Good to see Alex Gibbs back for another year.
The Texans essentially blew up the OL from '07 and rebuilt with a new scheme and coach (Gibbs). Only Pitts and Winston were back in '08. Many of us felt the running game was going take a while to get going this year and that proved to be the case - even Myers and Brisiel who were early season whipping boys came on (or at least held their ground) towards the end of the year.
I don't see Kubes making that much of a drastic change in other areas (for example, the defense) next year. Maybe some new faces scattered in via the draft and whatnot but I think he may realize that he has set the bar with the last two seasons of 8-8. Anything less and people will start screaming for his head. Doing better than 8-8 will silence the masses and buy him some time. I think he's going to have to have a few winning seasons before people will give him a break on the inevitable "down" season....
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