Official Texans vs. Redskins Game Thread, 9/7/2014

[Arky]

Pass to AJ goes for about 14.

Another pass to AJ gets 13 or so.

Foster for 1.

Pass to Hopkins gets about 6 but flags are down followed by a little extra enthusiasm.. Offsetting, replay the down. 2nd and 9.

Foster for short gain. 3rd and 6 coming up.

Fitz's pass to Fido is off the mark, inc. Texans will have to punt.

Punt is downed by the Texans at the Redskin 11 yard line. Redskin's ball.

[Arky]

Pass to Garcon gets 6.

Pass to Roberts goes all the way to the Redskin 40.

Pass to the TE goes for short gain. 2nd and 7 coming up.

RG3 runs out of the pocket and throws it away, inc. 3rd and 7 coming up.

Deep pass over the middle ends in a fumble and the Texans recover! Whew! Looked like the guy was on his way to 6 points....... K Lewis on the recovery.

Texans ball at their 9 yard line.

[Arky]

Foster for 2 or 3.

Fitz's pass to AJ is underthrown, inc. 3rd and 8 coming up.

Pass to AJ gets 9 and the 1st down.

Foster runs for about 7 or 8.

Pass to Hopkins is broken up, inc.

On 3rd and 3, Fitz hits Hopkins for 4 and a 1st down.

Foster for 3. About 1 minute left in the 3rd qtr.

Foster gets 6, just short of the 1st down. 3rd down coming up.

Fitz sneaks for 3 and the 1st down. Ball at the Texan 47.

End of the 3rd qtr.

[Arky]

Foster for 7.

Grimes for 1. 3rd and 2 coming up. A Redskin (Hatcher) injured on the play. Injury timeout.

Screen to AJ goes for nice gainer and a late flag for the horse-collar tackle. Half the distance to the goal places the ball at the Redskin 11.

Oy, Foster sweeps right and fumbles. Redskins recover at the 8 yard line. Redskin's ball.

[Arky]

Pass goes for 8.

Morris rumbles for nice gainer. Ball at the Redskin 25.

Pass to Garcon good for 10.

RG3 sacked by Watt! Loss of 6. 2nd and 16 coming up.

Timeout Redskins.

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There goes my Dish (rain)

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Pass to Jackson goes to the Redskin 47.

Morris loses 4.

Dumpoff pass loses 3. 3rd and 17 coming up.

Deep pass is broken up by Bouye, inc. Redskins have to punt.

D Johnson brings the punt back to the Texan 16 but holding pushes it back to the 8 yard line. Texan's ball.

[Arky]

Fitz pass to Griffin good for 9.

Foster gets the 1st down. Flag. Offsides Redskins. Ball at the 23.

Pass over the middle inc. Flag on the Redskins for roughing the passer. Places the ball at the Texan 38.

Foster for about 9.... 2nd down and 1.

Foster for no gain. 3rd and short.

Texans call a timeout. 5:49 left in the game.

Foster gets the 1st down at midfield.

Foster for gain of 4.

Blue for no gain. 3rd and 6 coming up.

Fitz scrambles for the 1st down at the Redskin 37.

Pass to AJ goes to the 16! A Redskin is injured on the play...... Injury timeout.

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Foster caught in the backfield for a loss of 3. Redskins use a timeout. 2:35 left in the game.

Flags presnap. Offsides Hopkins, -5. 2nd and 18 coming up.

Screen to Hopkins for no gain. Redskins use their final timeout with 2:30 left in the game.

Foster for maybe 1. Texans to go for the FG after the 2 minute warning.

2 minute warning.

[Arky]

Bullock's 42-yard FG is good!

Texans 17, Redskins 6

1:55 left in the game.

[Arky]

Bullock's ensuing kickoff goes out of the endzone, touchback. Redskin's ball at their 20.

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Pass to Paul goes for about 19.

Pass to Jackson gets 13.

RG3's pass is deflected at the LOS, inc. 1:35 left in the game.

RG3 pressured, throws it away, inc. 3rd and 10 coming up.

RG3's pass is batted down by Watt, inc. Makes it 4th and 10 coming up.

RG3 pressured, flips it to Helu who comes up short of the 1st down.

Texans go into the victory formation, running out the clock.

Final Score:

Texans 17, Redskins 6

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They say Clowney had a knee injury during the game..... Damn!

[chuck]

I wonder if we'll ever get a true account of what's up with Clowney.

[Arky]

There's a good chance the Texans will have a 1 game lead over the Colts by the end of the day. They'll share the AFCS lead with the Titans. Titans turned some heads today with the upset of the Chiefs....

[Keith]

Kudos to Mike Vrabel for getting something out of Brooks Reed. I guess it is a contract year for Reed, too.

O'Brien understandably has little confidence in Fitzpatrick throwing the ball downfield. Won't be long before he gives him the dreaded 'vote of confidence'.

[nunusguy]

Pretty solid game by the defense (and S-Teams) with another great effort by JJ. Swearington also played very well. And I thought Clowney made a couple plays before he went out, hope the injury is not too bad.
So what it's been since September of last year since a win ? Wow, what a dry spell.

[barrett]

Watt was amazing. He has a motor like a guy trying to make the 53 man roster. It is a real treat to watch. There is not a defensive player that comes close to him for impacting a football game.

Swearinger was really good. It's a shame he purposely got himself a rep for dirty/rough play. Now he gets flagged for perfect form tackles.

And Cushing just adds something beyond the plays he makes. Great to see him out there.

The offense was bad, but bad was all it needed to be, so I'll reserve judgment. I was surprised by how much empty backfield we used.

And it sure is nice to have great ST play. In a normal Texans season we would have played the Redskins even on Offense and Defense and lost. This year we played them even and won by 11 due to the ST.

All in all I would say, few surprises, Watt is maybe better than ever, and I am starting to really believe O'Brien can coach.

[barrett]

I don't know how I forgot, but GREAT game from Brooks Reed. I had given up on ever saying that. He has often been solid, but never impactful. And Mercilous got in on the action too. Whether it's Vrabel or something else, great to see.

[chuck]

It looked to me like Reed is heavier than he's been in years past. Not slower, just bigger.

[HPF Bob]

Let's not forget Foster who sat out all the all the pre-season games and still ripped off a 100-yd effort behind a less-than-stellar o-line. Gotta hold onto the rock though. That fumble is what you expect for a guy who hasn't had live contact in a long time.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Let's not forget Foster who sat out all the all the pre-season games and still ripped off a 100-yd effort behind a less-than-stellar o-line. Gotta hold onto the rock though. That fumble is what you expect for a guy who hasn't had live contact in a long time.

He's got a real fullback in front of him for the first time in a long time but you're quite right to highlight Foster because the team's going to need a whole lot more of that sort of effort if they're going to move the ball and score every once in a while.

[Keith]

The fumble resulting from the lack of training camp and preseason contact is spot on. I didn't have concerns about Foster being effective from the lack of August work, though the fumbling was sure to be a concern.

The offensive gameplan did Foster no favors, either. Without a downfield passing attack (or rather, even a downfield passing effort at all), Foster had to run into a defense knowing it was going to run, and seemed to have a pretty good idea of where he would be headed too (not many counters?).

All in all, a nice effort from Foster, one better than his stats would show. Seemed to me the Redskins players appreciated what the Texans were putting him though too... lotta respect out there for him from his peers.

[Nconroe]

I really enjoyed going to the game yesterday since we won. There were quite a few Washington fans around where I was so it was extra nice win.

Pregame National Anthem was sung by Clay Walker, Toro swung down from rafters some how, and had a nice salute to firemen first responders, and veterans and wounded warriors. nice to see those guys smiling and being recognized. Nice little half time show as well.

One nice thing of being there is you can see the whole field, not just what TV and announcers want you to see or hear. Although replays on the big screen was nice.

Overall, I thought Fitzpatrick did ok, had reasonable zip on the ball, and didn't try to force ball into tight coverage. and he had two good runs for first down. Fitz ended up with passer rating of 109. Only 1 sack.

Foster did real good with several runs in the 6 to 9 yd area, but then quite a few places where OL seemed to not give any running room at all. Total of 103 rushing yds could have been more, but for a few dumb penalties. Plus he had receiving yds. One fumble on Redskins 10 yd line could have been a score to put game out of reach a little earlier.

Andre Johnson and Hopkins both looked very good, AJ most on quick slants and Hopkins mostly on the one 76 yd TD catch and run. TE didn't seem to be open very much.

Obviously JJ Megawatt had a great game and a major contributor to why we won the game. I'm not sure if the Skins running success was DL or Linebacker issues, but runs up the middle needs to get fixed. Front 7 did put a lot of pressure on RGIII throughout the game.

And then the two fumble recoveries inside Texans 10 yd line changed the game and must of really frustrated Washington.

I thought Swearinger especially, but also the CB's Joseph, Jackson, and Bouye had reasonable coverage and tackling. not sure why we seem to give up short passes so easily but deep coverage overall was good. more to work on.

Two big Special Teams plays, was a welcome change from last year. First JJ blocked an extra point, and then Blue blocked a punt, recovered the ball and ran it in for a touchdown, very nice with all those Redskins sitting in front of me.

Since we won, won't mention much on ref's and they did seem to balance out their bad calls for most part other than on Swearingers sack, roughing call.

I guess I could say the coaching of offense and defense and ST seemed solid.

Due to we won the turnover battle, seemed a little easier than it really was.

And I thought fans did an excellent job of getting loud when Washington was on offense , atleast from what I could hear.

And exit escollators weren't working, so that was a small hassle along with drizzling rain to get to vehicle. Thunder was pretty loud during late part of game. The white Out T-shirt and towel are appreciated.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

I really enjoyed going to the game yesterday since we won. There were quite a few Washington fans around where I was so it was extra nice win.

Pregame National Anthem was sung by Clay Walker, Toro swung down from rafters some how, and had a nice salute to firemen first responders, and veterans and wounded warriors. nice to see those guys smiling and being recognized. Nice little half time show as well.

One nice thing of being there is you can see the whole field, not just what TV and announcers want you to see or hear. Although replays on the big screen was nice.

Overall, I thought Fitzpatrick did ok, had reasonable zip on the ball, and didn't try to force ball into tight coverage. and he had two good runs for first down. Fitz ended up with passer rating of 109. Only 1 sack.

Foster did real good with several runs in the 6 to 9 yd area, but then quite a few places where OL seemed to not give any running room at all. Total of 103 rushing yds could have been more, but for a few dumb penalties. Plus he had receiving yds. One fumble on Redskins 10 yd line could have been a score to put game out of reach a little earlier.

Andre Johnson and Hopkins both looked very good, AJ most on quick slants and Hopkins mostly on the one 76 yd TD catch and run. TE didn't seem to be open very much.

Obviously JJ Megawatt had a great game and a major contributor to why we won the game. I'm not sure if the Skins running success was DL or Linebacker issues, but runs up the middle needs to get fixed. Front 7 did put a lot of pressure on RGIII throughout the game.

And then the two fumble recoveries inside Texans 10 yd line changed the game and must of really frustrated Washington.

I thought Swearinger especially, but also the CB's Joseph, Jackson, and Bouye had reasonable coverage and tackling. not sure why we seem to give up short passes so easily but deep coverage overall was good. more to work on.

Two big Special Teams plays, was a welcome change from last year. First JJ blocked an extra point, and then Blue blocked a punt, recovered the ball and ran it in for a touchdown, very nice with all those Redskins sitting in front of me.

Since we won, won't mention much on ref's and they did seem to balance out their bad calls for most part other than on Swearingers sack, roughing call.

I guess I could say the coaching of offense and defense and ST seemed solid.

Due to we won the turnover battle, seemed a little easier than it really was.

And I thought fans did an excellent job of getting loud when Washington was on offense , atleast from what I could hear.

And exit escollators weren't working, so that was a small hassle along with drizzling rain to get to vehicle. Thunder was pretty loud during late part of game. The white Out T-shirt and towel are appreciated.

That has always been a hallmark of Bellichek defenses (including the ones Crenell coordinated). I think the stat is that Bellichek's defenses have finished higher in points allowed than yards allowed for like 20 straight years. I am assuming Crenell is similar (never paid close enough attention to him in CLE/KC to say for sure). Give up the short stuff and rely on the fact that at some point on a 10+ play drive, the other team is going to get behind the chains and you are going to stop them. It sure worked great yesterday. Very few NFL offenses execute at a level to matriculate down the field with no big plays. And even fewer can do so with JJ Watt ruining about %25 of the plays in on way or another. I hope we give up the short stuff all year. It was especially impressive against a team with some guys who can really get deep.