Has any player not involved in a criminal investigation suffered a fall more hard and fast in the last two years than Matt Schaub? At the start of last year, Schaub was the quarterback of the Houston Texans, who were penciled into the playoffs at worst, Super Bowl at best.
You may remember what happened next. Schaub started handing out pick-sixes like the cool house slinging full-size candy bars on Halloween. Things turned so ugly so quickly that his own fans cheered his injury, and so he departed for Oakland. Surely he'd be able to start for the woeful Raiders, right?
Not so. The Raiders decided to go with rookie Derek Carr, who's proven surprisingly serviceable for a team that still hasn't won. Schaub entered the game early on a fake field goal attempt and, well, it didn't go well.
Schaub wasn't helped by the fact that the Raiders couldn't have telegraphed the fake more if they'd written it on the side of a blimp. Still, having an NFL quarterback handling your fake play is better than having the punter try it, right?
Maybe not. Schaub was by no means the reason why Oakland lost to Cleveland; shoot, he doesn't even make the top 10. But this play is a further reminder that the NFL game is a cruel, capricious thing.
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