austins23
Hall of Fame
Agreed but that D is not Demeco me type of D. Zero pressure on that craptastic QB all day. Not good
Week 5: Texans vs Falcons
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Brisco_County
Apples and roadmaps
Rookie coach has to learn some lessons too. Next time I bet we see a blitz or two on the opponent's final possession.
MEGA SWATT
All Pro
Hervoyel
BUENO!
We are a fanbase desperate to have something to get excited about. Those O’Brien years were the most joyless, unsatisfying string of seasons anyone in this town has ever been subjected to. Playoffs yearly, early exits, and always being just a game above .500 watching great plays by Watson pull crappy games out of the fire. I hated it. Demeco is doing good. Building a team that’s fun to watch. We just gotta be patient. Nobody on Kirby is selling us Tom Savage or Brian Hoyer. We’re on the right path. Just going to take a season or two to get this consistently rolling.
Hervoyel
BUENO!
I sure hope nobody is angry about this one. It was mostly what it probably should have been with the Texans injury situation.stop being logical
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I see what you did there!
DanielTx
Veteran
My only knock on Cj this game would be correcting his body language when the game isn’t going his way. I like the fact he showed emotion. It means he’s passionate and cares but rolling your eyes after a receiver drops a pass and looking sad on the sideline when you’re going 3 in out consecutively isn’t a good look. It sucks we lost by 1 point but I rather lose by that 1 than to get blown out.
Hervoyel
BUENO!
Nico, Dell, and Metchie are good enough. They just need to grow up and quit being (mostly) rookies. The Texans offense just needs to gel. It will happen. This season will get it done barring more major injuries.
TxnsJuggernaut1
Veteran
I fear our team bought into the recent hype. Not saying we are considered much better but human nature says we felt we were the better team based on how the previous two games went and how the Falcons previous two games went. We man handled the Jaguars and then the Falcons lost to those Jaguars. In and of itself doesn't mean anything but a young team may get overconfident based on that kind of thinking. Personally I feel we are the better team.
Defense... would have been nice to get a stop there at the end of the game. They got two turnovers, we should have won on that alone, but the offense kept stalling in the red zone.
Offensively there were a couple of drops, a couple of bad passes, & several throw aways. On the bright side, not a bunch of penalties, not a lot of bad decisions.
Work in progress, both sides of the ball. On to the next one. (Saints, 34-0 over the Patriots).
Offensively there were a couple of drops, a couple of bad passes, & several throw aways. On the bright side, not a bunch of penalties, not a lot of bad decisions.
Work in progress, both sides of the ball. On to the next one. (Saints, 34-0 over the Patriots).
& a pass rush.
MEGA SWATT
All Pro
logic is on ur side
but I’m annoyed. It was a very winnable game
NitroGSXR
Super Sic #58
You’re a fickle man sometimes. I mean… you’ve been hard on the Texans for decades. Then… last week… you liked one of my posts… first time -ever-. You were -excited- and that made me happy to see. Now you’re back to it… same old Herv… loosely acting as if the Texans haven’t changed.
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SIR… we -are- building this team. It’s done by PLAYING the game. We played. Absolutely there are things to work but we absolutely have changed as a team. Have you? You did last week. YOU are the fan that I want to see the happiest.
Hervoyel
BUENO!
I guess I didn’t
austins23
Hall of Fame
Hollered for pressure all day and when he did send it Cashman blasted him and it was incomplete. After that, nothing!!
Porky
Hall of Fame
Meco knows better. He didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. That excuse is for losers. Which for today - the Texans are. Last two weeks I really thought DeMeco and the staff really outcoached the opposing staff.
Today that was a 180. Atlanta out-coached the Texans and DeMeco by a huge margin. Both offensively and defensively.
Bottom line is you take the lead and then you play a soft zone, don’t dial up pressure, and let this POS QB finish out the game of his life easily. DeMeco should have brought a rocking chair with him and given it to Ridder, they let that cat get way to comfy back there. Add a book or something too DeMeco. Just a terrible coaching job by DeMeco. And Slowik wasn’t a whole lot better.
Plus the qb was undefeated at home lol.Like the fact that the Texans had never win on that field?
That QB guru dude that broke down Stroud's week 4 game used audacity eleventythreehundred times in his podcast.
The NFL has been in bed with Vegas for a l long time now.
Look how successful the Texans' screen game had been of late.
Did they even call one screen pass today?
Brisco_County
Apples and roadmaps
I'm sure you'll agree that Demeco's rookiness had to be somewhat of a factor.
Demeco makes a big deal about Stroud learning from mistakes, so we know Demeco is aware of the importance of learning from his own. He's not Bill O'Brien.
The root cause of this loss was the offense being unable to account for Nico being covered up. All other problems stemmed from that. The team knows now what they need to work on.
austins23
Hall of Fame
Texans covered that 2.5 Vegas has the screws in the nfl
One WR screen. Nothing other than that
Brisco_County
Apples and roadmaps
Correct about Vegas and the NFL. The difference between the NFL and NBA is an NBA ref wrote a book.
We had a couple of screen passes. They were great.
Brisco_County
Apples and roadmaps
Just occurred to me: They need to get Metchie more involved. Dell is not durable enough to be available for every game. Metchie has to be the guy to take over the Y routes when Dell goes down.
OptimisticTexan
2023 / Rebuilding Block 3 / Go Texans
One successful screen. Didn’t use it again, instead the offense opted for the pitch and run outside game…..failed miserably each and every time.
whodknee
Working Class Hero
Saints come in plus 1 next week...
Metchie needs to get himself involved more by getting open more often.
TxnsJuggernaut1
Veteran
Not sure they thought about that. I hadn't heard anything about that heading into the game. Hopefully our young team soon get's mostly healthy and they have relatively few growing pains going forward.Like the fact that the Texans had never win on that field?
TexansFan15
All Pro
You can’t say that Dell isn’t durable. This is the first time he’s been injured. Plus if you look at the replay he sacrificed his body for that first down. Dell is a good piece.
I will say that I would’ve liked to see Metchie more involved. Woods got 9 targets and only had 3 receptions. I would love to see Metchie as well as Hutch getting some more reps during the game.
Brisco_County
Apples and roadmaps
Dell weighs ten more pounds than the ball boy. We all know durability will be a concern.
Has Hutch even gotten playing time?
CloakNNNdagger
Hall of Fame
Today it seemed like neither play caller had confidence in their respective units and played it safe. Being down at CB seemed to affect the defensive play calling quite a bit. Not sure why Slo was so conservative. I would've thrown in some reverses and flea flickers with how much the ATL defense was over pursuing the run.
CloakNNNdagger
Hall of Fame
The D got no sacks............I don't even remember "almost sacks"............or for that matter QB hits.
austins23
Hall of Fame
Only blitz I remember Cashman whacked his arse and the pass was incomplete. After that, nothing
CloakNNNdagger
Hall of Fame
I guess you don't believe the studies showing that specifically WRs consistently have a significant permanent performance drop off following ACL ruptures.
Texans had been very aggressive up until today when they decided to kick 4 FGs.
That's very unlike the Texans this year.
TexansFan15
All Pro
He’s the gunner, but I don’t think he’s had snaps at WR.
Speedy
Former Yeller Dweller
He came into the game with 25 offensive snaps. 2 targets, 1 catch, 9 yards. I saw him in for at least of couple of plays today. Could have been more but my eyes saw him twice. No targets though.
TheMatrix31
Hall of Fame
Watched a bit on my phone but couldn't catch all. Went to take a leak and we jumped ahead 19-18, then I did something and came back and saw we lost 21-19. Seemed like a bit of a struggle most of the game. But it's good experience hopefully.
Any big injuries, failings, referee BS, etc?
Any big injuries, failings, referee BS, etc?
FuzzyLogic
Mathematically Possible
Never... ever... do that thing you can't remember again... cost us the game
SnakeEyes
Under NRG
Congratulations to CJ for securing the record
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C.J. Stroud makes history
Rookie throws 177 passes without a pick, most in NFL history.
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Texansphan
Football connoisseur
Football is a funny game - we beat the team that beat the team that beat us in week 2.
Texansphan
Football connoisseur
Re the throw aways - would you rather he make risky throws into coverage?
NitroGSXR
Super Sic #58
No but I don’t think he was pressured all that much. Stroud had time and it still seemed like he dumped the ball off a little too prematurely a few times. I think his shoulder is bothering him.
Texansphan
Football connoisseur
His receivers weren't available every down either - especially in the second half .
NitroGSXR
Super Sic #58
Absolutely but you don’t throw it away unless you -have- to. I think he threw it away when he didn’t have to. He could have held it a little longer and give his receivers a chance to get open. I guess the all-22 will tell us the tale tomorrow.
Hervoyel
BUENO!
totally true I expect the season to be marked by many games like that