Unless he really needs the game reps, I'd sit him the rest of the pre-season. Hell, wasn't it 2012 where he didn't play at all in the pre-season, and proceeded to win the DPOY? I think the coaching staff will use the remaining games to see who is actually viable to keep for this awful secondary. Brandon Harris should've been put on notice a long time ago... he is who he is at this point.
For the sake of not sounding like a Debbie Downer, I won't argue back. I thought this was a bad team before last night...and I saw lots and lots of evidence of it last night. But I sure hope last year's 2-14 and last night's game aren't telling of what we should expect in 2014...
No Foster, Johnson, Cushing, Joseph, Brooks. New coaches, new offense, new defense, new qb. The team we saw last night was just short of an expansion team. At this point we can only measures them by their progress not the results. Hopefully it gets better from here.
Interesting..... May you never experience a family member diagnosed with cancer or even yourself. There are plenty other issues to harp on concerning the Texans play, but you are completely out of line to bring cancer into this discussion. I can only imagine you're a spoiled 10yr old little boy and have absolutely no idea what you said. At least I hope that is your excuse.
TBH, I thought this was a bad team (with an especially bad defense) after half of last season... but you had hosts of people here saying how much "talent" they had, and how a quick fix would be easily implemented. I don't think this will be a quick fix by any means. However, they can still beat some lesser teams out there with good game-plans (and be competitive against good teams). Even though they didn't show it last night, the defense will be better... and will be ahead of the offense to start the season. But yeah... I'd agree that looking bad in a pre-season game is a more accurate predictor of regular season mediocrity vs. looking good in a pre-season game being a predictor of regular season success.
I'm still here. Clowney was pretty solid last night and looked like the 1st pick in the draft. Bortles played well against 2nd stringers. We'll see what happens but I don't think we saw anything in the 1st weekend of preseason that would convince anyone that the Texans made the wrong choice.
People freaking out over the first preseason game need to take a Xanax...it wasn't pretty last night but unless this continues until the third game then I don't care. Most important thing right now is healthy players.
"Clowney is a blind dog in a meat market" ---> Dee Ford. BUT, some/most defensive lineman will go through a learning curve when they are made to stand up and play LB. No comment... Lol. Wayyyyyy to early in the game to make that assessment. The track record for 1st year head coaches isn't good. He took over a 2-14 team that had a flukish 12-4 record the previous year. 1st preseason game _ on the road _ playing against a good team (who can possibly win the NFC west division this year) ----> O'Brien gets a pass. We really can't judge him until the back half of the regular season. He's only been here for 5 minutes. C'mon man... Cancer takes the lives of sooooo many people and that's nothing to make fun of regardless of who has it. And do you really want McNair's son taking over the team
The offense was a scalled down version and the defense is still 3-4, but not as agressive as Wade's with blitz and is more about containment. At the end of the day, its still football. I don't think a new system and all that is that hard to grasp as they are professionals. Not really any excuse to not put one decent drive out there. Only positive coming out is that it is just one preseason game. And Swearinger and Clowney had a couple nice plays. Although, I don't really like seeing Clowney in pass coverage.
I like how they keep throwing out that it was a scaled down version of the offense. Based on what they showed, they can barely execute the simple offense and expect us to think they can do better with the more complex offense.
By that they meant the personnel will be different, and they will implement specific plays/sets based on the opponent's defense that they will actually practice leading up to the game. This game seems like they were running a bunch of random crap that may or may not have worked... looked like they were throwing stuff to a wall to see what could stick. That being said, they did not do a good job of executing that.
Well they are probably trying to say that since they were running the scaled down version of the offense, it was a lot easier to stop....then again I'm sure the Cardinals were running a scaled down version of their defense so that excuse really falls flat.
You people are delusional... This team sucks.... And will for quite some time.. It is a poorly run franchise. Bob McNair could care less about ANY of you. Keep giving that deusional SOB your money though.
The most important thing is getting a better QB. I don't care how good or how healthy the players are, a bad QB drags the entire team down. Yes, it's not all on Fitz, but if he stinks it up again next week, the Texans need to bring in someone else to look at before the reg season begins.
They should give Case Keenum more burn next week, Fitz looks incapable of protecting the ball. I think sooner rather than later, Keenum will end up the starter because I think he's more capable of being the game manager we need.
