BWareofDWare
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Houston never fixed their defense. All they did was make it better at shutting down bad teams, thus padding their overall stats. They held 19 teams to 14 or fewer points, but that doesn't really matter when the Saints are still dropping 40 on you.
Fact: The Texans defense allowed opposing offenses to score 40, 29, and 28 points. The Patriots defense never allowed an opposing offense to score more than 27.
Hmmm maybe it does help to have a legit DC
Or maybe the OP doesn't know what he's talking about, the Houston Texans had a worse defense than ours, and they looked good simply because they played against the worst and most incapable offenses in the NFL for most of their season.
The answer is they didn't. We had the better defense.
Or maybe the OP doesn't know what he's talking about, the Houston Texans had a worse defense than ours, and they looked good simply because they played against the worst and most incapable offenses in the NFL for most of their season.
The answer is they didn't. We had the better defense.
The Texans fixed their defense by having a ton of talent already in place, signing Jonathan Joseph, and then bringing in competent DC. I dunno if that's the blueprint for the Pats.
Yeah, sure thing.Or maybe the OP doesn't know what he's talking about, the Houston Texans had a worse defense than ours, and they looked good simply because they played against the worst and most incapable offenses in the NFL for most of their season.
The answer is they didn't. We had the better defense.
The 2 superbowl loses were caused by defenses that were fundamentally built wrong with the same mentality
2007 bend but don't break with an aged core defense
2011 bend but don't break with a nonathletic defense with no real play makers.
The defense sucking is bills fault and the nfl rules
Bringing someone like JJ Watt, a ferocious pass rusher, would help a lot.
Dude - you seriously are whacked.
Solder didn't fill a huge area of need? Who was the starting LT going into the draft? That's right. We didn't have one because Matt Light was unsigned and had stated, vehemently, that he was going to test free agency.
Mayo is only solid? Again, you evaluations are whacked.
Patrick Chung made some big strides this year in his pass coverage abilities. He gets sole credit for shutting down Antonio Gates and for limiting Jason Witten.
Meriweather - Gave them 4 above average years, 2 of which he was a pretty good starter.
Maroney - 4 solid, but not spectacular years. In the end, didn't get the philosophy.
Seriously, you need to stop with the pseudo-evaluations because you're horrible at them.
How could they be fundamentally built wrong with the same mentality when there were such significant differences between them?
You're statements make no sense.
Or maybe the OP doesn't know what he's talking about, the Houston Texans had a worse defense than ours, and they looked good simply because they played against the worst and most incapable offenses in the NFL for most of their season.
The answer is they didn't. We had the better defense.
#1 they have been Drafting high on defense over the last 5 years so the talent was there they add it a few FA's and one of the best DC's in NFL history,
the pats have the money and the draft picks to turn this defense into a top 10 defense next year if they can keep the core guys like Carter and anderson arond and not change the whole defense again
patsfan-1982;2954346[B said:]#1 they have been Drafting high on defense over the last 5 years[/B] so the talent was there they add it a few FA's and one of the best DC's in NFL history,
the pats have the money and the draft picks to turn this defense into a top 10 defense next year if they can keep the core guys like Carter and anderson arond and not change the whole defense again
ummmmmmm, aside from Mario Williams as #1 pick in 2006, and bust of Amobi Okoye in 2007, they've drafted mostly mid rounds and have definately improved their scouting and picks...they hit homeruns with Conor Barwin and J Watt, B. Reed, B. Cushing, and that's their core. This means picking the talent, not just keep trading down every year to pickup more picks that mostly on D have turned into likes of Butler, IR Dowling, chad Jackson, Ron Brace et al
DeMeco Ryans, #33, 2006
Cushing #15, 2009
Barwin, #46, 2009
Q. Glover, #112, 2009
Watt, #11, 2010
B. Reed, #42, 2010
here's a kicker, in 2009 Pats picked Ron Brace @ 40, Darius Butler @ 41 and passed on Conor Barwin who at 6'4" 265 was perfect for Elephant role ! Nah, who needs pass rushers. Ofcourse I'm not even touching the trade down from Rd 1 spot where he could have picked Clay Matthews.
Imagine Clay Matthews and Conor Barwin on this Defense. what we got was Chung, Butler, Brace.....1DB bust, 1 DL complete bust, and 1 adequate SS
So, for 3 years we've seen that garbage picks a galore who've contributed zippo to this Defense.
The Texans personnel on D is more talented than the Patriots personnel on D. I am hopeful that this is remedied in 2012.