Looking at Your Best Houston Texans Defense EVER!!!!!~~!!11, Or....

Like in all years for all teams, will depend on us scoring more points than the opponents…

We don’t need to churn out a top 5 defense, we just need to limit the big plays we gave up last year that allowed teams to stay in games. We also need to keep the foot on the gas when we go ahead rather than play ball control offense (unless of course our running game improves drastically) and release anyone whose name on their Jersey would appear C. Brown…, or even multiple Cs for that matter.

Now, I are skeered.

Excellent post, and I liked the pretty graphs, too.

That said, it goes without saying that this will be the season that decides just about everything. We go from one of the easiest schedules in the league to the hardest. No more soft starts, no more excuses. No more “almosts.” Kubiak needs to understand that if the playoffs don’t happen this season, he’s gone.

I dont know if i entirely agree, I think Tom Brady went all out on us on the other hand Wes Welker went out eartly… but i think we played very efficiently against NE

But, perhaps the best defense is a good (or right) offense. By that, I mean that the 2nd round selection of Ben Tate is what will propel the defense to be better next season. Follow my logic…what was this team really missing last season? A running game. Am I warm? The lack of a running game did not churn out first downs and eat up clock the way you would like it…especially in the 2nd half. Let’s face it; this team is very capable of getting a lead. It’s the HOLDING of the lead that they need to improve. I’m saying this and thinking this sounds like an episode of Seinfeld. You can take the reservation…you just can’t HOLD the reservation….

Anyways, long story short, I’m counting on Ben Tate to be a major cog in the return of the running game; that running game that will keep the opposing offense off the field. Isn’t that the best way to beat a team with a capable QB? Just keep him off the field!

Just one more way to look at it….

Of the 14 different QBs we faced last year, six will not be starters in 2010.

I just saw your 5th round draft pick Sherrick McManis at the library for the second time in the past 2 weeks! Just, you know, so you guys know your new cornerback is studious and stuff.

The main difference between the ‘09 defense and the ’08 defense is the fact that we had more talent at key positions, specifically LB (Brain Crushing) and S (Pollard) and weren’t trotting Petey Faggins out at CB. This made more of a difference than Bush’s supposedly more aggressive scheme.

I’m not actually sure that you can make any real conclusions on this data. Allow me to geek out for a second.

Because of normal variation, you can’t really draw any conclusions, good or bad, on any data point that is close to the average. I mean, you really wouldn’t expect any of these numbers to be exactly on the average, so if there a little high or a little low, it probably means we’re in the range of “what was to be expected”.

How much is too high or too low depends on a number of things that I’m too lazy to calculate right now but let’s say it’s +/- 10 yards rushing and +/- 30 yards passing.

Next, you have to account for the fact that we’re better/worse than the other team’s average against the rest of the league. The rest of the team is playing the same crappy quarterbacks (in most cases) and likely with 8 in the box.

So setting aside the first two weeks, that would tell me that we really struggled against Tennessee and Indy’s running game more than most teams, but otherwise, we’re more effective with the 8 in the box strategy than other teams are (likely due to Pollard).

Similarly, it tells me that aside from the Miami anomaly, we’re better than average against mediocre QBs (and pretty decent against Peightuhn) but struggled pretty badly against better passing games such as Cincy and Zona (and that we can’t stop the athletic TE on a post route).

Even still, we were able to almost completely take away the running game from these teams. Though that may just have been from their success in the passing game.

As for the Miami anomaly, alcohol has damaged the brain cells that held that memory, but I think I still have it recorded. I may have to look at that again.

I have been contacted by the Texans FO (front office) and they have made an offer to allow a team of BRB Bloggers to be “Defensive Coaches for the Day” during the upcoming OTAs. The plan is for the selected BRB Bloggers to shadow the respective Texans coaches for the duration of the training day, providing input, insight, and making sure their bottles of Gatorade are always at least half full and not half empty.

Any takers? We will need to narrow the list down to 6.

Although he also apparently had microfracture surgery, so I can see why teams weren’t more interested.

for some info about some of the defenses we play next year and stubbled up this clip. Not sure if he can do this every down, but damn. Hopefully D. Brown holds his own.

=) It was a thoroughly enjoyable read and very informative.

Although I do see what Vega means about 16 of anything being a rather small sample of anything.. HOWEVER. that’s always going to be the case of a given squad vs any other squad. To date, we always have 16 games.

Even so =) a really thought provoking article. Thanks for writing it.