On Friday, the Houston Texans can reportedly sign Super Bowl champion, future Hall of Famer and 2002 Defensive Player of the Season, security Ed Reed, to a deal worth a value of $15 million. This is an incredibly informed transfer by the Texans and their exceptional general manager, Rick Smith. After dropping Glover Quin in free agency to the Detroit Lions, the Texans desperately had a need to add a ball hawk for their secondary, and Reed certainly fits the bill together with his 70 profession interceptions (including playoffs). While he isnat the vocal in how that Ray Lewis was, Reed brings management into the locker room and on the subject for Houston. While some often see this shift because the final part in the Texansa title problem, I donat. Regrettably for the Texans and their fans, it doesnat matter who they sign in the free-agent period. It doesnat matter who they draft. The Texans arenat going to win the Super Bowl next time. Signing Ed Reed is just a nice move, but Houston will not win with Kubiak and Schaub.Ezra Shaw/Getty Images I recently canat see the Texans ever winning a Super Bowl with Gary Kubiak as their head coach and Matt Schaub as their quarterback. When Kubiak was appointed as the 2nd head coach in franchise history following the 2005 season, he was stuck with incumbent quarterback David Carr, the first person chosen in the history of the Texans franchise. Kubiak one season was taken by it (and perhaps faster) to determine that Carr wasnat the man, while the team came to a 6-10 record. The following offseason, a trade was completed by the Texans with the Atlanta Falcons for Schaub, lavished him with a brand new deal and declared him their starter. During the time, this transfer was met with applause throughout the group. Schaub was a highly regarded young signal-caller who'd sparkled in limited playing time. Since that moment, Kubiak and Schaub have now been attached at the hip, for better or worse, until firing do them part. For the first several years of their baseball marriage, it seemed as if the Texans protection was doing its far better force a divorce between your team and Kubiak/Schaub. Inside their first four activities together, the Texans went 8-8 (2007), 9-7 (2009), 8-8 (2008) and 6-10 (2010). Schaub eventually broke out in '09, when he threw 29 touchdown passes against only 15 interceptions, but he couldnat always remain healthy, and the Texans protection, particularly the extra, was terrible. In 2011, after the decision was made by owner Bob McNair to keep Kubiak, the staff eventually broke through the glass ceiling and made the playoffs by virtue of winning the AFC South. Without a healthy Schaub, dropped for the year with a injury, the Texans managed to gain their first playoff game in business history against Cincinnati before falling on the road to the Baltimore Ravens. Despite that reduction, progress was made. It was simple to construct an argument that, had Schaub been under center, the Texans could have been a substantial threat to symbolize the AFC in the Super Bowl. Enter 2012: the year that the Texans were designed to use it altogether. Gregory Shamus/Getty Pictures In writing, they did. The team went 12-4, a business most useful regular-season mark. Defensive end J.J. W was the defensive player of the year. Working straight 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 if you ask me that the Texans will not win a Brilliant Bowl with Kubiak as the coach and Schaub as the quarterback. Despite racing out to an 11-1 record, the Texans somehow managed to maybe not acquire a first-round playoff bye, losing three of their remaining four games. The first was a total drubbing on a Monday evening in December at the hands of the Brand New England Patriots. For me personally, that sport served as a reminder that Kubiak and Schaub only arenat in the same class as Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Traditional wisdom in that ballgame explained that the Texans should pound the rock with Foster, retaining the ball out of Bradyas fingers. Once the Patriots took an early 7-0 lead, it was as if that strategy evaporated, alongside the Texans' chances of victory, as Schaub pushed a ball in to the end zone that was intercepted, and the rout was on. That game was a of why the Texans canat gain with Kubiak and Schaub. Despite whatever success they may have against the bottom-feeders and mediocre groups in the group, 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 losing their final two games of the season in heinous fashion, to the Vikings at home and then on the road at Indianapolis, dropping a first-round bye along the way. It absolutely was classic Kubiak and Schaub. They took two steps backward and guaranteed themselves a tougher road to the Super Bowl, once it looked like the team had put it completely. In the Texans' two failures to close the season (at home against Minnesota, on your way in Indianapolis), Schaub used zero touchdown passes and two interceptions. Kubiak was struggling to get his team prepared to play. They certainly were crucial problems by both, and it cost Houston really. The Texans were able to win their first game of the postseason, a totally brutal 19-13 dud over the Cincinnati Bengals, a group with inferior ability to Houston. Whatas unhappy about that game is that if a decent game had been played even by Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton, Cincinnati would have acquired. Dalton was brutal, nevertheless, and the Texans were able to win, despite a horrific performance by Schaub, whose second-quarter pick-six nearly charge their time to Houston. Again, a of why Kubiak and Schaub will never win an Excellent Bowl. After their skid to finish the year, Houston had a chance to reunite on course against the weaker Bengals, and wound up nearly losing the game. The Texans never looked like a team, and Schaub did more to get rid of the overall game than he did to get it. Houston had the chance to claim vengeance on the Patriots, while they traveled back to Foxborough for the right to progress to the AFC title game, the following week. Just like their contest in December, it wasnat close. New England rolled out to a 38-13 third quarter lead on the way to a 41-28 victory, ending Houstonas time. Now, some might 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 definitely why they lost to New England. I believe thatas a crock. Itas the NFL. Players get hurt. Star players, actually. It happens. The truly amazing teams have the ability to respond, recover and flourish. Schaub: not in Brady's class.Elsa/Getty Pictures Kubiak, Schaub and the Texans were not able to do this. They stumbled to the final line, and didnat seem 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 time, but so did the Broncos, and look how that ended up for Denver in the postseason. Baltimore could have managed Houston easily. Why? Because they have at the very top mentor and quarterback, and the Texans donat. Iam not saying that Kubiak and Schaub arenat good at their jobs. They are. Kubiak were able to survive times of mediocrity that will have cost most coaches their roles, and has guided the team to two straight tournaments. Schaub is an above-average starting quarterback who is effective at setting up figures and winning games. But, when it comes down to the nitty gritty, I donat have the confidence in either man to get the work completed, and get the Texans over the problem. So, while I love the signing of Reed, and think heall carry a necessary component of authority to the Texans protection, it wonat make a difference. He doesnat coach the group, and he doesnat throw the football. The Texans won't win a Brilliant Bowl with Kubiak and Schaub. Their marriage can only end in divorce. NickAKostosAis the executive producer of the "SiriusXM Blitz," managed by Rich Gannon and AdamASchein, onASiriusXMANFL Radio.AYou could follow Nick on Twitter.
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