Can we finally beat the Texans
Written by Christopher WIlliams   
Thursday, 09 October 2008

There is but 1 team in the NFL besides the Jets that really makes me mad.  Most would think that it would be one of our other division mates; the one that everyone hates in the NE Patriots, but it's not.  It's the Texans.

Although I don't have any beef with their coaching staff or players (although it was classless to stand over a knocked out Trent Green during last year's ill fated game when he was concussed for the second time in as many seasons), I do have a huge beef with the fact that WE ARE THE ONLY TEAM IN THE NFL THAT HAS PLAYED THE TEXANS AND NOT YET BEATEN THEM.

I will say that again for those who thought they may have read that last sentence wrong.

We are the only team in the NFL that has played the Texans and not yet beaten them.  We've come close, and there are a couple of games that we should have won, but one simple fact remains; we have not yet beaten what can be considered to be the worst team in the NFL since their inception in the league.  It never mattered that we were up against David Carr and the worst OLine that the league had seen in a long time.  It never mattered that they never had a running back that could do anything substantial.  It never mattered that they had a defense that could seemingly be scored on by pop warner teams.  It never mattered that their best linebacker before Ryans was a cast off Miami Dolphins backup in Morlon Greenwood.  We would still find ways to lose.  Heck, we likely invented new ways to lose when it came to playing the Texans.

Hopefully that losing mentality has left the building. Hopefully Sparano has coached into this team the utter importance of simply taking care of business.  Hopefully he has instilled in this team the idea that we should beat bad teams rather than finding a way to play just as poorly. 

Hopefully we can finally beat the Texans.