The NFL Wild Card round begins on Saturday when the Kansas City Chiefs travel to take on the Houston Texans. Does the public think that will continue today against the Houston Texans in the NFL Wild Card Game? After early-season struggles, Houston rattled off 7 of their last 9 games to win the AFC South division, edging out the 8-8 Indianapolis Colts by one game.
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The Houston Texans host the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday in the first round of the AFC Playoffs, and in advance of the big game, we were able to discuss the game with Matt Vederame the editor of the Arrowhead Addict, the FanSided page dedicated to the Kansas City Chiefs. On offense, they need to gameplan for J.J. Watt, who can take over the game at defensive end. Since beginning the season 2-5, the Texans have persevered, and overcome all odds, by finishing the season 9-7. The Texans may have to go there more than they want to in this game against Kansas City. The teams traded interceptions in the first quarter with Chiefs safety Eric Berry and Texans linebacker Brian Cushing coming away with diving picks.
“They’ve got a really good team and our guys know it’s going to be a challenge”, Texans coach Bill O’Brien said.
Kansas City will keep the ball on the ground to stay out of third-and-long spots where Watt wreaks havoc.
All of this said, I just have a gut feeling… let’s go with the Chiefs bad playoff mojo sprinkled in with a little Andy Reid…
The first game of the playoffs will be an intriguing match up between two very similar teams.
The Texans have also been using Jonathon Grimes who scored twice last week, once through the air and once on the ground. “Basically we just approach it like we’ve been doing the whole season”.
The Chiefs, who have won a franchise-record 10 straight games after a 1-5 start, say they won’t be thinking about their years of playoffs woes.
There’s not a lot to choose from between the Chiefs and Texans. Hali is the bigger question though, He missed workouts on Wednesday with knee and thumb injuries. He finished the regular season with 87 catches for 1,088 yards and eight touchdowns. Watt led the NFL with 17 ½ sacks to join Reggie White as the only players in NFL history to have three 15-sack seasons in their first five years in the league.
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Watt broke his left hand on December 9 and played the next three games with a club-like cast that slowed him down a bit. The Texans are going with Brian Hoyer as the starting quarterback, but it’ll be a tough task against a Chiefs defense that has been very impressive the last three months, yielding just 14.5 points per game the last 12 games, no team has scored more than 22 points against them during that time. Another 49-yarder off the foot of Santos gave the Chiefs a 13-0 advantage with 7:04 remaining in the first half.
