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Texans Schedule release today (04.23.14)

man we need a qb. its killing my confidence as a fan for now......two weeks till draft. i plan on going to game with philli and visiting jerry world
 
We've got a bye week in a good position, and a nice 2nd half schedule with a lot of the games at home. I'm not seeing a whole lot not to like. The teams we play are just that. We have to deal with them no matter who they are. The actual gaming schedule itself is what looks favorable to me.
 
I'm surprised that we got the Steelers on Monday Night. I'm also glad (not for me since I have to wake up at 10am for them) that most of the games are 12pm CT games. We always play better when we're scheduled as normal.
 
Sunday Sept. 7 WASHINGTON REDSKINS FOX Noon
Sunday Sept. 14 at Oakland Raiders CBS 3:25 p.m.
Sunday Sept. 21 at New York Giants CBS Noon
Sunday Sept. 28 BUFFALO BILLS CBS Noon
Sunday Oct. 5 at Dallas Cowboys CBS Noon
Thursday Oct. 9 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS# CBS 7:25 p.m.
Monday Oct. 20 at Pittsburgh Steelers# ESPN 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Oct. 26 at Tennessee Titans CBS Noon
Sunday Nov. 2 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES FOX Noon
Sunday Nov. 9 BYE - WEEK 10
Sunday Nov. 16 at Cleveland Browns CBS Noon
Sunday Nov. 23 CINCINNATI BENGALS CBS Noon
Sunday Nov. 30 TENNESSEE TITANS CBS Noon
Sunday Dec. 7 at Jacksonville Jaguars CBS Noon
Sunday Dec. 14 at Indianapolis Colts CBS Noon
Sunday Dec. 21 BALTIMORE RAVENS CBS Noon
Sunday Dec. 28 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS CBS Noon

Italic indicates games subject to flex scheduling. See the note below.

All kickoff times Central; # - Televised Nationally; Home Games in CAPS​

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING

· For the first time, flexible scheduling may be applied in Weeks 5-10. During that period, flexible scheduling can be used in no more than two weeks by shifting a Sunday afternoon game into primetime and moving the Sunday night game to an afternoon start time.

· Also, for the first time, a select number of games are being “cross-flexed,” moving between CBS and FOX to bring potentially under-distributed games to wider audiences.

· “Flexible scheduling” will be used in Weeks 11-17 as it has been in recent years. In Weeks 11-16, the schedule lists the games tentatively set for Sunday Night Football on NBC. Only Sunday afternoon games are eligible to be moved to Sunday night, in which case the tentatively scheduled Sunday night game would be moved to an afternoon start time. Flexible scheduling will not be applied to games airing on Thursday, Saturday or Monday nights. A flexible scheduling move would be announced at least 12 days before the game. For Week 17, the Sunday night game will be announced no later than six days prior to December 28. The schedule does not list a Sunday night game in Week 17, but an afternoon game with playoff implications will be moved to that time slot. Flexible scheduling ensures quality matchups in all Sunday time slots in those weeks and gives “surprise” teams a chance to play their way into primetime.


2014 HOUSTON TEXANS SCHEDULE NOTES
Prime Time/National TV Notes

  • Houston plays two primetime games this season. The Texans have played 19 primetime games in team history and are 6-13 in those contests.
  • Houston will play on ESPN’s Monday Night Football once this season: at the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 20. The Texans are 3-4 on Monday Night Football in team history.
  • The Texans are 1-3 on Thursday Night Football and 2-3 overall when playing on Thursday.

Also Noteworthy

Houston will face two of the top 10 scoring defenses from 2013: Cincinnati (tied for fifth, 19.1 points per game) and Indianapolis (ninth, 21.0).

The Texans also face three of the top 10 scoring offenses from 2013 in Philadelphia (fourth, 27.6 points per game), Dallas (fifth, 27.4) and Cincinnati (tied for sixth, 26.9).

The Texans face several NFL individual leaders from 2013: top rusher Philadelphia RB LeSean McCoy (1,607 yards), passer rating leader Philadelphia QB Nick Foles (119.2), receptions leader Washington WR Pierre Garcon (113), yards receiving leader Cleveland WR Josh Gordon (1,646), tackler Cincinnati LB Vontaze Burfict (171), sack leader Indianapolis LB Robert Mathis (19.5 sacks) and punt return average leader Jacksonville WR Tandon Doss (15.6 with Baltimore).

Houston will be looking for its first ever road wins at Dallas (0-1), New York Giants (0-1) and Indianapolis (0-12), its first win ever against Philadelphia (0-3) and first home win against Washington (0-1).

The Texans will play four games against teams that made the playoffs in 2013, including two games against defending AFC South champion Indianapolis Colts (11-5). The Texans also face NFC East champion Philadelphia (10-6) and AFC North champion Cincinnati (11-5) at home.

Houston will play five games against teams holding top-10 picks in the 2014 NFL Draft, including two against Jacksonville (third overall) and one game each against Cleveland (fourth), Oakland (fifth) and Buffalo (ninth).

Houston plays four games against teams with new head coaches: two games against division rival Tennessee (Ken Whisenhunt), and one each against Cleveland (Mike Pettine) and Washington (Jay Gruden).
Houston’s season opener against Washington will also be Redskins’ head coach Jay Gruden’s head coaching debut.​
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Read more: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/2...on-texans-2014-schedule-release#ixzz2zlFDPOEA
 
If our team plays with the toughness that O'Brien is suppose to bring.. I don't see why we can't go 10-6.. it all depends on that QB though..
 
Our team went 2-14 last year. We still don't have an answer at quarterback or a decent d-line. Excluding watt. And our linebackers are question marks. Amongst other things and some of you think this is a 10 win schedule?
 
mussop said:
How do you even know where to begin in trying to figure out how many games we are going to win?:swatter:
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Exactly. Lol at anyone trying to guess right now. This team is likely going to need 6, 7, 8 or more new starters from draft / fa including the most important position on the field. Impossible to know our own team's identity at this point, let alone predicting game results.
 
markn said:
Exactly. Lol at anyone trying to guess right now. This team is likely going to need 6, 7, 8 or more new starters from draft / fa including the most important position on the field. Impossible to know our own team's identity at this point, let alone predicting game results.
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No matter how much info people get, season record much ;ess game by game predictions don't really work out that well. I mean at Labor day, even the most negative fans did not think there anyway for the Texans to lose 14 games. and if anything 14 wins would have drawn less laughter than 14 losses.
 
ArlingtonTexan said:
No matter how much info people get, season record much ;ess game by game predictions don't really work out that well. I mean at Labor day, even the most negative fans did not think there anyway for the Texans to lose 14 games. and if anything 14 wins would have drawn less laughter than 14 losses.
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You're right.

Let's talk about Manziel some more.
 
DX-TEX said:
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Thanks to PatDStat via Twitter
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1 W
2 W
3 L
4 W
5 W
6 W
7 L
8 L
9 L
10 Bye
11 L
12 L
13 W
14 L
15 L
16 W
17 W

8-8 good effort for a rebuilding year 2015 when the SB is in Houston or 16 is when we make our run with a solid team but not now
 
I think this is our very first Thursday game where we aren't the road team
on that very short week. I like that ! And I'm not surprised we didn't get any PT, except for Thursday which almost doesn't count. That's what 2-14 gets you.
 
IDEXAN said:
I think this is our very first Thursday game where we aren't the road team
on that very short week. I like that ! And I'm not surprised we didn't get any PT, except for Thursday which almost doesn't count. That's what 2-14 gets you.
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We also have a Monday night game @ Pittsburgh week 7.
 
I beat the so called weakest divison in football AFCS will not be so weak this year

pretty much like every year Colts titans and JAgs will give us everything and more games could go either way all 4 teams are capable of beating each other on the road or home
 
WolverineFan said:
Not sure what some of you guys are on about. That schedule doesn't look all that tough.
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There's no such thing as a perfect schedule in the NFL. But, this is about as good as it gets. The key, as always, will be taking care of the divisional games. There's a real opportunity to turn this thing around in 2014.
 
Lucky said:
There's no such thing as a perfect schedule in the NFL. But, this is about as good as it gets. The key, as always, will be taking care of the divisional games. There's a real opportunity to turn this thing around in 2014.
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Other than the Broncos & the Patriots, there aren't really any "good" teams in the AFC. We don't play the Broncos or the Patriots so we don't need to be very good to finish with a good W-L record.
 
WTH is a S-PEN LOL !!!!


anyways AFC south something like a dis

Colts 8-8

Texans 8-8

Titans 6-10

Jags 7-9

in reality Texans will prob choke it and go 6-10 but I think a 8-8 can win dis sorry ass divison this year maybe 9 wins
 
htowntexans1985 said:
Our team went 2-14 last year. We still don't have an answer at quarterback or a decent d-line. Excluding watt. And our linebackers are question marks. Amongst other things and some of you think this is a 10 win schedule?
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QFT... You left out our RT ;-) AND our current 14 game losing streak!

Every team on that schedule should be looking at the Texans and salivating. While it is a favorable schedule, I'm still waiting until after the FIRST PICK IN THE DRAFT to even consider thinking about predictions of a winning season...LOL You don't get the #1 pick by accident.
 
Trail.Blazr said:
QFT... You left out our RT ;-) AND our current 14 game losing streak!

Every team on that schedule should be looking at the Texans and salivating. While it is a favorable schedule, I'm still waiting until after the FIRST PICK IN THE DRAFT to even consider thinking about predictions of a winning season...LOL You don't get the #1 pick by accident.
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Some folks are using the logic that a lot of those games we lost, we only lost by a few points. A piece of luck here or there, and we could have had another five or six wins last season. Well, we didn't. Kubiak was partially to blame, and he's not here now. The rest of the blame is on the players.

I don't think we're going to be a 2-14 team again, neither do I entertain any possibilities of playoffs. Hopefully we end up a middle of the road team at the end of the season.
 
htowntexans1985 said:
Our team went 2-14 last year. We still don't have an answer at quarterback or a decent d-line. Excluding watt. And our linebackers are question marks. Amongst other things and some of you think this is a 10 win schedule?
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Yeah, I'm not sure what the Kool-Aid's flowing from, but it might be tainted. We're going to win 10 games coming off a 2-14 season AND being swept by the jags? Is it possible? Obviously, it's been done before. But looking on 'paper', it doesn't look promising.

We currently have major holes at QB, LG, RT, NT, DE, OLB, ILB, S and possibly TE. Too many holes to fill with limited means to fill them. I'd guess we'll have JAGs filling a majority of these holes this season.
 
Thorn said:
Some folks are using the logic that a lot of those games we lost, we only lost by a few points. A piece of luck here or there, and we could have had another five or six wins last season.
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that's how most losing teams lose their games in the NFL. The draft makes sure there is reasonably level talent across the board. The team that does the little things well is the team that usually wins. Not a ton of Collegiate type lopsided blowouts in the NFL (i'm agreeing with you).
 
Thorn said:
Some folks are using the logic that a lot of those games we lost, we only lost by a few points. A piece of luck here or there, and we could have had another five or six wins last season. Well, we didn't. Kubiak was partially to blame, and he's not here now. The rest of the blame is on the players.

I don't think we're going to be a 2-14 team again, neither do I entertain any possibilities of playoffs. Hopefully we end up a middle of the road team at the end of the season.
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Not just a piece of luck, but if we had our sure handed TE to help the young QB, or a running game with healthy RBs who knew how to pick up a blitz. Or just a little bit of discipline on the defensive side of the ball.

I don't think the players tanked the season, but some of the decisions by the FO led to that 2-14 more than this is a 2-14 team.... imo.

HOU-TEX said:
Yeah, I'm not sure what the Kool-Aid's flowing from, but it might be tainted. We're going to win 10 games coming off a 2-14 season AND being swept by the jags? Is it possible? Obviously, it's been done before. But looking on 'paper', it doesn't look promising.

We currently have major holes at QB, LG, RT, NT, DE, OLB, ILB, S and possibly TE. Too many holes to fill with limited means to fill them. I'd guess we'll have JAGs filling a majority of these holes this season.
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This Kool-Aid drinker is looking at the fact that we aren't facing the best of the best. Most of them have either a new head coach this year, or last year. Most of them have "QB" issues. Most of them have wholes up & down their roster as well.

We don't have to be a very good team to have a good W-L record next year. We just need not to be the worst of the worst.
 
Optimistically we could go 10-6 or 9-7. This is going by how well Crennel can coach the defense.

But reality, we may go 7-9, because we still have questions at the quarterback position and o-line, plus O'Brien is installing a new offensive scheme.
 
If you base SOS off of final records for last season then we face the 30th strongest schedule in the league this year. Our opponents for this upcoming season finished 113-143 (.441) last year and we only face 4 playoff teams (Ind x2, Cincy, Philly). Of those playoff teams, the only one we face on the road is Indy.
 
Calling W's and L's before so much as the draft is bananas.

I love what a juggernaut the NFL is at this point to keep the hype going almost year round.
 
Positive prediction of the day:

Start the season 5-0.

End up no worse than 10-6.

Back in the playoffs.

Strong defense, strong run game, minimal injuries, and game managing QB play and it can happen.

Ok, back to hating everything and waiting for the world to end ...
 
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