Barathemos: I can't agree with you at all there. While Justin Houston is a very, very good pass rusher, he had one phenomenal season that made everyone else look like crap, with a whopping twenty two sacks. And beyond that, he has certainly done extremely well, and played on an elite level, but in two seasons he has done better than J.J. Watt, and those two seasons were by half a sack and a half of a sack, respectively. ad Houston started in five more games this season, I doubt he would have gone over eleven sacks. Watt is a consistently better pass rusher who gets not only more sacks in general, but tackles as well. They started playing in the same year, and these are their totals.
Watt: 298 tackles, 74.5 sacks, 15 forced fumbles, 45 pass deflections
Houston: 224 tackles, 56 sacks, 8 forced fumbles, 25 pass deflections
While it could be argued that Houston missed 5 games in 2013, again, he wouldn't have gotten another twenty sack season. The other thing is too, people don't plan their entire game around Houston. They give the offensive tackles a pep talk.
I'm not saying that Houston isn't a phenomenal player, but he has nothing, nothing on Watt beyond a season with one and a half more sacks than a total JJ Watt pulled off not once, but twice.
Barathemos: I can't agree with you at all there. While Justin Houston is a very, very good pass rusher, he had one phenomenal season that made everyone else look like crap, with a whopping twenty two sacks. And beyond that, he has certainly done extremely well, and played on an elite level, but in two seasons he has done better than J.J. Watt, and those two seasons were by half a sack and a half of a sack, respectively. ad Houston started in five more games this season, I doubt he would have gone over eleven sacks. Watt is a consistently better pass rusher who gets not only more sacks in general, but tackles as well. They started playing in the same year, and these are their totals.
Watt: 298 tackles, 74.5 sacks, 15 forced fumbles, 45 pass deflections
Houston: 224 tackles, 56 sacks, 8 forced fumbles, 25 pass deflections
While it could be argued that Houston missed 5 games in 2013, again, he wouldn't have gotten another twenty sack season. The other thing is too, people don't plan their entire game around Houston. They give the offensive tackles a pep talk.
I'm not saying that Houston isn't a phenomenal player, but he has nothing, nothing on Watt beyond a season with one and a half more sacks than a total JJ Watt pulled off not once, but twice.