[Chron] Texans' Babin revved up with move back to defensive end

How many millions is that alternating at the "other tackle"

 

You know, it's weird. I don't think I've ever felt so in the dark with a professional sports team before. Even players that are on the team and have been here for several years, it's kind of up in the air as to how well they will perform. This team, with all its young talent, could really take to the new coaching schemes and impress us, or it could be more of the same as last season.

Will Carr figure out how to make his reads progressively? Will he have time to do so? If not, is it because the talent on the line sucks or does the coaching suck? Will we be able to get to the QB? Will it be because our ends can't rush well? There is very little on this team coming into 2006 that you can say is a known quantity. It's scary in a way, but also kind of fun because it doesn't take THAT much imagination to picture a huge turn around from last season, if draft picks pan out and a few things fall our way. I just wish we didn't have to wait until September to start getting an idea of which it is going to be.

 

excellent post raven, my sentiments exactly. of course the spin machine at 610 has it all positive, but you really don't know.


edit: this is also why I was so against charlie being here for the draft, its such a transitional year that I really felt a lame duck gm should have been involved. it wasn't business as usual.

 

Gotta love how our first round pick from last year-the same guy we passed on DJ for-isn't even mentioned. Of course, trading down did get us Winston, so who knows?

 

Don't forget that TJ will and should be in the mix as well.

As for Babin, I really want to give this guy a chance but I just don't see what was so great about him that we had to trade up for. At 6-2, he is already very undersized and I don't see any athleticism anywhere near Peek.

Hopefully I am wrong though.

 

Babin showed a lot of toughness last year playing with the wrecked shoulder early on. He payed OK the last few games when he came back after injury. I think the Texans are treating him him properly. Get him out there in practice, see what he can do. They have plenty of defensive players in camp if Babin an/or Peek are not as good as we hope.
Peek is the same as Babin. Assume they are a rotation player, get them all the work and reps in practice, play them a lot in pre season. I can't wait for preseason. Both Peek and Babin will not be double teamed, and they will have a primary job to rush the passer. If they are good, we should know by August.
The comment on last years number one pick, Travis Johnson, is right on. Maybe after Kubiak watched all the tape from last year he could not remember T Johnson making any plays. I don't recall a thing from him, except he talks a good game. He admires Deacon Jones, and played like Shirley Jones. Actually, I am sure he will get the same chance as everyone else on the D line in practice and preseason. I am hoping Travis had a bad case of last year's Texan disease, and he starts out fresh this year with a long time,dominating the tackle position ahead of him with the Texans.

 

Does anybody know a current 40 time for Peek and Babin.

 

I don't think NFL teams bother to measure 40 times for their players after they make a team.

 

My statement was more a kick in the balls directed toward the previous regime
Put the best 11 on the field and deal with the other stuff off of the field.

I do not think Payne will be in the rotation long as he is more of a space eater better designed for the 3-4 not to mention his age and injury concerns; Robaire, Weaver, and TJ will be the main guys at DT; if Peek and Babin can show an ability to get to the passer we may see them both at end with Mario at DT in obvious passing situations.

 

sorry, since i started following the texans starting this year, but who is DJ? all i know is that he was with texas. what position? whats his current team? what draft pick was he?

 

Not to comment on whether we had to trade up or whatever, but the thing that I remeber from the little snippets of college film was that when he made contact with an offensive lineman he had great hands and forearm strength and he seemed to do a really nice job of utilizing leverage.

I think that these are two things that may not have been particularly evident (assuming that these would be strengths at an NFL level) when he was not rushing the passer fulltime.

IIRC several years ago when the Jets went from 3-4 to 4-3 they had a very average LB who was a converted DE who turned into a monster sack machine when he went back to DE.

 

Derrick Johnson, LB, Chiefs, 15th

 

I knew I shouldn't trust my no sports following, jump on the bandwagon when the team is winning friends. They told me they announced he would play linebacker. I thought that was weird as there would be no reason to announce that. That would be like announcing that Carr will be playing QB.