What does Fox take away from this game?

The Monday column Alex asked me to write will deal with that too so I'll wait to comment about Fox then.

There's a lot to work on with this young team.  But there is some decent young talent that will get better as the season progresses.  Both lines will get better.  White will get better for sure.  

I'm thinking we (fans) just need to be careful to not over-react to this one opening game.  There is something good to build on here.  Frankly, the team did better than I thought they would.  

Fox needs to step up his game as the team looked as if they made no halftime adjustments. White specifically looked lost and unprepared which is insane considering the time he had to figure it out.

With so many young/new players I think Fox and the coaching staff needs to patiently keep developing the youngsters and not panic and feel they have to "do" something crazy.  There is a lot of room for improvement with a lot of the players, and that (hopefully) will come.  We should see improvement game-by-game for the individual players and the team overall.

Both the DL and OL will improve and they both need improvement.  This alone will help the team overall significantly.  We were not able to get consistent pressure on the QB today, and our own OL needs to improve run-blocking and pass protection.  But I think we will see the improvement in both lines.

I expected the team to look rough today.  I think I would have been shocked if the team had manhandled the Texans today and the youngsters had put a flawless clinic on for us to watch in this 1st game.  To be honest, the team looked better in this first game than I expected.  There is a lot of work to do for these coaches and players.  This is just the beginning.