The upcoming Oakland game

[nunusguy]

I really think it could be Kubiaks butt if he loses Sunday to the Raiders in Reliant ?
The Tenneesse win was Kubiak pulling the proverial rabbit out of the hat trick after the embarassing and deeply disappointing home-opener, then he blew
his opportunity for real redemption by losing to the Jags here and going 0-2 at home and in the division. Remember this month was supposed to be the underbelly of the Texans schedule.
And this is really all on him - his offense was not ready to play vs the Jets as if he (Kubiak) had never even heard of a 3-4 ? And then his hand-picked rookie DC has failed miserably in his adapabiliy and resiliance in correcting lethal errors of the defense.
People like Gary, he's a native-son & an Aggie and all of that, but I just don't know if he's got it, got what it takes to be a successful HC in the NFL ?
I dunno if he's not smart enough, not strong enough and confidant enough in his own convictions to make difficult personnel and/or coaching changes when the situations calls for it, or what ?

[TheMatrix31]

Keys to victory?

Make JaMarcus uncomfortable. The guy sucks, just force him to make big mistakes.

Don't get burned in the secondary, whether it be on the run or the pass.

Stay healthy, and don't do stupid shit.

We NEED this win. We should have started out the season 4-1. We've already got two losses.

[TexanJedi]

Stop the run, or at least the huge plays, and we win. Russell is not going to beat you through the air (watch that happen now ).

[WMH]

This SHOULD be a confidence builder game for the D. Key word is SHOULD. The Houston Cardiac kids have fooled us before, hopefully, they won't do it again this weekend. Russell is brutal, but DMac, despite his fumbles is pretty damn good, couple with Bush and Fargas, we have 3 more RB's licking their chops. I expect to see Pollard in the game quite extensively with marching orders to STOP the RUN.

[kravix]

I would prefer of Pollards orders were to play in position and not give up 61 yard rushing touchdowns for over pursuit.

[painekiller]

I personally think the Raiders are going to win. I just have this feeling.

[sinnister]

This game has me worried for a number of reasons. One, the above mentioned Rb's that the Raiders have. Any of the 3 could put up monster numbers against our run defense. Second, and for the life it baffles me, but I have a feeling that Andre Johnson will be totally ignored this game. When he isn't making plays, I worry about us winning.

One thing that we have going for us is Jamarcus Russell. This guy is terrible, but if anyone can make him look like Peyton Manning, it is our defense. If we put them in 3rd and long, we may have a shot if Jamark stays true to himself.

[NBT]

Originally Posted by painekiller

I personally think the Raiders are going to win. I just have this feeling.

Well dadgum, have you completely thrown in the towel PK? We DO need to be ready though, because they will have every bad tendency of ours programmed, so Bush needs to drill the heck out of his guys to stay in their gaps and not freelance too much. Memo to Schaub - Dare I mention this, Oakland has another Ryan coached defense!! I hope you are ready for this one.

I will say Texans - 31
Oakland - 28 in a close one!

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by painekiller

I personally think the Raiders are going to win. I just have this feeling.

Just out of curiosity, what "feeling" did you have before each of the first 3 games ?
The only game I had a feeling about was the one in Nashville, in which I was sure we'd get our butts stomped, but I got no idea what's gonna happen this Sunday ? Not even a "feeling".

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

I dunno if he's not smart enough?

I must say I've started to wonder this. In many ways, I'm starting to think he's the offensive equivalent of Dom Capers. A good man who works hard and actually knows one side of the ball pretty well, but ultimately doesn't seem to be able to process the enormous amounts of info a head coach must and then develop a winning plan from it. He and Capers both seemed to have suffered from similar shortcomings. Both were completely at a loss as to how to improve one side of the ball (albeit different sides), neither were able to make quality in-game adjustments and were prone to be exploited by creative coaching on the other side, dubious clock management, and (possibly my favorite) the occasional sideline camera shot where both have been standing there with a look of complete befuddlement on their faces.