Thread: Texans will double Marshall

Holy ****, these last two posts made me laugh. With all that's been said, it's really cool all Texan fans that have come here have been insightful and pretty cool about the whole thing. If they brag after a win, that's cool too, and it changes my view of almost getting jumped after the '08 game by drunken idiots (note:if you go to a football game on the road alone, KNOW where you're getting picked up at and walk/run to it, lol. My escape coulda been a funny bit on tv). Also, i agree completely with jackie, that we don't need the deep pass;get the ball to whoever is 5 or ao yards down, run w forte/allen/bell, rinse and repeat.

As the season has worn on, Cutler has actually targeted Marshall a little bit less and the others more, or at least that was the case through the Jacksonville game. I think there were some games where Cutler would target Marshall 15+ times, and now he's only doing so 10-12 times per game. I am like the rest of you, though, in that I hope Tice does a better job of "spreading the wealth," or in other words, tap into his inner Communist.

Marshall and Bennett are both very dependable receivers. It's Hester I'm always concerned with and they keep starting him over Bennett so I guess I'll just have to stay concerned. I guess one of the games he may actually do something that makes him a hero but pardon me if I don't hold my breath.

Bennett seldom drops a catchable ball and I'll cut Marshall some slack because he's always targeted a lot and he has to make some very tough grabs at times with guy hanging all over him. Sometimes a few of those will slip away but he makes far more big plays than not.

This game, and come to think of it most games, we need to be using Forte and Bush more as receivers than we have been. That's the biggest difference I see between Martz style and Tice's and it's also one of the biggest flaws in Tice's game plans. We don't throw enough to our backs.

Davis spent some extra time taking throws after that big drop against the Lions and it paid off in the next game. We have to throw to him so just do it. He can't catch a pass that's never thrown so throw to him and see what happens especially when we're within scoring range. The guy is a TD machine yet Tice seems to ignore that more often than not just like Martz often did.

Cutler won't get much time to throw on Sunday night so whatever Tice has dialed up it should happen quickly. Speed won't do much good it's gonna be dependent on the physical nature of our receivers out muscling guys to get open and make the grab. Tight windows and quick hard passes that are tough to defend.

Bennett is going to have a monster game tomorrow.