One more vent... this week, many people playing fantasy football are playing Miami's defense this week since it is playing Cleveland with a new rookie QB and minus its best offensive players (Josh Gordon - suspended, and Corey Coleman- injured). Yet, its very possible the hapless Browns will outscore the Texans this weekend. And anyone that was smart or lucky enough to play the Patriots defense against the vaunted Texan offense? They scored 18 fantasy points. SMH...
The Bronco game in Denver will be brutal, as the Bronco defense has made the best offenses look bad so far. Cincinnatti will also be tough (fortunately here... otherwise we may be underdogs in that game). Fortunately, we get two opportunities to look good (versus Colts, versus Raiders).
7-18. What a weird game... just - on every level, weird. That may be the most perplexing loss in this team's history. It made zero sense to me. Belichekc is obviously a tremendous coach - but the number is he did on O'Brien and company was beyond even his genius. It was like... you know what it was like? Like O'Brien took a fall. I didn't, on any level, understand what they were doing. Weird.
thats the thing, this is nothing like the nba season where lots of games don't matter, at all. in the nfl, almost every game matters. we got embarrassed by a team who played a 3rd team QB, on a short week. they own us.
Eh... I 'aint even mad. If we would have won it wouldn't have mattered because of the players out for the Pats. Have to try fix the issues and grow as a team. The best thing is that every team has a crisis moment during a season and ours came in week 3.
I'm with you man, I'm merely saying that the defense wasn't total **** like the rest of the team IMO. And you're completely right about ST. James' fumble and Brock's INT in our own territory just put the defense in terrible position, and after those scores let Hoodie/McDaniels go ultra conservative to prevent turnovers while at the same time the freedom to try the gadget end arounds and option plays.
People say that we aren't as bad as we showed on Thursday, but is that really the case? If we aren't as bad as we showed Thursday, logically the next time we face the Patriots we would perform better. Does anyone actually believe that? If we ever face the Patriots again we will get demolished, again. Just like we've gotten demolished every time we have faced them. Give our coaching staff an entire offseason to prepare for this game, and Hoodie would still come out with a better gameplan in 3 days to beat us. This team might make the Playoffs but there is no hope that they will ever play a close game against the Patriots, much less win it. Hope is an important thing and really changes how fans feel about the season. Other teams have hope that they can beat New England because either they've never played them or when they played them it was a close game. Texans don't have that anymore, which sucks as a fan.
Arggh... one more vent. O'Brien and his prickly relationship with the press. If you have success like Belicheat or UH coach Harmon... sure, you earn the ability to act like an a$$ to the media (because lots of times the media deserves it). But O'Brien hasn't earned that. His game plan sucked. His on the field coaching sucked. His half time and on the field adjustments sucked. Heck, his punter had to tell him what to do. Fix those things and then bully the press. But until then, eat $hit sandwiches served up by the media or move on.
This head coach just sucks last night, even a good high school coach can make a good call last night. Never seen a bad coaching job in NFL like this in this game, it was just awful.
You're talking about perception; perception has no currency. Conference losses matter. Texans blew a tremendous opportunity to steal one against the likely best team in the AFC, a loss that could really come back to haunt them.
I'm playing Miami - and Devante Parker. Also - this was the first week I decided to start Will Fuller. "Must start", said all of the experts. Nobody predicted BoB getting pants'd on national TV.
Well not to sound pessimistic but as of today based on what transpired so far I'd have to believe they'll go W L L L. I'm not buying any more of their PR spin until they prove that they are capable of showing up for a nationally televised game.
That was the worst coaching job I've seen from the Texans maybe ever. I can't think of one any worse. The play calling, the schemes, the clock management, the lack of adjustments, all just bad.
Known as the Houston sports fan where I work in San Diego, I'm getting the kind of looks given to those who have just gone through a very traumatic experience like rape or murder of a loved one. Embarrassing.
We'll never actually get an answer... but I'd really like to know what the Texans coaching staff expected to see, how they prepared for it, and what they actually saw and whether or not it was drastically different than what they prepared for. Perhaps they knew exactly what was coming and the execution was piss-poor (or the NE execution was flawless). Perhaps they were completely taken by surprise and they had no idea how to combat it. In the end, like most things, its probably a little of both... but I definitely welcome this sort of ass-kicking earlier in the season, rather than later, as they all know they got a ton of work to do to get to the level of the good teams in the AFC.
Texans need to put Charles James where he belongs... not returning. Maybe this will also put a stop to talking about his stupid socks too.
