Jonathan Joseph: Texans "better team" than Patriots

[HoustonFrog]

This stuff bothers me. I don't take it as bravado, or a confidence build, etc. I wish guys would just take the reality..like Reed...and work to overcome the gap. Give credit, move on and work. Am I wrong here or do people like the attitude?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...-than-patriots

Color Mr. Joseph unimpressed.

"Obviously we had the right guys in here to win 13 ballgames to get up to that point," Joseph told Dave Zangaro of ComcastSportsNet Houston of Sunday's playoff loss. "For whatever reason, we didn't advance. I still can't put that over because I think we were a better team. I think we just didn't make the plays at the right time."

Asked if the gap between the Texans and Patriots remains a wide one, Joseph stuck to his story: "Not at all," he said. "Just four or five plays. You take a few of those plays that they made and go the other way, it's a different ballgame."

[Mr teX]

yeah, it kinda bothers me too. If you were the better team you'd be playing this weekend.

[Vinny]

didn't they just do a study where they determined that young people today are a bit delusional and narcissistic...you know, living in a dream world?

[BigBull17]

Show me how you're better J-Jo. Please, show me. By my calculations the combined score was 83-42. In two games you scored as much as they did in 1 game. Stupid **** like this pisses me off. You got corn holed by a team twice, so just giive em their props or drop a "no comment" and STFU

[Vinny]

Originally Posted by BigBull17

Show me how you're better J-Jo. Please, show me. By my calculations the combined score was 83-42. In two games you scored as much as they did in 1 game. Stupid **** like this pisses me off. You got corn holed by a team twice, so just giive em their props or drop a "no comment" and STFU

yeah, you play the games to show who is better. Unless you are in College and then they use the United Nations system of figuring stuff out by voting.

[rolyat93]

Can you imagine the **** Tom Brady would get if he said that had we won? We'd be coming down on him calling him a sore loser.

[Dread-Head]

Originally Posted by rolyat93

Can you imagine the **** Tom Brady would get if he said that had we won? We'd be coming down on him calling him a sore loser.

Uh...no actually I'd be calling him a 3itch. Hell they won and I'm STILL calling him one.

[Playoffs]

I don't have a problem with my players thinking we have the right guys to win it all if that's their truth.

[dalemurphy]

Originally Posted by rolyat93

Can you imagine the **** Tom Brady would get if he said that had we won? We'd be coming down on him calling him a sore loser.

I get your point.

However, I think it depends on the context, because I hate that stuff too. I hate it after a game when a person is being a sore loser and not giving the opponent credit. However, if Joseph is being interviewed about the season and his reflection on the team going forward, I don't think he is being a sore loser in this situation.

Essentially, he is saying he believes in this team and is disappointed but hopeful going forward. I don't mind that. Besides, it is the coaches and front office who need to assess the team's talent and make up.

[Wolf]

Originally Posted by BigBull17

Show me how you're better J-Jo. Please, show me. By my calculations the combined score was 83-42. In two games you scored as much as they did in 1 game. Stupid **** like this pisses me off. You got corn holed by a team twice, so just giive em their props or drop a "no comment" and STFU

Well .take 4 or 5 plays away from both games and we are looking at a combined score of 48-42 pats still win (taking as way 5 TDs of course )

[Vinny]

Originally Posted by Wolf

Well .take 4 or 5 plays away from both games and we are looking at a combined score of 48-42 pats still win (taking as way 5 TDs of course )

well, let's take away 4-5 scores from the Patriots in all their games and they don't make the playoffs. so there

[silentassassin]

Anyone consider what he said was taken out of context?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...than-patriots/

[thunderkyss]

Originally Posted by BigBull17

Show me how you're better J-Jo. Please, show me. By my calculations the combined score was 83-42. In two games you scored as much as they did in 1 game. Stupid **** like this pisses me off. You got corn holed by a team twice, so just giive em their props or drop a "no comment" and STFU

Arizona beat New England 20-18, no one believes Arizona is even close to the same team New England is.

I don't have a problem with Joseph saying what he said, or the way he said it. I'd hate to think the majority of our guys didn't believe they were on the better team. You're right, they have to prove it, they failed, & everybody else knows they're not in the same league.

I hope they come together next season to prove that they are the best team in the NFL.

[Rey]

Originally Posted by HoustonFrog

This stuff bothers me. I don't take it as bravado, or a confidence build, etc. I wish guys would just take the reality..like Reed...and work to overcome the gap. Give credit, move on and work. Am I wrong here or do people like the attitude?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...-than-patriots

Different Attitudes work for different types of people so I won't tell him how he should feel.

But he is wrong though.

[TejasTom]

Sounds like the post 2010 (6-10) arguments.

We're just a couple plays from 10-6.

We were also a couple if plays from 2-14.

It took upgrading a coach and some players. Sounds like a food recipe to take the next step.

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[JCTexan]

You got beat twice handily by the Patriots, and you come out and say this?

[welsh texan]

Originally Posted by JCTexan

You got beat twice handily by the Patriots, and you come out and say this?

Yep, nice little bulletin board material for the Pats when we meet next season.

[boom boom]

Originally Posted by JCTexan

You got beat twice handily by the Patriots, and you come out and say this?

hey jc, even though im a huge pats fan the texans have established an identity and trust me brother, they ware not too far from getting to a super bowl. your team has tremendous players and tremendous talent. arian, jj, and andre are beasts. congrats on a great year and next year you will dominate the afc south and almost all competition. keep your head up, and jj watt should be the mvp, he is that good. what a football player. congrats again on a great year

[Double Barrel]

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

[dream_team]

What he said here doesn't bother me. I want my team to be confident and believe they can beat anyone.

But maybe he should have said, "We are the better team, but they played better than us today."