They Are Who We Thought They Were

[Mike]

What is this? A reasonable, rational post after a loss???

Seriously though, before the season I would have taken 2-1 and with one of the wins being a divisional/conference win over Indy.

With 2 of the next 3 at home, and all are games that are winnable, this is the time to go on another run. Lets get to the bye at 5-1 or very worst 4-2 and the team will be in good shape.

[kravix]

Every team loses. I just wish it had been done with a bit more inspiration from the players.

2-1 is not the end of the world. Luckily the schedule softens up a bit before the be week so 5-1 or 4-2 going down the strecth, where the team always plays better football, isnt looking so bad.

[TexanJedi]

The defense gave up what it always seems to give up, points wise. However, the offense did not do what it has been doing. This is an offensive team, if they don't score a lot the Texans don't win.

[Nconroe]

I'm not panicked and guess I would have taken 2-1 as well.

But I sure didn't like watching Texans get pushed around by Cowboys.

Seemed Foster was the onhly guy playing really hard.

Ol and DL both got beat fairly regularly. Although Butler did ok filling in.

Way too many sacks given up two weeks in a row, and this then shows up as Schaub doing poorly and throwing interceptions.

And we didn't get any sacks or much pressure on Romo which showed up as easy receptions whenever they wanted to throw.

I don't know , were the guys not playing hard, intense, injured, or were Cowboys just so much bigger and stronger?

Not sure if we need to try a different scheme or different guys in the DB's, but it isn't working right now. They are slipping, out of position, just plain getting beat, lot of young guys, and tough competition.

Hopefully this week , and rest of season we will see a turnaround. Need to get back to a defense we had like at end of last year.

[dalemurphy]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

I'm not panicked and guess I would have taken 2-1 as well.

But I sure didn't like watching Texans get pushed around by Cowboys.

Seemed Foster was the onhly guy playing really hard.

Ol and DL both got beat fairly regularly. Although Butler did ok filling in.

Way too many sacks given up two weeks in a row, and this then shows up as Schaub doing poorly and throwing interceptions.

And we didn't get any sacks or much pressure on Romo which showed up as easy receptions whenever they wanted to throw.

I don't know , were the guys not playing hard, intense, injured, or were Cowboys just so much bigger and stronger?

Not sure if we need to try a different scheme or different guys in the DB's, but it isn't working right now. They are slipping, out of position, just plain getting beat, lot of young guys, and tough competition.

Hopefully this week , and rest of season we will see a turnaround. Need to get back to a defense we had like at end of last year.

I think the D-line suffered due to a lack of a healthy rotation. Okoye is still hobbled and Antonio Smith was sick. Since Ogunleye and Denney aren't fully up to speed yet, we were not able to rotate guys and keep them fresh like we did in week one, particularly. Hopefully, we will see Ogunleye active next week and getting 10-15 snaps. If that happens and if A.Smith is not sick, the entire line will be fresher and play better, IMO.

By the way, I'll be writing about this later in our blog, but Rashod Butler was very good yesterday. Very good!

[edo783]

Pretty simple actually. We need to score 30+ because we give up ~27 most games. Either the offense needs to score more or the defense needs to hold up better. Ideally .... do both. Yesterday ....... neither happened.