Crazy but true: not once this year has a Chief had a 100-yd day receiving. McCluster has the high water mark of the year with 69 receiving yards on Cassel's best passing day (250 with 3 TDs against the 49ers at home). It sounds unbelievable, but this could be the week where our CBs can match up and cover their guys. What surprises me is Bowe - he really looked like he was going to bloom after starting his career with two 1000 yd (rounded) seasons. Last two years, he's degraded into a 600 yd season guy, and it's not just Cassel. He honestly seems to show up more inept and gaffe prone each year. This guy would concern me otherwise.
Would a kickoff runback put Marciano on the hotseat? He must be too comfy with his job if Steve Slaton as KR is the best he can do.
I'm not sure if recreating the murders in Se7en would be enough to put a member of this organization on the hotseat.
I'm 110% sure Slaton returning kicks is all about Kubes trying to "help a brother out". Marciano has been a great ST's coach and Kubes trying to find a way to be loyal to Slaton is not on him.
That MAY be true (I actually 100% disagree with that, as I do with most of your musings pertaining to the Texans), but all of the debilitating penalties ARE on him. When the offense is consistently starting at the 10 yard line because you can't get your group to stop illegally blocking people in the back, you are somewhat (if not completely) responsible as a coach. Get your act cleaned up as a unit. Marciano is supposedly one of the "best in the business", but our kickoff teams have deteriorated drastically over the past 2 seasons....on BOTH sides of the ball.
why would kubiak want to "help a brother out" who is coming of a horrible season? that doesnt seem reasonable of logical....oh wait...nevermind
Kubiak was asked about this several times after the game - the answer was Jones was injured, and that McManis got hurt as well.
Not really...Running games aren't figured out. Running games are stopped because your Oline was just outplayed. There really isn't nothing complicated to what you can do in a running game. With that said, this is the worst QB the Texans have faced so far...so hopefully he doesn't go off for a career day.
You know how Kubiak is about loyalty. He'll give him every chance he can. He did it with Kris Brown right? He shouldn't have even been in camp but Kubes wanted to give him a chance. Get off my sack bro, please.
Why did it hurt us to give Kris Brown a chance IN CAMP? It's not like we're giving Brown the opportunity to miss MEANINGFUL field goals....and who knows, maybe the guy gets over all of his mental issues. I don't understand why keeping Kris Brown on the team through the PRE-SEASON is a negative. Would you rather them just HAND Rackers the job....I bet you would have been just as critical of that decision too.
Given the woeful state of the Texans secondary, I don't think it really matters WHO the opposing QB is right now. This will be a tricky game - almost a trap game. They have the type of defense to cause the Texans real problems. No one really believes that the Chiefs are for real but I watched some of their game against the Colts and Todd Haley had figured out a way to negate Peyton's presnap reads. Also, in the SF game, what stood out was that the Chiefs' defensive players were actually calling out SF's offensive plays before the ball was snapped. Given the rather simple nature of the Texans' attack, I don't expect the Chiefs to be fooled very much by the Texans offense. At first glance, this should be a sure win but with the Texans, you just never really know what type of effort to expect from them. Remember, the Raiders were looked at in a similar vein and the Texans only beat them by a TD. What I've seen so far is that any team that plays hard and smart and doesn't beat itself with mistakes and turnovers has a legitimate shot at beating the Texans.
Until the Texans show me some "scratch, bite, and fight" I don't care. I am truly tired of their "where be my head" approach to games. If they aren't excited, why should I be?
I think what he's referring to is the fact that the D kept shifting and didn't get set in place until late in the playcock, which didn't allow Peyton to do all that pre-snap adjusting he loves to do.
