doesn't he get a ring as well since he contributed to the season or is that just customary in the NBA.
The winning team can typically present rings to whomever they choose, including usually, but not limited to: players (active roster or injured), players that started the season with the team but were traded or released, coaches, trainers, executives, personnel, and general staff. Some teams have also been known to give rings to former players who are not officially part of the winning team, as well as current players who may not qualify to have their name engraved on the Stanley Cup or Larry O'Brien Trophy. Occasionally, rings are even given to fans as part of a charity raffle.
ESPN power rankings have us at 17 behind the 2-5 Panthers and the 3-5 chargers. Massive disrespect lol.
The biggest question facing each team in the second half Houston Texans: Will they be able to get enough out of Brock Osweiler, offense? Brock Osweiler hasn't looked great at all this season. He's looked good in spots, OK most of the time and, most recently in Denver, he was very, very bad. He can't complete a ball downfield and he's too often forcing it to DeAndre Hopkins. Osweiler’s 73.1 passer rating is second-worst among all quarterbacks who are on a second contract (just in front of Ryan Six-Pick-trick Fitzpatrick.) Now right tackle Derek Newton has torn both patella tendons and is done for the season. Houston is near the bottom of the league in scoring offense at 17 points per game. After J.J. Watt (back) went out for the season, it was clear Houston was going to have to rely more on its offense. It doesn't appear that the offense got the memo.
I dunno, I think Houston fans that have to watch every play are more disgruntled than even the national audience that watches us suck for 95% of the time. True, people who have seen only the prime time games (Thurs night, Sun night, Mon night) have watched us get destroyed by the Broncos, Vikings, Pats, and be down to the Colts for all but the last minute of regulation and OT. But the regular fans watched us struggle to maintain comfortable leads against Tennessee and Detroit as well, and the offense has sputtered even against the likes of some of the worst defenses in the NFL (Colts, Bears, Lions). On the radio, most people I heard remain wholly unsatisfied with the season. 5-3 is 5-3, but it's only half the year, and we've won all our home games and lost all our road ones so there's some ground to be made up just to end the season above .500. I don't think I've been upset at a "power ranking" for us all year. We are what we are, and until Brock improves we will stay that way. Right now he's like the worst of all worlds: he has the accuracy of Ryan Fitzpatrick, the decision-making of Ryan Mallet, and the poise of Brian Hoyer. Ugh
And yet half the season still remains to actually build upon the positives that are there. They will also be favored in at least 5 of their last remaining 8 games. And wouldn't be surprised at all if they beat the Raiders in either the regular season or a playoff game, along with the Chiefs or Ravens (in a home playoff game). But, yeah. They would probably not beat any of the top 3 AFC teams. Which seems to be what irks people the most.
Hell, even a blowout against a cupcake team would be a welcome sight at this point. Brock has proven unable to take advantage of the league's worst defenses at home. So far we've had very few barometer games. We've either played very bad teams at home or very good teams on the road. Kansas City is the only decent team that we played at home, so that's the only thing we can hang our hat on. Eventually we'll need to play against a good but not great team on the road and not make them look like goliaths. As the weeks go by, we may start to realize that Denver was not the very good team they were made out to be. That's a game we should have had every chance to win. Going forward, we will have plenty more of those chances (@IND, @TEN, vsOAK). In the pessimists view we will lose them all. In the optimist's view, we take half of them, and you even bring @GB into the mix as they are looking not to be the juggernauts we thought--even if Houston logic says that we won't win in Green Bay in our lifetimes, regardless of circumstance. Personally, I think that home game vs San Diego is already a loss as well, so we will have even more ground to make up on the road.
Your logic is all over the place. On the one hand, you claim home wins against Chicago, Tennessee, Indy and Detroit are meaningless and should have been blowouts... but on the other hand you claim that they should have beaten Denver on the road because they may not be very good. I actually don't think Tennessee and Detroit are terrible or worthy of being blown out. I also don't think anybody is claiming the Texans are running on all cylinders. But to be sputtering on offense, and beset with injuries on defense, and yet still be 5-3 (winning every game they were supposed to win), should be looked at as something they can build on. Like I said, even with penciled in losses against Oakland and Green Bay (and btw, the franchise has a win in GB in our lifetime), this team should very well be no worse than 9-6 heading into the final game of the season at Ten (and is probably 10-5 if they win the games they are supposed to win).
