Running in the middle against Dockett is not a good decision. Freaking Chris Brown, the shortage back who fucks everything up when hes needed.

and our entire defense?

Schaub looked terrible for 3/4 of the game. One hella quarter, but he did cost us the game.

But a loss is a loss.

“We suck again!”

Given our W-L-W-L pattern, it’s amusing to hear it used every other week. Can we change the BRB motto? I’m starting to buy into Smithiak less and less, so it seems slightly more relevant.

I think what sucks the most about the texans is that while they are always mediocre, teams like Miami, Atlanta, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and Denver make changes and get dramatically better. The texans are still the texans…I dont think Kubiak will get fired unless they have a 6 win or less season…I have a feeling they will miss the playoffs, but get hot at the end and kubiak stays and we ARE MEDIOCRE AGAIN NEXT YEAR!

And it’s just been 5 games!

Just convert on short yardage situations and we would have won the game. Why is the running game so 1-dimensional and predictable? We’ve been passing the ball so well you’d think we’d at least see a couple of draw plays to Slaton.

but not wholly on Schaub. 4/13 on 3rd down is NOT going to cut it in the NFL, especially against an offensive team like the Cards. perfect example was the 3 and out near the end of the half that Arizona converted into 7 points.

Considering the secondary is banged up. If the D plays consistently like that then we win more games. Shut out the Cardinal’s O in the 2nd half!

our offense is a juggernaut, and we can flip it on/off and score whenever we want.

For anyone who said in the Jax game and this game to “use the time off the clock” and waste downs by running it inside the ten, I say this is a terrible idea. We have two examples of why we should take EVERY opportunity to score we can get. We have been in this situation twice, and both times came up a yard short. Get the TD. I’d LOVE to be in a position of kicking off with 1 min left in EITHER one of these games. Don’t waste ANY plays inside the 20, EVER! We’re not that good.

We’re not good enough to shut down the offense for the second half of the Raiders game, and magically turn it back on the next game.

Playcalling is to blame, with Schaub a close second. Bush and the defense were incredible today. They played like a playoff-caliber defense against a very good offense.

The last score at the end of the first half was on the offense for giving it back too quickly.

And was in Dallas looking at houses during the game, so no TV- SiriusXM has all the games but you get the home team feed. Listening to comments like “Wonder why Andre Johnson isn’t in here” (the whole game) “Just don’t understand the playcalling there…have to thank them for that after the game” “Schaub’s is not throwing those out routes well. Bet we intercept one soon” or their complete, utter amazement, awe, and sheer gratefulness in response to Houston’s playcalling on the 2 and 1 3 and 1 and 4 and 1 scenario at the end of the game really hurt my soul. They were just so baffled and happy all at once, it was the polar opposite of what I felt.

I DVR’d the game and just got thru finding out the result. What a miserable fucking way to try to go to sleep at night, it is no fucking wonder that we always have to play the noon game on Sunday. We would do the fans a horrible injustice making them view this garbage in prime time.

The Texans deserved to lose. People will bash on Chris Brown, Schaub, and the coaching staff but in the end we played like little bitches to a team that isn’t all that great. Arizona may have made the SuperBowl last year but losing to them proves without a shadow of a doubt that this football team is light years away from taking the next step. I expect to see coaching staff changes and alot of player movement in the offseason.

Every season as a Texans fan is hard but this one has been considerably more heartbreaking that any other. This team has really came out and played like shit, I almost don’t want to watch anymore… and that is saying alot because I live and die football.

I love my Texans and my football but it makes me hate my life, LOL!

the good news is that in the lats 2 losses we at least put up a fight, after the first game i tought we be luckly to win 2 games

I"d like to know if he got into this game?

I like to think I’ve been excessively optimistic for the most part, mostly in defense of Kubiak/Rick Smith/Schaub, but this might be my breaking point. Forget the play-calling, decision-making, or in-game managing. There are teams who execute when the game is on the line, and there are teams that shit the bed. The Texans, evidently, are the latter, and that comes from the coaches. I’m willing to bet that if you had put the Colts team into the last five minutes of the Jacksonville and Arizona games, they’d be 4-1 right now.

For instance, when your offense has been rolling all half with the hurry-up, why do you suddenly call a time out and slow down your momentum? This shows your team that you’re afraid. It shows that you don’t think you can match up to the other team on the goal-line and make the play you need to make.

I don’t want this team to tank it just so Kubiak gets fired. I was a Broncos fan several years ago, so I’d love to see him succeed. But if I were Bob McNair and the season were over right now, I wouldn’t bring him back. When you play well in spurts like we do, it tells me that we have the talent to win consistently, but we lack the coaching. Anyways, no more waking up at 4:00 a.m. to watch games overseas for me. Sucks to lose another season so early.

why haven’t we found ways to get vonta leach the ball in short yardage situations?

but I am convinced the Texans are the most disappointing team in the NFL. They’re absolute masters at getting our hopes up, then punching us in the groin. When they went down 21-0, I just assumed it was typical Texans and wrote off the game…then they decided to get back in it, and then rip out hearts out with the fail-line offense. To top it off, we never go out the gate winning so nobody gives a care about us.

Also, I’m consistently disappointing how we just hate starting well. We can’t do it in any season, and we can’t do it any game. How about we start well and maintain a lead, instead of hobbling around for 15-30 minutes then realizing that we’re a halfway decent team.

I feel like the zone concept with lighter quicker (easier to sign) linemen are great in the open field, but in the red zone where everything is compacted (where there is no second level, and it becomes exponentially more difficult to score via pass, a team MUST have the personnel to smash the ball on its will (with no creativity) for 1 SINGLE YARD!! Even the most dominant teams in history have been forced to win at smashball with the season on the line.

Without a nimble QB, or a couple go-to (short yardage) BIGBOY OLinemen, the deck is stacked against us in tight quarters/short-yardage situations. I think this was the RIGHT playcall sequence with the WRONG personnel…two-three specialists could be drafted (in low rounds) or picked up off the wire to solve this problem. And if Schuab poses a liability in this situation (which I think he does although I am a fan of his) you put Grossman in to serve as an additional sneak/running threat.

I hope this game hammers home this point all the way up the chain! This “pure” concept has been my biggest problem with this team for two years now…I thought Caldwell was a step in the right direction, but he’s not out there and not enough all by himself. I HOPE THIS CASE-IN-POINT (AND ALL THSE CAPITAL LETTERS) WAKES THEM UP!

why we start off every game trying to establish the run. The Saints are a pass-first team and they don’t care if you know it or not because thats what they’re good at AND IT WORKS. Kubiak needs to get it out of his head that we’re a run-first, power running team because we’re not.

Our O-line isn’t build for power running; they’re build to pass-protect and be quick out in open space. Myers is not good enough at run blocking. Caldwell should get some snaps at center to see if he can actually move someone forward.

When it was 2nd and goal at the 1 after the NICE shovel-pass to Slaton I knew we were doomed. Why no QB sneak? Why not spread em out with 4 wide and run a draw? Why not spread em out and throw the screen to AJ again??? We’re too predictable… I knew Brown was gonna get the ball on 4th down and so did Arizona. Pathetic playcalling.

Being down 21-0 at halftime, the Cards knew the Texans HAD to pass to get back in the game and they still couldn’t stop us. Take a hint Kubiak…

The D did their jobs. They gave up 21 points to the Cardinals (the pick-6 isn’t their fault). Thats not bad at all. The offense takes the blame in this one.

in the first half. the offense looked scared, timid, and totally not ready to play. The defense stiffened up after the first cardinal drive, but they spent the whole half on the field. That is why I blame Schaub and company for this loss. Where is the friggin attitude. Don’t these guys hate to lose? Like Winston said, the plays didn’t much change in the 2nd half, the execution did. I can’t blame Brown for one play. Did anyone see the push that Zona had into our backfield? Earl Campbell in his prime might have made it thru, but I am not sure. I would have liked to have seen that play we used w/Kevin Walter a couple weeks ago where everyone one on defense pinched in, and he took a flip outside. That would have been the play call…or same play, with a pass option to him if run covered.