Sojourner

Gadget player whose production on his career has been a result of being on teams that were forced to pass. The money won’t justify the production he’ll have. As simple as that. We overpaid.

That’s my issue. These journeymen throughout their careers aren’t just going to turn it on now. People lynched a guy who produced very well in the regular season but disappeared in the playoffs. These guys aren’t going to flip their script when it’s win or go home.

They might have got a field goal attempted but it’s not the 60 yarder without a decent return on the punt. Burning some time and making the opponent use their timeouts should have been all that mattered. Instead, you leave them with a timeout. Even time to really attack anywhere on the field for a positive play irrespective that it resulted in a check down for a handful of yards.

Running the ball takes just as much time of the clock as what we did given the timeouts. But you tie the hands of the Texans when/if they get the ball back. You probably even add a couple extra yards for your punter. Our guy had to stand stationary to punt that ball. Couldn’t take a step into the kick and give it more power and air. The game goes to OT with Houston having used their TO’s, that is barring a great return or busted coverage on the punt.

That’s the problem. No shoes, no socks is how Mack rolls.

As long as it’s not going to Samuel, that’s fine. Every single one this season has been atrocious. They had one yesterday that had 3 blockers for 2 defenders and he was tackled for 0 gain. That makes no sense to me. There seems to be very little passes that are attacking different depths of the field that are forcing a defender to make a choice. As a former TE, levels concept was an absolute bread and butter play for our offense and our QB made 2 years of quality play on it. This offense? I see but there’s very little effect spacing. They always seem to be grouped a couple of yards away from one another when the routes are in effect. Seems when we use it there is very little spacing vertically or horizontally. Even more so when Shakir isn’t on the field. The key again, is spacing between the quarterbacks targets. hardly see it here. Theres very little manipulation of the defenders in our passing plays. Seems to be a case of hoping they win their designed route for an open pass. Which is fine but you need something else. That’s the mark of a great coach, you design a player/s to get open.

Cue the “CeeDee Lamb wants a trade” rumors????

Stevie could get separation. Very well. The rest of the group? Oooof.

thats your interpretation. I am pointing out that the terrible approach had been made. Houston could stop stop the clock with timeouts and can work the whole field. With the errors that essentially cost the game I can live with him making them have to take the short pass and kick a long FG than give up a TD or short FG. Nothing more. Not an excuse. Not saying he lost admirably. All I am pointing out is that isn’t where anyone should bother having an issue with the final plays of the game.

You know what’s more likely? Getting to OT by running the ball 3 times instead of hoping you get deep shots with no time outs. Houston had at least 1 TO and can work anywhere on the field. The reason it gets to 2 seconds is because of the coverage lol i don’t know how anyone is finding any issue with the safeties lining up deep. No pass rush was the only things wrong there. Shouldn’t have been 1 guy and if you do, you account for the only guy blocking who was eligible. Getting hung up on that being “how we lost the game” is wild.

dude. Watch the video or go back to the post I edited on page 1. The safeties are the only players deep incase they beat the contact trying to take away the short game. If McD loses that game to a TD instead of a FG it’s worse. Still a sh-t show but worse. I get it, I’m not making excuses. Simply pointing out that the coverage deployed at the end of the game was perfect and as good as any. It took away any TD and the short game. No pass rush was an issue. Not THE issue. 3 passes, stopping the clock and allowing Houston to have all of their time outs lost the game. Not the coverage there. I actually can give credit to McD for something successful; forcing them into a 59 yarder after the moronic choices before. Questions need answered about coaching but again, that play isn’t it.

Actually made perfect sense. They played it great IMHO. The safeties were cheating the legal contact over the top. If anyone broke free the rotate immediately. watch this video, the coverage is perfect. Just a great play by Houston due to no pass rush or pressure. FULL FINAL PLAY <<<<<<<<<< See link above

LMAO Sensational writing at its best. I had to rewatch this after reading that article. Totally inaccurate. Do they not think we can rewatch???? This is Williams already in the middle of the field. Bishop booking it back whilst the one judge has just placed the ball at the LOS and is still visible next to Houston’s OLine: This is everyone set and ready for 2 to 3 seconds before the ball is snapped… Safeties were deep yes but a beat of press prevents a TD, the rest take short passes taken away. Perfect coverage. Pass goes to the leak out due to no pass rush/pressure. >>>>>> FULL FINAL PLAY <<<<<<< How people are complaining about the above coverage is wild. Especially with the garbage “10 men/not ready”. That coverage, again, is perfect. The only issue anyone should have with the end of the game is not making Houston use all 3 of their time outs.

T. J. Watt.

That is a fair point. And actually the reason they should. Those exact problems are their fault. Injuries to the defense, sure. It happens and they can’t help it but there is still talent problems on both sides of the ball. Safety and Receiver.

So what do we tell people who said we’ve only beaten crap teams now that the Cardinals beat the 9ers?

Alreadyyyy diiiiiiiiiiii……

Whilst I would love to get Budda Baker or a proven vet safety, they didn’t do too bad in the second half. Granted Collins was out, which obviously helped, but they played very well and forced 2 huge turnovers with a score sitting @ 17-20 on both. When it mattered, they stepped up. Offense didn’t. A WR might do more for this team as you can’t get a prime pass rusher for cheap.

There’s room for improvement yes but the issues were on full display today so I completely and whole heartedly disagree with the “problems on O are more difficult to diagnose”. The skill positions let Josh down on a lot of his throws. Cook should have been targeted far more. Mack Hollins blew that TD early in the game. He slowed down due to bad tracking of the ball. You saw poor tracking on the ball again on the interesting play selections pinned at the goal line when the Texans had 3 TOs. A reasonable WR with that step on the defender is likely to be getting hands on the ball if not catching it. Samuel annd MVS are awful. Very few plays are ever successful when theyre involved. Keon Coleman is still raw and made some oopsies. He did however make up for it with that TD. You can give him a pass as he’s a rookie. Without Shakir we knew there would be a problem. The problem is just average players at the wide receiver. It’s really as simple as that. These guys are who they are. One or two games in the season that leave you hopeful. Very little else. Two. TWO turnovers on back to back drives and we came away with 3 points. The drive we got 3 points from we gained ZERO yards. The theme in those two drives? Throwing to MVS and Samuel on key 3rd downs. In fact, every failed third down that resulted in FGs or a Punt were to Coleman/MVS/Hollins/Samuel except 2; One was challengeable to Kincaid. The problem is unreliable players at a position of importance. We had a reliable guy all regular season but wasn’t when it mattered in the playoffs. What’s going to happen with the 3 journeymen who’ve never proved reliability in their careers? That leaves it to Shakir, Kincaid/Knox, Cook and a rookie who is just as unreliable. Not to turn this post into a “trade” statement but today was clear there has to be someone acquired at that position group who is reliable to make a play of the ball comes their way. Play calling needs improvement too but a guy who can let Shakir/Kincaid/Cook work the underneath and short game is looking like an absolute necessity for us to make progress in the post season, if we even get there. 2¢

Yeah, there’s always a positive if you want to find one. Carter was great. Smoot finally played to the ability some have hoped he’d display and obviously Bernard being back and grabbing an INT is a solid remedy going forward.

If you don’t Schnow by now, you never will.

yeah but the play calling by Houston was just as atrocious as ours during the second half. Very predictable and easy to defend. Difference was our offensive calls were a little worse with little to no relief for the QB. Houston had them and they gave their guy enough time. The whole series after the fumble recovery in the RZ tells you all you need to know. Many called it, they should have done the opposite of what everyone knew was happening on first down with Trubisky coming in. What have you got to lose? The 3rd down was even worse. Every single player in the EZ. Disgusting. Josh didn’t have a great game by any means but I’m crediting that to poor play calling and Al-Shaair for the Texans. That LB was absolutely unbelievable on sniffing out Josh on the spy.

Maybe they run a fake punt with their star safety on the keeper????

Dude. That is 100% IG.

Well. Kicker has to miss. 🙏