Any concerns about Kubiak?

[Joshua]

While I'm certainly not advocating firing Kubiak or anything that extreme, this is year three so I think we do have sufficient body of work to begin to judge him. Since that's what message boards are for, here we go-

Kubiak's in-game coaching is starting to concern me. When he first started I expected some growing pains, but thought he would get past these in a year or so. Now, in year three, I still do not see a confident head coach who can quickly make decisive (and correct) decisions. The glaring examples this year are the mistakes with the challenges (at the least, call a timeout so you can see a replay) and the fake punt by the Jags. The fake punt I have the hardest time with. I simply can't imagine Dungy, Fisher, etc. letting that ball get snapped.

I'm also not seeing a coach who can develop week-to-week game plans to either optimize our talent or take advantage of a perceived weakness. Maybe it's just me but our game plan seems to the same each week with a wrinkle or two thrown in. Watching the Pitt-Ravens game last night, Pitt was stagnant and needed a jump start and went to the no-huddle. This got them going and proved to be the right call. I could be wrong, but I don't remember us ever trying anything as daring to jumpstart our offense.

Finally, I know he is not the defensive guy, but he ultimately is responsible for it and for whatever reason, it is bad. If Richard Smith is the problem, Kubiak must identify this and correct it.

Having said all this, I do think Kubiak has done a good job in drafting players (although Okoye and Bennett's start to this year have tarnished this star a little, hopefully they'll turn it around). He also had an incredibly difficult task and has done a decent job of turning the attitude around at Reliant. However, the difference in winning and losing in the NFL is often miniscule and can often turn on proper in-game coaching decisions. Unfortunately, I have seen little from Kubiak to suggest he's the guy to get these decisions right. Even if he is the guy to assemble the necessary talent to compete with the best, if he continues to blow a couple calls a game, this may still cost us the game.