I'm not sure who "most fans" are. I are not one if it means I think and have said the Texans are completely void of talent. All teams in the NFL have talented football players. I've written before, comparatively speaking the Texans on most game days this year will run up against more talented teams. My bad, I shouldn't have written "bad" earlier in this thread when describing the talent on the team. I was in a rush.
As for the guys TK mentioned, Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill:
Christian Kirksey - former 3rd round pick by the Browns, 29 years old, started at ILB for the Packers last year in 11 games, had a pretty good season. Not great, not awful either. I'm not at all surprised by his start, which has been decent, not great. He's looked like the guy he has for most of his career.
KGH - former 6th round pick by the Pats (waived by the Pats before his first regular season in the NFL), 27 years old. Four years with the Eagles, one with the Dolphins. 104 solo tackles in his career on 19 starts.
Between the two of those guys, they have a combined 23 tackles in two games this year with six TFL's. Fine, I'll take it, but when I consider one of those games came against a foolish Urban Meyer with a rookie quarterback and missing it's starting running back, color me unchanged on the talent level.
In summary, I haven't changed my mind at all about where I think the Texans are, where I think they need to be and how they should go about getting there.
Now, on to the injury bug news of the day...Caserio, the McNairs and maybe Easterby have pinned their hopes (whatever that may be) on some guys that we all knew had injury question marks besides their names when they came aboard. That this issue so early in the season has reared it's ugly head should surprise no one. Now, if the hopes by the Texans brain trust is to land an early pick in the 2022 draft, the Texans look to be moving in that direction.