Post-Game Open Thread: Houston vs. Arizona

 Matt Schaub 158.3
-Played like teh Schaub we all love
 John David Booty 78.1
-Looked good on 2 min drill, think that if he played with 2nd stringers he would of done really well
 Dan Orlovsky 75.3
-Meh decent, but to me looked really awful on bootlegs

both in run blocking and pass protection.

The name “Sharpton” comes up so often. The kid’s gonna become a fan favorite.

And with that my season has started off. LOL

they both embarrassed dudes in the exact same spot on the field vs the cards.
last year AJ bounced that LB off his ass right there…
and this year Mario steamrolled that lineman. lol

Cris Carter declares Andre Johnson best WR in the league.

Says Mario has Defensive Player of the Year potential if he plays as he did in this game.

Bob Allen just said he was behind the bench when the doctor brought out the xray of Ben Tates ankle.. Defensive back coach took a look and shook his head… Not good, which generally means out for season or late season… Waiting for a staement.

is saying it’s a high ankle sprain while the Comicle is hinting at something worse. Hmmm, interesting….

In either case, Arian Foster’s 7.8 YPC says he wants to be the starter.

1’s and 2’s dominated. Could care less about losing. It won’t keep me up tonight knowing that Arizona has a better practice squad than us. My prayers go out to Tate. Hope it’s not as bad as their saying and he’s back on the field soon.

Props to Sharpton and Nolan. Not playing the first stringers, but looked great just the same.

Not impressed with Holliday, but haven’t given up on the kid. This is his first game and you know that there is going to be some serious coaching and adjustments this week. I guarantee that he’ll have a much cleaner and productive game next week.

All in all I’m fired up for this year. Indianapolis is going to have a beast on their hands in week 1.

This has to be the best our 1’s have ever looked in a preseason game.

They will not be able to keep Sharpton off the field. He will be starting week 1 and Dile goes to the bench in week 5.

Trindon was highly disappointing with all the pussy-footing.

Tate is redshirting this year with a cracked ankle which may not be a bad thing. Foster looks like the real deal but he was limping a little bit also.

Fred Bennett never plays another down in the NFL after the first round of cuts.

Rashad Butler is good enough to be a starter.

Dorin Dickerson will be our #2 in the very near future.

Earl Mitchell and Malcom Sheppard were also disappointing.

We have the best pass-catching TE corp in the league and need to take advantage of this, especially in the red zone.

Coach Kubiak is 1-0 on challenges!!!!

I never want to see another end-around called.

Time to watch the game again on NFLN, hopefully with the Cardinals broadcast because Joel Myers is absolutely intolerable.

I’ll check more out after work. But this much I can say for sure:

It’s awesome that football season has started.

When Miami cuts Pat White and other teams other QB’s by Aug 31st … the Texans should take notice…quickly.

GAME PROPS

Arian Foster and Jeremiah Johnson are 1 and 2 this week. Andrae Johnson showed why he’s the NFL Standard…Corners and safeties looked good.. Linebackers looked mean… and the D line (1st team) looked AWESOME… Sharpton, Nolan, Mc Mannis and Quinn … kickass!!! The kicking battle should get better with each week… However Steve Slaton… you fumbled.. get over it… 1 more and I say shop him.. along with Bennett…and any of those soon to be cut fourth quarter participants….Heart and hard work holds a 16 point lead.

couldnt watch the 3’s & 4’s but i thought this team looked solid. Ben Tate please tell me hes ok

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I think RB Ben Tate, the second-round pick from Auburn, is done for the year because of a broken ankle. We’ll find out Sunday.

I hope hes wrong

and the rest of us look dumb. I hope that holds up.

And slaton had a decent game for getting hit the first time in 9 months

on Chris Henry and T. Holliday!! I say keep Dre Davis..

Chris Henry running unto the back of his QB forcing a sack on the last play of the game.

1. As I’ve said all night, Booty needs some 2nd team reps. He seems more capable of backing up Teh Schaub
2. I really think Nolan has a chance to compete for a start, maybe start pushing Eugene Wilson for his job. Try playing him opposite Pollard, major crushing power in the secondary
3. No Slaton in goal line situations. None. Please. Isn’t that what our coke machine is for?

loved the 1’s and 2’s…upset at result but to me it was 16-0…I hated that Kubiak did nt let Rackers go for the Tie with 10 seconds left and a 52 yd FG…we ahve a competition and that needs to be tried…that really pissed me off tonight. Besides for that, i didn’t like Holliday. I still want him to succeed. Didn’t show any speed out there…Besides for usuals…Nolan/Sharpton/Dickerson looked nice out there

You can’t cut a guy with a shaved head and sweet biker mustache.

Don’t get me wrong. I hate injuries. To me though, Tate going down would not be as bad for this franchise as it seems. We have Slaton and Foster. A 3 headed mosnter is tough to do and make everyone happy. With just Foster and Slaton, we get to see what we have in foster for the future as well as slaton…we also get to see if henry or johnson deserve another shot…having tate in there, would make things complicated…i wish it never happened, but it might be (and i hate to say this) a blessing in disguise.

Game aside… those were some tasty drinks, gents.

See you all at the next excuse to drink Sunday the next away game!

Our 1s and 2s dominated on both sides of the ball, especially our defense. Tate going down looked ugly, but I have faith in JJ and Henry. Besides that, I think Arian has officially gotten the starters job, not only because he had a good game, but because of Slaton fumbling. My positives and negatives:

Positives:

Troy Nolan- looked like a starting caliber safety out there. The pick was tipped, but most picks happen when someone is at the right place at the right time. That hit on Stephen Williams(I think) was awesome. Pollard would have gone crazy if he was on the field. If he continues to impress throughout the pre-season, he might put some pressure on Eugene.

Darryl Sharpton- Dude was everywhere. Picking his spots perfectly and not making any mistakes. The thing that I love is that all of his tackles were solo, and that the majority of them were in the open field. I think his speed could be used as a good coverage weapon against TEs if given playing time this year. He showed good hands in scooping up a pick. This was my sleeper rookie going into the pre-season.

Dorin Dickerson- Showed great hands and strength. This guy can be a legit number 1 or 2 receiver when his development is finished.

James Casey- Ran great routes and got open constantly. He also showed his ability to play FB by throwing in a nice block on a running play. If OD gets hurt, Casey should be able to put up similar numbers.

Mario Williams- Now that he is 100%, he is back to his old dominant self. 2 sacks in the first half of the first quarter is impressive. He should make some noise this year, hopefully putting up 16+ sacks.

Dan Orlovsky- At first, he was shaky, and threw 2 bad balls on screen plays, but he got much better, and made some good throws to Jacoby, Casey, and Dickerson.

Jacoby Jones- Route running has improved a ton. Jakespeare should put a lot of pressure on KW throughout the year for the number 2 job.

Darnell Bing- He wasn’t as flashy as Sharpton, but he made some great open field tackles and nearly had a sack FF on Anderson.

Connor Barwin- He didn’t see much action, but he had a nasty spin move that nearly landed him a sack. Can’t wait to see him in the next game.

Arian Foster- Had a nice 20 yard run. The starting job is his to lose as of now.

Andre Johnson- Beast. ’Nuff said.

Negatives:

Frank Okam- I always have faith in Frank year in and year out, but he disappoints yet again. He did keep his man at the line, but he never got passed him or pushed him back. He needs to work.

Malcom Sheppard- Kubes talked highly of this guy, and I didn’t see much. Constantly got stuffed at the line.

Steve Slaton- * Facepalm *

Trindon Holliday- He didn’t seem like he was trying at all. Just jogging up to the 20, stopping, and getting tackled. He needs to adjust to the NFL speed and fast, or Kubes may cut him.

Kasey Studdard- Got manhandled on a Ben Tate stretch run.

Fred Bennett- Words cannot explain how much his skills have decreased.

Red Zone Offense- Cannot settle for FGs. TDs and FGs in the red zone separates good and great teams.

That’s all I can think of. Hopefully Tate’s injury isn’t too bad, even though it looked bad.

Tweet from Pancakes said that he expects Tate to be out for the year, but X-Rays will tell if he is on Sunday.

Casey has locked up the number 2 spot for now, but more importantly, why the fuck did we draft Garrett Graham?! I’m very pissed at Kubes.

I would like to begin by saying that I am pulling in a big way for Holliday and really want to see him make this team.

I didn’t see anything from him that isn’t easily coachable. I think that in some regards he was just trying to not make a big mistake. As Houston fans I think that we should at least give him credit than he didn’t fumble or drop the catch. We all know personally how painful that is. I think that after another game or two in the preseason he will figure it out and feel comfortable turning on the speed and doing what he is capable of.

There’s reports that Tate has a high ankle sprain, a slightly ankle fracture, and a broken ankle….people should just wait for tomorrow’s X-Ray and doctor’s visit.

I have been there not at the pro level mind you and unless he has the pain threshold of little bo peep… that grimice under his helmet says…. Dis shit hurt!!!! He rolled over and lay his ass back down…. It’s pretty bad folks…

There is an upside if there is one Tate was averaging the same yardage as Toby Gerhart against a better defense… Lets hope it is not as serious as they say…. If so Slaton and Henry need to step it up.

re-watching the game….Amobi actually doing a decent job. Actually forced Leinart to step into Mario on Mario’s 2nd sack. Not dominating, but he’s noticeable.

I actually liked what I saw from Dan Orlovsky, he did hold just a bit too long, but he made some pretty nice throws!

The PI call in the fourth qtr didn’t seem to bad in the replay. But it did look like a PI when I first saw it. Looks like Fred Bennett will be out of a job soon.

Studdard caused a 5 yard loss on a run early in the game. Actually with about a minute to go in the 2nd. Tate got nailed after Studdard was pushed off the point of attack.

The last play of the game was screwed by Chris Henry missing a block. We could have had time to kick a FG if we’d had an incomplete pass or even better, a completion with the WR out of bounds.

first, a monster hit on hightower by bonecrusher. right after that, another monster hit by cushing on hightower, causing him to fumble. icing on the cake was mario manhandling the tackle for the sack. 3 different guys, all great individual effort. not to be outdone, offense comes right back and scores on a long TD. seems like everyone is in sync. the texans were SCARY good in the first.

4 chances to hurt your starters before anything counts.

Sucks about Tate but Jeremiah Johnson looked solid I thought.

looked very good. Jeremiah Johnson, looked good. Sharpton was pretty good. I hate that Tate went down, could be a Foster/Johnson combo and Slaton on 3rd down.

were hitting and tackling well, even my wife noticed.

On getting run over by Mario Williams:

“I don’t care what anybody says, there ain’t nothing wrong with his hip,” Keith said.

Awesomesauce.

http://www.myspace.com/jjstiffarm

I’ve been pulling for JJ since we drafted him. Hope he makes the most of this situation and makes the team. It would be pretty nuts if we ended up with a 1-2 punch of undrafted backs in Foster & Johnson.

though we would’ve declined the penalty anyway

Texans rookie running back Ben Tate will need surgery for his ankle injury, coach Gary Kubiak announced on Sunday.

Tate was injured in the third quarter of the Texans’ preseason opener at Arizona on Saturday night. The second-round draft pick (58th overall) out of Auburn gained 12 yards on a carry to the left side before falling to the ground in pain and being carted off the field.

Kubiak said that he’ll know more about Tate’s status on Monday, but he called the injury “very significant.”

Tate (5-11, 220), who ran a 4.43 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine, was drafted higher than any running back in Texans history. He was expected to provide an immediate boost to a running game that ranked 30th in the NFL last season.

After missing most of organized team activities with a hamstring injury this offseason and having an up-and-down first two weeks of training camp, he was on track to get the majority of carries in the Texans’ game against the Cardinals.

Tate entered the game in the second quarter after current starter Arian Foster and 2008 starter Steve Slaton, and he totaled only two carries for seven yards and one catch for five yards before being injured.

The Texans still have a lot of depth at running back with Foster, Slaton, Chris Henry and Jeremiah Johnson at running back. Henry (5-11, 234) has been one of the most impressive players in Texans training camp practices. Johnson (5-9, 218), an undrafted rookie in 2009 who missed last season with a shoulder injury, led the Texans with five carries for 33 yards on Saturday.

The Colts lost to the 49ers, 37-17!!!!