And I hope they use this as motivation in the offseason. Get in that film, work on your technique, and take more ownership. You can never count on the refs because they always fukk you. AND QUIT MISSING TACKLES ON D
You absolutely can say in any situation where a team got screwed that if they did x or y or z different they win. In any sport.
Schultz couldn't block a hot fart in a wet paper bag. At some point you have to stop asking him to block when you know he's no more of an obstacle than a wad of tissue paper. He either needs to be running a route or standing on a sideline. Choose to go with 5 man protection or bring in a 6th lineman but you can't ask Schultz to pass protect. Or run block. It's like when someone asks you to do something you don't want to do. So you intentionally do a bad job in hopes that they never ask you to do it again. That's Dalton Schultz with blocking. Except BoBo never seems to quite catch on that Schultz is a liability in pass protection.
The best he can do is chip an edge guy while going out on a pattern, or lock up the blitzing DB on the outside while the OT takes the outside rusher. You shouldn't ask a player to do what he's not equipped or trained to do.
The Texans could have played the cleanest of games. Where you lose the argument about their own messups is that Mahomes is allowed to actually hunt for penalties and endanger defenders.
Mahomes = Curry Soft and manufactured superstar who is bailed out by refs constantly to maintain the winning aura... Not saying play dirty, but hit him early on purpose hard that will cause a penalty but not seriously injure him. Make him think about it... just have to do it when those 15 yards are still 60 yards away from the endzone... and on 1st or 2nd down...
With all the gambling now being encouraged by the nfl, don't know how they let any official with such a record do a playoff game for that team. It's just asking for people to wonder if their product is rigged....
Brevin Jordan, Cade Stover and British Brooks will be back and in that situation again I'm sure a combination of one of those tight ends with Brooks as the fb will be able to block a defensive end we'll enough to keep him from getting to the quarterback.
The most difficult part of the loss is not seeing this team play for another 7 months. I can't even feel bad about how the defense played. Gave it their all going 11 against 14 on offense. And the skilled positions on offense moved the ball against the best defense left in the playoffs. Dell or Diggs would have feasted from the attention Nico was getting. Next year if we have 3 wr studs and the AFC south won early, I'd like two of them to sit out every other game.
Officiating is a serious issue in the NFL. The emphasis should be on consistency. Anderson barely "nicks" Mahomes and it is a penalty; Goff has his head almost taken off and it isn't a penalty. Critical calls like these are turning points in championship games. This can't be allowed to continue.
Ray Charles could see that the Texans are an undisciplined team. They make stupid mistakes at critical times. Take away the dumb mistakes yesterday and they advance. Or not, the prejudice of the refs was a huge factor. Both these issues need to be addressed.
Wasn't Bobby a pff guy. He should be imploring to Demeco that a 55 yrd fg, in those conditions against that specific team is gifting Mahomes automatic points. That was my only beef with Ryans. It was a monumental mistake or just blind confidence on Fairbairn. Oh and no changing the coverage on Taylor's boy toy. Nothing wrong with that btw
Anyone else notice the play near the end where cj handed off and ended up on the ground then the defender put his full weight on him and pushed down on his back while getting up? Seemed like a more egregious thing to call than either Mahomes call. It was completely unnecessary and preventable.
I was definitely screaming at TV for Omenihu (jacka$$) to get off of CJ... I may have used a few more choice words... My 11 year old daughter may never recover. Yes, def saw it and clearly only 1 QB was being protected during that game.
