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Originally Posted by MagicHef
Honestly, I think there's a perception issue with Houston, and I think that it's affecting how AFCW fans (including me) see him vs. how he's seen league-wide.
-Against Denver, he has 4.5 sacks in 7 games (0.64 sacks per game), and 1 sack in the last 4 games.
-Against Oakland, he has 3 sacks in 7 games (0.43 sacks per game).
-Against San Diego, he has 5 sacks in 7 games (0.71 sacks per game), but before his very last game, he had 1 in 6 games (0.17 sacks per game).
So against AFCW opponents, he's had 12.5 sacks in 21 games. Before the last game of the season, he had 8.5 sacks in 20 AFCW games (0.43 sacks per game). Against the rest of the league, he's had 36 sacks in 38 games (0.95 sacks per game). His pass rushing is way more effective against teams outside the AFCW.
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I said in some random thread around here that Houston and Hali need to get their shit together against Denver, no question.
I feel like the Broncos tackles (with Manning's help) have been able to pretty much handle both Houston and Hali in one on one matchups and if you can do that against KC, you pretty much have us by the balls.
I think the team in general has largely played like monkeys ****ing a football against Denver and I think Manning is in their heads; it's not just Houston and Hali. If they hope to take the division from him this year, they have to play their A games against that squad and to this point they just haven't done it.
I will be sorely disappointed with Justin Houston if he goes out there and gets fed his lunch by the Broncos again this year. The Chiefs have a chance to do big things this year but it has to start with our best players playing their best games in our biggest matchups. It may not even show up on the stat sheet, but you can see it as the game unfolds. Houston and Hali have not risen to the occasion for certain and if I'm a Broncos fan, that's probably something that diminish Houston substantially in my eyes.
It's probably similar to how Chiefs fans viewed Champ Bailey. Eddie Kennison didn't always destroy Champ, but he did a couple of times and it sure made Champ seem mortal to us. Against the rest of the league he was probably a huge difference maker but I know I never worried about the fact that the Broncos had Bailey on their squad and it was almost certainly because of the number that Kennison put on him a time or two.