Bottom Five Houston Sports Moments in 2013

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2. The Matt Schaub Effect

  
Monday, September 9th at 9:30 PM CST, the Houston Texans offense takes the field for the first time in the 2013-2014 regular season.

One of my friends leans over to me and says, “Ugh, I just don’t want to see anything stupid from the Texans during this game.”

Chris Meyers snaps the ball to Matt Schaub. Schaub does a fast three step drop, and immediately eyes Owen Daniels [who was lined up as a receiver running a 5 yard curl]. The pass is batted by a linebacker, and falls in the hands of Cam Thomas. INTERCEPTION!

I look over to my friend, say montage of different curse words that were jumbled together, and didn’t make any sense.

Ten seconds into the season, and Matt Schaub threw an interception. For lack of a better term, it was stupid.

What we didn’t know at the time, is that Matt Schaub and this offense was crippled.

The next game Schaub threw a pick 6. It didn’t stop there. In each of the three games that followed, Schaub threw pick 6’s. The “Pick 6 Burger” was created at some point during his pick 6 downfall.
  

  
St. Louis was the next team to face the Texans. During the game Schaub rolled his ankle and the crowd started cheering.

But here’s the thing, I don’t think that people were cheering because this man got hurt. They cheered because this was the only way he wasn’t going to play.

It was dumb luck and the rest is history.

Schaub’s inability to audible, read defenses, and get this team riled up, hurt this team.

His teammates could smell it on him. He was frazzled and it was showing on the field. Matt wasn’t equipped to handle this kind of misfortune.

Schaub had one job. Just one! He needed to get all William Wallace on the team. He could have been a hero instead of a martyr.

You can tell he tried doing everything that he could. He grew a beard to try to change things up. Like Bearded Schaub was going to lead the team to freedom.

There’s more people to blame than just Matt Schaub, for his silly mishaps.

He was only the stem of the problem, not the root.