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2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 14 Browns 6 Despite having no effective passing game, the Texans (6-10) rode a strong second half rushing performance from rookie RB Chris Taylor and another spunky defensive effort to beat the Browns and fulfill my pre-season prediction that...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 27 Colts 24 There really is a Santa Claus after all. Seemingly out of nowhere, the Texans (5-10) dug down and showed some pride as they exploited the Colts (11-4) poor run defense to control the clock and pull...
2006 Weekly local football review
Patriots 40 Texans 7 Just when you thought it was impossible for the Texans (4-10) to stoop any lower, the Texans' offense rolled over and played dead against the Patriots. This one was over by Sunday morning brunch as the...
2006 Weekly local football review
Titans 26 Texans 20 Unless you are a hardy soul, it would be a good idea to avoid sports talk radio this week in Houston. It would have been bad enough given that jilted no. 1 draft choice Reggie Bush...
2006 Weekly local football review
Houston Cougars 34 Southern Miss 20 The Cougars (10-3, 8-1) won their first Conference USA football championship in ten years with a Friday night win over Southern Miss (8-5, 7-3) before a raucous crowd of 32,000 at Robertson Stadium...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texas Aggies 12 Texas Longhorns 7 In the signature moment of Dennis Franchione's mostly rocky tenure at A&M, the Aggies (9-3, 5-3) rode a magnificent defensive performance and an already legendary 16-play, almost 9 minute, 88-yard fourth quarter TD drive...
2006 Weekly local football review
Bills 24 Texans 21 Key note to first year Texans' coach Gary Kubiak -- the Texans (3-7) are not yet good enough to put the offense in a phone booth while trying to milk the clock with a narrow 4th...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 13 Jaguars 10 If I didn't know better, I'd think that the Texans (3-6) have the Jaguars' (5-4) number. In a game that stands for the proposition that you don't have to play great offensively to win when the...
2006 Weekly local football review
Giants 14 Texans 10 In a game that set offense back to the days prior to development of the T formation, the Giants (6-2) hung on to beat the Texans (2-6) as neither team could muster 300 yards total offense....
2006 Weekly local football review
Titans 28 Texans 22 The Texans (2-5) returned to earth with a thud after last week's unlikely victory over the Jaguars as Titans and former Longhorn hero Vince Young threw and rushed for a TD in a game that the...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 27 Jaguars 7 Where on earth did that come from? In a game in which no one gave them much of a chance of staying close, much less winning, the Texans (2-4) played the Jaguars to a standstill for...
2006 Weekly local football review
Cowboys 34 Texans 6 As expected, it was men against boys as the Texans (1-4) went down without so much as a whimper against the Pokes (3-2). The Texans defense played well for a half as Houston actually led 6-3...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 28 Oklahoma 10 As noted in last week's review, my recent up-close exposure to this Texas team led me to conclude that the Sooners would have their hands full with the Longhorns (5-1, 2-0), and that was certainly...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 17 Dolphins 15 Well now, that's a relief! In an entertaining but not particularly well-played game, the Texans (1-3) won for only the third time in the past 21 games as the Dolphins (1-3) could not convert a questionable...
2006 Weekly local football review
Redskins 31 Texans 15 Oh, my. It's only been three games, but let's face it -- the Kubiak Era is looking like an utter disaster. As noted in this earlier post, when Bob McNair replaced former general manager Charley Casserly...
2006 Weekly local football review
Colts 43 Texans 24 It was not as "close" as the score indicates. Behind 17-0 before they appeared to look up, the Texans (0-2) could not force the Colts (2-0) to punt until it was 30-10 midway through the fourth...
2006 Weekly local football review
Ohio State 24 Texas Longhorns 7 Ohio State came into Austin on Saturday night and won the season's first big game by playing as exceptionally as Texas did last year in Columbus. The Horns did not play badly and would...
2006 Weekly local football review
The Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of the football season and HCT's weekly local football reviews, so here's the first weekly review of the 2006 season: Houston 31 Rice 30 The only real game of the weekend occurred at...
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