Sentence:  The Texans have two more road games - at Buffalo and Houston - before they play for the home folks again , and it looks as if coach Hank Stram 's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to <WSD>be</WSD> in pre-season reckonings . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)