Since their inception, the Houston Texans have been a model franchise. If, that is, you want to see how NOT to build a team from scratch. The only better model is the Cleveland Browns, but I'm assuming you don't want THAT type of ineptitude, you want something that's just going to be good enough to occasionally make the playoffs and continuing to hoover up fan dollars without actually having to make the tough decisions that lead teams to deep playoff runs.
Of course, this has some in Houston Media perturbed.
Rick Smith must answer questions!!!!!
Bob McNair must answer questions!!!!
Why should they?
Ignoring the fact that we're all better off when old Bob keeps his mouth shut there's very little that they're going to say which would indicate that they understand there is a problem.
Fire Rick Smith? *pshaw*
Rick Smith and Cal McNair are inseparable.
Have Rick Smith answer questions? And say....what exactly? Do you expect some mea culpa to emerge that he doesn't know what he's doing and that the lack of an offensive line, the sorry state of the defensive backfield or the total lack of depth on this team is entirely down to his sub-par ability to evaluate talent?
Because you're not going to get that. You're going to get a "woe is me" picture of injuries and Cushing blaming and all of the other crap excuses that this team continually makes.
Yes, the Texans have faced some brutal injuries this year. First it was JJ Watt and Whitney Mercilus on the same play, followed by DeShaun Watson, but lest we forget, despite some big wins and offensive output, all the Texans were doing WITH Watson was losing in a spectacular fashion more often than not.
A healthy Watson probably gets this team to 9-7, without Watson they are a horrid 4-11 right now and having to beat the lowly Indianapolis Colts to avoid finishing in the basement of the putrid AFC South.
But by all means, lets have the owner and GM answer the media's questions, assuage their bruised egos. Not that it would do any good. Because it's the writers themselves that are a large part of the problem in Houston.
A few weeks ago I was listening to sports talk radio (don't ask) when John McClain, the Chron's version of "he must be an expert because he's done it for a long time newspaper football scribe, was waxing authoritatively on Houston's quarterback future.
In short, he was making the case that the Texans needed to "bring in a veteran quarterback to "mentor" Watson" he suggested former Texans QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. Never mind that this advice was silly (clearly, Watson does not need mentoring) and possibly racist, it also revealed a general lack of understanding of the modern football game.
What the Texans should do is spend a 5th or 6th round pick on a quarterback who could come in, learn from Watson, run the same offense and do some of the things that Watson does. But that way of thinking is so foreign to McClain that he didn't even listen to the radio host (Sean Pendergast) who was laying that out to him.
Then there's the real problem: The Texans fans.
On Christmas Day (Aside: STOP playing games on Thursdays and Christmas NFL, just STOP) the Steelers visited the Texans in a game that was neither competitive or all that compelling, except that the Texans quarterbacks continued the season-long trend of leaving the game after being concussed (about that O-line Rick Smith).
And Reliant Stadium was packed.
If you want to send a message you don't pack a stadium to watch a 4-10 disaster get boat-raced out of the stadium by one of the best teams in the league.
You stay home. You don't watch, you don't call into talk radio shows about it you ignore the team and pay attention to the Rockets or other things. (Hint: Find a provider that offers NFL Red Zone and keep the dial there if you must have an NFL fix) Take up a hobby, spend Sundays with your family.
You don't show up to the game.
Then again, when you think about it. Houston is a sorry excuse for a sports town, the Houston Chronicle is a sorry excuse for a newspaper and the Texans are a sorry excuse for a NFL Franchise.
They deserve each other.
Continue on then.
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