I honestly don't believe that the Texans will win another game? Give me one good reason why I should think otherwise?
Not a good time for a three-game losing streak. With the loss to the Colts the Texans are now ensured of having a losing divisional record. One of the keys at the beginning of the season was to win divisional games. It becomes much harder to make the playoffs without winning your divisional games. I am very disappointed the way the season has gone so far. I really thought we had a chance to do something special this year. I thought Kubiak was the right person to lead the Texans to the promised land. However, it's becoming more and more evident that he is not the right man for the job. I still hold out hope that maybe the Texans can turn things around and that Kubiak can show he can be an NFL head coach. The Texans currently sit 12th in the AFC standings. It's going to take a minor miracle to move into the 6th spot by the end of the season. Stranger things have happened, so you never know.
same old same old. too much inconsitency too many costly penalties can't win close games. those things get coaches fired.
I heard on the radio this morning that the Texans have either been tied or had the lead in the 4th quarter of every game this year except the Jets game. Think about that for a minute.
so you're saying the players are good enough to keep us in games, but the coaching is too shoddy to get us over the top?
Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere: http://blogs.chron.com/fantasyfootball/2009/11/this_will_probably_be_the_game.html This will probably be the game that ultimately gets Kubiak fired First off, I have to tell you that if you recorded the Texans vs. Colts, make sure you hang onto it because on Monday afternoon, I am going to have a blog entry where I go through down and distance and times of the game and break down a bunch of different plays on offense and defense. Included in my entry will be "film study." This entry is half done but it has already taken over 2 hours so I will finish it tonight and have it for you tomorrow. As for the game, I think this loss will ultimately be the one that gets Gary Kubiak fired. I'm not talking about getting fired tomorrow and I don't really fault him for anything during the game, but when I said that the Tennessee game was a "must-win," I meant it. The Texans needed it in case they fell to the Colts. Instead, they lose to the Colts in Indy with a fourth quarter lead, lose to the Titans on national television in a game where Kubiak chose not to run another play to make it a shorter FG for Kris Brown, and he loses to the Colts yet again with a fourth quarter lead. If you are counting, the Texans have now lost three straight games to the Colts with a fourth quarter lead, and they are losing almost every close game they play in this year. After four years, that will get you fired. Let the record show that I think Kubiak is a good coach and can win in this league, but I'm not sure what I can do to back those feelings up since all I have is improved stats on both sides of the ball but not much in terms of improving winning percentages. This loss was a team effort and if Kubiak ends up fired at the end of the season, this game will the turning point game, but there are several plays to point to. - Chris Brown's fumble against the Jaguars as he was headed into the endzone. - Matt Schaub throwing huge fourth quarter "pick six" interceptions against the Colts and Cardinals. - Kris Brown's missed FGs against the Colts and Titans - Mario Williams' inability to consistently rush the passer this year. - Dunta Robinson failing to show up for the season like the franchise CB that he wants to be paid like. - Steve Slaton's consistent habit of putting the ball on the ground and inability to break the long run. - Dunta and company celebrating his big hit on a 5-yard gain by Joseph Addai and then having Peyton Manning quick snap them and throw a pass for a completion of 30 yards as the defense scrambled to get back to their spots after celebrating. Need proof? Dunta went from the 15-yard line all the way down to about the 3-yard line celebrating. Manning went to the hurry-up either to keep the Texans from changing their package (which I doubt since they pretty much just sat in nickel) or because he saw the Texans were out of position on defense because they were celebrating down near the Colts endzone. Take a look at the second picture and notice how many players aren't even ready when the ball is snapped! This team has just lost too many close games and too many fourth quarter leads in games they really needed for Kubiak to end up surviving this season unless he and the Texans can pull out wins from here on out which seems unlikely.
Lance Z is usually on the money. Things don't look good for Gary. Unless McNair is more of a loyalist than I know, I'm starting to think only 4 wins can save Kubes.
Poop happens. Good teams overcome it. If Kubiak is gone, I'll miss him a bit unless we get somebody like Cowher or Dungy. (I *still* don't understand the fascination with Gruden.) I will *not* miss PayMe Robinson. Or Knucklehead Antonio Smith. What have those guys done this year other than get penalties, get burned big, and generally play the fool?
This is only good. . . if you can get someone BETTER otherwise. . . u have to dance with them Rocket River
QFT: Playoff teams overcome, losers succumb. Robinson's fall off has been borderline unbelievable. Chad Johnson embarrassed him all game in Cincy. He's having to grab and latch onto his man to avoid giving up 6 nearly every time. It's alarming. Out of loyalty (and the team's difficulties to recruit secondary help at an acceptable rate), I offer him 4 years at 1.25 per, $2M guaranteed. He wants to turn that down after earning only a fraction of his franchise contract? Fine by me. Evan
Dungy is a pipe dream. He's moved on. Cowher is merely biding time until Fox gets canned at Carolina. I also don't particularly care for Gruden. And speaking of fools, how about Dunta & the rest of the defense celebrating a good hit by getting caught completely out of position and hence getting their butts toasted by Peyton on the very next play? There appears to two schools of thought about the issue of coaching. Nearly everyone today is calling for Kubiak to be fired and that replacing him will automatically transform the Texans into a playoff team. This is basically what Justice wrote about in today's Chronicle and appears to be a popular sentiment. Now, such a position assumes that said coach will be able to implement his systems with the talent on hand - the same talent that didn't get the job done for Kubiak - AND that said coach would not need a year or two to implement his philosophy and systems as well as acquire personnel that best fit those systems. I'm not saying that this scenario is impossible - merely an unlikely occurance in my opinion. The second school of thought says that Kubiak has gotten the team close and that with a few minor changes to attitude, personnel & philosophy, he can get the job done. If you haven't already, take a look at Jeremy Rice's blog because he makes very good points about what changes need to occur (including for the light to come on in Gary's head): http://blogs.chron.com/fanblogtexans/2009/11/choke_city.html While the ultimate blame lies with Kubiak because he's the head coach, I would place the lions' share of the blame for what happened yesterday squarely on the players who simply choked big time. That's why I don't agree that this is playoff team than is better than it's record of 5-6 and that Kubiak has somehow managed to coach it to perform beneath it's potential. Since I never drunk the battle-red koolaid, I ALWAYS saw this as a .500 team so I am not surprised that they are 5-6 at this point. What I think we're witnessing is just how hard it is to turn around an organization that has become immeshed in a culture of of losing left over from the previous organization.
I came into this thread looking for two things primarily: 1) The Cat whining about the refs and Manning 2) DaDakota going off on Schaub and pissing everyone off I got a healthy dose of number 1 but only for a half. I guess Cat decided to be like the Texans, only show up for a half. Sadly I got none of number 2. I'll have to give the thread 3 stars, although Ric may be able to bump it to 4 by coming in and telling everyone that everything's going to be alright.
Right - because you never see teams make the playoffs with a new head coach. Last year, not only new head coaches, but rookie new head coaches, immediately turned 3 non-playoff teams into playoff teams: Miami, Atlanta, and Baltimore. This year, Denver is almost certain to do that as well. And, outside of Baltimore, none of those teams had nearly as much talent as the Texans do. Nor were any of those head coaches hall-of-fame caliber coaches. You seem to be really focused on this idea that coaches need multiple years to implement systems when all the evidence suggests the exact opposite.
the texans are very far from being alright. kubiak has to go. that team just wilted yesterday, it was embarrassing.
Anyone saying that is a born idiot. I don't recall anyone here on this BBS pushing that crack. The spoutings of Justice and the inbred nutjobs that comment on the Chron blogs don't need to be imported here to act as a fake voice for you to mock. The Texans are good, Kubiak has been good as a coach. But they are underachieving and they aren't good enough. The Capers era laid the groundwork for the lowest bar possible. The Kubiak era has laid the groundwork for a playoff team, but the chances of his getting us there are slim at best. We could bring in the wrong guy and go backwards. We could bring in Cowher, and after a transition year, break through. Keeping Kubiak resigns us to mediocrity.
We play the Seahawks at home and then head to St. Louis. The game against Miami looks easy after they got creamed by the Bills yesterday. If we beat the Jags, I say we easily go 9-7. I was a bit worried about the Jags but they lost 20-3 to the 49ers yesterday.
Nothing is easy for this team. (Good grief, I sound like I'm talking about the Oilers!) Those Jags beat us at home. That Dolphins game was a division game--anything can happen. BUT, they are without their wildcat dude now--what's his name, Brown? If they could easily be 9-7, they could just as easily be 7-9.
