[Direckshun]

First half of the Texans game:

• The defensive playcalls early in the game are delicious. First drive, Spags sends a blitz that I'm seriously going to have to take a picture of and share on CP. He sends five players but DROPS Frank Clark and Chris Jones into coverage, and they actually have to criss-cross each other to get to their assignments. Absolutely wild. (The play was nullified by a false start from the LT.)
• NFL GamePass is absolutely ruining their All 22 footage by putting all the Special Teams plays out of order.
• Toub really is using Hardman as an edge rusher on FG attempts. On the missed FG, Kpassagnon hurdles his dude and DOD breaks through to pressure the kick.
• Prior to his injury, Saunders was getting owned pretty much every snap.
• Okafor outplays Kpassagnon in the first half. Kpass did not have a good first half -- he had his passrush stopped by a TE on a play.
• Danna on his first play perfectly reads a screen pass and works his way out to make a play. He misses the tackle; but it's a good heads up on a rookie's first snap.
• That's also the same snap in which we lose Saunders. Wharton gets his first snap the next down. Danna's playing and so is Sneed on that first down -- a huge presence by the rookies in this game!
• On that play with Wharton/Danna/Sneed on the field, David Johnson had his TD run. The play is run away from Danna, but Wharton was erased by the OG and Sneed took a bad angle. Correctable error by Sneed, and to be honest it was a hard turn to make.
• Anthony Sherman is such a damn hammer. 2nd drive of the game they pull a CEH out of I formation and Sherman stones JJ Watt.
• The difference between CEH and Darrel the Barrel is hysterical. Barrel looks like he's running in the damn mud by comparison.
• The triple screen thing they ran with the fake to the right with Hardman and to the left with CEH and ultimately to Kelce up the gut was an absolute beaut.
• Man, the versatility required to play tackle in Reid's system... Eric Fisher spends almost all his time handling edge rushers but on some run plays may have to erase a nose tackle. That's a lot to ask of any one athlete.
• Mahomes visibly pissed Robinson drops that twisty TD throw of his.
• CEH is straight up Priest Holmes when it comes to setting up the block.
• Wylie gets destroyed by JJ Watt throughout this game, but more than handles everybody else he plays against. Watt had a damn good game and looks healthy -- he was even giving Schwartz fits.
• Wharton is the fastest DT we have. Plays with good strength too -- he's in on the 2 minute drill at the end of the first half, and the Texans run right at him. Wharton shoves Fulton back into the RB and the run is for no gain.