Texans Show Promise As They Defeat The Niners

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     Being as it is just pre-season football, I will try to keep my praise in perspective.

     Saturday the Texans convincingly handled the 49ers to a 20-9 victory in Houston. Matt Schaub went 11 for 14 for 128 yards and a touchdown late in the 2nd quarter. Arian Foster and the Texans' running game was stagnant until the second half.

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      San Francisco's offense seemed to hit a wall every time they came on the field. Managing only three field goals, Jim Harbaugh's offense definitely needs to be more proactive in the red zone. That seemed to be the problem for them last season as well, so if they want to make it back to the promise land, they cannot settle for field goals instead of touchdowns. That's not a good precedence to set and will catch up to them by December if the Niners do not fix it.

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        The most exciting play of the game came from Texans' Punt / Kick Returner Trindan Holliday in the 4th quarter when he took an   87-yard punt return to the house for the second Texans' touchdown of the game. Holliday is making a strong case for himself to make this team with two touchdowns to his credit thus far this pre-season. Third year man from LSU, Holliday has been cemented to the Texans' practice squad and injured reserve list. So if Trindan continues to produce touchdowns, he will force Head Coach Gary Kubiak to make Holliday the Texans' first ever Punt / Kick Returner Specialist that doesn't have another function or job on the team.

 
       Houston and San Francisco both have work to do and since they both are division champs, they both will have harder schedules this year and the kinks will have to be worked out before week one

Collin Dakheel
Editor-In-Chief
SportsEyez.com

Texans Thrash Cats, Now Look To The Ravens

It seemed as though the hardest game this weekend to handicap wasn't even close as the Texans thumped the Bengals 31-10. Arian Foster ran for 153 yards and two touchdowns. Quarterback T.J. Yates had a decent game, throwing for 159 yards and a touchdown with no turnovers.

The game was gridlocked the entire first half with no team able to gain a solid advantage. That was until Texans Defensive End J.J. Watt came up with a huge interception at the line of scrimmage and returned it for a touchdown to take the lead 17-10 right before halftime. The Texans' defense stayed aggressive as they prevented the Bengals offense from scoring any points in the second half.

Texans' captain and Wide Receiver Andre Johnson looked in All-Pro form, catching five receptions for 90 yards and his first career playoff touchdown for the nine year veteran.

Houston won a good game against an on-the-rise playoff team. That being said, they still have even bigger games ahead before they can play for the Lombardi Trophy at Indianapolis. The Texans are playing great defense and they shook some rust of their passing attack, but they will need to keep that up if they wish to play for a Super Bowl title as the competition only gets harder from here.

Houston will take on the 2nd seeded Ravens in Baltimore next Sunday, January 15th, at 12:00pm.

By: Collin Dakheel
Editor-In-Chief
SportsEyez.com