Terrible Offense Continues to Sink Texans as Season Starts to Slip Away
This is about as bad as it gets
The Houston Texans lost their third consecutive game. The Jaguars beat them 17-10.
Here are 11 observations from the sloppy loss.
This was a highlight reel of all the things wrong with this team. The excuses are gone. The team that beat the Texans is piss-poor, and the Texans are worse. Every wart from the past two weeks was present. The offense stunk at every turn. The penalties were backbreaking. They added special teams slopiness to the mix. The defense, again, kept the opponent’s score low, but even they had some moments they will want back. DeMeco Ryans might have some unfixable problems.
Ryans said the team has been in all three games. He said he was proud of their effort, but pointed to how they were in the game, again, in the fourth quarter. He also said they, again, were “close” as a team, but at least noted close isn’t good enough. The hard part about this is that they shouldn’t be in these close games if they had some semblance of a real offense. Their lone touchdown drive came on a blown coverage by the Jaguars. They can’t take advantage of how poorly a team played opposite them. They just one-up that team in a competition to see who will make enough mistakes to lose the game. At some point, it is worth wondering if close is a disease that keeps them from getting where they want to go.