Really, it’s stupid that anyone would lose to the Jets. They do three things on offense:
1. Run the ball
2. Run the wildcat
3. Bootleg/Play-Action

Point being that you should always have someone blitzing from the right to eliminate the bootleg. On top of that, Shonn Greene ran the ball 23 times for 128 yards + Thomas Jones ran 14 times for 41 carries + 2 more carries by none running backs (one being a bootleg run by Sanchez). No one should run the ball on your defense 39 times. The corners should be up pressing Braylon Edwards because the only passes he catches are deep balls off bootlegs/play action and quick slants. Their actual real threat is Keller but he should be bumped at the line as well. I couldn’t believe that he got a free release on that bootleg.

As far as the Chargers offense, Norv Turner is a moron. I don’t know why they kept sending in LT when Sproles was more effective. I don’t know why they kept trying to run the ball when the Jets rank 8th against the rushing defense and the Chargers rank 31st. Obviously, their O-linemen are just as bad as ours. However, that didn’t stop LT from rushing for 12 touchdowns this season. They should have just kept throwing to the slot receiver and Gates because they were having success with that. But when you’re an offensive “genius” like Norv, then you can’t keep doing what works. You got to shake things up. However, it’s because of LT running the ball and not Philip Rivers throwing two picks that cost the Chargers the game. I could throw in the Rhodes sack/fumble but who could have guessed that a safety on the line of scrimmage in a Rex Ryan defense means he’s going to blitz. Or the fact that Pro Bowl kicker Kaeding missed 2 manageable field goals.

Look, I don’t know you are getting so pissy when someone mentions LT, but people are going to talk about him, so get used to it. I’m not saying we should hand a fat contract to LT and make him the starter. I just said that he is a pretty good goal-line back, which we don’t have. Will we draft a RB? More than likely.

But the question becomes, do the Texans really need a “feature” back? We had the fourth ranked offense without a “feature” back last season, so what do we need a feature back for? What the Texans need is to score more touchdowns in the red zone. So one way to help that, we need to get a good goal-line back who won’t fumble into the end zone whether that is through free agency or the draft.

I want some of that action on the under of “LDT=1,200 yards and 10+TDs in 2010” too.

Houston is one of the few teams in the league that can offer him what he’s wanted the past several years, the chance to be a feature back. There’s no question that if he came here and played well, he would recieve the vast majority of snaps, and if Slaton continues to have injury issues, his competition for the starting job wouldn’t be that stiff.

There’s a chance a team drastically overpays for him, but he’s not really a high profile player or a “name” so to speak, so I think the chances of many teams being willing to overpay for him aren’t that strong. Only teams wanting him to immediately become the starter would do so, and even then only if they can see him going from a reserve to a 30+ year old feature back for the next 3-4 years at least. While I think he could do it, I don’t think many will be willing to bet the farm on it.

Magically turn into fumblers their 7th year in the league when they haven’t had a big issue with it before. That’s one of those cases you really can argue the statistics are a “fluke”.