Texans 2009 Schedule!!!
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vs Jets
at Titans
vs Jaguars
vs Raiders
at Cardinals
at Bengals
vs 49ers
at Bills
at Colts
BYE
vs Titans (MNF!!!!)
vs Colts
at Jaguars
vs Seahawks
at Rams
at Dolphins
vs Patriots
Can't wait for the draft next Saturday!!
at Titans
vs Jaguars
vs Raiders
at Cardinals
at Bengals
vs 49ers
at Bills
at Colts
BYE
vs Titans (MNF!!!!)
vs Colts
at Jaguars
vs Seahawks
at Rams
at Dolphins
vs Patriots
Can't wait for the draft next Saturday!!
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It's good to see we have 3 of the first 4 at home this year. I think 10-6 is very realistic and 11-5 is even possible.
I would've preferred to have the Pats first out of the gate in Brady's first game back but the last game might not be so bad.
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In an unrelated story, Greg Paulus, a point guard for Duke's basketball team had a tryout to play football for the Packers. Coming out of HS Paulus was the Gatorade player of the year as a QB. His brother is a QB for North Carolina.
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i say 9-7 ![Sad](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_sad.gif)
at 8-8 last year they underachived with the talent and squad they had. close out a couple more games and they would have been in the playoffs. afterall, these are the Texans and we are in a VERY SOLID and tough devision. someone on ESPN said it best "the Texans need to BECOME A TEAM, not a collection of parts"
still don't have a proven QB eventhough HE IS the man behind center, our runnig game will be good until Slayton gets knocked out and our secondary is probably the worst in the NFC. we just CANNOT defedn against the pass. DeMeco slowed down last year but he's definately the leader and the driving force of the defense. also, the Smith signing from the Cards was a fairly good move to complement Super Mario.
we need to find an OLB or a safety in this year's draft. the OLB from USC is a good fit here. pretty versatile and can move very quickly.
that being said, i don't care what anybody says, Andre Johnson is the nastiest, fastest, strongest and most premier receiver in this league. he has just been robbed of numbers and productivity by the likes of Carr and Shaub. evenso, he will be a hall of famer, guaranteed.
if LeBron James and Randy Moss ever had kids, Andre Johnson would be that kid
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at 8-8 last year they underachived with the talent and squad they had. close out a couple more games and they would have been in the playoffs. afterall, these are the Texans and we are in a VERY SOLID and tough devision. someone on ESPN said it best "the Texans need to BECOME A TEAM, not a collection of parts"
still don't have a proven QB eventhough HE IS the man behind center, our runnig game will be good until Slayton gets knocked out and our secondary is probably the worst in the NFC. we just CANNOT defedn against the pass. DeMeco slowed down last year but he's definately the leader and the driving force of the defense. also, the Smith signing from the Cards was a fairly good move to complement Super Mario.
we need to find an OLB or a safety in this year's draft. the OLB from USC is a good fit here. pretty versatile and can move very quickly.
that being said, i don't care what anybody says, Andre Johnson is the nastiest, fastest, strongest and most premier receiver in this league. he has just been robbed of numbers and productivity by the likes of Carr and Shaub. evenso, he will be a hall of famer, guaranteed.
if LeBron James and Randy Moss ever had kids, Andre Johnson would be that kid
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at 8-8 last year they underachived with the talent and squad they had. close out a couple more games and they would have been in the playoffs. afterall, these are the Texans and we are in a VERY SOLID and tough devision. someone on ESPN said it best "the Texans need to BECOME A TEAM, not a collection of parts"
still don't have a proven QB eventhough HE IS the man behind center
our secondary is probably the worst in the NFC. we just CANNOT defedn against the pass. DeMeco slowed down last year but he's definately the leader and the driving force of the defense. also, the Smith signing from the Cards was a fairly good move to complement Super Mario.
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e need to find an OLB or a safety in this year's draft. the OLB from USC is a good fit here. pretty versatile and can move very quickly.
that being said, i don't care what anybody says, Andre Johnson is the nastiest, fastest, strongest and most premier receiver in this league. he has just been robbed of numbers and productivity by the likes of Carr and Shaub. evenso, he will be a hall of famer, guaranteed.
if LeBron James and Randy Moss ever had kids, Andre Johnson would be [I]that kid
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I know every year is different but if you look at the non-division games we played last and still found a way to go 8-8 I'm not sure that's underachieving. The beginning of our season was really tough with a bye week in week 2 and road games against good teams (Except for the OT loss in Jacksonville). This year we start at home and play some crappy non-division teams in the NFC West. The AFC East is tough though.
[/quote]at 8-8 last year they underachived with the talent and squad they had. close out a couple more games and they would have been in the playoffs. afterall, these are the Texans and we are in a VERY SOLID and tough devision. someone on ESPN said it best "the Texans need to BECOME A TEAM, not a collection of parts"
I follow the Texans pretty closely and I haven't heard anybody call the Texans a collection of parts. That sounds like the Dallas Cowboys to me. Defensively our scheme and our players need an upgrade. We've moving in that direction this off-season with Frank Bush and our moves in Free Agency and the upcoming draft.
Schaub is a very good player when he's healthy. When he came back from his knee injury he was on fire. People forget that last year was his first full year starting. Now with some experience under his belt I expect big things from him this season.
Our inability to defend the pass isn't all the back 7's fault. Besides Mario we have no pass rush. The protection is always sliding his way. Now with Smith on the other side and what is supposed to be a blitz-heavy scheme being installed that will make us better against the pass.
Ryans played hurt all season long suffering a high ankle sprain and a shoulder problem but you never heard about it because he won't complain publicly. Also, the emergence of Diles and the solid play from Adibi (When he wasn't hurt) took some of the pressure off of Ryans to make every tackle.
There is good safety quality in the middle rounds. I definately expect us to draft a FS somewhere between rounds 2 and 4. The coaches like Barber and Ferguson at Strong Safety and Eugene Wilson is good enough to win with at Free Safety. Matthews seems like a better fit for us than Cushing, although both are projected to be productive pro's.
Schaub hasn't hurt Andre's productivity at all. The biggest thing that's helped Andre has been Kubiak's ability to find ways to get him the ball. They've got Andre lining up all over the field and that makes it tough for a defense to take him away. And defenses can't put too much effort into taking 'Dre away because Walter and Daniels can both hurt them.
[/quote]at 8-8 last year they underachived with the talent and squad they had. close out a couple more games and they would have been in the playoffs. afterall, these are the Texans and we are in a VERY SOLID and tough devision. someone on ESPN said it best "the Texans need to BECOME A TEAM, not a collection of parts"
I follow the Texans pretty closely and I haven't heard anybody call the Texans a collection of parts. That sounds like the Dallas Cowboys to me. Defensively our scheme and our players need an upgrade. We've moving in that direction this off-season with Frank Bush and our moves in Free Agency and the upcoming draft.
still don't have a proven QB eventhough HE IS the man behind center, our runnig game will be good until Slayton gets knocked out and our secondary is probably the worst in the NFC. we just CANNOT defedn against the pass. DeMeco slowed down last year but he's definately the leader and the driving force of the defense. also, the Smith signing from the Cards was a fairly good move to complement Super Mario.
Our inability to defend the pass isn't all the back 7's fault. Besides Mario we have no pass rush. The protection is always sliding his way. Now with Smith on the other side and what is supposed to be a blitz-heavy scheme being installed that will make us better against the pass.
Ryans played hurt all season long suffering a high ankle sprain and a shoulder problem but you never heard about it because he won't complain publicly. Also, the emergence of Diles and the solid play from Adibi (When he wasn't hurt) took some of the pressure off of Ryans to make every tackle.
we need to find an OLB or a safety in this year's draft. the OLB from USC is a good fit here. pretty versatile and can move very quickly.
that being said, i don't care what anybody says, Andre Johnson is the nastiest, fastest, strongest and most premier receiver in this league. he has just been robbed of numbers and productivity by the likes of Carr and Shaub. evenso, he will be a hall of famer, guaranteed.
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The Titans will be a tough game of course, but we've shown we can beat them. The Jaguars are defiantely beatable. Lots of questions still on the O-Line, they don't have a receiving threat anymore, and defensively they have some big time holes to fill in the back 7 even though their hire of Greg Williams was a big one. I think anything less than 2-2 after those games would be unacceptable.
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lets just hope the Texans can put it together this year. i'm pretty excited and i'll be attending quite a few tailgates.
hope to hang out with you guys at either a tailgate or another place.
hope to hang out with you guys at either a tailgate or another place.
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Ben I know you are optimistic but we have a tendency to be real slow out of the gate, if we could ever start off like we finish a season we would be dangerous.
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I see 10-6 being very realistic...11-5 if things go our way!
Hell..we were 8-8 last year and could of been 10-6 very easily....
Our offense is good....only part we need to work on is getting TD's in the redzone...that killed us last year...having to get 3 or nothing in the redzone...
We definitely need another good LB....Matthews from USC has been mentioned....
Also a "bigger" back to complement Slaton...say around 210lb....
I think Richard Smith and Kubiak will get it sorted out at the draft....with their free agent signings they have some options in the draft now....
I still can't believe some mock drafts have the Texans picking Mark Sanchez??? WTF!?
Hell..we were 8-8 last year and could of been 10-6 very easily....
Our offense is good....only part we need to work on is getting TD's in the redzone...that killed us last year...having to get 3 or nothing in the redzone...
We definitely need another good LB....Matthews from USC has been mentioned....
Also a "bigger" back to complement Slaton...say around 210lb....
I think Richard Smith and Kubiak will get it sorted out at the draft....with their free agent signings they have some options in the draft now....
I still can't believe some mock drafts have the Texans picking Mark Sanchez??? WTF!?
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This time we have a legit chance to be 3-1 after our first 4 games.
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The only reason I might put 'Dre at 1 instead of 1A is because he sees way more coverages rolled his way than Fitz does and he still came out with more catches for more yards. The Cardinals have another legit #1 receiver in Boldin so it's almost impossible to do that to Fitz.
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Ben, IMO Fitz is the clear-cut #1 receiver in the NFL. Johnson is damn good and is certainly no slouch. I'd put him at #2, followed by Boldin at #3 and Steve Smith at #4. I look for Calvin Johnson to become an absolute monster if the Lions can ever get a good QB to throw to him and another receiver on the opposite side to help him out.
A couple of guys that don't get the pub they deserve are Reggie Wayne and Roddy White. Brandon Marshall could move up the charts if he would get his attitude in check
A couple of guys that don't get the pub they deserve are Reggie Wayne and Roddy White. Brandon Marshall could move up the charts if he would get his attitude in check