Half-empty? Half-full? Try foggy or not foggy.
John McClain -- in one of his annual optimistic pre-season reports -- writes:
Fans whose glasses are half-empty believe the Texans are in trouble because they have a new quarterback with only two career starts, a starting receiver with a career-high 19 receptions, a running back on his last legs, an offensive line that's marshmallow soft, an overrated, overpaid defensive line, outside linebackers so unrecognizable they must have been hiding in the witness protection program, safeties who can't cover and a mediocre kicking game.
But if your glass is always half-full, you look closely at the Texans and see a bright young quarterback five teams tried to acquire before the Texans won the sweepstakes, a talented, hard-working receiver just waiting for his opportunity to reward the head coach's confidence in him, a 30-year-old running back on a mission to prove his former team made a huge mistake letting him go, an offensive line that will be vastly improved as pass protectors because the previous quarterback is gone and a defensive line with four first-round picks, including two who'll become household names like Mario and Amobi.
I'd have written those as "Fans whose glasses are not foggy" for the former paragraph and "Fans whose glasses are foggy" for the second paragraph.
Also, I can't believe how little attention last year's defensive Rookie of the Year gets. DeMeco Ryans was beastly last year. Every time you looked at the ball, there was Ryans.
One last thing McClain:
Kubiak and Smith believe the kind of fragile confidence that contributed to the Texans losing four games by six or fewer points is being strengthened by experience and leadership almost as much as talent.I seem to recall reading that the NFL average for losing close games is between 2 and 3. So, that fragile confidence cost them one game. Or maybe they were just unlucky. Big whoop.
Serious writers should research things like this before they include them in major metropolitan dailies.
Posted by Evan @ 08/08/07 06:33 PM | Print | Comments (0)
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