Matt Schaub Wins AFC Offensive Player of the Week

my feeling is that as shaubby’s ankle gets better, so will he. next 2 weeks are CRUCIAL towards getting a good flow, working Walter back into the offense. going 2-0 in our division this early in the season at the very least gives us momentum and confidence. if we can rip off 5 or 6 straight that puts us in the mix. every year is different! no reason we can’t be really successful. Sky is the limit for our offense, and our defense has time to kick some ass against the jags and raiders.

This is the kind of thing that gets this young team into “Raiders Game Mode” from last year. I’d kinda prefer that the media keep kicking the shit out of us, so the guys don’t get cocky.

I know Schaub was great but, how do you over look CJ’s career day, and Payton M just eating up Miami. Schaub was good but not the best this week.

…this is more of a contract thing. “Hey look, I was AFC player of the week X times last year. Give me more money.”

What gets this team in trouble is the belief they seem to have that after a good game, they will just “play that way” next time.

From hearing Kubiak, they did things differently this time around. Including approaching the week as if the Titans game was a loss. So they made the players come in and lift/workout on Monday in addition to watching tape etc…

Guess we will find out on Sunday though.

3rd quarter.. 1:08. on the kickoff after the tochdown to daniels, Casey went low, guy goes in the air, and Bentley jut spins the guy midair, finishing him off. looked like a Dudley Boy 3-D!

…and deservedly so.

He earned this award because of the fashion he did it in. Come from behind on the road against a division opponent is something the Texans never accomplish. Big win and his numbers were simply amazing.

As for breaking down the kind of QB Shaub is, well he is a bit odd. Shaub threw for 357 yards on Sunday and not one pass was a 15-yard bullet to one of his intended receivers. It seemed almost every ball he threw had a nice arc on it and laid right in between defenders only where his receiver could catch.

His deep balls were perfectly thrown too. Even the pass to Slaton in the endzone. It seemed Slaton didn’t sell out for that pass like he should have.

What I was more impressed with though was probably Shaub’s shortest completion of the day. A 3 yard hookup to Joel Dreessen on 4th and 2. Schaub read the coverage quickly and threw a low tight spiral to Dreessen’s gut. Schaub knew three Titan defenders were going to swarm to Dreesen as soon as he caught the ball, so Shcaub threw it to the spot where Dreessen could secure it immediately and go down without the opportunity for would be tacklers to jar the ball loose from his hands. Great execution on that critical down.

Off Topic, but I would like to see the Texans run wildcat just once or twice. Not to seriously use the formation, but just to give oppcoming opponents one more thing to worry about. Colts got shredded by wildcat all night, if they saw Texans run it, even once, would give them something extra to worry about.

That would fit our personell well. The one we saw from Miami requires said WR and RB but others could use Casey, and SS, the real benifit is you can add an extra blocker to your running game. It can also produce some really good miss direction by creating flow even befor the snap with motion. Then allowing the “QB” to run in direction of flow, counter flow, or handoff in sweep, or reverse, or even dare I say it pass.

…Chris Johnson’s “career day” came off of blown assignments more than he doing something great. Good play for his team, but IMO, not because he was special. Any back with speed would score those 3 TDs. Cudos to the NFL for recognizing that.

Teams go after Schaub, because they know given time Matt Schaub will rip you to shreads and as soon as someone commits to stopping him the running game will come.

or are the tits blue tights a lil c thru