Tonight, at 8:00 p.m. ET, The Miami Dolphins (1-1-0) from South Beach travel to South Texas for a preseason tangle with the Houston Texans (1-0-0) at Reliant Stadium in Houston. The game can be live streamed here. Dolphins fans can listen to the action at 940 WINS, while Texans fans can do the same at Bull 100.3 FM.
The Dolphins bounced back from a defeat at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys in the Hall of Fame game with a 27-3 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road last week, while Houston traveled to Minnesota and defeated the Vikings 27-13.
Jonas Gray, who is playing in his first professional season, rushed for two touchdowns for Miami last week, and Dustin Keller, who played in his first game with the Dolphins after defecting from their AFC rival New York Jets, scored on a 22-yard touchdown pass from Ryan Tannehill.
Tannehill is entering his second year with the Dolphins after going 282-for-484 for 3,294 yards with 12 touchdowns and 13 interceptions in 16 games in 2012.
Tannehill played in just the first four series' last week, going 5-for-9 for 75 yards in his second consecutive preseason start.
"I like the way the guys are working," Dolphins coach Joe Philbin said, according to the Miami Herald. "I like the understanding of the system. We don't have a lot of mental errors and mental mistakes."
Miami hasn't made the playoffs since 2008, and is coming off of a season where the team went 7-9-0 and finished in second place in the AFC East.
Meanwhile, the Texans are coming off of a victory where their reserves mostly played. Starting quarterback Matt Schaub went 5-for-5 last week for 34 yards in his only series. Schaub, entering his seventh year with Houston, went 350-for-544 for 4,008 yards with 22 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 16 games with Houston last season.
Back-up signal caller T.J. Yates went 13-for-21 for 151 yards with a touchdown in last week's opener.
Houston is coming off of a season where they set a franchise-best mark with a 12-4-0 record and won the AFC South, but after beating the Cincinnati Bengals in the wildcard round, the team fell to the New England Patriots in the divisional round.
Tonight's match-up is only the second time in history that these two teams will meet in the preseason. The Dolphins bested the Texans in Houston 20-3 back in 2002 in the very first home preseason game in Houston Texans history.
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