Review of our embarrising performance

[papabear]

I'm sure the great deabte on Schaub will get beat to death, so I'm only going to say this. He sucked. He didn't get much help, but he sucked. He looks nothing like the QB he was last year.

Andre Johnson should have caught both of those balls. Sure, they were tough plays, but not impossible...and definitely plays a WR is supposed to make. Not to mention one that is supposed to be an "elite" WR. I'm not putting the blame on AJ, but if he catches that first pass it could have had a very positive/calming effect on Schaub and the teams confidence.

Slaton was a bright spot, but I'm not ready to say we have solved our problems in the running game. There were still too many runs that got stuffed. I wonder how much of that was Slaton and how much was the line....It looked like the line but without the game film and the knowledge of the play call it's hard to say for sure. It was still nice to see.

I thought the defense looked better today. still plenty of sloppy tackling though. We got some pressure at times, and it seemed like Smith was at least trying to be creative at times....Although the only good thing I can say about Mario being in coverage is that it's better than Weaver being in coverage. I understand that the Titans probably game planned Mario so he was probably hoping to catch the Titans line off gaurd when he didn't rush, but I really don't want to see this too much.

Kubiak seems to coach "tight". I like being agressive on fourth down, but it seems like Kubiak was more desperate than anything....well before it was time to be desperate. He also talks about how he wants to be a running team....and always abandons the run quickly when we fall behind. We had too many runs getting stuffed, but there was no reason to go away from the run as much we did in the second half....especially on the goalline.

I also want to know who is in the booth making decisions on challenges. After the first waste of a challenge I wonder if Kubiak was scared to trust them again....Kubiak has a history of challenging plays that have no chance of being overturned. They need to sort out the communication with the booth.

I think Kubiak is a good coach, but he it seems far too often he caoches in panic mode. Many times when there was no reason to panic yet.