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A little early I know but…

What went well:

1) Pierce kick return: Nice wheels from Pierce. Deserves more opportunities to touch the ball if the offense could sustain a drive. Maybe next season.

2) Defense got a safety: That was cool.

What did not go well:

1) Everything else. The Ravens look like a legitimate Super Bowl Contender. The Texans look like a one and done team. They will not be able to overcome the lack of explosive plays on offense and poor OL play to put up 20+ on any playoff team.
 
Earl34 said:
Welp. Since Lamar Jackson joined the Ravens, they are 5-0 with the average score of 33-9 against the Texans.

I can't even blame BOB. The Ravens are 3-0 against DeMeco's Texans with an average score of 30-7. The Ravens physicality and scheme is a matchup nightmare for the Texans.
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Physicality is a huge difference. This team tip toes barefoot through the tulips while playing a flute. The Ravens stomp on those tulips while wearing steel toed boots, while setting fire to your village and taking your women. Lions? Same exact thing. We are softer then the Pillsbury dough boy.

I go back to Tunsil. On offense, he is the biggest issue. He isn’t tough, isn’t physical, isn’t a leader, and is too damn finesse and has a lackadaisical attitude that rubs off on the whole line, and the offense more broadly. I’ve said it for years…I will continue to say it until his lazy ass gets dumped like a jilted girlfriend.
 
Porky said:
Physicality is a huge difference. This team tip toes barefoot through the tulips while playing a flute. The Ravens stomp on those tulips while wearing steel toed boots, while setting fire to your village and taking your women. Lions? Same exact thing. We are softer then the Pillsbury dough boy.
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I agree with all of this!

Porky said:
I go back to Tunsil. On offense, he is the biggest issue. He isn’t tough, isn’t physical, isn’t a leader, and is too damn finesse and has a lackadaisical attitude that rubs off on the whole line, and the offense more broadly. I’ve said it for years…I will continue to say it until his lazy ass gets dumped like a jilted girlfriend.
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Not sure you can put it all on Tunsil. The Texans were soft long before he got here. Been that way since the inception of the franchise and the only constant is right at the very top. They're philanthropist's controlling the football people. Cal needs to get tough and tell Hannah to go down there and kick some ass!
 
I think we can all figure out who is who in this gif cause this basically what happened to us tonite.

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What went right? Nothing.

What went wrong? Everything..& I couldn’t even sit thru the whole game.

It’s gotten to the point defenses know what we’re gonna do before we do it. No one but Nico requires attention. Schultz is no threat. Hutch and Metchie are no threat. Mixon is, but with how shitty our o-line is that basically cancels him out in the run game. So all that’s left is to get after CJ..& we’ve now started to see him wilt a little after 17 weeks of being sped up, beaten down and generally just running for his life.

It’s obvious none of this can be addressed until seasons end, but the biggest thing that needs to be addressed is Slowik. I mean my god He just needs to go away. 2nd thing is the o-line. We need some maulers in here asap. The Shanahan scheme is just too reliant upon the run for it to be nonexistent in year 2. 3rd thing is we need to get CJ more weapons. Schultz is trash in all phases, Hutch and Metchie are not it and old man woods doesn’t have anything left.
 
ghostlight said:
It is what I expected as for as OL performance. Our 2nd yr QB sacked 5 time and rushing game was 58 total yards. I don’t blame the QB or RB that played behind our OL today. I just hope no serious injuries occured today as I didn't get to watch game due to being on NetFlix.
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Don't blame the OL for those sacks. They only gave up one.
 
Mr teX said:
I think we can all figure out who is who in this gif cause this basically what happened to us tonite.

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What went right? Nothing.

What went wrong? Everything..& I couldn’t even sit thru the whole game.

It’s gotten to the point defenses know what we’re gonna do before we do it. No one but Nico requires attention. Schultz is no threat. Hutch and Metchie are no threat. Mixon is, but with how shitty our o-line is that basically cancels him out in the run game. So all that’s left is to get after CJ..& we’ve now started to see him wilt a little after 17 weeks of being sped up, beaten down and generally just running for his life.

It’s obvious none of this can be addressed until seasons end, but the biggest thing that needs to be addressed is Slowik. I mean my god He just needs to go away. 2nd thing is the o-line. We need some maulers in here asap. The Shanahan scheme is just too reliant upon the run for it to be nonexistent in year 2. 3rd thing is we need to get CJ more weapons. Schultz is trash in all phases, Hutch and Metchie are not it and old man woods doesn’t have anything left.
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Maulers usually won't fit our system. Unless we are discarding ZBS, we need to find ZBS linemen who can block. It's not impossible.
 
In the NFL, things are never as good as they seem. But also never as bad.

Except for yesterday, that was one of the most one-sided beatdowns any NFL team has endured this season. Just an awful shameful performance.

I think the major takeaway is the self-scouting that needs to be done to prepare for short week and just primetime games in general. The Texans had two of their worst performances this season come on the short week games. If you are a winning team, you will be scheduled to play on a short week. The coaches/players need to learn how to handle that. We saw a professional football team travel on the road and deliver a beating. They didn’t whine about the NFL scheduling, they came in and handled business.

This is a young team, coaches and players. The Ravens are one of the most well-run organizations in the league and their head coach is in his 17th year coaching the team. They have figured out what works and what does not to prepare. So far, the Texans have figured out what does not work for short week games.
 
So far, and throughout the history of the Texans, they haven't gotten passed the "wanna be" status yet. Only on rare occasions can they hang with the big boys. After last year we all thought they might be getting there, this year we find out they aren't going anywhere. So, guess what, we're back to "maybe next year" talk again like we always are with this team.

I was hoping DeMeco would change that, and he still has time to do it, just not this year. I haven't lost faith in DeMeco and Caserio. Yet.

Maybe next year. :brickwall:
 
The quickest way I can summarize the Texans performance in this game - the defense set the tone, and the offense came out and duplicated that tone. The Texans repeated that tone and tempo - slow and flat.

The Texans were mentally and physically as soft as marsh mellows. For the defense, it looked like an anomaly. For the offense, it looked like an average day at the office this year.
 
To add what I just wrote, DeMeco was terrible, as usual. He's regressed as much as CJ. And so has Slowik. WTH happened to these guys? It's kind of bizarre how badly those three have been this year. It almost seems intentional. When the Texans should have gone for it on 4th down, Ryans opted to punt. When the Texans should have punted or kicked a field goal, he opted to go for it. I heard it on 610 this morning, Ryans performance yesterday was reminiscent of Bill O'brien's debacle in the KC playoff game when they were up 21 points or whatever it was. It makes absolutely no sense.
 
My key takeaway is the offense is completely 100% broken. These problems are fundamental and can’t be fixed during the season.

And if Ryans continues his Gary Kubiak imitation, it won’t get fixed next year either. This doesn’t require a tweak. This requires wil-e-coyote to drop some TNT into the offense. It needs to be blown up, taken down to its bare pieces and reassembled brick by brick. There should be significant turnover in personnel, and a change in philosophy with a new OC. you can’t fix a gunshot wound with a bandaid.

But it starts with firing most of the offensive coaches. I would keep the RB and WR coach. Everyone else gets a pink slip. This process should be underway immediately after they get bounced in the WC game.
 
Porky said:
My key takeaway is the offense is completely 100% broken. These problems are fundamental and can’t be fixed during the season.

And if Ryans continues his Gary Kubiak imitation, it won’t get fixed next year either. This doesn’t require a tweak. This requires wil-e-coyote to drop some TNT into the offense. It needs to be blown up, taken down to its bare pieces and reassembled brick by brick. There should be significant turnover in personnel, and a change in philosophy with a new OC. you can’t fix a gunshot wound with a bandaid.

But it starts with firing most of the offensive coaches. I would keep the RB and WR coach. Everyone else gets a pink slip. This process should be underway immediately after they get bounced in the WC game.
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This only works if he hold his players accountable.
 
Thorn said:
So far, and throughout the history of the Texans, they haven't gotten passed the "wanna be" status yet. Only on rare occasions can they hang with the big boys. After last year we all thought they might be getting there, this year we find out they aren't going anywhere. So, guess what, we're back to "maybe next year" talk again like we always are with this team.

I was hoping DeMeco would change that, and he still has time to do it, just not this year. I haven't lost faith in DeMeco and Caserio. Yet.

Maybe next year. :brickwall:
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The year ain't over.

I still think it's a mental thing.
 
JB said:
I agree with all of this!


Not sure you can put it all on Tunsil. The Texans were soft long before he got here. Been that way since the inception of the franchise and the only constant is right at the very top. They're philanthropist's controlling the football people. Cal needs to get tough and tell Hannah to go down there and kick some ass!
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No Cal as the man needs to go down there and kick some ass. Sending a woman down there to do a man’s job, is weak sauce big time. That’s like sending your wife outside to fight your battle when some dudes are calling you out.
 
djohn2oo8 said:
This only works if he hold his players accountable.
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Who is he? DeMeco? Nick?

And as stated, I'm looking at considerable turnover on the offensive side, so that would be "accountability". On the accountability side, I start with Tunsil and a few others. Howard, Mason, Green, on the line. 86 at TE. Those are first on my goner list.

On the rebuild side, I'd start with CJ. He's the engine that drives the car. Figure out where/why he regressed, and break him down to zero, then rebuild him from the ground up. I think CJ has the ability, but he lost his mojo this year, especially over the second half. He's in his own head. We've seen him at both ends of the spectrum. Both brilliant and BS. It's in there. He can be a Burrow-level pocket passer. We need coaches and a scheme to accentuate his strengths and limit his weaknesses. Not to mention a line that is more focused on blocking and decleating guys rather than the cleats on their shoes.

I realize my proposal is a long shot. This team moves like the Titanic's captain, slowly steering his ship and moving right into the iceberg. So, I'm not saying this WILL happen. I'm saying what I would personally do. Most likely, it will be a tinker here, a wrinkle there, add a mid-level FA and a draft pick or two, sprinkle it with fairy dust and call it a day. With that, we'll possibly see some mild incremental improvement and we'll again be a lopsided team, listing toward the defense.
 
Porky said:
Who is he? DeMeco? Nick?

And as stated, I'm looking at considerable turnover on the offensive side, so that would be "accountability". On the accountability side, I start with Tunsil and a few others. Howard, Mason, Green, on the line. 86 at TE. Those are first on my goner list.

On the rebuild side, I'd start with CJ. He's the engine that drives the car. Figure out where/why he regressed, and break him down to zero, then rebuild him from the ground up. I think CJ has the ability, but he lost his mojo this year, especially over the second half. He's in his own head. We've seen him at both ends of the spectrum. Both brilliant and BS. It's in there. He can be a Burrow-level pocket passer. We need coaches and a scheme to accentuate his strengths and limit his weaknesses. Not to mention a line that is more focused on blocking and decleating guys rather than the cleats on their shoes.

I realize my proposal is a long shot. This team moves like the Titanic's captain, slowly steering his ship and moving right into the iceberg. So, I'm not saying this WILL happen. I'm saying what I would personally do. Most likely, it will be a tinker here, a wrinkle there, add a mid-level FA and a draft pick or two, sprinkle it with fairy dust and call it a day. With that, we'll possibly see some mild incremental improvement and we'll again be a lopsided team, listing toward the defense.
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Demeco. I’m in awe of that BS Tunsil posted.
 
thunderkyss said:
The year ain't over.

I still think it's a mental thing.
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Of course it's a mental thing, TK. It would be frightening and depressing to know how few of our players and coaches knew that we were going to win yesterday. Maybe you can't coach with love and understanding ..... Kubiak and DeMeco were football savvy sweethearts but were their teams performing at maximum ? I've always hated angry, loud assholes, but I can't help but think we may need some of that.
 
Deadpool said:
Very sorry for the blowout yesterday folks. I was hoping for a far closer game. Was kinda hoping the Texans would pull it off TBH
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That’s life as a Texans fan!
 
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