I'm certain I never saw a worse game in this franchise's history, not even during its expansion season. At least those guys seemed to care, they just weren't talented enough each week. This team just looks like they don't give a crap. I've never seen so many guys running free on 50 plus yard plays in an NFL game. Hal had a good game in Jacksonville, but his "effort" to stop Landry on that first 50 yarder was beyond embarrassment. It was pop warner level effort. This team is listless, effortless and they just don't seem to care. I guess there's no reason for fans to care until they do.
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Is this the worst game in Texans history?
- Thread starter mridge01
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1st time since the 1940's that a team has had 4 50+ yard TD's in a game is what the radio announcers said yesterday. Absolutely pathetic.
speedfreek
All Pro
I can't think of a game worse than this one. Honestly, 41-0 at half.
Miami broke all kinds of records against us. That pretty much sums it up...
Miami broke all kinds of records against us. That pretty much sums it up...
They all happened in the first half too. SMH.
Accurate write up in Yahoo Sports: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...luck-not-looking-too-great-now-004515948.html
LOSERS
Bill O’Brien: O’Brien made this list before what happened in the fourth quarter to Arian Foster. The Texans were trailing 41-0 at the Dolphins. This same team trailed at the Atlanta Falcons 42-0 earlier this season. They lost at home to the Colts and Hasselbeck, who almost missed that game because he was so sick. How are the Texans this bad?
One can blame the quarterback situation, but that’s partially O’Brien’s doing. O’Brien had a say in the Texans’ inexplicably not drafting a quarterback with the first or 33rd pick of the 2014 draft. He had a big say in trading for Ryan Mallett, who is turning into a nightmare. Brian Hoyer struggled most of Sunday, but O’Brien didn’t help his confidence earlier this season by benching him before his first full start was even done, after stating he would not do that.
But O’Brien’s missteps pale in comparison to letting Arian Foster, who has had a ton of carries in his career and missed the first three games of this season with a groin injury, continue to play during the fourth quarter of a blowout loss. Foster tore his Achilles tendon and is done for the season, and with one year left on his contract, Foster’s Texans career might be done now too.
O’Brien’s first season with the Texans was pretty good, as he coaxed a 9-7 season out of Houston last season. This season has been absolutely terrible. And having Foster get injured in the fourth quarter of a game that was entirely over will make the rest of this season a bigger challenge.
LOSERS
Bill O’Brien: O’Brien made this list before what happened in the fourth quarter to Arian Foster. The Texans were trailing 41-0 at the Dolphins. This same team trailed at the Atlanta Falcons 42-0 earlier this season. They lost at home to the Colts and Hasselbeck, who almost missed that game because he was so sick. How are the Texans this bad?
One can blame the quarterback situation, but that’s partially O’Brien’s doing. O’Brien had a say in the Texans’ inexplicably not drafting a quarterback with the first or 33rd pick of the 2014 draft. He had a big say in trading for Ryan Mallett, who is turning into a nightmare. Brian Hoyer struggled most of Sunday, but O’Brien didn’t help his confidence earlier this season by benching him before his first full start was even done, after stating he would not do that.
But O’Brien’s missteps pale in comparison to letting Arian Foster, who has had a ton of carries in his career and missed the first three games of this season with a groin injury, continue to play during the fourth quarter of a blowout loss. Foster tore his Achilles tendon and is done for the season, and with one year left on his contract, Foster’s Texans career might be done now too.
O’Brien’s first season with the Texans was pretty good, as he coaxed a 9-7 season out of Houston last season. This season has been absolutely terrible. And having Foster get injured in the fourth quarter of a game that was entirely over will make the rest of this season a bigger challenge.
ATXtexanfan
Hall of Fame
Worse loss for me.
Scooter
Funky
Because Ed Reed blew up the locker room and we had an unusually low amount of turnovers - both Wade's fault.
Worst loss?
It depends on how you frame it.
Based on emotional investment, I'd say no. Apathy has no emotion. I watched it like I'd watch car crash videos in slow motion on YouTube.
The VY comeback his rookie year at Reliant was probably my 'worst' from a fan perspective, especially after all the hype.
This is probably the worst loss in the sense of point deficit and complete lack of competitiveness from the team itself. They looked like a whipped dog sitting out in the rain yesterday. No spirit at all.
It depends on how you frame it.
Based on emotional investment, I'd say no. Apathy has no emotion. I watched it like I'd watch car crash videos in slow motion on YouTube.
The VY comeback his rookie year at Reliant was probably my 'worst' from a fan perspective, especially after all the hype.
This is probably the worst loss in the sense of point deficit and complete lack of competitiveness from the team itself. They looked like a whipped dog sitting out in the rain yesterday. No spirit at all.
The Pencil Neck
Hall of Fame
I can't remember a team looking worse than we did in that first half. It was so bad my wife was questioning whether they were playing that bad on purpose.
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humblegeo
Guest
We've had two games this year that started out 41-0 and 42-0 and we're not even at the half way point. Pretty frustrating for Texas fans. I'm just about to the point where I don't need this. May have to find other things to do on Sunday besides watching and worrying about this cluster **** of a team.
Either that loss or the Rosencopter one.
eriadoc
Texan-American
Worst loss in Houston history was 35-3. Worst Texans loss for me personally was the Rosencopter game, because it was the catalyst that led me to divest myself of any financial entanglements I had with the Texans. This one is close, however. The last complete game I watched was the TB game. I missed last week's game because I was in Vegas. I could have found a sports book and plopped myself down to watch it, but I wanted to do the Vegas thing instead. This week, I watched the first two TDs by the Dolphins and I turned the game off and never looked back. For all the terrible losses in Texans history, none of them pushed me into just not giving a damn anymore. I won't be wasting my Sundays on them the rest of this season. After 13 years, I have to see some reciprocation on the give a damn before I resume giving a damn.
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I'm asking how does this guy still have a job in the NFL. 41-0 to the Dolphins. 42-0 to the Falcons. & we lost to the Colts even though their back-up QB hadn't practiced all week.
All three games, the Texans offense has a large number of three & outs. An inability to move the ball. Fugetabout crossing midfield. That was actually the case in six of the seven games the Texans played.
& what gets me more than anything else, when asked OB is quite coy about saying, "I don't know."
Tell me it's none of my business. Tell me you're taking care of it. Lie to me, I don't give a damn, don't just say, "I don't know." like it's an acceptable answer & I'm pissed off at Houston's media for letting him get away with it.
I'd ask him question after question until he blows up in a "Playoffs!! Crown their ass!! We couldn't do diddly poo!!" kinda way.
"Bill, is that how you teach your TEs to tip a ball they obviously can't catch?"
eriadoc
Texan-American
It really doesn't matter what he says. If the team was winning, he could get out there and say "gooney goo goo" and no one would care. When the team is losing (especially this badly), he could get out there and blow up, sulk, smile like an idiot, say nonesense, mimic Kubiak, or be Bill Belichick. None of it matters. People are going to be unhappy with anything he says. I'd rather they stop talking to the press altogether, TBH.
I'm hoping he has one of those moments that gets coaches fired the next day.
infantrycak
Hall of Fame
Worst game. Worst season. Whatever. My give a crap ran out and just started laughing.
infantrycak
Hall of Fame
I was actually hoping for an NFL record score or something that would get OB and Rick fired.
Uncle Rico
Ur apology should be as loud as Ur disrespect was
Falling behind 41-0 was pretty bad. Falling behind 42-0 was pretty bad too. Really hard to fall behind by that much in the NFL twice in the same season.
corytx8
Rookie
This right here. Yes, this was the worst lost. This is the first time I got to a point that I can careless about watching texans games.
corytx8
Rookie
Priceless
Brisco_County
Apples and roadmaps
The truly terrible part is how it ambushed us. Like the 2013 season, expectations were high after having a winning record.
PHILLYTEXANFAN
Saddle Up Partner
Idk. Personally I had the team at 8-8, and that being best case
PHILLYTEXANFAN
Saddle Up Partner
To make the situation seem better, Detroit fired their OC AND OL coach
I didn't think I can laugh any harder than during the 2013 season.
Well, I was wrong, hahahaha.
sandman
Brexit Advisor
Except that ass whooping was by the defending World War Champs. Not a country you never lost a war against who just overthrew their government and installed a new one. You know, like France.
Sigma
Veteran
for this to be true, the texans should have led the game 41-0 at halftime and lost in OT 41-47
Norg
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there have been many beat downs in the Texans history
remember back in like 03 or 04 when the pats beat us down silly
or when Greenbay Beat the breaks off us live on Prime time
or when St Louis came to NRG and Torched the Texans
or win Carolina came into NRG and Squashed the Texans
remember back in like 03 or 04 when the pats beat us down silly
or when Greenbay Beat the breaks off us live on Prime time
or when St Louis came to NRG and Torched the Texans
or win Carolina came into NRG and Squashed the Texans
speedfreek
All Pro
I remember a game where the steelers kicked the crap out of us in the very
first game of the season.. They basically put on cruise control in the
3rd Q and the Texans still couldn't make up any ground.
Then another favorite memory was one of Gary's first games against the
Ravens where they practically ran the ball on every play and clobbered
us.. I remember our center getting blown up and shoved into schaub on
like half a dozen plays.
It's memories like this that define this franchise for me..
Still not as painful as the Oilers Bills debacle, or Glanville starting off a
playoff game by having Moon throw a backwards pass to Rozier that
he promptly fumbled in the endzone.
It sucks to be a Houston football fan..
first game of the season.. They basically put on cruise control in the
3rd Q and the Texans still couldn't make up any ground.
Then another favorite memory was one of Gary's first games against the
Ravens where they practically ran the ball on every play and clobbered
us.. I remember our center getting blown up and shoved into schaub on
like half a dozen plays.
It's memories like this that define this franchise for me..
Still not as painful as the Oilers Bills debacle, or Glanville starting off a
playoff game by having Moon throw a backwards pass to Rozier that
he promptly fumbled in the endzone.
It sucks to be a Houston football fan..
EllisUnit
Vote RED!!!
Come on now they defeated a low Poland army, a depleted from ww1 France took slovakia through diplomatic means and made it to stain grad before Hitler ordered a no retreat. Once Stalin was able to get his army to the front the Germans had no shot. I wouldn't challenge me in a ww11 duel, I only studied every aspect of the war for 10 plus years.
EVOLVIST
Kid A
And therein lay the rub.
I teach my children that there are few worse things in life as being indifferent or apathetic. Yet there I've been, watching with a glaze over my eyes. Yes, always hanging in every play, as usual, but the success or failure of said play doesn't get me jazzed.
My God! How did I even get to feeling this way? But I can't stop watching. I just can't.
powda
The bridge between stupid and useless is short.
Lot of wasted Sundays in Houston.
WolverineFan
Hall of Fame
The Dolphins-Texans game was the football version of the Battle of Cannae with Dan Campbell playing the role of Hannibal and Bill O'Brien playing the part of Lucius Paullus and Rick Smith staring as Gaius Varro.
EVOLVIST
Kid A
Nah, to me the worst game was losing to the Ravens the way we did in the playoffs, followed by losing to the Pats in the playoffs, follows by the game where Matt Schaub broke his foot, followed by the game where rookie Sanchez lit us up, followed by any loss to Dallas, followed by all of our prime time losses.
...then Atlanta this year...then the Miami game.
...then Atlanta this year...then the Miami game.
Wolfiegrrl
Fan of NFC Seahawks & AFC Texans
For me, I'd have to say worst loss because you can see this team has already given up on the coaching staff. I was traveling back to Portland from Seattle and listened to the game on the Texans App. Even Mark Vandermeer sounded apathetic as the game got worse and worse. At one point I turned it off, I think we were down 21-0 before the 1st quarter was over, and just laughed. It was a crazy "can't believe this team is this bad" kind of laugh. This **** pile called a football team isn't just bad, its embarrassing. I think our two wins this year are flukes. The decision making from the top down is comical. (QB roulette, keeping your best players in during blow out losses, Vanilla play calling, firing a kicker just to get another one that just as bad...) Compare this team to the 49ers. That freaking team had most of its defense decide to retire, has a new HC that can't get anything out of it in his first year, and crap at QB because of mismatch in talent vs. off. scheme. Yet, I can understand they are rebuilding. O'Brian came in and fucked up what was generally considered a decent team. His coordinators make us look worse than a Pee Wee team. How the **** is it that we have the DPOY and the guy gets triple-teamed and still nothing out of the rest of the defense? My Texans gear is packed for the season. I'll watch the games... Since I'm stuck paying for them anyway. But I'm not going to support this **** storm.
Yep. There's the paradox of being a fan. Of course we still care. True apathy would mean we wouldn't even know the score, much less tune in.
But, it is a very tempered vibe, because to let my emotions truly shine would mean disgust, hatred, and anger at such a perpetually crappy franchise and a feeling that it is some kind of cosmic eternal suffering for unsaid sins.
Yeah, that's where the radio comes in. Multitask by doing something productive while listening to it is the best way to feel like you haven't wasted your day.
Wolf
100% Texan
I just watch and i dont get mad when they screw up. I still cheer on the TDs but my blood pressure stays pretty low.
I do say "come on man" when we were getting blown out and our players hop uo and get excited about a first down..they get paid millions to score TDs and win ballgames not to get blown out and get one first down(i realize most players do this)
I do say "come on man" when we were getting blown out and our players hop uo and get excited about a first down..they get paid millions to score TDs and win ballgames not to get blown out and get one first down(i realize most players do this)
eriadoc
Texan-American
I'm at the point now where I give them a couple series. If they're showing typical ineptitude, I turn it off and I don't tune in or check the score again. As the season progresses, I expect my attention level will continue to decline. I've already missed two games this year, turned off two others before halftime, and slept through large portions of the others. I went 12 years where I didn't miss a single play. So I guess I'm clearly in the apathy phase. I still care enough to come here and discuss the team, so I guess that's a positive, but I'm already looking forward to the offseason.