Official Texans vs. Raiders Game Thread, 11/17/2013

[sinnister]

Anyone want to guess how many wins we will have at the end of the season.....I thought we would win this one.

[WMH]

Time to blow it up.

Again......

Ugh....

[Arky]

This is interesting..... which QB would you start?

QB A last 4 appearances: 2 TD's, 5 INT's

QB B last 4 appearances: 8 TD's, 1 INT

[HPF Bob]

"Healthy" Schaub had his chance to redeem himself and, had the Raiders had better hands, there were probably three picks.

This was Keenum's worst game of the four and his OL just keeps folding in front of him like a cheap suit. Hard to blame him. Schaub proved he wasn't any better with the same cast instead of with Foster, OD, etc.

Still, you have to blame the play-calling most. When it was 3rd-and-1 inside the 10 near the end of the game, I told the out-of-towner sitting next to me at the bar "They're going to run to the left and they're going to get stuffed." This is what indeed happened and the guy said "how did you know?" I said "It's the only play Kubiak has called in that situation ALL YEAR. The entire free world knows he's going to run that play which is why it gets stuffed.

You've pretty well hit bottom when you lose to Matt McGloin. He wasn't even good at Penn State. I'm shocked he's even on an NFL roster.

We MUST draft Matthews from A&M this fall. We MUST fix the right side of the line. We can't continue with the talentless lugs we have there. They are killing the entire offense.

[sinnister]

You have to start Keenum. With that being said, Schaub will probably start. We are now playing for a high draft pick friends.

[barrett]

Keenum over schaub is a no brainer but there is reason to doubt the decision maker has a brain.

As for the OL, they are bad, but Keenum has been terrible against the blitz in every game he has played.

Maybe Case is the QB and maybe he isn't. Maybe he progresses in the remaining games in a way that shows he is. But today QB is a FAR bigger need than RT. Try naming the best RTs in the league. Look at what the best teams in the NFL have invested at RT. Drafting Matthews high in round 1 with big money committed to brown would be idiotic.

[chuck]

The Texans' irresponsible drafting and player management is going to be exposed in a serious way very soon. The team has so many needs that it will be impossible to address even a real percentage of them. They'll return one productive DL, their LBs are a horrible. The one guy who's any good can't stay on the field. They have a terrible pair of OLBs for a 3-4 team. Their secondary could and should be improved all across the board. And that's just the defense.

Tate will walk and no one knows if Arian can stay healthy so a RB is a must. Their OL blows and I don't think they'll be able to keep Wade Smith so you're looking at needing two or three starting OL. And then the most important position on the team is still a near total unknown. I like Case and I think he can play but a new coach (I'll assume just for the hell of it that Kubiak will be fired) will surely not want to go into his first year with Case at QB.

Basically the entire franchise is a total disaster and a league-wide joke.