Official Texans @ Patriots Playoff Game Thread, 1/14/2017

[sinnister]

I don't think anyone thinks it is hops fault, but he has had separation issues this year, whereas last year year he seemed to get more separation. There is a part of me that is questioning if he is a true number 1, but there is no doubt he is our best weapon. I think the biggest thing I see is that the coaching on the offensive side and special teams aren't noticeable. I can tell how much the D coaches have had on player development, all across the board. The offense is terrible, and it doesnt appear that they are being coached up.

[barrett]

Does anyone really think NFL players don't make business decisions? Do we think we can start a QB who is awful but keeps playing because of his contract, and it doesn't affect how hard guys play for him? We screwed over Hopkins financially and then saddled him with a career draining albatross at QB. In a year he needed stats to get paid, we gave him Brock and a handcuffed offense. In response he has made business decisions (like sliding more than our QB).

In my initial post I put this more on the coaching staff. I put little on Hopkins. I think we were a fraud and I maintained that since BOB's 4th down punt 6 weeks back in a game we still had a shot at winning. Somehow drawing Oakland fooled many of us into forgetting how make believe this whole thing was. We are the worst team in the entire NFL at the most important position in the NFL. It ruins many facets of our offense, and many of the players it touches.

And Chucks a redneck NRA member.

[chuck]

When I was ten or so my grandfather bought his grandsons NRA memberships. It is entirely possible that they were lifetime memberships and if so, I am indeed an NRA member.

I grew up around guns. I am from Texas, after all. I got my first gun when I was in kindergarten. My dad was an avid hunter and at some point he found himself doing some sort of real estate business with Carter from Carter's Country. I want to say his name was Jim Carter. Anyway, my dad was forever bringing home guns of all description for my brother and me.

I don't think I've been hunting since I was in high school. But I found out not too long ago that I am still an excellent shot. A New York City living friend came to Houston and demanded to go out to a range and shoot. It must have been a Saturday and the place was packed with the sort of neck who wears camouflage to church. You know the ones. Anyway, I smoked everyone out there. My friend could not believe it.

I used to work with a guy who lived across the street from NRA headquarters. He was a bit of a gun nut and would often go to the range in the building's basement. How he managed to get a handgun permit in 1990's Washington, DC, is anyone's guess. One day he got questioned by the police. The range had been robbed. Yes, some enterprising individuals knocked off the NRA gun range. They questioned my friend because he had a queer habit of exchanging his paycheck for stacks of two dollar bills. He'd wander around town paying for everything in two dollar bills, usually in sequence. He became fairly notorious for it. So the authorities realized that they could get a pretty good idea of the serial numbers of the stolen twos. I wonder if they were ever caught.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

When I was ten or so my grandfather bought his grandsons NRA memberships. It is entirely possible that they were lifetime memberships and if so, I am indeed an NRA member.

I grew up around guns. I am from Texas, after all. I got my first gun when I was in kindergarten. My dad was an avid hunter and at some point he found himself doing some sort of real estate business with Carter from Carter's Country. I want to say his name was Jim Carter. Anyway, my dad was forever bringing home guns of all description for my brother and me.

I don't think I've been hunting since I was in high school. But I found out not too long ago that I am still an excellent shot. A New York City living friend came to Houston and demanded to go out to a range and shoot. It must have been a Saturday and the place was packed with the sort of neck who wears camouflage to church. You know the ones. Anyway, I smoked everyone out there. My friend could not believe it.

I used to work with a guy who lived across the street from NRA headquarters. He was a bit of a gun nut and would often go to the range in the building's basement. How he managed to get a handgun permit in 1990's Washington, DC, is anyone's guess. One day he got questioned by the police. The range had been robbed. Yes, some enterprising individuals knocked off the NRA gun range. They questioned my friend because he had a queer habit of exchanging his paycheck for stacks of two dollar bills. He'd wander around town paying for everything in two dollar bills, usually in sequence. He became fairly notorious for it. So the authorities realized that they could get a pretty good idea of the serial numbers of the stolen twos. I wonder if they were ever caught.

I shot a gun once in my life, I am from Massachusetts after all. I come from a family of hippies who have aged into old hippies. I don't think there's a single thing about me that qualifies me as a redneck...well, except for my thoughts on Deandre Hopkins. Those make me a redneck and a racist.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by barrett

I shot a gun once in my life, I am from Massachusetts after all. I come from a family of hippies who have aged into old hippies. I don't think there's a single thing about me that qualifies me as a redneck...well, except for my thoughts on Deandre Hopkins. Those make me a redneck and a racist.

Well, there are rednecks by nature (birth) (me) and by nurture (you).

BT apparently believes that being African American disqualifies one from being a redneck. Why, I am proud to tell him that he is mistaken. I was once driving around in Palm Beach, FL, and at a light I came upon a brand new pickup truck that, along with an impressive array of after-market lights and whatnot, was desecrated with every and all manner of NASCAR sticker. You know those hippy chicks who drive around with seven hundred stickers plastered all over their Subaru, some of them going back to the Al Gore campaign? Coexist, Visualize World Peace, Human Rights Campaign, Ani DiFranco? Well, it was like that, just NASCAR. I can't wait to have a gander at this neck, I thought. Imagine my surprise when I rolled up along side and saw an African American fellow sitting there. And it wasn't even that idiot from Hootie.

Bill Carter is the guy's name, by the way.

[HPF Bob]

Newsflash: The Texans' season is over and they lasted just as far as the Cowboys did! Yee haw! Guess I'll put down my banjo, put in my teeth and have a great big slice of possum pie!

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Newsflash: The Texans' season is over and they lasted just as far as the Cowboys did! Yee haw! Guess I'll put down my banjo, put in my teeth and have a great big slice of possum pie!

Holler at the outhouse and tell momma that the vittles is ready.

I certainly hope you took the feet off of 'em. Wolfgang Puck takes the feet off of everything nowadays, you know.