Just on ABC's Inside the Game: Antonio Smith: We dont have each others backs on defense(sometimes) Winston: Effort was there, never question the effort. Kubiak: We tried to do some different things. Bad start, might of been worse of the year. Happening way too much. You said they played slow. Why? I dont know. I look at myself. Coming off short week but we got them fresh. We looked slow early. Strength was running game. What happened today? Didnt play good enough. This week, Bob said on the right track. Are you on the right track? Werent today. I appreciate Bob saying those things but paid to win and I take responsibility for that.
By the way...the Kenny Britt TD....yeah, only the Texans would find a way to gift wrap a touchdown to a guy who has a duck thrown his way while he is triple-covered. Only the Texans. Seriously...ONLY the Texans. I'm reasonably certain most junor high DB's could have knocked it down or picked it off.
This makes me lol even more. CHRON.COM POLL: POSITION: COACHING How would you grade the Texans coaching staff? (Poll closes: Dec 21 at 11:59 p.m.) A 1% (presumably Gary got on the internet after the game and voted) B 0% C 1% D 2% F 95%
I think there is still a contingent that sees things like the hail mary and even the INT that was botched yesterday as flukey and are keeping Kubiak out of the blame for that. But IMO there are just way too many instances of that happening, many at the behest of Kubes himself(HB Pass INT play) to absolve him of it. And I am actually surprised that another team found a way to blow a big lead that the Texans haven't already done. Way to go Giants, you were better than the Texans(at blowing leads) for one day.
Was talking in general. Not necessarily yesterday WRT to the Giants V Texans. But the Texans have blown a lot of leads over the past couple of seasons.
ok. I was thinking over the past 8 weeks, with our "playoffs-bound" 1-7 record, there haven't been too many leads to blow.
Kubiak presser: You hoped to make the playoffs. How bad do you feel? DIsappointing. Had good team coming out of TC. Knew about tough schedule, Missed key players early but we weathered that. Very tough since 4-2 start. Still got a lot to play for. What do you play for? Same thing you play for every week. Pride. You got a job in the NFL. Should not change how we do our job. Worried now about your job? Answer it the same as I have before. (Not worried about my job) What about Bob? Like I told you's, Bob can say what he wants but he wants us to win games. [Missed question] Never with Bob by myself. Always Cal, Rick, Bob and myself. We review the team and where its at. What did you think of Smith where he mentioned D didnt have each others back. Is that the case? Is that an issue? Thats guys in the heat of the battle. If you look at the play, you'd see why he is mad. He is upset. One teammate trying to keep him calm. Antonio very emotional young man. Doesnt surprise me. He said a guy doesnt have his back? I cant answer questions for him. Hes a great teammate. He'd have to answer. Given first half struggles, what is different preparing wise? Game plan wise, same thing for 5 years now. Couple years ago, great first Q team and bad 3rd Q team. Always searching for perfection in this buisness. Not one area. All areas. When you give up 3 TDs, you wont play well as a team. Team didnt play well. We've been outscored 3:1 in football games so you'll be down for whatever reason. We're searching. We'll keep searching. When your down, how does it change? Throws your gameplan out the window real fast. You get down 21, your in hurry up mode and one personnel(whatever that personnel is). With injuries Schaub has had, do you plan to start Dan or Matt? No, if Matt can go he'll go. He is beat up but he'll go. Would you like to evaluate other guys in some fashion? Id like to but we got a game to win. If he's(Matt) available he'll play. Arian forced out with back spasms? No, ankle. Know nothing about the back spasms. Code about not angling for another job? What are you talking about? Bill Cowher said he likes the Texans. Hes a damn good coach. Dont know what your asking me. Isnt there a code? I dont know. I have no idea. Looks like Matt is drifting this year. Whats going on there? I would drift too. Protection not good enough yesterday. Ive seen more enthusiasm at a funeral, where is the leadership? These guys are saying 57 more minutes and we're out of here. I dont feel that. Games have started a lot like yesterday. A feeling of "Oh no, not again". I would disagree. 4th and 8th first series, how does Wilson get lost? We pressured them. They had max protect. He gotta cover better but we gotta get better pressure. What did you do different? Didnt work so doesnt matter. Do you get the "Oh no, not again" feeling? I dont want to but you better do something when down 21-0. For me, I gotta find out how to get some snaps. We had a chance to get back in it but...ongoing thing. We're battling through it. How do you view the D now? We moved Frank down, are playing a lot of guys. D line has some new faces. Bottom line gotta play better. Darryl suited better at the MLB? Not sure where he is suited best for but he is one of the best we got so he got to be out there. Rest of ST, is there anyway to approach it? No. Did not punt well. Covering hurt us. Penalties too. We're playing some starters there. It has been tough on Joe. Revolving door of who is available but part of the game. 5-7 last 3 years. Anything different? No. I told them today, if I had a question about that, I'll tell them. We had guys playing hard and doing good things but sloppy in the first that it couldnt be overcome. Offensively up front, didnt play well. Playing slow, is that giving best effort? We looked slow and tired. They werent trying to go slow.
I liked the Queens question about Cowher, sounded like it caught Kubes by suprise other then that..same old crap.
