Upon Further Review: Titans at Texans Grades

These grades seemed much more inflated than we've seen the last few weeks. I didn't think the game was a great all around effort, it was barely a win thanks to the turnovers. I expected far more Bs... Vince did throw an INT and no TDs. Run Defense was suspect... Maybe I'm being too critical, but I'm starting to expect us to beat teams more solidly than that. This last second stuff is happening too much.

 

Good summary Phil.

Glad you gave the D the credit it deserves. 3rd qtr was shaky for a near 6 min drive but holding them to a field goal in the 4th was huge.

As a certified Schwartz basher I find once again I'm unable to rip him for anything. Job well done.:grrr:

 

D is difficult to watch even when successful. Cows are probably the only team that Tennessee could have beat with the D shown sunday. Did not get to Carr enough, of course Carr was throwing about the time his heel hit on his 3 step drop though - lol

 

I hear you 3801 but the D had their best yardage allowed performance of the season limiting the Texans to only 240yds in total. They were 3 of 11 on 3rd downs. That's hard to fault. Consider we're carrying Lamont it's brilliant.

We aren't making it easy on ourselves with these 4th qtr theatrics but to lose the turnover battle 2-0 & still win is not the norm in this league.

We've yet to win convincingly but we're finding ways to win too often to label us lucky to be winning.

 

Keyword here being the Texans. Fluff it up all you want, we still made the Texans look like a pretty good team. Certainly good enough that they almost beat us.

 

The Texans are capable on offense tho. They have several skill positions filled. And they made successful plays, but all for short yardage, so we played to their weakness, which is to take what is given. I thought our strategy worked to perfection. Dayne is a former heisman dude, so we can make fun of 'em, but he's bound to run well on occasion given his god given talent. Plus he looks in shape now. I thought we were solid. Good grades all around. We didn't let them go up top.

 

i've got to disagree with that. i know mathis is a dangerous return guy, but you cant just keep kicking these pop fly kick offs and hope our coverage teams have enough speed to get to him before he gets going.

the texans' average starting position after a kickoff was like the 31 yard line. they started the game tying drive at their 42 yard line.

 

Has anyone noticed if you count all of the games we lost by 7 points or less as wins (cause lets face it if we make a few big plays here or there we could of won those games) we would be sitting at 10-3 rather the 6-7? Two of those games we lost by a point (The Colts and Ravens), one of those we lost by 3 points (Dolphins) and the last one we lost by seven (Jets). Thats only 12 points from having a 10-3 season! This tells me that next year should be a good year because we are few big plays or players away from becoming one of the best teams in the league and plus our confidence level has ent up two fold ever sense VY took control. The teams we lost to by more then seven killed us (Cowboys, Charges, and Jaguars) but they were pre-vince-maturation. Also not to mention we have the hardest schedual in the NFL! We have to feel good about the future. If we can win out, which will be very tough but it's do-able we can carry that momentum into next year. If we win out we will be 9-7. Pretty good for a team who started 0-5.
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VY is the man!