Calling 'Em Out: Mario Williams

Last week I called out Gary Kubiak, but mentioned that I would be calling out Mario Williams this week. And man does he need it. The number one overall pick of 2006 started the season off very strong against the Colts, but has been pretty non-existent since. It's honestly become frustrating to watch and tiresome to hear the excuses, but if he could get some fire in his play - perhaps it would inspire the rest of the defense - a defense that needs a little inspiration. 

I'm truly sick and tired of hearing about how he is doing a good job, but we don't see anything because he is being double and triple teamed. I'm also tired of hearing how he's playing with an injury, so that's why he isn't getting to the quarterback. And I am absolutely nauseous hearing how he enables the guys around him to make big plays, which they don't do at all. You never hear the guys in the media having to make up excuses for guys like Jared Allen, Dwight Freeney, or Robert Mathis. Those guys do their jobs, play with passion and find ways to get to the quarterback no matter how many offensive players are standing in their way.

If Mario Williams really is as good as he should be and lives up to his potential, he'd be doing just as well as Allen, Freeney or Mathis.  Instead of making plays, we're hearing over and over again why he isn't making plays.

I've watched tape of the games very closely trying to see what the "experts" in the main stream media are seeing when they say he is asserting his presence and doing a good job, but I am just not seeing it. Most of the plays I watch, he looks like he's jogging, doesn't fire off the snap of the ball and looks low on energy like he doesn't even want to be out there. The double teams he faces don't even look that bad. He just looks plain lazy.

Even Bob McNair stepped in to try and convince Mario to play up to his expectations, but yet we haven't seen it other than in little flashes in the first to games.

This is a huge week for the Houston Texans, so Mario Williams - I'm calling YOU out. You better bring it! You're team needs you to stop playing like a lazy, tub of lard and live up to your tattoo. You ARE Super Mario. We BELIEVE in you. We see the flashes of brilliance. It's time you stepped up to the plate and hit a home run every play. I know this isn't baseball, but a metaphor is a metaphor. The bottom line is that you were brought to Houston to do one thing: Get to the Quarterback. So do it.

I leave you with 3 words of encouragement.

GET PEYTON MANNING!

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