Texans scored a franchise-record 29 points in the fourth quarter and had 4 passing TDs. So that is the recipe for a big win, right? Well, not when you turn the ball over 6 times on the day. That is exactly what the team did. In addition to all that, Matt Schaub was knocked out of the game twice Sunday. After the game the health of the QB is the least of our problems. The big question has to be is what direction this team is going in. It seems that the vision for this team has been lost. the past 4 weeks the team has looked unprepared to play and the offensive gameplan has been questionable to say the least.
Against Tennessee the Texans were not ready for the blitz and had no way of combatting it. Coach Kubiak said he didn't expect the Titans to blitz so much, this is after the team had done it all season. How can scouting be so bad? So after the first quarter of getting continuously blizted, the team made absolutely no adjustments. They tried a pass to Jacoby Jones that got a few yards, but on the next play, they ran the exact same play which turned into a fumble. Later, Kubiak revealed that Jones was not physically ready to play, but he put him out there anyway. Another questionable call from the head coach. The Titans had 7 and 8 players in the box the entire day, but the Texans continued to run up the middle right into the defense. Ahman Green is running scared, when there were holes, he was too scared to re-injure his knee to make a cut to get more yards. Maybe Ahman shouldn't be starting. The Faggins experiment continues to be a success for other teams. Whenever Kerry needed a completion, he threw it in Faggins direction. Yet he continues to get reps in games.
All of this is not on the coaching, but the team is injured now and we have no depth. So any bad coaching decision is amplified now. We cannot afford bad coaching right now. We don't have the talent to overcome it. The local writers are ripping the coaching staff, Kubiak ripped himself after the game, and internally the finger-pointing has to have started already. We have to do better. The funny thing about leadership is when the team loses confidence in coaches, everything falls apart. The next 2 games are very lose-able with San Diego playing better and Oakland having a great defense and run game. We would then have lost 5 our of our last 6. Interesting to see how the team and coaches respond to that possibility. The team needs to make drastic changes so that it won't happen.
Funny, the biggest question before the game was if Vince Young would play. The Monday after the game, the biggest question is if this team is any better than they were a year ago.
Here is Houston Chronicle's Richard Justice's thoughts on the game: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/justice/texans/5233436.html
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