Texans Down 'N Dirty: High Praise Edition

by DreKeem on Jun 22, 2009 7:00 AM CDT Comment 8 comments

Bucky Brooks reiterates just how explosive the Texans offense can be and what makes the machine operate. After two years of solid #2 receiving numbers, Kevin Walter finally gets deserved attention as a main cog in the Texans offensive behemoth. Interesting note, not a single word was uttered about the defense. No matter how much the offense improves, if the defense doesn't the team will be just what Brooks calls it, a playoff "contender", not a playoff team.

Arian Foster impressed in mini-camp and believes he can "compete with any back in this league." Talk is nice, but can he back it up? For the sake of his long term health, Stevie Wonder probably hopes so. His past experience in the one-cut system certainly aids his chances of being the man behind #20. Also working in his favor is his catching the eye of runningbacks coach Chick Harris.

In his off-season wrap up, Rick Smith states that Rex Grossman has "got a chance to be a good third for us", quietly dispelling any (misplaced) rumors that Grossman might compete for the backup job behind Schaub. Dan, your safe. Keep your eyes forward and don't worry about what may be behind you, such as the back of the endzone. Part 2 of the interview can be found here.

TT found another great Connor Barwin video (hmm, could it be... are we witnessing the budding stages of a new TT man crush!?), an interview that took place just before mini-camp.

Connor Barwin Interview Houston Texan (via BearcatSportsPage)

In the interview Barwin comes off as articulate and understanding of his duties, as expected. Even though he's reached the highest level of competition in all of football, he refuses to ease up. His goal is to stick around the league "8 to 12 years" as a highly productive player. By all means Connor, go ahead.

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Nicely noted.

All the pundits are talking about the offense, but that’s pretty much irrelevant. If the defense doesn’t improve, I’m not sure playoff “contender” is even likely. It’s miraculous that we finished even 8-8 with that train-wreck last year.

Fun-fact: of the five teams that gave up more points per game than the Texans last year, three of them finished with the three worst records in football (Detroit, St. Louis, and KC). The other two (Arizona and Denver) finished at 8-8 despite having high-powered offenses and playing in the worst divisions in football.

The Texans, Broncos (well, maybe not without Cutler), Cardinals, and Saints are really all in the same boat there. The difference is that the Texans have actually spent most of their money and draft picks on defense. Here’s to hoping it pays off this year.

by Nashmeister on Jun 22, 2009 10:43 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

like the texans...

the broncos glaring problem was their defense..which they really did little to fix…with all we have invested…if the texans defense does not out preform the broncos defense this year…at the very least that is…it will be a crying shame

by schillingb on Jun 22, 2009 12:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Beat The Broncos Defense!!!!

…..our new mantra…..sigh…

It will happen

by Rip Jersey on Jun 22, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bucky...

Doesn’t he write more Fantasy Football relavent stuff?
I think most articles written at this time of year are more geared towards FF, so that might explain why (other than the reasons stated) he didn’t bring it up.

Bacon tastes good... Pork chops taste good.

by beefy on Jun 22, 2009 2:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I happened to catch the NFL network's "Total Access" tonight

and the only reason that I watched was because they had a Texans teaser to lure me in. Something about the Total Access viewers rating the teams from 32 to 1. Well… as far as Total Access viewers go we ranked 22. Now I think that for fans outside of Houston we are an afterthought at best with a few good players. I kind of hope that the other teams view us the same way. Hey… if we get one win based off of another team not thinking much about us then that helps.

I guess today was a bonus day for me because not living in Houston (I’m military in San Diego) I listen to the NFL network on Sirius. Pat Kirwin and Tim Ryan were interviewing someone today and they can’t make up their mind from week to week what they think about our team… (once again afterthoughts until the season starts I hope) . The guy that they were interviewing mentioned us as a sleeper and Tim Ryan (I think it was him) said that he would take the Titans defense over ours 10 times out of 10 and then they went on to mention how much better then Titans were.
I don’t call in but I say to him: They may have had a tougher defense last year but we have changed our philosophy (hopefully lol) and will be much tougher and unlike the Titans we have an offense that can put up some serious points. What part of the Titans “O” is going to match points with us????
Anyway… I’m excited about this season starting and since I’m new to San Diego and without direct ticket for the first time in years I’m gonna have to find a good bar that plays the games at 10 am….

by shiner37 on Jun 22, 2009 7:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs