Would sure make the next draft interesting for us to watch as fans. I have to wonder about what he would do to our offense. Surely he would draft or sign some bigger O linemen, and possibly a “big back” thats worth a damn.

As others have said, Cowher football teams are built behind power running games and smothering 3-4 defenses. That is absolutely not the Texans – even if we could revamp the defense in the offseason, which I really doubt, we don’t have the offensive players, especially on the o-line, to play the kind of football Cowher would want to play. The guy is a great coach, but hiring him isn’t going to sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the Texans that will get us to the AFC championship in one season or something. We’d have to commit to at least one, and likely two or three more seasons of rebuilding.

Barring a total meltdown, Kubiak deserves our support for at least another season. Yes, it is painful to lose to the BESFs and Colts on last-minute missed field goals, but this overreaction and “FIRE KUBIAK RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE” nonsense is just wrong.

I’d prefer Jon Gruden, but in any case, we may need a coaching change, albeit an experienced one, if the the Texans don’t make the playoffs this year…

Look I know that Kubiak has done a good job bringing us up from the bottom. But there have been tremendous mistakes made ie. giving Carr the extension, Antonio Smith, Meyers as our center and the list goes on. Also if you think back to what our problems were when he took over they were our “O” line, our defensive line, quarterback play and a consistent running game. Granted our quarterback play is better but that is really about it. He is showing that he plays not to lose games instead of to win games. Everybody is on Kris Brown for missing field goals but really that game should have never been that close. Our game plan played to Vince Youngs stregnths. We should have put 8 in the box and shutdown the run and contained V.Y. daring him to read the defense quickly and accuratly which he has shown is not his stregnth let him beat us with his arm not his legs, V.Y seems to befuddle Kubiak and his assistant coaches. The last time when V.Y beat us Kubiak had called a zero blitz which left the middle open and sure enough V.Y figured this out and galloped for 40 yards and the win this time we were leaving the edges open instead of the middle, most troubling was there was no adjust ment to stop this. Concerning the running game he has shown that he is too hard headed to even consider that the zone blocking sceme run 100% of the time is just not the answer. Bottom line in todays enviroment 4 years is enough to turn a team around it is time for Kubiak to go.

Ok so lets hypothetically speaking kubiak is fired and Cowher is intervied…. then he lets us down and signs with another team everyone knows its possible and its amazing no one has brought it up. Then what do we do, we are stuck without an “experienced” coach and left to search for another newbie. I say newbie because like whiskey said gruden would ruin the texans like he ruined the bucs and i for one can not wait any longer for the texans to be considered an elite team. So what do we do ???

If the Texans manage to upset the Colts tomorrow, the “Fire Kubes!” bandwagon will screech to a halt. Until the next loss, when it will undoubtedly fire back up again.

I’m still of the mind that replacing Kubes would set the offense back in a big enough way that it would eviscerate any short-term improvement that could feasibly be made on defense via a new hire. There’s no doubt that Kubes has presided over some head-scratching decisions this season (e.g., starting Chris Brown last week, putting Ryan Moats into the witness protection program, etc.), but I think the progress the Texans have made under his watch far outweighs the negatives.

In deciding wether or not to fire Kubiak I think that it is very tricky in that Kubiak has made enough mistakes to deserve to be fired on the other hand who do we replace him with we definetly do not need another coordinator want to be head coach. I think that Holmgren might be a very good fit for us. I know that he wants back in an basically built that Seattle team that went to the Super Bowl. He has also proven himself to be a very good offensive mind in dealing with the west coast offense which is basically what we have here. I really like Cower as a head coach but I am afraid that we are going to take a big step backwards trying to reconstruct our defense to fit the 3-4 sceme. I do believe that it could be done it would probably take a year we would need to pickup a nose tackle through free agency/ the draft and another outside linebacker.
    Something else to consider in deciding wether to fire Kubiak or not is the teams reputation we all heard the statements from the Jets defense about just being physical with us that we are a finess team. As much as I hate to admit it we are that in some ways we play small athletice"FINESS" linemen on the Oline as well as the interior of the “D” line. I think that we need tochange this perception in order to be able to attract the big name free agents.

Lets just go beat the Colts tomorrow and talk about this when we are 10-6.

Everyone needs to shut up about moving to a 3-4. It saddens me to see so many people buying into groupthink and/or exposing their own ignorance as to 4-3 v. 3-4. Please, for the love of God, drop it.

I understand a lot of people not wanting to think about firing Kubiak and there is a reasonable argument for this. He has definetly made us more respectable, our passing game is much better. Matt Schaub is actually a pretty darn good quarterback. But the bottom line is that to win championships you must be dominant on both the offensive and defensive lines. These problems have plagued us from the inception of our franchise. Either through poor drafting or poor free agent signings we have failed to improve these positions to the extent that they need to be. The way I see it we have 3 above average players on the “O” and “D” line. Mario WIlliams, Eric Winston and Duane Brown. Now I am not certain why but all 3 of these players have not played with consistency this year. I believe that they all 3 have the potential to do so. What can we attribute this to Coaching or effort or injury, with Mario Williams it is probably the later {I HOPE}. Forget everything else positive about this team until we get the lines fixed we will not be a consistent team. Whose fault is it? I know that Kubiak addressed this when he first became the head coach it was suppossed to be a priority, they have tried especially on the defensive side only to continually miss the mark I believe that it is a combination of coaching and talent evaluation. We need to get someone in here ASAP that will seriously address these situations otherwise we are kind of a paper tiger. Any good defensive coach right now can get to our quarterback and we are struggling to stop it. It is time for a change.

He is not coming here that a fact Kubiak is our coach right now why is everyone is so woried bout the offseason and who our coach is going to be like if we were cleveland or bills. I mean mathematically and in actuality we have a chance to make it above .500 and playoffs. Everyone lost there hope over two losses like if we have never lost two in a row. People please we are better than that i mean come on we survived a 2-14 season. All we have to do is worry bout the colts on sunday, if we beat them and jacksonville looses than we are in wild card talk again. We are 1 game out 1 effin game really guys really everyone wants to jump off the bandwagon now nice.

Ok so freeney is out tomorrow maybe things are starting to change in our favor. That’s one less thing to worry about

I would love to see Toby Gerhart here. If Cowher comes in, that’s the kind of RB he’ll want.

Kubiak just doesn’t bring it and we aren;t getting it from the players.

We need a change somewhere. If we win less than ten games with thismuch talent, it should start with the head coach.