Why not us Houston Texans



I wish we had an elite quarterback but it's a team game. The Texans have a lot of talent and strong pieces almost everywhere on the field.

That NFL (National Football League) channel on Youtube isn't official guys. I thought it was. They were posting content directly from the NFL Network but they remove a lot of their videos after about a week. That's ridiculous. If the channel was official the videos would always stay up and available like the "MLB" channel. I still watch baseball highlights from 2013 and 2012 on there.

Anyways, I can't wait for the Texans preseason opener on August 9 at Arizona. Next Saturday Night.

I'm ready to see Jadeveon Clowney on the field and making his NFL debut. He should play in that preseason opener. Coming off the sports hernia surgery his groin should be close to 75 % by now. He has been cleared for full football activities. He was taking it light the first few days of training camp.

My only concern is Clowney will be thinking too much about it. That's an injury that can take a few months to properly heal, and if rushed too fast you can re-injure yourself, and sometimes even half a full year for normal people to come back strong from. But Jadeveon Clowney is a freak of nature. It shouldn't take his body as long to overcome something like that.

Texans Confident They Have Right Pieces In Place To Make Deep Preseason Run

I like the way the defense is shaping up. Very young and talented. D. J. Swearinger, entering his second season, has a chance to emerge as a difference maker at safety. The front seven pass rush overall should be much improved with Jadeveon Clowney and the return of a healthy Brian Cushing. I think Louis Nix is going to become a big gap-eating force at nose tackle (thinking of a younger Casey Hampton). Returning starting linebackers like Whitney Mercilus and Brooks Reed have more experience under their belts.

J.J. Watt has a lot more help around him. It's just a matter of how quickly these young guys can grasp Romeo Crennell's system.

Offensively is where the problems may arise. The Texans have what many people consider is among the worst starting quarterbacks out of all the 32 teams. Ryan Fitzpatrick just has to play smart and not turn the ball over a lot. Andre Johnson is old but still productive and reliable. Arian Foster is injury prone. Those two playmakers have to stay healthy for the Texans offense to be any good.

I feel confident that DeAndre Hopkins will make a huge leap from year one to two. The offensive line is going to be a strength with Duane Brown, Chris Myers and rookie Xavier Su'a-Filo. I like the fact that Xavier Su'a-Filo has experience playing left tackle, left guard and right guard. He was undoubtedly an excellent draft pick because he'll become a day one starter up front.

I'm very excited about the potential the Texans have. I don't know how quickly we can expect to see winning results. I know this was a 12-4 team just two years ago, that lost to the Patriots in the divisional round, but we also have to remember they were a 2-14 team last season. Currently on a 14-game losing streak as well.

The Texans have a tough Week 1 game at home on September 7 against what should be a high-scoring Redskins offense. That will be a good early season test for the Texans young defense. If they hold their own in that game I'll feel very confident going into the Week 2 game at Oakland on September 14.

As far as the preseason goes. I'm ready to watch Saturday Night's Texans at Arizona game.

We should see a heavy dose of offensive rookies like QB Tom Savage, RB Alfred Blue, TE C.J. Fiedorowicz, FB Jay Prosch and of course OG Xavier Su'a-Filo. The Texans offense doesn't lack youth and I'm excited to see these guys play. In fact, the Texans have a lot of rookies and second-year players on both sides of the ball. The Texans are one of the youngest teams in the NFL.

I'm actually not a fan of Ryan Fitzpatrick even though we share names and he went to Harvard. I'd rather see Case Keenum start. The kid played well enough to win five of the eight games he played in last season but because we had no running game (Arian Foster never played with Keenum) and a bad defense (once Cushing went down), Keenum lost a lot of those leads, including a 21-3 lead over the Colts in Houston. If we had any type of dependable running game or defense we'd have won five of Keenum's eight starts last year (not going 0-8).



We'll see Case Keenum playing most of the preseason games along with Tom Savage. The third preseason game at Denver we should see Ryan Fitzpatrick playing three quarters or at least the entire first half because Bill O'Brien named him the starting quarterback for now.

The Texans should have a dominating defense and highly-ranked running game on offense that they can lean on. Case Keenum would give the Texans exactly what they need to win games if those other two components come to fruition. With Ryan Fitzpatrick we're just getting an older quarterback with less mobility.

Hopefully I'm wrong on Ryan Fitzpatrick and he's a better starting quarterback than what I think he is. I do know what Case Keenum can do, which isn't all that bad, and I have more faith in Tom Savage's long-term potential than anything Ryan Fitzpatrick can offer. The one thing Fitzpatrick has going for him is that he's an intelligent guy from Harvard. He's already learned most of Bill O'Brien's complicated playbook. He has picked up the understanding of it faster than the other two guys.

I just feel like I'm being forced to jump on tha Ryan Fitzpatrick bandwagon. He's the starter so I guess we have to go with it. If things go well I could see the Texans flirting with a 10-6 record in 2014 and perhaps being in the AFC wild card race.

This post was edited by Madmartigan on Aug 5 2014 03:08pm

I'm concerned on how much Arian will play and if he'll be able to deliver like we need him to.

Also training camp visit was a bust.

Everyone got their super early so showing up 30 min before start time was no where near enough lol. Stands were full and the field had at least a 10 ft perimeter of people standing so we couldn't see.

confirmed ACL tear for Cushing....


RIP

I'm ready to watch the Texans at Cardinals pre-season game. It's airing on ABC-13 here in Houston.
They're showing extra points and then the pre-game show. Still another 45 minutea until kickoff.
The Texans have a lot of young players so it should be fun to watch. Johnson and Foster are out tonight.