There Was A Big Bears Silver Lining During Texans Loss

We have a lot of young building blocks on D.  I was expecting the front 7 to be good but the secondary to be a shit show, esp with Fuller out.  They weren't.  In fact, I thought they played really well.  The D kept us in the game until nearly the end with the O going 3 & out most of the 2nd half (think we only had 2 1st downs until garbage time).  

The O OTOH is behind and needs to pick it up.  I think the OL will be fine once WH settles in but Langford has to do better than 3.5ypc and White needs to step up his game big time.  

Agreed, JABF. There were a lot of rookie mistakes, things that can be corrected. It's obvious we have much more talent now than lat year. I'm looking forward to next year when these rookies have some experience and we ca get a new crop of talent. That's when the real fun is going to start.

Whitehair's bad snap - fixable.
White's route running - fixable (hopefully, assuming he has the football IQ for it)
Massie/Leno - if not fixable, replaceable next year.
The secondary I thought played very well. Certainly much better than I expected. A lot of hope here too.

Fuller may actually have a difficult time reclaiming his starting spot over Glenn once he can play again.  I like the way that kid plays man coverage and his aggressiveness.  There were a lot of good things said about him in college one of which is he blew it by coming out too early.  One more year at CFU and another 10-15 lbs on him and he may have been a fairly high draft pick.

If Glenn and Hall can really step up I'd love to see Fangio and Donatell finally give in and move Fuller to FS where he can play facing the QB.  With is range and his anticipation I think he could be that back end ball hawk they want.  Hall seems to be able to get away with playing with his back to the ball because of those tentacles he calls arms but Fuller can't do it period.

As for the offense I still don't get what Langford has done to earn a spot as the feature RB.  Based purely on their preseason and my own gut instinct I'd start using Howard as my lead back, Langford as a change of pace and 3rd down guy, and Carey as a short yardage and utility back.  One the one carry he did have they tripped him up at the LOS but he kept his knees off the ground and dove forward for a 4 yard gain.  That kid never loses yardage when he carries the ball.  Maybe next time we have a 4th and inches we should give it to him.

I'm gonna go ahead and predict that the Houston D will finish year the highest ranked of any team we face this year.  As for their O, Hopkins in a beast, Fuller looks like he has some game for a rookie (wish I could say the same about a White but I can't at this point), and Lamar Miller is a solid RB.  I don't think Osweiler is anything all that special at QB and they definitely overpaid for him but all he has to be is decent for them to win a lot of games.  Remember they get 6 games against pretty weak competition in division.