Gmurrie
12-10-2006, 11:44 AM
I'm just curious.
Does anyone here have access to game films? I read a lot of posts in these fora that make comments about one player or another not getting this or that done. While the result is obvious to us all, the reason for that result is not always obvious without the benefit of game film and an understanding of each players' responsibility on a given play. The coaching staff shows us a report card of how the players are doing their job, the guys getting it done in the context of the play called keep their jobs and the guys that aren't don't. There are no reasons (no, not 5,8,10 or 25 million rea$ons) to play a guy that isn't getting it done. If what is being said here is that this guy or that guy doesn't have "heart", or can't pick the right hole, or doesn't get over on a cover two, then what is really being said is "our coaches are so incompetent that they can't see on game film, in practice, and in meeting throughout the week, what I can plainly see on the piss-poor half-the-cameras coverage on CBS". Sounds kind of silly when you hear it like that doesn't it?
So, while it certainly puts a downer on my Sunday when the Texans play poorly (win or lose) I always come away wondering why it happens. I'm not certain that it is any one player. I think the Texans, and a few other teams (Cleveland, Oakland, for example) are still way short on overall talent. I don't believe that any one guy would fix our situation now. We need 10 or 12 guys, not all starters, to raise the overall talent.
I think the guys on the field are the best we've got to do what the coaches want done. They just aren't that good up and down the roster. Look at the Rockets, last year if McGrady had gone out mid fourth quarter in a close game we lose for sure. Not this year though. The supporting cast is just a little bit better than it has been the last two years. THIS is what the Texans need.
I think most of the high-pitched rhetoric in this forum is a carryover from the Casserly/Capers era (they looked so much worse than they do now) and we just haven't calmed down as a football fan base. I hope we calm down soon because the dominant attitudes I see in this forum are the seeds of discontent that brought us empty seats in the 'Dome and eventually a void in my fall schedule which used to be filled with Oiler games. We just can't ever forget how much worse that felt compared to a struggling team.
Does anyone here have access to game films? I read a lot of posts in these fora that make comments about one player or another not getting this or that done. While the result is obvious to us all, the reason for that result is not always obvious without the benefit of game film and an understanding of each players' responsibility on a given play. The coaching staff shows us a report card of how the players are doing their job, the guys getting it done in the context of the play called keep their jobs and the guys that aren't don't. There are no reasons (no, not 5,8,10 or 25 million rea$ons) to play a guy that isn't getting it done. If what is being said here is that this guy or that guy doesn't have "heart", or can't pick the right hole, or doesn't get over on a cover two, then what is really being said is "our coaches are so incompetent that they can't see on game film, in practice, and in meeting throughout the week, what I can plainly see on the piss-poor half-the-cameras coverage on CBS". Sounds kind of silly when you hear it like that doesn't it?
So, while it certainly puts a downer on my Sunday when the Texans play poorly (win or lose) I always come away wondering why it happens. I'm not certain that it is any one player. I think the Texans, and a few other teams (Cleveland, Oakland, for example) are still way short on overall talent. I don't believe that any one guy would fix our situation now. We need 10 or 12 guys, not all starters, to raise the overall talent.
I think the guys on the field are the best we've got to do what the coaches want done. They just aren't that good up and down the roster. Look at the Rockets, last year if McGrady had gone out mid fourth quarter in a close game we lose for sure. Not this year though. The supporting cast is just a little bit better than it has been the last two years. THIS is what the Texans need.
I think most of the high-pitched rhetoric in this forum is a carryover from the Casserly/Capers era (they looked so much worse than they do now) and we just haven't calmed down as a football fan base. I hope we calm down soon because the dominant attitudes I see in this forum are the seeds of discontent that brought us empty seats in the 'Dome and eventually a void in my fall schedule which used to be filled with Oiler games. We just can't ever forget how much worse that felt compared to a struggling team.