Official Texans vs. Panthers Game Thread, 12/18/2011

popanot · #1 12-19-2011, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Joshua

I'm wondering if T.J. is hurt more than the team is telling. He was listed as probable for the game with a right elbow injury. Not sure what the injury is, but, to me, the entire game plan looked like a team trying to cover up a QB who's arm isn't right. Very run heavy with virtually no strikes downfield.

Might be that he just has a sore arm from the increased reps he's seeing in practice and in games. I didn't notice any less zip on the ball. As for the run, Carolina came into the game with one of the worst run defenses in the league, so I don't find it too shocking that they went with a heavy dose of Foster and Tate. The run was working for the most part. Wish they would've used the run more in the redzone.

NBT · #2 12-19-2011, 05:48 PM

Hell, it wasn't any big mystery, Carolina's gameplan was to shut down the run on 1st & second down, and then drop the LB'ers way back in zone on 3rd down, so they could trap T.J. Terrible into throwing into coverage. And he obliged them bigtime! What pissed me off was that Kubiak should have known this was going to happen, and do his own gameplanning accordingly. Kubiak says it wasn't a trap game, but you can make your own conclusions.

Nconroe · #3 12-19-2011, 08:01 PM

You realize we had 358 yds offense to 318 for Carolina. About 150 yds on ground, but due to turovers giving up field position we were playing from behind.

Then 3rd down conversions weren't happening to stop our scoring chances

Seven wins in a row is a pretty good accomplishment.

I might be wrong but I think we had like 36 passes to 25 runs so we didn't really have two runs for one pass.

Another part of problem was penalties making it long distance on third down including that one weird play where Walters got knocked out of bounds then caught the ball for first down on 10 that got brought back for a 5 yard penalty on about 45.

Then while it was a bad day for TJ perhaps, we are 3 wins out of 4 games without Schaub. I guess Chicago and Colts would love that with their backup QB.