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I don't see the Texans/Colts as a rivalry. I don't give a rat's ass about "rivalry."

I hate them because they had Peyton Manning for so long and we couldn't beat them and then they sucked and got Luck and instead of being a bust, Luck is turning into another top level franchise QB.

I hate them because they have totally dominated us for the entire course of our existence.

Saying that we shouldn't hate the Colts because it's not a rivalry is like saying the slave shouldn't hate his master because of the power differential. That's EXACTLY who we should hate.

I don't care as much about the Jags or even the Titans anymore because we have a much better track record against them. It's the Colts I want to drag down off their throne and dominate for the next century.


Don't get me wrong , I cant stand the Dolts. Its just that they didn't have a long run of knocking my hometown team out of the playoffs like the Steelers did.


One thing that pisses me off ... is their luck. No one franchise should have so much when it comes to the QB position.
Tank for Manning .... have more than a decade of success then turn around and tank a year for Luck ..... and they are primed for another decade of success.

They get back to back once in a generation QB's for their pain. We get stuck with a crap QB and a couple once in a generation pass rushers ..... HWWNBMv1.0 , MW and now Clowney.
 
I'd take Watt and Clowney to beat Luck for the next decade. Just a shame we didn't have Clowney for that Thursday Night game. We might have won. They wouldn't have scored as many points. We'd probably have held them to two less Touchdowns. At any rate, he's coming back. We're 3-3 and still ten games left. Plenty of 2014 season left to make some noise.
 
I don't see the Texans/Colts as a rivalry. I don't give a rat's ass about "rivalry."

I hate them because they had Peyton Manning for so long and we couldn't beat them and then they sucked and got Luck and instead of being a bust, Luck is turning into another top level franchise QB.

I hate them because they have totally dominated us for the entire course of our existence.

Saying that we shouldn't hate the Colts because it's not a rivalry is like saying the slave shouldn't hate his master because of the power differential. That's EXACTLY who we should hate.

I don't care as much about the Jags or even the Titans anymore because we have a much better track record against them. It's the Colts I want to drag down off their throne and dominate for the next century.

What he said.

I'd take Watt and Clowney to beat Luck for the next decade. Just a shame we didn't have Clowney for that Thursday Night game. We might have won. They wouldn't have scored as many points. We'd probably have held them to two less Touchdowns. At any rate, he's coming back. We're 3-3 and still ten games left. Plenty of 2014 season left to make some noise.

You aren't keeping an elite QB down. Period. You're looking for a djinni riding a unicorn chasing a leprechaun along a rainbow to a pot of gold.
 
What he said.



You aren't keeping an elite QB down. Period. You're looking for a djinni riding a unicorn chasing a leprechaun along a rainbow to a pot of gold.

If there's a way to do it it's with constant pressure, and of course a modicum of competent QB play on our side would help too.
 
I don't see the Texans/Colts as a rivalry. I don't give a rat's ass about "rivalry."

I hate them because they had Peyton Manning for so long and we couldn't beat them and then they sucked and got Luck and instead of being a bust, Luck is turning into another top level franchise QB.

I hate them because they have totally dominated us for the entire course of our existence.

Saying that we shouldn't hate the Colts because it's not a rivalry is like saying the slave shouldn't hate his master because of the power differential. That's EXACTLY who we should hate.

I don't care as much about the Jags or even the Titans anymore because we have a much better track record against them. It's the Colts I want to drag down off their throne and dominate for the next century.

All of that plus I can't stand their ass clown trust fund baby idiot owner.

MSR.
 
I am starting to get a HWSNN feeling about Fitzpatrick. I remembering defending HWSNN for his first few years because his stats would look decent but we would still get the loss.

Seems like Fitzpatrick is now in the same boat. His stats look ok but we still get the loss.however, it seems like it is all garbage stats

I know I know garbage stats are basically any stat when you don't get the "W"
But it just seems like a team gets a big lead and Fitzpatrick somehow "comes alive"aka defense plays back and relaxes to protect a big lead. then when The game gets close. The defensive coordinators fight up the belt and wallah . Fitzpatrick folds again

I didn't expect Fitzpatrick to become a superstar or Anything. But he is worse than I expected
 
I am starting to get a HWSNN feeling about Fitzpatrick. I remembering defending HWSNN for his first few years because his stats would look decent but we would still get the loss.

Seems like Fitzpatrick is now in the same boat. His stats look ok but we still get the loss.however, it seems like it is all garbage stats

I know I know garbage stats are basically any stat when you don't get the "W"
But it just seems like a team gets a big lead and Fitzpatrick somehow "comes alive"aka defense plays back and relaxes to protect a big lead. then when The game gets close. The defensive coordinators fight up the belt and wallah . Fitzpatrick folds again

I didn't expect Fitzpatrick to become a superstar or Anything. But he is worse than I expected

Fitz is who he is. I really didn't expect anything better or worse form him. He'll look OK for a bit, then he'll look terrible. Doesn't help that the O-line isn't doing him any favors.

The more concerning fact is that OB thinks he gives us the best opportunity to win.

The bit on Mallett I heard on yesterday's broadcast was that "he's progressing but needs to improve his accuracy in the red zone." By the mid 20's isn't your accuracy what it's ever going to be? I'm no QB guru, but it sounds like Mallett will stay on as backup for the rest of the year and then be let go in FA.

So, we're looking at 8-8 best case scenario (I think), another QB drafted next year, and then seeing if that guy and Savage can develop into a starter.

That process can take years.

Sorry, I feel a little discouraged today.
 
Your right.

If obriens offense is that hard to grasp I am worried. ESP if mallet har time in that type of system Before and can't grasp this one.
Makes me wonder how Long it would take a rookie to learn O'briens system
 
I am already tired of hearing "we have to coach better"

Capers was "execute"
Kubiak"its on me"

I knew it would be rough season but this is depressing when fitzpatrick is stilf being trotted out. I dont know if mallet is the answer but I wish this team had some swag (and not talking about #36)
 
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Was driving home after dinner and was changing the radio station, eventually I just left it on some random rap song, wouldn't you believe, Ludacris was rapping and he said "Everybody got 99 problems but ain't got sacks like J.J. WATT!"

I live in ATL, and that was shocking to hear him of all people included in a rap song.

At that point, i'd have to believe you're borderline "Iconic" because if I ever hear a rap song mention an athlete it's usually LeBron or Kobe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xgZ3EXs80 (Mature content, obviously)

He's mentioned at 2:40.

My random thought of the day.
 
Texans and their "luck"

Another player is up for a contract and gets hurt before we can truly evaluate him


Goodness what flipping timing
 
• Turnovers turning the Texans around: There are several reasons for the Texans' improvement this season, but not to be overlooked is the Texans' ability to both cause turnovers and protect the football. After finishing with a league-worst minus-20 turnover ratio in 2013, the Texans are tied with the Patriots for the second-best figure this season at plus-11.

There are 15 teams with a positive turnover ratio in 2014, and just three of them have a losing record. That's one of the reasons why coaches so routinely harp on the importance of forced and lost turnovers.
 
Texans and their "luck"

Another player is up for a contract and gets hurt before we can truly evaluate him


Goodness what flipping timing
understand but much better than give a (cough) Cushing deal and then player gets hurt. To look on positive side IF Texans want Mallett he could accept less and still be healthy by OTAs
 
This Cushing stuff is ridiculous. He got a totally separate injury after his contract.
Which of course has nothing to do with my post. He had injury to ACL in 2012 and then a fibula in 2013. Waiting a couple months into the '13 season to re-sign him would have cost nothing and would have been economically prudent. Refusing to negotiate with a player during season is silly.
 
Which of course has nothing to do with my post. He had injury to ACL in 2012 and then a fibula in 2013. Waiting a couple months into the '13 season to re-sign him would have cost nothing and would have been economically prudent. Refusing to negotiate with a player during season is silly.

Why wait?

It's a gamble. You're hoping to catch a good player in a downswing & use that to your advantage when negotiating. Odds are that we'd have paid Cushing more had we waited till week 6 for Cushing to prove he's the same guy he was before the injury. Then Rick Smith would look like a bigger fool when Cushing got injured (totally unrelated to his previous injury) the very next game.

& you can't tell me that you weren't convinced by week 6 that he was still a badass.
 
Why wait?

It's a gamble. You're hoping to catch a good player in a downswing & use that to your advantage when negotiating. Odds are that we'd have paid Cushing more had we waited till week 6 for Cushing to prove he's the same guy he was before the injury. Then Rick Smith would look like a bigger fool when Cushing got injured (totally unrelated to his previous injury) the very next game.

& you can't tell me that you weren't convinced by week 6 that he was still a badass.
Not hoping for anything. As CND has pointed out repeatedly that a player have an issue with one extremity often has ongoing issues with it or the other side. I know this was not case with Brian but why not wait until mid season at least? If he looks good, give him the bucks and if not and he didn't, it's a whole nuther thing.
 
Not hoping for anything. As CND has pointed out repeatedly that a player have an issue with one extremity often has ongoing issues with it or the other side. I know this was not case with Brian but why not wait until mid season at least? If he looks good, give him the bucks and if not and he didn't, it's a whole nuther thing.


CnD said we can expect Cushing to come back at 100%. That injury had no bearing on his current injury. Saying we should have waited, is like saying we shouldn't have signed Jj Watt to his deal, at least two years early, because he might get injured this year...

If complications were to arise from his first injury, I could understand & even agree with what you're saying... Matt Schaub for example. I don't think the Texans had sufficient proof that he was healthy.

& yeah, there's an argument that Cushing wasn't either, but his second injury is not proof to that effect.
 
Not hoping for anything. As CND has pointed out repeatedly that a player have an issue with one extremity often has ongoing issues with it or the other side. I know this was not case with Brian but why not wait until mid season at least? If he looks good, give him the bucks and if not and he didn't, it's a whole nuther thing.

The only way to be certain things don't go south on you in this fashion is to never re-sign anyone, and just let them all walk (and then don't sign Ed Reed (or anyone for that matter) to replace them when they do). The Cardinals handled Carson Palmer just like you're talking about, and he blew out his knee in literally the very first game he played after agreeing to the deal (game 6).

When you do the deal is an arbitrary cutoff because there's always gonna be a next game. Whether it's the off-season, and that next game is the season opener, or whether you're the Cardinals, and that next game is game 6 of the 2014 NFL season.
 
The only way to be certain things don't go south on you in this fashion is to never re-sign anyone, and just let them all walk (and then don't sign Ed Reed (or anyone for that matter) to replace them when they do). The Cardinals handled Carson Palmer just like you're talking about, and he blew out his knee in literally the very first game he played after agreeing to the deal (game 6).

When you do the deal is an arbitrary cutoff because there's always gonna be a next game. Whether it's the off-season, and that next game is the season opener, or whether you're the Cardinals, and that next game is game 6 of the 2014 NFL season.

Yep! Sh!te happens and there ain't no pleasing TTalk MB
 
The only way to be certain things don't go south on you in this fashion is to never re-sign anyone, and just let them all walk (and then don't sign Ed Reed (or anyone for that matter) to replace them when they do). The Cardinals handled Carson Palmer just like you're talking about, and he blew out his knee in literally the very first game he played after agreeing to the deal (game 6).

When you do the deal is an arbitrary cutoff because there's always gonna be a next game. Whether it's the off-season, and that next game is the season opener, or whether you're the Cardinals, and that next game is game 6 of the 2014 NFL season.

Exactly.
 
CnD said we can expect Cushing to come back at 100%. That injury had no bearing on his current injury. Saying we should have waited, is like saying we shouldn't have signed Jj Watt to his deal, at least two years early, because he might get injured this year...

If complications were to arise from his first injury, I could understand & even agree with what you're saying... Matt Schaub for example. I don't think the Texans had sufficient proof that he was healthy.

& yeah, there's an argument that Cushing wasn't either, but his second injury is not proof to that effect.
Those points are all right, but Cushing is different from Watt in that Cushing already had an overwhelming history of injuries. That's why I said at the time that the big contract extension was stupid.
 
I don't believe that accurately reflects his thinking.

You're right... I think that was after his second injury, but before we knew the true extent of it.

Still, the point remains. The second injury had nothing to do with complications from the first, or any compensatory affects of the first.

A player stuck his helmet in Cushing's knee. You can't not give him a contract because a player might put a helmet through his knee.

Now saying it would have been prudent not to sign him until after that season is fine. But using that injury as justification doesn't wash.
 
Anyone ever see the version of the Texans logo on the right? I never have. I dont know if its some official alternate, or user made, but I like it.

:cool:


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I saw it in this article in The Chronic today.
 
Anyone ever see the version of the Texans logo on the right? I never have. I dont know if its some official alternate, or user made, but I like it.

:cool:


texans-bad-breaks-indys-luck-big-losswith-onetexfan.jpeg


I saw it in this article in The Chronic today.


A creative designer applying his ideas during the sluggish NFL lockout period.


Sep 26, 2012
• In Art/Design, Logos/Branding, Sports

Minimalist NFL Logos

The NFL season thus far has been…interesting, to say the least. We all know that the lockout must end asap, but we can’t help but look on with incredulous curiosity (with a hint of morbid amusement) as the replacement refs continue to make a mockery of the game.

But enough of that.

The reason I bring up the ludicrosity of the past 3 weeks is because I happened upon these beautifully redesigned NFL logos by Matt McInerney. Even if you’re not a football fan, you can’t deny that these minimalist interpretations are clever, engaging, and oftentimes a lot more alluring than the current logos.



Houston Texans:

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Houston Texans (alternate version):
“Instead of a referencing a long horn, this version uses an H + T to
create field goal posts, with a Lone Star shooting through the
uprights to cross the H.”

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Matt McInerney
: New Football Logos

Fake alternate NFL logos by Matt McInerney.

Disclaimer: These logos are unsolicited, unofficial, and designed purely for fun. The process does not reflect real world circumstances.


I am a designer at Pentagram in New York City.

I co-host a podcast called On the Grid

Here are some of the projects that I have worked on:

College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy

Big Ten Conference Identity

Pepsi Gate at MetLife Stadium for Super Bowl XLVIII

Top of the Rock Observation Deck

The Holidays at Rockefeller Center

Celebrating 100 Years at the New York Public Library

Reaching for the Sky: The Marina Bay Sands Singapore

Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Book Series

NFL London for GQ

Raleway Font

clipping.us

LINK
 
Randy got special teams player of the week. He set some Texan records with most field goaks in a game
 
Anyone ever see the version of the Texans logo on the right? I never have. I dont know if its some official alternate, or user made, but I like it.

:cool:


texans-bad-breaks-indys-luck-big-losswith-onetexfan.jpeg


I saw it in this article in The Chronic today.

I think the goal post one is way cool the way it integrates the H-T and the Texas star into a minimalist design.
Sweet.
 
I thought Thorn was suggesting a training aid...
You know, use the doughnut hole as his target

...come to think of it, maybe that's why he was dead on every time on Sunday
:uprights:

Perhaps if we changed our tactics. We should now pray to the doughnut gods instead of the football gods.

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Did they fine Kareem for throwing the football into the stands? I think he got it to the second level.
 
Watching these games (I really haven't watched any games except Texan's games) just reemphasized how special Watt is.

Throughout the last two weekends and watching the different teams defensive lines do their thing. I couldn't help to think about Watt and how he is head and shoulders above everyone else.
 
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