A lot of NFL teams have an identity like the Steelers have always been known as a tough defensive and grind it out blue collar teams, the Bears are the Monsters of the Midway, the great Colts a fast paced high scoring team and so on. Do the Texans have an identity among the team and fans?
Young explosive offense with an emerging defense built around Mario and Demeco. Well, that's what it was supposed to be, until the runninggame disappeaered.
To much talk, not enough substance...passing team with an avg "D" at best. Saying that I said the same thing about Arizona around the same time last year, so you never know.
With Schaub, Andre, Daniels, and Slaton it was looking good this year. Then Daniels got hurt and who knows what happend to Slaton.
Horribly inconsistent. Nothing describes us more. We look like powerhouses one half (1st half vs Indy), then we look like the 2005 Texans another half.
I don't know that a lot of teams actually have an identity. The Steelers, yes. The Colts? Their identity lives and dies with Peyton. No Peyton, no run-and-gun Colts. What does Monsters of the Midway even mean relative to the current Bears? They have no identity--pretending they do is disrespectful to the old Bears teams. The Steelers and the Ravens have held their identity through multiple eras, players, and coaches. (Ravens have at least held it post-Billick and even with the defensive players rotating aside from Ray Lewis). The Titans have held to the Jeff Fisher strategy forever, so I'd include them. It's a cop-out answer on the Texans, but I just don't think any team has as much an identity as you're asking for--they're all similar to the Texans. What is the Jags identity? They're not in the "tough Del Rio D" mold anymore. The Cardinals are even adjusting and working the run game in finally this year. Philly has been the same for a long time I guess, but that's expected with Reid and McNabb being together for so long.
True teams identity changes with personel but a lot of what makes a team successful and memorable is that the organization has an identity. A lot of teams might not succeed at maintaining that but it seems to be a good way of building and keeping a fan base. For instance the Raiders have been terrible for years but there still is a die hard Raider fan base that has stuck with their bad @ss image even if it isn't that true anymore. Just wondering if the Texans have tried to develop an identity at all?
A Team Without Owen Daniels. But seriously, since he went down, we've lost. CANNOT FINISH A GAME PROPERLY is the identity.
Do you seriously think anyone does that? Ditka, the Bears owner, and his coordinators sitting around a mahogany table in a conference room, sipping on lattes, discussing how they want to mold the "identity" of their team? they tried to develop a winner. Up until now, they have failed.
I don't know about sitting around a table or sipping lattes but yes a lot of coaches try to mold the identity of teams in most sports. Consider what JVG did when he coached the Rockets. That said many teams have a particular history that shapes their identity such as the Steelers and the Raiders. Also for marketing purposes teams will often try to shape an identity such as the Twins for years have been portraying them as a quirky.
