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Originally Posted by HPF Bob
I agree with Barrett. There is a losing culture here and this season personifies it. The team had made four comebacks of 14-points or more to tie or take the lead, only to lose each time. That tells you a) the talent is there to win games but b) there's no attitude that expects to close the sale.
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I don't think it's as much of an accomplishment for the Texans to come back
in games as some people do. The dirty little secret about the Texans is they've got inferior personnel which puts them in the hole early in a game, at which point the other team goes to conservative mode (on both defense and offense) and protects their lead rather than trying to build on it. Sure the Texans usually close the gap, sometimes to a razor thin margin, but much more often than not they end up losing.
Re winning/losing culture, what we saw Sunday in Nashville was a team that just lacked effort/focus, and that was absent probably because there's no longer anything to play for this season - no motivation.