Three preseason games and we've been muscled around in ever one of them.
I'm tired of seeing each season thus far being plagued with mediocre playcalling, mediocre free agent acquisitions, and mediocre gameplay. I have long defended the front office AND Capers and the whole direction of the team and its player management & game management...but last night's performance has got me on the edge of maybe (key word being "maybe") thinking this should be Capers' farewell tour. And not far behind him is Vanilla Palmer.
And you know what? I don't care about the silver lining

replies that this post is gonna' get. I've been positive and cheery and optimistic for a loooooooooong time. And I've been a person who jumps on negative posters and calls them down for being overly negative, so it's time for me to be on the receiving end of the tongue lashing I guess. As I see it, last night's performance was easily the WORST performance of this franchise's history, and it came against one of our most hated foes, and I could have been happy losing the game if we had just played competitive ball. But everybody (with the exception of Mathis and Swinton and our special teams) looked like they had never played the game before and couldn't figure out what the objective of NFL football is....which is to move FORWARD in some combination of forward-moving plays which incrementally progress until either the brown ball crosses the opponent's goal line or is kicked through the tall, yellow pipes called a "goal post."
Where is the outrage by any of the Texans team members? Is there anything you guys can post on this messageboard that shows post-game comments by our team leaders, basically apologizing for their effort? Are any of them standing up and saying, "We stunk it up. This is unacceptable and we gotta' get things right in a hurry...."? If none of them are owning up to their performance, then that's the biggest injustice of all.
it is just a game....but they're enormously talented people with big salaries who do what all of us dream of doing, and they play for arguably the best NFL team with the best stadium, the best facilities, the best ownership, etc., etc. If that's not enough to motivate them.........nothing will.
That;s why the Patriots are winning right now. It's why the Cowboys won when they did. Very little separates the best teams from the average teams each year, but I think we're just at a very important and SERIOUS crossroads in terms of our team's current situation and the direction that it MIGHT need to go. All of us are fans, whether we call for the heads of players/coaches or whether we think they do no wrong and deserve a multitude of grace. I am beginning to swing to the dark side of the force based on what I feel are several years of acquiring the talent but not being able to execute on the field.