Well they finally did it. They won a road game. As I said in the pregame show, I felt like the Browns, despite their 4 wins, were among the 5 worst teams in the league. Braylon Edwards had a season's worth of drops and yet both Quinn and his replacement Derek Anderson kept throwing the ball to him. The Texans did create 5 turnovers, although they hardly took advantage. But the Browns did not score in the second half and the Texans held them to 240 yards total. Best performance of the season by far - keeping in mind the competition.
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(HOU 16-6, 4th Qtr)
Hard to say why Gary Kubiak is averse to winning. There is no reason at all to throw the football. Yet, they did it on 2nd and 3rd down with the 2nd pass getting picked off Sean Jones. That is a coach not putting his team in the best position to win.
Texans are lucky the Browns are embarrassing themselves at home.
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(HOU 16-6, 3:41 3rd)
Fred Bennett jumps a route and picks off Quinn for the defense's third turnover of the game. Quinn tried to force one to Edwards, but Bennett got inside position and got to the spot first. The Texans have yet to punt but are still only up ten. That is worrisome.
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(HOU 16-6, 8:48 3rd)
Rosenfels as usual made a horrible throw to Owen Daniels and got it picked off by Brodney Pool. Daniels wasn't even open and the throw was well behind him on 3rd and 4. For the first time in a long time the defense actually responded. Mario Williams absolutely destroyed Jamal Lewis on first down, beating the tackle and tossed Lewis to the ground like a rag doll. On 2nd and 13, Anthony Weaver dropped back into coverage and Quinn must not have seen him because he basically threw the ball right to him and Weaver got his 3rd NFL interception. Texans only managed a 36-yard field goal but it makes it a 2 score game.
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(HOU 13-6, Halftime)
The Texans execute well enough to put another field goal on the board and nearly two. They convert a pair of 4th downs and even take a shot at the end zone before getting a 31-yard field goal from Kris Brown. On the ensuing squib kick with 3 seconds left, the Browns never pounced on it so Ryan Moats did and with one second left, Brown attempted a field goal from 56 yards. It had the distance but was wide right.
The Texans had the ball for nearly 21 minutes in the half and on their 5 possessions they scored 1 touchdown and attempted 4 field goals. They ran 40 plays to the Browns 19, but only lead by 7. The penalty on Barber on the kick return still looms large.
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(HOU 10-6, 2:24 2nd Q)
CBS is the absolute worst. Are they kidding? Andre Davis returns the kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown, but Dominique Barber is called for holding and it comes back. They decide not to show a replay. That holding is the first big mistake of the day for the Texans. Let's see how much it hurts them.
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(HOU 10-0, 13:27 2nd Q)
Two drives and two scores is not too bad. It's another 10 play drives, but disappointing after they went for it on 4th and 1 from the 16 and got it on a 4 yard run from Ahman Green. Yet on 3rd and 12 from the 14, Kubiak went conservative and ran safe up the middle and settled for a field goal. Probably the right way to go, because of the turnover issues they've had all year.
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(HOU 7-0, 1st Q)
The Texans took the opening kickoff and drove it 79 yards on 14 plays, converting all three of their third downs including the touchdown toss. Sage was 5-6 on the drive (the only incompletion was a drop by Ahman Green) and hit Kevin Walter with a 17 yard pass in the corner of the endzone that Walter just went up and grabbed away from the defender.
Then the defense forced a fumble AND recovered it. Hallelujah! The Texans become the last team in the NFL to force ten turnovers.
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