O'Brien EARNING respect, Bill V Bill, and JJ doing his job WELL!

There is zero doubt that over the years the Patriots game for the Texans have been a thorn in their side.  The Texans have lost 6 out of 7 meetings with the Patriots.  The unfortunate thing is that all of the games played at Gillette, the Patriots have scored 40 or more points.  So please stop with the Letterman Jacket references, as they have been blown out all 3 times they played in New England.  Whereas the games played at NRG have been close within 1 or 3 points.  Of course with the exception of last year where the Texans lost 27-6.  Which brings me to the tale of the tape.  There are still people calling Brock Osweiler fool’s gold, and not ready to say that he was the best option.  The one thing that I have noticed from Brock is his ability to throw pin point passes to the receivers.  Minus the two interceptions, every pass that he has thrown to a receiver was right in stride with the speedy receivers that were added in the off season.  Even over throwing Fuller on a couple of occasions.  When you look at Hoyer vs the Patriots and you look at Brock, it is night and day.  Also at that point Brock was making is 2^nd career start. 

Click Here to see Highlights from Brock's win Vs Patriots

 This game was in the snow, and Brock had to work to bring the Broncos from an early deficit to win the game.  Looking at the highlights, the game was never too big for Brock.  He led his team to victory and never had any intentions on anything otherwise.  Brock will need to be patient and not force throws.  Now that he has so many weapons, we no longer have to force throws to DHop.  After 2 years, O’Brien

Has slowly added plays to his arsenal.  However, in the past, he didn’t have the QB or the receivers to fully open the playbook.  I take you back to the Cecil Short Touchdown pass.  I didn’t notice this last year, but Cecil was about .1 seconds a way of not getting that ball off.

Click here to check out Cecil Short touchdown pass.

Now take a look at the formations on the touchdown's from the 1st two weeks.  In week 1, with trips left, Brock throws a screen pass to Fuller V, who takes it up the middle for the touchdown.  Up the middle of the field you have 5 blockers on 4 defenders.  Fuller V presses the turbo button on his Playstation and skips into the end zone.  

This was a result of that Game Plan that you hear so much about.  Keep this formation in mind, as Bill opens up the playbook notice the receiver on the bottom of the screen.  Imagine Braxton Miller where Fuller is, Fuller on the bottom and DHop running a cross route.  Getting very confusing to secondaries as we move forward.  

Now take a look at Brock sell this screen pass to set up the Touchdown pass, with what I'm calling the best 3 consecutive plays in Texans history.

Started by a Brock Osweiler interception, Click here to see the best 3 consecutive plays in Texans History

Because of the success of the Screen Pass, and the Screen Run, Chiefs try to account for the RB, the Receiver, and end up leaving DHop in single coverage.  The linebacker's look like they are dancing as they try to account for everyone.  Not wanting to get beat by the screen, Dhop goes one and one with very late safety help. 

I've heard so much talk about Belichick’s ability to win despite the players he has at his disposal.  This is a big reason why I said in my prediction that this division would come down to coaching.  Belichick took people like Matt Cassel and won 11 games, lost almost all his receivers, and still went to the Super Bowl.  Not to mention let people like Wes Welker, Randy Moss, Aqib Talib, Revis Island, and many more walk and not skip a beat.  In 2 years Bill O’Brien has gone 20-15 with 7 different quarterbacks, losing a star running back, in the playoffs losing JJ and Duane.  Case Keenum was picked up off of a deer lease, TJ wasn’t in the league, and Brandon Weeden wasn’t good enough to stay on a team that went 4-12.  Bill O’Brien took each one of those guys and won a game.  Last year Belichick came into NRG with Gronkowski on crutches and beat us.  Not scoring one touchdown, only converted 3 1^st downs out of 14 tries, and losing time of possession by more than 11 minutes, didn’t give our defense much time to be effective, especially late in the game.  I spoke to you last week about the defensive dominance in the second half of games.  Last week was pretty close to the Patriot game.   Last week the 3rd down production was only 5 of 14, however, the Texans won the Time of possession by over 7 minutes.  I think the most motivation this team has seen was seeing Brock throw an interception, JJ recover a fumble, and then have Brock come back on his very next play and throw a Touchdown bomb to DHop.  Michael Irving seemed to imply that the next man up was specific to Belichick, but I say that one of the branches off his coaching tree is pretty darn similar.  Now let’s talk keys to the game!

Needless to say we need to not allow the Patriots to score 40 points.  We will need to work to make sure that we do not allow this young quarterback to beat us with his legs.  Belichick does whatever it takes to take you away from playing your game.  As fans we just want a win at the end of the day.  But if this team truly wants to be special and have a shot at the prize, Brock will need to come in with the same confidence he had last year when he played them in his second start.  Defense should be aggressive and force him to make calls he’s not comfortable with making.  Every decision counts.  No crazy challenges that may cost time outs.  It will be important that we concentrate on our current trend on defense.  Everyone is flying in the backfield, making tackles for loss, and sacks.  JJ doesn’t have to do it by himself.  AJ Bouye got some pretty good practice for Gronk, facing Kelce.  It will be very interesting to see how the Patriots play the Texans new offensive weapons.  There have been several times where this defense has held teams to no touchdowns.  I’m calling this a victory for the Texans 28-9.  Defense will not allow a Touchdown, and the defense will have 3 Sacks and a pick 6..  

Did Tom Herman run Nick Wright away from Sports Radio 610? Romeo's Wildcat, and Chiefs vs Mad Bulls

It is hard not to mention the special feeling U of H is bringing to Houston.  With several people having to pull out our old Clutch City hats in the 4th quarter of Thursday's game, we have to admit that Tom Herman is definitely the best thing to happen to the university.  After losing Kevin Sumlin to Texas A&M, there was a recent feud about a former recruit of Texas A&M.  I have to say that I have been listening to Sports Radio 610 since John and Lance in the morning.  Over the years we have saw some of our favorites deflect to other stations and like any good fan, we've followed them and have had to split time.  I heard Nick call in to his old show this Friday and it just made me wonder if this little tiff was what ran him out of the city.  After listening to it again, I really felt that John had good intentions and wanted to clear the air.  But Coach was not having it one bit.  It truly sounded like no one was going to give from the start.  Coach seemed to only want to speak with John.  Nick felt the need to defend John.  But his comments lead Coach to start asking things like "Who are you?"  "How old are you? Like 19?"  Definitely sounded like Coach was talking to one of his players.  But Nick wasn't having any of that, and tried to stand his ground.  Even asking Coach out to lunch, only to be denied.  But looking at it from a distance, Nick said "I will put my reputation and my career up against anyone in this town."  Turns out coach Herman was not the one he should have chosen to do this with. I think 610 trying to accompany two well respected guys in John Lopez and Rich Lord, with the young Nick and Josh Innis may have been a disaster waiting to happen.  There is no doubting what Koch and Kalu has brought to the table.  But I have to say that the current line ups on all stations right now seem to have a really great rapport, and what a time to do that when the Cougs are looking like a shoe in for the playoffs, and the Texans looking like they can make a deep run finally in the playoffs.  I just need them to bring Matt Jackson back into the fold.

But did somebody say Texans?  Let's talk keys to the game.  Starting with doing more of the same!  Check out DHop's tweet once the Texans MOVED UP to draft Will Fuller with the 21st pick.  With Corey Coleman off the board, and it being very possible for the Redskins to grab a receiver, no one is questioning now why we would give up anything to just move up one spot.  But the key on the offensive side of the ball against the chiefs is to make sure that they know we have weapons now.  I can't tell you how excited I was to see Brock's first pass as a Texan to go to a tight end.  A position that the BrianRyan experiment seemed to never be able to locate.  It was very clear towards the end of the game that you will not be able to just plan to double team DHop and not pay any attention to the others.  During our best season in 2012 we saw Andre Johnson catch 1598 yards and 4 Touchdowns.  The closest receiver to him wasn't a receiver, it was a TE Owen Daniels with 716 yards and 6 Touchdowns.  The actual closes receiver was Kevin Walter with 518 yards and 2 Touchdowns.  With Will Fuller V putting up 100 yards and a TD in the first game, I'd say we may be ready to do some damage.  Braxton Miller was the talk of the preseason but seemed to have some first game jitters.  I know we are all waiting for that screen pass that will allow us to see him show off that quarterback arm.  He was obviously playing for his job in the last preseason game and played Cecil right over to Tampa Bay.  I am calling Braxton as the stand out against the Chiefs.  His role will be much like the role of Wes Welker in this offense.  With DHop and Will being the Randy Moss duo.  Let's face it, Randy was bad, so the two of them together can at least attempt to come close to the Hall of Famer.

@nukdabomb tweets "Ain't no more double Teams Baby"

Click here to see Fuller blow past defenders for score


Much like the offense, I do not think that you should be worried about if JJ is at 100%.  I think what you saw this past Sunday, was exactly what we needed.  The years of Andre Johnson and JJ Watt being the sole heirs to the throne of the offense and defense are over.  Last year this defense had 45 sacks and 14 Interceptions.  In the secondary each member of the secondary had at least one interception.  Between the defensive line and linebacker core JJ Watt had 38% of the sacks with Whitney Mercilus having 27%.  So that's a total of 29 sacks for JJ and Whitney, and 4 other guys splitting the other 16, There were 6 guys not posting a sack.  Denver, who had the number one defense, had 54 sacks.  The highest sack total of one person was 11, and 14 guys on the team registered at least one sack vs 6 total guys on our team who registered sacks.  So to be clear 15 Broncos teamed up for 54, and 6 guys on the Texans teamed up for 45.  Looking at Mercilus Sack, It seemed to me that he was purposely falling on his back to give his teammates a chance to punch the ball.  I will look to see if I continue to see that trend this week.  Can you imagine if JJ wasn't the only mad sacker on the team?  These Bulls are Mad.  Last week's game we saw JJ get robbed of one sack, but the entire team registered 5 sacks.  If that were to happen every game we'd rack up, aw never mind.  I'm just saying as a team we are causing these teams to rethink how they play us.  These Bulls are bad.  LL Cool JJ BAD!  #DONTCALLITACOMEBACK #LLJJIMBAD

It will be important this week that the Texans set the edge on defense.  What scares me about this game is Alex Smith's ability to beat us with his legs.  Is there a such thing as a Defensive Wild Cat?  Is this Romeo Wild Cat set up of Clowney with his hand in the dirt, JJ and Mercilus on the end, and Simon and Bullough coming up the middle really a thing????  Clowney will need to be careful that teams will allow him to blow pass the lineman, only to throw it to the running back on a screen.  There was a play last week, that had the running back caught the ball it would have been a huge gain.  But it will be important that we do not forget the screen pass.  I am looking for the Chiefs to get the ball out quick with short dump passes.  We must also not forget that they have Maclin.  I've heard everyone talking about Kelce.  Kelce made his bed the last two times we faced him.  Coach O'Brien has been clear that this is a game plan team.  So look for them to adjust for him.  Romeo should have a pretty good game plan for him this week.  I just hope that we do not forget that they have the burner Maclin on the field.

This team just needs to stay the course.  All of the moves that they've made from adding players and coaches.  This week they will show their resilience to win and ability to move forward.  Coach Reid is a great coach and has always manage to get his team ready for games.  I'm looking for Braxton Miller and John Simon to stand out this week.  I cannot go without mentioning Charles James II work on special teams.  Coach O'Brien told us in the off season that even some starters would be playing on special teams, and it has shown.  A tackle for anything less than the 25-yard line on the first kick off to the Chiefs will likely rip the retractable roof clean off NRG.  Factor in the missed scoop and score, and the rocket Brock through to Fuller V for the drop, my score prediction last week would have been spot on.  But I must admit, it showed that Coach Fox, who drafted Brock, played him in his first start last year, may have had more tape on him than I thought.  But this is where I take you back to my first blog, where I said this season will come down to coaching.  Coach O'Brien continues his ability to adjust in the second half of games.  In 17 games last year the Texans only allowed 13 Touchdowns in the second half.  That's 36 quarters in the second half of games where only 13 Touchdowns were given up.  A couple of those games they didn't allow any.  The 2013 Seahawks only gave up 9.  So ultimately this week the Texans need to come out in the first half, start fast, and put some points on the board.  Win the time of possession in the first half, and in the second half let Romeo put in his closing pitchers and take this win home.  I'm calling this a victory for the Texans 24-12.  With the Rahim Moore experiment done, I think our secondary this year is better prepared for Kelce.  As long as J-Jo can control Maclin, Alex Smith may be in for a hurting tomorrow.  #DONTCALLITACOMEBACK #MYBULLSBAD   Well at least we are getting some love from NFL.com, they are picking us to win in overtime 30-27.  Elliott Harrison picks Texans to Win, Click here for the rest of his predictions.            



And as always.......................................

Go Texans!

DJ THE DJ

Bears have no Love, Osweiler NOT the Leader of the team, and Odds NOT in Texans favor, BUT JJ!

We have all been waiting years to have a winning football team here in Houston.  Several Cowboy fans will remind you that football goes back much further than just 2002.  The Oilers also failed to bring home a Superbowl win.  Our trophy case is only filled with Banners, and ability to brag about being a winner has been few and far between.  But who is concerned with Cowboy Fans when our collective record since 2002 is better than theirs.  With that being said, I am a bit surprised after seeing what I saw in preseason, how most of the people out there are still putting the Jags, and a few, even the Titans, as winners of this division.  Tomorrow's game will be Brock (B-Oz)'s second debut against the Bears.

Last year Brock made his starting debut with a 17-15 win against the Bears.  A game that saw several substitutes in that rock solid defense of theirs.  You can see where the nerves may have been there in the beginning.  But B-Oz threw for 2 touchdowns in the win, and the Broncos ran for 170 yards on the ground.  I will get more into my predictions on the game in just a bit, but I can tell you that it is very exciting to grab a quarterback that has actually started against 7, and played against 1 of the 8 teams that we will face this season.  This is where the sample size of how much he's played doesn't bother me.  This is where it makes me feel comfortable telling you that it is imperative that we shut down the Bears, who have no love, Lovey that is.  The Bears who were very dominating over the years, have become mediocre at best since letting go Coach Lovey.  With a Superbowl appearance and 2 playoff appearances, one can only shake his head as to why they made this move.  John Fox was definitely a nice pick up.  But needs more time to build a team, they are simply just not there right now.  In my humble opinion.

Now we are a year past the RyanBryan, or BryanRyan experiment depending on which week of our quarterback carousel you want to look at.  I have obviously made it clear that I am very fond of Coach O'Brien, and also Rick Smith.  I believe these guys to be Coach O'Brien's picks, and once again proving to the owner that Rick may have had a better guy in mind.  I think that Rick Smith still has ties to the Denver Broncos staff, especially with most of our previous staff being there.  I believe there was some serious intel to be had about Brock not being happy that even after Peyton retired that he was not automatically solidified as their future.  So far, after the Broncos debut, even with the win, I don't think you can deny that the offense would have been much better if B'Oz was toting the rock.  But O'Brien has to, and already has to a certain extent, owned up to the mistakes he's made in the past.  BryanRyan was very familiar with this system but simply lacked the athletic ability and maturity to lead this team.  He has already made it clear that "you have to work EVERY DAY".  Very close to the Bill Billichek "Do your JOB, WELL".  The one thing that has been very consistent with O'Brien is that he will not hesitate to make a move if you are not doing your job.  Including letting go the WR coach who was with him at Penn State, to hire Sean Ryan former coach of O'Dell Beckham Jr.  I do not think there is a surprise that these young receivers out played the vets that have been Texans in the past.  From a route running and pass catching perspective, this once again may prove to be the move of this off season.  With a close second to my boy Izzo handling things finally on Special Teams.

Click Here to hear O'Brien describe a Leader

But O'Brien has made it crystal clear that the way to describe you as a leader IS, WIN GAMES.  As my old General Manager Jeff Bettencourt used to tell us after making one of his amazing points,  "PERIOD, END OF STORY".

Looking at this preseason I can't tell you how excited I was about what we were going to do as a team.  I had to, however, temper my expectations after looking up stats of undefeated preseason teams.  Out of 10 teams since 2007 that have gone 4-0 in the preseason, ONLY 3 teams had winning seasons.  The 2008 Detroit Lions went 0-16, the 2007 Rams went 2-14.  Several 6-10's with a 7-9 rounding out the overall records of those preseason champs.  7 out of 8 of those teams ranked out of the top 20 in defense.  The 2007 Ravens had the 3rd best defense in the league and went 9-7, and the 2009 49ers had the 16th best defense and only went 6-10.  HOWEVER, the 2013 Seahawks, who was 13-3 and had the #1 ranked defense in the league, went on to the Superbowl.  Now when I look at these teams to see who we are more likely to match up with, it has to be the 2013 Seahawks.  This defense is set to be extremely nasty.  But if Lamar Miller can stay healthy, and we hold up this offensive line until Duane gets back, this season should be very nice to absorb in the H.

Click Here 9-7 Not the Bar, Critics not sold on Texans Week 1 win

Keys to a Texans Win.  We will have to make sure, unlike in his starting debut against the Bears, where he was sacked 5 times, B'Oz will have to be protected and not hold on to the ball too long.  In that game the Broncos rushed for well over 100 yards which should not be a problem.  I look for some rotation in the back field, much like when the Patriots ran BenJarvus Green Ellis, Laurence Maroney, Kevin Faulk, etc.  One of the things that B'Oz did well was coming out of halftime against the Bengals, he ran the no huddle up and marched down 80 yards for the score.  With Bill O'Brien saying every chance he gets about us "needing to start fast", I am fully expecting our offense to keep them on their heels, until it's time to slow it down and win the clock battle. 

I can tell you I am not worried one bit about JJ Watt's reps.  I fully expected him to return.  I also told you in my very first blog about the season that you should think Adrian Peterson recovery vs anyone else.  JJ said some AMAZING things that I don't know if you caught in his press conferences.  JJ has gone 100 miles an hour since coming on the scene.  He has been OUR TEAM.  He has all the commercials, he has not had one scandal, in fact, he supposedly doesn't even have a girlfriend.  But I think you will see JJ be more of a team player this year.  He has to let the other players have some.  I have always wondered when JJ gets to choose what lineman he wants to rush; how does that work for his teammate to get use to the person he's going up against.  I'm not a coach, but I do know what it's like to manage a team.  JJ seamed to have taken a step back.  Walked out of the spotlight, and had time to reflect on his role on this team.  I told you that it was important for B'Oz to have a chance to be the Leader of this team.  JJ was obviously playing through a lot of pain last year in the second half of the season.  A season that still saw him win Defensive player of the year.  If JJ comes in and holds down the left, Mercilus the right, and allow Wilfork and Clowney to work the middle, or plug anyone of these guys in anyone of those spots, this season SHALL be special.  And please don't get it twisted.  JJ has never been a selfish player, or pro for that matter.  I'm just saying that if we can get some of these other young defensive players even close to Watt's level, this year will be record breaking.  I'm looking at a 35-13 route over the Loveyless Bears.  But of course, a win would suffice in any shape or form.  A loss in my opinion would be hard to swallow, as the Bears really didn't do a good job of replacing Matt Forte, and their 20th ranked defense from last season.  I think we are better on Defense this year.  A Defense  that posted a top 10 (7th ranked) defense the last 2 seasons.  A loss tomorrow would defeat the purpose of starting fast.  Tomorrow is the day.  We shall see if we silence the critics.  Last year's week 1 Power Rankings were just a bit off.  I have posted them below.  Being ranked 12th going into week one is definitely an improvement from 20 this year.  I will say that the Colts  dropping to 24th on nfl.com is going along with my theory that they simply failed to make the moves necessary, mainly from the head coaching position,  to dominate the AFC South again.  

Week 1 Power Rankings 2015
22. Carolina Panthers
20. Houston Texans
7.  Denver Broncos
3.  Indianapolis Colts


We have always had a stout defense since @Sunofbum (Wade Phillips) came to town.  But the first time in forever, we may have an explosive offense.  I'm not counting any chickens, but I am saying this young receiving squad, along with the back field,  can give you hell in the first half, then use speed in the second half to just take the wind out of a team.  Put in Romeo's closing pitcher, THE DEFENSE and I am truly READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL, AND AS ALWAYS

Go Texans!

DJ THE DJ

Tune in Next week when we face the Chiefs, a team that beat both Osweiler and the Texans pretty bad last year.  

AFC and NFC PREDICTIONS, Billy Jr. Makes Dad Proud, Rick Smith wins Free Agent and Draft Battle

There is a lot of talk about the AFC South division this year.  I find it very interesting that people are quick to put the Jaguars ahead of the bunch.  I think that the AFC south has the most talented players on each team in the history of the division.  This season will come down to coaching.  Looking at the history of all of these guys, just like the preseason stats, Bill O'Brien sits at the top of the stats in coaching accolades as well.  

O'Brien's eight wins were the most by a first-year Penn State coach in the 126 years of the program and led to a plethora of accolades for his leadership, coaching acumen and commitment under unprecedented conditions. 
To call Bill O'Brien's first year as a head coach "great" would be a vast understatement.

As head coach he lost all his major recruits, about 15 to be exact, and still posted 2 winning seasons with Penn State.  

          Penn State Lose 15 players to scandal

The Texans have had two 2-14 seasons.  Gary Kubiak took over after the first one and the next 2 years were rebuilding years.  O'Brien took over after the second one.  Missed the playoffs by one game in his first year with basically the same players, and made the playoffs the following year.  Looking at the Bill Belichick coaching tree, not many have had a huge amount of success.  Eric Mangini started the spygate scandal against his former mentor Bill Belichick and failed to have success in a head coaching role. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2012/05/eric-mangini-regrets-turning-in-patriots-for-spygate/1#.V8sCNvkrKUk Josh McDaniel's short stint as a head coach in Denver saw him add assistants around him that coincide with how the Broncos do business now.  They all were associated with the Broncos in previous years.  Bill seems to be the first to build a staff of people who were associated with him in his former role at Penn State.  But the major roles in the organization has top tier talent with Superbowl wins as Patriots.  Romeo not only has ties back to Bill Belichick, but has strong ties back to Bill Belichick's mentor Bill Parcells.  Not to mention Romeo is no stranger to coaching NFL's best defensive players in the league.  Working with Lawrence Taylor and also JJ Watt, has to put Romeo as one of the top defensive coordinators of all time.  Now we all know that Wade was the foundation as a coach for JJ, but I'm sure we can all agree that both Wade and Romeo are Hall of Fame DC's for sure.  Even though they didn't fair to well in the Head Coach role.  In looking at the other coaches in the division, I do not see any of them being able to out coach Billy Jr.  In fact, I predict that the last game of the season against the Titans may be the battle to see who wins the division and who gets the wild card birth.  I have the Texans, whose roster is much improved over the last Texans roster that posted a 12-4 record.  So I have them going at least 12-4.  If they continue to win the turn over battle, move the ball with this new powered offense, we will be in the running for the AFC title.  I have the Colts taking a huge step back, and I think this will be Pagano's last season.  I don't feel they did enough to improve on defense.  With all of the other teams improving significantly on offense, I think the Colts will fall, even with Luck, to the bottom of the division.  With the Jags and Titans fighting for 2nd place in the division.  My AFC division winners are Jets, Steelers, Texans, and Chiefs.  NFC, I have, Cowboys, Panthers, Packers, and Cardinals.  As with my bold prediction of Pagano being fired, I have Dak Prescott leading the Cowboys on a phenomenal run, and Romo's return being a huge controversy and distraction to the team.  However, you can rest assured that if the Superbowl comes down to a Texas battle at NRG of Cowboys vs Texans, call 911 cause my head will likely be ready to explode.  

Ok I'm up from that dream.  Looking ahead to the season opener, 

Preview Bears Vs YOUR HOUSTON TEXANS

I think this will be an all out rout of the Bears.  Unless they have a magic potion in their back pocket, the Bears looked very similar throughout the preseason.  The Texans are extremely hungry to revenge the embarrassing lost in our home stadium against the Chiefs.  It's too bad we didn't pull the Chiefs as the first game.  With both Duane Brown and JJ out of the game, it is extremely important to 99 that we get that stench off our backs.  He will have them pumped and ready go, no matter how many limited snaps he may receive.  Clowney and Mercilus on the field at the same time with Watt and a healthy Cushing is something I don't think any offense is ready for this season.

I am also extremely happy that Osweiler is rated 27th among NFL quarterbacks even after throwing laser accurate passes during the preseason.  For me it was never about reading defenses, and checking in and out of plays.  For the first time in our history I saw a Quarterback lead a speedy receive down field that didn't have to stop and wait on the ball or run back to it.  I mentioned to you that I feel that Wade is also a Hall of Fame DC.  The Broncos defense has been at the top of the league for over 4 years.  Elway bringing in Kubiak, in my humble opinion, had a lot to do with his ability to bring Wade to that defense.  I have a ton of respect for Kubiak, but his offensive system eventually gets figured out, and the QB's inability to check in and out of plays limits their ability to move the ball. But with Brock running the scout team as the back up quarterback over the past 4 years has trained him to be ready for this league.  I'm not ready to crown him MVP of the league, but I definitely feel that practicing every day against the best of the best will train and prepare you much like Aaron Rogers who took over a Green Bay team that had the 6th rated defense in the league in 2007.  The Broncos dropped from 4th in the league to 17th and 22nd in the league which prompted the offensive minded Elway to recognize that he had top rated defensive talent.  Getting Gary, who was a former Bronco, to bring Wade was just a genius move on his part.  Letting Osweiler go, was a blessing for us and possible curse for the city of Denver.

Rick Smith also deserves a lot more credit than he's received.  We have been eating him up in this city for some time now, and he WON the off season.  We could absolutely have mortgaged the farm to go up and get Goff who is not ready to start, or Wentz who is only going to start because Teddy Bridgewater allowed them to recoup the farm of picks they gave up for a #2 draft pick who also failed to win the starting job.  We KILLED him for not moving up to get Teddy Bridgewater.  Instead he picked a guard.  Did he know all along Osweiler would become available?  I'm sure he didn't.  But the way the cards fell has me very optimistic about this season.   I predict that our starters will be on the sideline to start the 4th quarter of this game.  Our true test will be Kansas City who I will focus my next blog about once we get to see all the bullets fly and who knows even see Braxton Miller hit Fuller down the field for a 60 yard touchdown.  Texans 38 Bears 10 and always.....................

 Go Texans!

DJ THE DJ