Official Texans @ Titans Game Thread, 12/15/2019

[Arky]

Texans answer with a good drive. Mr. Hyde gets the last 10 yards sweeping left.

Texans 21, Titans 14

10:34 left in the game.

[Arky]

Texans put a drive together but have to settle for a 29-yard FG by Fairbairn.

Texans 24, Titans 14

3:26 left in the game.

[Arky]

Tannehill dumps off to Lewis for an 11-yard TD.

Texans 24, Titans 21

2:04 left in the game.

[Arky]

Texans hang on for the win. Not a pretty finish, but it'll do.

Final score:

Texans 24, Titans 21

[barrett]

Vrabel looks ridiculous. There’s no way I could listen to that guy with a straight face. He looks like a Bears super fan from 1980s SNL.

[chuck]

If he had a navy blue Members Only jacket he would pass for a Bushwick hipster's parody of a guy exactly like himself.

[Keith]

I haven't disliked a divisional opponent's head coach as much as Vrabel since Jack Del Rio.

Another nice game from Cunningham and Reader. Hyde has had a few good games this season, too, but this might have been his best.

Once again, a healthy Fuller makes the offense go. Stills benefitted with the two scores, but tough to imagine those happening without Fuller and Hopkins on the field with him.

I had hoped the redzone/endzone INTs by Watson were a thing of the past, but they made a comeback today. Watson has shown a great deal of development as a pro, but there are still these lapses. Throwing the ball away under 4 mins instead of keeping the ball and staying in bounds to run more clock is another example... I have no doubts about him continuing to learn though.

Another game with another critically wrong officiating decision, namely the one late where the official granted the Titans receiver forward progress for the first down but also stopped the clock. Can't have both. Clock should have ran. Coupled with Watson throwing the ball away a minute earlier, and all that drama to run out the final two minutes of the game are moot. Honorable mention to the unnecessary roughness call on Scarlett for an otherwise very clean hit.

Would like to think the Texans are mature enough to take care of business at Tampa to win that game against an inferior opponent and make Week 17's outcome meaningless. But we know better.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by Keith

I haven't disliked a divisional opponent's head coach as much as Vrabel since Jack Del Rio.

Another nice game from Cunningham and Reader. Hyde has had a few good games this season, too, but this might have been his best.

Once again, a healthy Fuller makes the offense go. Stills benefitted with the two scores, but tough to imagine those happening without Fuller and Hopkins on the field with him.

I had hoped the redzone/endzone INTs by Watson were a thing of the past, but they made a comeback today. Watson has shown a great deal of development as a pro, but there are still these lapses. Throwing the ball away under 4 mins instead of keeping the ball and staying in bounds to run more clock is another example... I have no doubts about him continuing to learn though.

Another game with another critically wrong officiating decision, namely the one late where the official granted the Titans receiver forward progress for the first down but also stopped the clock. Can't have both. Clock should have ran. Coupled with Watson throwing the ball away a minute earlier, and all that drama to run out the final two minutes of the game are moot. Honorable mention to the unnecessary roughness call on Scarlett for an otherwise very clean hit.

Would like to think the Texans are mature enough to take care of business at Tampa to win that game against an inferior opponent and make Week 17's outcome meaningless. But we know better.

I think we are almost to the place where tacklers are getting flagged for takling a ball carrier/receiver too hard no matter how clean the hit my be.
That play was a key in gifting the Taks a first down and it could have been consequential in the outcome of the game which turned out not to be the case.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

If he had a navy blue Members Only jacket he would pass for a Bushwick hipster's parody of a guy exactly like himself.

It’s probably a bad sign when you look like a parody of yourself.