OK...this is absolutely ridiculous. Pardon me, but simply because I look at the game and see that the Bengals had us down and inexplicably stopped running the football down our throats (which was working by the way) and ended up choking doesn't mean my fanhood should be in question. In fact, what it means is that I am saying the Bengals should have won it and didn't. Same thing goes for the Falcons: Had Matt Ryan connected on either of the TWO wide open easy deep TD passes we are looking at trying to stay just ahead of the Titans.
Dude, you keep saying that the Texans
should have lost. Past tense. I don't care, the team doesn't care, and the fans shouldn't care of anything in the past, when it comes to a win, when you're saying the past should have been something other than what it is!
A person can look at so many different plays over the course of several years of the Texans that could have changed the course of their years, but they didn't happen, so obviously they shouldn't have happened. They shouldn't have won, because they didn't!
My only point was that the team has played poorly enough to warrant being 8-6. As I said, I am glad we pulled it out, but against a team like Baltimore or even N.O./G.B. that is a loss every day.
You don't know any of this for a fact.
I apologize for being a realistic and not a homer in trying to look at how this team could perform going on from here. I you want to pretend the team is perfect and without fault in all of our games go ahead, but that neither makes me wrong nor gives you any right to question my or anyone elses fanhood.
I understand that if we keep playing like today then the odds are slim that the Texans make any ripples in the playoffs. I, too, am not going to subscribe to blind homerism; nonetheless, the root of "realistic" is reality; and I don't think it's mere semantics that "should," as opposed to a more appropriate "could have lost," was what's in order.
By the way, it's not only low of you to do that just because you disagree with someone. Look to your join date and look to mine. I'm sure we have both loved this team from the beginning, but I have obviously been here since we were terrible. You look like you jumped on the bandwagon this season when we FINALLY started to play well. By mo means am I calling your love for this team into doubt, but it is pretty disgusting of you to call mine into doubt because I am trying to point out my concerns for this team moving forward.
I've been an Oilers/Texans fan longer than you've been alive - since 1983 - when I was old enough to be able appreciate the game. I was 10 years old. No, my post count doesn't reflect that.
I'm sorry, I simply cannot abide by revisionism. Yes, the Texans did not look like a playoff team today. Thursday will tell whether they bounce back or not. That only means putting a total spanking against the Colts.
. Sure we got embarrased today.
