Texans’ Hoyer out of concussion protocol; will start Sunday

Williams pounced on it to give NY the ball near midfield. That gambit enabled the Texans to more effectively utilize Hopkins, who totaled five catches for 118 yards. The Jets and the Bills are now tied for the final wild card spot in the AFC.

No matter how much everyone tries to downplay the situation, it’s nearly time to press the panic button in NY as another loss could be catastrophic in Todd Boles’ efforts to stay for the long haul.

“They were prepared”, he said of his team. “We know it’s week by week and if you start feeling sorry for yourself that’s when you’re going to get in trouble”.

Decker has a more favorable matchup this week as the Texans’ defense overall has not been what they were hyped up to be over the off-season. Brandon Marshall is also facing his own injuries, while he is still expected to play this Sunday, he is still not 100%.

Texans backup quarterback T.J.

– Chris Ivory ended the game only carrying the football eight times for 36 yards. Those seven plays went for 48 yards on 6.8 per attempt, while the other 27 attempts from Blue, Grimes, Akeem Hunt and Jay Prosch on normal running plays gained just 2.9 per attempt.

The stage was set for an improbable Jets’ comeback.

The Texans are an interesting team in that they seem to be really bad, but they continue to win games sporadically. “We’ve got a divisional game coming up next week”.

T.J. Yates will fill in at the quarterback position for Houston, making his first start since 2011. He was consistently getting burned by DeAndre Hopkins and hardly looked like the elite defensive player that the Jets expect him to be. The Jets’ passing defense has been better at home, by and large. The Texans have allowed just four field goals in their last two games and haven’t allowed a touchdown over their last ten quarters of play. This is going to be a very hard task for Yates to overcome. He started 12 games for Houston in 2014.

By comparison to what they had done the rest of the year, the tight end group broke out last week against Cincinnati. “I’m not the first one to come back from an Achilles tendon (injury)”.

Darrell Revis was on the coverage and it was Nuk’s elusiveness that caused Revis to fall flat on his face as he coasted to the end zone. Revis probably won’t be enough alone to stop Hopkins, so I’d imagine they would send some safety help, which is where they got burned by Allen Robinson when they played the Jaguars earlier this year. The Texans offense also won the time of possession battle against the Raiders defense, keeping them on the field for 33 minutes and 25 seconds, compared to Oakland’s numbers equal to 26:35. If they leave this as a pick ’em – I doubt they will – I would say the Jets are the easy pick here. The desire to win every play in every game.

Coach Bill O’Brien announced Monday, via the Houston Chronicle, that Hoyer has cleared the concussion protocol and will return to the starting lineup for the team’s Week 12 game against the Saints.