If Dee Ford hadn’t lined up offsides in the AFC Championship Game
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coordinator Bob Sutton. It might not have revamped its defense.In the long run,
the Chiefs might be better off.They have a new defensive coordinator in Steve
Spagnuolo and new stars at every level of the defense. A defense that finished
31st in yards allowed last season now has swagger.“Just really trying to build a
defense with an attitude,” Tyrann Mathieu said, via Sam McDowell of the . “I
think anytime you can have 10, 11 guys with a chip on their shoulder — an edge,
a certain kind of presence, a certain kind of attitude, a kind of swagger — you
create a collective identity. I think that’s what we’re trying to do. Definitely
not trying to do something that’s outside of our characteristics. I think we
wake up each and every day and we live that way — just with an attitude and a
chip on our shoulder. Like I said, it can rub off on the guys around you.”The
Chiefs offense will continue to lead the team, but the defense has to play
better for Kansas City to get where it hasn’t been since 1969 when it won its
only Super Bowl.“I think me, as a leader, as a guy that’s been cut, been
humiliated, embarrassed, whatever you put on it
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encourage them and then kinda give them that confidence,” said Mathieu, who
played in Houston last season. “Let them know that you believe in them, and
hopefully they’ll get to believing in themselves.”The Chiefs defense couldn’t
stop Tom Brady when it needed to in the AFC title game last season. The Chiefs
defenders expect to be better this season. It’s pretty easy to draw parallels
between the modern NFL and the Roman gladiatorial games. The powers that be want
to keep the masses distracted from all the unscrupulous nonsense they pull each
and every day by offering up a spectacle of human prowess, fraught with danger
and drama. Sadly, it works just as well in the 21st century as it did in the
first century to distract the population from what’s really going on in the
world. Houston, we have a problem. The NFL has managed to get Uncle Sam to let
them fill that need; the league (or at least one team) is even rewarded each
year with a nice pat on the head and a “well done” visit to the White House
after winning the Super Bowl. From the recently corrected non-profit status
granted to the NFL to anti-trust laws that boggle the mind, it’s clear the
powers that be desperately want to stack the deck in favor of the NFL. Where the
train jumps the proverbial tracks is when the spectacle loses its entertainment
value. Sure, you’ll always have the long-suffering fan bases willing to hang in
there “just one more year” in the hopes of finally being able to remove the bag
from their collective heads long enough to win a Super Bowl. But in the
politically charged landscape of modern America, where the players and owners
are under more scrutiny than ever before, the slightest misstep can turn into a
public relations fiasco that costs teams millions of dollars. Doing something
that evokes passion, whether positive or negative, can always turn out well for
any sports franchise. When you continually put a subpar product on the
field
Womens Jordan Akins Jersey , however, even winning doesn’t always remove the stigma of apathy. Watching Bill O’Brien take a highly talented roster filled
with the likes of Deshaun Watson, Deandre Hopkins, Will Fuller V, J.J. Watt,
Jadeveon Clowney, Whitney “AWOL” Mercilus and Tyrann Mathieu to continually
produce an episode of “The 53 Stooges” does just that. But, wait, NFL ratings
are up!Sure, the NFL seems to have managed to stop trying to shoot the goose
that lays the golden eggs – for now – but this is Texas. We might love to root
for the underdog, but eventually, we have to come alongside that dog and let him
know his time his come to ride off into the sunset or be taken out back and put
down. Will Bill O’Brien get Deshaun Watson injured? That’s a very valid
question. It’s not hard to go back and watch the tape to see Mike Shanahan had a
lot to do with Robert Griffin III’s career-shortening injury. It’s easy to say
no Texans fan wants to see that happen here. At the rate Watson is getting hit,
it’s a simple numbers game – unless Watson is channeling his inner Brett Favre,
he’s going to land on Injured Reserve before the season is over. Would you throw
away $166 million? From a purely business point of view, Texans owner Bob McNair
is doing just that this season by allowing this “definition of insanity”
offensive game-planning to continue. We’ve learned beyond a shadow of a doubt
that Bill O’Brien is not the quarterback-whispering #NextGen offensive
guru/prodigy he was sold to us as five years ago. Why continue to let him
mismanage the game plan
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can’t even get the spectacle of the Roman games right. J.J. Watt is a modern
Maximus Decimus Meridius.The lead character of the movie Gladiator was a
fictitious mish-mash of actual and imagined people, but J.J. Watt is a real life
superhero. Maximus had his own Romeo Crennel to save him from the evil emperor,
but he was put to death. Unfortunately, Maximus and his team die at the end of
the movie too??The question remains: Are you not entertained? The Houston Texans
have managed to beat the teams they should beat the last three weeks, but after
the Dallas Cowboys utterly destroyed the Jacksonville Jaguars last week, chances
are the Jags’ defensive line is drooling at the opportunity to take on the
Houston Texans offensive line this week. Watching Deshaun Watson run for his
life every time he touches the ball could only be described as entertaining for
a masochist who has some deranged desire to see the best quarterback in
franchise history maimed for life. Is it a car crash we can’t stop watching?Or
just a bar ditch waiting for us to drive into it? Maybe that’s where the
spectacle lies. Maybe it’s like watching Old Yeller, knowing the poor dog is
going to be put down and we’re just waiting for gunshot. Or maybe the Houston
Texans finally pull the plug on the Bill O’Brien experiment and bring in a head
coach who actually is what O’Brien was hyped to be. In the meantime, the desire
to watch erodes further each week. Are you happy with the 3-3 record? Have on
your Pollyanna glasses? Can you spot the upside here?
