Charlie Casserly reports possble MCL.

There is no silver lining

the direction his knee went had to be mcl, but the question is tear or sprain. this is not a top tier team without him, esp w/ KVB shaky already.
our offense further confirmed my fears that kerry collins is inconsistent with his decision making and accuracy and that teams can shut down the run game by stacking the box. keep in mind, houston is not even a good defensive team.
justin mccareins should never play again, he is absolutely awful and has been since he came back here. don’t know why fisher can’t see it, but it’s getting ridiculous.

despite not knowing if big al is ok i think it is safe to say we are not going to the promise land this year, this season had so much promise but now its looking like a season of broken dreams

i think we need to take this offense in a new direction how about actually spending money on a wid receiver but then again that is viewed as blasphemus

is the guess so far but we’ll have to wait on MRI. He’ll have four weeks of recovery time before first playoff game – cross fingers.

Without Al Steelers may have a good shot at winning the #1 seed from us, having just beaten the Ravens. but we’ll see. I think we will match up well against the Steelers even with Al out.

Guys, ease up on the doom and gloom. The Texans are a good football team with a lot to play for – their first winning season EVER. Get it? EVER. They’ve won four in a row now, and if Chicago needs that last game of the season they have to play in Houston to make the playoffs, they’re in trouble.

Our offense played crappy. Hopefully they will shake it off and get it together. I would not be surprised if our offense does better against Pittsburgh, the 1st place defense in terms of yards in the league, than it did against the Texans, the 21st ranked in terms of yards. That doesn’t make sense on paper, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it happen on the field.

it’s at least sprained, but an mri could easily show it’s torn. by saying it is “sprained” after examining it means they know it is screwed up bad, but can’t tell exactly how bad with out taking pictures.

I understand that they can’t play like they did today and hope to beat the contenders come January, and losing big Al would be a huge hit, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Houston played tough today and made some big plays when in counted.

Jimmy says you can’t put this defense among the elite, but I strongly disagree. This defense has been able to make stops when given bad field position to work with an awful lot this year, and the way they keep teams out of the end zone is something you can compare to the elite defenses of the past. Sure, giving up 200 to Andre is nothing to be proud of, but that’s the only guy Schaub threw to all day. If you told me Andre would have 200 yards and a TD and the Texans would be held to 13, I would have taken it.

Time to double down and get ready for Steelers week. Enough with the doomsayers already, we haven’t even started the playoffs yet.

If Fisher didnt take the blame in the locker room for this loss he is truly an egomaniac. What a dumbass move for such a good coach. We will not make it to AFC title game with Kerry. Jeff and Vince better make up and get it together If they want any offense. Kerry is due a bad outing, but lets get real folks. You absolutely have to do what is best for the team to win at this time of the season. Vince was usually good when put on the spot before. Its going to have to change quick. Jeff blew it also for not letting Vince take some snaps. This is getting bad. Need to get head out of rear. Vickerson ill be trump card for loss of Al in playoffs. I am sorry to say, but after what Jeff showed us today, you can mail it in. Get a receiver in off season, plan on next year now. Also, Bironas nails 49 yards, big Al doesnt get hurt….. good job Jeff. Humble pie best served cold.

Jeff says in Post game that he felt 49 yards wasnt in his range. What a complete bonehead.

i noticed kerry collins not putting it together in the 3rd quarter. if it weren’t for our awesome defense in the 2nd half we wouldn’t have been in this game. Fisher made a call on that field goal and he took a gamble. i wouldn’t exactly say that he lost us the game. if i were to put the blame against someone it would definately be at Kerry Collins and Justin Mac.

i didnt feel like everyone came to play in this one and hopefully everyone is on the same page next week against our biggest test yet. the steelers wont let many errant passes fall to the ground because they’re notorious for creating turnovers. the way to beat the steelers is to stop their run game and have a solid clutch kicker. i think fisher will look at kerry’s performance next week and if his performance does not improve from what its looked like over the last few weeks i think fisher will be forced to make a change… but who knows when you’re playing fisherball

First off, I thought that with three time-outs, they’d get the ball back with another chance to kick a long FG if it came to it. And then, too, this is why you have LenDale White, no? He has been excellent in these short yardage situations all year. So the obvious play was either LDW up the gut or a play-action bootleg to a run/pass option on the outside. I figured that the odds on either of those working was probably 50/50. Which was okay given that the D was gassed from being on the field for 100 snaps at that point.

I have no clue at all why you run a post with your slowest and least consistent WR on 4th-and-3. THAT was completely idiotic.

At the end of the preseason, I figured there would have been many more than that. But this team, with a crew of unheralded players, have put together a damn fine season. If Fisher pulls off the win over the Steelers next Sunday all this will be forgotten history. Must admit the Texans will no longer be the patsy of the division; and it’s amazing what has happened to the Jaguars.