Texans win convincingly...27-7

The Texans revisit the win column against what I consider their best rival in the AFC South. They have always played tough against the Jags. Tough enough that I went homer on them in my Week 7 picks.

It all started on the ground, Houston finally put together a ground attack with Wali Lundy leading the way with 19 rushes for 93 yards. Houston on the afternoon put up a total of 131 yards. It wasn't a pretty 131, they only averaged 3.9/carry, but it was effective.

David Carr provided the arial attack, launching 34 and connecting on 25 of them for 218 yards. One of them, an arcing scud missle attack connected with Andre Johnson between two defenders for a TD. Johnson had 8 catches for 106 yards...how sweet it is.

This is what we've wanted this team to be. A team that moves the chains and makes plays, the Texans rolled up 21 first downs in the game, mainly b/c they didn't have the third down and quarter mile to go. They were only penaized 17 yards during the game. They played a good game, not a great game, but a good one against a Jag team that was supposed to contend for the AFC South title.

Though it was nice to see all of the rookies, Lundy, Mario Williams, DeMeco Ryans, and Owen Daniels, who added a TD, get into the game...I'm handing out the game ball to Wali Lundy in this one...as Coach Kubiak stated in an AP interview:

"I was worried about him after the first couple of weeks that the overload had
slowed him down and he wasn't reacting," Kubiak said of Lundy. "Sometimes you
have to let players sit back and watch a week or two so that they calm down. He
played with great presence today."

We needed a running attack and he brought one.