Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to Jacksonville’s 17-10 win over their division rivals – sending Houston on its first season-opening three-game losing streak since 2020. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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The Jags win 17 to 10.
The Texans fall to 0 and 3.
Which is crazy to think of considering the weight of their expectations going into the season.
Did you turn this game off in the first quarter?
Or what did you think of this?
This was like a fight.
It was a pebble.
Yeah, this game was rotated a lot for me.
In and out because I kept trying to watch it.
I’m like, Man, like am I really gonna waste an NFL Sunday just sitting here when I have access to literally every game that’s on right now?
It’s like I kept pulling in and out and then someone would say, oh my God, Travis Hunter said.
I’ll put it back on.
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Then I feel like every time I turned back on, nothing would happen for long stretches of time.
Man, both offenses.
Get back to the drawing board for this one because over the course of this game, it was not pretty, especially the Texans by the end of it.
It just kind of feels like they have no, it feels like they have no real identity on offense.
Maybe that’s the offensive line woes, maybe it’s a new OC, but they really have got to get together and try to figure out what they can do here because a 0 and 3 season is on life support.
Man.
Honestly, I just don’t see where any relief is gonna come because as we talk about all offseason, this was their plan, like to put this group of offensive linemen together.
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They went out and signed these players before the draft, so you know, this was their plan to build an offense from these guys and it’s just been brutal to watch so far.
And it seems like this is probably what it’s gonna be all season for them.
That’s the thing, like there’s no reinforcements, there’s no ideas I’m seeing where I’m like, okay, okay, okay, the guy just missed and if they did that, it’s like, I don’t know, they have a very, you know, traditional offense.
So it’s not like I see, you know, it’s not like the Dolphins offense for the last couple of years where I was always like, you know, they give up a lot of pressure on this stuff, but they mitigate it by doing this, this and that.
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Balls out quick, yada yada.
There’s ways you can do that.
Usually it’s really good quarterback play or some really good designs like screen games, not there.
There’s no, you know, Nick Chubb’s doing his damnedest, but it’s not like the great running back room as well to like kind of create a bunch of misses.
Stroud’s game is he wants to sit there and dice you up.
He doesn’t want to be moving left and right.
And you could feel him starting to get antsy at times, like his clock’s speeding up now.
Yes, and that’s not like how you want any quarterback to operate.