I'm not sure what fans you've been talking to, but I interact with fans from everywhere practically and the majority of fans I talk to continually ask me why the hell Kubiak is still coaching here? They tell me that they feel sorry for Andre Johnson a lot as well and that they'd love to see what he could do with another team. That's the main things I've been asked over the last two seasons.
And none of that has any relevance to what they think of the offense.
I never said we didn't have a good offense though or that other fans didn't think we had a good offense. I stated that many fans in here overrate this offense a lot and that other teams and fans are not "fearful" of our offense like many attempt to claim. Our offense is not nearly consistent enough for 4 quarters for teams to fear this offense nor does it finish teams off enough in close games when it's a make or break situation. With that being said, we're a respected offense that people feel is a pretty good one, but certainly not a dominant offense that any fans feel that they need to fear. Most of the time they mark a "W" on their calender just like they do with other historical losing teams.
Texecutioner said:
Bingo! I've been saying for the last two years that are offense is overrated in here any way.
Sorry Texecutioner but you are overrated as a poster. No I'm not saying you are specifically BAD but just overrated. Do you see how that works? Usually when you are saying that a team or something isn't as good as normal public perception, then they are probably not "good". The fact is, most other fans fear the offense but laugh at the defense. Almost every write-up I read last year coming from opposing fan bases involved "The offense is potent, Arian Foster, Andre Johnson and Matt Schaub are all high level players, you must watch out as they will inevitably score a ton of points at some time in the game. The defense is so bad that this isn't an issue."
I mean, golf clap for you guys who have the foresight to forego any logical reasoning or evidence in order to get the jump on saying that the offense is overrated. I'm just not buying it now, nor have I ever bvought that line of reasoning no matter when it was presented last season. No offense truly dominates for all 4 quarters of an NFL game unless the mis-match is gigantic (Think Seahawks or Rams games from 2009, or the Titans game from '10). But the fact of the matter is, nobody has said that the offense was the best in the league or the most consistent, and I think most people here would agree that our offense is probably ~10th best in the league give or take who you are putting above and what sort of changes they might have to go through if there is an offseason. I'm trying to think of teams that have better offenses overall and outside of the Pats, Packers, Colts, Atlanta (I guess?), Chargers (Maybe?), Saints (Maybe?). Most teams don't have pro bowl caliber players at QB, RB, and WR, and most teams don't average 24 - 25 points a game. Plus, out of those teams, most of them have a defense that will actually give the team good field position within a game at least once.
Like I said, around the league the general feeling is that the offense is pretty much in place and can compete with almost any defense in this league but the defense is so shitty and terrible that it really doesn't matter because even the Jets can win a shoot out if you're really going to be dumb with your D.