Kickoff — “It’s Still Raining Here And I Don’t Think It’s Stopping Anytime Soon” Edition
Sep 3, 2008 2008 Season, Fuck you Gustav, Ha ha... you like the Lions, Kickoff, Preview, Teams that aren't the Texans
Not-So-Hugene. I am linking to this via BRB, just so I don’t have to feel dirty for linking to Pancakes, but the message is the same: the release of Brandon Frye was, apparently, made to create room to sign Eugene Wilson (most recently of the Steelers and formerly of the No-Good Cheaterpantses). To further borrow from Tim, the idea of a CB corps of The Fred, The Project, Petey, and Petey Redux scares me shitless. So, while this isn’t exactly a shrewd move, it’s probably the smartest play available at this late date. (Also, this continues that trend we seemed to start late last year of picking up the most recently-released player from our next opponent.)
I still say we can win this game. The mothership has the scouting report on the Steelers. The good news for us? The Steelers line is still awful and their secondary (other than Polamalu) is suspect. The bad news? The have a lot of offensive weapons and Limas Sweed is probably having wet dreams about matching up with Faggins in the nickel. Damn. (h/t Eric)
Well, this pretty much guarantees he won’t play in Houston. Apparently—and, remember, this is coming from professional assbag, Mike Florio, so take it with a fucking hunk of salt—Tatum Bell attempted to steal Rudi Johnson’s bags while the latter was visiting with the team. If true, this is beyond hilarious. Johnson shows up, Bell realizes he’s being shown the door, so he grabs Rudi’s shit and tries to get a female friend to keep the stuff for him. Fantastic! (h/t stacy)
Finally. If the season is here, that can only mean one thing—Intertex is back with Texans YouTube videos. Up first, a look at our 2008 opponents.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 am
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/03/bell-to-visit-the-texans/
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! Kick ass!
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
We are beating Pittsburgh. No doubt in my mind.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
The ESPN blog said that the Texans were looking into Foxworth from Denver before he went to ATL.
The secondary has me askeered.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Limas Sweed = Highly Overrated
mark it down.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
@beef: Beef, mark it down here, Limas is far from overrated. He’s tall, fast and has phenomenal hands. Roy Williams, a guy with top 5 NFL hands once said that Sweed’s hands were better. He also runs routes extremely well. What exactly is “highly overrated” about a non-first round pick?
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September 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
@Steph: I just hope for a pass rush that might make it easier for our CB’s to close the 7 yard gaps they tend to leave between themselves and the WR’s.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
@bigfatdrunk: I think that was before this news came out.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/03/rudi-speaks-about-bellhop-incident/#comments
From MLive.com:
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/sports-30/1220467154295090.xml&storylist=newsmichigan
I don’t think anyone will touch this guy!
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September 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
@WillFist4Food: What pass rush? Mario Williams is going to need some help he didn’t get much of last year. I love ND’s motor, but I’m guessing he doesn’t think old guy from Rice is a great idea on the other side of Mario either.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
@Steph: That’s exactly it. Also, as the son of two Rice professors, I can say with full authority that Rice sucks.
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To me the interior lineman are going to be the key to our defense against Pittsburgh. I’d like to see us attack Pittsburgh up the middle with Amobi, Mario on stunts and/or DeMeco blitzing. That’s probably the best way for us to pressure Big Ben.
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Truth be told, I’m not optimistic about our chances.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Looks like Bell’s 11th fumble was his career