Sooner or later, Clutch City sports fans knew their team was going to end up at the bottom of the power rankings if they didn’t start winning.
According to Mark Lane from the Touchdown Wire, the Houston Texans ranked as the No. 32 team in the NFL power rankings.
Last week: 31
There is no way to sugarcoat it anymore. The Texans can’t seem to get a full win and fall apart in the fourth quarter. The Davis Mills experiment is starting to look like a failure, and coach Lovie Smith’s patented Tampa 2 defense is having trouble stopping the run. Unless thing turn around quick, Houston may be the new No. 32 in the NFL.
Coach Lovie Smith told reporters Oct. 3 that while the NFL “is not forever,” he does believe the team is starting to put together positive elements that should be able to rattle off wins soon.
“I think we’re close enough to where we can get over the hump just based on all of the things that we saw,” Smith said. “There were a lot of good things that we saw. We talked about the running game going. We’ll get the defense to where they need to be. A lot of positive things that we have seen are going to get us over the hump.”
Across the rest of the AFC South, the Jacksonville Jaguars were No. 19, no doubt a reaction to their close loss on the road at the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles. The Indianapolis Colts were No. 17. The Tennessee Titans flirted with the top-10 as they placed No. 11.
The Texans go on the road in Week 5 to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday at 12:00 p.m. Central Time at TIAA Bank Field.
