my head will spontaneously implode.

the coaching staff has called horrible games since game 1.

1st game – totally unprepared and no excuses. It was like we had no clue they would come out in a 3-4 defense. Terrible play calling and lack of getting the team ready.
2nd game – Lack of preperation. Lucky to come back and win and that win goes to the players not the coaches. We won in spite of ourselves.
3rd game – again, terrible play calling. and yes Brown failed to gain a yard and fumbled when he did (this will be brought up again).
4th game – Great first half by both players and coaches. 2nd half sucked as far as play calling and trying to put the game away. Defense played great (players and coaching).
5th game – First half play calling sucked. The coaching staff put us in a position not to score with their play calls. Second half play calling was better and the players put us in a position to win and (now we get back to looking at week 3) the play calling and on field personnel was from the coaching staff and it was terrible. We sucked again.

So I disagree on the talent part and put it more on the coaches and play calling but in the end it really doesn’t matter b/c either way you look at it we aren’t winning. I’m still a fan and I still have hope for this season but the problem is Kubiaks consistancy of staying inconsistant.

because we were used to god awful drafts. The Okoye draft class isn’t too impressive.

I dont want to start over again. We’re on the right track, it’s just taking a while. Unless Mike Shanahan takes over as the head coach and demoting Kubes down to an offensive coordinator with Baby Shan as the QB coack again. I would be down for that.

soft schedule? I think alot of teams that were thought to be bad in the preseason are showing to be anything but. I dont think the schedule is soft by any means. Jets, Bengals, 49ers are much better than it was thought they would be. The second half of the schedule is no dusy either.

and I thought Chris was bad at using his phone.

he just felt like messin up my friday with his negative nancy comments! lmfao!

would be to continue upgrading our talent and depth. I remember when we were starting out as a franchise, had talent on Defense. None on offense, and no depth at any position, at least we have improved personel over the years.

I know the post was a little light, I wanted to get it published this morning because I knew I’d be busy all day.

I don’t think we should fire Kubiak for a few reasons. One of them being that we still don’t know what’s going to happen this season. I know I spoke a lot of doom and gloom but there is a chance that they can rally and go on a couple of winning streaks like we did last year, I was just pointing out the numbers that suggest we aren’t headed that way.

Hopefully this is a moot point, but if we do end up with a similar record/statistics as last year, I still don’t think we should fire him. I can’t really think of anyone I would want over Kubiak right now, even with all of the high profile former head coaches out there, to include Shanahan. I know that most people don’t agree with that, but I don’t really want to trade one good offensive minded head coach who hasn’t put a good defense together for another one. Not only that, but Shanahan will want personnel control like he had in Denver, which was his undoing.

I actually think there is not only potential for improvement, but there are signs of promise as well. Yes the defense is still porous, but twice now they’ve stepped up and completely shut teams down for whole quarters and even halfs (Titans, Cardinals). If Bush can get them to play like that for 3-4 quarters every game, this team could beat anyone. I just didn’t include that last belief in the article because that’s a lot of if’s and could’s.

Awesome, awesome post, good sir!
I completely forgot about the salary cap angle. One that has severly limited our ability to really get some good depth. Isn’t it this coming offseason that Jason Babin is finally off our books?
I, too, thought the playoff talk was pushing it a bit this year, but my guess was 9 wins, which I still think is completely possible. There are still far too many gaping holes that need to be fixed, and I understand that Smithiak doesn’t have enough fingers to plug them in one or two offseasons.
Excellent post!

I think Kubiak has done wonders in the personnel department. He did inherit a complete mess that needed to be fixed. I was only reffering to the stagnation. I originally didn’t have this post in mind. I was just curious about where we stood in relation to last year so last night I looked it up. The statistics were so eerily similar I decided to write the post.

I don’t think McNair should fire Kubiak, but as for the “don’t measure his success by his record, but rather what he has achieved” argument, I don’t by it. It’s cliche, but you are what your record says you are. We can sit around and laud the incredible turn around that he has accomplished, but if we end up at 8-8 with similar statistics, where is the progresson?

I wasn’t expecting the Super Bowl or a divisional title this year, and I’m even cool with not making the playoffs. All I wanted to see was progression, and so far this year the Texans haven’t. If they do, I’ll be the first one to talk about nothing but lollypops and rainbows (ask Tim). We just haven’t seen it yet.

I don’t think McNair would fire Kubiak this year for anything short of a collapse, but we don’t know, he did make a lot of uncharacteristic comments about making it to the playoffs earlier this year. If anything, I worry that the thoughts I put into this article would be part of the reasoning used to fire Kubiak, which I don’t want.

For your use of paragraphs.

I guess im gonna have to come back to Stampede Blue and get banned again.

Damn forehead worshippers.

Ribs? At Chili’s???

Dear God….