Yeah, *******, I believe this is the 47th week in a row (including off-weeks) that the Texans have been outcoached at halftime
This reminds me of the Panthers game from last year. Meco got badly outcoached in the 2nd half that game too.
Well, you could see it coming a mile away... My thoughts. 1. Demeco Ryans has not changed the culture of this team. Yeah I'm going there. He hasn't. At their core, they Texans are still a group of try hard jackasses with a losing mentality. Better players than years past sure, but the mindset is ****ed from the top down. You hear it from Caserio, "goal is to try to be in a one score game in the 4th quarter and go out and win the game". No it's not. The goal is to beat the snot out of the other team and not have to go win a gut wrenching game in the 4th quarter. And so that's what the Texans are, a team that tries to keep it close, not lose it, and go win in the 4th. They've been good under Demeco in one score games bc of Stroud and a generally solid defense, but that's still a terrible, **** mindset. It really is. 2. Neither here nor there but Dalton Schultz acceleration on Madden should be a 1. 3. If I hear another color commentator praise Jalen Pitre I'm going to be sick to my stomach. It literally only works occasionally when the d line gets outrageous pressure, he gets beat literally every single time in coverage. Every single time. And opposing offensive coordinators are smart enough to put their best WRs on him in the slot, and Demeco makes no adjustments. 4. Demeco Ryans. I love him, I want him to succeed, I'm glad he's our coach. But... he has some breath taking blind spots as a coach, and he's absolutely as stubborn, if not more stubborn than O'Brien. The difference is he is a Texan and he's much more pleasant to be around, so he largely gets a pass. 4a. Demeco refuses to make halftime adjustments with his defense. If it's going well, he expects it to continue to go well, doesn't proactively make changes, doesn't foresee the obvious issues with keeping Pitre on Garrett Wilson and Davonte Adams. I could list issues from other games but the receipts are out there. 4b. Stubborness with the offensive line, starting lineup, etc. It took a Kenyon Green injury to force him out tonight. 5. Clock management. So you waste 2+ mins driving down at the end of the game. Let CJ get sacked and then kick a FG to make it an 8 point game with 39 seconds, so you can hopefully 1) recover an onside kick 2) score a TD with 39 seconds and 1 timeout 3) convert a 2 point conversion 4) win the game in OT. Look, game was over barring a miracle, but that's asking for 4 miracles. Just too many puzzling decisions being made this season that reduce our odds at winning the game. 6. I am starting to really, fully believe the NFL is basically WWE. I don't know how it's done, to what level, or exactly how the sausage is made, but too many things scream RIGGED each and every week, not only with the Texans but across the league. The sequence when Fairbairn kicked a 43 yd fg to make it 14-13, penalty, yayyyyy, 1st down, Texans waste it, then Fairbairn smokes a 27 yd fg off the uprights?? really?? 75% of the money on this game apparently was on the Texans, Jets -2.5. Either I'm living in the matrix and everything is fake or the NFL is. Sucks. 7. Man **** Kaimi. Like **** you dude. Thanks for the awesome games earlier in the season but you definitively cost us tonight. Any time your kicker is a major reason you lose, he deserves to get **** on. Also, it's a 27 yarder, nice job helping the Vegas with the rig job. 8. It doesn't even matter if it's Slowik's fault anymore, we literally can't score touchdowns in the second half of games. Again, adjustments, just despicable. 9. The game plan to beat the Texans is really pretty straight forward, and almost any team that can operate with a reasonable degree of execution can pull it off. On defense, between the 20s, just blitz that absolute **** out of us. Line 2, 3 guys over LG, doesn't matter who plays. Run stunts, confuse the offensive line. Might get burned a few times, but you just live with it. Texans can't do **** in the redzone anyway. In the redzone, run shell. Doesn't sound like it makes sense, and normally it wouldn't, but the o line can't block for Mixon when they need to, and it's predictable when we run in the redzone anyway, and CJ always looks to strike to the endzone, so keep the safeties back for extra coverage. On offense, feel the Texans out in the first half, runs HB screens, take a few shots. At halftime, just go ahead and put your best WR in the slot. Doesn't matter if they can play slot, do it, because they're gonna get man coverage with Jalen Pitre. If Texans are getting pressure, run quick outs, they won't adjust, they'll give you those free yards, and when you get to third and short, run wheel and out routes on Pitre and light him up, Texans again won't make adjustments. 10. This season is like one of those nightmares when you're trying to run away from someone and it's like you're stuck in quicksand. You can just see that it's not going to amount to anything, despite the talented QB, despite the good defensive line, despite the high hopes and expectations... Texans likely still win a few games we aren't expected to win. But don't let a win over the lions or the ravens, hell or even the chiefs fool you, even though it will. Ws can always do that. Come playoff time, assuming we are there, the weaknesses, the stubbornness, it will get exposed. And that **** mindset of keeping the game close will burn us. 11. Tank Dell had a nice game. CJ was clearly trying to spoon feed Diggs and Tank was getting sloppy 3rds. With this o line it basically meant nothing. 12. Still 100% believe a lot of the o line issues and pressure could be corrected if CJ was making better decisions and adjustments, not only at the line but with when to get the ball out and trusting guys to run after the catch instead of forcing it to spots. It wouldn't fix everything, but it could fix a lot. Feels a bit like he has Burrow-itis. Wants every play to go 80 yards. Don't understand why we can never execute screens or why the quick passing game cannot be executed like other teams. It's not really that hard. 13. I will still never understand why any player at any level of football would willingly drop the ball before, during, or after they score. Just hold on to the damn ball and run through the back of the end zone. It's really not that hard. 14. We can use the time off. This team is banged up. 15. Joe Mixon is a dog. Wish our o line and the rest of our team had half the heart he does.
Yeah my thoughts exactly. Completely inexcusable. They’re probably gonna win the division and then get bounced. Everyone will look back like what went wrong but it was obvious the whole season.
No problem with Demeco and the Defense, but the Offensive staff needs some serious changes. Not sure what you can do in the middle of the season (but you have to try a little something anyway)
After however # of weeks/games, you'd think a proper OC and staff would have a scheme, or at least even some sort of a plan, to alleviate these problems?
Yeah and it's really easy to do that when Demeco continues to play Pitre in man coverage on Garrett Wilson in the slot, or Davonte Adams, or Jayden Reed, or Justin Jefferson, or Bryan Thomas Jr., or [Amon-Ra St. Brown, or Zay Flowers, or Calvin Ridley, or CeeDee Lamb].
I just don't know why it's so hard to execute a RB screen or a quick out to the flat (that doesn't involved -5 acceleration Dalton Schultz).
How did this team even win 6 games so far? The offense and offensive line are horrendous. 9 games in and the coaching staff are clueless. How is Slowik and the OL coach still have jobs? CJ is beyond rattled and is showing David Car syndrome out there. We are potentially looking at a 3 game losing streak coming up. At this point, you are just trying to huff and puff your way to a division title and it’s goodnight folks after that.
This is the hope, that CJ, as talented as he is, gets pissed off, watches the film, and makes adjustments. He's absolutely talented enough to overcome these issues. Peyton Manning wouldn't let these shitty o lineman slow him down. He'd eat. He'd have the ball out so fast the line wouldn't matter. Brady, younger Rodgers, etc. We need our young star QB to take the next step, and he can. But he needs to and he needs to quickly.
