On Friday, the Houston Texans can apparently sign Super Bowl winner, potential Hall of Famer and 2002 Defensive Player of the Entire Year, security Ed Reed, to a contract worth a value of $15 million. That is a remarkably experienced transfer by the Texans and their fantastic basic director, Rick Smith. After dropping Glover Quin in free agency to the Detroit Lions, the Texans desperately had a need to put in a ball hawk for their secondary, and Reed certainly fits the bill with his 70 profession interceptions (including playoffs). While he isnat the expressive in the way that Ray Lewis was, Reed brings leadership into the locker room and on the subject for Houston. As the final part in the Texansa champion puzzle although some may see this shift, I donat. Regrettably for the Texans and their supporters, it doesnat matter who they sign in the free-agent time. It doesnat matter who they draft. The Texans arenat going to win the Super Bowl next season. Signing Ed Reed is just a nice go, but Houston won't get with Kubiak and Schaub.Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures I just canat begin to see the Texans ever winning a Super Bowl with Gary Kubiak as their head coach and Matt Schaub as their quarterback. When Kubiak was employed as the second head instructor in franchise history following the 2005 year, he was saddled with obligatory quarterback David Carr, the first player selected in the history of the Texans franchise. It got Kubiak one time (and perhaps faster) to determine that Carr wasnat the person, while the team came to a 6-10 record. These offseason, the Texans completed a deal with the Atlanta Falcons for Schaub, lavished him with a brand new agreement and declared him their starter. At that time, this move was met with applause through the entire league. Schaub was a highly regarded young signal-caller who had sparkled in limited playing time. Since that time, Kubiak and Schaub have already been attached at the hip, for better or worse, until shooting do part to them. For the first couple of years of these football relationship, it seemed as if the Texans defense was doing its best to force a divorce between the staff and Kubiak/Schaub. In their first four strategies together, the Texans went 8-8 (2007), 6-10 (2010), 9-7 (2009) and 8-8 (2008). Schaub finally broke out last year, when he threw 29 touchdown passes against only 15 interceptions, but he couldnat often stay healthy, and the Texans protection, specially the extra, was terrible. In 2011, after the decision was made by owner Bob McNair to keep Kubiak, the group eventually broke through the glass ceiling and made the playoffs by virtue of winning the AFC South. Without a healthier Schaub, dropped for the year with a injury, the Texans managed to win their first playoff game in business history against Cincinnati before falling on the street to the Baltimore Ravens. Despite that reduction, advance was made. It absolutely was an easy task to develop a quarrel that, had Schaub been under heart, the Texans might have been an important risk to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. Enter 2012: the entire year that the Texans were designed to use it completely. Gregory Shamus/Getty Pictures On paper, they did. The group went 12-4, a team most readily useful regular-season tag. Defensive end J.J. Watt was the defensive player of the entire year. Working back Arian Foster light emitting diode the group with 15 touchdowns. Schaub had 22 touchdown passes and only 12 interceptions. Even with that success, 2012 proved in my experience that the Texans will not win a Super Bowl with Kubiak as the instructor and Schaub while the quarterback. Despite racing out to an 11-1 history, the Texans somehow were able to not get a first-round playoff bye, losing three of the remaining four games. The first was an absolute drubbing on a Monday night in December at the hands of the Brand New England Patriots. For me personally, that game served as a reminder that Kubiak and Schaub only arenat in the exact same class as Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Mainstream knowledge in that ballgame mentioned that the Texans must pound the stone with Foster, keeping the ball out of Bradyas hands. Once the Patriots got an early 7-0 lead, it was as though that approach evaporated, along side the Texans' odds of success, as Schaub pushed a ball into the end zone that was intercepted, and the rout was on. That sport was a of why the Texans canat win with Kubiak and Schaub. Despite whatever success they could have against the bottom-feeders and mediocre groups in the league, the coach and quarterback only arenat on the elite level needed to be world champions. From there, the Texans clinched the AFC South at home against the Colts, before dropping their final two games of the time in heinous trend, to the Vikings at home and then on the street at Indianapolis, dropping a first-round bye in the act. It was common Kubiak and Schaub. Once it seemed like it had been put by the team all together, they took two steps backward and guaranteed themselves a tougher road to the Super Bowl. In the Texans' two losses to close the season (at home against Minnesota, on the road in Indianapolis), Schaub threw zero touchdown passes and two interceptions. Kubiak was not able to get his team willing to play. We were holding essential missteps by the two, and it cost Houston really. The Texans had the ability to win their first game of the postseason, a truly raw 19-13 dud over the Cincinnati Bengals, a group with inferior talent to Houston. Whatas unhappy about that game is that if a decent game had been played even by Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton, Cincinnati might have acquired. Dalton was raw, nevertheless, and the Texans could win, despite a terrible efficiency by Schaub, whose second-quarter pick-six almost cost Houston their period. Again, a of why Kubiak and Schaub won't ever win a Super Bowl. After their skid to finish the time, Houston had to be able to get back on course against the weaker Bengals, and ended up not exactly losing the game. The Texans never appeared as if a team, and Schaub did more to get rid of the overall game than he did to get it. Houston had the opportunity to claim vengeance on the Patriots, as they traveled back to Foxborough for the right to advance to the AFC title game, the following week. Much like their competition in December, it wasnat close. New England rolled out to a 38-13 third fraction lead en route to a 41-28 victory, finishing Houstonas season. Now, some may point to the Texans safety and the harm to star linebacker Brian Cushing whilst the reason why the Texans finally didnat claim home area, and certainly why they lost to New England. I think thatas a crock. Itas the NFL. Participants get hurt. Star players, also. It happens. The truly amazing groups are able to react, recover and prosper. Schaub: maybe not in Brady's class.Elsa/Getty Images Kubiak, Schaub and the Texans were not able to do so. They came to the final line, and didnat look like they belonged on the prime-time stage with groups like New England or Denver. And, yeah, I know the Texans thrashed Baltimore in the regular season, but so did the Broncos, and look how that ended up for Denver in the postseason. Baltimore might have treated Houston with ease. Why? Simply because they have an elite coach and quarterback, and the Texans donat. Iam maybe not saying that Kubiak and Schaub arenat great at their jobs. They are. Kubiak managed to survive times of mediocrity that could have cost many their jobs to coaches, and has guided the team to two consecutive tournaments. Schaub is definitely an above-average starting quarterback who's effective at adding figures and winning games. But, in regards down to the nitty gritty, I donat have the confidence in either man to get the work completed, and get the Texans over the difficulty. Therefore, while I enjoy the signing of Reed, and think heall carry a much needed section of control to the Texans defense, it wonat make a difference. He doesnat coach the crew, and he doesnat toss the football. The Texans won't win a Brilliant Bowl with Kubiak and Schaub. Their relationship can only just result in divorce. NickAKostosAis the executive producer of the "SiriusXM Blitz," managed by Rich Gannon and AdamASchein, onASiriusXMANFL Radio.AYou may follow Nick on Twitter.
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