AFC Divisional Playoff G.O.A.T.s: After A Night To Reflect On Jacoby Jones & T.J. Yates

agreed! Jacoby has been around long enough and should have enough “football smarts” to not touch that ball. I think even the kid’s playing little league football know that much…. Jacoby you have disappointed me.

who says that a WR who is a good blocker can’t also be a playmaker? Kevin Walter is a great blocker, but on his routes looking for a pass attempt, he is not scary at all. Jacoby Jones, should I say something about him? While I was praising him for his ability to lay a good block a week ago, today I am saying, enough, and you know why. Keep him if no one else can come in, but the teams has to be looking hard to try to displace him. I use the word displace, because, I don’t want a player who will replace him. I want someone dependable for starters at the punt returning position. Enough of the fumbling, bumbling returner. Can we make a coaching/personnel decision to acquire someone with that qualification to start? See, I will relate the punt returner to how I buy my vehicle. I am tall, so criteria number one is that I have to be able to get in the vehicle comfortably and be able to sit without having my head touch anything, like the ceiling. Simple, right? I can save a lot of time in my car search if I quickly determine if I can fit in the vehicle. Same thing with a punt returner. Determine right away if he can catch a punt! Simple! Simple! Can he catch a punt? Coach Marciano! Coach Kubiak! Put this in your evaluation process! Number one: Can he catch a punt? Then go on to the next step! BTW, based on this criteria, I am eliminating Holliday from further consideration, unless on next inspection, he proves he can catch a punt. I literally do not care if he has cop-speed and can hurdle 7’ fences. If he can’t catch it, he can’t make the team! I am rambling here, but let’s cut it off for now, because most of you have the attention span of a kindergartener when it comes to reading blog posts. I’ll save more for later.

I’d have to take another look, but it looked like the play call was a Hail Mary. No one was underneath. Now should he have run out of bounds after picking up a first down? Absolutely. However…it also did look like Kevin Walter could’ve caught that pass had he turned around and located the ball.

I have been there before, where you just want to be alone for fear you might say or do something you would regret. But no to answer your question, I have not seen any response from him.

Whenever you get hurt in your lower body, you have to rehab physically and mentally. When I broke my ankle, it took a lot of running to give me confidence that my ankle could handle that level of activity. Andre hurt both his hamstrings, I’m not surprised he doesn’t have the confidence to jump as high or run as fast as he used to.

Something may have happened in the Cincy game.

He’ll have a full offseason to work with Vance, Joseph, and Wade. I know Joseph said 90-95% of Texans defender will stay in Houston and train together this offseason, so hopefully Kareem is one of them and really puts in the work. He can hang with possession guys….just needs to work on his ball skills.

I’d still like a veteran to be brought in to challenge Kareem for spot 2. Absolutely need someone solid to bring in.

If he keeps turning his head on deep passes like he did yesterday…

Yup, I particularly noticed that, and a couple of the catches against him were of the gee-whiz variety. Considering how terrified I was of what Flacco would do to him with the deep ball, I was ok with how he played.

It’s basic cornerback technique. When the WR gets past you, you run straight at him and look at his eyes, once they go big (it’s an involuntary brain function that the WR cannot help to do) you turn your head and throw your hands up. 9 times out of 10 you will either disrupt the catch or get a pick. Not to mention you won’t get called for PI’s most of the time since you have your head turned. Frustrating to watch…I don’t know if the coaches are coaching him incorrectly or if he just can’t do what he’s being coached.

Allen tackled him. lulz I think a flag could’ve gone either way on that play. I kind of appreciated the fact that the refs were just letting them play.

You have Leinart under contract already so it makes sense to, at the very least, entertain offers for TJ.

However, what exactly is fair value for TJ? I have a hard time believing that the Texans would be willing to accept less than a 2nd/high-3rd for him, but equally hard seeing a team not feel like they can draft that out-right.

You need to have a solid back-up that can step in on day 1 if Schuab gets hurt. I think TJ has proven that he can do it (despite yesterday’s miscues). With more mentoring and experience, he is the QB of the future. Let’s not forget that he is no longer a rookie and that he did delivered the 1st Cincy win/clinch and then delivered the playoff win.

Thank you.

nooooo…

I wouldn’t let him wash the locker room in fear he would splatter bleach on some “real” player’s uniform.

You have to have some level of brains, instincts and physical ability to play football. I rest my case.

Apologies all around!

Im in!

Even possibly undrafted

Who’s to say any of those INTs are thrown if, instead of the D making a goal line stand there (and losing the battle) we go back on offense and march down the field and go up 10-0?

if Jacoby hadn’t dug us that fricken’ hole up front?

Foster was running great. We could have just run the ball more and limited TJ’s throws if we weren’t behind thanks to Jacoby.

When is the last time Kubiak has ever called out a player for boneheaded plays????

He was pressing and had to pass much more than he should have because the Texans were playing from behind the whole game thanks to Jacoby. You put a rookie, any rookie, in that situation against a defense like Baltimore’s in an environment like that and I think you’re going to get a similar result.

All that’s without even getting into the huge momentum shift which happened after the Jones play—which I’m not getting into because “momentum” is so intangible and some feel it matters while others doesn’t.

The coverage schemes the ravens were using were clearly confusing him. I know he opened up in the 2nd quarter but the entire second half he was just out of it.

Do I really care that we are going to hurt the career development of a kid who exceeded all expectations by benching him?

i doubt that was Koob’s thought. Delhomme doesn’t know the offense as well and, furthermore, is an infamous turnover machine himself. Koob probably always felt TJ gave him the best shot to win.

“Hey Mom, guess what?! Someone else screwed up and and no one yelled at me! No one yelled at me, Mom!”

I told everyone within earshot during the game that we should have played the short game better. Short, high-percentage passes (slants) and swingouts or more screens. When we did that, it seemed like we got a lot of yards. Throwing deep should not have been the strategy, especially with Reed back there.

Living in B1G country, I’ve seen a lot of them on TV and in person…big guys who can run routes and make quick cuts. Toon’s a bit more dynamic, but both come from run-heavy, teach the fundamental schools. Would really like either one.

They’ll look for someone in the 1st round. McNutt isn’t 1st round material.

Plus I think he'll be jumpy with the cameras overhead hoping another one doesn't fall on him

Just make him the WR4 and draft another guy to return punts

I understand there’s no reason to be mean about it, but the time has come to give up on Jacoby.

Rick Smith on the other hand, needs to say our investment vs future investment. Bye Bye Jones

He tends to take too long to see the light. JJ is a failed experiment, not because of “one play” as he puts it, but because of years of mediocrity.

I’m not a dick head. He’ll fail me in camp and not make the roster.

Arian

We have major business to take care of even before draft speculation

if he plays in the post season. or base his pay on how many games he actually plays. Because honestly, it’s folly to pay him monster bucks with no strings attached. He’s been getting injured more often that we like. We shouldn’t have to pay big bucks for him to sit on IR.

I agree. he’s a leader and an excellent player. He demands two people take him out of the play. He’s why Antonio Smith was doing so many sacks before the injury.

If anyone is capable of writing a contract that can satisfy Mario and and the Texans, it will be Rick Smith. The man is a genius when it comes to contracts. The only thing I worry about is how much of a greedy bastard is his agent? Is his agent someone like Namdi Asomougah’s? That guy cost Namdi a great team. OR Namdi cost Namdi a great team ;-).

Either way, so long as the agent isn’t a complete asshole, we should be ok in the negotiations. The playoff run should be a HUGE selling point for Rick Smith to Mario Williams. Mario already knows what type of an organization we run. I think he can trust that if he puts trust in Rick Smith and Mr. McNair, they’ll take care of their star players.

I guarantee you, that Jones will be a Texan in 2011…. as in playing for the Cowpukes

I really think this team needs a good slot receiver for passing situations. That to me is the missing link for the offense

The texans are a young team with depth. No reason to gamble signing suspect players

Was from Kubes’ own after game presser…

http://prod.www.texans.clubs.nfl.com/tv-media/videos/NFL-Network-Texans-postgame-press-conference/00ed627a-1521-4544-a816-361fcb400510

right after the 5:25 mark…

He just got a little lazy with his feet. He took two hitches and wasn’t able to keep Ed Reed at home and he covered a lot of ground and made the play. But the kid got the ball where it was supposed to go. It just got there late."

that makes alot of sense.

and kicks a pretty straight ball most of the time

just needs to get some strength back to push those 50’s better