Attack By Titan
I think Derrick Henry might be my current favorite player in the NFL?
I just love watching him. Even when he doesn’t do anything it’s like watching a hulking refrigerator sprint through people. He’s just so fun to watch. His 94-yard TD run during the amazing Texans game was a thing of beauty. A man that big shouldn’t be able to outrun defensive backs. Crushing them, I can understand. But outrunning them? Unbelievable. In a league full of RBs by committee and teams getting screwed after paying bellcow backs and having them fall apart, Henry feels like the last remnant of an old game, and still somehow like nothing we’ve seen before. Even his ponytail/dread thing looks like it could kick my ass harder then the stiff arm he used to send Josh Norman into the shadow realm.
Praise be to Derrick Henry, Titan of Tennessee. Glory to El Tractorcito. May his reign be long and powerful. May his wheels stain the ground with the blood his enemies.
I had the Titans pegged as last year’s biggest one-year wonder but goddamn if this team doesn’t seem like they just might have it in them to stick around a while. Tannehill is free and thriving. The team seems to have successfully weathered the first major Covid infection and is now using it as a weapon of spite. I’m afraid of and aroused by the Titans.
Henry’s 84 yard run was the third fastest run with the ball this year only behind Motzert and some DB I forget
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thanks I hate it 🙁
I was so prepared to lose that game, then got my hopes up then got them crushed.
There’s no rule that says a John Deere with NOS boost *can’t* play football though…
IKR I got my hopes up too .
Watson’s Reaction made me hate overtime rules again.
Btw JJ watt tackled Henery by himself he should not be scared
I risk it: Dave knows the awesome anime:Attack on Titan
It seems an Abnormal. 16 meters class. Does it eat humans too?
Risk? He’s made a similar allusion before http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/earl-thomas-makes-his-bold-prediction/ and the title of this one is ‘Attack By Titan’
I know it. I only watched season 1 though and lost interest halfway through once they set off beyond the wall and into the woods on the scouting mission
Interested in the spoiler for the upcoming final season?
The complexity of the story is next level. It’s pretty well made. Much more than just massacre. I recommend it very much.
Gabi is the best girl.
This line will trigger some people.
On the subject of Tannehill, someone better be prepared to pick up Sam Darnold as soon as he gets flushed out of Jersey. It seems the surest bet for a free agent is someone who is no longer being coached by Adam Gase.
Henry is a ton of fun to watch. And every time I see him on the field, I will get momentarily confused and think I’m watching Brandon Jacobs back in his Earth, Wind, & Fire days.
And after some googling, it makes sense:
Brandon Jacobs: 6’4″, 40yd dash: 4.56
Derrick Henry: 6’3″, 40yd dash: 4.54
Ahhh, back when we were good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AUPxAGobiA
He does look like Jacobs but I don’t ever remember Jacobs running with the speed Henry does. That was always Ward and Bradshaw’s job.
I like to pretend that Henry IS Jacobs…. after he got the Six Million Dollar Man treatment on his old worn down knees. He had to add the dread to avoid suspicion in his new identity, but that’s why it looks so stiff & artificial.
It’s just so fun to watch someone run with that style. KNOWING you are the biggest strongest baddest dude on the field and ready to show it
As you mention, I think they mostly put him into position to crash into people for the benefit of Bradshaw and Ward, but every now and then, he’d get a chance to flash his speed. Dude had wheels when his hips were square.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqxNl0hBfmc
I came here to say the same thing!
He’s Jacobs body & running style with elite speed. Truly a scary and wonderful thing to watch.
Maybe it was the subtle clues in the art, but I started reading this from right to left from the beginning…which was fine because it works both ways.
First, love the little Josh Norman in the 6th (or 8th, from Ricky’s view) panel.
Second, could Vrabel be the actual first “member” of the Belicheck tree to be successful, even if he wasn’t an actual coach? The penalty for too many players at the end of the Titans/Texans game was absolutely something Bill would do.
I think that Flores is on a good track.
BoB was arguably successful, with multiple playoff berths.
Nick Saban has done OK for himself, though his success has been outside the NFL.
Every time I see Derrick Henry run in open field, the mario starman theme starts playing my head
You missed the easy “Hey JJ, Watt’s that?” joke in panel 3.
I had the feeling Texans were not going to hold on to win after insane performance King Henry was doing. Not to mention Deshaun’s reaction at the overtime coin flip. He knew the Texans were doomed moment he lost that coin flip.
On other note, didn’t Will Fuller get a haircut and completely cut off his dreadlocks after the last season’s wildcard loss?
https://www.si.com/nfl/texans/news/end-of-an-era-texans-will-fuller-no-longer-has-his-dreads-odd-to-see-the-dreadless-will-fuller-fuller-posted-this-on-his-instagram-showing-his-new-look-lzW7Q9JAIEGgR0tZ53OVFw
Counter point. Is Will Fuller healthy enough to play? Never seems like he is.
I can’t wait to see how he matches up against the Steelers front 7
My roommate in college and a few years after was also a Derrick Henry. Of course, two people having the exact same name isn’t that strange, but it still tickled me when football player Derrick Henry entered the league.
JJ watt tackled Derrick Henry by HIMSELF the only texans i saw do that. There should be no reason why he should be scared (Rather Zach cunningham he played terrible against Henry)
Dave, up to this point I thought that my love for you was already at max capacity.
YET HERE WE ARE
ALL HAIL KING HENRY BOW BEFORE HIM OR GET STIFF ARMED INTO OBLIVION 5-0 TITANS WITH TANNISTACKS OF MONEY AND (who else is on the titans?) AJ BROWN CAN WATCH BALLS AND OUR OLINE IS STRONG (lewan died fuck) DEFENSE CAN PLAY BALL REMEMBER MALCOLM BUTLER SUPERBOWL HERO HE’S ON OUR TEAM THE BANDWAGON IS STRONG.
Derrick Henry is basically impossible to hate, he plays for a team nobody cares about (so no rivalry hatred), he plays an undervalued postion (so no high expectations) , and he’s a massive human being (so no “I could do that” from drunk fans).
I even find it hard to hate Vrabel when he does Belichickian things like “accidentally” having too many men on the field and getting a free timeout from it. I think it’s funny.
Especially when he does them *to* Belichick….
the first time my wife ever saw him was in last years playoffs. She nick named him the two two train.
Lol I could get behind this for a comic idea, Derrick Henry as Yugi.
“Dreadxodia, OBLITERATE”
OH GOD HENRY IS TOO STRONG TO BE LEFT ALIVE HE WILL STIFF ARM MOST OF THE NFL INTO OBLIVION
Sasha dies.
I’ve been a fan of the Titans/Oilers since the “Luv Ya Blue” days in the late 70s. (Yes, I am old.) Derrick Henry is the 2nd coming of Earl Campbell. Titan up!
Is that a tiny Earl Thomas on the ground for scale? Love the detail.
It’s Josh Norman who was stiff-armed into irrelevance last week on live national television.
I kinda want to see Marcus Mariota recruiting people for the raiders.
I’d like to see a comic about the Jets
After years of therapy I had just come to terms with the abuse my Jags suffered from Eddie George. I was in a good space. I was healing. Enter Derrick Henry.