winning? I couldn't care less. "At the end of the day it's about winning games, and winning championships. That's where our team is headed, and that's where I want to go." The 6-foot-5, 241-pound classic dropback passer from West Chester, Pa., is 31. The time to win it all is now. Schaub has enough first-rate players surrounding him on the offence to make it happen -- not just Foster, one of the NFL's top runners, but veteran deep-threat wideout Andre Johnson and underrated tight ends Owen Daniels and Garrett Graham. With Schaub sidelined for the last half of the previous season with a foot injury, the Texans still beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the wild-card playoff round before losing a close one to, yes, Baltimore. Thus, with Schaub back, the Texans were a popular pick in the pre-season to win the AFC and reach the Super Bowl (raises hand). Starting out 5-0 fuelled such talk. "We're hungry to get back to the playoffs," Schaub said. "After you get a little taste of something like that, you want to get back there even more. But we know that it's a long season, and we're barely getting toward the halfway point. "So we're focused on the next thing in front of us, and that's the Baltimore Ravens." First things first. john.kryk@sunmedia.ca @JohnKryk blogs.canoe.ca/krykslants/ CHART: SCHAUB FACTS n Before last week's loss to Green Bay, Schaub had led the Texans to nine consecutive wins -- his last four games in 2011 before a