OL Play

[barrett]

https://www.espn.com/blog/houston-te...ve-lines-fault

I know I went back and forth with a few of you about the Texans OL not being as bad as the sack number indicated due to Watson's style of play and how often similar QBs are sacked.

This article focuses on an NFL Next Gen stat that measures pass block win rate. They call it a win if you hold your block for 2.5 seconds, the amount it takes an NFL QB to throw a pass on average. The Texans as a team were 16th in this metric. The only player they had far below league average was Mancz. Martin was their best.

I don't take this to mean they are good or we didn't need to improve. Obviously our OL and our QB don't match up and we need way more talent on OL if we are going to have a QB that holds the ball longer than anyone else in the NFL. Not having more talent was a front office failure and I'm glad we started addressing that. Hopefully it pays off some this year. But either way the comparison of this OL to the expansion team one was idiotic.