Don't Put This One All on Frank Bush...
by Mike Kerns on Nov 1, 2010 10:49 PM CDT
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PrintI usually don't like to do recaps this soon after an ass kicking of this magnitude.I usually just end up saying that everyone should be fired from the Coach all the way down to the towel boys. But since the 4th quarter isn't looking much like it will be worth watching, I decided to get a head start since I'll be too busy in the morning. Even though it was brought up, I am doubtful it will have the same late game magic effect like it did when I started early on the recap for the Redskins game back in week two.
But as for this game, where to begin...
I would have to say the coaching. Now, I am as guilty as anyone this season in blaming Frank Bush for everything short of World War III (and only that is a matter of time). But you can't put this one ALL on him, as usual. Don't get me wrong, the defense was up to par on their usual garbage performance. But there were more people wearing the headsets this evening that deserve every bit as much of the blame as BRB's usual whipping boy.
We'll dive into the ranting after the jump...
For about two season now, I have been on record as saying it was past time for a change at head coach for the Houston Texans. Gary Kubiak is a great human being and a swell guy, I'm sure. But I just haven't believed that he has the chops to be a leader of men for quite some time now. And regardless of the 4-3 record, many are starting to cross the picket line over into Camp "Fire Gary." Tonight should be as much of a reason why as any.
Horrible play calling. Terrible timeout usage. Piss poor game planning. You name it, it went wrong. And after a while, you can't just say "Fire Frank Bush" and "Fire Rick Dennison" before the conductor starts to get called out for the orchestras poor sound. Especially when he goes in front of the press every week and pulls a Tracy McGrady and says "This one was on me."
I can't say anything about Frank Bush that hasn't already been said. There were times tonight where a defensive players name was called (like Brian Cushing) and I was like "Oh yeah...I forgot he's on this team." Another game of nearly 400 yards and 30 points surrendered. Should we even be surprised by now? It's really so far past the point of wondering just how bad this defense has to be before Frank Bush is relieved of his post.
A lot of times while Richard Smith was still the defensive coordinator, people used the phrase "this defense has too much talent to be this bad." And I agreed. But now with another defensive coordinator and the same exact problems, perhaps we as fans have overrated the personnel on defense. Bernard Pollard is good for a sound byte and a big hit once in a while, but is he really that good of a player? Mario Williams is one of the best ends in the league when he wants to be. Brian Cushing looks to be a waste and middle linebacker (although that's probably jumping the gun after one game) and even I have begun to wonder if Zac Diles could even wrap up and bring down BFD in an open field situation. Then, seeing Mario Williams yelling at Bill Kollar on the sidelines midway through the 4th just shows the ultimate signs of a unit in disarray. Besides, even if Frank Bush was fired I have no faith in Bob McNair to hire anyone that would be considered an upgrade.
I could care less about a 4-3 record. The Colts are better than us, the Titans are way better than us and the Jaguars beat the piss out of the Cowboys in Dallas. A team whose lone win this season was a f*ckstomping of these same Houston Texans. Oh yeah, the Jags beat the Colts, too.
Two miraculous comeback wins (including one incredibly lucky "icing the kicker" moment) are the only things keeping this team from being 2-5. And with the schedule only getting more difficult from here, it just might be time to stop making excuses for Gary Kubiak. How many years of being a middle of the pack football team do we really need before we say enough is enough? I know most of you don't want Jon Gruden. I know almost all of you don't want Bill Cowher. But it is obvious that this regime is never going to get this franchise over the hump. Regardless of the talent on the roster. Sure, we're only 7 games into the season. But do you honestly believe that the defensive unit will just simply "have a light come on" and all of a sudden not be atrocious? Well, if you do then I pass me a cup of whatever you're drinking. Ah, screw the cup! Just give me the bottle!
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I kicked in TV screen in 1st half
what happened?
He’s always open. He catches a lot of balls. He’s un-guardable, no matter how old he is
We won
And then the Ministry of Truth decided it never happened.
by JimboTexan on Nov 2, 2010 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
"Then, seeing Mario Williams yelling at Bill Kollar on the sidelines midway through the 4th just shows the ultimate signs of a unit in disarray."
And I don’t think he was in for another meaningful snap.
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Wow, did this actually happen?
Good for Mario. He might as well be defensive coordinator if this is how we’re going to play.
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by riversmccown on Nov 1, 2010 11:44 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not sure about if he didn't have another snap
But, yes, he was laying into Kollar. It looked like when T.O. was yelling at McNabb back in the day.
Well heck
We hired Kollar from Buffalo, it’s just a matter of time before a light switches on!
Not sure about "not another snap" either,
but he damn sure was giving Kollar an earful….at elevated decibels.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
8-8 here we come.
Let’s just get used to .500 football for the rest of eternity.
Split Seahawks/Texans fan. Don't like it? Don't care.
Unfortunately I have to agree.
For a while I felt that it was all on Bush but after today’s performance it’s obvious that we need a better head coach. We can still make the playoffs even after today’s disaster but the problem is that this is an every week thing. We lost to the Colts and at this point we are used to it but to just flat out suck and not show up is inexcusable. I can deal with a loss but I can’t deal with shit for effort and then saying It’s on me. I should have known that this season was going to suck with the longhorns and texans both displaying ineptitude at the top. Now bring on the chargers who are number 1 at everything except winning.
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by NoSafetiesNeeded on Nov 1, 2010 10:55 PM CDT reply actions
*shrug*
Better offensive play calling and we could have won the game. I think our secondary looked better today to be honest, manning just poked and prodded us perfectly. Our D gave up 23 points when our offense couldn’t stay on the damn field in the first, so thats a positive.
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It isn't just this game though
I’ve had this negative feeling about the team since the Giants game. I seriously think anything better than 8-8 will be a surprise.
I'm still a believer in 10-6
but they need to win next week. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. If they lose to San Diego then my optimism will be gone.
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Tim is with you
I think this was our season and we are headed for 9-7.
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by riversmccown on Nov 1, 2010 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions
The thing is...
I really don’t think the Texans can beat San Diego.
Having written up the DSB already…..the Texans don’t do what needs to be done to beat San Diego. It’s a simple gameplan too, but I don’t think they can do it.
"Lord, beer me strength."
I'm merely banking my hope on the fact....
that this team hears the negative chatter and comes out pissed off. And frankly, that’s the only hope I have of a win….this team gets tired of it and plays balls out.
"Lord, beer me strength."
with the huge, glaring exception of STs, i didn't think the Chargers were that bad.
Correct me if i’m wrong there.
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Just. This. Incredible.
They're not.
They’re better than 3-5, and we’re worse than 5-3. That’s a recipe for disaster.
The Texans have lucked out and played relatively bad teams in their “must-win” games so far this season. Next week, they’ll have to get up and beat a talented team. I don’t see much evidence that they’re capable of that.
Not at all
They may have the worst special teams unit of all time (legitimately….they’ve tied the record for most ST Points allowed), but they’re fairly legit.
They’ve got a few holes, but I just wonder if this Houston team can actually exploit them.
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i'll be pulling hard for your guys. i think.
i’m honestly not sure about that, now that i think about it. as much as i hate the chargers, you losing to them would help us a lot.
Sorry :-/
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Dallas Clark is
Just. This. Incredible.
tebus that's AWFUL
tied for most ST points allowed, ALREADY? they’re going to blow the previous record out of the water.
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Dallas Clark is
Just. This. Incredible.
This was not a big loss.
It would have been a great win, but a close loss, to the Colts, in Indy, with a bad (upgrade from non-existent) D, and bad pass blocking for most of the game, and the Schaupic (Patent Pending). In a game where few picked the Texans to win, this wasn’t bad. A great steal, yes just as with Washington, and the home game with the Colts, not bad. We’re 4-3 with two losses in the Tiebreaker insignificant NFC East, and a season draw with the Colts, and 4 games left in the AFC South. If we go 3-1 (2-0 v. Jags, Home spit with BESF’s) in division, and 3-2 (Win in SD, DEN, PHI; Losses with Jets, Ravens) outside the division we’re OK. If we steal one or two more games we win the division. Keep hope alive.
Except the Jags....
outright pwned the cowturds….PWNED them. What do ya think they’ll do to us once we meet.
I’m already at 1-5 in conference again and a 9-7 record…..if we’re lucky…..8-8 or 7-9 otherwise.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
I think we miss Shanny
We have forgottten how to throw screens. Plus, getting too cute. Just run da ball.
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There were a lot of dropped passes
Shaub was 5/15 in the first half. and while 1 was a pick 6, a lot of those were straight drops by the WR’s
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by distant_texans_fan on Nov 1, 2010 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Very fixable isn't that?
I mean come on these players have produced inconsistantly, but we know they can get it done.
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You guys def. did better against the pass today I thought.
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by TheAngelsColts on Nov 1, 2010 11:50 PM CDT up reply actions
heh, I agree
but as a TEAM, we still didn’t get the job done. If we had, you wouldn’t have to console us on our loss ;-)
That's like telling a fat girl
She has pretty eyes.
Phillips or chili?
who would be the better upgrade? I think philips would have run more.
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by Remember the Alamo on Nov 1, 2010 11:02 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
I would not replace Kubiak
with either of those coaches. Ever.
The strong do what they have to do; the weak accept what they have to accept
Brad Childress
Inept coach of the Vikings
The strong do what they have to do; the weak accept what they have to accept
The POS in minnesota
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by Remember the Alamo on Nov 1, 2010 11:06 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I sure miss dom capers
At least my hopes were never that high
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by Remember the Alamo on Nov 1, 2010 11:05 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Steal Leslie Frazier from Minny before Childress gets canned
or better yet don’t ; )
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
Definitely don’t do that.
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I'd go with the chili.
Make sure it’s spicy, and then put plenty of crackers and chili powder on top of it. Melted cheese on top would also be good.
Wait…….what?
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In review,
I am most mad about refusing to run the ball the first half of the game. While the defense looked horrific in the second half, they did stop Manning occasionally. On defense, we lack a creative scheme, safeties who can cover, corners who can make plays, a defensive tackle who can pressure up the middle, and currently a MLB who can change the plays once Manning audibles to the obvious soft spot of your play call.
On offense, today looked like all we were missing was a stud LT. Which is why it is so disappointing that the offense struggled. Effective play calling, i.e run in the first half, changes this game into something closer to a W in my mind.
The strong do what they have to do; the weak accept what they have to accept
Coming off a suspension like that
left him cold. This was not the game for him to warm back up to the NFL.
The strong do what they have to do; the weak accept what they have to accept
5 weeks of no NFL play...
no one can do it. Not a single damn player. Foolish to think he could handle Dwight Freeney
"Lord, beer me strength."
Especially since...
He has been man-handled by Freeney every single time the two have been matched up, even when he had the rhythm of a full season going for him.
Time to stop pretending like we have the talent to stop elite pass-rushers. Bite the bullet and double-team him.
SERIOUSLY
The only time you should even consider NOT double teaming someone as freaking dominant as Dwight “The Second Coming” Freeney is when you have a mediocre-to-bad receiving core. I don’t care if K-Dub and Daniels are off their game, Johnson can get open running with one leg tied behind his back. Double Freeney and give Schaub the time to hit Johnson or check down.
RUN the ball, and throw it to Johnson. Oh my God is it that hard?
by Superdave532 on Nov 2, 2010 12:20 AM CDT up reply actions
You mean like the ONE series?
That the whole game could have been like
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 9:21 AM CDT up reply actions
Defense played the first quarter....
by making Seyton go 3 and out a few times. Our offence did not show up when we had these stops. I believe we should have ran the ball more in the first. The play calling that quarter sucked and is Kubs fault. You cannot ask the Defense to stop manning every down, you have to keep him off the field by running and converting 3rd downs!!!! Get us a new head coach that knows Defense and put Kubs in as OC.
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by SteelBlueUSMC on Nov 1, 2010 11:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Kubes Calls the Plays
"I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle." - Bill Peterson former Oilers Coach
by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 9:22 AM CDT up reply actions
Seemed it was both T most of the game. Problem is besides a few good runs the run game wasn't nearly as effective for you this game
which helped our pass rush.
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by TheAngelsColts on Nov 1, 2010 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Considering Foster only carried it 16 times
For an 8.8 yard average
Yeah we forgot he can run
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Also by running the ball you would have at the same time taken some of the pressure off of the T's as we wouldn't have been able to
focus on stopping the Pass so much. I thought your D-line did pretty well tonight though even if Mario wasn’t very productive.
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by TheAngelsColts on Nov 2, 2010 12:12 AM CDT up reply actions
Sounds like his average production.
For an 8.8 yard average
So we quit running him when we got behind by three because OH HORRORS….we’re down by three, we have to play like we’re down by 34!
I missed most of the first half, but that is what it looked like was going on when I got home w/ about 3min left in the 2nd quarter.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
I cant really say anything...
It was Texans through and through. Bad defense (which is a little step up from horrible d), Bad play calling masked by great players. A chance to come back into it, a chance of hope assassinated quicker than JFK with a possible second shooter.
I'm sure glad we didn't so shit before the trade deadline
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by Remember the Alamo on Nov 1, 2010 11:03 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
some quotes
“We did not play up to the level we’ve come to expect from ourselves.” – QB Matt Schaub on loss at Indy
Coach Kubiak says Andre Johnson tweaked his ankle but should be OK. Probably something that ’Dre will be battling all season.
“We’ll have to be a lot better this week if we want to win.” – Coach Kubiak
living the Texas dream
Insightful.
Captain Hindsight to the rescue!
by Nashmeister on Nov 1, 2010 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Rec'd.
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by riversmccown on Nov 1, 2010 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
So much for......
all the talk from Bernard Pollard and Antonio Smith and this “Players Only” meeting they had! All week I read over and over how our defense was going to step up as “men” and take responsibility and hold each other accountable. I saw the exact same thing that I’ve seen the previosu six games. Defense giving up way too many yards and points! On the other side of the ball at what point do you just give up on the O-Line when a four man rush (and three man at times) gets pressure on our QB when you have five lineman a RB and a TE to help out. In all my game playing (spades, blackjack, pick-a-pair, tiddlewinks…) a 7 should win out over a 4!!!
Our D did step up
Our offense didn’t do shit in the first, and they kept us in it. 23 points against manning should be enough for this team if our offense does their job.
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Maybe....
I missed most of the first (still at work) so I was looking at the game central on my computer and all I saw was long drives by Peyton and like one 3 and out. Still don’t like how we have to send in blitzes to get any resemblance of a pass rush while we get sacked and pressured from a Indy’s (actually everyone’s) base front.
Our d isn't good
but I think they did decent today. If the offense shows up in the first we win.
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our d played well in the first quarter.....
by making Seyton go 3 and out a few times. Our offence did not show up when we had these stops. I believe we should have ran the ball more in the first. The play calling that quarter sucked. You cannot ask the Defense to stop manning every down, you have to keep him off the field by running and converting 3rd downs!!!!
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by SteelBlueUSMC on Nov 1, 2010 11:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Sorta wish Duane Brown had appealed his suspension.
I have no qualms about placing the majority of the problems the pass offense had on him.
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Mathis, Hughes and Session got pressure repeatedly too
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions
If a bunch of bloggers can correctly predict
That Foster was going to have a good game (and therefore that we should start out running the ball), what does it say about Kubes that he took an entire half to figure that out?
I remain on the Fire Gary bandwagon.
I'll eliminate you like I eliminate gluten from my diet.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 1, 2010 11:14 PM CDT reply actions
I've been steady giving you gas money,
since about half way through last season.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
correct
it goes head to head, which is tied. Then conference record which is on the Texans side
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what was the Texan game plan again?
A beating on MNF in division….Nice
Steve Young just compared the COLTS to the Harlem Globetrotters, I don’t know about all that, but Texans fell apart.
5-2 in the big bad AFC South!!
Looks like ill be rooting for San Diego again next week.
Bang
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I think he was more calling us the generals
who ALWAYS lost to the globetrotters. Even if the game was close, you knew the globetrotters would win at the end.
Ouch.
Also, I’m pretty sure I saw Dallas Clark pants Shaun Cody and throw a pie in his face at one point.
Speaking of which, this article is amusing. This line was amazing when the Jets weren’t good:
Since entering the NFL in the 1976 expansion, the Globetrotter football team has posted a 449-0-1 record, which analysts agree is due in part to their freewheeling, rule-bending, and vastly entertaining style of play, and also in part to their facing the same traditional and hapless opponent, the New York Jets, almost every Sunday.
go away you douche
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by JustAJ on Nov 1, 2010 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I HATE trolls
especially some tool that just joined to shoot his mouth off and then crawl back to that shit hole SB.
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by JustAJ on Nov 1, 2010 11:31 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
No kidding.
There was no need for that.
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Seriously, dude. Die.
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Rec'd.
You made me feel a little better. Thank you!!!
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by UprootedTexan on Nov 2, 2010 6:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice job.
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Energy
About the most emotion I saw the entire game was Mario in Bill Kollars ear, I never really see much emotion or energy from this team just faces of disbelief, I’m not sure if it’s coaches not motivating the players or the players not motivating each other or what but if they acted like they gave a damn I would be impressed
by wkittinger on Nov 1, 2010 11:16 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
I agree
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by SteelBlueUSMC on Nov 1, 2010 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Yea.
Even Cushing looked flat. Really, he looked like he was supervising instead of playing. Obviously one game isn’t enough to judge the decision, but I still think it was an awful idea to move him to MLB.
I think he needs time to adjust to MLB. I mean it is a totally different role than OLB.
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by TheAngelsColts on Nov 2, 2010 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions
All so our number 2 receiver did not catch one pass.
Jacoby caught 2 and owen caught 1 at the end. so we pass to running backs and Andre we need a number 2 receiver badly.
For the "Fire Kubiak" people out there
I would like to point out that mad jack still has a job, having thrown everyone possible under the bus, TWICE. Fucking Jags.
Also, sincere respect, Texans fans. You have a great team. But you had to know you weren’t going to win in the Colts house in primetime…
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Dallas Clark is
Just. This. Incredible.
also, Jags game was on the road for Indy, unless you're referring to a past Jags game.
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"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." - Hofstadter's Law
Dallas Clark is
Just. This. Incredible.
Texans need to seek advice from Jags
He’s always open. He catches a lot of balls. He’s un-guardable, no matter how old he is
nah. the Jags legitimately suck. they just catch some teams by surprise, and have gotten lucky a couple of times
…kind of like Purdue… /cry
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Dallas Clark is
Just. This. Incredible.
That look....
on AJ’s face on the sideline in the 4th Qtr said it all and pretty much sums up my feelings right now Now I can’t even talk smack to my friends who are Chargers fans right now!
Without the Pick 6.....
We are within 7-10 points this whole game. which means the defense played decent.
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Ok so here is my $0.02
I am IFUCKINGRATE! WHY THE HELL WERE WE PASSING IN THE FIRST QUARTER? Seriously…Arian is a monster, the Colts showed they are still unable to defend any run and got lucky on a few. This game is a shitload closer than the score and most times i will say that is a cop out. But our D played decent against p8un and the ponies, allowing only 2 offensive Touchdowns and a couple fieldgoals… I want Bush to run the scheme has against the colts AGAINST EVERYONE! stop being so damn vanilla! Kubiak is slowly getting closer and closer to my UBER SHIT LIST! I am just so effin pissed that we can’t get a solid performance from this team.
I heard Brian Cushing like to do it with girls in a really uncomfortable place and i am not talking about the back seat of a Volkswagen
Go Texans!
I have no answer for you.
But was there any doubt in your mind that was exactly what we were going to do? It was just the most simplistic, misguided reverse psychology. “Oh, they think we’re going to run the ball because they know that we know that they can’t stop it. But get this… We’re going to completely trick them by playing into their defense’s biggest strength and passing it four times to start the game!”
As I mentioned earlier, the Texans’ offense averages less than three points per game in the first quarter this season. Now that, my friends, is pathetic.
by Nashmeister on Nov 1, 2010 11:31 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I do know that is exactly what was goin to happen...
weird that fans can tell you exactly how your coach is going to play a game…
I heard Brian Cushing like to do it with girls in a really uncomfortable place and i am not talking about the back seat of a Volkswagen
Go Texans!
LOL rec'd
for “troothiness” ;-) right here
It was just the most simplistic, misguided reverse psychology. "Oh, they think we’re going to run the ball because they know that we know that they can’t stop it. But get this… We’re going to completely trick them by playing into their defense’s biggest strength and passing it four times to start the game!"
and yes I’m taking artistic license to mis-spell a fake word ;-)
Just stopping over
to say that Andre Johnson is an absolute beast and showed a lot of heart being out there on an injured foot. That ball he snatched from the air on the Texans’ last drive was absolutely incredible.
Good luck the rest of the way… and see many of you in the open threads that you are so graciously hosting :-)
by LovinBlue on Nov 1, 2010 11:27 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
thanks but there is no one here – we all just shot ourselves
He’s always open. He catches a lot of balls. He’s un-guardable, no matter how old he is
don't do that
still gotta beat the Sister Fuckers
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I commend your team’s “backups” for actually getting their assignments right. AND holy cow y’all CAUGHT the balls thrown to you.
We may have only slightly been kidding that Peyton Manning would make any water boy look good on the field but your team pulled it together despite being much more injured.
And you’re right, Andre Johnson is awesome =) . He deserves so much better.
I think
Arian Foster
Derrick Ward
Andre Johnson
Matt Schaub (yeah go ahead and ban me for saying Matt played worth a damn)
They were the only ones on the offense who were worth a damn on the offense’ side of the game.
I’m very disappointed in K Dub, and Jacoby Jones, and Owen Daniels. They needed to make their plays so that we could have had more points.
Daniels has to be the most disappointing player this year though. At least I think so based on what I see which is nothing.
I mean honestly someone mentioned earlier that he was in some tonight and I said “What?”. I mean I honestly never heard his name or noticed him in the least and for a TE that isn’t good.
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by TheAngelsColts on Nov 2, 2010 2:26 AM CDT up reply actions
well if I wanted to be more fair ..
I might point out that we’ve been having such issues with the front line protecting Matt Schaub all season long so him getting off ANY throws .. they need to be to someone who he KNOWS will produce. Is it any wonder Schaub is always aiming for Andre?
Jacoby dropped too many shots.
Kevin Walters who that announcer CONTINUED to call MIKE Walters .. gah! he’s normally much more reliable .. and typically even more understated than Andre Johnson — if such a thing is possible. . .
Owen Daniels .. he’s coming off a bad injury from last year so they were letting him get back into form slowly. Daniels’ best game this season ? To my recollection, it’s the game against Kansas City where we thought he was starting to get back into the real Owen Daniels’ form. He was great last year ‘til his ACL injury ;-( we’re still waiting for him to return to “great” this year.
I honestly don't think it's our receivers' fault.
Schaub has a problem of going with his first read, regardless of if it’s covered or not. Most of his interceptions are directly attributed to him going with his first read, coverage be damned. How many times have we seen him force the ball to Andre, all the while someone else is wide open on the other side of the field. The ball that he through to KW that went for a pick 6, he had Leach and Foster in the flat just BEGGING for the ball. KW had 2 balls thrown to him today, both of them he was not just covered, but smothered. but instead of going somewhere else with it, Schaub throws it to them regardless. It just seems as if there is no room for error on those first 15-20 scripted plays, that if the play calls for the ball to be thrown to whoever, it’s going to be thrown to them, covered or not.
yeah you may be onto something there. I see what you're getting at about scripting . . .I hadn't thought about that.
I was just very disappointed by what looked like no one catching the balls that Matt threw them.
I DID want to add that I think Vonta Leach probably played his heart out too. I say “probably” b/c I THINK he caught something and I didn’t get to see more of him doing stuff because for some strange reason we didn’t RUN THE BALL!
this loss was just so disappointing b/c if we could POSSIBLY have beaten the Colt’s twice this season, having them so vulnerable with a pack of “n00bs” would have been our big opportunity that we seem to have squandered. Would we even have had this kind of opportunity if the Colts had been more healthy? Not bloody likely. . . not the way that THIS offense played.
and you have a good point here too
It just seems as if there is no room for error on those first 15-20 scripted plays, that if the play calls for the ball to be thrown to whoever, it’s going to be thrown to them, covered or not.
That might be Schaub not wanting rock the boat or defy the coach’s game plan? It COULD be that he’s not comfortable with Dennison as his coach. Maybe Baby Shan was more approachable/ easy going / willing to do crazy stuff?
Maybe Schaub and Dennison don’t communicate with each other well?
Maybe Dennison is too domineering an OC?
Schaub used to be magical last year. This year, has he lost the magic b/c of Dennison or b/c his Offensive Line is more tenuous like a rubber band instead of rock solid?
Or is it Kubes and Schaub getting wires crossed?
Or just Kubes stuffing things up beyond all recognition? =P
on the pick6 Schaub didn't have time to go past his 1st read
Session was coming in unblocked.
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
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Saints fan here and Houston resident....
I agree with this post. I have been following the Texans since 06 and I believe that Kubiak should be fired…
If you look at head coaches hired since 2006 Kubiak is one of the least successful.
I compare the the Texans to the 07-08 Saints. Great offense No Defense.
Why the hell didnt Kubs not hire a proven Defensive coordinator???
by blackandgoldbuddha on Nov 1, 2010 11:30 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Hey buddy no trolling. That's an insta ban.
Who does this guy think he is asking rational questions that everyone except Gary Kubiak have the answer to? Glad we stopped this before he added any more reasonable thoughts.
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by NoSafetiesNeeded on Nov 1, 2010 11:33 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Rec'd -- made me laugh!
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perspective from a Colts fan
amazed at Kubiak’s stubbornness in the first half. Schaub was spooked by the pass rush and they continued to leave DFree singled and attempt to force the passing game. Took being down by 3 scores before they started running the ball. That would have worked against KC or Wash, but Manning was able to control the ball just long enough to run out the clock.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 1, 2010 11:37 PM CDT up reply actions
stubborn is right
on a 3rd and 2 the Colts had Mathis in at LE and 265lb Eric Foster in at one DT spot and the Texans passed… TWICE!
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 12:10 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm not baffled
The braintrust outthought themselves. They thought Indy would key into stop the run and they opted to pass. Not only did they opt to pass, but they did the same bootleg play that didn’t fool Indy’s defense.
I don’t get it…Houston should’ve come out and run from the beginning to see if Indy could stop them.
What baffles me: On all those short 3rd and 2s….where was the run? Where was the screen pass when it became obvious that Indy’s front four was dominant?
"Lord, beer me strength."
And bless Rick Dennison for fixing the running game, but three things are obvious
First: There are no more screen passes. The bread and butter is gone.
Second: In terms of the West Coast Offense, they are more Walshian than Shanny….meaning they love to pass to set up the run.
Third: The offense is insanely predictable. They keep throwing the same looks, running the same plays, and they aren’t as creative as they should be.
"Lord, beer me strength."
Is this Kubiak or Dennison?
I really don’t know, but its driving me nuts that they can’t see the obvious right in front of them.
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Well, *I'm* as baffled as BattleRedFan is.
And I’m a Colts fan.
I mean, even if your team’s coaching staff was right, and Indy was keying to stop the run, your team could still establish some rushing yards on Indy. It’s something that bothers the heck out of me, but when a team is serious about making the run part of their game work, Indy has problems containing it. It’s a deliberate tradeoff – our team keys itself to stop the pass on purpose – but it’s one that usually leads to a team getting yards underneath while the backfield swarms in and finally gets to the ballcarrier. 6 or 7 yards past the line of scrimmage. :-S
Yes, when a team is down, they have to pass. But I’m mystified why there was no attempt to just ram it through on the ground during that second quarter, even after the pick-6. Forcing a TD there gets things to just a one possession difference. That would’ve lent a very different complexion to the game, I think.
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Oh, Ps.: Please don't take any of that as disrespect
Nate Dunleavy (aka Deshawn Zombie) of 18-to-88 and I shared the same opinion last year: Yours was the one team we didn’t want to meet in the playoffs. I haven’t made a decision about this year yet, but I’d still rather not. I know you all are kicking yourselves over the coaching decisions, but from my perspective as a Colts fan, I’m definitely not happy that a lot of Houston’s loss can be attributed to coaching decisions. Why? Because those are correctable. And if Indy happens to run afoul of your team in the playoffs, well… I’m simply hoping that Indy has homefield advantage and most of our injured players back, because I really don’t want the Colts to have to face a Texans team that’s got all cylinders firing.
Look, you guys have a good team. Seriously. I think it would take the Chargers pulling their collective head out of their a** to beat you, and they’d have to play a better than normal game. And while I can’t call your games against Tennessee either way, I do believe your team can definitely give theirs problems; I can’t see you not winning at least one of those games. I’ve seen some of you Texans fans say 8-8, but I think you’re definitely better than that. I’d be surprised if your team didn’t notch at least 9 wins: Both Jacksonville games, at least one of the Houston ones, Denver, and I think either the Jets the Ravens, or the Iggles games are winnable (Jets are misfiring and Sanchez is seeing a “sophmore slump” (although their defense is nothing to sneeze at). Baltimore’s pass D is overrated this year – Schaub should be able to sling it effectively against them. And Philly goes back and forth between being scary and being in disarray). Notching two is not out of the realm of possibility. Which means that 10 wins is not impossible either. Or even 11.
Seriously. I’d be shocked if you all ended up 8-8.
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The problem isnt the team
The team is pretty good, the coaching staff is full of morons. And we all used to think the same thing that the coaching mistakes were corrrectable but the same mistakes have been going on for years.
this made me smile =)
because I really don’t want the Colts to have to face a Texans team that’s got all cylinders firing.
after last night’s game .. it feels like just a fantasy. We’ll see. Maybe our coaching staff isn’t QUITE as stupid as they make themselves out to be. . .
Is this Dennison’s first year to be an Offensive Coordinator? Maybe Josh McDaniels wasn’t the idiot I thought he was for downgrading Dennison to assistant from OC.
Ok I looked it up, Dennison was Offensive Coordinator for Denver before Shanahan got fired.
Shanahan was fired last week after the Broncos missed the playoffs for the third straight season, done in by a series of personnel gaffes and several bad drafts on defense.
my emphasis. . . .My father tells me that Kubiak is a Shanahan wannabe . So unchecked, this is how our coaches might be trending unless they WAKE UP.
The Broncos have already interviewed Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.
And that must have been when the Broncos got McDaniels and he downgraded Dennison to Offensive Line coach. He seems to do THAT very well as far as building up running games. Is it humanly possible to be an offensive line that can both protect the quarterback AND protect the runner? Or is this one of those
you can have quality work
you can have fast work
you can have cheap work
pick 2
kind of situations?
That's a nice saying at the end there.
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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: It turns out that the internal fan is the single most inaccessible part of a laptop computer. Stupid technology.
hehe yeah I've seen it in small mom and pop type offices here in the Houston area
like auto repair shops
or print shops
the kind of operations that typically get the demand for “I need this yesterday” from their customers. It seems to be a sort of business truism. But I tend to gravitate to the folksy instead of the flashy so it might be the company I keep.
I probably associate it most with southeast Texas b/c I think I first saw it in an auto repair shop up in Conroe. And the folks in Conroe have this incredible east Texas accent that just SCREAMS “I’m from Texas” . The accent would probably make anyone, not from Houston, laugh.
Yes they do....
While I was in the AF, I worked with a guy from Conroe….actually him and his wife were from Conroe. And I didn’t even have to ask where he was from. We were stationed in AK at the time too.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
Hello....
Tiago Splitter!!! I’m over the loss now, switched my attention to the Spurs beating up on the Clippers. At least one my Teams can get a win this week. Longhorns and Texans have just broken my heart! At least the Spurs will wait till Spring to do that!
Not a good time......
To a be a fan of any sports in Texas……Longhorns, Cowboys, Texans, Rangers…..WTF!!
Texans 4-3 3rd in AFC South ( Would have been 5-2 w/ an O that could have pass blocked a bit better), TCU Ranked 3rd...
Aggies 5-3, College Basketball season starting soon. And the Texans are 1 game back in the AFC South, this crazy season is still young.
I'm surprisingly optimistic right now.
The D just looked bad, not non-existent. That at least is some improvement, but we need to learn to wrap up, and we need to get to guys faster. Maybe lay off of the Subway at the half.
The offense was bad today just plain bad, yet the D kept us in the game the whole way. Without the Schaub WTFteception™ we would only have lost by 3, and likely won if we could have blocked better. But, if the O-Line pass blocked better we might have won anyway.
Get out of here with your silver linings.
This is a place of sorrow.
Although Kareem Jackson did look good today, and even Eugene Wilson (obligatory “fuck him”) made a couple of plays.
Sadly though, it’s been about a month since I’ve seen Mario Williams, or anybody on the defensive line besides Shaun Cody. Even the most interesting defensive coordinator in the world (I don’t blitz often, but when I do, I prefer unpredictable zone blitzes) would be set up to fail if his front four couldn’t get any pressure. Hell, just looking at Indy today… They beat us because Dwight Freeney routinely won one-on-one match-ups. Why can’t Mario do that more than once every four weeks?
How can you get pressure....
when the ball is out of the QB’s hands almost before the D-line even has a chance to move. Some of those passes were stupid quick….forget even a three step drop….take the snap, stand up and fire it five yds down field. FUCK that was annoying.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
And firet it....
to a point in space that the receiver isn’t even in yet, but will be in the 2seconds it takes the ball to travel…..insane.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
I didn't get it what happened live
but on the replay it’s clear that Session came unblocked, probably on a delay like the one he crushed Schaub on later, which got Schaub to throw a route that Hayden was waiting to jump.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Hey KUBS Stop doing this!!!!!
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that was hilarious and terrifying and awesome
all at the same time.
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Dallas Clark is
Just. This. Incredible.
That's not as much of an accomplishment as you might think.
Our safeties usually manage to take themselves out of the play, anyways. And if it was Pollard, all Manning did was keep him from picking up a personal foul penalty.
it was Wilson
It wasn’t even a good block. I think Wilson was just couldn’t believe it was actually happening.
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 12:12 AM CDT up reply actions
James Casey, Vonta Leach,
Players that had more tackles than Mario Williams
"I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle." - Bill Peterson former Oilers Coach
Chris Meyers
Had as Many Tackles
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 1, 2010 11:43 PM CDT up reply actions
mario had one i thought
I heard Brian Cushing like to do it with girls in a really uncomfortable place and i am not talking about the back seat of a Volkswagen
Go Texans!
So Did Meyers
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:09 AM CDT up reply actions
Once we got our heads out of our asses offensively
We played quite well. Unfortunately we waited until the second half to do that. You can get away with that against the likes of the Chiefs and Redskins, but not the Colts. The problem is, we’ve done this too much. We can’t count on our defense to keep teams close, and we’re basically forcing our offense to play for one out of two halves in every game.
Whatever games we win are in spite of our coaching staff, not because of it.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 1, 2010 11:43 PM CDT reply actions
Our D kept us in the whole game though.
Our O-Line Pass blocking was weak against the Colts D-Line. Without the Schaub Pic-of-the-week?© it’s a 3 point game, We need to get better at getting to the man faster and then wrapping them up. A tackle or two could have saved the game. We stayed with the pass a bit too long in the first half and gassed or D, but we could have won that game.
Our offense got rolling
once we started running the ball more. Crazy.
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Eh.
Our offense got rolling (if you want to call it that) once Indy put the game away and went into prevent defense.
That was the same exact game as Dallas and NYG with the exception of that: the offense did nothing when it mattered.
most of the rolling was dumpoffs when they really needed to move faster
it really reminded me of McNabb’s 2 minute drill against them last week. It was that bad.
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions
Fuck Kubiak
I’m sick of this team getting the shit kicked out of them when it matters most. Sure…we can go on a 4 game winning streak beating the Rams and Seahawks. Hell, we can even pull out a victory over the Colts out of our ass.
But beating the Colts in Indy? A win against a beat up squad? A win a true playoff team would seize? No fucking way. Not this team.
Matt Schaub played like shit. The only people who played worth a damn were Andre Johnson (what a surprise) and Arian Foster who should be shouting “GIVE ME THE DAMN FOOTBALL” at the top of his lungs in any post-game interview.
I wish Duane Brown was still on fucking steroids. Maybe then he’d provide some semblance of pass protection.
I hope Bob McNair is pissed. Hell, I wish Jim Mora was our fucking coach just so he could tell all the players how fucking terrible they were.
Sorry, I’m not 100% sober so if I sound a little too positive, forgive me.
You are forgiven.
No worries, when you wake up tomorrow you’ll realize that things are much worse than you originally and drunkenly thought.
It wasn't a bad loss, it would have been a great win though.
A close game, with too many first half mistakes and bad pass blocking.
We lost by 13
We were not within one possession beyond one minute into the second quarter. It wasn’t a close game.
True.
But, 7 points off of the Schaub pick-six. Had our pass blocking not taken the night off, or we well, wrapped the ball carrier up (Quicker as well) we could have taken the game.
At the end of the day we have a split with the Colts (The loss in Indy, would have been a steal had we won), are 4-3 with 4 division games to go. We’re still in good shape for the playoffs with our two other losses in the NFC East.
It was a terrible Loss
Uninspired play
poor play calling
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 1, 2010 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Dude
I watched this at a bar, and so have limited knowledge of what actually happened, but given this and other games, I can’t see why people are on “Fire Frank Bush” bandwagon but not the “Fire Rick Dennison” train. Of course, a Kerns-style “fire everyone” might also work.
Ouch.
Well, on the bright side, at least now Dallas fans can stop pretending like they care about their baseball team and feel true suffering at the hands of their lousy football team.
by Nashmeister on Nov 1, 2010 11:52 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why oh why?!!!
do the Texans sleep walk through EVERY first quarter of EVERY game?!!
COACHES can be the only answer for the team coming out unmotivated.
COACHES can be the only reason the play calling on offense lacked the strength in the match up – RUN THE BALL DICKHEADS!!
I agree with the original post, I’m no longer resisting the temptation to jump on the FIRE the Coach bandwagon. These guys might be the “gentlemen” McNair requires, but they can’t lead, inspire, and call plays to win.
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I will not!" ~ General Patton (should be Frank Bush's motto)
Questions that won't be asked at Kubiak's press conference tomorrow:
-Why in the fuck are you not running Arian Foster?
-Did you not watch the first Colts game? Did you not notice that nothing has changed on that defense?
-Have you ever considered the fact that you can’t script plays for shit?
-(Sarcastically) Is it on you?
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We gave it to him 16 times
Would be his answer
heh – Why not 30 at that rate? 8.8 average is like a pas play
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 1, 2010 11:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Nailed it. The scripting plays isn't working.
They script 15-20 (like any good WCO does), but because they’re so ineffective….that’s most of the 1st half offense….which explains the struggles in the first half.
"Lord, beer me strength."
so they stubbornly stick to the script
all the while gasping at each other and saying; “damn did you see those runs?!! I wish we would have scripted more of those, but we have to see the script through so brace yourself. Oh no don’t bother double teaming Freeney….Brown will warm up by the 4th quarter I’m sure. We’ll have time at the half to rework some more rushing plays into the second half….hey toss me a shard Frank.”
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Someone Needs an Analyst
I notice that the Texans do not have one on staff
Makes me wonder. Situational play-calling is way more important than a script.
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Answer you won't hear if they were to ask those questions
- Ummmm I know Arian torched them last time for 237 yards, but I thought we would try and establish the pass first to get our running game started.
- Actually I did watch it and despite what I noticed from that film and all the other film from who the Colts played this year I just thought it best to let Matt do a bunch of seven step drop back passes and catch them off guard.
- Not really, I don’t script any plays, I just call them how I see fit when we start off on the game. I pick the first one I glance at on my play call sheet during the game. I just let people think I script our first couple of series.
- Of course it’s on me, but Mr. McNair is never going to fire me, I have blackmail pictures….let’s just say there’s a mechanical bull, a midget, and six-gallons of Ben & Jerry’s Chunkey Monkey Ice Cream!
Dear Texans Organization
“We could have won this game.”
“We Should have won this game.”
“We didnt play to our potential”
These statements are NOT acceptable catch phrases… Nor words to be spoken.
RUN THE F***ING BALL RETARDIAK
Can the fans actually call a better game than Dennison. The Defense sucks so the Offense needs to score at least 35 points a game for the rest of the year.
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What was your opinion of the officiating?
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Pretty even.
Offensive PI call on Gonzo was probably a bad call, but as usual, balanced out by the multitude of offensive holding penalties that don’t get called.
Oh, and Brice McCain got away with some contact a couple times.
If they had wanted to, they could have been tougher on Texans’ DBs. But in all honesty, I think that’s how games aught to be called in the secondary in this league. Unfortunately, they usually like to call defensive PI on even the slightest contact.
I'm pretty sure Gonzo didn't touch the Texans CB there
It obviously was a pick play that Gonzo forgot to sell as not one until the very last second, but you can’t have PI if there isn’t contact.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 12:17 AM CDT up reply actions
I agree
I think their lazy no calls were balanced on both sides, although with all the holding I saw going uncalled against the Colts….it makes you wonder why the Texans coaches didn’t suggest Brown grab Freeney instead of letting him blast by to rape Schaub.
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Yea I mostly agree.
I don’t remember the play exactly but on one of the plays that we went for shaub and everyone got though there were 3 facemasks all uncalled. I think the facemasks (happened on both sides some but I think mostly with the colts) were one of the areas that the Refs did the worst. There were some bad Facemasks uncalled like that one against Hart when we were close to the goal line and he was grabbed and twisted backwards
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by TheAngelsColts on Nov 2, 2010 12:22 AM CDT up reply actions
It was fine from what I saw.
We got our asses kicked fair and square. Ain’t blamin the refs for this loss.
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by NoSafetiesNeeded on Nov 2, 2010 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions
Inconsistent reffing.
I’d grade them about a D-. Just not calling penalties, missing easy calls, not calling the same thing twice…..
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I don't think they favored anyone...
but that was a shoddy officiating group to me.
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Not the Worst Game
But many questionable “non-calls”
To be fair they did it on bot sides of the ball. On both sides guys went through the receiver to stop passes several times not called – I didn’t count each one so I don’t know if it was even.
On the last Colts TD – they got away with Offensive PI they were blocking while the ball was in the air. That was kind of consistent with the game though.
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:17 AM CDT up reply actions
Texans got beat is all
It wasn’t the officiating
It was bad all over
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:19 AM CDT up reply actions
if anything i thought it might've been a bit on the Texans' side
sure there were about a million holding penalties on the opponent’s O-line they didn’t call, but after the previous six games of the season I’ve come to accept that that shit will never be flagged for us.
I'm not gonna disagree with you
but I will say that no matter what, there is ALWAYS going to be holding somewhere in the trenches. If the refs called every holding call against players taking on Freeney and Mathis, they’d get sick of pulling the flag out. Freeney and Mathis are held constantly. But…that’s just something they have to adjust to in the game.
I will say I thought the officiating was terrible for both teams tonight. The thing that irked me the most was their inability to spot a ball when it’s downed right in front of them. It’s aggravating.
Our heads may be bloody, but they are unbowed. We will be back next year better than ever!
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If the refs called holding on every play
Maybe o-lineman would stop holding.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 2, 2010 1:57 AM CDT up reply actions
If they called holding every time there was holding
no one would watch football. It’d be boring as hell with a flag every down. Trust me, I feel your pain seeing your DE getting held and no flags in sight. It happens to Dwight and Robert all the time, but like I said, its just a part of the game you have to adjust to as a player.
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That's the thing
If the refs had the balls to call it, we would be forced to sit through a few weeks of boring football, but eventually o-linemen would adjust to the point where we wouldn’t see it anymore.
Ultimately, however, quarterbacks would pay the price as guys like Freeney and Mario would be getting to the passer a whole lot more.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 2, 2010 4:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Which is why it isn't called
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Ya
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 3, 2010 3:51 AM CDT up reply actions
You Mean Like
When Johnson Scored a TD the ref right there had to ask his buddies before giving the signal? (Not to mention the horrible place on the Manning slide
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 8:56 AM CDT up reply actions
one of our players did a facemask that never got caught by the refs
I was amazed that it didn’t get called. .. it was a facemask for crying out loud. But then the refs invented something against the Texans later as if to make up for not calling the face mask so it balanced out.
so meh .. I was more focused on how badly our offense was playing and not worried about the officiating. I NEVER want to my team to say that they would have won if it weren’t for the crappy officiating. Good teams just don’t make themselves vulnerable to crappy officials.
oh also
who the fuck was that Anderson guy who got the sack on Manning? I saw him a couple of times in the first half and had no idea who he was …
Got him from Chicago
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:34 AM CDT up reply actions
some FA pickup
Just some one-hit wonder his rookie year
by silentassassin on Nov 2, 2010 12:35 AM CDT up reply actions
Our D Was
Basically a NO hit wonder
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by Barryfromtexas on Nov 2, 2010 12:36 AM CDT up reply actions
Hey Texans Coaching Staff, Can we talk over here by this dumpster real quick?
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by NoSafetiesNeeded on Nov 2, 2010 12:51 AM CDT reply actions
I'm just sick of seeing our guys go to tackle a guy 3 yards from the first
and then get dragged for 4 yards. Its infuriating.
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Just thought I'd ask
What do y’all think about the Colts fans who wore out there welcome on their own blog squatting on our Texans blog?
I know. They certainly increase the hits. I think they have blogged more comments than Texans fans in the last two months.
I dub the Colts..... second best!
Most of them are really amiable people.
You get a jerk every here and there but they’re usually only around for the colts vs texans games anyways.
I think the blog is actually better off for having them around, because they diversify the crowd. You’re not gonna have everyone on the blog looking at the Texans through delusional homer glasses.
Agree.
I’m happy they’re here. It’s nice to have good discussions with opposing fans. And none of the refugees are douches.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 2, 2010 1:58 AM CDT up reply actions
I think the majority of the rebel squatters are very intelligent and highly witty
I like them =). In some ways, I’m sort of glad that Big Blue Shoe scared them away from Stampede Blue (or is it Blue Stampede?). I’d have never gotten to read some of their insights and wit otherwise =).
It’s more that I don’t really have time to go visiting all 31 of the other teams so having the rebels visiting with us so often is a nice treat =).
I appreciated their time here and hope they come back
Colts fans have generally been some of the classiest in the NFL. Maybe Tony Dungy’s style rubbed off on the players and fans to a deep degree?
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I'm actually fairly new to SB and BRB
and really love it as a place to engage with other fans. You all do a great job with the site, and the leading stories/columns.
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Long story w/ the Colts' fans
I’m sure someone will provide a summary or some links for you. I am far too much of a lazy bastard to do that though. My version is:
Their place sucked & they jumped ship to swim the rest of the way. They knew that we know why that is. They started hanging out at BRB before the week 1 game. We invited them to stay as long as they want. The End.
If the Treasury Secretary doesn't have to pay taxes, then why do I?
What?
No happily ever after?
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BTW,
since you guys are playing the Chargers this week, I’m interested to know how the Chargers’ fanbase is on SBN. I’ve never had any interaction with BFTB, and I’m really curious by now.
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Somehow it didn't seem to rub off on Brad Wells all that much
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by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions
He's not really a Colts fan. He's the anti-fan.
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by peytonsurdaddy on Nov 2, 2010 12:54 PM CDT up reply actions
I think it's great!
They’re all really cool people and I hear some of them brought nachos and beer. =P
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by peytonsurdaddy on Nov 2, 2010 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Have you ever thought about shortening your Sig?
I mean, it’s not like it’s an extension of your anything else…
I dub the Colts..... second best!
That really bothers you doesn't it?
And no, I haven’t thought of shortening it any since the last time you asked me to shorten it.
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by peytonsurdaddy on Nov 3, 2010 12:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Mmmmmmmmmm..................nachos.
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After mulling it over....
I think this is the most disappointed I have ever felt with the franchise. I was pissed earlier, but I’m just….disappointed.
I take nothing away from the Colts. Great team. Great players. Great quarterback. You can’t argue against their decade of dominance.
That said, Houston let the Colts off the hook tonight. That game was more than winnable. The disappointment is knowing that game slipped away. The defense held Manning under 300….held the Colts to 2 TDs, 23 points overall…..the defense did enough.
If the offense employs a run-heavy game plan….we probably score more. PRevent the pick six….keep Manning’s offense on the sideline. The game woulda been won with ~30-35 rushes.
Denniak gave the game away…and it’s just as disappointing a feeling as I can remember in the 8+ years of Texans fandom. Let’s hope they get their act together for Sunday….season’s not lost yet, but a loss Sunday really makes things bleak. Talented enough to play with anyone, just wish they’d go out and play like it.
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I totally agree with you
If the offense employs a run-heavy game plan….we probably score more. PRevent the pick six….keep Manning’s offense on the sideline. The game woulda been won with ~30-35 rushes.
I hadn’t seen that ‘til you pointed it out. It might have meant none of the passes to Andre though .. I’m pretty addicted to seeing those. BUT I wouldn’t have seen K-dub not catch a ball, I wouldn’t have seen, Jacoby miss 2 balls, I wouldn’t have seen Owen Daniels miss. . .
might be worth it to see the W in our column
That's weird.
Because my reaction is 100% non-surprise at the way things unfolded. It’s like this whole game was pre-ordained.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 2, 2010 5:22 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm not surprised
but I’m still dissapointed. I’m not going to run around screaming for Kubes head, but honestly unless something drastically changes I won’t be sad if he gets the boot at the end of the year. I don’t think this game “was our season” as Rivers said, but it was just piss poor coaching that lost us this game.
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Oh, the moment they won the coin-toss, the entire game unfolded before my eyes.
Offense flounders the entire first half, the defense does enough to give them a chance during it, but you knew the Colts were going to bust it open because they got the ball back after half-time.
Nothing surprising, obviously. But it’s just sad that we’ve played the same shitty, blow-out game three times already this season. Good teams don’t do that.
The game was over after the second series
because, AGAIN, the coaches didn’t come prepared and didn’t have the common sense to shit can the losing script once it was obvious the running game would still work to move the chains, get points, AND keep Manning off the field.
This level of coaching (dynamic in game adjustments for success) should be:
- unique at the Pee Wee level
- stunning at the High School level
- top tier at the College level
- EXPECTED at the Pro level
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I know where he is
He is the one in the backfield, you know the one NOT getting the ball.
now that I have cooled off?
I will give my level headed response to this game. The coaching staff is getting on my last nerve. I can’t wait to see freddy’s letter because it will be something like what I am goint to say.
but I am going to make my own fanpost…
I heard Brian Cushing like to do it with girls in a really uncomfortable place and i am not talking about the back seat of a Volkswagen
Go Texans!
haha yeah I want to see what Freddy has to say in his letter too.
I’ve never been so disappointed in the outcome of a Texans game as I was in this one.
Freddy is River's inner child ;-)
He writes regular letters complete with illustrations to Coach Kubiak after Texans games.
Back in third place, where we belong. Sweet, sweet, comfort zone.
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by TexansForever on Nov 2, 2010 6:43 AM CDT up reply actions
We suck
Our offensive line’s pass protection was horrible.
Miserable play calling. 4th and 2, and a quck slant? We didn’t think AF could get 2 yards?
Colts get 10 pts from turnovers…..
we will be lucky to see 8-8. 4-12 is what I am seeing……
crap.
I think we'll be 6-10
unless someone shoves a steel toe up someone’s ass and gets the coaches a heavy dose of common sense
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We have definitely overrated the talent on our defense in our own minds:
Mario – Plays awesome…..when he decides to play.
Cushing – Invisible since his suspension….looking like the PEDs were for real.
Smith – Decent starter
Okoye – See Mario
Cody – Who?
Ogunleye – 50 year old convict….awesome
Bentley and Diles – What other team would they even start on? Also, can’t tackle.
McCain – decent corner, potential
Jackson – rookie cornerback? are you serious Kubes? Poor kid.
Pollard – Big hit….whiff…whiff…whiff…whiff…whiff….whiff…whiff…big hit….whiff…etc…
Wilson – Stone hands fire hydrant
Nolan – Decent player, therefore he doesn’t get to play
Molden – brittle like glass
Quin – Decent player, potential there
Honestly…that is our defense……unmotivated, mediocre and unrelible.
Ask yourself this: How many of our defensive starters would start on another top 20 defense in this league? 3? maybe 4?
So frustrating because we KNOW based on last year that they CAN play well.
So what does it mean if your defense goes from top 5 to last place in a year? A year in which they have fully implemented your new DC’s scheme?
FIRE FRANK BUSH. That is what it means. SEND A SIGNAL TO THE PLAYERS. ACCOUNTABILITY TIME,
It is literally IMPOSSIBLE to get worse at this point, so make a change. You have nowhere to go but up.
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by TexansForever on Nov 2, 2010 6:39 AM CDT reply actions 6 recs
Rec'd because you nailed the individual descriptions perfectly!
Where the hell is the “fierce, aggresive and hostile” defense he promised us?!!
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You're too generous, even.
McCain is a horrible liability. Okoye plays about half decent game per season. There’s not much to suggest that Nolan is decent. Although you might have short-changed Quin…
Either way, just glancing at the results of our ‘07 and ’08 drafts, it’s no wonder our team is short on talent. Rick Smith’s track record in his first two years of drafting is every bit as bad as Casserly’s worst years.
I was thinkin the same on McCain
He has been awful, he is too short to play much of anything. We need to draft a big (as in tall) cover FS and a big (as in a big 300+ lbs guy) DT that can push the pile. Not to mention a decent defensive coordinator, can we draft one of those too?
The Jets traded for Herm Edwards to the Chiefs for a 4th round pick once
I think a 4th or 5th is not a bad price for a DC
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by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:28 PM CDT up reply actions
The Colts gave a 3rd rounder in the 1998 draft to Carolina
for Polian.
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Shall we make it green?
Oh what the hell, why not?
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by UprootedTexan on Nov 2, 2010 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
This says it all:
"Our plan was to be balanced," Kubiak said. "I don’t think we would have had a problem being a balanced team if we’d have converted our third downs."
He just doesn’t get it. Ever.
What a retard
We are going against a team that can not stop a run to save their life. We should probably have a balanced attack. 3rd and 2 against said team that cannot stop the run you say? Pass the ball. 4th and 2 after the pass was incomplete, pass the ball again. Hmm Teh Shaub is getting hit after about 2 seconds…..let’s keep trying to pass it. Seriously I hope we end the year 6-10 so we will fire this whole coaching staff.
by Bobbythegreat on Nov 2, 2010 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
defending Indy's D not Kubiak
There are run games worse than Indy’s run D (see: Denver), though obviously Houston isn’t one of them.
As I pointed out somewhere else in this thread the 3rd/4th and 2 playcalling was especially bad given that Indy had 245lb Robert Mathis at LE and 265lb Eric Foster at the undertackle for those plays. It was a pass rushing line.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions
Add to that
That I really can’t remember any play where the Colts stopped arian foster for less than a two yard gain that didn’t end up in a facemask penalty and it becomes unfuckingbelievably stupid.
by Bobbythegreat on Nov 2, 2010 11:29 AM CDT up reply actions
I think there were a few
he was pretty boom-bust, or at least that’s the impression I got.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 11:33 AM CDT up reply actions
He averaged 7 yards per carry
So it was a whole lot more boom than bust.
by Bobbythegreat on Nov 2, 2010 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions
here are the runs
5, 9, 4, 8, 4, 2, 33, 4, 0, 4, 5, 2, 4, 1 (w/facemask), 9, 6, 10
So it was more consistent than I thought.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 11:37 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah
Thats far too few runs. Ugh.
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Yeah
so really only one run the whole game wouldn’t have resulted in a first down.
by Bobbythegreat on Nov 2, 2010 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions
?
there’s a 0 and 2 2s in there.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions
2 yards is all you need for a 3rd & 2 or less
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions
oh
I was thinking general. Not those two (really 3 since they were passing before the TO) retarded play calls.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions
and with that ref crews spotting abilities I wouldn't feel confident with just 2 yards on 3rd and 2.
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by shake n bake on Nov 2, 2010 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions
good catch
no “negative” yards though, which we can’t say the same regarding Schaub’s contribution with the ball
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Defense played well
relatively. Limited Colts to fgs when they could have had TDs. This one is on the offensive play calling and the Oline. Do you think the colts would ever say They will never expect us to run the ball, screw the pass? Texans outsmarted themselves big time. They won the first game by jamming the ball down their throats. This time they let their foot off the gas pedal and let Freeney and Mathis tee off on Schaub. Note to Gary: The game plan is run, run, run, run, run, play action, run, run. Foster had nearly seven yards per carry. I might not be as good at arithmetic as Gary but to me that equals first downs.
Defense played well relatively
Relative to……nucear winter? AIDs? World War 2?
When your offense isn’t playing well, you have to be able to count on your defense. We can’t.
The Chiefs held Manning to NO touchdowns IN INDY. It CAN be done. We (and by we I mean Frank Bush) are just too stupid as a defense to execute what the Chiefs did.
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by TexansForever on Nov 2, 2010 7:54 AM CDT up reply actions
the Chiefs have far better corners than Houston does right now
and they all played great that game.
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Flowers is insane.
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A morgue
Has better corners than Houston does right now.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 3, 2010 4:00 AM CDT up reply actions
A sphere has better corners
than Houston does right now.
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by Cassieper on Nov 3, 2010 4:16 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Keeper!
I'll eliminate you like I eliminate gluten from my diet.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 3, 2010 7:54 AM CDT up reply actions
Thank you, thank you.
I’ll be here all week.
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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: It turns out that the internal fan is the single most inaccessible part of a laptop computer. Stupid technology.
I know this has pretty much all been said, but fuck it... I need to vent
1. Aside from the first game of the season, the Texans have started each game, like they woke up thinking it was Saturday and were surprised that a game broke out (you might argue the Oakland game as well, but that wasn’t exactly a thing of beauty). Do you realize that aside from those two games, we’ve been down by at least 17 in every game? That’s 5 out of 7 games! Is it the scripted plays? Is the team too jacked up? Are they not jacked up enough? Hard to say, but this falls directly on the head coach.
2. Saying that the defense played well last night is bullshit. You could say that they played less crappy than usual, but don’t give them a pass. They still gave up 23 points to an injured team. I don’t care who the QB is, that’s not a good game. Just because you’ve gotten used to the taste of a shit sandwich doesn’t mean you should be eating a shit sandwich.
3. Kubiak’s absolute unwillingness to compromise is what infuriates me the most. If you’re giving up big pressure and can’t block Freeney or Mathis 1-on-1, why do you keep calling for 7 step drops and long developing plays with no protection help? There are things you can do to counteract this — draws, screens, short passes. Maybe they were there, maybe they weren’t, but we didn’t even try. What’s that definition of insanity again?
4. If Bernard Pollard and Antonio Smith are our “leaders” on defense, then, my friends… we are fucked. Being a leader is more than just screaming loudly. At some point, you have to practice what you preach, walk the walk, or any of a million other cliches. Those guys make a few plays, but consistently counteract them with retarded penalties.
5. The pass rush is painful. We don’t get pressure with 4. When we blitz, it’s almost always picked up. I have no stats on this, but when was the last time we had a blitzer come through clean. Jaws and Gruden kept giving Manning credit for picking up our blitz, but hell, I could pick it up and I was drunk! We do not disguise our coverage at all.
6. Again, I don’t know where to look up the stats, so I could be wrong on this, but what the fuck happened to our play action? Remember all that talk about how our play action would be unstoppable if we just had a running game? Well, there’s our running game, and it seems to me like we’ve all but abandoned the play action except for the naked bootleg (which teams have seen so much of, that it doesn’t work anymore).
by Vega on Nov 2, 2010 8:37 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I am consistently unsurprised at how stupid our team is
We have Antonio Smith and Bernard Pollard who spend so much time talking about being leader and cracking skulls and yet every game they are good for a few back breaking penalties.
Kubiak all last year talked about wanting to establish the run in order to be successful but this year we have the BEST run game in the league and yet we consistently refuse to run in key situations.
As has been said before Matt Schaub looks uncomfortable every time he drops back to pass this season, he has locked on to Andre or whoever his No.1 read is and is good for a mind numbing idiotic pick a game, what happened between this season and last? Was baby Shan really the key to our passing game?
Our O-line is back to being terrible in pass protection despite having the same personnel as last year. Winston is sucking big time and has been a disappointment all season, Caldwell and Wade Smith are not great and Myers is too small to handle the big boys and as such it’s almost a guarantee that if e play the 3-4 we will struggle all game long.
Frank Bush is worse than Richard Smith because at least Smith never said his D would be good.
If we don’t get rid of Bush and Dennison pulls his head out of his ass we may make the playoffs this season, but history tells us none of this will happen.
The offseason will come and we will refuse to actually fix any of the problems we have, saying that we feel like we have the right guys in place but we just need to give them time.
I like Kubiak and I was a big fan of his hire but it’s year 5 now and we are still talking about the pass rush and trying to beat the Colts and the BESF and each year we refuse to draft a Safety high or try and acquire someone who may be able to help us in Free Agency as an actual play maker. I am not looking forward to another season of losing close games and saying how close we are to winning those games.
Preach
I’m going to do a post about how insane it is that we’ve come to accept such terrible play from the defense.
“Hey, they only gave up 23 points…that’s pretty good by their standards.”
Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...
by Tim on Nov 2, 2010 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions
Awesome rant....I think the team
needs to pull their heads out of their overpaid asses and spend more time preparing for games. Why the fuck was Winston hanging out at the Rockets game Sunday? These guys need to focus, practice, study, focus, test, tune, FOCUS and produce 16 times a year for 3 hours. They don’t need to be doing ANYTHING else during the season. Other professions (pick ANY: fireman, military, police, sales rep, accountant, doctor, construction, truck driver…) have their crazy periods of intense hours to deliver for their job. These assholes get paid millions and can’t fucking put in the time to produce 16 times a year for 3 hours?!!! Are you shitting me?
If it is not self inspiring to do so by the player, then the coaches are expected to drive this inspiration and motivate the team. NONE of them seem to be doing it. But I guess McNair is satisfied since the sold out tickets keep funding his lovely team of gentlemen that he can parade around River Oaks at cocktail parties with during the playoffs since they won’t be in them.
Just based on the season and last night in particular, only three people seem to consistently be the exception to my blast: Johnson, Leach, Foster (sometimes JJ). Maybe we can just field the four of them and leave the coaches and overpaid distracted rest of the team at a Houston massage parlor so they can relax and not get too wound up about the season.
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I will not!" ~ General Patton (should be Frank Bush's motto)
Rec'd, let's go green!
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." -- Benjamin Disraeli
I put the blame on the coaching staff...
Yeah lets go out and pass the flipping ball, nice game plan against a team that is built to stop the pass and rush the passer. I wonder if he ever heard of Freeney or Mathis until last night. Run the DAMN BALL. I am sick of this crap.
As for the defense, again its the coaching staff’s fault. We could have drafted a DT, FS or try to sign a veteran corner/FS. Yet we didnt do any of the shit.
Some More Obvious Stuff
- Why does our defense have no one that “steps up”? Out of all the guys playing – I have not seen it all year. Really? No one? Let’s start with one guy in one game – I don’t care who it is.
- What is with running 5+ bootlegs when they have not worked since what – week 2?
- Everyone knows that once the battle begins – the battle-plan is usually worthless (Except our staff)
- Think about it – in games we lose the coaching staff looks like idiots – when we win – they look average – Keep that in perspective.
- I am not necessarily on the fire Kubes train – but where do we look for results?
"I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle." - Bill Peterson former Oilers Coach
Agreed
The coaching staff hasnt looked good this season even in the wins, the Skins game and the Chiefs game I think were won by the players in spite of the coaching staff. I would like to see Schaub go Peyton Manning sometimes and say fuck the play you called I know what works and we are going to win. Schaub needs to stop being a sheep and be a leader.
by Biggity B on Nov 2, 2010 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Four coaching observations
1. Of all the MANY bonehead coaching moves, the one I understand least is punting on 4th and 9, down 2 scores with 6:00 to go. The ONLY way that could possibly work is if the defense stops the Colts almost immediately. If they’re going to do that, it doesn’t matter whether they do that at midfield or in the Colts end. So the punt cannot POSSIBLY be the right call.
2. A close second was their refusal to plant a TE next to Duane Brown after the first series to give Matt at least a fighting chance to not be a pinata.
3. Third, as everyone else has pointed out, was their failure to use their key strategic advantage: a running game that averaged 7 yards per carry that the Colts could not stop. (Won’t bring up 3rd and 2 / 4th and 2 – that’s like kicking a kitten.)
4. OK, and fourth was wasting 40 seconds on the final drive because we couldn’t get the right players on the field. How many illustrations are there in the Kubiak postdoctoral course on clock mismanagement?
Gary has had some bad games, but this one takes the cake. He should be embarrassed and ashamed. He came close to making Brad Childress look smart.
by brittmayo on Nov 2, 2010 10:06 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
coaching observations (ctd)....
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I will not!" ~ General Patton (should be Frank Bush's motto)
by MeMongo on Nov 2, 2010 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd
Gary has had some bad games, but this one takes the cake. He should be embarrassed and ashamed. He came close to making Brad Childress look smart. (emphasis is mine)
Nuff said!
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." -- Benjamin Disraeli
Lets turn this mf green....
because it says everything I’ve felt since halfway through last season….and we didn’t have a running game then.
Just my $.02
Even duct tape can't fix stupid
I've always tried to stand by Kubiak...
after all, he is the most successful coach in franchise history, but I’m waning fast.
GO TEXANS!!!!
Our time will come...
I just listened to the post game video of Kubiak
and this quote has me rearranging my firearms by barrel flavor:
“….and we had trouble getting out of the huddle a couple of times”
WTF?!! Is that code for something else?
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I will not!" ~ General Patton (should be Frank Bush's motto)
...at the end he says
“you have to expect to face that when you come here [blitz packages] and the best way to offset it is to (wait for it……..here it comes…….brace yourself…….) RUN the ball so you have third and two’s and third and threes.”
He’s either insane, or the NFL is rigged and we are just wasting our time giving a crap about this team.
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I will not!" ~ General Patton (should be Frank Bush's motto)
Ugh
Because of shit like that I am thinking of mailing Kubiak a fork with a cork on the end, we wouldn’t want that moron poking his eye out.
by Bobbythegreat on Nov 2, 2010 11:12 AM CDT up reply actions
I hate
When people say that our defense played better this game. Of course they did, they played against the Colts junior varsity team for the most part, I’m sure if we played against Katy High School our defense would look good too (only giving up about 250 yards in the air) but it still wouldn’t mean that we have an acceptable defense. The Texans said very loudly that they don’t really care about winning when they decided that they were content to not make a trade happen and pick ANYBODY up that could help their pitiful defense.
I agree
I was so enraged to hear when Kubes said he was going to solve it “in-house.” I semi-appreciate the effort they’ve put in to developing a lot of the drafted talent, but at some freaking point you have to bring in help from the outside instead of going with your rookies and sophomores, trickled with some 6th/7th rounders.
by silentassassin on Nov 2, 2010 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm done, Kubiak
I’ve been patient, I’ve always thought you had what it took to be a good coach. But I’ve had enough, It’s been long enough and we should be seeing RESULTS now. As it is, I have to ask, where are they? I know that some of the screwups are the players, but the playcalling is on you, sir. I’m done with you. I am now on the “Fire Kubiak” bandwagon. Do I need to bring gas money?
I am a visionary, I am a genius, and now I am angry! Now help me find my pants!
9 more games
I thought this gradual improvement(if you can call it that) was acceptable and that they’d finally figure it out this season. Makes me sad to see other teams that were in the same situation or worse, and turn it around. Saints, Dolphins(from 1-15 to playoffs), and there’s probably many more. I’d love for them to still make the playoffs, but that almost guarantees we’re in for the same ride next year as Kubiak would be back.
by silentassassin on Nov 2, 2010 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions
At this pace
we’ll get our first playoff birth the same season we retire #80 and the camera zooms in on the saddest face in the booth for a guy who put it on the line EVERY game and waited every year of his career for a group of morons to figure out how to coach at the NFL level. And he is too polite to say what needs to be said, what all of us are saying and what needs to be done. Is there going to be any rescue from this insanity?
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I will not!" ~ General Patton (should be Frank Bush's motto)
If Mike Shanahan looks like he's gonna crap out in Washington
Does that mean we could hire Kyle Shanahan to be our OC again? Baby Shan with Herm Edwards at the helm sounds like a good idea to me
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
Lets just hire Kyle as head coach
on the condition he hires a proven d coordinator.
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Too young, besides Herm Edwards is a defensive coach
I think he could light a fire under the Texans’ asses
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Lets all give up halfway through the season
who is with me!
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
When will Kubiak get over his fetish
for a balanced offense?
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
WHY?...
Is it, when we couldn’t run, all he wanted to do was run, and now that we can run, we go away from it….WHY?
GO TEXANS!!!!
Our time will come...
by Texanmaniac on Nov 2, 2010 11:46 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
In other news, Jamarcus Russell recently worked out for the Redskins
This is his back up plan to McNabb & Grossman???
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
he'll probably pick up Booty
just to keep everyone guessing. Did Elway poison the water supply in Denver when he retired and leave these two coaches (Kubzor & Shantastic) mentally dead for their future in the NFL……or was Elway actually the only reason anything really worked in Denver in the first place and we are being punked?
"I looked up redundant in the dictionary......it said; 'see redundant' " ~ Robin Williams
Elway & Terrell Davis
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
I seriously miss
watching Davis run the ball. We could have that here with Foster if the coaches would put away the plastic covered menu from Denny’s.
"I looked up redundant in the dictionary......it said; 'see redundant' " ~ Robin Williams
So true
and yet, last night was a perfect example of why I wanted the Texans to draft Mike Hart. He was the only reason Michigan was any good his senior season & he doesn’t fumble (1 fumble his entire college career if I’m not mistaken)
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions
And wasn't that when he got shattered
by the hit and anybody would have fumbled it?
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: It turns out that the internal fan is the single most inaccessible part of a laptop computer. Stupid technology.
Yeah, the guy is tough as nails
Wish we had a backup that held onto the ball that tight
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 3, 2010 1:00 PM CDT up reply actions
We worked him out first
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Actually we didn't
He was just working out in Houston with John Lucas
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
ah
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
The defense actually played well last night
considering who we were up against but the offense again was atrocious in the first half. Seems like all Kubiak wants to do is pass pass pass to start the game off and let Foster rot away. Im jumping on the fire all the coaches band wagon. Its time for a change. Too many teams out there are doing way more with less talent, ie the Bucs and Raiders to mention a couple.
Its obvious Kubiak doesnt have the skill set needed to be a head coach. Maybe we could hire Minnesota’s DC or the Giants DC for our head coach. Or better yet maybe hire Bill Parcells as a consultant or whatever he does so we can find so good quality football minds, I am sure he knows some good ones.
The Raiders have talent on their defense
The offense is just barely putting it together. The Bucs, I don’t think anyone bet on them to be 5-2 at this point. I say bring in Herm Edwards for head coach & bring back Kyle Shanahan for OC. Maybe the front office should consider promoting Ray Rhodes to DC & scrap everyone else on the defensive staff other than the LBs coach
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Id love to have Herm Edwards as coach
but I think I want an outsider for our new defensive coordinator, preferably someone with some experience at the position.
Let Herm pick one then, he is a defensive coach
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Hopefully McNair does the right thing and can Kubiak and the staff
and hopefully we can coax Herm away from ESPN. He always did give us props on tv
McNair won't
can Kubiak because he likes the gentleman and humble approach with the media. What might actually work though is:
- Hire Jack Del Rio as DC ~ he’s not HC material but he has a good mind for defenses and trains them to play nasty, something Bush continues to fail at.
- Get Dungy or Parcells in as GM (or consultant) to teach Kubiak how to develop into a real head coach, AND improve the personnel situation with regards to trades, FA and drafting
"I looked up redundant in the dictionary......it said; 'see redundant' " ~ Robin Williams
I just want something to happen
Im sure all of us Texans fans deserve better, we deserve a winning team.
You won't get Dungy to be a GM.
He’s said multiple times that he’s officially done with coaching-related things. Not sure you want Parcells either. He has a habit of getting bored of a city and leaving after a couple of years.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: It turns out that the internal fan is the single most inaccessible part of a laptop computer. Stupid technology.
But he did leave both Dallas & Miami better than they were beforehand
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 3, 2010 1:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Not his fault that someone else can't coach the talent he put together in Jerryworld
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 3, 2010 1:02 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not counting on it
If Kubiak is even gone after the end of the season, do you really expect this organization to find a proven HC?
by silentassassin on Nov 2, 2010 12:32 PM CDT up reply actions
That's why we should throw money at Herm Edwards & Baby Shan ASAP
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you seeing what's going on right now in Washington?
He’s probably thinking “why the hell did I leave a great situation behind in Houston?” Also from the looks of thing, Papa Shan might not last long there anyways
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 2, 2010 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions
All good reasons for baby shan
to flock back to houston.
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Did you guys like having Kyle as
your offensive coordinator?
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: It turns out that the internal fan is the single most inaccessible part of a laptop computer. Stupid technology.
eh my football sophistication wasn't very high back then (not that it's that much higher now ;-) )
so I didn’t care much either way. we still never figured out who was to blame for the genius of the half back pass. My thought was that we were sort of glad to see him go ;-). But I might be incorrectly remembering the sentiments towards Kyle Shanahan.
I was sort of wondering the same thing… as in “are we seriously wishing that we had Baby Shan back? REALLY?”
=o (shocked look)
Well,
I wasn’t wondering about it like that. It was a genuine question as I have no idea what Houston fans thought of him.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: It turns out that the internal fan is the single most inaccessible part of a laptop computer. Stupid technology.
I do, at least he knows how to mix in a screen pass
But I would want him back here as the OC with Herm Edwards as Head Coach
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 3, 2010 1:04 PM CDT up reply actions
GK...
I agree new coach needed, screw that, NEW COACHES needed, while we are at it, add a new everything… If you can not give Matt S 3 seconds to throw the ball then the O-line needs to be replaced… On defence, well….. No need to go there…
24, 27, 27, 24, 34, 31, 30
That’s the number of points scored against the Texans in games this season. I don’t know how this team expects to be successful when they cannot hold any opponent to less than 24 points. It is unreasonable to ask the offense to put up 30+ points a game just to have a chance at winning.
Sort of...
Except, the Texans’ defense did hold the Colts to less than 24 points.
Have you forgotten the pick 6?
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
I didn't say the defense gave up all of those points
The Colts still scored 30. We can’t just ignore the pick six. It still counts, and it still means the offense has to put up that many more points to win.
I’m blaming the whole team, not just the defense.
To a certain extent.
Yet, if the offense sustains a drive or two in that game, it takes away from Indy’s TOP, and consequently amount of possessions and most likely points.
Manning is going to get his. That’s more or less a fact. And to beat the cliche to death, you have to move the chains and keep the ball out of his hands. The fact that we punted so many times and they still only put up 23 on offense is actually quite miraculous.
Herm Edwards
He plays to win the game, not to avoid losing like Kubiak does
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
by The Night Owl on Nov 3, 2010 1:05 PM CDT up reply actions
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