Two Words: Screen Pass

Maybe they're afraid of jealous jackasses like Ed Reed trying to bend him over backward to take him out of the game and having to watch the refs sit back with their thumbs up their 0-ring not doing anything about it.
(I know I'm not the only one who thought Reed and his cronie CB should have been ejected from the game for that)

 

we need to take a book out of the chargers' gameplan and send him out on the route regardless. tomlinson goes out on a route regardless of whether the linebackers come or not. if they do come and he goes out on a route no one is there to cover him.

 

This is one of the fastest defenses in the NFL, you don't just ignore blitz coverage and send him out. We tried that once and KC had a defender in his face in less than 2 seconds. They deserve to get the credit for nullifying CJ.

 

They did nullify him to an extent, but unfortunately our answer for that which should have worked, didn't work, particularly in the form of:
-Scaife getting hurt
-Gage dropping an easy pass*
-KC under throwing a pass meant for Britt, right into the hand of Polamalu
-every aspect of special teams


At least the refs didn't make one bad call after another (there were a few but not many), and at least we didn't rack up 90 yards in penalties like last time.

*Gage more than made up for it but you still can't be dropping easy passes like that.

 

Remember that play where Woodley hit Kerry's arm as he was throwing it? That was supposed to be a short pass to CJ. They had to keep him in to block or Kerry would have been killed.

 

I don't think you get it. CJ was wide open because Woodley was all over Kerry. It doesn't really matter how open CJ gets if Kerry is on his back. However, I think the Steelers are one of the few teams that can take the screen out of play because of their upfield rush. Expect the Texans to get a large dose of CJ.