Just Stop Watching, Texans Fans
I keep thinking about how lucky the Texans are that they won that first game with Tyrod. They are legitimately one of the worst teams I’ve watched. Absolutely nothing about this team is fun. It’s so bleak in Houston right now. Locals have to be happy the Astros are in the series again. Yet even there the Astros are pretty much seen as tainted after the trash can scandal so even if they win, it’ll be with spite heavy in their hearts.
Every team goes through down periods. Some last a few years, some a few decades. Each year, no matter how depressing, usually brings with it some levels of hope to keep fans in. Even if that hope is just the promise that the current staff will soon be out on their asses. I feel as we have grown more knowledgeable as a society regarding sports ownership and the dipshits with power, some situations have grown bleaker. The Washington Football team is a prime example. The Texans are another and man I would not blame a single Texans fan for just…refusing to engage until at least some of this has passed. In fact I would encourage it and support it, as fans leaving in droves might be the one thing that gets the gears grinding back to a watchable team again.
It wasn’t too long ago that the team felt like they had something. They had a great OT. They had an all-pro WR and a future hall of fame defensive lineman. After some turmoil, they even managed to snag the coveted franchise QB. Bill O’Brien had messed some things up but he wasn’t the worst coach around and the team was reaching the playoffs. A few good moves and things might turn out okay. Things did not, and now the team is in one of the bleakest places I’ve seen any franchise hit in a single year season.
-The owner is a failson idiot with no idea what he’s doing. He’s also a racist.
-In his ear, operating as an evil wormtongue, is a former preacher who clearly just desires power but doesn’t understand football
-The GM is the preacher’s handpicked choice from NE and every move he’s made so far has been mediocre at best
-The franchise QB is angry, holding out from the team, and is probably a serial sexual assaulter, making him basically impossible to morally root for, even as the best option they have.
-The coach is just some career positions coach who had no potential as an HC and openly admitted he took the job because he never thought he’d get a better chance. Nobody else wanted to work for this team. They were a less desirable job than the Lions, the Jets, the Jags, basically everybody else.
-The current QB is some rookie they drafted in the third round, who has looked terrible
-The rest of the team is young nobodies, garbage, or journeymen leftovers on their second or third short contracts who are just trying to stay in the league. David Johnson. Mark Ingram. Danny Amendola. Tyrod Taylor. Philip Lindsay. Brandin Cooks feels like the only star. Laremy Tunsil is fine, but he’s here thanks to O’Brien ineptitude, and he’s dealt with injuries.
-The coaching decisions in-game are outdated and often baffling.
-The former stars of the team, JJ Watt and Nuk, are currently lighting it up on the Cardinals, possibly the best team in the NFL right now.
-The rapist QB may, very soon, be exchanged for a guy the Dolphins clearly view as a bust and he will be going to an even worse situation.
Culley is obviously a stopgap during this mess and he even knows it and is just riding it out. How bad this has to get before things meaningfully change is hard to say. It can’t get much worse than it is now but there’s no clear timeline for the escape. Easterby is embedded like a tick and Cal is a moron. My heart goes out to Houston Texans fans, who should take these times to find something else in their lives to give them meaning. Apathy is the only true voice a fan has to fight back. Embrace your newfound freedom on Sundays and rediscover your life. Come back when the team does something to earn you.
The only thing I disagree with is your assessment of Ceaserio; I think he seems like he’s done OK-ish but that it’s pretty early to tell and hard to judge with how few picks the Texans had.
Otherwise yes, football sucks and is stupid and hurts right now 🙁
Is there another team that comes close to them in terms of steep and sudden decline? From the verge of Super Bowls to complete despair in a few years. Star players on other teams. Maybe the Jags? Even they don’t touch the Texans as Bortles was only a serial offender against the public on game days.
No.
Jags season was a single flash in the pan. Terrible before & since.
Bengals had 5-straight playoff seasons, but everyone knew they were going nowhere with Dalton. (I admitted this and I own a Dalton jersey.) So the fall was a return to normal.
Browns were horrid for decades, but seem to be consistently good now. They could mirror this decline in a few years.
Jets – Bad, to horrible, to barely NFL level
The Falcons maybe.
The 49ers are pretty wretched now a couple years after a Super Bowl. They can’t blame missing their QB this time either.
What about the early-mid 2000’s Raiders? They went from the Tuck Rule game, to trading away Gruden, to getting demolished in a Superbowl… to a long period of futility where they brought Art Shell out of retirement to run 20+ year old schemes to embarrassing results. I don’t remember how sharp that decline was but it did take them from near the top to the very bottom.
As a Texans fan here, I feel like this piece is missing one very important piece of information….
FUCK JACK EASTERBY!!!
It might not be politically correct to refer to Covid as “the China Virus”, but that IS where it came from and it IS the fault of the CCP. I don’t fault the people of China… they’ve been suffering for decades under the CCP’s oppressive regime, but we need to stop this BS of bowing down to the CCP. Trump was given so much shit for banning travel from several countries with Muslim governments, but the CCP gets a free pass for literally putting Muslims in concentration camps??? Why the hell aren’t people more outraged about that shit? Is it because mainstream media barely covers it, since their billionaire owners don’t want to offend the second largest economy on the planet? Gee, I wonder why so many people don’t trust the media.
Umm… i think you posted on the wrong site.
This is The Draw Play, a cartoon about football.
The “mainstream media” reported on what China is doing. That’s why we know
dude go to sleep
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Go to bed grandpa
The Chiefs faced the US in the AFC Divisional game? I didn’t realize the entire nation was a team. X’D
Meanwhile in the next room, they have the Dolphins fan’s EKG on mute…
My best friend gave up on them and started rooting for the Browns, because of me and Baker Mayfield.
The pillow fight between the Texans and Deshaun Watson has turned into the assholes vs. the dickheads, and it’s not even an entertaining version of that like Tiger King was.
I think God and Satan set aside their differences and created the Houston Texans, just to put in perspective whenever a fan impulsively says “My team is the worst run organization in sports!”
Maybe it’s a bet, like with Job.
Our Offense is the most mind-numbingly boring offense in NFL history.
We cant run the ball with PHillip Lindsey Mark Ingram or David Johnson
We always start off a drive with a one or two yard run
The play calling is repetitive and easy to counter
We spend the first half ¨establishing the run¨ and the next throwing the ball for a 2 yard gain.
We always call short passes or screens when we do pass the ball, nothing creative because Tim Kelly wants to ¨Protect the quarterback¨
Davis Mills always targets Brandin Cooks.
We can’t protect the quarterback like usual
Tyrod Taylor is actually an OK quarterback with horrible luck he was like a watered down version of Deshaun Watson. With him we scored 5 touchdowns in 6 quarters.
In the Davis Mills Era we scored 4 in 22 quarters.
Our Defense isn’t that bad, we are only any good if we force turnovers which we did in 4 out of 6 games.
The main problem with our defense is that it wears down too easily, in the the first and second quarters we usually do OK, in the 3rd and 4th we suck.
Justin Reid is a pro bowl safety
We have some potential with Jonathan Greenard our DL who has 6 sacks in 7 games.
Remember when Xavien Howard was going to be traded in the offseason while Coach Flores said “Howard’s our guy” the whole time and everybody thought it was just coach speak and then he didn’t get traded? Well, now the Dolphins are trading away Tua while Coach Flores says “Tua’s our guy”. I’m not saying Tua’s definitely not getting traded for Watson, but that’s where I’d put my money if I were a betting man
How dare you do my boy Phillip Lindsay dirty like that!
I wonder who some of the other ‘for their protection’ coma ward residents would be. I’m betting they wake up the Chiefs fans soon, maybe even the Jags, but those poor WFT fans are going to die in hospital.
falcons fans
Over the top to call label someone a racist for saying china virus get a grip
He’s the son of the guy who made the “inmates running the asylum” comment and used “The China Virus” to describe Covid in 2021, almost a full year after even the open racists stopped using it all the time. Everyone was calling it Covid by then, the fact that he’s still using the xenophobic term well after basically everyone had sure is curious don’t you think
smh