{"id":5797,"date":"2013-10-09T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:03:56","slug":"texans-to-start-matt-schaub-against-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/09\/texans-to-start-matt-schaub-against-rams\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans to start Matt Schaub against Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5748\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5748\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/mattschaub.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/mattschaub.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/mattschaub-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/mattschaub-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Houston Texans are sticking with Matt Schaub as their starting quarterback for Sunday&#8217;s game against the St. Louis Rams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matt gives us our best chance to win,&#8221; coach Gary Kubiak said. &#8220;It was a tough decision, real tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Texans only have T.J. Yates as their backup and simply feel he does not provide the team with a chance to win.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Houston Police department is denying that there was a group of angry fans outside of Schaub&#8217;s house today which resulted in a police call.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Contrary to some reports, there was not a group of &quot;angry fans&quot; outside the Schaub residence on Monday.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23hounews&amp;src=hash\">#hounews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; houston police (@houstonpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonpolice\/statuses\/387950913870000128\">October 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A family member is said to have seen a male taking photos in the driveway but there is nothing more to the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Police were not called to the home. No other information to release at this time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23hounews&amp;src=hash\">#hounews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; houston police (@houstonpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonpolice\/statuses\/387951526729113600\">October 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In five games this season Schaub has thrown for 1,366 yards and eight touchdowns but has also thrown nine interceptions. Schaub has thrown a pick-six in each of the Texans last four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Houston Texans are sticking with Matt Schaub as their starting quarterback for Sunday&#8217;s game against the St. Louis Rams. &#8220;Matt gives us our best chance to win,&#8221; coach Gary Kubiak said. &#8220;It was a tough decision, real tough.&#8221; The Texans only have T.J. Yates as their backup and simply feel he does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[60,416],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-houston-texans","9":"tag-matt-schaub"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}