Plenty of blame to go around, time to lay some smack down!

[tryfuhl]

Cooley explains how you control both gaps on a FG

D.C. Sports Bog - How to block two guys on a field goal

[MTK]

Exactly what I was talking about. All he had to do was get a shove on him to knock him off his path to the ball.

[tryfuhl]

the Tripp and I eat crow

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

I seriously doubt FD will do it again... lesson learned

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

1. Gano...come on man, stop biting on them jedi mind tricks
2. Reed...because its fun
3. Joey Galloway...dude right through the hands

A ball moving right over top of the helmet is the hardest catch in football to make. I cannot fault Galloway for that.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by Angry

A ball moving right over top of the helmet is the hardest catch in football to make. I cannot fault Galloway for that.

tough catch for sure...but like that my other two i criticized, Gano and Reed, the plays were there to be made, but we couldnt make'm. All these were plays which could have sealed victory.....any of the 3 would have done.

0 for 3 on make-able plays were fail. so we are 1-1, but at crunch time good teams make at least one of them. We need to continue to improve the roster.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

Cooley explains how you control both gaps on a FG

D.C. Sports Bog - How to block two guys on a field goal

Davis clearly makes some sort of effort to get in Pollard's way, however ineffective. I think most special teams coaches would tell you that they don't block the outside guy, though on this play, Pollard was pretty flat in his pursuit of the kick.

I thought the alignment looked a bit odd before the kick, though anytime (including this one) that the outside guy blocks the kick, the kicker's timing HAS to be at fault. He shouldn't get there quick enough.

[tryfuhl]

yeah he just missed his punch

someone mentioned that Pollard has had a history of being effective on the rush against the FG

[diehard]

The blocked FG isn't an issue if Haslett knew what he was doing.

[tryfuhl]

every play counts..

[diehard]

They'll lose to STL if they don't do something different. Teams do watch film and that's likely a half time adjustment HOU made.

[tryfuhl]

I think that with what we did vs Houston we'd beat STL, doesn't mean you don't correct your mistakes though.

[GTripp0012]

Fairly conclusively: the blitz was not a limiting factor on the defense in this game. If anything, it was necessary: the Texans OT duo played a great game, to the point where no stunt = no pressure on Schaub. All the pressure in this game came from between the tackles, vs. the backs and guards. And there was a ton of it from all angles.

We got killed on the same routes while rushing six as we did while rushing four. We might need to call better coverages maybe, but we ran a bunch of different zone coverage variants and disguised a lot of what we did: we just couldn't stop the Texans from running the routes they wanted to run. They did whatever they wanted to against us.

The solution might ultimately include using man coverage more. We just haven't played very much man coverage yet, and we're bad at reading route combinations at zone. That's a problem that went back to last year.

Couldn't be happier with the pressure schemes, but the pass defense, as a unit, still sucks.

[SirClintonPortis]

It's obvious that the defense is vulnerable to play action. Houston employed that strategy in OT last week.

We're facing an elite back in Steven Jackson next week, so they better dig deep.

[tryfuhl]

deja vu?

on the 3-10 completion to Andre Johnson for 29 yards