<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Texans?src=hash">#Texans</a> release Brian Hoyer.</p>— PDS (@PatDStat) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatDStat/status/721801974551851008">April 17, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Our long national nightmare is over.
Decent enough stop gap and get the Texans to the playoffs. He should be a pretty good backup for some team.
Really it was more that TJ Yates and Brandon Weeden got the Texans to the playoffs, they won the tough games that would have otherwise been lost if Hoyer started them and those games were the difference between the playoffs and no playoffs.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brian Hoyer will have a handful of teams that will be interested. Steeler, Jets among those interested</p>— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/721818182726524928">April 17, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Texans save $5.015 million against the salary cap with release of Brian Hoyer, are now $11.451 million under salary-cap limit</p>— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/721819977859276800">April 17, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>