Yeah there's a lot of that going around lately. Comments left in anonymous rep are always the least intelligent comments you'll read, impossible to take seriously in any way.
That's nothing, if Arian pulled his BS in a less friendly media market they'd have been all over him from day one. The fact that they played along for so long before starting to get a bit vicious just shows how friendly this media market really is. All I know is that Arian better REALLY perform well this year or the backlash is going to be fairly intense.
He probably should, he could get cut as soon as next year and if he has yet another poor year, his next deal is going to be for pennies on the dollar without much guaranteed.
I hear you but how many running backs have gotten two big guranteed deals? He got big guranteed money and he just doesn't strike me as a guy whose life is football. I hope I'm wrong because a top 5 running game is likely the only thing that can push this team to contend for a playoff spot.
You bring up valid points, I think what he lacks in "love of the game" he makes up for in "love of hearing himself talk" and "love of being in the spotlight" if he doesn't play well, he'll lose those things.
So what are the odds, that the douche like behavior isn't neccesarily geared towards the Media.....but more so a coach? As in, he was told. No disclosure of information (anti-awesome in his leg), speaking the media has to be minimal to the point of just stating "being the best teammate" etc.....and Arian, didn't take well to it because he's "not just an athlete". And he's just being facetious in his actions....
I never leave anon rep. Of course if I was the one doing it, I would probably post something that says I don't do it.
And there's always the possibility he could retire after this year as well if he has another injury filled season.. But without a healthy Foster there's virtually no hope for this year... And we still don't know how he will look without Kubiak. Kubiak was a running back guru if nothing else.
The Patriots obviously took them to the woodshed twice; otherwise, the Texans' defense was pretty good down the stretch. After Detroit: - beat TENNESSEE, 24-10; forced 5 TOs. - lost to NE; no excuses - beat INDIANAPOLIS, 24-17; held Colts to 272 total yards - lost to MINN, 23-6; it was 16-6 with less than 5 mins to play; offense produced 6 3-and-outs (out of 11) and two TOs. Altogether, 11 possessions yielded 7 punts, 2 TOs, 2 FGs - lost to INDIANAPOLIS, 28-16; held Colts to 262 total yards and 21 points (7 after INT; 39-yard drive for Colts) - beat CINCINNATI, 19-13; held Bengals to > 200 total yards and 0 offensive TDs - lost to NE; no excuses 7 games; 3-4 record, 25 PA/game (18 in non-Patriot games) and you could argue they were only really truly bad in the two NE losses. Now, expanding it, obviously, brings the JAX and DET games into play, and they were not good defensively in either game. But... I mean, no defense is going to be great for 17 straight weeks and playing a very good Lion offense on a short week... The season ended on a collective offensive/defensive s***storm, so I think a lot of people are retroactively applying that calamity to the season-ending collpase as a whole. But I would argue a better offense... and I'm not sure they go 3-4 - and I think people would have a better opinion of the defense.
Excuse me sir... But the defense doesn't get a cookie for beating up on young QB's in Jake Locker, Christine Ponder, Andy Dalton, and a rookie in Luck who had one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL. Don't forget that Rodgers had a field day and Manning threw for over 300 yards and 2 TD's in just his 3rd game back. Wouldn't be too difficult of an argument to make considering that the Texans were #8 in points per game in 2012 and were #31 in ppg in 2013... Defense may win championships but offense wins games.
Another lousy backup. Just go with fitz/keenum and win about 5 games then get your qb in next years draft.
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[rQUOTEr]Way back in 2012, in the month whose birth flower is the Narcissus, the Texans and Atlanta Falcons had good reason to like the way they looked. Super Bowl bound they thought. Understandably so, considering that at the time the two sat atop the NFL standings with 11 wins and only one loss. Best record in the AFC for the Texans. Best record in the NFL for the Falcons. Well, both won a playoff game that year, but neither made it to the Super Bowl. Still, "wait till next year" was the leitmotif in most epitaphs of the two teams' seasons. Fast-forward to Saturday night - and you almost certainly couldn't do it fast enough for their fans - and the Texans and Falcons will meet in a preseason game at NRG Stadium as the most disappointing teams from the 2013 season. No team finished with a worse record than the Texans' 2-13 mark. Only the Texans and Washington won fewer games than did Atlanta, which finished 4-12. Is Saturday night's game a matchup of two of the league's worst teams? From Continental Airlines to the Boston Red Sox to the Detroit Shock, there are many books on worst-to-first stories. The Texans and Falcons both believe they will be on the cover of one soon. One is engaged in heavy-duty wishful thinking. Atlanta has a quality quarterback and a proven head coach. The Texans don't. Look, the Texans had no business going 2-14 a year ago, and it made sense that almost the entire coaching staff was fired, but thought that a bounce-back year might produce a contending team is unrealistic. Miracles do happen This isn't a knee-jerk reaction to a dismal performance in the first game of the preseason. (Granted no other team lost its opener by more than 20 points; the Texans were smashed 32-0.) A number of things would have to fall in place for the Texans to post double-digit victories, starting with a near injury-free run through the season. Bill O'Brien might become the greatest coach the world has seen. Right now, he is a first-year coach whose team was ill-prepared for its preseason debut. Falcons coach Mike Smith says there is "a fine line in this league" between the best and worst teams. The line is not so fine between teams that have a quality quarterback and teams like the Texans. Ryan Fitzpatrick could have a career year, and the guess is he will be serviceable, but entering the season he is among the worst starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Atlanta, on the other hand, has Matt Ryan, a seven-year veteran whose worst year is better than Fitzpatrick's best. "This is a quarterback-driven league, no doubt about it," Smith said. "You've got to win the line of scrimmage, but you've got to have the guy who can spin the football." The Texans are spinning all right. In 2012, Atlanta and the Texans were among the top seven teams in turnover margin. Last season, both were in the bottom third, with the Texans holding the disgraceful spot at the bottom. Those numbers tend to balance out over time. Poor quarterback play isn't as easy to correct. It will be interesting to see what changes O'Brien made in the last week. Did he drive the team too hard or not hard enough for its preseason opener? Or does the injury situation - a number of projected starters didn't play - make last week's result more meaningless? Does he need to dial back the information so Fitzpatrick can relax? Or should he chalk it up as just a bad day at the office? Smith, who has been Atlanta's coach since 2008, has Ryan, so he is set at the position. If you switch the team's starting quarterbacks, their projected fortunes would turn as well. Tale of two teams No matter what happens Saturday night, the Falcons should enter the season with more hope than the Texans. There is a chance you will see a team prepping for a bounce-back year. Just don't bet on it being the home team. If the Falcons were in the Texans' division, they might be the preseason favorite. If the Texans were in the Falcons' division, they would be picked to finish last. Still, on paper, the Texans aren't worse than Jacksonville and Tennessee, so a rebound year to second place behind favored Indianapolis isn't too crazy a thought. Actually, that is realistic. But worst-to-second books don't sell. For now, though, the Texans need to move from worst team in the preseason to something above that.[/rQUOTEr]
2-13?! Does no one proof read anymore?! Lame article, nothing new in it....just repeated itself over and over....that the Texans suck.
