New England,Denver r Balt. ?

[futballiscool]

Houston's pass defense is horrendous. Cushing was a huge loss, and with the revamped o-line from last season, their running game nor their offense as a whole is what it used to be.

Baltimore - 40 percent
Houston - 33 percent
New England - 10 percent
Denver - 5 percent

Their pass defense has allowed the lowest passer rating of any AFC playoff team. The offense is 6th in points and top 10 in yds. Foster's YPC is down, but it's still an effective offense.

Denver's the AFC favorite, but Houston is still a good football team who can get hot and win the conference

 

[cincygrad]

Their pass defense has allowed the lowest passer rating of any AFC playoff team. The offense is 6th in points and top 10 in yds. Foster's YPC is down, but it's still an effective offense.

Denver's the AFC favorite, but Houston is still a good football team who can get hot and win the conference

You're forgetting 'context.' It's a magical word that means stats are always less important than Rey's misguided opinions. It's replaced 'reading comprehension' as his buzzword/phrase.

 

[flamingrey]

Their pass defense has allowed the lowest passer rating of any AFC playoff team. The offense is 6th in points and top 10 in yds. Foster's YPC is down, but it's still an effective offense.

Denver's the AFC favorite, but Houston is still a good football team who can get hot and win the conference

To be honest, I haven't seen them play much. I work with 2 Texan fans and neither has been very high on the team since the Cushing injury. I was repeating most of what I've been told. But based on those stats, their assessment is incorrect.

Upon further research, Houston had a pretty cake schedule last year, so it was easy to look good for the entire year. They really had few defenses their offense might struggle against or few offenses they had to try to match up against. However, because of the more difficult schedule this year (GB, Chicago, NE, Minn), because their offense can't hold up against the powerhouses, it must appear to the average fan that their offense isn't what it used to be.

That said, it actually seems to bode well for a potential matchup against them. Based on the above, it certainly appears they beat up on a lot of bad teams to look as good as they do, and with the way our defense is playing right now, we shouldn't have trouble holding them to a respectable score.

 

[flamingrey]

5. QB Matt Schaub, Texans – Schaub is a nice player, an example of the type of quarterback you can win with when everything else around him is very good, if not excellent. The problem is that Schaub has been exposed in games when called upon to be the focus of the offense, such as during defeats to the Packers, Patriots and Vikings. He's your prototype, mistake-free quarterback who stays out of the way. That, however, doesn't exactly scream Pro Bowl. Sadly, the depth in the AFC this year isn't very strong, although Luck deserved it more than Schaub.

Richard Sherman, Andrew Luck among Pro Bowl snubs; Ed Reed, Matt Schaub undeserving - Yahoo! Sports

Pretty much what I figured. And Schaub apparently is the weak link. I guess stats can be deceiving without a little context.

The Texans really don't scare me. They're probably still the better team though.

 

[cincygrad]

Richard Sherman, Andrew Luck among Pro Bowl snubs; Ed Reed, Matt Schaub undeserving - Yahoo! Sports

Pretty much what I figured. And Schaub apparently is the weak link. I guess stats can be deceiving without a little context.

The Texans really don't scare me. They're probably still the better team though.

Strange that the writer only focuses on games that make his point, eh? I mean, why not mention the fact that Schaub put up 4 touchdowns in Denver (against a top 5 D) to help win a tight, high-scoring game? Or that he rang up 500 yards in an unexpected shoot-out against Jacksonville. Those are two prime examples of him having to step up in a spot where his defense was not game. He also put up over 40 points on Baltimore. And his team will most likely end the season with 5 wins against playoff teams.

 

[flamingrey]

I'm not overly concerned with the writer's assessment of Schaub. Personally, I think he's a top 10 QB. He's definitely not in the elite, probably 2nd tier. But that's besides the point.

The main point was that it's a team that has some inflated statistics. And really that is the big silver lining to get out of a potential matchup with Houston.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

It doesn't really matter. We are 1 and done no matter who we play. But we did get back to back winning seasons and back to back playoff years in 20 and 30 years. Very young team with a great chance of being much better next year with us being required to spend to 99% cap, another draft with a high 2nd round pick thanks to Oakland and an opportunity Sanu to be back with the growth of Marvin Jones.

Our young Oline is coming around at times, they will have good experience and that guard we signed this year will be back to help t he offensive line.

I hang little hope on us winning in any of these stadiums, as we have won 1 single game against a winning team this year, Washington.

Just happy to see a playoff game again. Playoffs 3 of the last 4 years, even if we can't win a game. Much better than the previous 20 years.