He was out part of yesterday's game, did you notice when? No, probably not. Im not saying cut him or bench him the rest of the tr but by letting him sit a game or two, would make a statement TEAM wide
Yes I did notice! Blake fisher first 2 snaps: - Run to his side, Akers tackled for a loss - Pass, where he got beat so quickly cj had to get rid of it before dropping all the way back. I want Tunsil to fix this **** too, but saying we don’t notice when his replacement comes in is ridiculous. It was painfully obvious immediately…
Did I OR did I not say Demeco should have benched Tunsil after that horrific game in Minnesota? That Minnesota game should have been a statement game for Demeco. You do not let your QB get sacked that much and your Top OL make that many crucial penalties and you do nothing. It permeates through the OL position. Players missing assignments, players making penalties, and players not caring. ThenTexans have too many assets invested in their OL for it to be playing this poorly. And it starts with the coaching. He needs to make changes! 1) K. Green couldn't start for me again 2) Whoever misses an assignment or is penalized immediately comes off the field. Until the next series. 3) Tunsil and Howard will be put on notice. Their jobs are not safe
A big part of what is going on with this team is coaching failure. Expectations have uncovered deficiencies in the coaching staff. Until growth takes place in this area no one should have many expectations of this team. They’ll only disappoint you.
Demeco coaches the D and the D is pretty damn good. ST too. He needs a serious offensive mind to do the other half of the game.
I'm just disappointed they think the line can magically fix itself. All I'm asking is ignore contracts and draft rankings, you'd be surprised you can find fundamentally sound Guards and centers for this scheme in the discount bin.
Demeco is the reason Slowik is here. I have my doubts Demeco will do anything to bring accountability to that side of the ball as HC. Demeco wouldn't have anyone as sorry as Kenyon Green on his defense still playing. If Kenyon hadn't got injured he wouldn't have removed him from the game I truly believe. I like Demeco but he needs a side eye imo at this point too.
My high expectations started fading after the second week and took a nosedive after the Vikings game. Every game since then has only reinforced what I was already thinking. I don’t expect them to suddenly 'address it' or change their approach this season, especially after Nick dismissed the offensive line issue as the 'lazy' narrative. I don’t recall much from the preseason, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the same issues were evident even then as they have been in every game this season. I didn't want to be mad at Demeco but I want a freakin head coach. A coach that steps in and says 'WTF? You're calling WHAT?' when they are in the redzone.
He's not serious about winning. Having Pitre at slot and Kenyon Green in the game at all says a lot. There are other factors that are taking away from the singular goal of winning games.
His job title says HEAD COACH. He needs to fire someone on the offensive side of the ball to make a statement. You don’t keep going down the same hole looking for something different. It's been 4 or 5 games straight that the Texans have scored less than 7 points the WHOLE 2ND HALF. I've never seen anything like that, unless you're trying to tank. DEMECO, YOU NEED TO MAKE A STATEMENT
If you try to "manage" the scoreboard and thus the game, you will manage to win some and lose some. That's what we've seen this year and I think that's on Ryans and his philosophy.
Our offense AND defense collapse in the second half. That's a coaching problem. This team ranks 6th in offensive points 1st half, and 26th in the second half. This team ranks 4th in defensive points allowed 1st half and 26th in defensive points allowed in the second half. We are a first half team. Period! All the excuses in the world don't justify that. Nope. We make it look so damn hard to throw a TD when we get close. It's been that way all year. When our opponents get close it's a different story. We rank 31st in the league on defending passing touchdowns, and are dead last in defense on passing TD% of our opponents. Part of that blame lies on the skills of our players, but the overall picture of first half compared to second half lies on our head coach and his sidekick from San Fran.
Im with you on the offense. But the defense falling off in the 2nd half is because they are exhausted as the game goes on and the 2nd half is where we get 3 and outs on offense constantly and make them more tired.
There is a lot of truth to that, but DeMeco is the head coach. He has the power to change things. That's his job.
I don't know if its Demeco's call or Slowiks, but can we please stop treating 58 yard field goals like they're 30 yarders or something? The degree of difficulty on those kicks is very high, and the field position risk after a miss is even higher, especially in the 4th Quarter. Those kinds of kicks are for early game or very end of game (e.g. last play of the game), not in a late and close game with 2 minutes remaining. End of game management and decision making has been terrible all season long, we got lucky at the end of the Buffalo game, but GB and Detroit it bit us in the ass.
Demeco's honeymoon is about over. DEMOTE DEMECO! ok maybe not quite yet. I'm sure we should fall bass ackwards into the playoffs only because our division sucks.
There are very real, legitimate concerns... Also, the Texans are two walk-off field goals away from being 8-2. They've played far too much of their season without Mixon and/or Collins. Having both healthy is going to make *EVERYTHING* look better & easier. Imagine Collins being on the field on Sunday night's game-deciding 3rd-and-4 play? You don't think that DRASTICALLY changes those dynamics? I'll give you 100 chances: how many of those would you like Stroud to throw to Nico in that situation, and how many times would you like him to throw to Hutchison? If your answer is anything other than 100/0, you're, quite frankly, full of ****. I don't care how bad the division is: the first step to winning a Super Bowl is making the playoffs. Would I bet anything substantial the Texans are going to get past the second round? No. But if they get/stay healthy, I don't have any hesitation putting them on the same tier with every team in the AFC, other than Baltimore. They whipped Buffalo; Pittsburgh's QB is Russell Wilson; the Chiefs - like the Texans - are patching together ugly wins without Pacheco and Rice. I think Baltimore is truly dominant. Also, Baltimore has lost to the Raiders & Browns...
We have the talent, but it's our second half execution that's concerning. Slowik gets beat by most coaches on adjusting. That being said, we have a ton of talent and I agree, we are capable of beating almost anyone with a good game plan. Without better coaching our chances of blowing any leads is a real possibility. As for Buffalo, we were lucky our field goal kicker saved us. I wouldn't say we whipped them. We got lucky. They had more touchdowns and Stroud had an interception and fumble. Sure Stroud got a lot more yards passing, but as usual, we could only get into the end zone twice. That's been one of our biggest disappointments this year to me. We make it look so damn hard to score in the red zone, yet make it look far too easy for opposing quarterbacks to throw a TD pass when they get close. If we can turn that around, it will change everything in our favor.
It is. But it might also be Occam's razor: they've played exactly *one* second half with Mixon & Nico. And they scored 17 points! I don't know why the second half has been such a struggle. Maybe Slowick is being outcoached. What's interesting is they've led at the half every single week since week 1. Do we think Slowick forgets how to coach after halftime... and then remembers the next week - only to forget again at halftime?... I think the issue is probably (maybe) two-fold: 1) DeMeco is a defensive guy and wants to protect the lead and play safer; 2) that approach is not easy without Mixon and/or Collins (or Diggs). I think the 2nd-and-30 sequence Sunday night illustrates that pretty clearly. But., also... the interception Stroud threw Sunday night... there was nothing "safe" about that play call - it was a kill shot. If Stroud makes almost any other throw, it's 6 points and likely ball game. They had a similar play in the Bears game - ball went off Dell's hands or it was an easy 6... So some of it is definitely execution. I'd just like to see them operate a second half lead with Mixon and Collins on the field. I suspect things will look a lot different. Allen was 9-30 for 131 yards; by far, his worst game of the year. We led, 20-3 in the 3Q. Stroud threw an INT inside the Bills' 30-yard line; Buffalo's game-tying FG was off a Stroud fumble inside our own 15. Protect the football, and we probably win that game 23-17 or maybe even 27-17. And we played 3Qs without Nico. Almost none of that is on Slowick. How many of those red zones have been minus Mixon and/or Collins?
