No let's have some bunny fun.
The stats for Schaub were easily identifiable - 2009.
LT to the pro bowl and all pro for Browns. Nobody for the Texans. Brown and Myers hadn't been to a pro bowl yet (Brown was in his 2nd year when people were deciding he didn't totally suck). White and Studdard at G not long for the league.
1728 Browns at 3.6 ypc vs. 1425 Texans at 3.5 ypc.
Studdard and White became starters due to injury.
5857 vs 5197 yds
337 vs 333 pts
Points say tie.
Schaub had OD for 8 games. The TEs combined for 900 yds. Cleveland TEs had 820 yds.
Schaub had Slaton, Moats and 1 start from Foster.
Please do.
Like I said, I still have my notes on many of those games, but it would take a long time, I'm not sure when I'll have time, if at all.
The few things I can point out at this moment are:
1. Joe Thomas isn't what he used to be; he made Pro-Bowl partially based on his name.
2. The Texans substitutes were under-estimated.
I know that at the time - in the off-season, I had posted some film study threads saying they weren't trash... definitely not like the Browns substitutes were.
3. No matter what, Schaub had a whole lot more weapons in 2009 than Hoyer did in 2014.
He had playmakers that can make some plays for him; Hoyer didn't.
4. This, I had looked up, using the play finder feature on Profootball Reference.
The Texans (and we all know Kubiak well) run more on third down - those famous draws.
They also had an inconsistent season when they would have a few blowouts in which they started to run in the fourth quarter just to kill the clock.
Even Schaub had many kneel downs that count as negative yardage on the stats sheets.
The Texans also faced more third and short when they ran the ball.
All this add up to further skew the rushing yardage figure.
5. Schaub had that last game against the Pats in which they rest 7 of their defensive starters.
Am I mistaken on some of these?