The offense was severely limited the first few weeks because of all the injuries. We've added significant weapons the past two weeks.
Yes. It was a play action option read with Ellington reversing fields on the snap that was the option pitch. It was a 12 yard gain and beautiful.
Won't work for long in the NFL. Nobody regularly runs options because your QB is fair game for huge hits. We've seen college "gimmicks" before, and the league catches up every time. Need to morph into a pro scheme. Which means we need OTs. Which we don't have. And the 2018 free agent and draft picks cupboard is bare.
You can run these college plays with Watson. He is smart enough to avoid the hits associated with these plays.
The Texans may have caught some teams off guard with the option read stuff. It will be interesting to see how defenses counter it, and how BOB and Watson handle it.
BOB was far more malleable and inventive that first year as he seemed more prone to design his offense around the strengths and weaknesses of his QB as opposed to jamming a square peg into a round hole. Last year, it was straight up square peg and round hole; I didn't see him augment his system at all to try and figure out what Osweiler could/could not do. That was my biggest concern with Watson - he'd try and turn him into something he's not. But he's clearly designing the playbook around Watson's strengths.
Certainly possible - although he'd been a fairly competent QB for 9 weeks in Denver. But yeah; it would seem likely he at least didn't have any strengths BOB could work with.
The 0-4 Cleveland Browns cut the veteran Osweiler when it cost them nothing to keep him. That's who Brock Osweiler is. Inaccurate, slow to set-up & elongated release, a PITA diva who said when training camp began that he was tired of O'Brien/Godsey telling him how the GOAT QB Tom Brady did things, he was going to do things his own way and not be a "puppet". So stop with the Brock crap. O'Brien has been the same all along. The QBs have been very limiting, among other things.
