Once again I wonder if Joe Marciano has some bad dirt on McNair and/or some of the other front office personnel, and is using that as leverage to remain employed with the Texans. It's just nuts that this guy still has a job. Anyway, clean house. Also get rid of a bunch of players (Schaub, Yates, Foster, Cushing, and most if not all players who will be free agents after this season). This is one of the most woefully underperforming teams I've ever seen.
All Wade needs is a decent secondary. Can Cushing be traded for depth? That guy is just too injury prone.
calling cush injury prone is like calling the person who was not at fault for an accident a bad driver..
Hire Morey to run the Texans too and call it a day. Fire all the coaches and start fresh. We have Watt/Andre/Hopkins/Meyers/Brown/Foster/Cushing and Keenum maybe? That's a good core right there we have talent but the holes were too big to fill. Draft some corners, linebackers, linemen, and safeties and we should be good come next year if they knocked it out with the draft picks. This team has way too much talent to be in the place we are right now after only 2 season nonetheless. I still believe we can be a team that can win the superbowl just gotta have the right guys to lead us there from a coaching and front office perspective.
Last season was bad luck. This year it was reckless play, put your hand down and live to play another down
And the person not at fault has the ability to avoid accidents as well. All RB's go for the knees when larger LB's and DL's rush the QB and he should have known this when coming right at him. When RB's go for the knees jump out of the way instead of trying to truck through him.
An injury proned stud? Here that smith? Call around and see if you have any takers for a stud cheerleader.
There's no such thing as bad cap management. This is a cop out excuse and it makes no sense. The NFL cap is a zero-sum game. You can't "create" cap space out of nothing. The Cowboys and the Redskins actually tried that with the uncapped year, and was penalized by it. The only thing cap management can do is create contracts based on the following criterias. 1. Do you want to pay more now, pay evenly throughout the contract, or pay later? 2. Do you want to give more guaranteed money and smaller overall contract, or lesser guaranteed money but bigger overall contract? And by extension how many de facto guaranteed years? For the most part the Texans basically took the path down the middle in terms of their capspace usage. In that for the most part they neither sacrifice the future nor the present. Which in turn make it so that they can't create "extra" capspace during the Kubiak era by borrowing from the future. That's not faulty cap use so much as (in hindsight) faulty football strategy. For example, the Texans could've created enough capspace to trade Schaub and sign Peyton Manning. They didn't. That's not because their cap was messed up. It wasn't. There was money available. They didn't pursue Manning because they didn't pursue Manning.
They didnt pursue manning because of one guy, KUBIAK! His foolishness of thinking his protege was the future of this franchise so much so that he convinced the front office to overpay and overextend his boy.
That's not necessarily true - bad cap management can come from signing players to unnecessary contracts and extensions. Schaub is a perfect example - there was simply no need to extend him when they did. They were simply bidding against themselves and created what will now be dead money for no reason Bad cap management also comes from putting together a bunch of cap hits in the same year. Not saying the Texans did this, but this forces you to release depth that otherwise potentially could have been maintained had the cap been managed better. For example, if you're way over the cap one year and under it the next year, you had bad cap management that will force you to drop a bunch of players for no reason.
Okay, perhaps we have different understanding of what's cap management. For example, I don't consider Carroll Dawson giving Cato $42mil contract for a preseason game to be bad cap management. I call that bad GM. If you're overpaying players, it's not a sign that you don't understand the cap in my mind. It's a sign that you don't know how to evaluate talent. That's not bad management. If anything, it perfectly described why I say the cap is a zero-sum game. The Texans stayed true to their "we don't sacrifice the future and we won't overspend on the present" for most of their existence. Which is why fans complained for years that the Texans don't spend. But they changed their philosophy for one year. And that one year they went Jerry Jones/Dan Synder on the NFL. That one year they spent ~$15mil of capspace to sign Joseph and Manning. That's roughly 12% of the entire cap. They did it by restructuring deals and knowing that they will need to make sacrifices in the future. And they did it knowing that Foster, Brown, and Myers were due to get huge pay raises. Ironically enough, that was the offseason every fan loved. And everyone said was a sign that the Texans was willing to spend. The reprecussions of course, we've seen since.
