Kubiak officially out, Smith staying?

[coloradodude]

Okay, let's get level headed for a minute.

This team does have a very decent offense. When you force the QB to win the game, somewhere down the line, stress breaks talent and preparation.

If we had a defense we would have won many games. Probably would have gone 10 and 6. Matter of fact, if we had held all teams to 20 points or less then we would've gone 10 and 6. That Baltimore game was a fine example, or even better, the Jets game.

Address the defense and tweak the offense and we are division winners.

Here's to next year again.

[cadams]

Originally Posted by coloradodude

Okay, let's get level headed for a minute.

This team does have a very decent offense. When you force the QB to win the game, somewhere down the line, stress breaks talent and preparation.

If we had a defense we would have won many games. Probably would have gone 10 and 6. Matter of fact, if we had held all teams to 20 points or less then we would've gone 10 and 6. That Baltimore game was a fine example, or even better, the Jets game.

Address the defense and tweak the offense and we are division winners.

Here's to next year again.

i am not so sure on this. the offense has been good for the entire game twice this season. the rest of the time they have sucked in the first half (when the game is close), been outstanding when coming back from way behind, and then when they got close again at the end of games didn't get it done (usually) the defense was clearly terrible all year and was the major problem, but i think kubiak calls games differently when the game is close rather than when trying to get back in. also, he has failed to use arian foster enough in a lot of games after forcing chris brown all year last year.

maybe everythign will turn around next year and i will be wrong, but i think we will finish somehwere between 7 and 9 wins next year and be out of the playoffs again.

[NBT]

On the other hand, Kubiak knew he had a problem in his defense, so he stayed pretty conservative on offense to counteract his weak defense. Then he had a ton of injuries to some pretty key people, both offense and defense. However having said that, Indy had 17 people on IR this year and they are still 10-6, winning the Div.

What we lacked, and what was shown to us very graphically in the Denver game, is that even a rookie QB can beat you when he has the "leadership" thing in his pocket". Neither Schaub nor KUbiak have that quality. In several of the close games we lost this year, we could have won had we had someone on the team with that "leadership" quality.

Kubiak will be with us for another year, so let's figure out who is going to turn that defense around.

[cadams]

well, the texans have finally done it. i am no longer mad, i am just apathetic. going to give some serious consideration as to whether to renew my season tickets for next year. if the owner is going to continue to give us the finger like this i don't know that i will give him my money anymore.

[coloradodude]

I would like to disagree with something.

I do think that both Koobs and Shaubb have the it factor. We clearly have developed into a dominant run team That speaks volumes about the coaches mentality. Dominant run teams are known as physical teams which usually do well in the playoffs, cold weather, and on the road.

It also says we can dominate the line of scrimmage.

Now Schaubb. He is Capt Cool. Sure he has thrown the interception at the wrong time. But if you go back to the Baltimore game he orchestrated 2, TWO, major league drives...one was 94 yards and the other was 98 yards IIRC.

Then he blew it. But before he blew it, the defense killed us and Special Teams pinned us on both of those long drives.

I like the guy alot.

[cadams]

the "it" that kubiak has is the same "it" factor that a basset hound has.