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37 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

I turned off the volume to the tv at halftime and listened to Led Zeppelin for the rest of the game.  So, it wasn’t just wasted time.  

Did you listen to “How Many More Times”?

Just tank the rest of the season. Fire Caserio now, and out DeMeco on notice with the undisciplined play. Caley, Caserio, and Stroud are incompatible at this point. Your next draft should be nothing but OL.

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How the fuck do you lose to the jags

Just now, demos said:

How the fuck do you lose to the jags

By being a team of jags coached by jags.

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Terrible Offense Continues to Sink Texans as Season Starts to Slip Away

The Houston Texans lost their third consecutive game. The Jaguars beat them 17-10. 

Here are 11 observations from the sloppy loss. 

  1. 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. 

  2. 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. 

  3. Nick Caley and the offense are pathetic.It would be foolish to believe there are answers with these players and this coach. Caley doesn’t look to have the answers or the talent to correct this putrid product. He frequently operates with a fear that the offense will mess up, and then they do just that. The play calls don’t get anyone open. Defenses are ready for the scheme. He rarely throws to the sticks. The quick passing game is infrequent. The blockers look lost. It’s a hard watch. There’s nothing resembling consistency except how bad it looks. 

  4. The inconsistency from Caley is the most maddening thing. They will go no-huddle, then slow it down. They will use the quick game, then try to go deep with no short answers if there is pressure. Then the quick game will disappear. There is no bread and butter to rely on for this offense. He doesn’t seem to have a feel for rhythm and consistency in the offense. 

  5. Rookie tackle Aireontae Ersery got smoked most of the day. The Jaguars picked on the poor rookie with Josh Hines-Allen. He gave up pressure to Hines-Allen that allowed the pass rusher to affect C.J. Stroud’s final throw of the day. The Texans didn’t have extra help for Ersery much, and when they did, those players did a bad job helping the rookie. The Jaguars gnawed on the weakness until it helped break the Texans. 

  6. The rest of the offensive line wasn’t great either. There’s still too much pressure. Too many moments where the quarterback has to make quick decisions because of the failures up front. They can’t move the pile in the run game, so running the ball is tough. I guess you could call Laken Tomlinson’s rotation with Juice Scruggs a soft benching. If you’re a veteran and you’re rotating with Scruggs, that’s basically a benching. 

  7. C.J. Stroud had some flashes where he looked okay. There’s still a lot left to be desired, but Stroud gutted this thing out late despite the shortcomings of the offense. He made plenty of plays in the fourth quarter. He had a scramble completion that went for a few yards that looked like one of his better moments of the past. Stroud’s interception was horrible. He had a few early misses. His ball placement has been off for a while. He still refuses to step up into the pocket when that’s a pressure solution. I’m placing him much lower on the blame scale than the previous couple of weeks. 

  8. Bad things compound when you’ve been struggling. Of course, Nico Collins, of all the players, commits a back-breaking turnover. Collins was trying to fight for a few extra yards on one of the few offensive drives where the Texans looked competent. When a team is playing badly, even some of the best players are stricken with the bad football disease. 

  9. Penalties ruined things plenty. Tytus Howard had a false start that put the offense in third-and-long. Derek Stingley Jr. had a penalty on third down that extended a Jacksonville drive. Danielle Hunter turned a third-and-long into a third-and-manageable when he jumped. Derek Barnett kept a drive alive with a special teams penalty. Some of these are hard to understand. Penalties didn’t sink the Texans, but when they make mistakes, are there consequences? Barnett made his mistake and was immediately on the field after his mistake. The team didn’t lose because of penalties, but they don’t have the ability to overcome very few of them. 

  10. Tackling still isn’t where it needs to be.The Jaguars were able to extend some drives due to poor tackling. Jacksonville didn’t make the Texans pay as much as a good team would make them pay. Harping on the defense when, again, they kept the other team off the scoreboard plenty is tough. Jalen Pitre had a great interception. Tim Settle had a huge knockdown at the line of scrimmage. There are nice moments wholly and totally overshadowed by how bad this offense has been. 

  11. The Texans have hit a crossroads early in the season. Help is not coming from outside the building. There isn’t a trade that can fix this. There isn’t a player coming back from injury that will fix this. Firing people after three weeks won’t solve it. Caley isn’t going anywhere. Ryans isn’t going anywhere. They have to look in the mirror, hold each other accountable, and get better. And if they don’t, this will spiral into one of the most disappointing seasons in recent memory for the Houston Texans. The winless Titans are next up. 

I’d planned on getting tickets and taking my son (who lives in Houston) to a few games this year, but that ain’t happening with this team. Would any of you willingly pay to see this product?  If I’d bought season tickets I would be pissed.

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My annual plea to fold the franchise and start fresh in a couple of years.  This organization will never accomplish anything.

Amazing how quickly everything went to shit. All that hype after 2023 season is gone. Ooof. 

I like DeMeco and I hope he turns the ship around, but if he can't, I want the next HC to be an offense guy.

How the hell are the Texans favored by a TD against anyone? I know the Titans suck, but can we score 7?

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Immediately, we need to pull playcalling away from Caley and give it to Jerrod Johnson. If we’re 0-5 or 1-4 going to the bye week, I think they give Jerrod Johnson the playcalling duties. 

After the season, we need to fire Caserio and hire a new GM. Next offseason, focus the draft and free agency entirely on the OL, TE and RB positions. Have the new GM demand that Demeco hire a proven OC like how Bob McNair forced Kubiak to hire Wade in 2011. If we suck again next year, hire a new offensive minded HC. Take the next year with a new OC and Stroud’s 5th year with a new offensive minded HC, if Demeco gets canned, to evaluate Stroud to determine if he is worth a long term extension. 

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Hitting a slump buster worked for Arch; hopefully, it’ll do the same with CJ :)

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This interview is bleak. This doesn't look like a guy that believes in himself or the team anymore.

Did I read that CJ was wearing a Mariners hat recently? And now a Yankees hat in this PC? WTF. 

 

I change my mind now. Should we get the #1 pick. you 10000% take Caleb Downs, and then you draft OL with every other pick.

23 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

This interview is bleak. This doesn't look like a guy that believes in himself or the team anymore.

Did I read that CJ was wearing a Mariners hat recently? And now a Yankees hat in this PC? WTF. 

 

CJ is represented by David Mulugheta. Prepare for the contract extension next year for highest dollars ever and no trade clause, then stage a forced exit. 

The quick rise and fall of CJ is pretty fascinating. 

He legitimately had an amazing rookie year. Nothing flukey about it, you watch the film study and it's incredibly impressive. Then he went on every podcast all offseason, acted like and was treated like a top 10 player in the league. I fully bought into all of it and was super excited about his future. 

Cut to 1 1/2 years later, the dude is mentally broken. It sure feels like the flip from idolization to pure negativity on social media is having a serious affect on him. He flew too high, too early. And he's having real trouble handling adversity. If he turns it around, hopefully it's soon in Houston instead of needing a fresh start somewhere else. 

 

3 minutes ago, msbesq said:

CJ Gardner has been released. 

This team is a shit show

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1 hour ago, msbesq said:

CJ Gardner has been released. 

And the Texans still won that trade.  

2 hours ago, dr99 said:

This team is a shit show

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Also we are -6.5 for this weekend, which means we probably win by a FG or less

3 hours ago, msbesq said:

CJ Gardner has been released. 

Apparently he was awful in the locker room and on the field, and requested a trade. Well, now he can go anywhere he wants.

6 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

The quick rise and fall of CJ is pretty fascinating. 

He legitimately had an amazing rookie year. Nothing flukey about it, you watch the film study and it's incredibly impressive. Then he went on every podcast all offseason, acted like and was treated like a top 10 player in the league. I fully bought into all of it and was super excited about his future. 

Cut to 1 1/2 years later, the dude is mentally broken. It sure feels like the flip from idolization to pure negativity on social media is having a serious affect on him. He flew too high, too early. And he's having real trouble handling adversity. If he turns it around, hopefully it's soon in Houston instead of needing a fresh start somewhere else. 

 

 

Sounds almost exactly like Deshaun Watson 

Beth Mowins doing play by play shows how far down the NFL pecking order this team is. 

Just now, David Dennison said:

We love us some field goals.

3 offensive TDs in 13 quarters of football. SMDH

On 9/21/2025 at 7:02 PM, TexArcher said:

I'm starting to think this might not be the year.

Offense has seemed to just give up and run mostly dives up the gut for 2 yards. 

This is a pretty irritating announcing combo, and it's not just sexism on my part.  There is just something really irritating about Beth.  On the other hand, I could listen to Amanda all afternoon, I think.  Just a much more pleasant voice.  The guy is full of it, thinking fans would be unhappy with his "jinx" of something.  Dude, nobody is paying that close attention to what you say. 

 

 

Live view of living rooms across Houston

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Marks needs to get way more touches the rest of the year….

Piss poor 2pt try by Texans there...

Can't believe they are 0-3

Just a friendly reminder that ESPN’s Chris Canty picked the Titans to make the playoffs because “they have something special in Cam Ward.”

Wrong thread

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