James Casey's Performance

by JMay on Aug 16, 2011 11:58 PM CDT

What are y'all's thoughts? I've seen it mentioned a couple places that he didn't look great and couldn't move people out of holes (LZ, Kuharsky, one other I forgot).

I watched him specifically on about 90% of the plays and thought he did a damn good job. Not once did he miss a block or lose ground. He was standing people up with a nice collision. No, for the most part he wasn't knocking people backwards between the tackles but honestly I don't remember Vonta doing it a whole lot (between the tackles). Usually it's just a brick wall collision, and I feel like the FB's done his job if he stands the LB up even if he doesn't clear him out.

The two times I saw Casey go wide for a block, he took the guy completely out of the play with a very physical block. Granted, one was a DB, but one was an outside backer.

Just wondering if the comments around town are confirmation bias as Steph was discussing today (ie projecting what you expect to see) or if anyone thought Casey played as well as I thought he did. Then, again, I'm a big Casey fan, so I'm sure I have some confirmation bias of my own.

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He didn't crush people the way Leach does

…but overall I thought he was solid. You would like to see him move his man back a little more, but I felt he “won” most of his blocks in that they went back more than he did…but if they meet him in the hole instead of the second level he needs to be able to create a crease.

I think he did enough to show that the Texans can get creative with him on the field, but still be able to use him as a traditional FB to keep the defense honest. I do think the Texans keep Vickers(or one of the “traditional” FB) on the final 53

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by papabear on Aug 17, 2011 8:45 AM CDT reply actions

I don't think

that Vickers did any better when it came to crushing blocks, so Thor may be our best option. That said, I want to keep them both, they can both help the offensive game in other ways.

by Bobbythegreat on Aug 17, 2011 11:46 AM CDT reply actions

I thought he was ok

He didn’t do anything that wow’d me but didn’t hurt the team either. It’s hard to compare though since Vickers didn’t really get significant FB reps until near the end of the game.

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by Hydroshock on Aug 17, 2011 12:24 PM CDT reply actions