Thank You, Brian Cushing
by Tim on Jan 19, 2012 1:37 PM CST
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PrintRivers' exquisitely crafted note of gratitude to Wade Phillips gave us an idea. For the next several days, we'll periodically be posting entries thanking various people who had a hand in making the Texans' 2011 season as enjoyable as it was. The season's over, which blows, but there's a lot to appreciate, and it's a loooooong offseason, so let's do take a minute to say thank you.
Ahem.
It would be fair to say that I was not a fan of your Houston Texans drafting Brian Cushing in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft:
Well, I hate this pick more than any other pick Smithiak has ever made. I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns. I hate life.
Vent as you see fit. I'm going to be catatonic until the second round.
Like many others, I questioned whether Brian Cushing was fool's gold, an artificially enhanced lunatic whose skill set would not justify his first-round selection.
Then Cushing went and had a historic rookie campaign. I thought it wasn't possible for him to play any better than he did in 2009. Cushing's 2010 got off to a rather ignominious start, and when Cushing did take the field in Week Five, he didn't look anything like the player he'd been a year before. Oddly enough, I found myself hoping that I was wrong about Cushing, that the 2010 season, not the 2009 season, was the mirage.
Shocker...I was wrong. Sort of. While 2010 was most definitely a mirage, 2009 may have been an illusion as well. Why? Because the season Brian Cushing just completed in 2011 blew what he did in 2009 away.
Cushing's stats only begin to tell the story of the kind of impact he had on your Houston Texans in '11. Quite simply, he was a monster. He took to Wade Phillips' scheme like a duck to water. While Johnathan Joseph may have been the most important player on Houston's defense, Brian Cushing was consistently the best player on the Texans' defense.
Reasonable minds can debate who is currently the best linebacker in the NFL, but if you've got Cushing behind anyone but Patrick Willis, I'd argue you've got him far too low. Me? I'm a Texans fan and admittedly biased. I don't think any LB was better than Brain Crushing in 2011.
To top it all off, Cushing gave us this segment, which will be forever immortalized in Texans' lore and quite definitively demonstrates that he's certifiable. And I mean that as a sincere compliment.
Thus, I say, here's to Brian Cushing. The 2011 Houston Texans would not have made history, or mayhem, without him.
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The Beast has been unleashed!
Thanks for being that beast Cush.
Madame de Staël once said, "One must choose in life between boredom and suffering." De Staël is dead but there is always an alternative.
This is where the cool is.
BRAIN CRUSHING!!!
The blind prophet named SUFFER was the only one who saw Cushing’s greatness coming.
Seriously, though. What a great pick! He shut up a lot of haters this season.
The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born, must first destroy a world.
by Stupendous Man on Jan 19, 2012 1:44 PM CST via mobile reply actions
but but but...
He did steroids... thats why he didn't make the pro bowl!!!
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You wear your shame like a badge of honor, so I salute you. I wonder if Jake would do the same. Or MDC.
Kidding aside, Cushing had a great year….I can only see him improving in Wade’s defense, especially when his number’s called for a blitz (which I think is his weak point in his overall game).
"Lord, beer me strength."
by TexansDC on Jan 19, 2012 2:01 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
Oh, I've already admitted that I was a dumb ass for that.
When you make as many predictions/outlandish statements as I do, and you like to rub people’s noses in the ones that are correct, you HAVE to be willing to eat crow on the incorrect ones or you come across as a complete douchebag.
I have not yet begun to defile myself.
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by MDC on Jan 19, 2012 2:52 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
That's the way I look at it
We have a choice. We can either a. nut up and be honest with ourselves, hopefully gaining the respect of our readership for admitting when we were wrong. Or, b. go the Pancakes technique and claim we were saying something we easily demonstrable were not (Arian Foster).
A Texans fan. Really. No, I'm not kidding.
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by bigfatdrunk on Jan 19, 2012 3:16 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Yup.
We should all get “WWPD?” bracelets to remind us to do the absolute opposite.
I have not yet begun to defile myself.
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by MDC on Jan 19, 2012 3:28 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Soul-baring discussion.....
reccing all
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
Just eerie...
Trolled here for a while at work, since the hours all are so crazy in Japan, but I had to reply to that link MDC. You realize at the top of the thread they were discussing how Schaub isn’t injury prone, the Barryfromtexas mentions a meteor would fall on his foot and he’d come back and win it…
Creepiest. Jinx. Ever.
by FarEastTexan on Jan 19, 2012 9:38 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Newb rec
But we will have to ban you now. Deepest apologies.
A Texans fan. Really. No, I'm not kidding.
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"Blind fandom is all I got left." - LoneSpot
Nicely played :-)
A Texans fan. Really. No, I'm not kidding.
http://www.battleredblog.com
"Blind fandom is all I got left." - LoneSpot
by bigfatdrunk on Jan 19, 2012 10:01 PM CST up reply actions
Blaming me?
Eh – you sound like my wife
"The greatest danger in planning for tomorrow is using yesterdays logic."
Marc Kahlberg
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." - George Orwell
I think we will learn that the Bo$$man was right
by Barryfromtexas on Jan 19, 2012 10:00 PM CST up reply actions
Well Fat Albert
Isn’t a far cry from a meteor…js
by FarEastTexan on Jan 19, 2012 10:04 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Re: blitzing
Ironically, Cushing was most effective at the blitz in Frank Bush’s “system” but not so much in Wade’s. He did manage to force blockers to seal the middle and allow our edge rushers to get more pressure, but he didn’t get near as many QB hits as he did the last two years.
I’d like to see him work on some pass rush moves to improve in that area. He’s got great size but right now all he has in his tool bag is a bull rush. Imagine how awesome he could be if he adds a rip or swim move to that.
I'm a man!! I'm forty!!
Chris Myers and Antonio Smith Added to the Pro Bowl Roster as Injury Replacements!!
A little much-needed recognition for some key players this year. Replacing Pouncey and Andre Carter
Smith over Watt?
I guess they don’t include playoff games. Good to hear, though. Both should have been first-teamers over those two.
I love me some Brain Crushing.
His was the first Texans Tshirt I ever bought. I’m probably gonna have to get a replacement since I’ve about worn it out.
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers." -- Homer Simpson
"There is no rehab for stupid." -- Chris Rock
Never try to baptize a cat.
Did you see him last night on SoundFX? He absolutely roadpaved a dude.
Rectum!? Damn near killed 'em!!!
by theSpaceCityKid on Jan 19, 2012 3:08 PM CST reply actions
Cushing
Is a beast
is certifiable
is one of my favorite all time players – ever
So yeah, Thanks Cushing!
"The greatest danger in planning for tomorrow is using yesterdays logic."
Marc Kahlberg
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." - George Orwell
I think we will learn that the Bo$$man was right
Hated the cushing pick
Hated the watt pick
Hated the Travis Johnson pick
1 out of 3 is better than none.
@THEREALALLENOU on twitter - "The man, the verb, the legend" OU'd
by AllenOU on Jan 19, 2012 3:48 PM CST via mobile reply actions 6 recs
No. No it isn't.
If Travis Johnson had been successful, we’d have a real, honest-to-goodness nose tackle right now.
Houston Texans: 1 Playoff Win.
Vince Young, Dunta Robinson, and Jason Babin: 0 Combined Playoff Wins.
Thanks, Captain Crush.
2012 will be your All-Pro year.
"How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that!"
-Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Loved the pic from the beginning.. It was him or Clay matthrws I wantrd
Leading up to the draft I watched his utube videos daily lol
I wana say hi to my haters, stay on your job ;) Go Houston sports!!
david sperm.. you fugly tyrant
TJ Yates - DATruth DAFuture
by HB23 on Jan 20, 2012 4:22 AM CST via mobile reply actions
Thanks Brian
For bringing an attitude to this team. I will forever thank you for that
My attitude is like a virgin......I dont give a fuck!
Love me some Cushing.
Got to meet him today at that card show.
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He's pretty tall
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Ever walk in a dark alley?
and have that errie feeling that someone is watching you? You keep walking and SWOOOSH! You turn your head and what looks a faint color of red and #5…. Scared you start to run when you hear, “TIME TO DIE”. The last thing you see is a bloody #56 standing over your body.
Lol lame I know but seriously with how Cush acts couldn’t you see him as a serial killer?
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