The Houston Texans’ first three video games have been determined by a complete of solely 13 factors, however the reality stays they’re one in all six winless groups remaining within the NFL.
“It is not encouraging to be in shut. We need to win video games,” Texans coach DeMeco Ryans mentioned Monday. “It is not about being shut. That is simply stating the information or stating the apparent of how the three video games have performed out, how these video games have occurred for us.
“However, we’re not right here to only be shut, we’re right here to win the soccer recreation.”
The Texans had been tied 10-10 with Jacksonville when the Jaguars scored the game-winning landing with 1:48 remaining on Sunday. That adopted permitting a landing with six seconds left in a 20-19 loss to Tampa Bay, and going scoreless within the second half of a 14-9 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Week 1.
“We had been shut in our three video games. We had been there within the fourth quarter. We had been near ending and shutting these video games out,” Ryans mentioned. “There are performs in every recreation that we have had, these first three video games, that we did not end and win the sport.
“So, I am not speaking about shut as a crew, I am speaking about successful the soccer recreation. That is what we’re right here to do. We’re right here to win soccer video games. We have been ready to win these video games, and we’ve not received the sport. We obtained to discover a strategy to win the sport.
“We obtained to make the performs within the fourth quarter of the video games we have been in. We obtained to make these performs to place us in place and to only finally win the soccer recreation.
“That is what we’re right here to do. That is what we work tirelessly and onerous for is to win soccer video games. So, the video games have been shut. We have been proper there within the video games. We simply obtained to discover a strategy to get it carried out.”
Houston returns house to face Tennessee on Sunday. The loser will fall to 0-4 and final place within the AFC South. It is a notably necessary recreation for the Texans, who journey to Baltimore in Week 5.
The Texans could also be with out cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., who Ryans mentioned is day-to-day with an indirect harm suffered early in Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Jaguars.
After their bye week, the Texans play at Seattle earlier than a three-game homestand in opposition to San Francisco, Denver and Jacksonville.
It is a troublesome gauntlet, and Ryans acknowledged the outlet Houston has dug itself early within the season.
“We’re 0-3, we do not need to be 0-3. However, that is the matter of reality. That is the place we at the moment are. Now we have to exit, we’ve to play higher,” he mentioned. “You retain guys motivated by understanding storms are going to hit you in life. Whether or not it is… We do soccer, but additionally in actual life, storms will come up, storms will are available in your life. While you undergo the storm, are you popping out stronger? Or are you getting ripped aside by the storm?
“So, there are totally different individuals who can deal with that adversity and a storm that comes. It is how do you deal with it? You bought to stay resilient. You bought to stay robust by way of it. It actually assessments your character to see who’re you actually as a participant, as a person, how are you, who’re you?
“We’ll see that, we’ll see how we deal with this as people. We’ll see how we deal with this as a crew.”
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