^^^This...i too expected the Playaction pass on the very first play...how about running the damn ball...
I maade a thread about being embarrassed to wear my fake jersey. The one game i don't wear it and we lose. Of course.
Yes I watch the games and yes I realize that he comes out throwing early often. That's why I thought he should have ran it early more, I.e the packers knew the trend as well. You missed the point
i got ya. all of us are just arm chair qb's and even we can scout kubes opening drive. kubes should be embarrassed by that fact.
Best part of the game, It finally make me realize that I need to put Ronny and Reeko on ignore. For that, I'm grateful
i doubt there would have been much success. and it didn't matter that the defense expected it the first 5 weeks because it worked. tonight's game was on the o-line.
still got 4 teams we can lose to..i hope we don't go 11-5. if we lose against ravens next week..oh boy.
actually we have 10 teams left we can lose to, but 11-5 gets us a division title and once you're in the playoffs it doesn't matter what you did in the regular season.
I agree it's a bad loss, but I'd still say we're a good team. We're 5-1, 'nuff said. JJ Watt retook the lead in sacks. Andre played a little better. Braman killed it on special teams. Hopefully this loss will just put a chip on our shoulder for Baltimore next week.
whoever claimed the Packers were going to win because they just came off a bad loss should be saying the same thing about the Texans next week.
It's times like these that I'm glad I don't have a job (I'm 22 though maybe I should get one) and just go to college whereas other people go to work and may have to hear the taunts from other people who are Texans bashers.
dude i go to college in austin. 2 of my roommates are from dallas. a lot of the people here are cowgirl fans. they keep asking siri on the iphone who's the best team in the nfl? they keep talking mess... job or school, we hear it all the time.
Postgame quotes: HEAD COACH GARY KUBIAK (Transcribed by Tiffani Walker) Spoiler (on the game) “First off, congratulations to Green Bay. They came in here and got after us pretty good in all three phases. It’s a tough league. There are no excuses here. We got beat across the board. They got after us early. We got down early. Not a football team you want to get down to, I can tell you that from that standpoint. Then we struggled picking up some of their stuff. Like I said, they did a hell of a job. They deserve a lot of credit. We played poorly as a football team. So I’m disappointed in myself. We’re all disappointed. We got our tails kicked.” (on the costly penalties) “We basically gave them 14 points by a couple of special teams penalties. Lined up offside and jumped on somebody’s back on a field goal. The first possession of the second half of the second half, we are in a 21-10 ballgame, we gave them three possessions. We gave them the ball back jumping on somebody’s back on a field goal, and then a personal foul after we had them stopped again. So, that’s discipline. Discipline starts with me. It’s my job to put people out there that can handle it and do the right things. Obviously I didn’t get that done tonight. So it’s my fault.” (on QB Aaron Rodgers) “To me he’s doing what he’s been doing his whole career. This guy can throw it around, light it up. He made some tremendous throws and they made some great plays for him. He did a hell of a job of getting away from some of our pressure. We got there free quite a few times and he really made some people miss and slung some people off and still made some big plays down the field. And yet they ran the ball somewhat effectively, to me, that helped them a little bit. He’s a great player. I knew that coming in. but he put on a show tonight. He did a hell of a job.” TACKLE DUANE BROWN (Transcribed by Bracken Flynn) Spoiler (on the offense’s trouble tonight) “Nothing really different. We could not really run the ball, so we had to pass it. We could not really make plays. That was it.” (on what the offensive line needs to do better) “I think we need to just continue working on the running game. That is something we really take pride in, and when you are forced to be one-dimensional against a team like this you are setting yourself up (for failure). That’s what happened tonight.” (on the playing surface) “I did not have an issue with it. It’s grass which is usually the best surface to play on.” (on his matchup with OLB Clay Matthews of the Green Bay Packers) “He is the real deal. He is a great player. Early on I was trying to feel him out. Once I settled down, I thought I blocked him pretty well. He’s a great player” TIGHT END OWEN DANIELS (Transcribed by Olivia Williams) Spoiler (on the first chance to face adversity) “Yeah, I think it was bound to happen. You can’t always play with a lead. You’d like to, but that’s not how it’s always going to be. That’s a pipe dream, but we need to do better if we’re playing from behind. We need to get our act together and if things don’t start out well, it’s a long game so we’ll look at it all and get it fixed.” (on his first impression against Packers OLB Clay Matthews) “He’s a really good player, man. Whatever they say about him is the truth. He’s strong, he’s fast, and he can make plays. He’s one heck of a player.” (on OLB Clay Matthews disrupting Texans Offense) “Our point of the week was to try to keep him and (SS Charles) Woodson off the score sheet as much as possible. I don’t think we did a really good job of that. I think it was clear he disrupted us early and often, so you’ve got to give him credit.” (on sensing that the Packers were desperate to not drop to 2-4 to start the season) “We’ve gotten that the last couple weeks, but that’s not an excuse. We’ve got to expect people’s best. That’s what we want. We want to beat people at their best. We’ve got to give them credit. They played really well tonight.” (on what the most disappointing thing was of all the things that went south tonight) “Oh man, it’s hard to say, honestly. I just think it was that we never really got into what we wanted to do. I can only speak offensively. We had to get into kind of a hurry-up two minute mode obviously way earlier than we had really anticipated or wanted to. We didn’t do many things well tonight.” WIDE RECEIVER ANDRE JOHNSON (Transcribed by Joshua Moon) Spoiler (on him achieving over 10,000 receiving yards for his career in the game tonight) “It’s a big accomplishment. It’s just unfortunate that we couldn’t get the win. By the way things played out tonight, it doesn’t feel good.” (on him being a part of a great group of wide receivers in NFL history) “Like I said, it’s a great accomplishment. Not many people have done it. I’ve been very fortunate over my career to do some good things. What happened tonight doesn’t make it good.” (on him achieving 10,000 yards in only 128 games) “When you come in this league, the biggest thing is just living your dream. That’s just what guys do. They feel like they’ve made it. They’re living their childhood dream. The lifespan of this league is four years. I’ve been fortunate to be in it for 10 seasons and have been able to do some great things. I’ve touched a lot of people. Hopefully I can keep doing this.” (on him making it to the Hall of Fame one day) “That’s out of my control. I can only control what happens on the field. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, then it doesn’t. That’s up to the voters. I’m going to just keep doing what I do on the field and leave the rest up to them.” (on how shocking the game was tonight) “It was shocking but if you go out and play the way we played, that’s what happens. They were explosive offensively. If we don’t go out and move the ball, then we leave our defense out on the field and give them a chance to give up points. It’s no secret. We know what type of team we are. They are the defending Super Bowl champs from a couple of years ago, so we knew what we were in for. We just didn’t go out and play the way we needed to play.” CORNERBACK JOHNATHAN JOSEPH (Transcribed by Bracken Flynn) Spoiler (on if he agreed that the team was out-played) “You have no choice. They made the plays today to win the game. We didn’t. It happens in football. The team that makes the most plays will probably win at the end of the day. They made more than we did today.” (on how he feels) “I’m fine to go. Obviously I will see how I feel tomorrow when I come back in. I will probably be sore tomorrow. As of right now I am fine.” (on what the Packers were doing offensively to be successful) “It is kind of hard to say. We were playing a lot of man-to-man so you can’t really say because most of the time your eyes are on your guy. ” (on certain plays that may have changed the outcome of the game) “There are so many things that happened today that you can’t really blame it on one thing.” (on how surprising the loss was tonight) “I’m not surprised at all. It is football. If you don’t go out and play your best any Sunday, you are capable of losing. It doesn’t matter if it is Green Bay or whoever else in this league.” (on the team’s mindset after the loss tonight) “It hasn’t changed. It doesn’t matter if we lose by 15 or 20 points – it still counts as a loss. We will be right back next week. We have a game to play Sunday.” (on Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers’ ability to make plays with his legs) “That is what makes him special as a quarterback. He has a great arm, pinpoint accuracy, and he can avoid the rush and make plays with his legs. If you can do that in this league, you can play for a long time and be highly successful.” SAFETY DANIEAL MANNING (Transcribed by Joshua Moon) Spoiler (on QB Aaron Rodgers play today) “He was pretty much on point today. He took the plays that we gave him, some plays he made staying alive. I remember two plays that were big. He scrambled when we had him dead to rights. He scrambled out of the pocket and completed some passes. That’s what you get with a guy like that.” (on the penalties) “Like I said, he (QB Aaron Rodgers) was on point today. We cannot help them out any. The play with me, I felt like the whistle was blowing and I felt the guy kept shoving me and had me bent over. I had to get him off of me. I lost it for a second. I was kind of possessed there for a minute.” OUTSIDE LINEBACKER BROOKS REED (Transcribed by Bracken Flynn) Spoiler (on the game plan to stop QB Aaron Rodgers) “We had a good game plan coming in. I don’t know. It’s hard to explain. We have to watch the film. There are some plays where they heaved it up and made great plays. They beat us one-on-one. We couldn’t get to him (Rodgers) and bat it down.” (on if the loss last week motivated the Green Bay Packers) “Possibly. They had a rough loss against Indianapolis, and I can imagine they were pretty upset. That is how we play too. We feel that we have something to prove too. We are still unproven and need to go out there and get our respect.” QUARTERBACK MATT SCHAUB (Transcribed by Tiffani Walker) Spoiler (on the game) “It’s very disappointing. To go out in front of our home crowd on Sunday Night and have it turn out the way it did. We didn’t play up to our standard, up to our level of expectations that we have around here across the board, that’s everybody. We’re going to have to take a hard look at it and put it behind us. The good thing is it only counts as one. We’re going to have to re-focus tomorrow, watch the film, be hard on ourselves and go out and correct the mistakes that we made and get ready for Baltimore (on the preparation for this game) “No, it didn’t. Yes we had a short week, but we took care of ourselves physically to get ourselves fresh for the game and still had all our reps and mental reps and everything. The fact that it was a short week didn’t affect us.” DEFENSIVE END ANTONIO SMITH (Transcribed by Greg Dillard) Spoiler (on how shocking tonight’s loss is) “It was shocking. I didn’t think this would be the game that it would turn out to be. They played a heck of a game.” (on why the Texans’ defense struggled to get to Packers QB Aaron Rodgers) “We didn’t struggle to get to him. We were at him a lot more times than the statistics would say, but he just broke free of some tackles. There was at least four times where people had him in the backfield and he just broke free, somebody came free and had the sack and just missed the sack. It’s just missed opportunities. That’s all it was.” (on the fact that it’s still only one loss ) “That’s all it is. It’s a loss that we’ll have to learn from. I think trial by fire is the best way to mold you into the best team that you need to be. I think that this was a test that we had yet to face even though everybody else in the league might have thought that Green Bay was wounded dogs. They still were a team in the NFC. I think that they had some tough breaks here and there, but as you can see that offense is still potent. It was one of our biggest tests yet and the first time we faced a team like that. I think this is something that we’re going to go back to the drawing board and learn from our mistakes even though you don’t want it to happen. I’m glad it happened now than later on in the season.” (on how he thinks the team will respond to tonight’s loss) “Trial by fire, fight fire. This type of loss is going to ignite something and we’re going to find out what type of team we are. This moment, it’s not a defining moment, but it’s a moment you’re going to have to respond to and you’re going to have these a few more times before you can be a championship team.” (on why there were so many mental mistakes) “I think that sometimes moment gets going here and there and then you get a little excited here and there and sometimes you make mental mistakes. Sometimes when you’re emotions getting riled up, especially in games like this, Sunday Night Football, it causes you to be impulsive and sometimes we can make mistakes.” (on the defensive penalties) “You’re going to get frustrated when some of the things happen the way they did. Some of the penalties are just; they could be called either way. The pass interference that was big early in the game on Kareem, I don’t think that I saw much of a pass interference. The referee that was right there didn’t call it. The one who was across the field did. That’s’ the type of calls you get especially in big games like that against teams like we played, regardless of whatever happens we got to learn how to break through and fight through adversity.” (on people who saw the Texans for the first time tonight on Sunday Night Football) “It’s one game. That’s all they saw. Everybody is going to make up hypes and different things like that and use that when you have a bad game to determine what type of team you are. I don’t think this game defines what type of team we are, saying whatever game they turn on. Like I said, you got to go back to the drawing board and figure out what happened this game and go back and try to stop it.” WIDE RECEIVER KEVIN WALTER (Transcribed by Joshua Moon) Spoiler (on if this loss was disappointing ) “It’s very disappointing, absolutely. We are not satisfied. It’s tough. We didn’t execute in all three phases of the game. They did a good job. You have to tip your hat to them. They beat us in all three phases of the game.” (on all the mistakes tonight) “When you shoot yourself in the foot against someone who is hungry to get a win, you can’t do that. We have to execute a lot better. Overall it wasn’t good at all.” (on if this loss is shocking) “It is. We have such high expectations to come in here, play well, and do all the right things and we didn’t do that tonight.” (on how it felt to be losing in a game when that has rarely been the case all season ) “We haven’t been behind most of the year and it’s frustrating more than anything. We just have to go out there and execute the game plan and we didn’t do that. The great thing about it is that we have another chance next week at home against a great football team in Baltimore. Tomorrow we have to smooth out a couple things and move on.” (on not allowing this loss to take away the momentum the team has built up) “Just come back and play the way we have been the last few weeks. That’s what we need to do.” DEFENSIVE END J.J. WATT (Transcribed by Bracken Flynn) Spoiler (on how difficult the loss is) “It was a bad game. They are a great football team. You need to give them a ton of credit. They came in here and played their game. They played very well. Aaron Rodgers is one of the best quarterbacks in the league and he showed it. He showed why he won an MVP award he showed why he won a Super Bowl. He deserves a lot of credit.” (on if it was a surprise to give up 42 points) “It is frustrating. That wasn’t us, and that is not the way we play. We faced a quarterback who puts the ball on the money every single time. We didn’t enough pressure on him. We didn’t get enough hits on him. He beat us. He had a great game.” (on the reasons for the large amount of penalties) “I don’t know. I couldn’t tell you all the reasons behind the penalties. That’s not us. That’s not characteristic of us. That is not who we are and we will get it corrected.” (on the reasons behind the lack of success for the defense) “I mean (QB) Aaron Rodgers is one of the best. He put the ball where he wanted to tonight. We gave him too much time and he took advantage. You can’t give a guy like that too much time. That is on us as the defensive line.” (on the reaction to the loss tonight) “We are 5-1. We are a very good football team. Tonight wasn’t our night. We didn’t have a good showing. We are going to come back to practice this week, fix our mistakes, get it all corrected, and we will be just fine next week.” Packers quotes in link. http://www.houstontexans.com/news/a...postgame/a421ed12-0237-49a2-b8cb-0b4eb7415aab
Through 6 games, our linebacking corp has totaled 3 sacks. Last year they combined for 27. Somebody needs to step it up.
Warren's son? If so, that's really cool for him!! Just an overall abysmal performance. For those who thought Rodgers (or Capers for that matter) has lost his fastball, here's all the proof you need. For the life of me, I don't know why the Texans deviated from their usual pressure-based defense. Most of the time, they seemingly rushed 4 (Barwin, Smith, Watt, and Reed) and couldn't get enough pressure on Rodgers to prevent plays downfield. Dobbins played a lot and didn't register a tackle - is that right? I was thinking that in dime packages, they could get by with playing a safety as their MLB, but the Packers blew up that thought by running right at GQ when he was in the box. The offensive performance reminded me of the Giants game from a couple of years back. If we can't establish the run, our offense can't move the ball. You think we'd be able to run it better against Baltimore, but then again, the conventional wisdom said the same was expected against Green Bay. Frustrating, frustrating loss in that it didn't look like they had a clue out there. Second week in a row, on national TV, and people walk away with the notion that, "they're not all that." Just did not look ready for their close-up, which is too bad.
You're criticizing the Texans for winning ugly last week, but not holding Atlanta and the Ravens for scraping by against the hopeless Raiders and mediocre Cowboys? Agenda much?
