Houston Texans at Miami Dolphins - What to Watch For

will always have Mario opposite the TE. time to place Fasano next to Columbo all game long. And if Mario does line up opposite of Columbo, Fasano or Hilliard should double Mario.

Matt Schaub. Lat week, Tom Brady torched the secondary. Vontae Davis and Sean Smith pride

I think Dansby will (and hope) be covering Daniels for most of the game. Last week was the exception for Dansby, not the rule. He is a fine coverage LBer and was pure gold last year. I hope they place Bell in the box and use him in zones and blitzes. He shouldn’t be in man against anyone.

Hartline and Bess have obvious mismatches this week and Daboll should give it to them often.Bush and Fasano need to have a big game as well, due to the poor ILBs.

We need a bruising RB for goalline and short yardage plays, but I think Bush did well last week.

Redzone O wasn’t as big as a problem as last year, IMO. I think Penalties and not committing is more important right now.

It’s just irresponsible to start a RT who is this much of an issue for the team. Everything the offense practices and works on this week could be wasted by just hoping a below-avg player is going to maintain a superstar at his position, knowing that the result of Colombo losing that battle could be devastating to Henne and the offensive gameplan. Having other players/positions on your offense that are executing well won’t mean anything if another area is completely falling apart. That’s simply TEAM football. Really, the o-lines’ issues and assortment the last couple seasons was/is my first hint that maybe Tony wasn’t as good as I thought he was, because to dismantle your o-line and come out with this motley line-up as result could completely cancel out all the other steps forward the other positions on offense have taken.

To see how the between the tackles run game will play out tomorrow.

I’m looking to see if we can our a complete game together.

Is this the disorder that we can become accustumed to witnessing every week. Or will our head coach admit “Crowder the diva” is worth the above average mouth controll, that was listed to all need to know.

This is going to be another shootout. The Dolphins need to score TD’s. The Phins had 5 scoring opportunities against the Pats: 3 TD’s, 1 FG, 1 turnover on downs inside the 5 yd line and it wasn’t good enough. I don’t think that will be good enough against the Texans either. The Phins offense needs more opportunities and more TD’s

But it seems we don’t have the personel, or haven’t tried the personel, to run it in. I have a hard time believing neither Thomas, LJ, nor Hilliard can manage it. And our OL should theoreticlaly be powerful enough to handle it. But if they can’t, it doesn’t leave us much choice.

I have a hunch about Henne, which I could be wrong about, but when it comes to throwing the ball up close against the goal line, he might just not have it for some reason. Obviously, it is a hard throw for anyone to make, but even though he improved somewhat on touch passes, he still has some accuracy and touch problems that might make it hard for him that close. I could be totally wrong about it though. Unfortunately, for me to look into it, I would have to collect all of his 5>Goal passes, and compare them to a decent sample cross section of other QBs’. ESPN gives 10>Goal which isn’t the same thing.

If I am right, without a back to punch it in, My recommendation is to get a false start penalty or two.

Or I am just crazy, which is likely.

This will open up WR. Sparano needs to learn to use Bush’s decoy value more.

Winning is everything

= good chance for a win for the dolphins, easier said than done though….atleast for the dolphins.
I want to see D. Thomas!! and Cam Wake step it up

The Texans are great football team, they do almost everything very well and they are one of the best teams in the AFC. Offensively they are superb. They have weapons at every position and and an extremely hard west coast offense to stop.

As for Mosuls matchups to watch for I agree with them all but 5 matchups cant really sum up what its like to play against this team right now i think. i guess with their offense one could start with their receivers and the immediate and obvious problems they pose. everyone knows how great Andre Johnson which poses a problem for any defense but what makes their passing attack so lethal is only in small part to Andre Johnsons amazing abilities. jacoby Jones is also a deadly receiver with incredible speed and great hands and Kevin walter is a terrific underneath slot reciever with good lateral quickness and also great hands. They have two excellent TE’s in Owen Daniels and Joel Dreessen and a terrific pass catching fulllback with inique speed in James Casey who gave the Colts fits last week out of the backfield and s a stupendous lead blocker. Their entire offensive line completely dominated the front against Indy and opened gaping holes for Ben Tate, Steve Slaton and Derrick Ward (excluding Arian Foster who was out) and Matt Schaub is a fanstastic and highly intelligent Quarterback who excels in their high tempo, fast release, west coast system. So i think our defense has serious work this week against The Texans offense.

Strictly as as a personal note something i noticed last week with the Texans game against The Colts however on the line was interesting. It was obvious early that The texans were concerned about the edge pass rush of Dwight freeney and Robert Mathis and ran alot of cutback runs to the instead (with great effectiveness) and lots of fast throws and bootlegs to negate the outside pressure. Mike Nolan i think this week has to be ready for these cut down blocking schemes that allowed Matt Schuab to scroll the field as clean as he was able to do in the first half last week. Also i think blitzing this team will be difficult because their offense relies upon either fast release or Schuab getting out of the pocket. Honestly i dont know how Mike Nolan is going to gameplan for this offense yet but an emphasis on great coverage from our linebackers and great play against the run from our front four is obvious.

Thoughts?