There Will Be Blood: Gary Kubiak As Jack Kerouac

;-) I’ll go find out.

It’s Vance Joseph. I knew it was a name that was repeated on the team which was why I got confused between Jonathan Joseph and Vance Joseph.

http://www.houstontexans.com/team/coaches.html

so yeah apparently Vance Johnson is someone I invented b/c I couldn’t be bothered to find out the real names in my haste.

sowwy.

I thought he was coaching the secondary but I’m not sure what exactly “defensive backs” are . . . so yeah I don’t exactly pass football 101 with flying colors. . .but still !

that guy who coaches secondary on the team that Andre Jackson plays for

Vance Johnson and Kubiak have a connection. Both played for the Broncos in the late 80’s and went to numerous Super Bowls. Losing of course. I remember Vance had a sweet jerri curl with a braided duck tail. He and Ricky Nattiel had some cute nickname as a WR group, but I can’t remember…….stupid football card obsession when I was a kid haunts me to this day.

For some reason when I was posting, my brain was on a British spelling kick. I had initially posted “superiour” instead of superior (and while I cleaned that up, I missed the tonne). I’ve always felt that GREY is the correct spelling of the “colour” even though color is how I normally spell that word.

And when I looked up grey vs gray on
http://www.greyorgray.com/

I saw that I gravitate to “travelled” instead of traveled. I probably read one too many British authors somewhere.

I know your sig says Orwell, but as I read it, I thought of and missed George Carlin. Odd.

The fact that its taken 5 years of terrible defense to get someone of Wade’s pedigree is sad and doesn’t absolve Kubiak of the previous years of average to below average football.

considering the Texans have lost both of their road games to teams likely to finish above .500 in 2011 suggests that this is hardly an apples-to-oranges comparison.

That’s what was so disappointing about the 2010 D. We expected them to pick up were they left off….. and that didn’t happen

that was the year when fans like me were so grateful that Pollard had turned our defense around with his tough attitude.

=) I still love the guy for blocking that field goal in Washington DC.

I see now that my tirade was grossly undervaluing the point that over the course of 6 years — “it’s on Kubiak”. He’s ultimately the man making the decisions. He’s ultimately responsible for all the decisions made underneath him. In THAT light, I think I get y’all’s point.

I still think that Wade Phillips is just LEAGUES above any other DC we’ve ever had though. He’s taken most of the same pieces of the puzzle from last year and has had our defense smiling alot more often than they’d been before.

I also wonder if Kubiak is delegating more than he did before or just delegating to more talented people now? ;-)

Allen to play more

After last Sunday’s 29-14 loss at Baltimore, coach Gary Kubiak said he thought cornerback Jason Allen should have played more. Kubiak said Thursday that Allen will get more playing time behind Kareem Jackson on Sunday.

“I think he’ll play more,” Kubiak said. "I do think Kareem played very well. They’re going to both play, and how it’s going to pan out numbers-wise, we’ll wait and see.

“I’ll give (defensive backs coach) Vance (Joseph) the rein to see how he feels from that standpoint.”

my emphasis warning this link takes you to the Comicle but it is the source for the quotation above

So maybe Kubes is growing in skill at being the head coach. As a Longhorn fan I could say “eh he’s an Aggie, he’s expected to be slow” ;-) but I won’t =D . I think he’s learning well and will continue to grow into a VERY GOOD head coach.

Has Kubiak been learning at what we might consider a glacial pace? Maybe — but I also think it’s because he’s got such a good heart. I so love that he has faith in people and he gives them chances. The beauty of this year is that now we’ve got Kubiak and the front office taking QUICK decisive action to get better talent.

Example: Jacoby stuffs up one game and we go out and get D. Mason.
Message to Jacoby: get it right or there will be consequences
Desired result: Jacoby is held accountable for his performance FINALLY

Message to D. Mason: get it right and we’ll get passes thrown to you and get you playing time

Basically, it looks like he’s setting up all sorts of competitions where various players need to excell to get on the field. I LIKE that. It feels like that kind of accountability was missing in some of the previous years. (but if I’m wrong – I plead n00bish ignorance of the game ;-) which I’m still learning about from y’all every day).

<3

You recognized that I was only starting a sentence with that remark. Thank you for finishing the thought.

I see this game this Sunday as the Texans traveling down the road, as I have seen many compare it, and coming to a Y in the road. One way takes them to a place they don’t want to be, a place where they have been before. I think it goes to some outhouse hidden in the hills of Tennessee. The other way takes them to a place they have never known, a perceived land that is only a dream to them. A plateau that they climb up and where they sit and look down on the rest of the division.

Stat sheets and historical facts can’t explain it. Let’s play the game.

And, if they lose, Kubiak and Schaub better take cover.

Wade Smith was actually referred to as Wade Phillips by some random “sports journalist” this past offseason. Certainly not as bad as Joel Myers and Greg Gumball’s pronunciation of Owen Daniel. And I would certainly rather be referred to as the Houston Texas v. Oilers or Titans or however else the announcers would refer to our little expansion team.

Until then, they’re just my Texans Bums.

at your stadium at the end of the season.

Let me take my teeth out. I know you likes it better that way.

is if we beat an otherwise 9-7 team, we bring them to 8-8 and still didn’t beat a team with a “winning record”. Thats why I don’t take too much from those sorts of things, we are part of whatever record an opponent has.

They probably weren’t very optomistic last year when they were losing starters left and right.
They just had players step up and coaches make adjustments and took it one game at a time till they won the SB.

Now, they are just killing it. Soon as they start feeling good about it they’ll drop one or two.

I like it