.........game 7. #5 PPG 18.7 #7 Rushing YPG 99.3 #8 Passing YPG 203.6 #8 YPG 302.9 #5 3rd down conversions 32% #3 Opp QB Rat 71.4 #4 total sacks (tied) 19 #8 Takeaways 8 #6 Passing YPA 6.6 Only significant stat I see that we are not top 10 in is Rushing YPA @ 4.5 (ranked 18).
those numbers will drop 'cause injuries of manning and mario and some what demeco if jonathan joseph gets hurt, texans fans will go nuts
There's only 2-3 offenses left that could put a real hurting on this defense. Especially if they hone in on the CB2, be it Kareem or Jason Allen. It's not that far of a stretch to think the defense ends up in the top 10 by season's end.
if you subtract the three horrible 4th quarters we had, we would be 7-0 and our defense would be top 3 in the NFL
If you use some form of Pythagorean win-loss formula, we likely should be somewhere between 5-2 and 6-1. Our losses have all been close. Our wins include two blowouts, a cushy win, and a close win. An optimist would look at it and say we are better than our record indicate. A pessimist would look at it and say we are very unclutch. Whatever the truth may be, our "stats" certainly would indicate we should be better than 4-3.
I like this one better... If we had foster, those field goals turn to TDs, in N.O If casey never got hurt, vickers doesn't drop that walk in Td. We still lose to the Ravens. 6-1. Minus the meltdows of Kareem against the saints and Allen against the raiders, the defense has been awesome. Next man up...
Drew Brees lit us up, but our defense has been very good to great in all of the other games. Our defense has been plenty good enough. Truth be told we have outplayed our opponents in all of the games except Baltimore, but we found various ways to lose 2 more games. Us Texans fans have learn to expect the worst, but when you look at things in a vaccum 4-3 isn't bad at all. Losing to Baltimore without our two best players on the road, and the Saints on the road in a close one aren't bad losses. But we're not in a vaccum, I like everyone else knows this teams history. So until they prove it, its easy to still view this as symptomatic choking.
Not with the way the rest of our schedule looks. The D should stay top 10, even with injuries. Whether we get the W's is another story...
We did in the Raiders game. When Mario went out, the pass rush went from good to crap-on-a-stick almost immediately. Wade has schemed pretty well without him since, though.
Sugar in the offense's gas tank. With any luck, Foster rounding into form and the return of Johnson (and even Casey) should clear that up.
They have played surprisingly well. Now, I think some of that is playing poor offenses but they did what youre supposed to do to a bad offense...lock them down. It's impressive to think that they almost pitched 2 shutouts so far this season. I still have reservations about the texans versus a team that can spread out the field, a la N.O.
It's funny because the offense is averaging more points and yards than they ever have, but I'm sure last week has a lot to do with that. It's just something that's always been a problem with this team, inconsistency.
Overall you are probably right, but he gets a ton of pressure on the QB that was noticably absent last week. DD
