It's better to catch them unaware as we learn as we win. I hope to gell as a team before the NFL realized the Texans are good and they start to circle us on their calendar.
Why does all this hand-wringing over 1st round busts not apply to the guy that we paid three premium draft picks to acquire? You seem to be under the impression top 3 picks don’t bust. And, further, why is the 9th best non-QB prospect in this draft - and a likely top 5-10 non-QB prospect in next year’s draft - not ELITE? You’re being remarkably selective.
Because this was considered a WEAK draft, except for the top 10 picks. As for next year, it all depends on where the Texans finish. If they are picking out of the top 10, then it was definitely worth it.
Really tells you about the conviction they had on Anderson and Stroud. They felt those guys were worth taking their shot on to really turn this team around.
Random teens on the streets of Nashville. Clueless if it's not in their stores like Tennessee T shirts.
Picking Houston at 31 just proves NFL Analysts are just plain LAZY. What we have here is a failure to EVALUATE.
.... the 12th pick would've landed a top 10 prospect. Next year's pick is likely to land a top 10 prospect. But, beyond that - this is such a weird take. It's bouncing all over the place. I'm going to see if I can follow it... You're worried first round picks bust too often while defending the Texans dumping a good chunk of premium draft capital into a first round pick, which you think is immune to the potential of busting because evaluators have said the top 10 of this draft will be good, and we all know that evaluators know exactly what they're talking about so, no problem. And the path for navigating all these likely first round busts is to draft fewer - not more - of them because even though you have a 50/50 chance of landing an impact player (your math), for the purposes of you defending the Texans, you're just going to conveniently assume that 50/50 is really 0/0 and the Texans will blow their draft picks while, at the same time, getting excited about all the Texans *other* draft picks from a draft you don't think has much to offer after the top 10 picks.... There is no consistent thought here; it's just morphing into whatever take defends the Texans. As I've said, the draft - and the trade for Anderson - were exciting. But being excited *and* lamenting a bad team dealing away premium draft picks is a fairly sensible take, especially when we *know* how important draft picks are because we can both look over the NFL landscape and we've watched this very bad team be remarkably irresponsible with their draft capital in the very recent past. I hope the deal pays off.
+3 is winnable. I see 6 games within a FG range plus another within 4. That’s 7 wins possible. Az’s pick won’t be too 5.
+3 is winnable. I see 6 games within a FG range plus another within 4. That’s 7 wins possible. Az’s pick won’t be top 5.
