Oooh I believe it can get muuuccch worse lol. Crossing my fingers but I have a bad feeling about this incoming draft. Not to mention having Wade to replace Kubiak if he's fired.
with you. j has told me he will be rooting against them all next year because he wants them to look stupid
Wade becoming head coach doesn't scare me. That would be an upgrade at least. What scares me is the team going 9-7 again next season, or even 8-8, and Kubiak staying on. What scares me is that Kubiak might be here another 5 years, make the playoffs maybe once with a 12 win season and other than that one year be somewhere around .500.
It's best to just make peace with that certainty now. This feeling is what being a Texans fan has been and will be. Strap in, prepare your intoxicant of choice, and remember to laugh once in a while.
Kubiak and Wade speaking by phone tonight: Kubiak: Im excited Mark(Speaking to Mark Berman). We had a list of candidates but started with guy we thought who was most qualified and fit our situation and that was Wade and thats where it ended. Very excited. Important we send a message to our team of where we are headed. We'll put together a staff and put these players in position. Phillips: Everyone was expecting it but it wasnt final. Great feeling for me. They wanted me. I think much of them. You feel like the pieces are in place? Got some good players. Some young guys that will improve.
So this was expected, but in a way I still feel like I was punched in the gut. This has the potential to blow up in the Texans faces. Just gonna root for my team and hope it works.
So the Dolphins are prepared to pay Jim Harbaugh 7-8 million a year to fix their team or finish what Sparano started while Uncle Bob hires Wade to fix our defense but does nothing about the "other" issues this team has?
This process could take longer than one may think. 2011 Season: the team goes 8-8. Defense ranks in the 15ish range, offense borderline top 10. And we fail some games due to coaching stupidity. McNair: "Our defense improved tremendously with Phillips as our DC. We're headed in the right direction. It was an adjustment year, so we didn't perform as well as we could given the coaching changes. Next year we'll be awesome." 2012 Season: team goes 7-9. Offense dips lower as Schaub gets hurt. Defense becomes borderline top 10. Kubiak "resigns". Phillips get the HC job. McNair: "I'm sad that Kubiak has to leave. But we don't want a total turnover to set us back some more. So that's why I promoted Phillips to the HC job. Our defense is not the problem. The problem is the offense. Phillips will find a good OC..." See, even mediocrity can run in cycles. First we have the former DC guru who come in and have the offense stink it up. Then we get the former OC guru to come here and stink up the defense. Then we go back to the former DC, only to see the offense suck again... and it keeps going. It'll never, ever end.
There's too many men... too many people... making too many problems and not much love to go around. Can't you see this is the land of confusion?
I'm so glad they were thorough and interviewed all of the candidates on their list (all one of them) before coming to a decision. Bob: Hmmm. This is a tough choice. I really like Wade Phillips but Wade Phillips really impressed me. Gary: Really? I thought Wade Phillips had a better interview. Bob: Yeah, but Wade Phillips had more experience. Rick: Hey guys, what about Wade Phillips? Bob: Wow! Good call, I hadn't thought about him. Gary: I'll give him a call and schedule his interview right after the one I have with Wade Phillips. Bob: Oh, he's good. I like him.
Can anyone tell me if Kubiak has been asked about his mismanagement of the clock as well as the team's inability to play 4 quarters of football? I just want to know because it's really time someone called him out on that and stopped taking "it's on me" and "we'll have to keep working on it" for answers.
lol you already answered your own question. 'Gary, why the slow starts? Why can't your team play four full quarters?' 'You know John, I can't really put my finger on it. If I knew what it was or if I could fix it, you sure as hell bet I would. We just gotta keep battlin', and keep workin'. Our effort is good. Not a lack of effort. Those are good kids, we just gotta keep fightin' through it. That's all I can tell you.'
Perfect analogy for his coaching, rolling left and throwing right. Why do great QB's never become coaches. It seems like guys who ride the pine their whole career end up as the leaders of teams. I guess all that practice holding a clip board does come in handy! THOSE WHO CANT TEACH!
Great, we're already the excuses for next year's failure "We didn't have the personnel to run the 3-4". Bob is a genius, he'll be able to milk that for a couple years, fire Kubiak and go on to his next New Hope.
I've thought about this as well, once I've tried to step away from my anger about keeping Kubiak. Is Bob a master poker player and just not showing his cards? Maybe he fully intends to make a big move next year and is just biding his time because of the lockout. Whether you agree with this philosophy or not, it does make some sense. Then I come back to reality and ask myself "self.....what has Bob McNair ever done since owning the Texans to make you think he's that bright?" So yeah, it would make sense if that's what he's was doing....but I think we're giving him too much credit. Like other's have said, when we go 7-9 next year, he'll find a way to rationalize it and continue the status quo for another few years. Whether that means keeping Kubiak for another year or doing the safe thing and replacing him with Wade. If I had to guess, I’d say we are 5-7 after Week 13 next year (not exactly going out on a limb here, since that’s been the case for 4 years in a row...), then we’re 6-9 and we finish the season with an impressive win to end at 7-9. Bob McNair uses that win build on and to rationalize keeping everyone intact for another year. Either that, or he promotes Wade to HC. Wade is the son of Bum Phillips and Bum is a HOUSTON ICON. It would be such a feel-good move to have the son of a HOUSTON ICON as the Texans HC. This is how Bob McNair thinks.
Phillips' contract is for 3 years, which means it's longer than Kubiak's. FML. When he is introduced as head coach in a year or two, I wash my hands of this team.
