Texans NFL Power Rankings Week 7

by Jake on Oct 20, 2009 5:37 PM CDT in News Comment 30 comments

I have to give credit to Music City Miracles, from whom I got this idea. From now on every week I'll be posting where the Texans lie in the power rankings from various media outlets and give their reasoning as well. The Texans' average ranking among everyone that I screened is 19th.

ESPN: 17

This was an impressive win in Cincinnati. They took away the Bengals' run game, and Matt Schaub was nearly flawless. Can their defense keep it up? (M. Williamson)

Fox Sports: 22

Other than catching the Bengals napping last week, the Texans have been the same Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde team as they are every year ... so far at least. LOOKING AHEAD: Like the Jaguars, the Texan have a chance to catch fire with plenty of winnable games.

CBS Sports: 21

Matt Schaub is putting up some big time numbers, which is why they are 3-3. The defense has played better in the last six quarters, which is a good sign.

Yahoo Sports: 18

After his free-flowing moment at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday, does guard Chris (Yellowfish) White realize he's the 21st century answer to former Redskins and Broncos lineman Mark (Stink) Schlereth?

Pro Football Weekly: 19

Who needs a running game when Schaub is healthy and sharp?

Pro Football Talk: 17

Very much alive for a shot at the playoffs, the Texans now hold an important tiebreaker against the Bengals, who will probably be jockeying for wild-card position, too.

NFL Experts: Average Ranking - 19

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We were also tied for 14th in Peter Kings top 15.

14. (tie) Houston (3-3). As I waited to speak with Matt Schaub Sunday after the game via phone, Texans media czar Tony Wyllie said to me, "Hold on. I’m going to put the NFL touchdown leader on the phone.‘’ He’s right: Schaub 14, Brees 13, Peyton Manning 12, Brady 12, Favre 12.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/10/19/week6/1.html#ixzz0UWHJvNEB

by nolander on Oct 20, 2009 5:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

19th is fair. If we win next week I’m guessing we shoot up a fair amount.

by nolander on Oct 20, 2009 5:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

About that Chris White incident...

I havent seen anything on Chris White peeing his pants in the huddle on BRB and I hadnt heard anything about it until this afternoon on one of the local sports radio shows. Does anyone know when Chris “Yellowfish” White did the deed in his pants during a huddle??

19th is fair I suppose, but it still bothers me that teams like the Cowgirls and Chargers are ahead of us. Maybe its my Battle Red Goggles but I think the Texans are better than both of those teams by a healthy margin.

by TexasHoosier on Oct 20, 2009 7:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'd Probably Do The Same...

If I was a back-up fighting for a starting spot on the Texans OL. For Chris White, it’s a sign of dedication. If he come out, his rival goes in. And as an older journeyman, this may be his his last opportunity.

by kozanack on Oct 20, 2009 7:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I remember seeing someone make an odd comment about White Is this for real? Do we have a source? Thats kind of epic… I think.

by nolander on Oct 20, 2009 7:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whatever radio show I heard it on today

had Eric Winston on at the time, and Winston confirmed it. He said it might have helped White play better cause it kept his legs warm.

by TexasHoosier on Oct 20, 2009 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

sports radio 610

by Jordann on Oct 20, 2009 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

so many jokes.....

so little time. mr. “pee pee” pants white will be discussed at a later time.
but…..
the TITS are the gift that keep on givin’! let me understand this correctly… Fish wears a Colt jersey to “feel like a winner.”
so what does that make the TITS in the eyes of their own coach???
LOSERS.
dayum…….

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by chrisd21 on Oct 20, 2009 7:59 PM CDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

CBS Sports

What I don’t get is how the Texans didn’t move up in CBS’ rankings after the Cincy win and Cincy didn’t move down for the loss (they’re listed at number 8!).

by Big T33 on Oct 20, 2009 8:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

the chris white thing

The guys on 610 talked about it all evening yesterday while I was driving home, sounds like this is actually a little more common than you might thing. They even said that someone on the oilers back in the day would #2 during the game. And really would you cut bock a guy who just did that?

You can't fix Dumb

by Texans-Brocos on Oct 20, 2009 8:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Whatever happened to the pregame dump?

by Karsh on Oct 20, 2009 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's when I always did it.

Nothing beats a good pregame steamer to get you going. Nice and light.

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by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 21, 2009 12:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

At least he wasn't drinking it.

Or pulling a “moist hands” alou, and peeing on his hands.

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by CFHTim on Oct 21, 2009 1:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

There are a lot worse reasons to piss your pants

Staying in the lineup to go head to head with a 300 pounder isn’t one of them.
I say kudos to Mr. White

I would probably piss my pants just looking at a 6-3 300 pound man in full battle armor who was looking at me like I was his lunch.

I'm the best there is at what I do.

by xmant2000 on Oct 21, 2009 1:43 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

If we can....

hand it to the Niners, like by 17 or 20, could we be top 10?

GO TEXANS!!!!

This is the year.......

by Texanmaniac on Oct 21, 2009 4:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

after opening my eyes...

lucky for 15th, should prob win a few in a row.

GO TEXANS!!!!

This is the year.......

by Texanmaniac on Oct 21, 2009 4:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I heard on

Mike & Mike this AM saying that the Texans 49ers game was one of the big games this weekend and it is a meaningful game to both teams. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard them talk about being interested in a Texans game and didn’t say that the other team should just steam roll past us. I hope the guys come out fired up and realize this is a game were they can really prove to themselves and everyone else that they are a legit team. Time to put together a winning streak boys!

Confucius says "man who stands on toilet, high on pot".

by Bobobigbro on Oct 21, 2009 9:02 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Well Said

You know... for kids.

by Jake on Oct 21, 2009 9:28 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Time to see

some consistancy (sp?) from this team. They need to re establish dominance at home, give the fans a reason to come in from the parking lot and cheer their team. And people need to be in their seats for opening kickoff, lets get Reliant rockin’ this Sunday.

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by CFHTim on Oct 21, 2009 9:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sports Illustrated

Houston Texans (3-3)
The Texans did a great job of slowing down the Bengals’ blitz that Cincy defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer has had coming all season. A 59-yard receiver screen to Andre Johnson on the game’s first play did the trick nicely, taking some of the aggressiveness out of the Bengals D. It’s called game-planning, and to every yin, there is a yang in the NFL.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/don_banks/10/21/week.7.2/index.html#ixzz0UbshD0LO

by nolander on Oct 21, 2009 4:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

one thing i've been

thinking about is how common it is for teams with any sort of new coordinator to really suck for a few weeks until the players get comfortable in the new system. Kinda how when a new quarter back steps in (Mark Sanchez) he’ll be good for a couple of games because teams don’t have tape on him yet to analyze his faults and take advantage of. So i hope that’s what going on here, because the difference in the defense between the Bengals game and the Jaguars game is tremendous. I know a lot of Texans players are really dumb, and therefore it should take them a little too long to adapt to any new system.

by DUNTA! on Oct 21, 2009 6:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow

I’m glad you have access to the Texan player’s SAT scores dude.

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by CFHTim on Oct 21, 2009 7:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is an OK idea...

…from BRB’s perspective. It functions well to get a round-up of general opinions of the team from a league-wide perspective.

However, power rankings are one of the things that really, truly anger me in sports journalism. One, they’re lazy gimmicks, a cross between USA Today kiddy-graphs and web-magazine pageview generators. You can really just type up a bunch of general crap; the space dedicated to the commentary is so small that the author isn’t really forced to think and dig deep. Oh, surprise, the 18th ranked team has promise but also has glaring errors and has a .500 or 1-game-below .500 record. Gee, didn’t see that coming.

Second, and this is the big one, it takes a terrible idea from the college game and tries to apply it to the NFL. These power rankings are really just something akin to the AP and Coaches polls in the BCS, are they not? And everyone HATES that system! Now, since everyone hates that system, everyone talks about it and gets to bitch about whether the 17th ranked team should be ahead of the 19th ranked team, since the 19th ranked team beat the 17th ranked team in a previous matchup. So I guess it gets more pageviews as people post their thoughts and refresh comments pages.

I guess I’m a grouch.

by socctty on Oct 22, 2009 8:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Sooooooo.....

You’ll have your power rankings posted by Tuesday morning? I mean, you wouldn’t want to buck the system.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stro Kets!

by Shake on Oct 23, 2009 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

DONT BELITTLE KIDDY GRAPHS!

Did you see the awesome graph that TF made for the AJ vs RW thread?

That was the shizzznittt.

But I do agree with you on that one. Power Rankings can be a bit misleading. But it gives me more reading materials when im at work and we all know that half of the texan fans would die at work if it wasn’t for BRB.

by Jordann on Oct 23, 2009 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs