And they’d beat the Texans 10 times out of 10 right now. Who cares what their record is? Teams that are doing just fine aren’t about to revamp their entire playbook/tendencies during their bye weeks. Philadelphia was able to do it though. Pittsburgh continues to get better (offensively). There are many examples of teams/coaching staffs that are able to figure out fixes during the season (even if the team has a winning record). They have that opportunity… and a chance to catch some very good teams completely off-guard. The question is, do they have the competency to both innovate and install/motivate these players to run it with perfection?
I saw this and didn’t wanna bump some 20 year old David Carr thread so you’re reading it here. This is CRAZY:
Lot of mediocre divisions this season. AFC South, NFC South, NFC West. Meanwhile you have 2 or 3 other divisions that contain all the “real” contenders. Really unbalanced
Colts (6-7) remaining schedule: Bye @ Denver Tennessee @ NY Giants Jacksonville Texans will likley be projected to lose their next 3 and sit at 8-8 heading into that final game against the Titans in Tennessee. Gonna be a crazy month. Hoping the Colts lose to the Broncos which puts their best possible finish at 9-7 which means the Texans magic number would be 1 (likely a win and in against Tennessee).
The Texans are not going to be home dogs against the 5-8 or 6-7 Dolphins (depending on Miami's game next Sunday).
The glass half full view of this season: We smashed the bills and lions, probably the best teams in each conference. The glass half empty view: we kinda suck every game
The Texans beat the Bills by 3 despite being outscored 17 to 6 in the second half, and they lost to the Lions. If you want to take a glass-half-full perspective, the Texans have led at halftime in every game this season except two, the Vikings and the Titans. And hey, CJ is still standing.
They completely dominated those games though, that’s more important than score id you are looking ahead. Refs refusing to call blatant PIs doesn’t make the texans better or worse.
If the Texans played the Chiefs in Week 18, it probably would have been a 4-game suspension. League put him on notice.
I am hoping Texans submitted waiver requests on CB Marco Wilson, CB Emmanuel Forbes, & RB Israel Abanikanda. Any of those would have been good pickups. I am just presuming other teams were higher in the priority order.
Marco Wilson - Bengals Emmanuel Forbes - Rams Israel Abanikanda - Niners Not sure if waiver wire is last season or current.
