This. I was reading some comments from another board and someone said Foster was overrated and he was just the benefit of the best o line in the league... After what us Houston fans have suffered through during the Carr era this o line is a thing of beauty.
I really hate having class on Sundays. Now I need to wait for someone to put the torrent up. Got to listen to some of it on the radio. Sounds like our OLB's had a monster game. Good on them.
Knew it wasnt gonna be a blow out and knew Foster was gonna run all over the Steelers. Pretty damn good game. Hope Andre is ok though...
Something of note I ran across is only Curtis Martin (174 in 2003) had more rushing yards than Arian did against the Steelers in the last 10 years- 2001 till present “He was a challenge for us and he won,” Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley said. Special indeed. .
Man, without AJ, this team is really gonna find it hard to generate offense, teams will load up on an already fragile Foster.....and force Schaub to beat them. We need AJ's injury to be nothing serious...and a day to day thing.... DD
In the past we've actually done well without AJ. If I remember correctly Walter, JJ, and OD did just fine and elevated their game. Kubiak just had to adjust the gameplan.
We've played without AJ before and played well. That was probably when you were back on the Titans bandwagon. The Texans clearly didn't have a lot of scripted non-AJ involved plays today, and they will work on that at practice this week. Also, they were trying to protect a lead which certainly changes the way the game is called. In the end, they've got a pretty "soft" schedule to try and work out the kinks. They won't have a tougher back-to-back opponent such as New Orleans-Pittsburgh for the rest of the year. Oakland should be a win. Baltimore will likely be a loss. Tennessee is a pickem if AJ doesn't play, and a win if he does. Jacksonville is a win. I'm expecting nothing worse than 5-3 after 8 games, and they could very well be 6-2 if they beat the Titans.
Easily, easily 30,000 Steeler fans out there. Every section in the upper deck had huge pockets of them, and in the lower levels they were all spread around. When it was 3rd and 6, I rather have ran the ball again instead of throwing it to Jacoby. It stopped the clock, if you ran it, the clock would have kept running. We still won. Fun times.
Yep. Today was a reminder that Tate is solid, but Foster is elite. Foster's agility in space without any sort of ball-control issue is amazing. Ben Tate is the definition of the one cut and go. He sees the hole and powers through it, depending on his power to get extra yards. Foster can actually make the cut upfield, elude tacklers in the second level and bust out for very large gains. Side note, does Ben Tate ever turn the corner like Foster does? It seems like Foster bounces to outside a lot but I don't particularly remember Tate doing that a lot.
Aren't there more than 40,000 Texans season ticket holders? That would mean that every single person in attendance that was not a season ticket holder was a Steelers fan (unlikely), or that some season ticket holders were secretly Steelers fans as well (even more unlikely). I doubt that 40% of the stadium was filled with Steelers fans. Hell, even 10% would be on the high side... and that's only 7,000 fans.
Capacity is just over 70K. You're saying half the stadium were Steeler fans? I call BS on that. Are they even that many tickets available to the general public?
Ravens look very solid. Don't have much hope against them in week 6. A win against the Raiders next week would be huge.
I won't be shocked if we lose the next two games. A split would be just dandy with me, though. Gotta take care of business after the bye week.
Yes, I am saying. Even on 610's post game, they said it seemed like it was 60-40. of the 70,000 seats in the stadium, 60,000 belong to season ticket holders. I can't remember what play it was, but the Steelers had a big play. I'm sitting near the five yard line, and I look to my left, and I see what seems like 50 percent of every section being towels waived.
Yes and no... Casey and Owens both can move the chains, and Walter is capable... Johnson is a huge part of the offense, but Foster is back (and a stud) and Tate will be back.
