Houston's Not The Only Winning Team With A Struggling Defense

but i will settle for 21 pt per game defense at this point…

But to answer your question people are not putting to much on the total yards per game, it is how many points we give up. I’m speaking for Houston Fans, not ESPN.

Is it to much to ask for the defense to try and help us win a game?

I don’t get it…all we lost was Dunta and I know our defense didn’t get this bad because he is gone. I have to put all the blame on the sheme, which means our coach’s.

First, excellent job crunching the numbers, making the comparisons, and asking why the general opinions differ so much between similar scenarios. On paper, I totally agree with the paradox on why one team gets support and recognition, and another is ignored.

I’m just speaking in generalities here outside the numbers, but ALL the Texans games this year have shown a defense that is lacking focus & discipline filled with missed assignments, unable to disguise anything, and barely able to stop the other team consistently. Maybe if the other teams were slowed down some instead of ripping gaping yardage and endzone parades at will, we’d all feel better.

The two losses were absolutely disgusting in all three phases of the game, and three of the wins were by the absolute skin of their lucky rabbits foot. The only real game the Texans showed a dominant role was the opener against the Colts. After that game, they got a LOT of attention and recognition nationally and locally. If they had not been blown off the field in the two losses, and didn’t look so fragile in three of the wins, I am confident the media and all of us fans would have a different opinion about the “fear factor” for this team the rest of the season.

They need to beat Indy and hold them to less than 24 points to show improvement from the first meeting. With a sweep of the Colts, the confidence and media/fan support would positively explode! This next game is the most important game in franchise history.

I’m on record that stats are misleading.

Last year, I think we played better defense than our stats indicated, as a whole. I only saw a couple instances where our defense did not play well enough to win. Statistically, we were middle of the road. What pisses me off is when people say Schaub gets a ton of his stats during garbage time (last year and before) but then turn around and throw stats out that we suck(ed) as a defense. All plays always count, or none of them count, just pick one.

This year, however, I don’t care what the stats show, my eyes show me that the defense is the sole reason we almost lost v. the Skins and the Chiefs. Those are wins, however. The Indy game our defense statistically sucked, but I was very happy with that performance, and would take it again every game. I’ll take our chances with our offense v. that defensive performance.

Now our losses are a mixed bag of suck on both sides of the ball. So, statistically and otherwise, our defense has been pretty bad since week 1.

So my whole point is, we don’t need a huge improvement from the defense to make the playoffs. We need that side of the ball to manage the game, and hope and pray that our offense can score 27-40 a game. Cuz I don’t think we can expect to give up less than 17-28 from this scheme, until Frank Bush is shown the door.

three and outs and we can beat anyone.

Kubes tends to have the team get stronger and better towards the end of the season. I am not defending Bush – but I think he knows the D sux. He and Kubes are not going to publicly say this.

I actually believe that we have been one step here and one play there away from a decent defense – in reality about 3 plays per game. I have been encouraged by seeing our D backs actually turning to the ball on occasion the last couple of games. This is why I believe only one or two guys can make a big difference on a defense.

As a Texans fan, I feel as good as I can about this team – Yes, I have plenty of doubts and fears of this team falling apart, but right now I am cautiously optimistic.