Official Texans vs. Patriots Game Thread, 12/13/2015

[Arky]

Originally Posted by barrett

Are you saying I can only be a fan if I enjoy myself? Tell that to the entire city of Cleveland. Being tortured is an unfortunate side effect of fandom.

Our team is bad and I take no comfort in that. I wish they were good. Right now they are not, and the 6-7 record and bad division doesn't fool me into thinking they are good. I hope they are good soon.

Bad, good, eh, I think it's just semantics. The Texans showed in this Patriot game that they aren't ready for the big boys so yeah, they're probably not a top 10 team.... On the other hand, they looked pretty good against the Bengals, Jets and Saints so there's that .... The word "inconsistent", IMO might best describe the Texans of 2015 so far...

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Going back to semantics and words, all the time on message boards I see this sorta accepted misuse of the word "mediocre" for the word "average". One of the definitions of the word "mediocre" is: not satisfactory; poor; inferior. Yet, people use it all the time when they mean "average"...... Average is defined as: the arithmetic mean. In the football terms, average would be 8-8.

The Texans have gone 88-120 (.423 win percentage) in their first 13 years of existence so the word "mediocre" definitely applies here.....

For football, there should be some sort of adjective scale to follow - something like:

10-6 = above average, "B" grade
9-7 = slightly above average
8-8 = average, "C" grade
7-9 = slightly below average (starting to get into mediocre territory here)
6-10 = below average, "D" grade (you're in mediocre territory)

etc.

11 or more wins, the words could be very good, excellent, elite, etc.

5 or less wins , the words could be poor, bad, pathetic, etc....

BTW, the overall record of 88-120 for the Texans translated into one season is 6.77-9.23 or roughly 7-9. So, (theoretically) they've gone like 7-9 for 13 straight seasons....

I dunno, just rambling here.....