I don't see how bad ref calls all around (including the Manning block in the back) are going to come back to haunt this team? If anything, the Texans will start getting a reputation as an attacking/opportunistic team that gets the benefit of the doubt on those calls. Watt is NOT a dirty player... had the refs known that, they may have looked a little closer to see if he was possibly pushed/blocked into the QB to force the low blow hit (which he was).
I know, but it still showed Joseph's mental lapse there. Smart plays make playoff teams. Or else you're just the Dallas Cowboys.
Yeah, I was trying to defend him up till that point... after that, it was all downhill. Unfortunately, for Texans fans.... we may be seeing a lot more of the #2 team (Gumbel-Dierdorf) as we are going to have the best non-#1 game for the next 2 weeks.
Exactly... it puts the game away. The Steelers scoring twice in that situation is just as likely as Schaub fumbling the snap on a victory-formation knee.
Ok, let's say there wasn't a penalty. How are the Steelers coming back from a 2 TD deficit without any timeouts under a minute left? I like our chances even if he scored and it stood.
Those were just dumb plays, the Watt play certainly less so. At the end of the year, whining about the refs isn't going to get you anywhere.
Hamstring injury. My guess is they will get an MRI tommorow, rest him during the week, test it out on Saturday, likely rest him for Sunday. I say its 50/50 that he's back for Baltimore...but that would be optimistic. If he doesn't come back then, they may still hold him out against Tennessee/Jacksonville (which could both be wins regardless)... so he will most likely be back by week 9 at home against Cleveland... which they may not need him for either.
Yea, because the refs don't make such horrible nitpicky calls on national stage games... because they get called out for it with more exposure. Can you imagine for one second the refs making those calls for us, against Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh? They were all horrible calls.
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Well we can live in reality or we can lament how things should be. Manning pushing the punter in the back on a play where the ball carrier was five yards ahead was stupid. Ref call or not, it was stupid. You make stupid plays and you allow the refs to get involved. Frankly to me it's just coaching when your team makes stupid plays at critical moments and that's not something that's going to change I don't think. We'll see how that plays out later in the season. And I know what you'll say, Manning was signed as a free agent so how could it be coaching. It's the absence of coaching. It's the absence of alerting players to the situations on the field.
