans finally getting a road win this week against an inferior opponent, along with the Chargers continuing to either eek out or lose in spectacular fashion against a very similar team in the Dolphins).
A lot can happen in the final 8 games of the season but the Texans position is more tenuous than we had thought now that the Colts beat GB. The Colts looked pretty good yesterday and the worry is that they can continue this form for the rest of the season. If they do, the Colts could realistically win 6 out of their last 7 now that the Steelers/Vikings have looked very beatable as of late. That puts them at 10-6. The colts remaining schedule is much easier than the Texans. The Texans have to prove that they can beat teams on the road, and even then, they would face some unpredictable teams like the Chargers and the Bengals. Neither of these teams are bottom feeder teams and therefore can be dangerous.
Yes, I'm talking matchups and the chargers have a run game that can run it down their throats like blunt and Anderson did. Not forgetting maybe the best, defiantly top 5 WR/TE corps in the NFL right now. Plus Rivers. I just can't think the Texans can keep down that offense or keep pace with it and sure Vegas will see it the same way
NE wasn't stellar at the time. They were starting their 3rd string QB and had some key injuries to their defense IIRC. And Minnesota was playing their first game without their franchise RB. And I don't really buy into the "at the time" argument anyway. Ever think the reason NE and MN were "stellar at the time" was because they were playing the Texans?
Huh? You don't buy the at the time argument, yet you're using it in the first part of the statement to say the Texans should have won that game because New England wasn't stellar at the time? At the end of the day, barring a huge injury here or there, these teams are who their record says they are.... and as of now, the Texans have played 3 quality teams on the road, and that's the sample that says they're a "bad" road team. They can and should be able to win road games at Jacksonville, Indy, and Tennessee (if they really need to win that last game of the year). As the Colts showed yesterday, GB is beatable at home. And the Oakland game is at a neutral (possibly very pro-Texans) site. I'm just not as hung up on the road woes when you look at the context of who they've played. They certainly need to play better, everywhere, but improvement shouldn't be impossible either.
