Official Texans vs. Chiefs Wild Card Game Thread, 1/9/2016

[popanot]

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.

[popanot]

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.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by popanot

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.

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.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by chuck

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.

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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.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

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.

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?

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

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.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by chuck

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?

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 ?

[HPF Bob]

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.

[popanot]

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.