Texans have hardest strength of schedule in 2010
by Chris89 on Jan 7, 2010 5:06 PM CST
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Props to Paul Kuharsky for pointing this out.
http://espn.go.com/blog/afcsouth/post/_/id/7972/afc-south-in-2010-strength-of-schedule
I know that this still does not mean much cause teams change year to year, but next years schedule is still full of tough games.
So even if the Texans improve next year they very well could end up with another mediocre season.
The only teams on the texans schedule that fans can count as easy wins are Chiefs and Raiders (last season they faced the Rams, Bills, Raiders, Seahawks...).
And the texans face lots of teams with good 3-4 defenses (Ravens, Jets, Dallas, Denver, and San Diego). So making the O-line better will be critical in their sucess. Please no more Chris Myers rag doll (most likely from Kris Jenkins, Ngata, and Ratliff).
Despite this harder schedule the Texans can balance it out by doing well in their division for a change. Going 1-5 wont cut it.
On a positive note, the Tits are tied with the texans for hardest strength of schedule.
Next season offers a wide variety of intriguing games. The match against the Cowboys at home, facing the Shanahan's with Washington, facing against the Giants with David Carr, facing the chargers with Travis Johnson, facing the Eagles with Jason Babin and seeing if Rex Ryan continues to embarrass the Texans offense.
In other news I saw a mock draft from walterfootball showing the texans taking Dez Bryant. This would be a bad move considering our depth at the WR position. Im pulling for a DT, Safety, O-line, or a RB.
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No offense
But can I un-rec this post? Sheesh.
I do wonder how people will handle things if we go 8-8 or 9-7 again with this type of brutal schedule.
A Texans fan. Really. No, I'm not kidding.
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Look at the brightside
Well if the Texans are truly good, they will do well no matter who they play. The Steelers had the hardest schedule in 08 and they won the super bowl.
Like I said, they key for the texans will be doing well in their division for a change.
Strength of Schedule means nothing right now
Yes the teams we are playing next year had a good year this season, but so much can and will change between now and Kickoff 2010. We thought this years schedule would be pretty easy, but Cinci and NYJ were much better than anyone expected and no one on our schedule horribly underperformed besides Tennessee (personally I thought the BE-SF’s would come back to earth like they did).
As for complaining if the sched does end up being one of the most difficult and we end up 8-8 or 9-7, I think that would be ridiculous. We are at the level now where we can beat anyone on any given week. With the 4th best total offense and 13th best total defense this season, we should have no excuses next year. I know its cliche, but its true…To be the best you’ve got to beat the best. We have that opportunity next season.
"Every time you turn on ESPN you see Bama" - Earl Thomas' answer when asked what excites him most about the National Championship.
To all Houston sports fans, Houston is the 4th biggest city in America, there will be traffic on the way to your respective sports game. Come Early, Be Loud, Stay Late.
With the Weis hiring, KC should be better
Chubby Charlie couldn’t coach college, but was solid in the league. They’re building a little NE out there.
And until they clone Bellicheck
They’ll never be close.
The strong do what they have to do; the weak accept what they have to accept
next season is going to be something i can tell already can’t wait for the season to start but first thing first sign players and draft. I kinda like the dez bryant thing somewhat but if we can get another saftey would be really good. alot of mock drafts i see we getting earl thomas from texas. well he better put on a show tonight against bama.
Better turn those division woes around
And stick it to Ten. and Jacksonville. Anything less than 4-2 in the division, and methinks the playoffs are out of the question. Not that we’re incapable of beating those tough teams on our schedule, but like you mentioned, there are a lot of tough 3-4 defenses on our schedule. I don’t see them winning more than 2/3 against Baltimore, NYJ, and Dallas (but please let that one win come against the Cowboys).
On the bright side, we get the AFC west + Washington. I see four wins there, hopefully four in the division, then a split with the NFC east and one win against Baltimore or the Jets get us in.
Ugh. That’s a tall order. I suppose we can always hope for Manning going down with a crippling, Pollard-related knee injury early on, then winning the division at 8-8, Arizona-style.
I've been hoping for years for Manning to get injured
by stepping in front of an oncoming bus. Still hasn’t happened. But I’m due, this year…I can feel it!
I always assumed "You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma" would be some sort of country music diss track. Live and learn, I guess.
by MDC on Jan 8, 2010 8:57 AM CST up reply actions
SoS based on what? This year's records.
So what? I posted a stat somewhere on this site where the NFL’s playoff turnover rate is about 6 teams a year since 2003. Don’t read too much into the SoS until we get to next season’s week 1.
Must be an idiot to send Dez Bryant to Houston
I think the whole Interior OL and DL need to be replaced as well as Wilson needing a backup at Safety, we need a true pile mover at running back and Dunta should be replaced as well.
If there were no good G/C/CB/S....
and Dez Bryant were on the board, I’d love to see it.
Johnson/Bryant/Jacoby……that’s a pretty damn good trio of WRs that could spread out the defenses for Slaton/Foster as well as stretch the field vertically.
True pile movers don’t typically fit that well with this offensive system, one of the big requirements for a back is to be able to read the blockers and cut through the holes almost as quick as they appear. The typical short yardage back doesn’t work for us because we’re not a team that lines up and pushes the DL back, we use the zone blocking scheme to create very big holes for a very short period of time, therefore quickness and vision are really more needed attributes than size and power, even in short yardage situations. They don’t need to have great top end speed, but having enough explosions to get through the line quickly is a must, and most “pile movers” don’t have it.
Interior OL does need added depth, but we were playing with injuries there for most of the year and in the last two games against decent competion they held their own and then some with reserves at both guard positions. I think we need depth there, but I don’t think it’s critical to replace starters anymore.
Our DL is fine, in fact our entire front 7 defensively is good as is except for possibly adding depth. Sure we don’t have a big dominant NT yet, but with this line we don’t really need one. Across the board our starting defensive line are pretty big guys, our two ends being 285+lbs each, and if you hadn’t noticed they were pretty stout against the run at the line of scrimmage. Teams that use smaller speed rushing ends need giant space eating DTs to take on double teams and collapse running lanes because their two ends are getting pushed around to wherever the offense wants them. The Texans’ line to the man play the run fairly well, and because of that they play the run well as a team even without a dominant NT.
In my opinion this defense is 1 shutdown corner away from becoming a pretty good to borderline elite defense in this league, the problem with that is there’s no shutdown corners available in the draft and whether you like it or not, the best free agent CB on the market this year was on our team last season.
Our pass rush sufferes greatly from the lack of NT
without someone to collapse the interior of the pocket QBs can simply step up whenever the feel pressure and avoid a sack. MDC has made the great point over and over that if we get a good NT they won’t be able to always double team Mario, which would allow him to reap the souls of every QB in the league.
www.manningface.com
Most giant NTs are better against the run than pass
If the problem is leaving lanes open up the middle for the QB to scramble, it’s probably more of a schematic problem than it is a problem with our players. Personally, I think our pass rush was fine last year, we just need better play in the secondary. We got to the QB quite a bit last season, and those near misses would turn into sacks and hurries if we could cover recievers for just a second longer.
I'm not necessarily expecting the NT to be a sack monster
simply to be able to draw enough attention away from Okoye and Mario to let them get at the QB, and to avoid having a nice little pocket for the QB to always step up into.
www.manningface.com
o-line
I really want Mike Iupati the OG from Idaho. This guy looks like a perineal pro bowler. i would definetly not mind the texans taking him in the first round.
Rumplestiltskin
"Perineal"
is something relating to the surface region in both males and females between the pubic symphysis and the coccyx.
So… he looks like a Pro Bowl taint?
I always assumed "You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma" would be some sort of country music diss track. Live and learn, I guess.
by MDC on Jan 12, 2010 10:03 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Its easy to get those mixed up
perennial perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent.
perineal 1. the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
2. the diamond-shaped area corresponding to the outlet of the pelvis, containing the anus and vulva or the roots of the penis.
by distant_texans_fan on Jan 13, 2010 3:16 PM CST up reply actions
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