Of all weeks, I feel this is the week to open up the playbook. This is the week for the Texans to have a coming out party on the national stage. I feel that we match up fairly well with the Raiders. Good defense against a good offense. Bad offense against a bad defense. If we can limit Carr, our newfound run defense can shut down the run game. It's going to be a huge battle for the defense. But on offense, it's time to open up the playbook and cut it loose. Curiously, I saw the Texans sneak a few things on tape this past week, which makes me believe that some different types of plays are coming. We saw a fake end around with a handoff up the middle, amongst other things. I think we've seen two plays with the Braxcat (in the past). It's time to cut them loose and run more of that. I know people have complained about Osweiler, and he deserves most of it. I do feel, though, that everything in this team was built to run. Our line is much better at run blocking than pass blocking. They were terrible against the Jags in pass blocking. The play calling in the pass game was conservative, in my opinion, to limit Osweiler mistakes. We took advantage of a few deep PIs. By design, in my opinion. Those are the reason for the bad stats. Two TDs and no INTs with 180 rushing yards is fine if the defense is up to snuff. We've just got to hit field goals. Anyways, back to the point. It's time to pound the rock. We need to run the ball like a Wisconsin or Pittsburgh - yeah, I'm talking college. Mix it up, get the ball in the hands of multiple people in multiple forms of runs. We've got to, for the love of God, quit running draws on every third and over five situation, though. Run the ball, lean on short slants, and then drop a few play actions over the top to Hopkins and Fuller. It's a little bit of what we've been doing, to be honest, but this is the week to hold nothing back. It may be the toughest team we play the rest of the way, and a win would be a huge confidence builder. Monday night, under the lights, showing off for a whole country of potential fans, this team better bring it. I fully expect them to. We need a fast start, and I think it's time to run a gadget type play, or two, to get us off to that start.
Yeah, I would agree. I would also hope Bouye, Fuller and Big Vince are a go. We need all 3 of them and all 3 of them to play well to win. I'd like to see Reader and Vince line up together in the middle. If nothing else, that Raider OL isn't going to just bowl over the middle and let the run game go wild. Especially not with Cushing and Mckinney roaming the midfield. Yes Bill, we'll take the wins however they come. But we sure would take a national stage win, an INTERNATIONAL stage win where Brock connected to Fuller deep 3 or 4 times, Hop goes wild, they score fitty and shutout the Raiders. Why the hell not?
Don't have the QB or the OL to do it. I'd rather a more dink n dunk ball control offense. Keep the raider offense on the sideline as much as possible.
The Lions and Jags rank 27th and 26th in rushing offense; the Raiders 4th. My guess is that Murray - behind an OL almost as good as Dallas' - will have a field day against the Texans. I'll be (happily) floored if the Texans are competitive, let alone win. I think the Raiders are significantly better.
Have you seen Brock's accuracy lately? Dinking and dunking will mean frequent 3 and outs for this team. Brock can barely string together two accurate timely passes in a row.
We need Fuller healthy. Without his speed, they can limit Nuk. As Strong is out for another 2-3 weeks, we gotta have that Fuller speed threat.
We also need Fuller to catch the damn ball when he beats coverage and gets a good pass that hits him in the hands. He's already screwed that up too many times this season. Opposing teams will fear him more if he does. Also....it'll raise Osweiler's Y/A to make boxscore fans more happy.
Ugh... that 80 yard Chiefs drop tho. With that said, people seem to forget just how much Fuller opened up the field for Brock - And for good measure - an in depth look at Will Fuller, and what he means to this offense -
Brock honestly has got to be able to complete at least a long pass or two a game to even be worthy of even being called an NFL quarterback if you ask me. If we are no threat whatsoever in deep coverage then eventually our running game will be as worthless as a broken umbrella on a rainy day. I want to see some deep passes down the field to open the game up as much as anyone does, and would love nothing more than to see Brock get 350 yards passing. I'm just wondering if Bill's book of plays is still stuck on page 1 because when he went to page 2 Brock kept getting intercepted. Only Bill really knows, so the suspense will all happen in front of our eyes. If they pull a rabbit out of their hat and surprise us all, it will be a great way to move forward, and pull off a great win. But, we all know that there will be that big threat of terrible thrown balls and pick 6's until Brock finally shows everyone he has what it takes to be worthy of being our QB and leader of this offense for the future of this franchise.
He has. The problem is his weapons have been hurt. Do you guys just have short term memory loss? He didn't just forget how to throw a long ball... Another (two minutes into video)... Nuk vs the Bears... Nuke vs Peters (Chiefs)... NOTE: INTs were on Hopkins (slip and beat to the ball)
How hard is it to remember that our offensive success comes off of the play fake??? Jaguars bite on play fake on Sunday... TD. Jaguars bite on play fake on Sunday again... TD.
You know what I meant. Of course he has thrown some in 9 games. I meant that so many times they are too short, out of bounds, or out of reach, or right into someone else's hands. He didn't even average 4 yards a pass last week, and if you are as happy about that as Bill, then he is the one you wished for. Not everyone sees it so crystal clear yet. You have to be able to go to backups when starters are injured, and not focus on one target.
Well when you have no O line to protect you, it leads to a lot of bad passes pretty much no matter what QB we're talking about. Also, remember that 5 of the 9 total interceptions were literally caused by Nuk either running the wrong route, letting a DB straight up rip the ball out of his hands, or by him popping the ball up into the air for the DB. It's been a pretty brutal situation for a young QB to step into.
