First, the gruesome injury to the Texans receiver. I just wonder if there is some way they can make sure receivers know how not to run into their teammates diving for plays, or something. Seriously. Just like how they train tacklers to not do certain things in tackling -- for the health and safety of both runner and tacklers -- can't they do something about how to have receivers run routes or know where they need to go to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I know these kinds of things are freak things, and that is the reality of professional football. But is there something -- I'm always great with anything that helps protect the players.
Second, put away all that plap about the refs favoring the Chiefs. The Texans' first touchdown featured an obvious hold on their guy, yet in the Chiefs series just before they called a total phantom hold on Trey Smith. Their tight end caught the ball wide open at the goal line, and right after that a shower of boos rained down from the Arrowhead crowd. Huh.
Turns out they knew: the replay showed the tight end fully shoving the defender out of the way to spring himself open to make the catch. Guh.
Third, Xavier Worthy was on fire. Having Marquis Brown in there and DeAndre Hopkins making more of his amazing short connection catches has really opened up this offense. And just a nod to Andy Reid making it all happen -- his play calling for this game was a million times better than that of the last two games. The times he got Samaje Perine in the mix for huge gains was sweet. It was also good to see him go with Kareem Hunt after Isiah Pacheco just wasn't getting as untracked as he should have.
Patrick seemed to be fine on the bad ankle, he even had some fine runs including one long scramble bonanza for a touchdown.
On to Pittsburgh for Christmas Day!
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The photo is from Evan Sanders at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.
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