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I don't care what the conditions were, as someone who lives in Houston, it's nice to beat Frank Reich.

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Bring on Indy, I would love to send them home. And if we lose then we don’t have to get prison raped by the Pats again. (/Little Bitch)

So, to the playoffs with as solid an offense as we’ve probably ever had, and then a really interesting offseason with a lot of cap room and a new GM who is more competent than our recent GM, who was generally incompetent. About as much as this team has given us to get excited about in their history.

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1 hour ago, The Earl of Texas said:

Bring on Indy, I would love to send them home. And if we lose then we don’t have to get prison raped by the Pats again. (/Little Bitch)

So, to the playoffs with as solid an offense as we’ve probably ever had, and then a really interesting offseason with a lot of cap room and a new GM who is more competent than our recent GM, who was generally incompetent. About as much as this team has given us to get excited about in their history.

Sucks that we finally enter an offseason with a shitload of cap space and 3 picks in the first two rounds in a weak year for O-Lineman in both the draft and free agency.  Pretty much anything would be an improvement though...

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33 minutes ago, mycox said:

Yep. Do you not remember they Indy and Philly games. They won't go past the 2nd round of the playoffs.

I've stated many times this season that the Texans are just an average team that got a lot of good breaks.

Average teams with transcendent QBs tend to get "a lot of good breaks"

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3 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Anybody else hope Cal mcNair fires BoB if he loses in the first round?

I get that it's fashionable to hate on BoB, but come the fuck on. Dude just won the toughest division in football. Surprising, yes, but the AFC south has the best cumulative record of all 8 divisions*, despite how shitty all the teams started the season. The AFC South is the only division in the NFL with more than 2 teams with a winning record, and also the only division with more than 2 teams with a positive point differential on the season.

He's been the Texans coach for 5 seasons now, and has won the division 3 of those 5 years. This is the first season he's had a competent QB for the full season and he went 11-5. The Offensive line is a pretty severe problem right now, and the CB group is hurting pretty bad too . I guess it would be a good idea to fire the most successful coach in franchise history by both winning percentage, number of division titles, and number of playoff appearances if he falls to 1-3 in the postseason with a bad offensive line and secondary.

*AFC East - 0.437; AFC North - 0.500; AFC South - 0.547; AFC West - 0.531; NFC East - 0.484; NFC North - 0.500; NFC South - 0.500; NFC West - 0.469

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My guess is that the 16 game sample size is too small. 
They can break that stuff down to the second and to the step... The NFL has plenty of analytics. Coaches don't go for it yet. Big money gamblers and FF players have it figured out. The league has the info.
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Anybody else hope Cal mcNair fires BoB if he loses in the first round?
I get that it's fashionable to hate on BoB, but come the fuck on. Dude just won the toughest division in football. Surprising, yes, but the AFC south has the best cumulative record of all 8 divisions*, despite how shitty all the teams started the season. The AFC South is the only division in the NFL with more than 2 teams with a winning record, and also the only division with more than 2 teams with a positive point differential on the season.
He's been the Texans coach for 5 seasons now, and has won the division 3 of those 5 years. This is the first season he's had a competent QB for the full season and he went 11-5. The Offensive line is a pretty severe problem right now, and the CB group is hurting pretty bad too . I guess it would be a good idea to fire the most successful coach in franchise history by both winning percentage, number of division titles, and number of playoff appearances if he falls to 1-3 in the postseason with a bad offensive line and secondary.
*AFC East - 0.437; AFC North - 0.500; AFC South - 0.547; AFC West - 0.531; NFC East - 0.484; NFC North - 0.500; NFC South - 0.500; NFC West - 0.469
This. OB isn't the problem. He may or may not be the solution.

The Texans can't block and can't cover. That's it. Fix those and you have a true contender.

Draft DBs - fast ones.
Draft OL
Draft a fast, short stride WR that isn't small-framed.
Pay Clowney
Restructure JJ (if you can)
Proceed with winning AFC South.
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On 12/30/2018 at 9:16 PM, Harrison Stafford said:

So, you’ll remain an non-believer even if Houston defeats Indy or Tennessee this coming weekend?

Yep. Go to the AFC championship game. Winning in the 1st round only to get your ass beat in the 2nd round is tantamount to treading water. You have amassed some amazing talent, and still haven't played for anything important in your franchise history. Not that it matters, the Colts are probably beating the Texans this weekend. They are they better team right now, and probably all season. Thanks to Frank Reich for his shitty decision making in the 1st game, or the Texans are playing in Indy this weekend.

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4 hours ago, Snacks said:

This. OB isn't the problem. He may or may not be the solution.

The Texans can't block and can't cover. That's it. Fix those and you have a true contender.

Draft DBs - fast ones.
Draft OL
Draft a fast, short stride WR that isn't small-framed.
Pay Clowney
Restructure JJ (if you can)
Proceed with winning AFC South.

Don’t really need to restructure JJ just because after this season his contract is friendly in the sense that the vast majority of his guaranteed money has already been paid.  If they were to cut him this offseason (which obviously isn’t going to happen) it would represent something like $12MM in cap savings with only $2MM in dead money.  Point is, his contract is to the point where it’s a good deal if he plays at a high level like this year; if his play starts slipping we can re-evaluate without having to take a big cut-year hit by pushing his restructure money forward.

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2 hours ago, Ignatius said:

Don’t really need to restructure JJ just because after this season his contract is friendly in the sense that the vast majority of his guaranteed money has already been paid.  If they were to cut him this offseason (which obviously isn’t going to happen) it would represent something like $12MM in cap savings with only $2MM in dead money.  Point is, his contract is to the point where it’s a good deal if he plays at a high level like this year; if his play starts slipping we can re-evaluate without having to take a big cut-year hit by pushing his restructure money forward.

I concur

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20 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

Yep. Go to the AFC championship game. Winning in the 1st round only to get your ass beat in the 2nd round is tantamount to treading water. You have amassed some amazing talent, and still haven't played for anything important in your franchise history. Not that it matters, the Colts are probably beating the Texans this weekend. They are they better team right now, and probably all season. Thanks to Frank Reich for his shitty decision making in the 1st game, or the Texans are playing in Indy this weekend.

Treading water?  The Texans went 4-12 last year and finished in last place in the AFC South.  The team goes 11-5 this season, wins nine consecutive games, and wins the division......and accomplishes this with an offensive line made of practice squad players and a suspect secondary (a team that has to play Shareece Wright at CB at any point in the season has a suspect secondary).  If you don't believe in the team, I get that.  However, you have to be able to walk before you can run and this will be a season of small wins leading to big wins next year if the team's deficiencies are addressed.

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22 hours ago, Ignatius said:

Don’t really need to restructure JJ just because after this season his contract is friendly in the sense that the vast majority of his guaranteed money has already been paid.  If they were to cut him this offseason (which obviously isn’t going to happen) it would represent something like $12MM in cap savings with only $2MM in dead money.  Point is, his contract is to the point where it’s a good deal if he plays at a high level like this year; if his play starts slipping we can re-evaluate without having to take a big cut-year hit by pushing his restructure money forward.

Yeah, I guess not... Texans are way under the 2019 cap (without Clowney and other FAs)

Gotta pay Clowney. Don't fuck around. Pay him... unless you can trade him for two very high picks a la Mack... otherwise, pay him like you mean it. if you franchise him, he'll have a nagging injury. pay him to be the run stopper QB pressurer that he is.

Cut Demaryus for $14mm. Cut J-Jo for $4.5mm.

and FIND SOME DBs THAT CAN RUN!!! 

 

(I know, it's early, but I'm getting ready).

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4 hours ago, Harrison Stafford said:

Treading water?  The Texans went 4-12 last year and finished in last place in the AFC South.  The team goes 11-5 this season, wins nine consecutive games, and wins the division......and accomplishes this with an offensive line made of practice squad players and a suspect secondary (a team that has to play Shareece Wright at CB at any point in the season has a suspect secondary).  If you don't believe in the team, I get that.  However, you have to be able to walk before you can run and this will be a season of small wins leading to big wins next year if the team's deficiencies are addressed.

Yes. Winning 9-10 games a getting blown out in the 2nd round of the playoffs is treading water. This team was relatively healthy this year, which is why they didn't repeat last years 4-12 record. If Watson didn't blow out his knee in practice, the Texas likely win 7-8 games last year. O'Brien is a shit bag coach, that refuses to take any responsibility for his play not to lose mentality.

He had two chances to fucking clinch a 1st round bye and couldn't do it. He's worse than Kubiak.

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Winning 9-10 games? What are you talking about, their record is 11-5.

The team is relatively healthy this year, yes. Other than the WR group which lost the #2 guy, then lost the #2 guy that replaced him, then lost the #2 guy that replaced him. None of that is even mentioning Bruce Ellington. That didn't help with the offensive line already crappy. It really sucked not having high draft picks last season, I'm interested to see how this year's draft goes and am optimistic that the O line can be improved finally, it wasn't realistic to make much improvement to the line last offseason due to the lack of draft picks.

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20 hours ago, Texaskimo said:

Winning 9-10 games? What are you talking about, their record is 11-5.

The team is relatively healthy this year, yes. Other than the WR group which lost the #2 guy, then lost the #2 guy that replaced him, then lost the #2 guy that replaced him. None of that is even mentioning Bruce Ellington. That didn't help with the offensive line already crappy. It really sucked not having high draft picks last season, I'm interested to see how this year's draft goes and am optimistic that the O line can be improved finally, it wasn't realistic to make much improvement to the line last offseason due to the lack of draft picks.

O'Brien has won 9, 9, 9, 4, and 11 games, averaging 8.4 wins per season. He's been blown out in 2 playoff games, and blew out a Raiders team that started a rookie making his 1st start ever in the NFL for his 1 playoff win. He's apparently a horrible talent evaluator on top off being an insufferable prick with the media. He is not an elite head coach, maybe average, if he loses this weekend, below average.

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