The most depressing aspect of all of this is the fact that here we are, AGAIN, having this discussion. I thought this year was supposed to be different. I thought this year we were going to turn that corner. But....maybe we HAVE turned that corner....only to find an 18-wheeler barreling down on us. It's just maddening to see how the more things change, the more they remain the same. We are going to be a 3-3 football team after 6 weeks, heading into Tennessee, who will be 3-2, and in first place in the division. Sickening.
Nothing has really changed. Kubiak has been the one constant in all of this. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, and that is exactly what McNair is doing in keeping Kubiak. I'm dreading the team backing into the playoffs and getting blown the hell out by a team that is prepared. Kubiak will get a three year extension after that. Anyone remember when Kubiak said "Bob, your Houston Texans are frickin winners" after a 9-7 season with no playoffs? All you need to know about this franchise really.
I will go on record again and say Kubiak is not head coach material, but neither is Wade. Both are excellent Assistants. Phillips has done a wonderful job with the defense and Kubiak, likewise with the offense. Need an elite HC. But we have McNair which means more of the same short of a miracle. I suspect Team Disappointment will find new and more painful ways to lose OR they will actually make the playoffs and win a game or two. Hoping for number two.
Ugh. Given the schedule, were there really many of you who didn't expect 3-3 after six weeks? Just baffles me. At New Orleans and at Baltimore are games in which every team in the entire freaking NFL would be underdogs. Throw in the Steelers and a decent Oakland team, and three losses isn't unreasonable at all.
Completely agree, disappointing losses but not unexpected. Being 3-3 with that remaining schedule is a good place to be going into with the meat of division play and a soft out of division schedule remaining. The two hardest games are home vs ATL and at Tampa...both very Jekyll and Hyde. Besides that, the two toughest are against the Titans, which is what you want. 10-6 and the division title.
I'd like to point out that we are only 3-2 right now. Let's not write off this weekend before it's even played.
You're right, and 4-2 sounds so much better than 3-3, but if the Texans lose, their record will be 1-3 over their last 4 games. In other words, same old Texans. Even worse is 3-4, but let's not even go there, yet.
I've already gone there. I'm already bracing myself for the **** storm if we end up 3-4 with the Titans going to 4-2.
Not to mention when the schedule came out it was assumed we'd be playing a Colts team with Peyton Manning. I'm willing to wait until after the Titans game to see where this team stands, and whether or not Kubiak deserves to be on the hot seat, again.
Just based on how games were expected to play out, 4 games went the way they were expected to and 1 didn't. I'd like to judge a coach by how many games we lost that we should've won and how many games we won that we should've lost based on talent. Right now we're 0-1 in those games. For Kubiak to impress me, he needs to pull a few upsets.
Since Kubiak 1st year in 06, Texans are 1-18 on ROAD against teams that eventually finished that season with winning record.
