Texans game was a trap game - change my mind

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(11-13-2023, 04:22 PM)Housh Wrote: I think the phrase trap game gets thrown around too much


To me a trap game is a game like the Cardinals.

A shit team with no momentum coming and winning against a team that should’ve won without much issue


Texans are a good team and we’re red hot coming in. Thats not a trap game.

IMO we actually don’t have any trap games left besides the Colts, and have only been favored(This part is my own opinion, and it’s not based on records or stats) in 1 game. Cardinals and Colts imo are the only sure things we had. I feel like our schedule has evolved into the absolute hardest schedule in the league. With the AFCN ballin so hard right now it feels like only 2/17 games are easy wins.

(11-13-2023, 04:24 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I think it depends on a person's definition of a trap game. I tend to think of a trap game as as a strong team losing to a perceived weak team. The Texans were 4-4 and had the #11 ranked offense in the league. Like you said, they are certainly not a bad team. Like, the Cardinals was a potential trap game. Bad record, easy game on the surface but they had a little life and it was in Arizona. If you overlook them, they could definitely beat you.

Houston is just a solid team. If you overlook Houston, you're just a moron.

My thinking is that the Bengals as a team overlooked the Texans as a weaker team. While I agree the Texans are clearly a decent, if not good, team, I think the Bengals looked at them more as the bad team they've been the last few years. In that sense, they fell prey to the "trap game" by overlooking Houston.