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It’s almost two month left until the preseason starts in NFL, the draft has allready passed and the teams or holding some mini-camps. Not much happening in that world in other words. So since there is no other quality sport on today ( I couldn’t care less for the Golden League competitions), so that leaves me with the games from the last season I haven’t already watched. Today it was the Titans vs the Texans from week 7.

Boy, that was an ugly game, or first half rather. And I’m a defensive kind of guy, I much rather have a 0 – 3 game where you have to fight for every yard than a 48-37 game where every other play ends with a touchdown. But the Texans and Titans they couldn’t hold on to the ball, it was like they had soaped it up or something. It wasn’t so much good defense that stripped the ball as much as bad offense who simple put it on the ground. But apart from that you’ve got to admire how physical the Titans defense were, I guess Matt Schuab can confirm that. In the second half the offenses, especially Houston seemed to have figured out the Titans defense, but still they made some devastating turn-overs. How the Titans managed not to lock that game up earlier is still a mystery for me, I guess things would have been different if  Vince Young was healthy. And I think that running the same plays with Collins at the rudder instead of Young, is plain wrong. Cause Young relies a lot on his athletic ability, that Collins is no where near to have. But cudos to Bironas, eight field goals and two extra points that is something.

Looking at Tennessee’s schedule this season I guess that the season opener home against Jacksonville will set the tone for the season. If then can stop the Jaguars physical running game and let Vince Young make some plays against the Jacksonville defense, should be interesting to see if the Jags new defense ends can contain Young, they Tennessee could have a pretty good season. Maybe a 10 – 6.

For the Texans I feel that things aren’t looking as good, they had a .500 season last year, and I have a hard time seeing that they will improve that. Especially when their division friends all looks like, and were last season, teams of play off caliber. There are so many areas that they need to improve, I think that they lack the skills in the defensive secondary that is needed. And neither Schaub no Rosenfels provide enough to be a contender in the tough AFC South.