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Bulls on Parade said:
Bill O'Brien can read an email without screwing it up.
Have Dabo send over the game plan right now.
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Exactly how confident of that are you?

Can he read an email while keeping an eye on how many time-outs he has and watching the clock?

Is reading an email even his job?
 
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The Vince McMahon analogy for this regime is spot on Lol.

Then after my chuckle I get sad because the jokes are on us and the facts are the facts.
 
Jeff Fischer and Bill O’Brein

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CloakNNNdagger said:
Every one seems to be talking about the OL's poor pass protection..............review the game film and you will see that our RBs, and even our TEs, hardly had a good pass protection day.
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I remember Griffin whiffing on cutting the DE early in the game that got Watson killed. A lot of the issues I saw in pass pro was players missing assignments. Some was guys just getting beat, but if players blocked who they were suppose to a lot of the pressures and sacks wouldn't have happened
 
Shishkabob said:
I remember Griffin whiffing on cutting the DE early in the game that got Watson killed. A lot of the issues I saw in pass pro was players missing assignments. Some was guys just getting beat, but if players blocked who they were suppose to a lot of the pressures and sacks wouldn't have happened
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And yet Watson still averaged 3.4 seconds to get rid of the ball.
 
Shishkabob said:
my random thought, if JJ can't get a sack against Flowers next week idk if he will ever get one again
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JJ didn't get one against an OL yesterd that rivaled the Giants OL for incompetence.
I look at the handful of plays that people have gotten so excited about and called him close to the JJ of past............and just shake my head.
 
heymak said:
I may be wrong but it looked like JJ had a similar problem that Cushing had. Straight ahead movement fine laterally not so much.
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Been saying that was to expected after both his core and tibial plateau fracture. But even when he moves straight ahead, I do not expect him to do well against strong resistance from a strong OL.
 
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PapaL said:
Moss was special.
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Tuned into the Jax-NE game just in time to see this catch that reminded me of Moss. There's probably some more spectacular catches in NFL history but I'd put this one towards the top. It's our division rival so hopefully I'm not too far off topic for the thread.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Texans PR‏Verified account@TexansPR 3h3 hours ago
At 26 years, 3 months and 10 days, #Texans WR DeAndre Hopkins became the third-youngest player in NFL history to reach 6,000 receiving yards behind only Randy Moss (25 years, 8 months, 28 days) and Larry Fitzgerald (26 years, 0 months, 14 days
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Woo-f*ck1ng-hoo! I’d rather win games than celebrate all these pretty individual accomplishments. That sh1t ain’t going to matter when it’s all said and done. Congrats to NUK, as I respect him, but what will that matter if and when we finish at 0-16 or 2-14, or 4-12?
 
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patrick‏Verified account@PatDStat 2h2 hours ago

I am at the point none of that matters because we have zero clue on what OB is telling the players. If they are making it easy for them to understand and they still can't get it right, when does it fall on the player?
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You're absolutely right, we don't have a clue on what O'Brien is telling his players. But it is his responsibility to determine who is picking up his "system" and weed out those who "can't get it right". Or, failing that, figure out what his players are good at and, what's the phrase, 'put them in position to succeed'.
We thought O'Brien was doing that last season when the offense looked unstoppable.

Why aren't they getting it right this season?

What changed?
 
Saying the RBs and TEs had a bad blocking day, yet Watson had 3.4 seconds to pass insinuates that the OL had a good day.

They did not. Far from it.

Watson bought himself more time on 75% of passing plays. The line blocked well about 5 passing plays.

Looked great run blocking. I will give them that.
 
Even with no timeouts I thought Deshaun Watson had an opportunity to make a quick pass over the middle of the field late in the game (on our final play). We could have ran up quick and spiked it... Tried to tie the game with a long field goal. Although the smart plays would have been trying to pass it near the sidelines (catch and get out of bounds) at least two more times.

I wasn't expecting Deshaun Watson to run around and waste the entire clock like that. He ultimately found Hopkins deep over the middle to get into field goal range but the time ran out. By the time Watson threw the ball he should have just heaved it into the end zone or as far as he could for a Hail Mary.

I made a joke a while back that Bill O'Brien likes to call those "Tecmo Super Bowl" plays from the old Nintendo game or Sega Genesis version. Because it's the same vanilla plays on offense. That final play of the game was like watching Tecmo Super Bowl.


Watching Deshaun run around like that for so long. I can hear the Tecmo Super Bowl music playing. Maybe Deshaun thought he was Bo Jackson on the final play. He should have just ran around and not thrown the ball. LOL
 
Uncle Rico said:
Watson bought himself more time on 75% of passing plays.
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What about the final passing play of the game?
Deshaun bought himself the entire game clock!

This is why I wanted to sign Dez Bryant or even acquire Josh Gordon (before the Patriots wisely did), because sometimes you need to hit a guy on a quick route near the sideline. With the exception of DeAndre Hopkins, we don't have guys who are good at that.

Will Fuller is improving with his hands and deep routes. But I rarely see him run a nice simple curl route (comebacker) on the sideline when it comes to late-game situations. When you need a quick catch and go out of bounds.

We have a bottom five offensive line along with weak depth at running back and wide receiver. Our tight ends have improved but even they're not great.

This is a talent and coaching issue. We don't have enough there around Deshaun Watson. The new GM is to blame, IMO. Rick Smith would have at least tried to make some good moves this past off-season.

There were several free agents that could have helped us.
We continually passed on every one of them. It made no sense.
 
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ObsiWan said:
You're absolutely right, we don't have a clue on what O'Brien is telling his players. But it is his responsibility to determine who is picking up his "system" and weed out those who "can't get it right". Or, failing that, figure out what his players are good at and, what's the phrase, 'put them in position to succeed'.
We thought O'Brien was doing that last season when the offense looked unstoppable.

Why aren't they getting it right this season?

What changed?
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It's what's changed and what hasn't changed. Watson coming back from ACL surgery; Dante Foreman not being able to come back from Achilles; Watt coming back from multiple injuries and major knee surgery; Clowney coming back from multiple injuries and a "minor" surgery that wasn't minor, then suffering more injuries when back on the field; 4 significant hamstrings; Henderson IR'ed, JJo IR'ed, Andre Hal IR'ed for cancer: Mercilus coming back from pectoralis rupture; Martinas coming back from foot fracture and just being able to be removed from PUP in preseason; Mancz coming off a season mired by knee issues; Martin coming back from his 2nd high ankle sprain/fracture.........
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
patrick‏Verified account@PatDStat 7h7 hours ago


One thing Alfred Blue has said to me many of times is how thankful he was able to learn from Arian Foster. Especially on how to read flow from defenses and most of being patient. Blue easily has the best vision of the backs right now.
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You could see some of the Arian/Leveon type patience in Blue Sunday. Where he was almost walking up to the hole waiting for it to open, it was quite nice to see
 
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patrick‏Verified account@PatDStat 7h7 hours ago


One thing Alfred Blue has said to me many of times is how thankful he was able to learn from Arian Foster. Especially on how to read flow from defenses and most of being patient. Blue easily has the best vision of the backs right now.
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The problem with Alfred Blue is he isn't reliable enough. This is his 5th season in the NFL now. I'm yet to see him become a consistent game changer.

I love his work ethic but all he'll ever be is a decent backup. The guy has what, 12 carries in the first two games: 72 yards (6.0 ypc). That's amazing but we're 0-2 and it's still only 12 carries. He'll likely become hurt or start to decline really fast as this season progress.

I'm yet to see Alfred Blue be reliable for a full season.
He's good for a game or two out of the blue, no pun intended.
 
Shishkabob said:
I remember Griffin whiffing on cutting the DE early in the game that got Watson killed. A lot of the issues I saw in pass pro was players missing assignments. Some was guys just getting beat, but if players blocked who they were suppose to a lot of the pressures and sacks wouldn't have happened
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Reason why it was important to play some meaningful snaps in preseason.
 
Texansballer74 said:
Which suggests our receivers wasn't getting opened or Watson isn't throwing to a spot when the receivers comes out their break. He's waiting on them to complete come open.
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Which suggests that Watson isn't throwing on anticipation nor is he throwing his receivers open. Throwing with anticipation is difficult to learn since being "open" in the NFL is considerably different than being open in college.
 
So still talking about Watson's ability to throw in NFL windows vs CFB windows? Cmon man.

He's showed he can make all the throws. He has great instinct and touch.

He's not perfect. Obviously. His mistakes are young QB mistakes. The presence of mind will get better but he's in his 8th professional game all the college comparison stuff is out the window.
 
Uncle Rico said:
So still talking about Watson's ability to throw in NFL windows vs CFB windows? Cmon man.

He's showed he can make all the throws. He has great instinct and touch.

He's not perfect. Obviously. His mistakes are young QB mistakes. The presence of mind will get better but he's in his 8th professional game all the college comparison stuff is out the window.
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If you're referring to my post, I'm not dogging Watson nor am I questioning his ability to make any throw. I'm saying that he's having a very typical young QB issue with seeing receivers coming open versus already open and processing what he's seeing fast enough and correctly to put the ball where only his guy can catch it. Right now, the game seems fast for him. I see him getting better, but it is what it is. Basically a redshirt rookie trying to get back in the groove after a long football layoff.
 
Looking at the Texans remaining schedule, I don't see a single game that can be confidently penciled in as a win. Not even the Brown and Jets. I really hope the Texans game isn't the coming out party for Baker Mayfield. The Texans have a bad habit of making rookies and backup QBs look like GOATs.
 
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