Here, take these rose colored glasses. They will help.

you must be a long time memeber on this board. I enjoy reading your posts and how you’ve almost got to the F Dunta position over the last several weeks. I can tell you are a long time member because you don’t get jumped by the guy from his mom’s basement or Texan Kurt or anyone else when you appear to be looking through “rose colored glasses”. I agree with you and your post. Don’t forget the TITS went 5-11 in 2004, 4-12 in 2005 and 8-8 in 2006. I’m getting tired of people bashing Bush in his FIRST year as a DC. Remember people we all have to start somewhere. When you started your first job I bet you didn’t knock people’s socks off on the first or third week on the job and made absoultely no mistakes. The defense has given up fewer yards each week and if they continue in that way they stand to be a pretty good D – progress is better than regress. Will it be too late this year – hell i don’t know and neither do you. We’ve only played 3 games and yes we’ve lost two but the season is not over. I remember when the Oilers started out I think 1-3 and ended the season at 11-5 and went to the playoffs. If we lose to Oakland this weekend it will be very difficult to climb back but if we win we move on to the next week and try and do it again. What if we end the season 10-6 or even 11-5 then what will all the people not wearing the rosey glasses say. Oh but we still lost six and Bush’s defense almost cost us another 3 games so really we should be 7-9 or some shit like that. Please don’t get me wrong guys, I am as upset about last weeks loss as much as anybody. I couldn’t even post anything on Monday because I was still upset and realized the team I love more than any other team is a team that gets a pick called on them in the endzone to negate a TD and then the next try they fumble in the endzone so yes I understand not everything is great about our Texans right now but they are my team and I support and I get pissed at them when they lose or make stupid mistakes but we live to play another game. Coming in here and posting about how much your team sucks or how their new DC in his THIRD game should be put out of his misery is recockuless. In Smith’s first year he gave up more yards in his first 3 games then Bush’s defense has. Smith’s D got a little better but they still never drafted or made a trade for a big time corner and safety. I am pulling for Bush (instead of already wanting to burn him at the stake) and I hope the Texans go and make a deal or draft someone and give Bush better personnel in the secondary. Who knows maybe even Smith would have had a better defense if at one point the Texans had a secondary able to cover someone. The bottom line is that I understand people’s frustrations , I’m right there with you but writing off the season at 1-2 is too much for me and I will not bash them at this point. I just think some of you guys could hold off a little bit with your “the sky is falling comments” and get back to SUPPORTING this team. If we lay an egg against Oakland then we will have a long season of ups and downs but if we win we are back in this thing and looking at our next opponent. I apologize to some if I come off looking like an ass after this post but I will not apologize for supporting and encouraging this team. I am not naive or ignorant to the Texans problems but I still have hope and think they can turn this around because it’s not over yet (at least to me and probably a few more). Go ahead, fire away.

Same. I’m waiting for the defense that finished out last year strong to show up. This defense should have better talent then that defense.

You could almost say we drafted 3 TE’s – Casey, Hill, and Barwin. I like Barwin and I hope he can get things going on the defensive side of the ball but if he can’t then we have another TE available. The Texans seem to really like TE’s and we just brought back Harris. We now have 5 TE’s on our team and O CB’s, 1/2 FS and 0 SS (I sure hope Pollard works out there).

If you could scientifically quantify the secondary it would be [SUCK+(SOFT-CHOKE) x WHIFFTACKLE+TOAST]= Deer in the headlights. I don’t see how this gets fixed unless existing players somehow discover untapped reserves of heretofore unseen skills. I mean, here I am trying to convince myself that Pollard should give me hope because he plays the run a little better. I want to believe.

I like Kubiak and Shanahan. I think they should stay. I dunno how McNair will feel if we don’t right the ship this season. That said, I wonder what convinced them they would be ok coming into this season with this secondary. Apparently they saw something that totally evaporated on opening day.