LOSS on Thursday and loss to pittsburg on the road. will be 3-4. Boom. Go Texans! then they will swap out fitz for mallet and somehow go 6-3 rest of way to be 9-7.
Exactly this. It would have been awesome to have won this game, but it's insignificant compared to Thursday's game. There's a huge advantage to the home team on a short week so hopefully we can take advantage of it.
Offense is so inept that we can't overcome any holding or false start penalties. False start on 1st down? Might as well punt, that drive's over.
I didnt get to watch the game much because of work, i caught the end of 2qtr by using my phone to change channel at the pizza hut for lunch. O'B looked disgusted going in at the half.
He should have been, the offense was offensive. The O line was incompetent and they made the Dallas D look a lot better than they really are.
Agreed, he wasn't taking any chances and he didn't have much faith in the players....but I can't blame him after the first quarter.
This team has nothing to be ashamed about with that outcome. Great to see us show some heart to take it to overtime. One play here or there (not converting the 3rd and 2, Tony Romo's Hail Mary prayers being answered) decided the game. Sure, the Cowboys had some absolute brain-fart plays that allowed us to keep it close (two turnovers in the red zone AGAIN? wow), but I think it went the other way too with Tony Romo's absolutely nonsensical decisions somehow paying off. That's just how the Cowboy's play, Romo's "F-- it, I'm goin deep" style of football that is high risk high reward and ultimately will never succeed in the playoffs. I don't feel bad at all about that loss. Just real happy this team had some grit to make the Cowboys sweat in their home field. Like Woody Harrelson against Bill Murray at the end of Kingpin, if there was ever a game to extract a moral victory from, this would be it.
So off topic, but did the Texans have a chance, or even try signing Peyton Manning when he came back after surgery/injury?
Not really, but you'll never convince some people of that. Schaub had too much dead money at the time so to give Peyton his 20 mil, you'd have had to gut the team of numerous key pieces which would lead to even less success than the Broncos have had....not to mention behind the O line in Houston at the time, Peyton is probably medically retired by now.
Peyton coming free was pre-Schaub extension. Peyton signed with Denver March 2012, Schaub re-signed with us September 2012 (we found out about it after the Miami win, remember). I don't blame management for that move, however. It was toss-up whether or not Peyton was ever going to return to his old self at the time. It really took him a year to even get his arm into serviceable condition, so it was a huge risk any team incurred in paying him 20M guaranteed for however many years Denver gave him. On top of that, the Texans had just come off their 2011 with what was probably the best defense in the league that year. If Schaub hadn't gotten injured (a move that we would later look back to as another manifestation of his extraordinary ability to crumble under pressure), then most people thought we would have been Super Bowl bound.
Looking at stats, Colts have a better offense and defense right now. Unless this oline shows up we won't be able to compete, even in our house. May get embarrassed at home.
why did the texans prematurely give schaub that contract extension again? lololol. my lord the texans blow on all fronts.
