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Kris Brown
Chester Pitts
Andre Johnson
Dunta Robinson
Travis Johnson

What do these 5 guys have in common? They are all that is left of the roster that Gary Kubiak inherited from Dom Capers. Talk about a whole lot of nothing.

Yes the NFL is about turnover of rosters, but you will be hard pressed to find a team that has had this much turnover in less than 3 years.

Why an I pointing this out? A few reasons come to mind. One is the people who are saying Kubiak is on a hot seat. Look what he had to work with, one superstar and few solid players. Look at the roaster today and you see a core of solid players on the verge of their NFL prime.

Established NFL teams usually maintain a core of 10 to 15 player that have been with the team for some time. I am not talking about bad organizations like the 49ers and Rams, but about the Eagles and Pats. Kubiak had to create that group of guys and grow them up.

2nd Wolf a regular poster on the TT.com found this article from the Bleacher Report

Are the Houston Texans on the verge of becoming pro football’s next great dynasty?

Give owner Bob McNair’s management team credit: GM Rick Smith and head coach Gary Kubiak have assembled a lot of the right elements. The trick will be bringing those elements together to translate to success on the field.

When you compare what the Texans will be fielding in 2009 with some of the great NFL dynasties of the past, the parallels are there.

In this article it talks about the coaches the QB, and the new defense. Giving what little talent Kubiak was handed, and the salary cap issues (dead weight player that had to be cut) for this team to be considered a team on the verge is simply amazing.

I predict that the next draft might only find one player capable of starting his rookie year. BTW that is a good thing. I predict depth will still hurt us this season. But next year and the year after will see us as a top AFC contender.