8 Texans voted to Pro Bowl

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Arky

I'm just wondering what happened to Matt Schaub..... somewhere along the way, the switch got flipped and he turned into end-of-his-career Drew Bledsoe....

This is a gravely serious problem. Having so much money sunk into a quarterback that is not elite, not even average, and looking more and more like a liability on the field is a very difficult issue to work around even for teams with competent and courageous leadership.

[Nconroe]

Overall, not that I saw all of it, but hilights like

JJ Watt being a tight end,
JPP getting an interception,
Peyton Mannings old center coming, Jeff Saturday, on for snap,
some guys playing hard,
Wilson throwing for three TD, although from a short field,

overall looked like an entertaining, fun game that players wanted to keep around.

[Nconroe]

Originally Posted by chuck

This is a gravely serious problem. Having so much money sunk into a quarterback that is not elite, not even average, and looking more and more like a liability on the field is a very difficult issue to work around even for teams with competent and courageous leadership.

Last six or so games, something does seem different. Hope earlier Schaub returns, and TJ Yates has improved. Anyways, as of now we do have 4 QB in upcoming off-season camp.

here is some historical perspective, maybe it will help:
http://blog.chron.com/texanschick/20...yoff-football/

[popanot]

From the article nconroe references above::
"The Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens both scored 28 points against the New England Patriots in the playoffs. Baltimore only allowed 13 points. The Texans allowed many more. The narrative says Joe Flacco is clutch, and Matt Schaub is many bad names."

Steph brings up some great points, and yes, the D played a huge role in losing that game. However, when comparing Schaub/Pats vs. Flacco/Pats, Steph fails to mention the 'boob-play' factor. Yes, the 28 points are the same, but Schaub made so many poor plays it killed any hopes of realistically keeping pace with the Pats and pulling out a W. The only thing missing from his two games against the Pats was an ass-sack by one of his own OL.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by popanot

From the article nconroe references above::
"The Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens both scored 28 points against the New England Patriots in the playoffs. Baltimore only allowed 13 points. The Texans allowed many more. The narrative says Joe Flacco is clutch, and Matt Schaub is many bad names."

Steph brings up some great points, and yes, the D played a huge role in losing that game. However, when comparing Schaub/Pats vs. Flacco/Pats, Steph fails to mention the 'boob-play' factor. Yes, the 28 points are the same, but Schaub made so many poor plays it killed any hopes of realistically keeping pace with the Pats and pulling out a W. The only thing missing from his two games against the Pats was an ass-sack by one of his own OL.

I thought the article was like everything else she's ever produced, just profoundly stupid.

If you watch the games then you know that for some reason Schaub was terrible basically the second half of the season and into the playoffs. There's no reason to hide from that, there's no reason to sugar-coat it, there's no reason to make idiotic comparisons to other players that have no meaning at all. Schaub sucked. That's it. Even Kubiak saw it. That's the only possible reason why he turtled up the offense and quit doing the things that were working earlier in the year. Maybe Schaub got hurt and we never knew about it. Who knows.

It's idiotic to pretend like Schaub was anything other that terrible through that final stretch. The only question is can he regain the form that we all saw in past years. If so the team can legitimately compete for a Super Bowl. If not we are in for another half-decade of misery.