Official Texans vs. Rams Game Thread, 10/13/2013

[Arky]

Manning bobbles the ensuing kickoff but gets it out to the 12. Texans ball.

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Schaub can't find a receiver and is caught for loss of 1. 2nd and 11 coming up.

Pass to Hopkins over the middle good for 22.

Pass to Jones goes for 4. 2nd and 6 coming up.

Foster sweeps right for about 5 but flags are down......Holding on Newton makes it 2nd and 14.

Short pass to Tate goes for about 9 but flags down.... Piling on on the Rams gives and auto 1st down at the Ram 46.

Tate for maybe 1.

Pass to AJ goes for 18 and a 1st down.

Pass to Hopkins goes for big gainer but Hopkins fumbles and Laurinaitis picks it up and returns it all the way to the Texan 43. Rams ball.

[Arky]

Stacy gets 7. 2nd and 3 coming up.

Pass to Austin goes for 3 and a 1st down.

Stacy for about 2. 2nd and 8 coming up. Ball at the Texan 31.

End of the 1st quarter.

[TheMatrix31]

Kubiak needs to be fired and that's that.

[HPF Bob]

What can you say about that type of game except the season is now officially on life support. If they don't beat KC next week, they will go into the bye week on a five-game losing streak and their season is effectively over.

Gives some props to the Rams. They are starting to put themselves together.

As for Yates, that did look amazingly like nothing had changed with Schaub out. Except the refs will call roughing when Yates get hit. I swear, the refs have some pact where Schaub never gets a roughing flag.

[Arky]

There's just layers upon layers at work here so I'll just hit on a couple of things that are bothering me....

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I'm going to defend Yates. He probably didn't even get any extra reps this week. He's like the old dusty tool in the woodshed that needs tweaking before it is usable again. Of course, I didn't like the pick 6 or the dink & dunk "comeback" he executed. Have we completely given up on the long ball? Hell, I'll take a 25-yard pass - complete or incomplete. Just show it occasionally...

I'd really like to see what Keenum can do unless he's put in a puppetmaster situation. But it's too early to totally write off Yates, IMO.....

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As for Schaub, not a fan of Solomon at the Chron but he summed it up pretty succinctly:

3. Matt Schaub has gotten over his pick-six-aphobia.

That’s the good news (zero interceptions). The bad news is he was back to being the Schaub that so disappointed Texans fans at the end of last year. You know, the one who throws passes into the dirt after escaping the rush and the one who checks down when there is no rush. The best examples of both were at the start of the third quarter, when the Texans trailed 17-6 and needed to get something going. On a first down from the Rams’ 49, Schaub slid away from slight pressure then threw the ball into the dirt trying to hit Andre Johnson on a pass that top college quarterbacks make with regularity these days. On third down, Schaub (15 of 21 for 186 yards) dropped into the pocket and didn’t even allow his receivers to run their routes before he threw underneath to Garrett Graham, who was some five yards short of the first down. It was as if Schaub thought it was third-and-3 instead of third-and-10.

I could care less about being morally outraged at the whole cheering the injury deal.....it's fans being fans. Controversy makes for hot topics and some people are not nice (duh). Big deal, get over it.

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The team is a mess right now and I don't have any answers. But hey, at least we kicked their asses in time of possession and total yards.