Oh no question and I think the number is closer to 8. Put Hoyer in instead of Mallett and this game is lost by a much wider margin and he's sacked at least 4 or 5 times given the awful O line play.
I'm not completely giving up on the season but yeah, if Brown and Foster come back SOON we can turn it around. Thing is those guys both have pretty bad injuries. I feel like we are doing what we can to rush them back now. Guess it depends on the division. Dolphins are actually losing to the Jags.
Brees is approaching the end of the line. Not really an answer. As I posted on Friday, folks here were hoping that Mallet was the answer at QB. As I pointed out on numerous occasions: Hope is NOT a plan. Hoyer got benched so do we now bench Mallet after 4 quarters and go back to Hoyer? This is what I feared would happen when BoB yanked the hook on Hoyer so quickly. If he goes with Mallet, then why was Hoyer named the starter coming out training camp if he wasn't going give him enough time? Not saying that Hoyer was the answer at all (he isn't - just ask Cleveland) but the mishandling of the QB position by BoB has left a LOT to be desired and I'm being EXTREMELY kind here. Watching this game actually made me miss Matt Schaub - yeesh!.
Why would we bench Mallett for Hoyer? Are you suggesting we should intentionally tank the rest of the season?
Nope but I don't follow BoB's thinking here. IF Hoyer was the better QB, then you have to give him more than one game. He didn't which calls into question why he made that call to begin with. This offense did not look good for the 2nd game in a row no matter who was the QB. Now the patented "excuse" will be that Foster is out but I have serious concerns that Foster is not going to be the panacea that everyone is hoping. For one, BoB appears to have changed the blocking schemes from what Foster is used to while Foster's diminished durability gives me great pause. I don't see Foster doing much either with the running plays called today. All I'm saying is that this looked like a 6-9 win team before training and nothing I've seen leads me to feel otherwise.
Your premise is flawed. Hoyer has never been the better QB and would have been absolutely wrecked if he had to play behind the O line Mallett did today. Hell he had Duane Brown last week and he still was a sack waiting to happen.
No. Thank Morey. And thank Les for hiring an egghead instead of a lifer. You keep battlefighting Uncle Bob! http://espn.go.com/blog/houston-texans/post/_/id/3346/why-bob-mcnair-believes-in-rick-smith
NOT my premise - BoB's. WHY didn't he go ahead and prepare Mallet to be the starter? This situation is now a huge joke. If Hoyer is as terrible as you say (and I happen to agree 100%), then WTF was he chosen as the starter only to be yanked in the 1st game? That's something you only do if you haven't a ****ing clue what you are doing BoB. Look, I can accept losing - you can't be a Houston professional football fan unless you get accustomed to losing. However I have zero tolerance for stupid and what I'm seeing is the epitome of football stupid.
I think it's pretty clear why BOB went with Hoyer, his judgement was blinded by his relationship with Hoyer. After the first game, it was blatantly obvious that Hoyer was the QB he's always been....an awful one. Moving on from Hoyer to Mallett is the exact opposite of stupid.....sure going with Hoyer over Mallett to begin with was dumb, but at least they moved on quickly. It didn't end up mattering in the result of this game, but the Texans still had a chance because of the change they made.
Early in the 3rd quarter of their game, the Jags have almost twice as many rushing yards as the Texans managed today. That's sad. Does anyone even know their lead RB?
It's not the quarterback, folks. This team has expansion team quality personnel on offense, with a horrible offensive line and no depth. Thank you, Rick Smith. A revolving door at the quarterback position isn't going to help. It's not just the fault of Fitzpatrick, and Keenum, and Hoyer, and Mallet, and so on and so forth...
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My favorite point in the game was when Carolina had 6 total yards of offense while Houston had -6 total yards which yielded a net total of zero yards of offense in the game. In all my years of watching football, I have never seen anything that pathetic and I followed the Oilers during the 70s.
Cam Newton is a real qb the texans could only dream of having( but wouldnt draft because mr mcnair thinks he has too much melanin)... all star calibur wideout in kelvin benjamin tears his acl, kueckly gets a concussion, and cam put da team on his back doe and said jj watt WHO.. im superman in dis bish
