Who feels better about the Texans D, sans Clowney? I do! Minshaw looks like the real deal (at least until enough tape gets out there about his tendencies.) and the Texans knocked his dick in the dirt for 57 minutes. They just might win this division after all. Which will keep BoB around, but you can't have everything.
Tell that to the Browns. I think the only conclusions we can draw from 2 weeks and change of the NFL season so far is that nobody knows anything, except that Tom Brady's deal with Satan hasn't expired.
That may have been the nail in the coffin for Mariota. He's done. Missing wise open throws. Soft in the pocket. And just not throwing downfield. There's really nothing he's doing well. It has to end. This is less on Vrabel than it is on Mariota. He's lost and confused. No fixing him.
Oh bullshit. The Browns were the darlings of many a preseason pundit, with OBJ, Baker Mayfield, and others. The Titans smoking them was a giant surprise to just about everybody. Then the Browns the next week, beat up on the Jets that fought Buffalo to a standstill. Cleveland isn't a bad team, and I wouldn't be surprised if they won the North, for as much as every pundit is creaming over Lamar Jackson. Nobody knows anything right now. Then the Titans lost to a ok Indy team at the last moment. Now they get punked by Minshew and a lot of turnover luck. I wouldn't be surprised if the Titans beat Houston.
What's the reason, in your opinion? Hit too many times? Poor offense for catering to his strengths? He looked like an accurate passer in college. Just hasn't put it together so far week to week.
We were talking about this in the Texans-Jags thread. I think he lost a step or three after the injury. A la Clowney never hitting a sub 4.5 40 again. Too bad: he was a powerful, punishing runner who was fun to watch until that point.
Yeah they were the darlings just bc of the hype. Doesn’t mean they’re good in reality. A team full of unproven guys means nothing. Titans beating was only a surprise to those that took a mouth full of all the bs hype. Lol beat up on the jets without their real qb who even had to go to the 3rd stringer. Wow. They are not that good. And no titans are not beating Houston. They’re not the best team but they aren’t as bad as this titans team
He's trying to please everyone. Too much thinking instead of letting it rip. But it all comes down to being afraid to throw into coverage and throw the wr open. He just looks to hit the TE. It's like the horse in seabiscuit. He's been trained to throw to the open man, instead of throwing the man open. He needs to run wild, but his personality is to please people. Never say the wrong thing. Never do the wrong thing. When he just needs to run wild. The sacks are the result of waiting for the WR to come open, but he can't do that, he has to let it go.
You're a lot more confident in this Texans team than I am. Albeit, if Mariotta is trying to wait until WRs get open, per PSJ's posts above, he's going to have a bad time against Mercilus, Watt, McKinney, and Reid. It also looks like the very good Texans run defense survived Clowney, so he can't rely on Henry to bail him out. That said, a few bad turnovers, BoB decisions, or both, and sure they can lose to Tennessee. I'd be surprised if the Patriots or Chiefs lost to Tennessee, not the Texans.
The success rate of finding a franchise QB is ridiculously low, like 1 out of 12-15 in any given draft low. Even when looking at 1st round picks, we're talking well below the .500 mark.
"So many times, you are evaluating a quarterback who has never called a play, who has never used a snap count," Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians said at the NFL combine when asked about the perils of projecting a college quarterback to the pros. "They hold up a card on the sideline, he kicks his foot and throws the ball." Arians made no secret of how he felt about that no-huddle play-calling style. "That ain't playing quarterback," he said. "There's no leadership there." ... Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider, who has enjoyed a fair amount of success with a mobile quarterback and an option-flavored playbook, is also wary of evaluating quarterbacks who read their plays from cue cards. "It's harder now because you see a lot of these guys, if you watch college football, you see everybody look to the sidelines," Schneider said. "You watch them play live, and they are looking at cards with turtles and colors and stuff," he said, "as compared to watching a guy line up, read a defense and run a play." Remember these critiques from a few years ago... https://bleacherreport.com/articles...inexperience-a-major-negative-and-he-knows-it
I didn’t find it as bad as you may have. He scores and it’s game over. The Titans had no timeouts and had to drive 96 yards with 3 minutes left against the best secondary in the NFL. They would still have to get an onside kick as well. I think putting Minshew in that situation is more of a situational practice for the future.
Ehh, you risk losing the game straight up if you can't stop them from scoring twice. On the other hand, if you kick the XP you are guaranteed not to lose unless the Titans themselves go for 2 on the 2nd TD, which is no guarantee (given the fact that the Jags failed two weeks in a row when they attempted it)
