Good news for Matt Schaub, Duane Brown, and Eric Winston, as Colts defensive end, Dwight Freeney, is out for Sunday's game with an abdominal injury. The pro-bowler didn't even make the trip to Houston with the team.

This is big news for the Texans as Freeney is the Colts best pass rusher and can cause some damage against the offensive line. Things should be a little more comfortable in the pocket for big number 8, as he will have more time to his AJ80, K-Walt, Thor, and the others. Let's hope this means a more balanced attack and the return of Super Steve Slaton this week!

And down goes another Texan as FS Eugene Wilson has been placed on the IR. This is very dangerous, as Peyton will be chomping at the bit to take advantage of an even further weakened secondary. At least we know he won't be running every third down opportunity he gets, but watching him pick apart Busing won't be fun either. 

I just hope this game doesn't come down to another Kris Brown field goal because right now he's making Scott Norwood look like a stud!

I'm going to the game in Cincy tomorrow...anyone else going? Any tips or anyone tailgating? Let me know and maybe we can get rid of that "who-dey" and get some Texans pride going on the march to .500! I'm expecting a good showing from the offense once again despite a solid Bengals defense thus far and Walter will not forget who didn't bring him back a few years ago...can the D finally get it together?

I know he's had some issues including punching Brady Quinn, but the guy could be a good rotational guy? He got released today and I think we should at least take a look. He's played DE and Dt in a 3-4 for the Browns and could be a good find at DT for us considering Okam just doesn't want to take the job, TJ sucks, and Zgonina is well, Zgonina. What do you guys think?

Well so much for that #3 QB competition as Alex Brink was released by the team. Also released were T Doug Dedrick and P Justin Brantly. Looks like Sexy Rexy is safe for now but Kubes hasn't been holding three quarter backs on the active roster since he got here. Maybe with The Schaub going down to injury the last couple of years he wants to be a little more cautious? Unlike many on the board I actually like having Rex on the roster. He may not be a guy who can come in and play every down all 16 weeks of the season but is much better than most back-ups (not to mention #3 QB's) in the league.

Check out a good piece on the ESPN AFC SOUTH blog about Xavier Adibi. Looks like dude wants to play real bad. Love to see that in the young kid. We'll see if he can beat out Cato June and Zach Diles for the last spot. Our linebacking corps is STACKED this year! SB Champs 09-10

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afcsouth/0-10-100/Bulked-up-Adibi-fighting-for-third-linebacker-spot.html

Now this is what I like to hear out of the man in charge of the Houston Texans Defense!

If you're too lazy to click the link here's a little snip bit that you'll want to read:

"The message basically was: Hey, we're not going to offer any excuses or any explanations. We're just going to try to go out, do our jobs, do them as best as we can do them, be disciplined in our approach and just try to be more aggressive in our approach. Let's just put ourselves in position to compete every week. We don't want to go into games with any excuses for not being successful; we just want to play the games. Hopefully they'll take something from it."

Chris Perry and Gary Russell have been let go by the Bengals. Russell could be the type of guy we're looking for and was an SB winner with the Steelers next year. At worst he can compete with C. Brown and Foster. Perry is injury prone but is a former 1st round pick and could be worth a gamble as he is very versatile which is the theme of this off-season. The Bengals also cut Mike Doss and he could be a good risk.

Who else do you think will be cut that we can go with? 

Gary Kubiak has been spilling the beans to ESPN lately and this time he says he wants a big back to compliment Super Steve Slaton.

This article talks about possibilities if we go with an RB in round 2. Andre Brown, Rashad Jennings, and Shonn Greene are listed as possibilities. I personally like Greene, but would prefer to take a LB and CB in the first two rounds and go RB in round 3 or 4.

Gary Kubiak gave his input to ESPN.com about what they are looking for in the #15 overall pick, Amobi Okoye, and Duane Brown.

Kubes said they will not go with a receiver or running back in the first round, so you might as well cross off Beanie Wells from your first round mocks. I would guess we won't go with either of those two positions in round two unless there is a can't miss (Beanie or Knowshon drop). My guess is round 3 or one of the round 4 picks will be used to address RB and we might see a later round receiver as well.

Also gathered from this article it seems LB or DB is the pick in round 1. You can say the odd man out is round 2. It seems Smith and Cody have filled voids for the DL and we might go there in round 3.