If anyone on the team deserves to get accolades for their performance last night, it's mathis. If you think that's something you just "DON'T do", go watch a couple Barry Sanders highlight reels. It's how he played, and it seems to be how Mathis plays, just because he doesn't fit your self-apppointed "rules" of football doesn't mean it's bad.
They were all over it back on Oct 16 (ESPN, @ Sea), don't worry. I'm convinced the team has lost respect for Carr after watching the team interaction and body language at the game last night. Can't blame them either; he's definitely adopted a "it's not my fault" attitude despite numerous hideous throws. Evan
this type of thing comes up every year when there's an absolutely horrible NFL team and some outstanding college teams (U of Miami v. cinci in the 90s comes to mind.) obviously, there's too much of a "talent" discrepancy for that to happen (size, speed, etc.) however, i think it's VERY realistic that USC or Texas could score on the Texans. by score i mean touchdowns, not fieldgoals. it would be next to impossible for those same college teams to score on almost every other NFL team (az and sf being possible exceptions.) just a thought...
Let's take a look at how the Texans and both USC and Longhorns match up. Just looking at the talent from a offense standpoint the college teams have better overall talent, but would lack the experience and maturity of the NFL players. Longhorns vs Texans David Carr < Vince Young Dom Davis = Texas RB mix Andre Johnson > Limas Sweed Chester Pitts < Jonathan Scott Zach Weigert < Justin Blalock Victor Riley < Will Allen Texans TE < David Thomas USC vs Texans David Carr < Matt Leinart Dom Davis < Reggie Bush Andre Johnson > Steve Smith Texans TE < Dominique Byrd
The Texans have so many needs to fill its ridiculous. I also think they need to trash their 3-4 defense.
Wow, you are so on the mark, TRS. But I would still give Carr a chance. The crappy coaching staff and management have Carr pulling the gun way too fast out of the pocket. His decisions just need to be tweaked by a real coaching staff. It's ridiculous - 1.1 to 1.3 seconds?!?! That's f@#$ing insane. That really says a lot about our sh!tty OL.
McKinney, Steve - $3,956,160 Wiegrert, Zach - $3,356,160 Wade, Todd - $3,137,827 Pitts, Chester - $1,586,160 Riley, Victor - $1,006,160 Washington, Todd - $837,827 Joppru, Bennie - $794,910 Brown, Milford - $662,160 Rivers, Marcellus - $646,160 Weary, Fred - $604,360 Wand, Seth - $557,827 Our Cap estimate (according to houstonprofootball.com) is 81.3 million. That's right, our OL is using 17.2 million (21%). That would be fine, if we had the Colts OL. With the effort this line gives us (garbage in/garbage out), there's something very wrong about this. Unless we unload some of this after the season, it won't get any better.
