Exascor
Veteran
Have you looked out the window lately? You'd never be able to live with yourself if there was one sitting there. =P
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We arent out of it yet...
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Have you looked out the window lately? You'd never be able to live with yourself if there was one sitting there. =P
Mailman
Pwned by Hakeem
I'm not drinking the Kool Aid, but I am old enough to remember the 1993 Oilers. That team started off 1-4 the year after the Buffalo debacle only to run the table and finish 12-4 and earn the first and only first round bye Houston pro football fans have ever known.
2-5 to the playoffs? Stranger things have happened. I'm just sayin.
2-5 to the playoffs? Stranger things have happened. I'm just sayin.
houstonhurricane
Veteran
Right now we are a full game closer to the winless Jags than we are to the Colts. Let that sink in...
TexansSeminole
Hall of Fame
Yup. We have the 2nd worst winning percentage in the AFC and 5th worst in the NFL.
Scooter
Funky
without cushing i think our 1.3% chance is now about .001%. we saw what happened last year without him. we saw what happened earlier this year without him. we are so bad at linebacker, we cant possibly overcome losing our star midfielder. i'm truly amazed that we've thrown so many resources at the position and have nothing to show for it. the line is good, the secondary is good ... the linebackers are cushing and absolute scrubs, now without cushing.
For me the question really is, has the team given up?
In 2011 there was a "next man up" mantra that permeated the whole team. Anyone get that kind of vibe from the team this year? They/We need to go back to that "Go 1-0 each week" mentality. I think that looking at running the table to make the playoffs is looking waaaay too far ahead. They need to worry about what's right in front of them. Come out of the bye and get a win against the Colts. That should be their only focus.
Get behind Keenum on offense. And block for Cripes sake! Make those "tough" catches. I counted at least two TDs left on the field because the youngster didn't throw a perfect ball.
Step the hell up on defense - I'm a little tired of Lehler and the special team pinning teams inside the five (and that's the one thing that Coach Joe's ST does really well and at they do it least once or twice a game) only watch the defense give up 90+ yard, quarter eating TD drives.
I will always be of the viewpoint that the guys on the field are the ones who have to make the plays. So if there's any fight in the guys in that locker room, now is the time to suck it up and show it.
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In 2011 there was a "next man up" mantra that permeated the whole team. Anyone get that kind of vibe from the team this year? They/We need to go back to that "Go 1-0 each week" mentality. I think that looking at running the table to make the playoffs is looking waaaay too far ahead. They need to worry about what's right in front of them. Come out of the bye and get a win against the Colts. That should be their only focus.
Get behind Keenum on offense. And block for Cripes sake! Make those "tough" catches. I counted at least two TDs left on the field because the youngster didn't throw a perfect ball.
Step the hell up on defense - I'm a little tired of Lehler and the special team pinning teams inside the five (and that's the one thing that Coach Joe's ST does really well and at they do it least once or twice a game) only watch the defense give up 90+ yard, quarter eating TD drives.
I will always be of the viewpoint that the guys on the field are the ones who have to make the plays. So if there's any fight in the guys in that locker room, now is the time to suck it up and show it.
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Bulls on Parade
2017 Astros: Earn It!
We still play them twice. Let's just try and go 6-0 against the AFC South for the first time in franchise history. If we can do that then anything is possible by owning the tiebreaker. The Colts are going to lose a couple other games, in my opinion. They lost Reggie Wayne for the season but I don't hear their fans throwing in the towel like some of our fans seem to be doing without Brian Cushing. Did we not beat the Colts in Houston last year without Cushing? So let's do it again on November 3.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
Baby there's always a CHANCE...
YeaLikeRightNow
Waterboy
There's a CHANCE if the odds are in your favor. Right now, at this moment; the odds are not in our favor. Not by a longshot.
The window is closing abrubtly;
2012Champs
Hall of Fame
Hervoyel
BUENO!
The thing is, I don't really care anymore. It's done. The guys were playing like crap to begin with and the ones who are injured aren't going to get un-injured. Ok, maybe Daniels will but he isn't going to make any difference anyway.
For me this season is about watching Case Keenum tell us whether or not we need a QB in the upcoming draft and seeing if Foster is done or not. It's about seeing if some of the guys like Mercilus, and Swearinger step up. It's about seeing if Hopkins is the real thing by the end of the year and seeing if AJ can make it through the season still playing at a high level.
Basically 2013 is about seeing what we're going to need in 2014 because folks, 2013 as a "campaign" to get to the post-season and Super Bowl has gone straight down the ****ter.
For me this season is about watching Case Keenum tell us whether or not we need a QB in the upcoming draft and seeing if Foster is done or not. It's about seeing if some of the guys like Mercilus, and Swearinger step up. It's about seeing if Hopkins is the real thing by the end of the year and seeing if AJ can make it through the season still playing at a high level.
Basically 2013 is about seeing what we're going to need in 2014 because folks, 2013 as a "campaign" to get to the post-season and Super Bowl has gone straight down the ****ter.
YeaLikeRightNow
Waterboy
yep, all of that...
...until Kubiak starts Schaub on November 3.
You know it's going to happen, and this city's attitude will go from bad to FUGLY.
This is not a team of destiny. It's an NFL franchise making a good profit.
That's when legends are made.
Gary Kubiak really needs to be fired I can't stress that enough. He's too okay about losing games. It took 4 loses and a injury to the quarterback who threw 4 straight pick six's for him to make a quarterback change. After Case Keenum comes out and plays the best quarterback game since week 3 of last year this idiot Kubiak says he's still in evaluation stage of every player in every position. If you don't know your players now you'll never know them. He's a freakin idiot and needs to be fired. Now that the nfl has figured him he won't win... but he thinks everything is under control and he thinks he's soooo smart what a idiot. If he brings out Schaub against the colts he is doing the city of Houston, Schaub and this team a disservice.
bOODRO87
Time Consumer
Agreed. This season has become a joke. I hope he puts Matt out there because there would be no way for him to come back from that decision if Matt were to keep doing his thing.
Kinda like the last scene in Fight Club. We will all be watching a remarkable implosion. Everyone holding hands as well.
GuerillaBlack
Hall of Fame
This. Until the team gets its 7th loss, I'll keep hope alive. Highly unlikely, but you never know.
HOU-TEX
Ah, Football!
Good post, Herv. And unfortunately, I've been thinking like DB ever since Keenum got the nod. I think Kubiak has every intention of starting Schaub. The question to me is whether he'll be 'swayed' to do otherwise
Bulls on Parade
2017 Astros: Earn It!
If we can beat the Colts on November 3, we shouldn't lose another game for a while. Even with a 2-5 record, winning the AFC South is very possible for the Texans but it's going to be a must-win game on Sunday Night Football at Reliant Stadium 12 nights from now.
Schaub will not start over Keenum. The people who run the Texans - the marketing department - wouldn't stand for it.
SCOTTexans
Rookie
All we have to do is go undefeated in our division (Ind, Jac, @Jac, @Ind, and @Ten), beat the Cardinals or the Raiders and we are 8-8....
Colts lose to Us both times, the Chiefs, the Bengals, and once to Ten or Jac, hope Ten implodes again and we are in the playoffs!
i just made me sad
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
[Barbecue pit with a pig on a spit rolls down a hill. Homer and Bart give chase until the pit hits a wall and the pig falls into a river]
Homer: it's just a little wet! It's still good! It's still good.
[pig goes into a storm drain pipe and half of it is sticking out of the other end]
Homer: It's just a little slimy! It's still good! It's still good!
[water pressure fires the pig from the pipe and into the distance]
Homer: It's just a little airborne! It's still good! It's still good.
Bart: It's gone...
Homer: (defeated) I know.
Homer: it's just a little wet! It's still good! It's still good.
[pig goes into a storm drain pipe and half of it is sticking out of the other end]
Homer: It's just a little slimy! It's still good! It's still good!
[water pressure fires the pig from the pipe and into the distance]
Homer: It's just a little airborne! It's still good! It's still good.
Bart: It's gone...
Homer: (defeated) I know.
toronto
Hall of Fame
TheMatrix31
Hall of Fame
Only post you've ever made that I've actually liked. This really is bizarro-season.
Lord Bills
Destruction
reggie wayne injury and keenum continuing to play will save our season.
thetexanator
Veteran
im feeling it too.
win colts home
jags x2
one of denver,new england
tennessee
oakland
arizona
san diego has a tough schedule.
the jets flame out.
9-7 and we have a shot at last wild card.
ill stop dreaming if we lose to indy in 2 weeks.
win colts home
jags x2
one of denver,new england
tennessee
oakland
arizona
san diego has a tough schedule.
the jets flame out.
9-7 and we have a shot at last wild card.
ill stop dreaming if we lose to indy in 2 weeks.
fiasco west
All Pro
That's the truth. The only way this team finishes the season 10-6 or even 11-5 is if Case Keenum will make up for all the holes this team has. He would basically have to turn into a elite QB. It is possible surely but highly unlikely. It would be something similar to what Kaepernick did (although he didn't have to dig his team out of a hole) or what RG3 did when he dug his team out of a hole. He'd have to have a MVP season.
A great QB can have that much effect. That's why I don't think there is any chance Kubes starts Schaub, Keenum the unknown is the only chance this team has now. Him being a QB and making up for the teams poor Oline and inconsistent defense is the only way.
I hadn't been on the site all day and saw this thread and forgot it had been around for a couple of days, and forgot what it was about.
When I saw it I thought "you're damn right we're not out of it it yet,we have 9 more games to suffer through until the end of this travesty, man that's a lot of crappy football".
I hope for the best but plan for the worst for 2013.......
When I saw it I thought "you're damn right we're not out of it it yet,we have 9 more games to suffer through until the end of this travesty, man that's a lot of crappy football".
I hope for the best but plan for the worst for 2013.......
Disagree.
Why would the Marketing Dept. pass up an excellent chance to sell a boatload of Keenum jerseys??
It ain't like they're gonna sell many more Schaub jerseys.
I thought that's what I said.
Apologies sir. I mis-read your post.
Please excuse the double negative in the post.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
How do you NOT!?
It also contained the exchange:[Lisa drives lawnmower and uses it to propell barbecue pit down the street]
Marge: Bart NOOOO!
Bart: What? I'm right here.
Marge: Sorry force of habit.
Trail.Blazr
Hooked up to a Kool-Aid IV
All we have to do is go undefeated in our division (Ind, Jac, @Jac, @Ind, and @Ten), beat the Cardinals or the Raiders and we are 8-8....
Colts lose to Us both times, the Chiefs, the Bengals, and once to Ten or Jac, hope Ten implodes again and we are in the playoffs!
i just made me sad
LOL... the river is starting to flow. It does look bleak. Even for a wild card, we're likely only going to be able to get away with two more loss at most. And none of those should come from the division if we are to have a shot. If we can't beat the Jags, heaven help us. Tennessee has to be over come by division and overall. In either scenario, it's looking for SURE that the week 9 Indy game is where the fulcrum lies in terms of what's already a long shot.
Week 9's outcome will be either a launch pad of the most improbable come back in the NFL for eons, or where you can absolutely put a fork in the team.
I'll be absolutely shocked to see a W given the current state of dissaray, but
I've held out this long, so... I gotta see it through week 9. Go Texans!
Thorn
Dirty Old Man
There's a huge difference between hoping for a win and expecting a win, or even a decent game. I'm always hoping for a win, but usually expecting something else. But for the Indy game on Sunday night, that would be just frigging fantastic to beat the Dolts and Luck in front of everyone.
Bulls on Parade
2017 Astros: Earn It!
If the Texans can give the same effort they showed at Kansas City I'm confident they'll beat the Colts on November 3. I thought they played hard for a full 60 minutes for the first time this season.
That would be two weeks for Arian Foster and Ben Tate to be healthy again. All we really lacked against the Chiefs was a run game. We barely lost 17-16 on the road against an undefeated team.
One game at a time is all I'm focusing on. So that November 3 Sunday Night game is going to be huge. Pretty much our season on the line. It's a must-win game. If we lose that one then you can say the season is over.
That would be two weeks for Arian Foster and Ben Tate to be healthy again. All we really lacked against the Chiefs was a run game. We barely lost 17-16 on the road against an undefeated team.
One game at a time is all I'm focusing on. So that November 3 Sunday Night game is going to be huge. Pretty much our season on the line. It's a must-win game. If we lose that one then you can say the season is over.
It's not unreasonable to think the Texans can win the next 4.
Lose to NE
Then win the 4 after that.
It's only 10-6, but we'd be going into the play-offs with more momentum than we did last year.
Lose to NE
Then win the 4 after that.
It's only 10-6, but we'd be going into the play-offs with more momentum than we did last year.
Trail.Blazr
Hooked up to a Kool-Aid IV
If we could beat Indy, I like our chances with NE. No wilfork, no Mayo and issues with receiving talent... IMHO, Indy is the bigger challenge.
I agree with Thorn. At this point, it's all about hopeful.
One game at a time. I've never said it before, but read it many times... November 3 is the biggest game in franchise history!
What if the Colts can give the same effort they showed at Denver? At this point it isn't all about the Texans and their effort. There are many teams in the league that are better than the 2-5 Texans.
Can the Texans win? Sure. Do the Colts have any say in the result? Yes they do. Given the way they have both played this year I'd be hard pressed to be "confident" of a Texans win even if they play well. The Colts are a better team.
HJam72
Hall of Fame
I just feel like losing Cushing is a bigger blow than we can overcome when we are already 2-5 & Indy is ballin'. My opinion, the rest of this season is about whether Keenum is next year's starter, or somebody else that is not on this team yet. In that vein, I'll just say that I will no longer get upset about losses as long as Keenum is not the reason for them. We don't totally suck, but this season is toast. :kubepalm:
BTW, if Schaub starts one more time, unless it is because Keenum has had plenty of opportunity and completely blown it, I join the fire Kubiak crowd.
BTW, if Schaub starts one more time, unless it is because Keenum has had plenty of opportunity and completely blown it, I join the fire Kubiak crowd.
eriadoc
Texan-American
Since TKyss phrased it this way, I'll just continue - I do not think it's not unreasonable (HA! Triple negative!) to beat the Colts. It's unreasonable to think they will, actually. Hope springs eternal, of course, and I have more of that now than I did two weeks ago, but the Colts are for real, despite TKyss' refusal to acknowledge Luck's mastery of the position.
eriadoc
Texan-American
And then there's this.
I'm hoping if we don't talk about it, it never happened.
I do not deny that the Colts are for real... in fact they look more like the Super Bowl Patriots than the Bradies.... y'know, when their QB was clutch as hell, but his biggest contribution to the team was not screwing up.
Yes, Tom Brady turned into a great QB, but very little from that time pointed to him becoming such.
yep.
Unreasonable is defined as "not guided by or based on good sense".
And while I never want to rain on anyone's parade, the reality is that the Texans are playing like a 2-5 team right now. Add to this the very significant injuries involved, and the probability that the 2013 Texans can somehow rise above themselves to only lose one more game this season is about as improbable as it gets.
I would love for it to happen, of course. I'm not rooting for them to tank to get a high pick and lose Kubiak (although I would see those as silver linings to an abysmal season). But, I'm a very pragmatic person and the reality is that this year's version of the Texans sucks about as bad as the 2005 version.
I'm not denying any of that.
There are some pretty big ifs in my hope. & that's all it is right now, unfounded hope. Not a prediction, not a guarantee.
Unfounded, fanatical hope.
Thorn
Dirty Old Man
There are a couple of things I'm still hopeful about.
1. Win enough games to prove we aren't completely dead. At least take both games from the Jags for gods sake.
2. Keenum does well and becomes our starter.
3. Kubiak gone. gone. gone.
After that it becomes more wishful thinking than hopeful.
infantrycak
Hall of Fame
These two together are extremely unlikely. If Kubiak is fired it will be because McNair comes to the conclusion the team outside of QB is better than Kubiak. He'll let a new HC pick his solution at QB.