What do we need the most?

[TEXANRED]

What we need is for the earth to open and swollow indi

 

[Vinny]

Frankly, I enjoy the fact we have a powerful team in our division. I've enjoyed watching a team being built to compete with them from scratch as an infant. Seems like most of you guys would rather not see the build...but only want the end result...right now.

 

[geofb]

We are coming off a solid season where we made huge improvements across the board and are ready to compete for the playoffs this year.

If compete means we won't be mathematically eliminated until 2-3 games left in the season, then maybe. But, being realistic, we have no real shot at the playoffs this year.

 

[Vinny]

Absolutely amazing. Are our fans THAT out of touch? We do have a shot at the playoffs. The Browns were 7-9 in 2002 and went to the playoffs in 2003 (we are a better them than the 2003 Browns). Last year the Steelers went 15-1 after a 6-10 year. Seems our fans don't grasp this kind of stuff.

 

[Blake]

I guess people learn nothing from teams like San Diego, Tampa Bay, and even New England.

San Diego screams into the playoffs a year after running a 4-12 season.

Teams can turn it around just like that.

There is more factors to making the playoffs than who we didnt sign.

 

[Vinny]

We may sit around .500 for a couple of years (including last year) but to say we have no shot at the playoffs is just ridiculous. We have as good a shot as any team outside of 4-5 elite teams.

 

[Diehardtexan]

Absolutely amazing. Are our fans THAT out of touch? We do have a shot at the playoffs. The Browns were 7-9 in 2002 and went to the playoffs in 2003 (we are a better them than the 2003 Browns). Last year the Steelers went 15-1 after a 6-10 year. Seems our fans don't grasp this kind of stuff.

I think this year's team is the best team we have so far, last year was a new year for our team with the blocking scheme and new OL ( three new starters and two cahnged positions. The DL was banged up and too many new defensive starters and changed positions every where. This is the year that they will get it together and gel on both sides. The playoffs aren't that far from reality, give it time people.:brickwall

 

[geofb]

We may sit around .500 for a couple of years (including last year) but to say we have no shot at the playoffs is just ridiculous. We have as good a shot as any team outside of 4-5 elite teams.

We'll see who eats crow in December. To make the playoffs we will need to finish ahead of either the Colts or Jags (as well as not fall behind the Titans). Very unlikely that happens. There are valid reasons why the oddsmakers show us only winning 7 or 8 games this year. We certainly aren't among the elite teams in the AFC in 2005. To say we are is just homerism.

 

[Vinny]

If you read what I typed I never mentioned we were an elite team. My post wasn't easy to misunderstand either.

 

[TEXANRED]

Vinny-Geofb dont make me put the two of you into time out.

Now I can understand Geofb saying that we wont finish ahead of the colts but to say that the f@guars will finish ahead of the Texans is silly.

And to use what others say about the Texans and how we will only win 8-7 games keep this in mind. Sitting in front of the T.V. I actually heard paid pro football comintators, predict, the Titans(4-12?) to go to the superbowl. Despite the fact they lost half the team. Why? Because the year before McNair was co-MVP and they went to the playoffs. Of course commintators are going to say negative things about the Texans until the Texans show them somthing. And for some fans in this town (and this is not a negative) are the same way. Show me somthing.

So what the Texans need more than anything? For them to show us somthing.

 

[disaacks3]

Damage control? We are coming off a solid season where we made huge improvements across the board and are ready to compete for the playoffs this year. It is amazing you chicken littles can't see it.

I don't think the "sky is falling", but I don't expect a dramatic improvement in the team either. Last season hardly seemed "solid" to me. The team had several "give up" games and then ended on that wonderful 'high note' against the Browns at home. I don't necessarily equate that with "Huge Improvemnts across the board", given that the 2003 Texans played BOTH Superbowl contenders close (beating one and taking the other to OT).

We've made no dramatic changes to the O-Line & TE positions, despite glaring needs on both. How no changes = improvement is a concept I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around. Is it possible that the line improves in time (like wine) into a finer product than it was before? Perhaps, though it may just as likely end up being vinegar! :brickwall

For the record, letting Sharper go wasn't an issue with me (I felt we needed more speed at the position), but I'd really have felt better with Glenn in the house as a mentor to D-Rob and P-Buch.

 

[Vinny]

I don't think the "sky is falling", but I don't expect a dramatic improvement in the team either. Last season hardly seemed "solid" to me.

I think there is some middle ground in the Chicken Little and the Homer positions. Last year we were coming off a year where we were statistically one of the worst in football in many areas. Last season we were productive enough to climb into the middle ranks when it came to offensive production, and had the shot at the .500 year going into week 17 as a 3rd year start up expansion team. If you don't see progress from a paper thin squad as a 2nd year team that was the worst offensive team in the NFL then that is your perogative. I think you have good right to question the team, but we just don’t see eye to eye - and that is fine. The answers start to unfold in a few months.

 

[cred]

What is wrong with all of the haters? I don't see why we can't consistently beat the jags, why, just because they had a better record than us? I don't think so. If you look back, the Jags had won nearly to all of their games only by a short margin and at least four of them that I know of for sure by a touchdown or less in the last seconds of the game. To me that shows that there is a certain level of luck that goes in to that, it is not always skill that will prevail sometimes you have to just have some things fall our way, and personally I think we are due!!!!!

 

[bigtex77]

There are times when I read posts on these boards and wonder of I am really on the home site for a 4TH YEAR expansion team, I simply love all of the postitivity. If we were the Bengals, Bears or Cardinals- teams who have pretty much sucked for about a decade, one or two seasons excluded- I could understand, but most of this is ridiculous.

 

[Big B Texan Fan]

NE had a CB that was a WR-won a championship in '05
NE had no Dillon- won a championship in '04
TB had no premier safeties-they won one
NE again-they has a QB contoversy, tuck rule, and started the season something like 1-4 and won it all
Rams-QB was from the arena league, 1st dome team to win one
Den-they were actually solid from top to bottom and both of theirs


I can go on and on. What we need to is to play to our strength.
If the left side is lacking then go right more often, we got the RB's to make guys miss
If we need a better TE, then let's see if the tinkered/timing routes help. I bet it does.
Coleman is gonna surprise everyone this season.
Sick peek on the QB every play as opposed to having him cover FB's & TE's.
Spread out the D by going 5 wide often to keep 'em honest.