Playoff Droughts

[painekiller]

The Texans have missed the playoffs again, that is 9 years without a playoff game. That really sucks, but is it the worse in the league?

No, the teams with the current longest drought are the Buffalo Bills and the Detroit Lions. The Bills have gone through 6 head coaches in that time ,and the Lions have had 7 head coaches.

Now it's true that winning teams seem to have less changes to the head coach, than teams that loss.

But is our owner to patient for his own good? When you hire the correct man to run your organization you do not need to wait (see the Jets) and you do not give people 6 years to figure out they are middle of the road head coaches.

I am sorry to say, I think Bob McNair has made the wrong move this off season, he should have gone out and found the correct people to run his organization .

OK back to the droughts, 25 teams have been to the playoffs since Kubiak was hired, as Lance Z said in his blog, it's hard to miss the playoff 9 years in a row.

It's time for this team to get the playoffs, but I am not counting on it.

[Joshua]

Agree with pretty much everything you're saying but I think it is even simplier than that. To me, I don't need to see anything more than how the Texans play on Sunday to let me know he's not a very good head coach. We are predictable, unprepared, and unmotivated on way too many occasions. Then there are the in-game screwups. In the first couple of years, all of his botched clock management, bizarre calls, poor challenges, etc. were explained away as part of his "learning curve" as a first time head coach. However, it's 5 years later and he still does all of the same things. He's just not cut out to be a head coach. In my opinion, he's simply not bright enough to take in and process all the information a head coach has to and then make a split second decision on it. He then doubles down on this by being stubborn and resistant to delegate or involve anyone outside his comfort zone. In short, he wants to be Belichick and run the entire show but he simply doesn't have Belichick's mind.

As an example, check out Peter King's MMQB this week. It talks about Rex Ryan's preparation for the Patriots game. He basically told all of his coaches and even the players to independently try and come up with a defensive strategy to stop the Pats. After everyone independently brainstormed, they all got together and then analyzed as a group what might work and what wouldn't. They ended up using all kinds of new wrinkles on Sunday that came from all different people, including some backup players. I can't even imagine Kubiak standing up at a post-game press conference and giving an answer like this.

[NBT]

I agree with part of what you are saying about Kubiak, but if McNair will confine him to his HC duties, let the OC & DC alone to make their own calls, I think we will finally make the playoffs, assuming there will be a 2011 season. There is no doubt that Kubiak is a good offensive mind. Wade Phillips has demonstrated in the past that he is a good defensive mind. So why can't the Texans make the playoffs with these two?

I know you guys are impatient, heck no one has waited any longer than I have. But wait one more time and I think you will be glad you did.

[Fonz the Boss]

Its pretty much a given that Kubs is out if we dont make the playoffs next year. Worst case scenario is we miss the playoffs and hire Bill Cowher.