CJGJ would have been such a better choice than Savage. Savage is bad at football. CJ is decent in coverage, but a fucking bully at the LOS. That's what we need.
ESPN:
"Each of the Texans' three losses has been by 7 points or less. At minimum, according to team sources, Gardner-Johnson has allowed three big plays in those games that have contributed to the opposing offense scoring touchdowns, adding that Gardner-Johnson has struggled to consistently guard the correct opposing player when required to "match coverage" based on the Texans' defensive call and the routes run by the offense, struggles that also occurred during walk-throughs in the lead-up to games.
During Houston's Week 1 matchup against the
Los Angeles Rams, quarterback
Matthew Stafford threw a 13-yard touchdown to tight end
Davis Allen, who ran a corner route into the end zone, which Gardner-Johnson was responsible for. Texans cornerback
Kamari Lassiter tried to clean up the coverage bust but wasn't able to run down Allen. Houston lost the game 14-9.
In Week 2,
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback
Baker Mayfield threw an over route to wideout
Ryan Miller for a 20-yard touchdown on the game's opening drive. The Texans were in Cover-2, which required Gardner-Johnson to cover the deep right half of the field. He instead jumped a 10-yard in-breaking route from Buccaneers wideout
Sterling Shepard, exposing the deep half for the Miller scoring reception. The Texans lost 20-19.
Last week against the
Jacksonville Jaguars, Gardner-Johnson made a crucial mistake with the game knotted 10-10 late in the fourth quarter, jumping an out-breaking route by
Parker Washington when he was responsible for anything over the middle of the field, Jaguars quarterback
Trevor Lawrence pounced on the mistake, hitting receiver
Brian Thomas on a post for a 46-yard reception down to Houston's 10-yard line against man-to-man coverage.
Houston would allow Jaguars running back
Travis Etienne to score a play later in an effort to preserve time for a game-rallying drive. But the damage was done and the Texans were unable to find the end zone, falling 17-10.
Compounding the coverage busts, Gardner-Johnson has refused to take responsibility for his mistakes, rubbing his teammates the wrong way, sources added, with one member of the team saying Gardner-Johnson "finger-pointed" instead of owning up to the mistake."
The Houston Texans released veteran safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson on Tuesday.
www.espn.com
Yikes. No way we need that on the field or especially in the locker room.