Arian Foster could play Week 4, will be game-time decision

“Throughout my career, high school, college, whatever, I always feel better the more I play, the more comfortable I get”, Mallett said.

Mallett completed 24 of 39 passes for 228 yards, a touchdown pass on a slant to wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and was intercepted once on a deflected pass. Mallett had a 75.6 passer rating.

If Foster doesn’t play, Alfred Blue would be the favorite for carries in Houston’s backfield. September. Head coach Bill O’Brien and George Godsey seem to be opening things up for him little by little, and soon things will begin to flow and click with regularity.

With so many starters either out or not in their natural positions, there is a ton of conservative play-calling.

And quite honestly, who else do we have out there?

“I think Brooks will be fine”, he added.

PFF notes that the reason why Mallett was so successful was his effective use of the play-action which continued to throw the Buc’s defenses off. The coach did say the running back would need to be a full participant in practice before he sees his first game action this season. “I think Duane is in a similar conversation to Arian, is very close to being back to being able to play”.

I want things to work out for Mallett and this franchise.

“We’re working to find our brand and get back to playing our brand of football, ” Watt said.

But if it were a comparison of arms, then Mallett would clearly be the victor as Schaub never really had a killer arm but always knew what to do with it until we witnessed its funeral during the 2013 season. I thought his mechanics were better. The other four linemen started every game.

We can only hope – go Texans!