Woah, I see the Texans -9 at home against the Titans this Sunday on Vegas Insider. How is the spread so high? I thought we'd be -6.5 or so. Titans just went into Heinz Field and beat the Steelers 16-9 while we looked very sluggish at San Diego. They're a physical team coached by Mike Munchak and this is somewhat of a rivalry game with a lot of bad blood between the two teams.

I don't expect the Titans to come into Reliant Stadium and beat us, but I'm also expecting a pretty competitive game. It wouldn't shock me if the Texans only win by one score for a second straight game. I do predict the Texans to win 27-20. Hopefully I'm wrong and they easily win by double-digits and cover that ridiculous -9 spread.

First division game of the season. I believe the Titans have more to prove in this game than the Texans do. We better come out and play well or else they're going to out-play us and beat us at our own game. I just don't think we're going to hit our stride as a team until mid season. Arian Foster missed the entire pre-season and he still looks like he needs two or three games under his belt just to get back into game shape.

Four more days away until the home opener. Looks like Ed Reed will be another gametime decision.

“We got close on Ed last week, but it’s too early this week to say he’s going to play for sure,” Kubiak said. “We are very close. We expect him to practice Wednesday. It’s still day-to-day, though.”



In a perfect world, Ed Reed will have another game off to rest his hip and the Texans still win to reach 2-0.
And then Ed Reed makes his 2013 Texans debut Week 3 at Baltimore. You can't script it any better.

is it me or just Jeremy Desel just bad? first time i have ever seen him, but come on know a few things about Cushing if you are doing a story on him!!

When we were down 28-7 in the third quarter, in-game sports odds in Vegas gave us about a 2% chance of winning the game. What a comeback!

It will be one of the largest comebacks in this NFL season. But hardly anyone saw it or will hear about it because it was on so late and all anyone could talk about was the WAS/PHI game.

I kind of want to be at the Vanilla Ice Halftime Show!!!!

pretty sure majority of the viewers went to sleep after that 28-7 score lol

Three more days away until the Titans game. I'm glad it's a normal 12 PM noontime start. I don't have to wait until 9:20 PM on Monday Night. The Titans are one of the more physical teams in the league coached by Mike Munchak so it's not going to be easy. But I'm confident if they're able to stop the run that Jake Locker isn't going to beat the Texans with his weak and inaccurate arm.

I mean wow, Jake Locker wasn't even getting it done in practice about a month ago. Interesting article I came across.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/12/jake-locker-has-practice-to-forget/


We can't afford to lose to a guy like Jake Locker. If we do then we are nowhere near a Super Bowl contender. He didn't even perform that well against the Steelers last Sunday despite the 16-9 win. He barely completed 55 % of his passes (11-for-20) which is in line with his career numbers. The Texans have to stop the Titans running game and force them to air it out. Taking an early lead against them will help control what kind of game their offense plays.

We can't afford to come out like zombies in our home opener and allow the Titans' physicality to dictate the tempo of the game like the Steelers did at Heinz Field. I think it's pretty embarrassing to allow a team that has a mediocre quarterback to come into your house and beat you. It happened late last year with Christian Ponder, who beat us despite completing only 53 % of his passes (16-for-30) so we can't just assume we can show up and win this game.

TL:DR Version: I don't think we're going to come out flat in our home opener and overlook the Titans like the Steelers did.

We need to get these division wins early on. Our schedule is brutal weeks 4 and 5 (vs Seattle, @ San Francisco).

We should unleash Ed Reed Week 3 at Baltimore. But maybe he can see a few plays against the Titans on Sunday.