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www.housports.com Hi everyone due my growing love for writing about Houston sports I've constructed a website (in the title) it's already up and running but it needs numerous improvements. I'm going to be dropping the blogspot from the URL and try to make this into a huge site for Houston sport fans.

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Justin Pishkar

Leinart's Chance

Fearless leader of the bench Matt Leinart

Can Leinart lead this team? He doesn't have to do much other than avoiding mistakes! Arian Foster and the offensive-line have shown they are more than capable of controlling the game. He's also gaining a fresh (or rusty) Andre Johnson which will definitely help him due to lack of weapons at the receiver position. While in Arizona Matt had Larry Fitzgerald who some consider along with Johnson to be the best in the league. Leinart wasn't able to get it done in Arizona where he was a cocky young player accustom to greatness at USC and not ready for the NFL. For the last season and a half he's sat behind an excellent veteran, and hopefully #8's efficiency on offense has rubbed off. Kubiak convinced Leinart to stay with the Texans rather than taking a deal with Seattle. I have to hope that Kubiak knew what he was doing because reports on Schaub's return have been undetermined. Jacksonville's defense (ranked 5th defending the pass) presents no easy task for the Texans coming of their bye week. If anyone paid attention to the Texans in the preseason Leinart played pretty well off the bench....I'm going to be optimistic.

Here are some of his stats:

College USC Trojans

			Passing								Rushing
Season	Team		GP	Comp	Att	Pct	Yds	TD	INT		Att	Yds	TD
2003	USC Trojans		13	255	402	63.4	3,556	38	9		32	-62	0
2004	USC Trojans **Heisman		13	269	412	65.3	3,322	33	6		49	-44	3
2005	USC Trojans		13	283	431	65.7	3,815	28	8		51	36	6
	Totals		39	807	1,245	64.8	10,693	99	23		132	-70	9

NFL Career

			Passing									Rushing
Season	Team		GP	Rating	Att	Comp	Pct	Yds	TD	INT		Att	Yds	TD
2006	Arizona Cardinals		12	74.0	377	214	56.8	2,547	11	12		22	49	2
2007	Arizona Cardinals		5	61.9	112	60	53.6	647	2	4		11	42	0
2008	Arizona Cardinals		4	80.2	29	15	51.7	264	1	1		4	5	0
2009	Arizona Cardinals		8	64.6	77	51	66.2	435	0	3		9	-6	0
2010	Houston Texans		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0
	Totals		29	70.8	595	340	57.1	3,893	14	20		46	90	2

Please give birth to the playoffs!

Say It Ain't So!

(Not from Sunday's game)

There is word coming out of the Houston Texans organization that Matt Schaub has suffered a significant foot injury. The injury occurred in the second quarter of Sunday's victory which at the time was declared a mild sprained ankle. Early reports say he will likely miss the season but will travel the country seeking second opinions. This my friends, could be the end of the line for the Texans. They've been able to overcome the injuries of their 3 stars (Foster, Williams, Johnson) but losing the 4th star (Schaub) will hurt the most. After the bye week Matt Leinart the former Heisman winner will step into the quarterback position and I can only hope all this time on the bench has prepared him.

Pretty boy Leinart hasn't looked too pretty on the field

***Update: Pandemonium sweeping the streets of Houston. Citizens have been rioting and flipping cars upon hearing the news!!!! 

Week 10 Results

Foster making fun of my predictions

Week 10 Results:

My personal BOLD predictions results:


Raiders (24) at Chargers (17)     L


Steelers (24) at Bengals (17)   W 


Rams (13) at Browns (12)      L

Bills (7) at Cowboys (44)    W  

Jaguars (17) at Colts (3)    W 


Broncos (17) at Chiefs (10)     L


Redskins (9) at Dolphins (20)   W 


Cardinals (21) at Eagles (17)    L


Titans (30) at Panthers (3)     L


Lions (13) at Bears (37)     L


Ravens (17) at Seahawks (22)    L

Giants (20) at 49ers (27)   W 


Houston (37) at Buccaneers (9)  W

Patriots (37)  at Jets (16)   L

Vikings at Packers (Auto) W  

Overall (7-8)


Prediction Corner (Comment):
Who will finish the season on top of the NFC east?

Texans Bury Bucs

The Texans had an absolutely brilliant performance today. From the opening play the Texans dominated starting with an 80 yard TD pass to Jacoby Jones. From that point on Tampa's stadium slowly emptied until there were almost no fans left in the 4th quarter. The running game was so effective that Schaub barely needed to throw the ball. The O-line was making huge holes for Arian Foster leading to them averaging 9 yards a play. Foster accumulated 186 total yards and added on 2 touchdowns. The defense looked nasty once again being lead by the revamped play of Brian Cushing. QB Freeman looked awful for the Bucs throwing 3 interceptions and was pulled late in the 4th (he was sacked 4 times). If the Texans keep this current winning streak up it'll be the first time Houston will have an NFL team in the playoffs since 1993. Overall great performance on both sides of the football but you can't give Wade Phillips enough credit for turning this defense around. Texans stomp Bucs 37-9. 

No, it can't be. Can it???

Prediction Corner (Comment):
Will the Texans earn a first round bye?

Boise Goes Down!

Finally a team that gets way too much attention will be out of the spotlight!!! The overrated Boise State Broncos were defeated by the underrated TCU Horned Frogs tonight. This was the game that needed to be on ESPN and ABC but it looks like the Mountain West could only manage to make it on Versus. TCU went into the game with everything to prove (conference title) and their status as Mountain West elite on the line. The game was back and forth throughout with neither team leading by more than eight at any point. TCU solidified their victory with a 25 yard pass from Casey Paschall to his favorite wide out Josh Boyce. The Horned Frogs decided to go for the 2 point conversion and sealed the victory. With only a minute left Boise started a drive that looked dismal until they were gifted a first down on an awful pass-interference call. They managed to make it into field goal range at the 22 yard line, but shanked the kick wide right. TCU wins 36-35 on the blue turf. Not to mention that this Boise State loss will help my overrated cougs get into the national championship argument (in no way shape or form does UH or any non-BCS school deserve to play with the big boys).

P.S. What was with the camera feed outside Joe Paterno's house? They were waiting for him to come out from his house like he was a groundhog...strange


Prediction Corner (Comment):
Does Boise's lose totally put them out of contention this year and cause them to drop in preseason polls next season?

PAC 12: Oregon vs Stanford

This is the weekends most interesting college football game except for maybe Nebraska vs. Penn St. (UPDATE*** no showers will be taken before or after this game for safety precautions). Last week we had the ever anticipated LSU/Bama game. Tonight we have a west coast match up of (7) Oregon coming in to play (4) Stanford. The game is basically the over-hyping of two superstars, Luck and James. Andrew Luck, the senior out of Stratford High School (Houston) is likely to be the 1st pick in the NFL draft. LaMichael James had a disaster of a performance against LSU in the season opener where he was held to a pitiful 54 yards. Since, he's rushed for 1000+ yards en route to Oregon's eight game winning streak. With Stanford and Oregon both fighting for the PAC 12 title this should be a thriller. If Stanford wins they have an excellent argument to play in the national championship (if they can stay unbeaten). Don't be surprised if Oregon pulls this one out and you see them in the championship conversation at seasons end. Oregon has a sensational rushing attack, ranking 5th in FBS. Both teams score an insane amount of points, Stanford averages 48.2 a game.  The advantage on defense has to go to Stanford, they've only allowed 16 points a game. Overall their stats are similar on both sides of the ball, on paper its difficult to see weaknesses either way. All signs point to a great game, stay tuned because this ones going down to the wire. I'd really like to see Stanford place themselves on path to playing LSU early next year... plus I always love to see a fellow Houstonian win. 

James is actually also from Texas (Texarkana) 

Prediction Corner (post your comments):

Will  Stanford be in the National Championship game January 9th 2012???