The problem with putting Mallett in today is he's a statue like Schaub and cannot run away from pressure like Fitz. The Giants D-line will lick their chops.
You can't put the first two wins all on Fitzpatrick just as you can't put today's loss all on him. The offensive line didn't play that well. It looked like Duane Brown was getting owned every time. Foster being out didn't help. A few catchable passes were dropped. The defense was getting torched. Couldn't get the stops when they were needed. If your MLB is getting 17 tackles, it's because the D-Line isn't doing their job. A few coaching mistakes. And yes, Fitzpatrick did not play well.
So if you read that article you were probably impressed but clearly understood those screen plays would be easy to stop. Teams were going to force Fitzpatrick to make real passing decisions eventually. Now we have to counter. You can only keep the game easy for a quarterback that cant pass downfield for so long though... then your offense is capped out.
This is what concerns me. Just got done watching defenses do this to Schaub for an entire season. It's obvious Fitz isn't the answer at QB (nor is Mallet nor is Savage) so as bad as it is to say, this season is just a formality to get the culture change started and place-hold until our QB of the future arrives who is (finally) good enough to a point where he has enough talent in his arm and his brain to bail us out of games where the rest of the guys are either injured or don't show up. The Texans have long had quarterbacks that need their surrounding environment to be bullet proof for them to succeed. Feel like Schaub was actually never good, Foster, O Line and Johnson just made him look way better than he actually was.
Don't know about Savage and Mallett but it's obvious to me that Fitzy is just a backup QB in this league. And we have nothing to lose by sticking Mallett in there and seeing what he has.
The biggest this got me with Fitz now is arm strength . . .. he was floating some warblers out there Rocket River
he sure was. in all fairness MetLife Stadium is known for crazy winds. noodle armed qb's generally have a tough time there.
Have to give Kudos to Fitz for today's effort - not the prettiest, but got the job done. He plays with great heart and courage - can't ask a man for any more than that.
the andre fumble was at least three points. The deandre snatch int.. you want him to throw that and trust his guy to make a play. The hold on AJ's double move, that was a td in the making oh and griffin or cj can't remember which, as they all look the same, dropping a sure big gain pass. playing 2 teams that have the ability to cause havoc with just their front line doesn't help the offense either. Point being, things snowball pretty quickly. what has been impressive is that we've been able to avoid that snowball crushing us. It's not luck. It's grit and determination.
It was CJ, but it was really just a good defensive play more than a drop, the DB managed to put a hit directly on the ball right as he got it.
