HOUSTON (AP) -After another ugly loss to fall to 0-3, the Houston Texans couldn't hide their embarrassment Monday.

``Our fans don't deserve this. Coach (Gary) Kubiak doesn't deserve this,'' defensive tackle Seth Payne said. ``It's just unacceptable, and we deserve any criticism anybody wants to give us.''

The Texans haven't even kept a game close, losing by an average of 16 points. And that isn't as high as it could be since Houston managed three touchdowns against Indianapolis' backups in the fourth quarter of a 43-24 loss in Week 2.

With all the coaching and personnel changes after last year's 2-14 record, things were supposed to be different. Instead it's beginning to look eerily similar.

Though all the losses were bad, nothing topped Sunday's 31-15 defeat by Washington, when the Redskins' Mark Brunell completed an NFL-record 22 consecutive passes one week after looking ordinary in a loss to Dallas.

``We have not played well, and yesterday was the worst,'' Kubiak said. ``There's got to be some drastic improvement very quickly. There's no excuse for what happened yesterday, and there's no reason for that to take place like that.''

Houston had three fumbles (losing one), an interception, a handful of false starts and another penalty that nullified a fumble return for a touchdown.

``We have to overcome our small mistakes,'' offensive lineman Chester Pitts said. ``Some teams are good enough to have 100 yards in penalties and still put up a lot of points. There are teams that can do that, but we aren't one of them. We can't have any kind of penalties or make mistakes.''

The Texans started out well, forcing the Redskins to go three-and-out then getting a 53-yard reception by Andre Johnson to set up a 2-yard touchdown catch by Mark Bruener.

On the next series Washington faced third-and-6 when Clinton Portis took a shovel pass 74 yards. The Redskins scored two plays later.

Houston was moving again on its next drive before a fumbled snap and a sack forced the Texans to punt. Things deteriorated from there.

``It's like a snowball effect,'' Kubiak said. ``Bad teams do that. Bad offenses do that. Until we can get that out of our system, it's hard to grow.''

The Texans defense, which was supposed to be bolstered by No. 1 pick Mario Williams, is giving up a league-worst 484 yards per game, almost 100 more than next-to-last Green Bay.

The defense is also surrendering the most points in the league (32.7) and has just three sacks.

For the first time, Kubiak criticized Williams, Houston's $54 million investment at defensive end.

``I was disappointed in the way he played,'' Kubiak said. ``I think he's progressed and done some things, but he did not do that this week.''

Kubiak said he expects improvement from Williams on Sunday against Miami.

``There's some communication issues that we've got to get corrected with him, with what we're expecting him to do in certain situations,'' Kubiak said. ``And we'll get those corrected. I'm expecting him to bounce back this coming week and become the type of player we want him to become.''Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.