i couldnt help but laugh when i saw this.....

[Playoffs]

Originally Posted by ObsiWan

The time for those minimal expectations is gone.
We should, at a minimum, (1) defend our division championship, (2) get a first round bye, and (3) be one of the teams slugging it out in the AFC championship game.

Those are reasonable and achievable goals. We should expect to get at least two out of three. Winning the division and making it to the championship game is in the team's hands. The first round bye thing depends on how successful other teams are compared to us so that's not totally within our control.

Yep. Our division is now weak -- we should win it for the next few years. Expectations are appropriately high.

[Dread-Head]

For a minute I thought someone had posted one of my paychecks.

[badboy]

I am so sad and depressed & then I think about how ESPN blabberheads will be saying, "Yep, you heard it here first on ESPN that Texans made it to Super Bowl. "

Suddenly I am no longer sad.

[GP]

Originally Posted by EllisUnit

yeah i know, i think BSPN meant NEW guys to the team and not old players who they are re signing. Oh well i dont care i actually think that the texans have done a great job so far with what we have to spend.

It still just made me laugh when i saw none.

I hear ya'....

They should have a category that says "retained" for a team's own fee agents that chose to stay with their team. That would make the list more respectable, but then again...like you said...that's not up BSPN's alley.

[hookinreds]

Originally Posted by Scooter

it is quite a difference from earlier years when our released players were bagging groceries the following season. silver lining.

Actually, we were the ones signing the players we found bagging groceries.

I agree with you and Malloy...when other teams scoop up your FA/cuts right away, then you know things are finally getting better.