I think there's a bit of unfair piling on and throwing the baby out with the bathwater on the Texans. Yes, they've been abysmal this season... and last year was a bit of an aberration given how all but one of their wins were against awful/bad teams... but building a team in the NFL is vastly different than basketball or baseball. Starts and ends with the head coach... and there's a lot of left-over from the previous regime that is more high-priced than talented... if he can't make it work with those guys, I do think he'll get a chance to try and succeed with what he feels will work. Of course, not whiffing on every 2nd, 3rd, 4th round draft pick would also help with long-term team-building.
It's different to an extent. But it's striking how the Texans have thrown away draft picks by trading up and signed overpaid veterans. Exactly opposite of Rockets and Astros who hoarded assets and have been very careful about giving out big contracts.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/Colts">@Colts</a> have signed free agent quarterback Josh Johnson back to the active roster. So now back to three quarterbacks on the roster.</p>— Kevin Bowen (@KBowenColts) <a href="https://twitter.com/KBowenColts/status/651773367255756800">October 7, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Can we stop the comparisons between sports already. Football does not have a minor league where you can develop talents. The Rockets were getting the 12th - 16th pick for a number of years before Dwight Howard + James Harden teamed up. Not to mention it's less players to manage. Look around the NFL in recent years, Bears, Lions, Falcons, Eagles, Titans, Jaguars, Browns, Dolphins, Jets, Bills, Vikings, Rams, Washington, Bucs, Saints. Those teams haven't accomplished a lot more than the Texans; even the ones with a "plan" and a "franchise QB".
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Colts backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck missed practice Tuesday with an illness</p>— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/651778994740817921">October 7, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Andrew Luck? Matt Hasselbeck? Josh Johnson? Doesn't matter. Didn't Curtis Painter or Dan Orlovsky beat them in their 2-14 year? 22-4!
Both those guys are overpaid. Singleton hasn't done squat in the major leagues and is getting paid more than Dallas Keuchel. Corey Brewer is not worth $8 million a year.
Singleton is one player and it's not even that bad of a contract that will hamper the team... Brewer is definitely worth 8 million relative to the contracts that have been going out this offseason. Same goes for Bev.
Singleton gets $2mil per year then has a team option later. Brewer is worth that IMO. Thanks for bringing up Keuchel, he's the kind of cheap asset the Texans don't have. Instead they trade eight picks for Strong, Nix and McKinney. The Texans also threw away 2 compensatory picks when they cut Manning and Daniels in their last years. Daniels is productive for Denver and we laughably resigned Manning. Meanwhile they give Cushing a $52 million contract, Foster $43 million, and Mercilus $26 million. Brewer and Singleton are nothing compared to that.
Just about everyone in the majors is paid more than Dallas Keuchel. You don't seem to have the slightest understanding of how baseball contracts work and why Singleton got signed the way he did - it's an absolutely brilliant contract for the Astros.
SMH, why do you keep trying to talk about football when it's obvious you know nothing about the sport? Just give it up kid, there's plenty of other sports out there, odds are you know at least a little bit about one of them.
