Houston Texans @ Tennessee Titans. 12/1. Noon. **Official GameDay Thread**

[ThaShark316]

Man, **** THE TITANS

The Houston Texans are trying to overcome mounting absences as they near another playoff appearance and a franchise milestone, while the Tennessee Titans have made a coordinator change while attempting to keep their slim postseason hopes alive.

The Texans can clinch their second straight playoff berth with a win or tie Sunday when they visit Tennessee, where they've won two of the last three meetings.

A win would also give Houston (10-1) 11 victories for the first time in franchise history. As good as the Texans have been - winning five straight to maintain the AFC's best record - injuries continue to add up and the squad has needed overtime to scrape by mediocre teams each of the last two weeks.

Houston's sixth-ranked defense, which allows 319.7 yards per game, has seen its linebacking corps in particular come under siege. Brooks Reed will miss time with a groin injury suffered in the team's 34-31 win in Detroit on Thanksgiving, and Bradie James is also out with a hamstring injury.

All-Pro linebacker Brian Cushing was already lost for the season to a knee injury Oct. 8. The 458 yards allowed to Jacksonville two weeks ago and the 525 given up to the Lions are the two highest totals yielded by Houston this season.

"I'm concerned about the health of our team right now," said coach Gary Kubiak, who will also be without cornerback Johnathan Joseph (hamstring). "But that's part of this business this time of year, so we've got to figure out a way to be as good as we can be on Sunday. It's something we've got to deal with."

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What I want to see:

Time to unleash Foster

..."but Sharkdizzle, we use him all the time!!!" That's not what I meant. What I meant was this: Screens, dump offs, passes in the flat, you name it. Time to get Arian involved in the passing game more and in space. 13 receptions in the last 3 games, but only 45 yards.

Bottle up Chris Johnson (Welcome back, Shaun Cody)

Having Cody back will help when it comes to this matter. Don't let this chump get to running wild and allowing the Titans to gain any confidence. Turn him back into the CJ1K from 2011.

Jump on these clowns early

We haven't ran away from any opponent in basically a month. Time for that to change. Make the Titans weep early like the sorry sacks of you-know-what that they are.

TIME. TO. CLINCH.

Sure it's only a playoff berth and that's not the only thing these boys are striving for, but it IS indeed the first step. With that said, time to get it done and what better team to do it against than the BESF Titans.

That mini-bye is over, fam! Time to get back to work. We've all been waiting patiently after those last two nail-biting finishes, so that break was needed! Time for Baddest Men Alive to take care of business. Y'all know the rules and the goal: 1-0 EVERY WEEK. Nothing has changed. Let's go into Nashville, get win #11, clinch a playoff berth and move on to next one. LET'S MUTHA****IN' GO, TEXANS!!!!

[Showtime100]

Awesome start as always, Shark.

[SAMURAITEXAN]

Yep, let's go Texans!!!

[Kthx]

The gameday thread is a good thing to see, it tells me to go to f'n sleep already :P

11-1 tomorrow.

[Ryan]

I want a repeat of last season @Ten, which was just a royal ass beating of a lifetime. One of the funnest games I watched as a Texans fan.

[76Texan]

You're doing good, Shark.

Here's to another win for the Texans.
Let's clinch that biatch

[TexanSam]

Originally Posted by Pollardized

Jim Rome just called the Texans PRETENDERS on CBS pregame show. I didn't even know that jackass was still alive. What a douche.

He probably still has his panties in a bunch since the Texans beat his Lions last week.

[ChrisG]

Love the playcalling so far. PA TE screen to start

[Lurvinator11]

TD Jean!!!!

[ChrisG]

Jean. Glad to see he is healthy and playing

[mariowillshine15]

Great series to start the game. Glad to see Jean making plays.

[ChrisG]

Good coverage, better catch tho

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by wolf123

oh joy the bad defense is still here....

I was expectung some bad play by the D, we r missing alot of guys.

Havent rlly been the same since Cush got hurt

[ChrisG]

Good stop on D.

[TexCanada]

Hope we can manage to get healthy by the time playoffs roll around.

[Lurvinator11]

Did 32 just kick Forsett?

Edit: No he didn't.

[TheMatrix31]

Solomon Wilcots is hungry. Second time in 3 minutes he's said "take something off of Foster's plate"

[CretorFrigg]

Forsett's doing really well.

[Lurvinator11]

First down OD!

[TimeKiller]

Forsett's speed and quickness is making a difference right now. I think he may be just a step faster than Foster or Tate and not having to grind Foster down should help him as well.