Pretty cool stuff here, definitely encourage the read:
http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/...xans-gameplan-week-4-pittsburgh-steelers-game
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...-steelers-qb-ben-roethlisberger-espn-magazine
And more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7239692/nfl-displaced-steelers-fans-found-new-home-houston
And more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7238813/nfl-typical-game-day-robert-mcnair-owner-houston-texans
And more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...limpse-houston-texans-skilled-trainers-action
PS: We made the cover of ESPN the magazine (with the steelers)
http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/...xans-gameplan-week-4-pittsburgh-steelers-game
A TEXANS GAME PLAN STARTS with blank walls in a dimly lit, windowless bunker inside Reliant Stadium. The room has one desk, three chairs, a computer and a flat-screen TV. All four walls, from floor to ceiling, are covered in whiteboard. On this Monday night, as with every Monday night, Houston quarterbacks coach Greg Knapp uncaps a blue marker and fills the walls with notes for quarterback Matt Schaub about the next opponent, in this case the Steelers. Knapp, who is tall and bulky, with dark hair feathered back in the style of his boss, head coach Gary Kubiak, doesn't begin with X's and O's. In fact, he might never draw X's and O's with his marker. He doesn't need to. The X's and O's are contained in code.
Some of the lingo is standard West Coast offense jargon. "Tiger" is a two-tight-ends, one-back formation; "ZEB" stands for Zebra, a three-receiver set; "EAG " is short for Eagle, a four-receiver look. When noting Steelers blitz packages, Knapp writes in Texans-specific dialect: a SAW is a Sam and Will linebacker blitz; a WAP is a blitz involving the Will and "Plug," the team's term for a weakside, inside 3-4 linebacker.
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read more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...-steelers-qb-ben-roethlisberger-espn-magazine
And more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7239692/nfl-displaced-steelers-fans-found-new-home-houston
And more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7238813/nfl-typical-game-day-robert-mcnair-owner-houston-texans
And more
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...limpse-houston-texans-skilled-trainers-action
PS: We made the cover of ESPN the magazine (with the steelers)