J.J. Watt expresses dismay over how Texans' season is playing out
Watt only has 4 sacks this season
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Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is still trying to break out of the struggles that come with a 2-7 record through the first 10 weeks of the NFL season.
Watt, whose Texans were at one point beating the Kansas City Chiefs 24-0 in the AFC playoffs last season, expressed his dismay Wednesday about where the team currently stands.
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“I stress that this situation, this feeling, this – where we are, can never ever be acceptable in any fashion. I personally don’t think you should ever show up to work happy and excited and joyous when you’re 2-7. I just don’t think that’s – I don’t think this should be acceptable for players, for coaches, for fans. For anybody. Front office,” Watt said at his media availability.
“I don’t – that’s the message that I stress, is find a way to put more work in. I’ve said it before, the only way to get better at football is to practice football. I made my feelings known on that. I tell guys that don’t ever let this be acceptable. That’s the biggest message I like to get across to these guys and to this organization and this city. I’m not going to say you have to live a miserable life because there’s a lot of things, obviously, that are much more important than football, but when this is your job, when we get paid a lot of money to do it and we take a lot of pride in it, you can never accept this type of situation.”
FRUSTRATED J.J. WATT SNAPS AT TWEET OVER STRUGGLE TRYING TO WATCH THE MASTERS
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Watt has four sacks through nine games this season. It’s the same total he finished with last year when he went down with an injury and a far cry from his 2018 season where he had 16 sacks.
On his performance, Watt said it was nowhere near what he thinks is good enough.
“Not good enough. We’re 2-7. I could have 100 sacks. If we’re 2-7 it doesn’t matter what I’m doing. I need to play better. I need more tackles for loss. I need more sacks. I need more quarterback hits. Right now I need to help us stop the run even better. I’m not playing well enough. Our team’s not playing well enough and that’s why we’re 2-7,” he said.
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The Texans host the New England Patriots on Sunday.