Piling on the misery, I know. I'm leaving out the David Carr season, cause that's just not fair to anyone. 10/21/2007 Titans 38 - Texans 36 (at home) -->The first Sage-helmed (though not his fault at all) Texans choke job: a go ahead touchdown with less than a minute to go undone by the Titans shredding through the defense for a 29 yd chippy as time expired. 9/7/2008 Steelers 38 - Texans 17 (road) -->The playoff contender thoughts were stomped in the nuts right away. 9/21/2008 Titans 31 - Texans 12 (road) -->Just in case anyone thought the first game of the year was a fluke. 9/28/2008 Jags 30 - Texans 27 (OT, road) -->Lots of excuses flying around with this game: Ike, road weariness, coin flip, etc. But the Texans lost this game by watching the Jags openly line up to go for it on 4th, keeping a confused punt return group on the field and not calling a time out (with nearly every fan watching on TV screaming for one). 40 yd TD, Jags, game decided. Idiocy can be costly. 10/5/2008 Colts 31 - Texans 27 (home) -->Texans up 27-10 in the 4th quarter. Enter the Rosencopter. 11/2/2008 Vikings 28 - Texans 21 (road) -->On paper, it just looks like the Texans came up short on the road. In reality, both Sage and Schaub turned the ball over with hair pulling decisions in the red zone, wiping out certain scoring opportunities. 12/21/2008 Raiders 27 - Texans 16 (road) -->Pathetic, mailed in display from a flat uninspired Texans team. Raiders were 3-11 coming into the game. This loss prevented the Texans best chance to post a first ever winning season, shades of the 2004 home finale against Cleveland. 9/13/2009 Jets 28 - Texans 7 (home) -->Not ready to play, flat, and rolled over for a home opener. Rex Ryan helped expose a lot of Kubiak's motivational deficiencies. 9/20/2009 Jags 31 - Texans 24 (home) -->Welcome to the never ending theme of the 2009 season: A Tale of Two Halves. 21 in the first half, and only a FG afterwards. The other great trend of the season started here, with a choke job Chris Brown goalline fumble that would have led to OT. 10/11/2009 Cards 28 - Texans 21 (road) -->Another tale of two halves, with the Texans opening the game flat and uninspired and trampled for an early hole. The team turned it around in the 2nd half with a furious rally, but had another choke job in the form of a late game unclutch Matt Schaub pick 6 that sealed the loss. For good measure, Chris Brown failed to punch it in from the 1 (twice, including 4th down) and Matt Schaub choked again and badly overthrew a wide open Dressen in the end zone. 11/8/2009 Colts 20 - Texans 17 (road) -->Same Old Song and Dance: MIA first half, hard push in the second half comes up short. Kris Brown blows a late game tying FG to seal the loss. 11/23/2009 Titans 20 - Texans 17 (home, MNF) -->The Two-Quarter-Texans roll early, then open another can of quit for the second half. They leave 4 points on the field in the 3rd, and Kris Brown earns his second straight goat award, sending a lined up FG way left to compensate for imaginary wind. 11/29/2009 Colts 35 - Texans 27 (home) -->Skipping record: Texans manage to blow a 20-7 halftime lead by benching all starting and 2nd string offensive players for the second half. Forced to bring them back once losing in the 4th, Schaub enters to toss a pick-6 in retaliation, sealing the loss.
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The most frustrating thing about this list is that the overwhelming majority of those choke jobs are in division games.
That was a miracle comeback by the Texans in that game. Calling it a choke job is crazy. A choke job would have been the Titans losing that game.
true, but they were winning the game with less than a minute to go. It is still symptomatic of the overall problem of not being able to close out games, when you have the lead (however you got it), in the 4th quarter.
Definitely. He still hasn't figured out a way to beat the Titans or Colts. This has been a problem since 2002.
I think you can effectively argue that this was the biggest loss in franchise history. Our first ever MNF game, the old Oilers in town, Vince getting the start, playoffs on the line, so many other intangible reasons why this game was important. And we blow it. Kind of sums up our whole history in 60 minutes. What really killed us in that game was Vince scrambling for 1st downs on all those 3rd downs. Can we not just put a full time spy on him? The one time we did, Pollard tackled him for a loss.
Technically that was on Dunta. Watch some replay of the highlights for that last catch that put the Titans in FG range, it was Dunta's man and if I remember correctly you see him falling back like he thought he could catch it but the ball and the receiver were a yard or two behind him and they went outside to stop the clock. How is it Kubiak's fault for Sage's monumental collapse and forgetting basic techniques on how to take care of the football? Rosenfels had been a QB for almost a decade in the NFL at that point.
1. I didn't assign specific blame for Kubiak for that, only looking at games in the Kubiak era. 2. That said, the captain is responsible for the actions of his crew. Sage was all over the place making asinine decisions with the ball in the 4th quarter and you'd think your coach would rein in an antsy QB and press into him to play it safe and focus on ball control.
If I remember right, he had already tried to stretch the ball over the goal line on a QB sneak earlier in the game. The announcers even said "boy, he better be careful with that ball..."
Yeah. Sage was just an idiot. The smartest dude in the world wouldn't have made him NOT do those things.
How many losses are we going to say that after? That was being said after the Titans loss and it was REALLY being said after the Colts loss. If we lose to the Seahawks, will the same thing be said next week?
I wasn't upset with how the team or coaching staff performed after the 1st Colts or MNF Titans game. This loss had Kubiak fingerprints all over it.
I know that the OP is talking only about losses in the Kubiak era, but the Rams loss in 2005 was terrible as well. So many losses. I would also add 11/4/07- Chargers 35- Texans 3. Texans were never in the game.
