Matt Weston:
Saturday night’s loss was the perfect encapsulation of this 2016 season. If you could point to one game, one singular game, you would pick this one to provide a back-of-the-book summary to contextualize the complexity and movement of these last eighteen weeks of life. Again, Romeo Crennel had an incredible game plan, again the defense trampled and attacked, and again the offense and special teams were lifeless sores, something that had been popped weeks ago, but still remained, blemishing and tarnishing skin.
Crennel is a genius. Because of the difficulty of exterior rushes getting to Tom Brady in enough to time to frustrate him, and the lack of talent on the Texans’ line to generate a rush on the interior, Crennel moved Whitney Mercilus and Jadeveon Clowney to inside linebacker.