{"id":7535,"date":"2013-12-16T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2013-12-16T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:11:08","slug":"texans-did-not-consider-pulling-keenum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/16\/texans-did-not-consider-pulling-keenum\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans did not consider pulling Keenum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7536\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/casekeenum.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"364\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/casekeenum.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/casekeenum-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/casekeenum-50x30.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nEven with a big deficit the Houston Texans were not about to pull Case Keenum from the quarterback position.<\/p>\n<p>In eight games since taking over the Matt Schaub the undrafted Keenum is 0-8. Interim head coach Wade Phillips spoke about Keenum&#8217;s struggles after the game and the word that he focused on was &#8220;rough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a rough game,\u201d interim coach Wade Phillips said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/ultimatetexans\/2013\/12\/frustrated-keenum-on-worst-game-of-pro-career-i-was-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>. \u201cHe certainly had a rough game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips never made the move to pull Keenum. It&#8217;s doubtful the head coach can as Keenum was announced as the teams quarterback for the rest of the season the same time Phillips was introduced as interim head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans have moved on from Schaub and its becoming clear that Keenum is not an answer for them either. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough,\u201d Keenum said. \u201cThere (are) a lot of things that are tough right now, and we have no choice but to battle on and stick together and push forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with a big deficit the Houston Texans were not about to pull Case Keenum from the quarterback position. In eight games since taking over the Matt Schaub the undrafted Keenum is 0-8. Interim head coach Wade Phillips spoke about Keenum&#8217;s struggles after the game and the word that he focused on was &#8220;rough.&#8221; \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[460,426,60,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-case-keenum","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}