Texans defense regresses
Last week, the Texans shiny new 4-3 defense that so many players have said fits their skills gave up 441 yards.
This week, the Texans shiny new 4-3 defense gave up 515 yards! Last year, in comparison, they gave up 419 and 437 yards against Indy. Mario Williams was mostly invisible, although apparently Dwight Freeney's criticism of moving the rookie around struck a nerve, because Williams was ineffective at only one spot today, instead of multiple positions.
Still -- can you imagine how many more yards that defense might give up if they didn't have a defense coordinator who runs around screaming and impressing the local journalists? *sarcasm*
I'm a big Dallas Cowboys fan, and remember well Jimmy Johnson's first season, when most of his players were not of NFL quality and he had not fully implemented NFL-quality schemes. So far, this Texans defense looks a lot like Jimmy Johnson's first Cowboys team.
The Texans should be much better than that one-win Cowboys team on offense because they have more talent, but until that offensive line can function like even a mediocre NFL offensive line, they're going to look more like a one-win team than like a winning team.
My prediction of five wins may have been way too optimistic.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/17/06 06:45 PM | Technorati | Comments (0)
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