I honestly think the Texans made a deal with VY on draft day. Told him they will sign him for max money or whatever in 4 years or until his rookie contract his up. They prob did it this way in order for VY to get playing experience with the Titans so when they sign him he will be seasoned. I can dream cant I ! Texans fan first, VY after.
Whitlock is a bafoon. I've felt that way for years about him, just another POS offering from him to cement that fact.
The TD was a definite fluke. Williams was simply standing in the right place at the right time and benefited from a questionable ruling that Kansas City's Kris Wilson fumbled. when does a DE recovering a fumble NOT attributed to being in the right place at the right time?
I'll copy from the other thread as well. To say Whitlock has an intense bias toward everything from the state of Texas would be a dramatic understatement. I've met him. He's looney tunes when it comes to how he views this state. Anyway, it's a shame professional sportswriters can get to that point being so uneducated. Both of those sacks were fabulous plays. A defensive end has more responsibility than to pin his ears back and rush the passer. There are intricacies to the position. In particular, on the second one, his job was to have a strong initial burst and occupy multiple blockers, allowing someone else around the edge. In that case, Williams made the play, the other rusher flushed him higher in the pocket and Williams was waiting for the sack. Of course, to understand that, you have to actually research the game and have an open mind, instead of being an arrogant, biased hack who talks out of his ass to meet his biases. As for standing in the right place, right time -- I'd say 90 percent of defensive touchdowns are accumulated the same way! It's either the quarterback making a mistake and throwing where there's a defender, or a fumble taking a perfect bounce. Very, very rarely is the person who scores a defensive touchdown responsible for making the play. Yet, you never hear about it in a negative sense... except when it's Mario Williams. I feel so, so bad for the guy. I've never seen an athlete put up with the absolute media bull**** that he does, when he brought none of it on himself. I've watched football for nearly 20 years... I've never seen a defender discredited for scoring a touchdown based on the "right place, right time" logic (because to an extent, the entire game is based around that). But with Mario, new rules all over the place. **** you, Whitlock. What a hack.
Wait... so all those sacks on Carr don't count!?!?!?!? Most of them were achieved by mediocre moves and directly attributed to good coverage... umm... on AJ at least. So I guess they don't count now. Yah.... Our O-line isn't that bad because they didn't get beat by good moves. What a joke. BTW... since when is drawing double teams on a constant basis not contributing? Way to go Mario!!! Keep up the good work.
Funny, the OL lined opposite to Mario didn't give this prejudiced opinion did they in postgame comments? They were busy getting the sh*t beat out them all afternoon. Like I said previously some Sundays Mario may play better and not have the stats to show while some games he may not look all that great but, post some monster stats. Even the great ones (ie: Bruce Smith and Lawrence Taylor didn't dominate every week). Yes, Whitlock is an idiot for the record. I wonder what he will say when Mario posts double digits in sacks and maybe at least a few more fumble recoveries? Whitlock=LOSER.
I honestly hadnt heard of the guy. It said his award winning "thought provoking style", though I thought he provoked thought on maybe 3 of his 10 "truths". Just seemed like a bunch of "Sure yeah, but what I saw was __ " and it was gonna be a sour grapes point of view everytime. Not just him discrediting Mario's performance, he had to go as far as to question the legitimacy of it being an allowable play to begin with. A close play (which is how the fumble appeared) means it could have gone either way. "Questionable" means they probably got it wrong but whatever. Might as well have said refs shoulda blown the whistle on first contact and killed the play right then. Things in football like holding penalties and spotting the ball after a player goes down is like balls and strikes in baseball - sometimes it just depends on how the refs operate that particular day. And absolutely on the part of Mario getting harsh treatment. Said in the player voting thread he deserves extra votes simply off the constant excess bashing he's got just to get close to even, not even ahead. I wonder what he would have thought if Dwight Freeney or Julius Peppers had a touchdown return, or any Patriot player? Probably something about them having a nose for the ball, knack for making plays, being well coached and all that... *edit* Oh, and couldnt they have the courtesy to have Mario ON THE FRONT of the picture rather than BEHIND Travis Johnson?? I DARE Foxsports to put up a picture of Reggie Bush obstructed standing behind Devery Henderson. Or Vince Young standing behind Bo Scaife. Good gosh
