{"id":454326,"date":"2023-08-11T04:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454326"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:30:40","slug":"texans-demolish-patriots-20-9-in-preseason-opener-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/texans-demolish-patriots-20-9-in-preseason-opener-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans demolish Patriots 20-9 in preseason opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans trashed the New England Patriots in a convincing fashion 20-9 in the preseason opening game on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>C.J. Stroud had a sloppy debut for Houston, which included only one interception.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">S[W]ARM\u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/utWbxLrbvf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/utWbxLrbvf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoustonTexans\/status\/1689815918736478208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old went 2 of 4 for 13 yards, rushed twice for 6 yards and was sacked once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m critical of myself,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that is what being a quarterback and a rookie quarterback is. I hold myself to a different standard and I know that the guys in the locker room aren\u2019t going to hold me down for this. \u2026 One mistake on national television blows it all up. But, it\u2019s cool, I\u2019II just keep growing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis Mills finished 9 of 12 for 99 yards while playing the balance of the opening half.<\/p>\n<p>Dalton Keene added a 1-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. Case Keenum had a 5-yard TD pass to Alex Bachman in the fourth, while Dell ended his night with five catches for 65 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans trashed the New England Patriots in a convincing fashion 20-9 in the preseason opening game on Thursday night. C.J. Stroud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":454327,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18901,20701,17162,17487],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[18905,20702,18100,18130],"acf":{"announce":"No.2 pick C.J. Stroud did not impress on his debut","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454326"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454326"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}