so the Texans would have been saved if they picked a quitter as their number one pick? riiiiight. great logic.
Would they have been better off doing that rather than entrusting their future to David Carr and then the David Carr imposter that we currently have? Absolutely.
Refs didn't call it - they just missed it. That's why the play went on (if you're talking about the play where Norris moved forward before the snap).
Not really, no. Mario's working out a lot better than Vince is so far. True, Mario can't play QB for us and we still don't have a viable starting QB. Hopefully, Rosenfelds is at least the season-long solution. Yet, to say Vince would have solved our problems and given us a better future than Carr or Schaub? Absolutely not.
You people are still b****ing about 2006? Vince Youngs sucks (this just in ) It was freaking 2006. The Texans suck in all sorts of new ways that have nothing whatsoever to do with 2006. b**** about something new, already.
Another crappy Texans team. Shock! They will definitely pull out some wins this year, but at the end of the year, and too late. Schaub sucks. If his uniform didn't say Schaub on it, you'd have a very very very hard time believing it wasn't David Carr out there. Equally concerning is the coaching. Kubiak got way outcoached, highlighted by throwing a red flag out there on a play that clearly wasn't going to be overruled, and failing to do so on at least one play that clearly would have been. Highlighted thereafter by some of the worst goal-line offensive play-calling you'll ever see. And to top it all off, the best player apparently decided to take a day off. What the hell, Andre? You're a receiver....you get paid to catch balls, not let them slip right threw your hands. And try putting some effort into anything you do out there. Good news? Slaton, obviously. This kid can be good. The offensive line. They had some miscues, sure, but definitely got better, and still have to deal with a quarterback who doesn't understand the term pocket. Second half defense. The defense obviously still has a lot of work to do, but the majority of that work is really tackling - missed tackles all over the place kept drives alive. They made tackles in the second half, which is why the defense played so much better. Plus, like the offense, it seems like the defensive play-calling gets them in as much trouble as the actual players at times. It's not the end of the world when 50% of your problems can be fixed by making one change - at quarterback. It is troubling, though, if the coaching staff fails to see that. Injuries or just suckage or whatever, you have more heralded quarterbacks in this league on the bench already - I can't stand another game of Schaub.
I live in Austin and am therefore surrounded by people from all over the country (almost nobody is actually from Austin, including myself). I hang with some pretty rabid football fans. True, many of them are Cowboys fans, but there are also quite a few Steelers fans, some 49ers/Raiders fans, Dolphins fans, Patriots, Giants, etc. I hate always having to be freaking embarrassed by this team. It's obnoxious. My friends are even to the point where they don't even make fun of the Texans anymore. It's like making fun of the aggys or something. What a total joke of a franchise. How can they be worse year after year? I, too, am beginning to think the 8-8 season was the fluke...
You really have to wonder how much more suffering can Houston fans take, they deserve better than the Texans.
uhm... i would tell the 49er/raider and dolphin fans that it's no longer 1989... that might shut 'em up.
Well, according to the presser at 3:30pm, Kubiak is keeping Schaub as starting QB. Here's more from the Texans BB: http://68.252.159.115/showthread.php?t=8512 - After evaluating film, nothing has changed at quarterback. The team is sticking with Matt Schaub. Kubiak said that the blame doesn't go to one player, it goes to the entire team. Schaub made mistakes, but he also made plays that put the team in position to score a lot of points (ie, potential touchdowns that were dropped). - Kubiak lamented that the Texans, by his estimation, "left 28 points out there" in the first half. He was pleased they got to the red zone six times, but very disappointed in the team's inability to finish plays. Missed opportunities were the result of mistakes made not just by Schaub but by the entire team - busted plays, missed assignments, etc. - Steve Slaton has cemented his role as the Texans' starting running back. Slaton earned the starting role with his big-play capability, but the main thing that Kubiak harped on was Slaton's effort - on the 50-yard run when he made the play by himself by breaking a tackle at the line of scrimmage and then by not shying away from contact at the end of the run, and even at the end of the game when he didn't quit in his pursuit of Cortland Finnegan on the INT return. - Kubiak expects Ahman Green to at practice this week, but Green's status is uncertain. Safety Brandon Harrison has a shoulder injury that Kubiak said is his biggest injury concern at the moment. - Kubiak also said that the team's struggles with snapping the ball on field goals all day played into his decision to go for it on fourth-and-four in the third quarter instead of settling for three points. He reiterated that he wants to be aggressive and would probably make the same decision if the situation occured again.
Are you crazy? Shut them up? It would send them into a feeding frenzy about all their Super Bowl victories and blah, blah, blah. Hell, last time I checked, they both had wins THIS YEAR. No, sir...as a fan of Houston sports (and football specifically), I cannot say a WORD to a 49ers or Dolphins fan. This situation is serious. The Texans are the laughing stock of the league nobody seems to be talking about this year. It's like Ike has given them some sort of critique hall pass or something.
Don't expect that to last long. They suck. <i>How many weeks in the new blocking scheme before one can no longer say, "Well, they're still adjusting to the new scheme"?</i><br />We were so excited about bringing Gibbs in, but the o-line's effort has been embarrassing so far. <i>How in ever living hell can a defense, after such a promising year last year and a decent draft this year, and adding two free agents, get worse???</i><br />By adding the wrong free agents? By not-so-good coaching or game planning? The DC (isn't his name Richard something-or-other?) may be headed for some heavy, and merited, criticism. <i>Does Schaub look like an 8 million dollar QB? Does he look like an 8 dollar QB?</i><br />When is someone going to start asking the Texans why they keep promising $8 million a year to unproven quarterbacks?
don't flatter yourself hoss I'm not a big Texans fan, I am a casual observer, they have yet to earn my loyalty. I was just making an observation based on how you act in chat and how you act in here....and the very similar way people react to you. the common factor in these two places?? You. BMoney nailed you on the next page (big surprise, BMoney is the best poster on this forum), if it looks like a troll and acts like a troll........ whats up guys, no creative ideas to trash the Carr jersey and break the curse? I'm serious about offering it up to sacrifice if yall think it might help.
between 2001 and 2004, the saints were 7-8, 9-7, 8-8, 8-8. in 2005, the year of katrina? 3-13. so let's not universally dismiss the disruption ike likely caused. look how long the hangover impacted the astros. well, texan players went through it, too - lost practice time, etc. new schemes always take time, especially if a rookie is manning arguably the most important position and you're startng 3 new guys. i suspect by mid-season, you'll notice marked improvement. well, they didn't add anyone of note defensively; mainly average, 2nd-string-like guys. but for the record, the texans D ranked 24th overall last year; 19th against the run; 25th against the pass; 22nd in points allowed. i'm not so sure last year was promising.... this is why i always beat the david carr drum: it takes a village, and all. take the D yesterday: tough first half... but they did force two TOs and set the texans up at the tenessee 14 on one of them. result? offense lost two yards and kicked a FG. what if, as good teams do, the texans turned those into TDs, or even 10 points instead of 6. that's a manageable 21-17 halftime deficit - or even a 21-21 tie if they would have scored on both. it's just really hard to pull one aspect of a definitive team game and leap all over it.
Honestly, I think Schaub will tear it up next game in Jax (with a Texans win), and everyone will turn around. I say he probably throws for an INT, but gets 2 or 3 TDs and Slaton gets over 100 yards.
Man, I really do hope you're right about this. They've just looked so FLAT in both their games this year. Just not even ready to play. Very unsettling.
True, but Ike was nowhere near Katrina in terms of impact. Not to dismiss the devastation that Ike was (especially to Galveston and Bolivar, and other coastal communities like Surfside), but New Orleans is so damn low--lower than Galveston, even--it was a sitting duck for a storm as nasty as Katrina. If over half of Houston had flooded, and the tragedy of lost life had been worse, and Reliant used as a refugee camp for weeks on end, the distraction of Ike for the Texans might look like what it was for the Saints. So the two compare, but not that much. Thanks and I appreciate the commentary. I'm with drummer (we musicians gots to stick together): I hope you're right!
they were inside the titan 15-yard line on six different drives, including four inside the 10-yard line. results? a TD, 2 FGs and three turnovers (two on downs). they're not the colts so we can't yet assume anything with this team - not until they're more consistently successful. but i'm not convinced sunday's performance is the rule... hey, they started 2-0 last year; look where that got 'em. they have a BRUTAL opening schedule: their first 4 opponents, 3 on the road, were 44-20 last year - all in the playoffs, and all likely to be there again this year. if you can steal one of these next two (and both jacksonville and indianapolis are beat up), you get miami, detroit and cincinnati after that. i don't think they're going to the playoffs... but it's possible they could be 4-3.
