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How did we not kick the ball out of bounds or through the back of the end zone!! How fucking stupid!!! Orlovsky is 100% correct 

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1 minute ago, Macklemore said:

How did we not kick the ball out of bounds or through the back of the end zone!! How fucking stupid!!! Orlovsky is 100% correct 

I fear we are being coached by idiots

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Texans Embarrass Themselves Out of Bye Week in Loss to Seattle Seahawks

The Houston Texans got smacked out of their bye week. They lost to the Seattle Seahawks 27-19.

Here are 11 observations from the sloppy loss. 

  1. It was an utterly embarrassing performance from the Texans. Almost everything was terrible at some point. The gameplan out of the bye week was unacceptable. The Texans looked lost and sluggish. They had curious personnel usage. They were undisciplined. The defense started slow before settling in. Thank goodness or this would have been a demolition of epic proportions. The Seahawks helped keep them in the game with some awful mistakes of their own, but the Texans rarely found ways to maximize the Seattle mistakes. 

  2. The offense is pathetic. They are one of the worst offenses in the league when the opponent isn’t lightly talented. Almost everything that worked against the Titans and the Ravens was abandoned in favor of the putrid operation from the winless start of the first three weeks. Nick Caley has no feel of who they are as a team and as an offense. The predictability of when he decided to run on short yardage was apparent. His decision to run the football on short yardage with this offensive line is unacceptable. His decision to do it on back-to-back plays in the third can’t be tolerated. That was the most “square peg, round hole” moment of his career. With the dwindling hope to salvage a horrible tragedy of a game Nick Caley outsmarted himself from the one-yard line. He threw the ball twice, then had a false start save him. Then, of course, the Texans failed to get into the end zone. He also ran a stretch play that burned nearly 40 seconds off the clock when they needed that time near two minutes. The play went nowhere and only served to help dissect their already meager chances to win. 

  3. The likelihood Caley survives the season at this rate should be zero. I’d consider making a change now to hopefully salvage the season. He has no feel for the position. There has been no true growth. C.J. Stroud frequently talks about doing less of what the team struggles with, then they struggle on offense. He signed off on the direction of these players. He crafted this offense. He talked about utilizing the strengths of the team and then doesn’t utilize them. He regularly puts the players in positions where they can’t succeed. The staff around him is basically the same as last season. None of those coaches were a worthwhile option to replace a struggling Bobby Slowik. Why would they be an option now? Well, somehow, Caley is worse than Slowik. Someone else should make their case to call the offense. 

  4. I wish someone believed in me like Caley believed in this rushing attack.It’s predictable and could not move a stout Seattle front. The Seahawks had to be licking their chops every time the Texans telegraphed a run. Seattle had little trouble dispatching the offensive line regardless of the direction Caley foolishly decided to run. The two third quarter runs just under four minutes were despicable braindead decisions. Houston averaged 2.3 yards per carry with running backs. 

  5. The offensive line sets everything up for failure. Nick Caserio failed this team. The offensive line overhaul failed miserably. For God’s sake they rotate left guards. Neither can play a lick. The rookie left tackle is wholly and totally unprepared for the basic requirements of the position. The right side of the line are salvage jobs who have failed in previous seasons to establish themselves. The offensive coordinator puts them in positions they can’t possibly win. The offensive line for this season is hopeless. 

  6. Stroud won’t escape criticism. He panics. He has happy feet. He throws too many uncatchable passes. There a moments and flashes of brilliance, but they’re outweighed by poor plays. Stroud looked most comfortable in hurry-up offense where he didn’t have to process a lot and trust the offensive line. He doesn’t trust the offensive line. Why would he? They failed him in similar shades of David Carr. The offense does nothing to make things easy on him most of the time either. Talks of a Stroud contract extension should be shuttered until further notice. 

  7. The players the Texans regularly trust is baffling. Braxton Berrios has been a healthy scratch for weeks. Despite his inability to see the field, the first time he is active, he plays on offense over Jaylin Noel and is the team’s punt returner. He did a poor job with both of those opportunities. Noel was awesome helping the Texans steal a field goal at the end of the first half. He’s a much better offensive player than Berrios. The team rotates the left guard which accomplishes, well, I’m not sure. Neither player is average on a good day. Nick Chubb isn’t as good as Woody Marks. He had another drop in this one. Dare Ogunbowale is a net negative every time he takes an offensive snap. It’s mind-boggling these players continue to see the field over more talented players. That’s something DeMeco Ryans, Caley, and special teams coordinator Frank Ross shouldn’t be doing. 

  8. The multiple almost safeties were peak sloppiness. Stroud scrambled trying to make something out of nothing when the quick pressure got there. He was tackled in the end zone. The officials miraculously disallowed a challenge and ruled the Texans down out of their own end zone. Stroud has a nasty habit of losing unnecessary yards on sacks. I have to imagine an 18-yard loss on a clean snap operation is pretty rare. The Seahawks bailed the Texans out fumbling into the end zone, but of course, the Texans couldn’t fully benefit. They had an offensive penalty on that play. There were other sloppy penalties. Azeez Al-Shaair slammed a quarterback like he was Batista at WrestleMania. Tim Settle Jr. did a flying body splash onto a dead play to end the game effectively. Nico Collins had a sloppy moment when he dropped the ball on a great Stroud pocket escape. Not kicking the ball out of bounds or through the end zone before the final possession was unacceptable. The Texans needed the two-minute warning but it got wasted on a return. That can’t happen. Ka’imi Fairbairn was instructed to kick the ball out of bounds and he didn’t do it according to Ryans after the game. 

  9. Derek Stingley Jr. is having a rough start to his season. He had the injury excuse before the bye week, but he’s healthy now. Jaxon Smith-Njigba had a night against Stingley. I didn’t expect him to dominate the league’s most productive wideout, but I expected more from him. Yes, there was a late interception that was a nice play, but Stingley isn’t making the regular plays he made last year. 

  10. Will Anderson Jr. finally showed up in a big way. His strip sack and recovery for a touchdown was almost the play of the season. Unfortunately, the offense is too bad to capitalize. Anderson fell off a couple of tackles, and the pressure wasn’t as consistent as they needed, but tough to criticize him after a play like that. Danielle Hunter was neutralized this game. I don’t care about pressure rate, pass rush win rate, or anything else. He didn’t make anywhere close to enough plays to justify the massive investment in him. The defense had some moments, and gave it their best, but even they had miscues. The turnovers they forced, and scoring, should usually be enough for a win. They have to be near perfect to cover up this outclassed offense. Denico Autry looks to have plenty left in the tank. He played well. This is a playoff caliber defense most of the time, but they basically have to be the early 2000’s Ravens to support this offense. 

  11. Nothing was good enough. That’s the overall point. The Texans were outclassed in every facet of the game. The Seahawks had better coaches, players, schemes, and execution. There is no positive consistency for Houston. It only comes in spurts, and it is usually a miracle if it is sustained. The head coach has some soul searching to do with the players and coaches he trusts. The organization has some serious assessments to make on the composition of this team, how it arrived here, who built it, and who is coaching it. All while trying to salvage a season quickly teetering on disaster.

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

The gap in coaching last night was jarring.

DeMeco is in over his head. 

The OL is still garbage, which is a Caserio problem
CJS has regressed so badly, which is a coaching problem and a shitty offensive scheme problem
Back to back rookie OC hires, both of whom were position coaches under the same HC Ryans coached under, who is clearly running Shanahan's stuff only (like Bienemy and Reid)

DeMeco has to expand his network and make a real OC hire - skins on the wall, not guys just sucking on Kyle's teets

Caserio gotta go, the OL is 100% his fault.  Every fucking year. 
 

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10 hours ago, David Dennison said:

We might have to draft another QB soon.

If we end up in draft position to get a good QB, would someone give us 3 first rounders for CJ?

 

9 hours ago, Macklemore said:

 

How is this season any different? They keep signing washed busts and burning midround picks on OL. It's been this way since Caserio got here.

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I'm just echoing what everyone else has said but that offensive performance was...offensive. Putrid. Terrible OL play, moronic penalties, and "the fuck was that?"-level play calling and game management. I feel bad for the Texans defense, who gave the offense multiple chances to get back into the game.

It was not unlike watching the UT offense fumblefuck around, except that the Texans are a fucking professional NFL team and have even less excuse to put this product on the field.

 

 

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