Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice and Matt Harmon break down various issues surrounding Houston’s offense after a 27-19 loss to Seattle in Week 7. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

Texans, oh my God.

As much as they had moments against some of these defenses in the last couple of weeks where I was like, hey, okay, their offense is okay, it’s not great, it’s not good.

It’s not even average, but it’s not like the worst thing I’ve ever seen.

And then I watched last night against a real defense and the 3rd and 1, 4th and 1 sequence was like.

I’m going to overuse this phrase again.

The canary in the coal mine for what the issues are with this offense where a lack of thought in process of their personnel and lack of understanding of what they are.

That is the Texans on offense to a tee.

They just do not understand what they are and what they’re good at and what they should be doing and any of that.

They have no idea what they’re doing with their personnel and, and it is like.

I, I sometimes think, you know, when the broadcast is hammering, like, why, why is this player not involved or something, sometime even me as the receiver guy, like sometimes, come on, like that’s not the only answer here, but it it was like it was glaring last night.

Like you need somebody with pop, your only guy with pop is Jaylen Noel.

Yeah, I thought Jalen Noll was fantastic in this game, um, a ton of great.

Deep routes, tracked the ball really well, won the ball in tight spaces.

Uh, there was one, I think it might have been his final reception of the game where it is one of these big deep end breakers and he actually wins against Eman Warri and like finds a slight small, small window and CJ Strout just pins it into that hole.

Uh, and like that’s the kind of thing that I think Strout has been missing since Tank Dell’s not been like.

Fully operational in this offense, like all the way back to their rookie season.

So, yeah, just, to me, that was a huge indicator that that something is really wrong here from a coaching and personnel usage perspective.

Um, obviously the offensive line remains just, it was a bad idea going into the year, it’s been a bad idea in practice, and then the running back rotation, like, yeah, you’re using your 4th round scat back.

As your 3rd and 4th down hammer guy, what what are what are we talking about here?

So it just, there’s there’s so many things that are wrong here, it’s hard to really nail down the exact thing, but the Jaylen Noel stuff was even all bias admitted, I’m a big Jaylen Noel fan.

I think the proof is in the pudding.

We’re seeing it on the field.

What are we doing here, not having this guy be, he’s like the fifth receiver on the team.

What are we talking about?