{"id":882292,"date":"2026-10-14T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882292\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:36:12","slug":"mailbag-could-james-houston-help-the-pass-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882292\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailbag: Could James Houston help the pass rush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy:\u00a0Sure, he could, but I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s your answer to fix all the problems currently going on with the pass rush. Houston has shown he&#8217;s been a good pass rusher, but I&#8217;m not so sure a handful of snaps for him would be what sparks a shift in the pass rush as a whole having success. And, like Mickey mentioned, you&#8217;d have to make somebody inactive in his place. Would it be Miller? Tyrus Wheat, who has contributed on special teams? There could be other scenarios where it makes sense, and Houston could help a little, but I feel like there would be a lot more needed to get this pass rush firing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy:\u00a0Sure, he could, but I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s your answer to fix all the problems currently going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4718,28292,4722,9663,349,99],"class_list":["post-882292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-mailbag","tag-news-mickey-spagnola","tag-news-tommy-yarrish","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}