The Texans, Mario Finally Get It Done

Three games into the season the Texans had not even been competitive. They opened the game with a blitz which for once resulted in a sack. It led to the first of 3 3-and-outs during the game for the defense to go along with an obvious season high 5 sacks. Of course the Texans do nothing the easy way and had to wait until Mario Williams tipped an ill-advised halfback pass on a 2-pt converstion attempt late in the fourth quarter and watch an onside kick attempt go in and out of the hands of a Dolphins player before they could dump the Gatorade on Coach Kubiak after his first win.

Mario finished with a 1.5 sacks ( coming on consecutive plays, although the sack he and DeMeco shared should have been credited solely to Anthony Weaverand had the huge play on the conversion. Now many will point out that he still had just 1 tackle and 1 assist and did virtually nothing before the 4th quarter. Nothing that shows up in the boxscore anyway, except the fact that the Texans had a season-high 5 sacks and held the Dolphins to virtually nothing (108 yds, 3 pts) before their final 2 drives in the 4th quarter.

Alright on to the interesting numbers....
* 10 QB hurries vs. Culpepper; 1 vs. Brunell, 5 vs. Manning, 3 vs. McNabb. That's just 9 in the first 3 games for the mathematically challenged.
* David Carr dumps off too much right? Not in this case. WR Andre Johnson 9 catches for 101 yds; Wrs Eric Moulds and Kevin Walter combined for another 101 yds on 7 catches. That's 16 of Carr's 22 completions.
* The Dolphins and the Texans each had 289 total yds if you account for the -13 yards the Texans gave away on the kneeldowns and penalties to run out the clock.
* Defense forced 3 3-and-outs; 2 vs. Wash, 0 vs. Indy, 0 vs. Philly