HOUSTON (SportsRadio 610) -- Who knew the Texans defensive backs could rush the passer like that?
The Texans brought pressure by blitzing safeties Lonnie Johnson and Justin Reid, who picked up his first career sack in Sunday's 27-20 win against the Patriots.
It was a rare and welcomed sight, considering it was the Johnson and Reid, who refer to themselves as an "evil twin" pairing, getting home to Cam Newton and forcing an incompletion on 4th down with just over a minute left in the game.
"Beware of the evil twins, man. They were really focusing on blocking me or Lonnie (Johnson) and one of us was coming free every time," Reid said of the play. "Lonnie initially came free, was able to get him off the mark, and then I had got off my block off a chip release, and then we both came together and made the tackle on him. So it's definitely one of our favorite pressures from the safety position."
Reid later mentioned how the safety blitz had not been called often, but interim head coach Romeo Crennel explained they went with it because it was clearly working.
"Because it was effective, sometimes that double-edged pressure you bring it and the quarterback has nowhere to go, and so now he gets a little antsy and doesn't know exactly where he wants to throw the ball," Crennel said. "Particularly if he had a deep route called, so now he's got to look for the short outlet guy, and when you're able to get him to throw it to the short outlet guy, if you don't get him on the ground, then you rally up and make the tackle on those guys. So we were doing some of that."
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