Ive been on the Kubiak bandwagon all season, I’m not getting off now. If the players step up and make big time plays in close games, its playoffs for us in 2010.

all we got to do to make the playoffs is get rid of anyone named chris or kris

Are you saying there’s not going to be a poll this week?

Does he deserve a contract extension? I say yes, because while the record doesn’t show it as much, the team has made progress in each year he has been here and I want that to continue.

He has several major flaws, but he’s a young coach, and my hope is that he can correct at least some of them. He needs to:

-Tighten everyone up, cut back on the sloppy play (penalties etc)
-Be quicker to get rid of bad players (the Browns)
-Play to win for all four quarters, without conservative or just plain stupid playcalling (halfback pass…)

the 31-33 overall record for Kubiak is a little deceiving because what did he start with? Now look at what him and Smith have made this team into. I give him another year, but I may pause as far as whether to extend the coach.

first winning season-first PO apperance

We will see. I’M glad Kubiak stays though. He’s a good man!

but I said then that if we won out and ended with our first winning season and the playoffs than there is no way Kubes should be fired. We arent in the playoffs yet but we still have hope. Im still not sold on Kubiak being the coach to take us to the Super Bowl, but I would be against firing a coach who just coached this team to the best record weve ever had.

Any news on Bush?

That even though I was on the Fire Kubes bandwagon, that I would be on board if he was brought back. Like I said then, I am a fan first and a critic second. But if we start out 0-4 or 1-5 next season, he needs to go.

we arent in the playoffs.

But these are the things he needs to work on.

Getting rid of under-productive players sooner
Getting more aggressive throughout the game
Manage the Clock better
Replace what ever moron is in the booth telling him to challenge or not
Draft and O line man in the first 2 rounds for once!!!!!

Team was within 8 points on 6 of those losses…that’s basically a turnover or missed kick. We’re close…I feel like today’s win was a big one for learning how to pull a win out.

I expect 10 next year. Fix the offensive line, fill in some DBs….grab a NT…..and hopefully stay as healthy as possible.

I have to say that I’m still on the get rid of Kubiak bandwagon. I realize that it’s hard to get rid of the guy who just coached a team to the franchise best record but we should have finished at least 12-4 and not have had to rely on help to get into the playoffs. Yes there were injuries and yes there were miscues by the RB’s and the kicker but it seemed to me that the players lacked the preperation to play 4 quarters of football instead of three in most of our losses. The play calling was suspect at times and I especally remember that HB pass in the second Indy game that still has me scratchin my head. But since we are pretty much stuck with him for aother year I hope at least that we fire every running back except Foster and send Kris Brown packin. I think if the team has the same opportunities next season and we finish 9-7 then he has to go.

And, truth be told, while I wanted him gone for the last half of the season, I’m ok with it. I like the guy and it’s clear the players do as well. I want him to succeed. But I don’t want to feel like sucking on a tailpipe for half of the football season.

I hope that next year’s edition of the team will not commit the insane number of stupid, preventable mistakes that kept this year’s team out of the playoff.

And one other thing: did anyone else notice that, while most of the Texans were celebrating the win, Brain Crushing was not? He had this look like, what’s the big deal? Hell, he probably lost more games this season than he did his whole USC career.

This is the kind of attitude I want from our players. Every single one.

Wow.

The fact that detractors are ALWAYS more vocal than supporters.
Sucks that I have to read through all your bullshit, however.

Yes, it is nice that we got our first winning season but I can only feel so happy about it. If we ad been 5-11 or something like that last season then ok. But we are coming of two 8-8 seasons and coming into this season we were picked by mosy analysts to be a 10 win playoff team. Looking back there were at least 3 losses that should have been wins. I guess my rub with Kubiak is that 1) I don’t see a lot of emotion from the guy. He has this constant look on his face of a guy who was pulled out of the stands, handed a headse, and told to coach the team. 2) The team lacked the motivation and preperation to finish games. How many times this season did the Texans get leads in the first half of games and then come out in the second half flat? 3) The offensive play calling tends to get ultra conservative at times when they need to open it up. 4) Clock management at the end of halves (especially the first half) has been shoddy at best. These are just some of the things I have noticed. I am sure he is a great guy and I’m sure he has a lot of knowledge but that doesn’t translate to wins. I wonder if everyone would still be on the Kubiak bandwagon if we finished 8-8? Does that 1 win really mean that much when i didn’t get us where we were predicted to go?