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Week 8 vs Aaron Donald

He looked like a player against New England. Why can’t he put together a drive now?

Looks like he’s gotten progressively worse every week
I was going to put this in the random thought thread. I have a theory.

During the B'OB era, the Texans have played the Patriots every year since 2015. I think besides divisional opponents, Tim Kelly has more familiarity with the Patriots defense and how they operate than any other team. When you think about it. Although the Patriots went 5-2, the recent games were decided by -7 (2020), -6 (2019), +7 (2018), +3 (2017). Compare that to pre-Watson when the games where lopsided losses -27 (2016), -21 (2015).

So, I think based on his experience game planning for the Patriots based on O'Brien's concepts, familiarity and focus on the Patriots defense, he was comfortable going against that defense and ended up losing the game by 3 points. In other words, it was an outlier based on how O'Brien would attack the Patriots defensive tendencies.
 
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