Texans' Training Camp Open Thread - Day 1

I guess I was jaded by Winston’s down season last year and the fact that the right side of our offensive line has been notoriously bad at run-blocking. But I like Winston a lot.

I think you would want to avoid on having McCain on Big strong WR’s or TE’s and keep Quinn away from the speedsters.

Quin looks much more comfortable in the slot.

Seems like everyone is so high on him, but I haven’t really seen or heard anything about him. All I remember is that he was on the IR for the whole season.

I mean seriously there are few men in this world who can hang with our demigod wide receiver AKA Andre “The Best Damn Receiver in the EFFIN LEAGUE!” Johnson

if he is anything like his Junior year at Tennessee.

At least Dungy’s version

So, yeah, questions.

A good inside runner has the most success against the colts, it just happens that most strong inside runners are bigger than say the Chris Johnsons of the world. It’s not size that’s needed so much as good field vision and a strong burst through the hole when it opens. The back needs some strength, enough to break arm tackles at the line, but he doesn’t have to be a 250lb bruiser to be a strong inside runner.

If you look at history you might see that bigger backs have had the most success against tampa 2 styled defenses, but that’s largely because the vast majority of “big backs” are downhill runners, which is the type of RB that is most successfull… It’s not the size of back that makes for success against the tampa 2, it’s the type of RB and scheme…

But back to my point, it’s not the RB vs DT battle that nets those yards, it’s the OG/C vs those DTs. Very few RBs are really capable of running through a clean tackle attempt of a 300lb DT. It’s the offensive linemen pushing those smaller DTs around so that they don’t have any clean attempts at the rusher that allows the ball carrier to gain good yardage.

That’s what bothered me the most about that – they looked soft, which was exactly their reputation. That needs to be put to rest, and I think it kind of was the way they bitch slapped the Patriots.

Oh, I dunno. Maybe I’m just being a grumpy old man, but I worked construction and dug ditches and played sports in the Houston heat. I do think you can acclimate to it. But I also used to be young and in shape, so there’s that. And we liked it!

Had alot to do with it, but bail em out if you want. Tell them it was ok because every other team would have done the same thing. They aren’t babies

He should have had an easy pick in the NE game, only he doesn’t have what some analysts refer to as “closing speed”.

That’s too nice. He’s slow.

Xavier Adibi is the frontrunner to start at linebacker

That’ll be enough.

Smithiak is just way too close-vested and savvy, to be blowing their cover about who their next favorite TE draft prospect is, or even with attempts at entertaining us -with what we, the masses, would absolutely love to know about and to hear.

Instead, all we’ll ever get is Smithiak telling us what they want us to know and to hear.

Which is not a bad thing, if we like winning. Besides, it’s entertainment enough, realizing just how much they send Pancakes around in circles. It’s classic.

Baseball is a more natural fit. Everything is much out in the open, during a baseball season. Football can sometimes be infinitely more complex.

So naturally, the next step is probably Jerruh allowing BTB official access with the Dallas Cowards? How delicious.