Up until halftime yesterday, the team looked like we had gotten things figured out and that our players were finally coming together to become a real NFL team. Our defense had some problems containing Foster, but our offensive production was good and it looked like we had some interesting play calls.  If you asked anyone, at that point, we were happy with what the offense was doing.

 

Then the second half came around. Our first drive stalled, then the defensive miscues and poor tackles allowed the Texans to put together a 16 play drive.  Those two series, in my opinion, were the killers.

 

I'd be very interested for some analysis of those two drives.  What killed our first drive after half? I believe it was miscues by the offensive players-- the calls looked fine.  What killed our defense during the Texans 16 yard drive?  Missed. Tackles.

 

For this game,  I really don't think it was coaching performance causing problems. There have definitely been games where the gameplan and playcalling were atrocious (colts and cowboys come immediately to mind), but I don't think yesterday was one of them.

 

If anything can be blamed on coaching its the poor tackling on display for the majority of the season. I believe that can be attributed directly to a few players (Evans, Gratz), and it's not as if tackling is great across the league. It sucks everywhere, but it does seem to suck more here.

 

I also think that our run game is regressing and our run stopping has gotten worse since the season began.  It's hard to win games like yesterdays with those two areas languishing.

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