You are wrong on all counts.
No I did not backpedal and did not lie.
You mean the two sacks he gave up. Given the critical nature of sacks and how they stop drives, I think that constitutes a bad game. What would make it a bad game for you? Giving up 4 sacks? 2 is ok?
And it wasn't just the sacks. He gave up pressures as well and was invisible in the run game.
You said, provide some facts, I did. You take exception that the article is from Ben Volin, even though Volin has no bone to pick with Andrews and I don't know why you think his analysis or breakdown would be biased. And infact I just pulled up the game and watched the two sacks he mentioned again and Andrews got badly beaten.
No it doesn't. He specifically pointed out Andrews. I'll post it again since you missed it.
"By lining up the two players next to each other, the Texans were able to get a 1-on-1 matchup for Mercilus on center David Andrews, and Mercilus beat him badly for two sacks with his power and speed. "
Are you kidding me. Are O-Line blew it badly. Brady was pressured all night. We had only 50 yards on the ground. He was forced into errant throws, giving up 2 ints. He was sacked multiple times. And we finally pulled ahead by throwing up some low percentage long balls that were pulled down and how well the Defense played for us. O-Line sucked badly. They were completely outmatched.
Here's some articles to refresh your memory
NFL playoffs: Tom Brady survives a beating as Patriots eventually rout Texans
And don't take my word for it. Here's the transcript from BB and TB themselves.
New England Patriots Postgame Transcripts 1/14
BB "They did a good job. Defensively they gave us a lot of problems. We had six first-downs in the first half. We threw up a couple of prayers and came down with them, made a couple of good catches with Chris [Hogan] and Julian [Edelman]. We just didn't have any consistency at all offensively, couldn't run it or throw it very well."
And here's Brady specifically saying it was bad execution in defending against pressure up the middle. Obviously he's not going to name Andrews and throw him under the bus, but this is as close as it gets.
Q: Were there some things, particularly the pressure up the middle from Whitney Mercilus, that maybe you didn't anticipate?
TB: Yeah, they tried that against us last year and had a little success, so I think we were prepared for it. We just didn't do a great job executing. The turnovers obviously hurt us quite a bit, so we've got to try to tighten those things up this week.
Q: What are you taking away from the mistakes made tonight?
TB: I think we've just got to learn from it. I think this team did a great job playing against us. They had some good scheme stuff that worked. They have good rushers and they had some good guys in coverage, so they had a pretty good scheme. It was a lot of things, and then when you add our poor execution on top of that, then you add our turnovers on top of that, it doesn't feel great because we worked pretty hard to play a lot better than we played. I give them a lot of credit, but we're going to have to play better on offense.
BB and TB don't sound like our O-Line was rocking it against Houston. If you don't like Volin's breakdown or Breech and CBS Sports, in the articles I posted, maybe you'll trust BB and TB that our O-Line played badly, leading to a non-existent run game, and sputtering passing game due to Brady constantly being under pressure.
