Yes. When the Texans lost to Green Bay, they proceeded to go on a 6 game win streak....(which unfortunately ended tonight). It's good in a way - the Texans now know what they have to deal with in the playoffs and can get better prepared...

Pats kneeling it out.....

Final score:

Pats 42, Texans 14.

Whelp, kiss that #1 ranking in the power rankings goodbye.

Ok, hope we do better if we get a rematch in playoffs.

The Texans just got ass raped by an organization that is vastly superior in every way. If you guys thought this was a Super Bowl team you were sadly mistaken. Super Bowl teams do not get completely embarrassed by conference rivals in December.

Well, the Texans are a playoff team and I for one, certainly hope to see a rematch in the playoffs....

On my way to checkout McClains tweets..... no doubt he's full of sunshine tonight....

The Texans are a playoff team just like the Colts are. The only trouble is the Colts could win the division.

Why are you checking out McClain's tweets? If you want to know the best places to eat in Boston I'm a far better source unless you really like buffets.

Early line is Texans by 9.5 over the Colts....

I'm not going to Boston (a real pleasant tribe up there) anytime soon but Boston could be coming to Houston in a few weeks....:)

I feel like the Texans decided they expect to see the Patriots again in the playoffs and went vanilla. Did you notice Schaub did not run one play-action boot in the game, which is the staple big play in our offense? No deep balls to AJ? This really wasn't the Texans offense as if Kubiak was trying hard not to reveal his hand.

On the bright side, JJo is back and Tate is back. I do think this a better team than the Colts but we were last year too and we still lost in their house.

Yes. In fact, I actually expected it to be the Patriots that would show us a more vanilla offense.

Still doesn't excuse the first quarter defense, or the fact that a good QB (like, oh, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady) can read the Texans blitzes like a Dr Seuss book.

Vanilla or not, that was a good ole fashioned butt whoopin. Schaub played his worst game of the season on the biggest stage he could have asked for. No use in bitching about him, we are stuck with him, but if he can't rise to this level, what's he going to do when/if we reach the AFC Championship game?

Just think, next time we face the Pats, if we face the Pats, they will have Gronk.......

Good news, we still control our own destiny, but I still wouldn't mind seeing the 49'ers take one from these guys next week.

I've thought for awhile (well, since the Packer game I guess), that the best teams in the league were in the NFC but that we could still compete with anybody in the AFC. Well now I know better after last night.
It's still been a great year and I'm just as excited as ever to see how we do vs the Colts Sunday because nobody is going to take that game for granted anymore, no more of this talk about how we are vastly more talented than Luck and Co.

I don't think the best teams are in the NFC at all. I think the 5 best teams are the Giants, Patriots, Packers, Texans, and Broncos (in some order). The NFC might be better at the bottom and that explains the winning percentage, but outside of those 2 teams there is not much in that conference. The Cowboys are in position to win either a division or the wildcard and they are trash. Shanahan said I give up on this year, and is in the same spot 6 weeks later.

As for last night, we got killed. And it is never a good thing to lose no matter what. We were not ready to play early. We were terrible on offense all night (embarrasingly so). And I don't know that I could reasonably disagree with Chuck that the Pats are better than us on every possible key organizational level (ownership, Coach, QB, scheme). The only possible edge we have against them is GM. That and we will play at home next time.

Before the game I would have given us slightly less than 50/50 odds against them in a home playoff game. Last night doesn't really mean much (the Patriots beat up on the Giants before one of their superbowls. They also curb stomped Arizona in like week 15 a few years ago before going out early while Arizona went to the superbowl). The one and done nature of the NFL playoffs means it is all about being healthy, happy, and better on that day. We are not better than NE but we are definitely good enough to have a chance to be better on that day (especially if it's in Reliant).

These guys better wake up next week or that noose is going to tighten significantly. They do not want to go into that Indy road game with the division on the line.

Where's all of those guys now who said sweeping Indy would be a slam-dunk ?

I haven't watched much of Indy but they seem to have a knack of winning ugly. That's a bit scary but also a bit comforting. The Patriots embarrassed Indy just as much as they did us.

I'm just hoping this game is what the Texans needed to refocus them on the final three games and the playoffs. If they can hold the #1 seed, I still see them hosting the AFCCG. We've obviously been resting Foster and I think they can still gameplan as well as anyone but New England. Getting the defense healthy and focused is the primary challenge left.

While there is nothing good to say about the game last night this is over the top. 9-7 teams have won the Super Bowl, so an 11-2 team with two big losses could as well. They may not, but you are over the top here.

No I'm not. The Pats are better in every way. That's not to say that the Texans could not play a better game and win. But the Pats are clearly better and it's silly to hide from that. There's no shame in being not as good as the best organization in the league.

I think it was barrett who was mentioning their GM. It's curious, isn't it? Despite going to the Super Bowl every freaking year they always seem to have lots of great picks (excellent work by the GM) yet they seem to Casserly quite a number of them, don't they?

Anyway, I'm over this one and already envisioning Luck going bananas on our gimpy secondary.

I'm just going off my gut and haven't went back and looked at anything but it doesn't seem like their last few drafts have been that good. Where the Pats impress me is their ability to take trash heap guys and somehow make them significant contributors (often only days after signing them). Seems like they're constantly signing some guy off the street who immediately comes in and plays well.

Well, last night ESPN was talking about a slew of first and second round guys who haven't done shit yet when whatshisname goes out they send in a 7th round rookie corner who effectively (if not literally) shut down AJ completely.

Well, you said that this isn't a Super Bowl team. That has nothing to do with the pats. Unless they meeT again in the conf championship. Lets not forget that the pats can lay an egg as well. They did lose to Arizona.