I guess it's harder to fake QB play against NFL teams than it is against the AFC South.

And let me just say, OB has a very big part of this atrocity. Just awful.

The ensuing kickoff is a touchback.

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Texan's ball at their 20.

Hoyer's pass to Washington is dropped.

Hoyer's pass to Hop is too low, inc. 3rd and 10 coming up.

Pass to Griffin broken up, inc. Texans will have to punt.

Punt is returned for nice gain but flags are down.... illegal block in the back on the Chiefs. 10 yards from the spot of the foul.

Nice business decision by Joseph on the Kelce catch and run.

Meanwhile Gruden says "I don't know how KC is doing this with Maclin down."

Here's a hint. The Texans defense quit.

If they're going to call that a personal foul I hope somebody just decides to get their money's worth.

This may not be a view shared by everyone but I would rather have gone 7-9 and missed the playoffs entirely than win the division and get absolutely embarrassed in the playoffs.

I prefer the playoff game unless it convinces our brain trust that we don't need a QB. I think either outcome has no effect on Rick Smith's job. I think we could go 2-14 and he'd be back.

Chief's ball at their 29.

Ware for about 6.

Smith can't find a receiver and scrambles for the 1st down.

Ware caught in the backfield by Simon. Loss of 1.

On 2nd and 11, pass to Kelce goes for 47 yards. Ball at the Texan 13.

West for 5.

Ware for 1. Flags after the play.........unnecessary roughness on the Texans places the ball at the 3.5 yard line.

Ware caught in the backfield for a loss. 2nd and goal at the Texan 5.

End of the 3rd qtr.

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Ware punches it in for the TD.

Chiefs 27, Texan 0

14:56 left in the game.

Actually, that is something we know for a fact.

I have never seen a skill player with worse hands then Ryan Griffin. I am glad we used our short term IR on him instead of Savage.

What a douche call from the official on the Hopkins PI. Down 27-0 they guess at a call when there is no actual push.

The ensuing kickoff is a touchback.

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Texan's ball at their 20. Need 4 quick TD's, fellas. lol

Pass to Griffin off his hands, inc.

Pass to Griffin goes for 15.

Checkdown to Grimes gets 4.

Grimes runs for 3.

On 3rd and 3, Griffin open in the flat for the 1st down. Ball nearly at midfield.

Deep pass to Hop is caught but PI on Hop brings it back. Makes it 1st and 20.

Nice catch by Strong gets 17.

Pass to Hop gets a 1st down at the Chief 27.

Grimes wiggles for 3.

Pass to Griffin..... can't hang on for the TD. Incomplete.

Jump ball to Hop in the end zone goes inc. 4th and 7 coming up.....Texans will go for it.

On 4th down, Hoyer is stripped but falls on it. Chiefs takeover on downs.

How the f is Griffin a professional football player? Why do they waste a roster spot on him?

It's amazing that you can win the division and still have a totally wasted season. The team wasted another year of Watt's greatness, wasted a year of Hopkins' development, all for nothing. If I had any confidence these dickwits could draft worth a f I would say that I would rather have ended the season last week at 5-11.

If the QB runs with a 27-0 lead you hit him, slide or no slide. That is seriously just asking for it.

Chief's ball at their 29. 10:49 left in the game.

Ware for 5.

Smith keeps for 3.

Smith keeps for 3 and the 1st down.

Ware for a couple.

Checkdown to Sherman gets about 4. 3rd and 4 coming up.

Smith is sacked by Merci. Chiefs will have to punt.

Punt goes out of bounds at the Texan 8 yard line.

6:25 left in the game.

I love when announcers try to spin getting sacked as some genius decision by the QB.

"You just don't understand how smart that guy was for not screwing up."

Texan's ball at their 8.

Hoyer throws an INT. Chiefs have the ball at the Texan 21.

Ryan Griffin didn't let go of that tackle. Maybe he should be playing defense.

I don't think I've ever seen a poorer post-season performance from a QB than what I've seen today..........

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Chief's ball at the Texan 21.

Ware for 2.

Davis for 1. 3rd and 7 coming up.

Pass to Hammond gets 4 or so.... Chiefs will go for the FG.

Santos' 33-yarder is good.

Chiefs 30, Texan 0

3:59 left in the game.

The ensuing kickoff is a touchback.

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Texan's ball at their 20.

Blue for 2.

Pass to Hop broken up, inc. 3rd and 8 coming up.

Pass to Strong along the sideline a little off the mark, inc. Texans will punt.

Hammonds brings the punt back into Texan territory - about the 48 yard line.

Chief's ball at the Texan 49.

Davis rushes for 5.

Davis for 2.

2 minute warning.

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On 3rd and 3, Davis gets 4 and the 1st down.

Chiefs kneeling it.

Final score:

Chiefs 30, Texans 0

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Well, that sucked...

I love them interviewing Alex Smith and pretending he played well.

"What clicked with your offense in the 2nd half."

I wish Smith had answered, the other guy kept throwing it to us and we just made sure to not screw it up.

Ya, I said something similar... don't know if I picked it up from your comment or not but yeah, most definitely....

You would think OB realizes what he's got, now... and what he wants would be better accomplished without Brian Hoyer.

It's not all Hoyer of course, but he's about 90% responsible for today's loss...

Despite the fact that, what, forty guys took the field today at one time or another this loss was almost totally on Hoyer. If you need a game manager sort of quarterback you simply cannot have that guy lose the game for you. I don't care if it was his first playoff game. F me, TJ Yates won his first game by being a manager, basically.

Maybe the silver lining is that Hoyer was so historically terrible that they have to confront their quarterback problem in a real way now. They can't pretend that Hoyer is good enough because he obviously isn't.

I've been saying all along the idea of Hoyer as a game manager is ridiculous. He is a low percentage passer who turns it over. He is like a homeless man's version of the worst of Brett Favre. Having him as plan A for an NFL season should cost the jobs of anyone involved. He truly did ruin the best efforts of 40 teammates today.

The most stunning thing to me about Hoyer's performance is it wasn't like KC was playing smothering, stifling D. Hoyer was just plain awful all by himself pretty much. And I don't care who's on your bench, you pull Hoyer's ass in the 2nd half and try to give your Offense some sort of spark - whether it works or not. No one (other than OB, apparently) thought Hoyer was going to anything that 2nd half. That game was over despite only being down by 13. Hoyer was a wreck at that point and had zero chance of bringing them back. I think I'm more ticked than I've ever been with OB right now. Just pathetic.

Special Teams were pathetic today too. If it weren't for KC shooting themselves in the foot with penalties on 3 or 4 returns it probably would've been 50-0.

This is exactly right. It's best illustrated by his first fumble. No one even fking touched him. He just dropped the ball for no reason.

The Texans had zero return yards today. Zero.

I don't see any way that the QB spot wasn't glowing after this debacle. What couldn't happen, happened. Hoyer lost the game for us. Period, exclamation point.

No that's not true. The edge rusher off of the weak side basically thru Duane Brown's replacement, Clark I think, into Hoyer and upon impact the ball was jarred loose from Hoyer's grip. I also thought he was untouched until the replay, maybe it was the second replay when the contact was clear to me.
So anyway that was a real stinker and with a name like O'Brien, if there's any real credibility to the coachs name he's now completely drunk on his butt.

Thanks. I'll look at it again. The view I saw appeared to show no contact at all.

So after tonight's game would you rather lose because your quarterback is a giant vagina or would you rather have a top-half quarterback and lose because some of your players are brain dead stupid?

The LT's back bumps into Hoyer. There is minimal contact and terrible pocket awareness, but he definitely gets bumped.

I would rather lose because Hoyer sucks than because we built our team on stupid people doing more tough things than stupid things and turned out wrong.

Popanot is dead on: after that interception Hoyer thru at the 2-yrd line at the end of the half, O'Brien should have pulled Hoyer and started Weedon, started anybody else but Hoyer in the second half. Our defense was playing well and KC had not scored an offensive TD in the entire half at that point in time, and we were still in the game.
I don't know what's worse, losing the way we did or the way the Bengals did. Probably the Bengals because they had the game won, but the sequence of events/penalties by them at the end was incredible. I wonder if they do finally fire Marvin Louis ?

I think Bengal fans are in far more pain today because more was expected and because they literally choked away a last-minute victory. Personally, I knew the refs would win it for Pittsburgh but the Bengals made it easy for them by not getting their goons off the field (Burfict, PacMan). Stupid, stupid way to lose.

But back to the Texans. Losing this spectacularly at home (I'll bet Babs Bush was there somewhere - the Bushes are always present when Houston gets their postseason ass-kickings) might have been enough for McNair to want to demand some changes, including:

*Making a serious off-season upgrade at QB, either in the draft or FA.
*Finding a TE who can hang onto a pass.
*Finding a special teams coach who can get 11 people that run and make tackles.
*Probably waving Arian Foster to free up needed cap room.

Getting embarrassed (again) like that on national television might be enough to get some major changes done whereas if we had lost 27-20 like we did on week 1, we would have heard "stay the course" type of comments.

I think our top three draft picks all improved as the season went along and will play bigger roles next year. A repeat of that in this year's draft would be a positive development.

For the life of me I still have no clue as to why these coaches continued to play Nate Washington over ANY other WR on the roster when anyone who is not blind could see there was a 90% chance he will drop the pass. Well, that is when he actually ran the correct route. Him along with our stone hands TEs and POS QB, made winning against any decent team an almost impossible feat. When we look back at the 2015 season, I think we need to highly question quite a few decisions made by OB and staff. Fire-able offenses?? No, but the margin for forgiveness in 2016 is getting pretty thin, IMO.

Well, new year, but some things never change... Bengals lose a playoff game and the Texans/Insert Houston Franchise Here embarrass themselves on national TV.

I have no desire to rewatch this one but anyone remember the play where Lechler punted and Jon Weeks, the long snapper, was the first one down the field? That's just crazy. Perhaps they need to find another long snapper and let Weeks takeover the gunner position......

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I think OB saying Weeden didn't get snaps this week (or some such) and wasn't prepared was just so much coachspeak (or flat out lying if you prefer). OB could've yanked Hoyer and given Weeden plays similar to what he was using in the Indy road game.... He certainly would've made do if Hoyer had went down with injury..... For whatever reason, OB was not going to yank Hoyer even though millions could see that he (Hoyer) wasn't on his game, was totally puckered up and wasn't going to get it back.... Sort of a case of the captain going down with the ship......

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I think they're are a few "seniors" on our team that need to go (lookin' at you Nate Washington). I've always been averse to coaches that use the go-with-the-seniors mentality in crunch time while the younger, athletic, higher-upside guy rots on the bench...........

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At one point, the thought crossed my mind to just run the damn ball every single play and turn off the passing game. It probably would've resulted in a score in one situation and minimized the turnovers in others..

I'm sure you saw that Hoyer's passer rating would have better than doubled had he simply thrown an incompletion on literally every offensive play.

I have led the Hoyer is garbage club all year. I thought he was a downgrade from Fitzpatrick. I thought he was worse than Mallett. After the preseason I thought he was worse than Savage. But it's dumb to think Brandon Weeded with half a playbook is going to do something against the NFL's best defense over the past 10 weeks. We lost that game when O'Brien chose this as his preferred QB situation and reinforced it by putting Savage on IR. Then he tried to get by with 1 backup and lost Yates. This assured we had only 1 QB with the playbook by January. We have only O'Brien/Smith and their QB moves to blame for Hoyer being on the field, but Weeden is never the answer.

Ditka at half time took a dump on us as a franchise and on O'Brien as a coach. Then he laughed and scoffed at the idea of pulling Hoyer and answered that we had nobody to go to.

Maybe it would have felt good to put in a new QB after half time, but it would have been pissing into the wind. This was a broken team from August 1. You don't win playoff games with Hoyer as plan A. McNair should be ashamed for selling us a wasted season, and O'Brien should be ashamed for cashing checks for 12 months without any real attempt at moving the franchise forward.

We know BOB likes artists with alliterative names. He likes Rick Ross. I hope he also likes Freddy Fender.

If I were to assess blame for this year it would all be on BOB. He pretty clearly made the choices that led to Hoyer being our QB.

Going forward, will be interesting what all the changes are.

I'm not in the trade Foster camp. By the end of the year top 3 draft picks for past two years started to show some promise.