Under-the-Radar Issues That Could Haunt Texans in Pittsburgh

Wednesday on The A-Team, Adam Wexler lays out his biggest concerns for the Texans as they try to escape the Steel City with a playoff win this Monday. The Texans rely heavily on their kicking game, and history tells us kicking in Pittsburgh is no picnic.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm telling you, I have a bad feeling early in
the game, end of the half, late in the game,
or multiple times in the game when the Texans offense
can't get it down the traditional way. They're not when
it's fourth and six. It's almost like you need to kick.
You shouldn't be going for it when it's fourth and
two and you want points and maybe you have an
option and maybe you should be going for it. Maybe
you're at the twenty, like when he doesn't go for

(00:20):
it on these forty yard kicks on fourth and two
or fourth and four. It's also because great, we got it. Well,
now it's first and ten from the thirty nine, you're
no closer to scoring a touchdown. You just still have
your drive going. You still might end up kicking a
field Well, it just might be a little bit closer.
Maybe you miss that. I mean, there's a little bit
different than these red zone field goals they kick. Those
are different enough of that. I hate those, yeah, we

(00:42):
all do. But they're going to attempt a forty three
yard field goal at Akroscher Stadium on Monday night football,
and it's it's not going to go calling it now.
I got a new sponsor so, and I'm worried that
unlike the forty four times he was successful, this year,
he just won't be. And we've seen it in the
playoffs before. Did you have supreme confidence with him kicking

(01:04):
on the field in Kansas City or kicking in Baltimore?
And he has playoff experience prior to the Domico Ryans
era also, and you could easily easily say he was
the best kicker in the NFL this year. Chris Boswell's
had a long, long history of kicking in Pittsburgh and
on that field, and he's going into this game off
of a missed point after the only one he had
all year. I hope the kicking game is not nearly

(01:27):
as big a deal as it was just this past
Sunday Night.