3 Teams had games to start the season against teams who made the playoffs last season: Chiefs, Packers, and Texans. Only the Texans played division winners. Packers had both games at home. The Texans lost both games on basically the final drive. Lost both games by a combined 6 points. Packers are 2-0. KC and Texans are 0-2. Texans had the hardest schedule to start a season. Has it been pretty? No. A little perspective…
I seem to always preface my posts with “I don’t post much” as if that somehow diminishes my opinion but I digress. I think more so than the record, is we are still seeing the same issues and what hope do we have it’s going to turnaround? On top of that isn’t the stat like only 11% of teams that start the season 0-2, make the playoffs? I think ultimately we end up playing better but still missing the playoffs.
That's all well and good but we are supposed to be a contender, and contenders find a way to close out that game last night. We are in year 3 of this regime and should not be losing games in the fashion that we have, especially last night. There is no excuse to lose that game, between the awful sequence at the 1-yard line and then the defense not keeping the Bucs out of the endzone at the end. There are too many major concerns to feel good about this going forward -- o-line, running game, questionable playcalling, inability to stop the run, CJ's confidence. It's a lot to overcome just to start winning games, much less be a contender.
It's not that they lost...it's how they're losing. Also, close games happen ALL the time in the NFL...I don't take much solace in playing a team close. Even the worst teams are able to do that in this league routinely.
So you’d rather play the Lions and Commanders at home versus the Rams on road and Bucs at home? Rams don’t even have a huge home advantage. The Packers beat both those teams down too. That’s a real contender. The Texans are not.
6-0. That's all the Texans need to accomplish this year. Beating the dregs of the AFC South Division. The rebuilding Titans, the Jags are still a joke, and Daniel Jones in Indy. If they go 6-0 they will win the division.
From what I’ve seen so far of the Texans and Indy, I’m pretty skeptical that will happen…I’d love to be wrong, I promise. And, yes, I know it’s still early
They have the same OC for what, 8 years? The Rams have the top 4 offensive mind in the NFL. Todd Bowles has won a Superbowl as a DC. The Texans had been ahead of schedule. The problem is Slowik set them back with his scheme. The OL is the hardest group to build in the NFL. And yes, it could have bigger focus. Still, there still need time to figure out the offense.
This isn't remotely true. Just off the top of my head, the Falcons, Bears, Ttians and Jets faced two playoff teams. No idea how many others did too. Texans' two opponents were a combined 20-14 last year. Bears' opponents, by comparison, were 29-5.
