Archives for November 2, 2012

‘”It’s a learning experience every week, and I’m working to get better at certain things that I’m asked to do,” Powell said. “I don’t look at the past. Just keep going forward to each new week. I’m trying to be a consistent asset to this team.”‘

‘Hairston will start at right tackle if Erik Pears can’t play, and Pears missed Thursday’s practice to get soreness in his hip and groin area checked. The Bills’ right tackle will be charged with blocking Houston left defensive end J.J. Watt, who leads the NFL with 9.5 sacks.’

‘”We know for us to get where we want a lot’s going to be put on me and Fred,” Spiller said. “We’re both talented guys and we can present some matchup problems for teams and that opens up everything else. We know that load’s going to be put on us and we welcome the challenge.”‘

Sunday’s forecast calls for an Arian Foster field day against the Bills (Houston Chronicle)

With Texans, Forsett knows his job depends on making most of few chances (Houston Chronicle)

Wade Phillips has fond memories of coaching Bills (Houston Chronicle)

ILB Darryl Sharpton expects to practice next week (Houston Chronicle)

Jonathan Grimes back in fold, expected to contribute (Houston Chronicle)

Tate again absent from practice; Grimes signed to fill in (Houston Chronicle)

Daniels solid season gives Texans another threat (AP)

Texans RB Tate misses practice (The Sports Network)

Darryl Sharpton expects to return to practice next week (HoustonTexans.com)

Quintin Demps ready to return from broken forearm (HoustonTexans.com)

Jonathan Grimes happy to be “back home” with Texans (HoustonTexans.com)

Quotes: Thursday practice (HoustonTexans.com)

‘The Bills (3-4) are expected to welcome back starting left tackle Cordy Glenn and starting right guard Kraig Urbik for their game at Houston (6-1) on Sunday. Both players missed three games with sprained right ankles.’

‘”It is the simple fact of everybody looks at it like you just up and left,” he said. “You do not know the fact of basically being told, ‘We are not giving you anything as far as an offer or anything like that.’ Your hands are tied in that aspect. Everybody else looks at it like that you just went into free agency and left.”‘

‘Texans 28, Bills 14.’

‘This team hasn’t had a signature win on the road that defines the team since Jim Kelly retired. So the time has come. No more, “We aren’t in out gaps” or “We played the wrong technique”. It has to be fixed now and what better places to go get your signature win as Houston which is 6-1 or New England which leads the AFC East, two games ahead of Buffalo.’

‘”It’s the people that look at numbers that really don’t know football to be honest,” the second-year player said. “People that really know football, then you turn the film on. Just go turn it on. You watch us, we play lights out on defense play in and play out and then we give up an 80-yard run. It’s very rare that a team can line up and move the ball on us 80 yards in a drive. I mean it happened, it’s happened. It happened against San Francisco. It’s happened. We’re not just this immovable object. We’re playing defense, it’s just the consistency and on the consistent basis that we do [need to] play.”‘

‘Gailey was asked about if that was a groin injury when it was first done and Gailey said, “I think so, hip, groin, I don’t know what it is, you got me, I don’t know that.”‘

‘”The only new thing that’s come up is Erik Pears has been struggling with that hip that he had the procedure on this offseason,” said head coach Chan Gailey. “He went to see a specialist today. So he’ll be back tomorrow and we’ll know more.”‘