Official Texans vs. Vikings Game Thread, 8/31/2009

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

Oh, I'll be happy to gripe about them, too, when the time comes, don't you worry.

Kubiak and Smith have overseen near total personnel turnover since they took over. That tells you what sort of talent they were left with. There was more defensive talent on the first year's team than there was when Kubiak took over. That may even be true today. Think about that. Casserly took an expansion team's defense and made it worse. Under a defensive minded coach!

Casserly's total mishandling of the personnel derailed the franchise. There is no other way to look at it. Consider Babin and Buchanon. Assuming that the team had a competent GM think about the defensive players that the team could have had if they'd conserved the picks they used in those two trades that yielded the team literally nothing other than wasted time.

There is another way to look at it. Smith and Kubiak have been given plenty of time to turn things around. We had a recent thread where we saw that New Orleans had a coaching change at the same time and they have had just as much turnover as we have and they have even less remaining talent.

Anything we lack right now is %100 Smith and Kubiak. They made this team according to their vision and priorities and desires. Casserly and Capers sucked but they have nothing to do with whether we win or lose this year.