…until they do it against someone we wouldn’t expect them to do it against.

Cleveland has weapons – but look at their QB situation, especially in that particular game. To me that’s a game the Texans SHOULD have won, and they did.

Jacksonville is way down this year, tons of injuries, and even their own fans admit they flat out quit in that game. It was the team’s first MNF game, at home, high emotion – I had them winning 33-20 and was pretty close. Again, a game they SHOULD have won, and did.

Cincy – a team they SHOULD have shut down, and did. Detroit – a team they SHOULD have shut down, and did. Miami – the ONLY good team they’ve beaten all year.

To me, this latest 2-game stretch inspires no more confidence than the Miami-Detroit-Cincy streak did.

What WILL impress me is if they take it on the road and do it against a real opponent like the Packers. That would be an eye-opening, exciting, potentially attitude-changing win for this franchise. What they really, really need – is a ROAD win against a team they’re not expected to beat…. and if we’re talking specifically about the defense – they need to put on a good performance on the road against a favored team as well.

Again – I barely count the Cleveland game. We did EVERYTHING in our power to lose that game.

And finally made the changes that everyone else saw was necessary after week two. Shouldn’t he be canned for not realizing anything needed to be changed until it was too late?

I’m happy that we have something resembling an NFL defense, but (assuming this is for real and not just a mirage created by playing bad teams) it’s adding insult to injury to think that we could have been playing with this defense all along.

If our Texans are in fact improving and continue to improve over the last month of the season we could be stuck with the status quo. Kubes is always "if it aint broke, don’t fix it’, and if we somehow go 4-0, 3-1, or even 2-2, I dont see the wanted change coming.

The Defense is going to have stink it up royally in multiple games, the rest of the way,for the change to be made, I think.

Your notion that The Texans Defense could save Richard Smith’s job is very possible.

…that if it’s obvious to me, it should be obvious to people whose job is pro football, regardless of what happens from here on out.

… but I’ll just throw it out here first.

The insane thing about this – is that the fans have been right all along. I mean, a lot of times a lot of us see the obvious, but a TONS of the bloggers here and elsewhere, and a lot of the commenters – have all been saying ALL SEASON what needed to be done… Smith did it, and it’s worked.

My point is – how often does that really happen? When something the masses want actually turns out to be the right thing? I would argue – not very often.

That would be reason #14,376,874 to fire Richard Smith