10-6 will make all the non believers believe again. It will be a lot of crow stew eaters at the end of the season. Get out your bowls and spoons non believers. Lol
Flacco had a bad yr last yr. You do know that Flacco guided the Ravens to the AFC championship game and was a Lee Evans dropped pass away from making the SB the yr before the Ravens won the SB? I don't care how great Lewis/Reed and co were you don't make it to championship/SB games without great QB play. Tell me how many times has Flacco made the playoffs? Continue with the Flacco bashing to deflect Schaub's failures. Not many QB's in the NFL have Flacco's playoff resume. That includes Peyton the great.
What in the name of sweet souped up slippery Sapper Baby Jesus is going on in here? 6 wins this year would be a success for the Texans? With the schedule they have this year? People trying to pretend Joe Flacco is a good QB? I think we need to have a moratorium on taking the brown acid for a few months.
It's not the number, it's the circumstances. If Clowney lives up to expectations and if the rest of the draft pans out, I won't be bummed if the Texans win six games.
I think 6 wins would be a bit disappointing, the team has way too much talent than to win that few games with a cupcake schedule. I think 8 wins is the mark we should be aiming for, anything short of that should be seen as at least slightly disappointing, anything over that should be seen as a success.
Fitzpatrick has never won more than 6 games in a season. Case went 0-8 last year. Savage is a 4th round rookie with only 1.5 years of college experience. We might have improved at other positions, but it's going to be hard to post a winning record without a real starting QB on the roster. Be happy with improvement. Reserve high expectations for when we eventually address the most important position of the field.
QB's don't "win" games, teams do. QB record is just about the most insignificant "stat" you could possibly list. A good QB on a garbage team can have a terrible record, a terrible QB on an awesome team can have a great record. It says literally nothing as to the quality of QB they are. The idea that football is a game of one on one between QB's needs to die. The Jets went to back to back AFC Championship games with Mark Sanchez and I'd greatly prefer Fitz to Sanchez.
I'm having a difficult time understanding how this 2-14 team (which also finished the previous season by losing 4 of its last 6 games) is so talented that people would be disappointed if they tripled their win total from last year.
I have a hard time understanding how this team one year removed from back to back double digit win seasons and back to back division championships is so devoid of talent that people would be happy with only getting 6 wins out of a cupcake schedule. I get pessimism about the QB position and I get pessimism about the Right Tackle position, but other than those 2 spots, this team is fairly stacked and the Texans have arguably the easiest schedule in franchise history.
For the Texans to have a successful season more than likely they will have to win with defense and Kareem Jackson is the 2nd best player on the defensive side of the ball. It's going to be interesting to see if O'Brien can hide Fitzpatrick behind Romeo and the defense... Because if that defense gives up over 23-25 points a game _ Fitzpatrick (Case/Savage) will have to air it out. Foster is a major factor. Question is how healthy will he be and or stay and how will he perform without Kubiak. Clinton Portis looked a lot different when Denver traded him to Washington and he wasn't coming off back surgery.
1. Kubiak sucks 2. Cushing returns 3. Fewer Pick 6's 4. NFC West > NFC East 5. Kubiak sucks Biggest wild card is Cushing's health IMO. The defense might be improved regardless, but Brian is the anchor maybe moreso than Watt. The '12 and '13 falloffs pretty much coincide with Cushing's injuries. We kept winning games in '12, but we looked much weaker starting with the SNF game vs GB. Depth was also an issue at inside LB. We need Cushing playing at least decent. Both lines will likely be improved. Texans should win 8 games minimum.
If you really are that certain about it, you need to be in Vegas firing on the over for win total...it's set at 7.5.
1. He doesn't suck to the tune of a 6 win turnaround in one season. 2. 100%? 3. Are you sure? Fitz is the QB. 4. You never know in the NFL these days. 5. How good is O'Brien?
K-Jax being the 2nd best player on defense is a strong indication that there's not as much talent on this team as one may think. On offense beside AJ, everyone is a question mark. 6 wins may be a reach.
We're playing a last place schedule with a disciplinarian as our coach. If everyone does their job this is an 11 win team. Then we'll see what happens in the playoffs
We're still a pretty thin team. You might look at the team and feel pretty good about our starters in most areas, but there's virtually nobody behind them. Brandon Harris is probably our nickel corner. LB depth still sucks. Newton is still our RT and we essentially don't have a backup OT at the moment unless Brennan Williams suddenly becomes healthy. With our QBs, our passing game is going to be dependent on playing off the running game, kind of like Kubiak's offense actually. If Foster goes down again, I'd expect to see similar troubles out of the passing game as we saw last year. One injury can topple this team quickly. If Cushing goes down again. If Foster goes down again. If we lose an OT. If we lose a CB and have to press Harris into a starting role. It won't take much to create a glaring black hole on either side of the ball.
