(09-17-2019, 02:53 AM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote:

(09-17-2019, 02:28 AM)Eric1 Wrote: They went straight down the field on their last two drives, thanks to Minshew. 61 yard drive that ended in a field goal, then a 68 yard drive that ended in the TD.

But no Marrone had to take the ball out of the hands of Minshew, who was red hot and give it to one of the worst RBs in the NFL on that 2pt attempt. I have no doubts they win that game if they keep the ball in Minshew's hands and let him 

This is how I look at it. In the 2nd half.. the Texans largest drive was 30 yards. They punted the ball 4 times and scored 1 TD. That 1 TD was off a fumble from Minshew which gave the ball to the Texans at the 11 yard line. No way you can even consider faulting the defense there. Completely dominated the second half. The defense was on fire. First half, the Texans punted the ball 3 times and had 2 nice drives but only came away with 6 total points. 3 of which were the cause of Marrone not challenging a clear drop. Net to me is a total of 3 actual points given up by the defense. They were damn near shutting out the Texans in their place. The team is built around the defense, you can't disrespect them like that in that spot. 

The first drive in which Minshew drove down for a FG 39 yards were picked up by 3nette on short dinky passes. He did however connect on a beauty to Conley for 31, but I wouldn't really consider him on fire. The last drive was very nice, no doubt. It did take them 14 plays to get 63 yards, and got to remember Fournette BARELY got that 4th down. TBH if I recall the spot on 3rd down was pretty generous for us, and I think we all thought the refs were going to overturn Fournette getting that 1 yard on 4th down when O'brien challenged it. We also need to remember that the Oline was getting their [BLEEP] handed to them and Minshew had 3 fumbles. In a tight space, I'm going with the Texans D line against our O line. 

When I put that all together, IMO it's a no brainer you don't disrespect your defense who was shutting the Texans down and beating them up. Hell, maybe even Watson tries to go for something and we get a pick 6 and never even go into OT. I just think it was just a desperate attempt to claim "I'm big man on campus, I run this and I am going for 2 the hell with my defense."

There was nothing wrong with going for 2 points there. I even said during that last drive, that they should go for 2, if they get the TD.

It's the actual play call on that 2pt attempt that was stupid. As you just said, just a little bit prior, Fournette could barely get 1 yard on a 4th down attempt. I thought the game was over right there because I didn't think the refs would give it to us. It was really, really close, even after the generous 3rd down spot.

So what do they do? Go right back to Fournette on the biggest play of the game, when he didn't do anything rushing the football all game. He had what, 1 decent 19 (or something like that) yard run in which he just ran straight into Gipson and just fell over. Any half way decent RB takes it to the house and scores on that play.

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