Official Texans @ Chargers Game Thread, 9/22/2019

[Arky]

Chargers make the most of it with a 7 yard TD pass to K Allen.

Chargers 7, Texans 0

9:41 left in the 1st qtr.

[Arky]

End of the 1st qtr finds the Chargers with the ball around midfield and moving.

Chargers 7, Texans 0

[Arky]

Ty Long is good from 34 on the FG.

Chargers 10, Texans 0

[Arky]

After a long pass to Stills, a 15-yard penalty on the Chargers for roughing the passer, Watson finds Fells in the end zone for the 16 yard TD pass.

Chargers 10, Texans 7

8:11 left in the half.

[HPF Bob]

Texans giving better effort today. The WTF "lateral" by Watson is really what has caused the deficit. OL protection has been better. Secondary still leaks like a sieve.

[Arky]

Rivers hits Allen for a 12-yard TD.

Chargers 17, Texans 7

22 seconds left in the half.

[Arky]

Watson connects on a long pass as time winds down leaving 1 second left for a Fairbairn 56-yard FG.

He misses.

Chargers 17, Texans 7

Halftime.

The early gift to the Chargers might turn out to be fatal. Need more pressure on Rivers because he will throw some INT's.

Texans will receive the 2nd half kickoff.

[barrett]

Terrible defense on that last drive before the half, but...

Williams clubs Johnson in the head with a fully extended arm and gets 5 yards of space to make a catch. Then Johnson covers him perfectly and gets called for an imaginary PI.

How are you supposed to play when the refs call things like that? They've essentially declared offense wins.

[barrett]

I love how all 3 phases got in on the bad play to close the half.

First at the 2 minute warning on 2nd and 3 Watson bypasses the open RB who has 20 yards for free to fit it in downfield but misses the pass. His insistence on the tough play is getting him killed and hamstringing our offense. The rest of the NFL is thriving on easy completions to the RB. We traded a 3rd for the #2 pass catching RB in the NFL and we can't get him the ball because our QB won't check down.

Then our defense gets shredded with less than 2 minutes left to give up a length of the field TD drive.

Then when Watson produces a miracle to get us a FG try, our Kicker shanks it.

At least all 3 phases are contributing equally to the loss.

[HPF Bob]

TV announcer put the hex on CareBare by talking about his made FG streak before a 56-yarder. Of course, he misses.