Texans Counting on Top Draft Picks To Give Them Killer Instinct

They’ve got the players. They’ve got the battle plan. Now, the only thing the Houston Texans need to become a force in the National Football League is a killer instinct. It’s the one intangible of the NFL which separates a playoff team, especially a Super Bowl team, from the rest of the pack. Lack of a killer instinct is what destroyed fan support for the Oilers and led to Bud Adams taking his team to Tennessee. Development of killer instinct is what later put that team into the Super Bowl. You have to be able to put opponents away when you get them down. You have to be able to walk on crappy opponents. You have to be able to at least hold your own with foes who are as talented as you are. The Texans don’t have a real good track record when it comes to delivering the coup de grace . Houston started the 2008 season 0-4, including losses to the Jaguars and the Colts in games the Texans should have won—had they been able to close things out after ... (link)