The Morning After: Where Was The Offense?

not sure if I want to. My buddy sent my a text..“you picked a good one to miss” right then I knew we got rolled.

if they don’t slow the rush with screens because they don’t practice them. Sure looked like they were lost the 1 or 2 times they tried. It was hard to tell cause so many plays got busted on what they were attempting anyway.

1) The Texans get DOMINATED by big, physical teams. We can’t play physical football nor can we react to it.

2) It’s time to admit that our defensive line is bad. They can get pressure occasionally, but they are middle of the pack at best. That in turn exposes the secondary. I hate Frank Bush as much as the next guy, but let’s face it, he doesn’t have the talent outside of two maybe three guys this year to have a good defense.

3) The offense can’t handle big defensive lines. How many passes were batted down? Did you watch Eric Winston get pushed around like a schoolgirl?

Here is the part that hurts the most….hurts to even ponder it but, the Titans defense is better than the Giants. They are going to rape us if e don’t figure out how to play football before we see them.

So disgusted with the lack of physicality on this team.

no reason this team should come out this flat and look like a bunch of tards out there.. im really questioning the kareem pick too, this guy looks awful

gave me a nice boost in week 1 of our pick’em pool by beating the Dolts.

Anyway I noticed you guys were too good of sports to acknowledge that there were also two awful calls against the Texans. Not the difference in the game but def. a kick in the balls — the hands-to-the face that kept the Giants drive alive, and the offsides on the field goal.

Anyway, I wouldn’t overreact too much, that was the best all-around effort the Giants have put up in over a year — that’s fan consensus — so I wouldn’t see it as reflecting on the Texans’ state of the union all that much.

Good luck for the rest of the season, I hope you take the division!

That pretty much covers it.

Jackson is taking way too much flack. He looked really good on some plays. Rookies are inconsistent, sometimes they are going to look brilliant, sometimes they are going to look lost.

Our offense is in some sort of a funk. Maybe we are still trying to find our identity even though we ARE a passing team. After a few games where we dominate with our running game is effecting us in our passing game due to our OC Dennison thinking we can just get by with the running game. After the giants stopped our running game, the passing game couldn’t get anything done. I mean last year we had absolutely no running game but we still dominated people with the passing game.

Defense:
We have times were we have great pressure and there is a fire in our defense. The giants first drive was a great example of what we could be. Our secondary is absolute garbage as of now but I feel like they will turn this thing around. I’d assume its easier to fix the run defense over the pass defense but maybe we just needed a good ass whooping to get these guys to understand. Kareem jackson is a rookie, Brice McCain is a 2nd year player with little game experience and Glover Quinn is the best thing we have as a corner. (He still allowed 1 Td, His first ever) We will get better with time. Look on the bright side, atleast we got 2 picks.

Best Case Scenario: Our secondary picks it up, and our defense become a dominating one while our offense uses its strengths to dominate opposing defenses.

Worst Case Scenario: Our secondary continues to suck it up and allow recievers to punk them and we finish the season with a 7-9 thru 9-7 season as our offense continues to suck at the worst possible times.

Yea offense sucked and Defense sucked but i have to say our special teams hurt us a lot. Seems like there was a penalty on ever kickoff and punt, don’t know about y’all but having DA return punts is just as scary as jacoby back there maybe worse. Slaton just is garbage on kickoffs but really did not matter cause even if he broke one it would have been brought back. We need to look into a serious kick returner anybody know of yamon figures from Baltimore?

If we were serious in getting darren Sharper and leigh bodden.

It seemed to me that yesterday we played a bit better with our corners Man’ed up instead of giving them 5-7 yard cushions.

But we gave up 30+ points. While the offense deserves some of the blame, the majority of it has to go to the defense. How many times are we going to see the fifteen yard out to the sideline beat us? It’s literally open every single time. Hell, the Giants dominated us so bad they didn’t even need to throw to their tight end, which is a good thing because if they did we might have given up 54 points.

I’m pretty sure our defensive backs turned their heads in coverage all of two times. Which makes three times on the season. Are we the only team that teaches their cornerbacks to do that? Because it’s a PI waiting to happen.

So much to be angry about.

If they dont get it together soon. We could be sitting at 3-3 with a loss to the Chiefs. After the bye we go and visit the Colts. This shit can get ugly real fast. Next weekend is a must win to keep the faith in Houston.

I hate it when the Texans lose. But I can stomach it if they actually play hard the entire game and just get beat by a better effort from the other team that particular day. But this was horseshit.

It was as if the Texans players went into the game thinking they had a good chance of winning, but as soon as things started to go wrong, they went into shellshock. “Oh well, looks like we’re not gonna win today…how much longer ’til this one is over?” I saw ZERO counter-punch from anyone after the Giants took control early. Seriously, they just looked defeated and ready to go home after the 1st quarter. Embarrassing!

I have also been a staunch Kubiak defender, but my patience is worn out. “It’s on me” huh? Unacceptable! I don’t know how many times we’ve heard that, but if that’s really the case, then he should go! If he really is the reason (as he self-proclaims) for so many Texans losses, then we need to find someone else to do the job. I’m fine with him trying to shoulder some of the blame…that’s what good coaches do…but I mean, how many times is it acceptable for the head coach to be the reason that we lost???

It is just so frustrating to see a complete meltdown like what I witnessed yesterday. I’m not a sky is falling kind of guy, but looking at the rest of the schedule, I agree with The Abrego. “This shit can get ugly real fast.” I’m worried it will. I hope I’m wrong.

No part of the team is faultless after last week’s game. Who gives a shit which one was at more fault?

The only three players that can hold their heads high after Sunday are Neil Rackers, Owen Daniels, and possibly Sherrick McManis. Everyone else flat out sucked—and the coaches were worse than the players. All the intensity that we were supposed to have gathered with Cushing and Pollard back led to nothing, and all the offensive fire power we were supposed to have got rolled by a superior game plan and a lack of adjustments. There’s no reason to find a scapegoat; the whole team is your scapegoat.

And can someone please sign a fucking kick returner. Thanks.

All the radio talk this morning has been about the cowgirls’ shortcomings, not the Texans’. Gives me some perspective, and makes it a lot easier to come to terms with the Texans game on my own rather than having it shoved down my gullet. It’s incredibly fun to hear irrational cowboys fans (are there any other kind?) call in and complain.

Sorry to say he did not look like the same player. Was never at the point of attack. Looks like he went the Clay Mathews route and tried to work on speed and some explosion. Couple times he over-pursued horribley bad , but it was impressive how fast he initially got to the other side of the field .

I drove down from Dallas for the worst game of the year…..Take a guess how the ride home was. The wifey is still trying to figure out how I managed not to say one word for 31/2 hours. The best thing about turning on the dvr is to see if I made it on TV. Fuckin Texans!!!! “I hate yo love these guys sometimes”

I first brought it up a couple of weeks ago, but the passing game just seems out of sync. I know OD and AJ haven’t been 100%, but that doesn’t change the fact the Schaub has never looked settled in. We know what Schaub is capable of, and we are basically running the same system, but after five weeks to get in sync you have to start to question if Dennison has had a negative affect on our passing game.

Schaub has faced a lot of pressure from the Giants and Cowboys, and I’m sure that affected him, but even in the great win against the Colts Schaub didn’t look great…it wasn’t until the second half when they started feeding Foster that we were able to take control of the game.

He missed open WR on multiple occasions yesterday, sometime without any pressure that should have affected him. He just doesn’t look completely comfortable, and since we know what he can do I have to put some of the blame on Dennison.

but Kubiak needs to step in and make some adjustments on offense. The playcalling has simply sucked this year.

and let me say to all

DELETE IT!!!! act like it didnt happen, and if we are 4-2 after next week then thats where i thought we would be

Has sucked all year. Sometimes we got lucky – like when a team does a “give up draw” on 3rd and 18 and Foster made it once.

In response to the article the Offense did suck – played flat and often it seemed teh Shaub didn’t have a check-down target. 2 times I noticed he just missed seeing the open guy who was closest to him – maybe his eyes were not down field this game.

Everything sucked for sure, but really in the 2nd half the defense was stepping up – the offense never did.

We should use Casey as a kick returner – all the talk about him, yet they don’t like to actually play him. (no I am not kidding)

after watching the Longhorns for the last 10 years and the Texans since 2002 I see the same issues . Teams full of talent and coaches that don’t know how to make adjustments or game plan. Both offense coordinators stick with the same game plan from start to finish no matter who they are playing. ( can we put down the PlayStation and watch some film)
Dennison & Davis must have went to the same school. I blame this loss on the coaches.

And for the life of me I cant understand why we cant get pressure on the quarterbacks. Do we know how to BLITZ?!?!?!?!. This would help our rookies from getting burned on every play. NO MORE COVER 2 zone / prevent. This does not work in today’s NFL. Isn’t that what we did back when Buffalo came back on the Oilers.The only thing that does is prevent us from winning.

Seems like a lot of our secondary’s trouble came when the expected over the top help wasn’t there or someone was not in their assigned zone. Man coverage would almost instantly solve that issue.

Also our secondary looked best when blitzing and getting pressure on the passer, again leaving our db’s in man coverage. Yeah I understand that leads to big plays but since we are getting torched anyway I’m voting for the gamble.

I think I agree with everything above :-)

To the Giants fans: every year, I kind of pick a pet NFC team to root for. This year, it’s the Giants. What a delightful team to watch. I still want a pity trade for any of your defensive linemen.

I drank enough of my bleach and Blue moon cocktail that i don’t remember yesterday at all… I would like to keep it that way so i have ESPN, and any site showing the score and stats from yesterdays game blocked…. I just want to believe we had our bye week and we are coming in rested!

Jason babin yes if you are a true texan fan you know of him, has a half sack more over Mario and also plays for none other the Tits. I cannot wait to run striaght to his side.

to know that the absolute ceiling of this team still isn’t Super Bowl good. As long as we believe that small offensive linemen and centers are appropriate personnel to use in this era of the NFL, we will continue to get blown up by teams with elite defensive linemen (who are now huge and fast). As long as we have to deal with teams like the Steelers, Ravens, Jets, etc. this team will never reach a Super Bowl under this regime.

The Giants played good defense, but we played like dogshit on offense. I can think of three dropped passes that would have gone for first down – New York had nothing to do with that. I remember seeing guys look open that Schaub didn’t. It was just a piss-poor performance from the offense. And like you said, you can’t really fault a defense who can’t get off the field.

New York outplayed us in every facet. Period. I don’t really want to think about everything that went wrong because it’s easier just to say everything. As soon as Schaub threw that pick after that big 48 yard gain to Johnson, I knew it was over. There’s usually a point in a Texans loss where you can see the wheels come off and it was right there. Congrats to Giants fans this week for a great performance. You beat us badly and we deserved every agonizing second of that game.

Sounds like the team panicked at 21-0 in the 1st quarter. They went to all passes despite having 45 minutes left to play.

Houston doesn’t allow Schaub to audible at the line really…..so he doesn’t adjust to blitzes.

as bad as this game was, was it

a) flawless execution of a bad game plan?
b) flawed execution of a good game plan?
c) flawed execution of a flawed game plan?

option c sounds the worst and good heavens I hope that’s the least likely of the 3.

the abundance of penalties sounds like flawed execution . . . .of a good game plan?

what does it say when I’m hoping it was flawed execution of a good game plan?

Yes we all like the guy and he is scrappy but serious there are a lot of players at home who will be better. Know this has nothing to do with the subject at hand but DA as our punt returner c’mon man.

2011 Free agents who do we keep who do we let go?
Bernard pollard, Matt turk,Zac Diles,Kasey Stuudard, mike Brisel, Rashard Butler,Owen Daniels,Jacoby Jones,Vonat Leach,Matt Leinhart.

The San Diego Chargers have added tackle Marcus McNeill to the active roster and released cornerback Fred Bennett and safety C.J. Spillman.

My answers seem a little to the NFL game stats, I think it is because I count a successful down if a TD is scored. So correct me if I am wrong.

So the Success rate is if they made the line to gain. By making a first down or a TD.

NY Giants:
1st Down: 9/33 = 27% Success Rate
2nd Down: 9/25 = 36% Success Rate
3rd Down: 715 = 46% Success Rate
4th Down: 0/4 = 0% Success Rate (4 punts)

chris houston and jonathan wade. Both of them will be free agents next year would you make trade for either one of them.