Official Texans @ Browns Game Thread, 11/16/14

[HPF Bob]

BTW, I noticed Watt wasn't on the punt return team in the second half. I guess someone decided it was better to let him rest.

That Browns punter had a really rough day. And, even worse, he's in Cleveland. As Bum Phillips used to say "The best thing about playing in Cleveland is that, when it's over, we get to go home to Texas."

[Nconroe]

We won the turnover battle again today as well, another reason we won quite as easily as we did.

[Arky]

Early line has the Texans as a 1 to 2.5 pt favorite over the Bengals next Sunday...

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by Arky

Early line has the Texans as a 1 to 2.5 pt favorite over the Bengals next Sunday...

I'm excited after that convincing win yesterday in Cleveland, easily the best game we've played since 2012, and I'm not surprised we are slightly favored at home vs Cinci this weekend.
I'm even thinking we might have a chance at Indy after watching the Pats eviscerate the Colts at the los last night in Indy, on both sides of the ball. We are just a game behind Indy, the POs are a long-shot but the season isn't over for us just yet.

[HPF Bob]

Just like the Good Romo/Bad Romo meme, do we see Good Dalton/Bad Dalton next Sunday. I know if this were the playoffs who I'd like.

BTW, Texans now just a game behind the Colts (Game-1/2 if you count tiebreakers).

[WMH]

I'm tempering my enthusiasm as we've been down this false hope road before. I was happy to see Mallett's command of the O. It's obvious that the game plan was to put him in good situations and having the OL play it's best game of the season did just that. Good OL play let Blue have a career day and hopefully that will motivate Foster even more. Interested to see games 3 and 4 after teams get film on him. But damn, dude has a cannon.

Need to steal a game, preferably 2 from the Colts, Bungles, or Ravens and good possibility of a 10 win season and primed for the last wildcard. Since we've never won in Indy, tough to count on that one, but they did lose Bradshaw to a broken ankle. Need solid games vs Ratbirds and Bungles and the bad side of those QBs to show up.

[HPF Bob]

Maybe it came from watching Fitz too long but I was impressed how quickly Mallett could get the ball out with some zip on it. I'll bet when he was in New England behind Brady, they worked a lot with him on that because it's a staple of their offense.