HappyDays

Penix is a great callout. Atlanta was another game where "the defense gave the offense a chance in the 2nd half." Another game of too little too late when you give up almost historic production in the 1st half. And then inevitably you have fans questioning Allen's decision making and wondering if he's gone Hollywood. I'm so over it. Please just get a new staff in here and let's build this team around the most important person in the organization.

Yeah so where I've gotten to is this staff gives us nothing on defense and they give us nothing on offense. It's just utterly generic NFL coaching on both sides of the ball, and the GM made the fatal mistake of investing in his vanilla coach over his generational QB. McDermott got everything he wanted and he needs to own this mess.

I agree but that's how they built the team. They gave the offense scraps and bet it all on defense. So my standards are high. If they can't win this kind of game there's no sense in investing on that side of the ball.

We passed up two FG attempts because the defense had us on our heels from the start. You absolutely cannot spot Davis Mills and that horrendous offensive cast 20 points in the 1st half. Good for them for pulling it together in the 2nd half but that is too little too late. This needed to be a game our defense controlled from the start.

Why? McDermott doesn't know how to evaluate coordinators. He just wants yes men that run his preferred style of offense. Why does anyone want him to have another chance? The next coaching change needs to come from the top. Enough of this.

Hot take - this game is on the defense. Games that Houston lost this year: 9-14 19-20 10-17 19-27 15-18 They barely beat Tennessee last week 16-13. We just spent all of our most valuable resources in the offseason on the defense. We have a defensive head coach. If they can't win an ugly TNF scrapper against a bad offense, what is the point of all that?

Imagine if we had a single freaking WR that could make a legit downfield sideline catch

That's hilarious

Why didnt we call TO there? This clock management is senseless

I'm seriously just in shock. The plan is to get to 3rd and kind of short and just get to the 2 minute warning?

Wtf is Brady doing?? We're playing with zero urgency. What was the plan on that play call?

Taron redeems himself

Why was he not out of bounds there?

Are you for real with this?

Can anyone tell me what McDermott brings to this team? Can't hire coordinators. Can't get his flat team out of their rut. What is the selling point there?

Not a chance. Houston is losing games like 20-10 this year. Defense put us on our back heels from the start.

If it forces changes at the top I can live with a bad season. If it doesn't I'll be checked out next year.

Shakir seriously is hurt

I hope Bernard's alright he's a good dude but this is why you don't give an early extension to a small player. But he has the C on his jersey so this regime gets googoo eyes

Houston's defense really is that good. You have to beat them 20-10. That's how our defensive coach wants his team to be built and instead we give them 20 in the 1st half.

Actually the awful truth is that this game would look identical if Trubisky was in there. This regime has made the MVP irrelevant.

I hated the offseason strategy of going all in on McDermott's side of the ball. But even I didn't expect this. I expected small improvements at the very least actually. Regressing to an even worse version of an already bad defense is a fireable offense for everyone involved given how many resources they poured into it.

I don't know man. We'll get into the playoffs as a wildcard but what's the point. We have absolutely no chance of doing anything once we're there. Abysmal defense and an offense that isn't remotely built to win shootouts. The opposite of complementary football.

Defensive head coach. All those investments given to his side of the ball and leaving Josh with scraps. And we are giving up easy drives to a terrible offense. Awesome

We've gotten lucky twice in this game that Higgins isn't an NFL receiver