Texans cut Phillip Lindsay

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

You seem stuck on this idea that if he "can't" pass block then that means the Chiefs will only bring him in for run plays, thus telegraphing the plays. That's bum**** reeruned and in no way indicative of how the Chiefs call plays.

In fairness - that IS kinda how Gore has been used.

Right at half the snaps he's been in for have been handoffs to him. That's a pretty hard 'tell'.

But as we've kicked around in the various "Chiefs are a power running team now that Patrick Mahomes is ass and the Cover 2 cannot be beaten" threads, it just doesn't take all that many times running the football to scare teams. The inverse would also be true. If you're throwing the ball even half the time Lindsay is in the backfield, that's going to be good enough to keep teams from truly selling out to beat it.

Moreover, they're just not going to dedicate much in the way of valuable practice reps trying to deal with stretch plays to Lindsay and diagnosing same.

There's no reason to worry about tells here.