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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory
This whole Hail Mary take is wrong. First off, it was an interesting call by Ryans. Probably a large factor in why AR left the pocket so soon, which was the crux of the issue. He took off in like 2 seconds.
Smith - Hunter starts at the 49 and Smith carries him all the way to the 36 when he just runs lateral because AR took off. I don't know where else Smith is supposed to take him.
Tucker - He basically had nothing to do. Anderson is lined up beyond the wide-9, like out in the slot. He's the only one who might engage him, but when AR rolls out, Anderson stops going up field and goes straight lateral.
Kelly - Takes Autry head-on, who then collides a bit with JT because...
Nelson - Assists Kelly and shoves Autry into JT. This comes after he drops and sees that Hewitt is not coming with the rush. Right when he helps, Anderson comes straight lateral across the line right when he sees AR leaving the pocket.
Raimann - I guess you can criticize him most on the OL? He's dropping like Nelson, sees that Hewitt isn't coming, and slides inside to help, then Anderson comes whizzing by laterally and he doesn't get a hand on him. Doesn't see him coming because he's blocking for a QB in the pocket.
Ultimately, Hunter and especially Anderson barely have to engage the OL because they just run completely around them and meet at AR who ran away from his blockers. He had a pocket to work with.
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So AR was supposed to go 7 step drop back into the pocket? At the snap- yeah seems like maybe that is the call- but he's supposed to stay there when Smith is absolutely getting fucking schooled by Hunter? Ok, great, stay in the pocket, it's then a 1.8 second play- as Hunter puts him on his fucking back! He vacates because Smith is getting smoked and he sees it happening so he goes left to try to get some time to set and launch.
Yeah, I agree, interesting and good scheme by the Texans to overload and basically force AR to go left which is going to require more time to plant and launch= smart- which would again to me, says that Shane Steichen isn't as good as the opposing coach.
No, sorry, Nelson got schooled too. He didn't need to help- there were fucking 6 dudes to cover up 3 rushers! FUCK! 6 vs 3 and no extra blitzers coming in a gap- fucking catch the dude crossing you- it isn't that deep. So we needed 3 to block Autry (not that JT does absolutely fucking anything- which is common for him in the passing game). If so, then hell yeah shame on Ballard for letting a dude that needs 3 blockers go (which I think we've all been pissed he let him go...).
Just a disgrace. None of these dudes should be excused for how shitty they played, none of them.