Nope they sat there and took him 1st pick 2nd rd. Vikes traded with Seattle and took Teddy B. with the 32nd pick.
It would be interesting to know if after the Vikings made the trade offer to Seattle, if Seattle called the Texans and gave them a chance to counter. Clearly the Texans 2nd and 4th round picks were more valuable than the Vikings'.
I know with great certainty (a higher up in the Texans organization) that the Texans plan the morning of the NFL draft was to draft Clowney as the #1 overall pick and trade up in front of the Browns for Teddy Bridgewater in the 1st round. What happened on draft night is a whole different story. My theory is that when the Texans saw Manziel fall into the 20's in the draft and the Browns traded up for Manziel, the Texans started to believe that Bridgewater would fall to them in the 2nd round. It makes it incredibly frustrating that their game plan the morning of the draft was for Clowney and Bridgewater, and they absolutely blew it when they got too greedy. I do not know if the Seahawks offered the Texans a chance to counter the Vikings offer. I would assume that the Texans never got the opportunity, and the Vikings made a take it or leave it offer to the Seahawks to make sure they weren't going to be used as leverage.
While its spilled milk at this point, it also seems less likely that SEA would have not wanted to trade with HOU instead of MIN, since the HOU picks could be better, and because SEA and MIN are in the same conference. My guess... SEA approached HOU and HOU said no, for whatever reason. It is possible they didn't think another team would move up to trade with SEA, or it could have been they thought SEA was bluffing if SEA told them MIN was in play... but whatever the reason, it doesn't appear a correct decision.
I think you were wrong. It would have benefited the Texans to jump in to the first as they get one more year of control over first rounders. If they felt Teddy was the guy, they would have jumped in and got him.
Exactly. They knew that Teddy wasn't the guy, no matter how many insane fans were hyping him up. Even if the Vikings hadn't traded up, The Texans still would have passed on him....and rightfully so. Drafting another bad QB doesn't make the QB situation any better. There isn't any QB from this class that has even outplayed Ryan F'n Fitzpatrick.....there was no way the Texans were going to waste a top pick on one of those guys.
I don't think one more year of "control" means much when compared to giving up additional draft picks. It's hard to say if TB was actually on their list, but if he was, then they certainly got caught with their pants down. It's a shame we don't know for sure what happened, but it sure would be an interesting story to hear.
You are obsessed about TB. Here are the facts: They are 6-7 in a pretty good division after they lost their BEST player. TB has the best QB rating of all the rookie QBs. Rookie QBs don't go out there and put up 100 qb ratings. Even Andrew luck and Peyton Manning didn't do that.
The Texans were going to draft Teddy Bridgewater with their 2.1 pick. The information comes from really high up the Texans organization chain. The information that I had the day of the draft is really, really solid.
Not to mention that his QB rating is better than Luck or Manning during their rookie seasons. The hate for this guy from certain posters on here is just unreal. People would be feeling a lot better about the future of the Texans right now if Bridgewater was the one putting up a QB rating in the 80s as opposed to Fitzpatrick.
Your source is wrong! Bobbythegreat has spoken. His source (which is himself) says that the Texans would have passed on Bridgewater therefore it is essentially gospel. Bobby might not have any real connections to the Texans organization like you do but it doesn't matter, as he has spoken.
I'm really interested. Why do people get so hell bent set on disparaging a rookie player, while they are actually performing relatively well, for the simple reason that they believed the player wasn't going to be good prior to draft? Generaly speaking here, not just speaking about TB here. Sure, we have opinions before/during the draft of players but if/when it becomes apparent that said drafted player could actually be a decent player, why the need to continue to argue your original opinion if it is clearly wrong? Pride? Hubris? Small peepee syndrome? Lack of any type of realization that ones opinion could actually be wrong? What's the big deal with accepting the fact that you could be wrong?
Not being able to admit they're wrong is the #1 reason posters get destroyed and eventually disappear/ get banned.
Injury or no injury you have to admit Clowney's first season has been a complete bust. Teddy could have definitely helped this team to a playoff contending record at this point. But y'all are gonna keep fighting the obvious. No RBs, no WRs, and no OL this kid is still ballin! Not saying he would have been #1 overall, I'm saying the guy would have definitely contributed much more than Clowney has. And he is 100,000,000x better than Sh!tzpayrick even with that 6 TD game under his belt.
Ben Maller @benmaller Vikings Teddy Bridgewater has NFL's 12th best QB rating over L4W, that's better than Andrew Luck, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger
How much was that due to his 1 6TD game. Fitz is not the answer. Teddy may or may not be the answer. Its a moot point now since the Texans didn't take him.
