[Chron] McNair expected to keep Kubiak, hire Phillips

Uncle Bob,

If firing a coach is going to be "traumatic" and take 2 years to rebuild because the new HC would want to come in and "change all the players" (really? ), wouldn't the same hold true for the DC?

If we brought in Phillips, we'd be changing our defensive scheme significantly and we'd have to make personnel changes to fit that scheme. Not even just out of want by the new DC but out of need. Are you saying making that change is going to set the defense back 2 years? Does that mean if the defense still sucks next year and we still underperform that you're going to give Kubiak/Wade a 2nd year?

Are you saying that firing Rick Smith and the scouts who said Kareem Jackson was the most NFL ready corner in the draft would set the front office back 2 years?

You sound senile Uncle Bob. You talk about identifying problems within the organization and while you correctly identified the defense, you seem to have failed to identify the obvious problems in game planning, game management, consistency, motivation, and mental toughness. Yes, the defense is bad. Yes the offense is pretty good. But being a HC is about more than how which side of the ball you're associated with performs. Gary's a good OC. Nobody's really disputing that, even the people who argue that the offense isn't as good as it seems. But just because Gary is good at running the offense, doesn't mean he's done a good job running the TEAM. But you fail to see his faults as a HC and think that just because the offense is doing well, that Kubiak must be doing a good job. There's more to evaluating a football team that just looking to see how the offense and defense are doing. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a need for a head coach. We'd just have an OC and a DC and a special teams coach and that would be it. You don't have to be a football expert to see how stupid that is.

Uncle Bob, you'd argue that your preferred method of not making a change at the top and targeting specific areas to make changes is designed to achieve success in the shortest period of time. 9 years into the existence of this franchise, how's that working out for you?

 

The end part was the giveaway, McNair: "Look at the numbers, we're a top 5 offense and a bottom 5 defense, so you look at what needs to be done to fix that."

That's it right there, Kubiak will comeback cause for some reason in Bob McNair's head the defense is not the responsibility of the head coach even though that coach has full power to hire or fire his DC any time he wants. What a pathetic excuse for an owner you are Bob "snake oil salesman" McNair. I wasn't sold on that crap you put out there in the press and now on TV.

Oh and the golden part is that according to McNair, hiring a new head coach is a "traumatic experience which sets you back another 2 years." Really? You gonna play this chicken shyt. Grow a pair man and tell that to Mike Tomlin, Sean Payton, John Harbaugh, Ken Wisenhunt, Rex Ryan etc... Even Pete Carroll is laughing at your sorry ass right now.

 

At least he said we'll get a decision by the end of the week. Drayton 2 indeed.

 

What do you do when ownership is the problem?


Welcome to my life Texans fans!

 

Im afraid that we are on the verge of becoming a laughing-stock in this league.

 

At this point, Kubiak and Smith arent the biggest problems...Mr. McNair is the reason this team is where it is and will remain where it is until someone knocks him upside the head and gives him a new perspective. And some balls.

 

I agree 100%, Kubiak is a good OC, but horrible coach, the guy doesn't have it in him, IMO Bob realize that but he is just being cheap.

 

So, we keep Kub as an OC and let Cowher run the show as HC!
Cowher should be able to hire his personnel for the defense, a DC, etc. I'm not a big Wade Phillips fan ...

 

Why didn't Bob Allen just come out and ask him, " The fans think, in large part, you're the problem. What do you have to say to that?"

 

huge credit to you for calling out the flip flop!!! repped.

 

But our defense was fine a year ago and what did that get us?

5-7.

Just like the year before. And the year before that. Oh, and this year.

If the defense improves next year, what's going to be the excuse...er, uh....problem next year? Special teams? Maybe after next year's 8-8 season, we'll keep Kubiak and fire the special teams coaches. We're on the right track, after all...

Look, it takes time to go from 2-14 to 6-10. I'd say 5 years is about right.

 

No one has speculated on it much, but I suspect Joe Marciano's may lose his job today along with Frank Bush.

 

That's great news. Fire 'em all. As long as it's not the head coach.

We MUST keep the head coach.

He's taken us from 6-10 to 6-10 in 4 short years. Clearly, we are on the right track. Bum Phillips even said so, and he's a Houston legend.

 

Phillips may actually hold the key to this whole thing.

If he gives feedback to Bob that he's not interested because there's no stability with Kubiak's situation....if McNair hears that from Phillips and other potential coordinators, he may be inclined to see the light.

Glass half full. Rainbows and unicorns.

 

Bush, Gibbs, Jr., and Marciano should be out for sure. Marciano may get some leeway with all the injuries we had that diluted our special teams this year.

Can we go ahead and let Turk go today as well?

 

JasonLaCanfora‎ Hearing people close to Cowher don't expect him to land in Miami at this point. Dolphins very well might fire Sparano, but hearing that ...

‎JasonLaCanfora‎ Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland very likely to stay there. Cowher would want bigtime salary and make sweeping changes to football ops. So, unless

‎JasonLaCanfora‎ Some of the parameters of the Dolphins job change, I'm hearing Cowher not a fit there.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to ima_drummer2k again.

 

this lock out situation is make the off season real tough to judge.

 

Why? Plenty of teams are making coaching changes.

Just because Houston reporters are giving Bob the lockout excuse doesn't mean the rest of the league is using it.