Deandre Hopkins was playing with a sprained AC joint in his arm for most of the game. He couldn't even put on his shirt after the game.
Doesn’t change the fact that we have a mediocre to below-average coaching staff who can’t get us to a ring.
These guys already had their minds made up on Watson. I can think of a couple of future hall of famers in their prime throwing worse stinkers. Like Buck Said, what if Smith and Hopkins make those catches, it could have changed the rhythm of the offense. Instead, it turns out to be the most inaccurate game of the season. What sucks is we have to wait another year.
I think Watson is a much better passer than he showed today, but that the coaching staff has failed him throughout the season by not putting him in the best position to excel.
I don’t care if he was more productive than Mack (finally) it matters that he can’t take over a game. It matters that he and watt are islands to each other. It matters that he wants a hundo. Keeping Clowney doesn’t make the secondary or OL better. It will just make it hard to get better especially with depth. Clowney and watt do not make each other better, they have over loaded the defensive front 7 at the cost of a professional offense and it’s time to move on and it’s ok to move on.
They do but What's true one season isn't true the next. Dallas was thought to have one of the best o-lines ever assembled and just like that it disappeared. Colts built the best line in one off season. Isn't this what some fans wanted, a couple of teams in the same division that can be contenders.Time for our GM to make his moves. I still don't think we can build a solid o-line without having a clear system so that has to be the first thing to flip.
Obviously the Colts have a lot to be excited about but the NFL ***** on plans all the time. Texans have the ability to hang around the top for a while as well. Have to make some good decisions this offseason.
Each minute that goes by without a statement of confidence from Cal about our head coach coming back next season keeps hope alive.
Preach it, either they just have a really redundant game or the scheme is unworthy. I’ll say a fair bit of both.
No, keeping him doesn't make the secondary or OL better, but releasing him puts a massive hole on your D line that you can't fill. It would be beyond foolish to create that kind of a hole simply because other holes exist. The offense doesn't suck because of the O line, that's merely an excuse. The offense sucks because you have an incompetent coach and an inexperienced and inconsistent young QB with a depleted WR corps. At one point, they were good enough to overcome Bill O'Brien's incompetence, but then injuries happened.
You make some of the same observations that I have for this loss. Watson was not all that great but he was playing without key weapons in Thomas and Fuller. And let's not overlook the O-line which was a key reason Watson was sacked 65 times (including today). Thanks to the scatter-shot play calling and poor line play, he was never able to get into any sort of rythmn until the 2nd half of today's game. (As an aside, can anyone explain how Xavier Su Filo washes out here on a team in desperate need of O-linemen yet ends up starting for the Cows?) Now the Texans benefitted from a 4-12 schedule from 2017. Next year they won't be so lucky. And with Buttchin and his hand-picked GM running the show, I simply don't see much, if anything, changing in the way this team is being run. Next year, the AFC South will be measurably tougher. Indy will only get better under Reich and while Jax is a dumpster fire, there's no telling what will happen with the Tenn Oilers. I have zero confidence in a head coach who tells you week after week that he doesn't know WTF he's doing to find the answers. Hell, I'm not sure he even knows what the questions are that need to be answered. And you can bet your last peso that Cal is equally as clueless as his HC so in the end not much will change come fall.
