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Hey Atrain,
The Texans suck ass!!!!!
yeah hopefully, hey we should start a thread that says HOUSTON TEXANS SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS to piss off peewee and ofactor.
Hey Atrain,
The Texans suck ass!!!!!
hahaha you wont be saying then whem we win the Superbowl !!
That right there is the greatest example of humor.
Not even Jerry Seinfeld could top that.
Even I wouldn't go that far.
hahah I know its all in good fun.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/traini...t&lid=tab3pos1
HOUSTON -- Texans defensive end Mario Williams desperately wants to blend in with his teammates, but that's no easy task when you're perhaps the most controversial No. 1 overall draft choice in league history.
Nationally, the Texans were ripped for not selecting running back Reggie Bush. But in this city, homegrown quarterback Vince Young will always be the one who got away.
To his credit, Williams has somehow remained patient with the persistent questions. Asked whether he'd ever daydreamed of being, say, the third overall pick, Williams didn't hesitate.
"No, because it would've been the same type of stuff," he said. "It would've been just as bad because people don't look at the overall situation. They just wanted someone else."
Fortunately for the Texans, Williams hasn't let the unreasonable expectations put him in the tank. When last season ended, he offered to take every member of the defensive line on an all-expense-paid vacation to Brazil. When only three teammates expressed any interest in the trip, he instead holed up at the Texans' Methodist Training Facility, where he dropped 10 pounds and added even more quickness to his game.
If you don't count his unscheduled appearance in a YouTube video driving his burnt-orange Lamborghini at 150 mph on a highway in North Carolina, it's been a pretty solid offseason for Williams.
"He's matured a lot as a person," second-year coach Gary Kubiak said. "There's no doubt about that. As a player, things are easier for him now. He doesn't have to work so hard just at the base schemes and what we're doing. Now he's just got to grow basically as a pro; coming up with more packages to rush the passer, coming up with more moves. That's where he's got to get better, to become more effective."
It seems odd that a coach who built his reputation as an offensive coordinator in Denver appears to be staking his future to a talented but young defense. The Texans have chosen a defensive lineman in the first round in four consecutive drafts, in part because the first two picks, Travis Johnson and Jason Babin, haven't exactly worked out.
Kubiak hired former Dolphins defensive coordinator Richard Smith to change the defense from a 3-4 to a 4-3, and the early returns were disastrous. Through the first three games of 2006, the Texans' defense was allowing 483.7 yards per game as the team was outscored, 98-49.
In order to create some semblance of a pass rush, Smith played Williams on both sides, and moved him inside on third-down passing situations. As a result, Williams wasn't consistent, and his inability to register a sack through the first three games only added to his self-doubt.
"Moving him all around wasn't the right thing to do," Smith said. "We decided to let him get good at one spot, so he could just let his instincts take over."
Even now, veteran defensive end N.D. Kalu occasionally pulls Williams aside to remind him not to be so mechanical. Kalu, who played college football a few miles from Reliant Stadium at Rice, has served as a sounding board for young players such as Williams and this year's first-round draft choice, defensive tackle Amobi Okoye.
"I looked over the other day and Mario was counting his steps before making a move," Kalu said. "He's got 20 different people in his ear, and sometimes you have to say, 'Screw the coaches, screw the technique.'"
Williams finished with only 4½ sacks last season, but he played half the season with a foot injury that kept him out of practice and required pain-killing injections. A lot of players attempt to explain that sacks don't tell the whole story -- especially when they don't record many. But that's not the case with Williams.
Asked about his personal goals heading into this season, Williams said he wanted the single-season sack record. When I reminded him that he came up 18 sacks shy of that mark, his expression didn't change.
"You have to aim high," Williams said. "So I want the record."
Lost in the fallout from the 2006 draft is the fact that second-round draft choice DeMeco Ryans had a remarkable season at middle linebacker, finishing with 125 tackles and 3½ sacks. At 23, he's already the unquestioned leader of this defense. The only problem is that the former Alabama star is so unassuming that coaches have asked him to become more of a vocal presence on the field.
"I've coached players like Gary Plummer and Ken Norton Jr.," Smith said, "and DeMeco already has the recognition skills those guys had in their 10th years. A lot of times rookies will come over to the sideline all wide-eyed when something goes wrong, but that never happened to him."
Ryans said he takes a lot of pride in the fact that the Texans have chosen to build around their defense.
"We have to be the backbone of the team," he said. "If the offense can put a few points on the board, we think we can do the rest."
A week after the Texans fell to 0-3 with an embarrassing loss to the Redskins last season, they held the Dolphins to 289 yards in a 17-15 victory. Over the final 13 games of the season, the Texans had the 10th-best overall defense in the league, and allowed only 303.8 yards per game.
"We weren't as bad as we thought we were," said cornerback Dunta Robinson, a first-round draft choice in 2004.
Robinson spent February and March living out of a Ramada Inn in Newark, N.J., while working out at a nearby training facility. He had to take a shuttle to the facility because he left his two cars in Houston.
"It felt so good winning those last two games of the season that I just wanted to keep going," he said. "This city deserves a winning football team, and I felt like we all needed to do something extra to make that happen."
Now, we'll see if all that work pays off.
Nice read. Very promising defense.
I dont understand how San Antonio fans talk so much trash on the city of Dallas during basketball season..but once football season comes around this town turns into Dallas jr. I just dont get it.
GO TEXANS!!!!!
same here
Hey Atrain,
The Texans suck ass!!!!
The offensive line only gave up one sack and from the clips I saw they gave Matt Schaub pretty good protections. Hopefully this will carry over to the regular season.
The defenses lack of sacks is a concern.
A complete 180 from the way the Texans started out back in 2002. You guys had a horrid offense. They couldn't even score in PRESEASON yet alone the regular season. Yet the defense ran by Dom Capers was one of the best in the league at the time.
Not at all. They had the #20 defense in points allowed in 2002. This is their best defense ever.
Last year from week 3 on they were the 10th ranked D. They will be better this year.
They're still running the 4-3 Defense, right?
I don't know why they didn't stick with Caper's 3-4 system.
That's because he'll have been dead for several decades before that happens. It's hard to say things when you are dead.
I watched a little bit of the Panthers-Eagles game. On one particular play, David Carr held the ball in the pocket for several seconds while trying to figure out a Cover-2, then ran straight towards a pass rusher, then ran 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage before turning around and running forward. He ended up with a 5-yard sack.
Obviously the problem is the Panthers' offensive line.
They don't have the personnel for a 3-4. They tried moving Babin to OLB and it didn't work. He is a DE. As is Williams. They will get the best of Travis Johnson this season and ND Kalu next to him will provide for a decent middle D Line. Okoye will be a good backup until he wins over the starting spot. Plus Richard Smith is well versed in the 4-3 defense. He is a good defensive coordinator. He knows the talent they have and will get the best from them.
He actually performed better than Delhomme, and word around the campfire is that the compe ion is heating up between the two.
I look for Carr to resurrect his career in Carolina.
Carr sucks balls. He is so s shocked his career is over. A dumb coworker of mine keeps saying he will win the starting job in Carolina. He will be lucky to not get cut.
Speaking of the devil...
Richard Smith is such a great coordinator that he changed Williams' position like three hundred times. Smith never gave Williams a chance to get acclimated to any particular position. And, while Kalu is a good leader, he's an 11 year veteran whose going to be loosing a step or two very soon.
There was absolutely no reason to switch to a 4-3 defense. That was a stupid decision by Kubiak. Besides, Williams played on a 3-4 defense in college and to force him to play in a 4-3 only s with his confidence.
I still don't think that Kubiak is the one to lead the team to the playoffs. But, then again, as a Cowboys fan . . . I don't give a good god damn if the Texans hang themselves.
Another point to make, this person never watched a single Texans game the past few years. He knows nothing of David Carr.
The way Delhomme's been playing, it wouldn't surprise me if Fox yanks him at week 3 if he keeps playing lousy.
Mark my words.
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