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Originally Posted by Keith
Are you including playoffs, too?  |
There won't be any playoffs, not for the Texans anyway.
I've been way out of the loop lately. Did the Texans file a protest about Allen's hit? Was Allen even flagged? Was he fined? Did he pass a breathalyzer afterwards?
What is it about the Texans that they never fight back when their quarterback is cheap-shoted? Remember Drayton Florence in San Diego last year?
There are times in this sport that you have to grow a pair and make a point. If it means twisting Adrian Peterson's knee into a pretzel a full minute after the whistle blows, somebody has to deliver a message - hurt us outside the rules and we will hurt you back. Do you think for a minute that a team like the Steelers or the Ravens would let Allen get away with that? They would send four guys after Allen's knees on the next play and would need to be pulled off him.
It's bad enough to have a team that sucks. It's worse to have a team that's sackless and sucks too. That has been the Houston Texans.
Jerry Glanville used to be accused of coaching his team to play dirty. Particularly Chuck Noll (whose Steelers were never choirboys either - ask Mike Barber about that) would complain. Glanville had the right answer. "For years the Oilers were laughed at because they wouldn't fight back. What they are complaining about isn't the way we are playing. It's that we are fighting back. They can't bully us anymore." There's some truth to that.
But if the Texans won't even raise hell with the league about it, as they apparently didn't with the Florence hit either, they'll continue to get bullied around the league.