First Ever Playoff Edition

I fell down on the blog. In the midst of the greatest season ever, I failed in my goal to weekly chronicle my opinions and happenings of my beloved Houston Texans.

There is just not enough time in the day to do what I want in addition to working. I used to work graveyard shift and that's where I did most my writing. Now I work almost exclusively on the day shift and to many eyes watching what I do.

So this is my first entry in a while.

The Houston Texans limped through the season losing player after player to injury. None bigger than losing Matt Schaub for the season to a Lisfranc broken bone. Schaub isn't the vocal leader of the team. For the most part though, as Schaub's play goes so do the Texans chances. Schaub was having a fine season as a ball control specialist. We already knew Schaub could put up big numbers. Most of the time, due to the defense, he had to. This year he didn't and the Texans still put up big points in some games.

The big losses besides, Schaub, were to Mario Williams, Andre Johnson and Arian Foster. Ask any casual fan to name a Texans and odds are at least two of the previously mention is one. For good reason, they are the top Texans guns.

Injury be damned. Here we are with the first ever Texans playoff game and in hours hopefully the first Texans playoff victory.

My expectations are Texans are going to not deviate from running the ball as they have been all season. With Andre Johnson healthy, look for the occasional shots down field. Remember that Johnson was putting up big numbers with rookie TJ Yates throwing to him against the Falcons. I think more of the same happens here along with the tight ends hitting the seams in zone coverage.

Defensively, I expect mass chaos thrown at the Bengals and Andy Dalton. I hope for a couple of early turnovers lead to short fields for Yates. Nothing can get a team up in a hurry and the crowd into it like turnovers.

I also hope the crowd is loud and proud from before kickoff. Make it loud to keep Dalton having to use more time to call plays and difficult for the line and WRs to hear the count.

I could go into more detail but I'm keeping in generic. There are better websites out there for pregame analysis. I like to do post game analysis.

Here we go, Texans! (Yuck that's the steeler chant)

Bring on the Bengals! Bring on the first playoff victory.