I think Mercilus has earned some more playing time. He has made some really good plays in limited action.
Love it! Defense stuffed a very good run game cold! Mario's all-out revenge game effort was a flop! Big game from Andre and the other receivers! Not happy with another D- outing from special teams, but I'll tolerate it as long as they don't cost us wins. Kubiak could also stand to re-evaluate his decision making at the end of first halves. 7-1
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Sack by Whitney Mercilus ends the game. Rookie 1st-round pick has 2 sacks, 2 FF in the last 2 games <a class="hashtag" action="hash" title="#Texans">#Texans</a></p>— Nick Scurfield (@NickScurfield) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickScurfield/status/265197718081777664" data-datetime="2012-11-04T21:03:57+00:00">November 4, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
whitney the cruel, also known as whitney the merciless with 2 huge plays to seal the deal for the houston TITANS! The offense bounced back nicely after setting football back a century in the first half. Kind of sad that the national guys appreciate our qb more than local idiots. I guess kubiak doesn't trust graham to kicky a 50 yarder. Wish we had the polish cannon .
It really annoyed me. Like he is doing it on purpose. This isn't the first time he has done it. How do you even make that mistake? the mistake would be calling them the houston oilers. Weird.
The reward/risk factor at that point in the game wasn't worth the field goal. Either way the Bills would need two TDs. The only affect would be on what type of extra point to go for. Kubiak has enough confidence in the defense that they wouldn't be giving up two TDs in the last 4 minutes when they hadn't given up one the entire game.
I was thinking the same thing. Impressive! Seems like Watt hit him on nearly every dropback in the second half. Although he only got 1 sack to show for it, he was a factor the whole second half unlike that other guy we used to rely on who was a complete zero on pass rush after his sack that was practically gift wrapped to him by Newton. I wonder how much of that 100 million Mario payed him to turn him completely lose to the inside on a pass play lol. Hmmm :grin:
4th down and you went for it instead of the FG, why? I'm trying to ask myself that. I'll tell you why I went for it: We had a FG blocked. That concerns me. If we kick off, we have to kick off to 2 great returners. It was a hard one(decision). We felt they could not go the distance on our but if they block the FG or get kickoff return on us, ...I'm nervous.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Kubiak on why he went for it on 4th down: We had a field goal blocked and we'd have to go up against some big returners. <a class="hashtag" action="hash" title="#TexansGameday">#TexansGameday</a></p>— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonTexans/status/265202708703764480" data-datetime="2012-11-04T21:23:47+00:00">November 4, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> translation: our ST sucks
It was also only 4th and 5. If it was significant yardage to go for the first, his decision making pattern would have changed.
