Hervoyel
BUENO!
Another thing I don’t understand is that Kubiak and BoB have almost identical accomplishments as coaches of this franchise. Two division titles, two playoff appearences, with Kubiak having a better playoff record by one game. In Kubiak’s last year here, much of the talk on the board was very similar to what you see now.
Sure, Kubiak had better offensive numbers after we got Schaub, but BoB had the #1 offense with Watson. Why is Kubiak looked at so favorably in comparison to BoB?
Early in the season, and in previous seasons, everybody was complaining about BoB’s inability to adjust to the talent he has on offense. In comes Watson and the type of plays he called changed and it resulted in some of the best offensive production we have ever seen here. Maybe, it’s more to do with talent than coaching? That sure seems to have been the case at QB.
I’m rambling, but it’s very difficult for me to understand why there is such a push to be rid of BoB when we’ve seen this before. The real issue is the same issue that held Kubiak back.
The guy (DW4) played 6.5 games this year. That does not make BoB & Kubiak "the same". Without Watson BoB's offense has been (in points and yards) 14th/17th in 2014, 21st/19th in 2015, and 28th/29th in 2016. That's a steady yearly decline. I'm pretty sure without Watson they're probably 31st/31st in the league with Savage starting. He's generating something like 7 points a game on offense since he came back and nothing in the first game if my memory is right. Wouldn't surprise me for a second if we were at the bottom statistically with Savage under center.
Kubiak's offense in 2013 even with all those injuries and an unready Case Keenum under center was like 31st/11th in points/yards. We weren't scoring but we were still moving the ball better than any of BoB's teams ever has.... Except for when DW4 stepped on the field.
2012 8th/7th
2011 10th/13th
2010 9th/3rd
2009 10th/4th
2008 17th/3rd
2007 12th/14th
2006 (With David Carr) 28th/28th (again "With David Carr")
They're nothing alike. Nothing at all. You have seasonal shifts caused by factors like injuries but generally you see the Texans under Kubiak getting better on offense every year. The thing that always held them back was a defense that was incapable of getting off the field. He had us in the top ten scoring teams four years in a row and it just started paying off when Wade Phillips showed up and started showing our defense how to nut up to other teams. until then Kubiak was coaching an offensive machine that couldn't stop anybody.
With O'Brien's Texans it's been a team that couldn't do a thing on offense being held up above .500 by RAC's defense.
Ultimately it comes down to one thing to me. Offensive ineptitude and that's been O'Brien's calling card not the magic you've seen out of Watson. If BoB knew that was in the can wouldn't he have opened that can on day one and spent preseason getting ready to open that can? Why did we spend all off season pretending that Savage was going to be our QB? Why did this team's offense fall off a cliff when O'Brien got here? Don't assume that because we're scoring BoB's somehow calling magic plays that he can't call when Savage is in (and if he's got magic plays that Savage can't run why in the **** is Savage on this team at all?). DW4 makes those happen when he escapes, extends plays, and starts playing sandlot football. That won't happen forever. When he comes back teams are going to be planning on stopping him. Film catches everybody just like Time does.
It's tempting to blame Rick for all this but Rick didn't do all this. Not by himself. The team got worse and either Rick Smith forgot what little he knew about drafting or the guy in his ear has been giving him **** advice (mostly) on offense for four years.