Dec 2nd 2008 11:07AM by Stephanie Stradley (author feed)
Filed under: Jaguars, Texans, AFC South

Though nationally there wasn’t much interest in two 4-7 teams playing each other, in Houston, Reliant Stadium was packed to watch the city’s first Monday Night Football game in 14 years.

The story of the game was the impressive play of Texans rookie Steve Slaton and Mario Williams. The above video shows highlights of Slaton’s 130-yard rushing, 51-yard receiving, two-touchdown performance. Williams had three sacks, a forced fumble and four tackles behind the line of scrimmage.

I guess they both saw this as a statement game. Slaton was angry that NFL teams saw him as only a third-down back, which allowed him to slip to the third round of the draft. Williams mentioned in the post game interviews that he took exception to Ron Jaworski’s pregame comments to the suggesting that the defensive end was not a dominant player.Continue Reading