Five Things: Colts Vs. Texans Thursday Night Roundup
The Colts went up 24-0 in the first quarter this Week 6 Thursday Night Football matchup. Could've been another blowout, but the Texans made of game of it.
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The Colts went up 24-0 in the first quarter this Week 6 Thursday Night Football matchup. Could've been another blowout, but the Texans made of game of it.
Colts-Texans could come down to a last-second field goal, and it appears to be an excellent week to play perhaps the greatest placekicker in NFL history in the Colts' Adam Vinatieri.
Could this be it-the first competitive Thursday night game of the 2014 NFL season? The Colts visit Houston as just a three-point favorite, and both teams are 3-2, so at the risk of being the Mary Swanson to your Lloyd Christmas, I'm saying there's a chance.
The Houston Texans are looking better in 2014 and the Indianapolis Colts have turned things around after a slow start to the year. Former NFL quarterback and CBS analyst Chris Simms took time to talk to me about the upcoming AFC South battle on Thursday Night Football, and he had some great things to say.
The Minnesota Vikings have a long tradition of having very good defensive tackles. They drafted Sharrif Floyd in the first round of the 2013 draft in hopes that he can continue the trend. He learned a lot of from former teammate Kevin Williams and slimmed down in the offseason to reach his full potential. This season should be the beginning of the Floyd era in Minnesota.
Let's take a look at who the five worst teams will be heading into the 2014 NFL season.
The Houston Texans have a brand new head coach and starting quarterback. The only way they can win this season is if their best player, wide receiver Andre Johnson, buys into the new system.
Here is a list of five players who will have a bounce back season.
With NFL training camp underway, let's look at the biggest storylines to watch for in camp the next month.
Every NFL team has a chance... theoretically. But these 5 teams might as well pack it in until 2015.
Of the six coaches who were fired at the end of this season, each of them had quarterbacks with a quarterback rating placing them in the bottom half of the league.
The Cincinnati Bengals had a great season and are looking forward to welcoming the San Diego Chargers into Paul Brown Stadium for the Wild Card round of the playoffs. Even with that game on the immediate horizon, the 2014 opponents for the Bengals have now been set.
The 2013 NFL regular season is coming to a close and there is a lot going on besides just the playoffs, and most of the news actually has to do with one of the worst teams in the league, the Houston Texans.
This is yet another "bizarro" season in the NFL but it is in a different way than it was last season when random bad teams were trashing good teams. Now, there is a lot of unexpected news coming out of different NFL cities and the stories may not be explained any time soon.
Teams are competing for playoff positioning now, as a number of them believe they've already got a clear-cut path to the postseason. It always appears though, that it is the teams that have next to nothing to lose that are playing at their best as the season begins to round a corner toward the end.
There is a lot of blame going around the NFL lately and fingers are being pointed in just about every direction imaginable. One player though is taking matters into his own hands and promising to do something that could take him to another level.
The NFL is full of ups and downs, and it is sometimes quite amazing how quickly a player can go from one to the other. It's a league where tomorrow is never promised and you're not in the driver's seat just because you played professional football.
Injuries are truly crippling some teams in the NFL as the season begins its ride toward the playoffs. One player will finally be on the field for his new team and he'll ironically face his old team. A Houston Texan is done for the year and won't have to suffer much longer. In Green Bay, the Packers are dealing with a problem that they haven't had in decades.
All news about NFL isn't always about football, and doesn't always have to do with the action that takes place on the field. A couple of coaches dealt with some scares over the weekend. A teammate made another feel like an outsider. And a murder from years ago finally gets a conviction.
There were a large number of injuries in Week 7 of the 2013 NFL season, and some of them proved to be quite serious. Some teams are really worried though because a few of the injuries happened to back-up players that were already filling in for injured starters.
There are some strange and sad things going on in the NFL, and it is only Week 3 of the 2013 NFL season. A 49er vows to fix his substance abuse problem. The Cleveland Browns are already looking past the current season and sadly, a loss has been felt in the organization of the Arizona Cardinals.
What looked like a win in the season opener quickly went by the wayside, with the San Diego Chargers falling on Monday Night Football at home to the Houston Texans 31-28.
Randy Bullock kicked a 41-yard field goal as time expired, and the Houston Texans rallied from a 21-point deficit in the second half for a 31-28 victory over the San Diego Chargers on Monday night.
The Houston Texans are coming off of their best season in franchise history, and they want to advance upon that in 2013. That all starts with the San Diego Chargers in the season opener, and this Houston squad looks even better than the one from last year.
The Houston Texans have long seen their offense strike when the iron is hot and consistently run up the score, but they've needed the defense to keep the lead. With some players leaving and others are not living up to the hype, J.J. Watt brings the whole package to a team that is getting better every season.
