Round One-Chargers/Texans

Welcome back one and all. We’ve got six playoff games and all have some sort of appeal. Let’s get to it.

Chargers/Texans:

-Houston’s only quality win was vs Buffalo and that was quite some time ago. There’s just something missing from the team this year and I can’t put my finger on it. Coach Ryan needs to get the attention of his players for this tilt.

-Myself, I’m thinking that the Chargers will be the only road team to win this weekend.

-Although they don’t have any ‘difference-makers’ at the rb and wr spots, that shouldn’t pose a problem in this round.

-Speaking of, both J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edward were hobbled by ankle ouchies and were limited in practice up to Wednesday. Both are expected to gut it out and play-it’s the playoffs after all.

-Houston was a middling 5-3 at home this year-they’re not getting the type of advantage one would like to have in the postseason.

-They’ll need some help from the defense with turnovers but Herbert won’t likely be offering. He’s only the second QB ever to have 500+ attempts and throw three or less INT’s.

-Without Diggs and Dell the offense seems to have stalled out a bit. That’s no fault of Mixon’s, he has 1250 combined yards from scrimmage for the fourth straight year.

-The Texans are unique in that they scored 372 points on offense (good!) and gave up exactly 372 points on defense (not so good!)

-You’d think the vaunted Chargers defense would be ranked higher (11th) given they’ve only given up 13 points in their last two games but it took some time for it all to come together. They do have the league’s #1 scoring D however.

Knock yourselves out.