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Matt Schaub deserves better than this

While I've poked fun at Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub's knack for throwing the pick-six this season and have been critical of him in the past for having trouble winning big games, the guy deserves better than the treatment he's received from sports-writers and fans alike.

ESPN just reported that a Houston Texans fan went to Schaub's home and "told him off." Another "fan" took pictures of Schaub's family and posted them on Facebook. Security is now looking into the matters.

While I can understand fans wanting their teams to win, no player deserves for he and his family to feel threatened. As far as I'm concerned, no true fan would do such a thing, and I sincerely hope security sorts out matters so Schaub and his family don't have to go through any other such disturbances.

Let's get something else straight - Schaub isn't the Houston Texans only problem. The guy has been an efficient quarterback for the team for the six years leading up to this one. His completion percentage those years was anywhere between 61.0 and 67.9. He's thrown 104 touchdown passes and 64 interceptions in that same time. His quarterback rating range was also remarkably consistent, from 87.2 to 98.6. With Schaub at starting quarterback, the team was decent at first, but had trouble getting over the hump until 2011, when they went 10-6 and followed that with a 12-4 season a year ago. At 2-3 this season, they look to even their record with a win over the 2-3 St. Louis Rams this coming weekend.

Who would the Texans turn to if they benched Schaub? T.J. Yates? The guy has only played in 12 games in his NFL career, has a 59.7% completion rate, has thrown 3 touchdown passes and 4 interceptions, and has a quarterback rating of 75.4. No matter how much Schaub has struggled in the early part of this season, he would likely give the team a better chance to win than T.J. Yates. Schaub's problem right now likely isn't physical, but mental. He's struggling, knows that, is over-thinking, and placing too much pressure on himself to succeed. The last thing he needs right now is for the media to talk about benching him and for fans to verbally harass or threaten him. What fans and teammates should be doing is lifting his spirits through support so he can alleviate some of that pressure and be more prone to being the same efficient quarterback in year seven as he was in years one through six.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9795996/fan-tells-matt-schaub-houston-texans-home

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