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Just wish we could have run Arian earlier and more often so he wasn't playing down to the wire again.
I'll probably get flamed, but I think he's a damn good QB.
If anyone blames Schaub for this one they're dumb. He played his heart out and I'm so glad he's our franchise QB. This game was lost in the 1st quarter when the receivers and tight ends couldn't catch a pass. And the defense is what it is every game: awful. This team has a lot of things to fix and QB AINT one of them.
If anyone blames Schaub for this one they're dumb. He played his heart out and I'm so glad he's our franchise QB. This game was lost in the 1st quarter when the receivers and tight ends couldn't catch a pass. And the defense is what it is every game: awful. This team has a lot of things to fix and QB AINT one of them.
Did you even watch the first half, not only were there dropped passes but Matt was missing people left and right, and couldn't even get the ball down the field 40 yards to a wide open andre johnson..
nobody said he was perfect. he did play an amazing second half and showed gret heart to bring us back into it as did the whole team. everybody made mistakes- matt, od, jj even andre but they redeemed themselves when it wouldve been alot easier to pack it in for the season
Did you even watch the first half, not only were there dropped passes but Matt was missing people left and right, and couldn't even get the ball down the field 40 yards to a wide open andre johnson..
Schaub is very accurate on most crossing type routes, but vertical routes give him trouble.
I think he should go into the next game with the mindset that he's going to try to over throw AJ on a post, or other vertical route... just to see if he can do it...
Reminds me of how Shqauille O'neal used to always talk about his poor free throw shooting. He used to say he would make them when they counted at the end of the game. Problem is, if he hadn't missed 7 of them in the first 3 quarters, the ones at the end of the game wouldn't even matter.
Schaub put himself in the hole last night. He had some horrible passes. The first two drives of the night were completely on Schaub.
It's great that he did well the last quarter, but let's not act like it wasn't at least partly his fault that he needed to be so exceptional to catch back up. The first half interception was a killer. The underthrow to Andre on the first play of the game cost us 6.
You have to make the plays throughout the game that end up with a game being won.
Brady, Manning, Brees, Rivers...they do just enough good things to win.
Schaub does just enough bad things to lose.
If anyone blames Schaub for this one they're dumb. He played his heart out and I'm so glad he's our franchise QB. This game was lost in the 1st quarter when the receivers and tight ends couldn't catch a pass. And the defense is what it is every game: awful. This team has a lot of things to fix and QB AINT one of them.
Schaub also couldnt hit a reciever in stride tonight to save his life ....
The first play action pass to AJ .... shoulda been a TD but Schaub under threw the ball and hte defender was able to make up the ground and make a play on the ball. An incompletion rather than a TD.
The TD to AJ that got them on the board ... He underthrew the ball , AJ had to wait for the ball .... again.
How many times have we seen this so far this season ? Every single time he throws over 35 yards. Thats how often.
I wonder how much of Schaubs sucess is his ability and how much of it is Kubiaks offense and the playmakers around him (cept for all the drops tonight).
He needs to strengthen his arm .... somehow some way.
His arm is not the problem. It's the timing of the throws. There have been great QBs with arm strength just like Schaub who can hit a receiver for the deep ball in stride (Steve Young, for example). JaMarcus Russel could throw the ball 60 yards while laying on his ass. Having the greatest arm strength isn't everything.
Steve Young's arm strength and Matt Schaub's are not "just like". Young had a much better arm than Schaub does.
It's a problem that nobody has to make a case over. It's on display week in and week out. It's something that can be worked around though. We just don't try to do that.
I think last night was the first game this season that I can say the defense was not totally at fault. All 3 phases of our team's at fault for this one. The defense had several brain farts, primarily in the first half. The offense did absolutely nothing to help them. Our special teams were ridiculous all night. Poor field position, 103 yard return and Rackers bouncing one in the endzone from 52.
Lastly, we have a full 15 minutes of overtime play. We can run the ball when we're backed up inside the ten. Plenty of time to calm down and take what their D was giving you.
Matt Schaub needs to work on his timing more than anything. He doesn't have that good of an anticipation of when his receiver will be open or not. Timing. Having a better arm would help, but I think timing is his real problem.
Schaub may never be a Brees or a Brady, but he has his strengths that competent play calling could feed into.
Schaub is definitely not our main problem or even in the top 5 of problems. He needs someone to maximize his strengths and minimize his weaknesses which this coaching staff appears to be unwilling to do. They want to mold Schaub into what they think he should be rather than taking what he is, the talents he has and using those to the team's advantage.
Also, someone needs to find a way to get Schaub over his first half jitters or whatever it is that screws him up at the beginning of games. I know there is a coach out there that can do that.
His arm is not the problem. It's the timing of the throws. There have been great QBs with arm strength just like Schaub who can hit a receiver for the deep ball in stride (Steve Young, for example). JaMarcus Russel could throw the ball 60 yards while laying on his ass. Having the greatest arm strength isn't everything.