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2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Central Florida 37 Houston Cougars 32 As I've noted many times, Houston (10-2/4-2) games over the past several seasons are just different. The game against Central Florida (6-4/4-2)...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Tom Stratton; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Colts 20 Texans 17 The Texans (5-4) basically rolled over and playing dead against the Colts (8-0) for the first quarter and a half. By early in the...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Don Heupel; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Texans 31 Bills 10 The Texans (5-3) dominated the game, but somehow found themselves trailing the Bills (3-5) after three quarters. Previous Texans teams probably would have folded,...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave Einsel; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Texans 24 49ers 21 The Texans (4-3) inched above .500 for one of the rare times in their eight season history with the win over the 49ers (3-3),...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Donna McWilliam; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Texas Longhorns 16 Oklahoma 13 In an entertaining but sloppily-played game, 3rd-ranked Texas (6-0/3-0) rode their hard-hitting defense to tense victory over the now-reeling Sooners (3-3/1-1), who have...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Cardinals 28 Texans 21 The Texans 3rd loss in the fifth game of their eighth season (2-3) was actually four games in one: The first 28 minutes,...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave J. Phillip; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Texans 29 Raiders 6 So, what happens when the NFL's worst defense meets one of the NFL's worst offenses? Well, this time, Raiders (1-3) QB JaMarcus Russell...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave J. Phillip; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Houston Cougars 29 Texas Tech 28 In one of the most entertaining games of the young season, the now 12th-ranked Cougars (3-0) pulled out the victory over...
Does anyone take John McClain seriously?
Please indulge me one last Texans-related post for the week. John McClain, the lead Chronicle sportswriter covering the Texans, condemned this past Sunday's Texans' loss as the worst in the team's history. Now that normally wouldn't be all that...
2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave J. Phillip; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Jets 24 Texans 7 Well, as one salty high school football coach used to put it, "That went over about as well as a fart in church!"...
Houston Texans, Year Eight
Year Eight of the Houston Texans begins this Sunday with a home game against the Jets, so it's time for my sixth annual preview of the team (previous annual previews are here). Largely ignored amidst the inexplicable interest over...
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