EXAMINING THE TOP 12 REASONS WHY THE PATRIOTS WILL BEAT THE TEXANS
By Rock Mayock 11:30 p.m. | The Wild Card round of the playoffs are in the books and the Packers, Ravens, Seahawks, and Texans have all moved on to the Divisional round. Therefore next weekend will feature such gripping matchups as the Ravens at Broncos (Saturday, January 12 @ 1:30 p.m. on CBS), Packers at 49ers (Saturday, January 12 @ 5 p.m. on FOX), Seahawks at Falcons (Sunday, January 13 @ 10:00 a.m. on FOX) and Texans at Patriots (Sunday, January 13 @ 1:30 p.m. on CBS).With a high degree of certainty we can assume the Broncos will best the Ravens, the 49ers will handle the Packers and the Seahawks defense will throttle the Falcons. As a result there is no point in watching any one of these games unless you bet money on them.
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NFL PECKING ORDER: PEYTON MANNING, MARIO WILLIAMS, AND REGGIE BUSH
By Jaboner Jackson 12:30 p.m. | In the 2006 NFL Draft, the prized popular choice of the draft for the Houston Texans was Reggie Bush, the shifty running back out of USC. Newspapers and media outlets both in Houston and nationally began to call games in which the lowly Texans played towards the end of the 2005-06 season as the “Reggie Bowl.” The winner of the Reggie Bowl was going to be the team that would lose more games at the end of the season, thereby guaranteeing the winner of the Reggie Bowl the number one overall pick in the draft. The Texans won the Reggie Bowl with a 2-14 record, and everyone—from local papers to the big boys at ESPN—began the countdown for when Bush would become a Texan.
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CHARTERED TERRITORY: AFC AND NFC DIVISIONAL GAME PREVIEWS
By Jaboner Jackson 11 a.m. | Last week, Chartered Territory had profound success with its NFL Wildcard Previews, nailing all four games. With the AFC and NFC Divisional games going through the weekend, who has time to read words upon words of NFL analysis, especially when we all have NFL in LA reading and moustaches to catch up on? Today, Chartered Territory takes a look at the NFL Divisional games. In typically concise manner, a chart is worth a thousand words.
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NFL WILDCARD WEEKEND HINDSIGHT: CHARTERED TERRITORY GOES 4-0
By Jaboner Jackson 9 pm. | After an atrocious end to the NFL regular season, Chartered Territory returned to its analytically exceptional ways by correctly detailing the keys for victory (and defeat) for all four NFL Wildcard games this weekend. Put simply, Chartered Territory went 4-0 in predicting the outlooks for Wildcard Weekend. Today, Hindsight pays homage to Chartered Territory like only these awkward stepsiblings can.
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CHARTERED TERRITORY: NFL WILD CARD PREVIEWS
By Jaboner Jackson 9:30 a.m. | Chartered Territory takeS a look at the AFC and NFC Wild Card games. And who has time to read pages of analysis, especially when we all want to catch up on our NFL in LA reading? Today, we examine strong points and concerns for the competing teams in chart format. In typically concise manner, a chart is worth a 1000 words.
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BREAKING NEWS: SCHAUB IS OUT AND LEINART IS IN FOR THE TEXANS
By Rock Mayock 10:00PM There is shocking news coming out of Houston that can be interpreted as distressing or euphoric depending upon your point of view. The distressing news for all of you fantasy football geeks is that Texans starting quarterback Matt Schaub has been declared out for the remainder of the season due to a Lisfranc injury to an undisclosed foot (it could be either the left or the right). The euphoric news for those of us with man crushes is that the table has been set for Heisman Matt Leinart to assume the starter role as the Texans take on the Jacksonville Jaguars on November 27.
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INJURY UPDATE: PEYTON MANNING’S NECK SURGERY AND ARIAN FOSTER’S HAMSTRING (UPDATED)
By Jaboner Jackson 8 am | Updated at 230 pm | We reviewed the injuries of Peyton Manning and Arian Foster previously with our team medical expert, Hassan A. Riaz, MD, MBA. When we spoke to Dr. Riaz about Manning a month ago, he had expressed concern about Manning’s second neck surgery. He had also worried about Foster’s first hamstring injury. Manning has finally been taken off of the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list but Foster has suffered another pulled hamstring. I caught up with Dr. Riaz early this morning to get his thoughts on these two players. As always, Dr. Riaz is not treating the aforementioned players and is relying on publically available information to form his opinions.
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FANTASY RUNNING BACK INJURY UPDATE: ARIAN FOSTER AND DARREN MCFADDEN
By Jaboner Jackson 845 am | It’s a Saturday, which means Hassan A. Riaz, MD, MBA, is playing golf, but we snuck in a quick phone call to him before he teed off on hole #3 to review the injuries to fantasy stud running backs Arian Foster of the Houston Texans and Darren McFadden of the Oakland Raiders. Foster sustained a pulled hamstring in his first day of training camp practice yesterday. McFadden suffered a fractured orbital bone earlier this week. Dr. Riaz is not treating the aforementioned players and is relying on publically available information to form his opinions.
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