This is not the kind of game you recap. Not because it ended poorly for the Houston Texans but because it was such an all-around ugly game that you’d just as soon forget it happened once the clock hits all zeroes.
The Houston Texans lost their division opener to the Jacksonville Jaguars 17-10 after some late heroics by the Jaguars broke the stalemate in the fourth quarter.
After being told by DeMeco Ryans that the Texans offense was “close,” they limped out of the gate once again; managing only to score
a field goal in the first three quarters of the game. The touchdown the Texans did score in the fourth was due to a phenomenally missed assignment that left Nico Collins so wide open that even Tom Savage could’ve hit him in stride. And then the Texans gave up a game ending interception to seal the deal.
The loss is bad because it puts the Texans even further behind the eight ball in terms of winning the division and any hope for a playoff push, but there is so much wrong here that a single loss isn’t even the biggest problem.
We have to talk about the offense. I don’t want to, you don’t want me to, none of us want to be reminded of the Texans offense but it has become a four alarm problem. Something is wrong here.
In three games, the Texans have averaged about 171 yards passing per game, 95 yards rushing per game, and 12.6 points per game. This is unacceptable for a team that has been entertaining Super Bowl ambitions for the last two seasons. Bobby Slowik would look at this three game stretch and say that they needed help.
But the one thing that has hounded this team since DeMeco became coach is penalties. This is a sloppy team. They play sloppy on offense, they have sloppy defensive mistakes, and those mistakes frequently lead to points being scored by the other team.
This is not a good team. This is an undisciplined team with severely unrealized potential at best, and a team that would make the David Culley season look competent, at worst.
Three games may be too early to be demanding the firing of Nick Caley, but he better pull some magic out of his…hat if he wants to make it to the bye week.
There is so much wrong and so much that I don’t want to talk about in this game because I’ll end up breaking something expensive. So y’all can take over for me. Who/what do you blame the Texans’ current struggles on? Let us know in the comment section below!
