Should Rick Smith keep his job?

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Of course, you could cite the Bengals who were crap in 2008, won their division in 2009 and are back to crap again in 2010.

I think LZ talked about this a while back, but the truly amazing thing is how the Texans have been able to be consistently terrible for so long. The Bengals are a good example of how even crappily-ran programs will put together one good year every now and again due to luck, injuries (theirs or their opponents), schedule, etc. Because the NFL has so much parity, virtually every team puts it together every once and a while, even if they promptly fall back to mediocrity the next year. It's actually very difficult to suck every year for basically a decade. It's a testament to Kubiak (and Capers before him) to trot out such a terrible product year after year.