This draft has ruined the mock draft for me forever. It's all BS. Nobody who wants people to pay attention to them is giving their honest opinion. They change everything every week because keeping the same picks is boring and doesn't attract attention. So they change it every week to garner views. It's so phony and so obvious and I just shake my head. We won't know what any of these guys actually think (if you care) until their last mock before that draft. But at that point, the pick will probably be known and it won't be so much a prediction as it will be actual reporting.
This of course being the brilliant line of thinking that chained the Jags to Gabbert for several years. I have to trust the staff will make the right decision - you don't take a guy with the #1 overall because "you have to" - you do it if you are convinced he's going to be your guy. If you've got misgivings about all 3, you go with someone else that can make your team better and tread water at QB until a better opportunity comes along. If you're drafting the likes of Colt McCoy "cause you have to" and he gets you nowhere like anyone that watched him knew would happen, you deserve to be fired. Also, settling for the best guy you can get your hands on right now and leaving with him if he's mediocre has hampered the Texans twice. Some drafts simply do not have a high quality QB to offer - look at 2002, among other years. Returning to the key point - I have to trust that this staff will make the right decision. They better know better than me what Bortles, Bridgewater, or Manziel will bring to the table in the NFL.
Point of the matter is the Texans still have to find a quarterback. Rather it's with the #1 pick or the #199 pick. But the Texans CAN NOT let the mistakes of teams like Jacksonville, Cleveland, etc dictate how they draft. Just because the Jags dropped the ball with Gabbert doesn't mean the Texans should be scared to pick it up. You can't win the lottery unless you buy a ticket.
In a way it is, if winning the lottery is your plan for economic success....you aren't likely to thrive unless you happen to be very very lucky. I prefer the smart route over the "hope you get lucky" route.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a> are weighing all options at No. 1. They host Auburn OT Greg Robinson next week. Related note: Jonathan Ogden played LG as a rookie</p>— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/statuses/456168047787536384">April 15, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
In a way, yes, and it would have worked out if we'd payed more attention to the defensive side of the ball and not had the whole Frank Bush nightmare. I know people love to hate Schaub these days, but he was a very solid QB, certainly good enough to win with if you built a proper team around him.
The Texans aren't vying for a championship this year. If there's a QB they love in this draft 1st-7th rd, of course you take him. But just because you need a starting QB doesn't magically create one within the draft. If there isn't a guy they think is a bonafide starter, I'd rather they tread water at the position this season and give it another go in 2015. The mistakes shouldn't dictate what they do, but they absolutely should inform what they do - in this case, Holmgren's reasoning is complete crap and is how he got himself fired in Cleveland.
Yea... Let's hire an "OFFENSIVE MINDED" head coach and try to build a dominant defense. Seeing how it worked so well with Kubiak.
Don't forget, O'Brien played on the defense. He might be better coaching offense but he knows a little something about the other side of the ball.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet">@RapSheet</a> guess that ends the rumor that Clowney isnt working out bc hes been told hes number 1 pick</p>— Jared Schlosser (@TheRealSchloss) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealSchloss/statuses/455778558582218752">April 14, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Blake Bortles has landed in Houston. Said he can't wait to meet with Bill O'Brien and said "I'd love to play here". <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a></p>— James Palmer (@JPalmerCSN) <a href="https://twitter.com/JPalmerCSN/statuses/456239452172451840">April 16, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
It's 32 teams in the NFL and it can be argued that less than half of those teams have bonafide starters and it's less than a handful of great quarterbacks in the NFL. It's probably only 2-3 quarterbacks in the NFL that most Texans fans would trade this #1 overall pick for. Which shows love has nothing to do with it because you will be waiting around forever to hope an Andrew Luck falls to you in the draft. Brees, Rodgers, and Brady were not the type of quarterbacks you fall in love with when they came out. Hardly anyone knew who Big Ben was until he showed up at the senior bowl. Eli, Rivers, Matt Ryan, and Jay Cutler weren't love at 1st sight quarterbacks either. Philly fans weren't happy at all when Andy drafted some nobody named McNabb. And many experts weren't high on Cam. And besides Cam _ You can argue the top 2-3 quarterbacks in this group had better college careers than most if not all of those guys had and look like just as good or pro prospects. Sometimes you just have to go to the prom with a girl you like and let her get dressed up and hope she puts out... You don't have to love her. If O'Brien likes one of these quarterbacks and thinks he can coach them up he should draft him.
