8 Texans voted to Pro Bowl

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Originally Posted by popanot

From the article nconroe references above::
"The Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens both scored 28 points against the New England Patriots in the playoffs. Baltimore only allowed 13 points. The Texans allowed many more. The narrative says Joe Flacco is clutch, and Matt Schaub is many bad names."

Steph brings up some great points, and yes, the D played a huge role in losing that game. However, when comparing Schaub/Pats vs. Flacco/Pats, Steph fails to mention the 'boob-play' factor. Yes, the 28 points are the same, but Schaub made so many poor plays it killed any hopes of realistically keeping pace with the Pats and pulling out a W. The only thing missing from his two games against the Pats was an ass-sack by one of his own OL.

I thought the article was like everything else she's ever produced, just profoundly stupid.

If you watch the games then you know that for some reason Schaub was terrible basically the second half of the season and into the playoffs. There's no reason to hide from that, there's no reason to sugar-coat it, there's no reason to make idiotic comparisons to other players that have no meaning at all. Schaub sucked. That's it. Even Kubiak saw it. That's the only possible reason why he turtled up the offense and quit doing the things that were working earlier in the year. Maybe Schaub got hurt and we never knew about it. Who knows.

It's idiotic to pretend like Schaub was anything other that terrible through that final stretch. The only question is can he regain the form that we all saw in past years. If so the team can legitimately compete for a Super Bowl. If not we are in for another half-decade of misery.