Freddy's Letters: Our Kingdom for a Nose Tackle

by riversmccown on Sep 19, 2011 6:18 PM CDT in Freddy's Letters

Folks, as you may have noticed sometime between Daniel Thomas carries on Sunday, our up the gut run defense is terrible. More to the point, we have a problem where even despite never playing in a 3-4 before, Shaun Cody is given the majority of the playing time there for ... some reason. I would prefer the team sign an actual nose tackle (heck, get Damione Lewis back, how much worse could he be? Pat Williams is a free agent!) to help plug the middle, but even a big playing time increase for Earl Mitchell would make more sense than what we are currently doing.

You've heard many sides on the great Shaun Cody debate, most of which are MDC preaching to the converted and Shaun Cody's relatives sticking up for him, which I find honorable even if it probably will never be effective.

But who hasn't weighed in on this issue yet? Freddy. So lets do that behind the jump.

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I put my faith in wade.

We da best dawg. Best defense in the NFL. Who da best? We da best! that’s all

by steelblue on Sep 19, 2011 6:29 PM CDT reply actions

Wow, Freddy

Keep on doing your thang

by brightshinies on Sep 19, 2011 6:30 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

I love Freddy's post

If Lori-Beth is a space eating NT and plays better than Cody, Rick bring her in for a look!

Our football, who art in Houston, Texans be thy name. Thy wins will come, this will be done at Reliant and on the road. Give us this year our winning season, and forgive us for our penalties, as we forgive those who false start against us. And lead us not into overtime but deliver us a Superbowl !! ~TheNightOwl

by SteelBlueUSMC on Sep 19, 2011 6:32 PM CDT reply actions

x

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by Chris Hines on Sep 21, 2011 6:31 PM CDT up reply actions

"Baby, you know Shaun's good for it"

Winnar!

I really need to hear Wade on Cody. It’s driving me insane to figure out why Cody.

"Lord, beer me strength."

by TexansDC on Sep 19, 2011 6:36 PM CDT reply actions

I've figured it out.

Cody has pictures of Rick Smith and kubes touching each other inapropriatly.

no matter how bad they play, no matter how stupid they act, I still love my texans!

by trutxfan on Sep 19, 2011 7:32 PM CDT reply actions

ahahahaha I lost it at Lori-Beth. You and I are clearly children of the same generation.

by Calvinball on Sep 19, 2011 7:35 PM CDT reply actions

This is one of Freddy's best letters!

Mario Williams will have 4 sacks and 1 int by Game 4 of the regular season.

by Barryfromtexas on Sep 19, 2011 8:30 PM CDT reply actions

Mario Almost

Almost had your prediction all wrapped up yesterday

Apparently, bleach has an act like an asshole effect.
Being Insane I would know, I am a Texans Fan.
Wade Aid pass it around, 3rd helping on the way.

by WreckNTexan on Sep 19, 2011 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions

i wish we could have snatched up shaun rogers or aubrayo franklin

by astrosfan3 on Sep 19, 2011 9:33 PM CDT reply actions

Neither was terribly expensive.

But I guess the Texans must, must, have a glaring hole defensive position. I have to say I’m glad it’s just one, and not a whole secondary.

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by Xiane on Sep 19, 2011 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions

Freddy Is Why The Rec Was Invented

Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...

by Tim on Sep 19, 2011 9:43 PM CDT reply actions

Why no Pat Williams?

There’s no way he could be in the NT rotation? Really? He was once one of the best in the game, I don’t think you can say that about either of our NT.

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by Xiane on Sep 19, 2011 10:02 PM CDT reply actions

I lost it when I read number 3!

Damn yous, Rivers.

And no danke on dating Lori-Beth. MDC would rump the heck out of her roast though. So I’ll let him handle that.

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Old man in whorehouse: You have it backwards. It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees. I know.

-Catch 22-

by Jordann on Sep 20, 2011 12:43 AM CDT reply actions

Would BRB be dangerously turning into an echo chamber

If I said this was awesome?

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by tehGrindCrusher on Sep 20, 2011 1:48 AM CDT reply actions

Nice

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by DilloTex on Sep 20, 2011 7:19 AM CDT reply actions

Cowboys fan here (ducks) who also follows and roots for the Texans...

beware of Wade who likes to stick with certain veterans even though they suck. Hopefully Kubiak and Smith are not afraid of churning the roster midseason if Cody continues to be ineffective.

"He’s the boomstick, you know what I mean?" -Ian Kinsler

by selke99 on Sep 20, 2011 12:48 PM CDT reply actions

Wade will be fine now that he isn't Satan's SockPuppet...

That distinction now belongs to ~~Head-Coach-in-Waiting~~ Sock Puppet Jason aka Troy’s Fluffer…

"Suck it, Jim Tressel, you filthy, cheating, unfashionable piece of monkey scrotum."
- MDC
"Because this is a blog and I’m an argumentative bastard." - tehGrindCrusher

by DilloTex on Sep 20, 2011 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions

I wonder though...

If the Texans don’t make the playoffs this year after having the path to the AFC South division paved for them, if Kubiak gets fired and Wade gets promoted. Scary thought that hopefully we will never come to fruition.

"He’s the boomstick, you know what I mean?" -Ian Kinsler

by selke99 on Sep 20, 2011 2:12 PM CDT up reply actions

That's probably my biggest worry about the Wade hiring.

I really hope he isn’t the coach-in-waiting. Love him as a DC, not so much as an HC.

GET A SILK BAG FROM THE GRAVEYARD DUCK TO LIVE LONGER.

by Synchysi on Sep 20, 2011 2:51 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs

Something tells me if Wade gets promoted to HC, he'll just hire Kubiak as his OC

Murphy’s 20th Military Law:
If it’s stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid
"Fuck em all. Go Texans."

by The Night Owl on Sep 21, 2011 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions

Oh, don't you worry

Kubiak and Smith have a long history of sticking with ineffective players well beyond the point where it is obvious to everyone that they should have been yanked. Off the top of my head:

Eugene Wilson
Chris Brown
Anthony Weaver
Travis Johnson
Petey Faggins
Zac Diles

etc, etc

I’d go on, but this is giving me a migraine.

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by tehGrindCrusher on Sep 21, 2011 1:49 PM CDT up reply actions

that's every coach though.

i think they are as flawed as the fans. how many of us thought mittens could be fixed with the right type of coaching? how many thought that if jacques cousteau could turn his neck around, that he would be a top 10 corner in this league? how many us thought that with a little more time and puberty, that timobi would mature into a great defensive tackle?

if this team has to have a weakness ill take mediocre to average run stopping over division 7 football passing defense.

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by NoSafetiesNeeded on Sep 21, 2011 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions

I definitely fall on the side of preferring to err on the side of patience...

…however there are times when I just wish Koobs would pull a Jimmy Johnson and execute someone on the plane-ride home in order to get their bitch-ass under-performing attention.
Losing the occasional heart-breaker is one thing… Losing ALL the heart-breakers smell like lack of focus and nothing inspires focus like the stench of an under-performing player’s [insert your favorite target here] decaying dead hopes and dreams on a locker room floor.

"Suck it, Jim Tressel, you filthy, cheating, unfashionable piece of monkey scrotum."
- MDC
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by DilloTex on Sep 21, 2011 10:49 PM CDT up reply actions