Samsung Game Ball Of The Week: Brian Cushing

Compared to the jerkoff who made TWO blasphemous comments in his post, you actually were kind of understated.

I thought we would have signed one by now?

I think the competition would be fierce for such a high paying job in this economy.

Here’s who I wanted AT THE TIME, given who was available…
2002 – Carr (technically, I wasn’t a Texans fan at the time, but probably would have thought that).
2003 – Andre
2004 – I REALLY wanted DeAngelo Hall to slip, but was okay with Dunta instead.
2005 – Wanted an OLB. Watched Ware and Merriman go right before Houston’s pick, but was ecstatic that Derrick Johnson was available. One of my favourite college players at the time was about to be a Texan! NOPE… Chuck Casserly.
2006 – I wanted Reggie, I’ll be honest. Still had faith in Carr over VY, and when I found out that they took Mario, (so much teasing from my friends, I was on a school trip) I was upset but optimistic. I was a Texans fan but did not frequent any texans message boards/blogs, and by myself, realized I was okay with it. Reggie was too small, Texans needed defense, I was okay.
2007 – Wanted Peterson, even though I was criticizing him to all my friends and forecasting a short career due to injury. Once we moved down to 10 after Schaub (who I was really happy about), I wanted Patrick Willis. (What could have been…) Once we took Amobi though, I was okay with it and excited about a 19-year-old who played 4 years of college ball.
2008 – Really wanted J-Stew at 18. Once he was picked and we traded down, I REALLY wanted Mike Jenkins. We got Duane. I was pretty pissed at the time, but once we got Slaton (my favourite player in college at the time), I was okay with it.
2009 – Was frothing at the mouth over Taylor Mays, but then he stayed in school. Pre-draft, I wanted Orakpo or Malcolm Jenkins. On the clock, I really wanted Michael Oher and to move Duane to the right side… didn’t really have much preference outside of that, and once we took Cushing, I was like, cool, a scary looking linebacker.
2010 – Frothing at the mouth for Earl Thomas. Kinda wanted Sean Weatherspoon. On the clock, really wanted Dan Williams, Patrick Robinson, Brian Price, or a trade down. Hated the pick and hoped for the best.
2011 – Amakamura. Didn’t know much about Watt, but the more I started reading about moving Mario to OLB, I was okay with it.

I don’t even know what I just wrote. This is what happens after you come down from Ritalin and take a break for just a split second. My bad.

He was exciting and fierce on the field, and his DROY was well deserved.

I was a defender of his all last year through his “shell” performance which really was the result of missing the first four games and being swizzled around by Frank Bush. Essentially he only had the last half of the season to get back up to "football shape/speed’ and without Barwin and ’Meco alongside him and basically GQ as the only guy doing shit behind him. I held out hope, even though the doubts were starting to develop in the back of my mind.

This year he has led the team in tackles in every game. First career interception, and dishing out hits like he’s on a crusade. His pass coverage is pretty solid too. I’m loving this, and it’s getting the rest of the defense jacked up big time. Watt was doing some crazy ass pre-game stuff as he got fired up before the Jags game.

Great pick for the week!

Why did he have to cut his hair but Brooks Reed has not?

This seems unfair to me.

Also, BRAIN CRUSHING is an animal.

Why most hated the pick bak when it was made.. if u watched all his highlight tapes on utube you’d see he was an animal.. besides that we were in desperate need of a beast SOLB, got concerned last yr but he’s back in rare form knockin fools out

but in retrospect they made a good choice…he has taken to playing inside quicker than I thought he would.

Quentin Demps sure played a solid game…