They scored 26.. The Rookie QB completed his first 13 passes. What makes you think the Chiefs defense is bad? It was bad last year but they changed schemes and switch 7 out of the 11 players on the field.... One of which use to be a Texan in the Honey Badger. Got a good pass rusher in Frank Clark plus other solid role players. While the Texans took an average defense and removed three of the best players from it. JDC, Honey Badger, Kareem Jackson. We also lost Covington. And only replaced two of them with question marks. Roby and Tashaun Gipson.. JJo got older. Heck I can argue that chiefs defense might actually be better than ours....
Roby is a better corner than anything the Texans had last year. Tashaun Gipson is a better cover safety than Mathieu who constantly blew coverage(he actually was partly responsible for both of Minshew’s TD’s). Whitney who replaces Clowney as the primary rusher, is better at getting to the QB. In regards to Kansas City, They lost Dee Ford and Justin Houston by replacing them with Clark. That’s a downgrade. Instead of Eric Berry they have Mathieu which I already covered. Jones inside will now get more attention than before due to less of a threat on the outside. Their pass defense is awful and if you are trying to claim the Honey Badger was a big loss to the secondary then I will just have to say I can’t help you.
How many times have the Texans allowed some no-named QB to come in turn into Joe Montana all of a sudden? That better not happen this week!
My statement was purely hypothetical, I don't honestly believe they have a better defense than us, just saying you can't really judge their defensive unit this year based on last year. Just too many pieces got replaced. They had a lot of guys on the wrong side of 30. Whitney played with Clowney and Watt last year so you can't just replace Clowney with Whitney... If you want to look at it that way, we still took a huge step back in Whitney's replacement. Last year we were an elite run stopping team and a big part of that was Clowneys ability to set the edge. I agree that our corners and safeties were bad in coverage last year. However what they did really well was tackle and defend the run. Even if we got better cover corners our run defense is gonna suffer. The saints averaged 7 yards a carry Monday night and we were able to shut down Zeke last year. Lastly, I won't believe in Gipson and Roby until I see it. The last piece we took from Jacksonville in the secondary was Colvin and he just got cut. He was awesome for them, but terrible for us. Their secondary is just soo stacked it makes everyone looked good. Same with Roby his best year was when he was playing with Harris and Talib.
It's happened often enough. Jacoby Brissett, Mark Sanchez, Blaine freaking Gabbert....and that's just last season. Don't make me bring up Tim Tebow (which is on Kubiak, but still).
We can go way back to the Rams' Ryan Fitzpatrick in his 1st game (way before he was fitzmagic) and our good buddy Dan Orlovsky with the Colts (2011)
I would say I’m surprised at how many people are worried about this game, but I remember the cool thing to do is criticize BOB and the Texans for the way they’re breathing. Not a BOB fan but y’all take it to a new lever every day. Yes 80s p*rn star Gardner Minshew started off great, but KC’s defense is still terrible. As an unequivocal Honey Badger fan, I was happy someone else was paying him. I think we bring him crashing down this week. As to the Jags defense, the Telvin Smith loss is bigger than you think. They also hate Tom Coughlin and many stars of the team will be bolting as soon as they can. I’m going 27-13 Texans, with the team playing better overall.
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