Crazy how fast a RB prime can end. Seems like yesterday you could make a case that Foster was the best all around back in the league.
still think he can have a very good year next year. rest up, get healthy. if he's healthy, i dont see any issues
Our line play has been garbage, Arian was still running decently despite that (when healthy). I think he'll have another great year once our line gets fixed. There's a lot of good running backs in the league, but foster is great. A lot of physical specimens (like Tate) but they don't have the athleticism or vision that foster has. There's a reason they gave him a big contract. You guys needa calm down with the knee jerks.
It's a herniated disc. Plenty of players have fully recovered and had a nice career after that. Not a chronic back issue or anything like that. Foster is here next season regardless with the way his contract is structured so no need to debate on dumping him yet. Personally I think he can still be one of the best in the league when he wants to...I think he just tries to preserve himself throughout the season which I cannot argue against.
Bump for all the people who think that Ben Tate is in the same universe as Arian Foster and want him as the RB of the future. Still up for it?
Speaking of the massive fail that is our running game, is the zone scheme part of the problem? I remember a guy a couple years back arguing that the league had "figured it out" and that it was a dying gimmick, or something like that. Yet Arian just exploded all over everybody. Is the scheme part of our problem, or is it just a terrible right side of the line and some bad RB talent? (And a coach who seems to have lost all creativity?)
Texans and Bob McFail are the most ignorant people in the NFL. It takes real ignorance to sign running backs to mega deals, everyone in or around the NFL saw the deal we gave Arian and laughed at it. We gave a RB, QB type money. How stupid can you get? Really? This franchise deserves to fail. I hope Bob McNair burns in hell too.
Every time I watch a Texans game on TV, the national commentators just seem to say the same thing: that opposing defenses are playing us as if they know exactly what's coming. To me it just reeks of the most stale of offensive gameplans ever. Kubiak's philosophy has always been to do what you do best, and force the defense to stop what you do best, but in this instance he's wrong. More and more teams are being coached by Belicheck types who simply isolate that one worst guy on your team and force the weak link to make a play. They just take a guy like Derek Newton and beat the living daylights out of him with blitz after blitz. Or they'll look at your secondary and throw the ball 20 times to their fourth receiver who just so happens to be covered by Brice McCain. These guys are just smarter than they used to be. They analyze real time, and they can react from play to play, something none of our coaches has ever been able to do. The game has passed Kubiak by. More than Schaub, more than Wade Phillips, it's Kubiak who has seemed to regress the most this year.
I think he might be done behind the O-line that we have now. If we can fix that then he might have a few more years.
