Broncos - Texans Game Thread

[F-minus67]

If you could chose one player to be the MVP on the texans side of the game, who would it be?

[beerlover]

Originally Posted by F-minus67

If you could chose one player to be the MVP on the texans side of the game, who would it be?

its between Matt Murphy & Shantee Orr

and the winner is Matt Murphy Houston we have a TE

[F-minus67]

you can tell by this game?

[ledzeppelin229]

I'll just post this here since this is where the most traffic is right now - Good old Lefty was 3/7 and sacked 4 times in 11 pass attempts. It will be interesting to see how long their 'vertical offense' lasts in real games.

[texanfan]

Murph did a good job out there. He had some really nice blocks and a awesome touch down pass. Good fumble recovery too.

[rmartin65]

how where the rookies?

[ATX]

Originally Posted by rmartin65

how where the rookies?

TJ- seemed to be around the ball alot. didn't make any big plays, but it was hard at times watching the game because channel 13 didn't have the clearest picture, kinda hard to read alot of the numbers at times.

Morency-had some good runs, but also had a few runs we're he tried to run around the defense and got stuffed. also fumbled the ball once, luckily we recovered. i still think wells and hollings played better games.

Mathis-played, but i didn't see him catch anything. really hard to tell how he played considering this. i really wanted to see him return a kick, but that never happened either.

Hogdon-played like a rookie. had two false start calls on him, which is bad for a center.

Pettway-played a little later in the game. didn't really see too much of him myself, but i really wasn't looking.

Pitts and Dunbar-two rookie undrafted free agents here. saw a couple nice catches from both late in the game on a ragone drive. the dunbar catch in the endzone was pretty good. he bobbled it, then came down with his feet in bounds.

mckenzie-rookie undrafted free agent CB. hard to tell. i think he got burned bad on the 92 yard pass play. but i may be wrong.

[Vinny]

I don't know why you want to call tricky plays in the preseason. This is where you line up and grade your players. The time to get deceptive is during real games. RoSmith was blowing people away at FB but we don't know if he was blowing up the right guy.

Morency looks shot out of a cannon when he gets the ball. He is going to be very explosive when he gets the feel for this scheme and learns to make one cut and go north and south.

Most of the QB pressure was coming from the inside again. I saw the reserve Guards getting lit up all night.

The overall team speed looks improved and our first team O-line was moving players off the LOS. I'm very upbeat about yesterday....got me very excited about our potential.

[PapaL]

FYI - For eveyone that did not get to see the game, NFL Network is airing the whole game on Monday @ 1pm EST.

[ATX]

Originally Posted by LCROD

FYI - For eveyone that did not get to see the game, NFL Network is airing the whole game on Monday @ 1pm EST.

maybe the quality will be better coming from the nfl network than abc 13. i don't know if it was just me, but the view wasn't very sharp. i couldn't even make out most of the numbers watching the game unless it was a close up shot.

[BradK10]

it's gonna be the ABC feed

[ATX]

Originally Posted by BradK10

it's gonna be the ABC feed

you'll see what i mean when you see the game.

[rmartin65]

how was mathis looking, with his injury?

[3960AD]

Originally Posted by atxcoolguy

TJ- seemed to be around the ball alot. didn't make any big plays, but it was hard at times watching the game because channel 13 didn't have the clearest picture, kinda hard to read alot of the numbers at times.

Morency-had some good runs, but also had a few runs we're he tried to run around the defense and got stuffed. also fumbled the ball once, luckily we recovered. i still think wells and hollings played better games.

Mathis-played, but i didn't see him catch anything. really hard to tell how he played considering this. i really wanted to see him return a kick, but that never happened either.

Hogdon-played like a rookie. had two false start calls on him, which is bad for a center.

Pettway-played a little later in the game. didn't really see too much of him myself, but i really wasn't looking.

Pitts and Dunbar-two rookie undrafted free agents here. saw a couple nice catches from both late in the game on a ragone drive. the dunbar catch in the endzone was pretty good. he bobbled it, then came down with his feet in bounds.

mckenzie-rookie undrafted free agent CB. hard to tell. i think he got burned bad on the 92 yard pass play. but i may be wrong.

It was Cedrick Williams that was burnt. Jamaal Lord tried to catch up to the receiver but wasn't happening. McKenzie was flying from across the field and hamstring pulled.....

[RTP2110]

Originally Posted by 3960AD

It was Cedrick Williams that was burnt. Jamaal Lord tried to catch up to the receiver but wasn't happening. McKenzie was flying from across the field and hamstring pulled.....

Lord took a horrible pursuit angle on that play.

[RTP2110]

Originally Posted by atxcoolguy

maybe the quality will be better coming from the nfl network than abc 13. i don't know if it was just me, but the view wasn't very sharp. i couldn't even make out most of the numbers watching the game unless it was a close up shot.

I noticed it too. I couldn't make out the jersey numbers to see who was in the game.

[michaelm]

Originally Posted by markbeth

unless your on the coaching staff you cant know why they were running a particular play in a particular situation.
good job palmer!!!!

Unless you heard interviews by both Carr and Casserly stating that they only had two goal line plays in the playbook for this first preseason game. . They were obviously not expecting four shots from the one yd line and decided to test what they had with an obviously new personell grouping.
Needs a little more work...
As they practice more goal line plays, more will be installed in the playbook and be available on game day.