Quote:WTH happened with Schaub  that last year in Houston, anyhow?

 

He had always been decent at avoiding turnovers, but then all of a sudden he had this seemingly endless string of devastating pick 6 INTs that simply devastated the Texans.  I mean, Garrard had a 3 game stretch for us back in 2006 where he ruined our playoff chances.  Schaub's stretch was about 10 games or so.

 

Was there some sort of injury nobody knew about or what?

 

Most people think it was his foot. After Haynesworth broke Schaub's Lisfranc, he struggled to push off/plant on it. Which affected his accuracy. We knew it was a degenerative condition which would get worse as the season went on. However, no one expected it to be an issue from game 1 (he actually had two great games to start the 2013 season, pick 6 & all, but fell off drastically after that). This may have been due to going through the entire offseason program, something he didn't do in 2012. & the problem didn't show up until December that year. If you remember, we were tearing through the NFL that year, 12-1 at one time, then lost our last four. 

 

I think that we put more pressure on him to be the guy to carry the team. All offseason, if it wasn't our coach saying Schaub needed to step up, it was our GM, if it weren't them, it was our owner... fans been saying long before that. I think he was trying to hard. Instead of taking what the defense was giving him, he was trying to make plays, responding to the pressure he & the organization put on him. He had never been good under pressure, especially when he's got time to think about it. 

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