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Originally Posted by HPF Bob
I felt the run defense did a fine job but that the pass defense was terrible which shouldn't be a shock because the organization refuses to get serious about fixing the secondary.
Now, the offense was a different story. The line looked terrible, wasn't opening holes, wasn't giving Schaub time to throw.
At this point, I'm willing to say it was one game and a bad start but if Alex Gibbs can't fix the problem then we need an overhaul of the line.
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The safeties are terrible and always have been (with the lone exception of, what was his name, McCree?) but I'll tell you that I have high hopes for all of the young corners on this team, Molden, Quinn, McCain, from what I've seen I think these guys can play. Of course their inexperience will get exposed. We've already seen that. But I really believe that the team has addressed the corner issue pretty effectively.
To me the interior OL is at least as large a problem as the lack of safeties who can contribute anything. I don't know whether Caldwell and Studdard are long term answers or indeed any answer at all, but it's evident to me that when the Texans play teams with talented and aggressive NTs they are going to have to radically redesign their protection schemes and keep someone bigger and better than Slaton back there to protect. They have seven TEs on the roster, maybe they can find a pair who want to block someone and use two TE sets for short passing plays in order to keep the opposing team's blitzing in check a bit.
I spoke with Mr Rootes' assistant just now and it seems pretty likely that I'll get a call back.