Official Texans vs. Colts Game Thread, 9/12/2010

[Blitzwood]

Best game of the SEASON!!!
Seriously, best game I've seen in a long time, I love how our defense came out and punched them in the mouth, but was really sad to see Barwin go down, maybe that will motivate Schobel, who knows??

And to think all this team needed to win in our division was a competent running game.

Brown and Green ruined this team for too long.

Just pray that Foster stays healthy.

[barrett]

Okoye showed more today than he has in the first 3 years combined. Great push against the pass. Chasing down plays in pursuit. First Texans DL ever to consistently get great jumps on the snap count.

Maybe there was something to the whole "he's still younger than Suh" logic of the offseason. Either way I just hope he can keep playing like that.

[NBT]

A good win, and a revamped Oline that looked better than I have ever seen them. Kudos. Foster was great and saved the day for sure. We went with what was working, and the Texans showed patience they haven't showed before. Now on to Washington and the first of the NFL east teams.

[edo783]

O-line looked real good. However, we will have to wait to see how they do against the heavier D-lines. If they can get them moved, we will have a solid season. The back end of the defense is VERY troubling though.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by edo783

O-line looked real good. However, we will have to wait to see how they do against the heavier D-lines.

They'll get their chance next week -- the Redskins DL is looking pretty beefy.

[popanot]

Originally Posted by edo783

The back end of the defense is VERY troubling though.

Other than the TD to Collie at the end I thought they played a good game. The Colts are arguably the best passing team in NFL and always have someone in an open seam. I thought our young DBs did an excellent job of keeping plays in front of them and tackling after the catch. There was always a guy there to wrap the receiver up. I really don't think we could ask for more considering the opponent and the youth we have back there.

[Nconroe]

We also made some pretty big plays with our DB's such as forcing the fumble.

Holding Indy to 3 of 12 on third downs.

Most importantly holding them to 24 points.

First half they did real well.

Second half, Peyton is the best along with his receiving core, and we still held em.

I thought our DL and OL really showed up big all game long.

Fantastic win over our division nemesis, couldn't be happier today.

[WMH]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

Holding Indy to 3 of 12 on third downs.

Other than Foster's stats, I think this is the biggest one of the day. That is freaking HUGE against Mr. Forehead. He is going to get his yards, noone will be able to deny him that, but if you get his a$$ off the field on 3rd done, your chances of winning go up astronomically.

GREAT win by the good guys. I still can't freaking talk from yesterday.......

[barrett]

I have definitely been critical of our secondary, but they played great yesterday.

The Passing yards are meaningless. The late TD doesn't even matter. The bottom line is that the Colts scored 24 points yesterday and it took 57 throws to do it. We avoided big plays, forced them into check downs, got off the field on 3rd down, and stiffened up noticeably on our side of the field.

The biggest two players on Defense were undoubtedly Mario and Okoye, but Eugene Wilson also played great, and all of the DBs tackled extremely well. And that was what ultimately allowed us to force them into the short stuff and punish manning for dropping back 60 times.

Great gameplan and even better execution.

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by popanot

Other than the TD to Collie at the end I thought they played a good game. The Colts are arguably the best passing team in NFL and always have someone in an open seam. I thought our young DBs did an excellent job of keeping plays in front of them and tackling after the catch. There was always a guy there to wrap the receiver up. I really don't think we could ask for more considering the opponent and the youth we have back there.

I felt the DBs were coached to contain more than defend and to not get burned deep. Overall, they did very well at this. I don't know if that tactic changes as we face less-prolific passing teams but it was a good strategy with someone like Manning. The idea was to pressure Manning up front and then ask the secondary to concentrate on tackling the receiver rather than defending the pass so that you keep the gains to a minimum.

[painekiller]

According John McClain,they played more press and man to man in the first half, once they got the first 3rd quarter TD, they went into more zone to keep the play in front of them.

They tackled well and they made Peyton work for little gains. It was an excellent game plan.

[cadams]

it really was. the stadium was crazy yesterday. can't imagine what it will be like when the cowboys are here in 2 weeks.