The Texans have lost three of their last four games after collapsing on Sunday Night Football against the Detroit Lions. What are they at this point? The Drive's Clint Stoerner and Ron Hughley discuss that here.
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00:00Titus Howard on a pass protection is somehow, I thought at first he accidentally stripped
00:09CJ Stroud himself, but nah, he's trying to take the ball from CJ while CJ's being sacked
00:15to go run for what?
00:17A first snack?
00:19Gets a positive vote.
00:20And what are you going to do with the ball?
00:22That part, like, I mean, it's, listen, it's a down time, but that part is just like, it's
00:27so, there was so many, what in the hell moments, but that right there, that is that like in
00:32the second half, you don't have, how's this thing going?
00:36Can't pass protect.
00:37And then when you do your tackles, trying to rip the ball away from the quarterback
00:42on the way down, it almost caused disaster that eventually came later on.
00:48That was, that was wild, wild as hell.
00:51Damn it, Titus.
00:52Yeah.
00:54Look, it goes to show you where, where the mindset is with certain guys on, on this,
00:59on this squad.
01:00Um, I mean, that's just, that's just plum ass silly, like, like instead of just attaching
01:06to the guy that you're blocking and driving him to the ground, even if he beats you, just
01:10stay attached, strain man, and drive him to the ground and keep him out of the play.
01:13And, uh, instead you, you, you stop, stand up and decide you're going to try to take
01:18the ball from the quarterback and run for a first down, uh, which would have required
01:22you to run for about 20 yards, I think, to get the first down.
01:25It just, it just, that, that, that play right there, that play right there, your, your,
01:32your left tackle, Laramie Tunsell, rest day, Laramie, uh, gets absolutely ran by.
01:39There may be something there, rest day.
01:42And then all of a sudden, you know, he's getting one this, boy, he wouldn't have his me, but
01:47you know how many he had to go down with an injury.
01:49Didn't he?
01:50He had to miss a play.
01:51You know, he ain't practicing.
01:52You think that'll get, you think I'll buy him a rest day, but on the same play, your
01:57two tackles, the two guys that you've got the most invested in up front and really two
02:02of the guys that you got more invested in on really the whole, the whole damn team.
02:06One of them gets blown by and causes the pressure.
02:10And the other one, 41, who's 41, just Jared Parham.
02:13I think something Parham.
02:14I thought Parham was a tight end for the charge, but he.
02:20One gets blown by and immediately gets beat to the point where it's lucky CJ didn't get
02:25T-bone like Kyler Murray did last night, but he, he saw it somehow.
02:31And then your other highly paid tackle decides he's going to take the ball from the quarterback
02:36and go run for a first down.
02:38I mean, what are we doing?
02:39Are you kidding me?
02:40What's he thinking?
02:41Are you kidding me?
02:42What was he thinking?
02:43I mean, are you kidding me?
02:44Like, how do you, how do you look at that?
02:46If you're Nick Casario or D'Amico rinds and go, yeah, man, we're in the right spot.
02:51Yeah, man.
02:52We're moving in the right direction.
02:53Come on.
02:54It will not be a good night.
02:56Yeah.
02:57A rough one here.
02:58And I, and I think we're at this point here and we can start here, uh, 7 1 3 5 7 2 4 6
03:0510.
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03:25in with this.
03:26Uh, Clint, we're, we're 10 games in the Texans are now six and four.
03:31They've had some injuries.
03:33I think Nico should be coming back.
03:35We'll see what happens with, with Will Anderson, but, but we're, we're, we're now 10 games
03:39into this season and, and there ain't, but seven left, um, they're six and four.
03:45I mean, they, they, they've seen primed to win this division and host a home playoff
03:49game.
03:50What, what are the Texans?
03:53I think now this is a time here, like, all right, there's nobody like, I think now, what
03:59are the Texas?
04:00I think that's where we need to have a serious conversation of what we've watched and where
04:04they are and what are they?
04:06Yeah.
04:08Look, I rebuild football team.
04:11I think they're a young rebuilding football team.
04:13And we thought they weren't past that.
04:15Yeah, I did.
04:16I look, I think they're a young rebuilding football team.
04:19And when it boils down to it, it's, it's about what they are not instead of what they are,
04:23what they are not is they're not ready to be a championship caliber football team week
04:32in week out.
04:34Um, and when I say that, I mean, they had several opportunities to put the best team
04:41in football to sleep, son.
04:43I mean, to sleep several opportunities at any point in time, a field goal or a touchdown
04:51would have put these boys to sleep and they failed miserably and they were there and they
04:58failed miserably via the best players on the offense.
05:05Uh, and then you fast forward to the end of the game and we just got to call it what it
05:12is.
05:13Both sides of the football.
05:14The moment was too big.
05:16The moment was too big.
05:17And I said, both sides of the foot, let me take that back.
05:20The end of the lions Texans Sunday night matchup, the moment was too big for the Houston
05:28Texans.
05:29We suck.
05:30All three phases, all three phases, polos on the sideline, superstar game changers,
05:39role players.
05:41The moment was too big.
05:43The Texans shrunk when it mattered the most and you had team in ball.
05:49You had them on the ropes.
05:51You caught them on a night where they turn with a quarterback, turned it over five times.
05:53You had them on the rope.
05:54You had them in your place.
05:55Primetime television.
05:56It's set up.
05:58It's set up for you to be a team and get back on the radar of, Hey man, these Texans are
06:04for real.
06:05And you shrunk all three phases.
06:07Jamie Fairbairn, CJ Stroud, it's a 58 yarder, but D'Amico Ryan's.
06:13Yeah.
06:14I mean, look, I, but the truth, it just is, you had a chance to, to, to put the team ahead.
06:19You've done it more than damn near anybody in the league this year.
06:21Hell, you've been AFC player, the player of the week, a couple of times, because how many,
06:25how many 50 plus yarders you kick and that's fine.
06:27I mean, but they, all three phases, you had opportunities and you shrunk in the moment
06:33versus the best team in football.
06:35That's that's a, that's who they are.
06:36It's interesting when you say that, because the lions never panic at any point in the
06:43game.
06:44And it seems like when CJ up 23 to seven comes out and for those who are watching on TV at
06:52the exact same time that Dan Campbell said, we need to turn the ball over.
06:56He throws the pick at the same time.
06:58It seemed like the Texans begin to panic right in and up 23 to seven.
07:03It seemed like they begin to panic and then the defense got a pick right away.
07:07Yep.
07:08Kamari Lassiter got, I got a pick right away.
07:10It still seemed like one team was going to go take it.
07:14And the other team was crossing their fingers and hoping they would, and hoping they would
07:18win and hoping that they would get to the finish line.
07:22That was wild.
07:23As I said, coming, as I said, come to the people, what are the texts, the 10 games in
07:30three or four.
07:31Um, and, uh, and, and the second halves have been ridiculous, 19 to nothing yesterday in
07:37the second half.
07:39What are the Texans?
07:40As you said, there's still a rebuilding team, rebuilding young team.