It's likely never going to get fixed, it's been terrible under Caserio his entire tenure. Most competent teams fix an oline in a season, maybe two, at least get it average. Usually the oline is the first thing a team fixes when rebuilding. The people in the building have no clue.
It shouldn't be this difficult finding 4 fatties that can do their job. We're still doing the rotating guards.
Yea, he dumbfounds me that we can't put a quality O Line on the field and then we shop for them in the bargain bin then the one OT we get and overpay is gone by week 3..................the Texans have WASTED CJ`s rookie contract, the D isn't all that and a bag of chips and we are not disciplined. What a shitty day this is
We can’t get one yard. It’s been this way for at least the past two seasons. We have three picks in the first two rounds. We have to use those picks to upgrade the line. Without a decent offensive you have nothing. We have seen what CJ can do when he gets protection and we see what happens when he gets pounded. We can’t try to improve the offensive line by bringing in washed up vets. This needs to be fixed as soon as possible. If Nick and DeMeco can’t get this done, then get someone who can. Heads may need to roll after this season.
The Bears fixed their OL in a single offseason. Those same players they traded for/signed were available to the Texans - but Caserio went shopping at the bottom of the bargain bin for some unknown reason & prioritized other positions over OL in a draft in which they had nine picks… 1 of which they used on an OL and it wasn’t even the top pick.
Yeah that's the kind of stuff that happens when you have 3 different HC's in 3 years during the main part of the rebuild.
They've got quality players in Ersery/Ingram/Howard. Draft 2 OL high and sign one vet in FA. The better question is why are they still rotating LG's.
The Texans didn't have the money the Bears had. Ryans chose to sign Autry/Hunter/Azziz/Robinson instead. Should've kept Tunsil and drafted Ersery/Ratledge plus signed Ingram in FA.
It is not just pressure. They have no push in the run game. So teams can rush 4 and drop 7 because there is no run threat. So, no one is open or getting separation. Stroud either needs to run more or throw it away. EVERYTHING still comes down to the Oline.
There's a former OL and OL coach who routinely comments on the college team I follow. He does so to skill up people how to better watch the OL play so they aren't screaming about the wrong thing. I told him I'm a Texans fan and asked for some general thoughts on "what are YOU looking for" as someone far better in the know than I, and he made this reply with respect to passing considerations.... The first thing I check is to see if it is man protection or slide and then check to see who (if anyone) was beat and how. If it's man and they're immediately beat, that's on the one guy. If it's slide and guys sneak through, it could be multiple guys screwing up. If it's man and the defense runs a stunt like a te, then I check and see how it's passed off and how the 2 ol communicate. Sometimes, if a guy blitzes from depth he's unaccounted for by the ol and is hot, but the qb screws up and it makes the ol look bad. Couple of things to note--the tackles are responsible for reading a triangle to their side (safety, corner, DE). Those guys can tip cat blitz, and it's his job to communicate that. He also needs to peak at an ilb and see if he's blitzing to the man side in a half line slide in order to call a squeeze to leave the farthest outside guy unblocked or picked up by a back or te to squeeze down. There's all kinds of things like that to check, especially if guys are coming completely free. Sometimes it's the qb, sometimes it's the line, sometimes it's the scheme. But if guys are just getting beat immediately by dl in man protection, or stunts on dl are popping, that's usually a player issue
