The offense is dumbed down for everybody... RB's are asked to NOT improvise, but just run straight through the first hole they see. Offensive lineman are asked to NOT engage a certain player, but just hold their position and block whoever comes to them (zone blocking). Carr not being able to audible is likely a product of both him learning a new system, as well as Kubiak not trusting his abilities to do so. Four years of non-development with this team will make any coach distrustful of any offensive player's "fund of knowledge". Also, I saw him audible out of a single back to a 5 WR set yesterday... so its likely not a mandate, more like a learning curve.
7-9 is completely unrealistic for this pathetic group of losers. For those who are keeping count, that's 2 games that the Texans should have won (NYG was the other) and it should be clear for all to see that the problem with this team is not physical toughness but mental toughness. Other teams have it, the Texans don't. Unfortunately for us, this is a situation that won't change until they (Smith & Kubiak) cycle out almost all of the players from the Dom era who have grown used to and comfortable with losing. If that group includes David Carr then so be it because the primary function of an offense is to put points on the board and not take off entire halves of a game and under his leadership, that simply ain't happening. I, for one, am simply fed up with listening to all of their weak-ass excuses for losing. This wasn't a loss where they as a team were completely outmatched by a superior team. No, this was a loss that stemmed from their not taking the Bills seriously. The Texans were not ready to play yesterday and the blame has to fall on Kubiak and his entire staff. The Texans played like all they had to do is just show up and that a win was guaranteed because it was just Buffalo. I mean, who the F do they think they are? They are a team that has only won THREE games. They have no business looking past anyone who puts pads and anyone on this so-called professional football team with that attitude should find their ass on the street today.
Actually, 3. Should've won the tenneessee game. If Kubiak goes into the no-huddle and manages the clock correctly in the last 5 minutes, we would have won that game. It seems like the dreaded cover-2 is killing us again, 'forcing' us to dink and dunk for the whole game. Other teams find a way to adjust (since every team plays cover-2), why can't we? I thought this was a Dom Capers issue. Apparently it's not. Heard Carr on the radio this morning saying that "we tend to play down to our competition" Uh.....wha???? We've won 5 of our last 26 games!!! Who, exactly, can we "play down" to? Baylor? Jesus H!
Nobody has really mentioned this...but Chad Stanley needs to go. The guys is killing us with his crappy 40.5 avg...which, BTW is WORST in the NFL. That's right....he's 32nd in punting average. Pathetic!!!!!!!
Oh, it's true. It's true. Seriously, they asked him how they can beat J-ville one week, then lay an egg against Buffalo the next. He said that was the reason.
agreed..but i still think they should address it. you don't have to use a draft pick to get a punter.
Dude if Carr actually said that, "Play to down to our competition", then I am ready to throw him right back under the bus I pulled him from when he dove in for that touchdown a couple weeks ago. What an egodriven and cmpletely stupid thing to say.
Oh trust me I know that is true. But it's another piece of the puzzle of what is wrong with this team. You how important field position is.
Exactly what I'm thinking. I really just don't think he has what it takes to win. And just when I'm starting to think maybe they are getting that desire to win he says some dumb**** like this.
Wait - wasn't the punting fantastic in this game? They had 7 drives start inside their own 20, and 4 of them were inside their own 6 yard line. At least 3 of those 4 were due to great punts, I thought. The problem with the team is that the offense continues to flop. The running game was *fantastic* yesterday, and Carr completed virtually all his passes... Yet they scored 14 points. That inability to score has been a trend every game. The defense, overall, has been looking better over the past few weeks, though it looked bad for that last drive and two plays in the first quarter.
Another thing, why do they insist on opening the roof... watching them (both teams) try to field kicks in that sun was beyond pathetic.
He said it, I heard it. I just checked the 610 site hoping they would have the interview in the audio vault. Maybe they will later on. But, I'm telling you.....he said it.
by and large, yes. more and more, i'm doubting if the people b****ing the loudest are even watching the games. 3 of stanley's 6 punts were downed inside the 5. i mean, of all the days to call stanley out...... i haven't read thru any of this thread, but the problem continues to be players making too many costly mistakes, which the team simply isn't good enough to overcome: 1) cook fumbled, again, deep inside opponent territory, this time at the buffalo 7. those are 3 sure points [at the very least] lost; 2) pitts' holding call wiped out what would have been 1st down at the bills' 11. 3 more sure points down the drain. the team left 6 points on the field on a day when your defense helps out with a score and carr was playing with a badly bruised shoulder, which i'm sure limited kubiak's gameplan. that's tough to overcome.
bad teams find a way to lose. Hopefully that will change soon or eventually there is enough personnel turnover to change
The key to that change usually is 1 dramatic play. That play can happen at any time or never. What that play does is convince the players that they can really do it. It's just a mental thing.
People should calm down a little. This was a game we should have absolutely won, but the big picture is that this is a bad football team and we have less talent that every other team in football sans Oakland. They have practice squad caliber players at running back, on the OL, at DT, both OLBs, 2 terrible safeties and 1 good corner in Dunta, a decent nickel back in Petey Faggins, and the rest are awful, brutal kicker and punter and no spark in the return game. They need another good draft, and they need to open the vault for free agents. They need 10-11 new starters on this team including K and P.
