I was going to add this to the previous McNair thread, but that morphed into a thread on the possible expanded season. In part II of Brooke Bentley's interview (on houstontexans.com), McNair lays out the Texans draft and expresses his impatience regarding the lack of playoff appearances.
I hear ya, Bob.Brooke Bentley: Finally, a lot of people are saying this is the Texans year to get over the hump. How much pressure is on this team to go to the playoffs?
Bob McNair: I don’t know how much pressure there is on us to do it. But I can just tell you, from our standpoint, we are very impatient about it. It’s what we fully expect, so I guess we put the pressure on ourselves. We need to improve our defense. Our offense was number three in the league; our defense was 22nd. We jus(t) need to step up what we are doing on the defensive side of the ball. (Defensive coordinator) Frank Bush is our new coordinator there and he has a lot of enthusiasm. He is going to be very aggressive and I think fans are going to like the way we play defense with Frank. We were very close last year and there is no reason why with a little luck and the way the ball might bounce this year that we will go a long ways, and that’s what we expect to do. I’m looking forward to it. I’m ready and I know our fans are ready. I’m tired of not being in the playoffs. When the playoffs start, I want us still to be playing.