This is what happens when a bad football team acts entitled and is enabled by a franchise’s inexperienced decision makers.
This is what happens when you tweet and talk tougher than you tackle.
This is what happens when the Chicago Bears, formerly losers of six consecutive games, laugh at you in a humiliating trouncing.
You reach another new low.
Did anyone in the world predict that Mitch Trubisky, Matt Nagy and Co. would lead Deshaun Watson’s Texans 30-7 at halftime?
Probably not.
But that was real life Sunday in Chicago at Soldier Field.
Then it only became worse for Houston’s pathetic NFL team.
“Our performance was embarrassing,” said veteran defensive end J.J. Watt, whose tense and frustrated postgame interviews have become a near-weekly occurrence.
Is super-famous No. 99 still employed by the Texans when next season begins?
We all deserve a little more personal and professional happiness after this insane year. It increasingly appears the best career move for Watt is to remove himself from the Texans’ ineptitude.
Interim head coach Romeo Crennel — already ruled out as a leading candidate for the team’s full-time 2021 job — kept a banged-up Watson on the field during a pointless blowout.
Offensive coordinator Tim Kelly, who lost his play-calling duties before the Texans hit 0-4, kept insisting on placing the team’s best hope for the future in the middle of an unforgiving avalanche.
When another Sunday of internal and external damage was finally over: Bears 36, Texans 7.
Of course, the beatdown ended with another hard sack of Watson, who was taken down seven times by Chicago’s defense and has now been sacked 179 times since he became the No. 12 overall pick of the 2017 draft.
“This game is called football. And there are hard hits that occur in the game,” Crennel said. “When you’re at the quarterback, you’re going to take some of them. But we decided to leave him in the game and let him finish the game.”
Does a locked-in head coach with serious Super Bowl aspirations in 2021 say that?
No way.
Trubisky, the No. 2 selection in 2017, outplayed D4 while schooling defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver and the Texans’ entire roster in one of the team’s worst losses in years.
“We never made (Trubisky) uncomfortable,” Watt said. “We never once made him uncomfortable.”
I’ll start writing nice, warm, fluffy things about the Texans when they actually deserve it.
Right now, they’re a disaster. On the field that defines. From a public relations perspective. In the eyes of fans who literally have nothing left to cheer until the new regime puts pen to paper.
No wonder Watt looks so down when discussing the only NFL team he has played for since he entered the league in 2011.
“I’m always thinking about everything. I have a lot of thoughts in my head,” Watt said. “There’s a lot of hours in the day. … Right now, I’m thinking about what just happened, and I’m not happy about it by any close stretch of the imagination.”
Chicago still has something to play for in 2020.
The 4-9 Texans are now guaranteed to finish below .500 for the second time since Watson was supposed to forever change the franchise.
The new head coach can’t arrive soon enough.
The same for the new general manager.
And a serious housecleaning that completely resets the culture on Kirby Drive.
In a different world, Crennel would have been canned before the Texans flew home. In that same world, CEO Cal McNair would already have moved on from interim GM Jack Easterby’s eerie shadow and fast-tracked the Texans into 2021.
It’s bad right now, y’all.
B-A-D.
As you know so painfully well, the Texans ultimately have only themselves to blame.
The only bright point in Week 14 was that Watson wasn’t immediately placed on injured reserve.
The only good news is that this broken season, which began with the team-altering DeAndre Hopkins trade and already featured the end of the Bill O’Brien era, is three games away from ending.
“Once the game’s over, this (expletive) is over,” said Watson, who is cursing behind a microphone more than ever while being the Texans’ franchise QB and keeps giving up safeties.
He also continues to hold on to the ball too long, trying to do too much when a simple throwaway is required.
He also was down to his sixth-best wide receiver on Sunday.
The Texans childishly insisted they just wanted to win a few games when O’Brien was fired after 0-4.
Before a do-nothing trade deadline that should have set the foundation for 2021, players and an interim leader foolishly demanded that the roster remain intact and the 2020 squad was too talented to give up on.
When new No. 1 wide receiver Will Fuller and veteran defensive back Bradley Roby were suspended by the NFL for PED use, the Texans publicly stuck up for players who prioritized themselves over the team.
The Texans were 0-4. Then they were 1-6. Now they’re a weak 4-9 and getting blown out by 29 points by the once-bad Bears.
For these Texans, the playoffs will only be on TV, just like in 2013 and ’17.
The 2020 season was lost in the offseason. Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
It’s time for a deep cleaning. And a new year filled with new names.
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