It's unanimous: Earl Mitchell is very good!

[dalemurphy]

Kubiak has been high on the rookie DT since the draft. It seems every spectator at training camp comes away impressed with him today. Then, yesterday, Kubiak heaped more praise on Mitchell, calling him "a heck of a draft pick" and a "very flashy player".

So, here's my reaction to all that praise:

God, Please Don't Ron Dayne Earl Mitchell

Dallas Cowboy fans really don’t understand this mindset. They believe that they have some sort of God-given right to win every game they ever play. You could talk to a Cowboy fan during the Dave Campo era, and they would have bravado about how Quincy Carter was going to carve up the opposing defense, Troy Hambrick was going to run over the LB corp and don’t even get me started about safety Roy Williams! My uncle (a typical and rabid Cowboy fan) would argue with me for hours about how much better Roy Williams was than Ronnie Lott ever dreamed of being.

We’re Texan fans, though. I certainly am. So, I went to bed last night feeling so good about Kubiak’s effusive praise of Earl Mitchell http://www.houstontexans.com/news/St...?story_id=6241. After all, I saw the same thing this weekend at camp http://www.texansbullblog.com/traini...-contact/news/ (read #1 from the article)… all of our Bloggin’ friends have noticed similar things. The last time it was this clear the Texans had struck gold with a player in a position of need like this was in 2006… And his name was Charles Spencer!

So, as I was saying, I went to bed absolutely thrilled about our new DT and how he is going to impact our interior pass rush and DL depth. Unfortunately, I woke up this morning with a series of horrible images in my head. They didn’t all make sense but they included Ron Dayne, an Angry God, and an evil wizard from Indianapolis all huddled together conspiring against me.

So, I don’t know what to do but plead with God, “LET ME HAVE THIS! PLEASE. LET ME HAVE THIS! Don’t shatter Earl’s tibia or his femur or crush his skull with Ron Dayne’s foot, belly, or anything else."

I feel a little better now. You have to get ahead of these things or terrible things can happen!

http://www.texansbullblog.com

[Nconroe]

Thanks for the interesting blog posts you guys are putting up at Texansbulldog.

On this one, we got keep our fingers crossed that Earl is the real deal and stays healthy as you mentioned.

[HPF Bob]

I was trying to figure out where Ron Dayne came into the thinking but now I get it. Truth of the matter is that DT is the most injury-prone of positions because you're in the middle of the wash of flying bodies.

I hope Mitchell fulfills his potential and lives up to all the training camp hype but I'll wait until the regular season before I get truly pumped about it. I've seen plenty of guys who looked great in August but had no impact afterwards.