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!

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?

Hou vs. TB

This week marks the first time the Texans have an opportunity to go 4 games over .500. A feat that may finally earn them respect. Personally I love to follow the NFL rankings on ESPN http://espn.go.com/nfl/powerrankings They currently have the Texans in the 8 spot. Thanks to Arian Foster (cant forget Ben Tate) we have the 2nd ranked rushing game in the NFL. With the hiring of Wade Phillips he's molded the Texans into the 1st ranked defense in football. Its funny that no one believed that he could turn the team around despite his successes as defensive coordinator (San Diego). Even with the team losing their best player in Mario Williams and Danieal Manning they have continued to shine. That's what good teams do; players get hurt in the NFL and good teams have an abundance of players ready to step up. As for Tampa, they've been extremely poor on the defensive side of the ball.The only bright spot currently on the team is the youth of Josh Freeman. Tampa is very inconsistent, they beat great teams (N.O. Atlanta) then barely get past teams like Minnesota and Indy. Even though Tampa is at home and I'm horribly biased I have to pick the Texans in this one. Tampa doesn't have the D-line to stop Foster up the middle (all day baby). I look for Foster to put up big numbers Houston wins 24-13.

Prediction Corner:

Texans win?

Little Introduction

This is my first blog post so I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a sports fanatic that unfortunately happens to be a die-hard Houston sports fan. I've experienced the highs of the 94'-95' championship Rockets. The heart breaking 15-30 Astros start that finished in a world series sweep. The year to year pain of watching each highly anticipated team the Texans produce crumble. I feel your pain Houston. We are not a well respected sports town and its not without reason. Our fan mentality is "oh we made the playoffs that's good enough". WRONG, with all the money the owners in this town possess they need to have championship caliber teams. I'm tired of seeing small market franchises that seemingly come out of nowhere and snag a title. For the size of the market we have and the overall success of our sports is absolutely "pathetic" as John McClain would say.

I have strong opinions about our sports franchises and I'll be going around sports not just focusing on Houston. You will hear some honest opinions mixed in with harsh reality and raw truths. stay tuned

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