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Our weekly snap count makes its return now that I'm back from vacation. Thankfully, I missed that Jaguars game completely. Judging from the box score of that "game," I consider myself lucky for missing it. The All-22 for that game shall remained sealed away forever.
Your Houston Texans put up a much better display yesterday by giving the New England Patriots everything they could handle. Ultimately and predictably, it wasn't enough.
Offense
| Name | Position | O Snaps / Pct % | Special Teams % |
| C Keenum | QB | 60 / 100 | 0 |
| W Smith | G | 33 / 55 | 16 |
| D Brown | T | 60 / 100 | 16 |
| D Newton | T | 33 / 55 | 16 |
| R Harris | T | 27 / 45 | 16 |
| B Brooks | G | 60 / 100 | 16 |
| C Myers | C | 60 / 100 | 0 |
| B Jones | C / G | 27 / 45 | 39 |
| A Johnson | WR | 58 / 97 | 0 |
| D Hopkins | WR | 56 / 93 | 0 |
| G Graham | TE | 60 / 100 | 0 |
| D Johnson | RB | 11 / 18 | 0 |
| B Tate | RB | 49 / 82 | 0 |
| G Jones | FB | 16 / 27 | 32 |
| L Jean | WR | 0 / 0 | 6 |
| K Martin | WR | 24 / 40 | 32 |
| D Posey | WR | 3 / 5 | 0 |
| R Griffin | TE | 22 / 37 | 74 |
| J Byrne | TE | 1 / 2 | 16 |
They merry-go-round continues for Wade Smith and Ben Jones with close to a 50/50 split of playing time. This has been the trend for the last few weeks, but it proved to be much more effective this time. Ben Tate's 20-yard touchdown late in the second quarter was thanks in part to Ben Jones clearing his man (former Texan Chris Jones #94) out of the way.
Despite bobbling a pass that ended up being intercepted against the Jaguars, Keshawn Martin saw the most playing time of any receiver not named Andre Johnson or DeAndre Hopkins. He was targeted just one time, though, for a catch and run of 27 yards. DeVier Posey saw very little playing time for whatever reason.
DeAndre Hopkins had a beautiful over-the-shoulder catch that helped the offense keep up with Tom Brady and the Patriots. He was targeted five times for 2 catches and 77 yards. Here are his numbers for the season.
This is about what you'd expect from a rookie wide receiver. It won't be good enough for any Rookie of the Year votes, especially on a team losing the way this one is.
Defense
| Name | Position | D Snaps / Pct % | Special Teams % |
| W Mercilus | LB | 69 / 99 | 26 |
| D Swearinger | DB | 64 / 91 | 26 |
| B Reed | LB | 70 / 100 | 26 |
| J Watt | DE | 67 / 96 | 26 |
| D Sharpton | LB | 55 / 79 | 26 |
| J Tarpinian | LB | 27 / 39 | 58 |
| J Joseph | CB | 66 / 94 | 10 |
| S Keo | FS | 70 / 100 | 19 |
| A Smith | DE | 59 / 84 | 26 |
| J Crick | DE | 12 / 17 | 52 |
| B McCain | CB | 36 / 51 | 23 |
| B Harris | CB | 3 / 4 | 32 |
| E Mitchell | NT | 34 / 49 | 26 |
| T McClain | DT | 5 / 7 | 0 |
| E Pleasant | SS | 24 / 34 | 48 |
| J Tuggle | LB | 52 | |
| M Mohamed | LB | 58 | |
| J Victorian | DB | 55 | |
| B Braman | LB | 1 / 1 | 58 |
| D Karim | RB | 32 | |
| E Mack | CB | 35 |
Not much of note, really, except that it was nice to see Kareem Jackson on the field again. In one of his three snaps on defense, Brandon Harris made a great play to stop a third down conversion against Rob Gronkowski. Good for him, but he's not living up to his second-round draft billing unfortunately.
D.J. Swearinger had himself a busy day with 8 total tackles, including 1 TFL. None of his tackles were of the "Hey! Get back here!" variety. He appeared to have learned from his mistake against the Raiders and brought his man down with authority.
That's it for me. Let us hear your thoughts, as always.
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