See, when you compare something you have to compare something of likeness with similar qualities. If you are going to compare the texans with any team, records or anything, do it over a five year period. Take anyteam and compare them for 5 years and its hard for them to maintain a winning record, except for the elite teams such as NE, Indy, Philly, Denver and Pitts.
But two things you have to take into account is one, noone grows up saying I want to play with the Cards when I grow. James was a big pickup for them because how many talented FA want to go to a team like that. Overcourse, the money is better these days.
Take teams like Dallas, NE, Packers, Steelers, and they have good marketing to attract talented player and have created the idea that you want to grow up and play for us. Its an honor. So in five years, they could rebound quickly from a losing record. Then everyone wants to go there to be a winner.
Secondly, take in mind that starting from scratch 5yrs ago, you may have a system that is developed to ensure that an expansion team can get off to a competitive start compared to expansion teams of the past, but when you have the mentally challenged(no, thats giving them too much credit), when you have dumb and dumber leading the way, you have a chance to take the long way to a winning record.
Thats the problem. We had a chance at a short cut to winning. The idiots of past left us with thier mistakes to pay for. SO now we have to take the normal, long and hard path to a winning franchise. Instead of developing a winning atmosphere, we have that expansion team tag still hanging over us. Only players that want a fresh start and try something new, and want to say "I built that" want to come here. Thanks, by the way, Moulds and Weaver. And the effort was nice all powerful, omnipotent Young
who if you had gotten sacked instead of let go like you were supposed to wouldnt be making Texans fans have an aching hangover.
Yes. We are still an expansion team. We are not rebuilding . We are building. To rebuild you have to have something in place first that works. We were never working properly.
So, yes we are like the Cards in we are losers, but losers of a different sort.
Losing is the norm for the Cards because its they have always been losing. BTW, I think they beat the Cowboys in the playoffs in the late 90s. Sound familar? Plummer at QB? And since then that winning has been too much for them and really like losing.
We are losers or a different sort because we dont know what works and have to do a do-over from scratch. New GM, HC, Staff, first round pick whom coincidentaly was the same type of player we passed on the first time, and possibly now a new Qb. The last one is in the air but is crashing down quickly.
But yea, we are still losers.
