WHAT??? In what world is that even close to being true? I don't even live in Texas and all my friends, girls in particularly, who know absolutely nothing about football and can maybe name 2-3 players, absolutely know and love JJ Watt. He's easily the most recognizable non QB in the NFL, and outside of Brady/Manning, I would say the most recognizable face.
Yea, I have no idea. I sure hope they aren't talking about the likes of Ray Lewis, Aaron Hernandez, etc... that would be a shame.
Hard Knocks doesn't spend a ton of time following the star players around, they usually only have a few segments with them. I'm guessing Queesenbury, the QB competition, Clowney's rehab, and the usual players/rookies trying to make the cut will be the big storylines.
Yeah, think of the Bengals a couple of years ago. What were the storylines? Backup QB. Margus Hunt. Fullback battle. The guy who painted? And James Harrison's avoidance of the cameras. Very little of Andy Dalton, AJ Green, or Geno Atkins.
Hard Knocks couldn't hurt the Texans popularity. Perhaps the spotlight would help us handling the pressure of primetime games.
Because it's an enormous distraction. The guys are in camp to work, not constantly to be thinking about the fact that anything they do might show up on HBO. Is your question serious?
I don't know if it's really a bad thing or not, I just don't think it helps in any way. I'm no more a fan of the Falcons or Bengals now than I was a few years ago. I don't care about the teams on Hard Knocks. It's fun to watch but I don't even follow those teams enough during the season to find out how the story lines from the show play out. It was only today that I realized that Margus Hunt only has 10 tackles in 2 years. I don't think the show really makes teams any more popular. And if it did, so what? NFL merchandise revenue is split equally between all 32 teams. The Texans selling more jerseys or the Bills selling more jerseys makes no difference to the bottom line. So I really don't see the point. Yeah, the fan in me would rather peak behind the curtain of the Texans rather than the Redskins. But I do think the possibility of distraction is there and I'd rather let OB conduct business as usual and focus on that without having the thought of TV cameras in the back of his mind. It may not be a big factor, but it'll still be a factor to some degree.
It's never been shown to have a negative impact on how the team performs the following season. I think players work harder and are more focused so they dont look like idiots on camera. Look at previous seasons and how teams have fared. If it was any distraction, you'd see teams consistently losing more than expected...but it's actually not the case at all.
If the guys can't focus or find a few cameras a distraction, then we have bigger problems. If the Texans have a disastrous season, I doubt it will be because of the cameras and distraction in training camp.
Seriously, their job is to play football on television....if they can't concentrate because of a few cameras, they're screwed anyway.
I don't like it, between Hard Knocks and JJ's new lady he may actually be brought down to human status.
I haven't seen any recent outings of JJ and the athlete's kryptonite so hopefully JJ just hit it and quit it.
SMH, it's times like this that I wish certain "Texans fans" would just admit that they aren't really Texans fans. There's a decent sized segment of the fanbase that are just terrible fans.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Texans?src=hash">#Texans</a> have been selected for Hard Knocks, per multiple sources.</p>— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) <a href="https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/status/603570526250930177">May 27, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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