I haven’t watched too much football over the last 2 seasons or so. But have been because my son is into it this season.
I caught the game against the colts. Man the defense carried for sure. The offense left much to be desired….line kept pulling flags. INTs being thrown. Opens being missed.
The D let a few good plays go but I think that’s because the Colts had a very high tempo offense.. they set up and moved with a vicious efficiency.
People are still talking about Michigan stealing signs while ignoring the fact that they had two NFL defensive tackles four year in a row with completely different players. Like a guy on local radio said, “If your first read isn’t there and your second read isn’t there, your third read is Mason Graham.” If the middle of your line is blown up on every play, your QB better have crazy accuracy throwing on the run. That’s why you lost.
If the NFL can’t keep that white boy out of their backfield, what do you think a random 20 year old can do?
The whole Michigan stealing signs thing is extra stupid when you think about how they not only had elite defensive talent across the board for multiple years, but the DCs were beyond elite. Mike MacDonald is now the Seahawks HC and Jesse Minter is likely to get an HC job this offseason. Michigan’s defense was so good because it had elite players and coaches, not because it stole signs.
Nobody had a problem with sign stealing until Ohio State started losing. Michigan finished that season as the only team in the country without a sign stealer.
I have serious doubts that a Michigan staffer is the only person in the country who thought of buying tickets to other team’s games. The NCAA thought advanced scouting was so important that the last guy who got caught doing it, got a half game suspension. Let’s be realistic, Ohio State has somebody in Michigan’s stadium advanced scouting. How else would they have Michigan’s signs to trade to all of Michigan’s bowl opponents? Nobody wants to talk about that.
A good front 7 might be the most important thing in football. So many problems get diminished if the other team can’t run the ball and can’t secure time in the pocket
He genuinely doesn’t know what to do when things aren’t being handed to him. He’s so used to the refs and the NFL bending over backwards to cater to him.
I got news for you: basically anyone making over 10 million a year is going to be MAGA. Doubley so for football players who come from conservative backgrounds.
If you are talking hedge fund managers, and CEOs sure.
Entertainers are the opposite. That's why we only talk about entertainers who are Republican. If an entertainer does some wild Left wing shit like chain themselves to a tree no one bats an eye.
Eh I’d separate conservatives from maga. MAGA at this point is a Trump cult where there are still people that hold conservative values (although more and more they seem willing to compromise those values to appease Trump )
There are 350million people in the U.S. . Only 38million republicans and 44 million democrats . Most people aren’t interested in politics and many others don’t trust either party .
Maybe you misspoke but its weird you assumed I voted Trump because I made the distinction that his base isn’t really the same conservative base as he doesn’t really have any conservative ideas besides xenophobia and outrage
Makes sense w them and SF. We (SF) gotta hide shit to make it look different right now cause we running AAU players out at this point but at the end of it, not blitzing at all.
Truthfully that's what makes them so fun to watch. While other teams are devising strategies and complicated plays, the Texans defense just get in formation and bulldoze everyone and it's very effective.
In reality the entertainment of watching is thus. The average team is committed to establishing carefully laid plans and enacting strategems, the Texans have a tendency towards brute force, which appears to be more dominant.
What I love is how confident they are in their identity. They’re not trying to be some complicated mastermind defense they’re just doing what they normally do
If you want the Hockey equivalent Philadelphia flyers the Broadstreet Brawlers. They beat the USSR national team by beating the shit outta them. It was so bad the USSR team tried to forfeit at the half.
The Red Army team faced that kind of shit any time they came over and played North American teams. Bobby Clarke shattered Karlamov’s ankle to dust during the Sumit Series in 1972. And the broad street bullies just flat out abused them physically all night. The system the soviets played was well ahead of its time and those dudes had unreal chemistry with each other, but they struggled with the physical aspects of the game at times.
Then you get a couple of freak years like the Ravens in the Ray Lewis/Ed Reed days where they’re gonna get you on scheme but also just put belts to asses.
It’s crazy last year’s Rockets and UH basketball teams and this year’s Texans produced 3 of historically nasty defenses paired with the 3 of the worst offenses ever. It’s very on brand for Houston.
And you know what, I fucking love watching it. We’ve had great defenses before but having a great defense that seeks to put the fear of god in opposing offenses is something that hasn’t happened to often, especially recently. These dudes absolutely punish people. I remember watching them during the Bills game and they hit Josh Allen so hard the man was writhing in agony on the turf for a solid two minutes.
They were teeing off on the Chiefs as well too. That hit on Rice was nasty, and the Kelce play where he dropped the ball they crunched the fuck out of him. Pretty sure that dude didn’t walk away with at least a couple of bruised ribs. Probably pissed blood that night.
It did not surprise me, but it took a few years for buy-in and effect. The team - especially the D - seems to have adopted and adapted to him something fierce. I don't think anyone in the AFC wants to see Houston or worse go to Houston in January - except for the weather.
The best defense is when the offensive line knows they're about to get humiliated for four quarters. Houston is bringing that necessary attitude back to the league.
Damn, Chiefs Derangement Syndrome is so real. Before you downvote (which I'm sure yallare gonna do anyway), ask yourself, "How many posts on here were about random NFL games before this year?" That answer would be ZERO. It's gonna be hilarious when the NFL is back to the status quo next year and the Chiefs are back in the Super Bowl and y'all can't deal.
We'll see. Kelce will likely retire after this year and Reid's not getting any younger. Also the Broncos and Chargers seemed to have figured some things out. At least you'll have the Raiders to beat up on for a while lol
Honestly, Kelce's been a part of the problem this year. He's had 3 or 4 drops leading directly to picks. The biggest problem is Matt Nagy as OC. Get him and Jawaan Taylor tf out of town.
Yeah and Taylor kept getting away with all those false starts too. I thought Nagy was still good but i don't follow the chiefs much. it seems like they've dealt with a lot of injuries as well
The offense started to sputter when Eric Bienemy left and Nagy became the OC. It's become painfully obvious that the success of the last two years have been in spite of Nagy. IIRC, him and Bienemy did this good cop/bad cop thing going while EB was OC. Now that the bad cop is gone, Nagy can't do both roles. The scoring defense is still historically good, but the concentration on the offensive side of the ball isn't there, and Nagy has to be the one to blame.
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I haven’t watched too much football over the last 2 seasons or so. But have been because my son is into it this season.
I caught the game against the colts. Man the defense carried for sure. The offense left much to be desired….line kept pulling flags. INTs being thrown. Opens being missed.
The D let a few good plays go but I think that’s because the Colts had a very high tempo offense.. they set up and moved with a vicious efficiency.
the only team that the Bills played in years were I legit thought he was a normal looking qb who was getting clobbered.
Anderson is a friggin bull off the edge.
Except Seattle
Honestly, Seattle has been even better
People are still talking about Michigan stealing signs while ignoring the fact that they had two NFL defensive tackles four year in a row with completely different players. Like a guy on local radio said, “If your first read isn’t there and your second read isn’t there, your third read is Mason Graham.” If the middle of your line is blown up on every play, your QB better have crazy accuracy throwing on the run. That’s why you lost.
If the NFL can’t keep that white boy out of their backfield, what do you think a random 20 year old can do?
The whole Michigan stealing signs thing is extra stupid when you think about how they not only had elite defensive talent across the board for multiple years, but the DCs were beyond elite. Mike MacDonald is now the Seahawks HC and Jesse Minter is likely to get an HC job this offseason. Michigan’s defense was so good because it had elite players and coaches, not because it stole signs.
All the more reason not to cheat
All the more reason not to fucking cheat lol
Nobody had a problem with sign stealing until Ohio State started losing. Michigan finished that season as the only team in the country without a sign stealer.
I have serious doubts that a Michigan staffer is the only person in the country who thought of buying tickets to other team’s games. The NCAA thought advanced scouting was so important that the last guy who got caught doing it, got a half game suspension. Let’s be realistic, Ohio State has somebody in Michigan’s stadium advanced scouting. How else would they have Michigan’s signs to trade to all of Michigan’s bowl opponents? Nobody wants to talk about that.
*All the more reason to change your signals periodically
TIL Mason Graham is white.
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Defense in football has always been like this. If you have the personnel to man up and win, you do it.
Same reason no one could copy the Legion of Boom back in the day. It’s not a scheme. Do you have Sherm, Earl, and Kam? No? You can’t run that defense.
Similar w Tampa 2. You can get close in both- apply concepts, draft similar players etc.
but there is that je ne sais quoi that makes elite defenses elite.
The secondary is with the shit too. Stingley is elite and the rest of them dudes be hitting like a motherfucker.
The hit on Rice this weekend reminded me of a Ravens steelers game in the 2000s, violent and fast as fuck
Just like Rice's driving
Doesn’t take elite ball knowledge to understand most all football games can be won/lost in the trenches
As an LSU fan, I'm happy to see Stingley being one of the top guys in that defense.
The Detroit Lions injury report is the argument against this, but yes toughness matters.
The game is about blocking and tackling.
A good front 7 might be the most important thing in football. So many problems get diminished if the other team can’t run the ball and can’t secure time in the pocket
Or be the old school La Raiders when they were on steroids and coke, crazy as motherfuckers
I think everyone loved them making Mahomes’ MAGA ass look like a punk bitch.
The way he was melting down on the sideline was peak entertainment. Seeing that type of privilege get humbled is always satisfying.
He genuinely doesn’t know what to do when things aren’t being handed to him. He’s so used to the refs and the NFL bending over backwards to cater to him.
Kermit’s Conundrum
To be fair his guys were dropping passes like crazy that game. Almost as bad as that Superbowl against the Buccaneers
You’d probably drop passes too if you were hit as hard as Rice was by Pitre.
I thought his wife was maga and he was more neutral
I got news for you: basically anyone making over 10 million a year is going to be MAGA. Doubley so for football players who come from conservative backgrounds.
This is an insane take.
If you are talking hedge fund managers, and CEOs sure.
Entertainers are the opposite. That's why we only talk about entertainers who are Republican. If an entertainer does some wild Left wing shit like chain themselves to a tree no one bats an eye.
Eh I’d separate conservatives from maga. MAGA at this point is a Trump cult where there are still people that hold conservative values (although more and more they seem willing to compromise those values to appease Trump )
If youre voting for Trump you are MAGA. You cannot have it both ways. And I guarantee theyre voting to lower their taxes as every millionaire does.
There are 350million people in the U.S. . Only 38million republicans and 44 million democrats . Most people aren’t interested in politics and many others don’t trust either party .
Maybe you misspoke but its weird you assumed I voted Trump because I made the distinction that his base isn’t really the same conservative base as he doesn’t really have any conservative ideas besides xenophobia and outrage
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Yep. We running the ones
My takeaway from that graph is the Vikings are coming
JJ’s out there just happy he’s ON the Vikings and not playing them.
Imagine the hell they put QBs through in practice
How many are we blitzing coach? Brian Flores:
Brian Flores defense. That’s what he does.
Fuck Twitter but posts like this almost make me miss it
A lot of good football analysts have made it to Bluesky, but it ain't the same.
As a Bronco fan this tells me that we coming, but we aren’t hiding it.
Giddy up
Makes sense w them and SF. We (SF) gotta hide shit to make it look different right now cause we running AAU players out at this point but at the end of it, not blitzing at all.
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Truthfully that's what makes them so fun to watch. While other teams are devising strategies and complicated plays, the Texans defense just get in formation and bulldoze everyone and it's very effective.
In reality the entertainment of watching is thus. The average team is committed to establishing carefully laid plans and enacting strategems, the Texans have a tendency towards brute force, which appears to be more dominant.
What I love is how confident they are in their identity. They’re not trying to be some complicated mastermind defense they’re just doing what they normally do
"We don't have time for it. If you stand up, we'll knock you down. That's it."
Black forces should be part of the uniform at this point
😂😂😂
Awww shit! My boys getting the recognition they deserve!
H-Town till I drown.
It do rain a lot there…
And floods easily
I can’t believe it. They really have been great the last couple of months.
Feels surreal to have national talk for once
Don’t worry, as an AFC south team yall will fuck it up eventually
If you want the Hockey equivalent Philadelphia flyers the Broadstreet Brawlers. They beat the USSR national team by beating the shit outta them. It was so bad the USSR team tried to forfeit at the half.
Hockey plays three periods
Sorry being wrong on the time but here's the wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Philadelphia_Flyers%E2%80%93Red_Army_game
The Red Army team faced that kind of shit any time they came over and played North American teams. Bobby Clarke shattered Karlamov’s ankle to dust during the Sumit Series in 1972. And the broad street bullies just flat out abused them physically all night. The system the soviets played was well ahead of its time and those dudes had unreal chemistry with each other, but they struggled with the physical aspects of the game at times.
Then you get a couple of freak years like the Ravens in the Ray Lewis/Ed Reed days where they’re gonna get you on scheme but also just put belts to asses.
It’s crazy last year’s Rockets and UH basketball teams and this year’s Texans produced 3 of historically nasty defenses paired with the 3 of the worst offenses ever. It’s very on brand for Houston.
I’m a jags fan and we don’t want NO PARTS of Houston in the playoffs. We’re praying for a Chargers rematch
Yeah, hard pass on Houston. They’ve easily come to match the Titans on my “fuck those guys” scale.
I think everybody wants the Chargers tbh.
Or whatever sad team makes it out of the afc north this year
And you know what, I fucking love watching it. We’ve had great defenses before but having a great defense that seeks to put the fear of god in opposing offenses is something that hasn’t happened to often, especially recently. These dudes absolutely punish people. I remember watching them during the Bills game and they hit Josh Allen so hard the man was writhing in agony on the turf for a solid two minutes.
They were teeing off on the Chiefs as well too. That hit on Rice was nasty, and the Kelce play where he dropped the ball they crunched the fuck out of him. Pretty sure that dude didn’t walk away with at least a couple of bruised ribs. Probably pissed blood that night.
Houston is an entertaining good defense, big hits, big plays and it makes for a very fun brand on football
That's ok..Taylor told him to man up...she bleeds 7 days a month and so can he...then she dresses him and tells him what to say and do lol
A great defensive player became a great head coach with a great defense.
This shouldn't surprise people, but it does for some reason.
It did not surprise me, but it took a few years for buy-in and effect. The team - especially the D - seems to have adopted and adapted to him something fierce. I don't think anyone in the AFC wants to see Houston or worse go to Houston in January - except for the weather.
They've been evolving every season. It feels great to be a fan.
They just need to work on their interior O-line like my seahawks did and they can be a true Superbowl contender
Defense wins championships, Houston just gone take that shit by any means necessary or unnecessary
I’m scared of Houston’s defense and they’re not even in our conference lol 😩
Sounds to me like it's just like the streets of Houston.
Shit gets crazy around here
What can we name that scheme?
Belt to ass
They actually call it Swarm.
Fitting
I like to think its just DeMeco hyping them up
The best defense is when the offensive line knows they're about to get humiliated for four quarters. Houston is bringing that necessary attitude back to the league.
Nah nfs😭😭😭😭😭
Will Anderson is an absolute monster
LOB was the same way, let Earl do whatever he gotta do and everyone else just stick cover 3 😂
The steelers would like a word.
Nah Tomlins to predictable
As a Jags fan, fuck Houston for what they did to Trevor Lawrence last year. Al-Shaair is a dirty player and that’s a hill I’ll die on.
A great reminder that as a Gay™️, there’s a class of things I literally spend no time thinking about. lol.
Damn, Chiefs Derangement Syndrome is so real. Before you downvote (which I'm sure yallare gonna do anyway), ask yourself, "How many posts on here were about random NFL games before this year?" That answer would be ZERO. It's gonna be hilarious when the NFL is back to the status quo next year and the Chiefs are back in the Super Bowl and y'all can't deal.
We'll see. Kelce will likely retire after this year and Reid's not getting any younger. Also the Broncos and Chargers seemed to have figured some things out. At least you'll have the Raiders to beat up on for a while lol
Honestly, Kelce's been a part of the problem this year. He's had 3 or 4 drops leading directly to picks. The biggest problem is Matt Nagy as OC. Get him and Jawaan Taylor tf out of town.
Yeah and Taylor kept getting away with all those false starts too. I thought Nagy was still good but i don't follow the chiefs much. it seems like they've dealt with a lot of injuries as well
The offense started to sputter when Eric Bienemy left and Nagy became the OC. It's become painfully obvious that the success of the last two years have been in spite of Nagy. IIRC, him and Bienemy did this good cop/bad cop thing going while EB was OC. Now that the bad cop is gone, Nagy can't do both roles. The scoring defense is still historically good, but the concentration on the offensive side of the ball isn't there, and Nagy has to be the one to blame.
The Seahawks have the number one defense. Houston is number two.
Naw. Texans are 1 in yards allowed (Seahawks 6), 4 in takeaways (Seahawks 6), 1 in ppg (Seahawks 2)
Yeah the seahawks are a better team as a whole, but Texans definitely have the best defense currently
Other way buddy. Seahawks are number 2.