PhinKev
Pro Bowler
If there is one difference on this team, its the effort. You could see that on Landry's run when three players sprinted up the field to make blocks. The pass rush has been relentless. Cameron Wake is a different guy now. Tackling is much improved. Jones might be the best safety in football right now. He's locked in. Linebackers actually seemed to be aggressive and attacking the play. Nice to see.
As good as we looked, when you watch it back on Tivo, there are some things to think about.
The Texans played awful. They had open receivers in the first half. Hoyer missed some open guys. Brady won't. Drops also hurt. It's a closer game if the Texans actually play like a professional football team. Texans were so bad at tackling. Give our guys credit for not going down, but that's just poor football from the Texans. The safety actually ran into the corner on the long TD to Mathews. Ouch.
The Oline had some great plays, and this is clearly the best game of the season for that group. But, if you watch, there are still too many wiffs by our guards. On one play the DT skips easily into the backfield and Grey actually makes something out of it with some nifty running. One thing you can say about our guards, they pull and move in space well. Thomas' pull and block on the big Miller run was picture perfect. But, the number of times they don't get a hat on the guy has got to go down. Having Sims and Albert back helps a lot though. Both are good blockers. On one more positive note, Pouncy was an absolute beast. On a couple of big plays he handled Wolfork one on one. That's a man's job there.
I'm not sold on Jamar Taylor. I'm not sure its scheme or not, but man does he give a lot of space. Nate Washington ate him up. We need better consistency out of the side.
A couple of stupid penalties stopped us from laying the wood in the second half. Understandable to loose a little focus after the first half, but jumping offside repeatedly is not ok nor is such obvious holding.
On to the Patriots, a real tough test of where we are now.
As good as we looked, when you watch it back on Tivo, there are some things to think about.
The Texans played awful. They had open receivers in the first half. Hoyer missed some open guys. Brady won't. Drops also hurt. It's a closer game if the Texans actually play like a professional football team. Texans were so bad at tackling. Give our guys credit for not going down, but that's just poor football from the Texans. The safety actually ran into the corner on the long TD to Mathews. Ouch.
The Oline had some great plays, and this is clearly the best game of the season for that group. But, if you watch, there are still too many wiffs by our guards. On one play the DT skips easily into the backfield and Grey actually makes something out of it with some nifty running. One thing you can say about our guards, they pull and move in space well. Thomas' pull and block on the big Miller run was picture perfect. But, the number of times they don't get a hat on the guy has got to go down. Having Sims and Albert back helps a lot though. Both are good blockers. On one more positive note, Pouncy was an absolute beast. On a couple of big plays he handled Wolfork one on one. That's a man's job there.
I'm not sold on Jamar Taylor. I'm not sure its scheme or not, but man does he give a lot of space. Nate Washington ate him up. We need better consistency out of the side.
A couple of stupid penalties stopped us from laying the wood in the second half. Understandable to loose a little focus after the first half, but jumping offside repeatedly is not ok nor is such obvious holding.
On to the Patriots, a real tough test of where we are now.
