yeah, if you'll remember, they got blown out of the water in week 3 against the colts and then, with a chance to make a bounce-back statement, they got tanked in atlanta to a bad falcon team. this team is better than that; or, they should be. and a win this week and next are mandatory. if they're 3-1 going into that arizona game... that could earn "biggest game in franchise history" status.
Offensively, yes. But the defense seems to be getting worse by the same degree that the offense gets better. The secondary and defensive line are still problem areas.
The defense is a work in progress and will continue to be for a couple months. I think Bush is kind of learning on the fly and trying to figure out what he is really up against. It will come with time, but this defense definitely has a ceiling and its not much better than mediocre. However, given the fire power of our offense, we can still win meaningful games with a middle of the road defense. I think after one more off season of shoring up the secondary and DLine, we will catapult to the upper echelon of the league. As for this season, I see the offense remaining consistently amazing while the defense just does enough to get us by. It'll be exciting to play important, season changing games come December.
Yeah, definitely didn't get blown out in that game. Unless you call losing by six a blowout. We had a chance to win it, but had very little time and Matt Schaub was sacked towards the end that killed any chance.
they were down 27-10 to start the 3Q with the lone TD coming on the game's opening kick-off. it was a blow-out; they were never in that game until it was too late and the colts had taken their foot off the gas.
6 points at the end of the game is not a blow out. It was 14-10 to start the third. The Colts scored 13 points in third, but it was a two possession game the entire game except for a 3 minute period which you referenced. The Texans promptly made it a ten point game. NFL teams do not let off the gas in a 2 possession game...so at most Indy let off the gas for 3 minutes.
final scores are misleading and can ultimately be meaningless. the titans "only" beat the texans by 2 that same year... after, you know, leading 32-7 in the 4Q. was that game a blow-out? (yes, btw) and 12 minutes later, it was 27-10. that's a blow-out. to that point, the texans had generated 106 yards of offense and hadn't scored an offensive TD. you could argue, effectively, that had mathis not run the opening kick back, the texans would have been down 27-3. meanwhile, the colts were moving it up and down the field at will, scoring on 6 of their first 8 possessions. teams change when they get a lead; look at tennessee sunday. had indianapolis kept their focus (and their foot on the gas), it would not have been meaninglessly close.
6 points at end of the game is not a blowout. The game is 60 minutes. 27-10 for 3 minutes is not a blow out. A blowout is determined by the final score. If you can't stay one bad play away from winning, it is not a blowout. The Houston Oilers did not blowout the Bills.
agree to disagree. if you're not competitive for the first 3 quarters of a game and the other team is more or less doing whatever it wants over the same stretch, that's a blow-out in my book. a frantic 4Q rally is the same as garbage time, imo. when the two teams lined up, head-to-head on an even playing field, with everything still on the line, and executed their gameplans, there was no question which team was superior. i know; they lost. you can't blow out a team if you, you know - lose.
imo, yes; it was 32-7 in the 4Q. i don't believe the final frantic, desperate 15 minutes of a game, where teams chuck game plans and start behaving in ways they never would under normal circumstances (sitting starters, going for it on 4th down, trying onside kicks, chucking the ball deep on every down) invalidate the first 45.
let me ask you this: after the game, did you think it was a performance the texans could build on? that they had turned a corner? that they had finally put it together offensively and were poised for a big break-out the rest of the season? of course not. it was fun and enjoyable but we all accepted the 4Q for the fluke it was. no different than a bunch of 2nd and 3rd stringers in the nba whittling down a big lead late in a 4Q. when the game was still on the line, when the playing field was even, tennessee flat-out dominated the texans. if the teams played 10 more times that day, do you think the titans would have lost any of them?
so let's say a team plays horrible...absolutely pathetic, yet they managed to gain a deceny lead through very fortunate and even lucky circumstances. They win the game, but there are not many "positives" from the game. You don't walk away feeling like there was much they could build off of, did the losing team blow the winning team out?
i don't think it's an apples to apples comparison. the titans took a pipe to the texans that day. they outplayed them *and* outscored them. if they played 10 times the way they played the first 3Qs, tennessee would win all 10 times, no ifs, and or buts about it. the issue with, "yeah, but if they play 10 times the way the 4Q went down..." is that there's nothing "real" about the 4Q that translates. tennessee's not going to pull starters or take their foot off the gas and play conservatively; the texans aren't going to throw out their game plan and start taking chances, like airing it out, going for it on 4th down and trying onside kicks, etc. it's just not a fair representation of how competitive the teams were.
