Pardon the Question, but what's with all the batted balls?

SuperDolfan13 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject:

After watching the Texans week 1 game I was thinking the same thing. Then I thought didn't someone already post a thread about that?? So, is it Tanny? The OLine?? Either way it's obvious that this is a major issue. We had the Texans on the ropes until we lost all of our momentum because of deflected pass that turned into turn overs. Good call Merc
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Jaytotha · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:04 pm Post subject:

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IMO, it's not fully in reading the eyes. In at least one of the batted balls he scanned across the field, it's not like he was locked onto the receiver.

If you look at a number of the plays the entire Houston line jumps and/or gets their hands up at the same time. Tannehill needs to throw the odd pump fake and manoeuvre to be throwing through lanes rather than over linemen.
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Jaytotha · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:41 pm Post subject:

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Texans defense had the most batted passes last year.

ovaw8lover · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 8666 Location: Dolphins Stadium

I noticed the batted balls today but was determined not to make it a huge issue until I see a pattern. Since I did not see any of the preseason games, I cannot make a statement on it. But it is in memory in watching next game.
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Daryl · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 463

I think it's an accurate statement to say that the OL, Tannehill and the Texans Defense all contributed to the batted balls. The passing lanes were small throughout the game and you have to credit the Texans Defense. As it was stated earlier they led the league in batted passes last yr. RTizzle has got to do a better job of finding passing lanes until the protection gets better to help his line out and eliminate the batted passes. I will also tell you that I watched Drew Brees get 4 or 5 balls batted down yesterday as well, you might think well Brees is like 6 foot tall OK that's a factor but I also watch 6'5 Josh Freeman have the same issue and these are guys with experience so I would say let's be patient. If RTizzle doesn't have any batted balls this game looks allot different and that is encouraging. For the record Luck threw three picks none from batted balls, Vick threw 4 & Weeden threw 4 and none of his came off batted balls either. We all knew this was going to be hard to watch at times but I do take some positives from this game. The offensive diversity was great to see When we came out in quads with the WR stacked behind each other on both side of the formation I was like WTH are we doing??? That's how shocked I was to see some creativity. I haven't seen us in a formation like that in a long long LONG time. Also you didn't see allot of the same formations back to back to back which was also nice. The defense was good despite defending short fields and we held the Texans to 3 yards a carry on 29 attempts. Yes Andre Johnson had is normal productive day but he is arguably the best WR in the league flip a coin it's him or Megatron in my eyes. He had no larger impact than any of the games that he played us in the past with Vonte to I was able to exhale a little. Where the perfect no but it wasn't a complete disaster either. I would have liked to see Clay be more productive. Reggie ran well it's early but he looks better than he did last yr this scheme fits him like a glove. I hated the Daniel Thomas pick when it was made and I have stated that over and over again but aside from the fumble he looked good he looks faster n more explosive nice catch n run he had he is still to soft for me as a "power back". I'm looking forward to seeing this team progress the team is extremely young 11 rookie or first yr players, that's allot of turn over but the good thing is they will grow together and by mid season should look good baring any major injury

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Not to Post or Pose ????? Sorry I don't get it.

Pastor Dillon · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:35 am Post subject:

The Texans just bat down a lot of balls.....Coach Kubiak said most teams dont allow the D-Line to bat down balls in practice because they want to work on routes and stuff with their WR but the texans encourage it during practice and it shows up on game day

i thought Tannehill looked decent yesterday when he was playing in the shot gun. I think his future is bright
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Mercury22 · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 12329 Location: the 50 yard line

Yep, the batted balls issue is significant. It was a problem through preseason as well. I suspect it was predominately due to offensive line woes and lanes not being opened properly, but I'm not certain.

What I do know is that the batted balls stopped drives and in many ways turned the tide of the game. I think Houston probably would have won anyway, but Miami would have been much more in that game if the ball hadn't been turned over off of those the tips.
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