Texans Week 3 - Rolled at Home by the Cowboys

Embarrassing. Weak. Unforgivable. Sickening. Troubling.

Pick your favorite word to describe the Texans performance against the Dallas Cowboys. The Texans blew a perfect chance to announce they are for real. The Cowboys were hurting and desperate. The Texans had some swagger after beating the Colts and the Redskins. The Cowboys came in and knocked that swagger right off the Texans walk.

What went wrong? Everything. Roy Williams went off. Williams usually only puts on the Cowboys uniform and isn't heard from again. Not on Sunday. He torched, I'm using that word way to often this season, the young secondary for 117 yards and 2 TDs.

The front seven failed to get much pressure on Tony Romo.

The offense failed to put TDs on the board when in the red zone.

In what was a common theme last year, the offensive play calling was terrible. Arian Foster was under used. He broke off a couple of nice runs but his number was called only 17 times for 106 yards. Yes I said he was under utilized. He was hurting the Cowboys. Let him do what he does best. Matt Schaub was running for his life at times. Let Foster help keep Schaub up right by running the ball between the tackles.

Again, Schaub threw an interception on the same play he threw one against the Colts and Redskins. Whatever it is about that play, it's not working. This time instead of throwing into double coverage, Schaub overthrew Andre Johnson and the defender easily picked off the pass.

My biggest bone of contention though is the second field goal drive. The Texans tried to punch it in on a couple of the plays. Dallas read it each time. At one point they Texans should have tried a toss sweep left. The ball was on the right hash mark. The Cowboys were crowding the line. A toss to Foster running left would have seen nothing but green between him and the endzone. It's lack of creativity or fundamental analysis that drives me crazy.

I'm not hitting the panic button. There are still 13 games left to play. The Texans need to remember that Foster is a really good running back. The game wasn't out of hand but they went to the air more often than they should have.

Sunday they face the Raiders. This is a vital game. The Texans, Titans and Colts are tied at 2-1 in the AFC South. The Texans need to stay even with the Titans and Colts. It's a weird schedule this year. The Texans opened division play with the Colts and will face the Colts coming out of the open date in week seven. They are done with the Colts before they even get a shot at Tennessee or Jacksonville.

The Texans have three winnable games in front of them before the bye week. They could easily enter a showdown with the Colts in week 8 for division lead with a 5-1 record.

Let's not get to far ahead though and take care of the Raiders on Sunday first.

Man of the Match
Roy Williams with 117 yards on 5 receptions and 2 TDs with the last one putting a dagger in the hearts of Texans fans every where. Who said the Man of the Match had to be a Texan?