Official Texans vs. Raiders Game Thread, 11/17/2013

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by chuck

The Texans, on the other hand, have an owner that no one in football respects, have a head coach that will never be a head coach for another team and a general manager who will never again be a general manager.

I would wager money Rick Smith gets another GM job if the Texans let him go. And McNair is deeply respected around the league for having a relatively clean organization with few missteps.

As for Kubiak, that mini-stroke may cost him another HC gig were he to get fired. But I'd almost guarantee he'll be an OC somewhere.

You are right, though, that there are miles of difference between the Astros and the Texans. One team is ascendant and the other is mired in ammonia-reeking wet Rodeo shit.

One team can't even negotiate a ****************ing tv deal. I got to see more Texans *exhibition games* in Austin this summer than I did Astros games except when they were on the Rangers network.

One team had the league's worst hitting and the league's worst pitching so they retained the hitting coach for another year and kicked the pitching coach upstairs to assist the GM. (You can draw your Marciano analogies here).

True, they had no failures this year of the Ed Reed variety but only because they were too ****************ing cheap to sign anyone who could fail like that. Instead, they gave us cheap failures like Carlos Pena, Philip Humber and Rick Ankiel. They are currently on a 15-game losing streak they have to wait until next April to snap.

Good minor leaguers doesn't mean shit until they are winning in the major leagues. I'm sure the Texans have high praise for their practice squad players too.

No doubt the Texans are a disappointment and some of their wounds (play-calling, Marciano) are self-inflicted. But they are a disappointment because we thought they had the talent in place to win something and because they had made the playoffs two straight years. The Astros may have the talent to win in the Pacific Coast League but they are a hideous joke at the major league level. They will ascend only because enough #1 overall draft choices will eventually make them no longer a laughingstock but I've seen nothing yet to make me think they can ever reach the playoffs, much less win them.