It is really a thin line between winning and loosing in the NFL these days isn't it. If we had a Troy Polamulu our coaches would likely look a whole lot better.

Lets hire Wade Phillips for defensive coordinator and turn our D into a 3-4 D. Cushing, Ryans, Diles and Barwin can be our LBs. Smith and Williams will play DE and we can pick up a huge nose tackle in the draft because Okoye is not tough enough. Look at some of the top defenses in the league(Chargers, Jets, Steelers, Ravens, Green Bay)... they are all 3-4. Its a trend that we need to follow.

Any offense that has Matt Schaub throwing to Andre Johnson and handing off to Arian Foster has the ability to be breathtakingly good. The defense... How much top-line talent is there on the defense? One player? Mario is the only player who would start anywhere he went. Demeco's pretty good but not a world beater. Everyone else (including Cushing this year) is at best average or more probably just plain bad.

I know how they got here, they got here by terrible talent evaluation and terrible personnel decisions. I don't know how you fix a defense with one serviceable player in time to cash in on the potential of the offense. Andre is not going to be the best WR in the league forever, and the shelf life of a good RB is shockingly short.

It's funny, isn't it? I and others here spend a great deal of time ripping Kubiak for his boneheaded play calling and mind-numbing game management. And deservedly so because he's terrible at both. But the real damage he's done to the franchise is in creating the worst defense in the history of organized football. Zierlein had an interesting note in his latest piece - a source indicated that despite Smith's claims to have the final word in personnel decisions Kubiak has overruled Smith on a number of recent defensive draft choices.

Hey, painekiller, give Fonz his computer back. But before you do see if you can't get rid of that godawful sig file.