After the Texans failed to score a touchdown in their 14-9 loss to the Rams in Week 1, quarterback C.J. Stroud said that teams can’t win “when you come out in the NFL lollygagging and going through the motions.”

Stroud added that he thought the Texans “could have practiced better” in the days leading up to the game and those comments led to a chance for head coach DeMeco Ryans to respond at his Tuesday press conference.

“It’s never an entire group , that’s the one thing about it,” Ryans said. “There are individuals that have their moments throughout the week, and lollygagging — which is the term everybody wants to use — for me, it’s just our tempo in and out of the huddle. We’ve got to get in and out of the huddle quicker, so we can get to the line of scrimmage, so we can operate

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