The 2010 Sporting News Magazine Stinks!!!!

[buckaroo_banzai]

hey all,
Today I was reading my haul of new football magazines previewing the 2010 season....
things were looking good, as most of the mags had the Texans making the playoffs. I felt like we were finally getting some love.........then I read the Sporting News 2010 magazine and none other than John McClain had done the Texans write-up.
The sporting news magazine rates teams overall on a 1 to 100 scale, with the best teams around 95 or so. Try to imagine my surprise when they rate Indy at 91 (OK, that's maybe about right), but the second place team was the titans at 89....."huh?!?!?" Then just to rub salt on the wound, they have our beloved Texans at 79 WTF!?!?! A 79...REALLY!?!?! that far behind everyone else? The jags were rated at 72.
So I'm supposed to believe that we are closer to the jags then the colts? Am I missing something?
at least the write-up about us from McClain was fair, but man those people at the sporting news must really hate us or something because it was BY FAR the most negative review of the team so far. (I guess more upcoming mags could treat us worse, though I doubt it)
Even the chiefs (85) and cardinals (81) were rated higher....."SHEESH"

[blitz90]

Sounds about right considering how horrible we've been in our division.

[Ryan]

This is a "put up or shut up" league and the Texans haven't put up yet. Don't expect everyone to jump on a bandwagon of a team who's never made playoffs.

[wagonhed]

Those are almost the exact same numbers Madden gave last year (we were 78 or 79 I think) and I imagine we might be 80 or 81 this year because of Cushing and Pollard, but not much higher.

[Carr Bombed]

Originally Posted by buckaroo_banzai

hey all,
Today I was reading my haul of new football magazines previewing the 2010 season....
things were looking good, as most of the mags had the Texans making the playoffs. I felt like we were finally getting some love...

Where have you been the last couple of offseasons?

The Texans have gotten nothing but love...only to make fools out of the people who went out of their way to rave about the "new up and coming team in the NFL".

Forget love and respect (which is meaningless) I want wins and results ON THE FIELD....and only the Texans can control and supply that. Frankly other than being very entertaining with a high octane offense, the Texans haven't offered up any real substance for outsiders to go crazy about. All they've done is disappoint and lay eggs when they should've been "taking the next step/turning the corner" (yack)

[steelbtexan]

Originally Posted by Ryan

This is a "put up or shut up" league and the Texans haven't put up yet. Don't expect everyone to jump on a bandwagon of a team who's never made playoffs.

Yep

But some cant come to grips with the thought of the NFL being a put up or shut up league. They're getting better but this just in......... so are the rest of the teams in the NFL.

It really comes down to injuries and if Kubes can improve. Right now it doesn't look promising. (Cushings suspension and my lack of faith in Kubes)

[Carr Bombed]

I'll just repost the post I made a couple of months ago when someone trashed Tim Cowlishaw when he had a negative opinion of us because it's also relevent for this thread...

Originally Posted by Carr Bombed

Cowlishaw has been a Texans supporter on that show more than a couple of times (as well as the Rockets) and usually when he sticks his neck out for us and gives us some props, we do something stupid like find a way to lose a game that we should win or fail to "take the next step/turn the corner" (yack ) and we make him look like a fool

I have no problem with what he said, if you put all the "Texans' fandom" aside and think with out bias, everything he said was sadly the truth.

And it's not just him that feels this way either. If Houston won a couple of those games or turned a few of those corners that we keep hearing about (again yack), then that game wouldn't have a noon start time, it would probably be a nationally broadcasted game. Houston has no one to blame except themselves for the way outsiders view this team. They are annually offseason favorites that become a regular season letdown. I think people in the media are getting to the point where it's put up or shut up...and I can't really blame them, because I'm getting that way with this team.

NO MORE TALKING, NO MORE EXCUSES......START DOING, START PRODUCING!

They do that and there will be more respect bestowed on this team than we can shake a stick at. Respect is earned...it's not given and if this team can make some big noise this year with this schedule they'll be given PLENTY of respect by everyone in the national media.

http://www.texanstalk.com/forums/sho...aw#post1412346

[False Start]

That sounds about right to me. They haven't done anything significant yet, so they need to do that to be rated higher.

[m5kwatts]

Originally Posted by blitz90

Sounds about right considering how horrible we've been in our division.

Despite being 1-5 against the division the Texans were the 2nd place team in the division and thats not bad considering the 1st place team arguably could have gone 16-0.

[Wolf]

sadly first four years we kept making circles with those 4 left turns with C & C factory

Kubiak is on his 4th so well time will tell if it is 4 right turns

[Second Honeymoon]

our head coach sucks and we did nothing in the offseason to really improve

why is anyone surprised that someone who isn't biased or a homer thinks we are average

we are a .500 team under Kubiak and we haven't met a big game we couldn't lose

6-10 here we come, Thanks for re-signing Kubiak, Bob.

[m5kwatts]

Originally Posted by Second Honeymoon

our head coach sucks and we did nothing in the offseason to really improve

why is anyone surprised that someone who isn't biased or a homer thinks we are average

we are a .500 team under Kubiak and we haven't met a big game we couldn't lose

6-10 here we come, Thanks for re-signing Kubiak, Bob.

The team went 9-7 last year and was 5-6 plays away from being 12-4. The team is one of the youngest in the league and has someone close to or entering the prime of their careers at nearly every starting position. Your continued bitter pouting over daddy McNair not satisfying your spoiled brat needs for a new head coach or a high dollar ESPN-recognizable free agent is obnoxious and reflects poorly on Texans fans and this board. Get over it and please re-think posting next time you have something dumb like this to say because your embarrassing yourself.

[Norg]

The jags are like dallas and redskin games


we can be 14-0 and the jags 2-12 and they can still find a way to always bet us

Has long has we are in this divison the Jags will play us like its WW3 or something same with the titans

[JB]

Originally Posted by Norg

The jags are like dallas and redskin games


we can be 14-0 and the jags 2-12 and they can still find a way to always bet us

Has long has we are in this divison the Jags will play us like its WW3 or something same with the titans

Actually, we have a better record against the Jags than either the Colts or Titans...look it up

[Goldensilence]

Originally Posted by steelbtexan

Yep

But some cant come to grips with the thought of the NFL being a put up or shut up league. They're getting better but this just in......... so are the rest of the teams in the NFL.

It really comes down to injuries and if Kubes can improve. Right now it doesn't look promising. (Cushings suspension and my lack of faith in Kubes)

But, But...they were the best 9-7 team to not make the playoffs! In fact they could go down as the BEST 9-7 team ever.

[Thorn]

blah blah blqh blah

blah blah blah blah

next article.

[GP]

Is this the first OFFICIAL "Why don't we get any media love?" thread of the season?

They always crop up about June each year.

Every such thread should have plastic explosives attached to it and detonated from a safe distance...within 2 minutes of it being created :kaboom:

[GP]

Originally Posted by Goldensilence

But, But...they were the best 9-7 team to not make the playoffs! In fact they could go down as the BEST 9-7 team ever.

Gosh darn it, Timmy! If you don't calm down right now, I'm going to send you AND your sister to summer journalism camp with Justice and McClain.

I'll have no more of that sort of temper tantrum from you, young man.

Now go set the table and grab your grandmother's heel file. She wants to get in a good heel shaving before dinner.

And wipe that frown off your face, or I'll make you sweep up the dust and shavings once she's finished.

[Texan_Bill]

Originally Posted by Second Honeymoon

our head coach sucks and we did nothing in the offseason to really improve

why is anyone surprised that someone who isn't biased or a homer thinks we are average

we are a .500 team under Kubiak and we haven't met a big game we couldn't lose

6-10 here we come, Thanks for re-signing Kubiak, Bob.

YUP!!! Thanks Bob! I really appreciate having Kubes around for another season, too.



Geeeez, just when I thought SH had given it a rest, he chimes in with his typical, redundant and ridiculous rant..

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That said, I could care less what any publication's pre-season predictions are. That's why they actually play the games.

[HoustonFrog]

Originally Posted by Ryan

This is a "put up or shut up" league and the Texans haven't put up yet. Don't expect everyone to jump on a bandwagon of a team who's never made playoffs.

This

For years the cards were the Texans yet they kept disappointing. Then they made the SB and now they have some cred. You may have talent and think playoffs, but until you do you will be considered amn underacheiver.