Kubiak and staff safe but far from resting on laurels

"I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray"

Sincerely ,

John "Pancakes" McClain

 

I jumped off the "FIRE KUBIAK!!!!!!111" bandwagon after last season and I have yet to get back on. But man....it's getting tough to stay off it these days....

Watching that game this weekend....and seeing how seemingly easy it was to out-coach the great Bill Belichick....and how we absolutely never stood a chance of winning that game the week before.....

Guys, we are pretty much doomed to perpetually lose in the Division round for the next few years. I predict a season just like the last 2 next year. And probably the year after that.

 

Our window is onyl 2-3 seasons more at most, even still the top needs to be taken off of the offense and the defense has to be better prepared, both of these things fall squarely on the coaches shoulders. I'm resigned to the fact that ,ajor changes in personell are not heppening, given that major changes in philosophy must happen, we all know what playing it safe will get us, we've reached that plateau, the only thing left for this regime is to throw caution to the wind and go for the big prize.

Fans have quickly grown tired of the ultraconservatism and watching this teams butt hole pucker in the big situations, WE DEMAND THAT YOU GO BIG OR GO HOME.

 

I really want our media to grow a sack, and simply ask Kubiak, "What possible reason could you have for keeping Joe Marciano?" We haven't cracked the top 12 in Special Teams in the last 5 years or something, THIS year we finished dead last, and we cut two of the most electric KR/PR in NFL within a span of 8 months, while we continued to struggle to even get back to the 20. It's frustrating and maddening how SLOW this franchise is in making decisions. Yes, we've continuously gotten better, but man oh man is it a slowwwww burn.

 

Get a new RT, get a blocking FB and a blocking TE that doesn't have stone hands (ala Dreessen). The latter should both come cheap so there is no excuse for not getting that done.

Our offensive will return closer to previous form if we do that. Schaub is just a part of the machine that is the Kubiak offense...if the other parts fall apart, he's going to fall apart. Losing those key blockers killed our ability to run play action and throw the ball.

We also do need a consistent #2 WR, whether it be Posey or a FA.

 

Kind of ironic that the Ravens have the balls to fire an OC in the middle of a playoff season....and the Texans are scared to fire a special teams coach who is clearly one of the worst in the league and has been here since the teams inception.

We can't rock the boat! Change is detrimental to team chemistry! I guess someone forgot to tell the 2 teams in the Superbowl who made a huge change at QB and OC respectively in the middle of the season....

 

Zero urgency
Zero accountability
Frustrating as hell

 

Can't remember when was the last time a team that finished 12-4 and was in the second round of the playoffs fired its head coach or made major moves. SRSLY, I don't remember. Chargers?

 

I wish I worked for Uncle Bob.

 

I wished he worked for me; you would see some huge changes from coaches to quarterbacks. I guarantee you will never see this team sleep walk through the end of a season every again. I wouldn't want anybody working/playing for the Texans that isn't all in all the time. I so desperately want to see an aggressive, innovative, and creative approach to every game. The issues on this team are all fixable. Right people in the right places doing the right things. It can happen.

 

I think Kubiak is a good coach, just like I think Schaub is a good QB. We're a significantly better team than we were before they got here. The thing is that despite the moaning, we are a really good team, but probably not a Super Bowl caliber one. Kubiak is probably not a SB caliber coach nor Schaub a SB caliber QB. The question is do we really want to throw away what we've spent so long building up after only 2 years in the playoffs? I mean, you could try to find a better coach, but there's no guarantee you'll be better and always the potential you'd end up worse. I think there's a chance this team can get to a SB, but it's not very high. But now that we've finally become good, I'm not really interested in wholesale changes and risking becoming mediocre again.

Would you risk firing Kubes in favor of a new coach in hopes of getting over the next hump even if it carried the potential for sinking back into the land of mediocrity where this team has lived for 9 out of its 11 years? Or would you stick with the status quo where the likelihood of staying good is higher but the prospect of going to or winning the Super Bowl is slim?

We know McNair likes continuity. He views making significant changes as a step back. That you have to go through a transition period to regroup before you can start moving forward again. He's not interested in that. Bill Belichick could quit the Patriots tomorrow and say live at halftime of the Super Bowl that he's only interested in coaching the Texans and McNair would have to think about it because that would mean revamping the coaching staff and maybe much of the roster and he's not really interested in halting whatever momentum the thinks the Texans have by making a bunch of changes. So all this talk about firing Kubes and hiring a new coach is really moot. It's never going to happen when the team isn't on a noticeable downward trend.

 

You mean major moves like a team that was 13-3 and a muffed punt from the Superbowl last year making a midseason QB change for a 2nd year player with no experience?

Or perhaps a perpetual contender that was a dropped pass away from a Superbowl last year and leading their division this year firing their OC midseason and giving the job to someone who had never called plays before?

 

If the ultimate goal is to win the Superbowl, and your current status quo is unlikely to achieve that, then yes, you make the change. Green Bay could have stuck with Favre. San Fran could have stuck with Smith. Baltimore could have stuck with Cameron. But if they don't see it ending with a Superbowl, they accept the risk of getting worse to try to get better.

 

How often does a team go 12-4 while kicking on every redzone trip over the last 6 games?

 

I really don't agree that you have to step back to improve or if you make a change regression is inevitable. That is false thinking on McNair's part. The 49's made a coaching change that worked out pretty well.

 

No Guts, No Glory.

High Risk, High Reward.

Its just not in the mental of your QB and head coach, the two most important position on a nfl team.


kubiak's is a malignant cancer of mediocrity & conservatism that has infected even the owner.

 

So since the Texans were 12-4, everything is okay?

 

49ers went after a new QB(Manning) and eventually replaced their QB with a 2nd year player.

Falcons after going 13-3 and 10-6 changed both coordinators.

Steelers changed OC after 12-4 last season.

Ravens after going 13-3 changed their entire offense to feature Flacco more, and then changed again mid-season

Patriots after going 13-3 changed their entire offense to become more balanced

Texans, other than last season where they hired Wade Phillips after 6-10 season with historically bad defense and perfect timing, has never had a major shakeup in the Kubiak era.

 

Kubiak does not . Do controversy or shake up

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