I thought I noticed a lot of interesting alignments and movement along the defensive front. So, I went back and charted every play in the first half of the game. Here are the observations I thought were interesting:
In 41 plays:
Texans Defense played Nickel all 41 first half plays (a key to the game)
9 blitzes in 41 plays (always 5 rushing)
0 DB blitzes.
Texans played a 3-3 alignment on 6 plays. They blitzed 4 of 6 times out of that alignment and dropped 8 players into coverage twice. They never rushed 4 men when in the 3-3 defense (Nickel version of 3-4).
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