i think more than anything, why everyone is so pissed is not becuz we lost, we are used to that. i think it’s more that we are just confronted with the reality that our guys “gave up.” that more than anything, speaks volumes.

amen

I could add “lack of mobility” to the list of Schaub deficiencies, but that is something he can’t do anything about. Let’s face it, even without a bad ankle, he isn’t running away from anyone. I don’t see a coaching cure for that.

Is Antoine Caldwell the answer? Time will tell on that one. Until then Kris Jenkins-types will steal Chris Meyers’ lunch money. That’s a weak link that no amount of coaching will cure.

Yes, Slaton needs to be the hole-finder of last year. And, the line needs to make them. Coaching! Slaton seemed to run with more abandon last year and now he seems to be hesitant. Coaching!

Can “bad game” be an acceptable excuse? I have seen some perinially good teams throw in clunkers. Can this be what the Texans did?

Is a complete crapshoot. You have a player score three touchdowns and then do nothing the rest of the year. There are more wacko plays and special teams breakdowns. There’s little real tape to go on and alot of assumptions have to be made. There’s alot more time to prepare for the first game, but alot more surprises. Those, like Kubiak and company, who can’t make in-game adjustments tend to perform poorly. After game 1, everyone has something on tape and everyone will spend the same amount of time preparing for each game.

That being said, I never read anything into the first regular season game. It’s probably less predictive than performance in the preseason. I’m unwilling to form an opinion of any team until after week 2. Hell, the Jets may play like crap next week. They may not be even close to the best defense the Texans face this year. No one’s had a chance to figure out which defensive personnel to exploit on the Jets. There’s at least a handful of teams that could wind up being the best opposing defense for the Texans.

As for Matt Schaub, he’ll be back next year. The only way he’s dropped is if Kubiak is fired. And that won’t happen unless the season goes super-miserably, which it won’t. Kubiak will be back for the last year of his contract and McNair’s not going to put him into a lame duck season with a new, rookie QB drafted in the first round. Schaub will be Kubiak’s QB for his make-or-break season. The $10 million will be paid, so just give it a rest.

Slaton does appear to have lost his edge all of a sudden. Perhaps his coke dealer got arrested during preseason and he’s still trying to snuff out a new one.

great effin’ movie.

Texans CB Dunta Robinson
(on if he was embarrassed by the performance) “I’m not embarrassed. I’m pretty sure my teammates aren’t embarrassed either because we didn’t play well. If you come in and you give it all you’ve got and you still get beat by 17 points or whatever the final score was then that’s an embarrassment. Looking past this game we know the things that we need to correct. We’ve got 15 games left and we’ve got to move on. One thing I don’t want to hear guys say is, ‘It’s OK, we started 0-4 last year,’ because this is a totally different year and a week to week thing so we’ve got to move past that.”

(on the performance of Jets QB Mark Sanchez) “I thought he did a great job. I thought they did a great job of protecting him. I thought he showed a lot of poise, I mean he looked like he did in the preseason, and like I said, these days, things have changed with rookie quarterbacks. He has a good run game and the line did a great job of protecting him, so I thought he looked pretty good.”

(on what needs to be corrected) “We’ve got to tackle better and we’ve got to get off the field on third down as a defense. I’m pretty sure the offense has things that they’ve got to work on. I know myself, I didn’t do a good job of tackling today, and that’s something that I have to improve myself and I think as a defensive unit getting off the field on 3rd down is the biggest thing.”

(on if they underestimated any part of the Jets offense) “No, we didn’t underestimate them at all. We knew coming into this game what kind of guys we were facing. (RB) Leon Washington and (WR) Jerricho Cotchery, we knew those guys could make big plays. I really cant speak for the rest of the defense right now as far as tackling goes, but for myself that’s the only glitch that I had today. I missed tackles that I usually make. That’s small though, I’d rather have that problem than not being able to cover a guy. We’ll be fine. We’ll go back to the drawing board and we’ll be ready for Tennessee next Sunday.”

(on if he is angry) “Definitely. Any time you lose a football game you’re pretty mad. It’s just one of those situations where we have to hunker down and we have to be much better. That’s the bottom line. One game and we didn’t come away with the win but one thing we can do is look at our mistakes and move on.”

(on how shocked he felt after the game) “It wasn’t what I expected, but that’s the way it rolls sometimes. You never know what to expect. But I know one thing, we didn’t expect that. Anyway you look at it, it’s a loss. We’ve got to correct the things that we did wrong and we’ve got to make sure we do better Sunday.”

(on him saying that one thing they wanted to do was make defensive coordinator Frank Bush look good) “It’s one game. As a unit we didn’t look good. When a unit plays good the coaches look good. It starts with us. They put us in the calls and we’ve got to go out and execute. Third down was our biggest problem. We played well 1st and 2nd down but we didn’t get off the field on third down. We know what we’ve got to fix and we’ve got to get it done.”

our only sucessful free agent signing in 8 years?

my favorite is Vonta Leach. The dude is built like a brick and he just looks for people to hit. He is the Texans physical presence on offense (maybe the only one). I love to see him catch the ball in the flats and look for people to hit. I do like Walter though.

…half the game live. The second half. The DVR has the entire game, but I, like many others probably, can’t bring myself to watch yet. From what I did see our tackling was not there. Sanchez looked like Johnny Unitas against us. That’s just unacceptable.

All I have to say is next week if Tennessee wears those sacreligious Oiler throwbacks, The Texans will probably lose big again. I don’t think the Texans players carry the hate-Bud-the-Pud grudge as strongly (if at all) as we do.

My back constantly aches from carrying that grudge….

Bud sucks (the Titans owner, not the beer).

Thank you for reading my comment on the besf’s pressure, and agreeing. It didn’t get any traction, so I was praying SOMEONE else saw what I did.