I came to a realization the other day, the Houston Texans lost their free agent target that would have most likely made them a super bowl contender not to a NFL team but to a tv station! Houston football is truly cursed.
Bullsht. If you can win playoff game....u are not equivalent to an 8th seed in basketball. SHUT THE **** UP. Get over yourselves. Bad Division is Bullshit. No said anything when the Pats are winning a BAD division.
"Mediocrity" Anyway, hopefully we can get Texans fans b****ing about meaningless AFC championship games and meaningless SB appearances at some point but I know you crazy kids won't change.
Three years after his last full season. They went 119-111 over that stretch. And yes, they made the WCF two years ago - how far did they advance last year? Or the 17 years prior to '15? I believe they made it out of the first round once? So the Rockets, who've made two semi-final rounds since 1996, have a better track record than the Texans, who have been to the semi-final round three times in the past six years? OK. Yeah, let's talk about front office messes - about 16 months ago, the Rockets were firing their head coach a dozen or so games removed from their WCF appearance and placing their boy-genius GM on the hot seat, in large part because of his disastrous signing of Dwight Howard and inability to take advantage of James Harden's prime. Meanwhile, the Astros' FO was drafting Appel over Bryant about 3.5 years ago, squabbling with a first overall pick 2.5 years ago, and trading for Carlos Gomez and Scott Kazmir about a year and a half ago. Last July, they did nothing at the trade deadline - which DELIGHTED fans to no end - as they regressed from 2015 and failed to make the playoffs. How convenient you seem to have forgotten these missteps. I don't know if the Texans' FO is a mess. I do know they've built a very good team around an unfortunately important hole - and have won 27 games the past three years despite that hole. I don't understand why the bar is so high for the Texans; or why they elicit such heated vitriol while the other franchises in this city fly under the radar despite their own frustrating mediocrity but... here we are.
You're right; two of Harden's prime years - the other year they killed was before Howard. And yes, the Rockets made it further than the Texans once. But in six years, the Texans have made more semi-final appearances (3) than the Rockets have in the past 19 years (2).
I don't think the situations are close really. I mean sure all franchises have had drama you can point to. You can even do so for the Patriots and wherever LeBron is. But like I posted, the Vegas odds make it pretty clear that Rockets and Astros are in much better position to compete than the Texans. They are top 10 franchises and the Texans are basically bottom 10. The Rockets recovered from a bad year after going to the WCF, there's no question it was a bad year but they are contenders once again, much thanks to the many smart moves boy genius has made over the years (Harden of course, but also Beverley, Ariza, and Capela). On the Astros, all you can point to is a bad draft pick and a couple bad trades? I guess you don't want to point out Correa, Bregman, Altuve, Springer, Kuchel, McCullers, the bullpen and so on. The common theme of course is that the Astros and Rockets actually care about building forward thinking front offices while the Texans can't even figure out who does the drafting, signing of free agents or who picks the QB.
romo was just another qb with a rep for giving away games with pick 6s. the texans need to stop going after these types
No, but it is sad that such a great player has wasted his prime on mediocre teams and a mediocre organization. Some day he and Andre Johnson can talk about it.
Dre has nothing to say, if anything his career was helped by the extra targets he got while on the Texans. We saw what happened when he went to a team with a "franchise QB" and it wasn't pretty.
For what it's worth (from Rotoworld): MMQB's Peter King believes the door is "still three percent open" for retired Tony Romo to return to football. "He misses it," King wrote. "He will miss it in August." King did a podcast with Romo last summer and believes the "passion and excitement" for playing still runs deep in Romo. Per King, the Texans were serious about Romo once he was granted his release by Dallas, but the Broncos were never really interested. Source: MMQB Apr 5 - 10:41 AM
Once again, this was a discussion of "track records" not future positioning - the Texans' most recent past (since '11) is certainly better than the Astros' and at least on par with the Rockets'. That's pretty undeniable. Had the Rockets gone out meekly to the LAC two years ago, this wouldn't even be a debate. And no, a team that was among the final 8 last year is not "basically bottom 10." Your fluctuating standard reveals your bias. No... I actually pointed to them losing 416 games over a four-year stretch, including 3 consecutive 100-loss seasons; to them choking away a division title and then playoff series in '15; to them regressing and missing the playoffs last year... in addition to screwing up back-to-back first round picks and all the bad (and non) trades they've made. Again: track record.... what are their most recent accomplishments. Neither the Astros nor Rockets can match the Texans', who have won the division four times in six years; posted five winning records in those six years; and won three playoff games.
Are you joking? He was well past his prime when we went to the Colts. He was not helped by extra targets here in Houston. He was HURT by very poor QB play for the majority of his career. If he had even a slightly above league average QB for the majority of his career, he would've put up even gaudier numbers.
Matt Schaub led the league passing yards in 2009. He had league average QB play for over half his career.
