Official Texans vs. Colts Game Thread, 9/12/2010

[Nconroe]

We also made some pretty big plays with our DB's such as forcing the fumble.

Holding Indy to 3 of 12 on third downs.

Most importantly holding them to 24 points.

First half they did real well.

Second half, Peyton is the best along with his receiving core, and we still held em.

I thought our DL and OL really showed up big all game long.

Fantastic win over our division nemesis, couldn't be happier today.

[WMH]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

Holding Indy to 3 of 12 on third downs.

Other than Foster's stats, I think this is the biggest one of the day. That is freaking HUGE against Mr. Forehead. He is going to get his yards, noone will be able to deny him that, but if you get his a$$ off the field on 3rd done, your chances of winning go up astronomically.

GREAT win by the good guys. I still can't freaking talk from yesterday.......

[barrett]

I have definitely been critical of our secondary, but they played great yesterday.

The Passing yards are meaningless. The late TD doesn't even matter. The bottom line is that the Colts scored 24 points yesterday and it took 57 throws to do it. We avoided big plays, forced them into check downs, got off the field on 3rd down, and stiffened up noticeably on our side of the field.

The biggest two players on Defense were undoubtedly Mario and Okoye, but Eugene Wilson also played great, and all of the DBs tackled extremely well. And that was what ultimately allowed us to force them into the short stuff and punish manning for dropping back 60 times.

Great gameplan and even better execution.