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HOUSTON -- Brock Osweiler was so bad in a loss to San Diego on Sunday that Houston Texans coach Bill OBrien was asked twice after the game if hed considered benching him.Osweiler threw three interceptions and failed to move the offense for most of the day in a 21-13 win by the Chargers.OBrien said that Osweiler would not be benched in favor of Tom Savage, but didnt elaborate or criticize his quarterback. Osweiler however, had plenty to say about what he did wrong on Sunday.I need to play better for us to win, he said. I feel like our team gave us the opportunity to win today and I didnt play up to what Im capable of doing, and thats on me and Ill get that cleaned up.The Chargers were up by four in the fourth quarter when Philip Rivers evaded the rush and delivered a 25-yard pass to Inman. Kareem Jackson was flagged for unnecessary roughness for a helmet-to-helmet hit on the play, leaving San Diego at the 12-yard line. Rivers delivered a touchdown pass to rookie Hunter Henry on the next play to push the lead to 21-10.Osweilers second interception came after that when he badly overthrew C.J. Fiedorowicz and Dwight Lowery made the easy grab.Houston added a field goal with 37 seconds left and recovered an onside kick. But Osweilers first shot at the end zone was knocked down, and the second one was intercepted as time expired.We started out pretty well, but just couldnt do anything consistently on offense, OBrien said. Defense was out there quite a bit. I thought they played hard. Gave up some plays here and there, but just disappointing to lose. Its horrible.Sunday wasnt the first time Osweiler has struggled. Hes failed to play consistently throughout his first season in Houston after leaving to Denver to sign a $72 million contract. He has 12 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. Despite his inconsistent play and a second straight loss, the Texans still have a half-game lead on Tennessee in the weak AFC South .I know weve had some ups and weve had some downs and youd like to see steady improvement, but sometimes that doesnt take place, Osweiler said. But Im very optimistic about what this football team can accomplish. All of our goals are right in front of us to accomplish.To do that theyll need to figure out how to win on the road with games at Green Bay and Indianapolis coming up in the next two weeks. Sunday was their first loss at home, but theyve won just one of four games away from Houston, at Jacksonville.Were going to try to work to make sure we have a good game plan for Green Bay, teach it to the players, OBrien said. Hopefully we can coach it good enough and execute it good enough that we can go out there and play better on offense against Green Bay.Along with taking better care of the ball, the Texans must take advantage of trips in the red zone. On Sunday they had a first down at the 6-yard line before the offense stalled and they settled for a 19-yard field goal. That cut the lead to 14-10 early in the fourth quarter.We just got to capitalize, running back Lamar Miller said. Once we get down there we have to make plays.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFLHarmon Killebrew Twins Jersey .ca NBA Power Rankings, ahead of the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. Wholesale Twins Jerseys . -- The Missouri Tigers might not have a roster full of superstars. https://www.cheaptwins.com/ . -- Yogi Ferrell orchestrates pretty much everything in Indianas offence. Custom Minnesota Twins Jerseys .com) - Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Roger Federer were easy first-round winners Tuesday at the Australian Open. Kent Hrbek Jersey . Darren Helm scored on Detroits sixth attempt in the shootout and then Jonas Gustavsson stopped Andrew Shaws shot, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.NEW YORK -- During the first half of the Olympics, women have dominated the screen on NBC in the evening.Through Saturday night, 58.5 percent of the competition time on NBCs prime-time telecasts involved womens sports, with 41.5 percent devoted to men, according to research released Monday by three college professors writing a book, Olympic Television: Inside the Biggest Show on Earth.For all of the Summer and Winter Olympics dating back to 1994, the 2012 London Games was the only competition where women got more airtime than the men -- and even that didnt match the imbalance of Rio de Janeiro so far, said Andy Billings, a sports media professor at the University of Alabama.I think it shows that NBC is very progressive compared to any other form of sports media, said Billings, who conducted the research with James Angelini of the University of Delaware and Paul MacArthur of Utica College.NBC has been among media outlets criticized for incidents of alleged sexism regarding the Olympics. An NBC sportscaster, for example, credited a Hungarian swimmers husband for a career turnaround. An NBC executives comment last month that NBC sought a reality show-like narrative flow to its coverage to appeal to women not interested in sports angered some women who are.We take great pride in knowing that no one devotes more broadcast network prime-time coverage to womens sports than NBC, said Jim Bell, executive producer of the Olympics.Through mid-afternoon Monday, U.S. women had earned a total of 36 medals in Rio de Janeiro, 16 of them gold.dddddddddddd Men had 32 medals, nine of them gold.Much of the disparity can be explained by womens dominance in some of the sports that NBC follows most closely in its prime-time telecast.For instance, womens gymnastics has accounted for nearly three hours more screen time for women, Billings said. The U.S. womens team and Simone Biles have dominated gymnastics in Rio, while American men have been less competitive.Womens beach volleyball -- where the competitors wear bikinis -- has logged 2 hours, 45 minutes on NBCs marquee telecast, the study found. The men had been on for 35 seconds.Wed be naive if we didnt acknowledge that the sports they are showing, a lot of them involve women in swimsuits and leotards, Billings said.While this may appeal to men, it generally doesnt turn off women, he said. Meanwhile, boxing is an example of a sport that doesnt appeal to women at all, and it has gotten no prime-time coverage at all. So far this Olympics, NBCs prime-time audience has been 55 percent women.With the dominance of Michael Phelps, male swimmers have received an hours more airtime than women, and men had an edge in early coverage of track and field, Billings said. He expects the gender disparity to grow closer by the end of the games.---AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Rio de Janeiro contributed to this report. ' ' '