Here are four takeaways from Houston Texans Head Coach Lovie Smith’s Monday press conference following Week 10 against the New York Giants.

The Houston Texans players will be back in the building on Tuesday following Sunday’s 24-16 road loss to the New York Giants. Head Coach Lovie Smith addressed the media less than 24 hours after the Week 10 game. Here are four takeaways from Monday’s press conference.

Despite trailing by one score for most of the game, including late in the fourth quarter, the Texans got in their own way of taking the lead. The biggest issue might have been f their six trips to the red zone, only one resulted in a touchdown and two ended in turnovers (one fumble, one interception). Meanwhile, the Giants were had just two red zone opportunities but scored on both.

“The negative part is offensively when you’re down there six times in the red zone, we can’t convert one time,” Smith said. “Costly penalties, the things that don’t allow you to win the game. It’s as simple as that. A lot was asked about the quarterback position. We need to protect the football better. That interception, we can’t make it. Again, I mentioned some of those penalties. Davis Mills, he’ll tell you he needs to play better like all of us need to do a better job and eventually we will.”

Davis Mills completed 22-of-37 for 319 yards, one touchdown and one interception, making throws with an average 14.5 yards per catch, a season-high. When asked, Smith says he has no plans to make a change at quarterback saying that the Texans have other issues that need to be corrected. Changing quarterbacks won’t eliminate issues like penalties or missed tackles.

“He gives us our best chance to win,” Smith said. “The confidence comes in that. Since he’s our starting quarterback, we’re going to have to be able to do that. We completed some balls yesterday. As I said, we didn’t punt the ball the second half. There are some good things we we’re able to do to.”

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