I'm trying really hard to temper my excitement but damn this is looking good. I will know after this weekend if I am right or not.
the rockets have a far greater shot at winning a championship than the texans winning the sb this year but the texans are far more exciting to watch. watson has the x-factor.
Not winning championship is not winning championship. Saying a team has any chance at winning it all over GS, SAS, OKC, CLE and possibly BOS makes you delusional beyond belief.
You could make a valid argument that Houston will be better than all except GSW. Thinking the Rockets will be worse than all of the above probably would deem you delusional.
You are better than the professionals, much better than anyone on ESPN. Who are you? That was a fantastic analysis. Best I have heard anywhere.
The things that Watson does presnap and before the throw are more impressive than the throws themselves.
52.2 62.5 66.7 73.5 60.4 75.9 90.6 125.0 In succession, Watson's game stats -- completion% and QB rating.
Watson has been reported to be very detailed oriented. Takes time to build that confidence to trust where your receivers/RB's will be. He is improving at a rapid rate. Lets hope the last two weeks are who he is.
Lmao what? Rockets were better than over half those teams last year. Than they added a future hall of famer. Your logic is weird and flat out stupid.
Rockets' advantage is minimal assuming there's even an advantage. - Their two best players are notorious playoff chokers. - GSW's advantage over every other team is greater than the SB favorite's advantage over the field. - Texans have greater potential of being good/great on BOTH sides of the ball.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/10/10/2018-nfl-draft-deshaun-watson-alex-smith-spread-quarterbacks When Jordan Palmer, the man who trained Watson for the NFL draft, was asked by front-office types in March and April for a comp on the Clemson star, he never hesitated. “Every single time I said Alex Smith,” Palmer said on Monday night. “They’re the same size, same speed, same quick release. Both have pretty strong arms, but not the strongest in the league. Neither guy is 6' 5", and both are really intelligent and phenomenal people. And they both came from productive spread offenses, and were runners up for the Heisman. “The difference is, Alex is more polished mechanically, and Deshaun has no scars—he’s won big games, played great all the way through. Alex got beat up a little more.” The evaluators who gave Sunday night’s game a look saw the same. Watson’s development is still very much a work-in-progress, and he’s showing a tendency to tuck it and run when he comes off his first read. His accuracy dissipates when he goes deeper into his progressions, and he put a lot of 50-50 balls up in the direction of DeAndre Hopkins, who was targeted on 12 of his 31 throws. There were some designed runs, and more rollouts off play-action to cut the field in half. Bill O’Brien is now running a Texans offense this is, in essence, working to buy his quarterback time to develop as a pocket passer, which is still a necessary of part of the NFL game. And that’s where the evolution has to come for Watson. Palmer trusts it will, because of O’Brien, who was the reason why he and Watson “always wanted to get him to Houston.” Smith knows what Watson’s about to go through, because he went through it big-time during his eight years as a Niner. Coming from Urban Meyer’s Utah spread, where he was an option quarterback, Smith had six offensive coordinators in his first six NFL seasons. Then Jim Harbaugh arrived, and OC Greg Olson installed spread elements to make the QB comfortable. Smith led San Francisco to an NFC title game appearance that year, before losing his job in 2012 to Colin Kaepernick, after which he was traded to the Chiefs. By the time he dove into working with Andy Reid there, Smith had become a fully functioning pocket passer. And where Roman, Harbaugh and Co. used spread concepts to help facilitate that growth, Reid flipped it around and added spread concepts—thanks to ex-Nevada coach Chris Ault, who was hired as a consultant—to highlight Smith’s athleticism and supplement his more traditional system. The result has been perhaps the NFL’s toughest offense to game plan for and defend. That brings us back to how this roadmap might affect the way the pros evaluate college quarterbacks. Consider what one veteran personnel director said over the phone, in referencing Watson’s fast start: “Maybe you’d shy away now from the QB you think has potential and go with the quarterback with a track record of success. Just look at the players that have had minimal success or experience in college compared to the players who had experience and success.” In other words, maybe a team would be emboldened to take someone like Watson. The Texans sure are glad they were. And on Sunday night, they got a pretty good look at what happens once a player like that in the right situation could become down the line.
