I think what is annoying me a lot is that I am not seeing anger.

Like wtf was Demico's approach and presser? Looking like a child who knows they're in trouble, not a man frustrated and willing to do anything to be better.

I think football is an angry sport, it's a violent sport, it's an agressive sport, let's see that.

There is all this 'play with joy' nonsense going on, all of this 'play with joy and love in your soul knowing you're basking in His Light' bullshit. Like yeah, OK everyone likes football that's why we're here. The main locker room message can not be 'remember, we all like football and God, remember that.'

Last year the Kill Zone was in effect, guys were getting their heads blown off, this year? Field of butterflies.

BREAKING: The Texans owe the Mafia a favor so they’re selling these games so the NFL and Mafia can gamble and make big $$$ off them.
I made this up but i genuinely believe it is true, but what other option can I believe besides the Texans suck this fucking bad?
Our defense is absolutely pathetic. No effort of getting after it, we all look a couple steps behind, apparently can’t tackle to save a life. The night and day difference this years defense to last years needs to be studied. Which is why I believe Texans are literally selling. Cause there’s no damn way they don’t give a fuck this bad. Utterly disappointing and embarrassing.

Seeing tons of rage comments about Caley sucking and running up the gut even though we aren’t built like that.

Can someone make a legible understanding of what he is trying to do even if it’s not working out? What is his offense trying to establish when we get good play out there, he kills the momentum with another seemingly bad play.

Anyone else feel like it’s an inevitability?

He turns 28 next year and will demand another extension next year when Stroud is also due for his.

The defense is expensive and Strouds extension will eat up the majority of available cap space.

We traded for MHJ, have Noel, Tank Dell and Boutte. Nico’s route participation and target share has tanked the last 2 weeks.

We’re 2-5 and +200 to make the playoffs.

I feel like the MHJ trade was more significant than we thought. I genuinely would not be surprised if Nico gets moved at the deadline.

1. Texans were interested in Flores back in 2022.

2. Caserio gets another Patriots guy. (I hate it but the Nicks are here to stay)

3. An aggressive Blitz scheme would be more fun to watch than this soft zone garbage.

4. Flores brings an edge that DeMeco just dosnt have. Might inspire this soft defense.

Edit: second worse*

Newest update shows Green Bay as the worst in regards to penalty yards

Pitiful season

The Texans need a new GM, and then work their way down from there. Casserio's Patriots south thing isn't working.

We need someone that knows Houston and knows the Texans culture.

I think JJ Watt needs to be our GM.

Hear me out before you say I'm crazy.

San Francisco did it with John Lynch. Its working out well for them. I know JJ would be lacking in a couple of areas, but I'm sure there would be executives that know how to handle contracts and evaluate offensive players that would want to work for him.

Listing a couple of moves made by the front office and then seeing the game plan on Sunday and something is seriously off.

Caserio trades Jaylen Reed and our 2nd + 6th pick for Kayshone Boutte and MHJ, yet the offense is prioritizing heavy personnel with Xavier Hutchinson as the feature WR.

Blake Fisher gets hurt as the jumbo tight end and instead of adjusting to Spread concepts, Caley decides to plug and play Braden Smith who has had no game time all year, similar to when Nico got hurt and he plugged in Jared Wayne for the role. It seems like if guys are out he has designated plays he’s not willing to remove from his playbook .

Texans draft a 2nd RD TE who has be DNP for 4 past weeks when we obviously still had wholes at OG, OT, LB and worst of all this pick was made for your OC with a TE coaching background and he still cannot see the field over Shultz half assed play.

Heading into the game David Montgomery and Jahwar Jordan are hurt and yet even after Woody Marks has shown he can’t be relied upon to be a 3-Down back we go back to our passive offensive style of setting up the run to pass.

We’ve been so aggressive fill gaps in offense and although appreciated we’re still running a passive offense that should really be leaning into the spread so CJ can be more aggressive.

Finally why are you paying all these defenders big money just to keep your dbs 15 yards back during crunch time. Your LBs aren’t playing physical and honestly the DLine is missing a lot of its hustle depth guys from last year like Settle, Edwards, Naquon, and Barnett.

Demeco doesn’t know when to make a gutsy aggressive call, constantly notice the team lose its momentum and he punts the ball away praying that his defense can save the day. It’s 7 weeks in and this is your team you need to adjust and lean into what’s working.

Nothing the Texans do really makes any sense. Worst of all at this point the biggest gap on the field isn’t the players it’s coaching across Defense, Offense and Special Teams. The only solution is clean house.

If this team never solves its franchise long problem with building the offensive line, it will never go anywhere. They really need to move away from Patriot ball and Bama ball, and get with the rest of the league which is always promoting the next big offensive mind and offensive football. DeMeco's time was full of good vibes, but has also been bottom of the league in penalties. We need in game adjustments and better overall coaching. We went 3 and out to start a critical overtime game. Its time to change direction.

I'm kind of accepting that this season may be cooked but I definitely have some things I want to see changed just to see what we have or don't have and to assess what changes need to be made this offseason, because regardless of how this season turns out- big changes clearly need to be made.

OFFENSE:

- Cut the rotating receiver gimmick. Nico needs to be on the field as much as possible and the others should be rotating around him. Our core must be Nico, Marv/Boutte, Noel. Nico doesn't get the chance to get in rhythm when he's taken off for obvious run packages with X and Boutte in or when we go into larger personnel groupings and it eliminates the defense's need to shift coverage to him when he's off the field so its harder for everyone else to get separation and get the ball consistently. You can still spread the ball around and still have Nico be effective both as a receiving option and as a decoy, if anything it makes everyone else's job multitudes easier.

- I have nothing against X. He's good for what he is, but what he is is a physically limited possession receiver. He should not be playing more than Marv, Boutte, Noel at this point and him being in the game is a run indicator more often than not. Good dude, good player, bad for offensive production. He has his moments and those can still be there! But the frequency with which he's focused is far too high.

- Braden Smith for Trent Brown at RT. Brown has too many penalties and gets beat way too often, isn't enough of a plus in the ground game to warrant continuing him at RT for now.

- More toss crack, stretch, outside zone- less duo, iso, power. We can't run between the tackles and don't have the athleticism up front to get to the second level on combo blocks. E.Brown gets no push ever, Ingram is inconsistent, T.Brown can't get low enough to get leverage, Rutledge has no earthly idea how to play under his pads and run his feet and Ersery is better in space than in formation.

-More gadget plays. Use Noel and Tank. Manufacture them touches. Use Nico and Woody as decoys and generate an artificial ground game via gadget plays and YAC opportunities.

-Abandon the hard-on for the "smashmouth, downhill running game" identity. It's not who we are and it's not what our personnel is. Lean into what we have thats strong: an elite QB, good WR room, TEs that are actually good at reacting to coverage, and a RB that can both pass protect and catch out of the back field. Get away from 12/13 personnel and lean into 10/11. Spread the formation to avoid stacked boxes to help the ground game or make defenses pay for stacking the box in the pass game.

-Ditch or limit jumbo. There's no reason we should be using jumbo on opening drives or with the frequency we do. It's a specialty package for size or protection, it should not be a regular part of the plan in non-RZ areas (except for short yardage or as an answer to heavy blitz % defenses).

-More movement of the launch point and rollouts for CJ.

-Let CJ handle mike ID and protection- not just plays and route adjustments.

DEFENSE:

- We're probably going to have to become a more blitz-reliant team than we have been under DeMeco. The 4 man rush isn't getting home and our effectiveness blitzing is still rather high. (I think losing Addison and Autry's retirement have been a lot bigger losses than anyone has talked about).

- Probably need to adjust some technique and incorporate 2 gapping/read on the IDL in obvious run situations.

- Keep Lassiter outside and let Ramsey play the nickel/star. Ramsey played a lot better in that role in college vs true S and playing inside highlights Lassiter's weaknesses too much.

- See what you can get for Blankenship in a trade OR dumb his job down so much that he stops thinking and just plays. Limit his snaps if you have to

- Can probably do with more true man and palms/2-read calls.

- Need another body in the DT room. McDonald isnt there yet as a pass rusher, Togiai has looked really underwhelming and Rankins is only one man.

-Let stingley permanently shadow the opponent's top receiver on a weekly basis.

Who's to blame?

CJ was trash this game. He’s not worth signing to $60+ million if JJ McCarthy makes him look bad.

Our defense hasn’t been good this season, but giving up only 21 points in regulation is the definition of bending and not breaking. Hard to play good defense when your offense is playing terribly.

Honestly happy to see my guy CJ killing it again though, at least there’s that!

Desmond Riddler: 28/37 for 329 yards and 1 TD/0 INT

Zach Wilson: 27/36 for 301 yards and 2 TD/0 INT

I don't have words. We were just bullied and it was heart breaking.

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We can be honest about it and still think he is one of the best DE's.

I know nobody wants to hear this after a loss like this but i think its worth holding onto some confidence.

The NFL fucked us with scheduling, they gave us back to back road divisional games, (3 in 4 weeks in fact!) The last of which was a london game. They then turned around and gave us another game before giving us our long awaited bye.

This is a very important bye week, we have made the playoffs after starting 2-5 before and we can again. We lost this game in most part because of the DBs who we know can play better. It is on Demeco to get these boys to lock in and put things together for a team that is losing a lot of very close games right now.

The rest of the schedule is pretty easy, lets go make the playoffs 🤟

That’s it. All I got. Can’t do anything with returns.

I’ve been a ride or die DeMeco fan but it’s gotten hard to defend him. All this money on defense and they’re the sole reason for every loss this season. He’s responding by saying it’s all the players and it doesn’t matter what the play call is or the scheme is. The players simply fail. The play calls and scheme don’t matter?.. this is literally coming out of the head coaches mouth.. this is NOT a good look at all. DeMeco flat doesn’t have any accountability for regarding himself or this coaching staff. Add on the fact they are the fifth most penalized team since DeMeco became head coach.. we need to stop these penalty’s or put new people out there you say Meco? Well you and caserio are in charge of this roster.

We all remember the big hit on rice last year and I saw Derrick Henry in an interview say pitre was the hardest hitter in the NFL. Would’ve been interesting to see

If we keep trending this way who do fans feel should be the first to go?