Kubiak's press conferences don't normally get to me, I usually listen to get injury info or answers about schemes but, for some reason, I agree that today's presser was kind of irritating. Problem is what can he say or do? If he starts calling people out to the media, I think he risks losing the locker room while if he does the status quo then he sounds almost lost.
I hope I'm wrong, but stuborness plays a huge factor. Every head coach is stubborn in a way, and believes the way they do it will eventually work. It's for that reason that I think the defensive approach will stay the same. =( May god be with us! Offensively, I think now that houston has the weapons to either run or pass..they don't know what or when to use them. It reminds me when I received my nerf proton pack and a toy ecto-1 to go with it. I was always indecisive on which toy I wanted to play with..should I run around the house pretending not to cross the streams or should I chase my thundercats with ecto-1. Eventually I was able to incorporate all of them into my playtime, so the offense will be great once again.
i am. i can totally live with getting beat...with getting your ass handed to you. as long as you played hard and were prepared. i tell the same kind of stuff to my kids, and it transcends sports. it has application to school..to work...to life. that kind of crap is just ridiculous...especially to those who are paying lots and lots of money to be there like you, emjohn.
This is right on. It's useless to try to decipher from Kubiak's pressers because he's never going to say what's actually going on (nor do most coaches). It's a totally different world between what happens behind closed doors versus what's said in front of the microphone. Not saying that Kub is a hot-headed screamer behind closed doors, but he's not the self-defeating "aw, shucks" persona he puts on either.
how you could be lackadaisical after getting embarrassed at home by a team you know your fans have a rivalry with is just amazing.
To be fair .. . they said they didn't care about the rivalry their fans had. Cause to them it is just another game and how the fans felt about it really didn't matter. Rocket River
on a texans forum...PROOF that im right. matt is a quitter and soft,and even purposely overthrows wr's to get off the field to avoid injuries by the scary giants pass rush you guys just dont know, im not gary knows , but he will...schaub wont last past the jets game. the jets were tossing brett farve like a ragdoll last night.the refs dont call roughing the passer on the jets for some reason. firing gary wont change things. i wanted gary fired until i figured out its matts fault. its hard to coach when you got a qb who is always gimpy from a sack and always throws crucial ints to lose games...can matt go 1 game without throwing a int? he cant. funny how matt didnt do anything against the cowboys, yet vy goes into dallas and beats them up... vy > matt i lost all trust in gary when he chose to extend carr for a 8 million payment extension instead of draft vy. Yes we needed a pass rush, but damn, carr sucks and he turns down vy ? vy>sage>carr>schaub. I put carr ahead of matt based on heart and grit. For fantasy points Id pick Matt.
i would spend time contradicting your post with facts and figures, but that would be a waste of my time. instead, i'll resort to your level. you suck. go away.
i heard that too but it's still pathetic that the players weren't geared up for that game deep down. Hell, the electricity in the stadium alone should have been enough to motivate them.
oh man that is awesome. every time I think you couldn't possibly lose more credibility, you find a way. kudos.
That the players are having a tough time getting up for games, period, is pathetic. I'm very concerned about this locker room and if it's waist deep in a Clippers' mentality.
If we were talking about the NBA, I can totally understand laying an egg here and there. 82 games is a lot of games to get up for. But this is football. Your whole week is supposed to lead up to that moment when you come out of the tunnel on Sunday. You should be as amped up as a rabid pitbull. Can you imagine Ray Lewis coming out flat on ANY Sunday? Something is wrong.
Brian FREAKING Chapman, you my friend, are message board gold. I laugh so hard reading the junk you wright lol. I never take you seriously so I never get upset at crap like this.
indeed. I can understand a flat game in one week (i don't like it but for the sake of argument i will understand it). But then to come out the following week and do it again, at home, is just down right unfathomable.
While I think Okoye (and whoever else are having a hard time getting motivated) should be taken to the woodshed over his comments, I also think being a member of this defensive line could be taxing. Think about it. I understand that it's the D-Line's JOB to get pressure on the QB, but how can anybody perform when they know they need to be 100% perfect, otherwise the company goes to ****? The second these guys don't put pressure on the QB, they know that the secondary is so pathetic that a big play is going to happen. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not using this as ANY excuse for the D-Line, but I AM saying that it's probably really demoralizing watching QBs torch us for 400+ yards week in and week out. Plus, you couple that with the fact that Matt Schaub and the offense look like they're sleep-walking, and it's no wonder a debacle like the Giants game happens. The D-Line definitely needs to show up, and get in the backfield, but it's freaking unbelievable that even though we can get 5 sacks on a QB, he's still going to throw for 250+ yards because our secondary is prone to giving up 30 yards at a time.
Part of why we get torched is because QBs routinely have all the time they could ask for back there. No sacks against the Giants or Cowboys. Averaging 3 sacks in our wins (2, 3, 4). We haven't had a 5 sack day against anyone. Okoye is a pitiful excuse for DT and has been his entire career. His first few years he hid behind the "most guys his age are still in college now" card that folks like Solomon gleefully tossed his way, but the fact is, he's managed to regress from his rookie year and has somehow settled into a a less talented, smaller, more apathetic version of Travis Johnson. 2 tackles a game and one sack a year shouldn't be a 4-year DT starter on any team hoping for a playoff berth. I'm more apt to give a guy a pass for mailing in a game or two when he otherwise comes to play kick butt the rest of the season. Okoye has been garbage for 3 years running. His admitting that he needs to be motivated to play hard is as galling as when Rex Grossman admitted that he occasionally blew off studying film of upcoming opponents in Chicago. If you suck and aren't even working hard, I want nothing to do with you.
My ninth year rooting for the Texans and I nor any other fan has ever utterred the words "I think we blitz too much".
