Houston Texans coach David Culley has been in the NFL since 1994. He has seen his fair share of winning and losing.
Even though Culley is getting his first crack at coaching at 65 years old, the Texans’ current six-game losing streak doesn’t weigh on him despite being outscored 182-60.
“It does not weigh on me, because I’ve been there,” Culley said Monday.
In 1994, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where Culley got his first assistant coaching job as a receivers coach, went on a six-game losing streak. In 1998, as a receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the club finishing the season on a five-game losing skid.
In 2012, Culley was a receivers coach for the Philadelphia Eagles, who endured an eight-game losing streak. In 2015, as a receivers coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Culley was part of a five-game losing streak that corrected itself and the club qualifying for the playoffs despite a 1-5 start.
Culley is a believer that if a team sticks to its fundamentals and works on its issues, the wins will eventually come.
“I know that if you stay the course and you get the things corrected that need to be corrected, it will get turned around, and I believe that,” said Culley. “I believe that simply because I’ve been there and I’ve done that, and this football team knows I’ve been there and done that. They believe in what we’re preaching, they believe in where we’re going and I feel like that’s not an issue at all.”
The Texans have another crack at snapping the losing streak in Week 8 as they host the Los Angeles Rams on Halloween at NRG Stadium. The Rams are 6-1 and need to stack as many wins as possible to keep pace in the highly competitive NFC West, where the Arizona Cardinals reign supreme at 7-0 following their 31-5 win over the Texans.