You Know It's Not Your Year When...

[painekiller]

This team plays with no passion. As a team they seem to lack that will to impose their will on the other team. We have some individuals that appear to have passion, but as a group they seem to be lacking in it.

It's time to go find a Head Coach that exudes passion, a strict disciplinarian, and a bigger than life type. No more nice guy types.

We have never had that type here in Houston since Glanville. I am not asking for a circus, but a hardline type would be good.

IMO that is a Cowher or Parchell's type.

[nunusguy]

I knew it wasn't our year (AGAIN) the morning after the the Indy MNF game. I was out of town and didn't see the Cowboys loss, but saw the Giants loss
and I wondered how a playoff caliber team could lose like that at home ? But after the Indy loss, I knew the question wasn't how could a playoff team lose like that against a division rival in the weekly MNF game, but how could this team have regressed to the point in 2010 that it clearly wasn't a playoff caliber team ?
Yesterdays game with it's bizarre ending was a real downer, but not as disappointing and dicouraging as the realization earlier in the year that we'd
fall short of the playoffs again in 2010.

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by painekiller

It's time to go find a Head Coach that exudes passion, a strict disciplinarian, and a bigger than life type. No more nice guy types.

We have never had that type here in Houston since Glanville. I am not asking for a circus, but a hardline type would be good.

What Glanville did was go out of his way to tell his players not to back down when the Steelers and Browns, heck even the Bengals, would play borderline dirty football. He said when those teams complained about the Oilers playing dirty, they were really complaining that the Oilers were growing a spine and fighting back. Life was so much easier when you could push them around.

The Texans, particularly under Kubiak, have never hit back - even when Jared Allen or Dayton Florence had over-the-top cheap shots on their quarterback.

I watched Auburn on Saturday with this DE (Fairley, Farley, something like that) who was hitting the QB late in the back with the crown of his helmet and later went for his knees. On the one hand, it sickened me to watch it and watch the officials let it go. On the other hand, I found myself saying "the Texans need somebody like that". We need some meanness, particularly on defense.

But, I agree that the passion we saw in Week 1 has been missing for a long time.

[Joshua]

Agree on the lack of passion. IMO, Kubiak "hopes" to win, rather than "expects" to win. You can see it in his body language (not watching field goals, etc.), see it in his playcalling, and hear it in his comments ("It's hard to win in this league," etc.). Hoping to win is fine when you take over a terrible team. However, at some point, hoping to win doesn't cut it anymore. Couple his attitude with a team of young guys without any real alpha male leaders and you get what we have--a team that collectively shrinks from the moment and a team which you can tell is waiting for the other shoe to drop. Confidence plays a huge role in separating the good teams from the average. This team lacks confidence at virutally every level.