For the second straight week, your Houston Texans will have a rematch with an AFC North playoff team. This week, the Texans are preparing to travel to Baltimore, where the second-seeded Ravens await for a divisional playoff game.

Not only is this a rematch of a game from October, which Baltimore won 29-14, but it will mark the third time the Ravens and Texans have squared off in the last 13 months, counting last December's 34-28 overtime thriller on Monday Night Football. Despite October's 15-point win, the Texans actually held the lead midway through the 3rd quarter - meaning both games have been close. I imagine we are in for the same kind of close, physical game this Sunday.

As we did last week, let's take a look back to October to see what Houston did right, what they did wrong, and what can we draw from this to apply to Sunday.

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On Sunday afternoon, I watched the Texans beat up on the Bengals to win their first playoff game in history.

It's not that I didn't know what happened or that I missed the game on Saturday, but I had watched the game live with a few friends at this fantastic place called World of Beer -- the type of place with 50 beers on tap and a few hundred more in bottles, but that doesn't carry Bud Light -- and, while the thrill of victory was still fresh in my mind, the exact details of how that victory was accomplished were, well, fuzzy.

See, I'm the type of guy who, when completely sober, has a really hard time remembering details from a day or two before. I'm like the guy from Memento, only with a boring desk job and spreadsheets in place of tattoos. So, when something as momentous as that game occurs while I've had a few, it's useful to be able to retrace the steps that led to victory.

Now with a game coming up against Baltimore, I'm scraping my brain to try and remember what happened three months ago. No chance.

Fortunately, these here interwebs contain much of the detail that I'm looking for.

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The great thing about this week’s Wild Card round opponent, the Cincinnati Bengals, is that your Houston Texans have played them this season. The rematch factor takes away from a lot of speculative guess work, as both teams can look back to see what they did well and need to adjust.

I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at that 20-19 AFC South-clinching victory mere days away from one of the biggest football days in Houston history.

Before you jump, I would like to say how much of a treat it is to discuss playoff football with an actual horse in the race. I was encouraged by seeing the reserves play so hard against Tennessee and hope the team brings all of that passion and fight to Saturday's AFC Wild Card match-up. Now let's jump and see what happened last time these two teams met.

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Way back during the halcyon days of August 2011, Dave Cariello was kind enough to answer some of my questions about his beloved Saints before the Texans welcomed New Orleans to Reliant. Now, a month later, your Houston Texans travel to New Orleans to take on the Saints in a real, live game that actually counts. Dave, stand-up guy that he is, has once again agreed to dispel the curiosity of the BRB staff; I answered Dave's questions as well, and they'll be up at Canal Street Chronicles later today. Dave's answers to the aforementioned questions are after the jump.

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With your Houston Texans readying themselves for Sunday's game in Miami, who better to turn to with questions about the Dolphins than the head man over at SB Nation's blog about the Miami Dolphins? Thus, we're joined by Mosul_DolFan from The Phinsider in this week's addition of "Pre-Game Recon." As always, I answered some questions as well; make sure to head over there to see what's on the mind of DolFans as Sunday's game approaches.

BRB's questions, and MDF's answers, are after the jump.

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