I don't think Walter can be replaced. His receiving yards and catches can...but his blocking just CAN'T be replaced. I think our run game did much better today because Walter is always willing to block.
The D is embarassing. I don't like knee jerk reactions, but we won't even get 8 wins with this D. If its not Bush, I don't know. I didn't think it was possible to get worse from last year........damn. As far as some of you dissing Schaub, I don't know what you were watching. That guy is playing great ball. He's not perfect, but no one is and he's far from the problem. He's the biggest reason we were in this game. We had a TD taken away on a blown call and another fumbled. This isn't on most of the offense. I understand its game 3, but this isn't a one game trend. It isn't even a three game trend. The starters gave up huge plays in all three regular season games and the two pre-season games they got significant minutes in. Like a lot of you, I don't understand how we can be so bad with more playmakers on D than we had last year. Again I'm not big on Bush. I know that will make a funny quote, but I'm too annoyed to laugh or change it. I'm pretty sure he won't be fired right now, but we could be looking at the hole that sinks the ship.
Yep, the funny apart about it. They blitz and no one gets through. No one beats their man. This team sucks at blitzing. Right now the only thing this team is good at on defense is getting stops 1st and 2nd...but that becomes irrelevant because they give up a big play on 3rd down nearly every time.
This is hilarious. The Texans just create ways to lose. I thought I couldn't laugh any harder after the Rosenfels leap but I was wrong. 1st and goal at the 1 and you wind up fumbling the tying score away. Only Houston.... Kubiak better get these guys to play or he will be gone (or should be).... And did MJD pretend to j*zz on the crowd after his last TD?
Well, they had 1st and goal at the 1, and ended up scoring twice. Not their fault the officials took both of them away. I'm not saying they didn't play a bad game, because they did, but I'm not going to hold them at fault there.
blown call on the officials or not...it never should have came down to it. The lack of defense lost this game. Garrard had all day to throw in the pocket even when we were blitzing. Its really sad when you can't stop the run nor the pass even when you KNOW they are going to hand it to MJD.
I blame the defense also. They couldn't stop anything. What is the most rushing yardage a team has ever given up? Were the calls wrong? Maybe, maybe no. But I certainly dont think they were blatantly wrong.
What a crock of crap. If an official's call prevents you from *tying* a game, it's because your defense didn't do its job. That defense is 2005-bad. Head-scratching, mind-numbing bad. One more "performance" like that, and the whole defensive staff should get fired. On the spot. Seriously. "Adjusting to the system" is one thing, getting scored on like a 6-man junior high team playing against UT is another. Bush may be the worst hiring since Charley Casserly. That was so freaking painful and nauseating to watch. So no way this game is the officials' fault. You want to win a football game, how about make a freaking tackle from time to time? Holy crap. All those first- and second- and third-round picks. All that money. If they play like this next Sunday, they should have to wear "battle pink" Tu-Tus the rest of the season. Hey, might as well dress the part you're playing. I *think* I"m done with my rant now. I mean holy crap, what a freaking pathetic display. Pathetic.
Yes. They're blitzing your television screen with embarrassing displays of incompetence. Break out the paper bag masks again, H-town, your sad-sackers are back!
To be fair to Bush, the secondary is absolutely horrible. And our tackles suck too. Basically, our defense is Mario, DeMeco, Cushing and a bunch of garbage.
Thats an awsome idea. Somebody should organize that if this continues... Completely embarassing its basically Mario + Ryans + cushing and a bunch of guys that wouldnt sniff other starting lineups. Its not that they lack heart they lack talent I dont know how they got worst from last year on defense... They better get it together going on a hot streak to go 8-8 or even 9-7 is not good enough anymore. If they arent playing meaningfl games in November and December the whole coaching staff should be out....
incorrect. Look at all those yards, all those first downs, all those missed tackles, those blown coverages (not just #32), the constant overpursuit-- In no universe did this defense play well in any aspect of the game. They didn't get enough pressure on the QB, they didn't contain the run, they gave up big plays, the missed assignments, they overpursued, they missed tackles... They, you know, SUCKED. Correct. But if the same guys are making the same mistakes every week, which boneheaded ingrate keeps putting them in there? I mean, I know they busted Barber. Where was that safety they just signed? Why didn't he play? Shoot, maybe *I* should go try out. What a pathetic joke.
...and it's not like this happened against a solid offense like Indiana or New England (recent struggles notwithstanding). IT happened against the freaking Jaguars, who have MJD, a hack QB, one decent receiver. And some rookie who had his coming out party against the Texans. It should tell you something that this generally pedestrian offense came into today saying, "we can move the ball against this team," and then proceeded to do it at will for over half the game. For all the people wanting to see "intensity" and "desire" and "fire" from your Houston Texans--those Jaguars were laughing and smiling as they kicked our asses all over the field. Awesome.
Look on the bright side, at least we're not the Cardinals. They've gone from Super bowl to getting booed at home.
True, the Texans just get booed at home without having memories of even the slightest postseason contention, much less making an amazing run to the Super Bowl. I'd much rather be a fan of pretty much any other franchise -- at least there's something positive to reflect back on.
OK, let's say that you are correct in that the replay official didn't have a better view. In that case, the ruling on the field will stand because the replays were inconclusive. But I saw 3 different replay angles and on one you can see the ball come out before he breaks the plane. On another you see his right knee touch but cannot see the ball and on the last one, you can't see a thing. I may be wrong but I also though the official who made that call was in the endzone looking directly at the ball coming out. It's possible that Brown's left knee was down right at the goal line but none of the replays showed this conclusively.
Werd. At least the Cards had one hell of a run in the postseason to look back upon. Texans? Not so much.
You make a good point, but the refs should have called him down (or a TD) after making the horrendous offensive pass interference call. Then the Jags would have challenged, but the ruling on the field would have stood.
