Official Texans @ Patriots Game Thread, 9/9/2018

[chuck]

barrett and Keith separately and differently hit upon the thing that annoys me most about this game - the team literally punted it away. That is a loser's mantality.

Does anyone think Bill Parcells would have gone into a week one thinking fk it, we can't win in that stadium, let's not worry too much about it?

Come on.

I guess that's what annoys me most about the franchise. I'm accustomed to seeing that sort of cynical resignation from the owner. I'm not so accustomed to seeing it from the football operations guys.

Also, speaking of, it looked like McNeck wasn't at the game. Let's hope he was somewhere watching it on TV and listening hard to Romo carving up his idiot coach whom he just extended for seventeen years. McNeck does love him some Romo. If you want to know, just ask AJ Bouye.

Innyhoo, before barrett gets on me, yes, I was always in the BOB camp when it came to BOB versus whatever that idiot's name was. Jones? Something like that. My previously held position does not exclude my participation in the 'BOB is an idiot and should go somewhere else' usenet group, so thank you for your kind understanding.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

barrett and Keith separately and differently hit upon the thing that annoys me most about this game - the team literally punted it away. That is a loser's mantality.

Does anyone think Bill Parcells would have gone into a week one thinking fk it, we can't win in that stadium, let's not worry too much about it?

Come on.

I guess that's what annoys me most about the franchise. I'm accustomed to seeing that sort of cynical resignation from the owner. I'm not so accustomed to seeing it from the football operations guys.

Also, speaking of, it looked like McNeck wasn't at the game. Let's hope he was somewhere watching it on TV and listening hard to Romo carving up his idiot coach whom he just extended for seventeen years. McNeck does love him some Romo. If you want to know, just ask AJ Bouye.

Innyhoo, before barrett gets on me, yes, I was always in the BOB camp when it came to BOB versus whatever that idiot's name was. Jones? Something like that. My previously held position does not exclude my participation in the 'BOB is an idiot and should go somewhere else' usenet group, so thank you for your kind understanding.

Nothing wrong with being mad at the coach in that one.

It was a poor effort all around, and we acted like we couldn't beat a team that almost blew a game to us on our worst day.

[barrett]

In other news Ryan Fitzpatrick was the best QB in the NFL yesterday and carved up a Super Bowl contender. Crazy.

[Arky]

Besides Deshaun Watson, there were a number of QB's that had unexpectedly bad Week 1 outings.... Garoppolo had probably his worst start - 3 INT's. Derek Carr and Matt Stafford didn't look so hot last night.... Keenum threw for 3 TD's and got the win but he also threw 3 INT's.

I think it's like Steve Young said on MNF last night - "September is the new preseason".

Wonder why the Pats gave their starters so many snaps in preseason? The chatter I'm hearing is that BB didn't like getting slapped around by the Chiefs in Week 1 last year.... Maybe that'll start a new trend... use preseason to get ready for the real thing....

[barrett]

Originally Posted by Arky

Besides Deshaun Watson, there were a number of QB's that had unexpectedly bad Week 1 outings.... Garoppolo had probably his worst start - 3 INT's. Derek Carr and Matt Stafford didn't look so hot last night.... Keenum threw for 3 TD's and got the win but he also threw 3 INT's.

I think it's like Steve Young said on MNF last night - "September is the new preseason".

Wonder why the Pats gave their starters so many snaps in preseason? The chatter I'm hearing is that BB didn't like getting slapped around by the Chiefs in Week 1 last year.... Maybe that'll start a new trend... use preseason to get ready for the real thing....

The whole league punted on the preseason. Because of that offense was way behind in week 1, especially for teams without a returning HC and veteran QB. Only Ryan Fitzpatrick really bucked that trend, and he permanently defies all trends.

Our team looked entirely unprepared and you could absolutely say September is the new preseason for us. I think that's awful coaching. Each of the 16 games counts the same and we're unlikely to make the playoffs by more than a game when all is said and done.

Lucky for us Tennessee and Indy looked awful. Jacksonville won but looked awful on offense. The AFC South had crawled up past terrible to mediocre, but it looks like it's slid right back down to competing for the worst division in football.