Please, if we have a healthy Arian Foster, we don't need to kick those 2 FG's. We win this game easily with him. I just hope he is ready for Week 4 and beyond.
If this game was at Reliant, I really think the Texans would have won. That's how close this game was. If Kubiak's playcalling and the execution in general in the red zone didn't suck (and if we had Arian Foster), we would have won this game. The Saints also pass on everybody, so I don't think fans should be so discouraged there. Without him, I'm scared, but as long as Arian is able to go 100%, we'll be good. The Saints will probably be the toughest offense the team faces all season.
Hey guys, it could be worse. Our QB could be Vick! Imagine how Philly fans feel right now. Coulda used Kevin Kolb about now I'm sure. By the way, this team will be fine. This game was that mid-movie loss that the Mighty Ducks always incurred and used as motivation for them to get their act together and dominate the rest of the season. The only difference in comparison is that, while both teams had the hidden talent with a wishy-washy coach, the loss today pales in comparison to the beat-down that the Ducks sustained. So fret not! By the time we see the Saints in the playoffs (yes for you middle school grads, that would be in the Super Bowl) we'll be ready for their nastysauce and have a few cherry bombs and tittie-twisters that they weren't expecting. If movies and sports both tell us one thing, it's that you don't want to win the FIRST victory in a rivalry system where the other team will have a chance to get back at you later during a much more important time. So you see, all this has gone according to Wade Phillips' master plan. Did you see that TD run by Mark Ingram? Jonathan Joseph got a message to his headset to play toreado with the young buck. Give him his moment in the sun. What is a single game victory when the Houston Texans will be in the playoffs by years' end and the Saints may or may not be demoralized by the defensive gaps that we've just exposed for the rest of the world to see. The question though is whether Bob n Rick will realize the plot of patricide coming from the most unlikely source, mister Jabba the Phillips, eyes greedy for the crown as King Kubiak, doing all he can to keep the ship aright, is completely obilivious to the subterfuge. Omg when the post started I was lucid. Now it's like boulders and canyons casting shadows all over the text. With a bright orange sunset over it all too. Don't take Ambien to help you sleep kids. Don't take it more than once a week. At least that one is advice I can actually live by.
Lol what? 1 Demeco has the radio. 2 we don't play new orleans again in the regular season. 3 IT'S KNUCKLE PUCK TIME.
It's frustrating being an Andre Johnson only fan. I can only identify with excellence, and Andre's teammates and coaching staff continuously let him down in that regard. If Houston doesn't develop some killer instinct, I think it's best that Andre heads off to a team that can pull it together.
1) Our red zone efficiency was stellar last year 2) The Saints make 8 yard passes on *everybody* 3) There are only 2, possibly 3, games left on our schedule we won't be favored in
I know I know I am a broken record. I am still saying the Texans will be AT LEAST 10-6 but I think you can win with SCHAUB even a playoff game but I don't know if we can Win in the Playoffs with SCHAUB *AND* KUBIAK Schaub in particular and the offense in general sometimes look T-MAC-ish . . they do enough NOT TO BE BLAMED but not enough to WIN! Rocket River
Kubiak's gameplan was fantastic. But like he so often does, he abandoned the run in the 4th quarter. It was a team loss. Schaub had a poor 4th quarter. So did Kubiak (and ostensibly, Tate/Slaton). So did the defense (i.e. Wade turtling). And I'm still fantastically pissed that we wasted Arian last week, we needed him to convert those early FGs into TDs. A lot of things had to go wrong for us to lose that game, and they did. I still don't see any reason we don't steamroll our way to the playoffs, though. Hell, we might even win a game once we get there.
Last year, Foster was the top RB in the league, and we still had the same problem with settling for field goals instead of touchdowns. This isn't an Arian Foster issue. I do, however, share your enthusiasm for getting Foster back. (1) Red zone efficiency is based on scoring (either FG's or TD's) from within the red zone. You shouldn't rely on that stat. We need to change a lot of our FG's into TD's if we want to contend. New Orleans didn't win that game last night with FG's, did they? (2) Then we should be prepared to defend them, shouldn't we? And we've been giving 8 yard passes to all three teams we've played this year (although not as bad as we did last year). (3) While this may be true, as I've said, if we want to be contenders against the league's top teams, we need to get the ball in the end zone more and not settle for FG's as much as we are now.
4th Quarter 1st Possession - 1 play TOUCHDOWN [seems 1st play of the fourth] 2nd possession - 3 and out 55 Seconds 3rd Possession - 2 and interception 22 seconds 4th Possession - 8 play - TD - 2:57 Seconds 5th Possession - Turn over on Downs 49 Seconds Time of Possession [4 ~ 5 Minutes] Arian was missed. Need to GRIND when you have a lead Rocket River
