How Tight is the QB Leash? Or is Schaub Just Too Conservative?

[Keith]

chuck, haven't heard.

This is a Schaub vs. Kubiak thread, so I don't mean to derail it, but don't forget the Pats scored 41 points too... it's not all on the offense. The Pats just seems to be like what the Sonics were to the Rockets in the early 90s... a bad mismatch.

I do wonder if this team will ever break through. I think they'd need homefield to do it most likely. Had Sunday's game been at home against the Ravens, then perhaps we'd be anticipating the Texans playing the AFC Championship game this Sunday (though they'd probably again get carved up by Brady or Peyton Manning).

I think this team is built to win 11-12 games every year and set us up for disappointment annually around mid-January. Since Kubiak, Schaub, and Wade Phillips might be around a few more years, maybe they outlast the careers of Brady and Manning, but not Luck, who seems ready to torment us for the next decade. I could see this team having another 5 more teasing playoff years to have a run like the Oilers in the late-80s to early 90s and still never get past the divisional round.