Well knee me in the earhole!
Oct 9, 2007 2007 Season, Batman, Beer, Boobies, Demarcus Faggins sucks, Dunta Robinson, God hates ugly, Morlon Greenwood, Satan, Secondary issues are primary, Teams that aren't the Texans, The Fred, The Schaub Experiment
Last night, NFLN showed the Texans-Dolphins game on NFL Replay. 90 minute games with all the superfluous stuff cut out and some coach commentary on the big plays…what more could you want? Well, other than some boobies and possibly free beer. Oh, and money.
Thoughts on week 5
- In re: Petey Faggins. By my count, Petey was targeted only five times. Three were completions in front of him, one was overthrown, and one was a fantastic defensive play in the end zone on Faggins’ part. This last one suggests to me that Cleo Lemon is clearly worse than Joey Harrington. Still, good job not costing us the game, Petey. How about doing that again this weekend?
- Mario Williams is quickly becoming dominant, yet no one outside of Houston notices because the sack numbers are not already in the double digits. His one-handed sack of Lemon was awesome and was a play that only four or five other guys in this league could make.
- If Ahman Green can’t go this week against Jacksonville, I think we should consider going with Hawaii’s 5-wide offense and losing any pretense of running the ball. That, or hold open tryouts in the Houston area. Something. Ron Dayne is suck personified.
- I know that others have said Fred Bennett looked “lost” out there and I can’t disagree because I couldn’t see everything that was going on. What it looked like on TV, though, was that his man made on great diving catch at the sideline and he played decent man coverage throughout. I am curious to hear details of his play away from the ball.
- I hope Kris Brown enjoys spending eternity in Hell. The only explanation for this season is that he made a deal with Satan in the offseason. (How did he miss last week, you ask? Easy. Lucifer’s favorite team is obviously the Falcons.)
- Dunta Robinson was in good position most of the day, but seemed to have a poor game by his standards. He was burned on at least three second-half passes (though one was a good sliding catch by the WR) and he was so worried about knocking Ted Ginn into next week on the Trent Green play that he blew the tackle.
- Speaking of Green, tell the next person who uses the words “stood over” in his description of the incident to eat balls. Travis Johnson did not break stride as he walked from where he landed on his skull to the bench.
- Owen Daniels is a stud. Plain and simple. We don’t win that game without him.
- Where did Andre Davis disappear to in the second half? He had one catch at the 8:45 mark of the second half and that was it. Did the Dolphins start doubling him or something?
- Jason Taylor’s first sack was just raw speed and talent getting by the OL. Hard to fault anyone for that. The second was on a twist-stunt, and both Salaam and Pitts got mixed up on it. The announcers said Taylor beat Pitts, but it looked like both linemen whiffed.
- Morlon Greenwood quietly had a fantastic game. 5 tackles and a nice pass defense, plus just generally good play throughout.
- I’m just going to say it: Matt Schaub’s fumblitis is becoming a concern. Just sayin’.
- Another concern? Our general inability to force a three-and-out.
- All in all, I was happy with the offense and slightly less happy with the defense. Getting Jacoby Jones back on special teams is a must.
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October 9th, 2007 at 10:06 am
“Speaking of Green, tell the next person who uses the words “stood over” in his description of the incident to eat balls. Travis Johnson did not break stride as he walked from where he landed on his skull to the bench.”
Word.
I think I am going to write about this. Not the ball eating part though. Though it works for you.
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October 9th, 2007 at 10:14 am
The no 3-and-out thing is definitely going to be a problem. Our lack of safeties being able to tackle running backs may hurt us in future games against SD and JAX.
the D-line can only do so much.
and I’m not worried about Schaub’s fumbling as I am his “one insanely dumb and at a really bad time throw” he makes each week that is fast becoming his trademark.
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Dave, That is also of concern. Plenty of areas of concern, really, so I suppose we should be happy as a pig in shit that we are above .500.
Steph, You are really missing out on the crux of the story if you leave out “eat balls.”
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Call me stupidly optimistic, but I get the feeling that if we could rush the ball beyond the OL once or twice a game, Schaub’s fumbilitis and occasional retard throws would be less of a concern.
Teams can drop seven into coverage on every play and still stuff the run. Also, while Salaam has played well and gone against some tough DEs, he’s been good for one or two “ole” moments in a game. I think Schaub did a good job of holding on to the ball after he got blind sided on that second sack.
-Vega
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Matt, my mom reads my blog. No way I reference consumption of nasties, even if it is completely justifiable.
There goes my street cred.
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October 9th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Red-zone offense is still aaaaaaaaaaaaagh (for anybody who didn’t watch MNF, at one point they showed Romo’s stat-line, but instead of displaying his horrid completion % and four picks they just wrote aaaaaaaaagh).
It shouldn’t take four downs to punch one in from the 3 yard-line. On the other chance, it looked like we just called three bad plays. I’m sure Kubiak is just mentioning the play-calling to take the heat off hsi players, but we seriously need to get more creative. Obviously some of that has to do with having no semblance of a running game, but what happened to the efficiency we had in the first two games?
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October 9th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Efficiency?
The Texans (last I checked) continue to employ one Ron Dayne. That alone explains our inability to score inside the 10 yard line.