Freddy had quite a few topics to talk about this weekend. The unbridled joy of the Houston Texans beating a team that has been in the NFL's "in" club for most of the last decade. The sheer terror of watching Andre Johnson go to the ground as if he had been shot. The cruelty that comes with watching referees take every great play of the game away from your team at some point.

But no, instead he has to write about the community.

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You know how we're supposed to be all riled up after Sunday's loss? I'm really not.

In fact, while Freddy had a few topics of which he could bring scorn down upon rather easily, it would really just be covering the same things that we already know are problems. Yeah, Glover Quin got molested by Jimmy Graham -- that should not surprise anyone. Yes, Kareem Jackson is still awful, and Troy Nolan isn't worth anything in coverage -- we knew those things as well. Or at least we did if we were looking at things objectively. 

Luckily, Freddy was saved by Terry McCormick, a Titans writer who somehow jumped onboard at the National Football Post. Today, Mr. McCormick published the moving and thought-provoking article "Is Andre Johnson planning exit strategy from Texans?"  (since pulled, here is what the article once looked like) which would surely have been BRB-wide news and information that also would have likely dominated NFL's news cycle day ... if it were true.

But see, the issue of ESPN: The Magazine that he says is "the latest," actually came out in November of 2009. As did the Houston Chronicle piece he linked in rebuttal to it. Also, there's the part where Andre Johnson actually hired a new agent and signed a new contract with the Texans last offseason. 

So we're left with two possibilities:
A) A Titans fan who has had a documented history of letting his bias show against Houston is, as the kids would put it, "stirring up the shit" in a desperate attempt to make news.
Or
B) An overworked writer publishes a story he is pointed towards without verifying it's truth in the slightest.

Either way, Freddy has some ideas for Terry's latest news scoop below.

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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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As the legend of Freddy grows, so does his access.

In fact, he recently received the address of none other than Roger Goodell himself. This came in handy this week, because there really wasn't much mail to write to Gary Kubiak. Freddy is nothing if not a problem-solver, so it's hard to figure out quite where he'd start with a Texans team that bloodied the remnants of the Indianapolis Colts.

However, there were still plenty of problems about the Texans that weren't really resolved, so as soon as Freddy got back home from a soccer game, he decided to write to the one man that he hoped could fix it. Join us behind the jump as Freddy tries to figure out just what happened yesterday to the Houston Texans. Apparently they played, but only in a "tree falling in the woods" sort of way. 

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