Kubiak: "It's Time For Someone Else to Win The AFC South"

Top three answers in the mid-summer “Taking the Temperature” poll

1 – Beat the AFC South Division – that means the Colts, Jags and Tits must be punished!

2 – Better pressure on the opposing QB – that means more sacks, more hurried throws resulting in interception chances, and just general chaos when the game is on the line

3 – Coach to win – that means more aggressive scheming on offense and defense in the 2nd half with the lead

That pretty much puts the Colts and Manning right in the sights of the Texans in Game One. Sounds like Kubiak understands his role in all this. I hope he brings the entire playbook and isn’t afraid to use it. I’m not talking about any halfback option passes or anything like that. I’m talking keeping the ball in the playmakers’ hands and letting them do their thing. C’mon Coach Kubiak! Be aggressive but be smart….

To jump ship over a few games. If I think someone is a good team I generally keep on thinking they’re a good team untill it becomes painfully obvious they’re not, usually in the latter parts of the season. Early last season when people were seeing the coming apacolypse for the Texans, I kept saying they’d get better as the season wore on and the “worst defense in NFL history” would at least be respectable by the end of the year. I’m not saying it’s always the case, but that’s one example of freaking out and making too many assumptions way too soon.

So even if the Texans get blown apart by the Colts in week1, i’ll still think they’re a fringe playoff team who can beat pretty much anyone when they’re hot.

sums it up pretty good. once i was done reading it i could help but hide my face in my hands, a truth to hard to digest.

we do not have to beat indy in week 1 to make playoffs. It only means we have to beat them in indy.

If we win in week 1, we better as #@%! not pull a no show in week 2 like we had against the saints in PS. we dont have to win following a week 1 win, but a no show will drive directly to kubes office for some un-necessary roughness

the tide will turn for this team this year. I agree that an opening loss does not break our season, nor does a win make it. A win does however make the Texans and their fans believe in the Texans and that can be a good thing.

but it would should make listening/reading/watching local media a whole lot more tolerable with a win than a loss.

I just want this team to be consistent every week. I’m tired of seeing the up-and-down crap.

…if we beat the Colts in week 1, we’ll lose the second one.

…if we lose to the Colts in week 1, we’ll lose the second one, too.

Dick Drippings forecast for winning both games? 1/1,000,000

“So then there’s a chance?”

lose to the Skinz and beat the girls and who’s next Raiders?

There are three major concerns about this team for me.

1. The secondary. I’m just not sold on them for coverage, and we’re going to be facing some seriously good QB’s this year. Both Mannings, McNabb, Romo, not to mention our Vince Young curse.

2. The DT’s. I know we’ve had some bad luck drafting in this category. But these guys have really got to step it up this year. As stated above, we’re going to be facing some good QB’s and we really need to put pressure on them. Mario is infamous for not giving his all every play so we can’t exactly rely on him to do it all.

3. The heart of the team. I know that’s kind of vague. But I’m talking about how badly do they want to win? How many times did we see them slack off in the second half last year? Can they play with the same intensity in the 4th that they play in the 1st? They talked about how intense they were last year at the end of preseason and the Jets came in and took us out behind the woodshed. I wish the Saints game this preseason had been the fourth one so we could have gone against Indy with they fire they played against Dallas. And sorry to say, but Dallas did not try all that hard, especially their defense. They played pretty much straight man coverage and didn’t bother shifting LB’s around or try to disguise the coverage.

I think we have enough talent on offense to make up for the holes in our defense, but these guys have to be truly hungry all year to make the playoffs.

But we (and the team) say that shit every year.

It’s a double-edged sword in my opinion. If we minimize the importance of the Colts we’re basically writing off one eigthth of our schedule. If we maximize the importance of the game, we run the risk of letting a loss (especially since our losses to the Colts seem to be of the cruelly heartbreaking variety) get us into a funk that can have nasty effects the following week.
I guess the answer is to win.

That seems to be what a lot of Texans fans are doing and I understand why – if they stink it up again then the disappointment is held to a minimum. I like this team and am extremely hopeful for this season. I truly believe this is a 12-4 team. Actually, my prediction based on stats and results from last year have us going 13-3 but 1 game was almost a dead tie so I gave that 1 to the opponent. Prediction week 1: Texans 34, Colts 24 with 4 sacks of Man(lover)ning.

Yes I know I’m very optimistic but wouldn’t you rather spend several weeks with good expectations rather than expecting the worst? If we lose then I have a week of being very disappointed before my expectations and optimism are back at a very high level for week 2 and at least I wasn’t in a horrible mood for all that time before the 1st game. Just my opinion.

Every game is very important. If we win game 1 then we are historically set up for a let-down in week 2. Every team is like this to a point. That’s why consistency is so important (and difficult) in this league. If we lose game 1 then we are historically going to play our asses off in week 2. Neither result is an end-all for the season but I definitely like our chances in let-down mode against the Redskins. Week 3 (Cowpuffs) will be awesome regardless of the 1st 2 games because it’s the Cowflakes so in this specific circumstance, I see week 1 as very, very, very important.

My further prediction after week 1 win: Texans 28, Redskins 24; Texans 38, Cowladies 17. Texans also to be 4-0 after stomping the Raiders!

So how does everyone like my most hopeful optimism. Texans are going to be in the AFC Championship game this year. Bank on it! Peace!

is not the most important game of franchise history. But it will set the bar for the rest of the year. I want Schaub and Andre to have a win against fivehead. Home is the best place to do it week 1 even better. We know we can go out and win the game the problem is holding on to a winning situation. With the knew rule dealing with the official it will slow down the hurry up offense Fivehead likes to do in no hurry situations. hopefully it will help keep our D from getting left out of position like it has in the past.

The Cowbitches yes i know they played a vanilla D against us, but watching some of the clips from the game Tony Romo doesn’t look like he is getting settled behind the line he had a couple bad snaps a bad toss, poor passing. I hope we exploit the eff out of their Old Line and put him on the ground.

my prediction for the first 4 weeks
3-1, I am extremely hopeful we spank Dallas i have too much money riding on that game. I am sure we can beat Oakland all though we always seem to have hard times against them, and it is a toss between Indy and Was games we win one lose the other.
If we were to start 4-0 I wouldn’t care if we lost to both Philly and NYG
I want us to take at least 4-2 in division but we all know we have to be 5-1 to take the AFC south.

Our secondary is young, but they are starting to show that they are legitimate corners, no Reevis or scrabble but at least better than Doont-uh. Bonecrusher is going to have an amazing year, I/we expect nothing less from the Black Wilkes Boothe. (If you dont understand that analogy please leave a comment i will explain it) Troy Nolan looks ready to step in when Eugene inevitably goes down. Our D-line showed a lot of gusto against the cowbitches line but then again they have the back ups of oline they took with them to their last superbowl still playing. I want Amobi to get 1 sack a game, and Mario to get at least get a couple every other game. LBs I am not as worried about that guys except when it comes to covering a TE/WR hybrid like we face in Indy.

If Arian Foster plays in the Reg Season like he has this pre-season I have faith our O can destroy anyones D, ANYONES! With a solid running and passing attack the Houston Offense is literally unstoppable! this is just my piece maybe i should have created my own fanpost but no one hardly reads my crap lol.

if Jeff Saturday is sitting come week 1. Colts front office is saying he should be back and he’s been practicing, but I’m still not convinced he’s ready to start. Trust me, it will be a big BIG deal if we have to play without him. Other than that I think you Texans will have to be up by at least 14 at the end of the 1st half to have a good shot at winning. Peyton always has your D figured out by the beginning to middle of the 3rd quarter. Regardless, it should be a close game. Here’s hoping for a shootout. I have Shaub and Manning in my 2 QB fantasy league (I drafted with absolute idiots).

Feels like to me if we win week 1, there will be such a celebratory atmosphere, that the players won’t be ready for week 2. And I think if we lose to the Colts that will be a wake up call for the Skins game.

you all have failed me. Surely you can dig up a Colts fan willing to have a prolonged Andre Johnson sucks and Matt Schaub is a douche-a-holic argument.

hint: that Colts fan isn’t me but I’d be willing to sit and watch it unfold. Email me if you come up with something good.

I have decided to hold my optimism for the Texans from here on out until they actually produce. For about 4 years now I’ve been calling for them to be a wild card. I really want that to happen. I want the moniker of best division in football.

If the Colts go 16-0 you better go 14-2. The Jags can go 12-4 and the Titans can go 0-16. I think I’d be happy with those results. Of course then you all can die like dogs in the playoffs, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Colts 34 Texans 3