Battle Red Blog
One of the things that old-time hard hitting journalists did was stick to a routine until the situation absolutely warranted it. Those situations would be called “special comments.” I am not a hard hitting journalist and barely qualify as a professional one, but I am taking the opportunity to throw out a special comment. DeMeco Ryans got into it with a couple of media members this week during one of the press conferences. I’m not here to criticize Ryans necessarily. He has a right to be irritated and upset. I can’t imagine having my worst day and then having 20 or 30 reporters asking me about it the next day.
All that being said, the media has a job. Their job is to report news and in reporting the news they will need to ask questions. When you are a losing football team and you have the best statistical defense in the NFL by a wide margin then it is only logical that people are going to ask questions about the offense. In particular, they are going to ask questions about the people running the offense. This is only logical.
I know that they want us to believe that the 49ers game marks an end to their offensive struggles. Heck. you could even point to the fact that they are 3-1 in their last four games and at least three of those were impressive offensive performances. So, it would seem on the surface that we should just move and assume everything is okay. However, when you look at numbers you might be inclined to think differently.
So, there are a couple of ways to look at this. We can look at the aggregate and say that the Texans have only allowed 15 sacks in seven games. That would be average if we prorated it over eight games. So, let’s say that the Texans have an average offense and an average offensive line. With the exception of the Jaguars game, they looked horrible against good pass rushes and good against bad pass rushes. So, let’s see what happens with the remaining ten games on the schedule.
