Demeco Ryans: The Texans' pass protection isn't good enough, we need to fix that

Texas quarterback CJ Stroud recorded eight sacks, the highest of his career, in Thursday night's loss to the Jets, and Texas coach DeMeco Ryans says that's unacceptable.

“I’m not sure what’s happening up front. We'll watch the film and see what it is, but obviously you give up eight sacks, and every dropback or pass situation looks like we're in scramble mode, so that's just not the case.” good enough if we can’t operate in a timely manner and we need to fix that,” Ryans said. “Any time you get fired that many times, it’s not good enough. We don't want our quarterback to take as many hits as he took. It's not good enough. We have to adapt. We have to change things in the future.”

Stroud didn't play particularly well even when he had time to throw, but Ryans indicated that he thought the pass protection, not the quarterback, was the problem.

“Anytime you get pressured or hit that hard, it affects every quarterback. “That's always the plan on defense, to throw the quarterback off, and that's what they did,” Ryans said.

At 6-3, the Texans remain the clear favorite to win the AFC South. But Ryans knows his team will have to be much better than it was Thursday night if it wants to make any noise in the postseason.