[Official] Division Round Texans @ Patriots

Ten toes down... I don't think $$$ Mills would have been any better.

But we will never know.

The punt decision was the surrender for me

 

Most of the bluster in here for the last two days is a result of feeling betrayed by a team that it has been so hard to invest in emotionally because of well... Games like Sunday.

With that being said, excuses by our team are wearing thin. Winners win while against the odds. Losers make excuses.

 

Player friendly coaches like Demeco Ryans are often loyal to a fault and it ends up stopping a lot of them from winning it all when that loyalty is misplaced.

 

No way in hell that Mills would’ve been as bad as Stroud.

and yes the punt was official surrender

 

Agree. It's not like we lost any of the games he started in, and he certainly didn't have all the turnovers. He just played smarter with a lousy offensive line and offensive coordinator, didn't hang his head or choke, and mastered a brilliant comeback quarter win.

 

I just want CJ to care as much as some of us jamokes do.

 

Seems like he cares, but doesn’t process emotions like he should

 

He definitely cares, he just sucks.

 

Instead of punt, they should have done the formality of a "super safe" conservative" 4th down play. Or a wild play. No in between.

Like run a draw, call a bland screen, run a bootleg flood one side. Its surrending within the play, not putting the ball on harm's way, instead of not doing the play at all.

Or go all fly routes Hail Mary. Chunk it as far down field as possible "as good as a punt". Or trick play like a WR/RB pass, that actually takes the ball out of CJ's hand. And it's still considered "creative risk in the moment"

Its generally the Texans D that has the opponent surrending like that. Crazy seeing the Texans show credit to the other defense as being "too good to try" (When it's really conceding that CJ is that bad from trusting)

 

Alcohol problem...

 

What I struggle with is the unknown. What we did know is what we got from CJ through 6 quarters of football. I was ok with giving Mills and the unknown a shot for the next two.