Home sweet home. I am not going to sit here and blow smoke up your ass, fabricating excuses as to why we haven't won on the road. All I know is, we're home now! In the words of the wise Eric Ogbogu: "We must protect this house!"
As the Ravens stroll into town I have only one thought, and that is that we are going to win this game. I would love to break it down for my people, but this is Wurstfest weekend and unfortunately I have no time. Actually, I'm about to hop on the booze fest right now!
I will just say a few things that will be critical for the Texans if we are to beat the Ravens on Sunday:
-LIMIT THE TURNOVERS! Listen, it happens. The Ravens are an electric defense, so turnovers are common in games they play. Guess what. Our defense is pretty dynamic as well. We have shot ourselves in the foot in the past, but there is no denying our offense when we keep possession of the football. The Ravens O, conversely, is a work in progress at best. If we can win the turnover battle, we can win this game.
-STOP THE RUN! Willis McGahee could return to action this week, but if not the Ravens will go with Ray Rice and Le'Ron McClain. It is imperative that we shut down that tandem and force the Ravens offense to be one dimensional. They don't have a speed guy in their WR corps like the Vikings did, so it is unlikely that they will burn us deep in this one. In Flacco we distrust.
-UTILIZE THE SCREEN AND DRAWS! We will probably have a little trouble running the ball against this defense. In this case, we will need to once again rely on the hands and feet of Steve Slaton to manufacture a "running game" with the short to intermediate pass. 100+ all purpose yards sounds like a good goal for Steve.
-KEEP THE CHAINS MOVING! Sage has proven to be quite decisive when he has seen action. The fact that he gets rid of the ball quickly will be to our advantage. It just seems like Owen and Andre are always open when he's on the field. If we can convert on 3rd down and keep the nicked up Ravens D on the field while eating up clock, we should have a nice day.
This is no different from what I prescribed for the team last week. With an offense as smooth as ours and a defense as athletic as ours, the name of the game is execution. We can't play the "two steps forward, three steps back" game this week and expect to win. The critics are back out, but I feel like that bodes well for us. It will be nice to see if our team can overcome recent adversity and rally around Sage, Andre, Mario and the rest of our leaders to push the Texans to their 4th win of the season!
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