In a heartbeat. If I could get five year out of him (puts him at 37) I'd be thrilled with that deal. It would help us a lot this season. Duane Brown switches to right tackle. The two bookends should shore up the entire line.
Well he's about to be 32, and his cap hit would be 9.5 million this season....which is more than the Texans have, and he's on the books for 2 more seasons at 10 mil a year. I just can't see doing it, he's a year older than Duane Brown and we're going to be looking for his replacement when the season ends.
"No. 1, when you look at our division, we’re in good shape." Yeah, you play in the worst division in football. Congrats? "I think our team is a hard-working team." We're a hard-working team, full of good teammates who are working hard to get better everyday.
What a load of BS. It all boils down to mediocrity being lauded and of course the typical "we need more time, be patient mantra" we have heard out of reliant ever since they slapped a jersey on Tony Boselli. Rick Smith and the Texans organization have earned ZERO benefit of the doubt. Rick Smith is tone deaf and continues to be insulting....
Playing Watt in week 1 is the dumbest move this franchise has made IMO. Not sure if that falls on Rick but whatever.
Collingsworth is a dumbass, but he just rattled off the entire Raiders OL/DL corps and described how they were signed as FAs.
https://www.profootballfocus.com/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-lines-entering-week-11/ RANKING ALL 32 NFL OFFENSIVE LINES ENTERING WEEK 11 2. Philadelphia Eagles (83.0) The only team to allow fewer total QB pressures as a unit than the Cowboys this season is the Philadelphia Eagles (70), but they can’t match the Dallas line when it comes to run blocking. Philadelphia’s line also won’t be quite as strong going forward, given RT Lane Johnson’s suspension; Johnson was playing at an All-Pro level this year. His replacement, Halapoulivaati Vaitai, started off extremely poorly, but has improved with each subsequent start, and has been fine in each of the past two games. Free-agent acquisition G Brandon Brooks has been the standout performer on this unit, allowing just eight total pressures this season and also run blocking well. 6. Tennessee Titans (81.6) The Titans were the best line in the league over the first month of the season, but they have fallen off in recent weeks—enough to slip in the rankings. Both LT Taylor Lewan and RT Jack Conklin had poor games in the past month, and Lewan keeps finding foolish ways of getting himself flagged, even at times ejected from games. The interior trio of Josh Kline, Ben Jones, and Quinton Spain have been solid, and when called upon, Brian Schwenke didn’t embarrass himself in relief duty. This is one of the few lines in the league with no real weak link, but it just hasn’t maintained the elite play it showed early on in the season. 16. Houston Texans (72.4) An undrafted free agent in 2015, C Greg Mancz was a player that had graded exceptionally well in college, and he has been arguably the best player on this line this season as a starter without missing a snap. Mancz has yet to allow a sack, and has been grading well in all areas. Duane Brown showed this past week that he can still be an elite left tackle, with a perfect pass-blocking display against the Titans, but the other spots on the line have been varying degrees of concerning. As a unit, they have surrendered 108 total QB pressures on 349 pass-blocking snaps.
To be fair to the linemen, only one position hasn't been affected by injury. And that position might have been the weakest coming in. The starting five coming in to the season (Brown, Sua Filo, Martin, Allen, Newton) would have been solid. Ben Jones' replacement has been stable and Brooks' replacement has been injured.
Since the return of Brown and loss of Newton the OL has been a lot better. Newton was real bad this season
