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Sprint Game Ball Of The Week: Rashad Butler
This post is sponsored by Sprint. As the fancy branding indicates, we've got ourselves a new sponsor/running feature here on BRB. Each week, we'll be awarding a fake game ball to one of your Houston Texans. Needless to say, this initial post would have been far more fun to write after Week One...
Duane Brown Joins Brian Cushing On The Suspended List
Now the signing of Ephraim Salaam makes more sense... Like MDC posted earlier, Texans LT Duane Brown has been suspended by the league for four games for violating the league's substance abuse policy. This comes as quite a blow, with the team going up against one of the league's premier edge rushers...
Tape Study: Colts 24, Texans 34 -- Amino Acid (I)
Welcome back to another exciting season of film study, Texans fans. If you're unaware of what these posts are about, I chart football games for Football Outsiders, and all that work goes into the stats you find in the book, such as how many rushers and passers a team sends, who was covering who,...
The Offensive Line - Better Than We Think?
Writer's note: I had planned on writing this up this weekend but failed. Tip o' the hat to AllenOU for bringing this up in the awesome t-shirt thread. It definitely merits its own article and discussion. Onto our regularly scheduled program...I'm going to say this outright: Yahoo! Sports has to...
Ephraim Salaam A Texan Once Again
The circle is complete. Ephraim Salaam, once the starting left tackle for your Houston Texans, is a Texan again, thanks to the questionable health of the youngster who replaced him. It's a tale as old as time: The student becomes the teacher, yet the student suffers a knee injury, thus allowing...
Texans Down 'N Dirty: Dramatic 180 Edition
Another day, more negativity piled on the Texans. MJD from Yahoo's Shutdown Corner did a post detailing the announcer assignments for Week 1 of the NFL season. In said post he asks, How bad is the opening week slate of games on CBS? So bad that the network is sending its lead announcing team...
Steelers vs. Texans Preview: Who's Got The Edge On Offense?
Let's take a look at which team has the upper hand at various positions in Sunday's matchup between the Houston Texans and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's start things off on the offensive side of the ball. Quarterback: Matt Schuab is a solid quarterback, and it wouldn't surprise me if he did some...
Duane Brown: The Texans' New Heavy Hauler
If offensive linemen are the diesel-burning big rigs of the gridiron, then Alex Gibbs is the master mechanic. Like any good craftsman, he knows exactly what it takes to get the gears turning and the wheels rolling. That’s why when Alex Gibbs said the fleet needed an overhaul, the front office...
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