I'm not buying it. They held them to a FG on the opening drive of the second half, and that was the closest thing they got to a "stop" till the very end when the Colts were trying to run out the clock. When you have a 21-3 lead, and then a 24-6 lead through 3 quarters... an average defense should be able to hang on to that lead. The offense moved the ball enough to get said FG attempts, so they weren't all 3 and outs. The playcalling on DEFENSE was terrible... no over the top coverage, not sending any help McCain's way on the nickel coverage, and having guys caught in between blitzing and dropping back in coverage (looking at Swearinger there). Sure, some field goals would have possibly gotten this team to a win... but doesn't change the defensive collapse from the end of the 3rd quarter on... and they've been spotty at some point in every game this year. Its not 2010 level bad, but most playoff teams are going to have more consistent defenses than this one.
Turn out the lights, the partys over! You cant make this stuff up. Texans are riding high going into the half then Kubiak goes down. Why are we cursed? What did we do? Can we have a winner some day?
Maybe a little, but Randy is packing the pounds! He is the Mike Sweeney of Football. How can he be that big and fat and play in the NFL. Shm
The defense gave up 27 points, which isn't good, to a Colts team that actually isn't as good offensively as you probably think. (They are more of a power running team, not a high scoring passing team.) Basically what happened is that in a fluky manner, nothing went right for the Colts in the first half. They couldn't catch anything. Then they came out in the second half and did whatever they wanted.
welp, Cheering injuries and Jokes about the health of human beings reserves spots in hell. so I hear.. I wouldn't know.. I volunteer at soup kitchens and give floss for Halloween.
They scored on two drives that were stopped, courtesy of a "personal foul" that consisted of a push to a receiver's shoulder and a "roughing the passer" that consisted of pushing Andrew Luck a split-second after he released the ball. Have a hard time blaming the defense too much for those. Oh, and then they gained possession for the winning drive after a routine catch from Andre Johnson was overturned.
It's usually pretty much all or nothing with Wade's D. Blitz a lot and put your CBs on an island. If it works, it works really well (first half). If it doesn't work, it's awful (last quarter and a half). I don't think Joseph is bad. But he's not the player he was when he first got here and if you ask him (or any of our CB's) to cover one on one for an entire game with little to no help, he's bound to give up plays here and there.
The only thing more consistent than Marciano's special teams sucking is The Cat blaming the refs after a loss.
Their first half seemed similar to San Diego's second half during the first game of the season. In reality, the best this defense has looked for the entire game was last week in KC... against a pretty suspect offensive team that plays ultra conservatively. Throw out the "they were dejected due to Schaub", throw out the "offense isn't letting them rest", and throw out the "its all the FG kickers' fault" reasoning. The only thing that grants them a reprieve is that Cushing is out... and dating back to LAST season, this defense has been average to below average for a lengthy stretch now, and they're beyond bad in terms of forcing turnovers.
When Randy lined up for that kick was there anyone who actually thought he might make it? Seriously did anyone actually have some hope? Sure as **** not me...
Kubiak collapsing destroyed the teams momentum. I can understand if there minds weren't on the game. I couldn't enjoy it.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>3 missed FGs, terrible punt by Lechler and critical penalty on Mack on punt return late. <a class="hashtag" action="hash" title="#specialteamscollapse">#specialteamscollapse</a></p>— Lance Zierlein (@LanceZierlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/LanceZierlein/status/397226271173644288" data-datetime="2013-11-03T22:58:17+00:00">November 3, 2013</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
They've been making the same personal foul/pass interference/taunting (joseph against baltimore) penalties all seasons... and mostly all of them extend drives. Bad teams make stupid penalties... any one of those penalties called would have been called on the Colts if the roles were reversed. (and hell, the refs let a blatant helmet-to-helmet by Kareem Jackson go uncalled... it led to a concussion for DHB).
So, what if we'd kicked the 33 yd FG on our second drive instead of going for it 4th down? Do you think Bullock makes that one? Would those points have won us the game?
You can make an argument that just behind the qb that the fg kicker is your most important player, the texans fg kicker sucks therefore they suck.
