I vote we do texans here as well - good enough chance WTF is appropriate.I personally am rooting for cushing to decapitate eli.
To the OP, Miss St is far from awful and UH lost one the the best players to ever set foot on their campus and are in the midst of juggling their 3rd and 4th string true freshman QBs. Not unexpected at all.
Actually Piland looked pretty good. Recievers dropping balls all over the place. Turning point of game was the fumbled punt in first quarter. Lack of talent on defense, especially at SS. I dont think having Case would have mattered in this one, but you never know.Texans look horrible.
Texans look horrible.
Texans look helpless, which I can only attribute to a bad scheme and situational play calling given how the team has looked every other week.
Quick, name one phase of the game that the Texans have looked halfway decent at today.
Catering?
Kubiak didn't find out until this morning they had a game today.
A couple of ticky-tack block in the back penalties.
Yeah...that's been the problem today.
The Texans have been beaten soundly in every aspect of the game. But the officials are throwing waaaay too many fucking flags.
I'm done apologizing for Kubiak. This was a complete lay down.
I think the Texans beat the Giants fairly handily. Our defense actually matches up well with them, which is a first-- run defense and deep ball defense are our 'strengths.' And despite all the sacks last week, the aggressive Giant d-line is going to have trouble with the zone blocking and play action that we do. All that plus Cushing's return and playing at home and I'm going: 27-10[yes, I know that this will not happen]
Kareem Jackson is terrible.I'm not throwing Kubiak off a cliff yet. I wanted to go 2-2 in this 4 game stretch, so it will take 2-1 against KC, Indy, and SD. Not easy, but attainable. The Texans weren't going to win 15 games this year.
watched or am watching all 3 of those teams today. all terrible. so are the texans, but it's not that much tougher than any other stretch.
I will judge Kubiack more on how the team responds next week anyways.
How many more years of "I'll see how he responds next week" is it going to take? Five years of it isn't enough?
Could be worse - we could have singletary
Well I'm definitely not going to throw his job out the window after going 3-2 in the first 5 games of the season.
But how many more "let's see how he responds" is it going to take? You act as if this is his first five games. It's not. He's had five seasons of suberb talent, and driven it right into the ground. If you still think that Gary Kubiak can be a competent NFL head coach, we're not even discussing this on the same level.
I'm still reeling from the "We want Carr!" chant. I mean, just throw your own feces at that point. What's the difference?
the thing that scares me most about kubiak is how system-reliant he and in turn the texans are. this is what comes with the denver style so it's what you get i guess, but the scary thing about yesterday was how on top of our shit the giants were. if the other team has properly coached their d-linemen to stay disciplined and essentially act as extra linebackers on running downs then we're fucked. and when the running game doesn't work, the defense won't be confused by the play-action and misdirection passing, which leads to tipped balls, near-interceptions, and designed passes to vonta leach. i couldn't believe my ears yesterday, but moose johnston actually made a good point when he suggested that the texans put in derrick ward and go with whatever man-blocking plays they have. this or just saying fuck it and going 3 wide, no huddle would have suited me fine. but instead they kept going with the finesse bs like it's the only thing they know how to do, and maybe it is. sadly, this reminds me of the later days of the run n' shoot era when defenses started to figure out that you could beat the system by giving up short routes and then roughing up our short receivers.
I'm still waiting for Kubiak to explain declining the holding penalty... because obviously 3rd and 23 from the 30 is a worse situation than 4th and 4 from the 11 when you're down 3 scores. He might as well have grabbed the PA microphone and announced that his defense cannot stop anybody.
Conservative football is boring!
Not if you have the defensive talent to post W's doing so - Parcells made a living taking the air out of the ball and forcing the other team to do dumb shit. The Texans need to look at the Saints from last year...they gave up yards and some big plays, but they were incredibly opportunistic and forced turnovers. IMO, as a defense you have to limit scoring (read: force FG's) or create turnovers...the Texans seem to do neither. You cannot be conservative if you do not have the scheme or personnel to make it work.
That was actually defensible. They were running out of time, about 7 minutes or so left, and they were likely going to give up points on that drive, no matter what. Declining the penalty forced 4th down, and should have given them the ball back sooner. All of that is, of course, predicated on Bernard Pollard not stepping on his dick.
48 yard FG vs. 28 yard FG is a very different probability of outcome.
I doubt they would have kicked on 3rd down.
Which is exactly why I say that Kubiak doesn't trust the defense to stop anyone.
If you mean "stop" as in "don't give up an inch on 3rd and 23", then I doubt any coach trusts his defense.
An incomplete pass is out of the question? Really??
aggressive with a bad defense would be a far greater disaster than conservative with a bad defense. play conservative, force the offense into longer drives and you have more opportunities to force a punt or field goal, or even that one of the playmakers you do have (mario, pollard, cushing) will make a play. being that the texans, at least until recently, have tons of confidence in their offense, this is not a terrible strategy. blitz too much or coach your secondary to try to jump routes and you run the risk of getting blown out college style. saints had the right personnel for this style, and had far more talent on defense than houston does.
I totally disagree with this. getting beat by 24 points is a blow out. If you put pressure on qb and force some errors..well then giving up a few long balls doesnt kill you. Sitting back in zone with a rookie corner, 2nd year corner, slow SS, is a recipe for disaster.
10 points on offense is just as big a problem if not bigger.
The biggest problem for Kubiak is that McNair is realizing people would rather tailgate than actually come inside to watch this team.
At an extra $10/person.On a side note...as a season ticket holder and dedicated tailgater...I can't tell you how happy I am about the new tailgating/ticket policy. It was getting out of control.
they would have gotten beat by 48 points if they blitzed too much and/or told the db's to try to jump coverage, and would not have beaten the skins or colts. how many times have you seen the texans try to blitz, only to get bunched up at the line and the qb easily finds his read going down the field? texans tried bump and run earlier this year and were even worse at it than base coverage. I don't know the solution, but Bush's hands are pretty tied with the personnel we have.
Did you stay for the whole ClusterFuck?
1st half of colts game this year. Blitz was on. Also happened to be one of the best halves of football this year.You would rather they play a soft zone and drop Mario Williams..yes Mario Fucking Williams into coverage and lose by 24 than disrupt what the qb is doing, instead letting him bake a freaking cake in the pocket and picking apart the soft zone.....well then I guess Kubiak is the coach for you.
Manning noticed this week while studying the Texans that their safeties often creep forward on play-action fakes, leaving gaps down the field. He told his receivers to watch for that, and Nicks was apparently paying attention.“It’s fun when those things work,” Manning said. “It’s not really always what the coach had drawn up and what the coach wants, but you kind of do some things on your own.”
Here's a quote from Eli in the AP recap:Just imagine how foolish this bunch would look if they were attacking every play, if the db's were coached to jump routes. I mean, if that's how a CONSERVATIVE defense looks, they'd be literally tripping over each other's feet if they tried to act like the Saints last year.
we just will have to disagree on this. I think they have the talent to play man (not jump routes) and blitz at least 1 backer on each pass play. Hell might as well send Pollard because he sure as hell can't cover anyone.
Have you watched any games this year? They don't have the talent to double cover a receiver, let alone play man to man. The entire secondary is absolutely lost out there.
yes. Point is, by blitzing you don't give the qb time to get comfortable and throw his timing off.
I wanted Dunta out as much as the next guy....but it couldn't be worse with him, could it?
It couldn't be any worse, because right now is as bad as it could possibly be. They couldn't be any worse if they played with 10 guys on defense. Kareem Jackson is pointless.
