I stand by my earlier statement... who would have thought that after that poor showing against the Vikings in Week 1 of the preseason that the Colts would be 3-0, and in a dominant fashion? Or the Steelers would be looking weak at 1-2? Or the Jets with a rookie quarterback at 3-0? Let's not forget the fact that Brett Favre wasn't even a Viking in Week 1 of the preseason. I had my doubts but each game he's inspiring the team to greatness. I'll get to the Texans record in just a moment...
I attended today's game against the Jaguars. Everything started off ok, but the glaring weaknesses in our secondary were exposed today. The Jaguars, who were very weak in their first 2 games, came out and were able to score on the Texans defense almost seemingly at will. The line was getting decent pressure on David Garrard, but the receivers were getting open due to weak secondary coverage. That's not even mentioning the weak run defense shown for the 3rd week in a row. Add in the mix a couple of penalties and a late turnover (questionable, but the video evidence did not support overturning the call) and it became a recipe for a heartbreaking loss. The Texan offense had a good game, with 397 total yards. Matt Shaub put up good numbers as well, going 26 of 35 for 286 yards and 3 TD's. Steve Slaton even started to get things going by gaining 76 yards on 12 carries. But in the end, the defense lost this game for us. There is a grumbling going on about people wanting Gary Kubiak to leave town. That may be emotion from yesterday's loss, but we'll see maybe tomorrow what they're saying on the local sports shows. The Texans fall to 1-2 (there, Mardi, I am not afraid to admit my team's record) and in 3rd place in the AFC South behind Indianapolis (3-0) and Jacksonville (1-2 with better point differential).
Mardi pretty much summed up the rest of the Sunday. San Francisco had Minnesota on the ropes, and this one could have gone either way. To Minnesota I say congratulations for pulling out the win. As to the Detroit/Washington game, I had no doubt that Detroit would win due to the sorry play exhibited by Washington so far. For our third disagreement, that was definitely an ugly performance by Arizona. I guess I need to stop betting against Payton Manning. The play of the week goes to Brett Favre's last second game winning touchdown. The boneheaded play of the week goes to 2 different plays. The first goes to Antonio Smith of the Houston Texans for that nasty horse-collar tackle on Maurice Jones-Drew to end the Texans' chances of getting the ball back for one last play. The other goes to rookie OLB Brian Cushing of the Texans for letting David Garrard walk the ball into the end zone for 6 when he had a clear shot at him for the sack.
As I spent nearly an hour just trying to leave the stadium complex, along with another commitment on Sunday evening, I didn't get to watch all that much football. Right now I'm watching the Dallas/Carolina game, which is looking pretty ugly at this point. The full record along with the up-to-date tally will be posted on Wednesday when I post my predictions for Week 4.
As for now, I leave you with a shot of something I saw of lot of Sunday:
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