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Having lost two of their last three games, including a 21-13 defeat against the New York Jets in Week 9, the Houston Texans are trying to find answers that will keep their once-promising season from going off the rails.
Per Jonathan M. Alexander of the Houston Chronicle, a group of team leaders that included C.J. Stroud and Will Anderson Jr. held a two-hour meeting with each other on Monday that “gave each of them a chance to talk about what they felt was going wrong.”
Alexander noted when the Texans returned to the team facility on Wednesday to start their weekly preparations for the upcoming game, running back Joe Mixon addressed the offense before offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik started his announcements:
“On Wednesday morning, during their weekly offensive meeting before practice, Slowik was getting ready to address the team when Mixon stopped him. ‘Let me holla at the boys,’ Mixon said.
“Mixon said he didn’t plan what he was going to say. ‘If it’s real, it comes from the heart,’ he told the Houston Chronicle.
“Mixon said his message to his teammates was to understand the opportunity they have in front of them, and not let it go to waste.
“‘Everybody know we’ve got a hell of a team, and obviously we’ve been battling injury, and that ain’t no excuse,’ Mixon said. “‘But at the same time, it’s like s—, we’ve got the guys who can go get it with the best of them. Really getting guys to understand that buying in to what’s being preached out there and what’s being ran. It’s up to us to make it shake.'”
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