Wherein Frank Bush Scoffs At More Criticism

“wherein I use the word ‘wherein’ in the title”

Since 2002 – even the year we went 2-14 – I have been excited for each and every game. I’ve always loved the anticipation beforehand and that has started to leave me now. I hate that I’m starting to become indifferent to whether we win or not, but I just have so little confidence in our defense, our coaches and our luck.

I still love me some Texans though.

Do I laugh at how ridiculous this all is?

Do I cry because Frank Bush sucks that much and is still oblivious to it?

Do I get angry because I’ve invested so much emotional energy in this team?

Do I get apathetic because “fuck it, if they don’t care about defense… why should I?”

…?

…the season is only half full. Last year our D improved quite a bit in the second half of the season, so maybe we can this year too. I am, however, disappointed in Pollard. Last year he was flying around like a pinball knocking tight end’s and RBs around like he owned them. This year his name hardly ever gets mentioned. With the new helmet-to-helmet rules, or rather, excuse me, the new “enforcing” of the existing helmet-to-helmet rules, I wouldn’t mind it if he or some other member of the D were getting fined. At least we would be making our defense dreaded by other teams.

Think about this- if not for a bad game by your (and mine) Houston Texans, the Cowpies from Southern (no relation) Oklahoma would be 0-8. How sweet would it be to see Jerra’s overrated team with the goose egg in the W column? That’s how bad we suck on defense. Next game, if you be very quiet, you can actually hear a “slurping” sound eminating from the D side of the ball.

Could it be that we really do miss Demeco that much? Just sayin’……..

SL

What do yall think our record would be at?

He is a turbulent force of Sucking…and there is nothing you can do to stop him from sucking…

and we would be 6-2

Wouldn’t he be thinking, “I have to get a Defensive Coordinator that can put together and good defense!”?

Oh wait, I CAN see inside Kubiak’s head….

Look on the bright side, fellas: WE MIGHT BE WITNESSING HISTORY UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR EYES.

/grabs spoon to scoop eyes out

Bush: Yes we suck BIG TIME

If he says this maybe he loses what little he has left of the players – then again maybe it would motivate them. I am not defending the guy – but what can he say?

On a side note – it is amazing how we as Texans fans sound like the Democratic Party: Blame Bush!

We still get crushed by Dal and NY. And Monday night football

Puts us at 5-3

I wonder what the odds are of a split with the jets and bal. 1-60

Anyways, the guest was entertaining and knowledgeable. I enjoyed listening. Wish I could remember who it was. Okay, okay. On with my story. If anyone knows who it is, I would appreciate it. What was I saying….

Oh, the guest quoted a famous quote that went something like this…I thought it was SO poignant to the Texans situation:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Dang! That hit home when he said it. And, you know, insanity is catchy, so here we are on BRB, sharing the same space. I’m feeling a little woosy, how about you?

I also keep hearing that they might be “asking them to do too much.” Jeezus H, this aint the freakin Steelers. How complex can a soft cover 2 that only blitzes a maximum of ONE player about 25% of the time be??

Are they saying we have stupid players?? Or do they think they run some cutting edge experimental hybrid defense crafted in a moon lab?

For crying out loud, the only thing they should be “asking them to do” is tackle and cover as a team.

sigh

Anybody know when they’re gonna do “Battle Red Day” this year?

enough to have him removed from duties. Bring in Tony Dungy as temporary consultant / DC to finish out the season, with options to discuss next year (see more on this below).

Bush owns part of the blame for a vanilla design that even had Steve Young ripping it on prime time review. But one point he made in this interview is that he’s dealing with an inexperienced crew. The blame for THAT rests squarely on Kubiak and Rick Smith.

Part of Tony Dungy’s review (in this fantasy world where McNair brings him in to do this), he should assess whether it was an unnecessary risk that Smith and Kubiak put on the team’s season to go with such a disaster at secondary combined with the lack of a pass rush. Now in the first game, we did have great success ripping all over Manning with a pass rush, so the injury impact also needs to be considered. BUT, when staffing an NFL roster, you have to have depth and contingency plans and recognize that weakness areas get exposed greatly when other areas of the system suffer from injury.

A bum off the street could see that if the Texans have a young inexperienced secondary and at any point have injuries at defensive line and line backer (damn we have both!), that the secondary will be so greatly exposed as to provide the disaster we see today.

I don’t think Bush is failing to take his job seriously from a chronicle column. We’ll allow the on field performance to stand as the recorded body of work about how seriously he is taking his job.

Has anyone else thought this? I have this fear that the team is going to stop wanting to play for Kubiak and Bush. I have no first-hand basis for that thought. But, Kubiak has made some dumb moves this season at critical stages of games. The players notice. We notice, so they have to, too. They notice in a different way. They are players in the game. I think most of you have heard other players on other teams being asked questions of this same nature. I recall Brett Favre answering questions about if he agrees with all the play calls that Childress makes. He answered honestly, “No,” but, he also said that doesn’t mean he doesn’t follow through and try to make that play work. You know where I’m going with this. It’s nothing new. Eventually, situations may arise on teams where the players stop trying to make plays work…because, they simply don’t know why they are trying when they feel the coach is working against them. I know, this is all speculation and we haven’t seen any evidence of that. But, is the press asking those kinds of questions of the Texans’ players? Would they answer truthfully or would they veil the truth? I’m just throwing this out there. I’m not inciting dissent. But, maybe this is something we should be looking out for. Sure, a few wins and this idea becomes moot. But, let’s see what happens and if the team doesn’t turn this thing around in the next few games, we just may start seeing the signs.