^ I would say being in the pro-bowl makes someone pro-bowl caliber

http://www.nfl.com/probowl/nfc_roster

10/2/2006 8:09:34 PM

ignore him. shannon is a tennessee homer.

10/2/2006 9:42:02 PM

no I am not... he was a pro bowler for one year, mainly because of return skills. Lots of people make it based on return yards who wouldnt be deemed "great" overall players

10/2/2006 10:20:02 PM

just a question here, cause I haven't really gotten to see Mario that much this year:

Do the Texans always move him around on the line from play to play? What are the benefits of moving him around?

10/3/2006 2:37:12 PM

^yes they constantly move him like that, and it seems to be really impacting his play

10/3/2006 2:51:07 PM

I heard on ESPN that they stopped putting him in at tackle and he is looking a lot better. But they are still shifting him from right end to left end on obvious passing downs.

10/3/2006 2:52:53 PM

yup

10/3/2006 2:53:47 PM

^^that's good to hear

10/3/2006 2:55:23 PM

so what is the point?

are they not sure which end he's best at? is he just their best defensive player and they need him all over the place? it just doesn't make that much sense to me.

why not leave him at one end and let him perfect his technique from one side?

10/3/2006 2:58:31 PM

If you're coming from the same place every time, then the offense can easily game-plan against that.

[Edited on October 3, 2006 at 3:02 PM. Reason : ]

10/3/2006 3:01:54 PM

seems to work alright for Peppers

10/3/2006 3:04:22 PM

yeah but he doesn't do shit coming from tackle and hasn't looked comfortable at all. you don't see the panthers do this with peppers. they just let him dominate where he plays naturally.

10/3/2006 3:04:57 PM

^that's what I'm screamin'

10/3/2006 3:09:25 PM

Quote :

"seems to work alright for Peppers"

Because the Panthers D-line is stacked. You send two or three guys after Peppers, and someone else gets through. So you adjust back to cover them, and suddenly Peppers is free again.

10/3/2006 3:09:42 PM

Mario looks real, real good today..

10/15/2006 1:53:24 PM

haha bledsoe will do that to people

GO MARIO

10/15/2006 1:54:30 PM

what did he do?

10/15/2006 1:57:34 PM

according to the box score on espn.com he has 3 tackles with 7 minutes left in the second quarter

10/15/2006 2:05:52 PM

Yeah,he doesn't have great numbers but I get the game out here and he is doing a good job.. they were running right at him at the start and he did a good job making first contact and knocking Jones back..

10/15/2006 2:10:01 PM

wahooo already got one today

10/22/2006 1:21:15 PM

add on a fumble force recovery now

10/22/2006 3:18:18 PM

this could be the Texans coming out party

this is just amazing, against one of the top D;s in the league

wow, Johnson is sooo good.

10/22/2006 3:28:25 PM

this was the only high note for my weekend. thanks mario/texans.

10/22/2006 4:25:26 PM

being a huge state and panthers fan I still think it is truly funny that people are still trying to compare my boy mario to julius peppers. try to think a little bit.

10/22/2006 7:14:58 PM