When I think about the players on this team, I get excited. No joke. My adrenaline starts pumping. But when I think about the coach, I don't get excited. It's not that I hate the team. I just have serious doubts about the coach.
Does that make sense?
I thought I've been pretty clear about not understanding why people have doubts about our coach.
I thought it was pretty clear to everyone that Gary Kubiak was not ready to be a head coach after the 2006 season. We could clearly see he had some learning to do.
Whether he brought them on himself, or they were forced on him, Gary's been hamstrung most of his HC career. I don't know if there was any truth to McNair requiring some veteran leadership on Gary's coaching staff... Mike Sherman, Richard Smith....
More Hamstringing... Kyle Shanahan... David Carr... Charlie Casserly..
I think this was the first year, that Kubiak grabbed his gnads, and said we're going to do it my way. & I like that.
Even with everything he's had to put up with, he's done a really good job building this team through the draft.
I think it is a testament to his coaching ability that we've got the #4 total offense & the only high draft pick he's used on offense was a LT. We're not breaking the bank on offensive FAs.... we're basically scrubs on offense, overachieving like a mother@#$. & we had no run game in 2009.
Defensively, again, mostly through the draft, he's put together a very impressive core of players, mostly through the draft. The talent on the defensive side of the ball is actually better than what we've got offensively....
I've never been a draft only guy, mainly because I believe that route takes longer.
Personally I don't understand how we can judge what he does on game day, or say we won or lost a game because of this decision, or that decision... when his young team still act like a young team. Inconsistency is one thing, but unpredictable is something totally different.
Raise your hands if you knew Slaton was going to develop a bad.... bad case of the drops.. If you knew we would lose our 2 starting guards 3 games into the season..
Raise your hands if you knew we would lose OD when the schedule got tough. Or that you knew KDub would only beat OD by 100 yards on the season despite playing 6 more games.
I'm not making excuses for the man. I recognize there is still a lot of learning & growing going on on the sidelines as well as on the field. When I talk about the foundation Kubiak is building, I recognize he's building it on the sidelines as well.
& though Andre Johnson has been our best player since we drafted him, & Schaub has been our QB since we gave two picks for him, neither were true leaders on this team, until this year.
Plain as day, I see the future of this team as well.... & it looks nothing like what you see.
Not saying my opinion is more valid than yours... just saying I honestly don't get your opinion.