[UNOFFICIAL] Texans off-season thread

Why would you blame Rick Smith for a player not being developed. That's not his responsibility. And besides Filo was rated high in the draft. His non development is on him (Filo), the offensive line coach and Bill O'Brien.

Brown holding out and injuries to key linemen is what killed the line last season.

Smh at everybody trying to pin every freaking thing on Rick Smith.

If Allen doesn't get hurt, Martin and Mancz wasn't coming off injuries and Brown's holdout. We wouldve had a solid offensive line.

 

It's very bad.

 

The draft is a crap shot. Consensus opinions can be wrong. For all we know, Filo peaked in college.

If Filo develops into a starting quality OG with his new team, it is on OBie and his staff for not developing Filo here.

 

That's because they take into account bad passes that fell to the turf instead of being intercepted. We like to ignore it, but Watson threw a ton of bad passes last season.....but given what he looked like in pre-season, the fact that he was only throwing 5 or 6 of them per game while the rest were on point was a massive accomplishment. Also they look at how many passes that probably shouldn't have been caught were caught. Watson had the fewest drops and they see that as more of a fluke.

I agree that PFF isn't the end all be all, but their numbers aren't baseless and the incidence of Patriots players being allowed to walk and still having anything in the tank is pretty rare.

 

It was actually the play Lamar miller missed his block

 

Except it's nothing like that situation at all.

They didn't get NA so they spent the money and got the second best CB (Joseph) and the best S (Manning) in FA. The only time the Texans org spent money for top level fa's. This lead to the best three year period in franchise history.

Henderson/Fulton/Kelemete are nowhere near the talent level Joseph/Manning were, comparatively speaking.

 

They didn't go after him because he'd cost too much for what they'd get so they went a different route. In FA there wasn't much by was of OT's, so it wasn't as simple as going after the second best in FA since there was really no starting quality LT to be had....including Solder. Instead they boosted the O line as well as they could in other spots and look to head into the year with a much better O line than they had last year.....but it's obviously still a work in progress

 

I've got plenty

But have chosen not to go thru mental masturbation with you, Your mind is made up.

Fact is PFF numbers show the Texans had one of the all time worst OL last year and they tried to fix the OL with a bunch of backup OL. What could ever go wrong with this philosophy?

Not true at all.

Now you're just making **** up to fit YOUR narrative.

 

If you call signing a bunch of backup OL doing all they can do then we disagree. (Again)

 

Clearly we disagree, the only thing you'd have accepted was to wildly overpay Solder even more than the Giants did. Personally I'm glad they didn't.

 

Why?

It's not our money and they had the money to spend.

 

There's this thing called a salary cap in the NFL, and it's a hard cap. Making foolish decisions to laughably overpay mediocre players can quickly put you in cap hell where you have to lose good players simply to stay under the cap.

 

Very good points solder would have put us in a bad salary spot we ended up with more players being signed to help the OL.

 

They are well (30 mil or so currently) under the hard cap.

Starting LT SB winners are going to get paid in FA.

The question should be can the Texans afford Solder? (Yes) and is keeping DW4 job #1?

 

They’re not gonna just throw the money away. Is that where we’re at currently? Texans have been top 5 in salary for a long while now

 

Monkey see monkey do I guess. But no, I have never seen this much oline expertise until Watson showed up.

 

Jamarcus Russel is still out there in the free agency frenzy as well and he would also fulfill your criterias.
Could the Texans afford him? Yes
Would he keep Watson at #1? Hell Yes.

Get it done Gaine.

 

Is that a limp or am I seeing things?

 

There’s a limp for sure

It’s gonna take time

 

Gross...