Today, they hosted the Saints and extinguished them easily 24-6, Drew Brees and all.
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The Texans defense came out and forced a quick punt again, not giving an inch to one of the top offenses and best quarterbacks in the NFL.
Cross-conference rivals meet at the NRG Stadium as the New Orleans Saints meet the Houston Texans in Week 12 of the National Football League.
But the problems weren’t limited to offense as the defense gave up several big plays in the first game since defensive coordinator Rob Ryan was sacked and replaced by Dennis Allen. “First quarter, they did the same thing to start the third quarter, and we had some mental errors and some busted assignments”. Watt recorded two sacks in the game, that pushes his National Football League lead to 13 1/2 – he would have had three, but Brees was given an intentional grounding penalty when Watt had him wrapped up for a sack during the second quarter.
For the first time in a decade, the New Orleans Saints finished a game without scoring a touchdown.
The last time the Saints didn’t score an offensive touchdown was December 24, 2005 against Detroit and Brees’ last game without a touchdown pass came on November 29, 2012 against Atlanta. The streak of games with touchdowns scored ended at 155.
“It’s been a long time since then”, Watt said. “That’s a very high-powered offense with a very good quarterback, very good coaching staff. So I think it’s a credit to our coaches for a good game plan, it’s a credit to our guys for executing it. It’s everybody doing their job”. Bill O’Brien has his pick between Brian Hoyer and T.J. Yates, while the Colts are led by Matt Hasselbeck, who is older than the Magna Carta. The Texans are on a four-game winning streak after allowing just two touchdowns in November, tying them for the fourth-lowest total in the month since 1970.
The Saints failed to score a TD for the very first time in 10 years of the Sean Payton / Drew Brees Era.
The Texans opened both halves with gusto, covering 70 and 50 yards on first-quarter touchdown drives engineered by quarterback Brian Hoyer.
Yes, the Houston Texans defensive end is everywhere – on the field and off – but people might not be completely aware of the kind of sack pace he’s on.
The Saints actually did manage to intercept Hoyer once, which helped illustrate how bad their pass defense has been. And when they finally got into scoring range in the fourth quarter, Brees threw an interception to Texans cornerback Kareem Jackson just in front of the goal line.
And after forcing another Texans punt, the offense drove from its 20 to the Texans’ 39 befor bogging down there and turning to Forbath, who converted a career-best 57-yard field-goal attempt, the thid-longest in franchise history. Who would have thought we would ever say that this year? Errr-the second half, we just got our ass totally kicked. Houston also rushed for 167 yards, bleeding clock and opportunities for the Saints to make a play.
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“They’re a very good pass-rush team”. It was the first third down conversion of the game for the Saints.
