Bobo said:
Personally I think the Texans should have kept Capers on for many aleady stated reasons. However, if you know you are going to fire a coach early in the season it is probably best to get rid of him quickly because, with the axe hovering over a coach's head, he's liable to do some things that wouldn't be beneficial for the team in the long run. For example, Carr started every game last year, even though things were hopeless. This would have been a perfect time to bring in someone like Ragone and see what he could do. But instead, Capers was trying to salvage his job and kept starting Carr in hopes of being able to say that the team was on the rise at the end of the season. Capers may have thought he had no stake in the future of the Texans and that his future was now. I don't fault him for that -- that's the norm and any coach in his position would do exactly that. Thus, a coach who is fighting to keep his job rather than the future ot the team might not be what the franchise wants to experience.
This will be the rant of all rants. In fact, this will be the end of your Capers boosting when people read this one. You are at about a 95% ignore ratio right now, and I bet it surges to 98% or better after the following thesis:
If a coach is fighting for his job, he's going to do ALL he can to win. Except for Capers, he didn't do that. He could have let David Carr call the shots all season long (like Carr did against Arizona)...but something kept him from allowing Carr to do what big boy QBs in the NFL do: Call the shots, or at least have a say in the in-game playcalling. Capers didn't allow it, and only DID allow it when it was forced upon him by Mcnair and Reeves....outside of that one "half" of a football game against Arizona, Capers didn't allow the No. 1 draft pick and starting QB of the Texans to call the shots, or at the very least to have buy-in and ownership of the playcalling to SOME degree, even after being sacked 345 times and taking the beating of his life for the past four years under what can be called one of the worst passing offenses of all time.
You'd think that kind of torture...being a company man for Capers...would earn Carr some stripes with the head coach, give him at least a sporting chance against teams who knew the quick hitch or the RB dump off pass was coming their way every other play. But nah, something kept Capers from allowing his franchise QB to call the shots, or to at least have some sort of decision-making role when he lines up under center. What was it? What was "it" that kept Capers from allowing Carr to call the shots more? And when I say "more," I mean "more than one half of an NFL game out of the fours seasons Carr has been our starting QB?"
I think, in my opinion, Capers had his pride at stake. If Carr succeeds, it makes Capers look all the more silly for not giving Carr more leash the previous three seasons. And he figured he was going out anyway, so why even give anybody a chance to point a finger at him (Capers) for being so squeaky clean as a person, but so dastardly dictatorial as a head coach?
But that's just my opinion, and you want to know why? Because for the life of me I cannot figure out why a hungry, desperate coach "fighting for his job" wouldn't throw to caution to the wind. I can't figure out why Capers wouldn't let his pride fall off after the Arizona game. But heck, maybe McNair told him he was fired already anyway...and so nothing at all mattered. Mcnair said to give Carr the reins for one half, Capers complied, and it was all Reeves and Kubiak needed to see to know that they had their guy at QB--That must have been the most humiliating half of football in Capers' life. Of course, this is the same Kubiak whom you think is going to flop...a guy who wets his bed and cries for mommy all the time and can't begin to handle a head coaching job in the NFL. A guy whom you said "doesn't even get on the sideline with the guys, but sits in the booth," and I busted you on lying about that one and provided the link to an NFL.com article from 2002
http://www.nfl.com/teams/story/DEN/5701519 that shows he's been on the sidelines for YEARS. Of course, you never responded to my fact-finding that exposed you as someone who would even make stuff up just to beat someone down.
Carr has had all the talent and all the skills to be a top tier QB in the NFL....but had it practically wasted by a guy (Capers) whom you claim is a nugget of gold with nobody smart enough to see and recognize.
Thank you Capers for giving us a "foundation" as a respectable organization that is professional in its demeanor and attitude towards life and NFL football. But thank you, Mr. McNair, for seizing the day and making sure that this team is given the resources it needs to make the next step and to play more respectable football on Sundays.
Capers is gone. Casserly is gone. And now it's time to show at least some sort of respect to the new head coach. A little optimisim is in store, if you ask me. Good luck to DOm in Miami. But I wish even better fortune to Kubiak. He's making a believer out of me. At least there's some attempt to shake up the roster and make some changes that aren't just "changes in name only."
Wake me up when Aug gets here!!