Eh. Don't be so quick to dismiss. They are still mathematically alive thanks to a very favorable W/L outcome across the league this week. But the Seahawks are a bottom 10 team, no doubt. Next week the Texans will likely paste the Rams. If we can pull a W against the Dolphins, we may actually be alive for a playoff spot going into the final game of the year, which would be pretty awesome considering all that has happened.
You're supposed to be happy and excited after your team wins a blowout, right? Me, all I can think is: where the hell was this the last four looooooong weeks? Mario, where the hell were you the last four weeks?? And I'm frustrated hearing all this "rallying around Kubiak" crap. Why wait until everybody in the known world assumes he'll be fired before nutting up and playing some ball? Why not "rally around Kubiak" and "play inspired football" when you have a chance to do something GREAT for a change, instead of another dramatic, bold run to mediocrity at the end of another also-ran year? That win was freaking meaningless. Don't tell me about "inspired football". It's like this team is afraid to be great.
1) The last four weeks has been Colts, Titans, Colts, Jags. So basically the best team in football (according to points for/against), the hottest team in football (according to the last 7 weeks), the best team in football (again), and the perennial thorn-in-our-ass (which is apparently a decent team, too). So it isn't that the Texans have sucked the last 4 weeks... they got 3 unlucky breaks (moats fumble/brown miss, brown miss pt. 2, and stagger lee pt. 2) which ultimate cost them those games. So I'm a little more optimistic that the Texans aren't as bad as their 1-4 record the past 5 weeks would indicate. 2) No win is meaningless when you're mathematically alive. No matter how remote the chances are.
I understand all that...and still it felt empty. Unless and until the Texans can show they can at least compete in their division, it's very difficult for me to get excited about wins against team outside of our division when we're struggling to hang to playoff hopes by a mathematical thread. I hope they win all these games and prove me wrong...I hated not being excited when they were trouncing the Seahawks yesterday.
no, just solidly mediocre. Again. "unlucky" breaks that would not have mattered had they executed like the team they were cracked up to be in September. This is not a good team; it's an average team. They can beat up on the Seahawks and Raiders! "Yay!!" Oh, and you would be correct. They are precisely as mediocre as their 6-7 record would indicate. meaningless to me. Beat a *real* football team. Go at least .500 in your own division for the first time ever. and quit with the excuses. It's like David Carr all over again.
:grin: i didn't mean to. i hate being debbie downer about this team, frankly. i think it's kind of my own defense mechanism to prevent getting disappointed by them, again.
Donny, I usually agree with your Texan takes, but you seem to be working extra hard rationalizing our 1-5 division record. What you're basically saying is that it's okay to be 1-5 against these teams because they're better than us. I'm not okay with that. I'm tired of that being the case. I beg to differ. We didn't lose to the titans because of an unlucky missed kick, we lost because we couldn't stop Vince from running for 20 yards on every 3rd down in the 4th quarter. Every hear of a QB spy? I guess the Texans haven't. We didn't lose to the Colts at home because of an unlucky break. We totally fell apart after going up 17-0. And I submit to you that we flat out QUIT after Indy tied the game. We didn't lose to the Jags because of an unlucky outcome of Stagger Lee II. That was the worst playcall I've seen since....well, since Stagger Lee I. Too many things to list about how moronic that playcall was. We've been down that road. I used to feel the same way, but this year has been different for me. I am now of the belief that every team is only as good as their record. Period. End of story. Every team in the league can say "well, if this would've happened or that would've not happened......" It gets old after 8 years. True, but let's be real. Only way we make the playoffs is if we win out, and even then, it's a longshot. And we're NOT going to win out... Sorry to be Debbie Downer. You know it's not my style. But this year it's different. I've had it.
No, it was msn. big difference. sorry if I came across as griping at you. Just venting. I just kept hearing the PBP guys yesterday talking about the Texans playing "inspired football" and "rallying around their coach" and it made me throw up in my mouth. How about some "inspired football" when it counts? The Texans are 3-4 at home and 1-5 in this division. That is NOT a good team. Not in any universe is that "good".
I agree with you on a lot of this. And I'm damned tired of losing in our division. 1-5? BArf. I'm just giving you the other side of the coin. These losses were, while regrettable and unfortunate, not entirely shocking. I'm just withholding judgment til we see the final record and stat sheet. Call me a homer, say its excuses, but I don't believe this team is as bad as its record, or as bad as some of you think they are. Yeah, it sucks to hear that, but this is the first time I've said that (lots of people said that last year, but the truth was the Texans won as many close games as they lost, so it wasn't true). Last year we weren't better than 8-8. Nor the year before that. This year, we're better than our record, I think McNair knows this and that is why Kubiak will remain. He's going to get a chance to see if he can land on the other side of these 1 score losses, I'm inclined to give it to him. Sometimes if you know you're getting better (and they are), you just have to stay positive and keep plugging away and eventually that talent and improvement will show up in the W/L.
Precisely. They *are* better than us, and I'm sick and tired of it, too. Man, I agreed with every word of your post. These two statements are the key.
What will that change though? Against a lousy team and a couple good/decent teams not in our division, what difference would it make? I suppose falling into a playoff berth would be about the only major outcome that could shock all of us at that point, but other than that...what difference will it make from what we've already seen?
Kubiak just announced that Anthony Hill out for the year with a torn ACL. Talk about a kid with bad luck. He also tore his ACL in college and had the Swine Flu earlier this year.
Dang, their site was down when I tried to go to their TV site for the presser. That sucks for Hill. I hope he recovers in the offseason so he can replace Dreesen as backup.
