He’s missing his bye week. It’s only right that he should get at least a couple of days.
Doesn’t he have a new baby? Maybe this is a paternity couple days.
Smart move by Dan/Brad, allow his family to get moved and settled. I’m actually okay if they give him Sunday off.
Yep no bye week…he’s 32. Plus we are winning the super bowl. This dude needs a breather. We got 12 games to go. And he’s already played 9.
He has a 4 year old
Give him two this week and two next week.
Play him in situations where he can pin his ears back and get after the QB until he grasps the defense. Which won’t take but a few weeks.
Houstons Offensive line is horrible. Even if Smith is a healthy scratch this week. Im ok with it.
They have definitely struggled this year… Paschal gives them some relief, hopefully we don’t see Muhammad/Houston the rest of season.
Houstons biggest problem is the interior part of their o-line.
Reader and McNeil should feast.
Stroud isn’t mobile either… Pressure up the middle is a pocket QB’s worst nightmare
I actually think it’s more of a Levi/Wingo (hopefully he plays) game. I’m one of McNeil’s biggest fans, and while he’s great at getting pressure and speeding up the QB’s timer, he lacks that inescapable forward thrust to finish the job. He’s created so many sacks for others as the QB escapes - including Hutch - but I doubt he’ll ever be a big sack guy himself. And Reader even less so.
That’s why bolstering the edge was so important… Especially when we play Josh Allen/Jayden Daniels/Patrick Mahomes/Caleb Williams type QBs
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Well deserved. Busy week for him. Just another example of Brad and Dan trying to do the best they can by their players. Can you imagine how nice that must have been to arrive on a plane and the car is there to take to you the facility; and then a nice hotel for two days?
And here I even threw in the word inescapable to try and escape the sexual connotation. I should have known better.
Made it worse.
Yep. We could get by with an electric 3T like Donald, Kancey, etc… but Levi and Wingo are really our only guys like that, and they’re not on the same level as those guys. At least not yet. And they don’t play from inside as frequently since Alim and Reader get most of the reps in there.
In hindsight, I should have suspected any sentence with the word ‘thrust’ in it will instantly activate the caveman brain. Even a sentence like: “How to pronounce ‘thrust’.”
I’ve got your thrust pronunciation right here, baby.
Someone posted a breakdown of Wingo earlier in the season… It was quite revealing how effective he is already, even being undersized. I’m very excited to see him develop