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Thanks Swoly, a little shaky with the buffering but good to see Mario get the gorilla off his back. Good stuff. Thanks.
You know what's even more amazing? The Texans yet again had more than 70,000 seats sold, even with IC2000 and the haters promising that seats were available and the Texans missed out on their great chance to sell out games! Wow guys, just imagine how many more seats we could've sold and how electric the atmosphere would've been if we had Reggie and his 11 carries for 22 yards back there today. It would've been incredible.
This just in guys, but Wrong-wich is choking AGAIN! Are the Jags the most overrated team in the NFL or what? Leftwich cant even lead these guys to the toilet bowl much less the Super Bowl. We talk smack about Carr but Leftwich flat out sucks! The only reason this team is above .500 is their D it's as advertised but aside from that this team thinks their special but they arent AGAIN! Hopefully in 3 weeks, the Texans can smack em in the mouth.
You know, during the end of the 3rd quarter and the beginning of the 4th quarter I had as much fun watching a Texans game as I've had in almost 2 years! The last time I had that much fun was at the J-ville game in 2004 when we won and improved our record to 5-2. That was on Halloween 2004. THIS is supposed to be what it's like having a real NFL team!
No. 1 pick Williams finally gets first sack in Texans' win HOUSTON (AP) -- On the brink of his first win as coach of the Houston Texans, Gary Kubiak couldn't bear to look. Too bad, because if he'd turned around he would have seen No. 1 draft pick Mario Williams make a game-saving play. Williams tipped a two-point conversion that would have tied the game and finally got his first sack as the Texans beat Miami 17-15 on Sunday. The Dolphins trailed 17-9 when Daunte Culpepper found Chris Chambers for a 16-yard touchdown with 1:39 to go to pull within two. Miami went for the 2-point conversion, but the pass by running back Ronnie Brown was tipped by Williams and sailed over Chambers' head. "He threw it and I just reached up and tipped it," Williams said. "I was in the right place at the right time." The Dolphins (1-3) tried an onside kick and almost recovered, but the ball squirted out from underneath Keith Adams and the Texans fell on it and ran out the clock. "That was pretty cowardly," Kubiak said, referring to his turning away from the play. "I've been that way in football through a lot of things. I'll make a call and just walk away. I heard everybody go crazy, so I knew it was good. That was a great sound." After Carr's 1-yard score put Houston (1-3) ahead 10-6 early in the fourth, Williams got to Culpepper for a 3-yard loss. The sack was the first of his career and his first tackle of the game. Williams jumped for joy and hugged a teammate as the crowd responded with a standing ovation. "Now you can't say I don't have a sack," Williams said. "It was a good thing, but at the same time, playing a game and putting the pressure on him, that was a great ending to get a sack." On the next play, Williams and fellow rookie DeMeco Ryans combined to take Culpepper down again, this time for a 7-yard loss. The Dolphins were forced to punt and the Texans responded with another touchdown, this one a 3-yard catch by Andre Johnson that lengthened the lead to 17-6. Johnson finished with nine receptions for 101 yards. The Texans found a pass rush against the Dolphins, sacking Culpepper on the first play of the game and harassing him all day. Houston had just three sacks entering the game but got to Culpepper five times. The less-mobile Culpepper has been sacked 21 times this season in his return from reconstructive knee surgery. He was 23-of-39 for 249 yards and a touchdown. "We know we're a better offense than we played today for the first three quarters," Culpepper said. "We just waited a little too late to put on a surge." Kubiak's first win came against a defense led by former Houston coach Dom Capers, who was fired by Houston in January after a 2-14 season. It broke a five-game losing streak dating to last season. The game was an ugly defensive struggle for most of the first three quarters, with neither team managing a touchdown and the Dolphins' field goals coming off Texans turnovers. It was 3-3 at halftime. "I told our players that when you play teams this time in the season that haven't won a game, they're very dangerous teams," Dolphins coach Nick Saban said. "They're a little bit like where they want to prove something ... and I think their team played awfully well today." The Dolphins took the lead on a 29-yard field goal by Olindo Mare in the third quarter that was set up by a 19-yard fumble return by Jason Taylor, who sacked Carr and stripped the ball before recovering it. Houston finally took the lead on a 10-play, 70-yard drive that ended with Carr's run. The defense bit on a fake to Ron Dayne and Carr trotted into the end zone untouched before celebrating by throwing the ball high up into the stands. Carr completed 22 of 29 passes for 230 yards with an interception and was also sacked five times. Will Allen grabbed the ball out of Johnson's hands for an interception in the second quarter. But the Dolphins couldn't move the ball and had to settle for a 52-yard field goal by Mare. Game notes Mare kicked his 14th field goal of 50 yards or longer, tying the Dolphins record held by Pete Stoyanovich. ... Johnson had the 12th 100-yard receiving game of his career. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=261001034
The sad thing is that this was a gift sack. The pressure was applied by another player and the running back blocking williams let him go freely. But I guess its something
Just got home from the game. The defense took a few naps today but overall they did good. We need to run the ball more effectively if we're going to ever get anywhere this year. Mario finally got the monkey off his back, Carr is probably still the #1 rated passer.. so all you haters can suck it.
Yes. Capacity is 70,000, more than 70,000 seats were sold. See for yourself: http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/gamebook/NFL_20061001_MIA@HOU
That was pretty funny, they wanted to get a shot of Kubiak's reaction and they just ended up showing the back of his head.
Frankly, this post is weak. Yes, it wasnt a patented Bruce Smith/ LT/Julius Peppers sack but you'll take them however you can get them. Plus alot of other possibilities could've happened, he could have tripped and allowed Crap-pepper to get a first down. Imagine the reaction and the ripping the media would give him here and nationally this week. He got the sack, dude be happy. Jeez. Think getting sacks is easy in the NFL? He got rewarded for his hard work and assisting from teammates no one gets it done alone. Ryans, Weaver and Williams are starting to play off each other. Bottom line, the Texans needed stops, sacks and ultimately a W. I'll take substance over style any day of the week.
I was there... only "empty" seats were those in the club/suite levels (which have to do more with people staying in the concourse, socializing and eating food all day, rather than "unsold" tickets).
thanks swoly. is it possible to get these downloaded somehow? would be cool to have something like these to look back on. again, i appreciate it. request: the pass rush block by gado. he just crushed 1 of the buys blitzing in.
I said it's something and we will take it. It was not a particulary impressive play that made me think wow this guy is special
This game me some optimism for years to come. On those back to back plays DeMeco Ryans and Mario Williams basically teamed up to get those sacks on Culpepper. And the thing that makes me hopeful is for years to come watching that duo be the anchors of our defense and hopefully team for a whole lot more sacks for the rest of their careers.
