The Brian Hoyer thread...

[Pick6]

You didn't tell us you were coming back to Ohio, @Randolphkeys

 

[Randolphkeys]

I'm guessing that gigantic Hoyer head was available cheap at an Ohio Goodwill, leave it up to the good people of Cincitucky to find ways to make that dollar stretch!

This game is going to be high scoring and fun to watch... this thread will overreact to every incompletion. Spydy will act like a pinky dick. Good times!!

 

[spydy13]

This game is going to be high scoring and fun to watch... this thread will overreact to every incompletion. Good times!!

Wrong on all accounts...

 

[Randolphkeys]

Wrong on all accounts...

I got one of them... look again.

I've seen a few Houston games and a few Cincinnati games. This is by far the best Texans defensive performance of the year. Cincy has defended well all year, but call it a hunch that Houston would be playing catchup from the start... which didn't happen.

Hoyer has played well before the utterly bizarre medical pull from a third party overseer. I'm assuming he will back in after the protocalls. Don't remember this happening for a while. Still a better game than anyone expected.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Just because I keep reading posts that state Browns quarterbacking has been better this year...


http://www.houstonchronicle.com/spo...hp?t=48af9159be438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium


"...Hoyer is no longer in the background. Signed to a two-year, $10.5 million contract this past offseason to reunite with O'Brien, Hoyer is entrenched as the Texans' starter after a rocky start to the season. O'Brien replaced him with the now unemployed Ryan Mallett before later naming Hoyer the starter again.

Now, Hoyer has established career highs with 61.2 percent accuracy, 18 touchdowns and a 94.4 passer rating. He's thrown for 2,202 yards with just five interceptions.

"Brian's a gym rat," said former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak, now a radio analyst in New England. "When people tag you as a backup, you get a chip on your shoulder. Brian has worked so hard. You don't have to have the best arm, but you've got to have the right stuff between your ears. Brian has plenty of that."

The intellectual aspect of Hoyer's game and overall growth as a quarterback has been evident throughout this season. He has frequently audibled. And he has distributed the football liberally while making it a special point to take advantage of the skills of star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who has 86 catches for 1,169 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Since his time in New England, Hoyer has endured a torn anterior cruciate ligament two seasons ago with the Browns and being replaced by the hard-partying Johnny Manziel last season before landing in Houston.

Significant growth

"He knows the game a lot better. He understands the pro game," O'Brien said. "Having to go through a lot in his career - being injured, being cut - he has a lot of resiliency, mental toughness. Very bright guy. He's grown a lot since I had him in 2009."

The development of Hoyer doesn't surprise Belichick, who identified winning qualities in the 6-2, 215-pounder coming out of college. The intangibles are big for Hoyer.

"We saw a lot of what everybody's seeing from Brian: smart kid, has a lot of poise, toughness, very good deep-ball thrower, sees coverages well even though he's not physically imposing, but he has good vision and good awareness," Belichick said. "The big thing with Brian was he never got a chance to play, which was a good thing for the team but kind of bad for him. He didn't get that opportunity until later, and he's obviously made the most of it."

 

[godfather]

He's a poor man's Brady. He doesn't have close to the skills/talent Brady does obviously.

But has a lot of the same poise and smarts as he does.

It wasn't an accident we had a pretty good record with Hoyer last year. People gave him almost literally no credit at all for that.

I thought that was unfair on a lot of accounts. Of course other reasons played into us doing well too.

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

we played one of the easiest schedules in NFL history and the defense wasnt this bad

 

[Ohio]

Hoyer played at a high level for about 5 games. And he played horribly in the rest.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Hoyer played at a high level for about 5 games. And he played horribly in the rest.

High level in five, adequately in two or three, horribly in the rest.

I would point out that in 2013, he played at a high level throughout with averages around where he has been in Texas. Last year I suggested there were a lot of circumstantial problems making Hoyer's situation nearly impossible. Looking at the continuation of those problems this year with the Browns, I believe my stance has been justified.

 

[Surge]

Is he a free agent this year???

 

[Randolphkeys]

Is he a free agent this year???

If this shit show of a franchise delivers on the better QB between Lynch or Goff, it's all water under the bridge in my book. It would require Truck Stop to lose his boner for Manziel. The franchise is going nowhere until that domino falls.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

He is showing that he is what most of us though he was all along. A game manager with below average accuracy. Who also said that he thought he'd shown enough in 2014 that he shouldn't even have to compete for the starting job in 2015.

He gave the Browns no choice.

 

[JSS2306]

He's awful. Maybe one of the worst playoff performances I've ever seen.

 

[Omar The Horse]

Ray Farmer is somewhere smiling

 

[spydy13]

He is showing that he is what most of us though he was all along. A game manager with below average accuracy. Who also said that he thought he'd shown enough in 2014 that he shouldn't even have to compete for the starting job in 2015.

He gave the Browns no choice.

He had a stretch this year worth of @Randolphkeys 's high praise, but as with all Bridge QBs the bad game is just around the corner.