Plenty of blame to go around, time to lay some smack down!

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Fairly conclusively: the blitz was not a limiting factor on the defense in this game. If anything, it was necessary: the Texans OT duo played a great game, to the point where no stunt = no pressure on Schaub. All the pressure in this game came from between the tackles, vs. the backs and guards. And there was a ton of it from all angles.

We got killed on the same routes while rushing six as we did while rushing four. We might need to call better coverages maybe, but we ran a bunch of different zone coverage variants and disguised a lot of what we did: we just couldn't stop the Texans from running the routes they wanted to run. They did whatever they wanted to against us.

The solution might ultimately include using man coverage more. We just haven't played very much man coverage yet, and we're bad at reading route combinations at zone. That's a problem that went back to last year.

Couldn't be happier with the pressure schemes, but the pass defense, as a unit, still sucks.