NFL Lockout is over. Give me your HoustonTexans predictions (layoffs, cost)

[14Bricks]

I say they start off 0-4. Gary Kubiak gets whacked, and Wade Phillips takes over and they finish 7-9.

[v2four]

thats how its set up for them...but, Im going to give them the benefit of the doubt..I think they will step up, go 11-5 and finally make the playoffs...

if you look at last season, six of the ten games they lost were in the last three minutes of the game, including two on the last play(jacksonville hail mary and baltimore INT return td in OT).

more consistency on defense, with the same balanced offensive approach, and I think they finally make it to the promised land, before they lose in first round

[justwood]

I love the Texans, but people always predict them to well, but I think we will finish just behind the Colts and Jaguars and not make the playoffs

[Dopo]

That lockout was a puppet show.
What a coincidence that it starts when the season is over and ends right before the preseason.

I lost a lot of respect for the NFL.

[14Bricks]

Originally Posted by Dopo

That lockout was a puppet show.
What a coincidence that it starts when the season is over and ends right before the preseason.

I lost a lot of respect for the NFL.

They would have been fools not to end the lockout now, one missed weekend of preseason games would have cost the league 200 million!

[v2four]

Originally Posted by 14Bricks

They would have been fools not to end the lockout now, one missed weekend of preseason games would have cost the league 200 million!

and all of that money is going directly in the owners pockets, so the owners will get at least two preseason games each, which could amount to around $25 mil tickets for each owner, or more......

[eric3781]

Originally Posted by v2four

thats how its set up for them...but, Im going to give them the benefit of the doubt..I think they will step up, go 11-5 and finally make the playoffs...

if you look at last season, six of the ten games they lost were in the last three minutes of the game, including two on the last play(jacksonville hail mary and baltimore INT return td in OT).

more consistency on defense, with the same balanced offensive approach, and I think they finally make it to the promised land, before they lose in first round

I like the optimism. 11-5 maybe if they can hang on to Leach. Foster is good, but only reaches full potential when he can run off the briskets of a bruiser like Leach. And we need some corners to step up.

[RVD26]

0-16

[Oildog]

8-8, Smith and Kubiak get canned.

[HoustonRonnie]

7 - 9. Foster's done Week 5 because of some off-field idiocy he commits. Schaub blows a knee in week 3 and is out for 8 games.

Ronnie